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Going to have these tomorrow, i wonder whose timeline she's on? i wonder if there are theings that are going to happen? >> this wouldn't be the first time in the investigation that the committee has had a witness that was not willing to provide the text mess sanls. the staff have done digital forensics in some cases to get information the witnesses were not providing. i suspect they'll rely on similar techniques and others to make sure they get to the bottom of this. >> there's a political importance here as well because the most gripping testimony we've had out of this committee so far is pro...

>> well, no question. look, okay. just to be crystal clear, second hand information is used all the time at trials. there's a lot of exceptions to the hearsay rule. i don't believe that that's a genuine argument that's being made with a straight face. i think that it's just something that's being used to distract like many of the other points that are being made by republicans. after all, there's plenty of eyewitnesses who are being kept from the inquiry by the trump white house. >> the white house! >> people like mulvaney and john eisenberg and many others. but in any event i think there's go...

Reporter who has been along for a lot of these rides. margaret carlson joins us. margaret, i want to play sound from the republicans in the wednesday hearing which is so relevant tonight. i think we don't have the -- i think we can get it -- republican hearing -- i'm talking to my controller, margaret. it's d-5. no one else needs to know what that means. but it's a quote from the wednesday hearing, margaret buzz because a lot of republicans have said if it's hearsay, what good is it? do we have that? we're going to pull that up, and margaret the reason why i want to play that is we're looking ...

Statement, about these allegations related to vice president biden? >> i am. >> and to your nonknowledge, is there factual basis to support those allegations? >> none whatsoever. >> reporter: gop lawmakers cast the witnesses as unreliable narraters with secondhand information. >> you didn't listen in on president trump's call and president zelensky's call? >> i did not. >> never talked to chief of staff mulvaney? >> i never did. >> never met the president? >> correct. >> had three meetings with zelensky and never came up. >> two of those they never heard about as far as i know. >> president ze...

And burisma. >> you know hunter biden, at some point you started your deposition and expressed concerns, is that correct? >> kent testified he was concerned of a conflict of interest but he never saw any evidence of wrong doing. kent rejected the gop theory that joe biden had an agent ousted to protect him and his son. gop lawmakers passed the witnesses as unreliable narrater with secondhand information. >> never did. >> you never met the president.