A surreal report from the Trump impeachment hearings

The circus of events over the last two weeks in the House’s impeachment investigation and the events surrounding it are, when stacked up together, like something out of a bad convenience store-aisle novel about Washington.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have had little success in challenging the central premise of the impeachment investigation: President Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to pressure them to investigate Hunter Biden. This has been a particular challenge in the wake of repeated corroborating evidence from foreign services officers who cut a sharp profile in congressional hearings.