{"id":104111,"date":"2024-02-01T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/defense-secretary-austin-to-face-questions-for-first-time-since-keeping-hospitalization-secret\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:03:35","slug":"defense-secretary-austin-to-face-questions-for-first-time-since-keeping-hospitalization-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/defense-secretary-austin-to-face-questions-for-first-time-since-keeping-hospitalization-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Austin to face questions for first time since keeping hospitalization secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-01\/GETTY_2124_lloydAustin.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with the U.K. Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps at the Pentagon on Jan. 31, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. (Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will appear at the Pentagon podium for a press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The news conference, at 10:30 a.m., will be his first media briefing since his surgery and subsequent hospitalization, both of which was kept secret from the White House and the public.<\/p>\n<p>It also will be the first time the public will see him standing. He continues to undergo physical therapy.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 12, President Joe Biden publicly faulted Austin for not informing him earlier that he was hospitalized for complications from cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter asked Biden whether it was &#8220;a lapse in judgment for him not to tell you earlier,&#8221; Biden replied, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, when asked by a reporter if he still had confidence in Austin, Biden replied he did.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with the U.K. Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps at the Pentagon on Jan. 31, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. (Samuel Corum\/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will appear at the Pentagon podium for a press conference on Thursday. The news<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/defense-secretary-austin-to-face-questions-for-first-time-since-keeping-hospitalization-secret\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}