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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:08:00

know, it wasn't really one of the main issues in my agenda. i mean for a while. but now it's the priority for students like me. we want to see change in our legis -- in our bills, in the laws that are made. we don't want to see the same thing happen over and over and over again. i think that is something that will happen if we push hard enough. >> reporter: appreciate it. i have a feeling this is probably not the last time we'll be hearing from you. daniel and julia, brother and sister from parkland. chris, back to you. >> thank you so much, tammy leitner. let's go to nbc's ally vitale in the second city, chicago. >> you can't tell right now, country, because they're packing things up but thousands were in this park earlier for the march. many kids i talked to, making the points that many children in washington were make on the air throughout the day. many of them telling me if they

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:16:00

impact that going against gun violence means to our family, to our community. my sister went to the funerals. i still have family that live in parkland today, right now. i've got friends that know the victims from marjory stoneman -- i mean great mills. these are our communities. they mean everything to us. >> her children 12, 11 years old. they're going to go to great mills. what goes through your mind when you're going to go to school now after what you've seen in great mills and parkland? >> i'm a little scared as to what happens. when i sit -- i sit in front of my class and through those doors, anybody can come in. i want to be focused on my education and not that i could die in a matter of seconds due to gun violence. >> real quick, do you feel some hope after today? >> yes i do feel a little hope. the gun laws -- i hope this brought everybody together and can change gun laws. >> reporter: thank you so much. chris, we just heard from these young people who are headed home

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:32:00

>> yes. i'm from chicago. we've been talking about violence for a long time. >> yeah. >> but what i saw was kids, young people saying, hey, we're not allowing this anymore and this happening in parkland and it's happening in chicago. it's happening in baltimore. it's happening in newtown, connecticut. we're no longer going to accept it. what i saw was america paying attention to black, white, latino kids who are speaking up. i saw how it affected all of our communities and we were together. you kind of knew it, but to see us speaking up together i thought was one of the most powerful demonstrations or rallies, marches that i've ever witnessed. you know, i've been to some. so this was one of the most powerful. >> chicago had a big representation today. >> chicago kids, they touched my heart. when i saw them, it just -- you know, obviously, you see people that come from where you come

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:27:00

violence and gun rights and gun control for people who weren't able to come out today. >> early estimates put the crowd into the 800,000 range. the sea of humanity, people so engaged, so articulate for calling for significant gun change, do you think this will move the needle in any specific way? >> the people who came out are a testament to the fact that people believe this movement will make a difference. i wouldn't be here if i didn't think it wouldn't make a change. >> thanks, dana. so far, chris, the president sent one tweet today. he was talking about an incident, hostage incident yesterday in france. the white house put out a statement saying the president supports these young people, expressing their first amendment rights. of course, they pointed to the fact that the president supported two initiatives, fix nix act and stop violence act, both of which are gun restrictions in a sense but fall far short for what the students from parkland have been pushing

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:31:00

we're following you now, chris. we'll send it back to you. >> thank you so much. steve patterson. joining me now here in washington, nbc news tammy leitner. let's go back to tammy. >> hey, chris, i am here and a few moments ago you were speaking to someone out in the crowd. can you tell me who and what you were talking about? >> family, parents of one of the young ladies who died in parkland, who was killed in parkland. we just had a conversation -- i tried to listen and let them know, continue to keep them in my prayers. along with prayer comes action and i said -- they asked me, do you think things are going to change in i said things are changing right now. you being here. i told them that their daughter's life will be part of the -- you know, one of the reasons that things will change and wanted to let them know we're here together. >> you've been active for a number of years. when you looked out here today did you see something special?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:33:00

from. and you know some of the things that they're experiencing. it means a whole lot. and to see them connect and see them connected with the latino sister from l.a. connected with the kids from parkland and all -- like they said, united in pain but united also for change, like moving forward. so, it was like -- i was just proud of my chicago kids. i'm proud of all these kids. i'm proud of all the youth right now. i'm just sitting here, listening and learning and seeing where i could step in and be part of the change. >> reporter: one more question. every single performer today, you're all rock stars. you all walked off the stage without saying a word. you gave the stage to the kids today. was that a conscious decision? >> yeah. the kids today and forever, the kids will be the leaders. we should allow them their space to speak. this was a movement that they blessed us by saying, hey, you can come perform at this event.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:29:00

woodlawn hills. how old are you? >> i'm 14, freshman in high school. >> the march on the other side of the coast is a world away, d.c., new york, parkland, florida. why did you decide to come out here in los angeles? >> i want to protect my kids, feel safe in my school. i'm worried every day about what's going to happen and i don't think that's right. school is supposed to be safe. so i'm standing up for what i believe in. >> you? what do you think? >> like see said i want to make sure my future generation -- the future generation of our world is safe and they don't have to go through what we're going through, finding out about school shootings every single month or so. it's too much to worry about. i want my kids to feel safe. >> you were telling me that you've been in lockdown situations before and numbers of times you've gone through this? >> yes. when we were in second grade, one of the high schools near us, somebody shot -- shot himself and said a black man shot him. all the elementary schools went

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:06:00

passionately. yours says "march for our lives." why did you come out today? >> because i think of all my friends. >> jacob, i guess we lost him there. joining me right now here in washington is nbc news tammy leitner. tammy? >> reporter: hey, chris. i am here with a brother and sister team who i just love. this is daniel and julia. i first met them about a month ago. they both go to school in parkland. you were there for the shooting. i met you on a bus to tallahassee. you're both very active, very vocal. daniel, tell me a little bit about what you thought of today. >> it was such an incredible experience. i love just being there, seeing what everyone had to say about the issues. it was really inspiring. you know, seeing the newtown people really, really did hit hard. i mean, seeing them come out and say we do support parkland.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:09:00

can't be safe in their schools where can they feel safe? people that they were talking to are the lawmakers in washington, who have been dealing with this issue or not dealing with this issue over the course of the past several years. i caught up with senator dick did yo durbin here as he was marching in chicago. >> fix nix. i support it. 17 lives in parkland, florida, and the lives that we lose every week are worth much more than fix nix. >> reporter: what's your message to these young kids out here marching? >> they're teaching us. i'm not giving them a message. they're giving us a message. they learned in their civics class a democracy depends on people who vote. that's what makes a difference. >> reporter: and so that's definitely what kids out here are trying to figure out. what will spur this kind of change? the thing that likely will spur change is that many of them are getting ready to go to the polls, even if they're not old enough. they are urging their friends

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180324:19:52:00

♪ ♪ have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere ♪ ♪ have you ever felt like you could disappear ♪ ♪ like you could fall ♪ and no one would hear ♪ well let that lonely feeling wash away ♪ ♪ all we see is love ♪ because maybe there's a reason to believe you'll be okay ♪ >> joining us now center the city of new york, is nbc's lawrence jackson. lawrence. >> thank you so much, chris. lawrence here, continuing our nationwide coverage. doesn't matter if you're tuned into our nation's capital of d.c., the heart of parkland, florida, or here in new york city with us. after talking with a lot of

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