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At an all—times. and for the president to not know who is the number two person in the chain of command for the military, with the president being number one, that is a disaster. and the people underneath the secretary of defence not knowing either. so with the nuclear command control that is zero fail mission and it showed a disregard and carelessness from our leadership here. but we also have russia, china, iran, we have rebels shooting ships in the red sea and conduct strikes against the ir...

Disclose, if you will, given the significance of his position. he understands that. i -- again, i dont know enough about the medical condition except im told it was never life-threatening. at one point in time, obviously, he was under a lot of pain, and so its the kind of thing that should have been disclosed. i think hes admitted that, and is committed to making sure it doesnt happen again. i do think from a command and control standpoint, chain of command standpoint, there are people in author...

Not going to roll over that.lutr well, sean, youre absolutely right. this was an utter breakdown, . the chain of command. and its a total dereliction of dut aotaly. >> let me tell you where this is so dangerous. as you were alluding to in our command and control posture. if an adversary launches, a nuclear icbm, we have 15 minutes to determine whether the united minutes states is tab how its being targeted, or whether its some type of testdo . the national command authority gets on the line with...

And , the administration prefers to do its work in the darks to do i. o as usual, the white house dropped the news of their latest triumphf th late on fride hoping no one would notice. and of course, the media playede along those focusing instead on a speech by joe that was so unhinged, it could have been written by brittany spears. >> oh, my god.reg: >> so expect to be reassured the that all is well, that theres a strong leader in the white suing or house, one whos getting regular briefings, is...

The nature of that is and why he would not disclose it. but the change of command is something that really does have to be respected. and the president of the united states is the commander in chief. he should have known. again, we dont know the particulars of this. but i do think that this couldve been handled much better. >> do you still feel confident in serving as secretary of defense? >> im a fan of the secretary. i think hes done a remarkable job, the secretary of defense. he commands grea...

Secretary of defense. im confident -- i certainly hope so, anyway, that the secretary of defense, when he went under the knife and went under anesthesia gave a change of responsibility to his sub order taint to be in command and i hope that heaped. this individual didnt notify anyone and is the one i think should be held responsible here for the delay in notification. but no, i think whats happening in the middle east is just the weakness of the president. it began with the withdrawal from afgha...

Review then will bring forward, how did this happen? what was the process? >> one more question about that. he is in the chain of command. >> right. >> absolutely. >> i dont know what -- like, what would be the reason -- >> he is in the line of succession to the president. hes in both. >> right. so was it chain of command? was the integrity of the chain of command maintained throughout this illness or do we know? >> i dont know. there are people who know. i think congress and the american people...

To process and procedures is appropriate. as i highlighted to many of you yesterday, nothing is more important to the secretary of defense and the department of defense than the trust and confidence of the american people. and the public we serve and will continue to work every day, work hard every day to earn and deserve this trust. separately, deputy secretary hicks is traveling today en route to space command headquarters in colorado. tomorrow, shell preside over the u.s. space command change...

Eight days, it could take him a month to recover from this. >> complications could be serious, too. we dont know. he was readmitted to the hospital as you know last week after originally undergoing the surgery to deal with the prostate cancer, so what does that indicate to you? >> well, it indicates that he was sick and more importantly he was admit today the intensive care unit, which suggests he was unstable. and, you know, the story really starts to fall apart when you think about the secreta...

Multiple times are our men and weibull uniform and military installations abroad under constant attack in the middle east but a heightened level of engagement around the globe. when you have the secretary of defense, sixth in command, out of commission, his deputy not even knowing that he himself is out of commission in icu and on vacation, this is absurd. this just is another example as to why actions have consequences. i go back to the 117th congress when there was a vote under speaker pelosi ...