so much of this is not just about what the president said and what we know about it, but what we don t know about it. and the white house s handling of the phone calls over the summer just a few months ago. so what do you have? we re trying to figure out what exactly happened. why certain things may have been admitted from the transcript memo, and who in the white house, or in the chief of staff office, was involved trying to sequester information. okay, eisenberg was the story that they went to about concerns and pressure that sondland was putting on. look, a lot of this comes back to the question of what are the lawyers doing? are they doing what the lawyers are supposed to be doing? and is he saying okay, let me
think public hearings will be in terms of swaying public opinion and maybe combatting criticism that this has been done, you know, without transparency? i think the public hearings will be very, very important. we ve seen some portions of information become very public, certainly the whistle-blower complaint, the transcript memo of the phone calls those are jarring pieces of information to read, as we re working to ensure the trust of the american people in this process, that they get to hear public hearings, that they get to matter the questions and answers themselves. you see my hope and expectation are specific and based on facts