Democrats plot a post-Mueller strategy

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🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This week's Congressional appearance by Robert S. Mueller III landed with a thud, so what's next for Democrats itching to impeach the president? Sarah Ferris from POLITICO's Congressional team joins the show to explain why Nancy Pelosi's team is maintaining a united front in public, even if they're arguing behind closed doors. Plus, POLITICO's Chief Economic Correspondent Ben White breaks down how the president's advisers are trying to safeguard the long-running economic boom, even if it means walking away from their opposition to deficit spending. We take a look inside the "do no harm" caucus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello listeners and welcome to another episode of Politico's nerd cast.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Lamb, your host.
0:08.0	This week on the nerd cast, we're going to have a Choose Your Own Adventure segment.
0:12.8	You're Nancy Pelosi.
0:13.8	What do you do next after Robert Mueller's testimony
0:16.6	before two House committees this week?
0:19.2	Plus, could the economy fall apart on a presidential whim? That is a scary little line right there.
0:24.8	One of our reporters is going to talk us through a story he wrote about the things President
0:27.8	Trump's advisors are doing to prevent Donald Trump from tanking the economy before his re-election.
0:34.1	As always we are taping this on Thursday today that's July 25th so it's all up to date
0:39.2	as of then. All right I want to welcome our first guest this week.
0:43.4	Political congressional reporter Sarah Ferris joins us on the line from the hill.
0:47.1	Sarah, hello.
0:48.1	Hello, thanks for having me.
0:49.4	Thank you so much for taking the time to join us.
0:51.6	So Sarah, we want to play forward the Mueller testimony
0:56.5	a little bit. I think by this point, most of our listeners will know the top line. Not much new ground broken in the former special
1:06.2	council's appearance before the House Judiciary and Intelligence
1:09.6	Committees earlier this week. So at this point the real question is I think what's going
1:16.5	on among top Democrats on the hill? What are they thinking about where the
1:22.1	results of the Mueller investigation have pushed them at this point and that means impeachment.
1:27.0	Well, if I was going to try and read the mind of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her other leadership deputies which is not necessarily
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