April 13, 2018: Hour 1

April 13, 2018: Hour 1

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In hour one of Here & Now’s April 13, 2018 full broadcast, CNN White House correspondent Abby Phillip and NPR’s lead politics editor Domenico Montanaro join us to review the week in politics. Also, Loren Zitomersky is hoping to break a world record at the Boston Marathon on Monday. But Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai, who ran it in just over two hours in 2011, has nothing to worry about. And remember last fall when the character Rich Uncle Pennybags from the board game Monopoly lit up social media after photo-bombing a Senate hearing on the Equifax data breach? Well, so-called Monopoly Man appeared again Thursday, complete with a monocle, top hat and bushy white mustache.