Hello, and welcome to another edition of Politico's Nurdcast.

I'm Scott Land, your host.

This week on the Nurdcast, has Donald Trump already moved on from Tuesday's midterms?

Sure feels like it., plus a few lessons to learn from Tuesday

in addition to what we talked about late on Tuesday night, and how Democrats will make

sense of them in 2020.

As usual, remember, we're taping this a little bit

before noon eastern on Thursday.

That's November 8 this week, so it's all up to date

as of then.

Let's get started.

I want to welcome our guests as always we have senior politics

editor Charlie Mathesian here. Hi Charlie. Hi Scott. Have you slept at all since

election night? About three hours. Yeah all right that's good that's enough to

function on a podcast such as this one. And also in the studio we have one of the members of political's White House team, Chris Kautilago. Welcome back, Chris. Thank you. All right, let's jump right in time for our first data point two. There are now two top-level

jobs in President Donald Trump's administration that he needs to fill.

Before the election of course we had UN Ambassador Nicky Haley leaving and yesterday the President said

Attorney General Jeff Sessions was out. So Chris, since Tuesday's midterms, the

president has sacked as Attorney General, picked a fight with the media

in the East Room of the White House, he's about to head to Paris, there's all sorts of

stuff swirling around about the Mueller investigation and just about every other thing. Has the president just moved on from Tuesday night from the midterms already after all this

anticipation?

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