Good Thursday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefings.

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

And I'm Anna Palmer. We've got some news this morning. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the party's most

prolific fundraiser, raised more than $75 million directly for the D-Triple C last year and more

than $87 million for Democrats in 2019.

She's going to announce this later today. Pelosi held 181 fundraisers in 54 cities, continuing

a breakneck pace for Democrats. Meanwhile, House Minority Whips, Steve Scalise, raised $5.85 million

last quarter, rounding out a $21 million year.

He raised $4.45 million online in the last three months of the year.

Last night, Lev Parnas, the former Rudy Giuliani associate, gave an explosive interview to MSNBC's Rachel Maddo.

He said the president knew exactly what was going on and that Trump was

fully aware of all of his movements and he wouldn't do anything without Giuliani or the president's

consent. Other explosive details from the interview, Parnas said VP Mike Pence did not go to Ukrainian

President Volodymyr Zelensky's inauguration because they had not announced a Joe Biden investigation.

He said Trump was only interested in dragging

Biden down, not interested in solving corruption. He said former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine,

Marie Yovanovitch, was booted from her post because she tried to block the investigation.

The post is up with a new story on Giuliani's outreach to a Ukrainian gas tycoon showing the lengths

he took to hunt for material to help Trump.

And here's what today an impeachment will look like.

At noon, the House managers will go to the Senate to read the articles of impeachment.

At 2 p.m., Chief Justice John Roberts will come to the Capitol and be sworn in by Senate President Pro Tem Chuck Grassley of Iowa.

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