servers. he said he was saying so jokingly. no modern president has ever gone this long without taking questions from reporters in such a setting after winning a white house. bringing in maggie haberman and phillip baum, political reporter for the "washington post." thank you both for being here. maggie, do you think it's possible that president-elect trump, president trump, will never do a press conference? newt gingrich has suggested that that's what he thinks should happen. >> i think any assumption that what we know of in the white house will continue is erroneous. certain traditions will hold i suspect. there will be some form of a daily briefing. certain titles. communications director, press secretary. i think it's possible that you'll see the president, once he is president, just tweet out his thoughts or give one-off interviews and make his thoughts known that way. his press conferences used to be very contentious. he would shoot down questions or tell people to sit down when he didn't like them.