investigation peer the power panel now, loretta lynch dash phillip stutts, jake mccoby. great to have you. first time on the program. let s start with is rick a situation. i don t know if you saw the communication mercedes schlapp from the white house started off our program today by saying that this has nothing to do at the white house. she says that she s been saying it a lot. she s pausing so everybody can catch up. martha stewart was indicted for security fraud in 2001, and she was convicted of lying to the grand jury. sometimes, like with the mueller investigation, it continues to show that there s really nothing there, but they continue to work on other things outside of this. that sort of reminds me more than anything. this is nothing. this is the fit individual to plead guilty in this a criminal
not just her. you don t want to cross facebook. i don t think she ll have a problem crossing them. yes, she will. don t kid yourself. they all will. they all will have trouble and that is where we stand. i want to ask you before we go joe, i think mika was trying to say something there. i just don t think kamala harris will have a hard time crossing facebook and these companies when she is across the table from them. i think she s trying to work with them which is why she wasn t masikryong. i m curious, did you re piece go out, did you not here that before? i knew she was trying to say something. alex? alex? is rick s ear piece working? i think it s fine. okay, thank god. so i can go to my next question to you. before we go, rick, i have to ask you and i m worried about you re piece because i want you to hear this next question because you wrote two would have the best books i think about the conservative movement in before
did took it very personally. it was a high priority for us to make sure we found him and got him back. and we re very hopeful that very soon that will happen, he ll be back here. but the first thing i need to do is express the great amount of appreciation i have not only for the marshal s office, rick s people have just gone above and beyond in this case for us to help locate ethan and his mom. the d.a. s office has played as always a pivotal role in that. the marshal s fugitive task force that works out of this area, both the district attorney and our agency all have people assigned to that task force. they have worked tirelessly almost around the clock on this since the disappearance of ethan and his mom. all of those people not to mention police agencies across the state and across the country, every lead we had that we needed followed up somewhere
thirdhand information from mexico did sha mexico they put out a statement this morning saying where they arrested him so i assume they were mobile. where are this he in mexico? in another city? in a special holding facility? and are you talking weeks or days until they ll be coming back here to texas? that s rick s world about coming back and i wouldn t i don t know, honestly, where they re being held, nor would we probably answer that at this point in time. in the mugshot released this morning, ethan couch s hair appeared to be dyed black. do you think he was actively trying try ing to alter his appearance to evade capture? i think that s the natural assumption you have to make if you look at that photograph. we talked numerous times during the investigation they did everything they could to change their appearance. when you see the photo of him, he certainly tried. he was easily recognizable. it didn t seem to work too well. i don t think anybody would have
that. they were driving? as we understand. again, we re just getting really thirdhand information from mexico about how it all they put out a statement this morning that you ve probably seen that gave an intersection of where they supposedly arrested them so i m assuming they were mobile at that point. sheriff, where are they in mexico right now, in another city, in a special holding facility? and are you talking week orz days before they ll be back here to texas? that s rick s world about coming back. i don t know honestly where they re being held nor would we probably answer that. in the mug shot released this morning, ethan couch s hair appears to be dyed black. do you think he was actively trying to alter his appearance evade capture? i think that s the national assumption you have to make if you look at that photograph. we certainly talked numerous times during the investigation that we believed that they would do everything they could to change their appearance. whe