This city knows how to do big hearings — even Titanic ones. Dramatic congressional hearings are something of a Washington art form, a rite of democracy carefully crafted for the cameras. Suspense is building as fired FBI Director James Comey prepares to claim the microphone Thursday in an austere, modern hearing room of the Hart Senate Office Building. WATERGATE'S CANCERAmericans were glued to their TVs in the summer of 1973, when North Carolina Sen. Sam Ervin presided over the Watergate hearings. The hearings ended with Sen. William Smith of Maine heading back to New York to interview crew on the Titanic's sister ship, Olympic.

Source: ABC News June 07, 2017 07:18 UTC