here. this washington post story is unreal. i thought i felt i was reading it. it felt like a movie script like a screenplay. incredible reporting. we re going to tell you all about it. if you re just waking up with us this morning because this is about those leaked documents and who it was online that leaked them. young person named o g. o g. and then there s a teenager involved, and it involves like a social media gaming site. it s a lot you want to stick around for this critical for national security, so we ll get into that. we re glad you re with us. caitlin s on assignment, so let s start with the five things to know for this very busy thursday, april the 13th a federal appeals court, partially blocking a texas judge s ruling on the abortion pill, mr preston, it means the fda approval of that drug still stands for now, but other limitations have been put in place more than that. in a moment, complicated story. we re going to break it down for you and this we were just ta
happens next. good morning, quite a day here. bill hemmer, good day to you. dana: good morning, i m a dana perino and this is america s newsroom. this story is mind blowing, frustrating and i don t know if the president s reaction maybe he is masking how he really feels about it. americans will be outraged when they learn about this. the man responsible for blowing the lid off america s military secrets is apparent will i a low-level government employee. this according to a bombshell report from the washington post. it claims his motivation for sharing the documents was not political but to impress young friends. bill: said to be in his early 20s, worked on a military base. shared the documents in a private chat group in a video game site called discord. dana: teenage member spoke to the washington post. the leaker went by the name o.g. he said he was like a father figure to the group of mostly young gamers and he shared the documents to keep them in the loop on
reporters questions. wonder what the leaders of the other countries are saying. all of those files originally appeared in a small chat app group called discord. only about 20 members total. then because they sat there for weeks and weeks, we still don t get a firm idea from the federal government exactly how long this was out there. it spread much wider. one of the members of the teenage group got his parents permission to talk to the media reporter and said the group, the leaker was in his 20s and worked on a military base. he spoke with washington post on condition of anonymity. this channel there were classified documents being posted by a user called o.g. he was the leader of this group and he wanted us all to be sort of super soldiers to some degree, informed, fit, with god, well armed, stuff like that. it would appear as if he sort of grew angry with the fact that only 1 or 2 people were paying attention to these documents he was pouring his heart out into. harr
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.