I hear jeff clark is great. people tell me he could get in there, and do something and it was surprising to me. jake tapper: surprising because the president would have no reason to even know who jeffrey clark was. evan perez: even within the department, very few people had really heard of jeffrey clark. jake tapper: but donald trump had. unbeknownst to rosen and donoghue, pennsylvania republican congressman scott perry had brought clark to the oval office to meet with president trump on december 22nd the day after perry had been amongst republican members of congress who joined trump at the white house to discuss overturning the 2020 election. trump also mentioned jeff clark on a separate call with rosen. jeffrey rosen: he made, what i regarded as a peculiar reference. i don t remember the exact quote, but it was something about did i know jeff clark or did i know who he was or something like that. i was quizzical as to how does the president even know mr. clark?
Pain. alexandria hoff joins us. secretary austin says he takes full responsibility the lack of information come out regarding his hospitalization. why he is being treated we still don t know. that stay has be, indeed, included time in the icu. according to the pentagon, quote. on friday, december 22nd, secretary of defense lloyd j. austin underwent elective it medical procedure at walter reed medical center. weighs on leave at the time. he returned home on saturday december 23rd. on the evening of january 1st. he began experiencing extreme pain and transported to walter reed national military medical center where he was admitted into the intensive care unit. there was concern why he would elicking county to have elective surgery with all that s going on in the mideast and red sea. a drone strike was carried out in iraq. the main problem republicans see no one was at the helm and hardly anyone knew. on tuesday joint chiefs chairman
Him to ask him how much did he pay to come across. i said, how much did he pay to come across and he said nothing. we asked how much did he pay the cartel, we first thought 1200 dollars, but you don t pay less than 15,000, we found it was 20 to 30,000. ainsley: he will appear in court like five years from now. steve: going to california to see his wife. brian: does he look under stress or dire need? guy just left a gym, probably doing fine. rather be here. steve: he is probably bleeding from the razor wire. steve: we ll be back in a minute. we ll talk about secretary of defense has been missing in action. lloyd austin on december 22nd,
About lhis decision to keep his hospitalization secret for days. the white house did not know he was hospitalized until days after he was admitted and according to the pentagon, he had the elective procedure on december 22nd and went home the next day, and then on january 1st, he was taken to walter reed after, quote, severe pain. he was admitted to the, icu. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was notified the next day. u au austin s deputy took some of his responsibilities the next day, and biden learned a day later, as did the rest of the public. he resumed his duties while invest hospital. the white house says they spoke to austin on saturday and has complete confidence in him. others not as much. the handling of this by the secretary of defense is totally unacceptable. i think it was a dereliction of
The hospital and on friday when he resumed his full responsibilities. another interesting thing our pentagon team points out it looks like the last time austin spoke to his israeli counterpart was on december 28th. we don t have any indication that kathleen hicks spoke to the israelis during the time that she was given certain operational responsibilities, dana. dana: it s an incredible story, jacque. keep some notes for future speeches. thank you. bill: pete hegseth fox & friends weekend co-host. good morning to you. military man yourself. what do you make of this, if you can make? you can t make sense of it. this broke over the weekend on fox & friends as we re trying to put this together. at first we thought okay, it must have been an elective surgery gone wrong. they made a snap judgment in the moment to not notify anybody. the new information this morning is significant. an elective surgery on december 22nd. there were nine days of pain and
Going to the icu in intense pain no sense. ainsley: he went 22nd. went out right before christmas. probably time to recover. no one will miss me because it s christmas. he has to let the number two people know everything. what if there is a terrorist attack. what if god forebit worst thing happens in america is he in the hospital and number two person is in puerto rico. steve: just to be clear about the timeline, he went in, had the procedure. the elective medical procedure on december 22nd. and then he took an ambulance to walter reed on january 1st. on new year s day after talking to the president on a routine call. with severe pain. they put him into icu. so it was private. so nobody would find out. and nobody did for five more days. brian: what else? the president has a medical procedure, if the president is having some problems medically, should anyone feel good that we re going to get the information? i mean, this is they were supposed to be the most transparent adminis
Alert. lloyd austin, defense secretary, remains in the hospital. officials were not told the extent of his condition. this is concerning. brooke: defense secretary lloyd austin has been in the hospital for eight days now. pentagon officials were unaware for several days. major general patrick ryder said on friday, december 22nd, lloyd austin underwent an elective medical procedure. he was on leave. he returned home on the 23rd. evening of the 21st he was transported back and admitted to intensive care unit.
Going down there and they are telling him this is what needs to change. go back to washington and tell them. then he comes back for a visit there are no changes are they frustrated? steve: do you know what they say? we have heard it before. let us do our job because they feel they cannot. they would like to stop the people. lawrence, stand by for that let s talk a little bit about what is has been going on over the last 10 days or. so more than that, actually about two weeks. and that is we have got a timeline so we are going to put it up. the secretary of defense, that man right there, lloyd austin, on december 22nd, first box on the left on the top, he went in to the hospital, apparently, for elective surgery. then monday, january 1st, he was hospitalized and taken via ambulance to walter reed he was
Stake. bill: secretary austin went in for electrictive surgery before christmas december 22nd. on january 2nd, last tuesday, the pentagon s number two official takes over a lot of his duties without knowing that he is actually in the hospital, we re told. three days later senior pentagon and congressional officials are told about austin s status. turns out he was admitted to the icu while at walter reed on new year s day. last thursday is the president finally told about his absence. dana: fox team coverage. pete hegseth is standing by. jacque heinrich live at the white house where the biden administration is scrambling for answers. one of the most stunning parts about this is the u.s. carried out a drone strike killing two people, including an iraqi military leader in baghdad, last thursday. and we still don t really know who oversaw that order as it was being carried out.
steve: alex so, it was an elective medical procedure on december 22nd. that sounds pretty minor because he wasn t in the hospital apparently. it was one of those in and out things. yeah. steve: any idea what it is? i have scoured the papers. i can t find it anywhere. what we do know is that defense secretary austin is a deeply private person. he has acknowledged this in the past. so it appears to be something he didn t anyone to know that he was going to do. this elective procedure. we don t know what it is. we don t know if we will ever going to know. a statement came out any other official that might have been when they would have said hey, this is what i was doing. this is how i was feeling. we didn t get that though. ainsley: when you hear elective medical procedure we think cosmetic. we have no clue. because of hipaa we won t find out that information. that could be possible. brian: here s the thing. do you have elective procedure