Russia minor incursion, yelled at reporter, outperformed enormous progress, Biden's rare news brief

On 1/19/2022, Joe Biden said that the United States is prepared to impose significant economic consequences should Russia move forward. But, he clarified, a "minor incursion" by the Russians would elicit a softer response from the U.S. than that of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Biden yelled at Real Clear Politics correspondent Phillip Wegmann to "Go back and read what I said" after Wegmann asked about his voting rights speech in Atlanta earlier this month. Biden was criticized at the time for saying that those who disagree with him on the legislation are comparable to segregationists. "Well, now that makes two presidents who have yelled at me—Trump and Biden," Wegmann wrote following the bizarre exchange.

Biden said that he has “outperformed what anybody thought would happen.” He "didn’t overpromise," but instead "outperformed," maintaining the "enormous progress" his administration has made and vowed to "stay on track" going forward.

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“We’ve made enormous progress,” Biden repeatedly told AP’s Zeke Miller.

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Biden's rare news conference first in over a year.