be liked was the best way to be like, look what i have look what i have access to let me teach you a few things. that s the motivation. before you go, and i only have about a minute left i got to ask you about what yo tell a green defending the accused leaker, not the only right wing figure to do so how does that actually mak national security more complicated with members o congress egging this guy yeah, marjorie taylor green sits on the homeland securit committee, for heaven s sake yes, tucker carlson has weighe in as well they re calling him not traitor but some kind of hero. what this does is it makes tha kind of pressure, that kind of influence, makes it so difficult for congress t actually give the the ot wha it needs, which is more mone and budget and personnel to ge it right and fix the problem you can t do that if congres seems unwilling to see this gu as anything but a traitor. don t forget, coming down th pipeline, their friend, former
learning more about what the government says it has learned about the 21-year-old accused leaker according to court documents, the fed says the national guard airmen started posting classified documents online around december of last year when news of the leak broke, teixeira allegedly started to panic, searching classified intelligence reporting for the word leak. just a few days ago. joining me now, our nbc news chief foreign affairs and washington correspondent andrea mitchell and outside the courthouse in boston where jack teixeira made his first court appearance, jack teixeira was there this morning, what is he being charged with reporter: he s basically being charged with violating the nation s espionage laws chwhich make it a crime to handle or mishandle documents that puts nation s security at risk relating to removing, transmitting these documents
from dublin. hi, peter. dana, we have been told today on the record by a white house official here in dublin the president biden is having the time of his life. that is not something you usually hear about the work trip. and a few minutes ago president biden down played the significance of these document getting leaked. president biden: there is a full blown investigation going on with the intelligence community and justice department and they are getting close. how concerned are you about this leak? i m not concerned about the leak i m not concerned that it happened but nothing contemporaneous that i m aware of that is of consequence. the accused leaker is a man in his 20s who works on a military base and uses the moniker o.g. online according to the washington post , which talked to an unnamed member of a chatroom where classified materials were shared weeks before the pentagon realized it was out there.
the foreign intelligence surveillance court. last night on ac 360 the father of accused leaker edward snowden, the father said his son loves his country. northeahe s not living a come life. i know my son. i know he loves this country. what he believed is this information, the american people needed to be aware of what their government was doing to them. spying upon them. edward snowden is still believed to be in that airport in moscow while he negotiates his asylum. the fbi now has a new chief. on this vote the yays are 93. the nays are 1. two senators responded present. the senate confirmed that james comey to head the fbi.
joining us to talk more about this case and others today. thank you so much. reporter: sure. rick: just in, accused leaker bradley manning s court-martial is almost over, the defense summing up today. manning, a u.s. army private, is accused of aiding the enemy by sending hundreds of thousands of top secret government documents to wikileaks. meanwhile, the prosecution blasting manning as a traitor, an anarchist. molly henneberg live in d.c. with the latest. what do we expect from the defense today, molly? reporter: the defense attorney said it would take about two hours to give his closing argument and that aiding the enemy charge you were just talking about, rick, it s key. it s the most serious one of the 21 charges against 25-year-old private bradley manning. and could land him in prison for life if he s convicted. the attorney said yesterday about his closing argument, quote: you re going to hear what the truth sounds like. the government has its job, but there s nobody who cou