the wake of this horrific tragedy in such a short period of time. what is it like? what conversations are you having? it s kind of crazy. we re just a bunch of high schoolers changing the world from our a friend s house in parkland. it s kind of surreal how we re doing it. it s definitely not what you would expect. it s very all over the place. but we re doing great. and we have so many people supporting us. so it s good. sarah, i want you to respond. i know you tweeted to the president, if i m not mistaken before. and i wanted to get your reaction to a few things you. said dear donald trump, i m the 16-year-old who tweeted you who said i didn t want your condolences, i wanted gun control and went viral because of it. i heard you re coming to my community soon and i would like to express my opinions on gun control to you face-to-face. i want to ask him why a
they re both part of the never again movement and they join me now. i want to sk start by asking you, i ll start with you, sophie, first, how you re doing and how you re processing all of this. well, that s kind of a hard question because obviously none of us are really okay. but now that we re putting all of our energy into the movement, we re feeling really motived to make a change. how about you, sarah? well, everyone has a different grieving process. i think for us this is our grieving process. i don t know about everyone else, but i can t sit at home and do nothing. i have to go out there. i have to make a change. and that s what s going to make me feel better. how are you, sophie, how are you organizing? it s been remarkable to watch all of you come together and start essentially a movement in the wake of this horrific tragedy in such a short period of time. what is it like? what conversations are you
having? it s kind of crazy. we re just a bunch of high schoolers changing the world from our a friend s house in parkland. it s kind of surreal how we re doing it. it s definitely not what you would expect. it s very all over the place. but we re doing great. and we have so many people supporting us. so it s good. sarah, i want you to respond. i know you tweeted to the president, if i m not mistaken before. and i wanted to get your reaction to a few things you. said dear donald trump, i m the 16-year-old who tweeted you who said i didn t want your condolences, i wanted gun control and went viral because of it. i heard you re coming to my community soon and i would like to express my opinions on gun control to you face-to-face. i want to ask him why a mentally ill 19-year-old was legally able to purchase a game to here in florida. and why he was able to come into my high school and shoot 1 people and kill them, honestly.
weeks of scandals. i wonder what it hears like to hear someone who works in the white house characterize what happened in your school that way. i think it s horribly insensitive because our school literally just got shot up. and the white house is making it about them when there are kids that are dead. and this is why we re marching. because we re marching in washington because we need them to hear us, and we need to have a conversation with us. sarah, there is some people i think i ve seen who think that it s a bad idea for you guys to organize so soon, that you re still processing grief, that you re young, that you re students, that it s too much. that people like myself shouldn t be putting you on television. i ve seen people express that thought. what do you say to them?
from the washington, d.c. area plan to hold a lie-in at the white house in a show of solidarity with the victims and survivors of the shooting. joining me, sarah chadwick, there when the shots rang out at the high school and a moan who son was killed in massachusetts in 1996. sir ra wh sarah what have you been thinking since this all happened last thursday? honestly, ali, angry. angry this should have been prevented and i feel that s my grieving point. i m channeling my anger into the movements that i m in, into the activism that i m participating in and honestly just want to make a change at this point. sarah, if you were one of the people invited to the president s listening session, what would you say? honestly, i just would ask, why? i mean, 17 of my chasemates were