today we're going to hoboken, new jersey, to meet with matthew delorenzo, an eighth grader from alisian charter school. hi, matthew. >> hello. >> your video was on capital punishment and the eighth amendment. why did you choose to focus on this issue? >> we were dealt with this project a little bit at the beginning of the year, and we were -- they gave us the whole constitution, and we had to look through the amendments and choose which ones we would like to focus on, and joey and i were reading through the amendments, and we were trying to see which ones stuck out to us and we read the eighth amendment which was the death penalty so we chose to do this because we both disagreed upon, it so we thought it would be a good issue to discuss. >> you opened your video with a clip from a republican presidential primary debate. why did you choose to open with this clip? >> well, we mainly chose to focus -- to open with that video to basically start off showing how cool people can be about the death people and execution and show that how much a man with power that does agree with it can influenc