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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

how concerning it is given the world that we're living in always, but right now that on december 22nd he's under general anesthesia and just the idea of what could have happened that day had there been something urgent that happened either here at home or overseas. >> absolutely. we have a clear chain of command. the secretary of defense has clear authorities, by the way, on a number of different areas. he has the authority to decide when to do strikes in different parts of the world. so if he's incapacitated then he needs to pass that authority clearly off to somebody else. and obviously the president, the commander in chief needs to know who has that authority at any given time. >> the house armed services committee chairman mike rogers has launched a formal inquiry into this. they are asking for documents to understand what happened here, the communications breakdown. is that an inquiry that you support, congressman? >> i don't think there's any question what happened here.

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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt

upward of 6 inches of snow in northern maine. 1 to 6 inch as you get into the great lakes. wile have complete details on "today." we'll see you then. >> thanks very much. now to the news kept secret for days from top u.s. officials, including the president. defense secretary lloyd austin was treated for prostate cancer. the surgery and his subsequent treatment for complications kept private. courtney kube has the latest. >> reporter: tonight, the mystery surrounding secretary of defense lloyd austin's secretive hospitalization revealed he was being treated for prostate cancer. his doctors say he was diagnosed in early december, but defense officials say he hid the illness from top pentagon officials and even the president. >> nobody at the white house knew that secretary austin had prostate cancer until this morning. >> reporter: a statement from walter reed saying his surgical procedure on december 22nd was to treat and cure prostate cancer. they say he was under general anesthesia, but released the next morning. but on monday, january

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Erin Burnett OutFront

tonight, the pentagon finally announcing why defense secretary lloyd austin had two secretive stays in the hospital. revealing he was hospitalized december 22nd to preet prostite cancer. a hospitalization austin did not inform the white house or his deputy about at the time it spite being under general anise tisha. the pentagon also confirming when austin returned today the hospital in an ambulance in severe pain on january 1st he was diagnosed would a urinary tract infection. obviously, you know, he stayed in for many days. again, austin did not tell the white house about it. and the white house revealing in fact it only found out the defense secretary of the united states had prostate cancer today. >> nobody at the white house knew that secretary austin had prostate cancer until this morning, and the president was informed immediately after. >> significant there. john kirby not trying to mince words or anything, just putting

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

diagnosis and what happened on december 22nd today? >> absolutely not. this is very troubling. let me say, i think secretary austin has done a great job as secretary of defense. when you look at the coalition that he has put together to defend ukraine, the response to the israel crisis. we're in a very, very difficult set of circumstances for our national security, and he's done a great job. but there's really no excuse that i can think of for not having informed the president, number one, that you had cancer but certainly number two that he was having this surgery, that he was hospitalized. and that's the one question that we have to have answered. what did secretary austin think? why did he think that it was okay not to tell the president? i mean, secretary austin's number two in command of the military. the president's number one. it's really important that he keep him informed. he didn't in this case. and i can't imagine a plausible explanation that justifies that decision. >> yeah, i think the question is

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Anderson Cooper 360

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

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diagnosed with the procedure, for that procedure, on december 22nd. >> for whatever reason, i can't answer the question why. that information wasn't shared. it wasn't shared widely in the department and it certainly wasn't shared -- it's not good. it's certainly not good. which is why again we want to learn from this. we want to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> the pentagon chief was later readmitted to walter reed medical center on new year's day due to complications from that prostate cancer procedure. he is still at walter reed medical center tonight, i should note. joining me here is the ranking member on the house armed services committee, democratic congressman adam smith. and congressman, thank you for being here. and obviously, i should say first and foremost that as we talk abouthis story we are wishing secretary austin a fast and complete recovery from this. obviously, this is something that affects a lot of men not just here in the united states but around the world. but on the process here and how this happened, do you believe it's appropriate that president biden just learned about this

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

answer the question why. that information wasn't shared. it wasn't shared widely in the department, it certainly wasn't shared. >> it's not good. it's certainly not good. again, we want to learn from this. we want to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> the pentagon chief was readmitted on new year's day due to complications from that prostate cancer procedure. he is still at the medical center tonight, i should note. joining me here is a democratic congressman adam smith. congressman, thanks for being here. i should say first and foremost, we are wishing secretary austin a fast and complete recovery from this. obviously, it's something that affects a lot of men. not just in the united states but around the world. do you believe that it's appropriate that president biden just learned about this diagnosis and what happened on december 22nd today? >> absolutely not.

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CNN Newsroom Live

based on the notification that should have happened. part of those questions were about the medical condition itself. what was it that austin went through and what were the complications. those questions were answered. we'll get to that in a second. the other question were about the notification process that seems to have failed. why is it that president biden didn't know for three days after austin himself was hospitalized. those questions remain open. so what we learn today in a statement from walter reid where austin still is at this point, is that austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer in early december. he then went on december 22nd for a minimally invasive surgery to deal with the prostate k cancer. it was caught early. he was under general anesthesia and released the next day. it's unclear if anyone knew at this point that he was under general anesthesia, and that's significant because austin is the zsecretary of defense. even if his powers were delegated, his spoblts delegated to his deputy secretary of

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