our top story: president trump's communications director, anthony scaramucci, has been fired afterjust made inappropriate comments in a recent magazine interview. scaramucci is the fourth white house official leave his post injust ten days. an interim prime minister of pakistan is expected to be formally appointed on tuesday after nawaz sharif was stripped of office by the supreme court last week over corruption allegations. and this story is trending on bbc.com. sam shepard, the celebrated american playwright and actor, has died at his home in kentucky. he was 73. he was oscar—nominated for the 1983 film "the right stuff" and starred in "black hawk down" and "steel magnolias. " that's all from me for now. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk: a former royal marine has been jailed for 18 years for making pipe

anthony scaramucci is out as communications director. john kelly is in as chief of staff. president trump is hoping the changes will bring order to the white house after several sweeping changes in six months in office. our question of the day to you state of affairs at the white house? go to wjla.com now and let us know. the latest now on the west wing revamp. >> already a crisis for the new white house chief of staff, john kelly. president trump personally dictated the misleading initial state and released by donald jr. to the new york times that the meeting he, jared kushner and paul manna ford had with a was not arussians campaign issue at the time. >> he was coming back from the g 20 and the president wasn't involved in that. >> trump's legal team denied that he had any involvement but sources refute that. donald jr. also admitted the meeting was campaign related and he agreed to take it after being promised on heller clinton. >> it shows the president is willing to micromanage the russia investigation response mislead the american people. >> his lawyer talking about

anthony scaramucci had a chance to fire him. chief of staff was signed in and scaramucci was the first to go under his leadership. with us to talk about it now, and the atlantic's molly ball who wrote the final humiliation of reince priebus. molly's piece begins, quote, six years ago, a humble part hack from kenosha, wisconsin took on the thankless job of turning around the republican party. as he exits the white house, battered, bruised and humiliated. reince priebus claims he did what he set out to do. what did he say and what did he say to argue against being humiliated? >> i was looking at the whole sweep of his career in national politics. i have been covering the rnc since 2011 and if you remember, the party was in the dumps. they were badly divided. they won a mid-term election but they were deep in debt and the donor and activist community was dissatisfied. he came in and said he was going to turn this thing around and the republicans could win without sacrificing their principles. he pointed to his home state where scott

it said that anthony scaramucci had gone to the new chief of staff and said he wanted to offer him a clean slate, so he can put his own team in place. that put it, framed it, as scaramucci stepping aside and resigning basically. when sarah huckabee sanders came out, she made it sound like a lot more of a firing. the president was upset about the language that scaramucci used in that interview with the new yorker. it sounded more like he was pushed out, and frankly, it was confusing about whether or not he was going to go back to the export import bank, which was where he was before he came in asking occasions director, because sarah huckabee sanders said, he does not have a role in the administration right now. so, maybe the door is open after the dust settles for him to go back to the export import bank, but even if he does that, that as a whole lot different than the job he was boasting about ten days ago, saying i have access to the oval office. i report directly to the president. things have changed, and they have changed directly. >> jesse: and now for someone who was very sad to

and his number two get anthony scaramucci and his numbertwo and get anthony scaramucci and his number two and youth lord wow,, and then this all full rant in the papers. enter stage left, general kelly, cannot believe that general trump has not —— president trump is not admonished him. he made his presence felt straightaway and audi goes. willjohn kelly, the new chief of staff, sort out the chaos in the white house? it seems to be going on and on. after the initial honeymoon period and it's been chaotic from day one. that is being kind. he is a disciplinarian and it made it clear to president trump, either the white house is run my way or i do not want the job. i was very —— impressed the way last that sarah huckabee sanders took questions from about 50 journalists and blew them away and i think he will use her as the mouthpiece. she is tough. she is brilliant. you would have to beat. put that on her cv. absolutely. all this chaos is having an impact on the real world. the times business section reporting the dollar is having its worst run in six years. this is the fifth month running

he walked, furious that president trump had hired anthony scaramucci as communications director.ince priebus came as little surprise after he was subject to a vicious verbal attack by incoming communications director scaramucci. but what goes around comes around. afterjust ten days into the job, mooch was front stabbed by the incoming chief of staff. the profound hope among those close to president trump is that with general kelly in charge, there'll be a fundamental change in the way this place operates. organised, disciplined, united. but we've seen this movie before. a change in personnel leading to high expectations, followed by a swift return to normal. time will tell. in the meantime, the late night comedians are making hay. the president has been very busy repealing and replacing his staff, most notably anthony scaramucci, the mooch. the mooch lasted as communications director for only ten days.

anthony scaramucci had a chance to fire him. the new chief of staff was sworn in and scaramucci was the first to go under his new leadership. with us to talk about it now, tim alberta, whose latest piece is headlined "whiteout priebus, trump is a man without a party." and molly ball wrote, the final humiliation of reince priebus. molly's piece begins, quote, six years ago, a humble part hack from kenosha, wisconsin took on the thankless job of turning around the republican party. as he exits the white house, battered, bruised and humiliated, reince priebus claims he did what he set out to do. you actually talked to him this weekend, molly. what did he say and what did he say to argue against being humiliated? >> i was looking at the whole sweep of his career in national politics. i have been covering the rnc since priebus became the chairman in 2011. and if you remember at that time, the party was really in the dumps. they were badly divided. they won a mid-term election but they were deep in debt and the donor and activist commu

. >> was anthony scaramucci fired, or did he resign? >> oh, i think he was certainly pushed out. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate. >> reince is a -- expletive deleted -- paranoid schizophrenia. >> i think we can assume it wasn't because donald trump was shocked and appalled by the language he used. >> he will do a spectacular job. i have no doubt as chief of staff. >> how can any staffer end the chaos if the chaos comes from the top? >> president trump said today there is, quote, no white house chaos. >> people are kleenex to donald trump. he uses them and throws them away. >> i predict that general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff one of the great ever. >> i'm looking at my watch to see how long this lasts. [ applause ] >>> "the washington post" is reporting tonight in another blockbuster breaking news story that it was the president of the united states who dictated the exact wording of donald trump jr.'s first statement to "the new york times" on july 8th about his

ivan schapiro. >> distain anthony scaramucci leaving after just 10 days on the job which hasn't officiallyed. starting on august 15th. there is a question as to whether scaramucci made the decision on its own. that's at the white house press release seemed to indicate. also the issue of good chief of staff john kelly wanting mr. scaramucci out and the president not been happy with scaramucci's choice of words in an interview last week. here's what white house press secretary terry sanders had to say about it. >> the president certainly felt the comments were not appropriate for a person in that position and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession as they think we've made clear a few times over the course of the last couple days. general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house. reporter: when asked if scaramouche you would advise the president or have any role, and the answer was essentially no. that view. lauren: and schapiro commit thank you. today president trump is scheduled to meet with small business leaders at the white house as

the white house said anthony scaramucci had made inappropriate comments in a magazine interview lasteek, in which he attacked mr trump's then chief—of—staff, reince priebus, who's been replaced by john kelly. los angeles has formally been chosen to host the 2028 summer olympic games in a deal that virtually assures paris will hold the games four years earlier. the president of the international olympic committee said he welcomed the decision of los angeles to accept hosting the later games. president nicolas maduro of venezuela has said that personal sanctions imposed on him by the us are a sign of desperation and hate. mr maduro said he refused to take orders from foreign, imperialist governments. the sanctions were imposed after sunday's controversial vote for a new constituent assembly. now on bbc news it's hardtalk. stephen sackur talks sebastian gorka, deputy assistant to president trump. just to mention that the interview was recorded before news of anthony scaramucci's dismissal from the white house. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. donald trump promised to be a disrup

and by eliminating anthony scaramucci, who the president really is fond of, he gives his -- his staff a chance to actually function again. the problem with scaramucci, who is a very bright guy and who, by all accounts, does care about the president, is that you cannot have any member of the the staff freelancing the way he does, speaking about the staff the way he does. it creates a lot of insecurity and is complete -- it's complete distraction from what the president's trying to accomplish. so i -- i don't think the president had any choice but to allow kelly to fire him. the interesting thing is under normal circumstances, a would never happen in the first place. b, if it did happen, 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, tha

the white house has said donald chomsky mitigation director anthony scaramucci has left after just 10s on the job. scaramucci was fired at the urging of trump's new chief of staff john kelly. scaramucci's appointment raised eyebrows as he had no previous political experience. he also gained immediate attention with a strongly worded rant about two of his colleagues. our washington correspondent joins us now for more on this developing story. scaramucci is gone. what brought about his fall from grace? maya: it seems to have been this one-two punch, the strongly worded rant as well as the bringing in of general john kelly as new chief of staff. for those keeping track, there is definitely a revolving door of people in the white house. scaramucci coming in 10 days ago. former press secretary sean spicer resigned in protest to scaramucci being brought in. scaramucci then brought down before chief of staff reince priebus. in his place, john kelly was brought in. john kelly then requested that scaramucci be fired and here we are today. gerhart: scaramucci was named to this job only 10 days

anthony scaramucci does not lack for self—confidence, swagger or bravado. i love the president, and i'm 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. it told the bbc he would be straight—talking. you know, one of the things i cannot stand about this town is the backstabbing that goes on here, 0k? where i'm from, where i grew up, we're front—stabbers. we tell you exactly where we are from, and what we are doing. turbulent does not begin to describe it. in a foul—mouthed tirade, he went to war with the two most senior people in the west wing who are not the president. in his conversations with the new yorker magazine, mr scaramucci said of the ex—chief of staff... and of steve bannon... by last friday, the chief of staff had been fired, left abandoned at andrews air force base. a scalp to scaramucci. but now, irony of ironies, generaljohn kelly, on

at the end of the day, if donald trump thought anthony scaramucci was goidoing good for his image scaramucci would still be there. scaramucci lost the confidence of the president. >> the whole thing about donald trump during the lek00 is elect liars the best people and he's a great manager. is any of that believable? clearly to his base, i guess it is. but do the events of the last six months with all the people that have come and gone -- >> anderson, i just think that these chaos stories, and we've talked about this before. there's all these stories about everybody from obama back to reagan, about how their -- >> do you know any administration which the attorney general has been ridiculed and mocked by the president and criticized by the president, not fired but still at the same time shawn spicer is gone, sally yates is gone, general flynn is gone, scaramucci is gone. >> i mean, every president is different. donald trump is donald trump. this is why people put him there in the first place. >> people put him there to be a great manager and hire great people. >> yesterday i had a conversatio

anthony scaramucci. tomorrow we get a brand new call. >> scaramucci vision. >> david dr--he said he's going dark. but he's not. going under the bright lights. >> nobody in trump's inner circle always reemerge. i think tony s i think anthony scaramucci is going to continue to. a lot of the influences on trump that are ultimately deemed to be unhelpful, let's say, to his success, or whether it was in the campaign or white house never really drift away. the and i think over time we'll see anthony scaramucci reemerge as one of the president's surrogates on television. le doing that prior to his blow-up last week he was always very effective at that. the it's clearly something he has an interest in keeping it up. the he's putting on a big show tomorrow. i don't think this is going to be the last we're going to see of him. >> as long as it's 9-11 a.m. eastern. thank you very much. the book? do you have it? >> end of discussion right there. >> end of this discussion thank you all very much. >>> meantime dow fut

president. >> reporter: the white house said the president was bothered by scaramucci's comments. >> 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 also with that line of succession. >> reporter: the white house said in a statement mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give the chief of staff a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. but sources tell us john kelly had lost confidence in scaramucci. it was a meeting to bring order to a staff in turmoil. >> you look at the border, you look at the tremendous results we've had and you look at the spirit. and with a very controversial situation, there's been very little controversy, which is pretty amazing by itself. so i want to congratulate you on having done a fantastic job, general, and we look forward to, if it's possible, an even better job as chief of staff. >> reporter: but earlier in the day, the president took to twitter to insist all was well, touting the nation's stock market and unemployment rate before insisting no white house chaos, a message echoed by press sec

the white house communications director anthony scaramucci has been fired less than two weeks after his scaramucci was dismissed last night just hours after the appointment of generaljohn kelly for what officials described as his "inappropriate" comments in a magazine interview. he's the third trump appointee to leave his role in recent days. suzanne kianpour reports. tonight, breaking news: forced out afterjust 11 days on the job at the white house... game of thrones, house of cards — pick your political drama. washington thrown into a frenzy after the newly minted, smooth—talking communications director is sacked. anthony scaramucci took to the podium ten days ago for the first and last time. he came in guns blazing, promising to flip the script and shake up the white house. and he did. although his eye was on getting rid of then chief—of—staff reince priebus, it was press secretary sean spicer who was the first to go, resigning in protest at the man called "mooch". but then a bit of foreshadowing. you know, one of the things i can't stand about this town is the backstabbing. where i

anthony scaramucci out - after just 11 days on the job. he was fired as white house communications director. and this morning - we're finding out exactly who wanted him gone. sam sweeney is following the shakeup - sam? it was the shortest tenure for a white house communications director in west wing history. scaramucci - forced out on the same day a new chief of staff is sworn in. its clear scaramucchi was just not tough enough for the former marine and brand new chief of the one who pushed for scaramucchi's departure. white house officials say kelly thought scaramucci was not disciplined and had already burned his credibility. this, after scramaucci went on a tirade about his coworkers to the new yorker.. calling former chief of staff reince priebus "a bleeping paranoid schizophrenic." among many, many other statements. and this morning - a stunning shift in the chain of command. the white house issuing a statement that everyone, including the president's own daughter and son-in-law will now report to john kelly. the president is dismissi

does anthony scaramucci still have a job at the export/import bank? i'm not clear on that. >> yeah, nor am i. they left it open, friends of his believe that he's going to be looked after in some way, shape, or form, but i don't know what that means. i know that he wants a job in the administration. again win just have no confirmation that he has one. >> yeah, so walk us through how this happened. because, obviously, general kelly came in and wanted to have some authority. what did it come down to in terms of him being able to get rid of the newly hired mr. scaramucci? >> 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

the white house said anthony scaramucci had made inappropriate comments in an interview in which he attacked mr trump's then—chief of staff. paris looks certain to host the 2024 summer olympics. that's after los angeles agreed a deal to host the games four years later. it will be the third time both cities have held the summer or winter games. president nicolas maduro of venezuela has said that personal sanctions imposed on him by the united states are a sign of desperation and hate. the sanctions were imposed after sunday's vote for a new constituent assembly. the hollywood actor and playwright sam shepard has died, at the age of 73. he was nominated for the best supporting actor oscar for the right stuff in 1984, and also wrote more than a0 plays. time tojoin sally time to join sally for world business report. can bp profit in a world awash with cheap oil? the fossil fuel giant releases it's latest results in the coming hours. we will have analysis. and downgraded: toshiba is removed from tokyo's main stock board because of its financial problems. is the japanese giant's future now in doub

anthony scaramucci took to the podium ten days ago for the first and last time.e came in, guns blazing, promising to flip the script and shake up the white house. and he did. although his eye was on getting rid of reince priebus, it was sean spicer who was the first to 90, was sean spicer who was the first to go, resigning in protest at the man called moto2. but then some foreshadowing. one thing i cannot stand about this town is the backstabbing. were i grew up, in the neighbourhood i grow up, we are front studies. the self proclaimed outsider took too far, launching into a thai red of obscenities to a journalist, accidentally on the record, forgetting the of reporting. scaramucci seem record, forgetting the of reporting. sca ramucci seem to record, forgetting the of reporting. scaramucci seem to have one when reince priebus resigned. but a new sheriff came into town, generaljohn kelly, the secretary of —— secretary of homeland security. his request was that scaramucci had to go. after turning the swearing—in ceremony, the mooch was escorted off the premises. do

scaramucci, originally praised by the president, targeted white house staff with a profanity-laced rant in "the new yorker," one so vulgar it's not repeatable here. >> 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 also with that line of succession. >> reporter: the white house publicly says scaramucci, spotted in the oval office just this morning, wanted kelly to have a clean slate privately, it's a clear message to staff there's a new chief in town. embraced. >> we just swore in general kelly. he will do a spectacular job. >> reporter: and empowered. >> general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff one of the great ever. >> reporter: for the west wing, a new era with a new manager but ultimately the same boss, one who is insisting today there's no white house chaos after himself creating some. president trump hiring scaramucci in first place over the objections of some advisers, which set off a domino effect. press secretary sean spicer leaving followed by former chief of staff reince priebus. while the warring factions in the white house appear to be giving kelly some

job, setting a new report for shortest stint in his position. >> sean spicer quit because of anthony scaramucci forced out priebus replaced by kelly who forced out scaramucci. >> the president felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. >> the president will find a spot for him somewhere. >> up to this point president trump has been the communications director, right? >> the president doesn't need to be controlled, the greatest communicator we've ever had. >> misleading four sentence statement was personally dictated by the president. >> a misleading statement the younger trump had to clarify mul times. >> when you get caught in a lie about one thing, it makes it hard to say let the other stuff go. >> everything he's doing, leads someone a casual observer to say what's going on here? >> i'm very concerned about where the party is going. >> we didn't create him. the american people chose him. >> i want somebody to start fighting for him. how much weight does he have to carry by himself? >> john kelly's second day as white house chief of staff begins with anothe

the first day on the job, john kelly forces out anthony scaramucci. ow answers to general john kelly. the how would you assess this first 24 hours? >> well that's an encouraging first step. it was really a no-brainer. a guy like scaramucci, walking cartoon, never should have been within 100 miles of a functioning white house. that's the minimal first stem. now comesle really hard part. the hard part is trying first of all to make sure everybody reports through him to donald trump, and secondly, and more importantly, he's got to try to find a way to discipline donald trump himself, which is needless to say, the tallest order manageable. he's got to try to find a way to harness this twitter account that makes it almost impossible for him to go earn effectively. it's a really tall challenge. >> trent, you said whenever a spokesman or woman becomes a story that's never good for a white house. however, our reporting is that after these multiple half an hour sort of rambling interviews scaramucci did last week, that the president actually liked it. was happy

you've done. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: and priebus leaving just came a day after anthony scaramuccid "the new yorker" to rant about priebus and steve bannon, and now he's fired. do have any words of support for scaramucci? >> keep telling it like it is, mooch! we as a nation love that you're not pc and/or fake. enjoy that time off, babe. i hope you spend it like steve bannon would, by sucking your own -- >> jimmy: oh john. >> what? >> jimmy: john, you're on national television. >> i can't hear anything you're saying right now, i think it's a connection-based issue. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: we'll work on that. well, finally the gop is having a lot of trouble getting a new health care bill passed. president trump has called out the republican senators on twitter, telling them, they need to repeal and replace obamacare. anything you want to say donald trump about this? >> stay strong, d.t. you better work! and by work, i mean needlessly take away the health care from the very people you promised to protect. who hurt you? [ applause ] >> jimmy: gop fanboy, john early, everyone. [ ch

ranks, with new chief of staff john kelly pushing out controversial communications director anthony scaramucci, according to sources familiar with the move. it comes not long after scaramucci, originally praised by the president, targeted white house staff with a profanity-laced rant in "the new yorker," one so vulgar it's not repeatable here. >> 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 also with that line of succession. >> reporter: the white house publicly says scaramucci, spotted in the oval office just this morning, wanted kelly to have a clean slate. privately, it's a clear message to staff. there's a new chief in town. embraced. >> we just swore in general kelly. he will do a spectacular job. >> reporter: and empowered. >> general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff one of the great ever. >> reporter: for the west wing, a new era with a new manager but ultimately the same boss, one who is insisting today there's no white house chaos after himself creating som