Honestly, I don't think I can pick my favorite moment from the Inauguration. How do you choose? It was all so wonderful.

I can hardly believe it's real but here we are. I'm reporting to you live from the inauguration of our 45th president, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

First of all, we need to talk about last night's Inaugural Ball featuring performances by Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks. Like, are you still standing? How are any of us still alive? I immediately passed over to Destiny's Daycare in the Sky. They sang for three hours. At the end I was just a sequined sizzling mark on the carpet.

And then when Bey dropped a surprise album at midnight?! Won't she do it! I am literally just an explosion of confetti and weave glue at this point.

Second of all, we have to discuss the moment when Colin Powell joined Migos on stage for "Bad and Boujee"! And knew all the words! Was it awkward? Yes. Was it everything? Absolutely.

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Even Bill Clinton was like, "That man's got soul!"

Speaking of Bill, he looked lovely last night and at this morning's Inauguration. The blue Tom Ford suit was exquisitely tailored and accessorized perfectly. Well done!

Also lovely: Mariah Carey's voice. After the New Year's Eve debacle, it was a strange choice to have her sing the National Anthem this morning. But, girl, by the second verse I was living my whole entire, live-sung life. Honey, she has never sounded better. This was "Vision of Love"-level good. Was Chief Justice Roberts crying? Was the whole country crying? Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg crying? (No; she doesn't cry. She keeps mini copies of the Constitution in her tear ducts; just in case.)

And then when Mariah put the mic down and sang "and the home of the brave" out into the crisp, January air and you could hear a pin drop? Chills.

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The only other sound in DC at that moment were Donald Trump's fingers typing away on his Twitter from his room in his Post Office hotel. It's the only hotel in the city that isn't sold out this weekend. So, good for him for finding a deal on Expedia or whatever.

Anyway, Mimi was everything. And so was Lin-Manuel Miranda's Inaugural Poem. And then when Cynthia Erivo stood up next to him and started singing as he recited? I just about lost my mind.

Fact: This was the first rap-sung collaboration ever performed at an Inauguration.

Fact: It immediately won a Grammy.

Fact: And a Tony.

But the best moment, of course, was the swearing in of our 45th president, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Her speech was, in a word, everything.

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No shade to myself, but my summary would never do it justice. Here's a choice excerpt:

"I look out over the faces in this crowd, a microcosm, a glimpse of all the diversity and promise and hope that this country holds. And I am humbled. I am awed by you.

You are who I have always sought. You are who I sought every day of my career. You are this nation. This place and this day are imagined but that doesn't make them any less real. There is no platform; there are no waving banners. There is no teeming crowd of diverse faces. We are scattered now. We wander; we seek. But we exist.

And we will find each other. In another place. In the forest. In the great spaces of this nation, as limitless as imagination and as wide open as the future. We will find each other again.

This place is a fantasy. But so was this country, once. America is, and ever was, an idea. A dream born of hope. Nothing can extinguish it. And nothing can control our imaginations; they cannot be silenced. They are the beacons in the darkness that will guide our way back to each other.

Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America."

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