Feds detail charges against suspect in Pentagon classified documents leak

A 21-year-old Air National Guardsman charged with leaking highly classified Pentagon documents made his first court appearance Friday. Jack Teixeira has been charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents. Catherine Herridge reports.

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[claireconover]

is anyone else finding the volume very low?

[brittcrona]

I still can't understand how this guy got access to such documents and how all this could have happened. But the perpetrator should be punished very severely for these actions

[anhconroy]

Whoever is involved in this should be severely punished!

[andersonlangosh]

So he literally had a package of classified physical data in his pocession? It should be not that easy to get those out. This is why I'm not really sure if he was the one who did it.

[orvalprosacco]

How could this information have leaked in the first place? Are the defenses so lax there?

[edyann]

"Others" do the same thing yet nothing happens to them.. Odd.

[HM-]

Mr Esper...this was NOT a equipment failure, its a people management failure

[merlin]

0:15 they deliberately lower their volume, so that viewers cannot clearly hear what they are saying lolololololol

[Greyteam]

What did he leak? Oil change schedules? It's the air national guard, c'mon man

[HM-]

He is going to jail. His military chain of command is in a LOT of trouble going down the tubes !!

[JerjerB]

His leak will be paid for in American lives, sadly.

[dakogitlog]

Traitor!!!!.He should be punished according to military law..

[sophiaabramovich]

This kid should be in jail for the rest of his life but how come he has access to the documents? White House needs to stop overpaying Congress people & pay for software engineers

[cybrfriends]

oh, another of trump's friends in

[luisvillafane]

Get this kid's parents they need to be held accountable for this leak documented

[SocialismSucks]

Brandon sure is worried about his Ukraine fraud ring getting discovered😂