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Scheduled to come behind closed days today. neither have appeared yet. wells griffith, national security council official, this after four did not come behind closed doors yesterday. so emerging from the closed door session in which the witnesses were supposed to attend, i asked a democrat jamie raskin if they are prepared to go public despite these officials not providing information that the committee needs. and he said this -- >> if a bank robbery takes place and you have eight or ten witnesses to it, that is great. it is better if you have 20 witnesses to it. but if you have eight or ten w...

General spoke to, and found it credible. and you've told us that you have no reason to believe otherwise. am i right? >> i had no reason to doubt a career inspector general lawyer in his determination on whether or not it was credible. that is something for michael to determine. >> let me ask you this. the whistleblower also says, over the past four months, more than half a dozen u.s. officials informed me of various facts related to this effort to seek foreign interference. you would agree we should speak to those half a dozen u.s. officials, would you not? >> i think you have all the materia...

Officials they spoke to. they found it credible. you told us you have no reason to believe otherwise. am i right? >> i had no reason to doubt a career inspector general lawyer in his determination on whether or not it was credible. that is something for michael to determine. >> let me ask you this -- the whistle-blower also says that over the past four months more than half a dozen u.s. officials informed of various facts related to this effort to seek foreign interference. you would agree we should speak to those half a dozen u.s. officials, would you not? >> i think you have all the material...

We don't know which if any of these the inspector general told to. and found it credible. you told us you have to reason to believe otherwise, am i right? >> i had no reason to doubt a career inspector general lawyer in his determination on whether or not it was credible. that is something for michael to determine. >> and let me ask you this. the whistle-blower also says over the past four months more than half a dozen u.s. officials informed me of various facts related to this effort to seek foreign interference. you would agree we should speak to those half a dozen u.s. officials, would you ...

More urgent to send a message that you're not going to walk away with impunity. we have to hold these folks accountable. susan is right, the privilege didn't even extend to corey lewandowski. why is he allowed to act in front of congress the way he has? >> learn from the republicans. >> sadly, that's what i've been saying. >> we need to take a lesson there. a friend of mine said to me, you can't play by the rules against a cheater and think you're going to have a chance of winning. it just doesn't exist. they've got to change the dynamic. they're used to going, well, of course if i submit "a" ...