and transmission of classified national defense information. that could carry a 15 year prison sentence. his father shouting quote i love you to his son during the hearing. lawmakers demanding answers to how he had access to such sensitive files. teixeira share them with a video game chat group before the spill that wider and social media. former director of national intelligence john ratcliff telling fox earlier this case is not like other high profile intel leaks. week ultimately ended up with the kinds of abuses that we saw with edward snowden and bradley manning using wiki leaks. jack teixeira is a very different situation for its individual initially thought it was as few as 50 documents taken one at a time from a classified facility. insider threats program is not really designed for that type of person who is not even trying to share that information publicly as the others were through wiki leaks. if our president by just back from his trip to ireland says he too wan
told the f.b.i. had been watching him for days but then the f.b.i. was forced into action when the media published his name. he is 21 years old. joined the national guard in 2019. he held the highest level security clearance granted by the u.s. government and he now faces charges under the espionage act. dana: new york post headlines geeky leaks. why the military entrusted this information to a 21-year-old guardsman? the pentagon defending its protocol. it was a deliberate criminal act. violation of the guidelines. you receive training and you will receive an understanding of the rules and requirements that come along with those responsibilities and you are expected to abide by those rules, regulations and responsibility called military discipline. bill: reaction, john ratcliffe. peter doocy and we begin in boston with alexis mcadams. good morning from boston. we expect the suspected libellinger in court for the first time in a federal courthouse in boston and hea
nightly news with lester holt. good evening from houston where i am on assignment working on a story for a future broadcast but our top story tonight, the flooding catastrophe in kentucky where officials say at least 19 people have died including children with a toll expected to climb. authorities are not even sure how many people are still missing with fresh concern about more life-threatening flash floods this weekend. urgent rescues in boats and from helicopters continue with crews saving hundreds already. the governor telling me on thursday it s by far the worst flooding disaster in his lifetime 6 more inches of rain are expected in parts of the already devastated region. northeast tennessee, southwest virginia and west virginia also in the storm zone. all of it accentuating a climate crisis that is causing more intense and frequent severe weather emergencies around the world we have it all covered tonight beginning with maggie vespa in hard hit kentucky. reporter: i
florida in just a moment. plus a new subpoena from the department of justice, this one to the national archives for white house documents it turned over to the january 6 committee. meanwhile, in georgia, rudy giuliani testified for over six hours over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. now georgia s governor is seeking to delay his own testimony which was scheduled for today. willie. let s begin this hour in the state of florida. where at 1:00 p.m. a federal judge will hear arguments about whether to unseal the affidavit used by the fbi to search the florida home of former president donald trump. the justice department is arguing against that saying it could compromise an ongoing investigation. the fbi goes through the seized documents sorting those covered by attorney/client privilege to what is relevant to the case. joining us in west palm beach, correspondent sam brock. good morning. reporter: willie, good morning. and speaking to that specifically, the breadth
this is not business as usual and shows how dire the situation has become. some families have turned to hospitals to help feed their children and that includes four babies in south carolina who could not tolerate other formulas when their usual product sold out. one estimate says at least 45% of formula products were sold out last week nationwide and hoarding is only making things worse. one woman in massachusetts filled a shopping cart full of baby formula and was confronted by another shopper. take a look. look at this. look at all this. i need it for my baby. look at the shelves. you don t think i need it for my baby, too. you take all the formula off the shelf. you come after me. i don t know you get this one. i m saying this is the whole reason there s a formula shortage. you come and buy all the formula at once and there are kids who need formula today who won t be able to get it because you just bought it to stock up. we ve got to work together on this. y