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Jeff Flake says he and Obama keep in touch

By Daniel Chaitin
Published March 4, 2018 3:51am ET
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Jeff Flake says he and Obama keep in touch
The conversation about former President Barack Obamaa was prompted when David Axelrod spotted a framed photograph in Sen. Jeff Flake's office that showed Flake and his family with Obama and then-first lady Michelle Obama. (Screen shot)

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., says he and former President Barack Obama have kept in touch even after the Democrat left the White House.

“We talk,” Flake said during a wide-ranging interview with Obama’s former aide, David Axelrod on “The Axe Files,” which aired Saturday evening on CNN.

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