i d be coming. it s so good to be back in ireland. forgive my poor attempt at irish. i m at home. i m at home. after my aged, as you can see how old i am, i have a little wisdom i have more experience than any president in american history. doesn t make me better or worse, but it gives me few excuses. president joe biden bringing some jokes with him during a speech yesterday to the irish parliament the president wraps up his visit to ireland today, marking 25 years since the good friday agreement, which ended decades of violence. meanwhile, at home, the fbi arrested a 21-year-old air national guardsman who is suspected of leaking national documents. we ll sort through how that young man got his hands on the documents. plus, florida governor ron desantis took a break from his nationwide book tour to sign an extreme abortion ban into law late last night. we will dig into the legislation, and how it could impact his potential presidential campaign. also ahead this mornin
the washington post is reporting the u.s. expects the war to continue into next year kristen welker asked poland s prime minister about that. is that your assessment i think so, too russia has huge and vast natural resources, human resources. reporter: now, the pent agon is reviewing who has access to top secrets. we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding sensitive and classified information this was a deliberate criminal act, a violation of those guidelines if there are any areas where we need to tighten things up, we certainly will andrea mitchell reporting there. let s bring in former supreme allied commander of nato, retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. chief analyst for nbc news good to see you this morning two parts to this. just how damaging some of this information is president biden downplaying that in ireland yesterday then, just how a 21-year-old air national guardsman got access to
were exclusively done by my colleagues, paula reid, and the new york times showing rudy giuliani in one sense to be the voice of reason telling the president apparently, no, no, no, you can t do that, you can t use the pent agon that way. it is remarkable and i believe the more investigating the january 6th committee does, the more the arrows will point at the former president. at the same time, abby, i also find when the details continue to roll out, as gloria says, all of these stories come out, some people, they stop listening to kind of what it really means. i want to play for you what harvard legal scholar lawrence tribe, how he put it with all of trump s efforts here. this is extremely serious. no former president has ever committed so grave a crime against the country right in front of our very eyes. the crime of seditious conspiracy and aiding and
host 5,000 afghans on a temporary basis after a request from the united states government. they are scrambling to enlist over nations to accept evacuees. we are waiting for this briefing. how do you expect the pentagon will explain and tell us how they re going to decrease this bottleneck? first, we know that the pentagon and military are working on decreasing the bottleneck because we have pictures of them getting the air base in germany ready to host them. they are expanding the options. the real question is why is this being done now after qatar filled up. we knew they had capacity for 8,000. even if the u.s. is only moving over 1,000 a day, that s going to fill up quickly. pent agon stressed it s plannin organization. the plans seem to fall apart quickly now that we are hitting reality on the ground pretty