lot of growth potential. gabe gutierrez and general mccaffrey, thank you very much general, please stay with us because up next we re going to talk about what we re learning about the suspected leaker of top secret intelligence documents. we ll tell you what just happened earlier today in court and a whole lot more please stay with us, you re watching jose diaz-balart reports on msnbc. (vo) robots can predict breakdowns and order their own replacement parts. (foreman) nice work. (vo) and retailers can get ahead of the fashion trend of the day with a new line tomorrow. with a verizon private 5g network, you can get more agility and security. giving you more control of your business. we call this enterprise intelligence. from the network america relies on. you need to deliver new apps fast using the services you want in the clouds of your choice. with flexible multi-cloud services that enable digital innovation and enterprise control, vmware helps you innovate and grow. a mystery! jess
no reason other than to prove who he was and what he could do. what is the relationship between this and like the espionage act? so having access to these documents and publishing these documents is an act of espionage so to speak because you re disseminating them to people who have no right to access them and you re subjecting the united states and our partners to high levels of threat based on what you ve released. you re not really charged with an espionage violation but rather violating his security and disseminating these defense documents, which in and of itself is an act of espionage. general, last time we spoke, not just a little while ago but a couple of days ago, you called it and said exactly what it is how can an airman in the massachusetts air national guard have access to such sensitive information? well, that s the main question, isn t it clearly this young man has done serious damage to the ukrainian
laura jarrett and dasha burns, thank you both very much for being with us this morning. and now to the latest developments on that massive leak of classified defense department documents president biden made his first comments on the issue today during a meeting with ireland s president in dublin. there is a full blown investigation going on, as you know, with the intelligence community, the justice department, and they re getting close. i m concerned that it happened but there is nothing contemporaneous that i m aware of that is and this comes as we learn more about who may have leaked these documents. a washington post says an interview, two members of a private community on media platform discord, one of whom is a minor, they were both granted anonymity. leaker told them he worked on a military base, but did not reveal which one the washington post also says it has reviewed 600 photos of classified documents, most of which have not been made public. nbc newsfirmed the
different this time around. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we start here in the united states where the pentagon says a leak of classified defence department documents poses a serious risk to national security. as well as some highly detailed information about the war in ukraine, the documents also contain sensitive details about us allies and this country s dealings with china. it has been described as one of the largest public breaches of us intelligence information since the wikileaks saga. a short while ago, the white house said officials had reached out to america s allies in regard to the disclosures. we are taking this