everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with new details in the case against a 21 year old air national guardsman 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 correspondent national security rather correspondent alex marquardt joining us live from washington, alex. so what more are we learning about to share a and how he was able to print off these documents undetected? hi there, fredricka. well airman first class jack to share a 21 years old and you said he enlisted in the air national guard back in 2019 around four years ago. and then it was
government judges and electe officials in the middle of suc important ethical decisions an so it is taking away reproductive freedoms, which i is once again one step towards the radical white ring in this country trying to establish national abortion ban. and that battle plays, ou concern and outrage over a new florida law banning most abortions after six weeks. earlier today, democratic stat senator shevrin jones told msnbc how floridians are reacting they re saying it s too much they re saying that the stat of florida, we re doing way to much as government overreach this extremism that we re seeing across the country is starting right here. this is literally the petr dish for what they are tryin to pass across the country new efforts to securing classify - locate classified documents as a 21-year-old air national guardsmen is charged under the air national guard act accused of leaking sensitive information online we will have the latest detail in this case in just m
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and yet, more negative impacts in our society of covid s lockdown isolation. is this young man, allegedly escaped into a world online forming an alternate community that somehow evaded our top investigators for months. so how does that happen? congressman from the house intelligence community stands by with his thoughts. and she is having all the action happening this afternoon at the courthouse in boston, massachusetts, high alexis. mike hi, this is when the suspect was just in front the judge a short time ago. the question remains again this afternoon my thought of how does a 21-year-old with a high school diploma could have access to some of the country s top secrets into new topic at good chance to look at so that you look like he knew some federal authorities were looking into him. take a look at the new documents we got in our newsroom a short time ago. as of the newly released affidavit there saying that that air national guard had me using his clearance to search
but, breaking tonight, the suspect accused of leaking our nation s top secrets appearing in court for the first time today. 21-year-old national guard man for leaking and sharing classified information. we learn more about the investigation that led to his takedown as criticism mount to the methods of highly sensitive secrets to thousands of people including a 21-year-old air national guardman from texas. they are tightening the entire process. reaction. we begin alexis mcadams outside the court house. that appearance happened today in boston. good evening, alexis. very active day at the federal courthouse behind me as investigators try to figure out how a 21-year-old with a high school diploma had access to some of the country s biggest secrets. this all comes as new documents we just got a look at today show that jack teixeira might have known that the feds were on to him so much so he was trying to search in his data base. tonight 21-year-old jack teixeira remains in