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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Andrew Pollack: “Why Meadow Died”

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Radio

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4.1738 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This week, Martha was joined by Andrew Pollack author of the new book, Why Meadow Died. Andrew is the father of Meadow Pollack, a victim of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people died. Andrew discusses the alarming actions of the killer prior to the shooting, how it could have been prevented and his views on gun control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Untold Story with Martha McCallum, exclusive interviews with top newsmakers who share their inspiring

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stories of perseverance, positivity, and more. Now, here's Martha McCallum. Last year, 17 innocent

0:47.9

lives were lost in the shooting at Marjorie Stoneham Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

0:53.1

Now, Andrew Pollock, who lost his daughter

0:55.4

Meadow that day, calls it the most avoidable mass murder in American history. Pollock says the movement

1:02.5

toward anti-discipline and leniency for troubled students that was forged under the Obama

1:08.1

administration presents a real threat to students today and enabled Meadow's

1:13.6

killer to slip through the cracks. He writes about it in his new book, Why Meadow died, the people

1:19.9

and policies that created the Parkland shooter and endanger America students. He joins me now to

1:26.0

share his untold story, Andrew, we've been talking

1:28.6

over the course of the last year and a half, two years, I guess, almost now. And this, what you

1:35.2

are doing and the dedication that you've given to this is so much broader than the way most

1:40.8

people are approaching this problem. Let's start with your premise here,

1:45.2

that it was the most avoidable school shooting in history-wide. Because there were so many

1:50.3

warning signs from when he was even in nursery school, to middle school, to everything that

1:57.1

this kid ever did, his mental health, the FBI, you know, the multitude of failures

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