Should the hearings be made more public?

[Yavin4]

By making critical testimony private, the public consensus cannot come around on impeachment. If Former Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch's, testimony were live, the entire weekend would have been filled with sound bites on the news running 24/7.

Is this a mistake?

[Johnny2X2X]

1. This is just starting

The full House is not in session, when they return there will be public hearings.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

2. Normal investigating is not done in public.

Just as with Grand Juries, investigating and reports of those investigations should be kept private. Once a decision to prosecute is made, then information can be made public.

The subject of an investigation does not get to dictate how investigations are conducted.

Pretty simple.

[Yavin4]

4. This is a political trial, not a legal one.

The same rules do not apply.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. I agree.

All hearings need to be public. If in some cases there are "national security issues" all they have to do is have the closed-door session after the public session and return to those issues. But the hearings should be public.

"If it's not on TV it never happened."

[lame54]

5. Lewandowski was live...

And they stopped airing before the really important parts

And then complained that the good stuff was not at the beginning

It takes hours to wear down a witness

[Lindsay]

6. Classified information

is a concern. House Dems are planning to make testimony available to the public after classified info is scrubbed.

Link to tweet

For the twitter-deprived:

House Intel Cmte.'s Rep. Jim Himes: "All transcripts [of depositions] will eventually be scrubbed for classified information and made available for the American public to see."

[Duckandcover]

7. Public hearings will also expose the ignorant and sycophantic House Repugs

For who they are.

[saidsimplesimon]

8. I never thought about it in terms of "mistake" or must be done.

How many would watch a CSPAN live showing from beginning to end?

I've noticed that one sentence sound bites make it onto my local news channels. This is the early am coverage for working adults who do not use a cellphone app.

[dewsgirl]

9. With the Trump Administration threatening to straight up

retaliate. I think they should remain hidden.

[Hoyt]

10. Not unless there is something specific to focus on. Ignorant white wingers aren't going to

listen to 9 hours of questioning when there is only about 2 minutes worth of really damaging questions and answers.

Plus, it gives GOPers a chance to sound off with their idiotic talking points, that trump supporters think is so brilliant.

And quite frankly, I'm not sure Democrats have handled the questioning that well in recent hearings.