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Didn't watch the public impeachment hearings? Here are the 7 biggest surprises

WASHINGTON - Twelve witnesses, dozens of hours of testimony and thousands of pages of documents - all spread over five long days of historic impeachment hearings.

The House is weighing whether to bring articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for pushing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open investigations into Trump's political enemies, including an energy company that once employed the son of former Vice President Joe Biden and a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

Without a public announcement that Ukraine would open the investigations, Trump refused to agree to a White House meeting with Zelenskiy. Trump also blocked the release of nearly $400 million in congressionally approved aid to help Ukraine fight its war over Russia's annexation of Crimea. Trump's request for the investigations - which he called a "favor" - came during a July 25 phone call between the leaders, which prompted a whistleblower's complaint and launched the impeachment inquiry.

Though many of the basics of the

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