hi, everyone, thanks for joining me. i m amara walker in today for fredricka whitfield. and we begin this hour with mass d demonstrations nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. more than 300 rallies happening today. some like the event in d.c. underway right now. that is david hogg, he is one of the co-founders of this rally march for our lives and also a survivor of a mass shooting that happened at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. this is renewing calls to lawmakers to address the gun violence epidemic after a series of horrific mass shootings. moments ago, manual oliver, the father of joaquin oliver, killed in the parkland florida shooting had this powerful call to action. listen. and today, from this stage, and alongside joaquin, we want to announce a new kind of call to action. because i think it is time to bring a consequences to your inactions. if lawmakers who have the power to keep us safe from gun violence are going to avoid taking actio
native and a student at harvard and he said i don t want to be here talking about this terribly tragedy sad thing, i want to be watching nba finals with my step-dad but i have to be here. so this message directed at very peefl they believe who could effect changes to elected leaders to many of the people here in the crowd, out right say are just not doing enough on gun crime, amara. a lot of resolve. a lot of them saying if you re not going to do it, congress, we re going to make the change happen. thank you. now to cnn s polo sandoval joining us live from new york. you are walking with those marching. what are they telling you? reporter: look, it is an iconic moment. i was able to see this a month ago during the women s march and here we are again walking over the brooklyn bridge. the nypd clearing the way for demonstrators to make their way from brooklyn over to the manhattan side.
to put fiscal policies is in place, they were a disaster back in the 30s and try them again in the 2000s. that s what i consider to be the definition of dumb. michele bachmann mocked the president about the timing of his speech at a stop in des moines, iowa this afternoon. how they can destroy the united states of america. it isn t just president obama. senior citizens. my mom s 80, my step dad s 87.
unemployment numbers over his four years will stay probably at 9%. to downgrade the credit of this good country. to put fiscal policies is in place, they were a disaster back in the 30s and try them again in the 2000s. that s what i consider to be the definition of dumb. michele bachmann mocked the president about the timing of his speech at a stop in des moines, iowa this afternoon. how they can destroy the united states of america. it isn t just president obama. senior citizens. my mom s 80, my step dad s 87. thank you. you see, the liberals wanted the president to go big on a