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Lawmakers and celebrities who say they will not go to the nati inauguration. sarah armstrong is the ceo of the presidential inaugural committee. good morning. >> good morning. >> so are you ready? >> we are ready. we have only a few days left to get all the final details in. but we are very excited and we are ready. >> do you have any surprises in store for us? >> well, you know, mr. trump is a very different president-elect. so i think we'll have a few surprises that will be -- make it special for all the people coming to town. i think it's about making it about the american people. and we wa...

You realize, you can't believe this is happening. >> having a room full of voters who are there to see dr. carson at a campaign event in iowa, break out in a happy birthday song for me at a staffer's direction was one of the most memorable moments on the campaign. you are going so many places and sometimes you are giving up your birthday. that made it special. >> this was absolutely the best year and a half of my life. both professionally and personally. and i think what will make it so special is that i probably will never do it again. at least not this way. >> never do it again, but you will...

>> one of my favorite moments from the campaign trail happened in new hampshire as governor bush was on a bus tour. it was in the middle of a snowstorm. i'm outside the bus with my camera raised ready to film him. as he is walking by me, he bends down and he forms a snowball and throws it at me. he gets this big laugh out of it. it was this moment that i will always remember his personality really shining through. >> you can't do anytng about it. that's not fair, actually. >> the night mike pence's plane goes off the runway, new york city, rain coming down, the plane lands. it veers, started t...

Marriage is equal under the law, just how much courage was required for ellen to come out on the most public of stages, almost 20 years ago. these are folks who have helped make me who i am and think about my presidency. and what also makes it special is this is america. and it's useful when you think about this incredible collection of people to realize that this is what makes us the greatest nation on earth. >> and you know what? even after all that practice, 114 medals later, sometimes there are some unforeseen obstacles, like feeling like the short guy in the room for the first time in you...

How we think about sacrifice and patriotism and ourselves. there is a reason you call somebody the michael jordan of --. michael jordan of neurosurgery or rabbis or the michael jordan of outer wear canoeing. ellen degeneris has a way of making you laugh about some thing rather than at someone. it's easy to forget now when we've come so far, where now marriage is equal under the law, just how much courage was required for ellen to come out on the most public of stages, almost 20 years ago. these are folks who have helped make me who i am and think about my presidency. and what also makes it spe...