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Here's how the committee will proceed for this hearing.

I will make an opening statement and then ranking member Nunes will have the opportunity to make a statement.

Andrew Prokop politics, vox on September 24th, Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump.

And today it hit live TV. How did things kick off?

So this was the first public hearing in the Democrats impeachment inquiry.

And it was held before the House Intelligence Committee.

That means that that committee's chairman Adam Schiff, Democrat from California, kicked things off.

With that, I now recognize myself to give an opening statement in the impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump,

the 45th president of the United States.

Schiff recapped what we already know about this scandal from the previous closed door testimony.

He laid out a timeline of events.

Schiff said if we find that the president of the United States abused his power and invited foreign interference into our elections.

Or if he sought to condition coerce, extort or bribe an ally into conducting investigations to aid his reelection campaign and did so by withholding official acts.

A White House meeting or hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military aid.

Must we simply get over it?

Quoting a White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney there.

He said, is this what Americans should now expect from their president if this is not impeachable conduct?

What is Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of a country America was to become?

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