catch the new episode of eva longoria searching for mexico tomorrow night at nine p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with new details in the case against the 21 year old air national guardsman he s accused of leaking top secret pentagon information. jack to share a appeared in court yesterday and was charged under the espionage act. his arrest follows an intense week long search for the source. of the online leak of secret documents to share a held a top secret security clearance and is accused of posting documents that exposed sensitive intelligence the u. s has on both close allies and adversaries. cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt is joining us live from washington right now, alice , what more are you learning about how to share? and uh, you know, learning about him and then how he was able to print off these documents there, fredricka? well, the qu
off these documents there, fredricka? well, the question of printing is a very good one. whether he himself printed these top secret documents, or he was able to obtain top secret documents. what we do know now is that he posted them online. in fact, he started posting classified information back in december. that was just text, and then that evolved into these photos of these classified documents both secret and top secret, and we understand that there were hundreds of them that were posted on online months before these really came to light in the public. that was back on april 6th when the secretary of defense got his first briefing, and then just a week later, airman first class jack to share a was arrested at his at his family home just south of boston. now he is of fairly low rank. he has been in the military since 2019. and he has had this, uh, this top secret security clearance for the past two years, and the reason fredricka that he has this clearance is that he works at what i