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now falling. im fredricka whitfield. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. youre live in the cnn newsroom. im jim acosta in washington. we begin tonight with the sad reality that it has happened again. another mass shooting in america, this one in a tiny alabama town, with teenagers making up most of the victims. heres what we know. at this hour. four people are confirmed dead and dead. ville alabama spokesman for a local hospital, says 15 teenagers suffered gunshot wounds ...

After a 21 year old air national guardsman allegedly leaked numerous secret documents through a social media platform. i have a lot of questions about. why were these documents lying around? why did this particular person have access to them? where was the custody of the documents? and who are they? for those are important questions. we can ask in the intelligence committee so that we can have stronger oversight. the access that he was having to this information should have been cut off. he shou...

With regards to russia and ukraine clearly affects military decisions that are critical as to what happens with that war and then add to that just are reputational damage and the damage to our trust if youre going to have intelligence relationships with others, there has to be a relationship of trust, and thats been damaged. and what guardrails do there need to be in place to make sure this doesnt happen again. mr secretary, i have to ask you because i know youve been in various roles. chief of ...

Clearances? we provide a clearance as was provided here. but then when somebody like this goes astray and starts getting involved in chat boxes with others, uh, shouldnt we have the opportunity to be able to take a look at that and determine whether he should retain his clearance? and lastly, oversight of social media. this stuff was out there for almost a month before it was detected. we should be looking regularly at social media, because clearly that is going to be the media where this kind o...

Sensitive information? all right. i dont think theres any question but that, uh somebody whos a low level air guardsmen should not have had access to some of the highly classified information that was out there. theres no reason for it. he doesnt need it. uh and i think the fact that, uh, there are literally thousands upon thousands of people who have access to classified information is something that really has to be looked at very seriously in order to limit access and make sure that it is mor...

What she said, is just the opposite. what shes doing is basically saying we ought not to protect our most classified information which in my mind undermines our national security. and for someone to say that what theyre essentially saying is we should not protect ourselves because the only way we protect ourselves is with good intelligence about our adversaries so that we can make the right decisions. what shes saying is oh, no, lets not protect that information. lets just throw it out there. so...

To get to the bottom of this well, the interesting thing that im seeing is that we really dont know the full extent of the damage thats been done. we get new rail revelations almost every day now, uh, involving just exactly what was in the leak of this classified information, which tells me that this stuff is spread all over the place, but make no mistake about it anytime. there is a leak of highly classified, uh information. it is going to damage our national security and thats happened here. t...