What Was Lloyd Austin Thinking?

Playbook: “One big question is on the minds of Washington insiders headed into this week: How the hell does the secretary of Defense end up in the hospital for multiple days and nobody tells the White House?”

“We’ve asked — and been asked — that question over and over again as we worked the phones last night and this morning. People at the White House, the broader Biden administration and the amorphous foreign policy ‘blob’ are befuddled.”