[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] will: old glory, young people and old dogs morning. [laughter] for your national anthem right here on fox & friends. good morning, welcome to saturday. morning, guys. rachel: it s great to be back. pete: morning. how you doing? rachel: really good. how do you feel about dogs wearing outfits if they re patrioticsome. pete: only if they re patriotism. [laughter] rachel: they get better every single week. pete: how you doing? rachel: good. you know i saw will week. i stopped by. pete: oh, you went to his houses? rachel: yes. we are legit friends. if i go the nashville, i m going to your house. will: had coffee, sat and figuredded out the world s problems. pete: again? [laughter] rachel: the problems keep coming. will: that s about a half the time we get to the spend with you, four hours figuring out world s problems. let s figure it out. the latest on air national guardsman suspected of leaking classified docume
Faces two federal charges after sharing classified information in a kiss cord chat room discord chat room where he went by the user name jack the dripper. rachel: what comes next for him? here to weigh in, former navy jag officer don brown. don, welcome. good morning. rachel: so what can we expect to the happen to this young man? well, this young man s been charged with three separate counts under the espionage act, two basically for mishandling national defense information that is classified, then a third for generally mishandling classified information in section 1924. so there are two charges but three counts. based on my calculations having read the indictment last night, it looks like he s facing a maximum of 25 years, 10 years for each of the counts relating to mishandlingover disseminating national defense information.
Messenger? pete, as we all are, very surprised that some air national guardsman would have access to the this kind of information. i had dan hoffman, the former cia station chief, fox news analyst on my will cain podcast this week, and he didn t rule out and i don t think anyone should is there more, was he connected, did he have relationships with foreign adversaries. are you surprised at the breadth of the access you would have as an air national guardsman? pete: a little bit, but it all has to do with the classification. he s got a tssci which is a top secret sensitive compartmentalized information. here s the thing, it sounds like he was an i.t. guy which means that, think about it, the i m sorry i.t i.t. guy here at fox could read all our e-mails if he or she wanted to, doesn t mean they re supposed to. sounds like he had gates and portals to things he shouldn t because he was in i.t.
Frantically searched for the word leak on his government-issued computer leading up to his arrest. the new york times reports in a final call to his gamer friends, teixeira allegedly said he never wanted to get it like this and said, guys, it s been good, i love you all. that according to a member of the online group who described teixeira this way, quote: he was man, the myth. he was the legend. if everyone respected this guy. he was a christian, anti-war and just wanted to inform some of his friends about what s going on. meanwhile, president biden says his administration is looking for answers following the breach wondering how someone with this level of access was able to obtain, then distribute the such sensitive the information online for months undetected. quote: i ve directed our military and intelligence community to take steps to further secure and limit distribution of sensitive information, and our national