as he departs for washington, d.c., and we say goodbye here. thank you for joining us. continuing coverage of the passing of our 41st president, george w. bush. it s wheels up for special intermission 41. outnumbered continues now. harris: we will pick up the coverage they are, as president george w. bush is on board for his last journey. special admission 41 heading to washington, d.c., after a departure ceremony in houston, texas with the bush family in attendance. you watch it live here on fox news. the former president s remains will lie in state at the capitol rotunda, beginning this evening until a state funeral at the national cathedral on wednesday. president trump has declared a national day of mourning on that day. this is to be 25. i m harris faulkner. here today, melissa francis. host of kennedy on fox business network, kennedy herself.
departure ceremony? honors rendered, simultaneous 21-gun salute? it s got to be incredibly moving. is moving for all americans to see that. a retired 4-star general, as you see off our 41st president. what are your thoughts? i m like every other american out there. we have a very good man here who became president of the united states, and we honored him. he was beloved. i just felt so much pride for those troops that are standing there, knowing they wanted to get this perfect. they did that. out of respect for him, and they are doing their duty. perfection is their duty. they stepped up to it. seeing that entire family there certainly, i think, washes all over us. shows how much that family has
here and departure ceremony here before george h.w. bush is on air force one. now special air mission 41 for that 3 1/2 hour flight back to washington we can tell you that it is an honor for the folks in texas to be handling this and we have been told there will be a 21-gun salute and hail to the chief will be played here. we ve seen the band out here setting up and getting ready. we have also seen a couple of photographs via twitter from the presidential spokesman jim mcgrath who posted not just that very famous photo of sully the service dog that had been with president george h.w. bush in his final months and days. sully lying in front of the president s casket. sully will also be on the plane when it leaves here today and will be given to another war veteran s family at walter reed. mcgrath tweeted a picture of the socks the president will be
he did survive. something he said he thought about every day. sandra: meanwhile we await the departure ceremony. it s about to get underway at ellington field. as we await that let s bring in brad blakeman for his final thoughts. after this, then he flies to washington and the capitol rotunda awaits him. exactly. it will be time for the congress to pay their respects to the president and also a time for the public. we ll have public viewing around the clock tonight, on tuesday and then it will end at 7:30 wednesday. so we re going to be able to accommodate many thousands of americans to pay their respects. but i remember quite vividly president bush telling us as his staff that no life is complete without service. you can run for office, you can volunteer at a hospital, everybody can do something and his life is an example of that. and we should remember that no life should be complete without
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