Hello listeners welcome back to another edition of

political's nerd cast I'm Scott Bland your host

this week on nerd cast a conviction of guilty plea and indictment a big week in national politics a week after the president's one-time campaign manager was convicted of

financial crimes and his one-time attorney pleaded guilty to a host of

white-collar goodies. Plus we're gonna walk through what it all means for the

midterms as Democrats hammer Republicans including the newly indicted

Congressman Duncan Hunter over corruption in Washington.

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And one more note before we begin, we are taping this a little bit before noon, eastern on

Thursday, August 23rd.

So if anyone else gets indicted in the afternoon, that's why we're not talking about it.

All right, let's get started.

I want to welcome our guests.

We have Senior Politics Editor Charlie Matessian back from a summer vacation.

Charlie, so good to see you.

We missed you.

It is so great to be back and just to look at you and sit this close.

You missed the Nurdcast while you were on vacation, didn't you?

I did, I, Pined for the Nurdcast.

And from our White House team we have Lorraine

Wellerte. Good to see you Lorraine. Thanks

so much for being here. Thanks Scott. All right time for our first data point.

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