New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez's office has sent over a statement from the senator, a key Hillary surrogate, clarifying his remarks about Clinton's gas tax holiday this morning on MSNBC:

"I should have elaborated more in my on-air response -- the point I was making was that the everyday pains that average Americans are feeling aren't always taken into account by an economist sitting behind a desk looking at numbers. Of course economists are important to public policy, but I was trying to point out that they aren't the only voices that matter. Cold macroeconomic calculus can glaze over the realities of human suffering, so there needs to be a balance between crunching numbers and understanding the everyday experiences of Americans in order to make good public policy."

Here's the video of his remarks.