Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

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We texted a Democrat on Tuesday who's on the House Judiciary Committee and asked what the biggest challenges for the panel as they pick up the impeachment mantle from House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff.

This person texts us back a gif of

clowns dancing in a circle. That is an apt description of one of the big dynamic shifts going

into today. The Intel Committee is a tight panel of 22 lawmakers who have been hand-selected

by their leadership to oversee the agencies involved with the nation's deepest secrets.

The Judiciary Committee is nearly twice as big, 41 lawmakers, and is Choccoblock with some of the party's most colorful and partisan figures.

Republicans have a ranking member and Representative Doug Collins, who is vowing to use procedural

tactics and verbal flourishes to slow the whole thing down. Privately, Collins' allies are saying

he won't dive down the clownish conspiracy rabbit holes that some of his colleagues on Intel

did. Democrats previewed the hearing yesterday and said it's going to be pretty academic.

They'll talk about the roots of impeachment and its historical context.

The people who are testifying today have written academic textbooks.

If you're looking for the fire of a Fiona Hill or Marie Yovanovitch, you won't get it.

The most TV-friendly character will be Norm Eisen, the Democratic attorney who's now working for the panel.

But we know how these hearings are going to go, right? It's now perfectly clear that both sides

are working from different fact sheets. Republicans refuse to stipulate to any of the facts

Democrats have dredged up and won't even acknowledge if they are facts in any way, shape, or form.

As our friend Katie Turs said on MSNBC the other day,

it's snowing outside, but they're saying it's sunny and 90 degrees.

Here's the big news out of the Intel Committee report.

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