let's get to eamon jarvis in front of trump tower this morning. eamon. >> the new name is scott paul, he's the president for the alliance for american manufacturing. he's also stepping down from the president's manufacturing council, putting out a statement saying, i'm resigning because it's the right thing for me to do meanwhile, the president here at trump tower in midtown manhattan lashing out, really, at some of the executives that have already left that council, putting out a statement on twitter, for every ceo who drops out of the manufacturing council, i have many to take their place grandstanders should not have gone on jobs, exclamation points the president arguing that those people who are stepping down from his council are simply grandstanders, carl? >> eamon, thank you very much. we still look forward to some events this afternoon, right, eamon? what happens at 3:00 and later at 3:45? >> well, we're expecting a series of announcements from the president later on today, including on manufacturing and infrastructure and other things. but

. >> all right let's go to eamon jarvis. >> he was here on this working vacation he djts do a whole lot of vacationing on as it turned out. i think that's an excellent point. you look at this white house since inauguration day this has been a tremendously tumultuous white house you saw people pushed out and now steve bannon, one of the people seen as the architect of the president's campaign victory pushed out the president himself minimizing earlier this week steve bannon's role in the campaign, saying he didn't come in until late. he called him mr. bannon several times. he also said he likes him and doesn't think he's a racist. clearly left him hanging out there all week with an indication he might be about to force out yet another senior official from his white house is president trump someone who's had a lot of those forced out. will it stop the political damage that the white house has experienced. you can imagine officials will feel this will be a positive cycle, turn the page, a fresh start and get the president back on his economic agenda and foreign policy agenda and off the is