On Tuesday's broadcast of CNN's "Situation Room," George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences Professor and CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who also advised the White House medical team under President George W. Bush stated that the Biden administration's story on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization "really starts to fall apart when you think about the Secretary of Defense in an intensive care unit without notifying the rest of the chain of command, because he would have been potentially unstable, he would have been potentially on pain medication that would have made it very difficult for him to make complex recommendations in a time of a national crisis." And that Austin's ICU admission "suggests that he was unstable."