Hello listeners. Today is Thursday, January 11, 2018. I'm your host Charlie Metesion sitting

in for our regular host Scott Bland and you are listening to Politico's Nurdcast.

We've got a jam-pack show ahead of this week, with so much news to talk about that we probably won't even get to that crazy video of our new ambassador to the Netherlands getting grilled by the Dutch press.

But what we will get to is President Trump's televised immigration meeting.

Could it mean significant changes to DACA and immigration reform come from that discussion?

Or was it just an optics play?

We'll also discuss a massive 200 page Russia report released

by the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And finally, because you know

we had to, we are going to have a discussion about how the Me Too

Movement is continuing to shake up Congress and Hollywood, and especially in the form of Oprah

Winfrey's prospective presidential baby.

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Joining us today is a nerd cast rookie.

Alana Shore, who we're thrilled to have here from our Congress team.

Hi, Alana.

Hey there.

We're also here with a nerd cast veteran.

Rockstar White House reporter Annie Carney.

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Our first data point today is the number 55.

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