--- title: Watch Live: President Obama’s Year-End News Conference description: President Barack Obama is addressing reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon, amid the FBI's announcement that it's determined North Korea is behind the... canonical: https://time.com/3642345/obama-news-conference/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-19T18:18:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:01:31.113Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: President Obama’s Year-End News Conference og:description: President Barack Obama is addressing reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon, amid the FBI's announcement that it's determined North Korea is behind the... og:url: https://time.com/3642345/obama-news-conference/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: President Obama’s Year-End News Conference twitter:description: President Barack Obama is addressing reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon, amid the FBI's announcement that it's determined North Korea is behind the... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live: President Obama's Year-End News Conference by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 19, 2014 6:18 PM UTC by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 19, 2014 6:18 PM UTC President Barack Obama is addressing reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon, amid the FBI’s announcement that it’s determined North Korea is behind the massive Sony hack and Obama’s move to normalize relations with Cuba. Watch the news conference live above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3642345/obama-news-conference/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3642345/obama-news-conference/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Obama's Year-End News Conference","datePublished":"2014-12-19T18:18:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:01:31.113Z","description":"President Barack Obama is addressing reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon, amid the FBI's announcement that it's determined North Korea is behind the...","url":"https://time.com/3642345/obama-news-conference/","keywords":["White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3642345/obama-news-conference/","name":"Watch Live: President Obama's Year-End News Conference"}}]}] ```