his family themoment that everyone will be talking abou for days and possibly years to come, mchael jackson'saris jackson, decided s wanted to say go-bye to her father. >> every since i was born, dadd has been the best father you uld ever imagine. and iust want to say i love him so much. >>hat aouching moment. msnbc.com's courtney hazelett was inside thetaes center today. she joins usnow. courtney, there were so many moments to remember,ut that was such a captivating moment. i just don't think it could be outdone i any wa and it was so real a s emotional. at was it like being in there seeing that? >> reporr: first of all, i want to say, i was very honored to be thereday. when saw pa -- sorry, i'm having some earpiece problems. iteally made -- there wasn't dryeye in the house. if y didn't geteared up, your heart is cold. i can goo far aso say that. one of the amazing things about paris saying at was that it was so raw. it was this moment, where kids can'take that. and we've ard so much about michael jackson, he might not be a good fathe or, you know, what ty of man was he? yo know what? paris

jackson, one of mchael is jackson's the children ase say good-bye to the chief and to ken ehrlich.tay unscripte moment as we justheard, and then the family after the ceremonyid thank kenehrlich, he shared with me, and the got in this small motorcade and went just a ltle ways down to -- i guess maybe it's a mile from herto it's beverly lsre, one of the better-known hotels where family and friends are gathering for thr own private me to share after this memorialervice. nah kim is at the beverly wilshire. what can you tell us from there >> just within theast half hour or so th sceneas just exploded. we have helicters, police seizing the streets. they are nowlocking off som of the ros. they didn't plan t do that, but i guess because of the sheer crush of peoe that are now here, youknow, this is a place that's n unused to limos and rollsoyces and bentleys driving up and down the street. we're right at rodeo and wilshire bouleva, the heart of berly hills. within the last half hour or so we saw a huge motorce of limos with tinted windows and rolls royc and bentley and we are beintold ushe

expectctin small gup of fafami a and friends toto cveve there, but wherere t t cass kek ining,here mchael jackson lllle laid torest, we have yeto see. harriet t co from "ebony"y" magazine has been watatining l of this wiith us. and harrrrt,t, want to get your imimession. >> you oow, i lt keket was acleansingng.. this exexpience, every no that wa tououchith theeople who knew him f foroo longand couldd share meries of him a little boy, a ahhis prodigygy, e mucc and h h okokey said w whe chael took his sonong and ma ithis own sog, it fefe like a eaeansg, like we were w whed th love of michael jackson, the purity of his iririt, and that was reallyly important because there's been so muchch negativ, and it reallyelt lilike it was washed away in his love. and our experienen when "ebonyn mamagane was with michael jackson two yearar ago, when we met hhim we methis manhoho was full of love and light and gerorosi and jusus a s swtness ababou him t tha came forth through ththrere celebration anrerely throughgh his dghter who withth s su a sweetaa and pure eyeyes ididhat so many have said, that he was an inc

leading of rememberingg mchael jackson. was surely thebiggest, the momo extragant and the most watched show biz memorial rvice in history. thsands packed the sples centnt in loangeles. millions more watched on tv and on video scres around the untry and across the g globe. as the world sd good-bye to michl jackson. >> in fact,t, the mor i thinknd tatalk about michael jackson, i feel the king o o pop is not bi enough for him.. think he is simply -- i i thin heis simplyly thehe greatest tertainer that ever lilived. >> to the unanimouspprov of thaudience in thehe staples ceer, jackson wawas repepeedly calleded the greates entertaine o ever lived. our guests toninight will talal about t at mad michael jackson ch apopula and enduring figure in ameran music and cucuure. and this beingng "hararall," we wi talk politics. our own anea mitchchell got an inteiew with sar palin last night in alaaska, d she'll join with the latesest on the palin saga. >>> d while thewod's eyes werere on the staples centeter today, a a franken ised his ri

artists that everyone was talking out in the pvious block, there are lessons to be lenehere in mchael jackson'smous for being famous. he was famous for really working hard. he was famous for being bett at doin -- he was famous for being bett at doing what heid than anybody else that was trying to do wt he did. >> well, tt's true, but no one will perhaps rise to the level if they follow these tngs you notice from michael jackson's ofessional life, they can rise to great heits. hard work, focus, discipline, but also recogning the facto reacthose heights requires so sacrifice. we know all of the saifices th michael jackn went through, that princess ana went throh, elvis, all o these folks. >> by theway, all of the people he is mentioning all dd prematurely. it's also the shockof losing someone wh should have had -- >>ho should ve had had a life to be honest withyou. i think what i get out of it is the importance of family. i dot care what i go through. there's a tremendous foundatn i have. i have a wonderful moth. iave a wonderful fher and wonderful sisters and nieces and nephews. i thinabout that

she n the staples cter yesterday during the mchael jackson memorial.ne days or something like that. sterday was fstic. i wanted play mariah carey, because she was getting criticism fo not hittingnotes. she was the only performer that did not get a chanceo rehearse prior to the memorial rvice. and that is counter to everything youre taught in how-to-be singer school. i tnk it's fantastic that she did this. that speaks to why the people that stood othe stage stoo on at stage. they wanted to there for michae jackson. when you were there, you did sense thatou were part of something thatas notoing to happen again in yr fetime. michael jsonhas been relent since the '70s on the cutting ed of every sor of technologicaor music notion. he washere for the right time for cassette tapes, and d.s, and when it waskay to do a commercial for something like pepsi. the story is going to take on a totally different tone starting today. >> the question is now is where is the story? how long is the story going to go on? i think one indicat of that i do you yet have a return

. >> chu, real ick, on iran this past weetween mchael jackson's death an the funeral at the memorialvi -- >> michael ckson died? >> the issue of iran s litey just moved off the frt pages. nobody is coveringit and there's real stuff happening. there'a real divide amo the clerics, t dissident movement isn't going anywhere. what is the sense among the sort national security entourage aveling with the president right no as he goes - i mean i sa the g-8 stament when he was in moscow and now in italy, how closely are theyonitoring this? are they coerned where things are ding? ehey impssed by the resilience of the dissident movement? >> reporter: well, there'swo things. numberone, the firs thing the president broughupn ssia, the first thing he brough up and behind-the-scenesvery aide wi say h number one priority was iran. it was about trying to bring the ssians along becausethey have such a tight relaonship with iran so trying to convincthem that, hey, in is a potential national security threat. but then also getting that done here athe g-8 which russia is a part of. thenhat they will also

we've got joe jackson, mchael jacksofather sang foul play, and now la toya making allegations about whshe part in her brother's death. when they say, n ruling out a homicide, does that mean they're looking at someone as a quote/unquotmurder or manslahter? i know there very technical differences there? >> bratn's very careful in using the word hicide, because it covers the whole array of crimes from intentional murder toreckless manslaughte they could be looking at any one or several o thosecharges. foinstance, if la toya's intentional murder, that's one thing. but we can also be looking at these doctors for overprescribing an appropriately prescring drugs and recklessly causing his death. that's a malaughter. >> from your expertise in what you've seen in the past, do you believe they're working on charges here? >> i think they'reorking on charges and i think the most likely type of charge is reckless conduct by thedoctors, by one o more dtors in prescribing inapriately and causing h death. >> jaet, back to the custody issue he. wenow that there's a hearing coming up. they'r saying that th

become an issu i told a radio show this rng, just like went to gina for mchael bell in the gina we com to l.a. for michael jackson before their funeral likeyou did mel jackson. i am asking you tohow the sa respect for michael and michael's family thatou showed for frankan elvis pressly and everybody else. >> we have cney hazlett thhe latest developments in the michael jacks memoal what coverage as the reverend al been wating, because i have not sen many nate things about this guy >> reporte when he said this yesterday, i tught he was not being serious. i thought elvis pressly and fra frank sanatra did not spend millions on defense against childmolestation. and i think that instances where you have a past like michael jackson had, it's fair to bring those things up and eyere public and in a court of law, and i am standing in a glass house to some ext, but real al sharpton, i think we have not been badgering the family excessively, anwe have been reect full to the children going throu a hard time. and i understand reverend al sharpton might say se media, and but the facts he was ridiculous when the media made al sh