I'm really happy to have you here at 10.13 AM today, 10.13 AM, exactly.

Kids in Nashville, Tennessee, all walked out of their classes. Look at that.

10.13 AM is when the first help me 911 calls started coming into the police department in

Nashville one week ago today. Monday last week when that horrific school shooting started

unfolding at the Covenant School, an elementary school in that city. Police today said that in the

roughly 14 minutes that it took for that school shooting to elapse, the shooter fired 126 rifle

rounds and 26 rounds from a handgun. 152 rounds altogether in 14 minutes.

To honor the three little kids and the three school staff who were murdered in their school

Monday last week and to demand legal change to stop gun violence, literally thousands of

Tennessee students walked out of their classes today. At some schools, they left their classrooms

and they rallied outside their school. That happened at a whole bunch of different schools in

Tennessee. At some schools today, they did a walk-in instead of a walk-out, meaning they left class,

but then they came together in a school auditorium to talk about the problem.

But by the thousands, what students did today in Tennessee is they went to the Tennessee State

Capitol in Nashville. Look at these images. This is today. Now you might have seen in the news

last week that Thursday last week, a lot of kids in Nashville did the same. Last week,

Tennessee kids crowded into the galleries overlooking the State House floor, calling for gun reforms.

That was Thursday last week. Today, they rallied on the State Capitol steps in Nashville.

And then in huge numbers, they lined up. They went through security and they just poured

into the hallways of the State Capitol. At one point, mounting a kind of sit-in outside the

offices of the Republican House Speaker. The same House Speaker today stripped

two Democratic legislators of their committee assignments and threatened to expel three Democratic

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