Hello listeners it is March 9th 2017 I'm Scott Bland your host and you are listening

to Politico's nerd cast Things are heating up in Washington and it's not just the weather.

I'm sorry I couldn't resist.

Anyway the real heat is coming from Capitol Hill,

where the most passionately litigated political issue

of the decade is once again under the microscope.

Congressional Republicans introduced their new health care bill

this week.

We'll talk about what's in it, how quickly it's moving, and why the GOP isn't united behind

this solution to what's been its biggest policy priority for seven years.

We're also going to talk about President Donald

Trump's tweets which took aim at his predecessor in highly unusual fashion last

weekend and how they're affecting Congress's other big flashpoint right now, the

Intelligence Investigation into Russia, and we'll

take a step back at the end and try and think about what the early days of this presidency

foreshadow for the later ones.

I'm going to give you some data points for today's conversation, but first, remember, please email

us if you have questions at nerdcast at politico.com, and if you haven't already, please

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Okay, here are those data points I mentioned.

21 votes.

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