So you didn't listen to the press conference either.
What he said was, it was the information he was given based on the previous practice set up by the CDC which proved to be inadequate for this outbreak. When pressed, he went on to state that there were many thousands of deaths before the Obama administration had tests for swine flu, and that having tests shipping this early was a great improvement over the previous administrations response to swine flu.
Why lie about publicly available **ON VIDEO** statements? What purpose does that serve other than to destroy your own credibility? Why lie about something so easily disproved?