Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180121:05:35:00
Return, that hope evaporated. >> that is the last straw that we were all on board that he would have shown up for his own father's funeral. >> reporter: but ellen and her children did show up. they had read the death announcement in the newspaper and they came to pay their respects. >> we were not expecting them and it was strange and caught us off guard, and once again, with rein a state of mourning, and we were not going to be creating any issues and we were not going to have them escorted out. >> reporter: after all, this was the grandfather of ellen's daughter. >> so e we let them go up to...