it may not be until ottumwa winter or early spring where the postal service -- it may or wintertil autumn or early spring, when the postal service runs out of cash. host: i am hearing a version of this question several times online. i will read a tweet that summarizes all the questions around this issue. it says -- the postal service needs to be relieved of the burden of funding their pensions 75 years in advance. it has to happen at this minute. no other u.s. entity is required to do this. kevin, we seen several versions of this question of the u.s. ps having to fund its pensions 75 years in advance. what this isto us about, what happened, and who caused this problem? guest: a popular myth that has been around for a long time. -- the calculations showed there was no way the postal service was granted taper all those retiree health care benefits. so the idea was let's create a fund and pre-fund these benefits. took $20 billion and ceded the fund and the postal service paid for the fund for 10 years. then it would be stretched out over a 40-year period. happened, the postal service was onl

i have talked to women who are valley,ornia, silicon just like i talk to people in washington, ottumwa, iowa, or any places across the country, and the impacts are lasting. i believe in many situations, we have to understand the approach that is required is a multipronged approach, and governments have an important role to play. covid, whether in china, in italy, in france, with that, the domestic violence cases are on the rise, and it is on the rise in the united states. i have faxed. i have data. we are seeing the hotlines increase, the number of calls. so at the end of the day, i trust that as humans, we have to care for each other, and i would love to see more engagement. "the washington journal," because we need more thanklists -- i want to the "washington journal," because one in four women experience domestic violence in their lifetime. we have to come together, and there is a moment of reckoning, and issues like domestic violence need to be addressed wholeheartedly and with complete engagement from all corners of society. host: we go to michigan. good morning to you. michigan: