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Rep. Speier: Transcripts will ‘probably’ be released in next 5 days

“I think you’re going to see all of the transcripts that are going to be released probably within the next five days,” Speier said.

By KELSEY TAMBORRINO

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) set a five-day timeline on Sunday for the release of deposition transcripts that are part of the House's impeachment probe into President Donald Trump.

"I think you're going to see all of the transcripts that are going to be released probably within the next five days," Speier, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

"I don't know if they're all going to be released on the same day, but they're going to be very telling to the American people," she added. "There is no question now whether there was a quid pro quo, and now the question the Republicans are trying to throw out is, 'Well, was there corrupt intent?'"

Speier added that the transcripts will give the American people "an eye on exactly what we have heard, and what we have heard is growing evidence of grounds for impeachment."

The California Democrat was less specific on when public hearings as part of the impeachment probe will begin, but said they would begin soon.

"I think they're going to begin very soon," Speier said. "We have one more week of interviews that will take place and then I'm pretty confident we're going the move into a public hearing setting in which the House Intelligence Committee, along with the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Oversight Committees, will start to place in the public's hands the information."

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) also appeared on CBS on Sunday, and he said Congress will move "relatively soon" to hold public hearings but would not commit to wrapping up those hearings before Thanksgiving.

"Time is not constraining us," Hoyer said. "The truth and the facts are constraining us. We are going to move as soon as the facts and the truth dictate that we have."