mr. scaramucci: ok, well listen. i'm a business person, and so what happens in business a lot of the times is you have some rotation in personnel. as you're making changes, and you have lifestyle choices that people are also making. i would love to have sean here. decided that he thought it would be better that the go. -- he go. and for me, as it relates to sean it speaks volumes to who he is as a human being and a team player. his attitude is if anthony is coming in, let me clear the slate for anthony. i do appreciate that about sean and i love him for it, but i don't have any friction with sean, i don't have any friction with reince. this is the white house of the united states of america. we're serving the president. and i want to make sure our cultural template is that we put the president's agenda first, which is perfect for the american people. and we serve his interest. so if we have a little friction inside the white house as a result of that, it's ok. we can live with that. i'm a business person, and i'm use

mr. scaramucci: your relationship with the president -- how long has it lasted? mr. scaramucci: the first time at the president -- he was a namebrand act in the day -- namebrand back in the day. a personal friend of mine, we were at goldman sachs together, he introduced me to the president. i met him a few more times. the president of the yankees introduced me to him a few times. and then i would say he got -- we got closer during the romney campaign where we get a couple fundraisers in his magnificent apartment. listen, i have a good relationship with the president, i love the president. you guys in the media know i have been very, very loyal to him, and i will do the best i can with my heart and soul in this job to serve him the best i can. reporter: are there going to be other changes? mr. scaramucci: the thing i can talk about specifically is that dansk aveeno and the team are scavino and the team are staying. i just spoke to them. i think they are 2 phenomenal people. as it relates to the other people in the comm shop, i need to get to know them. sean was incredi

mr. scaramucci: i don't know. i have an enormous amount of respect for press secretary speakes, but when he was standing at this podium, it was a very different world. ach one of us right now has sound studio, recording studio, movie studio right in the palm of our hands, so we can say things and it will be read certain ways. sarah and i will work on reaching as many people as we possibly can for today's era. accurate in the 1980's, but sarah and i will think of something cute to say once we start working -- [indiscernible] reporter: is it possible for the communications team -- how do you make sure that you are on the same page as this president? what have you said to him about the need to know what he is thinking and where he stands as it relates to policy? mr. scaramucci: i'm not going to speak on behalf of the president. i have a close relationship with him, sarah has a close relationship with him. it is important to have him express his personality. let's see where the chips fall. if something happens, you ca

mr. scaramucci: repeat that? >> do not tell us how to state the news, we will not tell you how to report the news. is that an accurate statement? mr. scaramucci: i have a great amount of respect for secretary speaks, but when he was standing at this podium, it was a very different world. we now all have a recording studio, television studio, movie studio right in the palm of our hand. we can stage certain things and it might be read some ways, and might not be read other ways. but we will work as well as we possibly can on that for today in this era. maybe that was accurate in the 1980's, but we will think of something good to say once we start working together. >> [indiscernible] mr. scaramucci: though. -- go. >> is it possible for this communications team to -- at every moment? how will you make sure you are on the same page as this president? what have you said to him about the need to know what he is thinking and where he stands as it relates to policy? mr. scaramucci: i know -- i am not going to speak on beh

mrtrump but it seems like mr scaramucci went too far. anything about his tie rate but sources were reported saying he wasn't happy to be associated with the vulgarity, but there is also speculation among reporters that he had an icarus syndrome, flew too close to the son and his wings melted, he became the story rather than the president. you never want to do that. barbara, keep us posted. we will turn back to washington when the press briefing turns to sarah sanders. it was inevitable there would be fall—out from venezuela's election. at stake was the make up of the constituent assembly. this body isn't a permanent body, it doesn't always exist within venezuela but it does exist if changes to the constitution are needed. officials in venezuela voter —— will tell you the turnout was over 42%, the opposition says 90% abstaining. we know voters were choosing members of a joint assembly, this assembly will look into the government's adding to the current constitution. opposition groups fear this could mean nicolas maduro trying to extend his

that was seen as a win for mr scaramucci. but mr priebus‘ replacement, generaljohn kelly, demanded mr scaramucci's removal in turn. mr scaramucci's attack last week may have made that an easier sale. 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. mr scaramucci was actually the second communications director, following mike dubcic, who resigned in june. the current national security adviser, hr mcmaster, is also the second. the first, mike flynn, resigned after misleading the vice president on issues around the russian influence scandal. irritation with the investigation into that scandal eventually led to president trump firing the fbi director, james comey. we also know the president may about be about to fire his attorney—general, jeff sessions, because mr sessions recuesed himself from that investigation. maybe general kelly will make the white house work. but they've had a humiliation on he

mr. scaramucci will do that. i noticed yesterday a few times he said i don't know in response, which i found deeply refreshing, for occasionally just say no comment. not a bad idea. in midland,od pennsylvania where we have mike on the line for democrats. caller: good morning, gentlemen. how are you? host: great, thinking. -- thank you. caller: i would like to know what your guest thinks. the comment you made earlier about the old days in the bipartisanship. my neighbor and i speak about politics all the time. we were talking about when tip o'neill was speaker of the house. they drank together. but when it came down to is this the name disagreed with each other but they sat down at the table across from each other and they hammered things out and got legislation put through. nowadays i want to know what your opinion is about citizens united. using big pharma as an example. an article said they pharma spent so much money on lobbying congress that it averages out to be three lobbyist for congressman. 1500 lobbyist f

mr scaramucci has apologised for the language used, but not the sentiments expressed.new yorker magazine, mr scaramucci said of the chief of staff... of steve bannon, he said... and that only touches the sides of some of the foul—mouthed invective aimed at steve bannon. infairness, mr scaramucci had warned earlier in the week when he spoke to the bbc, that he would be more direct. one of the things i cannot stand about this town is the backstabbing that goes on here, 0k? where i grew up and the neighbourhood i'm from, we're front stabbers. we like to tell you exactly where we're from and what we're doing. donald trump left a storm—tossed washington earlier today to fly to long island, new york, to look at efforts to curb inter—gang rivalry and violence. he could have stayed at home. let me report a dramatic finale to a dramatic week. the chief of staff, it has just been announced he has gone from his post at the white house. donald trump tweeting, in the last few minutes, i am pleased to inform you i havejust last few minutes, i am pleased to inform you i have just nam

mr. scaramucci made quite a bit of news in his short tenure.obably a good sign for the president, frankly, for his white house that you're seeing general kelly step in and hopefully try to bring order out of chaos. but at the end of the day, you know, it's not going to be the chief of staff. it has to be whether this president himself is going to change his behavior and so far we have not seen those changes. >> so when you say could there be order out of chaos, the president is saying that the white house is not in chaos today but it raises a crucial question. is anthony scaramucci's spectacular failure, which i think it's fair to say it was, given how much coverage he got and how brief he served, is that a reflection on him or is it a reflection on him, the president of the united states, who fired him. >> i think the buck stops in the old harry truman line in the office of the president and i would think the president would have known the character of mr. scaramucci and clearly it appears some of his language and techniques were not unexpecte

mr. scaramucci, we hardly knew you. w the slate has been cleared of anthony scaramucci for new white house chief of staff general kelly. the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders saying today that the president thought anthony's comments in that expletive interview with the new yorker last week were inappropriate. also that all staff will be reporting to kelly. anthony had been promised a direct line to donald trump. saying what matters isn't who is unemployed in the white house. we've got a little bit of conflicting reporting. anthony scaramucci's friend brian lanz athat elreport -- report to duty tomorrow at the xm bank. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders as of about 20 minutes ago having no knowledge of him having a formal role in the investigation. >> i just texted with anthony. he showed me his action paperwork that shows i am being reassigned back to xm bank. >> see in that comes to pass. we have a treat. he just interviewed russia foreign minister sergey lavrov on who is one of the peo

mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give the chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build scaramucci last week profanely criticized then chief of staff reince priebus and stephen bannon in an interview published by the new yorker magazine. the trump administration is imposing sanctions directly on nicolas maduro after the vote that was a step toward rewriting venezuela's constitution. department's designation freezes any of his assets subject the jewish -- u.s. jurisdiction and prevents u.s. persons from dealing with him. reported missing -- a reporter who was reported missing a few days ago has been found dead. the chairman said that his body showed signs of torture. there are concerns about future violence as kenya's transition moves to a new technology to identify voters and remove fraud. two big losses in the world of arts and entertainment. died last week of convocations from lou gehrig's disease. he was 73 and his death was announced today. , whoh actress ginny monroe --ked with france watch rufo truafau and others, is dead. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. ♪ s

mr. scaramucci said. theagencies have concluded that russia was involved. i think folks republicans and democrats in congress all think russia was involved. so there is really not a lot of disagreement other than the president and top supporters who say that the president sees this russia hacking, the e-mail meddling, all of this, as a way to dela skrit megitimize his vi. he thinks people are saying he didn't win on his own if you give russia that credit. so that's why he wants to make sure everybody knows i was elected fairly, it wasn't because of russia, it was because my voters. and think he gets frustrated when other folks point out russia was involved. of course they were involved. >> one thfring we know that reay frustrates him is the leaking inside the white amucci on that. >> if the leaks don't stop, i'm going to pare down the staff. it's not fair to the president or america or the people in the government. i won't be able to stop the leak or in the intergovernmental agencies, that is a whole different ball of wax. but something is going on inside t

mr. scaramucci and president trump can be on the same page. of the stuff that we've talked about this week has come out of that "new york times" interview the president did earlier this week. what i'm hoping is that mr. scaramucci and president trump can be on the same page in terms of evaluating opportunities and whether or not they are beneficial for the president's agenda in terms of reforming our health care system and passing tax reform. we have to keep our eyes on the prize in terms of what the people who elected president trump elected him to do and that is to make significant changes to our health care system and our tax code. >> let's talk about the electorate, because bill, i want to ask you, we've got donald trump jr., paul manafort, jared kushner set to talk to this committee next week. i was watching tucker carlsson last night, they were going after the media, in the fact trying to go after the truth we just think of ourselves as being self-righteous, and that we've got some mission. so my question is, to you, about average americ

mr. scaramucci: thank you. i will be very brief, i will make my remarks in formal and take questions. i would like to announce formally that sarah huckabee sanders, you cannot hear me, i am sorry. sarah huckabee sanders will be the press secretary so you can congratulate her -- still can't hear me? no sound? better now? i will start over. you guys heard me in the front though. sarah will be the press secretary, right? so congratulations to you, sarah. >> [applause] >> we will show you the rest of that white house briefing a little later. first we will hear from white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, who sat down with us to talk about her family life and background. later tonight we will show you president trump at the white house service members of the uss arizona, who survived the 1941 attack on harvard. -- attack on pearl harbor. >> c-span's "washington journal," live with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, with the news of sean spicer's resignation, the weekly standard will join us to talk about that, and his recent article looking at t

what this shows is that mr scaramucci is very close to the president's children? and so i expect the refs that you see between. ivanka his daughter and of course your kushner his son in law with the more traditional stylish but people like rates previous the chief of staff. fire the chief of staff this evening i would be saying they came for spicer first they're going to be coming from the next. and the note if you look from your last segment that mr skirmi he said he's not gonna report to the white house chief of staff which all staff in the white house do. but directly to the president said that isn't clear undermining the role of the chief of staff. and i wouldn't be surprised virginius if mister. r to the president. and i think we circumvent the chief of staff from your experience and knowledge. i've nevi've never seen in the obama administration we certainly didn't have that the bush administration. one thing that the president does to inoculate himself from the running of the white house is to delegate all responsibility to the white house chief of staff. th

anthony scaramucci used obscene language to describe the white house chief of staff reince preibus and chief strategist steve bannon. it's the latest drama to hit mrange could be on the way. from washington, laura bicker reports. president trump's west wing is at war with itself. appointment of the flashy financier anthony scaramucci is the new director of communications has prompted a bitter battle to win the ear of the president. mr scaramucci has indirectly accused his colleague, the white house chief of staff reince preibus of leaking information about the administration. he called a us network show to say that only mr trump could judge whether the tense relationship between the two was repairable. during a white house briefing the press secretary for huckabee sanders said donald trump encouraged healthy competition between his staff. the president like that type of competition and encourages it. however she also refused to answer when asked if the president had confidence in mr reince preibus. tonight with an extraordinary fungal with new yorker magazine, anthony scaramucci described reince preibus as a paranoid schizophrenic. he also took pe

mr. scaramucci, you both agree he's pretty smooth talking.there were some issues if you look in his tweets, including one where he called the president a political hack. he was asked about that specific tweets and may be disagreeable with some of the things the president believes earlier on "fox news sunday." this is what he said. >> the president was hitting the hedge fund industry that morning on fox and rents. i'm a fighter. when he's hitting a hedge fund in this area, i am hitting back. he knows that. knows that appear to respect that about me. we were laughing about that last night. >> it seems as though the one been president does like his fighters in one way or another. the president sees himself. is that a way to get a done going forward, and the things we talked about earlier that the american people talked about. >> well, the president is a fighter and want someone around him he thinks can defend him. more importantly, what mr. scaramucci will agree is a strategic communications approach to tactical ones. getting up in front of the

anthony scaramucci has launched a scathing attack on both the white house chief of staff, reince priebus, and mref strategist, steve bannon. laura bicker reports on this, the latest episode in the white house saga. president trump's west wing is at war with itself. the appointment of the flashy financier, anthony scaramucci, as the new director of communications has prompted a bitter battle to win the ear of the president. mr scaramucci has indirectly accused his colleague, the white house chief of staff reince priebus, of leaking information about the administration. he called a us network show to say that only mr trump could judge whether the tense relationship between the two was repairable. we have had differences. when i said we were brothers from the podium, that is because... but some brothers are like cain and abel. other brothers can fight with each other and get along. i don't know whether this is repairable or not, that will be up to the president. tonight, in an extraordinary phone call with a reporter from the new yorker, anthony scaramucci described reince priebus as a paranoid sch

mr. scaramucci can do, mr. intelligent, pleasant, incredibly capable gu guy, black is white and white is black it, the press hates trump. he is not going to be able to change that. >> neil: all right, he could do well, i take back all of the stuff i said, i often think i'm kidding, but i also think that's a good communications director has to have such a frank relationship with the president, that he or she has to be able to tell the president that they should do something different. i wonder if president trump is open to that, or doesn't always go back to i became president, i am not listening to guys like you, so why should i listen to you now? and then the discussion is over and he doesn't listen, and we know that yeah, you got elected president, great job, it is historic, it is incredible, but now, you have to proceed with which we think is a promising agenda, what do you think? >> i think there is a promising agenda, i especially like cutting the corporate tax very, very much, but there is just nothing he c

mr. scaramucci joining the administration is it pay back? is there bad blood? that reince priebus is a big leaker at the white house. ainsley: good for him. new guy in town. new sheriff, coming in saying i'm going to clean house. if you are leaking, we are going to catch you. steve: think about it this is almost like a house of cards things. if reince priebus were in fact the leaker. we don't know. that would be so significant that you would have the president of the united states out at the podium saying you know what? somebody is leaking in here and we are going to find out and months later it's revealed somebody high in your administration. that is heart-breaking. brian: other big story what's going on with attorney general jeff sessions. first established politician to really endorse the president of the united states. now if you just read the president's twitter feed, you understand he has been under attack from this president who is very disappointed that he ended up recusing himself. a lot of legal experts said he had no choice. let's debate that he did

mr scaramucci later tweeted that he was not accusing priebus. @scaramucci "wrong!s that all sr adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. @reincelis". end of story. well, it would have been. but then scaramucci called cnn this morning — and said this. when a journalist who actually knows who the leakers are, they know the lea kers. who the leakers are, they know the leakers. they explained that they know who the leakers are, i respect them for not telling me, they understand and respect journalistic integrity however, when i put out a tweet and put his name in the tweet, they assume it is him because the journalists know the leakers. if he wa nts to journalists know the leakers. if he wants to explain he is not a leaker, let him do that. it isn't meant to work this way, because reince priebus is meant to be the chief of staff, he's supposed the communications director, and he is meant to be reporting to him? exactly, in the traditional white house, they answer to the chief of staff but in this white house, scaramucci has a direct line to the president, and the

anthony scaramucci is taking over for sean spicer. mr. ith the press but scaramucci this morning talking to breitbart radio about what he considers the trump administration with the messaging. >> i'm hoping with the right communication strategy we can get the message out there to what i would call the heartland and to the people themselves and then create a ground swell where those people who are disaffect from the kopg -- from the congress. we have got to get the message out there and get the message to list the congressmen and the senators to do the right things for the country. >> he went to harvard, now in that job, garrett tenney live in washington with more. what have you learned? more about what caused spicer to call it quits? >> he says he wasn't forced out, the president wanted him to stay, and this was his choice to step down. it is also no secret, though, that the president has not been pleased with particularly how sean spicer interacted with the reporters in the daily briefings. the president is a fighter and that's what he li

in an extraordinary phone call with a reporter from the new yorker, mr scaramucci described mr priebus said he would refrain from using "colourful language", but would not give up the passionate fight for donald trump's agenda. mr scaramucci has been in the west wing just one week, and appears to have spent more time launching personal attacks than pushing the president's policies. he may also be forcing the chief of staff, and a key republican establishment figure, out the door. when the communications director becomes the story himself, he is doing something wrong. this is a showman president who may appreciate the fact that anthony scaramucci is a straight shooter. one thing you don't do when it comes to trump's administration is overshadowed the main star, and he may have done that on this occasion. the whistling it really quiet this morning, we have had nothing with regards to this row. as you heard in that clip, the president may decide whether this relationship between reince priebus and anthony scaramucci is repairable. —— the west wing is really quiet this morning. we have eye

anthony scaramucci has launched a scathing attack on both the white house chief of staff, reince priebus, and mrsteve bannon. laura bicker reports on this, the latest episode in the white house saga. president trump's west wing is at war with itself. the appointment of the flashy financier, anthony scaramucci, as the new director of communications has prompted a bitter battle to win the ear of the president. mr scaramucci has indirectly accused his colleague, the white house chief of staff reince priebus, of leaking information about the administration. he called a us network show to say that only mr trump could judge whether the tense relationship between the two was repairable. we have had differences. when i said we were brothers from the podium, that is because we are rough with each other. some brothers are like cain and abel. 0ther brothers can fight with each other and get along. i don't know whether this is repairable or not, that will be up to the president. in an extraordinary phone call with a reporter from the new yorker, anthony scaramucci described reince priebus as a paranoid schi

he replaced reince priebus, who left his job after an apparent falling—out with mr scaramucci.mp has denied that the white house in chaos. our north america editor jon sopel has more. i'm going to be brief, i'm going to make my remarks informal... well, he was right about that, wasn't he? it is day one on the job, and certain things are instantly clear. anthony scaramucci does not lack for self—confidence, swagger or bravado. but 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. 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, he said the former chief of staff... and the 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 the first day as new chief of staff, had changes he wanted to make, as the president lavished praise on him. so i want to congratul

mr. scaramucci gave him a call and said why do you even know this? how do you know about this private dinner that's happening at the white house? he says they will all be fired by me. i fired one guy the other day, i have three to four people i will follow tomorrow. reince priebus, if you want to lick something, he will be asked to resign very shortly. he is a blinking paranoid schizophrenic. this is revelatory of what's going on in the white house. i think american citizens look at that and say "gee, is the business a priority or is that the animus that exists between these two coindividuals? ">> business is absolutely the priority. i think anthony is put something of this. at the white house we are focused on who has a job, that's what we're trying to put forward on the agenda. this is a big day today legislatively. we have the health care vote later tonight. border wall that came out of the house appropriations. we've got russia sanctions bill that just passed. we are focused on the agenda, moving forward, and sometimes people in the staff get pre

mr. scaramucci. now, anthony scaramucci is a very smart guy. harvard law school, trained, made a lot of money on wall street, charismatic on television. but i think sean believes, and he's a friend of mine, so discount for lie of the green, this job requires a great deal more knowledge of how washington, d.c., operates than mr. scaramucci has. so we'll see. but i do believe -- very much reject what dana milbank had to say. >> big surprise there. >> yeah, big shocker. >> you think he'll be on a cable channel in a week? >> yeah, i do. not only has he done a very good job -- a fine job at the rnc, but he knows everyone in washington, d.c., and has the most important thing, which is a score card and phone numbers next to it. and the president will talk to him. the chief of staff will talk to him. the special assistants to the president will talk to him. the cabinet members will talk to him. so as a reporter, i think he's going to be fine. and i do believe -- he just did not want to be number two to an individual who may find the job is more challen

mr. scaramucci is going to have to deal with. and to the extent that he can bring greater discipline and focus to the white house, he'll be successful. if he can't, if he cannot do that, well then i suspect he'll suffer the same fate as sean spicer. >> we had a conversation with one of your colleagues this morning, stephanie rule and i did, and he was saying, you know, you guys in the media are so obsessed with russia. what did sarah huckabee sanders call it, the russia fever? all this kind of stuff and stephanie and i were very frustrated because we're economics journalists. we'd love tow been talking about made in america week, but in fact we get did he railed by this russia stuff because the president is going after bob mueller and his team and talks about jeff sessions and all that kind of stuff. it is kind of frustrating because you have business to do on capitol hill and the mesh public is getting more and more frustrated with the fact that basic business isn't getting done. and i think all plam goes to the white house at t

mr scaramucci has indirectly accused his colleague, the white house chief of staff reince priebus, of he called a us network show to say that only mr trump could judge whether the tense relationship between the two was repairable. we have had differences. when i said we were brothers from the podium, that is because... but some brothers are like cain and abel. other brothers can fight with each other and get along. i don't know whether this is repairable or not, that will be up to the president. in an extraordinary phone call with a reporter from the new yorker, anthony scaramucci described reince priebus as a paranoid schizophrenic. he also took personally about mr trump's chief strategist, steve bannon. on twitter he said he would refrain from using "colourful language", but would not give up the passionate fight for donald trump's agenda. mr scaramucci has been in the west wing forjust a week, and appears to have spent more time launching personal attacks than pushing the president's policies. he may also be forcing the chief of staff, and a key republican establishment figure, out

mr. scaramucci out of the white house entirely? >> they are about to put out a statement. and we don't know exactly what is going to happen. certainly he is not one of the main people talking to president trump and talking to the press if general kelly has anything to do with it. >> again, his first day on the job. 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 sta

mr. scaramucci wanted to give john kelly a clean slate. press secretary sanders: i think anthony wants general kelly to be able to operate fully with a clean slate while at the same time, the president felt his comments were inappropriate. they're not mutually exquisite. -- exclusive. out, generalid new structureng to the white house and discipline, and strength. we are all really excited to work with him. i will not draw out a chart right now but we will keep you posted. >> does everything go through general kelly? press secretary sanders: he has the full authority to carry out business as he sees fit. >> a really quick one. sean spicer, will he be in the administration in any way now that anthony scaramucci announced that he will not be a part of the chocolate ministration? trump administration. ? i'm notcretary sanders: aware of that. >> is there no chaos at the white house? how would you describe what happened over the course of the past 10 days? of course you will agree with your boss that there is no chaos. press secretary sanders: i

mr. scaramucci's comments. did you think it was legit when he said it?ankly have my doubts, you know. it was a lot of just sort of blus t bluster, i thought. if you look carefully he already told me he contacted the fbi, but then when he tweeted afterward, he said he was going to contact the fbi. so there is discrepancy there. i wonder if he did contact the fbi. he said that he did. and he repeatedly said he believed that reince priebus conducted felonies that needed to be slefinvestigated by the f. my first thought was, my god, i've never heard a white house staffer say he's going to call the fbi over a tweet inside the white house. he was talking about digital fingerprints and the like. he made it sound like he had the place wired or something to root out the leakers. >> very bizarre. anita, you've worked in the white house where rob emanuel was, i believe, so you've heard some tough language, you've heard some salty language. >> i don't think ryan ever heard that. >> what did you make of this? >> i thought there were a couple of things that were just

mr. scaramucci will be employed at the white house in maybe another position or if he is just going to pack his bags and go. do you see him staying around? >> the people he replaced are gone, federal prosecutors are gone, james comey is gone. they've all gone, comment gone much like television. we are being subjected to celebrity apprentice as a way of governing and administrating and appointments. this is a real problem in terms of carrying out a presidential agenda. scaramucci might stick around to save face but more likely he will go away into the footnotes of history like these other people have, as a part of the failure to launch and instability of this presidency. >> usf fossa james taylor. thank you for joining us on the phone to help us dig through this breaking news. >>> other news in the bay area. we are following a developing story out of san francisco where people are being told to shelter in place in a neighborhood located north of the castro district because of a standoff between police and the shooting suspect that has been going on for more than 12 hours. ktvu alex savidge j

mr. scaramucci. where does that leave the white house at this point? >> you know, just to go back to a little bit of past history, during the campaign, reince preibus, and the president, then-candidate trump had this very tense and strange relationship where basically they were allied, but reince preibus knew the president would throw him overboard the second that it became convenient for him to do so. and that was the tension that was carried then into their relationship into the white house. it has now happened. so what it is is it's a ratification in part of all the reports of the chaos in the white house. what was striking about mr. scaramucci's conversation with "the new yorker's" ryan liza was not just the vulgar language but it gave a window into the administration of what he was saying was basically out of control and pull of people only interested in themselves and protecting their turf, and it was an extraordinarily negative performance review of the white house. by firing reince preibus, it ratifies that view that the last six months have be

mr. scaramucci. that's not a good thing.an, you've got to have a discipline and a white house staff has to be orderly and not be doing that kind of thing. >> so scaramucci was brought in, communications director to help control the message, and had came out guns ablazing so to speak in these first few days. didn't see him at all -- >> so to speak. >> and john podesta has been among those very critical of trump saying john kelly will indeed have his hands full tomorrow. scaramucci or not, or period. listen to what he had to say on abc earlier today. >> general kelly will have his hands full tomorrow morning when he starts work at the white house. i think he's got to pleprotect justice department and bob mueller and the investigation going on there from the continued assault by the president and by the white house. it's going to be his job to provide a bullwart against interference at the end of the day will get them in more trouble rather than less. >> ana, how do you see it? >> i think john podesta is right. i think john kel

mr. scaramucci we should add has been on this profit. he has been in this very studio where we invite him back day time night of his choosing. he was straight up with us on his last visit here np. mr. stengel you are offering as as i understand it a way to save us from ourselves by injecting sports and not just sports, the 1962 mets. how is that? >> well, brian, you got a hint. my name sake cayce stengel can't anyone play this game for me that's how i'm looking at the white house. it's funny scaramucci chose the job of communicationing adviser. he said he he i had i made the mistake of trusting a reporter. you're the communicating adviser. he made the most rookie mistake which is to not say it's off therd are. by the way if he said it was the off the record he would have been the primary leaker of all information that ryan lizza would have published. to use another sports metaphor. welcome to the nfl. he can't play this game and he has to learn how to do it. i think he is self-immolating while he is trying to learn. >> i watched the enti

mr. scaramucci's appointment is a strong pick. it clearly makes the president comfortable, in some ways, with his brash new york persona, he's a bit of an alter ego of the president and he'll be a strong performer for the administration on television. the question is, does it help with the two constituencies that the president needs to improve his standing with most, on capitol hill. is mr. scaramucci, who has no experience as a communications director in politics going to be able to charter strategy that will sell the administration's policies on capitol hill. and although i think he'll be very popular with donald trump's base voters, sumply because si the similarities he has with the president, is he going to be someone who can broaden the administration's support, improve the president's approval rating, to make it that much more easier for him to enact his agenda. >> stephen collinson, appreciate the input this morning. >> with the growing list of challenges for this president in washington, there in the white house, the presi

now, in relation to mr scaramucci most people see this is related to john scaramucci most people seerival as chief of staff. jane kelly is a military man not someone who is expected to have great patients with free licensing all the paper from associated with scaramucci. and the man who has much tolerance for the senate... bright and you think that pa rt senate... bright and you think that part of the role ofjohn kelly, a no—nonsense man, no—nonsense, is to bring the white house administration under control? to join up all the dots and get all the people that of their working together and working for president on? absolutely, someone who worked on president on's campaign was just texting praising thisjury campaign was just texting praising this jury saying it is the right thing to do to try and turn the page. of course the difficulty that sceptics would point out with that is that many of these bob arum stem from president trump himself. his capacity to use twitter. —— many of these problems down from president trump. to say, that's the things and his capacity to enjoy the, if not en

mr. scaramucci came at the request of the new chief of staff. now, that's yet to be confirmed. but if so, general john kelly, the man who just this morning was sworn in and welcomed by president trump to replace reince priebus who was in that position and with whom anthony scaramucci had a long, brewing feud took the reigns. we do want to mention, of course, this very decorated general kelly from the marines now takes command almost immediately. he's former homeland security secretary, and he is now president trump's right and left hand man. he is very decorated, as i mentioned, and he's tasked with putting a spit shine on a team that has had a lot of trouble following the chain of command and coordinating an effective message for the first six months of the president's team -- term. we're expected to hear from the president, and i believe that should be any moment now. we do have the set up. as we see, you can see some of the military people getting ready to honor a true war hero. an agentleman who served as a medic in the vietnam war, highest military honor will be awarded, a

mr. scaramucci together. i think he will melt him with his eyes in any kind of a meeting when mr. ff the radar and gets kind of crazy. that's just the kind of guy he is. he's a marine! what can i say? he's a very good one, and he knows his business. and beyond all that, barbara said he's very loyal to president trump. he's also very patriopatriotic. he loves his country dearly. he's fought for it 45 years. and i think he will be a very good addition to the white house to get things under control. >> the job, also beyond organization, organizationally he's run the department of homeland security. obviously he was a top marine. the structure of those organizations, very different than the white house, which seems to have, in this white house, multiple power centers with people reporting directly to the president, having the president's ear. so a, there's the challenge of dealing with that. and there's the politics of the job. it's not just an organizational job, but a very political job in figuring out the politics in washington. >> two things, anderson. first of all, we make a big d

mr. scaramucci's first full day. maybe we can help. these guys run the big u.s.ntelligence agencies and the first two hand-picked political appointees are the president of the united states, donald john trump. >> i am confident the russians meddled in this election as is the entire intelligence community. >> there is no doubt at all and i stand behind the intelligence. the intelligence community assessment that we produced in january. >> what? >> i think anthony -- >> i mean, just, why? look, i understand. he has an audience of one easy specially in the early days. rime going to be contrarian say maybe he'll use the platform, early appearances to impress the president. i'm out there fighting for you, go into the oval office and say, dial back. do this differently. hold out hope and see that that happens. however, why? why enable the president's -- refusal to say, russia did it, period? when, again -- you know, mike pompeo is a trump guy. can coats is a trump guy. the admiral wore the uniform for decades. they're saying there's no "if" here? >> named to the job pr

mr. scaramucci the job at 10:00 a.m. and as we all know, before we even made it back here to this at around noon, we got word that sean spicer had resigned. what do you make of all this? >> sean spicer was in an impossible job. as chris wallace mentioned, from the very first day of the administration, this is a guy who had been very affable, he was sent out to be the presiden president's attack on the press from the very first day. the briefings got really contentious and while that made a good television, and also made it sean spicer himself and increasingly controversial figure. not just object of mockery on "saturday night live" but with reporters. >> heather: i wonder what melissa mccarthy thinks of all of this. i'm sure she is bummed out. chris wallace was talking about how the public or the media obviously enjoy these press briefings. people tuned in, they got great ratings. at the same time there were moments that we've heard about where president trump would it be texting questions and texting responses as sean s

mr. scaramucci was here and this afternoon? >> i don't think that it is complicated to understand the president felt the comments were inappropriate. i can't really explain it any further than that. i'm not sure what you're looking for? >> obviously over the weekend events unfolded. there is discussion about -- [inaudible]. speculating about the possibility of a first strike. is that option on the table for the white house? >> as we said many times before the president will not broadcast any positions but all options are on the table. peter. >> thank you, sarah. president's week before last signed an executive order on infrastructure. does that mean that the president has no, no intention but is not going to prioritize working with congress on infrastructure bill? is there any discussion at this point of moving forward on any sort of legislative plans for infrastructure especially digitals since -- >> absolutely. the president has been very outspoken for need of massive overhaul to the country's infrastructure system. that cert

communications director in the new yorker, one of the few quotes that you can use on—air with regards to mr scaramucci'siebus. so this idea that there is no love lost amongst some of the highest level officials in the white house is very problematic and the new chief of staff, which is and the new chief of staff, which is a very important position within the white house, is going to have to install discipline very quickly. so perhaps he better, than as you say, a 4—star general? perhaps he better, than as you say, a 4-star general? even with the team he once in place, mr trump as to get the budget through, yes the russian investigation hanging over him, problems of north korea. he is not out only with, is he? not at all. and to be fair, a lot of his problems are of his making. this is someone problems are of his making. this is someone who, as problems are of his making. this is someone who, as an problems are of his making. this is someone who, as an american resident, has the full support of a majority in both houses of congress. so one would imagine it should be relatively easy going for him but that

mr. scaramucci had with the reporter that was recorded.act that general kelly doesn't think he is cut out for this job as communications, we'll have to wait and see once the dust settles exactly what caused this. maybe simply that mr. scaramucci, anthony, did not get along with general kelly. you know, could be all above or none of it. so, i'm just telling you this stuff is breaking now. we don't have all the reasons behind it. but i'll just say this. a guy i worked with here at fox business a long time, very, very smart guy. he made some very, very, very fundamental mistakes i believe in the last week. i think one mistake he made was taking a job, this job. he would have been more, much more qualified for something in the finance department, working m community. this communications job is a job that just not something that he does, that is in his wheelhouse. and, you know, he was a fervent defender of the president. i get that. that is why the president wanted him. but he has a lot of skillsets. he created a great business, skybridge cap

mr. scaramucci from other jobs. he had, you know, hope he would not work inside the west wing here and he was not pleased about this at all, but i am also told that jared kushner and ivanka trump, two very important people in this white house, obviously, are supportive of this decision. largely because they believe that anthony scaramucci has one person whose interests are above all and that's the president. no one that questions his loyalty that he does not come into the white house with an agenda but as a fighter. one of the reasons they supported this and i'm told that this on-camera briefing inside the white house briefing room we're looking at now will be conducted by the deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. an open question if she'll have an introduction to make of the new communications director but she, i'm told, will lead the briefing. the first on-camera tell evised briefing in some time. >> interesting questions about sarah huckabee sanders own future. questions about skcaramucci and we'll see w

mr. president, you'll forget it. >> do you give scaramucci credit for apologizing? >> yes and no. president and scaramucci are watching, which is the highest form of loyalty is to say no, sir. to stand up to him. every president needs it. i've been there of the you have to stand in that oval office and look him in the eye and say, no, sir, we're not going to do that. that's real loyalty. the first test for me will be the president's twitter feed. scaramucci has to get control of that. i would make it a condition of my employment. every tweet goes through me, sir. you're not allowed it anymore. it goes through me or i don't approve it. i would head up a complete shield that blocks the president's twitter feed but he doesn't know it. it's like those cars at disneyland that have steering that isn't connected to anything. >> i just want to say, one thing that i think all the kovrcovera has done so far, and this is just a minor thing. we're talking a lot about personalities, the difference between spicer and scaramucci. one thing that's important is this white house's attitude toward t