Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Daniel (Dan) Ray CoatsFBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by The Air Line Pilots Association - Trump, Biden renew push for Latino support Former Intel chief had 'deep suspicions' that Putin 'had something on Trump': book MORE will hold speak on Friday morning about the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to combat intelligence leaks, according to a Justice Department statement.

Sessions and Coats will deliver remarks at 11 a.m. on "leaks of classified material threatening national security," according to the statement.

Following those remarks, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina will talk to reporters in an "off-camera pen and pad discussion."

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Last week, Sessions told Fox News's Tucker Carlson that consequences for intelligence leakers needed to be stronger, arguing that what's been done in the past to combat leaks hasn't been effective.

"I have not been happy with the past prosecutions and investigations of criminal leaks," Sessions said last week, noting that the U.S. has "already taken a number of steps."

"We already have multiples, numbers of prosecutions compared to last year at this time," he said, adding that the Justice Department would be "stepping up" prosecution of intelligence leak cases.

"We’re stepping up those cases. It cannot continue," Sessions said. "People need to go to jail."

Intelligence leaks have already had consequences for the United States.

In May, police in Manchester, England, announced they were no longer sharing intelligence related to the bombing of an Ariana Grande concert with the United States after a string of leaks to the American media about the attack.