President Trump speaks at the beginning of a new conference with members of the coronavirus task force, including Vice President Mike Pence in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House February 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

One of the biggest takeaways from last night's briefing was how the White House spent the day — and went on the record — denying a czar would be named to run point on the coronavirus response. Then Trump did just that hours later by naming Vice President Mike Pence to the role, even if they're not calling him a "czar" to spare Health Secretary Alex Azar's feelings.

That's a restructuring of the coronavirus leadership team. Point blank. Because Trump was deeply frustrated by the coverage he was getting over his administration's response so far.

Now Pence is put in the middle of this — and some say being set up for failure.

Did Trump know about the new case when he came out to the briefing and said confidently Americans were at low risk and the disease likely wouldn't spread?

We don't know: He didn't mention it. But Azar certainly knew.

From Azar's opening statement on Cap Hill yesterday: "Coming into this hearing, I was informed that we have a 15th confirmed case, the epidemiology of which we are still discerning."

We can expect the White House to try to streamline who is the face of this. Trump was furious with the CDC doctor who said it was inevitably going to spread. Hence him contradicting her yesterday and saying, "I don't think it's inevitable."

Yet he was contradicted in real time there at the briefing by experts who offered a much more sober analysis.