grateful that you are starting your weekend with us. it is a day of activism across the country. very good point. because we start with the national call for gun reform. hundreds of march for our lives rallies are being planned in nearly all 50 states today. they re demanding lawmakers address the epidemic of gun violence in the country. high-profile mass shootings from uvalde, texas, to buffalo, new york, have put renewed pressure on lawmakers on capitol hill to take action. washington, d.c., new york and parkland, florida, among the more than 300 cities where protests will be held. they follow the 2018 march that was organized by former students at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland. you may recall in february of 2018, a former studentered the school near fort lauderdale and opened fire killing 14 students and three staff members. i think the march will serve as a reminder to everyday americans and politician as like that there is serious momentum within
refrain of you will see. that it is not just what we re telling you now, it gets worse. and she kept saying this. you will see. we will show. and i think trying engage voters to say that wasn t just a day, some spontaneous moment. there is years if not and months building up to that moment and then a continuation of it. so, to the other point that we were talking about going into this, the optics of this right now, i mean jim jordan, republican representative of course called the production partisan. he said we learned nothing new. the fact that the optics when it comes to the fact and i think you said this, this was really about donald trump. that it wasn t about democracy, wasn t about radicalization, this first hearing and you said
trump, give them an off-ramp which is this guy is going to be gone. he s de platformed and can t fill a room any more and let s protech our democracy from the forces of violence that he essentially unleashed before, after and on going. so really quickly, before i let you go. my husband and i watched and the video they showed was so disturbing. showing it from the view point and and the vantage point of the capitol police that were there and we ask ourselves who is responsible for capitol security and why were they not better prepared and why did they not respond with some sort of lethal force, because they were armed, yes? the capitol police are in charge. they could have gotten support from the national guard, because d.c. aa jurisdictional status, donald trump through the secretary of defense would have what we re going to hear