happening, but this is a different situation because of all that is at stake in the lower courts. just think about what we have been talking about all day. when it comes to that abortion case, john this will be a fight. not about dianne feinstein, but really about judges over the next few days. lauren fox. great reporting. thank you so much for explaining it. okay there s a lot going on and coming in this hour with regard to that massive and extraordinary leak of pentagon documents. cnn has new reporting this hour that the fbi has narrowed down the potential pool of suspects who could be behind the leak of classified pentagon documents also knew today, sources say the pentagon is now limiting access to top military secrets because of and after these leaks and the washington post is reporting an extraordinary conversation they had with someone who claims to be a friend of the leaker that friend saying that he was a young, charismatic man who worked at a military base. joining us right n
the ece. glenn gerstell, glenn. thank you so much for coming back in yesterday when we spoke you you your take on this leak was that it was a little amateurish and a little odd. and then what? we re learning now from the washington post and this inner in this conversation they had with his friend who calls him a young gun enthusiast who is sharing this information with people that are in a chat group with him online. what do you think of this leak now? well it certainly seems to fit the pattern. you know, after the snowden leak, this kind of thing wasn t supposed to happen again , and the government tried to figure out what kind of person is likely to do this sort of criminal act and it turns out it s a disaffected psychological studies show. it s a disaffected , disgruntled person who thinks they know better than everyone else. they re smarter than everyone else, in their view, and that s why the laws and the rules don t apply to them. and if the washington post story is true, we don
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the documents for establishing communication and situational awareness. it is the people who transport them to be destroyed so that pool really expand significantly, just like andrew said in terms of the assessment. this is going to be very difficult. and you know the fact that it appears today mentioned secretary austin learned of this on the sixth of april and there have been additional leaks since then tells me that when we re talking about the relevancy or the recency of these things being leak, could there be more ? might the individual who s leaking them have more that he can that he or she can put out on the internet or through photographs. those are the things that are very concerning right now. it s probably going a little bit dark, but also the fact that it it deals with activities that are going on now . the snowden leak had to do with cables and things from the
. this is going to be very difficult, and you know the fact that it appears today mentioned secretary austin learned of this on the sixth of april, and there have been additional leaks since then tells me that when we re talking about the relevancy or the recency of these things being leaked, could there be more? might the individual who s leaking them have more that he can that he or she can put out on the internet or are through photographs. those are the things that are very concerning right now. it s probably going a little bit dark. but also the fact that it it deals with activities that are going on now . the snowden leak had to do with cables and things from the state department and the defense department. these things are occurring now and it talks it talks in many cases about ukraine about the capability for them to conduct operations, which is not a good thing. character, dero. how important