Katy Tur Doesn’t Recall Obama Telling Russians He’d Have ‘More Flexibility’ After Reelection

Curtis Houck | February 20, 2017
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See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.

On Monday, our friend SooperMexican at The Right Scoop caught this embarrassing exchange on MSNBC as Katy Tur admitted to her guest that she was couldn’t recall President Barack Obama being caught on a hot mike in 2012 saying he’d have “more flexibility” to work with Russia after his reelection.

Tur was speaking to Republican Congressman Francis Rooney (Fla.) and pressing him about the Trump administration’s hopes to work better with Russia when Rooney brought up Obama’s remark in South Korea. 

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