From The New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily.

Today, a crucial witness from inside the president's inner circle now says he's willing to

testify in the impeachment trial. The question is whether the Senate will let that happen.

Julie Davis, with the latest on the impeachment, plus the Iranian retaliation begins.

It's Wednesday, January.

Julie Davis, the last time that we talked about impeachment on the daily, was basically the day

of impeachment in the House. What was supposed to happen following that historic vote?

After the House impeachment vote, the Democrats went and had a huge news conference.

December 18th, a great day to the Constitution of the United States. A sad one for America

that the president's reckless activities necessitated are having to introduce articles of impeachment.

They talked about the significance of the historic vote.

And so I do this this day, this vote. It's something that we did to honor the vision of our founders

to establish a republic. And everyone expected that they were then going to get a timetable for

where this is going next. When are they going to send these impeachment articles over to the Senate?

We have legislation approved by the rules committee that will enable us to decide how we will send

over the articles of impeachment. We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the

Senate side. And somewhat surprisingly, Nancy Pelosi hedges.

We would wait to send the articles until you understand what the Senate is going to do.

We'll make a decision as a group, as we always have, as we go along.

She is essentially saying that they're not in any rush to send over these charges.

And in fact, maybe it's better to keep them until she can get some assurances from the Senate

about how the trial is going to look, whether they're going to allow witnesses, whether they're going

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