Although news wires buzzed Monday with reports that President Obama had changed his tune when it came to pushing for the government to make a public health care option available to give private insurance companies competition, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs begged to differ during a press conference Tuesday, insisting that Obama said nothing over the weekend that contradicted anything he’d said for months on the matter. –KA

Click here to read a transcript of Gibbs’ similar discussion with a press gaggle Tuesday aboard Air Force One.

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