Summary
➡ The president was unaware of a critical situation for a month after its occurrence, which is deemed non-optimal; thus, he’s directed the Chief of Staff to review processes to prevent such delays in the future and the Department of Defense is also evaluating their own procedures for improvements.
Transcript
Well, to pick up on Mary’s point, and also because chief of staff Einstein got that memo today, the president didn’t learn about this for a month after the diagnosis in early December. Just quite simply. Does the president think that’s acceptable? It is not optimal, Gabe. It is for a situation like this to go as long as it did without the commander in chief knowing about it, or the national security advisor knowing about it, or, frankly, other leaders at the Department of Defense.
That’s not the way this is supposed to happen. The president understands that, and that’s why he wants the chief of staff to take a look at processes across the administration and agencies here. And that’s why DoD is also looking at their own procedures to make sure that that doesn’t happen again. .
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