howie: on the "buzzfeed" the media all wrapped up over the change of staff in the white house. and anthony scaramucci raises the decibel level. >> there is a word that supposedly reince priebus knew about this yesterday and they were going through the motions. i don't buy it for a moment. this was executed gangland style. >> the situation in the white house was unsustainable. it could not continue like this. there needed to be a shakeup. he was not able to do his job

and the best thing for everybody is for him to move on. howie: scaramucci vowed to stop leaks from the white house. >> you are either going to work with the culture as the president wants it or you will be out on the streets. when i put reince's name out in a tweet they assume it's him because the journalists know who the leakers are. there are people inside the administration who think it's their job to save america from this president. that's not their job. howie: can scaramucci stop the leaks? or is that a hopeless mission? >> how much longer with the attorney general be able to take all this trolling? >> he's thinking this is what

it's like to be president of the united states. my attorney general should defend me. he will be my protector. >> the first senator who endorsed donald trump for president now apparently is donald trump's enemy, according to donald trump. >> the washington political elite are apoplectic about the president criticizing his attorney general, jeff sessions, who is a good man, by the way. howie: the senate's efforts to blast obamacare collapses. are many pundits cheering the republican failure? "rolling stone" is pining for a new president who happened to govern our neighbor to the north. this is "mediabuzz." it's been one breaking news

bombshell after another. the media have lurched from scaramucci declaring war with reince priebus, and the president accepting priebus' resignation and giving the job to general kelly. joining us to analyze the covering, shannon pettypiece, katie pavlich, and joe trippi, the democratic strategist and fox news contributor. given the saturation coverage of these ousters, press using word like kay coul -- like chaos and dysfunction, is that over the top? >> the press acknowledged themselves with the shakeup that they need to rain it in, there is too much freelancing.

up plying kelly was here to retore order. we have seen it play out in the media. the white house is acknowledging that is the case by putting kelly in there to restore order. howie: there are 10,000 stories saying reince is gone. are the pundits happy? katie: i think the prediction he would actually go was accurate. he was put into a tough position in the sense the president put him into a similar position with steve bannon. there wasn't just one chief of staff. now there will be with general kelly. to make sure one person was in charge to restore order, scaramucci came in thinking he may be the one to do that. now general kelly is in charge. i doubt he has very little

patience for the drama and chaos hopefully moving forward we'll see more order restored to the white house. howie: john kelly has a reputation as a straight shooter. is the press setting expectations too high that he will come in and bark orders and everyone will salute? joe: absolutely. this is heroes week, this last week. you had the boy scouts, the pentagon and the police departments because of tweets or things president trump say in speeches push back against the president. it point to the president, you can change the chief of staff, but it still gets down to the communications problem. it may not have been reince priebus or sean spicer. howie: can kelly manage the boss

who famously does things his own way? the media have been going absolutely nuts over scaramucci coming on like bank -- like gang busters. >> the head of communications, and communications messaging. there were good things that happened this week for the president's agenda. the foxconn announcement on jobs. heroes week. giving recognition to the police officers at the scalise footage. but the communications director took them off that communications message. when you have someone high profile going out there, that become the story and scaramucci became if the news rather than other things happening in the white house. having kelly trying to get the messaging back on track, i don't

know if they will be able to control scaramucci. it will be more of the distractions and off-topic messaging. howie: we'll come back to what scaramucci said and the phone call i believe he said was off the record. sometimes the leaks make the president look bad and themselves look good. katie: there are plenty of people in the white house to give reporters stories to the media. they do that to distract from the russia narrative. it's not all bad leaking. for scaramucci to accuse his colleagues of leaking led to the -- lead to the response that the white house is out of control and i'm fearing for my

safety coming into work tomorrow. he said i'm willing to fire anyone and every one if we can't get to the bottom of this. in terms of the leaking up not convinced it will stop. joe: this kind of leaking happens in every white house when you have different factions. there is more factions in this white house than anybody can count. so how kelly or anybody can create a white house -- gets the factions gone. howie: anthony scaramucci posted a tweet that he later deleted saying the leaking of his financial information from his former hedge fund he called a felony and he tagged priebus in this tweet.

and the author got a freedom of information act to get the information. joe: those things happen in every campaign and every white house. it's about the factions. there are factions in the campaigns that wanted me out. i'm just saying that in this white house because of the way president trump set this thing up with all the different factions, it becomes impossible for any communications director or the chief of staff to maintain any kind of unanimity because of that. >> there is a lot of leaking that goes on. some of it out of control. some of it by design. another sort of spectacular thing that happened this week was having to do with jeff sessions. the president continuing his

campaign on twitter against his own attorney general. he put up a couple tweets. attorney general jeff sessions says the president has taken a week position on hillary clinton crimes and the emails and dnc server. then the question from bloomberg, asking do you want jeff sessions to resign. why are you letting him twist in the wind. he disputed this then he said this. >> but i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office. if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me prior to taking office. howie: the media described this campaign everything from humiliation to cyberbullying.

is that a bit rough? the guy works for him and he's discussing his displeasure. >> i don't think we have ever seen the president publicly attacking the attorney general. attacking your attorney general, and not even over policy but over a decision that was made to recuse yourself to make sure an investigation is an open and ethical decision. i think that's what the media was responding to. then seeing the republicans on the hill come to a concerted defense of him. howie: many conservative pundits and commentators criticizing president trump for going after sessions. so many of them have rallied to session' defense.

katie: many groups like the tea party 8 would thes said the obama administration destroys justice department and jeff sessions is cleaning it up. there are were hundreds of members of ms-13 charged. it was baffling to people from across the board why the president would be attacking jeff sessions on a number of things, not just the recusal. howie: tucker carlson didn't go much farther. president trump who they dislike even more wants him out? joe: he did get a lot of support

from liberals. there is a different between not agreeing with him on a lot of the policy he implemented and his being an independent attorney general that the president should not be trying to force out in the wake of an investigation into the president. so there is a difference about the rule of law and about protecting that institution of the attorney general. howie: mediabuzz@foxnews.com. president trump dealing with anthony scaramucci. he made some news. later. dave bossie on the coverage of all this turmoil swirling around the white house. with shoulder pain when... hey joanne, want to trade the all day relief of 2 aleve with 6 tylenol? give up my 2 aleve for 6 tylenol? no thanks.

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howie: scaramucci demand to know who leaked him a certain story. he said priebus is a blanking schizophrenic who will be forced to resign soon. and he was blanking his own blank. all this debate over his crude talk and his effort to find out whether priebus was leaking against him. >> i never had someone at that level, a communications director at the white house unsolicited call up and start in one on demanding to know who my sources are. this is not done. howie: having all the x-rated language doesn't look good.

it brought a thousand more times attention on scaramucci's attacks to steve bannon and reince priebus and the leakers in the white house. katie: when you look at the lineup of events and sean spicer resigning last friday. he talks about reince getting forced to resign. he resigns thursday night, he resigned and drives home alone and awkwardly doesn't views. i believe was sent out by the white house to make this phone call. howie: speak of these words that we can't say on television. all the fainting over the mooch's rough news rooms.

have these people not worked in news rooms? katie: we are grownups and we can take it. i never had someone -- i have been a journalist for 16, 17 years. i have never had someone call up and curse at me on the phone like that. howie: did you ever get a call from rahm emanuel? >> i did not. i rarely if ever had a communications person, maybe a lawyer or someone, but never someone who is in the role as a spokesperson for an organization curls at me. joe: the press went way over the top on this. following on all the salacious and salty language. they missed an important thing. it didn't get have much attention, the fact that he was talking about having digital fingerprints on people in the

white house. and he contacted the fbi to have them go after these petty leaks, not the national security leaks going on. the press didn't follow up on those have much. you didn't hear have much about that. they would have been more important to investigate that and ask those questions than get tangled up in the language. howie: some of this deals with tone. he told the reporter as a patriotic american he should tell him his source. but i'm told it was a joke. i am told it was a joke. what this was about, a white house dinner scaramucci attended with the president and sean hannity and kimberly guilfoyle and bill shine, and scaramucci didn't want that to become public.

all this suggests you have got to use really -- you have got to not drop any f-bombs when you talk to the press? didn't the whole message get muddled by all this? shannon: i would encourage everyone to talk in respectful language. it's never good to use that kind of language. but now the message will be you are the communications director, spokesperson for the white house, for the president, don't become the story. howie: do you ever call anyone up and leave a message like that? joe: absolutely, but i'm not the communications director. i was smart enough to say can we have an off the record conversation. and when you said yes, we are,

then it was bam. katie: going after reince priebus with so much intensity and the tension in the white house. calling him a schizophrenic. howie: reince priebus ended up getting forced out. got to go. joe trippi, shannon pettypiece and katie pavlich. the president facing a firestorm over his plans to bar transgenders from the military. republicans fail to pass the healthcare bill and john kelly calls out the pundits. ♪ music edible arrangements for summer. order in store or online.

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repeal of obamacare collapsed after john kelly voted against it. >> in the last moment they couldn't get it done, and it was senator john kelly, the self-proclaimed fa maverick who delivered the final blow. >> their latest push to repeal obamacare came crashing down. howie: the media fall in and out of love with john kelly over the years. but now they call him a flashing maverick, and john kelly going g his own way. >> we flock to him like moths to the flame it was more like we did than what he said.

if he had gotten on the floor and kept healthcare alive you wouldn't see the narrative that he's a maverick and a hero. that's what the media is suppose to be doing anyway. howie: he did get flack from the media when he cast the initial vote. when he returned to the senate john mccain also took a shot at this business. >> stop listening to the bombastic big mouth on the television, radio and internet. to hell with them. howie: was he talking about bombastic commentators on the right as well as the left? >> no. the people who are conservative heroes on conservative radio.

mark levin and rush limbaugh. so -- howie: they criticize him as being a rino. they wish that he would be quite. howie: some republicans like mccain they think have too much power to make them look bad. susan: they do have power. talk radio on the right have spurred so many things in politics. they bolstered the candidacy against eric cantor. howie: is there any way to spin this other than a total failure

by republicans, president trump by extension. the signature issue of the gop on the hill. we are talk about 7 years. susan: there is talk of moving this thing along. they are trying to undo entitlement which is nearly impossible for either party to reform over the years. i think the process, the politics, the entitlement, the way it became entrenched over the years made it impossible to do. it's not over. i think they will try to do something. watch the next couple weeks when the congressional budget office scores it. you may see something. howie: the house bill failed, then it passed. what is the role of journalists when sensitive leaks come to them? dave bossie is weighing out the

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howie: dave bossie, a trump advisor and head of citizens united and fox news contributor. your view on the shakeup. the media narrative is this has been a mess. dave: it's the "new york times," the fake news division across america. dysfunctional and a mess is over the top. it's the sensationalism. in order to try to disparage this president, it's part of the element that got him elected in the first place. the american people don't believe it. they believe that it is fake news.

they believe the american media now four stories on this and tell it the way they want to try to control -- when the president of the united states takes them on every day using his social media platform to tell the american people directly without the media, directly what he believes. howie: when a president six months into his term replaces the white house press secretary suggests there are problems that need to be fictions. dave: every president makes changes. it doesn't might's dysfunction. people serve at the disrecollection of the use the. it doesn't require catastrophe, it requires the president wanting to go in another direction. howie: other white house

officials were constantly leaking to the press that he was struggling in his job and he got little respect. do you think he was treated unfairly. dave: reince with all the disparate factions within the white house was not set up to succeed. he wasn't set up to fail, but he wasn't set up to succeed from the get-go. i think that gave him a difficult set of circumstances to and a half gait. i think general kelly will come in and be a commander of that white house. but they all are saying they report to the new chief of staff. that's a different characterization for them to put themselves in. to be subordinate to general kelly is an important first step to get this white house back on track.

howie: a lot of unusual sympathy in hot media for jeff sessions who has bent target of tweets by his president. the media's assumption is he would like his attorney general to quit. dave: i think the president has been clear that he's disappointed in him recusing himself and making that initial decision which has cascaded into a major distraction for the white house, which is a complete non-story. it's a fabricated story. i worked on the campaign. this an outrage to me. there are people almost one year later talking about this story when multiple congressional investigation, department of justice, independent investigation, millions of dollars in taxpayer money being

wasted on these investigation without one shred of evidence that there has been any collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. it's an outrage that this continues. howie: let's turn to the senate, the republicans failing to get a healthcare bill. you call this an embarrassment. the coverage has mostly been on mitch mcconnell. don't republicans bear some responsibility for the fact this bill has not gotten through. dave: the responsibility lies for those who had 7 years of planning to get to this point. it's not a surprise. 9 months ago when the president won. congress has had 9 months to get it right on top of the 7 years they ran election cycle after election cycle of repeal and replace obamacare. we won the house, the senate and

dozens of seats over that issue. raised money on that issue to get those people elected, now they can't do anything. senators -- howie: you sound frustrated. dave: i'm. it's a failure of character. howie: you say the media focuses too much on the russian investigation instead of substantive issues. sean spicer resigning and a new chief of staff forces its way to the top of the agenda. dave: it is to me obviously the news at the white house is a big deal. any news at the white house is a big deal. the change-in-chief of staff is an honest -- story.

the media that are after this president, that's the frustration that i have, they don't give him a chance because they don't honestly depict the stories as they are happening. howie: dave bossie, thanks for joining me. next, the president facing a media storm over his plan to bar transgender people from the military. and why did he announce it on twitter. one. that's cool. i got a new helmet. we know steve. switching to allstate is worth it.

howie: there was no shortage of media criticism after president trump tweeted a policy to bar transgenders from the military. >> during campaign he declared he would protect the rights of transgenders. that he would be better than hillary clinton. now he turned the clock back. howie: joining us now, emily jashinsky. when trump tweeted this, he had to know there would be a thunderous confrontation. emily: the president understands

media. it's interesting that he did it without a strategy from the department of defense and the pentagon. that exacerbated it and it blew up into a massive story. it impacted a lot of people. howie: you have the spectacle of reporters asking sarah huckabee-sanders at the briefing if this means the thousands already serving in the military would be expelled. >> the department of defense didn't seem to know this was happening. then you had sarah huckabee-sanders who was unable to say when this policy would take place. how long we could expect her to be implemented. and that's what made this such a media interest story. howie: there seemed to be a lot more energy in the media on this on the left.

cnn announced it in 36 segments. msnbc * 29 segments. fox news did 8. >> a lot of these use organizations are dominated by people who are concerned about. healthcare was affecting a lot of people, too, on a different scale. howie: do you agree news rooms being staffed by progressive people who would feel this is the wrong move? francesca: there was a lot of interest in it, and whether they are on the left or the right. but also on that day another thing that was happening was

what in the heck was going on with jeff sessions in this public fight. it's not necessarily they would have been talking about healthcare if he hadn't done that that day. they would have had to take more questions about jared kushners testimony. there was also rex tillerson and his little break he was taking. there was a lot of things going on at that time. emily: when you are going to different news websites on that day, this was the headline. that's why it's interesting to me. there was substantive news that impacted a wider swath of people. howie: there has been -- this is a good example of media criticism in the unorthodoxed

way the president makes announcements. the media keep acting shocked that this president does things differently. eppley * he has done this time and again with policies. i think it's wrong. especially to do it when this policy has invited people in the military to make very personal psychological decisions over the course of the past year. to tweet it sort of down plays that. howie: you are saying he shouldn't have tweeted it because there wasn't enough information or he shouldn't use twitter to announce presidential decisions. emily: when you have people who made the decision to come out in the military. you can agree or not with the decision they made. but to do it abruptly on twitter

with little information i think was wrong. howie: ordinarily you would have a nice photo-op at the white house. instead it's a late friday tweet. the media don't like that. they have a grudge about this. francesca: if you want to know what the president is thinking, you can go directly to his twitter and find out. often he's moving so fast the staff can't keep up with what is going on. the power is very concentrated with the executive in this administration. howie: thanks very much for stopping by this sunday. after the break, more on the scaramucci storm. dstorm. (bell rings) with my moderate to severe crohn's disease,... ...i kept looking for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i was doing okay...

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howie: anthony scaramucci's crude tirade to the "new yorker," scaramucci believed was an implicit understanding the way he was talking that it was off the record. he later tweeted, i made a mistake trusting a report and it won't happen again. francescaagain.the way i operate as a reporter, if someone calls me and they are not familiar with on the record, off the record, i give people the benefit of the doubt they are talking personally one-on-one. but what makes it different is

this is the communications director. he's talking to the media for years, even had his own tv program. he knows how the media works. when you call up and you have something to say you don't want on the record, you have got to make that clear. howie: i have gone the dozen of calls over the years from politicians and operatives that ranted and raved and i'll jump in and say are we talking here, are you on the record here. otherwise it feels like a gotcha. if they are trusting me to unload and not carefully weigh every word. it's a judgment call. shannon: i would imagine there is a lot of discussion and debate in this about the newsroom. what news value do we have. how does this help advance the

story if we use this off the record even if they didn't say off the record. howie: there was a follow-up call and scaramucci was clearly disappointed. there was news value in that conversation beyond the f bombs. if reporters covering scaramucci's crusade against reporters, they are the recipient of these leaks. shannon: once this -- once leaks became a priority of the president and attorney general, that's when our organization started following this leak story because it was a priority of the president. we write about what's important to the president and what the president is doing. regardless of how we feel about leaks, if it's a priority of the

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