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Inside the impeachment hearing room

Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee during a hearing on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump in Longworth Building on Wednesday, November 20, 2019. Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, also testified. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee during a hearing on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump in Longworth Building on Wednesday, November 20, 2019. Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, also testified. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
By Thomas McKinless
Posted November 21, 2019 at 6:05am

The nation is watching lawmakers grill witnesses in the House’s impeachment inquiry hearings, but in the room dozens of nearly invisible reporters, videographers and photographers are whispering commentary, sneaking out to get coffee and ducking C-SPAN cameras.

We’ll give you a glimpse of what it’s really like in the room where it happens.

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