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

Joe Says It Ain’t So: This morning’s statement from the VP’s office — meant to walk back his Today Show comments on advising family members not to take public transportation — sparked several questions of clarification from the WH press corps. ABC’s Jake Tapper, dissatisfied with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ re-wording of the VP’s comments to return to POTUS’s precautionary-but-not-extreme message, said he sympathized with Gibbs while the reiteration was “not even remotely close to what he said.”