#AskTheMayor; Trump Pushes Back Against House Investigations; Earth Week: Farming & Livestock; Can Billionaires Solve Global Poverty?

Workers plant romaine lettuce, Thursday, April 26, 2018, at the EG Richter Family Farm in Puyallup, Wash.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Andrew Desiderio, congressional reporter for POLITICO, covering investigations and oversight, discusses President Trump's resistance to House Democrats' investigations and subpoenas.

  • Kendra Pierre-Louis, reporter on The New York Times climate desk, talks about the effects on climate change of farming and livestock. Plus Alejandra Borunda, former climate scientist, now science writer, joins to talk about her "climate diet" experiment that she wrote about for Bon Appetit's Healthyish website.

  • Rick Noack, The Washington Post foreign affairs reporter focusing on Europe and international security, brings updates on the Yellow Vest protests in Paris and the backlash over the billionaire donations to the Notre Dame Cathedral fire. Then Anand Giridharadas, TIME editor at large and author of Winner Takes All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, discusses whether billionaires can put an end to global poverty if they had the will to do so.