After nearly a month waiting for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to transmit the articles of impeachment, administration officials and outside attorneys say the White House and President Trump's legal team are readying for the next phase of the process
Washington Pat Cipollone, the top White House lawyer, spent the weekend working from his office on the second floor of the West Wing, preparing to defend a client who, at one point, was on the second floor of the executive residence suggesting the impeachment charges against him should be dismissed outright.
After nearly a month waiting for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to transmit the articles of impeachment, administration officials and outside attorneys say the White House and President Donald Trump's legal team are readying for the next phase of the process. Trump's defense team, with spots both for those inside the counsel's office and defenders with established television track records, is mostly in place. And the outlines of the trial are coming into focus.
Is Senate required to wait for articles of impeachment? 04:07While the precise schedule for the trial hasn't been set, there's growing expectation that it could begin in earnest following the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday next week. That coincides with Trump's planned trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, an overlap that's already led to some conversations among aides on whether that trip will proceed.
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