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Tell me? i get impeached. >> reporter: the president's defense notably does not deny that he pressured ukraine to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. but argues rather that democrats have failed to show president trump violated any laws. >> i can't respond to questions right now. >> reporter: the house managers who will prosecute the case against the president met on capitol hill today. in their own pretrial document, they call president trump the framers' worst nightmare come to life. late today senate majority leader mitch mcconnell released his proposed trial rul...

Issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. the president of the united states was impeached this past week. charged with violating his oath of office by abusing his powers and obstructing congress. there is no reason to believe he will be convicted and removed from office once the senate does its part and holds an impeachment trial. that trial will come early next year, a pres...

Speaker of the house said the president's impeached. y i don't think the argument while creative goes anywhere. having said that, the senate rules do say that the actual start of the trial is triggered by the drelivery of the article of impeachment. some argument there. to be clear, the senate is now fully in control of when this trial starts. >> okay. let me make sure so we're on the sage pa same page. sources tell us senate democrats are preparing for a trial as soon as the week of january 6th, but until the house actually hands over the articles, ross, the senate would still be at a standst...

Events, ross, because apparently -- you tell us. you're the expert. there's nothing in the constitution that specifies or mandates that nancy pelosi does have to turn over the articles of impeachment. so maybe it can just linger in limbo forever. >> yeah. so here's what's going on. the senate rules provide that sort of trial activities begin once the house managers are named and the articles of impeachment are delivered. and that's what speaker pelosi is sort of relying on and trying to use as leverage. but the constitution actually just provides for the power of the house to impeach, that pow...

No one is above the law, and the president has been held accountable. >> but the speaker is not ready yet to say when she will officially deliver the impeachment case to the senate. president trump quick to tweet, she must be afraid. these are his words. quote, pelosi feels her phony impeachment hoax is so pathetic she is afraid to present it to the senate. the morning after positioning is so intense because the stakes are so high. the senate must now consider the two counts of impeachment at a trial and consider whether to convict or remove the president. the trial rules will be the subject o...