Hello listeners welcome to another edition of Politico's nerd cast I'm Scott Land your host.

This week on the nerd cast, Beto O'Rourke says he's running for president.

We're going to talk a little bit about how he got to a yes on that question.

Plus we're going to talk about an emerging litmus test in the

2020 Democratic primary. Campaign finance, where candidates raise their money from, how

they're getting it, and where O'Rourke fits into this new test and how his 2018 campaign

kind of shaped a lot of what a lot of his now fellow 2020 candidates are talking about on the trail.

Plus, we're going to talk about New York Senator and 2020 candidate Kirsten Gillibrand.

She's been an outspoken advocate in the Me Too Movement.

But, Politico reporting has uncovered how her Senate office handled or mishandled, critics say,

an allegation of inappropriate conduct inside that own office.

So we're going to have our reporters who broke that story earlier this week

here to talk to us about what happened and how it is going to play into the 2020 campaign.

As always, quick note here, we're taping this a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday.

Today that's March the 14th, so it's all up to date as of then.

All right, let's get started.

I want to welcome in our guest for our first segment here on the line from

Iowa. We've got National Political reporter David Siders. Hey David.

Hey David.

All right and here in the studio Maggie Severins who covers money in politics for

Politico. Hey Maggie. Hey, thanks for having me. All right,

thank you so much for being here. So time for our first data point. That is

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