tonight on the reidout i m going to have to swallow t this, the hallowed halls, and watching them disrespect the state that i chose to move to. by golly, it s got to stop as justin pearson is sworn back into the tennessee legislature, linked audio of the tennessee republicans who expelled them reveals exactly who they are, and it s not pretty also, as jury selection gets under way in the dominion defamation trial against fox, we re hearing new audio of top trump lackeys admitting there was no evidence to support their wild election conspiracy theories and arrested in that major intelligence leak. the documents revealed to the world through the discord online platform, which has been very popular with far right extremists we begin tonight with a performance that would have made even pt barnum squirm. i m referring to the recent interview between the living curiosities donald trump and tucker carlson for all to see trump displayed his usual performance of pretendi
who will have a lot of explaining to do about why thi information was disseminated s widely and why he had th ability to download this information as a very junior member of the massachusetts ai national guard ben, let me go to you unlike snowden or manning, som of these previous ones, this person did not seem to b ideological or a winner who is trying to help the u.s. versus russia this person seems like he wa entertaining his fans on discord. talk a little bit about thes platforms and how they are being used and who they ar attracting of course i want to say my colleague spencer ackerman, he had a blo post about this today saying this is the first edge lor leaker this is a guy who has no large larger point he is doing this to make bette friends with people, 20 to 3 person group of people playing video games on the interne together that s really what happene here i want to give you a quick
more private you get in thes spaces, that s what is happening. we are at the start of something, it s going to kee happening. dr. brennan, he has the og, he is 21 the other people in this group of teenagers is the intelligence communit ready to deal with this, between the mass shootings tha used to these platforms wher they launch this and put their manifestos, and now threats to national security, are we read for this the law enforcement community and intelligence community better be. these chat rooms, these forums the dark web, these enclaves have served extremist purposes including terrorists they ve been able to explain the opportunities that exist i that web what we see right now is how these small chat rooms, youn americans and teenagers an others can be an outlet for th unauthorized disclosures a ver sensitive secrets from the intelligence community ben, they are als completely out of the eyeballs
becomes this massive nationa security issue you think about how many discord, twitch, telegram, steam, roadblocks, fortune things that most of the people watching have never heard of it does seem like there is a combination of people who ar lonely, gun enthusiasms, far right wing christian, all th sort of people on their own in little groups where they creat their own fan bases. this is now something i m no sure the intelligence communit is ready to deal with, ben it seems like they need to catch up real quick. we are at the start o something. when we say it s not ideological, i don t mean it s not ideological in the sense that the people who were aroun did not have ideology. they absolutely did. when he was shooting those games in a video he posted according to the washingto post, he was yelling racia slurs. these are people who are not necessarily absent of politics the politics happened to b pretty extreme, right? the smaller groups you get, th