an explosive report of sex abuse cases inside the southern baptist convention. survivors repeatedly ignored and disbelieved by the largest protestant denomination in the united states as leaders themselves tried to protect their own reputations instead of protecting the victims. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our world lead and top white house advisers caught off guard by this response from president biden when he was asked in a news conference in tokyo if the u.s. would be willing to foe further than it has with ukraine to help taiwan in the event of an invasion. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. now, president biden didn t specify what he meant by militarily, but the question defined the term as the u.s. military getting directly involved as it has not done in uk
it s unclear where that s going. even with all these attention to these air lifts, parents may not see shelves looking very different. it s going to take a while until they really notice the things are getting better. more babies are being hospitalized due to the shortage. what do we know about their condition? could we see even more infants going to the hospital? i think we could unfortunately because this shortage is going to continue for a while. the babies that we have heard of, jake, they have conditions. and some of them are actually children. they have medical conditions where they need a very, very specific formula, and their parents tried to find replacements and they couldn t. and the children didn t tolerate it well. and so the children got dehydrated. they re now being fed on tubes into their stomachs. i m not saying there are a lot of these children out there. we don t have a number, but we have heard from a number of hospitals that this is going on, includin
shipments or a completely different strategy. i think at this point, that is a major part of the strategy, is to do these imports. i want to say there are other things that have gone on, for example, the other big major infant manufacturer, infant formula manufacturer, that s also known as mead johnson, they have been ramping up production 35% since february. so that s a lot. and still, we are experiencing these shortages. so let s take a look at operation fly formula. that was the what you were referencing earlier. i was there last week to witness it. it was quite something. between the flights this past weekend and the one that s going to take place on wednesday, it will be the equivalent of 1.5 million eight-ounce bottles in those two flights. again, the first flight landed sunday. it was hypo-allergenic formula for hospitals, pharmacies, doctors, it is not going to supermarket shelves. the second flight wednesday is also hypo-allergenic formula.