declassification issue. >> laura: explain that. >> we have seen since monday when the president said he was going to declassify documents. over the last week, "the new york times," abc news, a number of publications have had stories blocking -- trying to block the declassification. they have been sourced to former and current u.s. officials. i see this as part of the same thing. the "times" stories apparently sourced to andy mccabe. >> he said he didn't talk. his people are saying they didn't talk to "the times" on this. >> the lawyers statement looks to me like a non-denial on twitter. i think what it looks like is that mccabe or someone close to mccabe is threatening rosenstein saying i've got a lot of dirty stuff on you as well. if these things aren't declassified, you are going down with me. unbeknownst to andrew mccabe, it appears according to my sources, that some time between last night and this morning, rod rosenstein went in and talked to