Prosecutors accuse Trump of criminal conspiracy in opening statements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrGpkxEW3t8

Law professor expertly shreds ranking Republican during impeachment hearing

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee started its impeachment proceedings, with four legal experts testifying on the constitutional viability of the charges against Donald Trump. The ranking Republican on the committee is Georgia’s Doug Collins, who gave a ludicrous opening statement that there are no such things as facts, and that the legal experts being questioned today would just confuse everyone with their legal talk. He also used his time to offer up backhanded attacks on the legal experts, saying they were professors at colleges and universities, more interested in theories than in actual evidence presented against Trump. He wondered aloud how much these experts could speak to the evidence presented at the public impeachment hearings in previous weeks.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/12/4/1903468/-Law-professor-expertly-shreds-ranking-Republican-during-impeachment-hearing

Adam Schiff explains the stakes of impeachment in a few short sentences

What is the impeachment inquiry about? House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff put it in a nutshell in his opening statement to the first public impeachment hearings. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/11/13/1899143/-Adam-Schiff-explains-the-stakes-of-impeachment-in-a-few-short-sentences

Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel) catalogs the 9 lies of Devin Nunes in his opening impeachment statement

"The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth."
To annihilate truth. To make it difficult for people to know what is and isn't true. To create chaos. That's what Donald Trump and his sycophants are up to this morning, and every morning.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/11/13/1899144/-Marcy-Wheeler-emptywheel-catalogs-the-9-lies-of-Devin-Nunes-in-his-opening-impeachment-statement

Ukraine Envoy Testimony Devastating for Trump, Giuliani: Chris Wallace - Newsweek

Fox News host Chris Wallace has warned that testimony from former U.S. special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker is highly damaging to President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani. Volker—who resigned from his role abruptly last week—testified to Congress this week about his involvement in Trump's efforts to solicit Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election. ...
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-envoy-testimony-devastating-trump-guiliani-fox-news-1463360

READ: Volker's opening statement to Congress in Ukraine investigation | TheHill

President Trump's former envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, said he was unaware of efforts by the president or his officials to press Ukraine to investigate allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden.....
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/464425-read-volkers-opening-statement-to-congress-in-ukraine-investigation