Hello listeners it is Thursday July 27th 2017 I'm Scott Bland your host and you are

listening to Politico's nerdcast we are covering a couple of big topics this

week in a short regular episode before we prepare

for our live show at Politicon in Pasadena, more about that later.

But just because we're only covering a couple topics

doesn't mean they're not big ones this week.

First, we're gonna talk about Attorney General Jeff Sessions

and the

we're also going to talk about just what that means in terms of the way that the White House in this administration operates.

We're also going to talk about a big and much criticized new policy initiative this

week. President Trump tweeted earlier this week that he was going to ban transgender

people from serving in the United States military, reversing an

Obama-era policy, and drawing widespread condemnation from Democrats and

Republicans on Capitol Hill. We'll talk a little bit about why he did this, the political upshot that some people

in his White House see, and how this reflects on kind of the broader policy chaos.

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Okay, we got the whole gang here this week, senior politics editor Charlie Matessian.

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