Monday February 3rd is a very special day.

From NBC News this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment.

I'm Steve Kurnaki. Today is Monday, February 3rd and

here's what's happening. Members of the Senate, it has been an incredible honor

and privilege to speak to you in this chamber.

I hope that what I've shown has been helpful to your understanding of the facts and I respectfully

ask you to vote to acquit the president of the wrongful charges against him.

The House managers and the president's legal team made closing arguments today in the Senate

impeachment trial.

Both sides invoked the upcoming election to make their final case.

Can we be confident that Americans and not foreign powers will get to decide and that the president will shun any further for an interference in our

Democratic affairs and the short, plain, sad, incontestable answer is no, you can't. At the end of the day this is an effort to overturn the

results of one election and to try to interfere in the coming election that

begins today in Iowa.

That election, it's closer than you think.

Happy Caucus Day!

The future of the 2020 presidential race and the future of the Democratic Party

could begin tonight. That's right. On one of the last days of the Senate trial,

the first votes are being cast in the Iowa

caucuses. Today on Article 2 we're asking, how is the impeachment of

President Donald Trump affecting the race for 2020. John Allen is a senior political analyst for NBC News.

He's joining us from Des Moines, Iowa, where he's covering the Iowa caucuses after spending

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