recently been very eager to accommodate staffers who are unhappy with the president s policies. we understand that these are times where, you know, people have it s an emotional time and we understand that. peter: as president biden returns from a service event in pennsylvania, his defense secretary has returned home. lloyd austin is out of the hospital, he says he is going to fulfill his duties from home while he recovers. he says he can t wait to get back to the pentagon. on friday, president biden said it was a lapse in judgment for austin to hold out on him about his prostate cancer diagnosis. sandra. sandra: glad he is out of the hospital and doing better. thank you. john. john: more on the protests at the white house and other issues, let s bring in civil rights attorney and fox news contributor leo terrell. so, houthis are attacking u.s. warships and commercial ships, fired a cruise missile at a u.s.
who went missing for a while . we now know that he underwent a procedure to deal with a cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer diagnosis. the story isn t going away. you now have bipartisan calls for him to be fired. media furious. they love nothing more than a story about lack of transparency. john kirby yesterday on the effort to get more information. watch here. throughout every step of the way from the time we were notified until, you know, yesterday when we all found out that he had prostate cancer, there was no lack of curiosity on our part. no lack or slackening of an effort to try to find out what was wrong with him. dana: you served on the national security team of the trump administration. can you imagine the secretary of defense not being reachable for several days and nobody knowing why? dana, it s incomprehensible. you must have just felt for john
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd J Austin has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery last month and this information was not disclosed to US President Joe Biden, the Pentagon has acknowledged. US: Defence Secretary Lloyd J Austin Underwent Surgery for Prostate Cancer, Information Not Disclosed to President Joe Biden.
our north america correspondent david willis. this is all rather intriguing. it is indeed. i can tell you what we do know and that is lloyd austin was diagnosed with cancer a month ago and twice treated in hospital in an attempt to basically remedy that situation. instead of importing the details of his hospitalisation and his diagnosis to his boss, president biden and the commander in chief, lloyd austin for some reason decided to keep those details to himself. indeed the white house was only informed of his hospitalisation last thursday, some four days after lloyd austin was readmitted to the waterbury hospital. and his prostate cancer diagnosis today
hospitalization revealing his prostate cancer diagnosis. the timing of the disclosure is invoking fears of a larger issue. how can anybody be certain that the administration would not go to the same length to keep secret problems with president biden s health in the future? that s not what happened here, peter. dana: live at the white house jacque heinrich with the latest. one of the most stunning revelations about all this is that president biden found out about his defense secretary s cancer diagnosis the same day the rest of the public found out. meaning that when biden spoke with lloyd austin on saturday, austin failed to mention not so little detail despite pledging that same day in a statement, quote, i recognize i could have done a better job insuring the public was appropriately informed and commit to doing better. forced some uncomfortable exchange for top officials trying to emphasize the