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

this week on nerd cast Paul Ryan says this term will be his last, both as the House Speaker and as a member of the House of Representatives.

I feel like I read that somewhere a few months ago.

Maybe talked about that on a podcast. In any case, we will unpack what

this event which happened Wednesday morning means for Congress in the near term and

Republicans in the midterms. Plus the FBI raids the office of Donald Trump's personal lawyer and

the president lashes out at his own Justice Department. So another ho-hum newsless week at the

White House. We'll have Nancy Cook here to break it all down for us and what to look out for next.

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nerd cast's biggest fans. One more note before we begin, we're taping this a little bit

before noon eastern on Thursday, April 12th, so it's all up to date as of then. All right, let's get

started. I want to welcome in our guest. We have in the studio Charlie Matessian,

our senior politics editor. Hi Charlie. Hey, Scott. Nancy Cook, White House

reporter. Hey, thanks for having me.

And on the phone we have Politico's Catholic Bureau Chief John Resnahan.

Bresnth, Bresnth,

Bresnth,

so let's jump right in our first data point, three.

Three years is how long Paul Ryan has been speaker of the house.

It's also, coincidentally, the number of children that Paul Ryan has.

And he said this week that being with his family as his kids move into their teenage years motivated him to pull the plug on his speakership and his time in elected office.

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