The problem with witch-hunt transcripts; there's no video

Republican Andy Briggs made a brilliant point about why even if Adam Schiff ever relents and releases transcripts of his star chamber hearings they won't tell the whole story.

Missing will be the tone of the witnesses; are they stuttering or does their face show shock or deceit?

Briggs said:

“[H]ere’s the problem, when you go in to testify…I get to determine your veracity and your credibility by seeing how you react. It’s a ‘My Cousin Vinny’ thing, where the guy says, ‘I killed somebody?’ He has a question in his tone of voice, but in the transcripts, it’s going to say, ‘I killed somebody.’ It makes it completely different if you aren’t there to see this.”
If you read books on how to determine if someone is lying to you or not they talk about all the non-verbal clues you should look for; clues that are absent from a transcript.

Even if you, like the vast majority of us, haven't studied how to determine if someone is lying your mind as picked up, at least subconsciously, how to look for the relevant signals.

That's why video is so much more compelling than a transcript.  That's also one of the reasons the Democrats are going against all precedent and denying we the people access to their attempt to nullify the 2016 election.