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Hello listeners and welcome to another edition of Politico's

nerd cast. I'm Scott Bland.

This week on the nerd cast a post-debate lightning round.

We've broken down some of the moments from the debate.

Now we're going to get a few of our crack political staff together

to talk about what they think after watching the two nights, what

candidates did well for themselves, what to watch for going forward.

Plus we're going to talk a little bit about the Federal Reserve.

This is the nerd cast, right? We're going to talk about the Federal

Reserve cutting rates for the first time since the financial crisis. It's a really important economic

issue. We're going to talk about exactly why with one of Politico's biggest experts on the subject.

As always, we're taping this on a Thursday.

Today that's August 1st, so it's all up to date as of then.

All right, let's get started.

I want to welcome in our guests.

First up, National Political reporter, Elena Schneider, joins us.

Hello, Elena.

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