President Biden Calls Russian President Vladimir Putin A 'Rational Actor' Who ‘Totally Miscalculated’ By Invading Ukraine

President Joe Biden has a new sit-down interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday  

Daily Mail: Biden calls Putin a 'rational actor' who 'totally miscalculated' with Ukraine war: President says Russian leader believed he would be 'welcomed with open arms' in what he thought was 'home of Mother Russia' 

* President Joe Biden sat down with CNN's Jake Tapper for a Tuesday interview 

* When asked about Vladimir Putin's rationality the president was careful to draw a distinction between the Russian autocrat's brain and his invasion of Ukraine 

* He called the latter and Russia's justifications for it 'irrational' 

* It comes as the world nervously questions Putin's sanity amid his increasingly hostile threats to unleash a nuclear attack on Ukraine 

* Biden sat down with CNN hours after an emergency G7 meeting with Ukraine 

President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a 'rational actor' who embarked on an 'irrational' invasion of Ukraine in a new TV interview on Tuesday. 

'I think he is a rational actor who's miscalculated significantly,' Biden told CNN's Jake Tapper in a preview clip of his primetime interview. 

The president referenced the lead-up to Putin's invasion earlier this year when 'no one believed that he was going to invade Ukraine' despite increasingly hostile rhetoric and a buildup of troops at the neighboring nation's border.  

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President Biden Calls Russian President Vladimir Putin A 'Rational Actor' Who ‘Totally Miscalculated’ By Invading Ukraine  

Biden says Putin ‘totally miscalculated’ by invading Ukraine but is a ‘rational actor’ -- CNN 

Biden Calls Putin a 'Rational Actor' Who 'Miscalculated' With Ukraine War -- Bloomberg  

Putin ‘totally miscalculated’ Russia’s ability to occupy Ukraine, Biden says -- The Guardian  

Biden calls Putin a ‘rational actor who has miscalculated significantly’ -- The Hill  

Biden calls Putin ‘rational actor’ who has been ‘irrational’ -- NYPost  

Biden says Putin 'miscalculated significantly' in 'irrational' Russian invasion of Ukraine -- FOX News  

Biden: Putin is a "rational actor who has miscalculated" on Ukraine -- Axios