it s it is true. you have the power to be offended. bill: have a good weekend. to juan in a million. what a wonderful day. bill: we are going to go to wisconsin in a moment here for the news conference. top of the hour and a startling case i broke overnight. wisconsin teenager jayme closs, she s 13. she vanished three months ago, the day that her parents were found dead. she has now turned up alive, so keep it here for that update in northern wisconsin. sandra: plus the power ranking, ed rawlins calling mitch mcconnell the smartest man in washington. he s here to tell us why next. 4s or more to pay credit card debt, or just put money in the bank. it even lowers your payments by over 600 dollars a month. as a veteran, you ve earned the powerful va home loan benefit that
as the motorcade pulls up. i have not been inside that engine, but i can tell you it s a beautiful, important piece of work by the men and women in north little rock, arkansas, at union pacific. harris: the motorcade is arriving now. the nation has watched in the last 24 hours together, the ceremonies, the memorializing of this president. this has a finality to it now, congressman hill. we know that this is the final route to his resting place. and it will go through several cities as we have been sharing with our viewers, on its way to college station for two and half hours. people are already lined up, we have cameras in all those places and we can see what is going on ahead of time. congressman hill, if you would be so kind as to standby i also my friend, ed rawlins, standing by onset with me. i want to bring in ron kaufman,
sound, there, and we wanted to let that breathe. i will again lower my voice. it takes a few moments for them to load the casket onto the funeral car, and to prepare everybody inside to take their seats for the procession, the family, everyone to sit down. in that time, i want to welcome back my friend, ed rawlins. ed, as we watch this is the final journey. it is so purposeful with the front car painted as air force one. i have been looking a little bit of social media to see what people are feeling and thinking at this time. the expression of that plexiglas, in this car periods that you can see that flag-draped casket as it goes through town, is purposeful and meaningful. people will see the this ths afternoon. george w. bush, ron kaufman was his most loyal staff person.
distraction to talk about the other stuff, even though i think as a country we should look into what happened, with the russians, to make sure we understand it. i don t think that as a party it does us any good to focus on that when we should focus on what did go wrong. especially when you look at wisconsin, michigan she didn t create any excitement. she s a woman who served her country very ably and well and served both as first lady and senator of her state. she was the eventual nominee and probably shouldn t have been. at the end of the day she wasn t a very good general campaign, and for a variety of reasons she got knocked off. but the integrity issue with her, she built up over a 30-year period, people didn t believe she was honest and i think to a certain extent that s what did her in in the end. what about the republican party, ed? let s face it, donald trump was not an establishment candidate by any means. a lot of them were against him. he s still not an establishme
we bring in our panel now. ed rawlins. joe trippi is a former campaign manager for howard dean and a fox news contributor. gentlemen, good to see you. it really has been an honor to navigate things for you. the truth of the matter is lou sat here a year ago and said that donald trump is going to be president and hillary clinton and democratic party are going to be in kind of disarray. just the opposite story could have been told. i think most people thought mrs. clinton would be the president and the democrats would do well in the house and the that. just goes to show that campaigns matter and politics matter and candidates matter. and i think trump became this extraordinary candidate by the end who captured the last couple of weeks with great unrest that s out there today. we were talking with karen finney and she felt like it was the coverage from the media and why do you think all of that is? you live with the media. the truth of the matter is they re very much a part of the c