Obama to Russia: ‘After My Election I Have More Flexibility’

By Daniel Halper
Published March 26, 2012 11:01am ET
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Obama to Russia: ‘After My Election I Have More Flexibility’
President Obama got caught in private conversation with a hot mic today in Seoul, South Korea, telling outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that Vladimir Putin should give him more “space” and that “[a]fter my election I have more flexibility.” Jake Tapper has the exchange:  President Obama: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, […]

President Obama got caught in private conversation with a hot mic today in Seoul, South Korea, telling outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that Vladimir Putin should give him more “space” and that “[a]fter my election I have more flexibility.”

Jake Tapper has the exchange: 

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