Why the first hours of the Trump impeachment hearings are the most important

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The first hour of Wednesday's impeachment hearings, kicking off at 10 a.m. ET, are “really important. It is like the first paragraph of a story of what comes after ‘once upon a time’ in a book," says Martin Kaplan, professor at USC Annenberg and director of the Norman Lear Center. "The first few scenes of a movie. We have short attention spans, so if the first moments are frittered away, that is a problem.” ALSO: Stephen Colbert unveils a "Trump Impeachment Tree" on "Impeachment Eve."