ease the nationwide baby formula shortage that s left parents scrambling to feed their kids. the white house and private companies say they are now working to get more of that formula into the hands of parents. yeah. throughout the pandemic you know stores struggled to keep shelves stocked with a lot of popular brands, but this recall in february and then continued supply issues had really pushed parents to the breaking point. manufacturers say it may be weeks, potentially even months before supply is at full capacity again. let s take you now to delaware, where president biden is spending the weekend. and we find cnn s white house reporter jasmine wright there. jasmine, the biden administration has gotten criticism of its handling of the shortage. how is the president addressing this issue? reporter: well, boris, the white house has taken a number of steps in days, but still it comes as questions continue to mount as to why the white house didn t take more action, at l
military aid and humanitarian aid for ukraine, bringing america s support for the effort to nearly 54 billion with no other country having that large of a financial or military or humanitarian commitment, it s expected to pass the senate early next week before heading to the president s desk for signing. that bill along with leaks from the biden administration in recent days seems to underscore just how embroiled the united states has become in the war in ukraine. on may 4th, new york times reported senior american officials said the u.s. provided intelligence that allowed ukrainians to take out as many as 12 russian generals. the next day, an nbc report cited anonymous u.s. officials u.s. intel also helped ukraine sink the flagship of the moskva. there s growing concern the aid the u.s. is providing ukraine could trigger all-out conflict with russia. my next guest re-enforced that fear in a recent column the new york times, they suggest we are no longer in an indirect war
is the west closer to war with russia than we realize? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. a new report from newsweek says a russian lawmaker and top member of vladimir putin s political party has suggested attacking poland next. using the same language russia has used to justify invading ukraine, russian state oleg said poland is, quote, first place in the cue for denazication after ukraine, this after poland s prime minister wrote a column in britain s telegraph newspaper criticizing putin and propaganda that he s spreading about the war. that exchange coming after nato is set to double its border with russia with the inclusion of finland in the military alliance. in response, putin told finland s president just moments ago during a phone call that joining would be a mistake. that conversation taking place after russia cut electricity to the nordic country. here in the u.s., the house overwhelmingly approved additional 40 billion in
not escalate. i want the west to understand, this is a very scary thought and i believe that being in denial is nice but we cannot afford to be in denial any more. this is a crazy man in the kremlin who is going to further. we are hearing russian propaganda on russian television telling that we shall go into poland next, we shall go into the baltic states next. if he is willing to go there, he will. all we can try and stop him here in ukraine but we are not even asking for troops on the ground, we are asking forjets and air defence systems, in order to save ourselves and also to save other countries. 0therwise, if he is not stopped here, he will go further. that nasty understood. you make a good further. that nasty understood. you make a good point, we say the war is 20 days old but it started in 2014. the united states national security advisor, jake sullivan, was in rome today where he sat for seven hours with one