The last word with Ellie Velshi in for Lawrence starts right now.

Hey, Ali.

I have to say, I thought you were kidding when you were going through those agenda items at CPAC.

I was looking at the agenda of the names of the things yesterday or today, whenever, it's like you can't make up the names of these things. I guess

give them some points for creativity, but also insanity at the same time. Don't Sharia, my Texas

got my attention. That was new and interesting. You're like, what's that about? Ivermectin and

Amaha? Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. Thank you, my friend. You have yourself a great weekend. We'll see you next

week. Thanks, Ellie. Sounds good. All right. I want to start this hour by taking you back in time across the past 115 years.

On March the 25th, 1911, 146 garment workers, 123 of them were women and girls, most of the girls were teenagers.

Nearly all of them, recent immigrants, died in the Triangle Shirt Waste factory here in lower Manhattan.

The doors to the factory had been locked from the outside, but the owners had not let these girls out.

The fire escapes collapsed.

Some of the girls burned, some jumped.

Eleven days later on April 5th, at least 80,000 people marched in a procession through New York in the rain.

And within two years of that tragedy and that March, New York State had passed

36 new laws governing factory safety and working hours and child labor. It was the birth

of the modern American regulatory state, not because politicians decided to act, but because

80,000 people walked through the rain and the country could not look

away. I've been thinking a lot about that lately. There's a pattern in American history that's easy

to miss when you're living inside a moment like we are, but impossible to miss when you look back at it.

And the pattern is this. The country does not move until its people move first. It happened again

on August 28, 1963, when a quarter of a million people converged upon Washington, D.C.

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