How MAGA Runs the House; Albany Budget Crunch-Time; RFK's 'Hands Off' Approach To Bird Flu; Greenpeace Judgment

• Annie Karni, congressional correspondent for The New York Times, and Luke Broadwater, White House reporter for The New York Times and the co-author (with Karni) of Mad House: How Donald Trump, Maga Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby and a Man with Rats in his Walls Broke Congress (Random House, 2025), talk about their new book about dysfunctional House Republicans, and how their reporting on them informs how the GOP-led Congress is mostly providing a rubber stamp to President Trump today.

• Jimmy Vielkind, New York State issues reporter for WNYC and author of the Substack "Notes from Jimmy," talks about the status of budget negotiations ahead of the April 1 deadline, the possibility of a mask ban, and federal funding that's included in the forecasts.

• Apoorva Mandavilli, reporter for The New York Times, focusing on science and global health, discusses the government's approach to bird flu, and why veterinary scientists say that RFK Jr.'s approach (letting the infection burn through flocks to identify birds with high immunity) will likely cost more than it helps. 

• A recent legal judgment could force Greenpeace to pay $667 million in defamation and vandalism-related damages from the 2016 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, leading environmentalists to worry that the ruling could have a chilling effect on climate activism. Michael Gerrard, professor of law at Columbia Law School and the founder and faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, shares his legal analysis of the case, and what it could mean for the environment.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.