Good evening. I'm William Bringham. Jeff Bennett and I'm

Navaazra away. On the news hour tonight, Defense Secretary Lloyd

Austin holds his first press conference since his cancer

treatment and the killing of American troops in Jordan.

A look at swatting the phenomenon of targeting someone's home by calling in fake reports

that trigger a police response and a former Russian politician is forced to flee

after publicly denouncing the war in Ukraine.

Whatever power I have, I will use it to stop this.

Because all politics right now in Russia are focused on justification. I don't see anything

that can be justified. Welcome to the news hour.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin offered a full apology today for failing to disclose

his battle with prostate cancer. The military's second in command kept President

Biden in the dark when he was initially diagnosed in December and during subsequent hospitalizations.

That prompted new federal guidelines and triggered a political firestorm.

At the Pentagon today, Austin, who is 70 years old, was visibly limping as he made his way to the podium for his first press conference since the scandal broke.

I'm recovering well, but as you can see, I'm still recovering. I want to be crystal clear.

We did not handle this right and I did not handle this right.

I should have told the president about my cancer diagnosis. I should have also

told my team and the American public and I take full responsibility. The reviews of the department's notification protocols are

still ongoing. Our own Nick Schifrin was there at the Pentagon today and he

joins me now. So Nick, there's this long gap of almost a month between the diagnosis

and Austin finding out about it and him telling the president. How did he explain

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