defense lloyd austin after austin failed to tell the president that he was in the hospital in intensive care and temporarily off his job. days after the revelation we still don t know why secretary austin was hospitalized in the first place. leaving this hour, president biden goes to south carolina bringing his campaign back to the state that he hopes can save him again and he went to emanuel church in south carolina, that was the site of the 2015 shooting fueled by white supremacy. his speech interrupted by protesters calling for a ceasefire in gaza. ceasefire now! you hear the crowd afterwards, folks tried to drown out the protesters by chanting four more years. there was nothing subtle about the contents of president biden s speech in an attempt to tie the ideology behind those racist murders in mother emanuel church in 2015 to donald trump and the maga movement. a mob attacked black officers, black veterans. maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to
intensity carry unit, i remain concerned that a vital chain of command and notification procedures were not followed while secretary of defense austin was under medical care. this lack of disclosure must never happen again this, of course, following that the nation s top defense official had elective surgery on december 22nd. we still don t know for what and then he went home the next day and then was rushed to the intensive care unit on january 1st after experiencing complications. for three days after that essentially no one knew that the secretary of defense of the biggest military in the world was hospitalized. the public didn t know. president biden didn t know. senior national security officials didn t even know. not even the deputy secretary of defense knew and she temporarily took over his job while she was on vacation in puerto rico. in fact, the pentagon never even told the white house or deputy austin s initial medical procedure back in december.