if you want to google literacy in america google barbara bush foundation and see if there s a way you can put a book in the hands of a child because literacy barbara bush said, america can be a better place and we can be a more complete people. bret baier, father himself and one who who pushes such causes with us is live in washington. bret, you ve been covering the bush family for a couple of white houses, your thoughts on today? well, shep, i think it was a final good-bye, celebration of barbara bush s life, matriarch of one of the families of the world, baker said she was the secret sauce that kept the giant family so cohesive. what struck me about the ceremony, a mix of formality and fun. it was tradition and reverence
if barbara were here would say let s move it along. she s in longer in control. these are the law enforcement officers out front and there the top of the towering cathedral, the episcopal church, the bush s worship home for 50 years. seeing them altogether, presidents and first ladies celebrating the life of barbara bush, quite an event to enjoy. over the next hour bret hue will join us, dana perino but first a life that has worked at fox news channel for 21 years, before that worked in midland and odessa and waco, mike emanuel,
about him at his advanced age, unwell in a wheelchair and they were so together so much of their lives, every time you saw them through the years, they were side by side, holding hands, it was just the way they were, it was a very close and extraordinarily successful marriage and for her now to be gone from the center of his life i think will be hard for him now and we can all, you know, think about him and pray for him. shepard: bret, showed a picture of 41 before anyone came to the sanctuary today, may have been lying in her pose yesterday and talk about just that as she died he held her hand and whoever went first, that s the way it should have been. i think so. you know, think of him as unwell as he is and old as he is and pained as he may be at his time, he was over here yesterday while she s lying in the pose, greeting people who came off the streets to pay respects.