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NEW DELHI – Tensions between the White House press corps and Indian security boiled over on the third day of President Obama’s visit, prompting press secretary Robert Gibbs to threaten to pull President Obama out of his bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Eight members of the press corps were about to be taken into a room at the Hyderabad House where Obama was meeting with Singh, when Indian officials tried to cut the agreed-upon number to five.

…At one point, according to Wilson’s pool report, Gibbs had his foot lodged in the door to the meeting as Indian security officials pushed hard to shut it. In an angry shouting match, Gibbs asked the officials if they were going to break his foot as he repeated his threat to pull Obama.

Only then did officials take him seriously and allow all eight reporters inside.

According to Ed Morrissey, the whole hootenanny resulted in…60 seconds of taking pictures of “two men sitting in chairs.” Neither President Obama nor Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said a single word.

So. Press corps to Robert Gibbs: hey, maybe next time we could even ask a question?

Memeorandum.