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joining me now is ryan lizza. to the extent that anything about scaramucci could surprise you at this point, did this surprise you? >> it surprised me a little bit, because i thought we had the answer to -- when people were asking me, what did you think was going to happen after that interview when it was published, is skraicaramucci going to be f. i said he was going to be fired or promoted. you just never know with donald trump. i thought we had the answer when priebus was forced out, which seems like last month, but i guess it was just last week. i thought that was trump saying i have no problem with what scaramucci said. and it's the chief of staff that needs to change, and i want to keep him in this position. what obviously changed is that john kelly knows a thing or two about how to be an effective chief of staff, and it does not take a rocket scientist to know that if you want to be an effective chief of staff at the white house, you can't have super empowered freelance senior aides who report to the presid

also with us kristen powers, joseph pinion, alice stewart and ryan lizza.ht, josh, we've got to get to why this happened. man, there are so many competing narratives. i'm sure all of our devices have been buzzing like crazy about this. what is speaking out about right now subject to what you're about to tell me is bannon telling a writer for the weekly standard that the presidency that i fought for with donald trump that we won is now over. that what he was saying to you? >> basically, yes. he told me, and take this with a grain of salt, given the source, that this was not a firing. this had been in the works for a while. that he was thinking about leaving a week or two ago. delayed it because othe charlottesville uproar. this is something that had been agreed to both with chief of staff john kelly, discussed with the president, and it was clear bannon told me that he is leaving on amicable terms, and he is going outside to wage war for trump and not against trump. >> amicable terms, presidency is over. mutually agreed when we will leave. war. which way do

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but, again, talking to ryan lizza, and you hear how he's trying to go back and go back to get ryan toces. this is the new white house communications director. as if he's never worked with a reporter before. why? why would you go back and -- what reporter is going to say, oh, yeah. here's my source? it wouldn't happen. yet you hear the repeated attempt. >> ryan said an on the record conversation and recorded it. why they have the audiotape. >> right. and in d.c. there is one part of con sense, completely legal to record anyone you're on the phone with and showed a misunderstanding of his personal financial disclosures. those were from the xm bank. the reporter requested them fair and square like anyone could and received them. the fact he said -- not leaked at all. not even a little bit. legally released to a reporter. >> not a felony. >> nope. not even a little bit. >> guys, thanks very, very much. jackie, david and john. >>> coming up, the growing rift over how to handle the war in afghanistan. speaking with nato's secretary-general as the president's national security team, scrabble

>> well, i think you have to go back to thursday night with ryan lizza, the conversation that anthony scaramucci had with him, where he suggested that steve bannon do various things to himself and said horrendous things about reince priebus. now, there's a lot of like history being rewritten today. i can tell you, it's complete nonsense that the president was offended by those comments or that the trump women somehow -- this was some sort of apostasy and they all rose up in anguish. that's just not true. in realtime, with we know from our reporting that the president found the remarks amusing, at first, and then later in the evening, as the negative coverage pailpiled on, he got q angry and told anthony scaramucci and told him off a little bit. but the next day, he was joking about it. this was really john kelly. and for general kelly to take the job, he made the demand that he gets complete authority. and that everything goes through him. and the way to demonstrate that is to fire someone who, by official decree in the press release, doesn't report to him, reports directly to the pre

you have to remember what ryan lizza did with the article. he wrote the article like i was unhinged, overly emotional, bombastic. sflit was your words, though. >> when you hear the tape, it's a very normal conversation. the words were mischaracterized in the original article. he's mischaracterizing again. >> he's not misquoting you? >> no. he's mischaracterizing. there's a lot of difference between the cup of substance and style. the way we're talking right now is how i was talking to him. i thought it was off the record. >> what did you mean about the vice president can't believe what the "f" is going on? >> what i meant is that he needed -- in my opinion, he needed to fortify himself with somebody as talented as nick ayers. the vice president is an extremely loyal guy. i'm a huge fan of the vice president. i wasn't recommending there was a breach or any daylight between the president and the vice president. i'm a huge supporter of vice president pence and nick ayers. nick ayers is a very strong political player. he'll be in there to protect

ryan lizza, your reaction. >> that is fascinating.lways seen the rub republican establishment as enemy number one. remember he tried to get jeff sessions who was very anti-establishment, senator, republican senator, to run for president. then he -- sessions didn't want to run so he hopped over to trump. look, congress has not been interested in the sort of bannon-esque version of the trump agenda. obamacare repeal was something that existed before trump ever came along. on tax reform, bannon had a very specific view that was completely at odds with decades of republican orthodoxy. bannon wants the republican party to raise taxes on the super wealthy, and he wanted trump to fight for it by arguing that it would be a tax on rich democrats in silicon valley, hollywood and wall street. that is an idea that sent shock waves in the west wing recently when he proposed it. that's what he's talking about there. when he says in the weekly standard, where there is no interest in doing anything different on taxes. so, you have the congressional g

let's bring back chris cillizza and ryan lizza and bring in cnn political analyst koran dermersdermersermersian. ryan you were in the thick of this with scaramucci and his vulgar tirade against other senior staffers but the swiftness of scaramucci's rise and fall is, you know, epic. >> yeah, ten days as communications director is not a very long tenure. >> understatement of the day, ryan lizza. >> i think in the research your staff put together there was one other shorter tenure in the reagan era, communications director who had some, you know, unsavory things in the past. >> nazi ties. >> nazi ties, yes, those. nazi ties. so i think that, you know, anthony had a plan for ousting reince priebus but didn't necessarily have a plan for what came next. and didn't quite understand what the impact when john kelly was put into that position, someone who clearly understands, you know, how you gain control of an organization, and clearly as a condition of taking this job, convinced president trump that he needs to be a real chief of staff, and that is, that everyone needs to report to the presi

he never should have spoken so freely to ryan lizza.izza, bad for the mooch. >> this sounds like a super hero sort of announcement. i don't mind looking forward to the rise of the mooch phoenix at some point in whatever style he wants to come in, perhaps outside of the policy world, but it will be entertaining. >> i hope it's not in the white house. >> who knows. m.k. and bill, thank you so much. we're waiting for this press briefing. sarah huckabee sanders has lots to talk about today. >>> also ahead, are members of the republican party trying to work around president trump to find a bipartisan way to repair health care? this as more and more republicans are speaking out and standing up against the president. >>> also, white house briefing ahead, live, as president trump today signed the russian sanctions bill and now senator john mccain is weighing in. stay here. to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a medication... ...this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain... ...and

i think that obviously what happened to ryan lizza and he -- you know, it was a learning curve.nd he -- as he said to me -- >> for sure. >> -- i made a mistake. i own this. >> it's interesting, gloria, because his communications plan for the white house. >> right. >> which was dated june 30th was leaked today. and it was actually pretty good. i mean, i actually thought it was really well done. >> i liked it. >> improve the culture, good ideas are welcome regardless of source, potus can choose to feet with the media but coms cannot. also express appreciation for good and fair reporting. there are a lot of good ideas there. >> he also said, don't leave for the night until you return every reporters' phone call. i really like that. he said you also have to lead by example and that was kind of his problem because he didn't lead by example and he got a little -- his star was shining a little too bright. >> uh-huh. >> for the president. >> paul, you're saying who leaked it? >> who leaked his whole tirade to ryan -- destructive tirade was about a leak that the mooch and others were hav

i think that obviously what happened with ryan lizza, you know, he, you know, it was a learning curvemade a mistake. i own this. >> it's interesting, gloria, because his communications plan for the white house which was dated june 30th was leaked today. and it's actually pretty good. i actually thought it was really well done. >> i liked it. >> some of the priorities said improve the culture. good ideas are welcome regardless of source. potus can choose to fight with the media but comms cannot, meaning communication department cannot. comms will continue to challenge stories unfair and true. there are a lot of good ideas. >> don't leave for the night until you return every reporter's phone call. i really like that. but there was another part of it where he said you have to lead by example. and that was kind of his problem. because he didn't lead by example. and his star was shining a little too bright for the president. >> who leaked it? >> his whole tirade to ryan, self-destructive tirade was about a leak. we don't know who leaked it. >> it shows himself in a good light. >> it does.

week on his job, we got an incredible taste of unfiltered mooch today, when "new yorker" reporter ryan lizzaed details of a conversation he had with scaramucci last night. i'm going to read you some of the quotes, but be warned, if you are put off by foul language, the mooch thinks you should mooch yourself in the head. i want to give a quick warning to the cbs censors: you guys are going to have to break out the emergency extra bleeps for this one. but it's not my fault. i'm just communicating to you the actual words of the communications director of the white house. the one in washington! okay, here's how it started: lizza reported yesterday about trump's dinner with scaramucci, sean hannity and some other guys. the mooch called up lizza to try to get the name of who leaked about the dinner, but lizza protected his source. so the mooch said, "okay, i'm going to fire every one of them, and then you haven't protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks." mooch, you do realize that he's still not going to give you the names, and if you do fire everybody, you hav

he has made the ryan lizza thing into a bigger story.re tweets where he didn't give the guy permission where he didn't know he was taped and called him a hashtag, it was low life, and then he actually tried to say a couple other things. connell: he'll be asked about that sunday. >> by the way, the last thing that lizza taped that came out with him was damning. it basically confirmed "the new york times" store bee pence. connell: we've got to run, late night and the sunday shows. >> i'm more interested in stephanopoulos, that could be interesting. seeing a flight to safety in the markets, something we talked about throughout the show, whether it's stocks or the bond market, gold up 12 bucks, nothing crazy but the highest level since june 7th. ten-year treasury yield, that's about a six-week low. we'll come back and talk more about it, what we continue, cavuto "coast-to-coast" will be back in just a moment. nd, gary:. gary: i have a ford f-150. michael: i've always been a ford guy. potsch: then i have a real treat for you today. michael: a

insights, michael sheerer of the "new york times," abbey phillips of the "washington post," and cnn's ryan lizza. and jim sciuto is here to talk about what's going on, the latest information you're getting from your sources with the situation, you spent a lot of time, you lived in asia, so you understand the complexities of this and the kind of nature of this very difficult diplomacy. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, it seems to be a very public and very deliberate walk back or clarification you might say of the president's comments yesterday. military officials telling us that there are no plans for additional military steps or deployment of resources, for instance, to guam, which is what north korea threatened to strike with medium range ballistic missiles following the president's tough talk yesterday. we did hear from the commander of u.s. missile defense forces today saying that he's confident that u.s. missile defenses could handle a north korean icbm, but also the top u.s. diplomat, secretary tillerson during his trip said the following to reporters on his plane, again a very diff

he wants to explain what happened, explain his story about the ryan lizza story and why he lost his job. >> most importantly, you call it, what did you call it? the mooch show? >> the mooch show. he wants to reach trump. i suspect the president is interested in watching this live stream to see what he says. he wants to speak to the base. he is a powerful spokesman. there are a lot of people not inside the white house, but in the orbit able to communicate on behalf of the president. >> this is a big leak to "the washington post," 52 pages of transcripts, something the white house is not going to like, something scaramucci was going to tamp down. >> that's right. >> this is right before the big investigation into leaks. >> jeff sessions was going to investigate this. a crackdown of leaks. they have been under tremendous pressure from president trump to crack down on national security leaks. the bigger concern are leaks like this. the paper is in front of you all, the transcripts with calls with foreign heads of states. why do people leak? sometimes they have an agenda, ticked off, they we

we also have with us the source of all this problem, ryan lizza, the washington correspondent at the new yorker, her interview with anthony scaramucci, and we're told that was the tipping point. let's remind our viewers of what scaramucci told mr. lizza. quote, i'm not steve bannon, i'm not trying to suck my own [ bleep ], i'm not trying to build my own brand off the [ bleep ]ing strength of the president. i'm here to serve the country. he also called bannon a [ bleep ]ing paranoid schizophrenic and a paranoic. do you think he thault he could get away with this? >> after we went off the air, i thought he'll either get fired or promoted, you just never know about trump. it seems like he was on the promotion track when he summarily was dismissed. like you, jake, i had also heard something very similar before i published that piece. i did have an understanding efrs -- he was a little bit on thin ice with trump and was the reason he was pushing back to me not to publish. it was already before the piece came out a bit of friction between scaramucci and the president. but, you know, there

this is the interview by ryan lizza by scaramucci.part of scaramucci's rant. >> reince is a paranoid [ bleep ] schizophrenic, and what he's going to do is, oh, maybe he's bill shine's coming, let me leak [ bleep ], something and see if i can [ bleep ], block these people the way i [ bleep ]. >> i wanted to ask you if you wanted to be profiled. >> i don't want to be profiled. >> what you're trying to do -- >> i'm not steve bannon, i'm not trying to [ bleep ] my own [ bleep ], i'm not trying to -- >> so that conversation recorded legally. scaramucci said it was off the record in spirit. i don't know what spirituality has to do with on or off the record but he's a communications director and that's supposed to be job one, are you on the record or not on the record. sam? >> it's tough to make sense of it between the beeps. he accused reince of being paranoid and he's paranoid about who is leaking, about his perceptions. i miss him. i miss him. he was such a nice character. he was gone from our lives too soon. i wish he'd come back. he's d

charlie: do we know more about the conversation with ryan lizza, why he did it?> [laughter] anthony does this. anyone who has covered him for a decent amount of time will tell you he is very colorful. a lot of reporters don't with him -- dealt with him as a political donor to the republican party and powerful figure on wall street. usually he says off the record. i'm told that sometimes he forgets, and reporters cut him slack. but generally, my understanding is that he thought the conversation was off the record but he never said that. , [laughter] he might have said it later in the conversation for a certain portion of it. but it was genuinely just very sloppy performance. >> i would just add to that, in this capacity, he wasn't a donor anymore, he's the white house communications director. >> that's my point. exactly. >> speaking for the president, you should know to say "off the record." >> [laughter] i'm not excusing it. it doesn't show you -- one of the main arguments that steve bannon, reince priebus, and sean spicer were making for him not coming is that h

. >>> here to discuss political analyst ryan lizza and selina, and columnist, i asked a lot of what now questions at the top of this show. one of the big questions is what now for republicans. the there have not been many elect the republicans. in fact i haven't seen any republican elect the officials out defending the president of the united states this morning. what we have seen is more reaction like this from governor john kasich. >> pa in the ic, isn't it? just pathetic listening to this and hearing these marchers. the president has to totally condemn this. and this is not about winning an argument. this is about the fact that now these folks apparently are going to go other places and they think they had some sort of a victory. there is no moral equivalency between the kkk, the neo-nazis and anybody else. >> that's just a taste of the words you're hearing. john kasich maybe not a surprising critic of the president but there have been others as well. many others, as i said, no defenders, the question though, is do you think these republican elected officials will treat the president

the puzzle may be replacing anthony scaramucci, aka the mooch, after his explosive exchange with ryan lizza. we saw steven miller's exchange with that cnn reporter about the immigration plan. let's show that to people, then we'll talk about it. >> public support is so immense on this. look at the polling data in many key battleground states across the country, that over time you're going to see massive public push for this kind of legislation. >> this whole notion of they have to learn english before they get to the united states, are we just going to bring in people from great britain and australia? >> actually, i have to honestly say, i am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from great britain and australia would know english. it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree that in your mind -- no, this is an amazing -- this is an amazing moment. >> sounds like you're trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country. >> that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant, and foolish things you've ever said, and for you that's stil

ryan lizza, bakari sellers, scott jennings and jeffrey toobin. ryan, you said over the weekend, you tweetd on saturday that it was by far the most disgraceful day of donald trump's presidency. >> i think it was. i think the fact that the president of the united states, who is outraged by the most -- the smallest things, he has been more worked about rosie o'donnell or someone who complains about his ratings than he was about nazis and violence in charlottesville. so i think it's the bare minimum for a president to come out and talk about something like that. it's the bare minimum of what you would expect. that's why i tweeted that. i think the fact that it took him several days to come out and say what he said this afternoon, it's too little too late. i mean one's initial response to something like this is the most important response, not after there is a media outcry and an outcry from republican leaders that you need to do this. it doesn't count. you don't get a mulligan as president of the united states. >> we're also talking about white suprem

. >> with us to share reporting and insights, cnn's dana bash, michael bender, ryan lizza and cnn saraurray. early hours you hear no complaints. having a political conversation in the middle of a tragedy, some mind find that crass but a big test for the administration and every president has to deal with it at some point. and a member of the trump administration, both democratic and republican congress people in that area affected. especially the counties right around houston. i would say so far so good seems to be the political reaction, if you will, to the federal government's response? >> exactly. look, it's not just political. this is a basic function of the united states government and of state government, of local government. it's protecting citizens in in way, shape or form. obviously, a natural disaster is a big thing. in the short-term, yes, they are all of the same party. but you better be sure that it would be lard to imagine that if governor abbott was not getting what he needed from the federal government, he would be the first person to say it. we know from past disasters

the lie detector -- >> that was your conversation with ryan lizza of "the new yorker". >> which, forthe record, i thought was off the record. >> but you didn't ask for that. >> that was a very deceitful thing that he did. he knows based on my prior relationship. >> lot of reporters tape phone calls. >> george, i dimt say i didn't do the wrong thing. i paid the consequences of having that sort of conversation. you know and i know, there are personal relationships. howie mentioned it on media buzz last week. >> he said he didn't have a personal relationship with you before meeting you in the green room earlier this year. >> that's a little bit of a stretch. we had conversations. his family knew my family for 50 years. that's past news. i made a mistake. i'm accountable for it. i paid the consequences of that mistake. i was honorably dismissed. i took it president's nirl reaction wasn't that harsh. was amused by it and liked a lot of it. >> i have to let the president speak for that. there were probably one or two people that wanted me in that job. the president being one of them. and prob

calling ryan lizza, including priebus as he described as f-ing paranoid schizophrenic. president trump no stranger to locker room talk responded by firing not scaramucci but priebus and named kelly at his new can chief of staff. the white house issued that scaramucci was troubled by his words. >> the president felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. he didn't want to burden general kelly. >> kelly on his first day today as chief of staff. he was head of the dhs. him coming in behind reince priebus. now on kelly afirst day finding himself knocked out by kelly. scaramucci boasted he reported directly to the president bypassing the chief of staff and told today that scaramucci told general kelly i don't report to you. and the general responded, with you were gone. scaramucci was reportedly escorted from white house grounds. kelly is billed as the person who can finally impose border on this white house. just like he was less than two short week ago. while kelly may be more successful he has to contend with a tremendous obstacle. that'

concern that his image and reputation were at stake because of the moment of the fallout around ryan lizzaramucci. i don't think this is going to last. ivanka trump tweeted yesterday she's looking forward to serving alongside kelly. she didn't say reporting in to him. >> i agree with tim. >> and he said tonight, or it was reported tonight that sessions is safe now because kelly says he's safe. i don't think that will last for a second. if donald trump wants to get rid of sessions, he'll continue to pursue it. >> david, one of the other -- michael d'antonio, one of the other trump biographers has written a fascinating piece saying he believes for donald trump to get to this point, he had to believe that the entire administration was on the brink of disaster, the sinking poll numbers, the failure of the health care bill, the crazy outburst from scaramucci and all of that, that he had to be in a state of real fear in order to make a move that's so uncharacteristic of bringing someone in who he doesn't know and cannot necessarily control. >> and i think that's exactly right. i think michael's

and we also have with us the source of all this problem, ryan lizza, the washington correspondent at the new yorker who interviewed anthony scaramucci, and that was i'm told the tipping point. let us remind our viewers of what mr. scaramucci told mr. lizza. quote, i'm not steve bannon. i'm not trying to suck my own [ bleep ]. i'm not trying to build my own brand off the [ bleep ]ing strength of the president. i'm here to serve the country. he called reince priebus a [ bleep ]ing paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoid. did you think this would result in anthony scaramucci being shown the door or did you think he was going to be able the get away with it, i guess? >> you know, when people asked me that after the column came out, he said he'll either get fired or promoted. you just never know with trump. and it seemed like he was on the promotion track when reince priebus, his arch-enemy was summarily dismissed. but like you reported, jake, i had also heard something very similar before i published that piece. i did actually have an understanding that he was on a little bit of thin ice with

the time sexual harassment was over the phone with -- the time scaramucci was off the phone with ryan lizza, he would have been fired. you see the problems that we assumed, hey, it was a presidential hire. how's he going to work with kelly? there was no assumption that how long will it take kelly to fire him. some people may have looked at it that way. that tells you where this white house has been, that a lot of people just kind of were wondering exactly how it would work with the two of them. >> all right. want to ask you about interesting comments from senator jeff flake of arizona and n about 20 minutes. see you in a bit. david drucker, thanks. >>> a troubling pattern overnight in venezuela. opposition leaders taken from their homes in the dark of night. is an emboldened thr eed nicola live? i have chronic dry eye caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation. so i use restasis multidose. it helps me make more of my own tears, with continued use, twice a day, every day. restasis multidose helps increase your eyes' natural ability to produce tears, which may be reduced by inflamm

"devil's bargain" and senior national correspondent "bloomberg business week" david gregory and ryan lizza who got the bombshell interview with anthony scaramucci who set his downfall. "the washington post" reporting it was president trump himself who dictated that misleading message about don jr.'s meeting with that russian lawyer. what do you make of all this? >> well, look, there's a potential legal problem here in terms of obstruction of justice. there's the fact that the president, his lawyers, others in the white house have misled the public and the press about -- >> which is not illegal. >> yes, right, but whether obstruction of justice is illegal, and certainly will attract for scrutiny from special prosecutor mueller, but the fact he's not leveling with the american people again and i think the biggest point of all, which is this is just another indication that the real problem in this white house, the chaotic nature of the white house, the undisciplined nature of the white house is the president himself. the president is his own communications director. he's his own strategist. h

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i think self-inflicted wound with ryan lizza was too much, too brash, a supernova, burning too bright, too quickly. it was a little sad because i think he could have accomplished a lot and it would have been colorful and very entertaining but such is life. even by trumpian standards, couldn't handle it. >> stay on that because you wrote anthony had his shot, he plu it, he probably knows it, no doubt feeling hue mill yachted. probably few people who even feel slightest by sorry for him, but i happen to be one of them. why do you say that? >> well, because, stephanie, i know him, you know, not my close e friend, obviously, but i've nonhim over the year, i know how hard he worked to get this spot. i know how persistent he was. you do too. others do too. you know, persistence is a quality that a lot of people can admire. he was shut down several times from being the white house liaison, then he went over to exim, waiting for the oecd ambassadorship. wait, pining, got his champ and burned too hot too quickly. you know, he had his personal issues that have been revealed. i think it's very s

kirsten powers, ed harden, jen psaki, ryan lizza. what are you all expecting tonight? you know, we heard from sarah huckabee sanders that he's not going to be saying that he's going to pardon sheriff joe arpaio today. that was something the mayor of phoenix was particularly enraged about or upset about or concerned about tonight that that would upset the protesters outside, though would certainly please a lot of the president's supporters in phoenix. but sarah huckabee sanders has said plenty of stuff before, turns out the president freelances. >> i think it's a good sign that sara murray indicated the teleprompters are up. that is one way to help keep the blinders on, but at the same time we know when he's in a crowd like this -- >> feeds off that. >> feedsed off the crowd, feeds off the emotions. hopefully they keep them on message. you also notice the back drodro the event, said "promise made, promise kept." clearly the message this evening is going to be one of the key promises he made on the campaign which was securing the border, it's important to have safety on

scaramucci described certain acts steve bannon who perform that were anatomically incorrect, as ryan lizzants out that interview suggests he may have had a point. obviously steve bannon thinks he's going to be more influential outside the white house. there are two problems that he's going to face. he obviously has the mercer money. breitbart needs the rest of the pro-trump media to act as a mega phone and it's not clear they're necessarily going to follow that. number two, he's about to realize the consequences of what he has created, this cult of personality around donald trump. the number of people who will accept and go along with anything that donald trump says or does, but having said that, in order to understand what bannon's going to do, you almost have to go back to the model of politics and monarchy, where the king can do no wrong. he will not attack donald trump. he will attack the people around donald trump claiming is he trying to protect and save the trump presidency from the globalists and the democrats and the generals around him. so it's going to be very, very interesting,