the shooting. senator john mccain's treatment for brain cancer could keep him out of washington for weeks. maybe even months. likely without objection, congress has a long-standing tradition in which no one questions ailing lawmakers taking time to recover. taking up to a year or more to

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." as you know doubt know by now, press secretary sean spicer announced his resignation earlier today after a rough six month tenure. just one month after he was promoted into new duties. meanwhile, anthony scaramucci has joined the white house as a communications director. he is the same man who just blotted cnn's nose by forcing them to retract a story linking him to russia. cnn had to fire three producers in the aftermath of that. he spoke to sean hannity following his departure. here's a preview of what that conversation looks like. >> he started sharing

the shooting. senator john mccain's treatment for brain cancer could keep him out of washington for weeks. maybe even months. likely without objection, congress has a long-standing tradition in which no one questions ailing lawmakers taking time to recover. taking up to a year or more to recover. now back to hannity for all your headlines, log on to foxnews.com for it have a great friday. >> sean: from what i understand, the reports are that the president did not want you to go. tell us what happened. >> he did not. he has been generous throughout the process. he wanted to bring new folks and to rev up the communications process, and my decision was to recommend to the president that i give antony and sarah a clean slate to start from. so that they could talk about the president's agenda and help move it forward. and he after some back and forth understood that the offer that i was making was something that was in the best interest of this administration. i thanked him for...

into the job, told stephen bannon, reince priebus about it. a lot of blowback from them. a bloodbath over the night and into the morning when scaramucci came back to talk to the president about it. he gave him the job, immediately after that, sean spicer, thek press secretary seeing the writing on the wall more than anything, or the idea that he thought the president is going to make a change, he probably was not going to be part of the future. so we took the opportunity to resign. now scaramucci has obviously a big job in front of him, because there is no secret that the white house has been listing severely from an agenda that has been somewhat stalled, seen by the russian investigation, and a president who keeps going off of message at inopportune times. so i put the question to him this afternoon, what he is going to do to try to fix it, listen here.m >> i think that that shape is i going in the right direction, ia think that we have to radio signal the direction very,...