'What are you so afraid of?' rachelvscott pressed Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin on the pattern of deaths and imprisonment of political opposition in the country, asking if it sends the message that he doesn't 'want a fair political fight.'
Biden snaps at reporter over whether he's confident Putin will change, later apologizes
When asked on his way out of his solo press conference by CNN's Kaitlin Collins why he was confident Putin will change his behavior, Biden walked back toward reporters, raised his finger and said,"What the hell?... When did I say I was confident?" Collins followed up noting Biden said earlier it would take"six months to a year" to see if the U.S. and Russia"have a strategic dialogue that matters."
"What I said was, let’s get it straight. I said what will change their behavior is if the rest of the world reacts to them and it diminishes their standing in the world. I'm not confident of anything. I'm just stating a fact," he said.U.S President Joe Biden speaks to journalists as he is about to leave his press conference after the US-Russia summit in Geneva, June 16, 2021.
"I owe my last question an apology. I shouldn’t have -- I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy with the last answer I gave," he said."Anyway. Thanks for being here," adding he feels good about where the country is headed following his first foreign trip.
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