know, maybe you knew this, that he was actually a special consultant to the justice department? and we now find out that he's now operating as comey's attorney. >> his lawyer. >> laura: is that relevant? gives you attorney client privilege -- >> it helps to understand what he did to get the memos out. it was a stunning re-lation. comey does not consider what he did leaking. he has redefined leaking to mean only discloses classified information. he believes -- he's said several times that he didn't leak when he gave this memo to dan richman for the purpose of richman telling the "new york times" about it. comey maintains that this was not a leak. he also said it couldn't have been a leak because he left the fbi and was no longer a government employee. >> george stephanopoulos wrote a book about conversations with