all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim bruun huber ahead on cnn newsroom, we re getting a better look at the case against the air national guardsman who is accused of leaking classified pentagon documents and the charges he s facing republican hopefuls for president climb over each other to show who has the most support for gun rights at the annual nra convention. and an explosion leads to the japanese prime minister being evacuated from the place where he was giving a speech at what was behind the incident. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. u s government is moving quickly with its prosecution of the suspected leaker of classified documents that included detailed intelligence assessments of allies and adversaries alike. 21 year old air national guardsman jack to share a has now been formally charged under the espionage act. jason carroll has the latest on the charges and the continuing fallout fr
morning. it is april 15th. i m victor blackwell. merrill walker. thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. um how s it going? move here . you know what i have in my mind right now is when we re getting that invite to your place once your bar is all built out, is being built out. the bottles have not yet arrived from storage. but it s coming. it s coming. haven t arrived yet. no invitation just come and look at the shelves. okay it s coming. sure i m sure the shelves are beautiful. here s what we re watching this morning. this is not just about taking home documents. a 21 year old air man charged in connection with the leak of classified documents appeared in front of a federal judge friday . what we re learning about him and the questions being raised about who should have access to classified information. president biden is weighing in on the supreme court s decision to temporarily extend access to an abortion drug while it considers the case the next steps in
everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with new details in the case against a 21 year old air national guardsman accused of leaking top secret pentagon information jack to share a appeared in court yesterday and was charged under the espionage act. his arrest follows an intense week long search. for the source of the online leak of secret documents to share a held a top secret security clearance and is accused of posting documents that exposed sensitive intelligence. the u. s has on both close allies and adversaries. cnn senior national correspondent national security rather correspondent alex marquardt joining us live from washington, alex. so what more are we learning about to share a and how he was able to print off these documents undetected? hi there, fredricka. well airman first class jack to share a 21 years old and you said he enlisted in the air national guard back in 2019 around four years ago. and then it was
catch the new episode of eva longoria searching for mexico tomorrow night at nine p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with new details in the case against the 21 year old air national guardsman he s accused of leaking top secret pentagon information. jack to share a appeared in court yesterday and was charged under the espionage act. his arrest follows an intense week long search for the source. of the online leak of secret documents to share a held a top secret security clearance and is accused of posting documents that exposed sensitive intelligence the u. s has on both close allies and adversaries. cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt is joining us live from washington right now, alice , what more are you learning about how to share? and uh, you know, learning about him and then how he was able to print off these documents there, fredricka? well, the qu
updates by whisker priscilla alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with major damage control underway inside the u. s intelligence community right now , the pentagon is trying to assess the fallout of leaked classified documents. 21 year old jack tachira and air national guardsman is in custody and charged under the espionage act. the documents he is accused of leaking are considered highly classified and include eavesdropping on adversaries and allies alike. cnn s jeremy diamond joins us now over at the white house, jeremy, what more? are we learning about this damage assessment that s underway. well, jim, we re talking about dozens of highly classified documents that were leaked online allegedly by this 21 year old airman jack teixeira . and now the pentagon is working to assess exactly what the damage to u. s national security will be of some of these documents. and if you look at the brea