Democrats suggest public impeachment hearings, transcripts should be expected soon
Public hearings are apparently coming to a theater near you.
In the wake of Republican criticism about closed-door depositions, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said Sunday during an appearance on ABC's This Week that "there will be public hearings very, very soon" in the House impeachment inquiry. Likewise, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that his best guess is public hearings will begin in the next two or three weeks.
Himes said a few more witnesses need to be interviewed first before the shift from private to public, but it doesn't sound like that will take very long. As for the witnesses who have already been interviewed, Engel said the transcripts of their hearings will be released to the public, which Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) reiterated to host Margaret Brennan on Sunday's edition of Face the Nation on CBS. Tim O'Donnell
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