| President Obama didn't exactly walk away from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) during their disagreement on Wednesday on an airport tarmac near Phoenix, said one of the only people to witness the exchange up close. The president simply began talking to the other two elected officials who were there to greet him.
Mayor Scott Smith of Mesa, Ariz., declined to say exactly what he heard Obama and Brewer talk about during their now-infamous tiff next to Air Force One. But the mayor said he was standing right next to the governor when the exchange took place and Obama didn't seem to be in any kind of hurry to leave. "There was no sense that he was running to or from anything," Smith told TPM. In fact, he said, the president stayed and had a pleasant conversation with Smith, who's a Republican, and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a Democrat. |
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