Convention Codes; de Blasio's Campaign Finance Probe; Brainy Animals

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 25, 2016

Coming up on today's show:

  • Veteran journalist Elizabeth Drew explains the nuts and bolts of the party conventions in July.
  • Hear the latest on federal and state investigations into Mayor de Blasio’s fund-raising, from POLITICO's Laura Nahmias.
  • Call in and tell us what news headlines we missed last week, when New York was preoccupied with the primary.
  • The biologist Frans de Waal explains why we humans shouldn’t underestimate how smart animals really are – and not just chimpanzees, but moths and crows too!
  • What's a woman's issue? Keli Goff, columnist for the Daily Beast, discusses the issues that really matter to women this election cycle.

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