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told the f.b.i. had been watching him for days but then the f.b.i. was forced into action when the media published his name. >> he is 21 years old. joined the national guard in 2019. he held the highest level security clearance granted by the u.s. government and he now faces charges under the espionage act. >> dana: "new york post" headlines geeky leaks. why the military entrusted this information to a 21-year-old guardsman? the pentagon defending its protocol. >> it was a deliberate c...

nearly a decade in a russian prison. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this friday, august 5th. im jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. news from last night, senator kyrsten sinema has agreed to back democrats reconciliation bill. clearing the way for a vote later this week. her decision comes after days of fellow democrats lobbying her on the deal. in a statement last night, the senator said she would come on board after the carried interest tax provision was rem...

when it may take to get that big health and tax bill passed. and sure enough a glue pull could get in the way. and then theres a big twist in the alex jones trial. years of his own text messages and emails and up in the hands of the very people who want him to pay for his lies. that and more as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. >> good evening once again im stephanie ruhle. theres even more evidence tonight that the justice departments january six investigation is ze...

Todays proceedings. I would like to recap my recognition of the timeline in which these events played out. I testified about all of this at length in my deposition. In july, i became aware of a hold being an obligation of the State Departments Foreign Military financing and dods usai funds. In a series of interagency meetings, i heard that the president had directed the office of of management and budget to hold the funds becausf his concerns about corruption in ukraine. Let me say at the outset...

Temporary, provisional or permanent but likely to provide his commander access to the joint worldwide intelligence communication system, the dod uses. i will say one of the things that dod looking at this issue on the civilian side, when we talk about agencies like the c.i.a. and the n.s.a. and the f.b.i., you have to go through and be polygraphed. insider threat protocols to limit these things. not so easy on the d.o.d. side where you see young men and women because they are helping provide acc...

Government in storing this material, but im also a little bit skeptical that theres any sort of juicy evidence in that text messages on the d.o.d.. we have heard the calls and have listened to it at least on the d.o.d. side. >> well we would know if there was juicy evidence if we could really see what was on those text messages. melissa, theres a new report out that says the secret service might temporarily disable text messaging on employee cell phones. secretary dick durbin is now calling for ...

Directed the office of management and budget to withhold funds because of concerns about corruption in ukraine. you are coming from the dod side. i served a year in iraq and it was important and i think its something that the army always does, as i have seen, that we dont want to deliver aid or assistance if its going to some corrupt, or being delivered in a corrupt way. if we are going to build a medical treatment facility for the iraqis, we want to make sure we are not getting charged ten time...

I heard the president directed the office of management and budget to hold funds because of his concerns about corruption in ukraine. and, you know, you come from the dod side here. i served a year in iraq. and it was important, and i think its something that the army always does, as i have seen, that we dont want to deliver aid or assistance if its going to some corrupt, or being delivered in some corrupt way. in other words if were going to build a medical treatment facility for the iraqis, we...

Those to be a place where theyll be in position to help if recovery and rescue operations are needed. so theyll get out of the storms way. youre seeing something similar happening with naval air assets over 100 air assets leaving the region. all throughout the government, youre seeing at least on the dod side, an effort to really be prepared. secretary mattis came down, talked to us on 9/11, a small group of reporters. heres what he had to say,ing. he said "even on a day as sacred as this, the p...

Administration saying, it was my fault. of course hes taking full responsibility of whatever happened. what else have we learned in the last hour? >> weve learned theres been a short review and the secretary of defense has been fully briefed. they have confidence in the systems, the warning systems that are in place on the dod side. thats according to a military official. when you look at what the defense department does on an actual launch -- lets be clear, this was a false alarm, but on an act...