Hello listeners. Today is Thursday, June 29th. I'm Scott Bland, your host, and you are listening to

Politico's Nerdcast. We've got a whole bunch of different things to talk about this week.

One of them following up from last week we're going to continue talking about the Senate

Health Care Bill which ran into from last week we're going to continue talking about the Senate health care bill

which ran into some roadblocks this week. Planned votes were canceled

after a congressional budget office score showing 22 million people

projecting 22 million people would lose health insurance coverage

over 10 years as a result of this bill.

So the bill was getting criticized by some conservatives,

it was getting criticized by some conservatives, it was getting criticized by some

moderates, and now Republican senators are going back to the drawing board a little bit.

We're also going to take this opportunity in the final week of June to look back over the first six months of the year this first stretch of the

Trump administration what's happened what hasn't happened how the new president

is doing not so new anymore I guess and we've got a special guest this week Josh Gerstein

political's Supreme Court expert is going to be here to talk to us about what

happened at the end of the Supreme Court's term,

importantly what to look forward to at the beginning of their next term,

a lot of key arguments on tap, and what's going on with the new Justice Neil

Gorsuch and Justice Anthony Kennedy, who about whom retirement rumors

have swirled for the past few months.

A couple quick housekeeping notes before we get going.

Remember you can email us your questions if you have them at nerdcast at politico.com.

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