Barack Obama actually said...

I expressed in candid terms our strong view that preventing journalists, lawyers, NGOs, and civil society groups from operating freely...are all problematic in our view.

Context

The President's News Conference With President Xi Jinping of China

09/24/2015

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

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