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kentuck

(111,110 posts)
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 08:43 AM Apr 2022

What would be the best time for Committee to have public hearings?

And for how long for each session?

I suppose they would need to take into consideration the attention span of the American people?

It should not be anti-climatic.

How many times per week should they meet?

Will they call live witnesses?

In my opinion, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays would be the perfect schedule. Preferably, they would be in prime time for about two hours with each session. They should leave each session with people wanting more information. Do not bore your "audience".

At the rate they are moving with witnesses, they may be able to start their public hearings by the middle of May, it seems to me.

It could be the best political television since Watergate, if they plan it correctly.

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What would be the best time for Committee to have public hearings? (Original Post) kentuck Apr 2022 OP
Like Watergate...as much as possible on-air time. EOM Scottie Mom Apr 2022 #1
6 months ago nt doc03 Apr 2022 #2
With media info 10x as fractured as it was in early 80s? Anytime, unless there's a concerted flood.. uponit7771 Apr 2022 #3
As long as it takes to lay out a complete case. True Blue American Apr 2022 #5
True a complete case would be better than a non complete case but in the end if there no ... uponit7771 Apr 2022 #15
The more air time the better! InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2022 #4
begin hearings just before GOP primaries. Beastly Boy Apr 2022 #6
"Just before GOP Primaries" brooklynite Apr 2022 #8
I meant the actual primary elections Beastly Boy Apr 2022 #9
And those have already started. brooklynite Apr 2022 #11
Yeah, I just noticed. Beastly Boy Apr 2022 #13
And those have already started. brooklynite Apr 2022 #12
Sorry to disappoint you... brooklynite Apr 2022 #7
I disagree. kentuck Apr 2022 #10
I agree it will have zero impact on the general election. doc03 Apr 2022 #14
September and October maxsolomon Apr 2022 #16
I hardly matters. No one is going to watch Takket Apr 2022 #17

uponit7771

(90,367 posts)
3. With media info 10x as fractured as it was in early 80s? Anytime, unless there's a concerted flood..
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 08:55 AM
Apr 2022

... of legal consequence informing America that the GZP is bad is telling us water is wet.

True Blue American

(17,994 posts)
5. As long as it takes to lay out a complete case.
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 09:07 AM
Apr 2022

I heard one of the committee say,” Hearings will start this spring!” That means May

I want it to go on as long as possible. They need to make people understand. Primary season has already started. Trump is coming to Delaware Countty. Biden needs to endorse Tim Ryan. He is working his heart out to workers. Sherrod needs to get out there with him.

Sherrod has endorsed Nan Whaley. Right now I am leaning John Cranley. But either one could go after DeWin. Both need to concentrate on the corruption Republicans have brought to the State House.

uponit7771

(90,367 posts)
15. True a complete case would be better than a non complete case but in the end if there no ...
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 02:10 PM
Apr 2022

... massive arrest, charges etc then the hearings are just telling America that water is wet.

In the end telling America that the GZP is bad ...***THEN*** ... not arresting the GZP involved in the coup conspiracy... or charging them before October-ish is useless.

The thing that gives the Hunter Biden 100% complete MAGA Allegation BS is the DOJ is involved.

We need that with J6 bastards who planned and carried

Beastly Boy

(9,505 posts)
6. begin hearings just before GOP primaries.
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 09:20 AM
Apr 2022

Continue in phases, culminating with a complete report before general elections.

brooklynite

(94,789 posts)
7. Sorry to disappoint you...
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 09:41 AM
Apr 2022

The Jan 6 Hearings will come nowhere close to the Watergate Hearings.

In a world of saturated news coverage and tribal social media, people have made of their minds. Progressives will watch but already know what happened. Trumpists will discount the results as biased and will ignore it.

And most average voters will go about their lives and maybe read a summary in the newspaper.

They certainly will have no impact on the November election.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
10. I disagree.
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 10:05 AM
Apr 2022

People thought they were going to be killed on January 6th. It is not something easily forgotten.

It may not affect the Republican Party as much as we would hope, but it will impact the Democratic turnout, in my opinion. Democrats cannot continue about their business as if nothing happened. It could spell very big trouble.

doc03

(35,389 posts)
14. I agree it will have zero impact on the general election.
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 11:30 AM
Apr 2022

Too much time has gone by. The only people that give a
damn voted for Biden anyway. The Republicans have had 15 months to convince people it is just a witch hunt. We lost January 6th when all the traitors were escorted out of the capital.

Takket

(21,642 posts)
17. I hardly matters. No one is going to watch
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 02:26 PM
Apr 2022

What will matter is how the media covers in the next day and how DOJ responds to indictment referrals. Those are stories people will read about in their own time and can be influenced by.

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