i'm going to get to speak to my friend fred guttenberg.e's the father of a 14-year-old parkland student. he almost got kicked out of the hearing, the hearing that matters to him most. he's sitting next to joaquin's father. he almost got kicked out too. you're watching "velshi & ruhle." watching "velshi & ruhle. ♪ you should be mad they gave this guy a promotion. you should be mad at forced camaraderie. and you should be mad at tech that makes things worse. but you're not mad, because you have e*trade, who's tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. don't get mad. get e*trade's simplified technical analysis. so we improved everything. we used 50% fewer ingredients added one handed pumps and beat the top safety standards the new johnson's® choose gentle >>> welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." new fallout today from the dramatic first hearing in eight years, in eight years on gun violence by the house judiciary committee. republican congressman matt gates of florida ar

shutdown.lawmakers often make a political statement with their invitees.among other guests are fred guttenberg, the father of a parkland, florida, student killed by gun violence, democratic national committee chairman tom perez and several national labor union leaders.pelosi's husband, paul, and one of her five children, the filmmaker alexandra pelosi, will also join.the recruiting arm for senate republicans is poking at stacey abrams even before she delivers the formal rebuttal to president donald trump's state of the union message.the national republican senatorial committee released a brief video online tuesday stringing together snippets of past comments by abrams, including when the democrat says, "this is not a speech of concession" after her narrow loss to republican brian kemp in last year's race for georgia governor.other clips show abrams talking about impeachment, presumably for trump, and telling an interviewer that she tells folks she's met herself lawrence karnow: a beautiful snow karnow: a lawrence the media." the media."the senate win by more credit for "weren't given that repu

to see our interviews with manual oliver and fred guttenberg, go to democracynow.org.lsewhere on capitol hill, a bill was announced wednesdsday that would reqequire president trump to removeve u.s. armed forces from the saudi-i-led warn yemen, which has sparked what the united nationsns calls the world's worst humanitarian crisisis in a a half a centuryr. the bill's sponsor, member ro congress statement,d in a "more than 14 million yemenis, half the country, are on the brink of famine, and at least 85,000 children have already died from hunger and disease as a result of the war. let's end american complicity in the atrocities in yemen." in moscow, peace talks b between the taliban and prominent afghgn politicians wrapapped up wednesy with parties agreeing to a road map for ending the u.s.-led war in afghanistan, now in its 18th year, the longest war in u.s. history. the government of afghan president, ashraf ghani, did not attend the talks, which did not reach h consensus on a timeline for the u.s. to withdraw. this is the taliban's chchief negotiator. >> we are e in n

. >> reporter: those dreams, to watch his child's hopes realized, were ripped from fred guttenberg'snds one year ago. >> 17 dead after a shooting rampage inside a florida high school. >> reporter: it was a scene we had hoped we'd never seen again, this time in marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. >> i took book and held it up like this. it was a defensive measure and helped may fe helped me feel a little better. he kept shooting through the rectangular window. >> reporter: in total, 17 lives cut short, three faculty members, 14 students, fred's daughter one of them. barely 24 hours after her murder, he took to the podium at a vigil. >> jamie was such a special kid. all of the kids here are. and i just went up and started letting it loose. what is unfathomable is that jamie took a bullet and is dead. i, i don't know what i do next. >> reporter: his first steps in a search for new purpose. >> but i can tell you, don't tell me there's no such thing as gun violence. it happened in parkland! >> i remember saying that night, this time they messed with the wrong commun

but there's been no federal gun legislation since parkland, something fred guttenberg is still trying to change. >> this time they messed with the wrong community and wrong dad. >> reporter: his 14-year-old, jamie, died running from the gunman. >> i think february 14th is going to feel a lot like february 14th last year when we learned. spending our day thinking of her that way, instead of talking to her about her sweet 16, tears me to shreds. i miss my kid. >> reporter: there's a chain link fence now around the building where the shooting happened. more security. but also a new garden where anyone can plant a flower. sarah and jacqueline are seniors now, off the to college next fall, passing the torch to younger students like ryan. you said never again, you didn't want this to ever happen to kids again. there have been school shootings since yours. does that hurt? >> of course it hurts. i mean, i think that should hurt every single person that hears that statistic. but that's why we're sitting with you a year later still advocating. just a warning to the american public, you have not

. >> reporter: fred guttenberg says the day still haunts him. >> is my daughter's final seconds, withown the hallway, knowing there is an active shooter at her back. >> reporter: he is taking his fight to the nra. he says he is determined to defeat the gun lobby. he admits the wounds of losing his daughter will never heal. >> i wimatt napolitano, fox news. >>> a massachusetts woman is behind bars after texting her boyfriend a barrage of messages urging him to kill himself. that -- the judge ordered carter to begin her sentence today. her boyfriend, conrad roy, ended his life in july 2014. >>> there is still no resolution to a series of political scandals in the state of virginia. lieutenant governor fairfax is under fire from both parties after sexual allegations from two women. a bill calling for his impeachment was expected to be introduced today, but it was pulled at the last minute. virginia governor ralph northam gave his high-profile interview since his yearbook photo surface, showing a man in blackface. >> i admit to my mistakes, and i am going to improve my life and be in a po

. >> we were watching fred guttenberg interrupting representative matt gaetz but both of you lost yourren in the parkland shooting. your son joaquin oliver was 17 years old. jamie guttenberg was 14. why did you interrupt the congressman? what were you trying to say to him? >> i was trying to stop him from what he was starting to say and the point he was trying to make, which was out of context in that room. the reason why we are there is because we lost loved ones. there were 100 kids behind us. they're there because they have concerns about gun violence. and let's keep in mind of what really matters here, and that's keeping people alive. he was trying to make a point that was totally unrelated to what the purpose of that meeting was. and i prevent him, in a way, to just go back to the main point here. don't sell an idea that is just not -- it won't belong to this discussion. that was the whole point. i reacted as a father. that's my position. >> yeah. i want you to listen. this is congressman gaetz, on with my colleague, chris, a short time ago. this is what he had to say about the he

manuel oliver and fred guttenberg repeatedly interrupted gaetz as he argued against a bill requiringnd actively campaigned for a border wall. >> the greatest driver of violence in the circumstances firearm.ndicated was not the it was the fact that we have an immigration system that allows people to come here violently. >> there will be no comments or demonstrations, please. >> reporter: committee chairman democrat jerry nadler issued several warnings for the men to stop interrupting before david cicilene posed this question. >> is there a committee rule that prevents a member of congress from reciting false statements in a committee hearing? >> reporter: his remarks prompted applause from some and a rebuke from ranking member republican doug collins. >> may i make a point of order that the gentleman's words were unparliamentary because they implied the falsehood or lying of a member. >> reporter: gaetz called for the fathers to be removed from the hearing. >> is there a process in the committee whereby if the very same people are repeatedly interrupting the time of the members that t

this was done for the parents in parkland there are was done for patricia and manny oliver, for fred guttenberg all the parents that today are going through a very difficult day. and we cannot forget, because of the lives of the kids that were in that school, the parents, they're never going to be the same. and people like me and lucy who have gone through that understand that pain. our lives change and it changes foir foreve forever. it is now our job now that we've been elected to make sure that we listen to these young adults, to the families, and to work to do what we have to do in congress so that we can avoid any other mass shootings. and i just want to say one thing, for all the skeptics, yes, universal background check may not avoid every single mass shooting. but, if we can save just one life passing this bill, then that is what we are going to do right here in this congress. >> appreciate your time today, congresswoman. thank you. >> thank you, erica. >> john. >>> a mother's pain captured in a heartbreaking letter she wrote to her daughter one year after she was killed in the parkland

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i sat next to fred guttenberg, father of one of the victims in parkland, who watched him ask for support for people who had lost their loved ones. fred is saying, when are we going to talk about gun violence? when are we going to talk about jamie? when are we going to talk about all the other people? unsaid, student debt and equal pay, all these discussions critical, undiscussed. the underdiscussed items, one sentence on pre-existing conditions. the number one issue in this country is healthcare. let's do a time meter how much time he spent talking about immigration, the manufactured crisis at the border versus what am i going to do to help the diabetic. so many people with diabetes worried about losing their health insurance and they don't know how the heck they will pay for insulin. >> it's almost as if he completely ignored the results from the midterm election. >> it meant nothing. >> the greatest loss in vote total for the republican party, or any party in the history of this republic, and he was talking about the same thing. during this shutdown, he was talking about the same thing

we have with us fred guttenberg, the father of one of the students killed at parkland high school. i think we have others with us from parkland here today too. this horrible incident was one in an ever-increasing series of shootings that shocked the nation in recent years. but mass shootings are one way in which the problem of gun violence is manifested. every day guns are used in suicides, domestic violence incidents gang violence and so , many other tragedies. gun violence impacts all our communities. rural, urban and suburban. and no place is immune from its reach including our homes, , streets, schools. even our places of worship. clearly we must change our approach to combatting gun violence. as challenging as this problem is, however, we do have the ability to address it and to make our citizens safer. what we have lacked in recent years is the political will. we should remember that the second amendment does not prevent the government from enacting legislation to prevent gun violence. as even justice scalia acknowledged in his 2008 opinion in district of columbia versus hell