Hello listeners. Today is Thursday, July 13th, 2017. I'm Scott Bland, your host, and you are listening

to Politico's Nurdcast. As usual, we have no shortage of things to talk about this week. We are going to give you

the latest update on health care legislation in the Senate.

Republicans are tweaking their bill today, but it doesn't look like they're addressing the concerns

of several key moderates, at least according to what they're saying.

So more on that in a bit. We'll also

discuss the Trump administration's election integrity commission which has

sparked fury from Democrats and even resistance from some Republican

secretaries of state in recent weeks with its request for

voter data in all 50 states. But we are going to start out today by talking about

the story of the week, Donald Trump Jr.'s emails. It was revealed this week that the President's

son exchanged emails and set up a meeting in 2016 in the hope of getting dirt

on Hillary Clinton from people connected to the Russian government. So we're going to

talk all about that and where

the investigation currently stands into Russian activities during the 2016 election.

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