As journalists were ushered out of a meeting of Mr Biden's Competition Council, Mr Peter Doocy, a White House correspondent with whom Mr Biden regularly spars, asked if it was OK to ask about inflation and if it was a political liability.
US consumer prices increased solidly in December, culminating in the largest annual rise in inflation in nearly four decades. The White House did not respond to a request for comment while Fox News pointed Reuters to a transcript of an interview with Mr Doocy about the exchange on Monday evening. "If you're ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot... no ifs, ands or buts," Mr Biden told political appointees during a virtual swearing-in ceremony."Everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity," he said at the time.
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