working on military intelligence systems, which gillian turner was saying is essentially i.t. he s essentially working on technology. he s not involved at a high level with this kind of information. but apparently he found a way to get it, which is the world that we live in today. jack teixeira, 21-year-old. he changed his phone number in recent days. the attorney general calling this a deliberate criminal act moments ago in a very brief statement. we waited for a while for him to come out. he made a brief statement and said we ll tell you more when we can. mike pence is with us with his reaction to that developing story. bret baier joins us and sean duffy are here on set with us in new york. first to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the very latest as she has been uncovering new information on this all throughout the day, every hour. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. we came out of a pentagon briefing. here s brigadier general pat ryder on the arrest.
began posting that intelligence to a small group of gamers. you heard me right, gamers on a platform called discord. they were all sworn to secrecy. they couldn t keep it though. what happens now? jennifer griffin is at the pentagon and what she s hearing. chris swecker on the investigation that is just starting. former secretary of state mike pompeo on the damage all of the world this is still creating. and glenn youngkin on part of that damage that he s determined to stop. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much to piece together and piece together we shall. beginning with jennifer griffin with how this all went down at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, journalists for the new york times and washington have honed in on the leaker faster than the fbi that arrived at his house in massachusetts this afternoon. the alleged leaker was identified by attorney general merrick garland as 21-year-old jacks teixeira of the 102nd intelligence wing of the massachusetts air national
your world is about to get rolling. the dow having a very good day. up 300 and change. almost 400 points. we ll see you back here tomorrow. we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding classified and sensitive information. this was a deliberate criminal act. a violation of those guidelines. a deliberate criminal act. and now the fbi arresting the man reportedly behind it. jack teixeira, a 21-year-old national air guardsman that shared top secrets about the world in ukraine and now we re learning so much else. according to reports, teixeira who referred to himself as o.g.
they entrusted with us. undermines our credibility and three, some of that information actually gives up the sources of the information by the very nature of the information. neil: normally you think when stuff like this gets out, it s done i don t know like stuff you see in a james bond movie. but this isn t that or even close. because at least there, you can argue it s fiction. this is all too real and shared with a group of gamers. you can t make this up. you can t. i m not surprised that he was a reservist. they come and serve for awhile and go back. not to disrespect reservists. there s not as much rigor in updating their background checks and updating their backgrounds in general. you know, we have a big government. a lot of people have access to a lot of information. you know, this represents you and i talked about this before. there s other vulnerabilities that have come up in the past,
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