{"id":190025,"date":"2021-03-04T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190025"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:24:11","slug":"white-house-stream-cuts-after-biden-asks-to-take-questions-video-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-stream-cuts-after-biden-asks-to-take-questions-video-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Stream Cuts After Biden Asks To Take Questions, Video Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-stream-cuts-after-biden-asks-to-take-questions-video-goes-viral%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230590133.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The White House live feed was cut off Wednesday after President Joe Biden asked to take questions during a discussion with House Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The video clip (see below) has gone viral, racking up over 1.6 million views by Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-white-house-feed-press-conference-cuts-out-million-times-1573688\">reported<\/a> on the video:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>During the session from the White House briefing room on Wednesday, Biden had urged fellow Democrats to make the case for the COVID relief package to their constituents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the end of the speech, Biden said: \u201cI\u2019m happy to take questions, if that\u2019s what I\u2019m supposed to do Nance,\u201d referring to the House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/nancy-pelosi\" data-sys=\"1\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, who had introduced him at the start of his address.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhatever you want me to do,\u201d he added, looking ready to field questions. But then the feed abruptly ended and a graphic of the White House appeared on screen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The video clip likely went viral because of a perceived lack of transparency from Biden, who has still not hosted a solo presser with the media, more than 40 days into his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Even liberal media critic Brian Stelter of CNN has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/03\/media\/biden-press-conference-reliable-sources\/index.html\">highlighted<\/a> Biden\u2019s lack of press conferences and encouraged reporters to continue their push for increased access to the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many ways to measure an American president\u2019s accessibility. One way is by counting press conferences. Right now, by that count, President Biden looks invisible,\u201d he wrote in his newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my view, reporters are right to be pushing for more Q&#038;A access, and they shouldn\u2019t let up the pressure,\u201d added Stelter. \u201cBiden should use the press conference setting to tell the public about what he\u2019s doing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stelter also highlighted criticism of Biden from CNN White House reporter Kevin Liptak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we await word on when President Biden will hold his first solo press conference, an analysis of the past 100 years shows he is behind his 15 most recent predecessors, who all held a solo press conference within 33 days of taking office,\u201d Liptak said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile he has taken questions from reporters on a few occasions, including during sprays and a more formal Q&#038;A session following an event in January, he has not held a formal press conference,\u201d noted the White House reporter. \u201cThat includes both a solo press conference or a 2+2 news conference during his two virtual \u2018bilateral\u2019 meetings with the leaders of Canada and Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded to an inquiry about the lack of access from Stelter, \u201cWe look forward to holding a full formal press conference, but in the meantime the President takes questions from the reporters covering the White House regularly, including this morning,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd his focus day in and day out is on getting the pandemic under control and putting people back to work. That\u2019s what people elected him to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hidin-biden-reporters-ask-jen-psaki-when-biden-will-hold-solo-presser-note-trump-obama-did\">The Daily Wire<\/a> last month, President Donald\u00a0Trump, during his tenure, did not shy away from hitting back at the media. The adversarial relationship was often comically translated by the media as routine \u201cchilling attacks\u201d on free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, routinely made himself accessible to journalists. In fact, an opinion piece for The Washington Post, appropriately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/01\/11\/president-trump-is-extremely-accessible\/\">titled<\/a>, \u201c<span data-qa=\"headline-opinion-text\">President Trump is extremely accessible,\u201d highlighted Trump\u2019s accessibility to the press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/whitehousetransitionproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House Transition Project<\/a> and emeritus professor at Towson University, Trump has racked up 338 \u2018short question-and-answer\u2019 sessions over his time in office, which hits the two-year mark on Jan. 20.,\u201d the Post piece said, which was published in January 2019. \u201cCompare that to 75 for President Barack Obama over his full first two years in office, and 243 for President George W. Bush. \u2018I think that it\u2019s always good to have the opportunity to ask questions of the president,\u2019 says Olivier Knox, president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whca.press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House Correspondents\u2019 Association<\/a>. \u2018It doesn\u2019t replace the usefulness of a regular or daily briefing, which can serve to clear out what I call the underbrush of news\u2019 \u2014 such as scheduling and logistical stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIDEN: &#8220;I&#8217;m happy to take questions if that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m supposed to do\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*White House feed cut* <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y5BHhgXWOB\">pic.twitter.com\/y5BHhgXWOB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The First (@TheFirstonTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFirstonTV\/status\/1367259255699562504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hidin-biden-reporters-ask-jen-psaki-when-biden-will-hold-solo-presser-note-trump-obama-did\">Hidin\u2019 Biden? Reporters Ask Jen Psaki When Biden Will Hold Solo Presser, Note Trump, Obama\u00a0Did<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House live feed was cut off Wednesday after President Joe Biden asked to take questions during a discussion with House Democrats. 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