Possibility of a shutdown deal is at a 'total impasse'

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🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The president and democrats haven't been able to come to an agreement, and with the new congress sworn in it doesn't look like things are going to get any easier. White House reporter Nancy Cook joins the Nerdcast to discuss if there is an end in sight for the government shutdown. Plus, senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian breaks down Warren's potential presidential run and politics reporter Alex Isenstadt explains what's going on with Mitt Romney, who, as you may remember, he went on a hike with before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello listeners this is Politico's nerdcast I'm Scott Bland your host.
0:07.0	This week on the nerd cast, Democrats take power in the House, but are we any closer
0:17.9	to reopening the parts of the federal government that have been shut down for nearly
0:21.8	two weeks now.
0:23.2	Plus, 2020 is starting to boil and bubble up in the background.
0:28.1	At the beginning of 2019, we size up two big political figures who made news this week, Massachusetts Senator
0:34.3	Elizabeth Warren, she of the newly announced Presidential Exploratory Committee, and newly sworn
0:39.7	in Utah Senator Mitt Romney who wrote an explosive Washington Post op-ed criticizing President Trump
0:45.8	on the eve of his swearing-in.
0:48.2	As always, we're taping us a little bit before noon-eastern on Thursday, that's January 3rd
0:52.1	this week, so it's all up to date as of then, as the new Congress
0:55.7	gets sworn in.
0:56.7	All right, let's get started.
0:57.7	I want to welcome our guests, the inimitable Charlie Matessian, senior politics editor
1:01.8	at Politico. Hello, Charlie.
1:03.2	Hi, Scott.
1:03.8	Happy 2019.
1:05.2	Thank you.
1:06.1	And here from Politico's White House team,
1:08.8	Nurdcast regular Nancy Cook.
1:10.2	Nancy, how you doing?
1:11.2	Good, thanks for having me.
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