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now falling. i'm fredricka whitfield. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm 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. here's 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 and were treated another hospital says it received multiple patients he attack was tied to a swe...

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 should have never been having access to this level of classified information that could hurt the united ...

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 you're going to have intelligence relationships with others, there has to be a relationship of trust, and that's been damaged. and what guardrails do there need to be in place to make sure this doesn't happen again. mr secretary, i have to ask you because i know you've been in various roles. chief of staff cia director defense secretary. i mean, is this the kind of situation where the president ...

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, shouldn't 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 of information is going to wind up going. and what do you make of some of these leaders on the far r...

Sensitive information? all right. i don't think there's any question but that, uh somebody who's a low level air guardsmen should not have had access to some of the highly classified information that was out there. there's no reason for it. he doesn't 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 more secure. and how much damage do you think has been done as a result of these documents being, ...