believes he is leaving the job in capable hands, essentially to the woman who has been his deputy, sarah huckabywho has been his deputy, sarah hucka by centres, and woman who has been his deputy, sarah huckaby centres, and that he intends to be very supportive. —— huckerby—sanders. so no sign of dissent. that is not the story told by many media outlets here, who say that he left the job because he was unhappy about the new appointment. on the subject of the new committee guesses chief, anthony scaramucci, he has a tough task ahead of him, does the? yes. he has a tough job ahead of him. —— communications chief. there was a smooth performance by him earlier. that seems to be his hallmark. he is not aged mitigations expert. he is coming from wall street. although he is very experienced as a television performer. he is a closed, a close friend of donald trump and his children. —— is a close friend. he has to pull various factions together. it looks from the outside into the white house the events of the last 2a hours, the rocky last six months would suggest that it is a gimmick asia's department in

. >> today the newly named white house pressing is sarah huckaby sanders red questions on spicer and scaramucci. >> i am grateful for sean's work on behalf of my administration and the american people. i wish him continued success. look at his great television ratings. anthony is a person i have great respect for. he will be an important addition to this administration. he has been a great supporter and will now help implement key aspects of our agenda. we have accomplished so much. we are given credit for so little t. good news is the people get it even if the media doesn't. >> joining ne mou, two white house correspondents who spent months in those meetings, glen tlush and it thereco's annie carney. let's start with spicer, we saw that clip. he went to fox news for an interview, it sounds like he will be the good soldier here, a lot of expectations when that first news broke, whoa, wait until he gives the first tell-all interview. it certainly doesn't sound like that's coming, tell us about what led him to leave, if you expect that will be the posture going forward? nothing negativ

today in the white house briefing room -- and jim will tell you, after sarah huckaby said, you know, that's it, she's leaving -- >> april, can we play it, then you can finish your -- let's play it and then you can finish what you're saying because i want the viewers to be able to hear it. here's sarah huckabee sanders today. >> i have a quick statement that i will read from the president. "my son is a high-quality person, and i applaud his transparency." and beyond that, i'm going to have to refer everything on this matter to don junior's counsel and outside counsel and won't have anything else to add beyond that today. >> go ahead, april. that was pretty luke-warm, though. >> it was luke-warm, but the devil's in the details and nuances. the president did not tweet this. he gave it to sarah huckabee sanders to read. it was basically almost 140 characters. he could have tweeted this, but this was so important -- >> not even on camera. >> right, not even on camera, but he wanted his spokesperson from that white house podium to deliver that statement. but we kept peppering. we kept pepp

. >> stay with us, everybody, in a brief gaggle with reporters, press secretary sarah huckaby scanneders said scaramucci had nothing to do with the decision on priebus. >> we all serve at the pleasure of the president. the conversations about this started with the president and reince two weeks ago, if terms of timing. i know a lot of people have a lot of questions about that. >> does vitriol anything to do with anthony scaramucci? >> no, it does not. >> is that unbelievable spin? >> oh, man, we described scaramucci as a reince-seeking missile brought in by jared and ivanka. i stand by that zrepgs. i believe it is an entirely accurate description. we laughed as did many people that know both of these men when they came out with this phony show last friday saying they were best friend forever, it went back all these years, anthony scaramucci and reince priebus despise each other. anthony resented the fact that reince blocked him entering the white house. reince thought he was woefully unqualified for the job. he argued strenuously against him getting the job and steve bannon did. as soon

though, press secretary sarah huckaby sanders said he was there on other business. >> the attorney generalt with the president. it was a principles committee meeting and did not see the president while he was here. i think the president has been very clear about where he is. he's obviously disappointed, but also wants the attorney general to continue to focus on the things that the attorney general does. he wants him to lead the departments of justice. he wants to do that strongly. he wants him to focus on things like immigration leaks and a number of other issues and i think that's what his focus is at this point. >> the attorney general launches a leap probe, would that help his status with the president? >> i don't think that's the you know nature of the relationship. again i think the president is disappointed. he stated that. i don't think there is any more to add beyond that at this point. >> so mark halperin, curious, it seems this all unfolded as the president first sought to undermine the judiciary, now is seeking to undermine the attorney general, himself, it feels like some migh

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. >> i was going to say, earlier in this week i was in a briefing with sarah huckaby sanders i said thisibility of this administration. >> sanders says it's undermining the credibility of the media. at which point i told her that was a quote taken from trey gowdy the republican from south carolina. this is not us, it's on capitol hill, their frustration continues to grow. >> the president travels back from france, peter alexander, thank you very much. guys, let's stop and recap. heidi, we started with four people in the room, donald trump jr. had said it was a nothing meeting. this person said i put out the e-mails, said they might have something on russia and hillary clinton. i thought this was opposite research. now we have a fifth person. now the recap the attorney alan futerfas who called back nbc news to clarify there was a third person in the room in addition to jared kushner, donald trump jr. and palm manafort in addition to the attorney and in addition to this fifth person that we've reported at nbc news, he now says he spoke, he believes, perhaps, to this sixth person in the roo