today. see you back here monday, same time, same place, 10:00 a.m. eastern. until then, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now good morning it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific any minute now attorney general merrick garland is expected to make a major announcement about charges against dozens of mexican drug cartels leaders and members. also the suspect in the biggest leak of military intelligence in decades appeared in court last hour what we re learning about how the suspected leaker got access to the classified documents. and breaking just moments anegotiation the legal battle over the abortion pill headed to the supreme court. and we are live in south florida where officials are assessing millions of dollars in damage from massive flooding after historic 26-inch rainfall. and we begin this hour with breaking news out of the department of justice. there you see the podium set up. two senior law enforcement
saving you up to 75% a year. and it s only available to comcast business internet customers. so boost your bottom line by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities™. 29 past the hour the man suspected of being behind the biggest intelligence breach in a decade just made his first court appearance 21-year-old jack teixeira appeared in a federal courtroom in boston just a short time ago. he was charged with possessing classified documents and possessing national defense materials. the airman first class is accused of leaking hundreds of pages of classified military intelligence documents to a group of friends on the social media platform discord, which is popular with male video gamers and gun enthusiasts. the documents sat online for
jose. and apparently these are pictures of some of the family members of teixeira as they left the courtroom this morning kristen, do we know how this information being out there since january, do we know more about how authorities were able to find out about this and how they acted until yesterday when they arrested him? well, certainly as ron just said, part of the process was talking to that gamer. here s a little more what we know about teixeira. he was promoted last year to airman first class he worked in i.t. in the intelligence wing of the national guard now, it was the washington post who first reported that he shared this classified intelligence under the screen name of o.g. on a game platform called discord that s popular with video gamers and gun enthu enthusiasts. they describe the leaker as someone searching for companionship, not necessarily someone trying to expose government secrets those in the chat room with him