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Community college, it reflects the level of education that we're providing. and so you can have a wonderful home, but if you're going to a school that is providing an eighth grade education, you're not being educated to compete in society. we have to tackle it all. it's a big issue but it is the issue for the country. >> i think everyone wants to make sure that this moment is seized. what is the one thing that can happen soon to change the way children's lives are led in baltimore? >> there are many things. every child on the waiting list for a mentor we could have the volunteers step up do th...

No solutions, just give us more money. as if the federal government has not been writing big checks for the past 50 or 60 060 years. most americans are like me. do you have a solution that will not be repeating what we've been doing? great. we'll write the check. but you can't just keep saying we're going to do the same things over and over and over again. just give us more money. because that is a copout. that is just as much of a copout as republicans saying hey, we'll cut taxes, grow the economy and lift the boat. >> 45 minutes from the nation's capital, you go there and the heart dies for ...

Unemployed and disconnected from society. we want to focus on those intervention points. >> tell us about brotherhood sister soul. >> these are the issues we've been working on for 20 years now. we were created in 1995, we're based here in new york city, but we're a national model now helping people around the country to look at what comprehensive services look like for young people. what we know is that you need a multilayered approach to help young people transform their lives, to break cycles of poverty. you need to work on he had case, on education, job access. but you also have to look at...

Mistakes and make it better? >> first we have to look at transformational education. we still haven't had the conversation in this country about what educational access looks like for everybody. >> what does that mean? >> that means high quality schooling regardless of the zip code. it means young people have the access to skill set, that their minds are being developed to compete. we don't have that high educational access. your zip code determines the level of education you receive. and that's simply inequitable and not something we can can allow. >> i want to hear yours other, but for all t...

For america. >> he died a sad and tragic death. but in the moment of his death god created a movement a movement that will change schools and children's lives all over this country. >> congressman elijah cummings joins the conversation next on "morning joe". [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts ♪ ♪ 800,000 hours of supercomputing time 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. whether it's building the world's most advanced satellite, the space station, or the next leap in unmanned systems. at boeing, one thing never changes. our passion to ma...