--- title: President Obama's Last Press Conference of 2016: Watch Live description: President Barack Obama will hold his final press conference of the year Friday afternoon. canonical: https://time.com/4604652/barack-obama-press-conference-livestream/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-16T15:30:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:20:20.402Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Obama's Last Press Conference of 2016: Watch Live og:description: He'll likely field questions about his new promise that the U.S. will retaliate against Russia og:url: https://time.com/4604652/barack-obama-press-conference-livestream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65b9bd8adfe4ce6a/6988b3118e060132e1468998/gettyimages-623223028.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: President Barack Obama Holds News Conference Before Departing For Greece og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Obama's Last Press Conference of 2016: Watch Live twitter:description: He'll likely field questions about his new promise that the U.S. will retaliate against Russia twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65b9bd8adfe4ce6a/6988b3118e060132e1468998/gettyimages-623223028.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: President Obama's Last Press Conference of 2016 > Sponsored content. 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U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question during a press conference at the White House briefing room in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 14, 2016.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 16, 2016 3:30 PM UTC [President Barack Obama](http://time.com/the-obamas-family-album/) will hold his final press conference of the year Friday afternoon. Obama will take questions from the press before his family’s trip to Hawaii over the holidays. He’ll likely field questions about his [new promise](http://time.com/4604505/white-house-putin-dnc-hacking-election-russia-trump/?xid=homepage) that the U.S. will retaliate against Russia for its suspected interference in the U.S. election process. “Some of it may be explicit and publicized, some of it may not be,” Obama [told NPR ](http://www.npr.org/2016/12/15/505775550/obama-on-russian-hacking-we-need-to-take-action-and-we-will)Thursday of the action against Russia. “But Mr. Putin is well aware of my feelings about this, because I spoke to him directly about it.” The press conference is scheduled to begin at 2:15 p.m. ET. 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