the chain of command it was broken. why was it broken an how was that allowed to happen? he told everybody he was homeworking. he wasn t in the hospital. how did this happen? why did they think it wasn t important that the president of the united states or anybody else was informed? out of office. defense secretary lloyd austin leaving his bosses in the dark about a hospital stay at the worst possible time. all this happening while iranian backed militias hit u.s. forces overseas in syria and iraq. a mystery on our hands not solved yet. i m bill hemmer. hope you had a grand weekend. dana: great to be with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it is baffling and the more i hear the more questions i ve had. we ll get to all of those. the strange saga engulfing the biden administration in controversy raising questions about who exactly is at the helm of the pentagon with so much at stake. bill: secretary austin went in for electrictive surgery before chris
supreme. bill: well done. dana: critical crisis along our country s unsecured southern border is getting worse month after month after month. today homeland security secretary mayorkas mayorkas will make an appearance in eagle pass, texas, he will look at the record number of migrants flooding into the united states. welcome. i have to go with michigan. bill: i ll go washington. we ll decide tomorrow. dana: are you over or under? i will go with the under obviously? i ll go with the over. $1 bet. secretary mayorkas visiting the border today days before the house homeland security committee holds its first impeachment hearing against him. the border crisis becoming a central campaign issue. watch it throughout the year as democrats wake up to the political consequences at the southern border is having on their chances. and on president biden s campaign. this graph telling the story with the migrant surge repeatedly setting monthly records. more than 300,000 encounters i
documents related to nuclear weapons capabilities during that court-approved search of his florida residence last month and includes as the post puts it a foreign government s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities and nuclear defense readiness. what country was the subject of this classified material was not revealed. but some of the material so secret that it s described as many senior national security officials are kept in the bark about them and only the president and some members of hi cabinet or a near cabinet level official know about them and can authorize others to be read in. this comes as the justice department is weighing its next steps after a federal judge sided with donald trump, agreeing to appoint a special master to review all of the documents picked up in this investigation and that include the possibility of appealing on the part of the justice department and bill barr thinks they should push to fight for. we will much more on all of that i