>> when you tried to get john lewis to make to it the inauguration, he didn't like what obviously he was trying to say, by not showing up at the inauguration and donald trump said that it was -- he was all talk and you reminded folks that he did a lot of talking on behalf of civil rights. whatever came of those conversations? he still skipped out. >> yeah, i don't know how congressman lewis made his choices. my position is this: the peaceful transfer of power is a glorious gift we've been given. in 1801 after the election of 1800, a lot of people think we would descend to civil war. adams called it the revolution. we had a peaceful transfer of power. it's a glorious gift. we have to celebrate stuff like that. regardless of who people voted