--- title: President Obama News Conference Livestream description: President Obama is holding his traditional year-end news conference at the White House on Friday afternoon. The President is expected to address reporters at about... canonical: https://time.com/4155327/president-obama-news-conference-livestream/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-18T18:22:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:30:24.187Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Obama News Conference Livestream og:description: President Obama is holding his traditional year-end news conference at the White House on Friday afternoon. The President is expected to address reporters at about... og:url: https://time.com/4155327/president-obama-news-conference-livestream/ 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: President Obama News Conference Livestream twitter:description: President Obama is holding his traditional year-end news conference at the White House on Friday afternoon. The President is expected to address reporters at about... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live: President Obama Holds His Year-end News Conference by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 18, 2015 6:22 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 18, 2015 6:22 PM UTC President Obama is holding his traditional year-end news conference at the White House on Friday afternoon. The President is expected to address reporters at about 1:45 p.m. E.T. His remarks come with the presidential race to succeed him moving into high gear, and as he looks to capitalize on his last year in office with a string of initiatives, [including expanded gun restrictions](http://time.com/4154984/barack-obama-guns/). Watch Obama’s remarks live above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4155327/president-obama-news-conference-livestream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4155327/president-obama-news-conference-livestream/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Obama Holds His Year-end News Conference","datePublished":"2015-12-18T18:22:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:30:24.187Z","description":"President Obama is holding his traditional year-end news conference at the White House on Friday afternoon. The President is expected to address reporters at about...","url":"https://time.com/4155327/president-obama-news-conference-livestream/","keywords":["White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"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/4155327/president-obama-news-conference-livestream/","name":"Watch Live: President Obama Holds His Year-end News Conference"}}]}] ```