Democrats and Republicans at this week's public impeachment hearing will battle for the support of Americans who haven’t made up their minds about removing Trump.
Jr., the senior U.S. diplomat in Ukraine — have separately told lawmakers they were troubled by the president and his administration’s pressure on Ukraine to conduct investigations that would benefit Trump politically while holding up congressionally approved military aid to the ally country. Democrats will frame their testimony as part of the president’s extortion of the foreign power and his abuse of power for political gain.
Schiff — a former prosecutor who has become the de facto prosecutor and face of the Democrats’ case — said he isn’t worried about a repeat of other high-profile congressional hearings that failed to live up to the hype of the moment. Significant chunks of time — 45 minutes each — will be given to Schiff and the top Republican on the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes , with the goal of focusing the questioning, instead of flipping back and forth between Republicans and Democrats for hours. Other lawmakers, who are prone to using their time to score partisan points in front of the C-SPAN cameras, are being given five-minute increments as they normally get in hearings.
GOP lawmakers have complained that Democrats unfairly conducted the investigation by keeping it behind closed doors and not allowing all lawmakers to participate. Now that the inquiry is being opened to the public, that claim may not carry as much weight. Still, if the public views the inquiry as overtly partisan, Republicans in Congress may feel little pressure from their constituents to support the articles of impeachment vote that is expected to come to the House floor this year.
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