Doing? what do we know? reporter: sorry. i had trouble hearing you. can you repeat that? sure. arlette, do we know how the secretary is doing? reporter: so far they ve said that he is recovering well. he said that he was happy to be on mend. he said in a statement we have yet to hear what the latest is about when he will be released from the hospital. i will say austin also released a statement yesterday, where he acknowledged the questions about tr transparency and said, i could have done a better job ensuring the public was properly informed and i commit to doing better. let s talk more about all this. we re joined now by former deputy national security adviser victoria koets. victoria, great to see you. as someone who worked as a senior white house administration official, what generally is the protocol for a sitting secretary, who might be
Vote democrat. griff: you are seeing this pushback. for the first time ever when a border patrol agent in uniform is actively pushing back against a sitting secretary, against sitting border patrol chief. you see the border patrol is broken and that the camel that broke that back was the fact that you are having a single adult release. that is something border patrol thought they would never see, but yet, we know from the numbers from december that 45% of those released, 79,000 of 178,000 were released through title eight. it is an unbelievable situation and not getting any better. carley: it everything is backwards. the border patrol agents, they are not politicians. they are law enforcement officers. the cartels are essentially using them as a way to make money. there is also drugs flying across the southern border. then you have the feel for the