the latest on the biden administration s response. hey, lucas. before leaving ireland last night president biden spoke to reporters in dublin about the leak of classified information. i ve instructed the department to make sure that they get to the root of why he had access in the first place, number one, and number two, to focus extensively on the extent to which it all occurred. there s no way to predict how long an investigation will take. i don t think it s going to take very long. i think we re getting to the bottom of it quicker. now more leaks of highly classified information has been discovered. u.s. intelligence agencies were made aware of additional four chinese spy balloons in addition to the 4,000 chinese craft that made the odyssey over the u.s. before it was shot down. over a million have top secret clearance, the pentagon is looking how many in addition to the leaker had access to the military s joint wide intelligence communication system better known by
wrong because if putin i m sorry, if president xi successfully invades taiwan that would have a huge impact on the global economy, whether it s on semiconductors, closing off shipping routes. it would have a massive impact and what it would show is it would show that china and its authoritarian allies are on the march and that s what we cannot allow to happen. neil: all right, former and brief british prime minister liz truss saying she s concerned about a comment made by emmanuel macron is a u.s. fixation. and the leaks keep coming out how china, taiwan, and china and russia, and all of these things are sort of joined at the intelligence hip and the revelations that we ve heard. and alexandria hoff is looking at what we re continuing to get. the young man accused in all of this, he may have been accessing classified intelligence networks right down to the wire how close they were to finding the breach. jack teixeira was searching leak on the government issued computer one
will be hesitant to share information because they don t know how well it will be guarded. in this case with the young airman, it looks like he was trying to impress buddies in various game rooms and he had a security clearance which means he had access to it. the thing that would concern me if i was in that organization is how did he get that information out of that secure facility because it s been reported he had pictures, he had some digital information and the fact that he was able to get it out of that facility would be my major concern. neil: you know what worries me, general, this happens a lot. we re talking about classified documents and former president s hands, whether the donald trump mar-a-lago or joe biden in his garage in delaware, or you know, an office elsewhere, the former vice-president, you know, itinerary plans of president biden in ireland that somehow dropped on the street in
dublin. it s happening so frequently you ve got to wonder is anyone keeping track of this stuff? well, and i think the level of awareness needs to be raised in one of the ways you do that is that people have to deal with the penalty for mishandling classified information and i think a lot of times people look at a piece of paper or information and go, well, everybody knows that. or it s not that big a secret. like i said, it s not just the information, but it s the way that information was gathered and how we protect it if that information gets out that s very valuable information for our adversaries. neil: do you think, general, i m getting kind of into the weeds here how this all came to light, but in the case of jack teixeira sharing this with a small group of people, gamers on this discord site, it might have been shared with his family members or might have told them about it as well, but
and anything that reduces both of our capabilities, makes them relatively stronger. so from china s point of view, the longer this can go on in some aspect, yet, you know, be contained, but drain the resources of the u.s. and russia, is good for china. neil: i m wondering what come of these revelations and what more we ll learn and the fact that this happens fairly frequently in this country, almost nowhere in any other country. maybe it could have something to do with the hundreds of thousands who have access to documents and information maybe they shouldn t. what do you think? yeah, neil, that s a great point. unfortunately, as you said, recently we ve had many levels of mishandling of classified information and that s not good both in the short-term and the long-term. in the short-term, again, you divulge sources and methods. in the long-term our allies