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All the vaccine timestamps. Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the White House. I'm Tamer Keith

I also cover the White House and I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress. So today later today the House of Representatives will deliver to the Senate an article of impeachment against former President Trump.

Trump was the first president to be impeached twice. Now he will be the first to be tried in the Senate after leaving office.

Sue a lot of details have started falling into place over the last few days when it comes to how this trial is going to look when it is going to start.

What do we know about that? The Senate leaders on Friday reached loose terms for an agreement that the trial won't start right away.

This is very typical normally in an impeachment process for a president.

They give written notice to the president that he's been impeached. They give them time to respond to the Congress and also to form a defense team and his defense.

So there's going to be about a two week lag and then they expect that the trial will begin in earnest with opening presentations the week of February 8th.

Most people I've talked to say they don't anticipate a long trial.

Jamie Raskin who's the lead impeachment manager in the House. He's a Democrat from Maryland said he also expected a swift trial. If you compare it to the first Trump impeachment that one lasted about three weeks.

And I haven't talked to anyone who thinks it's going to take longer than that right now.

When you say fast are we talking days are we talking a week. Do we have any idea?

I think most people expect a week or two. You know, things are just slow in the Senate and you have to give the defense team in particular time to respond.

And there are usually our time limits and all these kind of things. So if everybody run out the clock, it could take a little bit longer.

But the sense is, you know, from Democrats and Republicans alike is that they want a swift trial. They may want them for different reasons.

But I haven't heard anyone make the case that this should be a long drawn out process with lots of witnesses and should go for weeks and weeks and weeks.

Tam, one of the many strange things about this second impeachment is how fast it all happened for a variety of reasons, including the fact that President Trump was on his way out the door when this insurrection happened.

He and his team did not really have much to say the day that that he was impeached by the House of Representatives.

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