Will you take questions on inflation then?

Let's move.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Do you think inflation is a political liability ahead of the mid-term?

That's a great asset.

More inflation.

What a stupid son of a bitch.

Within about an hour of that exchange, he called my cell phone and he said, it's nothing

personal, pal.

And we went back and forth and we were talking about just kind of moving, moving forward.

And I made sure to tell him that I'm always going to try to ask something different than what everybody else is asking.

And he said, you've got to.

And that's a quote from the president, so I'll keep doing it.

A lot of folks on Twitter yesterday were treating the Biden-Fox reporter story as the most important news of the day. The update last night, as you heard there, the president called the reporter after the exchange to clear the air, and we can all move on now. Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It is Tuesday, January 25th. With us, we have the host of Way Too Early and White House Bureau Chief at Politico, Jonathan

Lemire, and President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haas, with all of us this

morning.

I'm in Warsaw, Poland again this morning, where there continues to be grave concern over what Russia

will do with its troops on the Ukraine border.

The Pentagon says that has put thousands of U.S. troops on high alert as fears increased

that Russia may invade Ukraine again.

NBC News, Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell has the details.

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