teixeira accused of disseminating classified documents. the pentagon and intelligence community in daniel mage control how can this happen again ten years after edward snowden the justice department filed an appeal to the supreme court to block a federal appeals court ruling that limits access to an fda approved abortion pill will the court act before the ruling goes into affect? and grant a stay until it can decide the case. i will be joined by pete buttigieg on some of the big headlines this week and the biden administration s $300 million investment in repairing bridges from san diego to albany good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington the 21-year-old national guardsman charged under two sections of the espionage act for that massive leak of classified documents making his first appearance in a boston federal court. with three family members sitting behind him, jack teixeira was read charges that carry a term of ten years in prison and three years supervised rele
a new york times contributor who has had a byline on all of the big stories of the week. you worked with seven colleagues on this story. this was huge. revealing his identity to the nation how did you initially discover his identity within this chat room that he oversaw we found him basically through his account on his platform, which is popular among people who play games. he had common friends. they were also on the same server where these leaked documents were posted. through triangulation, we came across a profile for one guy who turned out to be jack teixeira following leads, some digital breadcrumbs, we were led to more information about him, photos of him in his air national guard
thwarting in recent days that americans are out of step with americans and it will have election consequences. laura, joyce, victoria, susan, thanks to all of you. demanding answers. how did someone so young have access to so much? i will talk to the leading democrat on the house democrat on the house intelligence committee about time for downy mcbride to go to jack teixeira. - whoo - smells great, downy! ugh, cul-de-sacs. downy unstopables. you gotta sniff it to believe it. have heart failure with unresolved symptoms? it may be time to see the bigger picture. heart failure and seemingly unrelated symptoms like carpal tunnel syndrome. shortness of breath.
with three family members sitting behind him, jack teixeira was read charges that carry a term of ten years in prison and three years supervised release along with fines. he will be held in detention until a scheduled hearing next wednesday. joining me now, ken dilanian and chris cont kristin welker ken, you read through the unsealed affidavit what can you tell us about this? how does this happen ten years after edward snowden that s the question this affidavit doesn t really answer it. it does suggest that the fbi was neck and neck with the news media in terms of identifying and then arresting jack teixeira they only confirmed his identity with a witness through a photo i.d. yesterday some pretty da ramatic and rapi turnaround we are learning more and more
minutes. there s a 12:00 press conference scheduled. as far as the airport, that reopened at 9:00 this morning. the first flights were 10:00 around florida and an 11:00 flight to chicago. hopefully, folks are getting to their destinations there was a standstill for 36 hours as people were adjusting to historic levels of flooding sam brock in fort lauderdale, thank you very much. that wraps up the hour for me. i will see you tomorrow night on nbc nightly news saturday. reach me on twitter and insta g instagram. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, 21-year-old air national guardsman jack