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Said it's about finding airfields and landing there that are close to the factory or the manufacturing facility. and then the formula gets loaded on to the aircraft and brought back to the u.s. so, again, the key here is the speed and trying to get this formula back on shelves. as quickly as possible. you talk about the pressure, hallie. we cannot overstate the enormity of the pressure that this president is feeling right now. we are, of course, in a critical midterm election year. you're dealing with the health of babies. and as we've been reporting, there have been more babies that have actu...

That stand? >> the josh lederman pressed on that very issue, will president biden appoint a baby formula czar. and the official didn't rule it out but effectively didn't say that is the focus right now. they said we don't have anything to preview on that today. that their focus is on ramping up production. as you know president biden announcing yesterday that he's invoking the defense production act, that wartime essentially move that will allow the administration to direct suppliers to fast track the ingredients, hallie, the ski ingredients needed to make formula, to get the ingredients to ma...

In the very immediate turn we are focused on the steps to take to get more product out to the people that need it and it's why he directed the department of defense to use cargo airline, to move formula that is safe and outside the country into the u.s. as quickly as possible. so we're focused on these immediate action steps because we have an immediate challenge in front of us and absolutely, we have bigger issues to address about the market going forward. >> how immediate is the time line? when should families be getting access to formula? in a week? in a month. >> production is ramped consi...

That's what i've been pressing administration officials on now, since this was announced. how can they guarantee it's safe. they insist that the fda will not allow formula into the country if they have not signed off on the standards of that formula, hallie. >> welker, you talked about the operation formula, it is clear, it seems that the white house understands the political implications of a crisis like this obviously working incredibly quickly to get something done here. tell me what you're hearing from folks behind the scenes? >> reporter: well, i'm told that those flights, the goal, is to...