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Hello listeners, it is Thursday, December 7th, 2017. I'm Scott Bland, your host, and you are listening to Politico's NerdCass.

We are going to start off this week previewing the special Senate election in Alabama that

is coming up on Tuesday, December 12th, right around the corner,

and this week we saw President Trump and the Republican National Committee re-engage in the race

despite numerous allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore, the Republican

nominee.

So we'll talk a little bit about what has gone on there in the past week, what is driving Trump's

decision, and a little bit about what we

expect to happen in Alabama. We're also going to talk about the latest in the

sexual harassment allegations royal in Congress. There was a new one on Friday and also a new revelation about an old one involving

settlement of a claim with taxpayer money.

So we will run through all of those and the resignation of Senator Al Franken which happened

as we were taping today. And for our final segment this week we are going to have

a special guest in to talk about Politico Playbooks 2018 Power List.

It's 18 people in politics who are going to matter in 2018.

It covers operatives who run the big congressional groups to people running some of the

interest groups that are going to have a big say to some of the candidates

themselves who are running to some behind the scenes players behind some big

political names around the country so we are going to talk through the email us questions at nerdcast at politico.com and also don't forget to

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