somehow to oh, you re putting words in his mouth. it was a fair question. the press should galvanize around her. the press should be asking these tough questions. the most amazing moment if you look at this video, peter alexander gives katlyn collins a look like are we really still doing journalism here, i thought that was over in january. it was an you amazing moment. howie: while he was delivering the apology to the pool, the president said this. look, to be a good reporter you ve got to be negative, you have to have a negative view of life, seems to me you never ask positive questions. howie: so maybe he has a point. but the president the press doesn t always ask negative questions. the press often asks and should ask skeptical questions, challenging questions, designed to throw a president or any other person off talking points. first of all, the negative view of life, what kind of
geneva news conference when he got clearly irritated with cnn s katlyn collins. why are you so confident he ll change his behavior? i m not howie: he circled back to reporters before getting back on air force one and said he was sorry. i owe my last questioner an apology. i shouldn t have been such a wise guy with the last answer i gave. that is completely unnecessary from the president. he did not have to apologize, though i do appreciate that he did there in front of the other reporters. howie: joining us from dallas, steve krakauer. why did president biden go off on katlyn collins over what seemed like a standard question and what do you make of the liberal backlash against her. i think that latter point is the real story here and the real disappointment. i don t know what joe biden is not used to getting even rehe
economic advisor to donald trump. donald trump was famously and constantly combative with the press, what would have been the media reaction if he told a cnn reporter you re in the wrong business? what do you think? they would have gotten nuts. they always went nuts. you know, look, my thought here is president biden who i think had a very bad week in almost every single area, nonetheless if he had saved all that vehemence and fight for vladimir putin instead of this girl, katlyn collins, we would have been better off. trump would never have gotten away with that. trump could have apologized 10 times and not one in the mainstream media would have reported it. howie: the former president called into fox the other night, the night of the meeting with putin, and he said this. i guess the overall is we didn t get anything.
moatly challenging questions from most of the media so perhaps a very totally fair question from katlyn collins, joe biden had said that he was confident that vladimir putin understood that continuing these attacks would lower his standing in the world. it was a completely fair question and a it was a kind of fair answer, a fine answer. we should be seeing arguments between press and power. the press should be pushing power to the point that they get a little rankled. the problem is that he says you re in the wrong business. that was completely ridiculous. if we want intellectual consistency, okay, now these kind of exchanges are okay. we know what would have happened a year ago, if it was donald trump in power it woulds have been while male range and this white male rage. soledad o brien called it a stupid question, questioned whether she was acting in good
psycho analysis i m not going to put too much weight on what president biden is saying off the cuff. this was an off-the-cuff moment. of course they should ask challenging questions and joe biden if you re comparing the kinds of questions that, say, a jim acosta was asking donald trump to katlyn collins who replaced him as the new white house correspondent, katlyn collins is asking fair questions, peter acosta was asking absurd, off the wall questions that was there to feed the resistance on twitter. reporters should ask challenging, fair questions as you say. the idea that a president should feel that kind of questioning is negative or inappropriate is completely over the top. howie: biden gets generally favorable coverage. any president can get donald trump was much tougher on reporters, accusing them of unfair questions but he got much worse coverage. steve krakauer, thank you.