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good morning, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 9th. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your easter sunday with us. i don t i don t really remember the easter speeches from childhood. i just know i gave a lot of them. did you used to speeches? i remember that some of that may be in a break. all right. here s what we re watching this morning a weekend of religious celebrations, but also escalating tensions in the middle east. the israeli military has carried out retaliatory attacks in syria, and we re live in jerusalem, with the latest on that happening now. pope francis delivering his easter message after presiding over mass at the vatican, his message to the world is coming up. the department of justice is investigating after trove of apparent u. s intelligence documents were posted on social media. what the documents show and the potential implications for the u. s and its allies. we got a chance. and ....
Intelligence assessments, so a lot of damage can be done because we have there s a war going on, and we are distributing military equipment . well, i want to talk about that more in a second, but to your first point about the fact that this had been posted on the social media site discord in early march, and no one noticed until now. i mean, that s alarming as well. but juliet the range of intelligence information that was leaked right some with top secret classification and the fact that the documents were about ukraine were apparently meant for high level officials. they were part of this larger daily intelligence briefing deck for pentagon leadership as we understand it, i mean, could this have only come from the inside. yes i having looked at what was released the documentation how it s recorded how it s memorialized, uh and the and some of its dating and ....