FishPoolDC: Our Insider's Notes from Today's Press Briefing

Notes from a briefing room press insider…

Advisors, Legislators, Americans, Oh My!: Afghanistan remained the lead issue at the WH today as Press Secretary Robert Gibbs previewed POTUS’s Part II of V Af-Pak meeting tomorrow, characterizing it as almost exclusively focused on Pakistan. Largely the same class of advisors will convene, and RG says they had some homework since the last meeting. On a second front of the review, POTUS meets with Hill bigwigs this afternoon for a briefing and Q&A; RG says there is an “extremely important role” for Congress through its appropriation of resources for the war but said it was “hard for me to grade” whether the Bush WH sufficiently solicited the opinions of the legislative branch.

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