to arrive at the d.c. appeals court. three-judge panel will hear arguments whether or not the former president is immune from prosecution. this in connection with special counsel jack smith east election interference case. the hearing we ll hear it by way of audio inside the court. so stand by for that. it will start in about 30 minutes from now. we ll get to that. from last night check it out. biden is not talking to his secretary of defense every single day. when i was at the u.n., we knew the intel, we knew the health of everybody in every country. they know what s happening to secretary austin. what bothers me is while our adversaries may know our own president doesn t know. the one thing that keeps me up at night is what happens between now and election day. biden is making america very vulnerable and putting us at risk. bill: nikki haley calling america s military readiness in question over a lack of transparency and couldn t come at a worse time. strong comments th
might matter. and secretaries at the very heart of those processes. i m sure his immediate office will take a look at what happened in this case to insure that, you know, command and control is passed to the deputy secretary so she can provide that information to the president should the secretary be unavailable. dana: but the commander-in-chief didn t even know he was in the icu. wouldn t necessarily have been able to have reached him. jacque heinrich said there are reports that biden was exasperated when he learned. to say the least. isn t it quite disrespectful to the commander-in-chief what lloyd austin decided to do? i would simply say this. the department of defense has good procedures in place in case of a time emergency where we can password to the president, get word back. secretary is a key part of that. secretary unavailable other people can fulfill that role in an emergency situation. clearly it s not the desirable state of affairs.
heinrich with the news from there today. good morning, bill. there are reports the president was exasperated he was left in the dark about his defense secretary s hospitalization despite public statements from the administration backing austin. the pentagon says word didn t get to the white house in a timely manner. austin s chief of staff had the flu. late last night they issued a memo directing a review over what happened with some immediate changes taking effect in the meantime. insuring when duties are transferred to another person top brass, and relevant folks at the white house get an email. the pentagon said there was never a gap that could have caused a security risk. deputy secretary of defense was given duties on her vacation without understanding why. austin because taken by ambulance to the hospital on january 1st. it s also unclear how long he was in the icu or what access he
border, rush across the river and get in to the united states. title 42 different drop. that word didn t get around to everybody. you can see on that part of the border how many migrants have gathered waiting to cross. they will take you to yuma, arizona. take a look at this video. several hundred migrants crossed into yuma this morning. they ve been getting well over 1,000 illegal crossings per day. the demographics out there are different than what we see here in eagle pass. yuma has getting people from the middle east, russia, china, all over the world. and here in eagle pass, take a look at this video shot before sun rise with our thermal drone. as usual before the sun came up, we had yet another group of about 200 that crossed illegally. almost all of them single adults typically from this area coming from nicaragua, columbia and the dominican republic.
directed the full resources of government to assist in a response. i have been covering president biden since the campaign i covered him for years since a senator, but in recent years suffers from this repetition of phrases, he wriengs hands a certain way when he speaks at times goes for notes. given this condition, the hesitation, the confusion, how do you think that threat is viewed by putin that he is going to respond, and is all national security issues. fvrl thanks for explaining that word didn t learn that in georgia. but listen, i am going to say i think that he has cog deterioration whatever people the buzzword is i don t know i am not a doctor i m not anybody s doctor i want thigh leader to be strong, i can t tell you what putin is going to say i can tell you every