Hi, this is Jordan from Springfield, Virginia right outside Washington, DC.

Just got back from my two-mile daily walk that looks a little bit different this week as we got our first measurable snow in the area in over two years.

This podcast was recorded at 205 PM on Tuesday, February 2nd.

Things may have changed by the time you listen to this podcast.

Alright, here's the show.

I'm enjoying the snow. I went sledding over the weekend. It's very pretty.

I've missed it. It's nice. It's nice to have it back.

Yeah. It really is.

Hey there. It's the MPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress.

I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department.

And I'm Deerder Walsh Congressional Editor.

Donald Trump's second impeachment trial begins in a week.

And the House impeachment managers and Trump's defense team filed some key documents today with the Senate

that outlined the arguments that they're going to make when the trial begins.

Deerder, let's start with the House.

It's an 80-page pretrial brief that was written by the nine impeachment managers.

They are, of course, led by Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland.

What are the highlights in this brief?

So this, to me, seems like the roadmap of what we can expect the managers to lay out in next week's Senate trial.

They first start laying out the evidence and a narrative about their argument

that the president is directly responsible for inciting the insurrection on January 6th at the Capitol.

They go all the way back to an interview that the president did in July of 2020.

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