Paul Ryan: "I really misspoke."

"I didn’t mean to make that kind of an impression. So, I was clumsy in how I was describing the point I was trying to make."

He's saying that today about something he said on Thursday, which was: "I think there is a lot of budget smoke and mirrors in the (administration's) Pentagon budget, which is not really a true, honest and accurate budget. When you confront military experts — retired or active — they concede these things to us."

So what was the point, put unclumsily?

"What I was attempting to say is, President Obama put out his budget number for the Pentagon first, $500 billion cut, and then they began the strategy review to conform the budget to meet that number... We think it should have been the other way around."