At his final press conference President Obama declined to comment on the decision by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and dozens of other Congressional Democrats to not attend the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. Obama told FOX News Channel's Kevin Corke: "I'm not going to comment on those issues. All I know is that I will be there."



"With respect to the inauguration, I'm not going to comment on those issues. All I know is I'm going to be there, so is Michelle. I have been checking the weather. And I'm heartened by the fact it won't be as cold as my first inauguration, because that was cold," President Obama said.



Corke's question:





KEVIN CORKE, FOX NEWS CHANNEL: You have been a strong supporter of the idea of a peaceful transfer of power, demonstrated not terribly far from here at the Rose Garden. And yet even as you and I speak, there are more than five dozen Democrats that are going to boycott the inauguration of the incoming president. Do you support that? And what message would you send to Democrats to better demonstrate the peaceful transfer of power?



If I could follow, I wanted to ask you about your conversations with the president-elect previously, and without getting into too much of the personal side of it, I'm just curious, were you able to use that opportunity to convince him to take a fresh look at some of the important ideas that you will leave this office with, maintaining some semblance of the Affordable Care Act, some idea of keeping DREAMers here in the country without fear of deportation? Were you able to use personal stories to try to convince him? And how successful were you?