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.
family. their isolation. this one twho who they treat as a father figure that is 21 years old, what the can be gleaned from this cultish environment that you said reminds you of the school shooter environment. it seems like a very similar profile, martha. i think the intelligence community, the counter intelligence community will be looking at that. we know russians have attempted to recruit gamers in some of these websites using these techniques. there s no evidence that this particular airman was linked to a foreign government. that is a tactic that s been used in the past because these people are very vulnerable. martha: jennifer griffin, thanks very much. we ll hear from you throughout the afternoon. thank you. with that, we bring in bret baier who covered the pentagon for years as our former national security correspondent. bret, good to have you with us. your thoughts as you watch brief comments from eric garland here and a sort of stayed
it s just that is not true. and you can say whatever you want. and the fact that they didn t wear a wire and they didn t try to organize the 25th amendment removal. they tried to do it in a modulated way. the magnitude is incredible. even with nixon there was never discussion about invoking the 25th amendment. there wasn t. nor any question whatsoever involving whether or not the president of the united states might be aiding a foreign hostile power. that s the element of the story that is so extraordinary. what caused mccabe and the fbi and counter intelligence community to be so upset and rattled by what the president of the united states was doing including firing comey in what appear to be perhaps obstruction of justice is under lying fact that no president of the united states in our history had ever