Hello listeners it is January 26th 2017 I'm Scott Bland and welcome to the

Politico nerd cast We have a packed agenda for you on today's episode.

New policy is flying out of the new White House.

The Senate is practically drowning in Trump administration. is

practically drowning in Trump administration appointees right now

and Democrats are desperately trying to make sense of it all.

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All right here are the numbers that mattered this week and the numbers that will be

driving the news for probably the next month too. We'll start with three.

That is the number of finalists on President Donald Trump's

short list for the vacancy on the US Supreme Court. We'll dig into who they are and

preview what's to come in that confirmation fight. Next number three to five million.

That's the number of illegal votes that Trump said he believes were cast in 2016.

More important, he cares enough to be talking about it and some other distractions a lot in the first week of his presidency.

And our final data point this week, the number 11.

And if you've seen the movie Spinal Tap,

you'll understand why we're using this number as a stand-in

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