Nancy Pelosi

Last month, the House of Representatives voted for only the third time in history to impeach the president. Then something else unusual happened amid the holidays. Nothing.

The Feb. 4 speech could be awkward for the president if the Senate is still considering articles of impeachment in a trial at the same time. It's also one day after the Iowa caucuses.

The House speaker said she was ready for a Senate trial, but added that the articles against President Trump would be transmitted only once she has more information about the contours of a trial.

The House speaker made the announcement Thursday morning at the Capitol, a day after the first hearing by the panel that would draft those articles. Republicans said the move "weakened this nation."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined an argument that could shape possible articles of impeachment — that withholding military assistance for political investigations amounts to bribery.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says the House will vote this week on a resolution outlining the process for the next steps in the inquiry into President Trump.

President Trump's attorney wrote in a lengthy letter that the House impeachment inquiry is "invalid," charging that it violates the Constitution. Speaker Pelosi and constitutional scholars disagree.

An eight-page letter from the White House to House leaders heightens the political and legal standoff between the two branches of government.

The White House released a record of his July call with the Ukrainian president. But it's not quelling Congress' move toward impeachment as the president had hoped.

"The president must be held accountable," the House speaker said Tuesday. "No one is above the law."