Hello everyone. It's January 12th, 2017. Welcome to the Politico

Nerdcast. I'm Scott Bland and we well we have quite a bit to talk about

this week.

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All right, with that out of the way, let's get to business.

Here are the numbers that mattered this week.

35, that's the number of pages in an explosive unverified dossier

about Donald Trump and Russia that was floating around

the intelligence community before BuzzFeed

and only BuzzFeed published it earlier this week

and blowing some other big news about the president-elect out of the water.

15. That's the number of questions Trump took the next day at a press conference in a circus-like atmosphere,

focusing mostly on Russia and yet containing some really new news and serious new information for us to focus on.

And then a double number for our final data point, 11 to 10.

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