I'm Jonathan K. Parton, welcome to K-PART.

Journalism is in the blood of MSNBC anchor Katie Turr.

Her parents were household names who pioneered breaking news, chopper reporting.

But in her new book, Rough Draft, Turr writes unflinchingly about the pain that enveloped

her family.

In this conversation, first recorded on June 21st for Washington Post Live, Turr talked

about what her father's violence cost their family.

And even though we had all these fancy things, we had these porches, a helicopter, a

jacuzzi, I went to private school, we lost it all, including our health insurance, lost

everything because my dad just couldn't control his rage.

Turr talked about her father's transition from Bob to Zoe.

It must really have sucked, trying to hide the person you were for as long as she did.

I mean, she was in her 50s when she decided to transition.

And Turr talks about her path from local news reporter to covering the Trump campaign

to the anchor chair.

So let's jump into this.

And I think part of the reason you wrote this book was to spotlight the amazing career

of your mom and dad, Marika, and Bob Turr.

If they're Los Angeles news service, they broke the biggest stories of the 90s, the Los

Angeles riots, the slow speed chase of OJ Simpson among countless others.

Talk about their story career.

They were amazing parents in a lot of ways, and they were incredible journalists.

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