Sean Spicer will take over the White House press secretary podium when Donald Trump is sworn in. | Getty Spicer tours White House, meets with Earnest

Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer spent Tuesday afternoon getting a tour and a briefing from President Barack Obama’s press staff, ending with an hours-long huddle in the press secretary’s office in the West Wing with outgoing White House press secretary Josh Earnest and communications director Jen Psaki.

Asked whether anything he’d heard or seen changed his opinions on scrapping the daily press briefing or other major changes that Spicer and other members of the Trump transition have floated, he said: “They certainly gave me a lot to think about and to share with the team.”

Spicer even got an impromptu meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, who saw him getting a tour of the West Wing.

Spicer will take over the podium when Donald Trump is sworn in, but aside from one tour with family members several years ago, he hasn’t been back in the White House since the final day of the George W. Bush administration.

“They shared with me some of their advice,” Spicer said, adding with a joke: “I had my own version of a press conference with Josh and Jen and fired off questions on everything from logistics to how certain things currently operate.”

The visit included a walk through rooms that the Obama team has used for press events and interviews with the president, and a refresher on the internal operations in the West Wing.

Spicer said that he’d found it useful “to see firsthand some of the things you’ve forgotten over eight years.”

Earnest and Spicer hadn’t met before, but have been in email contact since the outgoing press secretary reached out to his successor shortly after his appointment was announced.

“I sincerely hope that he finds the same kind of challenge and satisfaction in the job that I have,” Earnest said Tuesday.

Earnest and Psaki also talked to Spicer about the various new platforms they’ve used to get Obama’s message out, few of which were around during his last tour in the White House.

“There are tools that exist now that didn’t back and then really change how you do your job,” Spicer said.

