and countries around the world to address that. post counterisis campaign you know, the active operations when isis was defeated essentially in syria, what we ve seen is isis essentially look to we have been watching a news conference at the pentagon regarding defense secretary lloyd austin. the pentagon said moments ago the defense secretary has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that was the surgery he had in december and it was why he was back in the hospital for complications late december into the new year. they re explaining why there was a breakdown in communication. why the white house was not informed. saying repeatedly that they have to do better. joining us now from outside the white house is aaron gillcrist. in talking about breakdown and the timeline he have we can put up on the screen e timeline of when he was in the . when he started eing complication when he went back into the ital. january 4th is when they told the white house he was inhe for severe
when he started eing complication when he went back into the ital. january 4th is when they told the white house he was inhe for severe pain.ary 1st. multiple days befor the white house was told about this. also happening on janry 4th and i d like to a time for when the whiteas informed because at noon local time, there was a strike in background conducted by the u.s. mr. biden and austin approved the strike before he was hospitalized, but still, the strike could have been happening while the defense secretary was in the hospital and the white house did not know about it. you re right. the, jake sullivan in one of his briefings with president biden on thursday, january 4th, informed the president that austin was in the hospital.
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