Hello listeners and welcome to another edition of Politico's Nurdcast. I'm Scott Bland, your host. Thanks

for joining us this week. This week on the Nurdcast, we will talk about Democrats in California

and Washington, for that matter, breathing a sigh of relief after the big

primary night on Tuesday. Plus we will break down what you need to know about

President Donald Trump's summit next week with Kim Jong-un of North Korea.

A reminder to our listeners to subscribe to the nerd cast, rate us and write a review.

And stay tuned for the end of the show for a contribution from one of the Nurdcast's biggest fans.

One more note before we begin, we're taping this a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday,

June 7th, so it is all up to date, as of then, even the foreign policy section.

Okay let's get started I want to welcome our guests we have in the studio

Politico senior editor Charlie Matassian Charlie good to see you

Hi Scott we have campaign reporter Elena Schneider quickly becoming a nerd cast regular.

Thanks for having me again. And all the way from California David Siders senior

reporter and co-author of California Playbook David is on the line. Thank you so much for joining us.

Good to be here. Thanks for having me.

All right. And David, I understand you're joining us from home. Will your dog be joining us

on the line as well? The dog does seem to be joining us a bit.

All right, all right, looking forward to it.

Time for our first data point.

That's two, as in top two.

California has a weird primary system.

It's in use in a few states, as we talked about last week, but instead

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