Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan led the Republican attack against Democrats and impeachment witnesses on the first day of public hearings

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• Republicans attempted a wide variety of defenses and lines of questioning during the first day of public impeachment hearings in Washington on Wednesday. 
• Some attacked the two witnesses personally, others argued that without testimony from the government whistleblower, the process would be a sham. Still others distracted from the testimony with attacks on Democrats. 
• In recent weeks, the GOP has promoted dozens of different defenses of Trump's actions regarding Ukraine. 
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Republicans attempted a wide variety of defenses of President Donald Trump and lines of questioning of the two witnesses during the first day of impeachment hearings on Wednesday. 

In one line of defense, Republicans attempted to characterize extensive testimony from Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, as inaccurate hearsay.

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• Top US diplomat Bill Taylor revealed details of a previously unknown phone call between Trump and Gordon Sondland in his bombshell impeachment hearing testimony
• State Department official George Kent accuses Rudy Giuliani of 'infecting' US-Ukraine relations with 'false information' and a 'smear campaign' in impeachment hearing testimony

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