Usually I like Kaitlin Collins from CNN, but her last question trying to paint this meeting as

[JohnSJ]

a failure because he didn't free Navalny, and why was he confident things were positive.

His answer was blunt. I never said I was confident, and that if she didn't understand that the meeting by itself was a positive thing, then she was out of touch with how things work.

He also made it clear during the press conference that the Americans being held in Russia are actively being worked on for their release

Of note, CNN comments presented that exchange as it was, they didn't try to repaint it in bias of their reporter.

[LiberalFighter]

1. I didn't care for the framing of her question.

I believe Biden's last response to her was she didn't know how diplomacy works.

[JohnSJ]

2. Same here. What I appreciated was that the CNN commentators didn't jump to their

reporters defense, but presented it as it actually was

[Treefrog]

16. I think you meant they "didn't" jump to her defense.

That’s how I read your op at any rate.

[JohnSJ]

17. Thanks. That is exactly what I meant. I think quicker than I type

[Treefrog]

20. I do it all the time. I was pretty sure you mistyped it lol!

Meanwhile, he’s apologized for snapping at her. I don’t think he needed to do that.

[JohnSJ]

21. +++

[mcar]

3. She was terrible

It was a ridiculous "gotcha" type question and she deserved to be called out on it.

[JohnSJ]

5. Yes, and the President handled perfectly

[mcar]

10. The usual suspects on Twitter (read far left) are pitching a hissy over it

"Biden shouldn't have lost his temper!!11" "It was a good faith question!!11"

[Cha]

32. Yeah, poor things.. they snatch

on to anything they think will make Pres Biden & the Democratic Party look bad.

[JoanofArgh]

4. Getting Navalny freed would never have happened , anyway.

And Biden said more than once during his speech that he didn't know if anything would actually come of some of the stuff they agreed on. I didn't get that he was confident at all.

[JohnSJ]

7. The question was a mischaracterization of what President said

[LiberalFighter]

6. I don't particularly care for watching CNN. Too many idiots.

Especially with the likes of Blitzer. My preference is MSNBC. I do avoid Mitchell and Todd.

[JohnSJ]

8. It wasn't CNN that I was critical of, it was the particular reporter's incorrect framing of a

question, which President Biden handled perfectly

[LiberalFighter]

13. Got it.

Just listening to lady in blue on CNN saying Biden was trying to get into Putin's head. About wanting to be a great nation and having trade relations with other nations. If you want to be a power on the world stage... act like it.

[tavernier]

9. She has tried to make herself the news before

with gotcha questions for Jen. I thought that was Fox’s MO.

[Dream Girl]

12. She's a bit ham handed. Easy to see through her.

[lamp_shade]

25. Yes she has. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed.

Also - she tends to talk too much... sometimes rattling on and on with nothing interesting to say.

[Bev54]

29. She is trying to make her place after Acosta,

I think CNN has too much confidence in her, she does not have the stuff of a good reporter. She came from the Daily Caller, which may explain some of it.

[zipplewrath]

11. Kinda her job

It's not really her job to decide if it was a failure or not, and then structure her questions appropriately. It's her job to get Biden to explain how it was either a success, a failure, or something in between. Really, she gave him an opening to make a whole range of points, which is what skillful politicians do.

[mcar]

14. She set up a straw man

Biden never said he was "confident" Putin would change his behavior. She knew that. She was acting as if she was catching some blowhard leader (sound familiar) in an exaggeration.

[zipplewrath]

27. He apologized

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/06/16/joe-biden-putin-meeting-kaitlan-collins-bts-nr-vpx.cnn

[mcar]

30. I know. He's a class guy

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215533663

[JohnSJ]

15. She indicated President Biden said something he didn't

[nolabear]

18. Joe just referred to that before getting on the plane.

Said he might have been overly negative but that the media is too attached to reporting and evoking the negative side of things. “There’s great value in being realistic and optimistic.”

Very Joe. Very good.

[JohnSJ]

19. Saw it. It was perfect

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

22. Her Daily Caller....

training pops up from time to time.

[FelineOverlord]

23. Don't trust her

I’ll NEVER trust anyone who worked for the Daily Caller.

[ChrisF1961]

24. Not the first time Collins asked

a ridiculous gotcha question. She’s a right wing hack.

[Xoan]

26. Alabama grad.

[Harker]

28. Putin would grant safe conduct to Navalny more readily

than he'd let Trumpsky go free.

[budkin]

31. She wants so hard to seem "balanced."

It's obvious it chaps her hide to be called "liberal media."

[Politicub]

33. I was thinking that jet lag may be a culprit.

I'm like you, op. I usually like her, too. Her behavior seemed so out of character. President Biden handled it well.

I'm interested to see how it plays across the various CNN shows tonight.