Hello, I'm Scott Bland, your host. This week on the show, we have a very foreign policy focused week at the White House to talk about.

We learned that the head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, made a secret trip to North Korea.

Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abbe, came to Maralago to golf with the President and

talk trade.

The U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nicki Haley, said there'd be sanctions on Russia.

Donald Trump changed his mind. And there was a little bit back and forth about all

that, and we'll talk about a fantastic story from this week about how the diplomatic world

and corporate America have adapted to the way the president changes his mind.

They've just started to ignore Donald Trump's tweets.

What a luxury.

Plus, a topic I love, campaign season.

We're going to jump into a little bit more evidence this week that the

GOP should be worried about how the midterms are shaping up new fundraising numbers.

Look, for pretty much as long as there's been money in politics, people have said money

doesn't win elections, and that's true but

we'll dive into why it's important and what it means at this point 201 days

from the midterms and there's another special election coming up this one

in Arizona should be a piece of cake for Republicans,

but we'll dig into a little bit

and tell you exactly what's going on there.

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