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    Analysis: Job No. 1 for Democrats is to keep impeachment hearing from spinning out of control

    by Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Nov 13, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Democrats' top priority as they open the first public hearing of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is to keep it serious and straightforward, but also engaging.

    They need to avoid the yawns that followed testimony of former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in July, the circus that surrounded the testimony of Trump ally Corey Lewandowski in September as he defied lawmakers' questions and the clownish use of a bucket of fried chicken to mock Attorney General William Barr in May.

    They want to prevent Republicans from permanently branding the inquiry as a partisan sham or inquisition of the president.

    And their ultimate hope is to allow two career State Department officials who expressed deep concern about Trump's behavior to speak in a way that will resonate with the approximately one-quarter of Americans who haven't

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