Bill de Blasio; Herbalife; Midterm Election Politics; Preventing Sex Trafficking

Mayor de Blasio gave a major speech yesterday in which he tried to contextualize his stance on charter schools. He follows up with an interview live on WNYC. Then: New York Times reporter Alexandra Stevenson explains the questionable role of a hedge fund billionaire in trying to bring down nutritional supplement company Herbalife, which is now under official investigation. Plus: a look a midterm elections politics; and a consultant for AMBER alert and survivor of child trafficking talks about cultural factors that enable the commercial exploitation of children in the United States.