Stalled closed-door testimony might delay public House impeachment hearings

The closed-door impeachment proceedings Democrats are conducting in the basement of the Capitol are running out of cooperative witnesses, and it signals the likely start of long-awaited public hearings as soon as next week.

“Public opinion is everything,” Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama, a pro-impeachment Democrat and member of the House Intelligence Committee, said on NBC Sunday. “I think the American people understand right and wrong. And I think that it’s important that we let them hear for themselves the testimony.”