attorney general merrick garland identified him as 21-year-old air national guardsman, jack tech t teixeira the new york times spoke with members of the private group teixeira oversaw the chat where 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games. it is in that group that airman teixeira is said to have uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings, according to the times joining me now is justice correspondent, ken dilanian. the details are unbelievable in this case. walk us through what we know one more time, what is out there and how we think it got out there. what is out there, alex, are some highly classified documents showing the fruits of american eavesdropping, signals intelligence on russia and many other countries. very embarrassing revelations that the u.s. has supplied on allies not surprising to the allies, but embarrassing when it becomes public, ukraine s air defenses and w
and i was just listening in to your conversation. i can tell you every single time i hear the document being printed out, a classified document in the 21st century is just mind blowing. we can do much better than that using all of the technology available. secondly, there s a reason classified information is classified, and usually the leaks cost human lives, so this is bad but i think everyone including ukraine and the united states need to focus on lessons learned and what we do to kind of minimize the damage from this and that s doable. give me sense how worried ukrainian leadership is about the nature of these leaks and what they think they can do to counter what s gotten out there? could it affect spring military counter offensives well, counteroffensives? alex, let me put it this way to you it s a sensitive issue if i say we re very concerned and if it s damaging that means i m verifying information that s