Closed Door or Private hearings does not mean secret. Secret is what they were trying to keep the Ukraine Shakedown policy.
"Former Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Sunday he "100 percent" agrees with Democrats holding closed-door impeachment hearings.
Gowdy, who served from 2011 to 2019 as a powerful South Carolina congressman, touted the role of privacy and due process in House investigations, even if Republicans don't support the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan played Gowdy an April 2018 clip in which he called public hearings a "circus, freak show" filled with media leaks. Gowdy said he stands by his support of holding private hearings for testimony."
Former GOP Rep Trey Gowdy said he 100% agrees House Democrats should hold private impeachment hearings