it was heartbreaking. >> reporter: marie's ex-husband jeff carlson got the text too.dn't make sense to him that she'd leave without calling her 7-year-old daughter, paris. kay called jeff and said he should file a report. >> and she said, "i -- i don't know what's goin' on, but i -- i think somethin' happened." and i said, "yeah, i agree with you." >> reporter: and then jeff called the okaloosa county sheriff's office to report marie missing. >> the investigators said, we're going to open a case, an investigation on this. which surprised me because she's an adult. she could've just left. >> reporter: because marie was adventurous. she liked to travel. and when the mood struck her, sometimes she just took off for a few days on some whim. but something seemed different this time. >> reporter: she would've never have left without talking to me about it and talking to paris. >> reporter: she'd been gone a week when the sheriff asked detective keith matz to look into it. that text message. something off, said her family. >> this doesn't sound like marie. >> reporter: huh,

carlson got the credit when bolton eventually fell out of favor. and sacking of jeff sessions?ne piro was in trump's ear for that. lauer ingram instrumental in that. average voter doesn't know just how many of trump's actions and inactions are dictated by the network. frankly the average political journalist doesn't watch often enough. guilty as charged. i frequently read stories by white house correspondents that describe unvetted white house hires and unhinged policy decisions and unglued tweets but leave out the cause. can be traced to tv habits. ha hatred for ukraine because hannity said hillary clinton colluded with them. when he threatened north korea, it was because of a fox segment about kim's nuclear button. when he told iran never threaten the united states again, it was about a fox segment about saber rattling. attacked google because of fox, raged against migrant caravans because of fox and got the facts wrong and wrong again because of mistakes and misreporting by network. kobe bryant died in helicopter crash, he sent condolences but got death toll wrong because of

john bolton, hired as national security adviser, tucker carlson got the credit when bolton eventually fell out of favor with trump. the firing of jeff sessions? jeanine pirro was in trump's ear for that one. laura ingram was instrumental in that. but the average news consumer, still, just doesn't understand how wedded fox and trump are. the voter doesn't know how many of trump's actions and inactions are dictated by the network. frankly, the average political journalist doesn't watch fox enough, either. guilty as charged. i frequently read stories by white house correspondents that describe unveted white house hires and unhinged policy decisions and unglued tweets but leave out the cause. fox's influence. the decisions that most seriously damaged his presidency could arguably be traced to his tv habits. for example, as media matters has noted, trump's hatred for ukraine seems to have originated from hannity's show telling him that clinton colluded with them in 2016. when he said he had a bigger button than kim jong un, it was because of a fox segment about kim's nuclear button. when he told iran to never threaten the united states a