Good evening.

We began the program last night saying that yesterday could prove to be one of the most

consequential days in Donald Trump's presidency.

Well, today could prove to be one of the weirdest.

It's because a day after the diplomat in five-decade long public servant, William Taylor, laid

out the Ukraine-Qued Pro Quote, a House impeachment committee members, about two dozen conservative

Republican lawmakers decided to engage in a publicity stunt, storming the secure conference

room or skiff, where a senior Pentagon official, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Laura Cooper,

was about to testify to both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.

Some of them held up their phones, record their storming of a secure room, and held up

proceedings for about five hours, demanding to witness the closed-door testimony, complaining

loudly about due process and the way the hearings are being run.

But keep in mind, there are several reasons why their complaints just simply do not add

up.

It's not like Republicans are being locked out, as long as they're members of the appropriate

three committees, there's not a Democratic star chamber.

There are plenty of Republicans in the room listening to all this testimony.

Nor are closed-door proceedings anything new, back when Republicans control the House portions

of the Benghazi hearings were conducted that way.

This very short video in fact shows then-committee chairman Republican Tray Gowdy escorting Republican

Congressman Darrell Issa out of one succession after Issa tried to crash it.

And here's Congressman Gowdy back then extoling the virtues of secret proceedings.

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