President Obama on a Piece of Open mic With Russian President Dmitry Medvedev: I do not "Hide the Ball"

President Obama on a Piece of Open mic With Russian President Dmitry Medvedev: I do not "Hide the Ball": President Obama swears he is not trying to throw dust into the eyes of someone.

The next day, after being caught in the open mic said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, he would have "flexibility" on an agreement on missiles, after he won the election, President Obama insists he has no hidden agenda.

"This question does not hide the ball," Obama told reporters at a summit in Seoul on Nuclear Safety on Tuesday, adding his opinion about the U.S. plan to shield already "on file".

"The only way to get these things done that if I am consulting with the Pentagon, with Congress, if I have bipartisan support, and, frankly, the current environment does not promote this kind of advice seriously," he admitted.

Right after Obama jumped on a live microphone picked up a private conversation with Medvedev after a 90-minute meeting on Monday.

Obama asks heard "patience" and "space" before November.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich claimed the president "generally speaking Russian leader." Please wait until after the election, so I can sell "

And while disappearing in San Diego, Romney said that Obama "pulling punches with the American people." Later, he told CNN, that Russia is America, "the number one enemy of geopolitics."

Medvedev influenced the Republican game on Tuesday, saying Romney's comments were straight out of a bad cold war movie.

"As for the ideological cliches, when a party uses such phrases as" enemy number one ", the signal still smells like Hollywood and I was certain periods (the past)," Medvedev said at the end of the summit on nuclear security in the South Korean capital.

"In addition, (should) look at the clock: we are in 2012, but not in the middle of the 1970s," he said.

Obama mocked his microphone gaffe on Tuesday before the summit.

Although Medvedev greeting, Obama laughed and said, "Wait, wait, wait," laying his hand on the microphone.

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Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin BecameThe Target of a Hooded

Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin BecameThe Target of a Hooded: Geraldo Rivera struck the audience with comments on the case Trayvon Martin, saying that by wearing a hood, teens killed was the target.

Martin, a 14-year-old Candy transport, hoodie, wearing an African-American boy who was shot, George Zimmerman, Captain Sanford, Fla., neighborhood watch.

He walked home with a 7-Eleven, and was unarmed. Zimmerman, who claimed self-defense, is not charged, but a grand jury hear the case.

Martin supporters took part in the "Mars million Hoodie" in protest against the freedom of Zimmerman. But the hoodie has acquired a new meaning thanks to Geraldo.

"When you see a child walking down the street, especially dark-skinned baby, my son Cruz - I always cried when he was carrying on the hoodie, or those crazy pants around his ankles," Take that hood! "Rivera told Fox & Friends.

"People look at you, and that at the time of identification, association occurs instantaneously? These observations at the crime scene tape."

"When you see someone stickin 7-Eleven, a boy dressed in a hoodie," Rivera continued. "When you see an attack on a surveillance camera, or they get that old lady in a niche, he is a child wearing a hood."

"You have to admit that this set, styled as a" gangsta "... you'll be gangsta wannabe? Well, people will perceive you as a threat. This is exactly what happens. This reflexive instant action."

The negative reaction to it was fast and furious.

Many viewers claimed it was a call to the dress code for minorities, or equivalent to the women who wear revealing clothing are asked to be raped.

Questlove sent a long series of Tweets Rivera, including:

"@ GeraldoRivera Unfortunately, I have to go swaying tuxedo July 24 so I can put the others who do not know comfort? The topic the other side of the coin?"

With a short, but a lot of anger, amusement parks and the star Aziz Ansari said: "It really corresponds to tweet until now no, but seriously, F -. To you Geraldo"

Rivera followed Twitter, defending his position:

"My son has just written to say that he is ashamed of his position again sweatshirts - I still feel that parents should do everything possible to keep their children safe," he wrote.

"This is not to blame the victim His common sense, as a gangster and armed idiot to take your word ... I'm sorry I must be one of a minority of parents citing the risk that comes with being child of color in America."

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