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Representative moskowitz, my deepest condolences. what florida was able to accomplish yesterday. can you tell me what you were feeling as you were standing there, speaking up? >> yeah. you know, it still is surreal to me. i've been telling everybody, you know, the city of parkland, nobody knew where that was when people asked me when i served on the city commission, where the hell was parkland? i used to try to explain it to them. now the world knows where parkland is. it's on the list of columbine, sandy hook, virginia tech. what these families have gone through, what these kids have gone thr...

That motion passed. i promised 12 students when i agreed to meet with them in my office that i would hear what they had to say before i agreed to do anything. and for this political operative to pull this stunt the day before those students even arrived was very disappointing. in fact, representative moskowitz was at a funeral for one of the victims at the time this stunt was pulled. it was disrespectful to him and to those victims who died and with whose funeral was going on at the exact moment they tried to wool over the eyes of florida voters. >> because what the kids who came into the gall...

The official title is representative. >> representative moskowitz, i believe in titles. i want to give yours. let me ask you about this whole thing. what do you think is going to happen down there? we had a vote the other day in tallahassee where even to bring up a ban on the assault weapon down there lost 2-1 just to bring it up. what do you make of that? that's not a good sign for doing flig anything about this rifle that did the killing the other day, used to kill? >> listen, that was a procedural vote. anytime you try to bring up a procedural vote and overrule the speaker who made a decisi...

Governor if they had a chance to speak to him? a lot of them said do your job. others said do the right thing. the young boy in the front in the red shirt said make a difference. i mean, they're asking the governor to do something about rifles, to do something about assault weapons, to stop looking into immigration so much and to focus on the issue they're there to talk about. weapons. their lives. we're going to keep watching this to find out what happens if those doors open up and if the governor ends up meeting with them. lots of kids there, lots of young faces, lots of young people who wan...

>> ashley, i hope you don't have to leave, i'm going to ask representative moskowitz, what do you want to see banned or regulated, et cetera? >> i mean, there's not one issue, katy. let's be honest. what happened in parkland was a total system failure. every elected official at every level of government failed these kids. what i would like to see specifically is i'd like to make sure assault weapons aren't on our streets. that we don't need them. we don't need weapons made for afghanistan on the streets of america. at a minimum, they don't need to be in the hands of 18-year-olds. [ no audio ] ...