If this is not a good thing for the country then we might as well pack it in as a country.
I never thought I would live to see a day where a president’s personal lawyer informing the public about the president’s criminal activity would be viewed as a bad thing.
I suppose I should clarify a bit by providing an alternative.
The house committee can see him in private session so that they may be able to get answers to things directly impacting national security and with less impetus for Republicans to make a spectacle of this to try and safe face with the public. Based on the findings of their private investigation, they can then start impeachment proceedings where Cohen can publicly testify to the matters. This is long overdue looking purely at the evidence publicly known for many charges against Trump worthy of impeachment consideration.
I worry that a public hearing will simply create more division. And either it will be woefully incomplete due to need to protect national security and the Mueller probe or it will expose things that might put the US at risk until Trump could be removed or some combination of both. And it seems like it will be met with the same outcome for all this crap. People dividing themselves even further into camps supportive of the President and opposed. And we know how Trump has reacted to unfavorable information coming out to the public in the past. We might not even have a funded government at the time of this testimony. Will this help settle the divide?
I want the information out and feel the institutions we have need to be able to hold public figures especially the President accountable. But given where we're at, I don't see much hope that adding fuel to the fire will settle any divide. Either it is part of a forcible settlement (impeachment) or accomplishes something to getting Republicans closer to seeing Trump as a problem needing urgent attention. I can't see how raising the stakes by putting public perception at the forefront will help that effort.
I might be totally wrong as to how things would/will go down. But this is why I raise concern.