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

This week on the nerd cast voting we had more voting this week after a bit of a long break over July

we jumped right back into primary season on August 7th.

Plus, we had the final special election before the midterms.

We're going to talk through what it all means with a few of our crack political reporters.

Plus, Congressman Chris Collins arrested this week and charged with insider trading.

Are there more shoes to drop on this one?

We have a couple of experts on that case who are going to be here to talk us through what's happening,

what other members of Congress are tangentially involved, and what it could mean for the fall

elections.

A reminder before we jump into all that 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 nerd cast's biggest fans. One more note before

we begin we are taping this a little bit before noon eastern on

Thursday, August 9th, so it's all up to date as of then.

Okay, let's get started. I want to welcome our guests. We've got all our political heavy

hitters here.

Elena Schneider and Alex Eisenstadt who have been on the road covering the midterms but are here

with us in person in the studio. Hey guys, hi Elena.

Hi there.

Alex, thanks for being here. Sure, thank. And on the line from

Politico, California, the great David Siders. Hi David. Hi,

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