Robert Gibbs Clears Way for American Media in Copenhagen

The Chinese apparently didn't want you to see Obama, China's leaders and others sitting around a table talking. It looks like they worked out a deal around that table:

Reporting from Copenhagen - Key international leaders have reached a tentative deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and curb climate change, the Los Angeles Times has learned, after the United States and China agreed to a method for recording developing nations' pledges to limit emissions and ensuring those pledges are carried out.

Details of the agreement were approved in an evening meeting with President Obama, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, sources said. LAT

At least we won't have to hear the media jabber for the next week about Obama's prestige taking a hit. Gibbs the enforcer: