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Of the faith in politics pilgrimage. so let me just ask the obvious first question. why is a senator from delaware in tulsa this morning? >> i'm here as part of a congressional delegation. as you know well, faith and politics is an organization long led by our dear friend congressman john lewis of georgia. most years we would go on a pilgrimage to historic sites from the civil rights movement in alabama. we also went on other pilgrim pilgrimages. today, we are here in tulsa to participate in the commemoration of the centennial, the 100th anniversary of the most brutal race riot, a massacre tha...

Commemorations -- even just all the attention being focused on tulsa right now, are they healing in any way for the descendents? >> reporter: that's actually a great question. i have been talking about this all week. this is first time anyone asked that question. i think the answer is maybe, possibly. you think about even centering the narrative, having the commemoration and concerts and speakers and services, does little to ever shrink that gap. when you think about here in tulsa, black folks are twice as likely to be in poverty, to be unemployed. across the country, the typical black family ...

Immediately start recording with a front-facing camera as it's sitting on your dashboard and record that interaction and connect you with an attorney in real-time 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. we know that putting an attorney in the car can help really reach our mission, and our mission is simple. it's to de-escalate these roadside interactions, to protect drivers' civil rights and third and most importantly, make sure the drivers and law enforcement get home safely at the end of every day. we've seen tragic endings to stops, and we do not want that to happen again. >> and does that attorne...

Another indicator of it. the fact that we have such a great racial disparity in every arena of american life, whether you talk about jobs, wealth creation, housing, the environment, health equity, black americans are still at the bottom and last. so i think we have a long way to go. i think sometimes we focus on how can we rapidly decrease the tension which my father would call negative peace, where we get rid of the tension on the surface, but underneath there's still this lack of a presence of justice, there's still a lack of equity in our country. so he recognized the question to us in his ...

Ten good people on the other side of the aisle that would do the right thing. so we took a vote, and he got his answer. we keep getting asked what else can you do to work on a bipartisan basis? what else can you do to work on a bipartisan basis? if we can try, we'll keep trying. the question is really for republicans, when they're going to be ready to work on a bipartisan basis because we keep hearing no, and what we keep seeing is a party that is choosing loyalty to trump over truth and democracy. >> i want to get your reaction to something that a member of congress on the other side of the c...