#AsktheMayor; What the Whistleblower Alleges; #MeToo and 'She Said'; Whistleblowers 101

4 segments
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who never cracked 1 percent in the Democratic primary polls for the 2020 election, has dropped out of the race.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post White House reporter, talks about the latest news around the whistleblower allegation leveled against President Trump which claim the president used his office to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election -- and that the White House tried to cover it up.
  • Jodi Kantor, The New York Times correspondent and the co-author (with Megan Twohey) of She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Penguin Press, 2019) and Megan Twohey, The New York Times investigative reporter, talk about their book. They build on their original reporting that broke the Weinstein story and furthered the #MeToo movement, and take a deeper look at the system that allowed it to continue for so many years.
  • Allison Stanger, professor of international politics and economics at Middlebury College, New America Cybersecurity Fellow, external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump (Yale University Press, 2019), discusses the history and future of whistleblowing in American politics.