we look at, as reverend reggie jackson said was the mole on the face and make it the face.is the kind of impact this woman had on young people. i saw bebe winans in your show last night. she embraced bebe after she became famous. they didn't grow up together. >> i interviewed jennifer hudson with clive davis the day before she died. she was starry-eyed. she said when i was young i used to dream of doing duets. i used to dream of doing duets with whitney houston. >> in the late year, that was kind of a down coverage of whitney and there was this kind of upsurge of whitney and the record sales taking off. >> i think that it took michael jackson's death for all the music that he'd ever done to suddenly come back in and for people to listen to realize what a genius he was. >> now the cynical coverage is diminishing and the hope is in the air. >> we need to take a short break again. we we're going to go to the break here with some video of whitney houston singing with her daughter bobbi kris tina. ♪ if tomorrow is judgment day and i'm standing on the front line ♪ ♪ it's all righ

he left with his anti-reggie jackso jackson entourage.lly gratifying. it was uplifting. the songs sang by stevie wonder, the winans family, it was uplifting. >> reporter: what i thought was interesting, i was watching on social media. we were on twitter and facebook and people said cissy, and marvin said it, cissy houston took the world to church today by having this service in her church, in her daughter's church. >> having it this way with the media properly positioned. it was with dignity. it was not a media circus. well covered, but with a level of respect. whitney left us about this time a week ago, but her music will last a long time. she had the impact far beyond her appreciation while she was alive. >> reporter: on social media there was controversy. they said bobby came in and left. do you know anything about it? was he asked to leave? >> four or five of them sitting in the front row. they wanted him to move. i think they didn't make accommodation for him to move. so he was asked to leave. that was a difficult moment. i tried to