room, why cnn is making a change across all of its shows, trying to make sure we are not unduly alarming you about the news. first, the biden administration facing its harshest scrutiny yet, for many different reasons simultaneously. inflation in the u.s. is hurting american households. gas prices are a consistent source of pain. baby formula shortages are embarrassing and downright and the president looks powerless. as crises press around him. nbc reports this week that biden is teleeighths he doesn t think democrats go on television enough to defend him, and feel he s not getting credit for actions he believes have helped the country, particularly on the economy. perhaps that s why the administration is on a media blitz this week. we ve seen interviews will many every day, op-eds and more. but will this satisfy americans who are suffering? let s talk about that and more with gene sperling, senior advisory to the president and coordinator of the white house american rescue
growing problem of baby formula supplies. i will talk about president biden and what he wants to do to ease the crisis and why so far invoking the defense production act is not one of those things. we will start with the republican pushback on capitol hill. the january 6th committee delivered a stack of subpoenas to some republicans, including the top ranking house member. and joining me here, good to see all of you on this friday morning. ali, what information are they looking from these lawmakers? what they are looking for is a whole range of things. we had seen letters from the january 6th committee to these individuals and those letters were detailed in the case, for example, of scott perry, talking about the roles he may have played in trying to install jeffrey talk, a trump ally, to move forward with the debunked fraud claims. and another was talking about ways into looking to bolster ways to ask for a presidential pardon, if you need a pardon because you knew somet
mean we are not doing everything that we can in our power to i get it. to help bring down those prices. i think we have left in a media system where the president has build up as can fix everything, and i think people have seen that for decades. that is just not true. i get that, but when biden says, i didn t know about the baby formula shortage, it makes hem seem powerless, like he s not even trying. just three companies, one planned going down in mish a good has such a large impact, of co course, this is about getting production up that s way, that
the biggest producers have production up, and there was more formula produced lately, and we are continuing to move. it s not enough. you have families across the country who are worried about where they are able to get the next can of formula, and we are working quickly to do everything in our power to ensure families have that security. before you joined us, i think it was in a break we got an update from the white house that president biden spoke this morning to the leaders of finland and sweden who are part of this move to join nato. can you release anything from that call, first of all, and how important this relationship is between these countries and nato? of course an important relationship. i don t have any further detail from that call just yet, i have been here talking to you, and
also a supply side of the economy. if you get production up, if you cut taxes, reduce regulations, we can get more goods and services, that lowers prices. it s not simply complicated but we re going in the wrong direction. neil: thanks. steve more. top adviser to president trump. far more important issues at stake in ukraine where just evacuating folks and getting them to safety is proving to be a big task. doesn t griff jenkins know it in kyiv. griff? that is right. good afternoon, neil. a massive sigh of relief after dozens get out of mariupol but just how long do the evacuations continues is a big question mark. i have the big details coming up.