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adversaries, cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt joining us live from washington with more on this, alex. what more we learning about? the suspect and the road ahead for him. well fredricka to share may have known that his world may soon would have soon been coming crashing down around him because it was revealed in the affidavit just yesterday that he actually searched for the word leak on his classified government computer. perhaps looking for what investigators maybe finding on their hunt for this leaker. now sure enough, they did find him after just a week, arresting him at his parents home just south. of boston. but what we know about the 21 year old now is that he signed up for the air national guard back in 2019 2. years later in 2021, he got his top secret security clearance and the reason that he was able to get that clearance and needed that clearance and then able to access all this information is because he works for a military outfit out of massachus