Andrew Prokup, Vox, do me a favor and walk me through the last 24 hours in impeachment

because it feels like they've been a very big 24 hours.

Tuesday afternoon is when Representative Adam Schiff, Chair of the House Intelligence

Committee, finally released his report on all of his findings in the impeachment inquiry

so far.

This report chronicles the scheme by the President of the United States to coerce an

ally Ukraine that is at war with an adversary of Russia into doing the President's political

dirty work.

There is some new stuff in that they got a hold of phone records for it seems Rudy Giuliani,

Trump's personal lawyer, and they often cite these phone records to fill in the timeline

of key events and what happened, but the big picture is that this is Schiff's attempt

to weave it all together.

It involves a scheme in which Donald Trump withheld official acts at White House meeting

as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military assistance in order to

compel that power to deliver two investigations that he believe would assist his reelection

campaign.

And his narrative is divided into two parts.

The first is what he calls misconduct, which are the basic facts of the Ukraine scandal itself.

The second part that Schiff focuses on is obstruction.

And I want to underscore also the seriousness of this misconduct.

The President instructed witnesses not to appear.

The President used his office and his bully pulpit to try to intimidate witnesses.

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