Good Thursday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefings. Stay tuned after the show for a message from Amazon.

And I'm Anna Palmer. We've got some news at the top. Speaker Nancy Pelosi will speak at 9 a.m. to deliver an update on the, quote, status of the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry.

Pelosi will speak in the Speaker's balcony hallway, a long, narrow space

outside her office. This comes as House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have been told to

stay in town this weekend for prep. A few sources on the panel told us. Here's what this means.

There's been a good amount of guesswork about whether Pelosi's House has the time this month

to impeach the president.

And this statement today could clarify the path forward for the chamber.

And let's dig into yesterday's Judiciary Committee hearing.

Inside the D.C. bubble, people were taken aback at the slow pace and relatively

wonky substance of the hearings. But here's the frame through which tens of millions of

Americans saw the day.

Constitutional experts say Trump should be impeached, but there was one Republican witness who

disagreed. NBC Nightly News played it this way. Three legal experts say Trump committed

impeachable offenses with his conduct toward Ukraine. The lone witness for Republicans is

announcing the evidence as way for thin.

CBS's Nora O'Donnell framed it like this. Breaking news tonight constitutional clash. Partisan anger

spills out as House judiciary hearings on impeaching the president begin. Law professors giving

lawmakers a crash course in the Constitution. The New York Times as front page headline reads,

tension is scholars debate if case was made to impeach.

And our colleagues, Kyle Cheney and Andrew Dezadario,

take a look at how Dems are exhaling as they dodge an impeachment debacle in judiciary.

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