Thank you, Coupi, I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to a special Midnight edition of Prime Time.

The president of the United States has been impeached. It's the only the third time we've ever had

this happen. But we've never had one like this. History has been made and it is still being written.

The speaker of the house dropped a big cliffhanger after the votes. She isn't committing to

when she will send the two articles of impeachment to the Senate. Now, first of all,

is it, well, can she delay it? Why would she delay it? What does it mean? All we know for sure is

it's time to get after it.

You know, part of the task, especially on an historic occasion like this, is to figure out

what matters. The absolute here is that the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump

has been impeached. That word will follow his legacy no matter what else it involves,

just like it does with Bill Clinton. Now, that's for certain. What happens next? Now we're in the

world of uncertainty. The road ahead, we know there's supposed to be a Senate trial. But when

the two articles of impeachment passed in the house, Speaker Pelosi says she won't send them

over to the Republican-controlled Senate until she gets a sense of what the plans are for their trial.

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

send over the articles of impeachment. So far, we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us.

So hopefully it will be fair and when we see what that is, we'll send our amendments.

Could you presume we would hold the articles for weeks until you get what you consider a failed

fair trial? Well, again, we'll decide what that dynamic is. But we hope that the resolution

of that process will be soon in the Senate. Now, this is not something we have done very often.

There's not a lot of precedent. They have rules on either side, but they kind of get rewritten

each time and the Constitution is very light on what has to happen and more importantly, on how

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