Hello listeners it is Friday March 24th 2017 I'm Scott Bland your host and you're listening

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Okay here are the three numbers that we've spent this week thinking about.

22 that is the magic number for House Republicans and health care this week, the number of Republican

members that they can afford to lose and still pass their big Obamacare repeal bill.

President Trump and leadership have been fighting from behind to try and get below that number.

Our second data point is the number two.

That's how many days it took for the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russian

meddling in American politics to go off the rails this week.

We'll tell you about exactly what happened and why.

And finally, our third data point, 26%,

that's what right-wing populist Marine Le Pen

is getting in French presidential polls right now and we've got a

political expert here this week to help us put President Trump and global politics in

context with each other. Okay our first data point this week is the number

22 that is the number 22.

That is the number of votes House Republicans

can afford to lose while trying to pass their

Obamacare repeal bill on Friday.

And here to talk about it we have senior reporter Nancy Cook.

Thanks for having me.

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