Welcome to The Investigation. I'm John Santucci, senior editorial producer here in Washington for ABC News. Chris Flasto has the morning off, and we are gearing up for what else is new. Another busy week here in Washington. But December is kicking off with a new

committee taking center stage up on Capitol Hill. That is the House Judiciary Committee,

set to begin their first impeachment hearings later this week. Let's bring in the team here to

break this down. I'm joined by my colleague, White House and Capitol Hill reporter,

Catherine Falders, and senior National Correspondent Terry Moran.

So, Catherine, literally as we're coming into the room to talk about this week, you just

happened to send, oh, I don't know, a five-page email here breaking down what the week has.

Sorry. As if you knew we had to talk about this, Catherine, your timing couldn't have been

more perfect. So we do have a busy week coming up here.

We do. So yesterday, members of the House Intelligence Committee began viewing Schiff's impeachment report

behind closed doors. And later today in the evening on Tuesday at 6 p.m., they're going to take a vote

on Schiff's report from the House Intelligence Committee,

which will essentially, it's a formality in a way, it will vote that report out of the committee,

and then it will essentially shift the impeachment inquiry over to the House Judiciary Committee.

So that's what we've seen at the first two days of this week, and then Wednesday will be the first hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. So that's what we've seen at the first two days of this week. And then Wednesday

will be the first hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, which will essentially be this

hearing with constitutional and legal scholars, essentially analyzing this notion that the

president committed these high crimes and misdemeanors. Now, we will probably see a lot

of theatrics from both sides of the aisle here, Democrats and Republicans. Republicans are

upset that they won't have enough time to review shifts report, not enough time to prepare. But remember,

what we've heard from Republicans in the White House, you and I both know,

for the past month, really, is how this is an impeachment hoax. These hearings aren't fair to them.

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