Obama (11/16/14): "And I think it’s fair to say there was not a provision in the healthcare law that was not extensively debated and was fully transparent.”
"Gruber referred callers Friday morning to the response he gave The New Republic, where he called his own 2012 comments “just a ‘speak-o’—you know, like a typo.” “I honestly don’t remember why I said that. I was speaking off-the-cuff. It was just a mistake. People make mistakes. Congress made a mistake drafting the law and I made a mistake talking about it,” Gruber told the magazine."
Obama is CYA - running from a connection to Gruber - he is not going to say that Gruber was involved with the law. In later videos Gruber identified that Obama was in the room with him when they devised the Cadillac tax.
The second quote about being a typ-o or speak-o was from the July article.
What is interesting is that the next time Gruber tried to excuse his comments, he used the exact same excuse.