your second in command was on vacation in puerto rico and wasn t told that he had even had a procedure or anything until they had to put him back in the hospital. back in the hospital for some kind of painful complication from this what we ve been told elective surgery. there are hipaa laws in the country. we don t need every detail what doctors were doing with him unless of course whatever they re doing with him now keeps him in the hospital for days and days and days. we might want more information. we are expecting right now, steve hilton, you are hear for the breaking news. we re awaiting remarks from the former president, donald trump. i want to thank steve for his time. we may bring him back depending on when those remarks come from the former president and what they are. he is responding to the arguments in his presidential immunity hearing that has been going on this very moment. so we ll await that. we ll break out of this next piece if we need to but we will try to show it to
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i think in ordinary circumstances, it would be his chief of staff who had the responsibility to convey the message to the white house. but also to others in the chain of command. in this case, i guess she was not capable at all of doing so. the question is who else within his inner sanction was able to do that? i do not think all the details have come out. when you lay out the timeline, somebody informed the chairman of the joint chief of staff on january 2nd. why didn t that same person inform the deputy secretary of defense who is the second in command, who should have known because chain of control. it calls into some question about the relationship and who did what. who was in power, not empowered to make notifications. is the protocol clear? is it pretty clear here? it was during my tenure.
hello. i m judge jeanine pirro, along with jessica tarlov, jesse watters, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. the secondary president biden refusing to talk about the scandal that could have put american lives in danger. the defense secretary face and calls to resign, after keeping both biden and senior officials in the dark on his recent hospitalization. for three whole days, america s defense secretary went awol with two wars raging in ukraine and israel. that s because he was secretly in the icu after a couple occasions following elective surgery. the second in command was put in
of rain. large snow piles like this could melt and possibly lead to flash flooding. kate. kathy park for us in the snow, thank you. there are new questions tonight after defense secretary lloyd austin s secret hospital stay. questions about why the president didn t know that austin was in an icu and why even austin s second in command was not notified. now some are calling for not only an explanation, but for consequences. allie raffa has more. reporter: tonight growing fallout over defense secretary lloyd austin s secret hospital stay and treatment in the icu. it s worse than just he didn t notify the white house. reporter: criticism pouring in over the lack of transparency. i do wish it had been disclosed. the secretary and the administration, frankly, need to step forward and give the american people the facts. reporter: andrea mitchell pressing the secretary of state. were you aware of this? with regard to secretary austin, i wasn t aware of his