middle of a global pandemic. ultimately the job of the president of the united states is to lead. it's to ensure that he is protecting the lives of people across the country. i know there is a little hubbub over the course of the last few days about southwest airlines, we now know that some of those planes were absolutely false in the issues were completely unrelated to vaccine mandates. what we've seen business-to-business across the country is this is a way to sav lives, and create more tea, is something we look forward to implementing birth given how important the mandate is for th policy. that is jen psaki taking questions at the briefing room. dismissing the idea that the vaccine mandates are to blame for the slowdown that we see also saying that the task force has been working for months and making a little bit of news saying that the president will be meeting with the head of the ports of los angeles, long beach