attorney general merrick garland identified him as 21-year-old air national guardsman, jack tech t teixeira the new york times spoke with members of the private group teixeira oversaw the chat where 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games. it is in that group that airman teixeira is said to have uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings, according to the times joining me now is justice correspondent, ken dilanian. the details are unbelievable in this case. walk us through what we know one more time, what is out there and how we think it got out there. what is out there, alex, are some highly classified documents showing the fruits of american eavesdropping, signals intelligence on russia and many other countries. very embarrassing revelations that the u.s. has supplied on allies not surprising to the allies, but embarrassing when it becomes public, ukraine s air defenses and w
can do to ukraine, our efforts there, all that s out there, when you have people in the spy craft world, how they may not trust the united states as much. but the big question is also how this 21-year-old national guardsman, air national guardsman, jack teixeira was able to get his hands on this kind of information. the one thing i was somewhat comforted by is he does work in the cyber security area. we ve gotten a look at his actual papers and what he is described as is a cyber transport systems journeyman now, specifically we don t know exactly what that means, but at least he s got something to do with this arena. the question is how is it that he would think it was okay to do this how is it that he would be able to get through what you would assume would be multiple layers of security to access this kind of secretive information yeah, you know, the first question is hard to answer
brain drain going on in the us government and that is when corporate structures come in and at this moment have an idea of saying they are not getting paid, this might be the perfect time to take away from the department of homeland security and the cyber security area. the key talent that could work for the company because how could they be happy right now? 45% of people in some parts of the cyber security area of the country are furloughed at the moment. essential protection is said to be there but that support for potential protection is not there right now. todd: tim cook calling on the ftc letting consumers track and delete their personal data. when you say that, that is so nice of them. you say there s a business advantage reason behind this. why? right move on his part to be an advocate for privacy.
out and stimulate russia did kribeler hacking. we don t like to or condone it. all countries are doing it. lies and deceit have no part in our election either. if the russians did it, do you agree with the president, president obama, that the u.s. should retaliate? well i don t know what retaliate actually means. i m sure that there s thing wes do on the cyber security area as well. do i think that we should somehow disrupt their power systems or anything like that? their grid, their electric grid? absolutely not. i think we should, and the president, if he believes what he believes, should lodge his protest, and i m sure part of the comment coming back would be, you re doing it as well. i leave that up to president obama. that s not my decision. he s got about four weeks left in office. and he ll do what he will do. he is still the president of the united states, but i m suggesting, let s all get united behind donald trump and let s move this country forward, and
francis, is will the bigger chains follow suit? amc and regales have not said what their intention is so far. we ll wait to hear from them. in the meantime, adam, now that sony decided on the limited release of this film, what do you think the reaction will be, specifically from the group that threatens sony over the release and when they are saying we are going to retaliate if this movie comes out. watch out oh. it s a wilder card. a lot of people are looking at the situation. hollywood is uniting behind sony. when they were aproechd by george clooney and others you had crickets, nothing. the government is stepping up in terms of putting pressure not only on sony but talking about what needs to be done in the cyber security area. we have the attention of