Presidents have a number of avenues for providing information to the press, and different Presidents use them in various ways. This table shows the number of on-the-record solo news conferences each President has conducted as well as the number of Prime-Time televised conferences, which include those that have been broadcast live in the evening.
The White House is preparing for President Trump’s highly-anticipated sit-down with Vladimir Putin. Phil Mendelson, chairman of Washington, D.C.’s city council, joins us to discuss the president’s claims of rampant crime in the nation’s capital — statistics show that murder rates have declined. And GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa gets an earful at a town hall about his vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Epstein files and Trump’s tariffs harming California farmers.
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