Obama and McChrystal Meet Aboard Air Force One in Denmark

Obama met with Gen. Stanley McChrystal while on Air Force One in Denmark. McChrystal was in London and flew in to meet Obama.

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Update from Politico:

"The president wanted to take the opportunity to get together with Gen. McChrystal," explained White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. "The President realized that he would be close and thought it was a good opportunity to continue the conversation and discussion about Afghanistan and Pakistan that happened -- at least started in the middle of September in a meeting and continued in the Situation Room for three hours on Wednesday."

Gibbs said the possibility of meeting was first raised on Wednesday, when Obama phoned McChrystal prior to meeting with him and other advisers to discuss Afghanistan.

Asked for a response to McChrystal's comments in London, which seemed to criticize the more restrained Afghanistan strategy reportedly advocated by Vice President Biden, Gibbs demurred.

"I haven't had an opportunity to talk to [the president] about it, and I'll see what we can get after this meeting," Gibbs said.

Obama Staffers Address Tax Reform

Obama is in Maryland at the NIH, where he'll speak at 11 am (details here). At 3 pm, he'll meet via video conference with Gen. Stanley McChrystal and other high level officials.
Michelle Obama is in Copenhagen trying to win the Olympics for the U.S.
Meanwhile, Obama staffers are taking on tax reform today. The meeting will be live streamed at 12:30 pm eastern. Obama maintained during the campaign that he would streamline the tax system:

Today, the tax subgroup of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) will hold a meeting to gather ideas on tax reform. It will be the first of several such meetings. The meeting will center on tax simplification and will be live streamed at www.whitehouse.gov/live .

I wanted to take the opportunity to explain why we assembled this subgroup, what areas the PERAB tax reform subgroup will focus on and what it has been tasked to produce.

Tax reform is important to the President and a priority for many members of Congress. As the President said when he announced his international tax proposals in May, "It's a down payment on the larger tax reform we need to make our tax system simpler and fairer and more efficient for individuals and corporations." Read more at WH