hill confirming there s a republican counter offer to dr. ford s lawyers and this is for a hearing on wednesday, not thursday as she had requested, wednesday she would go first. he would go second. mark judge and the other witnesses would not be called and they would have her being questioned by a committee hired lawyer, not by the senators. so it doesn t meet all the demands. stay tuned. there s obviously a lot more conversation back and forth. meanwhile, president trump today appears to be walking back a major decision, a controversial one, to declassify highly sensitive files in the russia probe. joining me now, sam lowell and it sounds as though he stepped back from the order in the face of very strong justice department objections as well as objections from our closest allies about how this would affect sharing intelligence and this was to be the declassification of the fisa warrants and other warrants and other information and e-mails,