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
crisis from hurting themselves or others, let s come together and make sure that not another family experiences that this loss that not another community is ripped apart and it s very fabric by this type of savage and senseless violence. you mentioned universal background checks. we know most action on gun reform is likely to happen at the state level more likely to happen at state level than it does at the federal level. just give us a sense since being there in washington, and i know you ve reached out to your constituents and we re calling them as recently as last week. asked about their concerns, gun violence was right up there. since you ve been in washington . are you more or less hopeful that this country can and will in fact address gun violence? uh i m always going to be helpful. hopeful i spent 10 years in the state senate in the minority is a democrat and kentucky and worked every day with my colleagues from all over the state and across the aisle to try to make th
hamas captivity and why the mission almost fell apart. plus with palestinian civilians killed in the raid, could the united states push for a cease-fire ban jeopardy. cbs evening news starts now. international pressure builds on hamas to accept a cease-fire and hostage proposal laid out by president biden. tonight the terror group says it s ready to negotiate. good evening, i am norah o donnell. thank you for being with us. we want to begin with the new diplomatic push to stop the israel-hamas war. and renewed hope that more hostages could be released. the u.n. security council just approve the latest plan and america s top diplomat secretary of state antony blinken is back in the middle east trying to close the deal tonight. this comes as we are getting dramatic new video of the daring raid that freed four is really hostages over the weekend. which came at a staggering cost for palestinian civilians. cbs s chris livesay s leads us off from tel aviv. new footage shows the
those remarks by the president are very interesting because look, the president says, there s nothing contemporaneous year. nothing all that consequential, but we do know that these leaks have spurred on all out government effort to appease us allies, some of whom appeared to have been spied on based on these documents, some of whose embarrassing secrets have been revealed through these documents. and then as far as the contemporaneous nature of this look, i guess it depends on how you define contemporaneous, but certainly one thing that current and former officials girls have pointed out as one of the concerning aspects of these leaks is how fresh some of this intelligence is detailing, for example, dwindling ukrainian stockpiles of munitions going back just to last month and also talking about u. s plans to help bolster ukrainian defenses going into detail about u. s intelligence collection efforts within the russian military, all of which the revelation of which could potentially co
way too many people have access currently to these kinds of highly sensitive documents, documents that are really designed to brief senior pentagon officials on a daily basis about important updates in the war in ukraine, for example , now, the u. s is also trying to smooth over things with allies who, of course, are mentioned in these documents, including south korea, israel and ukraine. a lot of those allies now expressing concern about this leak, but some of the allies are saying that the us is taking this seriously and they have been briefed on the u. s efforts to get to the bottom of this. here s what the australian defense chief had to say. by reports. is a serious leak. it is being investigated seriously by u. s authorities and they are engaging with partners in order to better understand the potential consequences of that information being released into the public. so these documents leaking online, embarrassing not