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cnn newsroom. im abby phillip in washington to very serious charges for that 21 year old air national guardsman accused of leaking a trove of sensitive classified documents online. you can see there jack to share as parents outside of the courthouse this morning in boston. there, son was in shackles facing a judge less than 24 hours after he peacefully surrendered to a swarm of heavily armed fbi agents. prosecutors revealed today that to share a had a top secret clearance since 2021 th...

oren liebermann at the pentagon. lets go arlette at the white house. >> reporter: president biden offered his first comments on the situation regarding that chinese spy balloon just moments ago, saying they are prepared to take care of it. president biden has been receiving briefings since tuesday, including potential options relating to how they could address this. here is how he answered reporters questions moments ago. you heard president biden say we are going to take care of it. o...

a.m. our good morning, everyone caitlins on assignment today and breaking overnight really significant. the washington post has apparently discovered who leaked hundreds of classified u. s documents. a young gun enthusiast. thats how hes described shared secrets with fellow video gamers online and also breaking overnight new restrictions on widely used abortion pill and cnn is on the ground in paris. hundreds of thousands are taking to the streets for 1/12 straight day of protest over ...

what the heck is that? those are the bad guys. are they friendly? the 10g network, only from xfinity. one giant leap for mankind. the top of the hour this monday. im jim sciutto. >> im erica hill. this morning the white house is refuting chinas claims that they had illegally flown balloons in china airspace ten teams. the white house is calling that allegation flat out false. it is coming on the heels of the u.s. shooting down three unidentified objects over the last week. >> and it is...

and the latest on what china is saying about that balloon hovering over the u.s. and president biden is going to speak following a new jobs report that smashed expectations. 517,000 jobs added in january and nearly three times the forecast. we will bring you reaction live. and a life-threatening deep freeze headed to the northeast, and millions are bracing for once-in-a-generation sub-zero temperatures. china is confirming that the balloon floating over to the u.s. is theirs, and...

good evening. this time no one waited. just days after a chinese spy balloon was allowed to drift across the country, another unidentified object was spotted over alaska. in this case, fighter jets were scrambled to investigate and then shoot it down. president biden was asked about it not long after. >> do you have anything to say about the object shot down over alaska, mr. president? >> more on how all this played out and how the administration is handling it. what else has the admin...

>> were joined on how this played out and how the administration is handling it. what else has the administration said about this object? >> reporter: heres what we know, anderson. this mysterious object is the size of a small car. it was unmanned. it didnt appear to have the capability to maneuver itself within the windstream. and also according to a u.s. official, it didnt appear to have surveillance equipment on board. so those are some significant details, but we really dont know t...

instead he said something weve started hearing a lot from defenders of the former president in the last 24 hours, deflecting from the facts, focusing on the leaks. marco rubio serves on the intelligence committee, explaining away the way the fbi classified documents as a storage argument. >> this is really at its core a storage argument theyre making. theyre arguing there are documents there. they dont deny he should have access to the documents. i dont think a fight over storage of do...

for one of the former presidents attorneys, sidney powell. this video was taken the same day that a voting system there was in some way breached. cnns drew griffin joins for more on that, but for now, it is enough to say the facts of drews story say this was part of a larger plan to subvert the election. this isnt just about some threat that has come and gone. when it comes to election subversion, the past is never dead, as william faulkner wrote. its not even past. worst, the signs ri...

training status of their personnel or command and control, there is a whole plethora of kinds of information pertaining to a nuclear offense or defense that could be revealed or information could be inferred by exposure of these documents. >> this is obviously very valuable top secret information. but what is the value of this top secret information to another country? because, you know, only a certain number of countries have nuclear capabilities. >> well, thats right. it is a fairly ...