Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy said President Joe Biden contacted him to “clear the air” after being snappy with him during a Monday press conference with the Competition Council.
As reporters were being ushered out of the briefing, Doocy asked Biden a question about inflation and its potential “political liability” in the upcoming midterm elections. In response, the president could be heard calling Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch” through a hot mic.
Doocy said the president contacted him by phone “within about an hour” of the briefing to “clear the air” telling him the remark was “nothing personal.” Doocy said Biden encouraged him to continue to ask about a variety of issues in the future.
“I made sure to tell him [Biden] that I’m always going to try to ask something different than what everybody else is asking and he said ‘you’ve got to,’” Doocy said. “And that is the quote from the president, so I will keep doing it.”
The president said, ‘it’s nothing personal, pal” and “I told him that I appreciated him reaching out, Doocy said. “ I appreciate that the president took a couple minutes out this evening while he was still at the desk to give me a call and clear the air, but I don’t need anybody to apologize to me.”
Doocy said the call was “enough” and the two can “move forward” from the comment. He said there will be “three to seven years” to ask him about different sets of issues.
