. >>> my name is francine wheeler. my husband is with me. we live in sandy hook. older son nate, soon to be ten years old is a fourth grader at sandy hook elementary school. our younger son, ben, age 6, was murdered in his first grade classroom on december 14th. >> we're never going to stop being ben's parents and that's complemented and made difficult by being the best parents we can be for nate, who has his own journey. >> yeah, he -- nate said right after ben died, he said, this is tough. but he said, you promised you would protect us. >> yeah. >> and i did promise him that. >> sure. >> you know? so what do i say to him? i can't change what happened. i know it wasn't our fault. we just sent him to school, but i'll do whatever i can to help protect nate and protect ben's spirit. >> david and francine wheeler. david and francine, thank you both for being here. thank you both for being here. we are coming up on one year since it happened, and i can't imagine that it was an easy decision to make yourselves publicly available again to talk about this as we come up o

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. >> that was david wheeler alongside his wife, francine, during an interview with rachel maddow lastr 6-year-old son, benjamin wheeler, was among the 20 children killed in the newtown massacre nearly one year ago. the wheelers along with other newtown families have spent the last year pushing congress to pass stiffer gun control laws an they will hold private ceremonies this weekend to honor their lost loved ones. now, in the year since the newtown shooting, nearly 200 children have died from gun violence in this country. msnbc.com has profiled more than 50 children as part of its powerful "too young to die" series. alexandra brown was one of those children. she was found shot to death next to her father inside his car or inside a car this past january. dafna linzer, the managing editor of msnbc.com joins me right now. walk us through the process of selecting the 50 that were profiled. >> this was a very kind of compassionate and compelling series. the idea, of course, came out of newtown. we assigned one reporter, michelle richneck, for the entire year to profile other children like

christopher wheeler will be joining us to give us his take on the volcker rule and all the other things that have been happening in the banking world. francineu. >> what we are focusing on next is hilton. it is expected to price its ipo today and could raise up to $2.4 billion. bloombergs ipo reporter joins us with the very latest. this could be one of the biggest ipos for the hotel company. what does it mean for blackstone? >> it is a great story for blackstone. the unrealized gains could be about $8 billion which is huge. it is among the two largest private equity profits that we have seen in all time. those numbers could increase because they subscribed about four times yesterday. clearly there is investor interest. >> at the same time, how does helton -- elton was bought back in 2007 and escaped many of the troubles that other hotel groups went through? >> yes. they did a couple of things well. they brought in new management. the ceo helped drive the company back to profit. the other advantage they had is they have large checkbooks. theythe markets went down, could buy debt at cheaper levels to protect their position. that has worked out