Fight for your lives before its someone elses job. And jermaine lee reports on the reality of gun violence in america. I raise my hand in honor of my twin brother. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Not since Richard Nixon has a president faced as much legal peril as donald j. Trump. He is in the crosshairs of a criminal investigation by special Counsel Robert Mueller and fending off three separate civil lawsuits at least. All while his personal legal team is falling apart, and few if any top tier attorneys are clamoring to jump on board. Today a lawyer for Stormy Daniels filed new claims against the president and his long time lawyer Michael Cohen after daniels described her story in what she described as a consensual affair with trump in 2006. The white house declined to confirm whether the president himself was one of the 22 Million People who tuned into that broadcast, according to nielsen, the shows biggest audience in a decade. Some details of daniels account have long been public, this was the very first time she recounted them herself on camera. It was also the first time she claimed to have been threatened along with her infant daughter not to speak out about the president. The white house and the president s lawyers have denied any association with alleged threats, and daniels claim that incident occurred in 2011 after a tabloid decided to pull a tellall interview with daniels. Said cohen, trumps lawyer had threatened to sue if they ran the story. Asked today about the 60 minutes piece, the white house cast doubt on daniels story. Im not going to get into, you know, what the president may or may not have said. He has consistently denied these allegations. Thank you. Was the president aware of a physical threat made against ms. Daniels when she was with her daughter back in 2011 . Well, the president doesnt believe that any of the claims that ms. Daniels made last night in the interview are accurate. He doesnt believe she was threatened . No, he does. No. What his basis for that . Im sorry . Whats his basis for that . He doesnt believe there is nothing to corroborate her claim. Okay. Here is the thing. The white house and the president s lawyer say the president has consistently denied daniels story. You heard that right there. But as far as we can tell, the president himself has never publicly answered questions about daniels, not a one, or about his alleged affair with playboy playmate karen mcdougal. Thank you all very much. Were you lying about the affairs . Now the president did tweet this morning so much fake news. Never been more voluminous or more inaccurate. But through all of it our country is doing great. As for Michael Cohen, his lawyer responded to the interview by serving daniels and her attorney with a cease and desist letter alleging she defamed cohen. Daniels, however, and this should be important, made no such claim. Now her lawyer, Michael Avenatti has expanded their preexisting lawsuit against the president accusing cohen of defamation, and alleging the 130,000 paid to daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement broke Campaign Finance law. Which are contending that this agreement was designed to basically further a Campaign Finance violation the way it was carried out, the conspiracy that existed, the way that it was handled, et cetera. And therefore should it be void under Public Policy. It should not be enforced because it was designed to influence the election and purposefully avoid reporting it pursuant to federal election law. Now, if avenatti is right about that, it could make things more difficult for michael cone on another dangerous legal front. You see the special counsel is reportedly interested in cohen, as anyone would be, because he was involved in efforts during the campaign to build a trump tower in moscow. If mueller has evidence it could potentially pressure him to help cohen talk. According to a witness sam nunnburg, muellers investigators have asked about possible payoffs on the president s behalf. In your fbi interview with muellers team, they were asking about payments to women . They were asking if i knew anything about it. They were asking uf you knew anything about payments to women. But i think its pretty obvious theyre looking into. This in my voluntary interview, they wanted to know if i had ever not about specific payments. If i ever heard of anything like that going on to which i never have. Gloria allred who is suing the president for defamation on behalf of former the apprentice contestant Summer Zervos also accused the president of sexual assault. First, your reaction to the amended complaint today from Michael Avenatti making a somewhat similar claim to what your client made. Well, speaking for myself and not for my client. Yeah. I can say that this is an interesting approach. Whether or not he is successful with a claim of defamation is another issue completely. Because its very difficult to prove defamation. And really, it is factspecific. He is also facing this is filed in california californias antislap law, which without getting too technical and into it, it makes it very difficult for a defamation claim to be proven. Having said that, it appears that the battle is joined. And it may very well be that Michael Cohen will crosscomplain against Stormy Daniels and against her attorney who is not the same attorney as who represented stormy in the original settlement agreement, the nda agreement, and may also claim defamation on their part. So well have to see where this goes. Do you understand the president s or Michael Cohens i guess its unified now. They sort of joined together in that filing. Do you understand their legal strategy here . Well, the legal strategy appears to me to get this out of arbitration because in the settlement agreement, it provides the dispute should be resolved in a confidential arbitration. And the arbitrator can be chosen by the defendants. That would be President Trump are that would be by Michael Cohen representing a shell corporation. So they would prefer obviously to be in a court of law where everything is public and where testimony, if as and when there would be a trial would be public. And so theyd rather have that forum, that venue rather than a confidential arbitration. Right. Thats avenatti and Stormy Daniels legal approach, and that makes a lot of sense. Obviously publicity is their best friend. It acts as a kind of shield. I guess i dont quite understand what the president is doing or what Michael Cohen is doing. Because they seem to be taking steps that only expand the newsworthiness of this question at issue. Well, thats a political decision. Its also a media strategy decision. Its also a dangerous decision, because whatever they say, if in fact they cross that line into defamation, that can be very dangerous. Also, attorneys are regulated in terms of what they can say if they are litigating a lawsuit. What they can say in reference to evidence and for example. So they have to be very careful and not make any ethical violations either. Yeah. You obviously, youre representing Summer Zervos. I know for that reason youre not going to speak about her case in this context for precisely the reason you identify. Do you think, though, its a legitimate concern on the part of the president . We know there are multiple accusers of him on unwanted sexual contact. There is presumably possibly more women out there he might have had consensual affairs with, that he is essentially trying to stop the dominos from falling . I agree with you, chris. This very tough approach, trying to enforce a confidentiality agreement, a settlement agreement, the nondisclosure clause may be aimed not just at Stormy Daniels, but if as and when he has entered into any other confidential agreements. Right. With other women, he is in fact sending a message well come down on you hard too, if you violate those agreements. I do represent other trump accusers. However, none of those women that i do represent have entered into confidential agreements with President Trump or his representatives. All right. Gloria allred, thanks for your time tonight. Thank you. For more on the president s growing legal mess, im joined now by former federal prosecutor harry litman and author of both above the law blog which is a must read for me every day. I dont quite get it. I can tell you what mike cohen is trying to do. He is trying to become the worst lawyer of the decade at this point. Think about it this way. Michael cohen was sent to the store with one job. Buy Stormy Daniels a tall glass of shut up. That was his job. He has come back from the store with a potentially federal complaint about campaign violations. He has made himself a target for the Mueller Investigation who might be interested in how trump or David Dennison launders money. And oh, by the way, i happen to know the president likes to be spanked, which is information i cant unsee. Thats what he has done. And that gets to the point. Part of this is, harry, Michael Cohen is a friend of the president. He is having a hard time getting very good reputation. And this is in some ways pennyante stakes compared to whats happening on the mueller front. He is down to one lawyer over there, basically jay sekulow on that. Today weve got news that dan webb and tom buchanan, who are two big very credentials white shoe fancy pants lawyers also turned the president down. Why cannot why can the president of the United States not get anyone to represent him . I know, its remarkable, right . You would think it would be a prestigious engagement. A few reasons. First, he is an unmanageable client and Everybody Knows it. Second, he is an extremely controversial client. What webb and buchanan said today was socalled business conflicts. Thats code for saying a lot of their corporate clients would rebel. Right. Knowing that they were representing the president. Third, there is a real possibility for some debacle happening in case including their own firing. And fourth, of course, good luck getting paid with the record of trump. So all in all, its it really is a losing proposition for any of these big law firms. And im not surprised he has been turned down right and left. I think thats right. Thing is another angle here, right . One of the things that we have to remember is that lawyers have an ethical responsibility. And good lawyers take their ethical responsibilities seriously. John dowd likely left because trump desperately wants to testify. And john dowd cannot in good conscience allow trump to go testify and potentially perjure himself, right . I think that a lot of lawyers who are thinking about representing trump, their issue is you cant represent trump arguably at this point if youre not going to let him testify. And you cant let him testify unless youre willing to suborn perjury. And all of these bigwigs were talking about none is going to sign up to suborn perjury. A good ethical attorney has to say no. Not cant, has to say no. Now im not saying trump cant find a lawyer. But its important to understand that its going to be a lawyer who doesnt take that kind of sacred oath all that seriously. What do you think of, that harry . Yeah, i see it pretty differently. Yes, he is likely he is in a fix. First of all, a defendant who really insists on testifying, will testify. I personally doubt whether trump really believes that or whether thats just bravado. Right. Thats the other question there. Are a lot of clients who are in that position and they find reputation. So i dont while i do think that his testifying would put him between a rock and a hard place, as your guest says, i dont think thats the reason. All these solid Defense Attorneys have represented plenty of people who they knew were in the same kind of fix. Yes. Defense attorneys tend to not only get they have to confront. This i wanted to ask you i thought the legal strategy of the filing today really fascinating, to good back to Stormy Daniels and avenatti. He is making this argument where he says this was part of an effort to essentially do an end around Campaign Finance law. And as such is an invalid contract. He has this treaties on contract law from 1932 where it uses an example, an iconic example of a contract invalid of a politician who has secret letters of him taking another position, signing a private contract to essentially acquire those letters so they dont see the publics eyes. Obviously on the face that would be invalid. The battle between avenatti and cohen is the battle between an eagle and a worm, all right. This is almost an unfair fight in terms of whats going on in terms of legal philosophy behind these issues. Right. What i think is really interesting about their positioning right now from cohens perspective is that this cease and desist letter that just came out, you figure Stormy Daniels in 60 minutes kind of insinuated that cohen has intimidated her. Not that he was the guy that came up with the car and the kid, but generally he has been trying to bully her into signing this nda. And he responds the next day by sending a bullying, intimidating cease and desist letter. Its almost proves her point. Right. That this is how the trump team operates. And i cant see i think when a judge looks at that, its almost like cohen is making her case for her that she potentially sign this nda under extreme duress. I also, harry, do you understand why they seem so i mean, the whole point of this, to elies point, the whole point was to get her not to talk. Thats the whole point of all of it. The fake llc and the David Dennison and all of it. Well, she has talked now. So what ra they doing . Look, its the big question. I think basically, and its kind of pleasing to watch, they have been induced, cohen has been induced to overplay his hand, this sort of raw bullying tactics that normally put an end to things in their new york world wont work here. Yeah. And the real risk theyre in now this is different from mueller. And we can talk about the crosscutting with mueller. But theyre now in individual proceedings where an individual judge, they can be maneuvered to either lie or not. Remember what happened to bill clinton down in arkansas when he lied in front of Susan Webber Wright . She took his license away, made him pay 750,000. If cohen winds up getting crosswise with an individual judge. Thats a great point. He is in dire shape, including for his license. Again, look, perjury is the thing here. Right. There are so many now different ways to get trump in the box. And once you get trump in the box, it is game over because the man is incapable of clintons deposition lasted for hours. Right. Trump cant tell the truth for hours on end under intense questioning. Its a good reminder of where the end game of all these threads seem to be leading. And i still have mentally in my mind that sort of wan deer in the headlights look of bill clinton, the most powerful man in the world in the deposition. Yeah. Thats a scary place to find yourself no matter how powerful you are. Harry litman and elie mistal, great to have you both. The march for our lives, new signs the movement may be working. But first, Michael Cohens history of threats and intimidation on behalf of donald trump. 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Was in a parking lot going to a fitness class with my infant daughter. I was taking the seats facing backwards in the back seat, diaper bag, getting all the stuff out. And a guy walked up on me and said to me, leave trump alone. Forget the story. And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter, and said a beautiful little girl. It would be shame if something happened to her mom. And then he was gone. Perhaps the most astonishing new details coming out of last nights 60 minutes interview with Stormy Daniels that in 2011 someone threatened her not to go public with her claim that she had an fair with donald trump. The white house said this afternoon it does not believe Stormy Daniels was threatened. Was the president aware of a physical threat made against ms. Daniels when she was with her daughter back in 2011 . Well, the president doesnt believe that any of the claims that ms. Daniels made last night in the interview are accurate. He doesnt believe she was threatened . No, he does not. Whats his basis for that, raj . Sorry . Whats his basis for that . He doesnt believe there is nothing to corroborate her claim. Joining me now are two people who have claimed to be familiar with bullying and intimidation in trump world. The president of media matters for america and jason leopold, Senior Investigative reporter for buzzfeed news. Angelo, you had a runin yourself. Tell me about it. I did. This is back in 2012. I had washington campaigned to get macys to fire donald trump. It had about 700,000 petition signers at this time. We were doing our first delivery. It was right around thanksgiving. I didnt want to have all these people going up to macys in new york city right around the thanksgiving day parade. Well only had a couple hundred people who got an invitation to go. The time and place were public and people knew about it. But we were very careful to select the group there was a guy that showed up. He was pretty big in a trench coat, a little suspicious. I assumed maybe he might have been a Security Guard or whatever, but i had no idea who it was. At one point he mentioned to me you know, you could get hurt doing what youre doing. Very casually. It was sort of a comical threat. Its an exaggeration, honestly. You never hear that in real life. And then fast forward a couple of years later, i was watching tv during the campaign, and it turned out to be Donald Trumps top Security Guard. I recognized his face. And then i went back and looked at pictures from the events. And you can see him lurking off in the background. He showed up. And i was able to remember that that was the guy. So thats Keith Schiller, by the way that youre individually talking about. Were showing a picture of him now. He worked in the white house. He left fairly recently. What youre saying is when you did an event to sort of protest macys crosspromoting with donald trump. Yep. When you showed up to you had an event where you drop off the signatures, there is a guy there sort of lurking around that comes up and says to you, youre saying its Keith Schiller who says you could get hurt doing what youre doing. Yeah. I know he was there at the behest of donald trump, at the same time the event was going on, donald trump sent out a tweet about it making fun of the crowd size. Of course. Its not like it was on live tv. It wasnt on cable news. He was obviously concerned about it. And Keith Schiller. He was there obviously to some extent at trumps behest. It didnt make sense. The strange thing is he was talking to reporters too. He never identified himself as a trump employee. I didnt even put the two together. I had a suspicion. It was weird. It wasnt my First Campaign so ive seen and heard threats before. I assumed he was trump supporter and put it behind me. Obviously didnt stop because the campaign continued and then donald trump threatened to sue me for 25 million. And Michael Cohen was saying i was engaging in mafiastyle tactics and calling into radio programs i was on. It was exactly when stormy was talking last night, the pattern of behavior and some of the players sounded very, very familiar. Jason, youve done reporting on this. There is three incidents. Lets start with 1982 where you have reported on people in trumps circle using these intimidation tactic us. In 1982 trump was trying to get a tax abatement on what is now trump tower. And the new york city housing commissioner at the time opposed it. Next thing you know, this new york city housing commissioner gets a phone call threatening his life. Nypd sent and officers around the clock to protect him. The next day, donald trump himself called the fbi and said that he had received a call saying that somebody was shafting him on this tax abatement. And he tells the fbi he gets another call that if he were to reveal the details of this call, that somebody would kill him. So it was an incredibly odd turn of events in which the new york city housing commissioner is being threatened. Then trump calls the fbi the next day to report that he too is getting a call about this housing commissioner. Another example in 1995. Trump building superintendent sued the Trump Organization for false imprisonment. What happened there . This was the superintendent over at trump palace. And he claimed that he had evidence of financial improprieties to the tune of about 300,000. He was going to reveal it to the board of the Trump Organization, sent his wife and 12yearold son to collect some documents from his office. The next thing you know, trump security busts into the office. They hold his wife and son captive, if you will. Really . For about 90 minutes. Matthew krah alimari, head of trump security i believe at the time was named in this lawsuit. He shoved the 12yearold boy. Whats fascinating about this is this is all documented in fbi records that i obtained along with colleague ryan shapiro under a freedom of information act lawsuit, as well as police reports. This is covered. This is documented. This is all documented. This is not with all due respect to angelo, this is an in fbi documents. In 2009, there is an attorney named Christopher Hanson who called the fbi and reported he received a threatening phone call from a man he believed to be Donald Trumps bodyguard. This is a fascinating case. This is two years before Stormy Daniels alleges she was threatened. Yes. In this case, Christopher Hanson, high profile bankruptcy attorney. A day before he received this phone call, trump entertainment reports filed for bankruptcy protection. Five days earlier trump resigned as the chairman of the board. Ivanka was involved in this company as well. And trump had complained that the bondholders were not allowing the bondholders were opposed to trump purchasing the company, taking it private. He blamed the lawyers. Hanson goes to this court in camden, new jersey and essentially just filed some papers. On his way back on the train, he gets this threatening phone call which was laced with quite a number of fwords. And he essentially writes down what the threat is, reports it to the police in new jersey and the fbi, and he too gets officers who are protecting him for a few days. And the fbi also gave him a recording of the device and said if you get any additional phone calls, record it. All right. Well, people can sort of take this information they have. You have fbi files that back up these three instances. Angelo was there. You can evaluate the credibility of all of these taken together with what Stormy Daniels said happened to her. Angelo corasone, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Coming up, how dirt on donald trump can be used to leverage this white house. Thats next. In many ways, a key question before the public isnt whether voters carry about Stormy Daniels and her alleged affair with donald trump. Its why does donald trump care so much . The white house denies the affair, but that has not kept his lawyer to going to extraordinary lengths to silence daniels. And those extraordinary efforts raise a question of their own. What other secrets might donald trump be trying to keep quiet . Here to help us unravel what other vulnerabilities the president could be hiding is betsy woodruff, the daily beast and msnbc political analyst and Mother Jones Washington Bureau chief david cornyn. David, ill start with you as the first person to report about the steele dossier and the specifics of whats in there aside, the general idea is the thought that the president could possibly be open to blackmail. And watching this Stormy Daniels situation play out, it seems to me that all that matters for someone to be blackmailed is there are things they dont want coming out, whatever the things may be. What do you think . Thats true. Thats the whole point when you get a security clearance. They look to see if there is anything you have done or said in the past that could be used to compromise you, extort you, and make you do something that you wouldnt otherwise do. Its important to note that in the book, we talked about this when i was on the show last that i t book i did with michael isikoff, we talked about the golden share allegation. People fixated on that. Its not clear whether it happen order not. What is clear is trump did take lots of other trips to russia. The steele memos note that compromise material was gathered in other instances. And all we know is if you go to russia in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, whenever, that you do anything untoward, theyre going to have it recorded. Theyre going to have information on you. But the whole way, this Stormy Daniels thing has played out certainly raise as lot of suspicions that they were that Michael Cohen at least is the fixer, wanted things really buttoned up. And i think we have the right as citizens to know what else might be out there that could blackmail trump. Betsy, as someone who reports on this white house do, you feel like you have an understanding of whats driving this . Its notable to me that the president hasnt. He weighs in on everything. He has stopped himself from talking about this specifically. It is extraordinary that a story that has dominated headlines and the president hasnt tweeted on it. Exactly. The Stormy Daniels story might be the only news cycle of this proportion that the president has judiciously refused to comment on. And my guess is that the reason for his silence is probably because his lawyers have admonished him that if he were to speak out about Stormy Daniels, the likely result would be that it would be much harder for his lawyers to argue in court that she had violated the nondisclosure agreement that both of them allegedly are party to. Michael cohen of course needs to argue that the president himself and Michael Cohen were a party to that nondisclosure agreement. And if president discloses anything related to his alleged affair with Stormy Daniels, that could render that nda nondisclosure agreement null and void. So thats probably the reason the president has been so uncharacteristically mum about the Stormy Daniels story. David, there is to your point about this sort of Public Policy issue here, which is like how many more of these are there, and what are the terms of them, or what are concealed behind them, and how open is the president to the possible leveraging of that, how do we get to the bottom of that . Well, you know, it would be nice if we had some organ of government somewhere that could maybe investigate these sort of things. I mean, we can very glib because its about an fair with a porn star. But there could be a lot more important things here. You know, we havent talked a lot about the catch and kill policy of the National Enquirer which is a Media Company which apparently got information that they bought and didnt use about donald trump and another affair. And that certainly would give them leverage over candidate trump and then President Trump. And the fact that thats a good point. That michael cone was paying any sort of hush money in an operation that might, might violate campaign law, other law, again, that gives someone blackmail material. And so this has happened in other instances. We literally dont know how many opportunities there are out there for sleazy people to try to hold something over the president of the United States. Betsy, you reported earlier today about two white collar Defense Attorneys in chicago turning down the president s team. They seem the white house now seems to want to keep the president away from any questions about this. And i just think its a matter of time, right . Are they going to be able to do that . Since john dowd has left the white house, the likelihood that the president will have a conversation with bob mueller has probably gone up. When trump back in i think it was january, first told a spray of reporters that he wanted to talk to mueller, and he made that comment in a way that to his credit sounded quite sincere and eager, right after he made that comment, i chatted on the phone with dowd, and dowd told me essentially hell no. Dowd said im the one who is going to make this decision, and i havent decided yet. But dowd is now gone, which means somebody else will be responsible for deciding whether or not trump talks to mueller. Now theoretically, trump himself should make that decision. But if he decides to defer to his attorneys, that raise as question such as who are his attorneys going to be besides jay sekulow . Its a big one. And additionally, one piece of this that is really interesting is that these two attorneys who turned the president down dont seem to have qualms about representing controversial clients. Dan webb, one of the attorneys who told me in a statement that he had rejected the president s offer represents dimitri fair. Tash who is ukrainian who faces allegations from federal investigators that he is connected to organized crime. He has been willing to represent him. But turned down the president. Thats significant. Betsy woodruff, the daily beast and david corn, author of russian route legal. Thanks for being here. Coming up, the mourning of his twin brother by marching on washington, d. C. Trymaine lee introduces us to one of the extraordinary students who made their voices heard this weekend. You do not want to miss it. Thats ahead. Sure smells amazing. Even in accounts receivable. Gain botanicals laundry detergent. Bring the smell of nature wherever you are. Racing isnt the only and with godaddy, im making my ideas real. With godaddy you can get a website to sell online. And it will look good. I made my own way. Now its time to make yours. Everything is working just like it should the never again Movement Born of the High School Shooting in parkland, florida last month moved to worldwide protests with focus on washington, d. C. And a call for action. Were not here for breadcrumbs. We are here for real change. We are here to lead. We are here to call out every single politician to force them into enacting this legislation. They know what is coming. They know fa that if there is no assault weapons ban passed then we will vote them out. This is not a red versus blue issue. This is a morals issue. And to the politicians that believe that their right to own a gun comes before our lives, get ready to get voted out. By us. Since this movement began, people have asked me, do you think any change is going to come from this. Look around. We are the change. I am here today to represent tiana thompson, who had just 16 was shot dead in her home here in washington, d. C. I am here today to acknowledge and represent the African American girls whose stories dont make the front page of every national newspaper. I represent the African American women who are victims of gun violence, who are simply statistics instead of vibrant, beautiful girls full of potential. My friends and i might still be 11, and we might still be in elementary school, but we know. We know life isnt equal for everyone, and we know what is right and wrong. Six minutes and 20 seconds with an ar15, and my friend carmen would never complain to me about piano practice. Aaron feiss would never call kyra miss sunshine. Alex schachter would never walk into school with his brother ryan. Elena petty would never, cara would never, luke hoyer would never, markine would never, peter wang would never, alissa would never, jamie would never, meadow pollack would never. Still man Douglas High School senior emma douglas stood there there in silence for more than four minutes in perhaps the most starkly powerful moment of the day. These survivors of the parkland shooting have become in their own way recognizable, iconic. And there are young people across the country affected every day by gun violence who have rarely gotten the same spotlight. And they were Standing Shoulder to shoulder at this march as well. Msnbc correspondent trymaine lee went to washington, and he will join me ahead, just ahead. Since the time that i came out here it has been six minutes and 20 seconds. The shooter has ceased shooting and will soon abandon his rifle, blend in with the students as they escape and walk free for an hour before arrest. Fight for your lives before its someone elses job. The current bout of renewed focus on gun violence in this country began with a horrific but a relatively rare event, a mass shooting in a school. Mass shootings overall, not just in schools, accounted for 1 of the more than 38,000 firearm deaths that took place in the United States in 2016. And thats a reality that parkland students, to their great credit, have gone out of their way to stress over and over again. The vast majority of live lost to guns happen away from national tv news. In september, for example, 16yearold zaire kelly was walking home in washington, d. C. He was just steps from his front door when he was shot and killed only a few miles from the site of this weekends historic march. Trymaine lee spoke to his twin brother zion who spoke at this weekends march and what he lost and the movement he is now trying to help build. At this moment, please raise your hand if you have been affected by gun violence to honor the once you have lost. Today i raise my hand in honor of my twin brother, zaire kelly. On september 20th, a rob were a gun was lurking on my street for hours. On my walk home, he attempted to rob me, but i ran. He shot my brother in the head. You know, my whole life ive been a twin. Its really brandnew to me. I dont have words to explain how it feels. Sometimes it feels like really devastating because he has been there with me all my life. Are there moments when you still feel your brother with you . Yeah. I mean, there are moments, you know that i feel that he is right there with me in my room. I feel his presence. I hear his voice in the back of my head. And i think about him every day. The grief and the healing is a process. And just trying to get by, you know, day by day with the grief of losing my son. And just seeing the strength in zion, you know, that helps tremendously. Weve been through a lot over the past six months. And for him to be able to have the courage to tell his story and for his voice to be heard just makes me feel really proud as a parent. In so many way, students from d. C. And the kids in parkland live worlds apart. But is there a kinship in other ways . Yes. So when people from my school and from Stoneman Douglas first met, we understood that were all going through the same struggles. We all have been affected by gun violence. And we all agree that this needs to come to an end. So it didnt matter the race, where we were from, anything. It mattered that were all americans and were all fighting the same problem. Hello. My name is zion, im here to represent the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of students see, when my brother was alive, like i was never the one to speak out in front of everyone and do public speaking and all that stuff. It was mainly him. I was sort of like in a shell. So me doing all this, speaking at the march and speaking in front of the cameras and stuff, its basically its him pushing me through. Hello, everyone. My name is zion kelly, and im a senior at Marshall Academy in washington, d. C. Im here to represent the hundreds and the hundreds of thousands of students who live every day in constant paranoia and fear on their way to and from school. Vote them out, vote them out does the movement end here . Do you think you can take any further . No, the movement does not end here. Right now im not sure where we want to take it forward, but its definitely continues to go and will continue to move forward and to receive change. Change is not going to happen tomorrow. My name is zion kelly. And just like all of you, i have had enough. Here with me is our own trymaine lee who brought us that incredible report. Also the table, Second Amendment scholar michael walden. But i want to begin with a pair of student activists who spoke at this weekends march. David hogg and matt post, High School Senior and safety advocate from maryland. David, i want to start with you. You know zion. And its been really interesting to watch you guys from parkland travel and talk to students from other places, other neighborhoods will look very different from the one you came to. What have you been talking about . What has that exchange been like . This is not an issue that just latino and any ethnicity. Its unbelieverble i had to live through this one for one day and there is people that live through this every day. Its unbelieverble. Has that changed the way you think about what youre doing to think about those stories . Its absolutely changed it. It was already real, but to realize the inequality in this country and how so many communities have to live through this every day, its unbelievable. I want to play a little bit of what you and both of you had to say. We know thats the only focus instead of American Safety is to dismiss it. Why was yours so different . We stood up and spoke out and because of our white privilege. Matt, that thing you said there really struck me. In the aftermath of parkland, the conversation got very specific very quickly. How do we stop School Shootings and massacres like the one we saw in parkland . We got to put metal detectors. I watched you and david and others make sure to push that conversation out more broadly. What is your thinking there . School shootings make up the minority of the shootings. We need to be focused on American Safety, not school safety. Thats why the bills going through congress that dont mention guns, thats why things like Arming Teachers or metal detectors is trying to put gum at the bottom of a bucket with an enormous hole. Its not going to solve the real root of the problem, which is a sickness of gun culture in this country. David, what is your take away from that day . What was that experience like . It was so empowering to witness the birth of a revolution, this was not the end of anything. This is just the start. We have walkouts coming up and so many other things. It was amazing to hear everyones story and hear how everybody is affected by this. It made it more important to continue this message of peace and equality for all americans regardless of where you come from or anything like that. Matt, there is a lot of people saying we dont have to listen to these kids. I understand they are upset and they got a right, a First Amendment right. Very funny. First amendment right to express themselves. Why should we listen to them . Why should people listen to you . Were the moral conscious of this country. I think our adults and politicians have become uncompassionate and a little soulless. We need to start caring about human lives and we need to create Public Policy that reflects that. I think were one of the most compassionate generations that ever walked this country with a strong set of moral values and a strong understanding of what is right and wrong and we are going to shock this country with morality. David, ive been watching you and some of your classmates sort of publicly have to grieve to deal with this, to be activists and voices in all this and be targeted by certain parts of America Public life and i wonder what is it like to find yourself in the public eye now . Its unbelievable. I never expected to become politically active and really start a Movement Like this in a scenario, but it happened and its something we have to change. We have to take this on and make sure that we continue this and at the end of the day, if people dont get out and vote, regardless of opinions, if people dont vote and make voices heard, what happened on saturday in beautiful march, it doesnt mean anything. Thank you for being with me. I appreciate it. Thank you. I want to go back to termaine and michael. That was an incredible piece. Its been gun violence in this country experienced in such different ways depending on where you live, and that was something that i thought student organizers did a good job on the forefront in the march itself. As you know, over the last several decades as gun violence has gone down, there is a great inequality where some communities are suffering as bad as they did in 1993. If you spend any time, there is a tremendous resolve but also a sophistication around the language of what they want policywise but intentional about the idea of intersection and bridging a gap, the kids from parkland visiting chicago and washington d. C. With kids that deal with this every day. When you hear zion talk about the personal loss of his brother and say race doesnt matter, geography doesnt matter, were americans and believe in safety. Thats what is so profound about this. These kids are getting a first class lesson in civics but responsibility and what it means to be an american, its a shared society. Michael, you worked in the clinton administration, which was the last High Water Mark of any proactive gun policy. Youve written a book about the Second Amendment and there seems to be something happening. Aerial edwards, a lady who does polling said that more notable the reaction of park land in the aftermath, appetite for gun reform continued to rise. Wasnt just spoken. Early march on a spike in belief reform was possible, a dip in belief gun restrictions violate the Second Amendment. Youve got, it seems, Something Real thats happened now. As someone who is a veteran of the battles, who do you think . In the 1990s, the intensity was on the side of the nra. Bill clinton blamed the loss of the house of representatives in 94. From the intensity of the nra. They were always minority but had the passion. What is new here, when you look become at thehistory, you never had this spontaneous cross community, cross racial, National Movement rise up with as wide a base and really interestingly, pretty savvy thinking about the importance of voting, the importance of not letting this dissipate, you get people filling the mall with morality. Its an important moment. The constitutional, as you know, does not bar sane gun laws. Its a matter of our broken political system and maybe that might be whats changing. It seems to me also like you cover certain issues, right . This is one of them. Guns, you can do the argument on both sides, stuff gets you so in a rut. They are doing something zion and Emma Gonzalez and david, they are somehow moving it out of a rut. Im watching a debate warned to thread or be stitched back together. Part of it is that the trama is shared for so long and weve done a lot of reporting. You go to the communities where the trama is so centralized and these kids at park land watch their friends die and some children have harrowing stories about hiding under bodies and seeing teachers dead. When they recount the stories and share stories with their parents and the parents sit back and say the mantle is yours and take it. The trama now is spread across cultures. Its something people have been depressed about, have taken for granted, suddenly there is a shift. Marriage equality, me, too. These are not new issues but people suddenly had a shift a whole generation, young people wouldnt dream voting for a dan candidate. It may be that we know that older white men generally speaking are the ones, fewer and fewer people have more and more guns. It may be the new generation comes along and says, you know, why do we have to put up with this . 3 of guns in america are a collection. Its a small concentrated group that speaks to the intensity question. There are 23 vulnerable congress people. 78 of americans do not have guns. Who is dictating . Who is the special interest . Small group is dictating the policy in america . Thats where the strength lies. During the town meeting when the young person asked senator rubio, will you commit to not taking money from the nra, that was the most visceral Campaign Finance moment. It brings together how people believe the system is not working for them. Who knows how it will play out but its very, very real. Your point about progress, the stuck jar lid theory. You dont have some or the of neat thing, its like there and then it pops off. Thats the question, do we see something get permanently dislodged. Thank you for being with me tonight. That is all in for this evening. The president down three attorneys in just a few days times and headlines that more lawyers have turned him down and one lawyer, robert mueller, is hard at work. 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