Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point.

Today, we'll hear about the extent of corruption in the Trump administration, gathered together in a new book, edited by Norm Eisen.

He kept the Obama White House virtually free from scandal for eight years.

He'll tell us about what he calls Trumpery and his roadmap for ethics reform in all three branches of the federal government.

But first, the shortage of baby formula. It's not over yet.

Despite a consent decree and President Biden's use of the Defense Production Act,

Abbott Nutrition has been required to reopen its facilities in Sturgis, Michigan,

closed by the FDA because of suspected contamination.

California's Attorney General Rob Bonta says he's looking out for fraud and misrepresentation.

The incident reveals a lot about the lack of competition

and the U.S. economy and also this, quote, the extent to which our most vulnerable citizens

are in afterthought in American politics. That's from Melissa Rosenberg's column in the Washington

Post. And Alyssa Rosenberg, welcome to you.

Thank you so much for having me.

What do you mean by that?

So the FDA shut down the Abbott plant in February.

And as we've learned recently, the agency had actually received a whistleblower complaint about the plant back in October. And so, you know, four months

before the plant's actually shut down, the FDA gets an alert about it, and it takes until December

for them to inspect it. You know, this is a plant that manufactures a huge percentage of the

baby formula produced in the United States. And you would think the safety of

that formula would be an incredibly urgent concern for the government. But it apparently took two

months to get that investigation rolling and then another two months to shut down the facility.

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