become a cooperator were u.s. law enforcement against the russian government. the president has been sending angry tweets about bruce ohr for weeks now. last month, house republicans summoned ohr for closed door testimony. but now we're told to expect the president to release classified information from ohr's, quote, investigative activities. joining us now is congressman jim himes who is a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you very much for being with us. >> hi, rachel. >> what is your reaction to this reporting from axios that the president is going to declassify these materials? first of all, i should mention that it's just axios reporting this. other people aren't matching this reporting. i don't know if that means that they're just ahead of the story or maybe they've caught on to something that isn't going to happen. do you have expectations about this? >> well, i'm certainly intrigued by it. i'm intrigued by it because of course they've declassified other stuff that had no business being out there in the public realm. you'll remember the fisa affidavits that they assured us