told the f.b.i. had been watching him for days but then the f.b.i. was forced into action when the media published his name. he is 21 years old. joined the national guard in 2019. he held the highest level security clearance granted by the u.s. government and he now faces charges under the espionage act. dana: new york post headlines geeky leaks. why the military entrusted this information to a 21-year-old guardsman? the pentagon defending its protocol. it was a deliberate criminal act. violation of the guidelines. you receive training and you will receive an understanding of the rules and requirements that come along with those responsibilities and you are expected to abide by those rules, regulations and responsibility called military discipline. bill: reaction, john ratcliffe. peter doocy and we begin in boston with alexis mcadams. good morning from boston. we expect the suspected libellinger in court for the first time in a federal courthouse in boston and hea
congressman gaetz saying quote, thoughts and prayers as he works through his grief. congress said we have moved on to a much better speaker, who is honest and trustworthy. of course, that new speaker is speaker mike johnson, dealing with a lot of the issues that kevin mccarthy faced as house speaker. we will see that on display in the coming days. meanwhile, thank you so much for joining us, cnn news now with abby phillip starts, right now. democrats and republicans giving us an instruction manual on how to make hard things harder. that is tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in new york. and right now we are watching both major american political parties ignore history, and its lessons, and really not learning from their mistakes is always a good mess recipe to repeat them. but which party will ultimately bear the brunt of its is the big question. for democrats, joe manchin is the man in the middle. what i will be doing is traveling the country, and s
time now to digest the day s election campaigning and there s a lot to digest today here s newscast, with adam fleming and the team. chris, let me get this straight. i can t see anyone, but you can see both me and alex forsyth. that s right although that s only because i was sent a little picture of the two of you, just to remind me what you looked like. with you in your studio and alex in hers, and me in mine. hang on, we last saw each other on thursday you ve forgotten already? no, not forgotten, ijust like to be, you know, reassured. you know what, though, alex? what was that game you play where you have to lie in the dark, and then. i don t know what game you re talking to, adam. i m nervous about where you re going with it. what do you think i do when i m lying in the dark with other people? less about your weekend. no, that game when you have to, like, shout something out, but not shout over each other, but you can t see anyone else? no. what s that game? basi
but we knew something was going on from mid morning, didn t we? because the farage ster. i don t think it s going to work. nigel farage tweeted himself, in classic nigel farage style, that he had something big. yeah, so it wasjust that kind of. and this is where nigel farage knows how to play the game, work the system, whatever you want to call it. he has been around for an awful long time in politics, and what he s always managed to do is find a way to generate the headlines, find a way to put himself at the centre of it. i mean, love him or hate him, whatever you want to say and there are definitely people that do both he is a kind of master of the game. and he played that game this morning with this kind of, was it like a four word tweet, or something like big announcement? yeah, major announcement emergency. emergency thing. and, you know, of course, what that does is just set every journalist off on their phones trying to work out what it s going to be. and, because there
we were talking. he gave them some, emily. some isn t all. that s going to be a problem for him because the government wanted everything and why did he withhold some of it. i think we still don t really understand the answer, whether there were particular documents he cared about or whether they were being sloppy. from the government s point of view, that s the point at which this goes from being, you know it s not a mistake, something the government can agree to overlook, not rise to the level of a criminal defense, to something that feels willful and they just can t afford to let go. leslie, i want to ask you about the timeline. as you know, and i think people know from watching, like i said, crime movies and mafia movies, some crimes are like this, and you say this happened. you go to the scene of the crime. it s like the emergency thing. this is a different type of case. and it has obstructive crimes