comey tweeted this morning confirming this a pita saying "i will resist a closed-door thing because i've seen enough of their selective leaking and distortion." lets invite a hearing and invite everyone to see." adding "mr. comey embraces and welcomes a hearing open to the public." it represents an abuse of process, a divergence from house rules and its presumption of transparency. republicans have wanted to talk to comey and lynch to determine if there was any anti-trump bias that affected their agencies when ite came to the clinton email case and the trump-russia collusion case. comey has offered to testify as long as it was public, a sentiment shared by many democrats. others have questioned the last-minute nature of these subpoenas. >> the idea that there is at this 11th hour subpoena of things that have been litigated,