ahead of one of the busiest travel seasons of the year. national average price for gallon of gas is $4.57 now. that s up 5 cents from yesterday. 17 cents from one week ago. and the national shortage of baby formula causing a pair of hospitalizations in this country. the biden administration is defending its policies as criticisms pile up and they re promising more action. in fact, we are getting breaking news at this hour that the administration is going to deploy the defense production act on baby formula. just getting word about this at this hour. correspondent mark meredith is at the white house on the north lawn with the very latest. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. this is the breaking news at this hour that biden is invoking the defense production act which will allow these ingredients that go into baby formula to be prioritized to formula makers the idea is to make sure that the factories that produce baby formula have what they need as quickly as possi
and that is the us ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. - i heard very, very bad things about her for a long period of time. not good. - yovanovitch was recalled by president trump because rudy giuliani accused her of hampering efforts to dig up dirt on joe biden. - rudy giuliani was saying that she was the corrupt one, even though she was there pushing back on corrupt figures in ukraine. the taking down, the smearing and the attempt to destroy the career of a career foreign service official for this obscure political personal errand, it was the early warning signal, it was the shocking moment of clarity that should have been, but wasn t. - the idea that rudy is this powerful international wheeler dealer and that he was going to go over to ukraine and he was going to pull the strings of power, this whole thing was shambolic, it was crapulous, it was just,
administration, totally signed on to that. rudy wants to build a case, so he goes to get evidence. now, one of the problems is, is he falls into this murky world of russia and ukraine and all sorts of competing agendas. and he demonstrates very little discernment as to who is a reliable source and who isn t. the problem is, this wasn t some back-room deal in queens. this was about democracy in ukraine surviving. as rudy is ramping up this campaign in ukraine to try and get these investigations, he starts feeling like he s running into this roadblock, and that is the us ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. i heard very, very hard things about her for a long period of time. not good. yovanovitch was recalled by president trump because rudy giuliani accused her of hampering efforts to dig up dirt on joe biden.
of competing agendas. and he demonstrates very little discernment as to who is a reliable source and who isn t. the problem is, this wasn t some backroom deal in queens. this was about democracy in ukraine surviving. - as rudy is ramping up this campaign in ukraine to try and get these investigations, he starts feeling like he s running into this roadblock. and that is the us ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. - i heard very, very bad things about her for a long period of time. not good. - yovanovitch was recalled by president trump because rudy giuliani accused her of hampering efforts to dig up dirt on joe biden. - rudy giuliani was saying that she was the corrupt one, even though she was there pushing back on corrupt figures in ukraine. the taking down, the smearing and the attempt to destroy the career of a career foreign service official for this
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