to help? did i mention that the fences lining that half mile driveway were unpainted? so he handed her a bucket of paint and a brush. and my mother painted a mile's worth of fence. every post, every plank, both sides. once. that was -- that paint job lasted for the duration. now, my father was confident but he was not an arrogant man at all. and it takes a great deal of chutzpah to run for president of the united states or even governor of california, for that matter. and her absolute belief in him gave him that chutzpah to run for office. i don't know he would have done

it otherwise. my mother provided the encouragement he needed. she guided him. she provided a refuge in which he could repair to gather his strength. she guarded his privacy. she protected him. both possessed great individual talents, but as a couple, they were more than the sum of their parts. and it would be a mistake, by the way to consider her has somehow subordinate to her because he was the one usually taking center stage. they were coequals. they complimented one another. individually, they may have gone far, but together, they could and did go anywhere. my father was inclined to believe that everybody was basically good, and that certainly anyone who worked for him was pure of heart and could never be nursing a private agenda. my mother didn't share that inclination.

and she didn't have that luxury. my mother's world you were either helpful to her husband or you were not, and i think we all know what side of the equation you would want to be on. since we're among friends, i think we can admit that she was not always the easiest person to deal with. she could be difficult. she could be demanding, a bit obsessive, a rail pain in the ass when she wanted to be, but usually on so that my father didn't have to be. he didn't want to get on mom's bad side. particularly by hurting her husband. if you did that, you would earn yourself an implacable foe. if you run other the ghost of don reagan sometime, you can just ask him. on the other hand, you couldn't ask for a more loyal or dedicated friend.

just ask joan rivers, should you run into her. in the hereafter. when joan's husband died, he was on the east coast, and joan could not for some reason get the coroner to release his body so he could come home to the west coast. joan's a comedian. she didn't know who to call. who do you call to pull strings like there is to get something like that down? she wassianed with my -- was acquainted with my mother but they warrant great friends. nevertheless she bucks up her courage and called the white house and got my mother on the phone. joan's husband's body was on the next plane out of town. to the west coast. and joan became my mother's buddy for the rest of her life. i see the faces of many friends here today. people who have known and loved my mother for years but most of

my mother's buddies are gone. she is the last of her old gang, her generation, and now she is truly with them. if my mother had one great talent, i think it was that she knew how to love, and she loved one man more than the world. and in her later years after my father had gone, she used to ask me whether i thought she would be with him again when she died. i'm not a believer in the supernatural but i always assured her that wherever dad had gone, she was surely going to go there, too. we should all be so lucky to stand up where we have also wanted to be, and today my mother comes to rest on this lovely hilltop with its far reaching views, next to her beloved ronald reagan library, and, by the way, from here, she will be able to keep an eye on things. just saying. no slacking. how long will it be before tales

begin to emerge of the petite chanel clad spirit, roaming the galleries and hauls. -- halls, just checking to make sure things are running smoothly. but most importantly she will once again lay down beside the man who was the love of her life, the one she loved until the end of her days. watch the sun drop over the hills in the west toward the sea, and as night falls, they will look out across the valley, my father will tell her that the lights below are her jewels. the moon and stars will turn overhead and here they'll stay, as they always wished it to be. resting in each other's arms, only each other's arms. until the end of time.

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>> let us pray. god, of grace and glory we w. you before you this day our sister nancy. we thank you for giving her to us. her family and friends to know as companionen our earthy pill pilgrimage. until by your call we are reunited with those who have gone before. awe -- amen. please be seated. >> today we are exactly where we ought to be, standing with this family, and one another, before the mystery of life and death, say in our prayers, and farewell to nancy davis reagan.

the great 20th century rabbi, abraham joshua, was once asked what is the most important thing that a religious person can do? his answer was given in one word, remember. that is precisely what we do this day. this is what we do as religious people every time we gather. we hear again and again the stories of encountering god, ancient and cherished, stories that point to god as a mystery, yet still revealed to our fragile and mortal humanity. we remember god's saving love for the human race and family, and in that act of remembering, the god of life and giver of every good gift is present to us. and these moments that i speak to you, it is really for one purpose. to gather all the remembrances that you have just heard, those that you carry in your hearts,

those of the people of our nation, and the world, and to remind you where to place them all. before the living god who gave nancy life from the first, and who now receives it back again. who is this god? this is the one who raised up israel, out of bondage in egypt, fulfilling ancient promises and raced up jesus from the dead into resurrection life. the god whose presence we gather today and to whom we commend the life and soul of nancy is a god of justice. wants to lift up the poor, the vulnerable, and all on the margins of life. a god of love who wants you to know that in every circumstance of life, that you are beloved, precious, sacred, just because you are you.

this is a god who loves fiercely, who traffics in life and death, and is encountered in every dimension of life, beautiful and complex. nancy knew of this. she knew it because she lived it. in november of 2014 i was invited to meet mrs. reagan at her home. there were four of us, mrs. reagan, and two of her dear friends, robert hisdon and peggy noonan. we entered her bedroom where mrs. reagan, was partly reclined upon her bed. we were there over an hour. i mostly listened as the three of them told stories from the white house years and beyond, some dramatic, some hilarious, and others that caused us to fall into a companionable silence. turning to all the photographs on her bedside table i asked about several of them, and one by one she looked at them and

spoke of places and events over long years. finally i picked up the one closest to her. it was worn and creased, overrunning its slightly weathered simple plastic frame. what about this one, mrs. reagan? she held it in silence. and turning to me she said, this one is my favorite. the photo was of president reagan who had begun his descent into alzheimer's. he was mostly reclined. the angle of the photo was a profile. nancy was hovering just above them. their faces very near one another, nose to nose, eyes to eyes. it showed a deep and tender intimacy, even through the fog of his illness. of all the photos, this was her favorite. she kept looking at it, seemingly transported to another

place. i said, mrs. reagan, that's a picture of you living out the promises of your marriage and fidelity and love. after a brief silence she said, yes, it is. and handed it back to be placed on the table. nearest to her. pot henry van dyke has written, time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those two fear, too long for those 0 who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. nancy reagan glimpsed that truth. she and her beloved ronnie shared a great love, a very great love. that is legendary, and could instruct us all, and now she knows that eternity is about so

much more than time, for it is about fulfillment and completion. and so important for nancy, reunion, as she is joined with her beloved ronnie. so lastly, as we give thanks for the life of nancy reagan, i want to speak of an even greater love. its one we know as christians, and the life, death, and resurrection of jesus christ, climaxing at that first easter. each gospel tells of it differently, ironically, providing a stereoscopic view of a truth, unparalleled in all of literature and life. the events of holy week leading to jesus' death sent his closest disciples into fearful hiding and finally brought strong women to his tomb in the dark of that first easter dawn.

there god had acted. a cosmos-altering explosion of divine light and life was released, surging at god's command, breaking the three-day silence, there jesus rises from death to new life, and all creation rises with him. in a newly beheld raidons that is without analogy in the risen christ, death is defeated. vanquished, forever. god raised jesus that you and i might share in his resurrection. it is true, we are raised with him, as is nancy, who now stands on another shore, and in a greater light, with that multitude of saints that no

mortal can number. in our last visit with mrs. reagan, i asked at the end to be alone with her. we spoke for other few moments, and then we prayed. giving thanks for life, for the love that god has brought to us, and for strength and grace in the days ahead. now, we all reading reading thii have made a life 0 out of trying to read human hearts. and those last moments with nancy, she was at peace. as if she were already leaning into heaven. and now she has. fallen asleep, and awakened in the heart of god. now she knows intimately of what

the 17th century priest and poet, john dunn, wrote in these closing words: bring us, oh lord god, at our last awakening, into the household and gate of heaven, to enter into that gate and dwell in that house, where there shall be no darkness, nor dazzling, but one equal light, no noise, nor silence, but one equal music. no fears, no hopes, but one equal possession. no ends, nor beginnings. but one equal eternity. in the habitation of that glory and dominion, world without end, amen.

nancy, dear nancy, may you gaze upon our lord face-to-face, may angels surround you, and saints welcome you in peace, and may your heart and soul now ring out in joy, to the living god in whose presence you are held forever. amen. >> amen. >> now let us all join today saying. our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thigh name, the kingdom come, thai will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread. and forgive ours trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass intense us.

and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. in peace we pray to you, lord god, almighty god, and the body of on earth thy light and thy peace, amen. grant all who have been baptized into christ's resurrection may die to sin and through thegraph and gate of death we may pass with him to our joyful resurrection. grant to us who are still in our earth pilgrimage who walk by faith that the holy spirit may lead us all our days. grant to thy faith. people, pardon and peace we may

be cleansed from our sins and served with a quiet men. grant to all who mourn confidence in fatherly care that cast all their grief on they may know the consolation of their love. give courage and faith to those who are we reached that it may have -- bereaved that they may have strength in the days ahead, the joyle expectation of eternal life. help us in the midst of things we cannot understand to believe and trust in the communion o saints, forgiveness of sins and resurrection to life ever lasting, grant us to receive her into the arms of this mercy and remember her according to the favor which thou bearest unto thy people. grant she may go from strength to strength and the life of perfect service in thy heavenly kingdom. grant us with haul who have died

with the hope of the resurrect to have bliss and everylasting glory and to receive the crown of life which how to promised to all who share in the victory of thy son, jesus christ, who live with the and the holy spirit, one god, forever and ever. would you please raise for the commendation. give rest, oh christ to thy sir vent with thy saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing but life everlasting, the creator and maker of mankind, and we are mortal formed of the earth and

unto earth shot we return, for now created saying, dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return. even at the grave we make our song, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. give rest, ochrist, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing but life. into tmy hands we commend thy child and servant, nancy, acknowledge we humbly beseech thee, lamb of thine flock, a senior of redeeming, receive her into the arms of thy mercy, into the blessed rest of everlasting

peace and the glorious company of the saints in light. amen. the blessing of god al -- mighty the father, the son, and the holy spirit, be upon you and all beloved to you, this day, and forever more, amen.

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>> all that the father give me shall come to me that cometh to me i will no cast out. he that raised up jesus christ from the dead will also give life to our mortal bodies by his spirit. my heart is glad and hi spirit rejoices, my flesh also shall rest in hope. thou shalt show me the path of life, the fullness of joy, and at thai right hand there is pleasure forever more. ensure in certain hope of the

resurrection to eternal life, through our lord, jesus christ, we commend to almighty god our sister nancy and we commit her body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. the lord bless her and keep her, the lord make his face to shine upon her and be gracious unto her, the lord lift up its countenance upon her and give her peace. amen. rest eternal, grant to her, oh lord and let light perpetual shine upon her. may her soul and the souls of all the departed through the mercy of god rest in peace. amen. now, may the god of peace who brought from dead our lord jesus christ, the great shepard, make

you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sights and the blessing of god almighty, the father, the son, and the 0 holy spirit be upon you, this day,, forever more. amen. ♪ god bless america. ♪ land that i love. ♪ stand beside her. ♪ and guide her. ♪ through the night with the light from above. ♪ from the mountains.

♪ to the prairies. ♪ to the oceans. ♪ white with foam. ♪ god bless america. ♪ my home, sweet home >> ladies and gentlemen, all guests are invited to pay their respects at the internment site and then join for a luncheon reception in the air force one pavilion. thank you.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the funeral of nancy reagan, by nancy reagan, for her family and friends and all of us it was her friends might say the last event she will plan. it went off as she expected. chris wallace knew her and her family well. i bet she would have been pleased. >> one of the things i'm thinking now, shep and it's sad, for those of white house cared about nancy reagan, but one of the things that give me solace is the idea that there is literally no place on earth or in heaven that she would rather be, that place next to ronnie

reagan, the place where her casket has been placed is where ronald reagan is buried, and that is how they would have wanted. thought the funeral service was remarkably frank and gave you a sense of nancy reagan. her extraordinary qualities and her human qualities, her just fierce love and devotion to her husband, and the extraordinary love letters that brian mull mull -- mulroney, who was close to reagans, and read and that's our george will there hugging -- he was very close to nancy reagan, patti and ron reagan. but as nancy -- rather, patti and ron also indicated, shep, she could be a handful.

she was a handful to her children, who i think sometimes felt that there was this circle of two that patti talked about, nancy and ronald reagan, and that even their children were not quite inside the circle, fully inside the circle. you heard from tom brokaw how she could hold a grudge. you could get back outside the penalty box but it took awhile. i was there, too. >> what put you there, chris? >> i did a piece that was critical about ronald reagan, at the height of iran-contra. happened to run on his birthday. he liked to watch nbc at the time. i was the chief independence correspondent, and the word came back that i had ruined his birthday. and so she didn't talk to me for about a year, but as tom brokaw said, you could get back to square one with her, and i was so fortunate that i did. but all of that was part of what

made her such a special woman. she wasn't plastic. she wasn't artificial. er parks were real. her grudges were real, and her most of all her devotion to her husband and to this country were real. >> we have heard described today, chris, on many occasions, that when they -- we got the sad word that ronald reagan was stricken with alzheimer's, the future she had imagined and dreamed of and planned for, of the two of them riding beau into the sunset, she was robbed of that. she spoke of that a number of times, and in the last few years we haven't seen much of her. i wonder if we know yet collectively what that struggle in his final years was like. >> well, in his final years, yes, i do. i actually, with my kids, went out one time in 1994, so this was fairly shortly after all of

that, to the -- her home in bel-air. at that point he had actually gone up with the secret service to the ranch but she was there, and it was lonely. she did have, as ron pointed out, a lot of the friends, the california gang, the so-called kitchen cabinet, the bloomingdales and the an anyonebergs. a lot of them are gob now but she did have a lot of friends at that time, but it's clear, and here we see former first lady hillary clinton saying goodbye to the reagan children. it was lonely for her, and it was such a circle of two that there were memories they shared and intimas sunday they shared that were -- intimacies they shared that not only their children but their closest friends were on the outside looking in on, and so to be separated from her husband, he was there physically but obviously over time, less and

less mentally. she said, it had stolen the golden years from her she looked so forward to after their extraordinary journey they would have the opportunity to be able to share all of those things, and it really robbed her of the last ten years of his life. as he continued to live for another ten years, but obviously with fading memories as time went on. >> chris, what was the last year of her life? how was her health? who did she see? and how did she go about? >> i must say, i don't know as much about the last year of her life. i do know that i've probably talked to her for the last time a year ago. she still was great fun but it was clear the years had caught up with her. she was 94, and not obviously feeling as well, and she ended up dying of congestive heart

failure. she still had a circle of friends and family, and as you heard dianne sawyer and tom brokaw say, would make the trek to california to visit with her, as long as her health held up, and she loved to go to lunch. and sit there and gossip and people obviously were thrilled to see mrs. reagan. one of the things that you can't help but feel particularly somebody who even covered those reagan years, this is the end of an era. so many of these faces that we're seeing are from that era, some or already gone. even the ones left, i see pete will son there on the right, the -- pete wilson, the former governor of california, and george schultz and jim baker. these are the last people from an extraordinary era in american politics, when ronald reagan came into office and was able to

help the economy in so many ways, age to win the cold war against the soviets can restored american pride. some people obviously will criticize things in the reagan years, but as we have looked at the sweep of time over the last 30 years, i think the eight reagan years stand up pretty well in history's judgment. >> they do indeed. chris wallace, thank you. stay with us. i want to turn to a presidential historia, former special assistant to president bush 41 and was close with the reagans for decades. we thank you. >> thanks, shep. >> your thoughts on this sad day in simi valley. >> i just have to say, what an exquisite piece of journalism fox news has done in covering this passing of nancy reagan. absolutely superb for the nation and for history.

shep, i was touched by the last words of the ceremony when ron reagan, jr. said they will forever be in each other others arms and then he add almost wistfully, only in each other's arms, and i could just feel him as the son wishing he could be there, too, but this is the great gift that the reagans as a couple gave to their children tr love for each other, a lot of married couples don't give that to their children when they pass on. so i don't -- i think that was a great gift for ron and for patti. >> doug, sometimes when regular folks are watching polling -- politicians live their lives you don't know what is the difference what is there for show, what there is for manipulation and for -- i don't know -- sometimes i guess guidance, maybe inspiration and what is really true and real. seems the things i can remember

over the past few decades with politicians, this love affair is something that was without question very, very real. >> very real. and it allowed them to do things they couldn't have otherwise done politically and in public life. nancy reagan forever changed in a fundamental way the role of the first lady. other first ladies, like eleanor roosevelt, had been very active, didn't have a lot of power because we now know she was estranged from her husband. she had public power, and roslyn carter actually sat in cabinet meetings but indivisible. so what nancy reagan did, by becoming the enforce organization, it allowed ronald reagan to keep a relationship with a staffer who was being moved out over politics or loyalty or incompetence. he could still be their friend and they could blame it on the

mean fold first lady, and for the first time a first lady would leak stories to the media and disagree with her own husband, and that allowed the reagans to expand their political base beyond their own ideological base, if the president allowed that of his chief of staff or anyone else he would have been seen as weak, but because he defended his wife, he was seen as loyal, and they were love birds and that's how they got away with it. frank and claire underwood couldn't pull that off. >> thank you, doug. i want to mention to you, as we drove up this morning, if you have never been here, and at some point you find yourself in southern california with a couple of hours to kill, drive out east of simi valley and come up this hill with the flags all along and come around the most magnificent vista that mrs. reagan loved so much and as we did this morning it was

spectacularly beautiful. the sky was red in the early morning, fog came in and opened the blue skies with some wispy clouds but we all had our phones and were looking as we have for five straight days now at the hourly forecast, and 11:00 a.m. when this funeral was to begin there was a 100% chance of rain. in the noon hours there was a 1200% chance of rain, and we all knew that nancy reagan had very, very good connections, but apparently she has been elevated now as the rain did not come until this ceremony was over, and she was laid next to her ronnie. she is still busy. ed rollins is a fox news contributor and was president reagan's national campaign director in the election of 1984. if anybody can do it it would be nance use. >> she was superb and made us all play at a higher level.

she would call me, every couple days or more frequently than that, always had very good questions, always knew that things that she might want to do may basically not always be the same way that i might want to do, and if i couldn't convince her of the way i wanted to do it, obviously we found a compromise, but she always made me play at a better level. she was very loyal to her husband, obviously, very loyal to everybody else, and she thought the white house was the people's house and this whole drill that you're talking about right today, she helped make him president, she helped make him a great president, she helped build the legacy, she built this library, every single detail was her detail. the picked the land and picked the spot she is going to lay to rest today and, a magnificent monument to the presidency and a great asset to the american public, and that's what she was about.

>> the stories i've heard beginning with her husband's funeral and now, today, it's hard to imagine how she had time in the day to do all that she did. sounds like this was the busiest woman on earth. >> i don't think she slept much. she worried. she -- he was a very secure guy, and basically was very content to go spend three weeks up on the ranch chopping wood. she was always outreaching to other people, finding out -- i'm reminded of the closing week of the campaignin' 1984. the group of people she had around her in air force one, frank sinatra gave us 30 days. he flew on air force one with us, he was her great friend. we took him back to hoboken for the first time since he was 18. rosy agreer was part of her drug program who held to the body of bobby kennedy the night he was assassinated. mr. t. she brought this group of people together and made them work very are very hard on her no on drugs

program and a was a great builder of coalitions. >> find out a lot about people when they pass, and you see who has come to remember them. trace gallagher is here with me. has been covering these events here for all these years. to see this group come up was very, very hollywood. >> it was. this was an amazing tribute, and you think, five days putting this together. they planned for 30 years but to put this together in five days, it is saying something about who they were paying tribute today when you have the greatest speakers in the the world giving eulogies and that is what happened today. the rain came a little bit during the service and then went away and came back. now it's back with a vengeance. this is fitting because if you think back, ronald reagan had the sun setting ceremony and nancy reagan laid her head on the casket and it was this perfect ending and while nancy reagan is here and the rain is here but when the rain goes

away, maybe there's a rainbow, and nancy reagan's secret service nickname was rainbow so maybe this is fitting. it's funny because you hear ron reagan talk about how she is now presiding over the reagan library. she has been building there is for 30 years, and this isn't the end. this is one of the busiest, if not the&est presidential library the country and has become like a shrine to republican candidates. there are debates held here and anybody who wants to run for office has to come and be beholden to the shrine, to get their, for lack of a better word, their blessing from this place before they go in office. that's the reagan library has become and will continue to be a very strong force in the republican party for many, many years to come. >> sure our viewers saw when the photographer was panning from the sweeping vista and then under the tent to the mourners there, the building itself is strikingly and unassuming ranch.

it's not a great column cathedrals type place. it's a california hill. >> the shining city on the hill that ronald reagan talked about, and when i first came here 12 years ago and then came back here this week for nancy reagan's funeral, they put is in the hangar for air force one, which was not here 12 years ago, and they had this amazing plane that ronald reagan used to fly to berlin to make the statement "tear down this wall" and they just said all the guests now paying tribute to nancy reagan walk by the caskets and they're going down to where air force one is and there's this irish pub downstairs, replica of an irish pub that ronald reagan loved in ireland, but that's how authentic this place is. you can walk through the oval office and air force one and ronald reagan's favorite pub right downstairs, and it really is just an amazing place to walk around and see the history, and as i said earlier, the history

of this couple, one of the great couples in american history, is something to be seen. >> and mrs. reagan made all of this happen. >> she made all this happen. she planned this, it's macabre to say but they have been planning for the funerals, he husband and her funeral for 30 years so every detail, spent for the bagpipes. they're the only thing what was left out. that was up to the library. they did that because ronald reagan wanted the bag pipes played for his fin until lee and the same e -- finale, and the a same bag pipe player, the one who did the president's funeral, did nancy reagan's funeral and this was a sendoff for nancy reagan but also a sendoff for the reagans as one of the finest american couples that you or i will see in our lifetime. >> without a doubt. sendoff for the reagan era. trace good, to see you.

we miss you out east. >> i miss being out there sometimes. >> not always. best to the family. let's turn to chris wallace in washington. i'm a bit jealous, chris would have been interesting to catch up on gossip with nancy reagan. >> it was great. nothing better than having a lunch with nancy reagan or a phone call with nancy reagan, and shift trusted you and she knew you weren't going to -- you would keep her confidence, she could be very open about what show thought of various people in the administration, who what -- and always about her husband, who he was doing -- who was doing him right and who was doing him wrong. talked about how she was able to get so much done. i did a documentary about her for nbc news when i was the white house correspondent in '85, and the one word that every person in -- on her and his staff used to describe her was relentless. if she got something in her head

she was going to keep making calls and if she asked you for something, you didn't turn it down i. was fortunate enough -- talk about the reagan library. i think it was 1995. the ten inch anniversary of the first reagan-gorbachev summit, a few people, including officials and reporters reporters who cov, were invited to come out for a panel discussion. a command performance of north carolinay -- performance of north nancy reagan. and it is such an extraordinary era in american life, and these people were really larger than life and played on such a huge stage with the cold war and peace and the end of the cold war, and the museum is filled with that. they have a big panel of the berlin wall there. they didn't have it then. now have air force one that he flew around the worlds, changing the world in. and to be in her company, it -- it is really raining there -- it

was extraordinary. i will tell you back in 2004, i believe it was, when ronald reagan died, they allowed us, even the reporters to come and pay our final respects to ronald reagan, and i can't tell you what a moment this is, even -- it was nice that day, not raining, but to be able to come up and approach the casket and pay your final respects, and i was bold enough as some of these people were to take -- place my hand on reagan's casket. and to say going, to say a tribute to the gipper. this reminds me so much of that, and as you say, it's the end of nancy reagan and the end of the reagan era, but they will live in our hearts and minds and memory and the history of the country. >> just a few seconds left, chris, literally. what do you think nancy reagan would want us to take away from this? >> i think she would make it about her his he was a great

man. she did everything she could to help them. they, but especially he, loved america, and to think well of them. i think she would want it all to be about her husband. i think she had an ego, particularly the second term she wanted to talk about things did like the "just say no" program, and after he got alzheimer's, and she was totally devoted to him and saw an awful lot of what her worth was in helping him accomplish his goals. >> chris wallace in washington, thanks so much. trace gallagher, it's been a pleasure, and an honor to be with all of you here today, as i mentioned, the funeral was scheduled for evening, for sunset. instead the burial will tapes this evening. this rain is something that is very much needed in southern california. they hoped for a soaker. the weather folks tell us by sundown the clouds will make room for a beautiful sunset.

and the sunset on an era in american history. nancy reagan laid to rest. i'm shepard smith in simi valley california. the news continues in two minutes with neil cavuto. equals. oh, look at you, so great to see you! none of this works. come on in. her long day as anne. hair stylist starts with shoulder pain when... hey joanne, want to trade the all day relief of 2 aleve with 6 tylenol? give up my 2 aleve for 6 tylenol? no thanks. for me... it's aleve.

the good doctor has thrown his support behind the pretty good front-runner right now, donald trump gets ben carson to back him. we're talking to ben carson why he decided to do that, first here and only here. but first, the protests that are getting more frequent and more loud. >> how about -- >> at donald trump events. blake burman on that. >> protesters nothing new atrium trump evens but this was a different scene today in missouri and st. louis, there was protester after protester after protester, to begin this event.