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

This week on the nerd cast the Florida Governor's race is shaping up to be a

doozy and maybe even a bit of a preview of the 2020 presidential race.

We had big primaries there and in Arizona and

also Oklahoma on Tuesday night. So we'll talk through what happened as the field gets set in most

of the battleground house races and all of the battleground

Senate races that we are following around the country. Plus, the gulf between what the

administration says and what it does was on display again this week when President Trump says he's

going to quote look into something is it the equivalent of a parent telling a child

we'll see we're going to talk about that and the pending departure of White House Council Don McGann

with one of our White House correspondence in the second segment.

A reminder to our listeners to subscribe to the Nurdcast, Rate us and write a review. And stay tuned for the end of

the show for a contribution from one of the nerd cast's biggest fans. One more note before

we are taping this a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday

August 30th so any indictments court filings presidential tweets

special election results what have you that happens after then sorry not

included all right I want to welcome our guests.

We have our house expert reporter Elena Schneider

in the studio.

Hi, Elena.

Hey Scott.

Also in the studio, senior politics editor, Charlie Matassian.

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