When we last left you on impeachment news, the House had passed two articles of

impeachment against President Trump. That night back in mid-December, the

expectation was that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would then appoint impeachment

managers and send the articles off to the Senate. It turns out that's not

exactly what happened. We're not sending it tonight because it's difficulty to

determine who the managers would be until we see the arena in which we will be

participating. Pelosi has held the articles for more than three weeks. In that

time seeking guarantees about the scope of a Senate trial, she's insisted that

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell release rules of a trial before the

articles are transmitted and for weeks it's been unclear when or even if she

transmit the articles to the Senate at all. No, I'm not holding them indefinitely.

I'll send them over when I'm ready and that will probably be soon. Meanwhile,

Mitch McConnell wouldn't budge either. With regard to getting the papers, it is a

rule of impeachment in the Senate that we must receive the papers. It continues to

be my hope that the Speaker will send them on over. The House argued that this

was an emergency that needed to act quickly and then they sat on the papers now

for three weeks. Then after weeks of this standoff between Pelosi and McConnell,

on Friday Pelosi announced that the House next week will finally consider a

resolution to appoint impeachment managers and send the articles to the Senate.

But of course, nothing is a sure thing until it happens. So must the House transmit

the articles at all and why has Pelosi held them thus far? What leverage for the

makeup of the Senate trial has been gained or lost by Democrats and Republicans and

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