Friday, February 22, 2013

Obama thanked Carter's grandson, who found '47%' tape.



Obama thanked Carter's grandson, who found '47%' tape.(PT).(CNN) - President Barack Obama expressed gratitude last week to former President Jimmy Carter's grandson, who had a role in leaking secretly-recorded video of Mitt Romney's infamous "47%" comments, James Carter said Thursday on CNN.
Obama met James and his cousin, Georgia state Sen. Jason Carter, last week when the president was in Atlanta for a post-State of the Union visit.
"After (Jason) got his picture taken, he told Obama that I was the one that had found the 47% tape," James Carter said on CNN's "The Situation Room."
"Then Obama said, 'Hey, great, get over here.' And then he kind of half-embraced me, I want to say, put his arm around me, and we shook hands. He thanked me for my support, several times," he said.
Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer if the person who filmed the video was a guest or a waiter at the event, Carter said, "It wasn't one of the people who had paid $50,000 to be there. But I'm not going to say anything more than that."
Carter added he had only seen a small portion of the hour-long tape at the time and had no idea it would blow up as much as it did last September.
"I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference," he said. "It ended up being way beyond my wildest dreams."
Carter's grandfather, Jimmy Carter, bragged about his grandson's efforts in a separate interview to air Thursday on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight.Hmmmm.......By their 'fruits' you will know them.Read the full story here.


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