Obama wouldn't talk about BP spill at energy meeting

Yesterday President Obama summoned twenty senators from both parties to the White House to talk about climate change legislation. Of course there is another energy issue that Americans have been paying close attention to for the past 72 days.

From ABC News' The Note:

But one thing the President did not want to talk about at the meeting was the BP disaster, a Republican source told ABC News. And that, the source said, led to a pointed exchange with GOP senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee.

"The priority should be fixing the oil spill," Alexander told the president, according to the source. "That's what any meeting about energy should be about."

But when Alexander tried to interject the BP leak into the meeting, the source said, the president told the senator, "That's just your talking point.”

Retorted Alexander, "No, it's my opinion."

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