Hello listeners this is Politico's nerd cast I'm your host Scott Bland.

On the show this week, President Donald Trump says he wouldn't call the FBI if he was

offered information that would help his campaign from a foreign entity.

We'll get into that the big news breaking in the middle of this week.

Then we're going to talk about Senator Bernie Sanders who gave a big speech defining his political

ethos and explaining why he's a socialist earlier this week in an attempt to broaden

out his campaign.

Plus, we're going to talk to some political reporters about how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could be benefiting

from the fact that his wife Elaine Chow is the Secretary of Transportation in the Trump

administration.

The two political reporters who broke that story are going to join us to explain how.

As always, this episode was taped a little bit before noon on Thursday.

Today that's June 13th, so it's all up to date as of then.

All right, let's get started.

I'm going to welcome in our guests, White House reporter Nancy Cook.

Nancy, hello.

Hey Scott, thanks for having me.

Of course, a Nurdcast favorite back in the studio this week.

Part of the reason I jumped to the introduction before the

data point is because this first segment is a little hard to quantify in

numerical terms and so we'll just jump right into it. President Donald Trump

this week interviewed by ABC News and talking as he so often does about the

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