President Donald Trump is threatening “very, very severe — the most severe” federal consequences for those responsible for the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, if the 84-year-old mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie is not returned alive.
Trump made his comments in a phone interview with the New York Post published Monday. When asked by the Post if that means the death penalty, Trump replied, “The most, yeah — that’s true.”
Nancy Guthrie was last seen on the night of Jan. 31, when she was dropped off at her Tucson, AZ home. She was reported missing around noon the next day. Trump called her daughter Savannah Guthrie on Feb. 4 and offered federal assistance in the case.
As the search for Nancy Guthrie extends into a third week, the FBI is awaiting DNA results on a glove found near the Guthrie home that appears to match the one worn by a suspect that was seen in surveillance video released last week. Investigators collected more than a dozen gloves in a roadside field about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home. Most were ones that had been discarded on the ground by searchers in the area.
Savannah Guthrie posted another video on social media Sunday, saying her family still has hope for her mother’s return.
“We still have hope, and we still believe,” she said. “And I wanted to say: To whoever has her, or knows where she is, that it’s never too late, and you’re not lost or alone. And it is never too late to do the right thing, and we are here. We believe, and we believe in the essential goodness of every human being.”