Hello listeners and welcome back to the Politico Nurdcast.

I'm your host Scott Bland. Today is February 9th and surprise surprise we have a lot to talk about after another action-packed week at the White House

in Congress and in federal courts around the country.

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or your favorite podcast app, here are the numbers that

mattered this week. The first data point, it's the number three, and that is the number of senior

trump aides who have been skewered or lampooned or whatever word you want to use on Saturday Night Live in the last few months.

And our expert panel actually has some really interesting points about why that matters,

not just in terms of what everyone's talking about in the culture

right now but how this White House is going about governing and how it's

affecting them trying to govern. Our next data point after that two, aside from the big circus

there have been two cabinet nominees confirmed on the hill this week with

another to come on Friday as this episode is released and that includes some of the people that

Democrats have opposed most loudly but also it turns out in vain. And then our

final number this week were dialing it up a little bit it's 10 million and

that's how many viewers watched Elizabeth Warren's video just off the Senate floor

in 24 hours after she was kicked out of the debate over Sessions confirmation.

And we'll talk a little bit about what that means in terms of the energy on the Democratic

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