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State of Play: leaked documents, a Florida abortion ban, Dianne Feinstein

1 big thing

Axios

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42K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A 21-year-old Air National Guardsman was arrested in connection with leaking classified Pentagon documents. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are calling for California Senator Dianne Feinstein to resign. And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis attempts to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. And, the medical use of maggots is on the rise. Guests: Axios' Mike Allen and Swansea University's Yamni Nigam. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alex Botti, Fonda Mwangi and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: U.S. arrests Pentagon suspected document leaker DeSantis signs Florida's 6-week abortion ban into law Feinstein faces pressure to resign over judicial confirmations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, April 14th. I'm Naila Boudou.

0:08.8

Today, Florida Governor Rhonda Santis signs a law banning abortions after six weeks.

0:14.5

Plus, the medical use of maggots is on the rise. But first, our weekly politics

0:20.2

state of play. That's today's one big thing.

0:27.9

A 21-year-old National Guardsman was arrested in connection with leaking classified Pentagon

0:33.2

documents. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are calling for California Senator Diane Feinstein to resign

0:39.1

and in Florida, Governor Rhonda Santis attempts to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

0:45.1

Here to cover all of that and more for our Friday state of play is Axios' Mike Allen.

0:49.3

Good morning, Mike. Happy Friday, Naila. Mike, yesterday, the FBI arrested Jack Teixeira,

0:54.8

who they believe is connected with what people have been calling the Discord leaks.

1:00.0

What do we know about this whole investigation? This was a military person entrusted

1:06.7

with national security secrets. And it seems to have been partly because of selfish motives.

1:13.9

The New York Times is reporting that in this Discord, which is a social platform that's

1:18.8

popular with gamers, that in these chats, he was both trying to inform, but also to show off

1:28.1

to other people in this group, which the Times said was formed by young men who were trying to

1:34.4

find fraternity during COVID. And they did it by sharing military memes and sometimes racist material.

1:42.4

Mike, we have seen so much information come out with these leaks,

1:46.4

classified information on the US spying on allies on the Russia Ukraine war. What does this

1:51.5

mean for the Biden administration? A, it's embarrassing and B, it's potentially troublesome. The US has

1:59.2

penetrated very deeply into Russian intelligence, but this leak also shows that the US is watching

2:05.9

Ukraine. We know that, but to see the specifics of it, similarly other allies, including Israel

2:14.6

and South Korea. So a lot of intelligence is done with a wink. People know they're being followed,

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