first of all antony scaramucci, and now as white house chief of staff, this high—profile will go to awho will be in charge of homeland security? that is yet to be appointed. we will have to keep an eye on twitter to find that out. but when it comes to his appointment, he is cut from the same club as donald trump. he is outspoken,

in the ft we have this story about antony scaramucci, the new communications director.n there a week! one week today! how to win friends and influence people. maybe he doesn't care, maybe that's the whole point? about this is the soap opera that is the white house, can you imagine what it's come to that we think of the white house as a soap opera! i've been a spokesman for two big operations and the one thing you learn is your never the story. scaramanga chi with his comments and he is rather acerbic style if you can put it like that, calling the chief of staff a paranoid schizophrenic, and of the terms —— sca ramouche paranoid schizophrenic, and of the terms —— scaramouche cheat. paranoid schizophrenic, and of the terms -- scaramouche cheat. he had slightly worse comments about steve bannen! he has become the story. it means the focus of what he might have been doing is going to turn on him. part of the trade means you never become the story, you are meant to be the one who covers up or gives what you believe is the definitive line. now you have a situation where the c

antony scaramucci doesn't lack for self confidence swagga or bravado but i love the president in a very very loyal to the president this would be his first and last appearance at the white house podium. ten days later the new communications director is gone. the white house blowing him a kiss goodbye. but let it not be said it was an uneventful ten days he told the bbc he be straight talking approach and one of the things i cannot stand about this tow. is the backstabbing that goes on here okay where i grew up in the neighborhood i'm from were front stampers who like to tell you exactly where we're from. and what we're doing. turbulent doesn't begin to describe it in a foul mouth tirade he went to war with the two most senior people in the west wing. who want the president? in his conversation with the new yorker magazine missed the scaramucci said of the ex chief of staff. right this is a. paranoid schizophrenic. paranoiac. i deceive baden. i'm not trying to build my own brand of the. strength of the president i'm here to serve the country. by last friday the chief of staff had been fi

first of all antony scaramucci, and now as white house chief of staff, this high—profile will go to amarine general, john kelly. who will be in charge of homeland security? that is yet to be appointed. we will have to keep an eye on twitter to find that out. but when it comes to his appointment, he is cut from the same club as donald trump. he is outspoken, when he was in charge of guantanamo bay he let president obama know his views on that. he seems to have an excellent opinion amongst the army and much of the armed forces. the president respects much of what he has to say. he is an outspoken man and one that president donald trump seems to greatly respect. at the moment, anyway. thank you very much. time now for newsnight. to be deemed safe, cladding systems are meant to survive a ao—minute fire test. today, we learned grenfell‘s lasted just nine. 82 other buildings use a design that's similar enough to be troubling. also tonight, we're used to being on the wing to europe in our millions, but when we leave the eu, will we be forced to go into reverse, or even be grounded? if we do

to be communications director across the new communications chief has a different background antony scaramucci who speaks of political. unconventional political convention in california within the next what is very much of the swarm said he wanted to drain the new white house communications director for the fourth . is a wall street hedge fund manager and goldman sachs alumnus expertise that is arguably suited to a climate of mainstream media speculation and watergate theory now after graduating from law school scaramucci began his career at goldman sachs in one thousand eight hundred nine but after two years was fired only to be rehired by the same company months later after leaving in one thousand nine hundred seven before the asian financial crisis hit sky bridge capital now with offices in new york zurich and florida he's written several books including good bye gordon gekko how to find your fortune without losing your soul to the little book of hedge funds he's also a loyal republican with democrats in the past including this interaction with the then incumbent president. barack obama and

the brand new white house director of communications antony scaramucci is leaving, just ten days aftervoting system has been found dead — and the president election is august 8. one kenyan newspaper is reporting that the body of chris msando was decapitated. speculation around what's happened here plays into what is already a tense campaign. it's close — with president uhuru kenyatta up against long—time opponent raila odinga. here's nancy kacungira with what we know about the death of chris msando. it is quite important to know who he was chris msando was an it manager at kenya's electoral body. he'd only beenin at kenya's electoral body. he'd only been in office for about two months but he was right at the centre coming up with the electronic system that kenya will use in the elections on august the 8th. he had been missing since friday, two day he was bound, his body was found along with the body of a female, unidentified female, they were found just outside the outskirts of nairobi there was a press c0 nfe re nce the outskirts of nairobi there was a press conference later and his b

on newsnight, this is what happened emily asked the new white house director communications antony scaramucciot elite? what's happening right now, which i love, is that the elites and the media establishment that want to hit the president on russia everyday, they recognise there is nothing to the russian's story. what part of donald trump is not elite? the business side or the politics side, or the inheritance side? what part of donald trump, many people in the uk don't understand that. there's so many things about the president... he's a celebrity, he's a billionaire. how about the cheeseburgers, how about the pizza that we eat. everyone eats cheeseburgers and pizza, what are you talking about? see, you're coming across a little bit elitist, so let me just say something to you, 0k? i grew up in a middle—class family, 0k? we had virtually a tight budget and little to no money. i spent 30 years of my life trying to get into the global elites so i could stand here and serve the president. and i missed the movement. do you know why i missed the movement? as i tunnelled myself into elites, we had

this was a direct negotiation between antony scaramucci and president trump.hey have known each other for a long time. basically, the president has been very frustrated by his messages team. part of why sit that you see him tweeting. see him giving interviews. he feels like people are not accurately representing what he thinks or are not defending him well. in terms of scaramucci, and you saw sarah talking about this. the president is consumed with frustration about leak. he blames a lot of the leaking of some staff. he believes this change will help. >> your book, josh, is about steve bannon, in large part. he was vociferously opposed to this. >> i haven't heard from him directly. absolutely, bannon got steam-rolled by this aproimt. he and rice priebus had tried to intervene. apparently, at that point, scaramucci had already been told by the president he had the job. they were unable to do that. i think scaramucci's first press conference is what trump would like to see on tv. i viewed it as a tuning fork. you could listen to it, hear the notes trump wants hi

this was a direct negotiation between antony scaramucci and president trump. ey have known each other for a long time. they have had, at times, a c contentious relationship, because scaramucci had backed other horses. basically, the president has been very frustrated by his messages team. part of why it is that you see him tweeting. see him giving interviews. he feels like people are not accurately representing what he thinks or are not defending him well. in terms of scaramucci, and you saw sarah talking about this. the president is consumed with frustration about leaks. he blames a lot of the leaking of some members of the current staff. he believes this change will help that. whether it will, we'll see. >> your book, josh, is about steve bannon, in large part. lots of reports that he was vociferously opposed to this appointment. even as he's taken a step back in the white house. i have also read that the president not that happy with bannon after hearing about your book. >> i haven't heard from him directly. absolutely, bannon got steam-rolled by this appoin

if you are antony scaramucci, you are probably not all that concern thad john kelly is going to be the chief of staff. your problem was reince priebus. anthony scaramucci is, i don't mean this in a way, this she a chameleon, he learned donald trump's head movements to do very well. so anthony scaramucci will figure et all out. i hard he would have liked that job, himself. the bottom line is john kelly and anthony scaramucci both have said they think leaks are the absolute worst thing that can happen to this administration so if they can get a hand him on that they will consider it a success. i don't think they will get a hand him on it. there are reasons administrations leak. they are both going towards that goal. >> if he achieves his goal of getting his main rival out of the way, other than trying to figure when he's on the record and not on the record with reporters, what is it that his mission is now? clearly communications steam lining and making it smooth and adult feeling is not his strength? >> so i'm of that group that doesn't think this is the priority, an thine scaramucci ca