woke up to the news that my best friend was gone. and i don t understand why i can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war, an ar joining us now is the young man who you just saw make that appeal to the president in the clip. that is stoneman douglas student sam zeif. and the managing director of sandy hook promise. her son dylan was killed in the sandy hook massacre. thank you very much for being here. you ve had a very intense week, very intense past 24 hours. sam, what did you think of that meeting with the president and his response to you? after everything that was said and at the end of the meeting, as soon as i started hearing the words background
armed. their job is to teach. their job is to inspire, their job is to keep their kids safe and being the front line of defense for that from a preventive perspective is one thing, but in terms of arming them and asking them to make that sort of decision in a crisis moment, that s completely unacceptable and not a solution that should be pursued in any way. sam, today, now that you ve been at the white house, now that we ve had this conversation in such an intense way, what do you want to say to the president? where do you want to start today? honestly, i hope we can do th that. i said this today, i said this last night. i said it yesterday at the white house. he can make america great again, and this is how he does it. if he doesn t want to cooperate, we re going to make america great again. there you go.
there s no one thing that will solve this. obviously people are talking about all their ideas now and the solutions. sam, what did you think about the president s idea of arming teachers? madness. absolute madness. teachers go through emotions every single day, just like students do, just like mentally ill people do, just like everyone. teachers are faced with the responsibility every single day of molding young lives and mentoring them and being there for them. why should they be faced with the responsibility of knowing whether or not they re going to have to kill them that day? nicole, what were your thoughts when you heard that suggestion? i don t think it s a reasonable suggestion at all. i don t think it s something that the politicians should be talking about. ask any teacher. teachers have no desire to be
problem of school shooters so that there would be no need to ban assault weapons now that teachers have guns. the president didn t say one word about assault weapons today, and that is the issue for most of the marjory stoneman douglas students who have been stepping up to microphones, including sam zeif, who was at the meeting with the president today. i don t understand why i can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. an ar. i was reading today that a person 20 years old walked into a store and bought an ar-15 in 5 minutes with an expired id. how is it that easy to buy this type of weapon? how do we not stop this after columbine, after sandy hook. i m sitting with a mother who
columbine, after sandy hook? i m sitting with a mother that lost her son. it s still happening. that was sam zeif, a survivor of the parkland school shooting. his 14-year-old brother, matthew, was also inside the school, hiding inside a classroom directly above him. texts between them from that day have gone viral. we want to share them with you. sam texted, are you okay? hopefully. just know i love you. i love you, too. forever. you re the best brother. we re going to get out of here. i promise. sam? yes? are the cops here? my teacher died. yes. he s sitting in the doorway. i don t know. i m on the third floor. you think i m okay? don t do anything. don t do anything. you understand, matthew? please answer me. are you okay? yes. yes. just stay hidden, please. yo, yo, are you okay, brother? yes. you?