to you now. i will half to get back to you on that, need some direction from the president. i'm going to do everything i can to get to every person in this room. will president trump have a news conference with us in the near future? i will talk to him. the president is phenomenal with the press. he is a great communicator. he won the selection, —— this election. we spent 60% of the money and we had one third of the money and we had one third of the personnel, we won the presidency because of donald] trump, he is an unbelievable politician. of course, at some point, we will make sure that happens. i have to talk to him. iam going that happens. i have to talk to him. i am going to do my very best to get to everyone. you seem like a very savvy person and you said that the

white house is a difficult place, how are you going to handle a couple of things? when did i say that? it isa of things? when did i say that? it is a difficult place, it is a little cramped in there. you have got a lot of reporters from international news agencies and it is a difficult place, you are trying to get the job done but you are sitting inside the fishbowl. i don't mean it is a difficult place to work in terms of the people. there is a lot less intrigue than is getting reported about. that creates tension and anxiety, i will work alongside my peers here to reduce that tension and anxiety. we all like each other. how are you going to handle when a crises are a big thing comes up and you picked a very sophisticated message out at night and the president in the morning tweets

something very different? and are you willing to say you have made a mistake? i take trial advocacy at harvard law school, a little name—drop there, i am not going to a nswer name—drop there, i am not going to answer that, that is hypothetical. the first thing they teach theory is not to answer a hypothetical. i love the president and the president is a very, very effective communicate. he will use social media. if i get this wrong, i will hear it from him, he has 130 114 million. he is picking up has 130 114 million. he is picking up about 300,000 followers a day. it has been very effective use of reaching the american public directly. i welcome him continuing to do that. it is important for him to do that. it is important for him to express his identity. what i have found when i travel around the country people love him. that is a

hypothetical, it is unfair to answer. how can i answer that? i don't know what the tweet is what happened. you learn that early in law school not to answer that. a lot of these briefings have been off—camera. would it not be beneficial to be on camera?” off—camera. would it not be beneficialto be on camera? i don't know his opinion. how involved will be press operation be on the day—to—day basis? be press operation be on the day-to-day basis? he is the president of the united states, i am here to serve him. i will do my best to human acute him what is the most effective strategy for him to get his message out to the american people and to the global community. it will be as much or as little as he once. he gave me the orders that iam in he once. he gave me the orders that i am in charge and will report directly to him. your relationship with the chief of staff, is he your

boss? 0rdo with the chief of staff, is he your boss? or do you report directly to the president? i will let someone else answer that, i have no problem working for him, i can only speak about my management style. i have been on wall street for 29 years. nobody has ever worked for me, people work with me. i believe in collaboration. if you do that it is very empowering for people. i have no problem working for him, the president said to report to him directly. you guys are going to be very surprised about the relationship i have with him and be closeness we are going to have. he is the chief of staff. it would be foolish of me not human acute with him orto foolish of me not human acute with him or to relate to him every single thing. do you stand by some of the factual claims that have been contested that have been made by this administration about 300 million illegal votes cast? it is an

unfair question, i am million illegal votes cast? it is an unfair question, iam not million illegal votes cast? it is an unfair question, i am not up to speed. 3 million people voted illegally. if the president says that, let me do my research. there is probably some level of truth. the president says staff, some of you think it is not true, it turns out closer to the truth than people think. let me do more homework. i am feeling the kit here. congratulations on the newjob. you have gone through your past, law school, business, finance, but you have never held a team on occasions type role. what would you say to your critics who say he has never done anything like this and this is the white house? secondly, if you

canjust the white house? secondly, if you can just lay out why he wanted the job and, thirdly, before you go why you chose immediately write off the bat to do this job? the president loves sarah, he thinks she's doing a phenomenaljob and i agree. 0ther members of the staff agree. i am super proud to work with her, she will be phenomenal as a press secretary. you will find in my background in my career i have a lot of german occasions experience. i spent a lot of time on television. time will tell. there is a lot of stuff i don't know, i am going to lea n stuff i don't know, i am going to lean on people like sarah and other people to help needy the best i can be. one last question. he took a lot of questions, that is anthony

scaramucci, the incoming director of medications for donald trump. leaving will be sean spicer, resigning as press secretary, he will hang on until the end of august. anthony scaramucci saying he is grateful for sean's work on behalf of the administration and the american people, washington continued success as he moves on to new opportunities. just look at his great television ratings. for better 01’ great television ratings. for better or worse, he also said he hopes to go on and make a lot of money. a lot of questions there. how are they going to get the white house back on track, what is the conflict of interest having come from wall street? let's talk to daniel lippman a reporter for politico in washington. he loves a lot of people, scaramucci. he is a hedge fund manager. very successful on wall street. in the leave and extreme

showboat. he has ingratiated himself among republican candidates. he worked on the romney campaign as a volunteer. he has donated a lot of money and attached himself to donald trumpa yearortwo money and attached himself to donald trump a year or two ago after previously criticising him. but trump likes that he defends himself, that he defends trump on television and he is good at it. he is very smooth. he is, he is a very different kettle of fish from sean spicer, very measured. all those questions, some of them quite hostile. how much of a risky appointment is anthony scaramucci? it is pretty risky. he does not have that much communications experience and has never worked in the government. that raises questions as to how he can write this ship. and to how he can write this ship. and to make the president looked better than he has in the past. i was

talking to some communications people earlier today. they say no matter who the chief of staff and the key medications director or a press secretary, it doesn't matter, because trump will tweet stuff that will ignite a fire storm. he will fire people, he talks about getting rid of the special prosecutor. it is really changing things on the edges. the president of the president and scaramucci the president of the president and sca ramucci seems to the president of the president and scaramucci seems to want to plan to let the president be the president and not change how he operates. as we have seen in the last six months of the administration, the first six months, the president can get himself in trouble a lot with what he tweets and what he does. that is more of the issue than the who is holding some of the senior communications roles. anthony scaramucci had a few problems with his mike, it was a rather garbled

announcement that sera sanders is taking over from sean announcement that sera sanders is taking overfrom sean spicer. 0nce she have the poisoned challenge, the difficult message of selling the message rather than anthony scaramucci? scaramucci will do a lot of television. he will be appearing on cnn and msnbc, talking with reporters every day, that is what trump wants him to do. he will get tough questions. sera sanders also has that difficult job tough questions. sera sanders also has that difficultjob of representing the president's message, which often changes on a day—to—day basis. we have seen in the white house they have helped many fewer on camera briefings, they have only had a couple in the last few weeks. that is the big question going forward, do they hold these camera briefings, or do they shot them behind closed doors without audio? —— do they shot them. —— do

they shut them? this will do a little bit more dramatic, she is more liked by the press corps. there is more we could talk about, we have barely mentioned sean spicer. thank you very much forjoining us from washington. because we got tied up with what was happening at the white house, we will have to wait for a cat might —— news watch. some very wet and windy weather. here was a scene in the coming from devon earlier on in the day, you can see the choppy seas and the close producing some heavy rain. we have seen that rain pushing into the east. every second weather watcher picture comes from suffolk, clear skies. a very pleasant afternoon, feeling warm. as we head to degress

of the weekend, we see fairly an u nsettled of the weekend, we see fairly an unsettled weather, blustery showers, things will feel fresh for the time of year. things will feel fresh for the time of yea r. low things will feel fresh for the time of year. low pressure is still very much in charge of our weather through this evening and overnight. that low—pressure drifting further northwards and eastwards. this band of heavy rain we have seen in the west will push its way northwards and eastwards across here. the rain will not be quite as heavy. temperatures holding on around 13 or 14 degrees. through the day tomorrow, low pressure in the west, the winds will be quite a blustery circulating around the low—pressure. showery and breezy. elsewhere, the showers fewer and further between, some heavy showers pushing their way northwards and eastwards, scotland and northern ireland getting away with the dry and bright weather. temperatures at best 22 degrees. at

the open, predominantly dry, less windy than it was today, but still the chance of some showers in the afternoon. saturday evening, showers moving eastwards, it looks like they will start to ease away overnight but we could see some lingering into the early hours of sunday morning. it is shaping up to be another day of sunshine and showers. the focus of sunshine and showers. the focus of the showers will be further north and east, a better day for the likes of side wheels, south—west england and the south—east, further north a scattering of shoppers and the odd rumble of thunder with some heavy showers. temperatures 17 to 22 degrees, in between the sunshine it should feel quite pleasant and showers as easily as high pressure builds into monday and tuesday and things turning warmer. we could see the temperatures by tuesday into the mid—20s. goodbye. this is bbc news.

i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8pm: the white house press secretary, sean spicer, has resigned after president trump appointed anthony scaramucci as his as his communications director. and friction with sean. this is the white house. iwant and friction with sean. this is the white house. i want to make sure our cultural template is that we put the president first. the nspcc expresses alarm at a bbc investigation which found children being groomed on the live video—streaming app, periscope. 16 children are interviewed as part of a major child abuse investigation involving up to 70 police officers in cheltenham. the hunt for missing raf airman corrie mckague — police say the search of a huge landfill site has failed to find his body. also in the next hour — an ongoing cholera epidemic