This is CNN breaking news.

I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room picking up our discussion of President Biden's lengthy

nearly two-hour news conference.

We're covering it from every angle including exclusive new reaction from Ukraine to the president's remarks about a

potential Russian invasion. There's another breaking story we're following

right now as well. The United States Supreme Court has just rejected former President Trump's request to

block the release of his White House records clearing the way for the documents to be

handed over to the January 6th Select Committee.

We're going to complete analysis of that breaking story in just a few moments, but right

now I want to start our coverage with our senior White House correspondent Phil Mattingly.

Phil, the president certainly covered a lot of ground in his news conference

at the White House on the challenges he's faced during his first year

in office and the progress he says he's made.

Yeah, Wolf, it had been 78 days since the president's last formal press conference and he

appeared intent to make up for any lost time addressing a sweeping array of issues

for nearly two hours between a statement and

questions from 24 different reporters. The message and the response is

isolated between very carefully calibrated messaging moving into his second year

underscoring some of the accomplishments of his first but also some real-time

analysis that left real questions about his comments regarding the legitimacy

of elections but also Russia's

potential incursion of Ukraine.

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