toward a possible presidential run. bill: the south carolina native has put optimism and hope at the center of his message. leaning heavily on his own ration to riches story or as he says cotton to congress in one lifetime. rise to the dream in what could be a crowded republican field. sandra: and welcome back as america reports rolls into a busy second hour, a lot of news expected. bill, good to be here with you. bill: good to be with you as well. i m bill melugin coming up in this hour, but it is a busy day in washington and massachusetts, law enforcement are circling in on the man believed to be behind the pentagon leaks. sandra: any moment now you are looking live at the pentagon, leaders are expected to face questions from reporters on this highly classified intelligence leak. what we know so far. a law enforcement source telling fox the fbi is searching for a member of the massachusetts air national guard in connection to the leak, adding they are not naming h
working on military intelligence systems, which gillian turner was saying is essentially i.t. he s essentially working on technology. he s not involved at a high level with this kind of information. but apparently he found a way to get it, which is the world that we live in today. jack teixeira, 21-year-old. he changed his phone number in recent days. the attorney general calling this a deliberate criminal act moments ago in a very brief statement. we waited for a while for him to come out. he made a brief statement and said we ll tell you more when we can. mike pence is with us with his reaction to that developing story. bret baier joins us and sean duffy are here on set with us in new york. first to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the very latest as she has been uncovering new information on this all throughout the day, every hour. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. we came out of a pentagon briefing. here s brigadier general pat ryder on the arrest.
tonight jacqui line rake traveling with the president in ireland with white house capitol hill reaction as well david spunt be at the justice department. we begin with diswrerch griffin at the pentagon with our story. cyber reporters beat the fbi to the front door of the alleged leaker forcing the surveillance team to accelerator its plans for rearsz outside of the alleged leaker s family home in massachusetts late this afternoon alleged leaker identified as jack of the massachusetts air national guard. according to the air force promoted last july. worked as transport systems journey man. cybersecurity expert. that s how he gained access to some of the nation s biggest secrets. we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding classified and sensitive information. this was a deliberate criminal act. the washington post tracked down a member of the online chat group that teixeira led for the past few years. any claims that he is a russian operative or pro-russ
fort lauderdale. more than 25 inches of rain and 24 hours. officials calling it a once in a thousand year theircled untilt . major develop it s in the battle of the abortion pill. an appeals court ruling the drug can still be used, but issuing tough new restrictions for women. the justice department now taken the fight directly to the supreme court. rachel scott in washington. a suspect arrested for the murder of tech mobile oblate stepped on the street and sarah cisco he knew his attacker. the new report clarence thomas two is tied to g.o.p. mega donor following reports of undisclosed trips on private luxury yachts. property deals. one week after being arraigned on 34 felony counts, former president donald trump returns to new york city to be deposed a second time in a separate case by the state attorney general. the collision on the tracks, the passenger train slamming into a truck hauling cars actor jamie foxx hospitalized what we are learning about his condition. an
back in new york city, where he will be facing questions in a $250 million civil suit, separate from his indictment we begin this hour with a major development in the national fight over abortion rights today, widely used abortion pill mifepristone is still available to patients after a federal appeals court put on hold a judge s decision to suspend the drug s fda approval while leaving some restrictions in place. here in florida, any moment the legislature is expected to pass one of the strictest abortion bills in the country that would ban the procedure at just six weeks. joining us now with more is nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and with us msnbc news correspondent dasha burns in tallahassee in what appears to be a demonstration of some sort laura, all this is still difficult to understand because now there is a conflicting ruling from a judge in washington that ordered u.s. authorities to keep mifepristone available across 17 states and d.c. what does