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Watch: President Obama gives fiery press conference responding to critics on Paris and ISIS

Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. Before coming to Vox in 2014, he edited TP Ideas, a section of Think Progress devoted to the ideas shaping our political world.

President Obama is currently at the G20 meeting in Antalya, Turkey, but he took some time from meeting with foreign leaders to answer questions from the press about the Paris attacks and his strategy to fight ISIS. You can watch the full remarks in the above video.

At times, Obama sounded quite combative: "When you actually listen to what [my critics] have to say, what they're proposing, most of the time, when pressed, they describe things we're already doing."

The frankness of his comments has struck some observers:


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