Good evening from New York, I'm Anderson Cooper. And from Washington, I'm

Caitlin Collins, and you saw there a seething President Biden just

wrapping up a press conference dealing with Special Counsel Robert Hz report on his handling of classified

documents or President Biden denied a critical part of that report.

And the report clears him legally but could damage him obviously politically

including a passage which reads and I quote

Mr Biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during our interview with him as a

sympathetic well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.

Joining us now is Kate Bettingfield,

who served as communications director in the Biden

White House, David Axelrod, who worked with then

Vice President Biden, a senior advisor to President Obama,

and a former Trump communications director,

Lissifar Griffin, all three are now seen in political

commentators, also with us, former federal prosecutor, best-selling author, Jeffrey Tuben.

David Ashall, let me start with you.

Is that the press conference the president should have had?

Well, look, I understand the concept of why he had the press conference because this thing was red-hot and it was out there and he felt he needed to and his people felt he

needed to respond to it.

Whether the response was adequate or whether it creates more problems, I think is another question.

He did contradict elements of the Special Counsel's report and that undoubtedly will go on.

And then he was quite angry not just at the release or at the

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