{"id":802766,"date":"2021-09-22T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T19:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=802766"},"modified":"2021-09-22T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T19:43:35","slug":"white-house-press-corps-pushes-psaki-on-why-biden-wont-take-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-press-corps-pushes-psaki-on-why-biden-wont-take-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Press Corps Pushes Psaki On Why Biden Won\u2019t Take Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-press-corps-pushes-psaki-on-why-biden-wont-take-questions%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=802766&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><\/div>\n<p>Multiple members of the White House press core pushed White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday to explain why President Joe Biden has taken so few questions in recent weeks, calling for the president to hold a formal press conference.<\/p>\n<p>There have been numerous instances of Biden turning his back on reporters or aides shouting down questions since the president first started facing criticism for his execution of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August. The lack of transparency has continued as his administration faces a mounting immigration crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter listed out the many issues Biden has yet to weigh in on, including the \u201ccollapse\u201d of negotiations around police reform on Capitol Hill as well as the impending government shutdown, asking when Biden will open himself up to a formal press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president knows that he was elected not just to get the pandemic under control and put people back to work, but protect our democracy and stand up for what\u2019s right and be transparent,\u201d Psaki responded. \u201cCertainly part of that is engaging with all of you. I would note that he answered questions 135 times leading up to September, three times last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in this month of September, many of the occasions we\u2019ve had have been fleeting,\u201d the reporter pressed. \u201cWhen can we expect to have an opportunity to ask the president questions in a formal setting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki responded that Biden\u2019s choice between holding a formal press conference or taking questions on multiple informal occasions is not of great concern to Americans. She added, however, that Biden will at some point hold a second formal press conference. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/20\/biden-walks-away-reporter-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Walks Away As Reporter Shouts \u2018Why Do You Continue To Trust The Taliban?\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XLt004bpxJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dissatisfaction with Biden\u2019s availability to the press came to a head in a dramatic moment Tuesday, when U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson took questions from British reporters following his bilateral meeting with Biden, but American reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/joe-biden-aides-shout-down-reporters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were shouted down<\/a> by White House staff.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA) then marched into Psaki\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/white-house-press-pool-demands-biden-press-conference-aides-shout-down-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demanding to know<\/a> when Biden would hold a press conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.864406779661\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">IN THE OVAL OFFICE\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> Biden and British PM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BorisJohnson<\/a> meet to discuss pandemic, trade and other issues. Johnson took 3 questions. White House aides shouted down U.S. attempts to ask questions. I asked Biden about southern border and we couldn\u2019t decipher what he said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A86kgdfsuc\">pic.twitter.com\/A86kgdfsuc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed O\u2019Keefe (@edokeefe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edokeefe\/status\/1440427399099793408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe entire editorial component of the U.S. pool went immediately into Jen Psaki\u2019s office to register a formal complaint that no American reporters were recognized for questions in the president\u2019s Oval Office, and that wranglers loudly shouted over the president as he seemed to give an answer to Ed O\u2019Keefe\u2019s question about the situation at the southern border,\u201d a Tuesday dispatch from WHCA president Steven Portnoy read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPsaki was not aware that the incident had occurred, and suggested that she was not in a position to offer an immediate solution. Your pooler requested a press conference. Psaki suggested the president takes questions several times a week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple members of the White House press core pushed White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday to explain why President Joe Biden has taken so few questions in recent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}