CNN gave three times more coverage to the alleged ‘secret meeting’ between President Trump and Vladimir Putin at a G-20 dinner than former President Barack Obama's infamous hot mic gaffe with Russia's former president in 2012, according to a study by the Media Research Center. Trump and his aides pushed back hard on the media's coverage of that meeting, downplaying its significance and suggesting there was nothing 'secret' about it. The MRC study, meanwhile, contrasted CNN's coverage with that of the March 2012 conversation between Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. CNN COMMENTATOR WON'T CALL TRUMP HER PRESIDENTObama’s microphone was on during the exchange where he told Medvedev that “This is my last election. This backdrop helped make Trump's separate and official high-profile meeting with Putin an international news event.

Source: Fox News July 20, 2017 13:01 UTC