As long as I'm president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

Good morning.

Hello listeners and welcome to Politico's Nurdcast.

I'm Scott Bland, your host.

This week on the Nurdcast, we're going to spend a little time on debate preview ahead of next week's

Democratic debate.

I know, another one.

It's going to be the last one before Iowa.

It's happening in Iowa, and we're

going to get into all the preparations around that

and what the Democratic presidential race

looks like heading into those

caucuses. But first we've got our foreign affairs reporter Nahal Toussee.

What day is it? And Politico Pro Deputy Defense Editor Dave Brown. And they are with us to bring us up to speed on the death of Kossam Solimani, the top Iranian general who was killed in a U.S. strike at the end of last week, the ramifications

in terms of foreign policy, in terms of what's going on at the state and defense departments

and in the White House.

The American people should be extremely grateful and happy.

Some of the inconsistencies in the responses we've seen from the Pentagon and other American

officials.

We're going to dig into all of that in just a moment.

As always a quick note that we are taping this on Thursday.

This week that's January 9th, so if anything

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