Hello listeners it is Thursday August 10th I'm Scott Bland your host and you are

listening to Politico's nerdcats. We're getting things off to a little different start than usual this week.

We're going to talk about foreign policy and national security, what with tensions

running very high with North Korea right now.

We'll also talk a little bit about President Trump's poll numbers.

We are going to have our polling analyst in the studio to break down not just President Trump's approval, but some of the numbers behind those numbers,

getting into the intensity of his support and this question of just how big Trump's base is.

And we'll also talk about how the answer to that question is going to affect policy dealings

for the White House through 2017 and into next year and the next round of congressional elections.

And for our final segment this week,

we'll talk about the new White House Chief of Staff.

John Kelly will be marking two weeks on the job next week.

And we're going to talk a little bit about what he's done so far and just as importantly

what he hasn't done so far. A couple of things before we jump into that discussion, remember

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All right and here's who we're talking with this week.

We have White House reporter Nancy Cook.

Hi Nancy.

Hey, thanks for having me.

And here for the first time we have political pro defense editor and reporter, Brian

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