into the job, told stephen bannon, reince priebus about it. a lot of blowback from them. a bloodbath over the night and into the morning when scaramucci came back to talk to the president about it. he gave him the job, immediately after that, sean spicer, thek press secretary seeing the writing on the wall more than anything, or the idea that he thought the president is going to make a change, he probably was not going to be part of the future. so we took the opportunity to resign. now scaramucci has obviously a big job in front of him, because there is no secret that the white house has been listing severely from an agenda that has been somewhat stalled, seen by the russian investigation, and a president who keeps going off of message at inopportune times. so i put the question to him this afternoon, what he is going to do to try to fix it, listen here.m >> i think that that shape is i going in the right direction, ia think that we have to radio signal the direction very, very clearly. the navy seals would tell you if you want to eat an elephant you have to eat it one

this is something that stephen bannon is very gifted at. e question is, can anthony transfer, or maybe he doesn't have to because maybe bannon and trump are doing that and all anthony needs to do is be a good spokesperson for those policies. >> steve: i think you're right, but is more than that. it's managing as well. it's running the operation. >> sandra: we are just now getting word that there will be a white house press briefing at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. of course, the dash the world will anticipate that moment, certainly because the big question will be, who's at the podium? we've got ari fleischer, former white house press secretary and fox news contributor. you're on the phone right now on this breaking news, sean spicer has resigned. you have been on our show defending sean spicer, saying he is doing just fine. what you make of this news? >> of the pot boiled over. sean has had enough. i think a normal white house -- clearly, -- >> sandra: stay with us, i have a jump in and get back to john roberts of the white house. he's got breaki

he saying stephen bannon should perform impossible acts on himself. he saying that reince priebus -- i don't get it, saying reince priebus is psychotic and schizophrenic, using expletives. saying they are cain and abel? >> tom: one of them. >> juan: what you're seeing here -- >> jesse: and then the president is saying the exact same thing about bannon for the last year. and then scaramucci says it and it's a big deal and they are sympathetic? >> juan: you can try to pass this off no big deal. everybody move along. something big is happening here. it's hurting the president. it's hurting our country. you can see the division by the way. not only in congress among republicans but even among republican commentators. when you get laura ingraham, charles to back charles krauthammer and newt gingrich saying that scaramucci is full of himself, maybe you should stop jesse and say this is serious. let's not bring up obama again. >> jesse: people are calling for the president's assassination. can someone call someone a schizo and it's like all hell breaks loose

stephen bannon >> i can tell you that i have not heard anything about the possible fate of stephen bannon. however, you were talking earlier about gary cohn. and i think that for our audience and our viewers, that is an important one to watch one way the dynamic has been described to me in terms of that relationship is that as long as gary cohn thought that he was empowered and had the ear of the president, he would be willing to stay on in his current role if he felt like that power was threatened in some way, perhaps he might leave and perhaps, the fed job would be a graceful exit for him we'll have to see how the appointment of kelly to this position of chief of staff shax up that power dynamic. but right now gary cohn has a large staff. he is considered the expert on things -- all things economic. so, we'll find out whether or not that continues and how secure he feels in his position. >> ylan, it has been a crazy week sean spicer, robert short, and now reince priebus ylan, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> sure. >> so, yeah, guys, we saw sean spicer, robert short, a little bit l

this was over the protestations we know of at least a stephen bannon and likely reince priebus as well. we've got a statement saying priebus and scaramucci had been friends for a long time. that is open to interpret into. at the recommendation of priebus, the president decided not to go ahead with the position, though scaramucci was later given a job at the export/import end. the president had always wanted to give him a prominent job. even though scaramucci does not have a large background in strategic communications, he is cut from the same cloth as the president is, he has a forceful presenter on television and it's not to say his job is going to be to go on television every day because it won't. he will go on television on occasion. he is one of those guys that likes to get down in the trenches, he is literally in fatigue a bowl, you cannot hire this guy out. sean spicer needed to have some room to make those changes, decided it was best if he were to depart the white house. again, it's a bit of a sad day for those of us here who know sean spicer well, on a personal level we were h

he went after reince priebus and stephen bannon.mucci told the new yorker that reince priebus is a schizophrenic and that stephen bannon is out for himself. he later took to twitter to apologize. sometimes i use colorful language, i'll refrain in this arena, but not give of the passionate fight for president trump's agenda. he also tweeted that he made a mistake. trusting a reporter and that it won't happen again. the white house is playing down his remarks, watch. >> it takes about 30 seconds to make a statement like that. there's a lot more hours in the day and this isn't something that's all-consuming for us or for our staff. the press and the media may make this the focal point of our dominic their day. but is not ours. >> harris: geraldo, he loves this president, he said it multiple times. he's in this to win it. he's not backing down. >> geraldo: i was with sean last night. there is something about that culture that scaramucci exemplifies in a vivid way. he came from nothing, he picked himself up by his bootstraps, he became a

stephen bannon also does not like anthony scaramucci and the problem is he is coming into this communicationirector role and spicer was being called back from his press secretary role. the cameras had been turned off from the daily briefings welfare huckabee sanders was doing those -- while sarah huckabee sanders was doing those. it seems he resigns just minutes after this announcement was made. brent: anthony scaramucci against the house of bannon. what do we know about this communications director anthony scaramucci and why he's such a big problem for sean spicer? correspondent: the cause of the strife within the whitehouse over anthony scaramucci we do not know. he is cut from the same cloth as donald trump. it seems that trump really admired him because a mere two weeks ago anthony scaramucci was the subject of a cnn article alleging he had close ties to agents close to the russian government. anthony scaramucci was a big fundraiser for trial during the campaign -- for trump during the campaign. these allegations of being close to russia were not good for anthony scaramucci. that story i

i am not stephen bannon, i am not trying to build my brand off of the brain of the president. in his defense, he has gone on to twitter to say he regrets the colorful language. and he says he has made a mistake in trusting a reporter. it won't happen again, sean. >> sean: i spoke to anthony scaramucci tonight. he says he believes in every way that he told this reporter it was off the record. we have conflicting reports on that. but it's a he said he said. >> look, the new yorker has not been friendly to this president. that's an open secret. there were only two people in that phone call or that conversation. we don't know for sure. obviously, if you are the incoming white house communications director, you have to be careful about communications, particularly with a reporter from an organization that frankly has been hammering the president every which way. high marks in the early hours, let's remember. it has only been barely a week since it was announced. so much has happened but he got high marks for being a street fighter, someone who understands the president and will be

me and sarah will do that together. >> pushed back from stephen bannon and reince priebus, sean spiceras not particularly thrilled about the idea that the president was bringing in a new director that had been discussed with no one other than the president. scaramucci did have a couple of powerful advocates but i'm told that ivanka trump and jared kushner were on board bringing them in. >> sean: also in washington is ed henry, he has a full report on the new white house communications director anthony scaramucci. no stranger to the program, ed. >> no stranger to the president hailing from new york, anthony scaramucci, somebody well known on street. and someone who for those shrewd skills has tried to keep the ego in check. in fact, his first briefing at the white house podium quoted a mentor on wall street saying, you need to grow in your jobs, not swell. so scaramucci trying to say that he wants to keep all of this in check and focus on the president, not himself. and an interesting very quick to apologize to the president per basically betting on the wrong horse back in the 2016 camp

me and sarah will do that together. >> pushed back from stephen bannon and reince priebus, sean spicer was not particularly thrilled about the idea that the president was bringing in a new director that had been discussed with no one other than the president. scaramucci did have a couple of powerful advocates but i'm told that ivanka trump and jared kushner were on board bringing them in. >> sean: also in washington is ed henry, he has a full report on the new white house communications director anthony scaramucci. no stranger to the program, ed. >> no stranger to the president hailing from new york, anthony scaramucci, somebody well known on street. and someone who for those shrewd skills has tried to keep the ego in check. in fact, his first briefing at the white house podium quoted a mentor on wall street saying, you need to grow in your jobs, not swell. so scaramucci trying to say that he wants to keep all of this in check and focus on the president, not himself. and an interesting very quick to apologize to the president per basically betting on the wrong horse back in the 2016 ca

stephen bannon, everyone reports to him rather than going to the press, does everyone go to general kellyfull authority to carry out business.” have a real quick one regarding sean spicer, will he be in the administration in anyway now that anthony scaramucci will not be part of the administration? i'm not aware of the administration? i'm not aware of any changes. ten days ago anthony scaramucci was introduced as the new communications director and is now out of a job. the president announced there is no chaos at the white house. how would you describe what has happened over the past ten days? you agree with your boss the president there is no chaos but how would you explain that not to be the case? if you want to see chaos, come to my house with three preschoolers. just to be clear, that is not an open invitation to my house but if you guys want to shed your baby—sitting time, you guys want to shed your ba by—sitting time, i you guys want to shed your baby—sitting time, i will be happy to work that out. does the president regret hiring anthony scaramucci?” will not get into anything on t

he has been unafraid to openly criticize others like sean spicer or stephen bannon. >> do you worry about th continued relationships from the administration that seem to be trained? >> no. i think everybody is an adult and they will work it out between themselves. alison: christopher wray's nomination to become f.b.i. director heading to the full senate. this is after the senate judiciary committee unanimously approved the nomination. wray won bipartisan praise for pledge to never let politics get in the way of the f.b.i.'s mission. he would replace james comey who president trump fired. larry: common is hit with a -- chon is hit with a -- chon exxon is hit with $1 million fine after showing reck lest disregard for sanctions imposed. they said they did nothing wrong fundamentally unfair. alison: still ahead at 5:00, questions about whether the panels used in the london apartment building may be wrapped around a maryland hotel. >> how they are putting kids on the right path for successful career in cyber security and that story is coming up. larry: at 6:00, unexpected side effect of the da

stephen bannon.how scaramucci addressed that individual. >> stephen is one of the smartest people i know. he's instrumental in us winning the election. he's got a strong personality. i have a strong personality. john wiberg once deceased, said some people grow, other people's wealth. it's a great mind to think about yourself. >> james: perhaps words to live by. we have a bit of breaking news. the judiciary committee says there will be no subpoenas for donald trump, jr., or paul manafort but the statement is released saying both donald trump, jr., and paul manafort through their attorneys have agreed to negotiate to provide the committee with documents and the be interviewed prior to a public hearing. we will not issue subpoenas, a bit of news on complex investigations we refer to as "the russian story." sit tight, the friday lightning round, the coming clash between the rnc and dnc. what's next for attorney general jeff sessions? of course, as we do on friday, we will have this week's winners and los

stephen bannon was a leader of the white nationalist movement. his favorite book, one that is a grotesque book about minorities minorities -- >> tucker: let's look here. you're saying because a guy writes a speech knows a guy you don't like that it makes it -- let's deal with the text of the speech. our civilization is superior and we need to defend it, and people and left our having that paid why can't you say that? >> why can't trump a more extol the type of remarks that george w. bush made in poland, twice in 2001 and 2003. he didn't want to say that western civilization should keep others out, that western civilization should retreat. he said western civilization should be a beacon to the world and it should promote freedom and democracy. >> tucker: that's kind of what he said. >> trump didn't say that. tucker, you are a wordsmith. you know that words have meaning and that there are dog whistles and words. spare let's get back to the text. words matter. i think these words come out everyone, and whatever people think -- the words themselves a

he was chewing out the chief of staff and stephen bannon and using gross and vulgar language to do soame in a telephone call to a reporter. he was trying to find out who leaked information about an unimportant dinner he had. it had nothing to do with bashing the media. you are using a false description of even what happens. we have to leave it there, i'm sorry we could not continue, we could continue for an hour at least but thank you very much for your time. thank you very much for your time. thank you very much indeed. edging up to 5:a5pm. aid workers in greece have told the bbc they're dealing with hundreds of extremely vulnerable refugees on the island of lesbos. many have suffered torture and sexual abuse at the hands of so called islamic state in syria and iraq. the european commission has said such refugees should be moved to athens for specialist treatment — but charities say that's not happening. from lesbos, this report by our europe reporter, gavin lee. life inside moria migrant camp, lesbos. rare footage from a place journalists are banned. it shows tents have been replace

amy: that was stephen bannon speaking at the conservative political action conference. new book by our guest joshua green chronicles how bannon took his polititics from the fringegf the republican party all the way to the white house. green has been closely following bannon's career f for years. inin october 2015, before bannon joined comes camampaign, green dubbed him the most dangerous political operative in america. at the time, bannon was head of breitbart news and overseeing a multifaceted campaign to take down hillary clinton as well as more moderate republican candidates. joshua green's new book is titled, "devil's bargain: steve bannon, donald trump, and the storming of the presidency." josh, talk about the rise of donald trump and why you think steve bannon was so key, perhaps if there had not been a steve bannon, there would not be a president donald trump. >> that is my contention in the book. i think the best way to understand this election, understand what happened and how it got -- a guy like trump wound up in the white house, really to understand the force

and the president, anthony scaramucci, reince priebus, stephen bannon, the one thing they all have in common in spite of may be disagreeing here and some infighting, they are all tired of the deep state leaks. anthony scaramucci rightly is trying to put an end to it. i don't know who is leaking in the white house and i've no idea but i hope it ends. it's important that they figure out where these leaks are coming from to the press. the press that wants to destroy the president as well. look at the deep state. they have one singular focus. they are determined to do much the president with selective leaking. they in and day out and stop his agenda. which, at the end of the day, that hurts you, the american people toward . joining us with reaction, kellyanne conway, i thought you looked the best on the cover of the "the new york post." >> i didn't even see it yet. i'm looking into a blind camera. thank you for noting that, though. the loch ness monster's of the swamp will always try to get in the way of this president and his agenda. i don't know what they were expecting. he said i was g

attacking reince priebus and stephen bannon using language we cannot repeat here.e said "they'll all be fired by me. i fired one guy the other day, i have three have been for people all fired tomorrow. i'll get to the person who leaked that to you." press secretary sarah huckabee sanders address that issue. >> it takes about 30 seconds to make a statement like that. there's a lot more hours in the day and this isn't something that's all-consuming for us. the press and the media make it the focal point of their day, but we are not making the focal point of hours. >> jon: the press made it the focal point of "the new york post" cover today spoofing the war in the west wing with the president's top advisors depicted of as contestants. let's begin our media panel. thanks both of you for being here. kind of curious. anthony scaramucci, the new yorker has not been kind to president trump. for anthony scaramucci to call up someone who writes for the new yorker, that was a strange call, wasn't it? >> not so much because don't forget, scaramucci is from new york and the new

she's taken statements like she did this year that the death penalty was about to be applied to stephen bannontwo questions. what happened, and second how can she be taken seriously by mainstream figures in the press? still given that she read stuff like that. >> i don't think there is any level of derangement that is too far to go. everybody throws around the word "treason" with relation to trump and the russians. the penalty for treason is deat death. if you think about it, the left isn't invested with that tell a man guy who shortly after capture and afghanistan, shortly after 9/11. they were interested. he was actually fighting with america's enemies. and afghanistan. but nobody wanted to hang that guy. because treason of that kind isn't serious to the left. whereas if you have tiramisu with putin at a g20 banquet, you should fry for that. that's the position of the left. if you think about it, once you follow that path, somehow meeting with any russian as you were talking about the other night, tucker, if it's a crime to meet with any russian, if it's treason to meet with any russian, if

stephen bannon. rick dearborn also worked for jeff sessions in the senate. these are some of the president's closest advisers and they are all from the sessions wing of the party and some of them have worked with him for years and years and years and all of their political years. so they're not going to -- while they've been laying low -- >> not the ones encouraging this. >> and at the cabinet level a lot of former ceos and generals in the trump cabinet. a lot of governors. talk to them, people who speak to them, dismay and disgust. tough words how this is being handled. sit tight. continuing on this story and talking about the president's frustration with the russian invest gatien at attorney general, his son-in-law on capitol hill today facing questions. and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. jack knocked over a candlestick, onto the shag carpeting... ...and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack recently had geico help him with rent

and stephen bannon, scaramucci took to twitter following the publication saying i sometimes use colorfulremain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for

you take that with the idea that stephen bannon has been kind of drifting in the wind because scaramucci really set awful things about physically impossible ask. >> i will say this. banning can't be in a good place with scaramucci there, what you see now with kelly coming in to run the show. but i will say this about kelly being there. i think this is a great deal of worry right now the intelligence community in this country as to what happens in a crisis. as the white house dysfunction mean that really we really won't be able to handle it? hopefully kelly will reassure someone. >> could be around the corner with north korea. president trump gets a lot of praise on his new chief of staff. we will discuss his administration's effort to combat ms-13. he is bound to up next. ♪ ♪ i'm... i'm so in love with you. ♪ ♪ whatever you want to do... ♪ ...is alright with me. ♪ ooo baby let's... ♪ ...let's stay together... copdso to breathe better,athe. i go with anoro. ♪go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro. ♪go your own way once-daily anoro contains

does that somehow empower the kellyanne conways, the stephen bannons, to give them more access where general kelly may not have spent a lot of time? speak out for a general, kelly has had quite a lot of washington experience. he's well known in the town. he's worked in the white house before. he knows his way around the place. his job as chief of staff is to see to it, a variety of viewpoints and issues, and they've been presented in a kind of fair way. most chief of staff are not noted for being policy experts themselves. it doesn't mean the president will turn to a chief of staff and say what you think about this? his job is to be a broker through whom different viewpoints reached the president. she is responsible for the paper flow and all of that. his ability to manage that and to do it in a fair way is the key and whether that can work or not, it's all up to the president. >> bret: clearly this president likes generals. he respects the military and the service and thinks that that is key, as far as key positions. in the wake of what we now have today, another icbm missile launch

scaramucci last week profanely criticized then chief of staff reince priebus and stephen bannon in anlished 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. ♪ scarlet: a mixed day for the final trading day of july. the dow jones industrial average finishing the day up at a re

smith also circulated a document that listed not just flynn, but also stephen bannon, kellyanne conwayho was a low profile but important policy adviser to the trump campaign and now senior adviser at the agriculture department and in addition to flynn, they all mentioned by -- by peter smith as people he was in communication with, in contact with, related to this effort to contact the russian hackers. this is a second beat on the first story we've had about what collusion might have looked like if it happened. reporter michael isikoff is joining us to talk about the man at the center of last night's allegations and this new reporting tonight. peter smith, we have interesting information on his background that might tell us more about what we can expect if he was tried -- tide to the trump came. he joins us next. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months,... with reduced redness,... thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requireme

this is the way that stephen bannon talks. but this is not the way american leaders have talked since 1776 because we believe that there is a heck of a lot more uniting us than bonds of culture, faith, and tradition. we believe there are shared ideals, our shared commitment to the principles embodied in the declaration of independence that we celebrated two years ago, and donald trump seems either oblivious to those principles or hostile to them. that's unprecedented. >> thank you both for joining us. i really appreciate it. >> pleasure. >>> coming up, we are now 11 hours away from president trump's meeting with vladimir putin. what will they talk about? what won't they talk about? and will we ever know the truth of whatthy take about? and what is mitch mcconnell railey trying to do with that health care bill? is he really trying to pass that bill? (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a swing set standoff. and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen. talk to farmers.

trump advisors stephen bannon had been pushing for tax breaks while magician said the story was unfoundedhin said the story was unfounded. -- the u.k. prime minister is expected to say economic reform is needed to make a successful brexit. in a sign of weakness, she will call for cross party cooperation to do this. a survey by the british chambers of commerce shows u.k. companies are opposed to britain walking away from talks to leave the eu without the deal. third want the u.k. to stay in the customs union. only 2% said no deal would be acceptable objective. inprising gains held up june, coming in at 5.5%. 1%.umer prices date demand remains robust. analysts think controls on building construction could soon weigh on demand for raw materials. japanese prime minister shinzo approval rating for his cabinet climbed to its lowest ever. point 8%. 39 the lowest since 2012. the reasons given was a lack of trust in abe as a person. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. on the find more stories bloomberg at taco. -- top . wea

stephen bannon had been pushing tax break while steve mnuchin said the story was unfounded. the g-20 wrapped up in hamburg. home havingump flew on trade.n he had his first sit down with vladimir putin, with a a great to a cease-fire in syria. theresa may will call on opposition lawmakers to keep written out of the european month'ster last disastrous election. she is expected to say social and economic reform is needed to make a successful exit. in a side of her weakness, she will call for cross party corporation to deliver it. china's price gains held up in june with factory gates coming in at 5.5%. consumer prices gained 1.5%. despiteemains robust excessive borrowing. controls on building construction could soon way on on demand.weigh the launch of the first futures contract for the commodity since the middle of the 1980's. the london midland exchange for almost half the world's gold changes hands. sinceggest reduction 2016. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. guy? guy: to say that thi

, stephen bannon.annon. on twitter he said he would refrain from using colourful language but would not give up the passionate fight for donald trump's agenda. anthony scaramucci has been in the westminster just agenda. anthony scaramucci has been in the westminsterjust one week, and appears to have spent more time launching personal attacks than pushing the president's odysseys. he may also be forcing the chief of staff, and a key republican establishment figure, out the door. we will continue with the saucy theme, perhaps. there's a north—south divide when it comes to what sauce we choose to put on ourfood. new research claims that people in north—west england, scotland and northern ireland are more than twice as likely to have brown sauce on their shelves than those in london. three quarters of us apparently can't eat a meal without a bit of sauce on the side, and half of us have even had to make a dash to the shops to buy some sauce before sitting down to eat. do you have a preference, charlie?” te

>> stephen: and the mooch says he was doingeasons "i'm not trying to build my own brand off the ( bleep ) strength of the president. i'm here to serve the couny.ande bannontrying to suck my own ( bleep )." [ audience screams ] (applause) >> stephen: look, if bannon could do that, he would never leave the white house. though i got to say, we never see him ever anymore. good for you, steve! but all good badda-bings must come to an end, because scaramucci signed off by saying of priebus, "yeah, let me go, though, because i've got to start tweeting some ( bleep ) to make this guy crazy." adding, "can we make this off the record? no? okay. mooch out." ♪ ♪ (laughter) >> stephen: hey, ho! so immediately after that he gets off the phone i got to tweet some stuff to make this guy crazy. then scaramucci tweeted: "in light of the leak of my financial disclosure info-- which is a felony-- i will be contacting @f.b.i. and the @thejusticedepartment. hashtag-swamp, @reince45." hang on! hang on! he just tagd @reince 45? that means either the mooch just publicly accused white house chief of staff reince priebus of a felony, or there are 44 other reinces on twitter. i fin

kelley, a retired marine general, a four star, who gets along with white house strategist stephen bannonaw. he replaces reince priebus who is out after just six months on the job. it's reported the president told prebus two weeks ago he was going to replace -- told reince priebus two weeks ago he was going to replace him. anthony scaramucci accused him of links and more. >> i'll be on team trump all the time. i'll always be out there trying to help the president advance his goal, support him, as a friend, too. >> for now reince priebus says he won't comment about the relationship with anthony scaramucci but he is expected to look for a corporate job or possibly write a book about the ups and some of the downs of presidential campaign in the early days of the trump administration. >>> duke will become acting secretary of the department of homeland security, second in command, and she's worked in the federal government for nearly 30 years. >>> this morning president trump went on a twitter demanding an end to the filibuster issue in the senate. >> he is blaming it for bills that have stall

bannon, stephen miller, the guys in charge -- just had never brought it up. idn't even think he was going to walk out on stage and concede formally if he lost. but in the event that didn't come into play and so they went upstairs to trump's penthouse and sat there, and on election night at about 11:00 p.m., hashed out a draft of the speech that trump walked out a few hours later and gave, accepting the presidency of the united states. >> there was also a moment with chris christie that night. >> there was. a lot of people have wondered how is it that chris christie, a guy who is really first major figure to endorse trump -- >> it's easy to forget how close they were during the campaign. >> exactly. and what an earthquake it was when christie came out and delivered the surprise endorsement of trump in dallas. it really shifted the politics of the republican primary. but christie had been irking a lot of people in trump's inner circle. trump advisors told me that christie was smothering the president and on election night christie had somehow arranged with obama

bannon. i'm not trying suck my own (bleep). >> jon: he said that! >> stephenlaughter ) ( applause ) though, i gotta say, we never see him anymore. jeff sessions is getting a lot of heat from the president. >> yeah, which is sad because he was his, like, main policy adviser, his best friend in the campaign. >> stephen: a lot of his early staff was sessions staff. jeff gave them his office. >> before there was there was sessionism but before that it was just called racism. >> by the way, under the trump administration you'll be saying merry christmas again when you go shopping, believe me. they've been downplaying that little beautiful phrase. >> stephen: yes, they are downplaying it for some reason. i'm just spitballing here-- maybe because it's july. ( laughter ) ( applause ) the pentagon seems to have been unaware that trump has decided to bar transgender people from the military. so the pentagon didn't even know? wait a second. trump said he consulted with "my generals." i know, i know, that must be a typo. he maefn meant my genitals. damn you, siri! damn yo

just over $179,000 including key white house aides reince priebus, kellyanne conway, shariers, stephen bannonanka trump and husband jared kushner. comes to the president himself he is fulfilling another campaign promise donating $400,000 that he gets every year to a charity of his choice. that's what he said he would do early on. clayton: fascinating numbers. let's get outside to rick reichmuth. a lot of pressure on rick reichmuth for accurate fourth of july forecast. rick: dew point. how much moisture is in the atmosphere meteorologically. there is a lot of it. clayton: thunderstorms? rick: or muggy and sticky and very thick out here. everybody is setting up all this great stuff we have on the show. they are dripping sweat this morning. that's what's going to be happening to you as you take a look at the maps. here are the temperatures. actual air temperatures. but anywhere where you see kind of the green and yellow on the eastern half country. it's also really humid along with this. it's going to feel much, much stickier than that kind of see this cold front around areas of texas cutting th

then you have, you know, steve bannon and stephen miller and so on. so there is not a sense there is a coherent ideology driving this white house. scaramucci is someone who his a republican donor and got behind jeb bush, he tweeted a lot of liberal leaning things. its not clear what direction they want on policy. >> praised hillary clinton. mocked the yfdidea of a border wall. so we have a lot of uncertainty. i want to remind you what we're losing, shawn spicer from the podium from day one was controversial. >> period! both in person and around the globe. i said it from the day that i got here until -- there is no connection. you got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, that is a russian connection. parse every word and make it a game of gotcha as opposed to really figure out what the policies are. ultimate lit best messenger is the president himself. he's always proven that. he is the best messenger. >> he lasted six months in one day. we'll see what is ahead for him and the white house. the special counsel puts

several former staffers, including rick deerborn and stephen miller work here. steve bannon referred to him as his mentor. it's safe to say jeff sessions' job is in jeopardy, despite the influence. >> despite all that, things have clearly changed. what that means is anyone's guess and it's in the president's court. thank you. >> reporter: thanks, kate. >> matt is here to discuss it with me. he wrote about the trump team weighing options for replacing sessions. david is here with me as well. david, i mean, i think it's a pretty big deal that what the president's new communications director said today. finally, it seems acknowledging rather than dodging the obvious, that the president does want sessions gone. why, then, doesn't the president just fire him? are you getting any read on this, yet? >> it is clear donald trump doesn't want jeff sessions to be the attorney general anymore. it also seems clear he is concerned about blowback. you can see some of the conservative blowback that is already forming to this notion. i mean, you see republican senators coming out today, one

( piano riff ) ( applause ) >> stephen: and you need not worry about steve bannon's self-esteem. the book reveals that he owns "an oil painting of himself dressed as napoleon in his study." we just have reports, no image of the painting, but i had my graphics team work up a rendition. here's the original. and here's bannon. ( laughter ) looking good. he's had a little work done. he's had a freshen up. but bannon's not the only trump insider in the news. so is attorney general and imp who gets your firstborn if you don't guess his name, jeff sessions. ( laughter ) earlier this week, sessions spoke to an "anti-l.g.b.t. hate group" in a closed-door speech. closed-door? come on guys, it's 2017! it's okay to come out, and let your hate flag fly! you're here, you fear, we're used to it. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) thank you. we're celebrating your journey! the group sessions spoke to was "alliance defending freedom," a powerhouse christian law firm, defending clients like the bakery that refused to make a same-sex wedding cake. they also wrote model legislation, such as "bat