Hi, this is Daniel calling from Sampalo, Brazil, where it's summer.

We are 9 months away from our presidential elections and 6 months away from hopefully

winning the soccer world cup.

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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast here with our weekly round up of the week's

political news.

There's been a lot of revelations on the Russia investigation front, the Special Counsel's

team has now talked about fired FBI director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions

and Robert Mueller is now looking to sit down with President Trump.

We'll sort through what exactly matters out of all of that and what else has happened.

The shutdown is over but the underlying problems remain, both on funding for the government and

on finding a resolution on DACA that deferred action for childhood arrivals program.

I'm Scott Detreau, I cover Congress for NPR.

I'm Carrie Johnson, I cover the Justice Department.

I'm Danielle Kertzlaven, political reporter and I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent.

Carrie, you tweeted something along the line this morning that you had a very busy week

this morning alone.

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