douglas high school are not taking no for an answer. they re bringing their message to washington on march 24th for a rally against school and gun violence. smaller rallies are planned also throughout our country. while the white house announced it is open to strengthening background checks, it s unclear how much further he ll go. during the 2016 donald trump was the nra s chone candidate. the nra spent roughly $30 million to support trump and defeat hillary clinton. let s watch. you came through for me, and i am going to come through for you. you have a true friend and champion in the white house. no longer will federal agencies be coming after law-abiding gun owners. we are going to protect our second amendment. we re going to protect our second amendment. oh, we re going to keep our guns. don t worry about it. we ve got save our second amendment. because they are doing numbers
president s response. and the the attempt to turn this into something that s about undermining further undermining trust in the fbi and making it about the russia investigations and trying to discredit those investigations in the after and such a recent aftermath of what has been an extraordinary tragedy when really what we would expect from a president is to simply recognize the extent of the tragedy and the victims involved. but then to take this as an opportunity to begin what needs to be a very serious national conversation that most americans recognize as a very important conversation to be had about gun laws and changes in those on a number of dimension. and leslie, survivors of the school shooting are turning their outrage into action as we ve been reporting by organizing this march, they re calling march for our lives in washington on march 24th, pushing for tougher gun laws and
if the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, i m going to happily ask him how much money he received from the national rifle association. marjory stoneman douglas high school student emma gonzalez at a rally on saturday calling out president trump after 17 of her classmates and teachers were gunned down last week. in a call to action, students are now planning a nationwide march, including a demonstration here in washington on march 24th. joining me now is alex wind, a junior at marjory stoneman douglas high, who helped launch the never again msd campaign. alex, thank you for being with us. as you re joining us today, some young people from washington, from the washington area, are
and that s the message to the president, to congress? what about to governor scott, to the legislators in tallahassee? it s the same thing. we are residents of your state, okay. if you expect us to just, you know, brush off everything, you re wrong. we are here. we are the never again movement. on march 24th, we re going to march on washington, d.c., and demand change. governor scott, senator rubio, president trump, we re coming for you. and we re coming for any other politician that accepts money from the national rifle association because change needs to happen, and children are dying, and it needs to end now. never again. alex, i can only imagine your parents, what are your parents saying about what you ve started, what you ve undertaken? the support is absolutely unreal. i ve lived in parkland my entire life, all 17 years. i never thought this could happen. my parents never thought this
going to be made, but how can i go back to school knowing that this can happen again? because nothing has changed. people are speaking up, but no action is being taken. that s what we re trying to do. on march 24th, we will go to washington, d.c., and we will march on our nation s capital and demand change from our lawmakers. the white house is putting out a statement that the president is beginning to think about the cornyn bill, the bipartisan bill in the senate. most people are suggesting those who are advocating for change that this is not nearly enough. yeah, i mean, what we re trying to do is we re trying to make things safer for us, for students, for kids. 14 students and three adults died on wednesday. children keep dying, okay. we are the future. we are the ones that are going to make the change. so why are you letting us die? that s my question.