attorney general merrick garland identified him as 21-year-old air national guardsman, jack tech t teixeira the new york times spoke with members of the private group teixeira oversaw the chat where 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games. it is in that group that airman teixeira is said to have uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings, according to the times joining me now is justice correspondent, ken dilanian. the details are unbelievable in this case. walk us through what we know one more time, what is out there and how we think it got out there. what is out there, alex, are some highly classified documents showing the fruits of american eavesdropping, signals intelligence on russia and many other countries. very embarrassing revelations that the u.s. has supplied on allies not surprising to the allies, but embarrassing when it becomes public, ukraine s air defenses and w
we are back with the second hour of cr chris jansing report reports live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. at this hour, breaking news, we are waiting for a pentagon briefing expected any moment as we learn new details about exactly who might be behind the leak of classified u.s. intelligence documents of government secrets online. plus, in the hot seat, former president donald trump s deposition in a high stakes civil lawsuit here in new york what it could mean for the fate of the family business and days of flames, the fire at an indiana plastics recycling plant, pumping toxic black clouds into the richmond skies for a third straight day the danger and how the community is responding. plus, a 50-year flood event. we re live from fort lauderdale, florida, where officials just issued an emergency declaration after that massive rainfall. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, let s start with that breaking news officials have identified a
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that is an excellent question. i personally do not think that he has the full support of those in his orbit. you know, we re starting to see, obviously, lots of protests, almost 3,000 people have been arrested in russia for protesting this. i think in terms of his close circle, i think there is some disagreement. however, i do not know that they re going to voice that disagreement necessarily. well, that is a wise assessment. tracy walder, coming from you, thank you so much. look forward to seeing you again. for all of you, that is going to do it for me on this edition of alex witt reports. in just a moment, katy tur continues our coverage. , katy tr continues our coverage