attorney general merrick garland identified him as 21-year-old air national guardsman, jack tech t teixeira the new york times spoke with members of the private group teixeira oversaw the chat where 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games. it is in that group that airman teixeira is said to have uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings, according to the times joining me now is justice correspondent, ken dilanian. the details are unbelievable in this case. walk us through what we know one more time, what is out there and how we think it got out there. what is out there, alex, are some highly classified documents showing the fruits of american eavesdropping, signals intelligence on russia and many other countries. very embarrassing revelations that the u.s. has supplied on allies not surprising to the allies, but embarrassing when it becomes public, ukraine s air defenses and w
we are back with the second hour of cr chris jansing report reports live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. at this hour, breaking news, we are waiting for a pentagon briefing expected any moment as we learn new details about exactly who might be behind the leak of classified u.s. intelligence documents of government secrets online. plus, in the hot seat, former president donald trump s deposition in a high stakes civil lawsuit here in new york what it could mean for the fate of the family business and days of flames, the fire at an indiana plastics recycling plant, pumping toxic black clouds into the richmond skies for a third straight day the danger and how the community is responding. plus, a 50-year flood event. we re live from fort lauderdale, florida, where officials just issued an emergency declaration after that massive rainfall. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, let s start with that breaking news officials have identified a
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partisan polarization which is sadly too much of the story in washington. very good to hear representative jim himes, always good to hear from you. thank you very much. a great deal of the leaks in the documents were about the war in ukraine. joe manchin who led a bipartisan delegation to ukraine addressed the breach in a press conference on wednesday we re concerned everyone s concerned about that. and it s a challenge it s a challenge that we have to overcome and our support is unwavering and as they have to make their adjustments, we re going to make sure we re able to adjust with them. joining me now from kyiv is former adviser to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, igor novakav, begive me your reaction, somebody in the u.s., working for the military and nona foreign operative alex, first of all, it s usually the blunders like these that attract attention to certain specifics within the system that need to be fixed,
and i was just listening in to your conversation. i can tell you every single time i hear the document being printed out, a classified document in the 21st century is just mind blowing. we can do much better than that using all of the technology available. secondly, there s a reason classified information is classified, and usually the leaks cost human lives, so this is bad but i think everyone including ukraine and the united states need to focus on lessons learned and what we do to kind of minimize the damage from this and that s doable. give me sense how worried ukrainian leadership is about the nature of these leaks and what they think they can do to counter what s gotten out there? could it affect spring military counter offensives well, counteroffensives? alex, let me put it this way to you it s a sensitive issue if i say we re very concerned and if it s damaging that means i m verifying information that s