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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. >> reporter: it had been 78 days since the president's last formal press conference. 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 responses vacillated between ver...

Olympics are going on. furthermore, when the ukrainian president says he's imminent, when he beats the war drums he'll be under a lot more pressure from nato to back down and form some kind of an agreement with the russians. he doesn't want that pressure. he also worries that his economy will implode, his banks will have major runs and capital won't lead. privately, president zelensky is talking to all of the nato allies and begging them for more equipment as fast as humanly possible. he sounds like someone who is a hell of a lot more concerned about a potential incursion or invasion than what...

Blinking. as david described it, i think he has baked in the various outcomes of the sanctions and of the increase of nato's military presence on the borders, on the shoulders of this potential incursion. bear in mind, you know, the politics of a nation are based on its geography and russia has always been abused by its neighbors. so what putin sees clearly as an incursion of nato, expansion of nato over the course of the last 20 years and he's going, guys, you told me you weren't going to expand nato, you expanded nato, i can't have this type of activity going on in poland and bulgaria and et...

With a potential incursion by russia. >> top general also in belarus on the ground for these military exercises over the next ten days. does that tell you anything about these exercises or what's happening in this moment? >> yeah, what's interesting is that top general is a guy named garasima, famously known by some with the doctrine that uses asymmetric warfare, the gray zone. systematic attempts to use things other than military force to bring down a foreign adversary. this is a guy who is very well versed in military action but he's also versed in things like political action, information w...

Very important not just in the next several days but weeks and months when this potential incursion continues. >> i want to talk to you about that, greg. like we said in the open, the international atomic agency said there are people working at gunpoint. they haven't had a shift change in over a week and i think about people who work in high stress jobs like doctors and pilots, you know, there is a limit to how long they work and working these extended times at gunpoint nonetheless, what danger does that pose? >> yeah, i mean, these crews have to be able to operate at optimal efficiency and wh...