ABC - One of the best zingers of the fourth GOP debate tonight was when Carly Fiorina took a jab at Donald Trump about Vladimir Putin, noting that she’s also met the Russian leader -- "not in a green room for a show, but in a private meeting.”
But the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and Republican presidential candidate actually did meet with Putin in a green room.
In 2001, Fiorina and Putin met for 45 minutes in a green room at the APEC CEO Summit in Beijing, where both were speakers.
Fiorina’s campaign confirmed that the meeting took place in a green
room, but Press Secretary Anna Epstein drew a distinction between one at
a conference and a green room at a TV show.
“Yes she met him in a green room, but not in a green room before a
show,” Epstein said in an email to ABC News. “It was before a
conference.
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