ON TO SAY IT’S NOT THE
GOVERNMENT’S JOB TO MAKE
FORMULA.
JOINING ME NOW IS THE FLORIDA
CONGRESSWOMAN HERSELF WHO
EXPOSED THIS AT THE BORDER.
KAT CAMMACK IS HERE, SHE’S A
MEMBER OF THE HOMELAND SECURITY
AND AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEES.
CONGRESSWOMAN THANKS VERY MUCH
FOR BEING HERE.
I KNOW CONGRESS IS SET TO TAKE
THE ISSUE UP THIS WEEK, BUT TELL
US WHAT YOU SAW AND REACT TO
WHAT YOU JUST HEARD FROM BUTTIGI
EG.
>> WELL, GOOD MORNING, MARIA
AND YESTERDAY, I WAS ON THE
BORDER MYSELF, AND THE FACTS
ON THE GROUND ARE EXACTLY HOW WE
HAVE BEEN STATING THEM.
YOU KNOW, LAST WEEK I RECEIVED
TEXT MESSAGES AND PHOTOS FROM
BORDER PATROL AGENTS SHOWING A
STOCKPILE OF BABY FORMULA AND
THERE WAS COMPLETE OUTRAGE FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE AND CNN AND
OTHER LIBERAL OUTLETS CLAIMING
WE WERE LYING, SO I DECIDED TO
GO DOWN MYSELF AND FILM IT, AND
LOW AND BEHOLD NOT ONLY WAS
THERE STOCKED WAREHOUSES, BUT
THERE WERE MULTIPLE STOCKED
WAREHOUSES THAT HAVE BEEN NOT
ONLY FILLED WITH BABY FORMULA
AND DIAPERS AND WIPES AND
CLOTHING, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN
DOING THIS FOR MONTHS AND
THERE’S MORE EN ROUTE, AND THIS
JUST POINTS AGAIN TO HOW
OUT OF TOUCH THIS ADMINISTRATION
IS AND THEY COULD STOP THIS WITH
A SIMPLE POLICY CHANGE, AND TO
THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION
’S REMARKS THAT
THEY HAVE BEEN ON TOP OF THIS
FROM DAY ONE?
THAT IS A LIE.
THEY CANCELED 43% OF THIS
MANUFACTURES PRODUCTION
WITH NO PLAN TO BACKFILL THAT
MARKET SHARE THAT THEY MAKEUP,
SO HOW HAVE THEY BEEN ON TOP OF
THIS?
BECAUSE MOMS FOR MONTHS HAVE
BEEN SAYING IT WAS GETTING
HARDER AND HARDER TO FIND
FORMULA.
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF
THE BROKEN ADMINISTRATION THAT
DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO GOVERN.
MARIA: SO HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN,
CONGRESSWOMAN?
I KNOW THAT THE FDA INVESTIGATED
ONE PLANT.
I MEAN, HAD THEY KNOWN THAT
THERE WERE ISSUES MONTHS AGO,
WHY WASN’T MORE DONE TO FIX IT?
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
>> YOU KNOW, THAT’S THE MILLION
DOLLAR QUESTION RIGHT NOW.
SEE , BACK IN FALL OF LAST YEAR
THERE WAS A WHISTLEBLOWER WHO
ALERTED THE FDA TO SOME BACTERIA
ISSUES WITHIN THE ABBOTT
FACILITY IN LANSING, MICHIGAN.
THERE WAS A THOROUGH
INVESTIGATION OF VOLUNTARY
RECALL BY ABBOTT AND IT WAS IN
MARCH THAT THE FDA THEMSELVES,
THEY CAME OUT WITH A PUBLIC
STATEMENT SAYING THAT THE
BACTERIA FOUND IN THE
LANSING FACILITY DID NOT
MATCH THE BACTERIA THAT TRAGIC
ALLY KILLED THOSE TWO
INFANTS THAT WHEN THERE WAS AN
AUTOPSY PERFORMED, SO THERE
WAS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THE
TWO, SO THERE WAS A
VOLUNTARY RECALL.
THE ABBOTT FACILITY HAS COMPLIED
AND DONE EVERYTHING THAT THEY
HAVE BEEN ASKED OF OF THE FDA,
BUT YET, THERE’S NO WORD FROM
THE FDA ON WHEN THIS FACILITY
CAN GET BACK UP AND MANUFACTURE.
KEEP IN MIND, THEY’VE
MANUFACTURED 43% OF THE MARKET
SHARE, AND IN THE MEANTIME,
THERE’S BEEN NO EASING OF
REGULATIONS.
THERE HAS BEEN NO EASING OF THE
TARIFFS WHO IMPORT BABY
FORMULA.
IT HAS BEEN RADIO SILENCE, BUT
THAT’S HOW THIS ADMINISTRATION
OPERATES.
THEY WANT US TO FLOUNDER BECAUSE
THEY HAVE NO SOLUTIONS AND THEY
CONTINUALLY POINT THE BLAME AT
EVERYONE ELSE BUT THEMSELVES.
MARIA: YEAH, IT’S INTERESTING,
BECAUSE LAST WEEK, JEN PSAKI
ACTUALLY SUGGESTED THAT IT WAS
ALL ABBOTT’S FAULT.
ABBOTT CLASS TO COME OUT TWEET
ING ABOUT IT SAYING THE
WHITE HOUSE IS
MISREPRESENTING, THIS IS NOT
ABBOTT’S FAULT.
WE ALL KNOW THIS.
WHAT YOU JUST LAID OUT WAS
EXACTLY RIGHT, THAT WE SEE THAT
IN FACT DID NOT COME FROM ABBOTT
, BUT I WANT TO GET YOUR
TAKE ON WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON AT
THE BORDER.
YOU WERE JUST THERE.
A FEDERAL JUDGE IS EXPECTED TO
RULE ON TITLE 42 WITHIN DAYS,
TWO DOZEN GOP STATES HAVE
ALREADY FILED A LAWSUIT TO TRY
TO BLOCK THE ADMINISTRATION FROM
LIFTING TITLE 42, CONGRESSWOMAN.
WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING?
DO YOU THINK THAT TITLE 42 GOES
AWAY ON MAY 23 WHICH WAS THE
DATE THAT THE ADMINISTRATION
SAID IT WOULD OVERTURN IT.
>> YOU KNOW, MARIA, AND YOU ARE
SO PASSIONATE AND YOU’VE BEEN SO
SPOT-ON IN COVERING THE BORDER
CRISIS FROM DAY ONE.
WHEN I WAS WITH THE AGENTS
YESTERDAY WALKING THROUGH THESE
PROCESSING FACILITIES THEY
TALKED IN DEPTH ABOUT THE SHEAR
NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT THEY BE
DEALING WITH UP TO 18,000 A
DAY.
KEEP IN MIND, WE LOSE
OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF THE
BORDER AT 3,000 A DAY, AND
WHAT WE’RE SEEING CURRENTLY IS
ALREADY UNTENABLE.
IF WE LOSE TITLE 42 THAT IS THE
LAST TOOL IN THE TOOL BOX
FOR THESE BORDER PATROL AGENTS.
THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO
CAN’T FIND FORMULA FOR THEIR OWN
KIDS IN A TARGET DOWN THE STREET
I KNOW BECAUSE I WENT TO THAT
TARGET YESTERDAY, BUT THIS IS A
THING.
WE WILL ABSOLUTELY SEE AN
INVASION AT OUR SOUTHWEST
BORDER.
THERE HAS ALREADY BEEN A
LOWERING OF VETTING STANDARDS.
PEOPLE ARE BEING PUT THROUGH THE
PROCESSING PROCESS IN A
RAPID MANNER IN WHICH THEY’RE
NOT BEING PROPERLY VETTED.
THE DEMOCRATS ACTUALLY VOTED
LAST WEEK TO ACCEPT ARREST
WARRANT PAPERWORK AS PROOF OF ID
FOR PEOPLE TO GET INTO OUR
COUNTRY.
THERE’S ANKLE BRACELETS BEING
CUT OFF.
THIS IS GOING TO ABSOLUTELY HAVE
DIRE CONSEQUENCES FOR AMERICANS,
BECAUSE WHAT WE’RE SEEING ARE
PEOPLE ON THE INTERNATIONAL
TARIFFS WATCH LIST COMING ACROSS
THE BORDER, NARCOTICS POURING
ACROSS THE BORDER.
WE WILL NEED TO HAVE SOME VERY
TOUGH, TOUGH POLICIES ON THE
BOOKS BUT THIS
ADMINISTRATION IS WEAK AND
WE KNOW THAT.
MARIA: YEAH, WELL, WE’VE ALREADY
HEARD, ACTUALLY, STORIES FROM
BORDER AGENTS THAT MS-13 ACTORS
WERE ACTUALLY APPREHENDED AT THE
BORDER SO YOU’RE SPOT ON,
CONGRESSWOMAN THANK YOU, THANKS