President Obama to Close the Year with Annual Press Conference
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The White House(WASHINGTON) — President Obama will hold his annual year-end press conference Friday afternoon at the White House before taking off on his annual Hawaiian holiday vacation.
Obama last fielded reporters’ questions the day after the mid-term elections and there’s a lot of new ground to cover since then.
The president is expected to face tough questions on relations with Cuba, cyber-terrorism, torture, immigration, the economy, and race relations. Many also are watching closely to see whether the president will refer to the Sony hack as “terrorism” and how the U.S. is going to respond to North Korea.
President Obama will also likely tout his strong finish to the year — in recent weeks he’s announced a major climate deal with China, unilaterally reformed the nation’s immigration system and seen a boost in job growth.
This will be President Obama’s seventh solo news conference of the year, according to the American Presidency Project at University of California, Santa Barbara. It’s the 46th time in six years he will take questions in a solo session with reporters. George W. Bush held 34 solo pressers by this point in his presidency.
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