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    Impeachment Gets Weird

    Democratic Chairman Jerry Nadler virtually lost control of today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.
    by Russell Berman Dec 09, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Getty

    Today’s impeachment hearing was supposed to be a check-the-box session for House Democrats—a formality, really: Its purpose was to televise the evidence against President Donald Trump that party lawmakers presented in a voluminous written report released last week.

    What it turned into, however, was the weirdest, most chaotic hearing of the entire impeachment saga so far.

    The witnesses were not exactly household names: two staff lawyers for Democratic House committees, Barry Berke and Daniel Goldman, and one serving Republicans, Stephen Castor. They were

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