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Come to my office at 8:00 on monday morning. see you there and then i ll see you out. because this to me shows a complete disregard for the commander-in-chief and also an incredible lack of judgment not just by the secretary of defense, but by the deputy, by his chief of staff and everybody else involved. this doesn t take 30 days to figure out. not the mention the disrespect for the law of the land. this was a violation of the very specific statute. and something i noticed in the press reports yesterday is someone within the hierarchy in the pentagon said this happens every so often where the power is transferred from the secretary to the deputy secretary. if that happens, the statute kicks in and not only do you have to tell the president and people up and down the chain, but there is a specific statute that says you have to tell the congress. republican and democratic ....
Leaders of both houses. so i m concerned about this and the statute is not a suggestion. this is the law of the land passed by the congress and signed by the president. and it is going to continue to be an issue. dana: this is not just a republican concern. you have heard from your colleagues on the other side of the aisle voicing something similar? well, yes. what i would like to hear, though, from the chairman of the senate armed services committee is that he will have a public hearing. thats something i cannot do as ranking member. only the majority can do that. i certainly hope that the republicans in charge of the house armed services committee will hold a hearing very soon. but there is just a lot we need to know and frankly, there is a lot that our enemies are noticing about our lazy attitude ....
And congress of the hospitalization of lloyd austin keeping everyone in the dark for days. mississippi senator roger wicker is the ranking republican on the armed services committee. thank you for your time and good morning to you. chief of staff had the flu. that s i guess we re peeling it away. the president was asked about this yesterday. didn t get much of an answer. roll this clip here. bill: little hard to here. what do you make of this? what s the explanation to suffice. it was hard to hear. the administration still does not understand that this story is not going to go away. they might as welcome clean and ....
Tell everything that happened and everything they know. at least we know that the staff member had the flu. we don t even know how seriously ill the secretary of defense continues to be. i m told that today he is not in icu anymore. that s good news. and we all wish the secretary well. but this is an indictment of the administration s attitude toward public disclosure and toward full transparency. it is not going to go away. they have now commissioned a 30-day internal review. that is not going to be adequate. if we want to have a review it needs to be done by an outside inspector general and then they will have to come before the congress for a hearing. dana: this shouldn t take 30 days, right? if i were the president i would say as soon as you are better ....