Welcome to Axisprerata, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the inclusion of tech, business, and politics.

I'm Dan Pramak. On today's show, Casper's Bad Night of Sleep, and the Iowa caucus story keeps getting worse.

But first, impeachment, the final chapter, maybe. As you've certainly heard by now,

the U.S. Senate yesterday voted to acquit President Trump of two impeachment charges brought by the

House, a completely partisan vote against convicting on obstruction of justice, and Republican Mitt

Romney crossing over to vote with Democrats on their losing effort to convict on abusive power.

The real question now is if

Democrats move on or if they continue to pursue their investigation into why exactly the Trump

White House delayed aid to an American ally in Ukraine. For example, they still could call John Bolton

or go to court to get testimony from Mick Mulvaney, things they punted on before because they

thought it would take too long and bleed into the presidential campaign. Why all of this matters

is because congressional Democrats face a stark choice. Let lingering impeachment become the new normal

or decide that Trump's own new normal is the status quo and then just wait and pray for November.

In 15 seconds, we'll dig into all of that with Axios reporter Elena Trin,

who spent the past several weeks camped out on Capitol Hill.

But first, this.

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We're joined now by Axios political reporter Elena Trin. The impeachment trial ends how everyone expected it would, which was an acquittal on mostly a partisan vote.

You were in the room for all of this from the beginning to the end. What, if anything,

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