White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stormed out of Thursday’s press briefing after a reporter repeatedly demanded that he be given a chance to ask a question.

Today News Africa reporter Simon Ateba confronted Jean-Pierre during the briefing saying that she ignores him and does not answer his questions.

Ateba was persistent and refused to let her call on another reporter until she answered his question about the upcoming U.S.-Africa Summit, where President Joe Biden is expected to meet leaders from dozens of African countries.

“Karine, why is it so hard to take a question on the U.S.-Africa Summit, when the President is meeting 50 African leaders — the biggest gathering of leaders of his administration?” he asked. “Why is it hard for you to give me a question?”

Jean-Pierre claimed that it was not “hard” for her to give him a question, to which he responded that “it’s been months” since she had supposedly answered one of his questions.

The two went back and forth for several moments before Jean-Pierre packed up her binder and stormed out of the room. She had claimed that she would give a question to a colleague of Ateba, but he remained persistent.

“Okay. Thanks, everybody. I’ll see you tomorrow,” she said as she left the room.

WATCH:

Karine Jean-Pierre just stormed out of the briefing room after losing her patience with a reporter. pic.twitter.com/OXU16xhNQZ

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 8, 2022

Ateba later told the Daily Caller that Jean-Pierre should be “ashamed” of herself for the interaction.

“Karine Jean-Pierre should be ashamed of herself,” he said. “How bad can discrimination get? Even when President Biden is hosting 50 African leaders, she cannot give a question to the African reporter in the room. Shameful.”

The two have previously clashed during press briefings, including during Dr. Anthony Fauci’s final meeting with reporters at the White House in November. Ateba accused Jean-Pierre of not taking a question from a Daily Caller reporter.

“If you’re going to hold a press briefing, you need to call on people across the room,” he said. “She has a valid question. She’s asking about the origin of COVID … Fauci’s the best person to answer this question.”

Jean-Pierre replied by saying she was “done” with Ateba.

“I hear the question, but we’re not doing this the way you want it,” she said. “This is disrespectful. Simon, I’m done. I’m done with you right now. You’re taking time away from your colleagues.”

Related: KJP Gushes Over Griner’s Release: An ‘Important Role Model’ For ‘LGBTQI+ Americans And Women Of Color’

U.S. officials are reportedly concerned that the Russian terrorist that President Joe Biden freed Thursday in exchange for Brittney Griner could go right back to trafficking weapons across the world.

Griner, who has a criminal record in the U.S. stemming from a domestic violence incident several years ago, was arrested in Russia back in February on drug charges and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

In exchange for Griner, Biden released Viktor Bout, a Russian weapons trafficker who was convicted on terrorism charges back in 2011 for trying to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of missiles and guns to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the purpose of shooting down U.S.military helicopters and killing DEA agents.

“I think there is a concern that [he] would return to doing the same kind of work that he’s done in the past,” a senior Defense Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic, told Politico following Bout’s release.

“Every Africanist who has been working on this for years and years probably will have a little piece of flutter of disappointment inside” that Bout was released, official said. “If his network … were to come to fruition, then we would definitely share the challenges of what illicit weapons or illegal weapons could mean for their prosperity.”

The report noted that British officials began warning about Bout over 20 years ago because their military forces were facing increasingly advanced weaponry in Africa.

Derek Maltz, a former DEA special agent in charge, responded to the news by calling it a “blow to the rule of law.”

“Americans should be very careful traveling around the world,” he said. “This decision has put Americans at a huge risk.”

Michael Braun, a former chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration with over 30 years of experience in federal law enforcement, wrote in an op-ed back in August that if Bout was released from prison he could pose a serious threat to the U.S.

“I had ultimate oversight over the operation that led to Bout’s arrest and incarceration,” he wrote. “Trading Bout away wouldn’t just be a slap in the face of the law enforcement officers and operatives who labored to bring Bout down, many of them risking their lives in the process. It would also pose a grave threat to the national security of the United States and its allies.”

Related: Video Emerges Of Brittney Griner Being Swapped For Russian Terrorist; Critics Instantly Notice Problem