Refresh our senators as they enter a new phase of this impeachment trial.

What's that new phase? You nerdcasters ask? It's the question and answer portion of the Senate impeachment trial.

It's kind of a jeopardy situation.

U.S. representatives for 12.

One fifty-third of California's house delegation is this Intelligence Committee chairman.

His name is Adam Schiff.

Senators have the opportunity to ask questions to the House managers or the defense team.

The catch is that they have to do this by passing a piece of paper with their question to Chief Justice John Roberts,

for him to read out loud.

Question from Senator Markey to the House managers.

Senator Grassley asked counsel for the President.

Senator Leahy asks the House managers.

We're taping this at about 4 p.m. today,

and there are still several big questions hanging over what might happen today

and over the next couple days.

But first, as always, we're going to crunch what happened in today's impeachment trial into 30 seconds.

Ready, set go.

Senators got their first chance today to ask questions to the House impeachment managers and to Trump's legal defense team.

Both sides really saw an opportunity to try to buck up their own arguments and take down the other side.

That was the main theater on the floor, and Senators couldn't... arguments and take down the other side.

That was the main theater on the floor and senators couldn't speak at all.

They would write down their questions and have Chief Justice John Roberts delivered them.

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