mary mccarthy suffered really badly. when the flu began, she was nine years old and her folks decided to go back home to i think minneapolis, and we are going to go back to midwest. from seattle. and her father was a -- always broke, on the train they soon became sick and the conductor wanted 0 throw them off the train as a station in the middle of the prairie. so to mary's astonishment her father pulled over the conductor and -- he said i like to see you try, and they died. and mary's grandparents were there to meter testify station when the train arrived. she never heard from he parents again and was brought up by distant relative. they were just trying to do their best, but she said it changed the course of her life because she said if she stayed some we have been a normal middle class catholic woman. married, and that would be it. but she went off and became this fine intellectual and author and contribute he to the "the new yorker" and changed the course of her life. finally, briefly, john steinbeck caught spanish f

mccarthy suffered badly. one news of the flu began, mary was about nine years old and she decided we should go back to home i think it was minneapolis . they're going to go back to the midwest . from seattle. and so herfather , he was always broke. on the train he was became sick. under conductor wanted to throw them off the train at a station in the middle of the disciplinary. but to mary's astonishment or farmer pulled a government conductor and he said i'd like to see you try. but they died and mary's grandparents went to the station and thetrain arrived . she was brought up by a cold, distant relative. i'm sure they were just trying to do their best but she said it changed thecourse of her life . she had married and went to a book club and that would have been it but she became an intellectual list and author so i think it did change the course of her life. briefly, john steinbeck caught spanish flu and it was only after he recovered but it was a bit strange afterwards. one of the common traits, one of the common traits which was quite often spanish flu survivors and medical problems the rest of their li

mary in missouri. today for, u.s. afforded statements -- reported statements by the president saying "i am a nationalist." for his part, the house minority leader kevin mccarthyng a press conference in washington, d.c., talked about this idea of changing those statues in the u.s. capitol. [video clip] >> when it comes to u.s. statues, states have the power to select who comes forward. we changed a california statute and we added ronald reagan -- statue and we added ronald reagan. the statues were voted upon by by legislature and brought mississippi and other states. when you look at the law governing the replacement of statues, i would encourage those legislatures to be able to change from the path of what they brought forth. in north carolina, there has been a movement to change sometime, one is billy graham. states have the power to do that. host: on our line for supporters, ocala, florida. caller: good morning, pedro. i support the removal of the confederate emblems. theuld like to remind listeners a lot of them are not on government property. they are on private property and they were put up in the 1920's and 1930's. i would also like to say, none of thos