Hello listeners this is Politico's nerdcast I'm your host Scott Bland.

Coming up this week a surprising figure coming forward in the impeached Trump movement

a Republican and no one seems happy about it we'll talk about that plus I sit down

with some of Politico's national political reporters

to talk about 2020 campaign strategies from the wide, wide, wide Democratic primary field.

These strategies are all over the place. they're in all sorts of different

states we're gonna dig into all of them coming right up just a heads up we're

taping this a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday may 23rd so it's all

up to date as of then.

All right, let's get started.

I want to welcome the guest for our first segment,

Tim Alberta, chief correspondent for Political magazine.

Hello Tim.

Hello, Scotty.

And Tim is the perfect person to walk us through some of the drama

currently unfolding between conservative hardliners on the hill. The data point

for our first segment is one and that is the number of Republicans in Congress

who have come out and called

for President Donald Trump's impeachment.

And that congressman is Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan.

And as a result of this, he's embroiled in a big, probably growing, I think would be fair to say, a fight with a lot of the folks who have been his closest allies on the Hill, the Freedom Caucus.

This is all happening, of course, against the backdrop of the Democrats trying to figure

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