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Never seen before. Things that have never happened on the stage of large protests like this. No adults were allowed to speak. No politicians were on that stage. Many politicians requested speaking slots. They were all turned down. The oldest speakers on the stage today were high school seniors. The youngest was 9yearold Yolanda Renee king. The granddaughter of Martin Luther king junior. During two of the speeches, students from Marjory Stoneman douglas high school, we saw things we never seen from speakers on stanls like this. Emma gonzalez bravely and fiercely held the stage in the middle of her speech for six minutes and 20 seconds of silence in which she forced the audience to experience the passage of the exact amount of time that a mass murderer used to kill 17 people in her high school in parkland, florida on febru ....
Emma gonzalez, a young woman, who has become one of the most recognized faces out of the Movement Born out of the massacre that took place in the halls of her school stood stonefaced and silent. Six minutes and about 20 seconds. In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us. Reporter gonzalez and a cadre of her friends from Marjory Stoneman douglas students took their pain and participated in marches and rallies from all over the world. From boston. To chicago. The violence that they experience every day reporter denver. To los angeles. And back to parkland, florida, where the shooting took place. Enough is enough reporter while they may have have only had each other when the shots rang out they had the supports of hundreds of thousands, including celebrities. One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here. So its important to me. Re ....
Tomorrow there will be more of us telling the story of tonight, the story of tonight [ cheers and applause ] we love you. Dont give up. If youre just joining us, were showing you, as we show you scenes from around the country, if youre just joining us, were waiting for the next speaker to get to the podium. Were trying to televise all the remarks from the stage here in washington. My name is zion kelly. I go to Thurgood Marshall academy in washington, d. C. Im here to represent the hundreds of thousands of students who live every day in constant paranoia on their way to and from school. At this moment, please raise your hand if you have been affected by gun violence, for all of the ones you have lost. Today i raise my hand in honor of my twin brother. He was shot on september 20th, 2017, on his way home from competitive college after School Program called college bound. He ....
I think the guy really got sick of turkey bacon. Really wanted a Bacon Cheeseburger and has found a way to do it. Well, keep cookin. Donald trump in the face of two different legal threats. Stormy daniels breaking her silence, fighting back against efforts by trump to silence her in secret arbitration. Thats one story. And also bob mueller bearing down on trump as his administration reels from very big new shakeups to what is a dwindling legal team. And this sets up a pretty stark contrast. Right now, donald trump is employing more lawyers to silence women who may talk about him than he has lawyers defending him in the criminal probe into his campaign and administration. Consider that in trumps litigation against daniels and other women hes employing michael cohen, and the new addition, charles heaarder, plu whatever Junior Associates those are employing, plus, while t ....