re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

Of course, can not the current GOP members of the committees pass the information on to the WH so that stories can be coordinated or people threatened with job termination for testifying? I wouldn’t trust a single Republican to respect any oath to keep silent about testimony. They clearly ignore their oath of office so why would this be any different?

This. The GOP’s stunt yesterday was totally unnecessary from the point of coordinating their lies, since that is certainly already being done via the Republicans on these committees.

IMO it’s a combination of:

1) A power play, just to make democrats submit to how Republicans want things to be. Trump is all about shit like that.

2) If Republicans were to get their way on this, they would be able to turn the impeachment proceedings into a public circus, which would reduce the credibility of any resulting articles of impeachment.