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
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
geez, there s been accusations that maybe the russians were trying to assist one campaign or the other, and to have these meetings and then to have them talk about the idea of avoiding american eavesdropping, i guess, if you want to call it that. none of this troubles you? i mean, you want to wait till this unfolds. no, no, no. these these recent reports is what i m talking about. again, as i understand it jared kushner is more than glad to talk about all of these things. as it relate to the interference in the election, no question and we ve been allowing for a short period of time for secretary of state tillerson to see if he can change the trajectory, but this next work period, we very much unless there s some major change, plan to double down with russia so absolutely not. couldn t agree more with that. i m not disagreeing that they
i guess i m a little concerned, do you not have a sense of urgency about this? this is let s think about the time period here. you just had 17 intelligence agencies report that russia interfered with this election. these interactions in the month of december, senator corker, you would think would trouble many people if they thought that, geez, there s been accusations that maybe they were trying to the russians were trying to assist one campaign or the other then to have these meetings and then to have them talk about the idea of avoiding american eavesdropping, i guess, if you want to call it that. none of this troubles you? i mean, you want to wait till it unfolds? no, no, no. no, no, no, no chuck. okay. these recent reports is what i m talking about. i mean, again, as i understand it, jared kushner is more than glad to talk about all of these things. as it relates to the interference in the election, no question. and as you know, we ve been allowing for a short period of
look, let s let this unfold and as i ve spent a lot of time with jered. he was over recently in a bipartisan way briefing us on the upcoming trip. they achieved all of their goals. he seems to me to be a very open person. again, i d let him speak for himself when the time is right on all these issues. at that time, we can actually render judgment on the reality of what did or didn t take place. the time is right. i guess i m a little concerned. do you not have a sense of urgency about this? this is let s think about the time period here. you just had 17 intelligence agencies report that russia interfered in this election. these interactions in the month of december, senator corker, you would think would trouble many people if they thought that geez, there s been accusations that maybe they were trying to, the russians were trying to assist one campaign or the other and then to have these meetings and then to have them talk about the idea of avoiding american