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Excuses. the way they were able to dispatch the national guard which they should have brought peace back to the city we need to dispatch funding and action. right now. >> a couple of oh quick things. house republicans are talking about cutting urban programs deeply while adding textbooks of billions of dollars to the military budget. there is huge ongoing structural debates about what we fund and do we care about children. many people say we care about children but children don't vote. do we care is this they're slackers. they don't put any ballot this is the box. also i do think we need to ex...

Collected, because a lot of that information is kept under wraps, but we know lead paint has caused huge problems in baltimore, and medical problems as well as behavioral problems and things like attention deficit disorder and so on and we know also that freddy gray had a lot of personal problems including a criminal history of as many as 20 arrests, so what is clear here is that whatever happened to freddy gray at least according to his attorneys, didn't have anything to do with an automobile accident in which he injured his spine, rather his problems stemmed from lead paint. listen. >> accor...

When i went to college, there were no fwrantgrants. there was no money from the government. there were limited scholarships. i went to church based on the dollar bills, fives and tens that people in the community gave to me because i felt i had the strength and they let me know i could be somebody. what's happening is you're raising generation after generation who have the same hopelessness. >> hopelessness. >> that's right. you say we need to hear them. that's why i went there today to listen. she says we need community centers. she explained to me how one gets into dealing drugs on the stree...

Rutham ruth ruthann norton is here with me. welcome to both of you. this is the most important conversation i think i'm having all day long because i wanted to get into the neighborhoods and talk to these young people to understand what the day-to-day life is. i think first with you, in terms of lead paint -- it seems so simple. this little detail. lead paint in these homes that have been there for decades affects these young people years later like freddie gray. >> decisions that we made in 1938 that said we were mandating the federal government mandated the use of lead-based paint in low-inc...

Special ed classes, and his sisters testified they had to repeat grades. >> so the story is more about environment than anything at least as far as we can find out. there is a lot more to the lead paint story here in baltimore. this city has been dealing with it for years and years, and lead paint, of course was banned around 1978 but many of the older houses where young poor black kids live still have the remanence of that lead paint and it has caused problems for them carol. >> joe johns reporting live from baltimore this morning. still to come in the "newsroom," senator ted cruz slams pre...