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♪ ♪ watch this. i hear somebody saying i didn't know they was going to do all that. >> all right. so wolf, this is a tribute to her church roots at new bethel church here. this has been a moving ceremony that is spiritual based. i was talking to her ghostwriter biographer earlier who talked about how spirituality, you can hear it in every genre of music that aretha franklin would touch. you heard it in her r&b. you heard it when she was, of course, doing gospel. you heard it when she was doing pop music. you heard it when she was doing opera music. you heard it when she was doing broadway ...

The homeless in the city. last night the city was awash of pink. you could see respect all over the place. you look at the crowd here, it is a mix of people and of course generations now coming together to remember a woman whose voice will never die, and that's been the conversation so far outside. when we were inside and saw some of these people come in, bill clinton when he walked in got a standing ovation. smokey robinson was standing just behind us and welcomed the family. these connections lasted generations. and just think, reverend jesse jackson has been holding her hand through all thi...

Was shout in the middle of a concert. you never saw her perform without her doing gospel, because she never was one to forget where she came from. and that's why we give her this great home-going. we thank her for what she did with dr. king. she thank her for what she had done with reverend jackson. we thank her for what she's done with all of us. that is why, on sunday on my show i misspelled "respect" and a lot of y'all, a lot of y'all corrected me. now i want y'all to help me correct president trump, to teach him what it means. [ audience reacts ] [ applause ]

And i think that was the sad thing, which is why tonight i would hope we give her what we didn't give her, and that is the peace of remembering the beauty of why we knew her, and that was her beautiful voice. >> unique voice. you know cissy houston very well. how did her mother feel about her fame and everything that happened to her? >> you know, i think that from what i know of cissy, she saw it as a gift from god, as a challenge to whitney because she spent so many years on the road, and as i said, she reached the top of the gospel field and never left, but i think she saw whitney as a gift ...