a lot of people believe that sandy hook was going to be the thing that made this town, that made washingtonthat didn't happen. here we are, again. do you see something different now than what happened after sandy look? >> you know i see that these students are older and when they experience this, they have the maturity and different level of knowledge about what's going onto use their voices. they took advantage of the media they have and that's why this is different and why they have captured the attention. when it happened in sandy hook, sixth graders didn't know how to plan a march on washington or contact the media or start foundations by themselves. i think these high schoolers have lived through these shootings. they have already had enough. when it came to their town, they had the anger and they had the knowledge to start a movement. >> rachel, the nra and most of the republican party says that you're not old enough to talk about these things. you're not old enough to think about these things. it's no reason for people to spend the day listening to high school students as we did toda

connecticut passed strong gun laws after sandy hook and congress should do the same. [applause] let's stand together to demand change. we will march with you. we will vote with you. we will and we will honor with gun violence and we will honor with action. a gunmy and i lead violence prevention group that has been rallying since we were 11 years old. [applause] lockdown for 5 hours on the worst day of my life. the sandy hook mass shooting should've been the last one in our nation. there are more everyday. that's why newtown says enough and we say never again. [applause] worked incredibly hard for the last five years to protect other communities. apparently sandy hook was not enough for america to make the changes. after parkland, we feel hope. you have inspired millions of students and adults around the world. we want to thank the parkland students. we want to let them know newtown high school students stand with them. we will stay with you during your healing and recovery. we are connected by a treasury that could have been -- tragedy that could've been prevented. [c

indeed the sandy hook victims. their deaths are still in our hearts.eir lives are still with us other memories are a live today. my friendships with their loved ones specifically their parents inspire me to continue this fight against gun violence in america. their courage and strength has inspired so many of us in this country. their names deserve to be remembered again in this chamber. nora age six, charlotte h6, jack age six olivia h6 dylan, age six. catherine age six -- age six james h6, josephine age seven caroline h6. benjamin, age six. chase, age six. grace, age seven. emily parker, age six. madeline sue h6. allison white, age six. daniel, age seven. jesse lewis, age six. in their teachers, victoria, age 27. lauren age 30. and marie murphy, age 52. rachel age 29, mary charlotte the psychologist, age 56. john, the principal of the school age 47. all of them died in december of 2012. all of them will be remembered not only on this day but forever, not only in connecticut but around the world and we must always keep them in our hearts as a reason t

the victims of sandy hook couldn't speak. their olde their old brothers and sisters and classmates couldn't really speak. parkland gave them the opportunity to have their voices heard. and i just -- this is such an incredible time. i said today on the radio, that listeners should -- when they're talking to people about this, to ask the question of their friends, does this feel different? we've been to protests before. we've seen people protest mass shootings before. we have seen the hurt and anger and the silence that you were just talking about. and yet nothing happened. and yet there's something about this moment, there's something about these kids. there's something about today culminating with the silence from emma gonzalez that says, and it should say to those people in that building, at that end of pennsylvania avenue, and that -- at that end of pennsylvania avenue that these kids are not having it. and not just these kids, this nation isn't having it any more. >> yeah. absolutely. you know, it's interesting, tiffany. a

mark barden the founder of sandy hook promise. it started after the shooting at sandy hook school. >>> public pressure is pushing more and more companies to disentangle themselves from the gun industry embedded in america's culture. as we've been talking about, dozens of companies from various industries are halting discounts with national rifle association members. now three retailers are taking things further. dick's sporting goods and walmart and kroger are taking a stance. today kroger said it will stop gun and ammunition sales to people under 21. i imagine you didn't know that kroger sold guns. it sells them at the fred myers stores. the cincinnati base the chain sells sporting related firearms at select stores, which the "wall street journal" numbers at 43, mostly in western states. several years ago it stopped selling semi-automatic rifles. they told nbc that recent eechblts demonstrate the need for action on the part of responsible gun retailers. with all of the changes regarding the minimum age for buying questions, keep

isabel la wakeman was 11 at the time of the sandy hook massacre. carly is a senior at the florida school where 17 students and teachers were killed in the rampage we are talking about on valentine's day. here they are. >> carly, i'm going to start with you. talk about your story. you are a triplet. you and your twin brothers were there when the shooting started. >> so, i'm a senior at stoneman douglas. i have two twin brothers there, one in the freshman building and i have a, my father is a teacher at stoneman douglas. he was protecting students because they were walking toward the building. that is where they go during the fire drill, which did occur during the shooting. they had to run back to the office because they heard gunshots. he sheltered over 30 kids inside the office. >> i should have asked you guys first, how are you coping? how are you dealing? >> it's hard for me because i did lose a friend and one of the girls on my basketball team did get injured. she suffered from five shots to the right side of her body. but, she's back at school

she lost her 6-year-old son dillon during the tragedy at sandy hook elementary.rt with nicole. >> you know, i've been following politics all my life. and i don't see politicians defeated because they don't push for gun control. i've seen them being beaten for being for gun control and safety. these young people say they're in going to knock off these politicians, get rid of them politically if they don't do what they say they're going to do. i'm going into that voting booth and voting on gun safety. i don't want to hear about that today, i'm going to vote on gun safety. that's a hard thing to get people to do. >> it is a hard thing to get people to do. but if you are single minded and laser focused on what you want to achieve, it's completely possible. these kids are of voter age or coming into voter age they are going to have their voices heard. >> is it broad now or is it just the people who showed up today? can we imagine 800,000 there today? usually in your head you go about 10 times that many people are thinking like this. how do you do that? >> when i start

michele gay, daughter died at sandy hook: "i don't. we should look at everything.e should put everything on the table. we can't ever count on any one thing."scott mclean: "there's no one single magic wand that will solve school shootings?" michele gay, daughter died at sandy hook: "i believe if there was we would have found it and waved it by now." (justine) that was scott mclean reporting. on friday the dream-catcher was presented to students at marjory stoneman douglas high school. they kept it for just 17 seconds, in honor of the 17 victims... then gave it back -- retiring it with the hope that no other school will experience such loss. (mabrisa)i have your forecast coming up a bit later on... at&t has a network with thousands of best-in-class security experts

we'll talk to a sandy hook mother who just met with the president moments ago. a gun-owning u.s. senator who introduced a new bipartisan gun bill. we start with what's become a very bad week of headlines for president trump's son-in-law jared kushner. the latest concerns business loans to his family's real estate company that took place after meetings in the white house. that's according to people familiar with the meetings who spoke with the "new york times." it followed multiple reports a new york regulator is examining the company's ties to three different banks as well as jared kushner losing his top secret clearance. today, "the wall street journal" editorial board says the long knives are out for kushner and his wife ivanka and suggests it might be time for him to leave the white house. let's start with our nbc reporters. nbc's kelly o'donnell is at the white house and julia aimsly who reports on justice and national security with us as well. julia, i want to start with you and this new reporting about jared kushner. mao do how does this potentially fit into mueller's probe

i am in connecticut and live 20 minutes away from sandy hook, and i was in elementary school when that happened, and i cannot remember much from that age, but the fact i remember remember sandy hook happening, speaks for itself. i combination with the fact am a high school student, i am 15, a sophomore, and all of those parkland kids are high schoolers as well, so i think you add in the past history, plus it is not hard to imagine being in their position, and i think that is why, for me, i wanted to make a change, and i felt so motivated to, and students all over the country are motivated. host: talk a little bit about that motivation, and the fact you see students organizing protest like that -- like this. we did see sandy hook happening and it was so gut wrenching for the nation to see, but you did not see this sort of reaction come out of it. do you think it is because now, young people, the reach of social media, our young people more engaged? what makes this different from sandy hook, columbine, all of the other horrific attacks we have seen before? guest: i think in a way it is a

-- passed before sandy hook but strengthened after it. it would provide for red flag process to take guns away from dangerous people, prevent people with serious mental illness or other reasons that they are dangerous to themselves or others, from buying or having a weapon, and the statutes passed as a result of the advocacy from francine and others in connecticut have worked as a record of their working. that is the record that we should be eating in this body -- heeding in this body, and their courage and strength, which should be a model for us all. thank you. stabenow: thank you very much. senator murphy? sen. murphy: let me just thank francine for being here and for what her and david have done over the last five years. francine and her husband moved to newtown in 2007 for the good public schools and a yard, where their sons could run around and be safe. sounds familiar to a lot of us as we make decisions on how to order our lives. they remained connected to new york. i feel like i know ben from all the stories from the wheelers. one

and after sandy hook i had given up all hook that anything would ever be done.ies were killed and i didn't think there would be any kind of gun reform or anything. and then those students spoke out and they were so brave after what they went through. it was so horrific, just going through that gun violence and the shooting and then they stood up and speaking truth to power and brave. so i just wanted to do something. and i had -- it's such a huge problem, but i can do one thing. i can take this one gun out of commission and destroy one gun. >> did you ever shoot the ar back when you had it? >> no, i never shot the ar. >> did he tell but shooting it? >> it just his friends, they have fun shooting them, they enjoy shooting them. >> i shot one on a range once and, i mean, you cannot believe the amount of deadly force inside that thing. and then i guess it depends on your reaction. i was working on a story about guns and gun control. we shot it and i just thought that's an awful lot of force for anyone to just have in their hands at any time. >> yeah. he didn't ask

but a lot of change did happen after sandy hook.illions of people became involved in this movement. but didn't, that weren't involved before. so sandy hook in my opinion was the start of this movement. parkland is going to be the end of it, i hope. this is very different because it's students advocating for themselves, they're intelligent, they're articulate. they know how to use social media to mobilize people across the entire country very quickly. it's got new energy and it's really exciting. >> that social media element that wasn't so prevalent in 2012 as you state. and nicole, i know you went down to parkland after the shooting to console those students after they lost 17 people. what was that like for you? >> when i went down there, i really didn't know what i was walking into. i just wanted people to be aware that i was there if anyone wanted to speak with me or connect with people from newtown. it was incredibly hard. i was very triggered, which i hadn't anticipated, seeing the school, the hospital, the disaster center. and

joining me is nicole hawkly who lost her son at sandy hook and also the co-founder of sandy hook promiselcome back to it the broadcast. i'm curious. i know you were at the march yesterday. what was your experience and what are your expectations now for where this goes? >> my experience, like so many other people, very exhausted but exhilarating day. the speeches were amazing. the students, their voices and call to action were exceptional. there were so many people there. i couldn't even get near the stage. i was five blocks away and we could not move for the entire session. it was just phenomenal. i was so proud to be there. >> i'm sure you were. after the shooting at sandy hook, so many people, myself included, thought there would be gun reform. the innocence shattered. you see a march on this scale. do you expect, do you think meaningful change will come from it? >> i absolutely do think change will come from it. what this shows is how many people want to see change and demanding change. back when sandy hook happened five years ago, we didn't have these kind of numbers and we didn't ha

since sandy hook. when younl become the only thing this body has done on guns since sandy hook is to allow hundreds of thousands of seriously mentally ill people to get weapons, past that law last year, signed by the president. nothing to actually strengthen gun laws. record numbers of americans want us to take action. 97% of americans want us to pass universal background checks. apple pie isn't as popular as background checks are in this country today. no other public policy that we arein considering gets and 97% approval rating from the american public other than universal background checks. let's listen to them. let's listen to them. i encourage senator mcconnell to not limit debate, to not constrain the senate. let's use this week and next week to try to come up with a set of measures that we can debate and have up or down votes on. and let's open the meantime the president flushes out what he saw and what he's against. president tweeted he supports congress of background checks. maybe later today

like minnesota, pennsylvania, virginia tech, sandy hook. roseburg, oregon, marshall county, kentucky, parkland. florida. andon the here rick headlines we no few many communities in michigan and across the country are facing violence every day. susan can't good to the park, can't ride their bicycle to the corner store or maybe do their homework or watch tv in their living room because of worry of shots coming in through the window. i'm from michigan and i understand and appreciate our wonderful hunting and outdoor hair damage and that's how i grew up and -- heritage and i grew up and i know we can take common sense gun action to make our communes safe and respect legal gun ownership. we can start were universal background checks, one recent poll found that 97% of people surveyed support background checks for all gun buyers as a first step. and i want to arm our teachers, not with guns, but with textbooks and computers and pencils and support staff, like school social workers and nurses and councils. -- counselors. ending gun violence won't b

i live in sandy hook and i attended the sandy hook elementary school when i was in first grade to fourthmy neighbor shot his mother in her bed, then gunned down 20 children and six of our educators, including my principal. it was one of the worst days of my life. since then, i have attended vigils. i have protested in front of the gun lobby in our town. i have sent letters to congress. i traveled to d.c. to meet with congress to beg them to do something to stop gun violence, but they did nothing. they didn't ban assault weapons or pass universal background check bills. and now the entire parkland community is shattered the way our town was after the massacre in my elementary school. we are here to support the stoneman douglas students. keep fighting as hard as you can. your voices are so important. your stories have truly changed the hearts and minds and together our stories will create the change that we need. [ cheers and applause ] if these mass shootings can happen in newtown and parkland, then they can happen anywhere. connecticut passed strong gun laws after sandy hook and congress

that was passed after sandy hook. when i spoke to one of the survivors here today, i asked her what is it specifically that you're going to be looking for like so many people here who are coming out to protest, to stand their ground. she said we're looking for politicians to listen to the people and the people will be speaking today. back to you. >> all right, jason carroll, thank you so much. let's talk more about the scope of this march and the mission and what might be accomplished. david swerdlick is a cnn political commentator and special editor for "the washington post." david, good to see you. >> thank you. >> it's an extraordinary sight. you've got a lot of young people here from all over the country and you have them with their parents. this is a family event. their objective is to get the attention of lawmakers here in the shadow of the u.s. capitol. is this likely to be effective? >> i think it's the start of something at least. you know, in the wake of the parkland shooting, you've seen a march here today

sandy hook. roseburg, oregon. kentucky, parkland, florida. and beyond the horrific headlines we know that far too many communities in michigan and across the country are facing violence everyday. children can't go to the park. can't ride their bicycle to the corner store or even maybe do their homework or watch tv in their living room because of a worry of shot coming in through the window. i'm from michigan, and i understand and appreciate our wonderful hunt aeng outdoor heritage and that's how i grew up. and i know we can take common sense gun actions to keep our children and our communities safe while respecting legal gun ownership. we can start with universal background checks. one recent poll found that 97% of people surveyed support ba background checks for all gun buyers as the first step. and i want to arm our teachers. not with guns, but textbooks, own computers, and pencils, and support staff. like school social workers, nurses, and counsellors. ending gun violence won't be easy, change never is. however, seeing everybody here today

sandy hook. it's a day that scarred the national conscience.as young children at a connecticut elementary school looked forward to the holidays and winter break, a 21-year-old man killed his mother at home, took her guns, drove across town. the children's day was just beginning when the gunman walked in gunning down 20 kids no older than 7, and six adults. he killed himself in awe first grade classroom as authorities responded. umpqua, a 26-year-old man handed a ub drive containing his manifesto to a student and opened fire. he killed nine in a humanities building. 7 injured in a shoot-out with police. and parkland. the coastal florida high school when a 19-year-old killed 17, injuring 14 in the latest in a long line of shootings. the suspect awaiting trial but the country is far from closure. joining me is jewel issy bishop. she was evacuated. i have to remind our viewers and the world about what you go through, what these students in all of these stories just read go through. the terror that will, despite how you heal, will live with you for

that's why after sandy hook, they refused to pass tougher background checks. that's why after orlando, they refused to even consider my own bill to ban the sale of high-capacity magazines. high-capacity magazines are designed for one thing and one thing only -- high-capacity killing. they are the grim hallmark of mass shootings in america linking parkland to newtown and las vegas to san bernadino and aurora to orlando. certainly, i have been encouraged to hear some of my colleagues say they may consider supporting limits on magazine sizes now. now, i have the legislation here that i introduced months ago to do just that, the keep america safe act is narrowly focused. it doesn't infringe on anyone's right to bear arms, and i challenge all of my colleagues to sign on. in my view, however, we must do more than ban high-capacity magazines. i for one voted for the assault weapons ban of 1994 when i was in the house of representatives, and i'm a cosponsor of the bill to reinstate it today. these weapons have no place in civilian society. they are not designed for se

we lived through sandy hook, which was an unspeakable, unimaginable horror. i was there that afternoon. i was there at the church that night when people were still in shock and grief. and i remember saying to one of , you know, when you are ready, i would like to talk to you about what we can do. , and through at me , she said, i am ready now. that is the kind of courage and strength that we have seen from survivors and loved ones. and they have come forward in a way that also has changed the dynamic. is growing in awareness and outrage. be -- perland could arkland could be a turning point, a historic moment, but we need to see all these historic moments in the context of a continuum. >> you mentioned your republican colleagues see the power of these kids have. does that mean that something can be a compost without shifting it from a ruling party, the republican party, to the democratic party? isn't that the movement can in change without it being a partisan affair? senator blumenthal: i think it can be bipartisan. though i just introduced with senator graham

let's just go to sandy hook. i thought, who could take a gun, a powerful military weapon converted for civilian use and go into a school of 6-and 7-year-olds and kill 20 of them and 6 staff outright, but ladies and gentlemen, it happened. it is still happening. since sandy hook, there have been 239 school shootings nationwide. with 438 people shot, and 138 people killed. this averages out to five school shootings per month. this is outare ray jorageous ind states of america. apart from school shootings in sandy hook, approximately 7,000 children have been killed by gun violence. just yesterday, we all received a sobering remind er of this figure when 7,000 pairs of donated shoes were neatly laid across the capital lawn to the represent the children lost since sandy hook. i are regrregret it did not get press, but those shoes were, there and those deaths happened. this congress cannot continue to do nothing, because nothing means more lives are lost. including the youngest and the most vulnerable among us. we must

and since sandy hook there have been 200 school shootings. there have been 400 youngsters and adults shot and/or killed. and it goes on. and we live in a country that is 4% of the population of the world that has 40% of the guns, and the guns regardless are falling into the wrong hands. and when the guns are military weapons of war with special ability to shoot straight, to have the kind of bullets and velocity that do terrible harm to the human body, we have a real problem. and so i just want you to know that we have rewritten the assault weapons legislation. it will take out of commission 205 assault weapons, and it will permit 2258 rifles and shotguns better use for hunting, and other legal purposes throughout this nation. and i don't intend to stop. one way or another we are going to get weapons of war off of the streets of america. so be strong, ladies and gentlemen. please, note that you have a group that is supporting you, and we intend to change the nature of gun use in this country. thank you very much. thank you. >> thank you so muc

look at what senator cornyn and senator murphy -- senator murphy represents connecticut where sandy hook is, newtown. steve: okay. >> he is having a conversation but also wants to hear from different points of view and that includes the nra representing millions of law-abiding gun owners. ainsley: kellyanne, something else the president is tackle is opioid crisis. there is forum to combat the problem we have in our country. what can we expect today no today we have two-hour summit at white house. the first lady will kick it off which is wonderful. we have six cabinet secretaries showing the country what respective departments and agencies have been doing to tackle the opioid crisis since the president's hhs secretary declared a public health emergency last october. since the president went first sharing his family story about his brother. here at the white house we're happy to hear that congress is coming up with about $6 billion in special funding to combat, help combat this crisis. far and above any number any administration has had. this president is focused on prevention, education,

but i want to recognize in a special way the parents and members of sandy hook promise, who have been integral in helping us to move this bill forward. we began working with them back i think it was last october. so i thank them for all of their assistance. it's well-known in law enforcement that security requires a multilayered approach. and the stop school violence act focuses on strengthening a very important layer to that security for our school. and there is still much work to be done. but the best way to keep our students and teachers safe is to give them the tools and the training to recognize the warning signs to prevent violence from ever entering our school grounds. and this bill aims to do just that. and i thank leadership for helping to shepherd this bill through. mr. scalise: i want to commend sheriff rutherford his leadership for bringing forward a strong bipartisan bill that focuses on addressing the real problem with mass school shootings. i'm proud to be a co-sponsor of this act and you're going to see later today the house bring that bill up and pass it with a strong

if you go back to 2013 when president obama opposed the universal background checks after sandy hook,enators who voted for it, 45 against it. if you get half the population to each senator, the senators who voted for it represent 190 million people. the senators who voted against it represent 120 million people. and yet it was blocked by a filibuster. so that hurdle is still out there that you're going to need some senators from either party, from states more marginal in the end to accept more limits to pass this than they have been willing to do so far. but it is possible to see where after 2018 there could be a majority in the house supporting these kind of measures. >> rod brownstein, julian belzer, thank you for joining us. >>> and fears of a trade war are giving traders jitters. here's this week's before the bell. >> hi, ana. fears of a trade war spell trouble for investors. on thursday the dow tumbled more than 700 points after president trump unveiled about $50 billion worth of tariffs on chinese imports. but china is threatening retaliation with $3 billion worth of tariffs on

called on for decades to treat kids traumatized in high-profile events, including the columbine and sandy hook school shootings. he's a psychiatrist, and also has a ph.d in neuroscience. >> perry: that very same sensitivity that makes you able to learn language, just like that, as a little infant, makes you highly vulnerable to chaos, threat, inconsistency, unpredictability-- >> winfrey: violence. >> perry: --violence. and so, children are much more sensitive to developmental trauma than adults. >> winfrey: so if you're a child who's raised in a nurturing and well-cared-for environment, you're more likely to have a well-wired brain? >> perry: correct.

i live in sandy hook and i attended the sandy hook elementary school when i was in first grade to fourthdown for hours and hours when my neighbor shot his mother in her bed, then gunned down 20 children and six other educators dawn.uding my principal, it was one of the worst days of my life. since then, i have attended vigils. i have protested in front of the gun lobby in our town. i have sent letters to congress. i have traveled to dc to meet with congress to back to them -- to beg them to do something to stop gun violence, but they did nothing. they didn't ban assault weapons or pass universal background check bills. now the entire parkland community is shattered the way our town was after the massacre in my elementary school. we are here to support the stoneman douglas students. we want to tell you to keep fighting as hard as you can your -- as you can. your voices are so important. your stories have change the hearts and minds, and together our stories will create the change that we need. [applause and cheers] tommy: if these mass shootings can happen in newtown and parkland, then th

we've seen progress particularly since the sandy hook elementary school. heath been this grassroots movement where the voices, these disparate voices haven't figured out how to come together and these kids are amazing, they are relentless, tireless, they're on point. they understand the issues, the money that the nra is giving politicians. they visited thurgood marshall high school the other day and came away talking about the ill pact of gun violence in the urban united states. they're really connecting the dots and i think that that aggressive way of connecting the dots, they're saying things, that we've been saying, but it's different coming from them. >> it has this purity of it. why are the adults in the country wirks are the politician letting us be killed in our schools. that message is hitting home. >> what's interesting, juju, i was speaking with one of your colleagues from school earlier on the broadcast and there is concern about keeping this going, this is an extraordinary event now and you're getting a lot of publicity. do you at all have conc

7000 kids whose lives would have been before them. 7000 kids who died of gun violence only since sandy hook. enough is enough. [applause] now everyone, i have been through these wars.i'm the author of the brady law and the assault weapons ban during the nra -- [applause] the nra has maybe public enemy number one and i am proud of it! [applause] and we have been fighting for 10 years. every time of the viselike grip of the nra on the necks of some of these politicians has succeeded. but this time, it won't! do you want to know why? it won't be because we have you! [applause] and together, we are going to win! we are going to win! we are going to win! we are going to win! we are going to win! we are going to win!. we are going to win! don't give up the fight! we will win! now it is my honor to introduce a great senator who has worked so hard after this was in his day. the horrible violence of stoneman douglas. your great senator, fighter the rational laws to keep us safe.

she lost her 6-year-old son dylon during the tragedy at sandy hook elementary. let's see. with nicole. you know, i've been following politics for all my life. i don't see politicians defeated because they don't push for gun control. i've seen theme being beaten for being for gun control and safety. these young people say they will knock off these politicians, get rid of them. i'm impressed. that takes real single mindedness saying i'm going to vote on gun safety. i don't want to hear about abortion rights or war and peace or taxes. today i'm going to vote on gun safety. that's hard thing to get people to do who are thinking people. >> it is hard thing to get people to do but if do you are single mind eed and laser focus on what you want to achieve, it's possible. these are of voter age or coming into voter age and will have their voices heard by the way they tick the voter checks. >> you've been looking and working in this area, is it broad now or just the people who showed up today. can we imagine 800,000 there today, usually you have about ten times that many people are

then there was sandy hook. we all remember a tben-year-old gunman -- 20-year-old gunman in december 2012 killing 20 first grade children and six educators inside sandy hook elementary school in new town, connecticut. elementary school students. these were first graders, for goodness sake. young children that should clearly have had us move to action. but, no, the killings continue because the republican leadership has been unwilling to budge to the n.r.a.-approved message. we have had bipartisan support for some of these -- for muscle of this legislation -- for much of this legislation as we do today. but too many are so afraid of the n.r.a. response that they lose sight of that fact that children are being killed right before our eyes. september 8, 2016, a 14-year-old girl died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting and killing another female student in alpine high school in west texas. just 20 days later on september 28, a 6-year-old boy was fatally shot on the playground on townsville elementary sc

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indeed, the sandy hook victims. their deaths still are in our hearts. their lives are still with us. their memories are alive today. and my friendships with their loved ones, particularly their parents, inspire me to continue this fight against gun violence in america. their courage and strength has inspired so many of us in this country, and their names deserve to be remembered and read again in this chamber. noah posner, age 6. charlotte bacon, age 6. jack pinto, age 6. olivia engel, age 6. dylan hockley, age 6. katherine hubbard, age 6. abielle richmond, age 6. jessica ricos, age 6. james madioli, age 6. josephine gaye, age 7. caroline prevetty, age 6. benjamin wheeler, age 6. chase kowalski, age 6. anamar green, age 6. grace mcdonald, age 7. emily parker, age 6. madeleine su, age 6. allison wyatt, age 6. daniel barden, age 7. jesse lewis, age 6. and their teachers, victor i don't soto, age 27. lauren russo, age 30. ann marie murphy, age 52. rachel devino, age 29. mary sherlock, their psychologist, age 56. dawn hockspring, the principal of the school

they stopped selling them in the main stores after sandy hook. they urged lawmakers to pass gun reform measures. >> the governor tonight is calling for representative micarelli to resign. two women accused him, one woman said he forced her to have sex after they broke up and another says he threatened to kill her. the allegations are being investigated and if true won't be tolerated. the 35-year-old ridley lawmaker issued a denial of allegations. unfortunately, i can't disprove something that never happened. no charges were filed because these are fabrications. >> police in buck's county want you to help them identify two bandits stealing money from atms. bucks county may not be the only targeted area. annie mccormick is in bensalem. you have the full story. >> jim, that's right. bensalem police released photos of two men they hope the public can give them information on. they think there are people out there that don't realize they might be victims of this. these are the two men police are looking for caught on camera on bristol road in bensalem

fort hood, sandy hook, san bernardino, pulse nightclub, and so many more. it's ridiculous. so today we're here in a bipartisan fashion to show leadership in an effort to in the senseless violence. it could be ended, and it will be ended. first, we must harden our schools against attack. these include allowing people with a certified training, very talented people, to carry firearms. now, some people are going to disagree with that, and i understand that. i fully understand that. and if you do want you to speak up today and will listen. but 98% of all mass shootings in the united states, since 1950, have taken place in gun free zones, where guns were not inside the school, or as an example, you take pulse nightclub. if you had one person in the room that could carry a a gun d knew how to use it, it wouldn't have happened, or certainly not to the extent it did when he was just in the shooting and shooting and shooting. and they were defenseless. it's just remember that. 98% of all mass public shootings in the united states since 1950 have taken place in gun free zones. it's t

i was on the floor of the senate when this body failed to advance in legislation after sandy hook. the shame that we all felt and america felt that this body was unable to act. at this time be different. in a moment, i will read the names of 17 americans, 14 children who were killed in the horrific attack at stoneman douglas high school. i'm joined by a group member who wish to read the names of children and other victims who died at the hands of gun violence in their states. may their memories inspire us to act. alyssa, martin, scott, nicholas, aaron, jamie, christopher, luke, cara, gina, joaquin, alayna, meadow, helena, alex, carmen,

you're sandy hook? it's nice to meet you.y understands what we understand. >> i wish i'd never met any of these people. now that i'm so grad thlad that they're part of my life and my family. >> reporter: jeremy smith, they met this group. her father was an engineering professor, killed in the virginia tech massacre. they had no idea this moment would touch their lives so closely. >> did you guys expect to meet someone like her today? >> since our shooting incident, 11 years now, and we walk by the memorial on the way to class every day of the hokies who died. >> reporter: tragedy turned this group into act -- activists. >> you can't not do anything. >> reporter: paul kemp's brother-in-law was killed in the clack mass shooting. he spent years lobbies gun makers and is inspired by the parkland students. >> they have the benefit of youth and being invincible and not listening to people who tell them they can't do that. and they've been doing that, and i love it. >> reporter: it's the children they say who are supposed to learn a

children and six educators inside sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. elementary school students. these were first-graders for goodness sake. young children that should clearly have had us to action but no, the killings continued because the republican leadership has been unwilling to budge the nra approved message. bipartisan support for some of these for much of this legislation as we do today. too many and they lose sight of the fact that children are being killed and right before ourur eyes. on september 8, 2016 a 14 -year-old girl died of assault but did after shooting and killing another people student in alpine high school in west texas. twenty days later on september 28 a central point was fatally shot in the playground in south carolina by a 14 a boy who just killed his father. another child in a teacher was struck by a bullet survived. i know some of you are thinking we haven't heard about the shootings and that's the problem in and of itself. school shootings have become so commonplace that so much a part of our lives the children dying in sc

you referenced sandy hook. the federal government hasn't done a thing since then. >> right. >> they can't even bar terrorists from buying guns in this country because the nra opposes that. we have a no-fly list, but the people on that list can buy guns in america. how does that make any sense? al qaeda actually tells people about that in america. they say if you're on our side, you know, use that loophole and commit mayhem. how does that make any sense? the nra has existed from 1871 to 1977 is a very different kor organization than the organization that has existed since '77 when it was basically taken over by the most radical elements who actually believe every gun sold is good for society, regardless of who it goes to. we should measure ourselves by how many guns we have, not by how many children we lose. >> now, governor, this comment came from this whole discussion. the nra has actually pressured state lawmakers in florida and georgia to punish companies that say they no longer want to give bonuses or whate

grade children and six educators inside sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. elementary school students, these were first graders, for goodness sake, young children who have had moved into action, no, the killings continue because republican leadership has been unwilling to budge to the nra-approved message. we've had bipartisan support for some of these -- for much of this legislation as we do today but too many are so afraid that the nra response that they lose sight. the fact that children aret beig killed right before our eyes. on september 8th, 2016 a 14-year-old girl died after shooting and killing another female student in alpine high school in west texas, just 20 dais later on september 28, 6-year-old was fatally shot in unthe playground when townsville elementary school by 14-year-old who had killed his father. another child and teacher were struck by bullets but survived. some of you are thinking, i haven't heard about the shootings, that's the problem in and of itself. schooln shootings have become so common, so much part of our lives that s childre

i came to the senate after the shooting in sandy hook in the had after i camee here was whether we would do something to respond to this horrible carnage of kids in elementary school and mr.no president, you are not yet in the senate and i know you followed this as aha citizen but standing here in this chamber in april 2013 casting the vote on a bill that would have been a very goodco bill to the background record checks and being surrounded in the chamber by sandy hook families and many of them sitting next to virginia tech families would come to be in solidarity with them and feeling so despairing that with them around us like the great cloud of witnesses referred to in the letter of the pulse to the hebrews, we fell short. they were praying for us to succeed and we fell short and in the aftermath of that horrible tragedy this body did precisely nothing. now we've experienced yet another horrible tragedy and there havee been others and thr been others since city. but it is my deep hope that after this horrible shooting in parkland something may be different in this body. and the reason

there were people speaking not just from parkland, but from sandy hook elementary. parkland student, megan vaughaner, in math class talking how upset she was and almost blacked out from how incredibly scary that situation was in the school and she just said, enough is enough, that she knew that it was too late then to change things, but now it's not too late and she wants things to get done before there is another incident. we had gina's grandmother, reading a letter from her father. she was in color guard and she obviously died and read the letter written by the father and spoke about how florida was a big first step and wishes other states would start enacting changes if those changes can't be done in washington d.c. take a listen to some of the young people we spoke to here earlier today. >> we don't do anything, it's not going to go away and the same problems are going to happen for our kids and their kids and it's going to keep continuing if we don't make a change. >> we want the action to never happen ever again 'cause like we need to ban guns, they're not rig

we thought sandy hook would be the end. and he and i introduced another assault weapons bill after the first one. we didn't succeed with it. but the killings have gone on. the number of incidents have gone up. i put my case in writing, which i will give you, if i may, in letter form. president trump: good. thank you. sen. feinstein: secondly the assault weapons legislation, this is the number of incidents before and -- and of -- incidents and of deaths. this is when the 10-year assault weapon ban was in how incidents and deaths dropped. when it ended, you see it going up. so, sen. murphy -- president trump: i'll take a look at it. sen. feinstein: and 26 of us have co-sponsored a new bill. i would be most honored if you would take a look at it. president trump: i will. sen. feinstein: we will get it to you and let us know what you think of it. president trump: i will. sen. feinstein: thank you. president trump: thank you very much. chris? go ahead. sen. chris murphy: mr. president, mr. vice president, thank you very much. th

it just couldn't be. >> for months afterwards, a group of sandy hook parents unsuccessfully pushed forhey now push schools to be safer but doesn't push gun control. >> if we go and start mentioning hot-button issues or political arguments, we suddenly divide the room in half. >> when the president says our main teachers is something we should look at, you don't dismiss him? >> we don't. we should look at everything. we should put everything on the table. we can't ever count on any one thing. >> there is no single magic wand that will solve school shootings? >> i believe if there was we would have found it and waved it by now. >> after the sandy hook shooting that dream catcher traveled to washington and townville, south carolina. on friday it was presented to students at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. but the students accepted it for 17 seconds and then they gave it back, opting to retire the dream catcher with the hope that no other school will have to relive their experience. chris. >> scott, appreciate it. thank you for the reporting. the president replac