anthony scaramucci then called ryan lizza to find out who his source was. he actually thought that a reporter would simply reveal to him his confidential source. scaramucci said, you're an american citizen. this is a major catastrophe for the american country, so i'm asking you as an american patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it. anthony scaramucci thinks that the news that he was having dinner with the president and sean hannity is, quote, a major catastrophe for the american country. and he thinks a reporter, upon hearing that, will tell him who told him about the dinner. when ryan lizza would not tell him the source, scaramucci 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. they'll all be fired by me. anthony scaramucci firmly believed that he already knew the answer to his question. he was absolutely convinced before he made the phone call that reince priebus was ryan lizza's source. he said to ryan lizza, i'll get to the person who leaked that to

brent: anthony scaramucci against the house of bannon.hat do we know about this communications director anthony scaramucci and why he's such a big problem for sean spicer? correspondent: the cause of the strife within the whitehouse over anthony scaramucci we do not know. he is cut from the same cloth as donald trump. it seems that trump really admired him because a mere two weeks ago anthony scaramucci was the subject of a cnn article alleging he had close ties to agents close to the russian government. anthony scaramucci was a big fundraiser for trial during the campaign -- for trump during the campaign. these allegations of being close to russia were not good for anthony scaramucci. that story into being retracted and this three journalists retired. brent: our washington correspopondent on the story. thank you very much. now to be middle east, palestinian president mahmoud abbas says that the palestinian leadership will freeze contacts with israel on all levels. this as the situation continues to escalate. two israelis have been staffe

anthony scaramucci didn't want to do that. >> no, he did not. april, you have more reporting here. jeff zeleny is saying that scaramucci thought he could weather the storm and came in this morning with no sense that this was coming and now you have more details about what happened before he was fired? >> well, according to what jeff zeleny said, he basically affirmed what i had been tweeting not long after or around -- well, before the briefing, i believe, or around the briefing time. i can't remember. everything is a blur now in time. but i had heard from my sources that there was a back and forth between general kelly and anthony scaramucci and it got to the point where he said i don't have to report to you and the general said you're gone and he is. and here's something that is really interesting. if it was as calm as the press release said and as sarah huckabee sanders said from the white house briefing, why was he escorted out? i talked to former officials of the previous administration. i said, when are people escorted out? you know, if everything is so great and there are flo

anthony scaramucci is in that group.he republican infrastructure who is sort of over to president trump after he won, whether that was reince priebus or sean spicer, the ones -- if meghan mccain were here, she was a writer die for the president, having their own people who worked there before who only care about you versus the republican establishment and maybe that's what we're saying now. president trump returning to those people that he knows our 100% behind him. >> harris: i referred to that, that lingo of writer die by saying sometimes people only realize how valuable you are when you park your ride. the president needs somebody he can turn around. what we're talking about and depth here and having people he can say in the shadows and in the open, i know you're with me. >> sandra: one of our frequent #oneluckyguy is has ari fleischer. he's always been complementary of sean spicer, saying it's a tough job and it's one you learn on the job and he said he's been getting better as he goes along, but one thing ari fleisc

anthony scaramucci is coming in. this has been long rumored that this shake up may have in fact happened. it clearly came to a head over the last 18 hours in a remarkable way. given that for six months and one day sean spicer has stood at the podium. sometimes on camera, sometimes off camera. sometimes he's stood else where and defended the president. defended the president's comments on the russia investigation. it's this, anthony scaram kruuc coming in that seems to have been the last straw. i'm hearing noise here. i'm checking in on that. at this point, we do expect, obviously, scaramucci to take on a bigger role. i've heard in the last 45 minutes or so people praising scaramucci for being a fighter. so that is in the words of some sources on them, guys i'm going to toss it back to you for a second. i see movement behind the door. i want to check on what's going on and i'll hop back on the phone as soon as i possibly can. >> hallie jackson, right in the middle of the throng. we can see the cameramen are all ready

you know anthony scaramucci. you now have two power centers. you have scaramucci who reports directly to the president, and you have the chief of staff who in theory, scaramucci should be reporting to. >> i think one has to look. he expected a big job oriole, arranged to sell his he fund of funds as it is called to a chinese firm that has a murky ownership structure. there's about 90 million dollars hanging in the balance here for anthony scaramucci. and donald trump and steve he mnuchin can override any regulatory approval or disapproval of this. so the bottom line is anthony scaramucci had remarkable motivation to being in the president's good graces and being near him and reince priebus kept him away from that prize for a long time. this isn't just about ambition or what the country needs. this is about what anthony scaramucci needed to happen. if you're anthony scaramucci, you're probably not all that concerned that john kelly will be the chief of staff. your problem was reince priebus. anthony scaramucci is, i don't mean this in a critical

i think peter alexander made the point and glen flush made the point that's great that anthony scaramucci knows everybody and has a nice relationship with the press. the problem, if donald trump -- and sarah said it and anthony said it. donald trump seems to think the problem is the communications operation at the white house. do you share that view? >> no, i don't, actually. i think mr. scaramucci made a great presentation, but substance and policy do matter and the role of the communications shop, as far as i'm concerned, is to provide a focused and disciplined message. but that can't happen unless the president is on board. it's great that mr. scaramucci has a good relationship with the president. he's going to need it but we've seen several examples over is the past several months before the president has contradicted his communications people over whatever it was, crowd size, the firing of jim comey, the charge that president obama had been spying on him. i mean, those are the kinds of issues that mr. scaramucci is going to have to deal with. and to the extent that he can bring great

has resigned, telling president trump that he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of anthony scaramucci as the communications director. now, there had been other incidents in the past, but this was apparently the coup de grace. the president offered mr. scaramucci this job earlier, and when sean spicer found out, he believed that the appointment was a major mistake, relayed that to officials within the administration. we're told the president himself had -- and ultimately decided to leave. i don't know of any bad blood from scaramucci towards spicer, but some of these changes come on the heels, of course, of criticism on the way the administration has been handling its press briefings, done largely without television cameras, audio and even that on a delayed basis. the reaction to all of this right now, we haven't seen much movement in the dow upon these developments. it happened just in the last couple of minutes. but if you're looking for some sort of a signal, the markets certainly are not setting it. charlie gasparino, glenn hall, alex smith. welcome to all. gaspo. >> spicer does no

i understand anthony scaramucci just responded to all this. explain what he said. >> much like his boss, he decided to respond to this controversy on twitter. so scaramucci tweeted, i sometimes use colorful language. i will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for donald trump's agenda. using the #make america great again. you will notice in that tweet, there is no apology to reince priebus, no apology to steve bannon for the things he said about them. which is the way he may have described those sentiments. >> what's the white house -- have they had a response? >> earlier today we learn from sarah huckabee sanders who had multiple opportunities to say it. she declined to do so. but did essentially said if the president wants someone fired, priebus would be gone. not a vote of confidence there. this evening, we caught back up with her to ask about the drama surrounding anthony scaramucci. he said, look, he's a passionate guy. sometimes that passion gets the better of him. i asked her, you know, wouldn't you want an apology

anthony scaramucci at that time had been rumored, they wanted him to take the position of this liaison with the administration. at that time, reince priebus was concerned about the overseas investments of scaramucci. do you think any of that will be a concern? >> not the investments, he sold the company. people remember who helped them get a job and who blocks them from getting a job and you can just again figure in this kind of "game of thrones" world here in washington and especially in the trump white house there may be some bad blood between priebus and scaramucci. they are both serving the president, they will try to put that away. we've seen in this white house white house tremendous shifting alliances. in the beginning, priebus and stephen bannon weren't getting along and it was a tremendous kind of were vying for power between the two of them. there may be some scar tissue. it doesn't mean they can't put it aside. if he feels their divided feelings are getting in the way, he did this with bannon and priebus. he will take them to the woods woodshed and say you have to get along

and anthony xascaramucci fits tt bill as the president would say, plus-plus, and trying to get scaramucci into his white house for some time. back to what you just read, that rin reince priebus gave me a statement in terms about this. priebus told me i support anthony 100%. we go back a long long way and are very good friends. all good here. that's from reince. i can tell you that sarah you are inny h mur hey done reporti that might not be a mutual feeling. that scaramucci told people that he thinks that reince is to blame, true or not. just saying this is scaramucci's feeling. reince is to blame for scaramucci not being in the administration to begin with. so this is going to be a relationship that, you know, could be fraught with tension in a big way. we see now again from this on the record statement from reince that he is trying to smooth that over before scaramucci officially walks in the door saying, no, no, no. we're fine. everything's fine, because technical technically, reince is his boss and reince also knows that the new york wing is growing and expanding and closing in, and th

give us the latest, joe. >> reporter: alisyn, you know incoming communications director anthony scaramucci walked in the door making it clear that he was taking on illegal leaks, making them a priority. and then politico reported on the contents of his financial disclosure form. then scaramucci claimed he, too, was the victim of an illegal leak. it's just not clear right now whether it was illegal, even whether it was a leak because it could have been obtained through official channels. anthony scaramucci ramping up his rhetoric against leakers, tweeting he will be contacting the fbi and the justice department about the alleged leak #swamp before cryptically tweeting white house chief of staff preebs. lizza, a reporter for "the new yorker" tweeting that he can confirm scaramucci went to the fbi to investigate priebus for leaks. >> i can tell you with 100% certainty that anthony scaramucci believes this, that was his intention when he tweeted this. >> reporter: scaramucci deleted the tweet less than two hours later. hours earlier scaramucci told fox news he believes the leaks are coming fro

>> to be clear, because the statement says that anthony scaramucci is no longer with the administration. was scaramucci fired by the president or was he asked to resign? >> again, i'm not going to get into anything beyond what i've said on that front. >> from the president's perspective, you said this was a back and forth conversation. can you take us through a little bit of what the president is looking for in his communications shop, why he might make this decision to make a clean slate? >> i think that he wants to work with general kelly and the communications team that is intact right now and determine what the best course forward is at this point. >> if it's accurate that general sessions' position will be replaced, how urgent will you work on that matter? >> there is no announcement on that and the president has 100% confidence in his cabinet. >> you said the president found his remarks inappropriate. obviously the president is not a stranger to insulting language. can you specify what he found inappropriate or disturbing? >> i said he found it inappropriate for a person in that p

anthony scaramucci who reports directly to the president. think about this here on this blockbuster friday evening. almost everyone across all party lines all over this country this week thought scaramucci had a terrible, even embarrassing t e time, but according to his boss, it was a good time. it was a great week and for now the trump white house that's all that matters. i want to get right to the breaking news. rick, why is reince out and why did it go down like this? >> reince has been isolated for a long time. there's been no chief of staff for quite a long time. i think it went -- look, i think, i'm beginning to believe that scaramucci was brought this for a purpose and it was to humiliate reince. unlike session, nobody came to reince defense. there was no one left in the west wing to support him and he had to leave. he probably read it on twitter along with the rest of us. >> nbc reporting there were sources saying he may have had the resignation in as soon as yesterday. what he read before that on twitter and the new yorker magazine a

anthony scaramucci's outburst.ports that trump enjoy anthony scaramucci's outburstlj there were reports that trump enjoy anthony scaramucci's outburst. i got back from the states yesterday and watching this all unfold when you we re over watching this all unfold when you were over there is very different, the 0bamaca re vote were over there is very different, the 0bamacare vote was the massive story, all of this chaos if bafta at the popularity rises popularity is very low across the population but amongst republicans and trump people who actually voted for him is still rock solid which is extraordinary to the rest of the world. you should go over there, lawler, a lot more interesting than the politics here. speaking of which. .. interesting than the politics here. speaking of which... the telegraph says speed of movement will end this the downing street announcement trying to rest... —— freedom of movement. it is silly season, the prime minister is on holiday, philip hammond is technically in charge and apparently

anthony scaramucci is in.retary turning in his resignation as president trump hires new communications chief, a man quite familiar to viewers of this network. is there another shoe about to drop?

there is bad blood between reince priebus and anthony scaramucci. but ultimately, the president called scaramucci yesterday at 5:30, yesterday at midnight, again at 5:30 this morning and said, i'm getting this pushback but hang in there. they had another meeting at 10:00 a.m. this morning, where he offered the job again. and scaramucci again officially accepted it. and that is when sean spicer resigned. >> hold that thought. i want to bring in peter baker, "new york times." peter baker on the phone with us. and peter, i know that you just interviewed president trump. did you get any sense during the course of that conversation that this was something that was imminent? >> no. it didn't come up. but maybe we should have taken a clue from the fact that sean spicer was not in the room for the interview. it's very unusual to have an interview with the president of the united states, at least under previous white houses, where you didn't have the press secretary in the room as part of that. i think that, in fact, sean spicer had -- we're told was unhappy

anthony scaramucci will be leaving his role. mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. we wish him all the best. >> it doesn't rule out a job elsewhere. remember he had been at the export/import bank at a brand-new roll. this was such a huge moment, as gloria was saying. he had wanted this for months. he had sold his firm in preparation for this, and to lose it all. he says this is the same language that shawn spider said. >> turn the page, no white house chaos, but look at the banner on the screen, it says this is chaos, and it does this is ultimately about the president and who he decides to hire, but scaramucci, that is a big, big addition to the team 11 days ago. just do it, get it done. >> and jeff zeleny was saying this feels like more than a reset. do we think that will will be -- now it's just monday, do you think with general kelly as chief of staff, and scaramucci being gone maybe that is a harbinger, is this a good thing? this is not the end of st

take us to the process of how the president has decided to hire his nuke medications director, anthony scaramucci. what were his rolls beat in terms of objectives that the president wants them to meet? >> as anthony said, he's on the president a long time. he's been a loyal supporter of the president. anthony is somebody who has come from nothing and built an incredible -- i think several incredible companies. he is one of the most successful, smart people that the president can put on his team. the president recognizes that and wanted him to be a part of this process a very on. he was a very strong advocate throughout the transition. this has just been part of the process to bring him inside the white house. >> follow up rob mueller. does president trump have confidence that he will conduct a fair investigation? >> at this point, i don't have any reason to see otherwise, but i had not had a chance to ask the president and i would want to get clarity on that before i commented. >> starting january 20th, there've been several big departures of the staff. several other roles inside the building and

white house communications director anthony scaramucci is out on john kelly's first day as white househief of staff. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person

bob mueller thing, different situation except i do feel bad for anthony scaramucci. i do think anthony thinks he is coming in to clean up what hasn't been done. the president should have done all of this. it comes from the top. >> the story is bigger than this. this is bigger than a white house -- >> it was pretty big. >> it is. you think about checks and balances in terms of telling the white house you can't do everything you want in immigration. this is the executive branch saying the president can't act as he wants to. it is the executive branch saying we are checks and >>> department of justice says not only no on the fbi director, we're going to nominate a special counsel. the fbi says we will continue the investigation. the department of defense says, no, we will not implement this on transgenders until you give us guidance. the cia says actually russia did help. checks and balance isn't just judiciary and the congress, it is us. >> in your conversation last night with anthony scaramucci, you brought in the fbi. tell us about that. there are a couple excerpts i

or did have anything to do with an interview that anthony scaramucci left? >> the president felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for person that position. he did not want to burden general kelly with that line of succession as we have me clear a few times her last few days, general kelly has a full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to him. >> when you say you want to burden him with the chain of command? >> yes. >> can you clarify one thing, apparently jared kushner said they were following general kelly sleep, what comes to the people have access to the president, with a conduit being narrowed down now? will everything flow-through kelly or will something still flow around the staff? >> the president has given full authority to general kelly and he will make those determinations. >> the statement that you release by the white house that anthony scaramucci felt it was best to give the chief of staff, john kelly is clean slate. please said the president himself that his comments were inappropriate. >> i don't see

anthony scaramucci is no shrinking violet. he will go and offer his opinions to the president. sometimes he's going to -- sometimes the president will agree with him. sometimes he won't. but anthony knows who's the president of the united states and who he works for and going back to the commentary about scaramucci just going out on the good days. look, i worked with anthony day in and day out on the campaign just like i did with sean and we had a lot of tough days on our campaign, our winning campaign, i would remind folks and both of those men went out and fought hard every single time. neither one of them shied away from the tough days or the brutal news cycles that we had and anthony's not going to shy away. look, anthony very much, we've seen this from watching cnn, where he sits down and will have very substantive, in depth, policy-oriented conversations with hosts on this network where he can actually sit down and dive into those things and really have a unique way of communicating the president's message, and look, he's

i don't know anthony scaramucci personally. i've met him a couple of times.'ve known a lot of guys like him that talk that way. he's very smart and tough. i think if there was a tape recorder around when politicians hurt me in new york, you hear that type of talk. it can't go on forever but he was angry about something. so listen, if i were on the receiving end of that, i would take a shot back i would try to forget about it the next day. >> this is the lgb tapes talking to a were reporter not on backg even is it wise to say this to a reporter publicly? >> anthony scaramucci is a tough, smart guy. he has his own style of doing things. he's come to the white house with a purpose in mind. we'll see how it works out. this is an unorthodox administration and unorthodox campaign. president trump was elected and he's -- the white house is being run in an unorthodox way. we'll have to see. scaramucci is a tough guy. we'll see how this works out. maybe it will be like a cage match or something. >> and what about for attorney general sessions? i'm wondering where you

that being said, i mean, you know anthony scaramucci, i know him. i did certainly miss the entire last week of news because i was on vakds, but scaramucci is not somebody as low-key as that conversation i just had with him suggested. >> right. >> he said he was laying low, that he was trying to just keep it cool while the storm passed, essentially. >> right. >> the storm meaning what was happening with him last week, specifically when he was talking to reason lizza of the new yorker where he went on a profanty laced tirade against the people that were inside the white house, reince priebus being one of them, steve bannon being another. i can't say on television what he said about steve bannon. he did call reince priebus a paranoid schizophrenicic,ible. >> and a par noi ak. >> a yeah word. eelgts a character and that's part of the reason why drt -- >> and john kelly is not. >> john kelly is not. it's significant for john kelly to come in and for scaramucci to come out, even as quickly as scaramucci was within this white house. but scaramucci was someb

put aside the vulgarity and the most substantive of anthony scaramucci's interview was his boast that he reported directly to president trump. but the news this evening is that trump's new chief of staff has decided scaramucci actually reports to no one. an ousting on the first work day of this kelly era trump supporters cheering a new order while critics offer a simple rebuttal. how can any staffer end the chaos, if the chaos comes from the top. language also comes from the top, so there was plenty of irony in this new white house message today that scaramucci is out because of inappropriate language. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. and he didn't want to burden general kelly. general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house. and all staff will report to him. >> kelly is cleaning up a string of personnel changes that were linked, of course, to scaramucci. sean spicer resigned in protest of scaramucci's hire. maybe he should have waited out the six days. and scaramucci falsely accused reince

and it's already been an eventful one with the ousting of anthony scaramucci. the tenure was just 10 days but it had a significant impact because it resulted in the departure of reince priebus and sean spicer. >> reporter: that's right sean spicer left because scaramucci was brought in. and reince priebus left apparently because of this battle. but at this point, that's been wiped off the board. and it's hard to believe that general kelly would bring in anybody other than a respected communications director, perhaps someone he worked with at the department of homeland security or someone he knows from military circles and will help him install military discipline. >> do we have any indication what sort of conditions general kelly accepted the job of chief of staff on. intersection a lot of questions. mr.scaramucci reported to the president, not the chief of staff which is one of the points of contention with reince priebus. >> i think what is happening today is our first big clue on the conditions that he demanded here. because it was very much up in the air as

anthony scaramucci leaving as communications after a little more than ten days on the job. what is clear here, i think it's clear the fatal interview with new yorker with which scaramucci combined curse words with which we have rarely seen that ultimately doomed him. and then of course john kelly taking over and that changed everything there. and kelly wanted to obviously enforce some sort of order in the white house, that he couldn't have a communications director having a straight line to the president without going through him first. that was settled with general kelly settling that. now as the chief of staff, everyone goes through him. so the unwritten story on this day is that john kelly is the sort of the central focus here. everything goes through him. he has complete control in this. it was john kelly who accepted anthony scaramucci's resignation. all right. john roberts back with us. john, your take away from this is what? >> i think it's pretty clear that anthony scaramucci sort of cooked his goose, his own goose last week with that interview with the new yorker, t

the new york times is reporting that the president has fired anthony scaramucci, his new director of indications who was only hard ten days ago. the islamic state group has launched an —— on the iraqi embassy on kabul. we will look at the —— and where it leaves america's position in afghanistan. this is venezuela, the fallout from the weekend's election which was to elect a constituent to the assembly. here is the president. with the hurricane example you have set today, more than 8 million votes by the sovereign people of venezuela. we will also talk about apple getting caught up in an argument around censorship in china. it is polled various vpns, facilities that help people get around censorship in china. we will explain that as well. things are moving at speed in washington, dc. in the past hour the white house confirmed anthony scaramucci will leave role as white house communications director to give chief of staff john kelly a "clean slate". bearin bear in mind he hasn't officially started the job. that was slated to happen in august. this was the first we've heard of this stor

our friend anthony scaramucci has colorful language.ed from his main message, these lakes have to stop because they are undermining not only the trump administration but the very nate of the republic itself. i firmly believe that he's got something on priebus. >> sean: you do? >> i do. >> sean: i would not be surprised. it's inexplicable, where we are. that could be coming in the next 24 hours. mercedes, here's the problem. you have a president being attacked by the deep state, democrats, the media, weak republicans, trying to do the skinny build that they never ran on -- and of course, never trump-ers and they are fighting with themselves either leaking to the media that hates the president, you can't function in that environment that way. >> no, the environment seems very toxic and it's unfortunate because you have a lot of talent in that white house but they don't seem to trust each other as a team. that's very counterproductive and at the end, rather than each individual group trying to save their reputation, they are forgetting tha

was about relationships between anthony scaramucci as mr kelly?with anthony scaramucci. how do you see that relationship playing out? there is something very machiavellian about anthony scaramucci. well! they will probably has a little bit. anthony scaramucci, one of his requirements was to work directly for trump. the chief of staff is going to want control. i do see them banging heads a little bit, but i think they're both very experienced and they will handle that fine. there was an indication that reince priebus was going to step down from anthony scaramucci, and it has come across as if mr trump is doing anthony scaramucci's bidding. no, i have been hearing that reince priebus went before anthony scaramucci even got there. this is a long time coming, the culmination of several things which i believe was related to the timing of the obama ca re related to the timing of the obama care failure. have been working hard between the administration and leadership of the house and senate to get the obama care repeal done. hejust to get the obama care

anthony scaramucci and donald trump, are they natural bedfellows? do they make sense as a pairing. here a reason for donald trump to want to keep him close by? >> people were referring to anthony as a mini donald trump. they grew up not far from one another. just over the border into nassau county. anthony has wanted to be involved in politics for many years. he was on the finance company for mitt romney. he was supportive of scott walker and jeb bush. when they were not going to make it he switched his loyalty to donald trump and has been incredibly loyal to donald trump. the objective lesson in what happens when you fly too close to the sun and put your foot in your mouth. i think he knew it and was trying to repair it. i think he thought he would have more time to do it but he did not. for scaramucci. thank you so much. onwill have more coverage anthony scaramucci and we will also be discussing china with its deleveraging. this is bloomberg. ♪ julia: what'd ya miss? china's factory slowing down in july may hitting -- may hit the economy faster than expected. leyland miller the ce

seems toe white house be confirming that at this point, saying in a statement that anthony scaramuccig his role as white communications director and further saying your scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. that similar language was to what scaramucci said about sean spicer when spicer left. thelet: he had not left white house yet, he just stepped down from his position. today or tomorrow is sean spicer's final day. to my knowledge, and marty, you can confirm this -- anthony scaramucci was speaking on behalf of the president and functioning in the capacity of white house communications director. but until his firm is sold, he's not a white house of you. marty: that is correct. he was not officially an employee of the white house because he had to get clearances, among other things. national security clearance, if he ever wanted to be involved in sensitive information in the context of working with the president. not officially commit occasions director, but that said, the fact that he tendered his resignation

he saw that the president wanted anthony scaramucci to become communications director and sean offered the president a clean safe back slate. that's what professionals in our business do. there is no palace intrigue here. it is quite simply that anthony is now going to be able to get the job as as a commissioned director and really build his own team. that's really why sean decided to leave. >> melissa: there's got to be some palace intrigue. come on. go ahead. >> look, o.j. simpson was yesterday. i'm sorry. i just talked to reince priebus. he and anthony scaramucci have been friends a long time. they work for the camping together. i was in the campaign. as you said, i was the deputy campaign manager, and and a soh east to work up close and personal along with sean spicer. we were in the foxhole together then and they are just bringing anthony back off of the bench now to come in and fill an incredibly difficult role. i think that anthony is going to bring forward to the american people a media plan. we will see what that is, but he will bring forward a media plan that reflects the pre

it's great and anthony comes around with the shades. i love this guy. neil: scaramucci was there. >> will you jump on the air. he jumps in with me, he is a funny guy. neil: when was this? >> tuesday. and he saidpi pisani-- piscopo, you better not do me on "saturday night live." neil: this was before the-- >> i love the whole thing. and if you have the privilege of working in the white house and you're in my office, this is anthony scaramucci talking, and you're going to leak you'll be selling postcards outside of the white house. neil: apparently he upped it with the language. well, cut to literally a half hour later. reince shows up, my buddy from florida. neil: sure. >> so i go, reince, like-- he was like, oh, my god, another italian. [laughter] >> that scaramucci and piscopo, and the body language was, please don't hurt me, okay? don't hurt me. neil: do you believe they came to verbal blows in the white house? there's that famous picture of the two of them that looks awkward. >> it's scaramucci saying to reince, i heard some things, i heard things. you know? >> well,

reince priebus, white house chief of staff, now anthony scaramucci. d it take a retired marine corps general to get rid of scaramucci even though they didn't immediately get rid of him after that outrageous interview in the new yorker magazine with ryan lizza? >> there is some reporting that general kelly said the only way he would take this job is if scaramucci would leave, and subsequently you saw over the weekend some solacious gossip come out about scaramucci that involved his family and events that happened a week or so ago, and mysteriously it all comes out over the weekend. i do agree with mark unlike reince priebus, general kelly doesn't need this job. i think if he puts his foot down given his past, if he, in fact, is overridden on what he was promised or is not delivered what he was promised, he could very well walk. i think it also bears to question some of the decision-making of jared kushner and ivanka trump. because from all reporting, they were the ones that brought in scare mucamucci just a couple w ago. they were the ones that wanted c

know a lot of people have a lot of questions about that. >> does vitriol anything to do with anthony scaramucci? >> no, it does not. >> is that unbelievable spin? >> oh, man, we described scaramucci as a reince-seeking missile brought in by jared and ivanka. i stand by that zrepgs. i believe it is an entirely accurate description. we laughed as did many people that know both of these men when they came out with this phony show last friday saying they were best friend forever, it went back all these years, anthony scaramucci and reince priebus despise each other. anthony resented the fact that reince blocked him entering the white house. reince thought he was woefully unqualified for the job. he argued strenuously against him getting the job and steve bannon did. as soon as he came in, it was entirely predictable they would collide. i would say it happened quicker and more spectacularly than any of us could have predicted. but give me a break. >> just to stay with you one moment to go back where we started. we get they have mutual enmity toward each other. for donald trump what was it about rein

. >> spicer resigning from his post after trump named anthony scaramucci as communications director. spicer says he wanted to give the new team a clean slate. >> i went into the president after we had the discussion earlier with anthony and sarah about what the president's desirous were. and i said, sir, i've had the opportunity to think about this. i think it is in the best interests of this administration and your presidency that i give these two individuals the opportunity to operate without me in the way, so that they have a fresh start. that i'm not lurking over them. and i think that's in the best interests of the organization, of this administration, and of his presidency. >> this comes as the administration is facing more storm clouds from the russia investigation this morning. a new report says russia's ambassador told his superiors in moscow, he discussed campaign-related matters with now attorney general, jeff sessions, during the 2016 campaign. the details from u.s. intelligence intercepts just ahead. >> so let's talk about this deal to stay out of public scrutiny, at leas

you know sean spicer quit earlier after being announced anthony scaramucci would join the team as thetions director. we're told no other staffers knew last night that scaramucci would be tagged by the president this morning, that sean spicer, reince priebus and steve bannon were largely left in the dark for this decision and did not know. we're told that though sean spicer is upset he was there in his office as reince priebus introduced him to the rest of the communications team with a round of applause. >> just we're looking there at live pictures, reporters in the room, in the briefing room there, kaitlyn. not unusual to be milling about as they wait for this briefing but really trying to get answers and it seems like the door there to the lower press office is closed at this hour. right? as they get their ducks in a row for the briefing? >> reporter: yeah. a mad house ever since. so many reporters standing outside of sean spicer's office to ask questions about scaramucci, when sean spicer came out, shut his door and a few reporters standing there, when the news broke he had resigne

how much of a risky appointment is anthony scaramucci? it is pretty risky.at 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 i

you saw sarah sanders who has now been elevated to press secretary and anthony scaramucci come out andrters. scaramucci went first. the stylistic difference between what we've seen on the podium so far in this administration and him was very different. granted it's day one and most people have good outings on day one and then it gets harder. this man thinks he's the president's best spokesman and we'll see how scaramucci deals with this challenge. >> maggie, i think it seems odd to most people that of all the things sean spicer has had to do from that podium, starting on his first day when he went out there and told this bizarre and clearly not true story about whether obama and trump had larger crowds for the inaugural that this would be the final straw for him, that this would be a bridge too far, the idea that he will not report to scaramucci as opposed to all the other things he did defending the false and indecent. >> yes, scaramucci has a red line and makes it very clear it's not about the substance and just about sean spicer's view of his standing. also, as you remember, when mi

after the break, more on the anthony scaramucci storm. x-rated brand that he thought was off the record and his attempt to clarify that. prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. it's looking up, not down.ng fit's being in motion. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. >> and anthony scaramucci's crude tirade raises journalistic questions. and they say he never put the call of the record so he is entitled to publish it. then anthony scaramucci believed that this was off the record and later tweeted i made a mistake and it will not happen again. so the good reporter also a liberal voice, did he burn him? >> i don't know really the details of how the conversation took place. traditionally the way i offer this as a reporter, someone calls me they're not used to doing the parties are not familiar with on the record or off the record. i give people the benefit of the doubt tha

anthony scaramucci is out and. this means that he at least is demonstrating control there why this matters is this is a military man who is. has a deep career thinking about strategy are along with at another a three star general in the white house hr mcmaster who's the head of the national security council. along with the defense secretary. and along with. other parts of our government thinking about our whole of government strategy to confront what is a growing threat. do you shampoo has done trumps frustration with china and its inability or unwillingness to confront north korea. well yes. by china. push back over the weekend and and. basically made clear that those threats aren't working china has an interest it's not congruent with our interests but china has an interest in confronting. north korea as well out first of all nuclear weapons from north korea can easily reach china that's a lot closer than alaska or. a los angeles that gets my attention since hyper residence los angeles. but seriously china doesn'

spicer as press secretary after sean spicer resigns over the president naming wall streeter anthony scaramucci as white house communications director. so can scaramucci and sanders get the white house back on message with its pro-growth agenda? can they handle growing controversies including the widening russia probe, welcome to "risk & reward" i'm liz macdonald in for deirdre bolton. ge reported a nearly 60% drop in second quarter profit. stock ended down more than 2%. now after a tumultuous six months marked by frequent clashes with reporters, sean spicer resigns, stepping down amid intensifying pressure from robert mueller's widening russia probe into the trump campaign. so what's going on here is essentially sean spicer is stepping down. he did respond. he said it's been an honor and a privilege to serve the president of the united states donald trump and this amazing country. i will continue my service through august. scaramucci speaking at his first press conference after spicer's resignation. >> i think there's been, at times, a disconnect between the way we see the president and how mu

you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking tonight, anthony scaramucci forced out as communications director only ten days after he was hired. sources tell cnn the president soured on scaramucci and the president's chief of staff john kelly wanted him removed after he unleashed a vulgar tie raid against two white house officials. also the white house says scaramucci has no role in the administration. we are told he was escorted off the white house grounds. >>> retired general kelly clearly is trying to take charge of the turbulent trump white house, but tonight we have exclusive new reporting suggesting that kelly recently had his own doubts about his future in the administration. sources telling cnn that kelly was angry about the way the president fired james comey as fbi director, so angry that he called comey afterward to tell him he was thinking of resigning as homeland security secretary. >>> also breaking, the white house says mr. trump is reviewing his options after vladimir putin ordered the u.s. to dramatically cut its diplomatic staff in russia

anthony scaramucci.ad a man and this person who had the coms director job who wassen sure when he was on and off the record with a reporter. >> i want to go on record endorsing mercedes for this job. she has five kids. i think she would be a great addition. >> harris: as long as you and harris can raise the five children. >> harris: what did you just volunteer me for? >> listen, if i were the president, i would use this time. he's not vacation coming up. to quietly stay out of the media. don't do any press. just build his team. he's got to make decisions on who the core 10 to 15 people around him will be. he's got appointments he has to make in secondary positions in many agencies and departments. get the government staffed up, build his team. he's got a quarterback, if you want to use that, as a strong and able chief of staff. he's got to right the ship and get the team in place for him to execute his agenda and to minimize the chaos that we've been witnessing almost on a daily basis. >> harris: i don't

anthony scaramucci's financial form.hen, we find out that the president is replacing reince priebus with general john kelly. host: tell us more about general john kelly. i understand he is the nation's larger -- longest-serving commanders? >> he served in the marines for 40 plus years and has one of the most torrid military general careers. as you and i know, president trump is an them are of military withd emerged -- enamored military officials, he has jim mattis and inside the white house there is h.r. mcmaster, the national security adviser. the job to bek secretary of homeland security and has been there for six months. in contrast to the way the president has spoken about other members of the administration, he has had very positive things to say about john kelly, he is doing a great job, he is a star of the administration, he is working on the president's plan to build a wall on the border between the u.s. and mexico, he is doing a lot of work to try to reduce illegal immigration, and president trump has been very

how soon anthony scaramucci decides to step up to the plate.y more to come talking about washington the next week ahead, from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ julia: this is "bloomberg markets: the trump economy." i'm julia chatterley. kevin: i'm kevin cirilli. ofare showing you live shots the press briefing room. julia: we will get a briefing from sarah huckabee sanders, who has a new boss. kevin: sean spicer is out, wall street known person around town anthony scaramucci is in. how he meshes with the inside the beltway crowd will be fascinating. donald trumpia: himself. we will be talking more about that, but we start more with headlines with emma chandra. emma: the russian lawyer who met donald trump junior during the 20 campaign has represented a military unit operated by russia's intelligence agency. that's according to court filings obtained by the associated press. president trump's eldest son, son-in-law, and campaign manager met with her in june 2016, after trump jr. was told she could provide potentially incriminating and bit -- informa