>> i'm glad they did it. you know, again the dems have been doing everything behind closed doors and in secret and so it's about time that somebody made a very bold stand, which i guess is a sit-in, what he did and it was great and the point was well taken and i think that because now i'm hearing the dems have agreed in three weeks that they're going to open these up to the public. >> so hallie, a little bit of background here. we have seen past hearings that have at least in their initial phases started out behind closed doors. we saw that during the benghazi hearing, for example. so again, house democrats signaling that ultimately they will open up these hearings for public view. allies of the president say they are concerned to some extent about this strategy and want to see the president firing back on substance and why he disagrees with bill taylor's testimony. bill taylor, of course, earlier this week drawing a link between withholding that aid to ukraine and launching those