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brian brian going to be a big day on the fox news channel today. three big events taking place. first off a pentagon briefing. what's the big deal? how about the secretary of defense still in the hospital, never telling us why he was in the hospital or why didn't he tell the president or anybody else he was in the hospital. meanwhile, this has been a bunch of strikes in iraq houthi rebels on our forces. wouldn't it be great to have a secretary of defense? i don't know. you make the call at home. ron desantis will try to do as well as nikki haley did if not better in big town hall. many will be watching. closing argument for ron desantis and also a debate coming up on wednesday. >> hunter is in trouble. we know that now we are going to find out who is paying all that money for this rookie artist. georgia's burgess is going to be front and center as well as elizabeth nuclear weapon tally who paid over $13,000 for blow
this that led to him being sent to the intensive care unit. perhaps we'll find out at a pentagon briefing later itself. >> brian: i heard a story yesterday that one of the former had the of comm lost communication on a plane he was so concerned he landed a plane because he knew he had to be in communication any time thachl is how concerned they are about losing communication, even in flight. that is how bizarre this is. he is not a civilian running the pentagon, he is a military guy and a general. don't they learn responsible behavior in training? >> griff: i interviewed keith kellogg and he said this is extremely serious.
we cannot take this democracy for granted. >> john: as we know, the obamas are not sold on joe biden a president a second time and if ever a pick me moment, that was it. >> she's clearly saying if president trump were to win the general election it would terrify her. that was not endorsement of confidence moving forward, that joe biden could win and now speculation she may get into the race, i'm not sure it's going to happen but the obamas are heavily involved in this and are quite worried that joe biden cannot pull it off. >> john: could make for an interesting democratic convention. >> we have a long ways to go. >> sandra: good to see katie. we are waiting the pentagon briefing as we mentioned, as anger escalates over the defense secretary lloyd austin being out of commission without following proper chain of command, like letting the white house know. >> john: yes, and so the white
defense secretary, kathleen hicks is still unaware of the medical procedure that took place, this is pretty remarkable stuff. so we have the pentagon briefing that's happening a short time from now, the white house will also be briefing, they were not told, and there's questions over what this actually meant for national security while he was hospitalized and the white house didn't know that. we will dig into that with general jack keane. the question is if there was a massive international event that happened and the white house was not even aware that the president's defense secretary was in the icu, what really were the implications of that? we'll ask the general about it, john. >> john: implications are when you pick up the phone, you want the defense sent on the other end of it, not finding out where is he. looking forward to what the general has to say about this. >> sandra: and now this. >> opening of a pandora's box and it's a very -- it's a very sad thing that's happened with
in death. >> yeah. i'm glad you pointed out. there are many complications that can obviously come along with surgery. let's actually listen in, doctor, as we begin the pentagon briefing. >> we appreciate your patience. secretary austin currently remains hospitalized at walter reed national military medical center and is in good condition. by now you should have seen the statement released by walter reed national military medical center officials regarding his medical care. for the sake of ensuring that everyone here today and everyone watching has the same information, i will read that full statement. this is a statement from dr. john maddox, trauma medical director, and dr. gregory chestnut, center for prostate disease research at walter reed national military medical center in bethesda, maryland. as part of secretary austin's routinely recommended health
condition? surgery, anesthesia? medication that could impair his judgment? now we know it wasn't general anesthesia. >> we have a pentagon briefing in a couple of minutes. do we know what stage of cancer this is? >> they do put a little bit of information in saying this is a relatively common type of cancer and that his prognosis is excellent but beyond that, we don't really know much more about what stage he's in. >> we have from this release from the pentagon that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in early december of last year. do we know if the white house knew about this diagnosis? >> we don't. the pentagon did not notify the white house of the december 22nd procedure. that he was having done, yeah. so we have no idea. and we also don't know frankly, this is some of the line of
sullivan and others in the pentagon, that remains a question and i suspect that will be a focus of the press briefing here from pentagon press secretary major general patrick ryder in a short time. the pentagon announced last night that there's a 30 day review to look at the policies and procedures around notifications to try to make sure this does not happen again. >> all right. oren, we are now awaiting a press conference there at the pentagon. we are certainly expecting more questions to be asked about this, as we have just learned that lloyd austin was treated for prostate cancer on december 22nd. but the reason he ended up in the hospital after that is what was initially revealed to be a uti, but then was discovered to be a intestinal blockage, as it is put here in a full statement from his doctor at walter reed medical center. we are going to get some input here from a doctor who can speak to us a little bit more about this as we await this key pentagon briefing after a quick break. we will be right back.
long, it is the review process that has been talked about. the military is famous for their after action reviews where they say what happened, why did it happen, what do we do to make a difference and change it for the better, who is responsible? it is sort of a scab picking, if you will, of things that go wrong. i know secretary austin's chief of staff, she will conduct a good review, and she will take responsibility for anything that went wrong as the secretary has already done. >> to your point, he is private , clearly someone who schedules his prostatectomy, the friday before christmas monday does not want that to be the topic of the pentagon briefing. this then turned into complications and dr. reinert, back to you on that, people look at these complications and they say he was in the hospital for many days, however, he