Hello listeners it is Thursday April 20th. I'm your host Scott Bland and you are

listening to Politico's nerd cast. This week we're going to keep riding the

special election train. We've got a lot to recap from Tuesday's special all-party primary in Georgia's sixth district.

Talked about it a little bit on the last few podcasts, but now we have some actual numbers to dig through.

It's going to be a very interesting show.

And speaking of numbers, we have first quarter FEC reports to dig through.

Like we always say, we're the type of folks who stay up late on Friday nights digging through

FEC reports and we have actually done that this week, so we're going to talk a little bit about

the big money and the small money that President Donald Trump is raising and what it says

about his relationship with the rest of the Republican Party right now.

And finally big news in the media world this week, Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News,

and we've got one of the experts on Fox and the whole media ecosystem here to talk about it.

Two quick housekeeping notes before we get going. the whole media ecosystem here to talk about it.

Two quick housekeeping notes before we get going.

First of all, remember you can email us if you have questions at nerdcast at politico.com.

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Nurdcast on iTunes or your favorite podcast app in addition to

subscribing and rating us. Before we get started, let's welcome the team.

Hello senior politics editor Charlie

Matessian. Hello Scott Bland. Media reporter Hadass Gold is here.

Hello. And chief investigative reporter Ken Vogel.

That's me. Hi.

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