With the House Intelligence Committee’s public impeachment hearings underway, committee members on both sides are making their case about whether or not there is sufficient evidence to believe that President Trump committed an “impeachable offense.” The two sides are currently debating the intentions of the president and the value of hearsay evidence.

As House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff articulated in his opening statement, the allegation that is being pursued against Trump is that he “sought to condition, coerce, extort, or bribe an ally into conducting investigations to aid his reelection campaign and did so by withholding public acts, a White House meeting or hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military aid.”