Reporter its packed inside the east room and everyone is here. Weve seep some people already take their seats but most of them are going to make the procession in just a few minutes and we are talking about superstars. You cant believe the number of press and people and guests the excitement is palpable. S Ellen Degeneres is being honored. She couldnt make it into the white house because she didnt have her i. D. So she tweeted out a photo waiting until somebody gotten a i. D. And she was able to come in. But security as you can imagine is pretty tight, it always is here at the white house. But then she went back to the Reception Room and did a mannequin challenge with all the other honorees and they posted that on twitter so you can imagine theres a lot of fun people are having. But weve philanthropists bill and melinda gaits, sici ze cecily tyson, Kareem Abduljabbar, Michael Jordan. Then we saw snl creator Lorne Michaels who was here. Well try to get a question to see how hes feeling
kirk cobell, accepting on behalf of his mother, lel ourk elois cobell, yellow bird woman. a member of the black feet nation, she defied the odds and worked on behalf of her people. as a young woman, she was told she wasn t capable of understanding accounting, so she mastered the field and used her expertise to champion a lawsuit whose historic settlement has helped restore tribal homelands to her beloved black feet nation and many other tribes. today her tenacious and unwaivering spirit lives on in the thousands of people and hundreds of tribes for whom she fought and in all those she taught to believe it is never too late to right the wrongs of the past and help shape a better future. [ applause ]