many -- when you've already given so many one-on-one interviews. >> the tactic is to avoid hard questions and hard follow-up questions. if you go on you tube and post photos on flicker and you have deputy white house secretaries send twitter messages and then you post white house videos and you say that's the same thing as answering a question from wendell goler at the white house from fox news, it's not. it's a give and take and part of american history for the last century. this period -- seven months is the longest period that we've had in 10 years of the presidency. we've gone seven months without a press conference by the president. >> because right now, this is what the administration says, look at our first year stats. first year interviews, president obama, 161, president bush just 50. president clinton 53. does it have anything to do -- is the reason that the president have avoided the press