During the first day of the public impeachment hearings, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine revealed a previously-undisclosed phone call and a witness that wasn’t on anyone else’s radar. CBSN legal contributor Rebecca Roiphe joined CBSN to discuss the legal aspects of the hearing. Source

The State Department inspector general sent Congress its report on political targeting Wednesday Source

President Trump welcomed his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to the White House Wednesday as lawmakers on Capitol Hill held the first public impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill. Ben Tracy joined CBSN with more on the highly-criticized meeting. Source

60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl covered the Watergate scandal and was a CBS News White House correspondent during the Carter, Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. She joins “Red & Blue” to provide her impeachment analysis. Source

In September, Cuccinelli ordered his agency to shutter a program granting a temporary reprieve from deportation for immigrants facing life-threatening medical conditions Source

The young family won’t be spending the most wonderful time of the year with the rest of the royal family this Christmas Source

Ambassador Bill Taylor testified about a phone call between President Trump and E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland. According to Taylor, the takeaway from that call is that the president cared more about investigating his political rival than he did about Ukraine. But as Weijia Jiang reports, the president denied ever talking to Sondland about investigations in Ukraine. Source

The first public hearings as part of the impeachment inquiry were conducted in front of the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. Committee member Congressman Eric Swalwell speaks to “Red & Blue” about his questioning. Source

He will start far behind in a record-sized field that polling shows is now divided into two tiers — with the top tier consisting of Joe Biden​, Elizabeth Warren​, Bernie Sanders​ and Pete Buttigieg​ Source

On this week’s episode of “Where Did You Get This Number?” podcast, Anthony Salvanto goes inside the presidential campaigns of Beto O’Rourke and Senator Kamala Harris Source