[CurlyDave]

...I was amused by Nunes’ lack of closing statement. Instead of laying an open challenge to Schiff re the “evidence” of Trump’s “crimes” that Schiff claimed were in the report, he just yielded his time...

His enemy had just made a bad mistake and was retreating in poor order.

This was not the time to make a statement which might have helped the enemy. We now need to defeat the enemy in detail.

[Roccus]

This was not the time to make a statement which might have helped the enemy. We now need to defeat the enemy in detail.

Oh, I see.
So it was better to NOT throw Schiff off his prepared litany of lies by challenging him BEFORE he recited them than to just give him (Schiff) a clear, open field to spout his closing lies unopposed.