WATCH: All the key moments from the House Judiciary's Trump impeachment hearing in 15 minutes

The House Judiciary Committee took up public Trump impeachment hearings on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

The hearing examined the premise of “high crimes and misdemeanors” through testimony from 4 scholars and experts: Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law and Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School; Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School; Michael Gerhardt, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at The University of North Carolina School of Law; Jonathan Turley, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School. Here are highlights of what they and lawmakers said.

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