these are young people teenagers unlike in the prior instance of the school shooting taking place in 2012 where they were elementary school students. these are people of age who are engage in civic activism. we have seen the sproeshl social media where young people can communicate and mobilize without substantial resources in order to energize people. and just the authenticity of the story, the passion, the powerfulness of their words, because of this very traumatic experience. it will hopefully translate into this time being different. as a member of congress i ve been through mass shooting after mass shooting over the last three terms. and the time for thoughts and prayers and moments of silence on the floor of the house of representatives without action should be over. yes. let s talk about the russia investigation. the administration says that the u.s. has warned russia not to meddle in the 2018 midterm elections.
to not just a good job to keep food on their table and roof over their head, but access to health care and education. and we have the capacity to do that. and where we fall short we as a society have to make up for it and the way we make up for it is government. let me ask you, real simple yes or no question, gave the last press briefing, the briefing room, president you re laughing, congressman, but it is not that hard, this is an easy one. they both they said the president said when he left office on january 18th, this is so recent, january 18th, he said, i think we re going to be okay. kathleen, do you agree with that? you know what, i think that in the last 100 days, what you ve seen is a revival of the democratic party, and civic activism. i think that s been very exciting. there is going to be a real what? the resistance. well, you can call it the resistance.
people to engage in civic activism. on your own time, pete. i m learning being helpless listening to this basketball because i was part of a protest or saw a protest, i can t take a test? i understand things are difficult, we ve seen difficult things but what a pathetic excuse that we re saying i m so traumatized and coddled such an adult child at a coddled ivy league university i can t write an essay because i ve been offended by something i m watching on tv. i understand, these are difficult things. on my facebook page i was getting messages from mothers say do you know what? what if i took a day off when i have a trauma. there are people with deaths in the country and they continue to do their job. in america we have grit and have responsibilities. everyone is different. that is the whole point. every time we got hit by ied,
courtroom. you know what the judge will tell you if you say i can t go on, he ll say give me your law license. megyn, these events have historic proportions, okay. you have go ahead. we have to try to be sensitive. that sensitivity is what is making these folk haves this learned victimization. megyn, what better way to celebrate the foundations of the constitution and the bill of rights by allowing people to engage in civic activism. go for it. they should do that. on their own time, pete. do your thing. i m learning helplessness right now being helpless and listening to this babble that because i was part of a protest or saw a protest i can t take a test? i understand things are difficult. we ve all seen difficult things. but what a pathetic excuse we re saying i m so traumatized, i m so coddled, i m such an adult child, coddled ivy league university that i can t take a
anyone for a couple of days. and you kept the secret. i did. i kept the secret as best i could. let me play for you what white house spokesman jay carney said yesterday. this delegation represents the diversity that is the united states, all our delegation members are distinguished by their accomplishments in government service, in civic activism and in sports. and we are proud of each and every one of them and think they will serve as great ambassadors to the games. it s a diplomatic word, diversity, but what do you think it sends? the united states is fully behind all of our athletes and we want to have a poor sfeacefu successful olympic games. to the people who said the appropriate response to these anti-gay laws would be for us to boycott the games. see, i just don t feel that way about it at all. as an olympian, i know what joy and power the olympics can bring