 Rove's lawyer declined to share with "Newsweek" reporter Michael Isikoff the nature or contents of his client's conversations with Cooper.On 6 July 2005, Cooper agreed to testify, to avoid being held in contempt of court and sent to jail.Cooper said "I went to bed ready to accept the sanctions for not testifying," but told the judge that not long before his early afternoon appearance at court he had received "in somewhat dramatic fashion" an indication from his source freeing him from his commitment to keep his source's identity secret.