cnn newsroom in just a few hours from now the national guardsmen arrested in connection with leaked us classified documents will appear in court ahead how he was discovered, and security flaws that allowed the leak to happen. as us president biden s last day in ireland. we re live in dublin with look at what he accomplished during the visit and a one in 1000 year. rainfall event hits south florida more on the way you ll see the damage it s causing live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with kim bruun hoover. we begin with a major development in the leak of classified pentagon documents posted online. the fbi has arrested 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman jack teixeira will appear in a boston courtroom in the coming hours. the air force says his job was to help make sure the military s vast global communications network was working properly. a government source tells cnn to share a had been under surveillance for several days before his arrest and multiple
judge. a south florida airports still closed by floodwaters after the rainiest day in fort lauderdale history. and new restrictions on abortion pills kick in just hours from now will the u. s supreme court step in. good friday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans today in air national guard i t specialist will make his first court appearance after his arrest in connection with a major leak of top secret defense documents. the exact timing for jack to share his arraignment in a boston courtroom has not yet been announced. cnn s oren lieberman has more on the investigation. rest from the pentagon. 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard is in custody arrested in connection to the massive leak of classified documents online, the fbi swooping in on titan, massachusetts, a tactical team moving in to arrest jack to shera after surveilling him for a couple of days. a u. s official said the plan was to arre
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us today, a suspected leaker who shook up the world by posting top secret us intelligence documents online. sees the inside of a federal courtroom plus new cnn reporting on an intriguing avenue of investigation for the special counsel jack smith wants to know if donald trump is using an army of lawyers to intimidate potential witnesses telling his version of events and ron desantis just make himself unelectable. florida governor s science, one of the nation s most restrictive abortion laws, barring the procedure after just six weeks of pregnancy. it s a priority for the republican base. but it is very much at odds which with where most americans stand up first for us, though. hiking boots and handcuffs. this morning, the 21 year old allegedly behind a global intelligence disaster, appearing for the first time in front of a federal judge today, prosecutors l
the cnn newsroom i m erica hill. and i m bianna golodryga. he was scared of getting caught transcribing classified documents at work. so what did he do? well, he took them home. that is just one of the stunning new details. we re learning about the suspect arrested in the flagrant pentagon leak investigation 21 year old jack to share a was charged with two federal crimes. today he did not enter a plea, but he will remain in custody until his detention hearing next week. to share a who was arrested yesterday at his parents home was an it specialist for a military intelligence unit on cape cod, massachusetts. today s affidavit providing somewhere insight into why this effectively low level air national guardsman had such high level access to the sensitive information is beyond a mentioned he worked in. i t actually held top secret clearance since 2021 starting in december, according to the affidavit, he was posting hundreds of highly classified intel documents to a chat group
good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight. we continue our live coverage of the historical day of a former president being arrested and arraigned this afternoon, donald trump faced 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in connection with the hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. hours later, and aggrieved donald trump appeared in front of a very friendly mega outfitted proud at mar-a-lago. i never thought anything like this. could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. from there, he went on to spout his usual litany of lies and grievances. but that was the only part of today that was familiar. everything else we ve never before seen a former u. s president under arrest and walking into a courtroom sitting , with his defense team, having to answer to charges just as any other criminal defendants would so now