better understand that other than to say as soon as we had this information to make available, we provided it. we got it this afternoon and provided it literally minutes before i stepped in here. just one last one. did he lose consciousness at all during the december 22nd surgery? to my knowledge, no. has secretary been on any medication that might alter his judgment? so, i have no indications again, no indications anything that would affect his decision making abilities. he s obviously as i highlighted is in the presence of medical professionals for the duration. when he resumed full duties on friday evening, that was in consultation with medical professionals and as we ve high lighted in the press releases, he continues to stay actively engaged with his senior staff
u.s. defense secretary austin did undergo minimally invasive surgical procedure to treat and cure prostate cancer, he was admitted to the hospital with complications from that procedure on january 1st. he was under general anesthesia during the initial procedure, on december 22nd. so the procedure, december 22nd, he was admitted due to complications january 1st. he underwent surgery to treat prostate cancer and also the postoperative symptoms he had included nausea, severe abdominal, hip and leg pain. urinary tract infection, these are just some of the details we are getting right now. let me continue to go through this as i bring in general keane. general, your thoughts on this. obviously the story has been we are thankful he s out of the icu
so fragile. when does it crash? i hope it s going to be during this next 12 months, because i don t want to be herbert hoover. the one president i just don t want to be is herbert hoover. let s bring in cnn s vanessa yurkevich to fact check what trump is saying about a certain crash. walk us through what a crash is, vanessa. actually, we will stop right there because we have breaking news from the pentagon secretary of defense lloyd austin s condition. oren liebermann is there for us. some big news coming out of the pentagon, oren? reporter: absolutely. walter reed national military medical center, where defense secretary lloyd austin has just been the course of the past eight days, has just put out a statement saying that defense secretary lloyd austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer last month. that is why he went to the hospital on december 22nd. it is from discomfort from that hospitalization on december 22nd, and overnight stay, that he was then we admitted to the
from the military medical center about the degree to which the secretary was incapacitated. that he had this cancer diagnosis, that he had had a procedure done on december 22nd and this complication on january 1st. we know that secretary austin had been working. on christmas day, he was involved in a national security conversation with the president ahead of a strike ordered to happen on christmas night. then again on january 1st while we were with the president in the virgin islands, there was a national security call in which the president spoke with secretary austin to the best of our knowledge, as well as other key members of his national security team. so the secretary had been involved with the national security apparatus. he had been obviously in contact with president biden and yet it appears at this point that no one at the white house was aware of either the diagnosis, the surgery that happened on december 22nd or the
so i really think this review is going to help us get to ground truth in a holistic way so that we can learn from it importantly, but also ensure that we are doing better next time. so i think we really need to allow this review to run its course in order to do that. in the meantime, we have taken some immediate steps as i highlighted at the top. under procedure for the sma to notify the white house national security adviser? again, certainly we want to make sure that notifications are happening in a timely way and as we have acknowledged, some shortfalls to it s important to look at what the shortfalls were, what could have been done better and make sure that going forward we are improving the processes. so again, this review will help us. do you still think it s appropriate to call his medical procedure on december 22nd prostatectomy if it was treating prostate cancer? we released this information