Hey everybody. This is Scott Bland and you're listening to Politico's

nerd cast. This week on the show we are going to take you from the halls of

DC to the cornfields and the streets of Iowa.

Let me begin by thanking the people of Iowa

for playing an extraordinary role in transforming politics in America.

To talk a little bit about the 2020 presidential race and how it is playing in the nation's all-important first caucus state.

But first, we're going to roll it back right into DC.

We're gonna talk a little bit about the big story

the past few weeks impeachment.

What's going on with that right now?

And we're gonna have two of our top people who know what's going on in the

White House and in Congress here to just unpack everything that's going on for us.

A quick note before we jump into that we are recording this a little bit before noon on Thursday. This

week that is October 3rd. So if anything happens after that we're going to have to

cover it in next week's episode as usual. All right, for our first segment this week, we're going to give you an update on impeachment.

What's going on with the whole process?

What's going on in Donald Trump's head?

What's going on with House

Democrats here to talk about it we have political White House reporter Nancy Cook

hi Nancy welcome back hey thank you for having me and making his nerdcast debut

political's Congress editor, Ben Wile.

Hi, how you doing?

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