Jeff Zeleny spoke on Wednesday after Biden's much-anticipated meeting with Vladimir Putin in Russia.
Biden confronted Zeleny's CNN colleague Kaitlan Collins, asking her: 'What the hell?' when she questioned him about the summit. Biden later apologized, right before boarding the plane to leave.
Zeleny said that Biden wanted to set his own narrative after the meeting, saying: 'We have seen President Biden do that pretty well.'
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He continued: 'What we have not seen him do is answer questions like that without his aides screaming at him to stop.
'I have never seen a president, covering the last four of them, who was so protected by his aides in terms of often not wanting him to answer some questions.'
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Biden revealed Wednesday that he had warned Putin that Russian cyber attacks on 'critical' U.S. infrastructure would draw a serious American response – and told his counterpart just how harmful a cyber attack might be on an oil pipeline that is the lifeline of the Russian economy.
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Biden threatened retaliation and made his explicit comment publicly - even as he denied making any kind of a 'threat' in his meetings with the Russian president - as they discussed ransomware attacks that shut down the Colonial pipeline and had other U.S. and multinational businesses on edge.
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During a contentious press conference, he also shouted at a CNN reporter who yelled out a question asking why he was so confident the Russian strongman would change his behavior, given his denials and his history.
'I’m not confident of anything. I’m just stating the facts.'
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Minutes after the tense exchange, Biden sought to clear up the incident, speaking with traveling reporters under the wing of Air Force One.
'I shouldn't have been such a wise guy with the last answer I gave,' Biden said.
The reporter Biden berated, CNN's Kaitlan Collins, said on air she was 'just doing my job' and said Biden didn't need to apologize.
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She called it 'completely unnecessary' and said 'he did not have to apologize, though I do appreciate that he did.'
After fielding a question from the Associated Press on his plans for meeting President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Geneva, he turned to a Bloomberg reporter for his second question.
'I'm sorry, I'm going to get in trouble with staff if I don't do this the right way,' he said, then calling on Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg.
As he began to walk away, more questions were shouted at him.
'I'm going to get in trouble with my staff,' he said, turning back to the press pack. 'Yeah, go ahead. But I can pretend that I didn't answer you.'
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