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ALEXANDER NAZARYAN: As
you know, this week,

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the House of
Representatives will vote

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to impeach President Trump.

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And early next year, there
will be an impeachment trial

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in the Senate, and one
of the biggest tasks

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before House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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will be to pick the impeachment
managers for that trial.

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So what exactly is an
impeachment manager?

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To put it simply, an impeachment
manager is a prosecutor.

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Almost certainly,
it's an attorney

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who has practice explaining
complicated cases to a jury.

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It's not just that you
have to know your facts.

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It's that you have to know
how to tell those facts

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in a compelling way.

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You have to be able to
tell a story that makes

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all those facts about
Ukraine and military aid

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and Rudy Giuliani come alive
like they never have before.

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Now who might get the job?

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We don't yet know.

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I've been speaking to
members of Congress

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and congressional staffers
for the last couple of days

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and two names that are
virtually on every roster

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are those of Adam
Schiff, the House

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Intelligence chairman,
and Jerry Nadler,

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the House Judiciary chairman.

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At the same time, they're likely
to be the only two managers,

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precisely because they have
been the face of impeachment,

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and many see them
as too partisan

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to do the job of convincing
Republican senators

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like, say, Mitt Romney of Utah
or Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

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But there are other
names on the list.

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Representative
Lofgren of California

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was a staffer on House Judiciary
during the Nixon impeachment

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and later a Congresswoman
from California

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during the Clinton impeachment.

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Val Demings of Florida, she
had some viral moments during

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the Trump impeachment hearings.

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She wasn't being
talked about before.

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Now she certainly is.

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Representative Hakeem
Jeffries of New York

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also impressed a lot of
people during the hearings.

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And of course,
there's the wild card

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that everyone's been
talking about of Justin

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Amash of Michigan who
left the Republican

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Party earlier this year.

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He's certainly not a close
ally of Nancy Pelosi,

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so that might make her hesitant.

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At the same time, because
he is a former Republican,

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picking him could
give the proceedings

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a veneer of partisanship.

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So while the title of
impeachment manager

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might sound
quotidian, be assured

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that it is anything but.

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These are the pilots who have
to land an immensely complicated

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airplane, and how they
do that will determine

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President Trump's fate.

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