Jean-Pierre Struggles To Explain Why Biden Has Done Fewer Press Confs Than Any Modern President

the numbers show that President Biden has engaged in about 33 news conferences compare that to Obama's 66 and Donald Trump's 52 by this time in their presidencies can you explain why the president isn't doing so look yeah and I hear the question and I know that uh folks want to hear you all and it's important because when you all hear from the president obviously uh so does the American people so we get the importance of that and we're always going to try to find ways uh obviously outside of press conferences as well uh to for the president to be out there and we have found some non-traditional ways we think it's important to try and meet uh the American people where they are uh and so that is important as well whether it's a podcast uh that's important or um you know doing doing doing certain things that is not the norm uh obviously the person uh the president I should say uh takes you know takes your questions uh when he's on the road as you know more often than not uh and be finds it important to have those conversations when you all are out there with him on the road taking your questions and so he does do that uh as far as press conferences we're going to try and uh make sure when it's the right time for to for those to happen certainly we will we will do so uh but it doesn't mean that this President does not engage uh with with the Press Corps with the white White House Press Corps or uh with other uh reporters uh journalists out there who have different uh different ways with communicating with the American people as well we think that's important too