Leslie begins today's show with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment.

Here are the stories that she gave her opinion on:

1A. AXIOS: "How the U.S. climate has warmed since the first Earth Day"

1B. AUDIO: President Biden's Earth Day remarks

2. Audio obtained by the New York Times of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy days after the Jan. 6th Insurrection

2A. AUDIO: McCarthy talking with Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney about suggesting that President Trump resign, the 25th Amendment, and a possible pardon from Vice President Pence

2B. AUDIO: McCarthy says Trump admitted he bore some responsibility for Jan 6th during Jan 11th phone call

2C. AUDIO: McCarthy tells House Republican leaders what Trump did on Jan 6th is unacceptable and nobody should defend it

3. AXIOS: UN: Human rights "horror story" is unfolding in Ukraine

4. AXIOS/IPSOS POLL - Most Americans support mask mandates on airplanes

Leslie is then joined by Mike Italiano, CEO of Capital Markets Partnership (CMP), a nonprofit public charity coalition of leading investors, investment banks, governments, ENGOs, and professional firms. CMP is working to accelerate sustainable investment by facilitating secondary markets and fixed income and equity investments, thus stimulating the economy and stopping irreversible and unmanageable systemic climate risk.
Their website is CapitalMarketsPartnership.com.

On this Earth Day, the two discuss how to achieve the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 2030 deadline for preserving a habitable planet.

The IPCC Report can be found here: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/

(Image Credit: Ben Birchall/PA)