cbs' willie james has the latest from the white house . >> reporter: 21-year-old and a national guardsmen jack teixeira appeared in boston federal court friday facing charges under a provision in the espionage act for allegedly obtaining and leaking highly sensitive national defense information. his family ignored questions outside court . with the american flag flapping in the wind outside his mother's front door, federally armed agents made this with the rest thursday in a crime that went undetected for several months. >> this was a deliberate criminal act. >> reporter: the pentagon first discovered some of its most highly classified documents posted on social media a week ago . although the leak began last fall when the material surface on a gaming platform called this discord. >> how did he have access to the smallest highly classified documents? >> reporter: the 21-year-old seen in his uniform he is accused of betraying had eight of them have enabled him to monitor sensitive networks. teixeira installed fiber optic cable at a military base in massachusetts. speaking overseas thursday

. >> jack b3 making his first court appearance in boston on friday per the massachusetts er national guardsmens being accused of violating the espionage act. after he was arrested and charged in connection with the leak out classified national defense information per eight secretary of state anthony hallie scruggs blinken, trying to calm allies this weekend addressing the potential fallou from the pentagon leak. >> weatherford so far at least is an appreciation for the step that we are taking. and, it is not affected our cooperation. we just haven't seen them. >> delete documents elite illuminating the difficulties i securing material help from three key allies, israel, egypt and south korea. israel and egypt maintain military and economic ties with russia while south korea adopts a policy of not providing weapons to countries at war. the leaks also detailing battle plans ammunition supplies in ukraine. military leaders they are havin shrugs off the leaks. when ukrainian officials saying the leaks aren't the main problem, the problem is what's happening on the frontline. can get these leaks ha

the fbi has arrested a 21-year-old air national guardsmen the leak of classified documents which haveails on the war in ukraine. attorney general merrick garland says jack teixeira will be charged with the unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of national defense formation. the new york times has reported that jack teixeira was the leader of a gaming check group where the documents first.. the french government says around 380,000 people took part in a 12 day a protest against president emmanuel macron's engine reforms. -- pension reform. the paris metro and international trade services operating almost normally. france's constitutional council will issue a ruling on the controversial law on friday evening. a health analytics firm is morning that there is a more than one in four chance the pandemic as deadly as covid-19 could hit the world within the next decade. affinity says climate change, growth and international travel and the threat proposed by diseases are all contributing to this risk. global news powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 count

air national guardsmen. emily? am struck by the fact that the bulk of the more than 60 documents that have been made public so far appear to originate from the cia's operation center and the pentagon's joint chiefs of staff. then we know that this fast-moving probe into it is fbi, pentagon, others. president biden says there is a full-blown investigation going on with the intelligence community and the justice department. my point is, you brought up tax dollars. how many resources, human capitol and tax dollars are being expended to pinpoint this person. why wouldn't those tax dollars go towards safeguarding that information, towards a robust system that protects classification not only in the system but the documents? why do i have to pay double, essentially? the first time my money gets wasted because the intelligence community wasted. the second time they waste it again trying to fix and put a band-aid on the original leak. the damage has been done. the media i am sure will focus on the identity of the leaker ra

>> the 21 year-old air national guardsmen accused of stealing and leaking pentagon documents. well, he appeared in court today. authorities say that he's facing extremely serious charges. washington correspondent alexandra limon reports. >> one thing we've learned through the court documents is that authorities were able to track that suspect thanks to billing records from the social media website. he was using. 21 year-old air national guardsman gec to was in court friday to share was arraigned facing charges under the espionage act. eric's very serious penalties associated with that. >> authorities say to show was the leader of the private chat group where the military documents were first leaked in december. the justice department says it will seek the most serious consequences we intend to to send that message how important it is to our national security. court documents reveal that before his arrest to share, tried to find out if authorities were onto him by searching the word leak in a classified system. this individual and any of his accomplices. >> need to be prosecute

the national guardsmen was taken into custody without incident. >> today the justice department arrestedk teixeira in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national division information. >> president biden meets the irish prime minister in dublin before addressing the country's parliament. >> we believe anything is possible if we set our mind to a deadly we do it together. this is the united states of america. there is nothing beyond our capacity. >> protests turned violent in france amend ongoing anger over plans to raise the retirement age. >> welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. it was said to be one o the most damaging releases of classified information in years. now the fbi says it arrested a suspect in connection with the publication of hundreds of top-secret documents that have been doing the rounds online. jack teixeira, 21 years old, is an air national guardsmen that was arrested outside his home in massachusetts. america's attorney general merrick garland said jack teixeira was taken i

. >> the fbi has arrested a 21-year-old air national guardsmen for the leak of a highly classified setcuments. attorney general merrick garland says jack will be charged with the unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of national defense information. the new york times reports it was the leader of the gaming chat group where the documents first appeared. in the health analytics firm's warning there's a more than one in four chance a pandemic as daily as covid-19 could hit the world within the next decade. affinity says climate change, growth in international travel and the threat posed by zoo not it diseases are all contributing to the risk. in brazil's president is calling on bricks nations to come up with an alternative currency to replace the dollar in fern trade. blue distillers remarks, head of a meeting with chinese president xi jinping today. for sale and china have taken steps to make it easier to settle their foreign trade operations in yuan or riyals. and there is one backing for the plan to fold its parent company into its dutch unit, paving the way to move its hea

investigative reporter aaron katersky leads us off in boston. >> reporter: tonight the 21-year-old air national guardsmen accused of putting the country's security at risk is behind bars, charged with leaking national defense secrets. >> there are very serious penalties associated with that. we intend to send that message on how important it is to our national security. >> do you have any comment about your son? >> reporter: jack teixeira's father leaving court after calling out to his son, i love you, jack. teixeira replying, love you too dad after leaving the room in handcuffs. teixeira comes from a family with strong military ties. his mother volunteered with the veterans group. his stepfather retired after a 34 year career unit teixeira serves. the 102nd intelligence wing at joint base cape cod. his senior year quote in his high school yearbook, actions speak louder than words. online, teixeira leading a group of two dozen mostly young men and team boys on the discussion forum discord. members of the group tell the washington post teixeira was known as og. he boasted of access to classified material,

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they even brought an armored vehicle to take into custody alone scrawny 21 -year-old air force national guardsmen? >> today the justice department investigate into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information. he is an employee of the united states air force national guard. we will share more information at the appropriate time. >> actually, the appropriate time is now, so the angle will share more information and provide some much-needed context . let's understand what the biden administration is trying to do here. it is somehow trying to turn on of the worst intelligence breaches in the past two decade into a political win for themselves. let's debunk this and explain it . today they hope to win competency points by the fact that they moved so quickly to arrest big deal, the documents had been online for months on the platform called discord and plus it looks like the new york times somehow managed to make contact with the alleged leaker before our own government. >> photographed among photographed in a different location on a using the gam

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relatively junior 21—year—old national guardsmen relativelyjunior position, how relatively junior positionosition, how did he have access to such highly classified material? yeah, thank you for having me, and it's really not a function of the individuals age, we charge 21 —year—olds leading combat troops, we put a lot of faith in our young people, it's more a question of dead and obscure networkjourneyman, i obscure network journeyman, i guess, obscure networkjourneyman, i guess, was his title, in massachusetts, working for the air national guard, did that individual need to have actual access to these documents to do the network maintenance or administration that was required? why in the world was he permitted to print these documents? so there are very serious questions about why the system is set up to permit to happen what happened but not so much about his age as opposed to what the permissions are inside these systems. presumably, he would not then be the only one of his rank or of his age who would have access to this kind of information and just to remind everybody, this had to do

senator lindsey graham, a former south carolina air national guardsmen himself said he did not have thecess to share what he had while he was in the military. >> i would be surprised if i had that information. the system failed. this is a major failure. people need to be fired over this. reporter: the security clearance level lola required a background check but those checks might not capture interactions online. questions continue over how he was allegedly able to print and upload photos of documents to the online platform discord for months before the pentagon noticed. senator graham taking aim at the right. >> there is no justification and for any member of congress to suggest it is ok to leak classified information because you agree with the calls is terribly irresponsible and puts america in serious danger. reporter: texiera faces 15 year behind bars if convicted charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of classified documents. texiera has not entered a plea. his next court appearance is scheduled. dion: u.s. officials confirmed to abc news that u.s. forces conducted a

the air national guardsmen accused of leaking those pentagon documents has appeared in court. my question, why is secret information available so widely and why did a 21-year-old get top clearance? more on that next. r into parkis so people think they're open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can't hear you, jerry. -sorry. uh, yeah, can we get a system where when someone's bike is in the shop, then we could borrow someone else's? -no! -no! or you can get a quote with america's number-one motorcycle insurer and maybe save some money while you're at it. all in favor of that. [ horn honking ] there's a lot of buttons and knobs in here. stuart: jack teixeira, accused of espionage in the boston federal courthouse. has the white house said anything about the arrest? >> reporter: president biden has been briefed about it but he hasn't said anything about this or the other international lose of the day since yesterday when he downplayed everything. in the chain of command further down people with access to intelligence products got an email from the pentagon and o

a 21-year-old national guardsmen.re that when these leaks happened, he was stationed at fort bragg. there are still a ton of questions out there. one of them is how and why this individual had access to these documents. in the documents were posted on this discordant chat app months ago. they had marks in them. clearly, they were folded. how did this individual get access and post these document online? that will be one of the biggest questions facing this investigation. also, are there any more leaks out there? remember, this happened months ago. we are only now finding out. some of these stories for intelligence officials, it's incredibly concerning. they are worried that some of these documents had insight into how the u.s. gathers intel. earlier this morning, as biden is in ireland on an international trip, he said they were "getting close to this individual." we could end up with an arrest today. caroline: thank you for bringing this to us. we want to thank you for bringing us the latest, annmarie hordern. meanwh

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the documents posted on the social media chat service discord, allegedly by a national guardsmen. r-old now charged with transmission of national defense information and willful retention of classified documents. >> very serious penalties associated with that. we intend to send that message, how important it is. karina: he had a top-secret security clearance as part of his job managing i.t. systems. he copied the materials and then shared them online. >> these individuals need to be able to get on the system but if they open a document they have no need to know, that should trigger some kind of warning to a supervisor so they can investigate why this individual would be looking at this document and why they would be printing it. karina: the leaks detailing battle plans and munition supplies in ukraine. the white house saying there will be action. >> i have instructed the department to make sure they get to the root of why he had access in the first place, number one. number two, to focus extensively on the extent to which it occurred. karina: tashara's military ties. his father ser

. >>> right now, the air national guardsmen accused of leaking highly classified intelligence documentsfacing a federal judge. prosecutors are arguing that 21-year-old jack teixeira is still posing a grave threat to national security and should remain in custody ahead of his trial. in a late-night court filing, prosecutors allege that teixeira may still have access to hundreds of classified documents, and that his online search history was, quote, what appears to be a deliberate effort to disseminate this country's secrets. they also claim that teixeira is a major flight risk and an attractive candidate to foreign governments. let's go to cnn's jason carroll, who's outside the courthouse live in worcester, massachusetts. jason, take us inside the courtroom. what's happening now? >> well, that detention hearing, boras, is well underway. first up on the stand was jack teixeira's father. as you know, he has been present during many of the court proceedings leading up to this. the judge at one point asked him, if, by chance, if he ends up ruling that teixeira be let out on bail in his custo

the documents posted on the social media chat service discord allegedly by national guardsmen jack teixeiraith unauthorized transmission and willful retention of classified documents. >> serious penalties associated with that. we intend to send that message, how important it is to our national security. reporter: to shara had top security clearances as part of his job. officials say he copied the materials and shared them online. >> these individuals need to get on the system. if they open a document that they have no need to know, that should trigger some kind of warning to a supervisor so they can investigate why this individual would be looking at this document and why they would be printing it. reporter: the leaks detailing battle plans and the nation supplies in ukraine. the white house saying will be action. >> i have instructed the department to make sure they get to the root of why he had access in the first place. number one. number two, to focus extensively on the extent to which it all occurred. reporter: jack to shara's family has military ties. his mother volunteers with the ve

he looked at this case is that a 21-year-old air national guardsmen from massachusetts, no way this guyad access to that kind of stuff. what do you say? >> jon, thanks much for having me on for i would agree with your friend. not that a 21-year-old national guardsmen regardless of branch would not have a clearance at that level. i did when i was 19 years old the access and that need to k know. this airman had no need to know and no need to access any of the information we see coming out. there are many questions that need to be answered. i merrily inside the pentagon that's were going to look for answers. jon: who would've granted him access? who said okay he can take a look at this stuff. >> first of all to get the clearance in general requires a job description and describes clearance in the first place. based on what i understand about his job in the air national guard, having the clearance was on the hard part to get. the difficult part to get you get into the different special access programs are things we called read on this for very specialized topics in areas, that is the challe

we have the latest from outside the courthouse. >> 21-year-old national guardsmen jack teixeira faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted, after federal authorities say he leaked highly classified pentagon documents. in a federal court room in boston friday afternoon, he was formally charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense of information and willful retention of classified documents. he did not enter a plea. >> this is not just about taking him documents. that is illegal, but this is about the transmission. there are serious penalties associated with that. >> after an intense week long hunt for a source of the leak, investigators zeroed in on jack to share at his home on tuesday, several days before the fda interviewed a discord chat remember according to the complaint. discord is a social media platform where he allegedly posted the documents. officials indicating the platform, not identified by name in the complaint, helped the fbi track him down by giving investigators their credentials behind the account associated with the leak. >> what we are g

. >>> the air national guardsmen arrested in connection to an intelligence leak in court, today. jack faces charges for leaking highly sensitive national defense information. the 21-year-old had a job that may have enabled him to keep an eye on sensitive networks. president biden ordering the military intelligence community to further secure its sensitive information. >>> the doj wants the ruling frozen or heard before the high court goes on summer recess. that would be a very expedited timeline if the supreme court does not step in, the ruling takes effect late tonight. >>> the mayor just laid out a $600 billion plan to address homelessness. last estimates well over 400,000 unhoused folks on san francisco streets. if the new plan is successful, it will cut that number in half. still, the mayor acknowledged that funding has historically not been the main barrier for the city to get things done. >> if we are able to make significant changes to our bureaucratic process, we can move in dealing with these challenges a lot faster. it is not just about money. >> the plan includes a roun

. >> but first to the air national guardsmen accused of the massive pentagon intelligence leak. he appeared in court today how investigators were able to track him down and the charges he now faces. >> 21 year-old national guardsman accused of stealing and leaking pentagon documents appeared in court today. authorities say he is facing extremely serious charges. washington correspondent alexandra limon reports. one thing we've learned through the court documents is that authorities were able to track that suspect thanks to billing records from the social media website. he was using. 21 year-old air national guardsman gec to was in court friday. >> to share was arraigned facing charges under the espionage act. eric's very serious penalties associated with that. >> authorities say to show was the leader of the private chat group where the military documents were first leaked in december. the justice department says it will seek the most serious consequences. we intend to $0.2 that message. how important it is to our national security court documents reveal that before his arrest to

in some of these description someone who has been hungry for power. >> this 21-year-old air national guardsmen from massachusetts is not a whistleblower, cnn explains with the help of the many intelligence agency figures it has now hired as analysts. he's not a whistleblower. he's a criminal. because he is, unlike the people who run our government, quote, hungry for power. because this 21-year-old was so hungry for power, federal law enforcement had to swing into action with unfamiliar speed and efficiency and apprehend him. he was that threatening. now keep in mind as of tonight we don't know where jeffrey epstein got hundreds of millions of dollars. we have no idea. nor do we know what he did for a living. we don't know who left pipe bombs on capitol hill on january 6th. two of them. we don't know who leaked the supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade to. we cannot even say for certain who killed the president of the united states because after 60 years the biden administration is still hiding thousands of pages of classified documents from the kennedy assassination. just as they are

we are learning more details about the massachusetts air national guardsmen accused of licking highly classified documents online. investigators believed 21 -year-old jack may have used hi access to find out what the military knew about his alleged leaks he's now facing federal charges in a moment will bring in republican nancy mays of south carolina about whether congress should hold hearings about that leak and ask retired general jack keane would all means for the future of securit clearances. first let's turn to lucas for a look at the charges against the accused. >> it's at the largest leak of highly classified information from the us military and more than a decade. the accused you back in court the president promising a full investigation. >> i've instructed the department to make sure that they get to the root of why he had access in the first place. >> twenty-one -year-old airman first class jack of the massachusetts air national guar made his first court appearance in boston friday. >> when day after the fbi arrested him. he's charged with two counts of the espionage act the

general merrick garland announced the arrest o 21-year-old jack teixeira, a massachusetts air national guardsmen how the classified pentagon document made their way online. the new york times first identified teixeira, noting he oversaw a private online group where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers came together over a share love of guns, racist onlin memes, and video games where months ago a use uploaded hundreds of pages o intelligence briefings into th group. joining me now is john brennan former cia director and msnb senior national security analyst, along with ed collins nbc news senior reporter thank you both for being here. doctor brandon, i want to star with you tell us the damage here from this release >> i think there's been quite bit of damage. i know my former colleague right now are trying to clea up the message been created by these unauthorized exposures the concern is the compromis of sources and methods tha provide the intelligence community and policy maker insights into what's going o around the world, especially i ukraine. therefore, the public releas of t

investigators say a 21-year-old air national guardsmen is now in custody.eved to have shared classified documents connected to u.s. spies and the war in ukraine. also coming up, more fighter jets for ukraine. germany approves poll as you crest --

. >> there was enormous naivety on the part of the national guardsmen. there will be some people who feel some sympathy for the position he is in facing anything up to 15 years in prison. do you have sympathy for him, or do you need to impress on people how many lives he has put at risk? >> i don't feel any sympathy. we can acknowledge the naivety, the mivations for these very private, monday and once involving the status within this group of gamers. i think it is a lesson that no matter what the motives are, no matter how junior the person they be, the damage of compromises can be the same. >> let's speak about the legal. he's facing two separate counts. the unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense and the unauthorized classi documents. he will remain detained until then. a possible sentence of 15 years in jail. mark has supervised the national security cases. thank you for being with us. outline what these charges are and the seriousness of what he's facing. >> the first charge is on our -- unauthorized transmission of national defen

they agreed to call in the evening, but the national guardsmen never got in touch. the woman saw the captured fighter. victoria began to contact international organizations to find out about the condition of the captured man through the red contact. we received from nu i received a letter from my husband in august. there were three words: he was alive and well. everything is fine, but there was no further communication. the issues of all prisoners of war are dealt with by the coordination the headquarters there claim in front of their relatives that they will no longer meet with them, as of today, ukraine has already returned more than two thousand two hundred servicemen, and according to the head of intelligence, kirill budanov, we are approaching the exchange of all for all dmytro didora yehor nikitenko espresso tv channel news team zasnytsia with you already about 11:00 and will tell about the most important events, all pain can become an obstacle not with my knees from knee pain try dolgit cream dolgit cream relieves pain, reduces swelling and improves joint mob

80 men and 20 women , these are army soldiers, border guards, soldiers of the naval forces, national guardsmen among them . i thank everyone in our gur coordination center. thank you to everyone who is engaged in negotiations and preparation of exchanges. guys, budanova, yarmak , kid, glubinets, well done, guys, and especially me i am grateful to everyone who supports our people after the liberation and takes care of treatment and adaptation . it is important that we continue to expand the foreign policy capabilities of our country . today we agreed with the prime minister on the new energy of our interstate relations. i informed the prime minister about our efforts to restore peace. and the integrity of ukraine, in particular, about our peace formula. i am grateful for the willingness not just to look , but to really find how to make our cooperation stronger. i spoke today with the prime minister of greece mainly about the existing challenges told about the security situation in more detail about our activity for the return of peace and protection of people. thank you greece for the readiness

also we are learning more details about the massachusetts air national guardsmen accused of licking highly classified documents online. investigators believed 21-year-old jack teixeira may have used his access to find out what the military knew about his alleged leaks is now facing federal charges and a mama or bring it republican it nancy mace of south carolina about whether congress should hold hearings about that leak. bill asked retired general jack keane put it all means for the future security clearances. let's first turned to lucas tomlinson with a look at the charges against the accused. >> shan it's up largest leak of highly classified information from the u.s. military in your a decade. the accused back in court this week the president promising a full investigation. >> i have instructed the department to make sure they get to the root of why he had access in the first place. >> 21-year-old airman first class jack teixeira of the massachusetts air national guard made its first court appearance in boston on friday. one day after the fbi arrested him. he is charged with two counts

a massachusetts national guardsmen is in custody in connection with the leak, and cnn's alex marquardt more now on the suspect. and the case against him. airman first class jack to share a is just 21 years old. he's been in the air national guard since in listening back in 2019, and for the past two years, has held a top secret security clearance. now according to the unsealed affidavit, he began violating the terms of that security clearance back in december, starting to post classified information as just paragraphs of text. then in january, he started posting photos of classified documents on the social media site discord, which is popular with video gamers. so these documents and we understand there were hundreds of them were online for months before they really came to light on april 6th. that is the day that the secretary of defense lloyd austin, got his first briefing. and that was just one week before to share a was arrested. at his parents' house just south of boston. so why did to share a have access with such a low rank in the military? well he worked for the 102nd intellige

are you surprised that such a junior national guardsmen had access to this information? >> i was a captain and a major. i would be surprised if i had that information. the system failed. this is a major failure and those who are trying to sugarcoat this on the right, you cannot allow a single individual of the military intelligence community to leak classified information because they disagree with policy. i don't know what led to this airman's actions, but he has done a lot of damage to our standing. it's very hard to get people to come hard right now to tell us about things we need to know about. the sources and methods on how we collect on adversaries has been compromised and i am stunned that somebody at that level could have so much access. the question is how did he get it and why did he do it and some people need to be fired over this. >> jonathan: as you mentiond, there is on the right that are not only sugarcoating it but applauding him. take a look at what marjorie taylor greene tweeted. she said jack teixeira is right, male, christian, antiwar which makes him

non ktvu national guardsmen accused of leaking classified military documents appeared in court today.om. the 21 year old is facing criminal charges stemming from the violation of the espionage act. he allegedly leaked top secret military intelligence records online relating to the war in ukraine and other sensitive topics. he has not entered a plea. lawmakers in washington were briefed on the leaked documents today. how in the world did a 21 year old national guardsmen have access to this level of top secret information ? this kid is not a hero. he may have been an idiot and immature , but the damage that it appears he's caused. his very real washington post is reporting the files reveal highly sensitive information, including the china could soon deploy a high altitude spy drone that travels at least three times the speed of sound. the family of tyree nichols is now suing the city of memphis. it's police departments and other emergency personnel over his death. the family filed a $550 million civil lawsuit today it claims the police departments now disbanded scorpion unit targeted ni

congressman jim himes appeared the first question on many people's minds is how did a 21-year-old national guardsmenlatively junior position, how did he have access to such highly classified material? >> thank you for having me. it is not a function of the individual's age. we charge 21 euros with living combat troops. it is more a question of did an obscure network journeyman in massachusetts working for the air national guard, did that individual need to have actual access to these documents to do the network maintenance or administration that was required? why in the world was he permitted to print these documents? there are serious questions about why the system is set up to permit what happened. to happen. it is not so much about his age. >> presumably he would not have been the only one of his rank or age to have access to this kinds of information. to remind everyone, this had to do with military preparedness, america's allies and enemies and very specific information about russia and ukraine and the war there. why would someone like him and his position able to access, print out and share th

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a national guardsmen search for some extra cash could end up with him spending a decade in prison. prosecutors say he wanted to take on a side job as a killer. here's our friend mona costar abdi. a tennessee air national guardsman is facing federal charges after allegedly using the website rent a hit man dot com to apply for a job as an assassin, but it turns out the website was just a parody, and now he's been arrested. according to the criminal complaint, garcia explained that he was quote looking for a job that pays well related to my military experience, shooting and killing the mark target so i can support my kid on the way.utrities say garcia then sent in his resume, which listed his nickname as reaper, and a copy of his photo i d. adding quote. what can i say? i enjoy doing what i do so if i can find a job that's similar to it. put me in coach. the complaint details that an undercover agent began communicating with garcia after the websites. alarmed owner contacted the fbi. the two later meeting up in person where documents say the agent asked if garcia was comfortable with

accountable, the pentagon needs to answer some serious questions about why it is junior enlisted air national guardsmen. >> has need to know access to. highly sensitive documentation about ukrainian war plans. rhode island senator jack reed says he expects a review of how people gain security clearance hard to capture. is someone who either later changes their mind about the importance of secrecy? >> or someone who is deliberately concealing a information. >> the judge in this case ordered to to remain in custody until his next hearing, which is set for wednesday in washington. alexandra limon. >> in developing news, the supreme court is hit pause on mifepristone restrictions. this is while a conflicting legal battles over the abortion pill continue a texas ruling that would limit the drugs distribution was set to take effect tomorrow. that was until the biden administration requested action. the texas ruling had blocked the fda's a basis for approving the drug more than 20 years ago. administration officials and supporters of the ruling now have until tuesday to finalize arguments on whether that shou

. >>> and now, to the new report that the air national guardsmen charged with leaking classified documents may have been sharing top secret intelligence online for much longer than previously thought, possibly as long as a year before he was caught ken dilanian has late details. >> reporter: new reporting tonight that the accused leaker of classified information began posting secrets more than a year ago, shortly after russia's invasion of ukraine. "the new york times" says it discovered that airman jack teixeira allegedly began sharing military secrets as far back as february 2022, to a chat group containing 600 members. that's ten months before the december 2022 leaks that teixeira is charged with two sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news investigators gave no indication when briefing congress last week that they were aware of this new set of disclosures the fbi and the pentagon have been scrambling to assess the damage from a leak they first discovered april 5th. >> the longer something is out there floating in the ether, in the cyber world, without the government knowing, with

on the national security sid of our country, a 21-year-ol air national guardsmen was arrested after leaking classified intelligence on bot our adversaries, and our allies and honor institutions, justic clarence thomas failed t disclose a real estate dea with a gop megadonor i can think of a few peopl better to discuss all of thi was, then senator bernie sanders, who joins me now. he is the author of the ne book, it is okay to be angry about capitalism i don't how you found the time to write a book amidst everything going on, tha touches on so many issue impacting all of us? we are going to get to that in a moment, but i just wanted to start with a few items in th news this week there were new revelations senator, this week about supreme court justice clarence thomas and his financial relationship with billionair harlan crow. and just this morning, there i even new reporting about som inaccuracy's on his financia disclosure forms your colleague senator sheldon is calling on the department justice to investigate clarenc thomas for potential ethic violations do you back senator whitehouse is c

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