toward a possible presidential run. bill: the south carolina native has put optimism and hope at the center of his message. leaning heavily on his own ration to riches story or as he says cotton to congress in one lifetime. rise to the dream in what could be a crowded republican field. sandra: and welcome back as america reports rolls into a busy second hour, a lot of news expected. bill, good to be here with you. bill: good to be with you as well. i m bill melugin coming up in this hour, but it is a busy day in washington and massachusetts, law enforcement are circling in on the man believed to be behind the pentagon leaks. sandra: any moment now you are looking live at the pentagon, leaders are expected to face questions from reporters on this highly classified intelligence leak. what we know so far. a law enforcement source telling fox the fbi is searching for a member of the massachusetts air national guard in connection to the leak, adding they are not naming h
working on military intelligence systems, which gillian turner was saying is essentially i.t. he s essentially working on technology. he s not involved at a high level with this kind of information. but apparently he found a way to get it, which is the world that we live in today. jack teixeira, 21-year-old. he changed his phone number in recent days. the attorney general calling this a deliberate criminal act moments ago in a very brief statement. we waited for a while for him to come out. he made a brief statement and said we ll tell you more when we can. mike pence is with us with his reaction to that developing story. bret baier joins us and sean duffy are here on set with us in new york. first to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the very latest as she has been uncovering new information on this all throughout the day, every hour. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. we came out of a pentagon briefing. here s brigadier general pat ryder on the arrest.
working on military intelligence systems, which gillian turner was saying is essentially i.t. he s essentially working on technology. he s not involved at a high level with this kind of information. but apparently he found a way to get it, which is the world that we live in today. jack teixeira, 21-year-old. he changed his phone number in recent days. the attorney general calling this a deliberate criminal act moments ago in a very brief statement. we waited for a while for him to come out. he made a brief statement and said we ll tell you more when we can. mike pence is with us with his reaction to that developing story. bret baier joins us and sean duffy are here on set with us in new york. first to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the very latest as she has been uncovering new information on this all throughout the day, every hour. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. we came out of a pentagon
the u.s. government from spying on americans, but the real breaks in this case came from those online sleuths like bellingcat. bill: jennifer, thank you. gillian turner, if you are there, i understand you are hearing from your sources about the type of work this suspect was doing at these military bases. what are you hearing? that s right, bill. so i found out, fox news has been given exclusive access to internal government documents that reveal the suspect worked on military intelligence systems, he was considered internally to be a systems communications worker rather than intelligence operative, that s a key distinction, in layman s terms, he was a systems guy, operating the military electronic systems, not intelligence operative going out in the field to gather information. he worked for a part of the military called dcgs, distributed common ground
Master Sergeant (MSG) William T. Latta joined the U.S. Army in May 2003 as a military occupational specialty 33W, Military Intelligence Systems Maintainer/Integrator. MSG Latta has served in multiple positions at varying levels of responsibility, including team leader, squad leader, AIT platoon sergeant, equal opportunity advisor, senior enlisted leader, and first sergeant for two separate United States Army Intelligence and Security Command units. Overseas assignments include two deployments, Operation Iraq Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, and one Korea tour.