of a dead classmate and playing d dead. he shot my classmates, i thought he would come back to the front and so i got a little blood and i put it all over me. let s go straight up to cnn s lauren fox at the capitol. lauren is listening to that young girl, listening to the parents. it is heart wrenching. the question is, what will congress make hearing? reporter: yeah, john, i heard from the lawmakers, one thing you heard they had never, never seen this close to the tragedy the kind of testimony that we heard today. that coming, of course, from a 4th grader who was in one of the class roorms where her classmates were killed, where her teacher was shot. that is the kind of emotional t including the chair woman hoped would change the mind of her colleagues. we also heard riveting and heart breaking testimony from the parents of lexi rubio. this is what her mother kimberly said about her last moments with her daughter. i called her and told her we loved her and would pick
dignity. i ll work in common purpose for a more secure, peaceful and prosperous world. now, i get it again, there is real politics, history benefitted from the president doing that with gorbechev, candidates say things that black and white presidents have to deal in nuance? no, i don t think so, not at all. look, the president was honest after jamal khashoggi was killed. his administration we put accountability measures in, parts of their government for that but they are an important partner in a region that is absolutely still vital to our interests. after a meeting that hasn t been set, i will tell you the president will be completely unafraid to have honest, candid discussions with leaders around the world with almost everything and those where we have
happen. it reminds us once again that the visceral power of visual images can sometimes just dominate what we think about the news. when we see president carter and sadat shaking hands. when ronald reagan and gorbechev. and those pictures, that picture of the two leaders of the koreas stepping over that concrete barrier, immediately, makes you think wow, something has changed. what has to happen is a kind of more sober remembrance that the presidents or leaders of the two koreas met 18 years ago. in some sense, what i m saying is we do have to remember that in the past, american presidents have been been charlie brown and
washington for so long, to see it broken down and i think that s coming to play in this health care bill, just because you see who likes this bill, and it s the insurers. it s, you know, the health care industry. it s these very powerful entrenched lobbies that this bill does not take on in any form so you re still seeing a lot of the opposition that we re seeing from some conservative senators is just that it doesn t go far enough with free market reforms. all right. i want to turn topics a bit here because last night the president again tweeted on russia, writing, the obama administration knew far in advance of november 8 about election meddling but russia, did nothing about it. why? how effective of a strategy is that, peter, to throw the blame back on the obama administration? is anyone buying it? yes, they are. so, let me just remind all of us that president reagan said, tear down this wall, mr. gorbechev. barack obama said, knock it off. that was a self-reported quote
nixon as a candidate sort of inserting himself into the vietnam war, but this is extraordinary and it s also but not writing people that are nbc s first read has a good comparison saying imagine democrats micromanaging the start talks in the 80s by sending an open letter to gorbechev. can you imagine the backlash democrats would have had? no you couldn t imagine it even ten years ago with a democratic senator making overtures to other countries opposed to our actions in iraq. so, no certainly it s without precedent. the other part here is this is most of the very nearly all of the republicans in the senate. we re not just talking about the ted cruz the wackobirds as john