randi weingarten, your response to this proposal? >> the more you know about -- the more you know about schools and the more you think through this proposal, the more insane it is. it is not that we don't believe that there should be a comprehensive solution. we completely agree with what the folks from brady just said and all of the issues that they have raised and we have re-raised over the course of the less, i don't know, 10 years or so. but think about what he is saying. even prisons do not arm correction officers in the interior of a prison. first, schools need to be safe sanctuaries, not armed fortresses. if we can do that with planes and federal courthouses, we need to be a validity that with schools where our kids -- the able to do that with schools where our kids are. secondly, think about what he is talking about. logistically. what is a kindergarten teacher going to do, where her gun on a holster? what about somebody who has been certified, where is that gun going to be? in a locked closet? where is the key going to be? i

and randi weingarten i is head f the afc, the american federation of teachers. after that conversation, we are going to copenhagen and talk about what is happening in the arctic. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "to the teeth" by ani difranco. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'i'm amy goodmaman. to go bacack to t the white house meeting yesterday that stunned people across the political spectrum,m, but may wl placeributed to what took -- well, very far away in parkland, florida, where the .ids were returning to school that's right, where the children who have survived the parkland massacre, the valentine's day massacre, where nikolas cruz opened fire witith an ar 15 and killed 17 people -- 14 students and three teachers. they went back. they' going back for a few hours each day, not allow to have backpacks. they don't want them to have books. the have over 100 dogs to help them feel good in the school. many, many, many counselors. interestingly, in the morning, they did not go to their homeroom, they went to the room shootin

juan: that was randi weingarten. .ant to go back to jay o'neal this whole issue of west virginia being in the forefront historically of labor strikes, many of the teachers of today, children, or grandchildren of mine workers in was virginia. can you talk about this sense of history that the teachers are participating in and what you expect to happen in the next few days? >> sure. if eusebius or clips of people here, you will see a lot of teachers wearing red bandannas around their neck. that kind of goes back to some of the early history here of labor activism. the west thing called virginia mine lords that culminated in a something called the battle of blair mountain, which is the largest armed uprising in the united states history outside of the civil war . a lot of the miners wore red bandannas around their neck. some people think that is where the term "redneck the school came from. you are thing that memory here and that is coming up again. list every west virginia and knows somebody was been on strike. as, grandp

. >> earlier today on this network, randy weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers performance of the education secretary. >> people poured their hearts out to her about what was needed, special needs parents, early childhood educators, high school kids. it's not unobvious. she doesn't want to learn. in fact, the only thing she seems to want to do is what she said years ago, defund and end public education as we know it and i think yesterday was an example of that. >> with us for more on all of this tonight, caitlyn emma who covers education for politico in addition to covering the policy making and the political angles of all this. so, kaitlin, how badly did this go and does the administration care? >> it went pretty badly. i've been covering secretary devos as an education reporter for about the last year and i think this is the most attention that she has received from an interview since her confirmation hearing, which you just showed a clip of, when she infamously said maybe we need guns in schools to protect against potential grizzly bears. the clip of the "60