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Had been hospitalized monday following complications from elective surgery, landing him for a time in the icu. the white house was not informed for three days. the public was left in the dark all week many are outraged over the delay. austin defending himself in a new statement saying, quote, i could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed. i commit to doing better. but this is important to say -- this was my medical procedure and i take full responsibility for my d...

With an update on the state of abortion access in this country. yesterday, the supreme court allowed idaho to enforce provisions of a new abortion ban that could penalize doctors from performing the procedure in emergency situations. the court granted requests followed by state officials, putting on a hold a federal judges ruling that said the provisions conflict with the federal law. that law requires doctors to care for any person who comes into an emergency room, according to the biden admini...

The weekend a remains there at this time. the pentagon has not provided much information about how serious this matter was. but they did say that deputy defense sent kathleen hicks did assume some of the duties and responsibilities of the defense secretary while he was there. the defense secretary lloyd austin did assume full duties over the weekend. and he released a statement saying that he is on the mend and is looking forward to returning to the pentagon. but he did address some of these tra...

Administration officials are admitted to the hospital the press will learn about it within 24 hours, so this took days and they got criticism for that. its still unclear what the medical procedure was, how serious it was and what these complications were, but the white house did say last night that the president continues to have confidence in his secretary. >> all right. priscilla alvarez, thank you for your reporting. still ahead t has been three months since hamas attack on israel and israeli...

Ruling that sided with state attorney general ken paxton. paxton had -- guidance that set medical providers should offer abortions in emergency situations, even in states like texas, where the procedure is banned. the federal judge ruled to barr hhs from enforcing that guidance, saying the department would quote, well beyond the text of the law. the fifth circuit agreed. now, this all comes less than a month after the texas supreme court denied a request for an emergency court order, allowing ka...

Guess that leans in the colorado supreme courts favor. but given the makeup of the court, my prediction is that they find a way to keep him on the ballot. >> barbara boxer and renato mariotti, thank you for joining me tonight. before we go, were learning new details tonight about the hospitalization of secretary of defense lloyd austin. a u.s. official confirms to nbc news that the pentagon did not inform president biden, nor senior officials in the whites national security council until three d...

Physicals there myself. the public should know they even have special soout suites. there are two issues here. first of all, austins privacy and the need to give a heads-up to your boss if youre hospitalized. the public doesnt have a right to know. your boss has a need to know. it was reimportant as an elective procedure that had complications. having worked in the medical field since i retired, thats not unusual. some of those procedures can be embarrassing. it was probably something waiting to...

For the party and country. but first, to richard louis the other big stories we are tracking this hour on msnbc. orchard? thank you. an update. in the last, outside of defense but also releasing a statement about his hospitalization this week. austin saying he understands the concerns about transparency is running his elective procedure and the subsequent forest days in the icu at walter reed medical center. a u.s. official confirms to nbc, the pentagon did not overrule the president or senior...

His defense secretary. >> priscilla alvarez thank you. lets speak with retired lieutenant general mark hertling. i want to get your reaction to this. the pentagon press association is calling the delay in a statement -- in disclosing austins hospitalization, theyre calling it an outrage. theyre saying austin has no claim to privacy in this decision. perhaps theyre referring to the fact that austin was hospitalized, not particularly his condition or what procedure he had. doesnt the public, espec...

Even knew about it. can you, your reaction to this news. >> first, i think the important thing is that the chain of command was never broken. there was no issue as far as we can tell that somehow the secretary of defense or his deputy were not able to transmit orders to troops in the field. you know, when i worked at the pentagon, i saw that there are a lot of redundancy around the secretary. hes always with a communicator, security detail. even if he was having a private medical procedure. i th...