news headquarters, i m mike emanuel. ducklo releasing his own apology around the same time the news from the white house. mar meredith with the details of the press shake-up. mark: white house deputy secretary is embarrassed by his behavior that was first reported and made public that he threatened a reporter of politico that was looking at a story about ducklo s relationship with another female report near dc. ducklo is no stranger to the biden team. he nerved as the national press secretary during the campaign and so there s been a lot of talk about what kind of fallout from this was going to be. he s regularly interacted with reporters so the reports that he would threaten a female reporter caught a lot of people by surprised. on friday ducklo s boss jen psaki said he apologized and would be suspended one week without pay and the white house facing questions whether or not this was a too lenient of a punishment considering the president s first comments on day in office.
members of the press pool who felt that he should have been fired on the spot, but with ducklo parting ways with the administration, the white house is promising to do better. let s go to mark meredith. he s following the story and he s live for us now at the white house. hi, mark. mark: arthel, good afternoon. the story has changed a lot since we first heard about it on friday with tj, the deputy press secretary announcing that he will be resigning his post. he as you mentioned was going to be suspended one week without pay after controverse comments to a reporter. that was the case on friday and late last night we got the statement that he was officially resigning from his post. duclo had served as the campaign communication spokesperson so his departure comes after vanity fair he threatened to, quote, destroy a politico reporter who was working on a story about his relationship with a dc journalist on his first day in office president biden told staffers that any disrespec