On Wednesday's broadcast of CNN's "The Lead," White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese stated that President Joe Biden wasn't informed about the baby formula crisis until April because "it took too long for Abbott to agree to a consent decree," and argued that "the president's role in this has been, at the right and appropriate moments, when we needed to do things like the Defense Production Act, when we needed to take extraordinary measures like Operation Fly Formula, he has been informed, he has directed the action that we have taken."