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Analysis: After Trump impeachment hearings, both sides scramble

WASHINGTON - After five grueling days of public testimony by a dozen witnesses, evidence appeared overwhelming in the House impeachment inquiry Thursday that President Donald Trump directed a campaign to get Ukraine's leader to investigate Democrats in exchange for an Oval Office meeting.

But as Congress left for a long Thanksgiving break, there was no sign that the damaging testimony had swayed Republican lawmakers to support impeaching the president or ultimately convicting him.

Only one Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, who is not running for reelection, appeared troubled by the president's actions.

"I disagree with this sort of bungling foreign policy," he said during the hearing Thursday. But he added, "I have not heard evidence proving

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