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 From ‘Flexibility’ to ‘Cut It Out’
Posted By Morgan Chalfant On December 20, 2016 @ 5:00 am In National Security | No Comments

Today President Obama boasts about telling Vladimir Putin to “cut it out” with hacking attacks targeting the U.S. elections, but less than five years ago he was caught on a hot mic telling then-President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have “more flexibility” on issues important to Russia.

“On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space,” Obama told Medvedev in March 2012 during a Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, before Putin took over the Kremlin.

“This is my last election,” Obama said. “After my election I have more flexibility.”
 

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