From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Cleveland, so with the Washington Post.

This is Post Reports. I am Martini Powers. It's Tuesday, January 7.

Today, what's next in the impeachment trial? The tenuous state of US-Arroc relations,

and a new crop of questions about the Selective Service.

We're serving a state of suspended animation, trying to figure out what's going to happen next.

I'm Mike DeBonus. I cover Congress for the Washington Post. So it's not quite new. On Tuesday,

January 7, it's been nearly three weeks since the House voted to impeach President Trump on two

articles, one for abusive power, for his machinations and dealing with the United States aid to

Ukraine and obstruction of Congress. But what we don't have is an action by the House actually

transmitting those articles to the Senate and appointing the managers or prosecutors whose job

it will be to make the case to the Senate. And we're waiting to see how that is going to get resolved.

So tell me more about that because I think that for average people and I include myself in this,

it is very confusing why Speaker Pelosi hasn't even sent the articles in impeachment to the Senate yet.

Well, it goes back to what happened in the House and the fact that there was no cooperation

from the Trump administration in their investigation. That meant that there were certain witnesses

that the House never heard from, including White House Chief Seth Mick Mulvaney,

former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and a couple of other sort of middle-level White House

officials who decided not to cooperate with House subpoenas. Democrats believe that they have

relevant testimony that they can implicate the President in the wrongdoing he was impeached for in

the House. Senators, Senate Democrats want to do everything they can to train, get these people to

be subpoenaed in the Senate for this trial. Basically, they're trying to use this sort of withholding

of the articles to try and force some sort of agreement to get these people on the record.

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