continue to celebrate our strengths and our diversity and how strong we are, we also become more open to everyone being all a part of what america should be and just an equal opportunity place for all, so that's what i'm hopeful. >> cory booker. >> well, i think we have to have the courage to tell the truth. we've been having this conversation for decades. and unfortunately, the trends are going in the wrong direction. social mobility has declined dramatically, social stratification is expanding our country. my father born in 1936 growing up in the '50s had more of a chance to make it in many ways than we see happening now. the way to break with that is to have the honest conversation that if we continue to do the same things over and over again, we'll get the same results. we're a country right now that's far more comfortable spending hundreds of billions of dollars for failure, prisons, hospitals, you name it, than investing that money in what actually works. so we need to start reframing