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Hey, it's the NPR Politics podcast here with our round up of the week's political news.

And because the political news of the week is that the Iowa caucuses are just days away,

we're coming to you from Des Moines, Iowa, where we're covering the first voting of 2016.

I'm Tamer Keith, White House correspondent for NPR here in Iowa.

And here at NPR Headquarters in DC, I'm Scott Detro, I cover tech in the campaign.

And I'm political editor, Domenico Montenarro, also not in Iowa, but Tam,

you have a special guest joining you for the podcast there this weekend.

By the way, where is there anyway?

There is a conference room in a motel somewhere in West Des Moines, Iowa.

And we have this room set up, but we have a mobile studio and we have all of these phones.

I guess it's supposed to be a newsroom, but it feels a lot like a pledge drive.

Nice.

And I am joined here by Clay Masters.

Clay, can you introduce yourself?

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