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BIDEN KNEW about BABY FORMULA SHORTAGES Months in advance AND DID NOTHING TO STOP IT! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So I remember earlier this year when there was a
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  Speaker 1: story that came out that said a bunch of your
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  Speaker 1: tax dollars were going to pay for crack pipes and cities,
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  Speaker 1: liberal cities all over the country. The White House was
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  Speaker 1: asked about this, Are we really spending our tax hours
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  Speaker 1: to hand out crack pipes to crackheads. Now, the logic
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  Speaker 1: behind this was, well, we need to give them clean
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  Speaker 1: crack pipes so that they don't get infections and get sick.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to aid and about them and getting
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  Speaker 1: high in a safe way. I wish I was joking
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  Speaker 1: when I say this, because when I just said out loud,
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  Speaker 1: I realized how stupid it actually sounds. Yet that was
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  Speaker 1: the policy of this administration. They wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you could get high on crack in a safe manner.
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  Speaker 1: Let that sink in, and you were going to pay
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  Speaker 1: When this story was originally broke by a newspaper in DC,
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  Speaker 1: a conservative newspaper in DC, immediately the White House said no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no, no no, no, that's not true. There will not be
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  Speaker 1: crackpipes given out for free, which your taxpayers dollars. That's
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  Speaker 1: not going to happen. They called it a conspiracy theory.
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  Speaker 1: They said it was a conspiracy theory and a lie. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so case closed, right. That's how the media treated it.
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  Speaker 1: The media was like, oh, it's conspiracy here, this bunch
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  Speaker 1: of them maga Trump crazies making lies up. White House
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  Speaker 1: said it's lies, therefore it must be a lie. We'll
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  Speaker 1: move on because it's obviously a lie. Well guess what.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a conspiracy theory. The only people that did
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  Speaker 1: lie to you was the White House. Take a listen
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  Speaker 1: to Jesse Waters and how he described it on Fox
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  Speaker 1: or Drops. The White House denied it up in doubt.
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  Speaker 1: HHS just put out the statement clarifying around some reports
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  Speaker 1: that crack pipes are not would be part of the
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  Speaker 1: Safe Smoking Kids that are funded by the administration. But
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  Speaker 1: can you clarify for us were they never a part
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  Speaker 1: of the kid or were they removed in response to
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  Speaker 1: this reporting that they were never a part of the kid.
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  Speaker 1: It was inaccurate reporting, and we wanted to put out
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  Speaker 1: information to make that clear. We don't support federal funding
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  Speaker 1: indirect or direct for pipes and if that was in
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  Speaker 1: February the ninth, USA Today, they came out right, because
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  Speaker 1: if you're a fact checker and you can fact check everything,
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  Speaker 1: then immediately you can say it's a lie. Right, here's
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  Speaker 1: the USA Today as they put it. Of course they
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  Speaker 1: had the fact checkers to back them up. USA Today
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  Speaker 1: reported it was a false claim. Fact check dot org
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  Speaker 1: claim the funds were for overdose prevention. Definitely not the
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  Speaker 1: crack pipes. Obviously CNN had to deny the claims too,
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  Speaker 1: but they were all wrong. Fact check it political. It's
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  Speaker 1: seen in politics. Fact check Biden administration isn't funding crackpipes.
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  Speaker 1: February the seventeenth. That is their headline. That's what they
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  Speaker 1: have in their headline. Fact check dot Org Biden Initiative
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  Speaker 1: funds drug overdose prevention not crackpipes. And USA Today, which
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  Speaker 1: loves to mark things online and silence conservatives on Facebook's
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  Speaker 1: said fact check false claim that the Biden administration is
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  Speaker 1: distributing thirty million dollars of crack pipes. So all of
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  Speaker 1: the big three fact checking organizations all said that it
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  Speaker 1: was crazy Republicans a lying putting out misinformation about crack
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  Speaker 1: pipes being given out to crackheads with your tax dollars.
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  Speaker 1: What was happening. They were giving out crack pipes and
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  Speaker 1: now we know for a fact they were doing it.
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  Speaker 1: The Washington Free Beacon reported today that safe smoking kits
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  Speaker 1: provided by local nonprofits do include crack pipes. They know
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  Speaker 1: because they got their hands on some. From Boston to
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  Speaker 1: New York to Baltimore, every single city's testing kit comes
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  Speaker 1: with a complimentary crack pipe. The crack pipes all look
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  Speaker 1: the same, they all have the same markings. You go
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  Speaker 1: to New York City, they call it a safer smoker
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  Speaker 1: kit smoking kit that it has a crack pipe. The
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  Speaker 1: same thing in Boston, the same thing in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: They even give you a little bit of aluminum foil
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  Speaker 1: to smoke your crack with. There. That's like an add
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  Speaker 1: on Baltimore, they got nice crack pipes there, Richmond, Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: nice crack pipes there. They give you everything you need
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  Speaker 1: to quote smoke crack safely. Did the fact checkers even
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  Speaker 1: get their hands on any of these kits or did
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  Speaker 1: they just take the word from allowing politician and just
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  Speaker 1: print it. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. Jensaki was given
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  Speaker 1: the chance to set the records straight today and she
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  Speaker 1: called it, of course, a conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theory. So
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  Speaker 1: we're holding the crack pipes from Boston, DC, Baltimore, New York, Richmond,
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  Speaker 1: all up and down the East coast, and the White
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  Speaker 1: House slide to you and said it was a lie.
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  Speaker 1: And now they now that they've been busting a lie,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to say it's a conspiracy theory. This policy
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  Speaker 1: does not allow for crack pipes to be included. I
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  Speaker 1: would just note that this is a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theory that's been spread out there. It's not accurate.
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  Speaker 1: Money is not used for crack pipes. A conspiracy theory
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  Speaker 1: is just something Democrats don't want to talk about. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they'll be calling record high gas prices a conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: theory too. There you go. We're all wrong, folks. Safe
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  Speaker 1: smoking kits does include a complimentary crack pipe. The White
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  Speaker 1: House says, after being busted in the lie, that it
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  Speaker 1: is a conspiracy theory. Washington Free Beacon reporter Patrick Hoff
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  Speaker 1: said after they attacked him, he had no other choice
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  Speaker 1: but to go out there and prove that this actually happened.
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  Speaker 1: He sat down with Tugger Carlson take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: make that clear. So Jen Psaki told you the kids
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  Speaker 1: just have lip bomb and the fact checkers at USA Today,
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  Speaker 1: who for the record will literally say anything reported, There
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  Speaker 1: were definitely no crack pipes inside, So shut up, conspiracy monger. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: What's inside is say smoking kid to stop opioid overdose. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a crack pipe. But of course they did
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  Speaker 1: no reporting on it because it's not really a news organization.
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  Speaker 1: It's USA Today, America's newspaper. But the Washington Freebeacon decided
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  Speaker 1: to report the story, which reporters' supposed to do. Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Haalf is a reporter at the Freebeacon. He did the
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  Speaker 1: leg work. He joins us tonight to tell us what
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  Speaker 1: he found. Patrick thinks for coming on, So you actually
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  Speaker 1: did the reporting. What did you find? Yeah, so, just
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  Speaker 1: to first address what Jen Saki said, I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is the exact messaging they did when we broke the
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  Speaker 1: story back in February. Oh no, no, no, oh no,
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  Speaker 1: the pipes are not in the kids. And happily the
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  Speaker 1: media pushed us narrative, they printed the press release. But
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  Speaker 1: what we decided was actually to go out and do
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  Speaker 1: the real work to figure out what is a smoking kid.
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  Speaker 1: So we went to five different cities up and down
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  Speaker 1: the East Coast and we found, of course, yes, a
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  Speaker 1: crack pipe is within a crack smoking kid. That's the
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  Speaker 1: whole point. You smoke with a pipe. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have the worst drug epidemic in American history, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seven thousand dead last year. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: have any clue why the White House would would promote
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  Speaker 1: drug addiction. Yes, so this program is the the thirty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars HS program. It gives us money to these
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  Speaker 1: harm reduction organizations. And on this grand program was listed
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  Speaker 1: these smoking kids and supposed leads. It is supposed to
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  Speaker 1: reduce harm for users. Now I've continued to reach out
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  Speaker 1: to HS. Okay, well, clearly these pipes are in the
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  Speaker 1: smoking kids. We went on and got them. There's been
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  Speaker 1: documented proof for this going back for years. I'd say, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: how are you going to ensure these pipes are not
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  Speaker 1: in the kids? They have no answer for this. They've
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  Speaker 1: they've the White House clearly has been making this up
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  Speaker 1: as they've gone along, because there's been quite the backlash. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's drains is really quick. So
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  Speaker 1: you did what reporters are supposed to do. Would you
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  Speaker 1: just checked the press release to see if it was
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  Speaker 1: accurate and called around. Why didn't the New York Times
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  Speaker 1: do that? Look, I can't say that, but look, we
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  Speaker 1: decided to go out in the street, and I tell you, Tucker,
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  Speaker 1: what I found was horrifying, and I don't think any
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  Speaker 1: reporter would want to see that. But the Washington Free Beacon,
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  Speaker 1: of course, took to the streets. In Boston, what was
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  Speaker 1: the worst, and that was the Boston harm Production Center,
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  Speaker 1: actually the City's Health Department, run by the city's health department.
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  Speaker 1: And I go there and there's I mean, at least
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  Speaker 1: a dozen drug addicts walking around. It was horrifying. Go in,
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  Speaker 1: I get the pipe. They put me in their system
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  Speaker 1: for free and it's easy. Walk in, walk out, get
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  Speaker 1: the crack pipe. And I walk outside. I saw a man.
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  Speaker 1: This is eleven am, Tucker. I saw a man shoot
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  Speaker 1: up in his calf, ten yards away from a police car.
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  Speaker 1: I called the police. Is this something you're aware of?
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  Speaker 1: No answer, Just degrading the American population, killing people. It's
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  Speaker 1: so dark, it's hard to believe that's happening. And I appreciate,
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  Speaker 1: deeply appreciate your going and doing the reporting on this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Just real quick, Tucker, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: sell you the crack pipe that we got here. This
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  Speaker 1: is the crack pipe, and here we got the meth pipe.
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  Speaker 1: So it's unbelievable. I mean, it's it's so easy to get.
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  Speaker 1: It's right there. Yeah, not lip bom, wow, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Whitehouse says it's conspiracy theory, though your tax dollars are
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  Speaker 1: clearly not going for this program. So it takes one
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  Speaker 1: brave reporter to go out there and ask the question.
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  Speaker 1: Just one one brave reporter. You knows what Representative Waltz
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  Speaker 1: said yesterday. He said it this way on Capitol Hill
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  Speaker 1: that in a Biden's America, it's easier to get a
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  Speaker 1: crack pipe and a government funded smoke kit than to
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  Speaker 1: find baby formula. Like I think we did to take
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  Speaker 1: a moment and think about the fact that in Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden's America, it seems like it's easier to get a
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  Speaker 1: crack pipe and a government funded smoking kit than it
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  Speaker 1: is to find baby formula. I'm a new father of
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  Speaker 1: a four month old. He's right, you can go get
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  Speaker 1: a crack pipe easier than you can find baby formula
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  Speaker 1: right now. Now. People were angry with Representative Waltz for
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  Speaker 1: actually saying that, how dare you say that? Right? How
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  Speaker 1: dare you say this? Lieutenant North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark
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  Speaker 1: Keith Robinson became famous for speaking out as an African
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  Speaker 1: American man. Here's what he had to say about crack
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  Speaker 1: pipes and you paying for them and what it's doing
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  Speaker 1: in the African American community. Station, get back to some
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  Speaker 1: common sense and some descent. All this foods this is
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  Speaker 1: we got going all around here, this old incontinent, incompetent
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  Speaker 1: commanding in chief, if you want to call it, that,
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  Speaker 1: sending out crack pipes to people, sending out crack pipes
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  Speaker 1: to people. Joe, we said, open the plick line. You
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  Speaker 1: understood sipe, sanity pipeline. Joe, we said pipe line, not
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  Speaker 1: crack pipe. Pipe line cannas and said, and Biden's America,
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  Speaker 1: you only go out to get vaccinated, do smashing grabs, Right,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you do. You in Biden's America, you go
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  Speaker 1: out there and you do smashing grabs, get vaccinated, and
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  Speaker 1: grab a free crack pipe. Well, I think it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: obvious that Biden administration loves Black America and loves America
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  Speaker 1: and cares about the health and wellbeing. All you have
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  Speaker 1: to do to be healthy, and Joe Biden's America stay
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  Speaker 1: at home, lock your doors, avoid sunlight, mask your children
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  Speaker 1: when you step outside. Let it only be to get
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  Speaker 1: five vaccines and maybe do a smashing grab crime and
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  Speaker 1: then on your way back home, grab a government sponsored
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  Speaker 1: crack pipe. I don't know why people think that Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden doesn't care about the lives of the average Americans
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  Speaker 1: and Black Americans. It's so clear by the way he's
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  Speaker 1: running things that he actually cares. Now you can compare
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  Speaker 1: and contrast what we're witnessing with these crack pipes to
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  Speaker 1: exactly what's happening in this country. In Biden's America, where
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  Speaker 1: in the greatest country in the world. You can't even
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  Speaker 1: get baby formula right now. And they knew there was
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  Speaker 1: a problem because they're the ones that shut down the
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  Speaker 1: largest producer a baby formula in America. They knew that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to the pipeline right of baby formulas
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  Speaker 1: gonna be cut by forty percent. They knew that there
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  Speaker 1: was going to be panic buying. When people saw the
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  Speaker 1: shelves that weren't stopped with baby formula, they knew that
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  Speaker 1: this was going to happen. And the case study for
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  Speaker 1: that was COVID. Remember during COVID, when people were buying
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  Speaker 1: up pallets of water like somehow COVID was going to
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  Speaker 1: affect the water come in your house, which it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: But we've seen people be stupid, right, There was nothing
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  Speaker 1: in COVID that said that you needed massive amounts of
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  Speaker 1: toilet paper because you're gonna have something horrific intestinal problem.
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  Speaker 1: It was gonna make you sit on the toilet for
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  Speaker 1: eight hours a day and need all this toilet paper.
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  Speaker 1: Yet what happened. People are stupid, and every roll of
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  Speaker 1: toilet paper was disappearing from the shelves. Then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, it was like paper towels too, and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: why why, I mean, what with COVID makes you need
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of paper towels? Didn't matter. Panic buying sets in.
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  Speaker 1: Then we saw dairy disappear, panic buying sitting in. Then
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  Speaker 1: we saw meat disappearing, panic buying setting in. None of
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  Speaker 1: those things are related to COVID any in any way, right,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Once the panic sets in, it sets in.
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  Speaker 1: So they just saw a massive case study into what
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  Speaker 1: happens with panic buying in America. They knew they were
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  Speaker 1: gonna take off forty thirty forty percent depending on who
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  Speaker 1: you talked too, of the baby formula in this shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't do anything to fix it or change it.
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  Speaker 1: But who is this administration putting first Americans? Representative Kamak
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  Speaker 1: is the one that broke the story on the piles
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  Speaker 1: and pallets of baby formula going to the southern border,
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  Speaker 1: putting illegal immigrants ahead of Americans citizens who are desperately
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  Speaker 1: in need. People are angry with her, saying, well, what
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  Speaker 1: are you saying that we should starve the children at
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  Speaker 1: the border. That's not worth saying, but we should at
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  Speaker 1: least put American kids first and not make it easier
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  Speaker 1: for illegal immigrants to come across the border because they
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  Speaker 1: know when they do, we're going to give them baby formula.
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  Speaker 1: For example, listen to this, Kamma joins us. Now, good
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  Speaker 1: morning to you, Congresswoman, Good morning, Ainslie, good morning doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. So tell us how you receive this photo,
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  Speaker 1: because the news broke yesterday and we were all appalled,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: you know, just like you. I was equally appalled, and
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  Speaker 1: it was earlier in the week I had received a
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  Speaker 1: text message from several different border agents sending me pictures
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  Speaker 1: and videos of stocked warehouses pallets of baby formula. These
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  Speaker 1: agents themselves have families and they have family members that
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  Speaker 1: can't get this baby formula in the stores in Texas
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  Speaker 1: and Arizona, New Mexico. Yet they go to work and
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  Speaker 1: they're unloading palettes of baby food out of the back
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  Speaker 1: of tractor trailers. It's outrageous. If you have to sum
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  Speaker 1: it up, this is exactly what America last looks like. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: moms across the country are panicking they can't get their
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  Speaker 1: hands on formula. And as you said, forty percent across
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  Speaker 1: the country is out. In my state, close to fifty
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  Speaker 1: percent of baby formula is out, and that's in Florida
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  Speaker 1: and several other states. How did the government get their
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  Speaker 1: hands on all of this formula when our moms here
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  Speaker 1: in America, they're here legal or here illegally, can't get
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  Speaker 1: their hands on the formula because we have a policy
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  Speaker 1: now with this administration where Americans do not come first.
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  Speaker 1: White House this morning went on of course CNN, and
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  Speaker 1: they were asked the White House had their representative come
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  Speaker 1: out talking about the baby formula administration, and Brian Deese
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  Speaker 1: actually confirmed today that they were aware there was going
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  Speaker 1: to be a problem back in February shortage well as
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  Speaker 1: a as a parent and with friends and colleagues, we
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  Speaker 1: was aware that people were starting to have trouble in stores.
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  Speaker 1: But we were aware of this from when the FDA
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  Speaker 1: had to take its action back in February with Abbott
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  Speaker 1: and with the steps in the Michigan facility. And we
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  Speaker 1: have had a team on this from the FDA and
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  Speaker 1: Invercy process since then. And the steps that I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: are steps that have been taken over the course of
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  Speaker 1: multiple weeks and are ramping those up. And I believe
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  Speaker 1: the first complaints about this facility happened last fall I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the FDA started interviewing whistleblowers until maybe December
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  Speaker 1: or so. Of course, as you noted, the recall started
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  Speaker 1: earlier this year, and so I'm wondering if the sentence
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  Speaker 1: of the White House is that the DA moved quickly
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  Speaker 1: enough on this issue. Well, those are independent scientific judgments
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  Speaker 1: that I will leave to the FDA. What I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you is that they took action to put in
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: place that recall, and we have been working closely on
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: this issue in the wake of that recall to try
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to address the attendant impacts of that. If the President
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: does use the Defense Production Act, should we have seen
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: some lawmakers, including Democrats, say that he should hear Do
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: you think that's something that could happen? I mean, these
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: people are insane. They're sitting there. They knew this was
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: going to be a problem. They knew they were whistle
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: blowers at this plant. They knew they were going to
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: take it offline. And instead of sending food that you
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: can't buy to American citizens, you're sending it to a
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: legal immigrant to the border, because we're putting them before
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: American citizens. White House Press secretary won't say if the
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: White House actually could have done more to stop this problem.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: It does seem like we should have seen this coming,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: that maybe the FDA could have done more on the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: baby formula shortage. The whistle blower who used to work
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: at that Sturges plant warned the FDA top officials about
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: safety concerns in October, but they didn't interview that was
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a blower until December, and the inspection wasn't nil January thirty. First.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: The recall happened February seventeenth. So it is that timeline
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: acceptable to the White House? And if not, what is
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the White House doing to correct that? At the FDA,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there will be plenty of time to take
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a look at if there are any issues that could
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: have been improved here. I don't have any specific analysis
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: of that at this moment in time. So you guys
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: knew there was a problem, you didn't listen to the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: whistle blower. Then you finally came in, and then it
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: took you months to actually start the investigation, then months
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to do the recall on the baby formula, Right, that's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: what you're saying. But she won't say if Biden could
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: have done more in the nationwide baby formula shortage. No,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: why would I say anything about that? Why we should
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: have seen this coming? Maybe the FDA could have done more.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Should you have seen this coming? Should the FDA have
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: done more? Should you guys have been warned? Should you
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: have been paying attention? White House now considering invoking the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Defense Production Act on baby formula for a problem that
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: they already knew existed. Yes, we're exploring every option. I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: think when you look at the Defense Production Act, you
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: have to ensure that would actually achieve what you're trying
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to achieve, and so we're also looking at that as well,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and we have been working This is one of the reasons, obviously,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the President called CEOs today of some of these vital
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: companies to determine what more can be done, because we
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: know that with one major supplier having part of their
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: supply off the marketplace, one of the easiest and fastest
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: ways to address that is to increase supply from some
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: of the other suppliers and also to import more, which
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: is a step we're working to take as well. He
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: didn't happen to ask him to invoke the Defense Production Act?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Did they? When I'm not aware of that being a
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: specific ask from them, I can see if there's more
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: to read out from the from the calls as well. Okay,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: so just to be totally clear here, to be completely clear,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you knew there was a problem, you knew the problem
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: was coming, you were slow to act on the problem.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Then you knew when the whistleblower made their complaint that
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: there was probably even a bigger problem, right, And the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: bigger problem got even bigger, and then you guys finally
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: shut down production, and then you knew that thirty forty
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: percent of production of the entire country was going to
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: go offline, and you still did nothing to hedge this,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to fix it, to prevent this catastrophe. And then while
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: people were telling you there's a problem, you guys still
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to this day have not acted. You're still trying to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: figure it out. Oh when Jen Psaki's got some great
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: advice for you as a mother or a father out
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: there that's trying to keep your child alive. If you
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: can't find baby formula, they told you to go call
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: a doctor. In other words, good luck now. This baby
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: formula shortage I also think brings up the bigger picture here,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and it's I think very clear they just don't really
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: care about you and They don't care about what you're
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: going through. Look at energy prices right now, surging. This
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: is hurting a lot of people. Energy prices are up
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: forty three point six percent. Are they trying to fix it? No,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Utilities in general up twenty two point seven percent. This
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: is coming from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics April numbers.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Electricity is up eleven percent and fuel costs fuel oil
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: up eighty point five percent. Eighty point five percent. These
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: are the same people that mandate the shutdown of the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: whole economic system. They spent trillions of dollars, sent people
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: checks to not work, to stay at home, which did
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: nothing to stop COVID. Now we have record high inflation
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and the people in charge are surprised. They shouldn't be.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: These are morons that are getting to rule over us.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Now that's not the only thing. You Look at what
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: they're doing on oil and gas right now. Gas prices
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: yesterday hit a new national record and what did Biden
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: do in response? And this is the fact, So understand
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: they're doing this on purpose, intentionally, They're not stupid. Gas
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: prices hit new record highs over five fifty five a
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: gallon for diesel and four fifty eight a gallon for
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: unleaded And what did Biden do the day that both
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: unleaded and diesel gas hit at all time new high
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: record high for the entire country. Ever, he canceled oil
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: on more than a million acres of land on the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: same exact day. If you excuse me, if you think
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: that this isn't intentional, let me say that again. If
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you think this isn't this is not being done intentionally,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you are stupid. They're wanting to make the American family
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: week so that you're dependent on the government for your survival.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Baby formula shortage is just one example. Inflation and rising
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: prices another example. They want you to be forced into
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: submission on traveling on bus or trains, or car pooling
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: or buying an electric vehicle. They don't care that you're
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: paying record prices at the pump, because if they did,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: they sure as hell. On the same exact day that
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: we hit new records in both categories, Biden canceled oil
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and more than a million acres on the same day
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that we hit these all time highs. You know, White
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: House presecretary still not even admitting really that there's a
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: baby formulas shortage. She said, the FDA is working around
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the clock to address any possible baby formulas shortage, implying
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that may not be one. That's how insulting they are
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to you as a parent, as a mother. They actually said,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: we are working around the clock to address any possible
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: baby formula shortage. It's not a possibility, it is a reality.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: There is growing concern about a persistent supply issue with
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: infant formula shortage right now. Major retailers is having to
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: limit how much people can buy, especially in cuton places
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: like Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa. This is partly an FBA issue,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: but it could be a fine administration issue. Just wondering
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: if you guys are planning on taking any steps that
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: help remedy them. Well, let me first say, as you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: but the FDA issue to recall to ensure that they
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: are meeting their obligation to protect the health of Americans,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: including babies who of course we're receiving or taking this formula,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and ensure safe products are available. That's their job, ensuring
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the availability of these products is also a priority for
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the FDA, and they're working around the clock to address
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: any possible shortage. Okay, that is like hearing your name,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: your voice on the b on the answering machine, which
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I know that's a very outdated reference, but we've all
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: been there. Okay. So what the FDA is doing, which
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: while they are independent, they are part of the administration,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: is taking another number of steps to address that includes
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: working with major infant formula manufacturers to ensure they're increasing
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: production because part of this issue is of course making
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: sure their stock on the shelves right and working with
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the industry right now to optimize their supply lines product
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: sizes to increased capacity and prioritizing product lines that are
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of greatest needs because obviously as someone who my child
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: has long been to add of formula fortunately, but it's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: close enough that I remember when you're trying to go
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to the store and get the specific kind of formula
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: for your age child or whatever their needs are. So
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: they are taking steps with that in mind. They're also
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: exercising flexibility and expediting review of notifications of manufacturing changes
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: that will help increase supply, particularly in the case of
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: specialized formula, so that applies to that as well for
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: medical needs. And they're also trying to streamline import entry
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: review process processes for already notified formula products coming from
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: notified foreign facilities. So what they're trying to do in
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the shorthands of it is increased supply by working with
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a range of manufacturers and what their capacity is to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: ensure that the kinds of formula that was recalled is
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: where they're able to help insure it's on the shelves.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Might be a problem, right, We're working around the clock
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to address any problem. When'd you know there was a
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: problem When we knew there's a problem technically last year,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and then we knew there was another problem when we
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: put a recall out and shut down a factory way
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: earlier this year. Nebraska mom says it's just become impossible
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: to find baby formula, and she's not a conservative. At
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: eleven months, Jacob Bowman's formula is still a big part
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: of his diet. He has a very specific brand new
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Tramagin that he has to have due to allergy and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: intolerance issues, and lately Jacob's mom, Shauna, says she hasn't
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: been able to find it out the store. We have
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: been having to look pretty heavily for it, I would say,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: for the last four or five months, but this last
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: month it's just become impossible to find. So four or
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: five months, all these mothers have known there's a problem,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: which means that the FDA knew there was a problem,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: which means the Biden administration knew there was a problem.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: It's becoming impossible to find baby formula. That's what they
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: want you to know. A good morning America. Saying it
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: this way this morning, a terrifying prospect for parents around
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the country. Stores running out of baby formula, unable to restock.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: He has a very specific brand new Tramagin that he
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: has to have due to allergy and intolerance issues. Yeah,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: no big deal, right, intolerance issues. Another story, another parent,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and you can hear it right there, Jacksonville mother, I
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: cannot feed my son due to baby formula shortages. According
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to Retail Analytics company Data Assembly, inventory of baby formula
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: available was down about a third in April because of inflation,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: supply chain issues, and recalls, and for families whose options
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: are further limited by allergies, the situation is especially precarious.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Ashley Olson says her nine month old baby has to
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: have a specific formulas she orders straight from the manufacturer,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and there's no word on when it will be available again.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I can get Amazon delivered to my door, but I
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: cannot get food for my child. I cannot feed my son.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Don't worry. The Biden administration is on it. If there
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: is a possible shortage. They're still not admitting the shortage.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: They're saying, if there is a possibility of a shortage possibility,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: then we're looking into it. Four or five months they've
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: known about this, but now they're still saying it's a possibility.
• 31:24
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• 31:27
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