this is what they have been doing when it comes to gas prices, supply chain, the food issue we have been seeing as well. john: proactive f.d.a. might have said to the president in february, we are going to have a problem here. and we are going to talk with bret baier and larry kudlow as well. gillian: and what changed in the last six days, we have jen psaki in response to a reporter question it would not work to address the baby formula shortage because the process is too sophisticated and complicated. john: political winds changed a lot between last week and this week when it was clear this was only going to get worse, not better. and all the moms that we have been gillian: public pressure. never underestimate moms. john: and the moms saying we can t find baby formula. gillian: never underestimate the wrath of moms trying to feed
and so the huge increase in prices is pretty broadly based across all of those commodities. rajiv shah, among the groups that s point on this topic in particular, former head of aid, really good to talk with you and get your perspective on this and thank you all for being with us this hour. by the way, you can help out the foundation, please do. this food issue is going to be worse and it creates more political instability and hurts a lot more people. we will be back tomorrow. msnbc s coverage will continue after this break. will continue after this break it s neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! neutrogena®
farm. all those costs will get added to the consumer. bill: the food price that is so daunting is the energy issue, you might be able to solve if you started drilling more, if you opened up alaska, if you delivered perhaps psychological elements to the argument. the problem with the food issue is the longer this war goes on, the less time those farmers in ukraine have to plant for the next season. absolutely. they will have to get their grain from somewhere else and hurt the entire grain supply. bill: people don t understand how much china imports from ukraine. think about the world food supply here not just for today or coming spring or summer, how about a year or two years from now if this situation in ukraine goes on like we saw in the former yugoslavia. america needs to stop outsourcing commodities vital to our infrastructure.
i mean, canada is blessed with an abundance of resources. uranium is certainly one of them at this point in time. at this point in time, our uranium producers actually do have excess capacity and certainly could ramp up to help to fill the gap that russian supplies will provide in this context. part of my show this week is talking about the soaring cost of food, impacting everybody around the world, concerning politicians indeed, the imf, the international monetary fund, has warned that it could cause civil unrest. part of the reason for the soaring cost of food is the soaring cost of fertiliser. i mean, i believe, you know, it has gone up 100% to i30%. you supply canada huge in fertiliser, supply about a third of the world s production, and given russia is number two, can you do more? can canada do more on the fertiliserfront? yes, we can. i mean, as you know, the food issue is a complicated one.
will provide in this context. part of my show this week is talking about the soaring cost of food impacting everybody around the world everybody around the world. concerning politicians. indeed, the imf, the international monetary fund has warned that it could cause civil unrest. part of the reason for the soaring cost of food is the soaring cost of fertiliser. i mean, i believe, you know, it has gone up 100 to i30%. you supply, canada, huge in fertiliser, supply about a third of the world s production and given russia is number two, can you do more? can canada do more on the fertiliserfront? yes, we can. i mean, as you know, the food issue is a complicated one. there“s supply chain issues, there“s fertiliser issues, there“s energy cost issues and there s what s happening in ukraine. well. sorry to interrupt fertilisers and i ve learned this myself, but fertiliser users needs