Obama's open mike slip on missile defense system (1:48)

Embarrassing chat overheard as US President outlines his strategy for missile defence negotiations to his Russion counterpart. 27/03/12 Up next Cameron's view of the Mariana Trench Sorry. An error occured when submitting the form.

By Susan Duclos ABC News' Jake Tapper reports that Barack Obama has yet again been caught on an open microphone, this time begging Russian President Dmitri Medvedev for some "space" on missile defense because

By Stephen Stromberg Obama, of course, isn't Putin — he's not rigging elections or controlling state-run media, for example. And it's hardly unprecedented for an American leader to feel constrained by politics in an election year, even on an issue as

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — In a private conversation about the planned U.S.-led NATO missile defense system in Europe, President Barack Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for space on the issue

Pic: Obama Covers the Open Mic. U.S. President Barack Obama covers the microphone as he arrives at the plenary session of the Nuclear Security Summit at the Coex Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 27, 2012.