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Understand the spot. what did you think about his answer? reporter: well, i m a daughter who s lost a father and i hear really what he s talking about in reference to my question. i certainly understand about your dad s or your mom s advice in your head, that happens to all of us who have lost a parent. but my question is the fact that he has pounded the media, campbell as you well know, he has talked time and again in every one of his statements or q&a sessions, about how it s a private matter, i don t want to talk about these issues, it s in the police report, leave my family alone. and then what does he do? well nike takes the scandal, but obviously with tiger s blessing and they re putting it on the air to make money for tiger and nike. you have to say what it is. yes, let s just call it what it is, yes. before we run out of time, i have to ask you about this, the hypocritical comment that ....
The job is to be there to ask the question the public would like to have answer. martha joynt kumar tracks the presidential the white house. communication from the white house. according to her numbers, president obama had 48 such brief question-and-answer encounters in the first year of his presidency. president bush had 147. president clinton had 252. what is more, kumar says the president s interaction with white house beat reporters tailed off since july of last year when mr. obama held his last formal white house with news conference. in the last five months, mr. obama has had only 16 q&a sessions with beat reporters, fewer than four a month. he is taking few questions from individual reporters in a setting where he has to respond to the issues that reporters want to talk about. reporter: the white house doesn t deny it and they say it is all about staying on message. interviews they say give the president the setting and situation to exert more control ....
Like to have answer. martha joynt kumar tracks the presidential the white house. communication from the white house. according to her numbers, president obama had 48 such brief question-and-answer encounters in the first year of his presidency. president bush had 147. president clinton had 252. what is more, kumar says the president s interaction with white house beat reporters tailed off since july of last year when mr. obama held his last formal white house with news conference. in the last five months, mr. obama has had only 16 q&a sessions with beat reporters, fewer than four a month. he is taking few questions from individual reporters in a setting where he has to respond to the issues that reporters want to talk about. reporter: the white house doesn t deny it and they say it is all about staying on message. interviews they say give the president the setting and situation to exert more control over the situation and drive a ....
Calling them on the phone to these encounters here at the white house with daily beat reporters, it s just a different way of communicating. clearly, the president prefers interviews. jane: did bush or clinton do more of those q&a sessions? reporter: much more. the numbers are actually surprising even to me. as we ve said, president obama s done 46 of these short q&a sessions. in his first year in office, president bush did 147, bill clinton did 252. just a quick weather report here, jane, yes, you can see it s snowing. white house staff not leaving early working a full day and probably well into the night. jane: major thanks. jon: anwar al-awlaki, he has been linked to several of the 9/11 attackers. the massacre at fort hood and even the christmas day attempt to bomb that airliner. are we getting new information on this guy, where he might be and can we go after him? ....
How they re doing. they want us to start worrying less about keeping our jobs and more about helping them keep their jobs. wow. despite the popularity of those q&a sessions, including the one last week with the republicans which was really, really good for the president, the white house says it will not become a regular feature. think that s a mistake. let s bring in right now a democratic senator from california, the chair of the committee on environment and public works, senator barbara boxer. she s going to be on capitol hill today with senator jim webb to unveil legislation that with tax bonuses of top executives and bailed-out firms. that s a good idea. senator boxer, we ll get to that in one minute. but let s talk about the last story mika just read. you obviously in 2010 are facing a challenge yourself. you re on the ballot. what s your feeling about what democrats need to do to help democrats other democrats like yourself on the ballot this ....