The tru trump isnt in d. C. , s getting ready to hold a rally at a boeing plant. Students left their classrooms for 17 minutes at exactly 10 00 a. M. Local time. A wave of walkouts one hour apart in each time zone. They were 17 minutes long. To honor the 17 People Killed in the School Shooting at Marjory StonemanDouglas High School in florida. Here is just a bit of what we heard. Were stepping up to protect our kids and our students. Im in 11th grade and i stand here today and tell you that you could do this. The from gun violence i just saw him not too long ago and after i just cant all i have to say is gun violence needs to stop. What is going on in schools is not okay. There needs to be change. I shouldnt be afraid to walk into school. My piers shouldn my peers shouldnt be afraid to walk into school and little kids shouldnt be either. School should be a safe place rather than a war zone. And next week on march 24th survivors from Marjory Stoneman douglas, some barely teenagers will spearhead another massive rally in washington, d. C. Called march for our lives. Theyll have the support of sther marches from cities east to west. Our reporters are on the ground covering aum of the action across the country. Lets start in our nations capitol where marianna has been talking to students throughout the course of the day. Reporter it was such a solemn and energetic day here on the nations capitol. It started out with the 17minute moment of silence in front of the white house. You had organizers expecting 1500 students. They ended up getting almost 4,000 according to one Police Officer i spoke to. After they gave their backs to the white house, they all started marching toward capitol hill, behind me, demanding change from lawmakers. They heard from senator Bernie Sanders and from veteran civil rights leader john lewis, which provided that innergenerational dialog that motivated a lot of kids today and saw senator elizabeth warren. I asked what was it about parkland that ignited these change and she said it is the kids that kept the momentum and that is a wrap up here on the nations capitol. And well see more action here on the 24th. So not an issue that is going away at all. Thank you. Marianna here in washington. Lets go to Jacob Soberoff on the ground in los angeles. A little quiet now but a busy morning, jacob. Reporter it was extraordinary out here. We are it feels about as far as you could be away on the continental United States from washington, d. C. Los angeles is not a place with some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation that you would expect 2,500 students to walk out two hours ago out of that door here at Hamilton High school in solid air wiarity wit students across the country and despite the second Biggest School district with hundreds of thousands of students threatened disciplinary action if they left campus and went out into the streets. We heard passionate calls for gun control from the students on the steps of their school. We just saw moments ago students from another school walk with lots of Los Angeles PoliceDepartment Officers in tow right here to the steps of Hamilton High school. And to get the students to come out and join forces with them. It is something that they want to take all the way to washington, d. C. And that is saying something for kids out here in los angeles. Jacob, i saw you talking to people through the course of the day. What is the sort of a Common Thread in the messages that they had . Reporter i think they just want to be heard quite frankly. And that is something whether it is an election time or not. You hear from young people quite often we have to remember many students out here are not even of age to vote. They are not 18. But even from the 16yearolds to 17yearolds, they just want those politicians to hear that they have a voice and it is a voice that they want represented back in washington, d. C. Jacob, thank you very much for your great coverage. Jacob soberoff in california. Todays walk out is the first of rallies in a couple of weeks organized by students. Todays event organized by womens march youth and power has this call to action. To highlight the need to prevent all acts of against violence including those that happen on our city streets, in our homes, in our places of worship and in our schools. With me now is 16yearold tansel philip a sophomore at Marjory Stoneman douglas and one of the drivers in this change since surviving the tragedy in his own school. Good to talk to you again. We have spoken since this happened. And i have to say, i think you and i both would have been amazed to know that you and your classmates have sparked a discussion that has stayed alive and continue to put pressure on politicians here in washington and across the country. Thank you for having me. Its been crazy. But we never thought we would have to do any of this. So were were glad to know that our voices are being heard. There is certainly theyre certainly bebei being heard. They were heard in the Governors Office in florida. This is a governor who has the support of the nra who is very, very supportive of the nra and he took certain steps and said certain things that were at odds with what the nra was doing, including raising the age at which you can buy an Assault Rifle from 18 to 21, he doesnt seem to be in favor of Arming Teachers as the president s position. Do you feel that you and your classmates and the supporters you have had an impact there in florida . We definitely feel like weve had a big impact on that. Obviously there is more that could be done and were very grateful that he put his party aside and sided with us and what what our lives mean. So when he came up with all of the new proposals that went against the nra and went against his party, we feel like our voices were heard because i know when we went there, he was writing things down and he definitely listens to us. You grabbed the megaphone and said today, what do we want . Gun control now. I guess something that you faced in the last month is the complexity of what those two words gun control mean. To you it is safety and not having to confront ever again what horror you and your fellow students at Marjory Stoneman douglas confronted but i think you are coming out there and realizing that one persons gun control is not the same as anothers in this country. Our basic premise is that with School Shootings and Movie Theater shootings and Church Shootings and concert shootings, there is one thing in common and it is not always mental illness, it is the gun. So when we talk about that, that is where our gun control comes from. We we shouldnt allow ar15s to be in the hands of regular day citizens. They are militarygrade rifles. What do you think about the coming weeks . March 24th theyll be a lot of people here in washington. But the ownous is on you, you started this and to keep it going. But you have students and have school to do. How is this movement sustaining itself . Were definitely having a lot of support from teachers and parents. I know today the walk to pine trails after the 17 minutes was not planned. But we got phone calls saying that we wouldnt be disciplined for it. Theyre very theyre very supportive of us so that helps. We are still figuring out what is next but were taking it one day at a time and i know the march in d. C. Is going to be huge. And the sister marches all over the world will be huge and we hope it makes a big impact. Thank you for what youve done to bring our attention to everything going on. I remember being with you a month ago and i wouldnt have guessed this would be the outcome but im glad that you have taken this message and youve kept it alive. Tans ill philip from parkland, florida. Now to the student protests in chicago where nearly 3000 people have been shot from january to october just last year. My colleague ron mott spoke to the students this morning who lived through gun violence every single day and they are saying enough is enough. Ive lost family members and had a cousin who shot but was sur vived. It is personal when i hear about the other kids dying, even what happened in parkland, that is personal because ive had cousins lost and friends who lost family members as well. I know that as a black man in chicago that could be me or any of my other cousins or my friends. I want to talk to someone from chicago. Who was out walking with these students today. Former education secretary arne duncan who tre tweeted this morning, getting ready to walk with children for National School walkout. Ask them how many know someone who has been shot. Almost every hand went up. Joining me now, arne duncan and before serving as education secretary, he served from 2001 to 2008. This is an important part of the story. Because kids who want to feel safe in schools or in their churches or in homes or wherever, there are a lot of reasons they are unsafe. Some is because people buy ar15s at a young age and some is because of Mental Health and some because there are some violent streets out there. What of this message can be applied to places like chicago . It is just a really emotional day. And i asked that same question i asked this morning every time im in schools, and tragically every time 75 and 80 of hands go up. And our kids are living with a level of violence and a level of fear and a level of trauma that is almost indescribable. But i have to say, i got emotional not out of sadness but out of home and the kids inspire me. What the kids from parkland are doing is extraordinary. That the country has changed in this past month, and we have kid from chicago who visit with them in florida last saturday. This tl are kids from florida and coming to visit to us this saturday. As the kids come together, im convinced that the world is going to change. So very emotional day for me today. But more hopeful than ive been in a long, long time. And my family and i will go march with them in d. C. On the 24th. Arnie, the situation is different in chicago. It is not legal for a 19yearold to walk into a school and not just with a semi automatic rifle but with a handgun. Chicago has some of the strongest gun laws in the country and yet people die. People die a lot. Yeah. Well as you know, chicago is not an island. And unfortunately we live half an hour from indiana. And in indiana has some of the most lax gun laws in the nation. And so this is a national crisis. This is a national tragedy. And it has to have a national response. This cant be solved city by city or even state by state. Our country unfortunately i believe this values our guns more than our children and that has to change. We as adults have failed and our kids will force the change. And lead us to where we need to go, which is to a safer United States and a safer society. Arnie, a lot of messages about what teachers should be doing. I spoke with randy wine garden the other day who said her union members, many of whom are nra members or have been in the military, many of them know how to carry guns and some do, are not interested in being responsible for student safety in the classroom because it runs counter to what they want to do. And what they feel teachers should be doing. This simply isnt a school issue. As the student who you were interviewing earlier said so soel so eloquently, this is in malls and Movie Theaters and on a congressional ballpark and this is a United States and made in america issue and we have to fix it. What is the fix . Is it simply that if in chicago you can get those guns from indiana which has lax laws, is it about gun control or is there another matter about the way we see we interpret the Second Amendment and the love with guns that has to be addressed culturally. It is not about the Second Amendment. Anybody who wants to hunt deer or moose or geese oar turkeys, that is faunt. Nobo nobody wants to take that away. And the idea that you have weapons of war, assault weapons throughout society doesnt make sense. They belong on a battlefield, not in normal every day america. But in chicago, most people who are getting gunned down are nopt getting gunned down by assault weapons. These are handguns. That is correct. And we have to look at background checks and the easy availability of those guns. But were a nation obsessed with our guns. And if people want to get if they want to hunt or protect their homes, no one has any problem with that. It is when they hunt children when we have to stand up and say enough is enough. Arne duncan former education secretary under president obama. Thank you. Right now the president is in st. Louis meeting with officials from boeing where they are talking taxes and tariffs as relearning the president has picked his new economic adviser larry kudlow. A senior contributor for cnbc said he would be honored to accept the job. As for the markets reaction, not real reaction at all. The markets were down they were down more after the announcement but i cant tell you whether that is a trittuable to larry kudlow or just about a 1 down day on the market in general. I want to have a conversation about larry kudlow and what impact this this appointment could have on the administration. Im joined byron insana who knows larry well. Larry kudlow if gary cohn left because he was at odds with the president on tariffs, larry kudlow would be more at odds with the president than gary cohn was. How do you square the circle. It could be squared that larry has known donald trump for a considerable period of time. Much longer than gary cohn ever did. Hes been advising him since the start of his campaign on things like tax policy. Which quite frankly helped to design the tax reform package that passed the congress and signed by the president , was at least in part designed by larry and the likes of art laugher and steven more who wanted a large tax cut for the economic recovery. On the trade issue, he said he might soften his stance to an extent that where larry has often said he is a complete free market ear, he does become more pragmatic and when it come to comes to the issue of china which the white house is targeting, he preferred targeted sanctions or some time of protectionist measures rather than the blanket tariffs that the president proposed in the last week or so. Ron, im worried for the country that President Trump, when he was running for president on the basis of that economic plan that those people you talked about helped him put together. He said were going to have four and five and 6 Economic Growth and then they said the tax breaks will get us there. Larry is a strong believer in that, i got into it with him on msnbc last year because he says it. He says that these tax cuts will stimulate growth to a level that no one is projecting and will not help out this will not give us the debt that a lot of people are projecting the tax cuts will. At some juncture are you worried that someone is not telling the president the truth about this stuff. Well philosophically, despite the fact that larry and i are Close Friends and i do like him a great deal, weve known each other for three decades and we have a different opinion on the tax cuts and the growth and the ability to pay for themselves and whether they pay for themselves. We have a philosophical difference about that and weve aired it out on cnbc and elsewhere and through a variety of different op ed pieces so we dont share that view. But i think larry would bring a dose of pragmatism to those on the trade front to people like pete ear nav ouro who want to get aggressive and pull out of nafta which larry said is a disastrous deal. I dont think well ever change larrys mind about the impact of tax cuts on the Economic Growth that you can grow your way out of the deficits that are created. Again, weve differed on this. I have never found any Empirical Data to suggest you can grow out of deficits that is as large as the ones well accumulate. So in that regard, weve disagreed. But i think there is an element of pragmatism and he may be more effective in selling that to the president than his pred iss p saysor because he has a long relati relationship with the president and was on his campaign. Thank you. 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