Just part of her new warning about project 2025 and a trump second term immigration crackdown. Imagine what that would look like and what that would be. Harris using her platform to urge people to imagine and reckon with this Plan Trump immigration policy, as trump publicly vowed harsher and more violent crackdowns next year in we wins. Im going to play you the full statement here and some other big things that harris has been saying. But before i play that, lets be clear, the factual context and reporting matters. Harris is citing Donald Trumps past policies including how they sometimes illegally and often harshly targeted immigrants and their families and sometimes their children. And so, again, before i play harris for you, with regard to that history, Big Picture top line, i could tell you, Fact Check and true. And many americans may want to forget what it was like back then. But its important to confront that recent history and know and see these facts as the context for Harriss W
Republicans. There will be survivors of the parkland massacre, meaning the kids who hid in a closet and watched their best friends die. And there will be the National Rife a Rifle Association all in one room. Youve covered these after a horrible tragedy, they retreat and dig in and dont engage with each other. But tonight thats not going to be possible. Everybody is going to be on this one stage together. They have to confront the students who are demanding answers. They are coming with suggestions and demands. And the politicians both democrat and republican have to hear them. So that starts again at 9 00 tonight here. Alison, its going to be emotional night. As you noted you were there one week ago tonight following the shooting. Whats the one moment youll be looking for . Reporter well, i just spoke to these three young women,
juniors at Douglas High School, part of a drama troop, and they came here not actually with any sort of political message or any sort of demands. They came he
to be talking over it. thank you for being with us. this movement, this call for action might not be growing at all had some teenagers remained silent. instead these students armed with passion and voice decided to speak out and take a stand. i do not know exactly what needs to be done. i just know what we are doing now is nowhere near enough yeah, the time for change wasn t now. the time for change was years ago. my innocence, our innocence has been taken from us. for the politicians if you are not with us, you are against us. how dare you tell us we don t know what we are talking about. a 19-year-old who can t purchase an alcoholic beverage should not be allowed to
there are possibly efforts to strengthen the background check for weapons. does that give you any hope that he is listening? i know he s listening. and the fact that he said that does give me hope. however, i want to see action. i don t want to see talk. i want him to put a bill out. i want congress to put a bill out saying we need stricter background checks. here s how we re going to do it. a 19-year-old who can t purchase an alcoholic beverage should not be allowed to purchase an ar-15, a weapon of war, a weapon of destruction. it s absolutely absurd. i know you and other students have started this group called never again msd. what do you hope to accomplish with it and what do you plan to do? when we started never again msd, it started as a central space where people could talk and people could share their feelings. now it s turned into a movement.
us or are you for taking nra blood money? we are not letting the united states be run by that terrorist organization. reporter: in washington, d.c., a group of teenagers staged a protest outside the white house. lying on the ground for three minutes to symbolize how long it took the killer to gun down 17 students and teachers last week. i want to see action. i don t want to see talk. a 19-year-old who can t purchase an alcoholic beverage should not be allowed to purchase an ar-15, a weapon of war, a weapon of destruction. it s absolutely absurd. reporter: a new national poll shows that 77% of americans do not think that congress is doing enough to prevent mass shootings, with 62% saying that president trump could do more. as for how to solve the problem, the majority of americans think that more effective mental health screenings and treatment could have prevented the massacre, while 58% think that stricter gun control laws could have had an impact.