knowing that two people a little bit older than my sister had actually gone to harvard made it sound possible. but you get to these schools and the other kids, most of them are privileged. they been to private school. they already know the system. you know absolutely nothing. and we would even call ourselves public school kids. those of us who didn t come from back grounds that had any experience with that sort of elite place. and i m struck, justin, whether that was your experience. whether that was his experience a little bit, too. because you do feel like a fish out of water, not even just on a racial aspect, but even on a class aspect. i want to get that answer, joy, for you, but let s just extend this into the next segment. if you guys can all stay, joy, justin and troy. we ll take a break here and be back. ting and drinking. crest pro-health has always done that. and addresses all these other areas as well. take your oral health to a new level. i am not gonna stop using pro-he
wonderful guys through so many difficult challenges that college has presented. and they taught me so much about the cultural and language of power. and so many of the things i didn t even know to recognize to operate well and function on harvard s campus. so it truly is invaluable to have that resonance, the relationship between guys who have been there before and who are genuinely invested in you doing well. i can t emphasize it enough. we need to be able to reach out and find the troy simons and the justin porters and make sure we bring them into these institutions. that we are missing a lot of potential talent who can contribute to these colleges the way troy and justin are. this idea that we track, right?
they re not standardized. malia and sasha by the time they hit seventh grade are already getting all kinds of advice and this and that and the other. the degree of preparation that many of our kids here are getting in advance of actually taking this test tilts the playing field. it s not fair. and it s gotten worse. joining me now, troy simon, a sophomore at bard college. also joining us for his second time on this program, justin porter, who is a sophomore at harvard and who discussed these issues in an essay he wrote for the new york times last summer. also joining us, msnbc s joy reed. troy, tell us about how you turned your life around. you were 14 years old. you couldn t read at that point. you had been through a lot of hard times including a lot of problems after hurricane katrina
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0 end to the investigation, the chairman of the special committee is refusing to give a time line. we don t know how long this process will take. you know, one of my colleagues on the floor said that this should be concluded i think he used 90 days a time frame. if that were possible, that would be great. it s also entirely possible he could get to the end of two years and not have all the answers. joining me now is vincent deprieto, speaker of the new jersey general assembly, hunter walker who has been covering the story extensively for talking points memory memo. mr. speaker with these subpoenas now flowing, do you do you still expect full cooperation from governor christie? i always expect that they re going to cooperate with us. i think they have a time frame of i think two weeks to actually respond. and hopefully we ll get some answers to the much more questions we have. we haven t gotten too many answers. and the trail led into the governor s office, and we want to