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his diagnosis. joining us with more on all this, nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. monica, what more are we learning about the secretary's condition and his ability to serve? >> reporter: well, ana, we understand from his own doctors who released a statement yesterday, they say his prognosis is excellent. he continues to recover in the hospital, where he is still working and engaged in many of his duties, but it is really unclear when he might return to the pentagon, how long this process will take. but the white house was very clear yesterday in that they only learned about the cancer diagnosis yesterday. this wasn't something, for instance, revealed in the days or weeks after the initial news came back, which was actually in early december, through some routine prostate testing that secretary austin learned abo this. that's what led to the initial procedure and later the hospitalization. >> again, looking at that time line as we fill in some of the gaps, he had surgeryor his