Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from the National Retail Federation.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Here's how you should be thinking about impeachment this week.

The House will come into session tonight and the weekly caucus meeting will be Tuesday morning.

It's there that Nancy Pelosi will discuss the next steps on impeachment with House Democrats.

We anticipate a vote to send the impeachment articles and name the managers sometimes Tuesday

or Wednesday. Once the Senate gets the articles, expect three or four days of housekeeping and

logistical work. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell anticipates keeping the Senate in six

days a week until impeachment is over. In closed meetings, McConnell has

been pressed on this, and he's been consistent that he wants to keep the chamber in all week,

save Sundays. MLK Day is also probably an off day. In recent days, McConnell allies have told

us multiple times that we should expect a robust conversation in the Senate, GOP, about calling witnesses

in the trial. We'll see just how robust the debate is and what the rules call for. If it does

mirror the Clinton trial, the presentation of the case by the House managers and the defense by

team Trump will be crucial in shaping opinion. President Trump's defense team is coming together.

The New York Times Maggie Haberman is reporting that they haven't finalized the team or

whether it will seek witnesses, but White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, and Jay Sekulow are

expected to have speaking roles at the trial.

The president suggested Sunday that maybe the Senate should not hold an impeachment trial,

something which McConnell has rejected.

Donald Trump tweeted,

many believed that by giving the Senate credence to a trial based on no evidence, no crime,

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