Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from the Association of American Railroads.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Round 1 is over. The House Intelligence Committee yesterday wrapped its

public sprint through 12 witnesses in a week in change. Our assessment, as we voiced on Tuesday,

remains this has not moved to single vote in the House of Representatives.

In fact, Republicans believe a few Democrats will vote with them against impeachment.

We don't know when a vote will happen, but we believe sometime between December 9th and December 22nd.

Do not make Christmas plans.

Here are the lawmakers who have emerged from the Intelligence Round with the newfound profile.

First up, Representative Elise Taniac of New York. You'd have to be living under a rock to have

missed that Stefanic emerged as a chief defender of the president during the last few weeks.

The 35-year-old Stefanik flipped a Democratic held seat in 2014, with that district voted for Donald Trump

by 14 points in 2016, and Stefanic beat her Democratic opponent by the same margin in 2018,

which was the best year for Democrats in a decade.

Then there was Mike Turner. Mayor Mike, as he was known in Dayton, was a nose to the grindstone

foreign policy and armed services man. The last time he popped his head up for something big was 2014 when he tried to win a House oversight gavel but was beat by Jason Japhitz. Turner had experience with impeachment in 2008. He voted to impeach George W. Bush for the Iraq war. There was some hope among Democrats Turner would flip against Trump.

He expressed concern about the call with Zelensky during a hearing in September. He called it

not okay. But by the time the open hearings kicked off, he was all in. He forcefully took up the

mantle of trying to show that Gordon Sondland was using his imagination to discern whether Trump

wanted to hold up aid in exchange for a meeting, and on Thursday,

at least one colleague accused him of mansplaining Fiona Hill during the appointed question-and-answer session.

On the Democratic side, Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, a Goldman Sachs banker-turned-congressman,

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