(CNN) If you've found yourself spending hours glued to the news today, you're not alone.

Between the latest installment of public impeachment hearings all day Wednesday and the Democratic presidential debate tonight, this double-header news day has already been one for the books -- and it's barely halfway done!

Either event, alone, would be hugely consequential.

US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified Wednesday that a quid pro quo for Ukrainian aid came at the "express direction of the President ." Which is, ahem, a big deal. And, not to mention, he implicated Trump's inner circle in the pressure campaign.

"Everyone was in the loop," Sondland testified. "It was no secret."

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