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If the full house does indeed vote to impeach president trump, the action moves to the senate where he will stand trial. the senate has held 19 impeachment trials in our nation's history. two presidents, andrew johnson and bill clinton, were tried and acquitted. the others were for federal judges, one senator, and one cabinet secretary. it will be house speaker nancy pelosi who will decide who will be a so-called house manager or prosecutor for the house's impeachment case in the senate trial. and for more on what to expect, let's bring in nbc news' digital national political reporter, jonatha...

What was happening and unfolding on capitol hill as geoff bennett and colleagues were covering it. we know the president now is behind closed doors with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who arrived not long ago at the white house. he is the backdrop of the impeachment proceedings speaking with the russian foreign minister after the very controversial meeting two years ago in the same place in which the president as you know, chris, acknowledged sharing information with lavrov that ended up being highly controversial. we know he has been tweeting about this, talking about this because...

What you saw in the press conference, talking about the legislation that they are focused on, while also talking about saying dual tracks they like to say, working on pooemgt impeachment as well. but it is nearly impossible to talk about all of that when we see this impeachment moving quickly as it is. stick with me. let me get back to phil. you've been doing great reporting on as action moves in the house, there is going to be a trial in the senate and there is preparation under way already in the senate for what that is going to look like. and how different that is going to look from what we...

Yield? how further down the road are we likely to be sitting here friday night? >> so what we saw last week was the action happening in ukraine, what our officials in ukraine understood were the president's instructions and why it was so important they're investigating corruption. this week the action moves to washington inside the white house. we are going to hear from people who are hearing directly from the president what he wanted in terms of this exchange with ukrainians, foreign investigation, exchanging white house visit for investigation of his rival and republicans will have a very ha...

What our officials in ukraine understood where our instructions and why it's so important they're investigating corruption. this week, the action moves to washington, inside the white house. and we are going to hear from people who are hearing directly from the president what he wanted in terms of this exchange with ukrainians for an investigation -- exchange of a white house visit for an investigation of his rival, and the republicans are going to have a very hard time arguing that these are people who are not in direct communication with the president. >> so, their fallbacks are falling away...