Obama Says Not ‘Hiding the Ball’ From Voters on Russia Talks
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President Barack Obama said he wasn’t “hiding the ball” from U.S. voters after microphones recorded him asking Russia for patience on missile defense negotiations until after the November election.
“I don’t think it’s any surprise that you can’t start that a few months before a presidential and congressional election in the United States,” Obama told reporters at a nuclear security summit in Seoul today, adding that a planned U.S. missile-defense system in Europe was one of the “primary points of friction” between the two nations.