New Daddy Jake Tapper Wins "Most Coherent Guest" Award Today

In a stunning role reversal, ABC News's Chief White House Correspondent Jake Tapper apologized to Imus, saying he was a little out of it this morning. The reason? Tapper and his wife had a baby just 12 days ago, and no one has slept.

Imus forgave his guest, since incoherence was the theme of today's show: CBS's Anthony Mason knew nothing about the health care bill, and legendary sportscaster Pat Summerall had zero material on a book about him called "Then Madden Said To Summerall..."

"It says on the cover of the book, 'Foreword by Pat Summerall,' but there's no foreword in the book," Imus told Tapper. "He said he had written a foreword, so I thought maybe Pat could tell us about it. He couldn't remember one word from the foreword."

Since the pressure was off, Tapper relaxed and provided Imus with thoughtful, cogent analysis on the extremely confusing process of passing health care legislation.

"At some point the President, or whoever is leading this effort, is going to have to decide if they want this bill to have a public option, or if they want to have Olympia Snowe's vote?" said Tapper, referring to the Maine Senator who represents the sole Republican vote for the bill.

The President's two priorities — bipartisanship and a public option — seem mutually exclusive right now, since Snowe has said she will not vote for a bill with a public option.

In yesterday's White House press briefing, Tapper asked Mrs. Doubtfire which was more important to the President and got what he called "a typical press secretary answer."

"There are a lot of discrepancies between these bills," Tapper said about the five different versions floating around Congress. "Presumably [the administration] knows what Obama wants, but they won't tell us."

Imus wondered if the President himself even knows what he wants, and Tapper said there is a lot of momentum for him to reveal what he wants in each version of the bill.

"There needs to be some clarity, because people on the Hill are complaining about it," he added.

Getting back to "Mrs. Doubtfire," Tapper told with Imus that a picture of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs as a teenager hangs in the White House press office.

"He was a handsome SOB," Tapper said, and offered to fax Imus a copy of the photo.

"That'll be okay, Jake," said Imus. "I'd rather see your adorable little child than a high school picture of Robert Gibbs."

-Julie Kanfer