just faced a judge standing in court in shackles, his family also in the courtroom. what we re learning this hour about when he got his top secret clearance are a stage now set for some big name republicans trump desantis haley pence, all heading to the gun convention of america s gun violence crisis right now, parisian authorities are tightening security as protesters prepare to learn the fate of the pension reform changes they ve been fighting against four weeks. these major stories and more right here on cnn news, central. this just in to cnn court documents show that dak jack to share a had top secret clearance . 20 run your 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman appeared in a boston federal courtroom this morning. he has now been charged with allegedly being behind that massive leak of classified military documents, according to new detail from uh, new deal t of detail from court this morning to share allegedly began posting the documents around december of las
good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airman s hall as our temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in
tensions with china. nbc news was first to report the suspected chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern united states around montana for the past few days. china is now responding claiming it is a civilian airship used for weather research that was blown off course. but how credible is that claim? minutes ago we learned secretary of state antony blinken is postponing his trip to china for what was supposed to be a highly anticipated meeting with china s leader next week. the pentagon is set to hold a briefing in the next hour. we know the department of defense is tracking the balloon closely, even at one point discussing shooting it down. we even have air traffic audio from wednesday about a, quote, special mission. we just got alerted from salt lake tmu we re on a ground stop right now until further notice for a special mission going on over the livingston area. we don t know exactly when we can have our next departure. it is landing with a thud on capito
that s still really doesn t answer any of the questions and the response on this has been very swift, senator sheldon white house on the judiciary committee. he had previously asked the chief justice john roberts to investigate that initial report about free travel. but now the senator is asking the judicial conference which serves as this policy making body for all of federal courts. sarah he wants that body to refer justice thomas to the attorney general merrick garland for what he s calling brazen disregard of disclosure laws and violent violations of ethics laws. so there s a lot swirling now. that propublica has yet uncovered another transaction that hasn t been disclosed. sarah jessica schneider, thank you for all of that, john. alright. thanks, sarah. a story you will only see here on cnn and exclusive look at the dangerous in sometimes deadly trek that migrants take through central and south america. stay with us. i i am christine, man.i
right now on andrea mitchell reports, tony blinken at the last minute postponing tonight s critical trip to china. the first by a u.s. secretary in six years if he had gone in response to china s sending a spy balloon to hover over the u.s., increasing tensions between the two world powers. we expect a pentagon briefing momentarily. we have former cia director john brennan and republican house china committee chair mike gallagher as the speaker demands president biden take strong action for what mccarthy is calling china s brazen disregard for u.s. sovereignty. a massive january jobs report, a big boost for the white house. a sign the fed will not stop raising interest rates any time soon.