Savannah Guthrie is getting some words of wisdom about her beloved mother's disappearance from a man who lived it. The father of Elizabeth Smart, who you may remember as the 14-year-old girl who was abducted from her Utah home and who was found alive nine months later in 2002-2003, is speaking out. Ed Smart went on Fox & Friends on Thursday to express from his own point of view why he thinks Savannah and her fam making that video - in which they spoke directly to her alleged captors - was so important: "Talking directly to those that have taken her, the abductors, is crucially important.