a leak is a common usually b an unnamed store source to a journalist about information this is a flood. this is a set of documents tha was probably circulating the pentagon to be, clear i ve not seen the documents. i haven t received classifie briefings about them my sense is that this hour stephanie, the pentago leadership and intelligenc community leadership are tryin to analyze whether an inside put this out, what protectio was the person s motivation, o was this potentially hacked by an outsider. what was the method of exfiltrating this information? where these hard copies that were walked out of the buildings in somebody s bag in the photographed and taken unemployed to the web? or was this information someho circulated to a wide range o people and somebody got hacked. i don t think we know that yet don t know the motivations don t know the source. and that is making a very hard at this moment to determine th damage because we do not know whether
one of these people from tennessee last week or two weeks ago, stands on the steps the united states capitol an looks at reporters and says, we re not gonna do anything, we re not gonna fix it, what does that say to everybody i mean, stephanie, they don even offer thoughts and prayer anymore. you know what he said my kids are home schooled. antonia must be nice for him. all of this, all that s going on in tennessee since th nashville shooting, tonight th states where republica governor signed a la strengthening background checks do you think something reall brought him around, or is he just trying to do somethin because the pressure is on a this warm and, or is he really taking a turn? stephanie, i don t think we should minimize this this actually represents a major pivot. i have spent a long time i tennessee over the last couple of months covering one controversial bill after another. for the most part, we re republican member has been in lockstep with hi republican colle
i. take them to school every day, put them on the bus. it s not freedom, stephanie, t have to worry about whether or not your little girl s gonna have to come home from school. it s not freedom for my little girls to know when an active shooter drills it s not freedom to pull up to a supermarket in there is four deputies outside and ask i everything is okay and they sa it is. now place that we ve seen in michigan, with leaders o governor whitmer, they r pushing through legislatio that has 90% approval in michigan 90%, in a very purple swin state. this is beyond, these are ou kids, and this isn t the, yo know, the run-of-the-mill righ versus left. people like me, stephanie, i used to be a republican. i m in my 40s. i live in the suburbs. right now it s going to star affecting people like me who might have always vote republican in our families and say enough is enough i don t want anything to d with any of these guys because
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where americans have suc little faith in ou institutions problems like this will no help how, and what can we do to rebuild trust? you are touching upon something significan stephanie. because we go around saying ho important our secrets are. how important it is to protect sources and methods, including importantly the human source who risked their lives and then when defense leader apparently or defense official i should say, or personnel are themselves reckless and even i would say criminally negligent or maybe even willful, transmitting this informatio to the public, i think i undermines our argument. first of all, i think we hav too much classifie information. there are hundreds of thousand of classified documents that are created every single day hundreds of thousands of peopl inside of the government who got access to this information i think we need to do a much better job of tightening control of the true secrets ou nation has to protect.