. >> chris pollone, there was the poll that came out today from nbc news and "the wall street journal" related to the president, his language, trying to at least by some of the numbers here understand the causation, right? and that number at 54% saying a great deal or good amount of the language used by the president does lead to potential some responsibility of what has happened in el paso and dayton. is that the conversation you're hearing also from those who are again, one of the some 100 demonstrations across the country that you're at? >> absolutely. you know, every town bills itself as a nonpartisan organization. this is the organizationing that grew out of mayors against illegal guns that michael bloomberg started it early in this century. and it has -- it's an umbrella over the moms demand and students demand groups that rose up after newtown. obviously we're in new york city. this is a blue state. this is a largely blue city. so when you're talking to people who were here even though this is billed as a nonpartisan event, the only member of congress who took part was carolyn

that's where nbc's chris pollone joins us live. chris, what's the turnout so far right now?now since last time we talked to you and you can take a look for yourself at what we're seeing here. it actually is a pretty good turnout here today. given as i said before it's extremely hot. very humid here. a lot of people drinking water before this thing started earlier. a lot of people were kind of hiding in the tree-lined walk behind me. just to stay out of the sun. but once they started this event a little after 2:00 eastern time, a lot of these people came forward. we saw some poignant moments earlier when they called the organizers, every town for gun safety, called people who had been personally affected by gun violence to the front and held a moment of silence. there were about a dozen people there who had directly lost people to gun violence. kind of a touching moment. we've heard from advocates. we heard from democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney who represents the east side here. this is one of 100 of these things taking place over yesterday and today. kendis? >> all r