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No -- at the white house at the time. the president will head back to d.c. for a journalism dinner later this evening. eboni? eboni: thanks, ellison. you have safe travels back to d.c. as well. looks pretty windy out there. the florida state senate wrapping up a rare saturday session as they examine stricter gun laws. a vote is expected soon on 450 million dollars in additional school security. florida attorney general joining us now. nice to see you, ma'am. thank you. first things first, you guys have the votes? >> excuse me, leland? leland: i said do you have the votes to pass this both in...

Right now we secure our schools. we figure out -- next we figure out what we wrong and what we can do better and then we'll have the other public policy debates later. let's do this for those 17 lives that were lost at stoneman douglas. let's make those the last ones. thank you. [applause] >> i want to thank ryan and andy. here's our goal. we have a week and five days, four days, three days left in session. everyone of us, this is important to us. we have daughters and sons and brothers and sisters. it's very important that we get a good bill done that makes sure that our children are in a pos...

Active in their church. i can't imagine what the entire family is going through. ryan petty. >> so governor, thank you. thank you for taking leadership on this issue. andy, thanks for standing up. you were the first one to stand up and say this has to stop. i thank you for that. for those of you that didn't have a chance to know my daughter, she was as governor scott said, all ant service. she loved to serve. when she come into a room, she would light it up with her smile. she was everybody's friend. my son and i drove down here today, we talked about -- we read through the governor's proposal...

Anywhere in our state and he -- his goal is to make sure this never happens in our country again. the father of meadow, andy pollack. [applause] >> so my daughter was murdered on the third floor in parkland. i have to live with that for the rest of my life. the reason i'm here right now is i want this country to come together as one party, we're the human party. we're not the democratic party, we're not the republican party. we're the human party. we all need to come together and discuss school safety. now florida with the help of governor scott, we're going to set the example for the rest of ...

Number of families and students that are concerned about the safety open their schools. i'm going to do everything i can the next week and five days or so. we're going to get a good bill passed this session. we're going to get the funding and make sure this doesn't happen in our state. i want to thank -- we have two parents here today. both of them want to make sure that this never happens to another family. so the first person i want to introduce is andy pollack. andy lost his daughter, meadow. if you look at the pictures of meadow, she was a beautiful young lady. if you talk to -- when you t...