hello, everyone. i m dana perino. it s 5:00 in new york city. this is the five. dana: america just when you thought you had seen every scandal out of washington, there s this. a staffer for democratic senator ben cardin is out of a job after a graphic sex tape was filmed in a historic senate hearing room. capitol police are investigating how it was allowed to happen. it was recorded last week, but the time of day is unclear. it s the same esteemed places where supreme court justices had their confirmation hearings, where the 9/11 commission uncovered what happened there, and it s where james comey testified against former president trump. the identities of the people involved in the video have not been confirmed, but legal experts think they could face criminal charges like trespassing. meanwhile some in the media are really spinning this story. nbc news blames conservative outlets for reporting that a democratic senate staffer filmed the sex video in a capitol hill heari
classified documents posted by an user, refer to o.g. only 1 or 2 people were paying attention to the documents he was pouring his heart into and a sign of anger he decided to post the full documents. there are talks of foreign intelligence agencies. there s talks of nuclear weaponry. i mean, it s hardly touching the iceberg. sandra: as we learn more, fox news alert, the pentagon is now set to offer a briefing to reporters and to the country, expected top of the hour. they say federal investigators may have discovered the identity of that intelligence leaker. we await news on that. hello, welcome everyone. bill, great to have you back again. bill: great to be with you again. i m bill melugin in for john roberts. wall street journal reporting an arrest might be imminent as the fast moving probe as apparently zeroed in on an air national guards man based at fort bragg. sandra: a bombshell report with friends of the leaker alleging he was not political but motivated by
working on military intelligence systems, which gillian turner was saying is essentially i.t. he s essentially working on technology. he s not involved at a high level with this kind of information. but apparently he found a way to get it, which is the world that we live in today. jack teixeira, 21-year-old. he changed his phone number in recent days. the attorney general calling this a deliberate criminal act moments ago in a very brief statement. we waited for a while for him to come out. he made a brief statement and said we ll tell you more when we can. mike pence is with us with his reaction to that developing story. bret baier joins us and sean duffy are here on set with us in new york. first to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the very latest as she has been uncovering new information on this all throughout the day, every hour. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. we came out of a pentagon briefing. here s brigadier general pat ryder on the arrest.
began posting that intelligence to a small group of gamers. you heard me right, gamers on a platform called discord. they were all sworn to secrecy. they couldn t keep it though. what happens now? jennifer griffin is at the pentagon and what she s hearing. chris swecker on the investigation that is just starting. former secretary of state mike pompeo on the damage all of the world this is still creating. and glenn youngkin on part of that damage that he s determined to stop. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much to piece together and piece together we shall. beginning with jennifer griffin with how this all went down at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, journalists for the new york times and washington have honed in on the leaker faster than the fbi that arrived at his house in massachusetts this afternoon. the alleged leaker was identified by attorney general merrick garland as 21-year-old jacks teixeira of the 102nd intelligence wing of the massachusetts air national
he s not interested in helping any foreign agencies with their attack on the u.s. or other countries. he was a young man, charismatic that loved nature, god, who loved shooting guns and racing cars. this teenager in california told the washington post he was one of 20 or so members that met with the alleged leaker during the pandemic on a server called thug shaker central on discord. he acted like a father figure to the teens. they called him o.g. every day we would watch movies, play games, do activities together. we d stream our houses and mess around and dance and have fun. when members would have issues like mental health crisises, o.g. and other members would help them out. the teen described the small group as his online family. unlike edward snowden and chelsea manning, he was not a whistle-blower. just a guy showing off for