if this had been more of a media drum beat about the lack of tests, maybe there would have been more pressure on the white house and the whole political system to do manager about it just in case. -- something about it. everybody knew there would be more surges. gayle, when president biden said earlier this week there was no federal solution to the covid crisis, that's sort of true that most of this is handled at the state level, but that's not what candidate biden and president biden have been saying since the campaign and earlier this year when he was acting like, especially with mandates, that there was, washington was going to take the lead. >> that's so true. you might remember candidate joe biden's quote about if anybody was responsible for this many deaths, he should not remain president. and yet we've seen far more families shattered in deaths from coronavirus during biden's administration than the previous administration. and he was out there saying there's no federal solution. some people said that the media were not questioning him about