Hillary Clinton has amassed enough delegate votes to be the Democratic party's presumptive presidential nominee. Clinton reached the magic number of 2,383 delegates on Monday according to the AP, ahead of Tuesday's primaries in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota. Clinton is the first woman in the United States to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party.
John Fritze, the national correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, joins Tom to talk about how the Clinton-Trump general election contest will shape up, and how Bernie Sanders will inform and influence it.
Plus, Jane Brown and Ruby Lerner are two of the most thoughtful philanthropists in the country. Their giving is focused on the arts, on the premise that artists bring “creative capital” to communities that can transform people and places in a unique way. They talk about how the arts are making a difference in Baltimore and beyond.
And, Benjamin Warner, author of Thirstjoins Tom to discuss his new apocalyptic tale of what happens when the water supply is cut off and people have to respond to a life threatening disaster.
