that message coming from people that are adults, that they want the kids can to be that forefront of this is so empowering to me and i think all of us. sometimes we re dissolutioned whether our voice matters and we re able to see that we do have a voice and able to make a change. and george clooney was there and his wife was with with him, stephen speielberg was there. none of them trying to get on that stage and none of them trying to speak and all of them being very friendly with people wanting to take pictures with them but none of them seeking any of that attention. that s a very unusual thing. usually they use celebrities as a draw and there were celebrity singers up there helping with
not only as content but also as part of democracy, as part of civic organizer is nbc s savannah sellers and she was right by many people s sides as she took it in today. we were there the first time they saw the stage and them just saying i can t believe my school made something this big. other students are coming up to them telling them thank you for starting this, i m 17, you re 17, the same age at me and you re my role model now. savannah joins me. thanks for being here. absolutely. thanks for having me. a long day. one of the things that we saw today that you ve been looking at up close is what happens online doesn t always stay online, it goes off line. talk to us about how these communications and this organizing online helped build what looked like bigger events. absolutely. so from the first moment of that video you just played when the shooting was taking place, i ve been down in parkland a couple times and talking to kids about stuff like that. they just said it was m
things that have never happened on the stage of large protests like this. the most extraordinary and illuminating thing on that stage today was the simple rule that no adults were allowed to speak. there were no politicians on that stage, although many politicians requested speaking slots today. they were all turned down. the oldest speakers were high school seniors. the youngest was 9-year-old yolanda rene king, the granddaughter of martin luther king jr. we saw things we ve never seen from speakers on stage like this. emma gonzales bravely and fiercely held the stage in the middle of her speech for six minutes and 20 seconds off silence in which she forced the
it? idea are rr say the last five years idea are rr say that s really change. i kcould see david as a poliy walk. emma s more likely to be the next oprah or something. and cameron, maybe the next john oliver. i don t know all in washington but those two i can could see in washington actually. lets are s listen to camry stage. to the leaders, skeptics and sinnics who told us to sit down
events and protests over the years since the tragedy that occurred in your family. this one was unusual. no adults speaking on the stage. you would have been un of the adults that would speak on a stage like this normally. what did you make of that particular choice today? i think it was really powerful. i don t think there was anybody over 18 on that stage. the content, the production value. i think it was so powerful, so impactful. they got an amazing message across. we re in the midst of 800,000 people all speaking the same language and the same message. it was incredible. jordan, what made you want to be here in washington today? what made me want to be here is i m tired of going to school and being afraid and i can could have just stayed in orlando but so could have the parkland can kids. so i needed to come up here and