conferences very irregularly. let s look at the past, the few presidents will show compared to biden. biden s been holding formal press conferences less often, there s the data. however, he does hold informal q&as quite often, more than past presidents, where he answers a few questions from the press corps after the event. that s the data. we have a formal press conference coming up this week, it s been announced almost a week ahead of time. what do you make of that strategy, alyssa? it kind of goes against my pr-101. you just don t know what the news cycle will be so to announce it this far in advance builds expectation. butz any time the president is talking to the american people and the press is a good thing. biden s challenge is this, his press secretary does speak to the press daily. that is a good thing. but they re very confusing and conflicting guidances going out around covid. he needs to be answering the questions more regularly. if you can make sense of the cdc s guidance
words. this is mueller. i think people want to hear directly from robert mueller. so i do think it will help. do i think democrats have gone far enough? no, absolutely not. i think they should go much farther, particularly what we do know from the report. normally after something like a mueller hearing. we hear from the white house. there will be a press briefing in that room where we used to have press briefings. but it s been 132 days since the last police briress briefing. there is no sign this week, i d be a happily surprised, what do you make of this strategy to not have briefings? if you have something to hide, you don t go public. right? so clearly this white house has something to hide. that s kind of pr 101. i mean, from the perspective of political pr 101. you restricting a is es to information because you have something to hide. you restrict access to being held accountable.
way. that is, of course, what the white house is saying, that when you re being accused of something, you re going to go to the mat and try to find everything that can disprove that allegation. but the experts say that brett kavanaugh should not have personally given the position that he s in, be trying to micromanage this campaign to try and essentially discredit debbie ramirez s allegations. susan? that is bad pr 101. it is pressuring a person. he is a federal judge, if nothing else, just take that. if not, it s the white house asking for this information. it is also kind of what we talked about at the top of the hour. you saw that photo. there s six other people in that photo who can all speak to their relationship and it s going back to, this is a close knit group of people. i m shocked to see this, and i think it s really bad news for kavanaugh. it sounds like what the fbi is going to have a harder time doing is confirm what dr. ford s alleged or what debbie ramirez has al