Thread by @KlasfeldReports

I'm here inside the Capitol waiting for Speaker Pelosi to come out for a press conference soon to announce the impeachment managers for the Senate trial.

More to come here @CourthouseNews.

@CourthouseNews Here we go.

Pelosi comes out with seven Congress members: Reps. Schiff, Demings, Nadler, Jeffries, Lofgren, Jason Crow and Sylvia Garcia.

@CourthouseNews Pelosi: "Time has been our friend in all of this because it wielded incriminating evidence, more truth into the public domain."

@CourthouseNews Rattling off that evidence, Pelosi cites the new emails, reports of the Russian government hack into Burisma, and the evidence submitted by Lev Parnas and released by the committees last night.

@CourthouseNews Preamble over, Pelosi make the announcements, starting first with House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, touting his history as a former prosecutors.

Then moving onto Nadler, Pelosi touts his long record in federal and state politics in New York.

Then Lofgren... (cont'd)

@CourthouseNews Pelosi notes that Lofgren's experience with impeachments dates back to Nixon.

Then Jeffries, whom Pelosi notes served as a clerk for an SDNY judge.

(Note: Maxine Waters hinted yesterday that the managers should be lawyers. That's a trend.)

@CourthouseNews Mr. Crow was a respected litigator in private practice.

Ms. Garcia, who is on the Judiciary Committee, the first woman to be elected to the Harris County Commissioner's Court.

@CourthouseNews Q&A starts:

First from CNN, if time's the Democrats' friend as new evidence comes in, why hold the articles?

Schiff:

"We could have waited years to get the testimony from all the people the President has been obstructing. That was an unacceptable course."

@CourthouseNews Schiff talks about the Lev Parnas evidence released yesterday.

"That letter makes clear that Mr. Giuliani is acting at the request" and with the consent of the president, Schiff notes.

ICYMI: courthousenews.com/house-releases…