It's Friday, April 18th.
I'm Erin Ryan in for Jane Costen, and this is What A Day,
the show for people who spent the last hour before bed last night scrolling Zillow listings for K218B,
the faraway exoplanet identified by the James Webb telescope that scientists say shows signs of life possibly existing on it.
So far nothing in my price range, but I'll keep looking.
On today's show,
President Donald Trump meets with Italy's Prime Minister to talk over trade and ostensibly kiki over their mutual hatred for migrants.
And the Supreme Court says it will hear arguments in Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship,
a thing that is literally written in our Constitution.
And on that note,
the Trump administration is running through our constitutional rights like a bull unleashed on the streets of Pamplona.
For days now, the high stakes back and forth between the administration,
the courts and the Constitution over the wrongful deportation of a Maryland man has understandably sucked a lot of the oxygen from the room.
Meanwhile,
the party in power is working overtime to assure
that whatever oxygen is left in said room is pumped full of unregulated chemicals.
That was a segue, right?
Guys, it's been a long week.
Here's what's happened since Monday.
The administration got the ball rolling on gutting a key part of the Endangered Species Act.