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

This week on the nerd cast Michael Cohen spends three days on Capitol Hill

before spending three years in prison. We're going to ask the big question

does his testimony move us closer to an impeachment proceeding?

And why or why not?

Plus, on the campaign trail but off the road, we're going to check in with two of our

intrepid 2020 reporters who are going to tell us what they learned about Iowa hospitality after a

pair of crazy reporting trips in some pretty hairy weather.

As always, we're taping us a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday. Today that's February the 28th, so it's all up to date as of then.

And right now we're still digesting the breakdown of the denuclearization summit in Vietnam between

President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea.

So plenty more to come on that in future episodes.

But for right now, let's get started on our discussion this week.

I want to welcome our guests.

We have Politico's man on the Mueller investigation, Darren

Hello, Scott.

Thank you so much for joining us.

And Nerdcast newcomer, But Podcast Pro, Anita Kumar, from our White House team.

Anita, welcome.

Hey, thanks for having me.

Thank you so much for joining us.

And as always, we also have senior politics editor Charlie Matessian here to help us break it all down.

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