possibly as a result of mental health issues it's very interesting to me, although we have not heard anything to date about how she acquired these weapons, who would certainly raise significant questions about if she had purchased these weapons after having been adjudicated to crt involuntary detention for mental health reasons, that would be at odds with the federal background check law that requires well disqualifies you from buying a firearm if you've been adjudicated a mental defective as it's termed in the statute. >> want to bring in john miller, our law enforcement and intelligence analysts as well? john the officers up there were heaping praise on these two off-duty officers, 128 year-old, 138 year-old, who managed to take down the shooter. but they also noted that the there was a security guard who let the shooter in. i'm wondering what you make of

that and to what extent you see that as, as an early failure in this well, this is the third largest church in the united states. while they have security presence of there wasn't security screening going on in between in-between the services. so she walks in wearing a long gray trench coat she, has the rifle hidden under the trench coat. churches are usually a kind of well-being, welcoming environment come one, come all. and when she gets that hallway, she tries to enter a door that would go to the choir area, but that's locked. and at that point she takes the gotten out, opens fire at some point, yells. i have a bomb. she has this backpack. so these officers step forward and engage, and that's when more than 40 rounds are fired back and forth. in the middle of this hallway as people scatter for cover, it is amazing, if not a miracle, that more people weren't wounded in this. and

whatever was planned for this incident, whatever her ultimate tactical plan was going in it was interrupted by the presence of these two armed security people. >> yeah. i mean, john, to that point, texas is unfortunately familiar with mass shootings at places of worship. they experienced the worst one in american history back in 2017 at sutherland springs baptist church there. and i think it speaks to the difference maybe some circumstances that we're fortunate in this case, it was between services as andy mentioned, it was in this hall all because there were 26 people killed, 22 injured at sutherland springs where you also had an intervention by law enforcement. and in this case, it's incredibly sad what we're talking about here you know, this, this young boys seven years old one person who was shot in the leg, who has been

released. the casualties pretty low considering what they could have been though john well, that's right. >> and i >> mean, if you consider this attempt to open the door that leads to the choir area, you have to ask yourself, had she been there before? how many times that she had she done a preoperational walk through, did she want to get to that choir space because it would have given her high ground and with two long weapons perhaps a greater deal of lethality in terms of opening fire from a higher position harder to hit from there we will probably never know that unless during the search warrant last night when they get into the computers and go through the phones they find more of a written version of the plan but as certainly some of the things they're thinking about as well as what was having a backpack. that purported that was made to look as if she had a bomb, even though there were no explosives found in it. was that something

that she could use to hold off? off people from opening fire whatever it was, the plan didn't go as planned, which probably is better >> all right, john, we're gonna go back to that press conference in here houston was listening that they had around the church that day and all the days go it about the relationship between the suspect and the seven-year-old fighting i'll let the investigators say a few words on it. but we do believe it's relative >> and i think has been confirmed that is the biological mother. and if i'm correct on that and yes, the biological mother okay good >> especially in charge. >> we understand that she had previous criminal >> background that showed she had visited or charge for a rapid that was taken away from her and that the fbi also made

question about a possible web issue. we're going to purchase in 2023. how is she able to get a hold of these weapons? >> that's part of the investigation and and he can speak to that if you want really quickly, but that's the challenges that we have. and that's what law enforcement i'll talk about. not all the time. we need to make sure everything is tight and we're not people standing up here against second right. amendments, but people who are suffering from mental illness, criminals, criminals. and yes. so we're looking at that and you want to add to you, okay? yeah. go ahead. come on. >> i don't i don't really have anything to add. i think it's we're in infancy stages of this i completely understand we want to know the motive, how she got the weapon, why she did this we're not there yet. >> if and when the fbi does make an inquiry about weapons are going to try to be purchased by someone who has mental health issue and a criminal background what do you

do with that information then afterwards. >> so when that information comes through, the fbi will receive it and then we share that with our with our local partners. >> yes. >> yes. go ahead. is it clear how much ammunition to the suspect was carrying amongst those two rifles? >> i think we're still working through it, but can i say multiple rounds of ammunition? multiple rounds were fired, but just 24 hours into it. i don't want to give you a definitive answer. multiple rounds. and multiple rounds fired. go ahead and we'll work on i'll wait to the bank way more >> spanish indicated a christian christian moreno. is that the officer for hpd then returned fire? >> yes. christopher marino and we'll be sending that information out to you. and i don't want to speak for my dbc, but what will get that out sometime pretty soon >> moment at marino's is your any relation here? just want to make sure. >> no. no, not do we know regarding it's two i needed clarification now my question

let's one more and they said it's a lot of people in this room. go ahead, mario. go ahead >> the trans guy we appreciate >> i got what, 53 year rise or she rise up for you. forgive me. she rise of 153 to 73 by hpd. >> how long >> before there was gunfire engaged in how long did that gun exchange last >> the shooting. began almost instantaneous upon her entering the building, which roughly 155, takes her a little over a minute to get in after talking with the security guard the firing commences right after that. there's a few minute gun battle for lack of better term, they're exchanging gunfire and she is down. and then in our officers followed their tactical training. they they linked up they talked talked about a game plan approach to the body. somebody else pulled the seven-year-old to safety? and so all of this transpired

within a matter of less than 12 minutes and we'll get a timeline a little bit late. let me get just some more questions. go ahead. >> widely, what's yours is a long way from congo where she lived. >> i can't speculate for her. that's part of the investigation, but it could be any place of worship. and as i said earlier, and i want i want to let's do it to get this. it could be any location, bad people are people or individuals suffering from mental illness and what guns we need all look out for him she was a dispute with those debates and services there >> no. not at all. go ahead. and then we'll work our way back to resources for all the community. the community said at one more time, i'm very sorry >> yeah. you can do it. yeah. go ahead. >> come up. hectic >> well, this does you that nmos moocers organisms, younis

cape within that led you there is this individual the houston police department, >> andy, that this seven-year-old who who was shot and head and is fighting for his life, was the child of marina, the she she was the biological mother. we're going to go back to this press conference as they take questions what is there anything in those writings stipulated? >> desire for >> acting out against specific people? >> this case? >> nothing at this specific moment. we don't have anything that pops out. again, we're reviewing all of those writings, but nothing that stands out at this time. >> no no go ahead all right >> about security measures, about the church. we're told it. >> we've >> heard that you may have tried to get into a classroom for students. >> i'm not sure what that's what an investigation and i forgot to address this last

yesterday, there was a course in a bought body-worn camera officers work did have body-worn cameras. so a part of this investigation is going through that, plus the security cameras. so i really don't want to speculate right now, but we will be transparent as more information comes, comes in over here on the corner and then we'll get to go ahead, the commander with based on your preview of the information you just provide it what did she say? what does xi's you guys have camera information into their two what did the woman's say to that security guard at all? >> the middle, it's still under investigation. she blade a weapon and we were going to re-interview the security guard, but she had a rifle and it was pointed at her and she was on armed i'm gonna get you to go ahead and then we'll work our way over here. did i leave anybody any labeled >> we don't want to jump ahead of that. i think is very important that we don't as a

society right now, we want to put group different people for different reasons. i think that's really counter productive a to our healing process too. the way that we want to patrolled and police are our cities. so i just want us to simply wait on the facts. you got mental illness here you got a lot of things going on and so let us work that out and i promise you, you know, we're transparent here. we'll get it till you go hit >> thanks >> all right. listening to authorities there in houston about this shooting at lakewood church? chapters church >> let's talk a little bit >> about what we learned from actually a question from a reporter. there, andy, which was a reporter asked and authorities did not push back on this that the shooter had a previous criminal background and had had a weapon somewhat

recently taken away from her, and yet to weapons, right. only one of which she used in this according to them, the ar 15 it having had as well this intervention where she was detained, i guess a hold right. a mental health-related hold, please explain how that normally would work for reporting someone to the background check systems such that they would not be able to purchase a weapon. >> sure. so there's kinda three different things in your question there. the first is a criminal background. so if if if this shooter had ever been arrested for a criminal offense that gets reported into the national database, and that would come up on the nics check. the federal pre-purchase gun background checks. so that's one second is the detention. if she was in fact adjudicated to be detained against her will for mental health reasons that also if it was judicata, should go through the system and end up hitting on the background check the same time. >> if

>> this person had weapons taken away from them, like for instance since because of the action of a red flag law or something like that, that wouldn't necessarily detain them or, or prevent them from purchasing weapons permanently. it would during the pendency of that red flag action. but what we have here is a person who from preliminary information, there seemed to be several reasons that should have prevented her from legally purchasing a firearm. now, we know there's many other ways to purchase or come in possession of firearms in this country without going through the federal background system, you can go at gun shows and buy guns without, without passing a background check, you can purchase weapons and deals between citizens one at a time. no background check required. so this system is very porous. >> john miller, short of a writing that the authorities uncovered that says, i carried out the shooting or i plan to carry out this shooting because of reasons x, y, and z, what more do they know need to know

to determine? a motive? because here we are 24 hours since this since this shooting and there's a fair bit of detail here in terms of past anti-semitic writings past history with mental health issues, detention, this palestine sticker on the rifle. what more are they looking for it to be able to say? this was the motive >> no alex, i reviewed some of those writings as we've gone through the day today and was aware of that palestine sticker on the gun, but but the conundrum that authorities are facing here, and i think our fbi colleague at the press conference hinted at that is that you have the palestine sticker. okay. does that make this a political terrorism crime? you have the anti-semitic writings. does that make it a hate crime? but the complicating factor is you have a person who is going through a mental crisis that is somewhat long term, who talks

about that in some of her writings. and who has been the subject of an emergency psychiatric detainer? so we are in this netherworld of trying to attach rational thinking about motives to completely irrational acts, meaning she didn't go to a temple, she didn't go to a jewish location where there would be a crowd. she went to a church she brought her own child. so a lot of this doesn't fit together because clearly we're dealing with someone who is in thinking logically. and that makes it harder to not just figure out what the clear motive is, but even discern what the motive in her own mind was yeah. >> the police chief there saying that the location could have been anywhere and referring again to her mental health issues john miller, andrew mccabe. thank you both for your thoughts and your expertise today, we need to leave it there just in a

georgia judge says that fani willis, the fulton county one district attorney prosecuting donald trump, could be disqualified from the case. will tell you why. and later, new details about defense secretary lloyd austin's medical conditions his doctors just said that he underwent a nonsurgical procedure under general anesthesia. those stories and much more coming up here on cnn news central >> thanks very much. you'll give me a heads-up before i go when they still

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>> let's turn now to the white house where moments ago president joe biden greeted jordan's king abdullah the second, the arab leader, is expected to press biden on a ceasefire between israel and hamas but on the other side, biden is facing a resistant israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. cnn has learned that biden is growing more frustrated when that's an yahoo and israel's tactics in gaza

netanyahu for his part, is vowing to go after hamas in their last refuge of rafah in southern gaza. but rafah is also the last refuge for roughly the a million, more than 1 million palestinian civilians. that's why the us, the uk, as well as other allies, are all urging israel to scrap that planned offensive. now it hasn't started yet, but rafah was bombarded overnight heavily. israel launching ground and air operations which were part of a successful operation to free two hostages from hamas captivity in russia. but in the process, dozens of palestinians were reportedly killed joining us now is israeli government spokesman avi hymen thank you so much for joining us. israeli forces pulled off a remarkable rescue of these two older men, getting them out of rafah. of course everyone happy that their home we saw those scenes of joy earlier today, but at the same time, scores of palestinian civilians were killed in that bombing of rafah. so how does the israeli

government make that calculation? what amount of collateral damage is acceptable to rescue a hostage? >> i think. thank you very much for having me on. my heart goes out to the people of texas after the shooting today let me say that the entire country, all of israel breed, a huge sigh of relief. this morning at the news and the sites those two elderly israeli civilians that were being held in a civilian in a regular civilian apartment block in gaza by terrorists we were very, very happy to see that site i am not aware. i'm aware that schools of terrorists were killed. schools have hamas people were killed. >> i >> would, i would caution you on using information coming out of hamas, who always need jug

say that any deaths or civilian deaths, right? >> but you don't think that there were any civilians among the around 100 or more than 100 who according to the palestinian red crescent, were killed >> again, those numbers are coming out of hamas. i cannot confirm those numbers at all. what i can tell you is that schools have terrorists were killed. i can tell you that it was a valiant mission where special forces, a joint group of forces went in to that civilian building and encountered fire from all directions, from buildings all around. there was a lot of terrorists trying to make sure that we didn't free those hostages, but we needed to send a message to hamas. we need to send a message to israel and the entire world that we care about every last hostage we said from they want that we will destroy hamas and we will bring home every last hostage or remind your viewers that there's still 134 israelis being held by hamas. and that is a crime against humanity >> but avi, the prime minister,

has asked for plans to get palestinian civilians out of harm's way in rafah. that is recognition of how incredibly densely populated that area is with displaced people. and yet the idf carried out an extraordinary amount of bombing overnight. so back to my original question, how does the idf make that calculation? how does the israeli government make that calculation when clearly so many civilians are potentially in harm's way. >> alex, when the dust settles on this wall and when the real numbers come through in the analysis is done, i'm confident, and this is already baked being said, by military experts around the world. i'm confident that you will see that israel has gone over and above any other army in history to avoid it's civilian casualties. now when we talk about rafah and what will happen again, we're not going in guns a blazing the >> prime minister has >> asked for a plan to be put forward to evacuate the civilians of rafah our fight is not with the people of gaza, it is with hamas we have taken out

18 out of 24 hamas battalions. there are four more in refer if we don't go into rafah, we lose the wolf's impulse that it would be like saying a winston churchill, you know you're doing a good job, right? beating the nazis. but did you just stay away from stuttgart or berlin? that that's absurd? we need total victory and we will continue. we will strike as far as >> i know, avi, how can you say that israel has gone over and above to protect civilians? we have reported in the past that areas where israel has told palestinian civilians to go to have then been bombarded as far as i know the issue, the order has not yet been ordered. the order has not yet been issued for for gazans in rafah to leave and yet israel is carrying out an extensive bombing, which we saw last night resulting again in the deaths of scores of palestinians, possibly more than 100 we have killed. >> we've put out of action over 20,000 hamas terrorists

killed or injured. over 12,000 dead we will continue on our mission to target hamas again, you're telling me that there were civilians. i'm not aware of that i saw i i've heard of a targeted mission and again, i don't know if any other army that has gone to the extent to which israel does of dropping leaflets have making millions of phone calls. and we have a historic precedent from just a few months ago when we moved the we evacuated the north of gaza and people moved down to the south. so i'm not sure what the question is. we've done it already and we'll do it again. we do not want to target civilians, and we will move them out of harm's way while hamas will do their utmost to keep them in harm's way. so that is what will happen we have seen video of the aftermath including dead children. i do want to ask you about something that prime minister netanyahu said yesterday saying that for every

one, hamas terrorists killed one palestinian civilian was killed and he was saying that that is quite a low ratio. and that is indeed low over than we've heard from the, in the past, from the idf. can you clarify how the prime minister got to that number >> the prime minister has all of the information at his fingertips. the prime minister has given that one-on-one ratio, which i i challenge you to find in with any other army in the world. >> those >> calculations are made in the same way that any other army would make. and i don't know if any army that has achieved that because ultimately israel we love life and hamas loves death. we ran, those soldiers ran in 20, that building and they hugged all are civilians. and they protected them with their bodies while hamas runs behind their own people, run uses their own people, their

own civilians, bodies as human shields. we will continue to act in the most moral and targeted way. >> but avi you may say hamas loves death, but palestinians, normal palestinians who are being killed by the thousands, they love life as well and they are dying in this ongoing military operation. there is, i just want to ask you a willing a couple of seconds left. the united states is now pushing for a humanitarian pause. is this something that you think israel is going to agree to or does the netanyahu government wants to press forward with its operation and rafat before implementing a pause i'm not sure how you're defining a humanitarian bulls. if this is some kind of stopping the fighting if it's to release hostages as we've done in the past multiple times, maybe it could be discussed. but if you're talking about a ceasefire, that would be capitulations. so if i'm us so the question isn't clear enough

for me to give clear on. >> so it is being discussed. in fact, it's gonna be discussed tomorrow in cairo. do you know whether mossad director david barnea will be going to that meeting with the cia director bill burns i can tell you that the door has been open from israel sayyed throughout and will continue to be to release the hostages. it's one of the main aims of our operation is to destroy hamas and to release the hostages. so we will work every avenue including what you saw last night when we the valiantly release those hostages and all diplomatic channels open to us because we want those people to be home with their family. it is a crime against humanity to take men, women, children, and babies hostage. this has to stop all right, i'll be in hyman, excuse me. spokesman for the israeli government. we need to leave it there. thank you very much for your time today >> thank you, alex. >> and we'll be right back.

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might we see a decision in this case >> brianna, anytime in the next couple of days, we might see action from the judge that's right now. as you mentioned, the special counsel and their legal team, the lawyers for the government, are in the courthouse meeting with the judge, again making their argument for one by these documents should remain restricted. now, the former president spent about five hours inside the courthouse with his lawyers, with the judge, and the argument there taking is that if you're going to be having if you're going to have classified documents that are issue in this case, that it government might use in the trial and even documents that are relevant to his fence that the government should provide complete access in some cases, brianna the government is providing summaries of some of these documents because they say that the documents themselves are too sensitive for afford them to be shared with anyone, including trump and his two codefendants, walt nauta and carlos de olivera,

the former president. he was here when he entered the court he went by a crowd of supporters. there were people from the campaign handing out signs to some of those people in those supporters who are outside. he left without making any the comment, though, brianna. >> all right, evan, thank you so much for that report. alex. >> now, also some big news out of georgia where one of trump's codefendants is attempting to disqualify fulton county. da fani willis in the election, racketeering case. the judge now says that they be grounds for her removal in the prosecution. let's get straight to cnn v. >> establishing a very queer threshold that defense eys have to meet in order to get fani willis, the district attorney in this case disqualified and that threshold is proving that she had a financial benefit from her alleged relationship i've been her admitted relationship with her top prosecutor nathan wade. take a listen to what the judge

said today in court when they were trying to talk about the willingness and the ability of these expense stories to subpoena willis and wade next. this week i think it's clear that this qualification can occur if evidence is produced demonstrating an actual conflict with the appearance of one. >> and the filing submitted on this issue so far have presented a conflict in the evidence that can't be resolved as a matter of law specifically looking at defendant romans motion, it alleges a personal relationship that resulted in a financial benefit to the district attorney? that is no longer a matter of complete speculation. the state has admitted a relationship existed and so what remains to be proven as the existence and extent of any financial benefit? again, if they're if they're even was won so the judge made clear today that a hearing on thursday where this evidence will be presented has to move forward despite >> objections from fani willis and her office remains be seen if the defense attorneys can

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>> the senate is one step closer to passing a 95 billion foreign aid bill, which includes funding for israel and ukraine. lawmakers were able to move the package forward with this supportive 18 republicans, despite opposition from former president donald trump. but can they get the bill passed? this week? let's talk about this now with democratic senator mark kelly of arizona. he sits on the armed services committee. sir, as you know, trump it is pressuring republicans to kill this legislation. he says the us should stop providing foreign aid unless it's structured as a loan. what is your reaction to that reasoning? >> well, it's a mistake. the former president doesn't seem to know what's in the best interests of our own national security. we need to make sure putin loses here if we don't, this could wind up in a wider conflict. so i don't understand his logic. the good news is we have bipartisan support here in

the senate to do this, to get this ukrainian aid. they're running out of ammunition. they need our help but brianna, you know what, we also had bipartisan support on, and that was border security last week we've got this crisis at our border and senate republicans unfortunately decided to walk away from this. they decided they wanted to keep the problem instead of coming up with a solution >> to that point, i was wondering how likely you think it is that this aid bill to ukraine, israel, and taiwan gets killed just like the larger bill that included border provisions did when trump opposed it >> well, i mean, because of the bipartisan support we have now i'm confident we're going to get this through the senate. it's going to take us a couple of days. we can't get an agreement. so senate process it gets in the way of this. and politics is getting in the way of this. and this is what the american people really hate about washington. and back to the border security thing we worked on that for months. this has been a problem for decades. we were going to provide more

border patrol agents, asylum officers, judges, these the technology to stop fentanyl at our border and have better policies to get control over our border. and because of the former president, that, that part of the deal is now dead. now we've got to get this ukraine security package done. if we don't, they're going to run out of ammunition. we can't allow that to happen. so in the senate here, i'm confident we're going to get this done. it's not likely to fall apart right now. the other issue is and how to we get this through the house. >> yeah. >> certainly a harder road >> they're turning to israel. this overnight rafah operation, where two israeli hostages were rescued and they have been reunited with their families. so happy to have them home. but you also had more than 100 palestinians who were killed by accompanying airstrikes do you have any understanding of why such extensive air cover was needed for this hostage rescue operation >> well, brianna, i haven't

seen the details on this operation yet. i'll probably get briefed on there's sometime this week and it's tragic whenever civilians, innocent men, women, children, especially die in a conflict israel did the right thing and trying to rescue these hostages. i imagine the strikes were some form of a distraction. i've been pressuring the israeli it's a number of times here to use more guided instead of unguided munitions. i flew 39 combat missions in the first gulf war. and using dumb bombs in a conflict in this densely populated areas, not the way to go clearly isn't. but israel was attacked and a brutal way on october 7 then has to defend itself. there are ally we're going to support them. we're going to give them the aid they need. hopefully in this in this pat package, but it's really tragic just to see, just the extent of the loss of life here >> this, the white house is

warning that a large offensive in rafah, where you have more than 1 million palestinians, they've converged there seeking refuge. it's also a key hub for aid entry and distribution. the white house is saying this would be a disaster, but prime minister netanyahu really seems undeterred here. what are your concerns about what that would look like? and do you think israel will make any changes short of there being conditions on its aid from the us well, anytime there's urban conflict in a dense area, mean we dealt with this >> in iraq, had got to be extra careful and the israelis are taking some steps that i got to say are unprecedented before they conduct an airstrike they reach out to the community, text messages flying hi years, sometimes even knock on doors and they monitor the number of people who leave the area. and if they don't, they adjust the rules of engagement up or down based on those results. having

said that, 20, 30,000 innocent civilians is it's a huge number and they've got to do a better job. we're pressing them i'm to do a better job on this. i was over in israel right after october 7. again, a few weeks ago, i brought this up with yoav golan, whose defense minister, also direct faculty with netanyahu that they have to do better on this issue and you know, conflict in rafah it's gonna be a challenging it's going to be challenging for the idf. so hopefully the idf comes up with some rules of engagement that protects innocent life. there netanyahu said that the expected idf rafah operation has to be done by march 10, the beginning of ramadan. in your mind, does that eliminate possibility of a hostage? he'll pause in the fighting before then >> why don't think it necessarily eliminates it and that's what we need right now. we need to bring these hostage. hostages it is home. we have

american hostages that are still there. i've met with the families multiple times. it's a tragic situation that needs to be the number one priority. but nearly willy is important as that is eliminating this threat from hamas they've already made it clear that given the opportunity they would repeat the attack that they did on tobar seven. that can't be allowed to happen >> all right. senator mark kelly, we appreciate your time this afternoon. thanks for being with us >> thank you. brianna and up next we have some new details on defense secretary lloyd austin. we have just learned that he's honored, undergone a procedure at walter reed the latest on his condition ahead >> in an election year guarantee to divide. >> this is a javadoc second term we could all agree on hosts, comedy central for daily show, tonight and 11 on comedy central and streaming next day

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>> i'm arlette saenz at the white house and this is cnn here in the last hour, we learned that defense secretary lloyd austin should be resuming his regular duties tomorrow >> after beingpitalized for a second time. this is according to a statement from his doctors, really a second time annexed expectedly following a first-time where he was having a procedure done in december, the pentagon says that austin underwent a nonsurgical procedure under general anesthesia today regarding an issue related to his bladder this i understand it. this was related to a emergent bladder issue. it was not related to his cancer treatment again, as the statement that i just read out to you highlights his prognosis for that is good. and the bladder issues should not affect his recovery from that cnn's katie bo lillis is on this story for us. so can you go what can you tell us about how the secretary is now doing?

>> yeah. so alex i his doctors have told us now in a statement that he is expected to make a full recovery and that his prognosis for the underlying prostate cancer remains excellent. the lunch but of course, we do now know that he's not expected to be able to resume full duties until tomorrow, which means that the deputy defense secretary, kathleen hicks, will effectively remain the secretary of defense. this clearly wasn't the original plan when austin first went to walter reed yesterday and when the pentagon issued a public statement saying that he was on his way back to the hospital they said that hicks was on standby, but that austin was taking both his unclassified and his classified systems with him to the hospital so that he could continue to perform his duties. obviously, once they got him there, they realized he was going to require more intensive care than perhaps initially anticipated. and now, of course we see hicks taking over at least until tomorrow. there are a few other things that austin is going to ms as a result of this, we know also that he was expected to travel to brussels to attend a nato defense ministerial. and in particular, a meeting related

to the provision of aid aid for ukraine. he's now not going on that trip >> and it's interesting because so much controversy followed. what was a failure to notify properly in january you worry, when he ended up going to walter reed and having more extensive care than he had anticipated. it seems very clear that they're taking a very cautious approach this time. >> yes, i think it is notable >> how differently team austin is handling this hospitalization compared to his hospitalization in january, we are getting near real time public updates on his condition. and what is anticipated it's updated in terms of who will be carrying out the duties of the defense secretary. because again, of course, the secretary received an extreme amount of criticism from capitol hill about his failure to notify not just the white house, but also other senior ministry officials, congress, even the press at the time of his hospitalization in january, he's expected to testify before the house armed services committee later this month to address some of those

concerns. and he has publicly acknowledged that his handling of that episode was a mistake, is somewhat ironically, the pentagon also carried out a 30 day review of the notification procedures for when the duties are transferred from one official to another. that review was completed last week. and in fact, is currently sitting being on secretary austin's desk for his reveal. >> he'll be ready to read that when he is back in the office and listen. good news that he is recovering well, and that he he's expected this is expected to be a full recovery is we learned today from the pentagon. so that's very good news. katie bo lillis. thank you so much. we have some new details coming in right now of the shooting joel osteen mega church in houston will have an update ahead >> dianne not guilty. >> i am resigning administration officials destroyed my cover. >> politics. we're great power meets question well, decision-making. >> and then on faceless from iowa backroom deals, cia

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