ground. florida stand your ground law has been getting a lot of attention recently. do you believe that law needs another look? put together a task force of 19 individuals, bipartisan. they travel the state. they listen to ordinary citizens. they listen to experts and they on colluded we didn t need to make a change to the law and i agree with their conclusion. so you re comfortable with it. yep. but tonight, it became clear that scott s defense of the law will absolutely not be the last word. because just hours ago, trayvon martin s parents appearing here on msnbc with reverend al sharpton discussed their plans to participate in vigils this weekend in support of a bill that would end stand your ground in florida as we know it. the trayvon martin amendment says that you cannot pursue, you cannot follow, chase someone, pick a fight with them, shoot and kill them and then say you were standing your ground. now, the focus on florida s stand your ground law in the
shockwaves across florida but sent shockwaves across the nation. what that verdict did was show the nation that florida didn t really value its youth, and so though we could be angry, right, and though we could destroy cities as the media say we d like to do, we decided to direct our anger in a way that moves us forward, in a way that recognizes the wrong and the injustice that it s done to trayvon martin and his family and galvanize the anger around this at the capitol. you asked about misguided youth. i think that s a notion that young people have gotten for a little while, and i think it s misguided because we know what we re doing. we ve arrived at the seat of power. we re human beings. we re citizens of the state of florida who have a right to petition our government when a grievance has been committed and a wrong has been done to us. and we re presenting an option for the governor, an opportunity like senator bullard is as well, to right this wrong, to right
absolutely. i think it is. they re continuing to overreach. they introduced a bill today saying, we want a 20-week ban? let s ban abortion at 6 weeks. this shows their cards on the table and i think it s big trouble for them. elise hogue. there s breaking news on the story we brought you in florida earlier. phillip agnew of the dream defenders back with us. phillip, are you there? i m here. i m here. long time, no see. yeah, how have you been? what s going on? well, i just got word from our team inside that the governor has agreed to meet with us. so we re excited about that, but the fact is our demand sill hasn t been met. so the governor actually has reached out and says he s going to meet with the dream defenders. you just got word of that just now? right. i just got word of it. i ve known for quite a while rick scott secretly watched all in every night but now i think we have actual confirmation. yes, we do. and, you know, we re planning on meeting and we re s
public safety slander women s rights protesters or polite to a punch of poop yielding hecklers? the republican bill designed to shut down most of the state s clinics really riled up the electorate in texas. as demonstrators gathered in the capitol to protest, without a single jar of human waste among them, rick perry signed that bill into law. the activists who fought against this bill as it moved through the legislature are not going away. they re simply refocusing the fight. joining me now is elise hogue, texan and president of neral pro-choice america. it s good to have you here. it s great to see you, chris. the first question is, why should i not feel deflated and bummed out? wendy davis add this amazing filibust filibuster, galvanized public opinion. they pushed the thing through. he s signing it. 100 republicans at the signing. they re all celebrating. they won, we lost.
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