power is within them that they too can do the things that they want to do and there's a poem that karen mitchell said many, many years ago that i say sometimes 20 times a day. and it's a very simple poem but it's one that i live by. it says, i only have a minute. 60 seconds forced upon me, i did not choose it but i know i must use it, give account if i abuse it, suffer if i lose it. only a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it. and so i join you as we move forward to uplift not only the nation but the world may god bless you all, and may god bless america. >> elijah cummings that is nbc "nightly news. i'm lester holt. thank you for watching and good ♪ ♪ they said change your clothes, ♪ ♪ she said no, i won't, ♪ they said comb your hair, ♪ she said some kids don't, ♪ and her parents dreams went up in smoke ♪ ♪ they said you can't leave, ♪ she said, yes, i will, ♪ they said don't see him, ♪ she said, his name is bill ♪ she's on a road and it's all uphill ♪ ♪ she's a wild one, ♪ with an angel's face, ♪ she's a woman child in a state of grace, ♪ ♪ when she was three years old on her daddy's knee