reporters questions. wonder what the leaders of the other countries are saying. all of those files originally appeared in a small chat app group called discord. only about 20 members total. then because they sat there for weeks and weeks, we still don t get a firm idea from the federal government exactly how long this was out there. it spread much wider. one of the members of the teenage group got his parents permission to talk to the media reporter and said the group, the leaker was in his 20s and worked on a military base. he spoke with washington post on condition of anonymity. this channel there were classified documents being posted by a user called o.g. he was the leader of this group and he wanted us all to be sort of super soldiers to some degree, informed, fit, with god, well armed, stuff like that. it would appear as if he sort of grew angry with the fact that only 1 or 2 people were paying attention to these documents he was pouring his heart out into. harr
hovering over montana. there is a mystery out there. i m bill hemmer. i love your red. you got to pin on. dana: way to represent. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the communist eye in the sky. the ball on does not pose a threat moving well above air traffic commercial air traffic. officials are advising the president not to shoot it down over concerns that falling debris from this balloon could hurt people on the ground. bill: the balloon entered u.s. airspace a couple of days ago and flew east into montana. not clear what it was doing there. the state is home to 1 of 3 u.s. air force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles. dana: discovery days before blinken is set to visit beijing. china said it is looking into the balloon but general jack keane says he is not buying that. what we do know is they ve done this before. we know it s a spy balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don t want this to happen again. shoot it down on the way home
anyone who shared information from it. the repair shop owner calling the latest legal move retaliation after he slapped hunter with a defamation suit. i actually have been public in announcing there have been several attempts by several individuals to modify and insert fake data to muddy the waters or to discredit the overall contents of the laptop by asserting fake data into the laptop and why i made a copy of the drive before i gave it to the f.b.i. i didn t trust the f.b.i. dana: chad pergram live on capitol hill untangling the threads for us. hunter biden is now seemingly conceding that the world s most famous or infamous laptop is his. this comes ahead of a house hearing next week focusing on suppression of the laptop story by social media. i m glad we re finally confirming it is his which the f.b.i. knew all along. by the way, they knew it was his when they were out briefing members of congress and the media saying it was russian disinformation. you talk about l
and the pentagon scrambleling to contain the fallout how the war in ukraine and how we assess it. i m bill hemmer. good morning. dana: asme owe dana perino. this is america s newsroom. it is alarming. it started last months when they cropped up on a gamer website and it prompted panic in the halls of government. bill: 53 documents have appeared publicly so far. they include sensitive information on ukraine. sources telling fox news the leak does not appear to be the result of a cyberattack. they say it is likely the work of someone on the inside. dana: the scope of the leak described as bigger than edward snow den s. it appears to have caught the pentagon off guard and raising pecklation over america s credibility on the world stage once again. the administration has no answers. if they can t keep our top secrets safe, how can they keep us safe? this is another example of us projecting weakness out there. dana: former house intel committee chairman mike rogers is
diplomatic ultimatum for china and u.s. resolve to enforce it. they move to tighten ties with russia happening as russia s president putin makes new threats against the west and china s top diplomat arrives in moscow after biden s trip to kiev yesterday and today in warsaw. putin today suspending a nuclear treaty with the u.s. while pinning responsibility for the war on ukraine and its western allies. i want to repeat it is they who started the war. we have used and are using force to stop it. dana: full coverage on fox former national security advisor robert o brien joins us in a moment. first foreign correspondent trey yengst is live in kiev, ukraine. good morning, trey. good morning. today russian president vladimir putin made his state of the nation address. putin s threats against the west gained the most attention and his comments an announcement that russia is suspending its participation in the new start nuclear weapons treaty. inspections of nuclear facilities