For a minute, think about what the purpose is of a Congressional hearing? Under normal circumstances, it's to ask questions so others can provide testimony in order to gather facts. In a politically charged hearing, you want your adversary to do most of the talking by asking loaded questions. The less you talk and the more they do increases the odds that they accidentally spill the beans and incriminate themselves--the soundbytes will write themselves.
This is just a chamber of children screeching for five hours straight where they do all of the talking and throw a temper tantrum for the whole country to see. They're embarrassing themselves. They wanted to put on a show without looking to gather any facts. All this is doing is lifting the veil for a brief moment for undecided and centrist voters to make their own decision on who to vote for in 2020.
The Dems are just muddying the water. Throwing accusation after accusation with no facts to back them up.
First rule of Lawyers/Trials - never ask questions you don't know the answer to.
Another: "Pound the facts. Pound the Law. Pound the Table."
They don't want the facts, and they certainly don't want the law, they want to grandstand - and so they did.
Exactly this. I saw one interaction in particular where Barr was allowed to utter a few words and his answer was the opposite of what the DNC Drone was expecting. She paused for a second, reclaimed her time, and then proceeded with a rebuttal that only made sense if Barr had answered as she’d expected. It was CRYSTAL CLEAR that this was nothing more than an attempt to smear Barr and Trump and not let them defend themselves.
All grandstanding, all for sound bytes that their Pravda MSM can run with.