Hello listeners and welcome to another edition of Politico's

nerd cast I'm Scott Bland your host.

This week on the nerd cast has Donald Trump set the standard rather than the

exception for presidential candidate wealth. We're going to bring you a little

billionaire roundup starring two other potential 2020 candidates.

Plus, the shutdown is over.

After 35 long days, the president caved late last week

and a deal was reached that would keep the government open for three weeks, but that's without funding for a border wall.

So if you have any pressing business with government agencies, we definitely know that they're going to be open for the next two weeks.

And we're going to talk to one of Politico's White House reporters and a congressional reporter about exactly what the situation is and whether we are or are not heading for potentially another shutdown

at the end of all this.

As always before we jump in, we are taping this a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday.

Today that's Thursday,, January 31st.

So it's all up to date as of then.

All right, let's get started.

I want to welcome the guest for our first segment

we have in the studio, Chris Katellaga,

National Political Reporter for Politico.

Hello Chris. Hey, great to be back. Chris Kottalaga, National Political Reporter for Politico.

Hello, Chris.

Hey, great to be back.

And on Skype we have the author of Politico's Massachusetts Playbook, Stephanie Murray.

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