newtown. first graders. and from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. president obama in the east room today announcing new executive actions on gun safety and doing so with some uncharacteristic display of presidential emotion. joining us now for the interview is mark barton, who is a member of sandy hook promise who is the father of 7-year-old daniel
bill but senate republicans blocked it. and moments later, literally minutes later, minutes after that vote or that nonvote, president obama was introduced in the rose garden by the father of one of the little boys who had been killed at sandy hook. daniel barden s father introduced president obama that day. mark barton. we will not be defeated. we are not defeated and we will not be defeated. we are here now, we will always be here because we have no other choice. we are not going away. and every day as more people are killed in this country because of gun violence, our determination grows stronger. you could hear the emotion that day in the voice of daniel barton who had lost his son the previous december at sandy hook. daniel barden s father mark introduced president obama that day to explain that even background checks for gun sales was too much to ask even after sandy hook and how the nation
there are different roads we can take in this space and i think we ve all been instrumental on having these conversations with our elected officials and hopefully guiding them in some of the directions they can take. your ability to be so constructive in the face of what you ve been going through is a real inspiration. thanks. got to do something. mark barton, member of sandy hook promise. mark, it s again, as you say, a real honor to introduce the president. it s an honor to have you here. we ll be right back. dear, why don t we switch to directv? now mother, we are settlers. i ve settled for cable all my life. but directv has been number one in customer satisfaction over cable for 15 years. we find our satisfaction elsewhere. the boy has his stick and hoop. the girl - her faceless doll. and you have your cabbages. and you.have your foot stomping. i sure do. (vo) don t be a settler. get rid of cable and upgrade to directv.
and every day as more people are killed in this country because of gun violence, our determination grows stronger. you could hear the emotion that day in the voice of daniel barden who had lost his son the previous december at sandy hook. daniel barden s father mark introduced president obama that day to explain that even background checks for gun sales was too much to ask even after sandy hook and how the nation felt about that. and when president obama spoke that day in the rose garden, it was with another level of emotion that we rarely see from him. when the president spoke that day, he was palpably angry. i ve heard folks say that having the families of victims lobby for this legislation was somehow misplaced. a prop, somebody called them. emotional blackmail some outlets said. are they serious?
mental health issue, this is a way to do it. do you actually feel optimistic that that part of it can go? that s asking congress to an appropriate $500 million. that s a lot of money. i understand that. but i also know that there s an appetite to try to do some good work in that space. i think that s universal. and if you want to say it s not about new laws, it s about enforcing existing laws on the books, we re doing that, too. we re hiring they want to hire atf, they want to run the nix program around the clock. 24 hours a day. let s go. when you said today that you looked around that day three years ago when the background checks bill didn t go through and you thought who is going to help him with this, this is a tall order, do you feel like a group of americans, a group of voces has risen up to make this possible? a president like this is acting