press secretary did about just why this this 21 year old air national guardsman was allowed, apparently to have access to such classified material and what pentagon press secretary writer told reporters that essentially the military and trust highly classified information to people of all ages, including very young service members, essentially depends on what your job is and what you need to do that job. he gave the example of course of very young service members at leading people into combat. he said that basically it doesn t matter what your age is. it is just the job that you need to do. and so the pentagon did say, however, that they are taking steps to mitigate any potential leaks like this in the future. they are limiting the amount of information, for example, that they are disseminating widely across the u. s government. we have been told that people who were receiving these kinds of highly classified documents over the last several months have simply stopped receivin
former professional tennis players, rene stubs and patrick mcenroe. thanks to both of you for joining us, renee the w. t a received a lot of praise for its principled stand, but 16 months later mired in the stalemate, the organization has retreated. what do you make of this move? yeah i mean, listen, jake, i have to say that this for me, this comes down to finances. that s what it comes down to. i think that you know, the wta will probably look back on this in some respects, and you have to be proud of them for the stance that they took originally, but i think little bit of lack of strategy in the in the understanding of what if you don t get what you want. is this where we re going to be, and this is exactly where they ve gotten, too, because they think that they could strong arm, a country like china into doing what they wanted to do was, you know a rather large stretch, putting it mildly, so i think this comes down to finances and that s why they re going back. maybe the heart they
diplomatic boycott for the beijing games, which means u.s. officials will not participate. phil? yeah, important point. different from 1980 but sending a message, one lawmakers have been calling for. thanks so much. there are a number of issues that contributed to pressure that has been driving the white house about this potential diplomatic boycott over the course of the last several weeks, human issues and treatment of democracy advocates in hong kong and aggressive military leaders aimed at taijuan and just recently questions about the treatment of a tennis champion that had a few rare opinions accusing a top government official of sexual assault. i spoke with rene stubs on the tennis world s mounting pressure on china and howolympics.