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Number of principle meetings, the senior cabinet officials of biden s national security team to talk about this issue, the number of meetings was zero. we know that because had anyone gotten together to talk about what should we do about force protection, what should we do about protecting troops, the nature and extend of damages. someone would have noticed that secretary austin was missing. so you know, it s really inexcusable that there was an attack but an attack after attack after tack. biden s security team had no conversations about it. the message that that sends is they just don t care. martha: you know, it s been noted by both the washington post and the washington examiner in editorials today that this reflects some of the themes that you are talking about. this from the washington post ....
Call a dynamic strike. we did shoot down drones and missiles because he made sure that they had the existing authorities and the capabilities and the training to do that. so he has been on top of these issues throughout. what your question gets to, i ve seen the sniping out there that how effective can the process be. what you have, the national security decision making process does not require cabinet level officialings being the sole people in the room making decisions on any given day. you staff these things from the middle up and the cabinet officials, whether it s secretary blinken or secretary austin come together as appropriate to make the key decisions. it happened on january 1. if you bear with me. ....
Austin to make this today? no. does the president plan to stick with secretary austin through the rest of the term? yes. martha: okay. we have heard both from john kirby and karine jean-pierre that the president is standing by his secretary of defense. you heard them lay the blame for this whole event of his being missing and the white house not knowing that he was in the hospital essentially on the defense secretary. he said he took full blame for it. you saw the memo he released and he takes full responsibility. they re not taking responsibility for this at the white house, for the fact that he could be missing this many days. we ll continue to keep an eye on it. peter doocy is in the briefing room. if there s an interesting exchange there, we ll head back to listen to that. in the meantime, hours from now, our second town hall of the week with the nation s first presidential contest now just ....
Biotechlogical advances. and then he develops an infection that can happen after any surgery. they thought it was urinary first and then it was fluid. they had to decompress the bowel. modern medicine came to the rescue. thank god he s okay. this can happen after major surgery like this. martha: did we lose dr. siegel? no. i m hear you. martha: i think we caught most of that. thanks very much. yes, infections can happen. it was surgically removed. we re looking at prior images here of general austin. mark, thank you. good to have you with us. dr. siegel from nyu langone joining us as we continue our ....
Secretary lloyd austin had surgery, which is fairly routine to treat early stage prostate cancer. this as the pentagon addresses fall-out over why president biden and the american people were left in the dark for several days about the fact that the defense secretary of the country was out of pocket, so to speak. he was in the hospital undergoing procedures and rushed back to the hospital in an ambulance, all of this without the president being aware of it. let s bring in john radcliff, the former national director of intelligence under president trump. get his reaction to everything we just learned. good to have you with us, mr. radcliff. thanks very much. you bet. good to see you. martha: you as well. well, you know, i watched the press conference. you know, i continue to obviously a lot of focus on secretary austin and the role that he played here and there ....