Rep. Elijah Cummings: The documents from DOJ "confirms that the memo Director Comey said he shared with a friend to read to press outlets—the memo detailing his meeting with President Trump on February 14, 2017—is clearly marked 'UNCLASSIFIED.'"

“James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media,” Trump said on Twitter. “That is so illegal!”

At issue are a series of memos Comey wrote before Trump fired him on May 9, cataloguing his meetings and phone calls with Trump.

In one of those memos, Comey described what he believed to be pressure from Trump to back off an investigation into Trump ally and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey recounted the conversation with Trump — which occurred in the Oval Office in February — during testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee in May.

Richman's comment also comes after a report that indicated some of the details in Comey's memos appear to have been classified.

But a source with knowledge of the memos said several of them appear to have been "retroactively classified," and it's unclear whether any of those details were shared with anyone without a proper clearance.

The source said it was also unclear whether the memos that were retroactively classified included one in which Comey says Trump encouraged him to end the FBI’s investigation into Flynn. That's the memo that Richman described to the Times and that he says was not classified at the time he shared its contents.