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Hello listeners, welcome to another episode of Politico's Nurdcast.

I'm Scott Bland, your host. This week on the nerd cast, President Trump will bail out U.S. farmers who are on the sharp end of his escalating trade

fights, but the move has some Republican lawmakers seeing red, as in Soviet red.

We will explain all that and more as Trump's actions over the last couple weeks continue to

anger a set of Republican senators. The big question being what will they do about

it. Plus, Trump has more fighting words for the media, and we're going to talk to our media reporter

about whether the dynamic between the press and the president is shifting, and how this all

relates into President Trump's broader political strategy for the midterms, for 2020,

for how the White House wants to accomplish policy things, the whole smash.

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Okay let's get started I want to welcome our guest. We have senior politics editor, Charlie Matessian in the studio. Charlie, good to see you as always.

He's got... And we've got on the line, we've got two of our intrepid congressional reporters. We've got lot of shore on Skype from the capital hi alana

Hi there and uh... Burgess Everett also on the hill is on the phone hi Burgess

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