cnn newsroom. i m abby phillip in washington to very serious charges for that 21 year old air national guardsman accused of leaking a trove of sensitive classified documents online. you can see there jack to share as parents outside of the courthouse this morning in boston. there, son was in shackles facing a judge less than 24 hours after he peacefully surrendered to a swarm of heavily armed fbi agents. prosecutors revealed today that to share a had a top secret clearance since 2021 that he allegedly leaked the alleged leading began long afterward in a online discord group. the pentagon says that this was a deliberate criminal act, and the new court documents show that members of that chat group gave the fbi information that could be key to making that case. cnn s natasha bertrand is at the pentagon, natasha so lay out what the charges that he s facing our yeah, abby, so he did appear in court in massachusetts this morning, and he was officially charged with two separate cou
first our top story del rio once again the hot spot in the migrant crisis. customs and border protection says in less than a week agents in del rio have encountered nearly 7,000 migrants from 79 different countries spotted and lost track of more than 3,000 known gotaways. arrested 13 criminal aliens including three felony sex offenders. blocked 74 cases of smuggling. all that in just six days. now people who live there are just at their wit s end. we ve seen and hear about increase of criminal behavior at the border. the issue we run into it has increased so much and see how the local law enforcement officers hands are tied because of the resources being exhausted. so it is like the community is already gave up. dana: welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, good morning. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. investigators in california still trying to piece together who is behind a cold blooded murder. the killing of six members of a family includ
district care primary. that, to a cnn projecting, charlie quest will win the floor democratic primary, and take on ron desantis that will happen in november. val demings, winning florida s democratic senate primary. so, there is a lot to discuss. cnn s phil mattingly, at the magic wall, with more but, that s just a moment. standby, phil. as primary results roll in, all across the country, and with the midterms looming, here is the thing. democracy is on the ballot. there are election deniers running, and winning, in key races across the country. we are still reckoning with the cancer of january 6th. one of the greatest threats to this country in our history. so, do americans vote like democracy depends on it? economy? inflation? putting food on the table? yes in the tank? keeping a roof over your head? that all matters to voters. of course it does. culture wars matter a lot to people, to. the book banning, the outrage over critical race theory, even the shortage of teachers.
republicans by having a national response to 20 week ban. doing so legislatively federally in the united states congress and that fell like a thud with a lot of his fellow republicans not interested in that for lots of not go over well. it didn t go over well, but for political reasons, and for policy reasons , because a lot of republicans genuinely believe it should be a state issue. that s a long way of saying no, there clearly is not a way to ah to unify this message and, more importantly, to unify the policy because republicans are genuinely all over the map on how it should be approached on a policy level, which leads to political troubles. so, dana before you go today, we re seeing a slew of republicans. donald trump, mike pence. desantis tim scott and the key haley all appearing in one form or another in front of
this. they say they are. we ll see. bill: this went on for some time. a commentator blasting a player after skipping the team s pride night citing his religious faith. it didn t go over well. hello to you. he is saying look, it is against what i believe in and some of these commentators said go back to russia and one even suggested maybe you could join the battle for ukraine. that s so over the top. as an islanders fan i hate the flyers for the old-fashioned reasons, not a fan of anything going on in philly. in terms of this event the person i m mad at is the nhl. nobody asked for this. this player is not saying i don t tolerate gay people. they don t have a right to exist. he is saying i don t want to participate in what feels like a symbolic shallow corporate