Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The third hour of the program. Glad to have you with me.

The phone number if you want to call in. 877-9-7-9-7-9-7-3-7-4-25. Joe Biden has had no limited engagement with the press.

Seven press conferences so far this year.

By this time,

Donald Trump and Barack Obama had both had more than 20.

Joe Biden is doing a town hall event with CNN tonight.

It's his second with Anderson Cooper on CNN.

And he has a pre-screened audience asking pre-screened questions to try to make it something.

And, you know, the Republicans are pointing out, why, wait a second, you're, you're having a town hall on a night that there is a football game, a hockey game, a baseball game, and some other game, a basketball game tonight.

You're having it on a night when Americans will be watching a sporting event of some kind,

really?

Yes.

The White House concedes part of their concern with the president not having press conferences

is that he sometimes

puts his foot in his mouth. But also, they'd say they don't like the questions from Washington

press corps people because they're always concerned about process. And you know, there is a

legit criticism there. I do have to acknowledge there There's a legit criticism. They ask about the

process of getting things done as opposed to the policies and outcomes, but it's not good

that the president, the White House, keeps him away from the press because they're afraid

he's going to put his foot in his mouth.

And they're going to get pre-screened questions tonight with CNN. Interesting.

Well, look, I told you I wanted to get to the Chappelle stuff, and I do,

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