Trump breaks silence on abduction of Savannah Guthrie's mother

President Donald Trump said he planned to call Savannah Guthrie in the first comments he's made about the apparent abduction of the Today Show host's mother in Arizona.

Trump was asked about the disappearance during a gaggle with reporters after he signed a bill to reopen the government after this week's partial shutdown.

'I think it's terrible,' Trump said. 

He agreed to deploy federal law enforcement resources to Tucson area to assist with the case. 

'I'm going to call her later on,' he said of Guthrie. 'I think it's a terrible thing. I always got along very good with Savannah.' 

He called the situation 'very unusual' but vowed to get to the bottom of what happened. 

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was grabbed from her bed overnight Saturday, the man leading the investigation told the Daily Mail. 

On Sunday, she was reported missing after she failed to show up for church. 

On Tuesday, the entertainment news site TMZ said it had received an alleged ransom note asking for millions in bitcoin in exchange for the elder Guthrie's release. 

Earlier Tuesday, Fox News Channel obtained a recording of the 911 call alerting authorities of the 84-year-old's disappearance. 

'Nancy has high blood pressure, a pacemaker and cardiac issues,' the dispatcher said. 

Investigators have made a public plea to the kidnappers to return Nancy because she could die from health complications without her medication. 

'We have someone's life who is in jeopardy,' Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told reporters on Tuesday. 

Nanos also said the DNA found at Nancy's house belonged to her. 

So far, no evidence collected at the site has yielded a suspect. 

Nancy lives in the Catalina Foothills, a community located north of Tucson in Pima County, Arizona. 

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Guthrie has been absent from the Today Show amid the crisis. 

On Monday, she put a post up on social media asking followers to 'please pray' and to 'bring her home.'

'We believe in prayer. We believe in voices raised in unison, in love, in hope. We believe in goodness. We believe in humanity. Above all, we believe in Him,' she wrote.

'Thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant. raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment,' the anchor said.

'We need you,' she said, including a Bible verse from the book of Isaiah.

Guthrie's last interview with Trump was the widely publicized NBC town hall during the fall of the 2020 presidential campaign, when she aggressively questioned him on COVID-19, QAnon, masks, and conspiracy retweets.