Hello listeners it is Thursday May 11th 2017 I'm Scott Bland your host and you

are listening to Politico's nerdcast We're going to keep it really simple this week.

There is one huge story above all others and that is the firing of former FBI director Jim Comi on Tuesday. President Donald Trump

terminated him four years into a 10-year term as FBI director and we're going to be talking all about that this week.

What it means for the investigation to Russian hacking and meddling in the 2016 election,

what it means more broadly for President Donald Trump's administration, whether Congress is going to kick up its own investigations into these same issues and more.

And we're also going to check in on a little bit of a running theme that we've had on this

podcast.

Taking a look at some of the internal dynamics within Donald Trump's administration, particularly

his White House and particularly Eleana Johnson is going to tell us within his National Security Council.

All that and more on this episode of the Nurdcast.

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