administration rejected proposal for pretests for the holidays. told vanity fair while everyone present shared the same goal of rapid testing as soon as possible the plan could not be implemented at that time. would did not have the capacity to manufacture over-the-counter test in that scale. the problem was two fold the fda had authorized only a handful of different home tests and those had it authorized could not increase manufacturing fast enough. byron? >> yeah, well, you know, the idea of mailing out rapid tests has been around for quite a while. president biden himself admitted that he was surprised by how many tests were needed so i think the vanity fair report, which the white house denies really gets at the idea that biden was not prepared. now, what's happening here is reality has intruded again on the biden presidency. you know, his disastrous handling of the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan revealed joe