Hello and welcome to the political nerd cast where we bring you inside the stories of the White House and geek out on the amazing circus of American politics. It's Thursday, December the 1st, and I'm Kristen Roberts, your host. Here are the numbers that

mattered this week. Seven. That's how many

cabinet appointments Trump has officially made so far. Zero to 94, the ratio of at the

mic statements to tweets that have come from the

president-elect since election day. 25 the number of Democratic Senate seats

that are up in 2018 and 10 of which are in states Trump won and 134 the number of votes

Nancy Pelosi won in her bid to hold on to a leadership position in the minority

party in the house.

Grab your calculators and enjoy the Politico Nerdcast.

Here we go again.

Hello to Charlie Mathesian.

Hi Kristen.

Welcome back.

Thank you. Hi, Scottland. Kristin, great to be here.

And Ken Vogel.

Hey!

Let's get to our first data point.

It is the number seven.

That's the number of cabinet appointments Donald Trump has officially made so far.

Ken, tell us, what do we know about these people? Any patterns emerging so far?

Yeah, we see, I mean, we don't see all insiders necessarily, but we certainly see a lot of people who

are insiders and even the people who are outsiders who haven't been involved with

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