what we re getting is in fact we re a first rate product. president biden finally taking time to address the babyy formula crisis before jetting off to delaware this weekend, d joe deflecting blame after dropping the ball. but ll it s not the only thing he s screwing up. inflation raging, the economymy in turmoil and the american people aren t buying it. bidenin is selling. almost 80% say the country is headedt in the wrong direction. biden, who promised to be theoe adult in the room and to always have a plan, is once again caught off guard by a crisis he should have seen coming. american families can t get baby formula, but there are pallets of it for migrants at our southern border over 50 percent of supplies are out in some states. and if you re a concerned parent, joe biden says don t worry, he s making a government website to help you find formula. this is a process we remumu worg on very, very hard.ar there sd nothing more urgent. we re working on than that right now. w
a couple of weeks to a couple of months maternity leave, many women do turn too formula. i did because they can t breastfeed for the duration which is the best for the child. and i know everybody can t breastfeed. i adoptedyoas a child. i used lactation pills.it those didn t work. i get it.en but a lot of women, especially women in the workforce, especially, e lower income wome, they have to have formula because they can t stay home because we don t have maternity leave six months to a year like countries like germany or australia do. so this to me is a much bigger thing when you look atk monopolies, when you look at the, the lack ofe maternity leave for womenwo and any nation that we can embrace in that biga ,bignd companies. is that what you re saying? it s everybody s well, i ll is.e fault it the biden administration won t even respond to abbott saying we can start up again in two weeks. the cdc said in theio wall street journal reported that there was no connection between this pla
illustrate this is a bigger picture and i know everybody likes to blame e. i shall leave the table, joe biden. but let y me tell you why we re not going to blame. i m not going to blame joe biden on this one . okay, here s a few things. one , when you look at the original reason for the recall is bacteriait and contaminations and we havend had bacteria and contamination of other productss like lettuce. okay,ay we didn t have a shortae of lettuce and the company and what would happen these these companies don t do more salad messages. you can skipt a salad. i don t i don t do this . i have seen salad, jessica. so here s the thing. okay, a couplehi of things. one , monopoly s there were only four companies that make almost 100% of the baby formula and the plant that they stopped is owned by the company abbott that produces the most of theseo for one two. now i m going to get my feminist hat on . i know you re going to get 80% side of this . okay, listen, when you when you have women have
that right now. we have set up a system wherebyc you can contact hhs and go to wh w whs dot hhs dot gov slashs. formula. just launch this websiteform to help parents find resources, obtain formulas including ni contact with companies and food banks and health providersesy that in fact may have access to the particular formula they need. . and start with what he saide he didn t see this coming. w that s not true , is it? they knew this was going to be an issue but they didn t do anything about it. he didn t see it coming. i mean, first of all, do you believe anything he says at this point? first of all, the first complaint was madee in october of a whistleblower at the plant know it took them two months, ro december to get somebody from the fda to the plant. thenen they decide on january 13th that they re going to gont to the plant and then they shut the plant down on february 17th .