confederate statues. here is what new orleans democrat mayor mitch landrieu had to say about this issue earlier today. you can t change history by taking a statue down. you are just moving it to another place. these statues prominent places and reflect four years of new orleans 300 years history crowding out all of the other history. laura: joining me now for reaction is correspondent at large geraldo rivera author of the geraldo show a memoir and with me here on set is fox news political analyst gee an know caldwell. mitch landrieu also a had a number of statues removed in the dark of night. they have been there a long time. worth multimillion dollars and we don t know where most of them are. p.c. beauregard and other statues are just gone. what s your take on this? is this the right way to handle these historical monuments? putting aside what s happening in new orleans. and i really do like mayor