A statement can be hearsay only if the statement is "offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted." The purpose for which a statement is offered depends on the purpose of the offeror of the statement. Hence, a statement is offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted if the offeror (normally trial counsel) seeks to use the statement to show that the matter or proposition asserted by the declarant (the maker of the statement) is in fact true.

Grace United Methodist Church v. City of Cheyenne, 427 F.3d 775, 799-800 (10th Cir. 2005) (holding, in plaintiff church's civil action against defendant city and other affiliated defendants for violation of the Religious Land Use and....If an employee or agent was authorized by the employer or principal to speak about a matter, the statement of the employee or the agent can count as the statement of the employer or the principal and thus may amount to a vicarious admission that is exempt from the prohibition against hearsay; i.e., statements of "speaking agents" can be vicarious admissions that are exempt from the hearsay rule -- if the other requirements applicable to this type of vicarious admission are satisfied.

United States v. Cawthorn, 429 F.3d 793, 801-802 (8th Cir. 2005) ("The district court here denied Cawthorn the ability to ask prosecution witnesses questions such as ?Do you lie to authorities??; ?Would you lie to authorities to get something for it??; and ?Do you generally lie?? These questions are...During the cross-examination of a witness -- and during any examination of a witness who is a permissible target for impeachment -- the witness may be asked about specific acts that are indicative of the witness's untruthfulness if such acts are relevant to and probative of the witness' truthfulness or untruthfulness, unless the trial court determines that the acts inquired into are unduly prejudicial.

Fed. R. Evid. 902(5) ("Books, pamphlets, or other publications purporting to be issued by public authority.").Federal Rule of evidence 902(5) provides that books, pamphlets, or other publications that purport to have been issued by public authority are self-authenticating -- i.e., such matter requires no further evidence of authenticity to be admissible.