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Robin Abcarian: Republicans are out of arguments in the Trump impeachment inquiry. So they're trying props

WASHINGTON - Watching the impeachment hearings at home in Los Angeles, I'd been trying to figure out what those oversized posters stationed behind Republican committee members were all about.

Thursday, I had a front-row seat to the House of Representative's fifth day of hearings in this sad but necessary national trauma. The hearing room on the first floor of the Longworth House Office Building was chilly; the lights were bright. Camera-laden photographers milled around the front of the room waiting for the orchestrated arrival of witnesses, who were escorted in through a side

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