tweet their condolences and there would be moments of silence and flags lowered and my colleagues would say now we re going to do something. this time it will be different. it wasn t much different. they basic waited out the american public and thought maybe american votes are would have short memories and then there was a lot of waffling. tia, i hope that as i said before, the parkland kids will make a difference. the house and senate are coming back. there is one person on capitol hill who will decide whether the bill that the house democrats passed for strengthened background checks gets a vote in the senate. his name is mitch mcconnell. everything is on mcconnell now. we ve got to focus on him. we have a former member of congress here shouting you out and what you re trying to do. walk us throughs it. yeah, thank you so much for having me. with this peace plan for a safer america, march for our lives is trying to change the conversation around gun violence
people thought that it was gunfire. and they ran for their lives. people are having issues walking into movie theaters. walking into school. and the thing is, this is uniquely american problem. for a lot of kids, what really is important for people to understand is the lock down drills in and of themselves that they re going through at school is creating anxiety that s a permanent state of beinging. > i think you bring this up, the lock down drills can, have these been a good idea for you? definitely not. in my experience, we would have a drill and kids were burst out and cry and so much anxiety. tsd did, you think of kids never being asked if you re okay living in inner cities or after experiencing a mass shooting because it s normalized. you have to go through it and move on because there s no one saying this is not okay. i shouldn t have to ask you are you okay. you shouldn t be going through drills and hearing an gunshots outside of your window.
at the earliest if they can and even it went through you re looking at 5 to 10% of families, not everybody. julia ainsley, sort of giving us the straight talk on this. this sounds like this is an announcement that is designed to be a political announcement. i think you might be right. not actual policy. like a lot of things. up ahead, what happens when you put practically all of the 2020 democrats in the same room in iowa on the same day? we ll show you. i ve been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration, which could lead to vision loss. so today i made a plan with my doctor, which includes preservision. because it s my vision, my morning walk, my sunday drive, my grandson s beautiful face. only preservision areds 2 contains the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. because it s my sunset, it s how i see my life. it s my vision. preservision so, every day,
their ground. i feel that the american voters will reward principle that, they will reward strength and people who will stand firm. and i always look to the suspect because the senate is the body that we look to. and had the majority of the republican senators stood together when the president took office and said we are not going to tolerate this, we will stand with you when you are right on policy, but you re going to hear from us when you behave in this manner, i think we might ve had a very different last two and a half years. they do have the power and the ability, and they are choosing not to. the ben sasse twitter feed in 2017 was strong. he is now running for re-election. jennifer horn. they are trying to fix this in private. it s not working. this isn t working. that s what i say about covering trump. what we re doing is not working. jennifer, thank you very much.
welcome back. tonight in 2020 vision, democrats on the trail try to navigate recession politics more than a dozen presidential hopefuls were in iowa today courting the all-important labor vote and the caucuses. it is huge. after their on-stage appearances, reporters asked some of the candidates about a potential recession. here is some of what we heard. nobody wants a recession. everybody wants all americans to be able to prosper. but if you want americans to be able to prosper, then you can t want somebody as terrible and haphazard and lazy and dishonest as donald trump in the white house. it s catching up to us. that s the problem. donald trump is catching up to the american economy. looking up to the economy today where unemployment is reasonably low is to understand that the vast majority of the people in this country, they are still struggling while almost all new incoming with seth going to the top 1%.