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here. this washington post story is unreal. i thought i felt i was reading it. it felt like a movie script like a screenplay. incredible reporting. we re going to tell you all about it. if you re just waking up with us this morning because this is about those leaked documents and who it was online that leaked them. young person named o g. o g. and then there s a teenager involved, and it involves like a social media gaming site. it s a lot you want to stick around for this critical for national security, so we ll get into that. we re glad you re with us. caitlin s on assignment, so let s start with the five things to know for this very busy thursday, april the 13th a federal appeals court, partially blocking a texas judge s ruling on the abortion pill, mr preston, it means the fda approval of that drug still stands for now, but other limitations have been put in place more than that. in a moment, complicated story. we re going to break it down for you and this we were just ta
learned. law enforcement is about to arrest a suspect tied to the leak of a trove of highly secret government intelligence, which is embarrassed the us and strained multiple alliances. today. several blockbuster reports expose who the suspected leader is. the new york times has named him as a 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard. cnn has not independently verified his identity, and it s not currently naming him both the times and the washington post said the man is the leader of a chat group on the online platform discord and his older than most members of the group of gamers who call him o. g. one of his friends who spoke anonymously on camera to the post obtained parental permission to do so. because that friend is underage. take a listen. he was. he was a young, charismatic man who loved nature . god who loved shooting guns and in racing cars. he did see himself as the leader of this group, and ultimately he was the leader of this group, and he wanted
attitude at some points, but it was more of a fatherly bossy. he did see himself as the leader of the scrutiny. ultimately he was the leader of this group, and he wanted us all to be sort of supersoldiers system degree informed fit with god. well, armed stuff like that. i mean, they looked up to him when you look at the reports out there and people who have spoken to other people, other people who are part of this group. i mean, he was their leader. he was the guy that was coming in and giving them all this information. it s not entirely clear that they understood what they were getting. but certainly this was a person who they looked up to. who s coming into this check group, giving them information. but at at times what s really interesting is that they weren t even interested in what he was saying, and he would get so angry at them. and he would say, come on, guys. you gotta pay attention to what i m saying. i didn t understand the acronyms. so he was typing. he was using a lot of t
undergoing a very intense leak hunt for this person, but they know where they know his real name. they know where he lives, they say, and they know that he works on a military base where he can have access to all of these documents. but look in terms of what this group actually was and what kind of bound them together. it appears that they all had a love of according to this friend here of god, the military guns here is part of what he had to tell the washington post. he was. he was a young, charismatic man who loved nature. god who loved shooting guns and in racing cars , he did see himself as the leader of the scrutiny. ultimately he was the leader of this group, and he wanted us all to be sort of supersoldiers system degree informed fit with god. well, armed stuff like that. so originally, according to the post, o g. the leaker alleged leaguer was actually hand transcribing these