Hello listeners and welcome to another edition of Politico's Nurdcast. I'm Scott Bland, your host.

This week on the nerd cast President Donald Trump heads to the border as the

partial government shutdown nears the start of its fourth week.

We're going to unpack the three unilateral ways that President Donald Trump might try

to get his wall.

Plus, is Beto O'Rourke a candidate in waiting for 2020?

He lost his Texas Senate race. He's talking about a solo road trip across the country.

He spent the morning Instagram Living a trip to the dentist.

I'm here at the dentist.

Talking to his hygienist about growing up in El Paso.

What does it all mean?

Diana is going to tell us a little bit about growing up in El-Paz.

Actually, we're going to talk about the role

that digital organizing is playing in this nascent 2020 campaign and how O'Rourke fits into that and how the organizing

that he did while he was running for Senate and Texas set him up for a potential presidential

bid.

It's going to be a really good talk.

As always, we're taping this a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday.

Today that's January the 10th, so it's all up to date as of then.

Who knows who else O'Rourke is going to Instagram live with today after we tape. But anyway, let's get

started. Our first data point 1.2 or 1.2 billion, perhaps I should say, that's

1.2 billion dollars. That's the overall economic cost of the partial

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