ever reaches his desk. next stop, the white house -- or the house, i should say, which is in recess for the next few weeks. and there are barriers there. but there have been a lot of people including me at times that questioned whether this bipartisan path would even work, questioned whether the president could get it done. so let's see. for today at least it has paid off. so i want to talk about now the governors, those governors in red states. red states of florida and texas putting unvaccinated kids at risk of contracting and spreading the coronavirus by banning mask mandates. the president's message essentially, you're hypocrites. >> when i suggest that people in zones where there is a high risk wear the mask like you all are doing, i'm told the government should get out of the way and not do that, they don't have authority to do that. and i find it interesting that