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Receive death threats. and, you know, we don't know how serious they are. could just be people venting their frustrations in a get that. we all get mad about what we see on the news on a daily basis. >> but some -- >> the question is whether or not somebody crosses that line and does something that hurts somebody or perhaps kills a journalist and as i write in the book, brian, i think at that point we cross over into a different era for the united states. where we join a list ever other countries around the world where the press is not safe to do their jobs and we just can't do that. we cannot...

I'm from a magazine. >> she was posing as a student reporter compete with a phony press pass. she knocked on chris's door. he had talked in the past about the case. >> did you use your real name? >> no, i used a fake name. told him who i was. >> we just received word at the magazine that remains have been found that they believe are lynsie. they're doing dna testing right now. in the meantime, i'm supposed to contact friends, family, to get their initial reaction for the story. >> when i told him that the police think they found lynsie's remains his demeanor changed. >> how? >> quite drastical...

The case over the white house taking away acosta's press pass. ted, thanks for being here. >> thank you, brian. i'm glad to be with you. >> what makes this historic, this use of the espionage act to challenge and prosecute assange? >> this is the first time the government has ever invoked the espionage act to go after someone who received classified information and then disseminated it to the public. it's really been a rarely used statute. but when it's been used, it's been used to go after people who engaged in espionage or the government officials who leaked the information. that raises trou...

You had a white house press pass, you were allowed to go to the west wing. >> before he anchored the evening news, dan rather covered the johnson and nixon administrations for cbs. >> so tell me about the briefings during the johnson administration. where were they conducted? >> well, sometimes they were conducted in the press secretary's office. >> and sometimes the president did the briefings himself. >> it was not unusual, if you were a regular white house correspondent, to some days be in the oval office, five, six, seven, eight times a day. president johnson would stand at the oval desk a...

Room -- >> you open this and you find every single drop that we have in the white house. >> a drop is essentially the ability to plug in a camera at a given location and feed what it shows, either live or recorded. >> and this is where we control all thse drops. >> up above, the photographers have tucked away memories from the road. >> some of the highlights are donald trump rubber duck, bobbleheads from campaigns, trinkets. >> douglas mills made an interesting discovery back here during his early days at the white house. >> noticed there was a hatch. i said to a couple of the other camera men...