anthony scaramucci said he was going to stop the leaks. what is the problem? how tough is it to run a tighter operation? >> people have very ingenious ways these days, encrypted apps, et cetera to go after each other but i think part of the problem is that you've got a media that's willing to take any story that comes from anybody that wants to as kelly and put it, shiv their fellow employees so

in the meantime, anthony scaramucci is returning.munications director. and a caught on camera moment for the ceo that he wishes he could take back. preparing toas takeover when he was caught singing. we're in the money this guy is sunny -- the sky is sunny ♪ he apologizes for that choice of song. he says he saw the musical last year. it stuck with him. david: i have heard quite a few of those things but that is far from the worst i have heard. lisa: i agree. wonder, how did that make that out? who was recording that? is a little unsavory when your shares are up that much but i don't blame him. david: i have heard so much .orse than that the company says it is unfortunate but obviously that wasn't intentional. auto sales are due out over the next hour. the industry comes to terms with a softening north america after hitting record highs a couple of years ago. and who knows more then the head of the largest automobile dealer chain, mike jackson? the ceo of autonation coming to us from florida. good to have you here. to be with you. dav

anthony scaramucci joins me right here along with jason johnson, and susan page from "usa today." it's growing into something. what is this thing about not apologizing for a lame or awful bit of gallows humor i guess it was. i don't know what else you would call it. >> i think the whole thing is a shame actually because the president's got a great agenda. by and large the country is doing well. his ratings are up. he looks like he can still get a deal with the north koreans but this fighting going on in the white house is a very big distraction. had they apologized it would have been a 24-hour cycle. we're now going into a 96-who your cycle and it's a cloud over thecration. people are asking what's wrong with the culture if you said something you didn't mean why you are not apologizing? listen, they'll have to answer that. if that's part of the culture going forward, that will be used as a strategy by the democrats in the elections. >> in any big organization like there one, you're encouraged by the top how to handle these cases. what kind of encouragement is kelly sadler getting

. >>> china's hna dropping its bid for anthony scaramucci's sky bridge capital. >>> and the fed meeting kicks off today in washington. it's tuesday, may 1, 2018. "worldwide exchange" begins right now. >>> there's a reason for that music. we'll tell you why later on. good morning i'm dominic chu. happy may day. brian sullivan is on assignment. let's check the early market action right now futures are pointing to what could be a fractionally lower open to start here the dow down about 58 points the s&p down by 4. the nasdaq down by 14. we'll have more on the markets in a moment. first to some big news out of the white house. president trump extending steel and aluminum tariff exemptions for many allies. let's go live to tracie potts in washington >> good morning, everyone. the eu, canada and mexico get another 30 days to try to work this out, the white house calls it a final 30 days the fed line instead of today june 1st for those countries to work out a deal to avoid those steel and aluminum tariffs the europeans are looking for a permanent exemption. the issue seems to be whether or not

anthony scaramucci, former white house communications director and class ally of the president, about to see you, sir. >> good morning. we're going to talk about north korea? >> well, we are. have you been authorized to tell us something is going to happen? >> i wanted to throw that in there. go ahead, chris. >> let me play a moment from sarah had huckabee sanders where she was having to deal with obvious problems of credibility. this is jonathan carl of abc news. here you go. >> when the president so often says things that turn out not to be true. when the president, the white house shows a blatant disregard for the truth, how are we to believe the president? >> i am given the best information i have. i do that every day and i will continue to do that every day in this position. >> she said that almost a dozen times in the presser, that line. do you think that works? >> well, listen, she has probably one of the toughest jobs in washington. maybe one of the toughest in the world. i think that does work. you don't want her to say something that's inaccurate and the press corps is imply

as anthony scaramucci says he often does things for show but people take him seriously.s we said earlier words have consequences. and these words are particularly dangerous for the president of the united states to say them. he has to grow up. >> one of our correspondents who was here said he was in the airport and said he got a dressing down in the airport and thought this person, this woman was going to attack him. and some of the words she used was just unbelievable and that has never happened in his career. it's never happened in my career. >> well, april has had death threats. i've had death threats. >> we all have. i joyed this conversation. >> and it's not right. >> we want you guys to stay there, but just take a moment to watch some time. >> when we come back, michael cohen's aggressive pitch to potential clients after his boss became president. you'll want to hear this. the closer you get to home, the more you know the commute is worth it. you and that john deere tractor... you can keep dreaming up projects all the way home. it's a longer drive. but just like a

the show is called "the very good lawyer and anthony scaramucci." [ light laughter ] the white houseounced today that president trump would donate his first quarter's salary to the department of veteran's affairs. it's just a little less money than he's given to veterans of his affairs. [ audience ohs ] [ laughter ] new york gubernatorial candidate and actress cynthia nixon held a campaign event on a subway platform today. said subway riders -- [ laughter ] texas rangers pitcher bartolo colon this week stopped a line drive with his stomach. players and umpires are still looking for the ball. [ light laughter ] the cdc has announced that romaine lettuce is safe to eat again. so i guess that's what passes for good news these days. [ light laughter ] romaine's back! [ light laughter ] ikea's launching a new credit card that offers rewards and perks for frequent customers, but it is a bitch to put together! [ light laughter ] [ applause ] why do i need a dowel for a credit card? scientists claim to have succeeded transplanting a memory from the brain of one sea snail and implanting it in

>> i don't think he'll be an anthony scaramucci. i think the story line is that the president brings in new people, he gets frustrated by the new people when they don't perform exactly how he wants, he vents to people, but he often, you know, keeps them around. i think with rudy giuliani there is a bond between the president and the former new york city mayor. they're of a certain generation of new york types. and i don't think he's going anywhere. but i do think the coverage of the past week with rudy giuliani's contradictory comments from the president, his many interviews, some things he said to walk back or clarify, have proven frustrating to the president. >> but it is difficult to argue that rudy giuliani has made the legal case better for the president on the russia probe or on stormy daniels. but a point that john brought up last hour that is a good one is that maybe he's made it politically better for the president, that he's muddying the waters here, that he's helping to add to at least the president's base and conservativ

anthony scaramucci is trying to say if the mayor meant it came out before midterms. he didn't say that. that's a bad fact. we'll just leave it at that. one good, one bad, what do you make of those? >> i don't think people are probably parsing these statements as closely as we are. the fact remains now we know that this woman was paid d. $130,000 by michael cohen and donald trump paid him back. that's the big fact that we now know. that's a big problem. that is a legal problem, it's a political problem, it's a moral problem. >> is it more political than legal? >> oh, absolutely. who knows whether any of this can be proved in a courtroom. starting with the fact that he's president of the united states and as far as we know under department of justice policy he can't be charged with anything. so i think the proper prism to see this all in is much more political than it is legal. but politically, you know, donald trump was at 40% in the polls when he took office. he's at 40% now. so i don't know how much any of this changes people's political perceptions of him. minds se

joining me now, anthony scaramucci who served as white house communications director under presidentmp. we should say donald trump's been asked about a number of things today, so far he hasn't reacted to the michael cohen story. let's clear this up at the top. >> good idea, mr. president. >> nobody is accusing other than stormy daniels cohen or any of these companies officially, at least, of any wrongdoing here. but there are a lot of questions being raised about why people would pay michael cohen given that he owes no -- tell me if i'm wrong -- expertise in health care or aerospace or telecom communications. why were they paying him so much money if he's not a person who could really help them in any way? other than give them access to the president? >> i mean, i love the way you're asking the question because it is a very good lead-in to what i'm supposed to say, what i'm supposed to say right now is they're paying him to curry influence and what they're doing is paying him to run their banner through the west wing and to influence the president of the united states on their behalf

. >> i want to play for you what anthony scaramucci said about this. here it is. >> stormy daniels or stephanie clifford and michael avenatti are on the hunt to take down donald j. trump. they want to put a hurt on him. they have a process in place where they're trying to do that. the president by and large has done a good job of isolating this whole story away from any bad outcomes for the president. and i think the mayor, despite all the hullabaloo, he hat gotten information out there and developing a strategy to protect the president. >> what do you think of that? >> that is the opposite of true. the russia investigation, we've reached convergence of the stormy daniels story and the russia investigation this week. and giuliani's strategy to create chaos or confusion is not working. and it's not working in the short-term or the long term. and it really doesn't matter in the long term. because the legal process is going to play out. and mueller is going to do his job. they are going to do their jobs. we will find out eventually all the things that don

my bristol money and put it into zimmer >> let's move on a man well known to cnbc viewers, anthony scaramucci will return to skybridge as co-managing partner. this comes as china announced it will not acquire the firm. thenny joins ussoon the phone. it's been a while. >> how are you >> welcome back to cnbc, anthony. >> you look good in the judge's chair, melissa i'm watching you >> it's a nice chair that the judge has got. let's get to what took the deal down what did cfius say was there a path to getting the deal done? >> i think there could have been a path to getting the deal done. in fairness to hna, they responded to 15 months of questions. i would say probably tens of thousands of pages of information, and so i think there could have been a path to get it done. we sort of can't really comment on the cfius process, but one of the things they do is something called mitigation, where they allow the parties to do a merger, but then they set up certain requirements between the parties. that's very difficult in an asset management company one of the things you want to do in asset management i

it's already may 14, and my opponent tonight is former white house communications director anthony scaramucciabout something completely uncomplicated and super simple: the state of israel. ( laughter ) i love israel! and not just because it's my neighbor. no. ( laughter ) but also because it's the latest site of a trump promise made and kept

here to react former white house communications director anthony scaramucci and corey lewandowski, now part of the vp's political action committee. the great america committee. do you guys get along. do you think everything will be okay? >> we got fired. a select group. jesse: you got fired, then they bring in man for the *. man -- bring in manafort. >> we are fired but loyal. jesse: a very small group, hopefully getting smaller. what do you think of my brilliant commentary. >> the left will never give this president the credit he deserves. first he wasn't going to be prepared for the meeting. now he personally negotiated the release much three american hostages, he gets no credit for that. he's moving towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and he never gets credit for that. they say he'll never be prepared for this meeting. jesse: why do you think democrats side with people like kim jong-un. don't they see this is not smart politics? >> they are so scared of the president. he's not a politician in the classic sense. when you look at those sound bites, they are out of the

rudy giuliani is becoming the anthony scaramucci of the trump legal team.ys all kinds of things with some strategy, i guess. but contradicting himself and every time he talks it seems getting the president into a deeper legal hole. no, if, number one, based on the other statement he said about the timing of the payment, can you imagine this coming out right at the time of the last debate with hillary clinton? it suggests it was for the purpose proof protecting presid trump's reputation. if he says it was reimbursed, that doesn't mean a campaign contribution, that's not true. it is a benefit to the campaign. there is also the failure of the trump campaign to list it as an expenditure. i think that there is still potential campaign finance issues here, the facts will matter. but i don't think it is as simple as giuliani is purporting to say. >> you bring up anthony mutu mutual. scaramucci. can you see rudy giuliani being dismissed as part of the president's personal legal team? >> i don't know. president trump said he's still getting up to speed, learning his

steve: is he a proud american. >> everyone else down here on the street, too. >> anthony scaramucci ismmunications directors. how is it going? >> i'm doing great. steve: great to have you here. >> happy memorial day, everybody. steve: thank you very much. shocking news 23 hours ago. the president of the united states pulled the plug on the north korean summit because it sounded like he thought north korea was trying to play us. >> probably a combination of different factors. don't want to get caught off guard in the early part of june where they are doing something unexpected. his preemptive move was the right one. that doesn't mean that the summit is not necessarily going to happen. still open to a possibility. so let's see. ainsley: many in the media mocking the president saying this is nothing but a bad breakup. listen to what some of the folks are saying on other channels. >> there goes that nobel peace prize. >> sounds like a 13-year-old stream of consciousness in a break-up letter from overnight camp. >> diplomacy is a lot harder than the art of the deal. >> got this president fr

anthony scaramucci, people who have been pushed out. i'm sure he's looking for a moment where he can do it on his terms. sarah's comments, i can't divine whether the president is happy with him or not. >> he is pushing back on the report. he's calling this report total bs, and sources say that yesterday the report is just the latest incident that really reflects the friction between the president and kelly. do you think this is the final straw or maybe he's waiting for the right moment? >> i hope so because i don't think john kelly staying in his job is during any of us service from the national security perspective. it's no secret john kelly has been neutered by the president. the chief of staff is there to be a team captain, a team manager between all the different parts of the white house. now we have a situation for example where we have larry kudlow, john bolton and others reporting directly to had president. that means there are a lot of lone wolves going to the president, not quacoordinating h john kelly. we have the real questio

networks recording stormy daniels's attorney and former white house communications director anthony scaramuccicritic saying that is what they play on tv in hell. a response that he has no interest in tv. you may have heard about his ongoing social media debate, some people here ianni for some people here laurel. the white house decided to weigh in. >> clearly you're getting your information from cnn because that is fake news is all i hear is ianni. >> i hear covfefe. >> leaving her va appointment in texas, he noticed mike in the parking lot where in world war ii. he escorted him to his car and found out he was stationed in germany during the war and a $4000 in medical bills and was worried how to pay it so he set up ago fund me page in less then a day, raised $12,000, said you should never miss a chance to thank a veteran. we couldn't agree more. we always love hearing from you about heroes doing good things about this and we love to end our show with them. we wants to hear from you, tweet us at fox news night@shannon bream, stories you have heard, good guys and good gals who are making a diff

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i had anthony scaramucci on my radio show and he told me how he got fired. he said you said these curse words to a reporter. he said what about president trump and the comments on the "access hollywood" tape and he said you're not president. as a lawyer, you're going to lose your job. >> you can't say it. >> you can't do it. >> president trump says he wishes he had chosen a different attorney general, this as we learn about new details of the president's attempts to get jeff sessions to reverse his recusal from the russia investigation. plus a top house republican debunks the theory about the notion there was a spy planted in his campaign. moments ago the white house press secretary refused to back down from that claim. back in a moment. let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. >>> we're back. i'm brooke baldwin. stormy daniels lawyer michael avenatti has chosen to pull his participation in th

. >> first of all, i think the president says things sometimes -- anthony scaramucci says he likes toenda. i don't think he really means it. the danger is people believe it. if someone is going to take on white house press at the white house, you got bigger problems than me, i'll tell you. you're going to get in trouble with the secret service. i've always been worried about the guy who harm the kid who is freshly to the field of reporters. you cannot play error-free baseball. the president of the united states wants to hold us to a standard higher than his. we admit our mistakes and we go on and we have to let people now the rules have changed under this president, right? the president makes us the enemy. we're not the enemy of the people. we are the people. we are the people represented in that room. and as april said, there is a first amendment right that we have to be there. we have to remind the people that we are the people. we have to be fair. that's all there is to it. but at the end of the day, that cannot mean we do not point out the foibles of the president who by saying th

anthony scaramucci came out weeks ago and everyone laughed at him but the man is essentially right whenhe said the morale in that white house press office has been as low as it's ever been. >> phil, dozens of palestinians were killed in gaza today and thousands more injured as the united states officially opened its embassy in jerusalem. the president's daughter ivanka trump, she was there and jared. >> while presidents before him have backed down from their pledge to move the american embassy once in office, this president delivered. because when president trump makes a promise he keeps it. >> so, phil, do you think this was about keeping a campaign promise considering the real impact of what's going on in this region? >> i mean, i think he had two choices. one as jared kushner said to keep a campaign promise, two, which would have been a more significant question, if you're a deal maker who has had for years tried to portray yourself, for a man who wrote "the art of the deal" we just gave the israelis an incredible gift. what do we get in return and how do we persuade the president wh

a lot of people in the west wing were comparing it to the days of anthony scaramucci. where again, it was these wild ride watching statements made on tv and not knowing if there was a grand strategy behind it or not. there were a lot of people who were relieved when they saw president trump come out and review rudy giuliani and suggest he had to pull him back. there were people in the west wing that found a source of relief. >>chris: are you hearing anything about whether the president at the end of the week is pleased or displeased with giuliani and what are you hearing about this question, did he help or hurt the president's case this week? >> on the latter point, i have to say you heard. when your job is to come in and get your arms around the problem and put out a news story with new information to the american people. within 24-48 hours, you were doing damage control of your own damage control, that is not good. putting out a memo to say this is what i meant to say. now he's back on television this morning and last night. i don't think you can give him in an a+. i

when you are measured up against anthony scaramucci and we're approaching a new world record. president threw him under the bus today. >> he was a messenger but he messed up the message. let's see what he does with the negotiations. >> i think a former mayor should be able to handle that. but we'll see. thanks very much. >>> coming up, a surprising reaction after a powerful republican lawmakers seeks to read a temperature but he doesn't read. it and why rudy giuliani is creating new legal problems for the president while trying to clean up a lot of old ones. -♪ he's got legs of lumber and arms of steel ♪ ♪ he eats a bowl of hammers at every meal ♪ ♪ he holds your house in the palm of his hand ♪ ♪ he's your home and auto man ♪ big jim, he's got you covered ♪ ♪ great big jim, there ain't no other ♪ -so, this is covered, right? -yes, ma'am. take care of it for you right now. giddyup! hi! this is jamie. we need some help. >>> now an exclusive, new details of a justice department document about the russia investigation reluctantly handed over to house intelligence committee chairma

founder,er -- the anthony scaramucci, will return as a managing partner.o raise salaries and offer quicker promotions as part of its euros long push to improve conditions for bankers. base salaries for most associates in investment banking and capital markets will rise by 25%. morgan stanley is boosting pay to try to retain young talent. that is your bloomberg business flash. anna, manus? anna: thank you. negotiations are set to resume in brussels on the irish border dispute. prime minister to resume a and his main campaigner, tony blair, have said that these negotiations are hard to handle. we learned since the referendum and 2016, is that these negotiations are much tougher than people thought. there was a dilemma that the government has not resolved, about our future trading relationship with europe. withr the government goes an arrangement to stay closer to europe, in which case we will be abiding by a lot of rules, in which case capable say, why are we leaving been? or we have a clean break with europe, go our own way, in which case the economic dislo

some concerns that giuliani is just simply flying too close to the sun here, that he's pulling anthony scaramucci and that he might need to pull back because his -- you know, his media blitz hasn't worked out in the president's favor. we have also heard the president trump isn't -- he isn't ready to get rid of giuliani yet. he's already told him that he's giving him the leeway to be out there on television, but giuliani hasn't coordinated with the white house press shop on all of these appearances and has gone back and forth about what he's been saying about the stormy daniels' case. a lot of concern within this white house that he's simply going way too far on this issue. he's the president's attorney when it comes to the mueller's investigation but he's been talking quite a bit about this other issue with stormy daniels. >> he has, indeed. thank you for that reporting. >>> so bombshell, the new york attorney general resigns late last night after a stunning and incredibly disturbing report. eric schneiderman is a man who brought legal action against harvey weinstein. he's openly criticized presi

. >> it happened to anthony scaramucci -- >> and that is a great example of what you are talking about. is because originally after that interview, trump was telling people, oh, i loved that what he said about that. when everyone else is like this guy is a lunatic and then when the blow-back came and everyone was condemning scaramucci, then trump was like maybe this isn't the best person for the communications director role. >> so it today just giuliani's day in the barrel or is his future at risk? i'll get you thoughts on that right after this quick break. stay with us. ♪ ♪ legendary jockey vÍctor espinoza is insatiable when it comes to competing. ♪ ♪ so is his horse. ♪ ♪ when it comes to snacking. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that's why he uses the chase mobile app, to pay practically anyone, at any bank. life, lived victor's way. chase. make more of what's yours. that skills like teamwork, attention to detail, and customer service are critical to business success. the kind of skills, that work for you. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's o

. >> not necessarily another anthony scaramucci who was on the job for 10 or 11 days? >> right.big problem is it doesn't appear to be a strategy other than rudy giuliani talking on air to anchors and getting questions he can't answer, and there is sort of this collision of ignorance about campaign and finance that he seems to know nothing about it. obviously in the legal profession it should apply here, too, and he seems to be harming his clients. i think it's safe to say had he stayed off of tv, donald trump would have had a better result. it's not acceptable to have sessions with sarah sanders, to go out and face the press every day, stand there not knowing. even if she can't answer specifically, not even understanding the strategy. this has been a disaster. >> and you hear pamela brown reporting on scott pruitt, the epa chief, that he may be on very, very thin ice right now. the president may be turning against him. >> we heard that the white house is becoming cooler to him, and it had been -- the whole white house had been pretty much standing behind him throughout this endl

also in that piece i said his firing of anthony scaramucci will probably be the high point of his tenure. i was hoping i'd be wrong. i'm not wrong. it was the high point of his tenure. the montage that you showed is just -- it boggles the mind that a person who is supposed to be -- when it comes to the white house and oval office -- the second most powerful person in the building and even he, a former general, cannot bring control to that complex, and we all know the reason why, no matter who the chief of staff is, the president is the problem. he has been the problem. he is the problem. he will be the problem. so anyone who takes a job in that administration, particularly in the west wing, better know that before they even take the job. >> what strikes me about john kelly is he is the same kind of problem that the president is. >> right. >> we just showed videotape of john kelly lying word for word about a member of congress. we can't show you that videotape about anyone else who's ever worked in the white house. there's no one else we can show you, here's the day that the white house c

anthony scaramucci came out weeks ago, everybody laughed at him, but the man is essentially right.fice is as low as it's ever been. we see them going through the motion. >> i have to get this to phil before we run out of time. dozens were killed and thousands more injured in palestine. the president's daughter, ivanka trump was there, and so was son-in-law jared kushner. jared had this to say at the opening. watch this. >> while presidents before him have backed down from their pledge to move the american embassy once in office, this president delivered, because when president trump makes a promise, he keeps it. [ applause ] >> so, phil, do you think this was about keeping a campaign promise, considering the real impact of what's going on in this region? >> i mean, i think he had two choices. one, as jared kushner said, to keep the campaign promise. two, which i think would have been a more significant question, if you're a deal-maker, a deal-maker who for 70 years has tried to portray yourself as an impartial mediator between the palestinians and israelis, how do you sit there and

a bit from the collusion investigation to the contempt within the white house and how or if anthony scaramucci will be accommodated there. i must assume this gives you some relief. we are here in virginia. be in touch if you have the time. would be great to catch up. we are not mentioning the informant's name, but when did you first meet this informant that we now know is an informant and just briefly tell us about that exchange. >> again, similar to view in terms of being cautious about identity, i have also -- i never knew anything about the person i was speaking with who is a university professor at cambridge in the u.k. at the time. i was invited to participate in a conference in july of 2016 and everything seemed totally normal. and frankly, i have been falsely accused myself and we will see what happens in terms of as further details come out. but based on everything i've seen thus far, we still don't have any information. >> laura: we know he was paid a million dollars over five years. pretty good money as a consultant, or researcher. but you are right. we shall see. but question, befor

on a show starring the creepy porn lawyer and anthony scaramucci.ake of public safety and to keep it contained, it may be ain good thing that it's comi anyway. democratic congresswoman maxine waters of california is back. not that she went anywhere. she recently got into a fight on the floor of the house with republican mike kelly. she said that car dealers are racist. here's part of it. >> i can't believe that in 2018, we are on the floor of congress seeing the denial of some of my colleagues about discrimination in the auto-lending business. >> to impugn the integrity of automobile lending people is beyond reproach. if you run out of facts, i guess the next thing you have to go to is discrimination. >> i am more offended as an african-american woman than you will ever be. and this business about making america great again, it is yourf president that is dividing this country. >> tucker: i am more offended than you will ever be, therefore i win! in the "who's offended" olympics, maxine waters is always a gold medalist. [laughs] mark steyn, author an

this e-mail was sent from the mooch, anthony scaramucci.e 15th, rob. i wanted to drop you a line to say if you ever need to pick my brains, my door is always open. obviously there is still pressure on all sides, but if we remain consistent and united, i don't envisage any issues we can't ride out. >>> so, scaramucci has told other outlets this had nothing to do with russia. what is your read on this, hoe? >> this kind of reminds me of what happens when you have a pool of boys and everyone sees a broken window and everyone says, if we all stick to the same story and no one sees the baseball in our hands, no one can be blamed for breaking the window. the whole thematic thing all's well that ends well, if nothing came of the meeting, if we can say nothing came of the meeting if our narrative can be consistent, then nobody can point in our direction or give us any or assign any blame. but that doesn't work when there are crimes that are contemplated in our u.s. code about crimes that involve endeavoring to commit a crime. endeavoring to obstruc

media strategy of create chaos that we've seen from so many other trump exponents including anthony scaramucci p. suggestions that giuliani won't be around very long. he's job while we sit here parsing and you did a good job explanation, we try to parse that for logic he's just throwing up more dry ice and sparkles and i don't know what. >> to that effect, does that create a credibility crisis, then, for this white house for all the people that are defending the trump administration because the president's counsellor, kellyanne conway, she attempted to try to clarify at least some of what is going on with the president's statement over the past month, whether he knew about that payment to stormy daniels that was paid to stormy daniels. take a listen to this. >> the no refers to when the payment occurred. that's very important here. there's a fast moving exchange. i asked the president what he meant and he said, i didn't know about it when the payment occurred. i think you're overcomplicating that very simple point. >> with all of the different answers that we've heard from giuliani, from the p

. >> the new york times is reporting that a television show featuring michael avenatti and anthony scaramucci been pitched at cnn and here at this net work. they cite three people briefed on the matter. they report that a prominent television agent pitched the promise of the greatest antagonist squaring off with a white house loyalist. scaramucci tweeted how about not happening. avenatti also tweeted out lol, i have no interest in television right now. i'll leave that to the experts. i enjoy practicing law and look forward to prevailing on behalf of my client stormy daniels. that's where my focus is. we'll get a lot more from michael schmidt when he joins "morning joe." >> you got to love it when he starts with lol. >>> important new context about the whistle blower who admits to leaking michael cohen's financial records. a law enforcement official motivated by missing files and the whistle blower was unable to track down two of what was believed to be three suspicious activity reports filed by first republic bank, the same bank used to pay stormy daniels. law enforcement officials tell nbc n

a lot of people drawing the comparison with anthony scaramucci, as you'll recall, the former communicationsr who lasted about 11 days. so it's yet to be seen. clearly the president continues to. >>a l -- to allow rudy giuliani speak on his behalf. this as we're learning that rudy giuliani and others on the president's legal team are discussing when or if an interview will happen with ron ert mueller. and they're looking at the date of may 17th as the potential deadline to make that decision by. a source i spoke with said that is what they're shooting for. of course things could change. new lawyers are being brought on board. emmet flood as we recently reported. but that's what they're aiming for. so while rudy giuliani is there in the public, speaking to the media, behind the scenes there are very serious discussions going on about whether the president will testify. >> thank you very much, pamela. and obviously significant there if they are shooting for a may 17th date as pamela indicated they're trying to. all these questions about whether they'll face a subpoena or take the fifth, obviou

when anthony scaramucci came, other people didn't know what was going on. >> april -- >> this bubble inside the bubble. >> april, the first word of outside counsel -- >> how can i help you? >> the first word of outside counsel is "outside." so now they have a structure with mayor giuliani -- >> thank you for that elementary education. >> i'm explaining because clearly you don't get it. that's why you're the fifth or sixth reporter -- >> this is the president of the united states of america, there's nothing outside when you're dealing with the american people and this kind of level of investigation. >> this is really pretty remarkable. so sarah did a fantastic job -- >> remarkable, thank you. >> answering the real questions -- >> she did. >> coming at her on policy questions -- >> she did. >> whether iran, north korea. i'm glad you agree with me, she did. after five or six times of folks going to her she said, i wasn't part of the legal team, this wouldn't have been a conversation i would have been part of. then april, you came and followed up with basically the exact same question, t

lesson after i bought commemorative coins for the cowaleted border , biggest inauguration ever, anthony scaramucci's 100 days on the job -- [ laught cleared of all charges, and "people's" sexiest man alive. [ laughter and applae ] so trump canceled the summit, which shouldn't surprise anyone. he earned back slaps from the media desperate to praise him for something, but he repeatedly made clear he had no iat he was doing. for example, when he spoke today at the white house, trump urged north korea to give up its nuclear weaps. >> north korea has the opportunity to end decades of poverty and oppression by following the path of denuclearization. >> seth: there you go, he wants them to follow the path of declearization. but when he was asked on tuesday how declearization would work, trump claims he totally knew but wouldn't go into detail. id >> do you have a of how denuclearization would take place? >> i do, i have a very strong idea how it takes place and it must take place. that's what we're talking about. it must take place, but i have a very strong idea and i have very strong opinions on the subje

anthony scaramucci and senator bob mar skelly. even if the president is correct in saying the president loves this, people say sara sanders and the communication staff have been embarrassed. don mcgahn who is beside himself, what do you think rudy is doing here? >> i would welcome the guys signed the white house to not be anonymous on this stuff and come out and put the names on the stuff and say here's my name, here's what i think. since they don't do that, i find that equally frustrating. but the president played golf with andrew and mayor giuliani on sunday and my guess is that the relationship was -- >> he called shulkin how you doing and fired him five minutes later. >> yeah. it's a little different relationship. i think the relationship with david or secretary shulkin was probably less close than the president's had with the mayor, which i think goes back about 30 years. and so -- and i think these guys have bonded from 9/11 and other areas of their lives. so i don't see this as being a long term problem. think if you're ask

a lot of people in the west wing were comparing it to the days of anthony scaramucci, his 11 days inhite house where again it was sort of this wild ride watching statements made on tv and not knowing whether there was a grand strategy behind it or not. there were a lot of people who were relieved when they saw president trump come out and rebuke rudy giuliani and suggest he had to pull it back. there were a lot of people from the west wing who found that a source of relief. >> chris: are you hearing anything about whether the president at the end of the week is pleased or displeased with him and what do you hearing about this question, the first when i asked the two lawyers, did he help or hurt the president case this week? >> i think on the latter point you have to say that he heard. when your job is to come in and get your arms around a problem and put out a new story with new information to the american people and within 24 to 48 hours you are doing damage control of your own damage control, that's not good. putting out a memo saying actually this is what i meant to say when i wen

anthony scaramucci said he was going to stop the leaks. what is the problem?ough is it to run a tighter operation? >> people have very ingenious ways these days, encrypted apps, et cetera to go after each other but i think part of the problem is that you've got a media that's willing to take any story that comes from anybody that wants to as kelly and put it, shiv their fellow employees so that there is a willing audience to get retribution or undermine someone else's agenda and score political -- petty political points if they don't want to undermines models on the team. i think that's sad, that's wrong and i think kelly and as i mentioned is right. the people who are caught doing that undermine what this president is working hard to do and distract from his ability to implement and drive a message that cares about the american people. >> martha: the big one this week was this woman and what you said about john mccain, very heartless comments and i guess somebody who doesn't like her shivved her as kelly and said. what do you think should happen to her? >> i'