no answers from the white house on that. the complete failure of health care in the united states senate on the core promise of the republican party for sefrm enyears, this was a week that really exposed a white house not working. it ended with this soap opera drama inside, well done, ryan, inside the west wing between anthony scaramucci and reince priebus. and now on a friday evening the president announces via twitter that he is changing it up and putting a new team in place. the question is what will actually change? will this -- will the president who has not shown a real adept nature at changing who he is throughout his entire presidency, is he going to change in such a way to allow general kelly to come in and actually instill discipline that has not been there in this west wing. i think that's a big question. i don't think just the announcement of the new white house chief of staff should give everyone comfort that this will run smoothly now because donald trump has proven to govern by impulse, by twitter, by looking a

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a change in the white house. at the question will be what kind of authority has general kelly been given? my suspicion is he did not take that job without an understanding of what kind of authority he would have. the west wing is a very hard-working, fast-moving place. complicated in the best of times and can't be run without having a chief of staff who's got hiring and firing in the west wing and control over direct reports. the president should have people who can walk in and out of the oval but average of work for the chief of staff and a process that best serves the president. my sense is we are able to see that happen here with general kelly. >> bret: what about reince priebus and how this transpired? obviously, an amazing run with helping the campaign and then talk about his service as chief of staff. >> look, this has been a chaotic white house. white house is are an expression of the personality and the methods and leadership style of the president. you don't have a white house that's run distinctly differ

reform at the white house. and so in the wake of what we have seen with healthcare reform, it has stumbled, it has fallen. by all accounts it was dead earlier this week. there was an attempt to revive it when the president and, frankly, reince priebus decided to call the gop senators to the president. you have to get this done. this is what we campaigned on. it's what you all campaigned on for the past seven years. but the background to that, andrea, was the sense that reince priebus' standing could be hanging in the balance if healthcare couldn't get done. i think there's a lot at stake and this certainly complicates the equation for reince priebus. no word, though, on what specifically this might mean for him. >> let's just also talk about anthony scaramucci, he doesn't have the background of any public service or political engagement. i guess this is what the president wants now. but how does he fit into the mix? >> reporter: i think the president sees anthony scaramucci as someone who is a great messenger, a

that scaramucci believes, and clearly others in the white house believe, other people in the white house who think president trump is the problem. >> what makes it even crazier is that what exactly are the policies that scaramucci is talking about? he himself on a whole litany of issues basically said he thought donald trump was wrong. with reagan, you had the idea that there were true believing conservatives who believe reagan was one of them and they thought there were moderates trying to kind of carve off the hard edges of reagan. but that's not what this is about. what does scaramucci thinks donald trump stands for that scaramucci believes in anyway? >> arguably one of the true believers for donald trump is jeff sessions, who is actually executing policy on the president. >> exactly. and left the country today to fly to el salvador, maybe get distance from this chaos. that's the real frustration among true believing conservatives in the administration. they understand that this white house has a considerable amount of dysfunction, and they also understand that sessions is one of the

jim accosta at the white house. while we heard the president lavish praise on his new white house chief of staff, john kelly apparently has had a serious disagreement with the president. we have some exclusive new cnn reporting on that. let's go do our justice correspondent pamela brown. what are you learning, pamela? >> reporter: well, wolf, my colleagues and i have learned incoming white house chief of staff john kelly was so upset with the way donald trump handled the firing of fbi director james comey he called comey shortly after he was terminated to tell him how upset and angry he was. this is according to two sources familiar with the conversation between kelly and comey. and at the time kelly was secretary of homeland security. apparently he was so angry that he even told comey that he was contemplating resigning from his position as secretary of homeland security in a showing of solidarity. comey apparently responded in this phone conversation by telling him, not to resign. now, both sources caution that it

. >> reince is doing a fantastic job at the white house. and i believe he has the president's confidence. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. >> that war of priebus and anth scaramucci ending very well for mr. scaramucci. >> i'm beginning to believe that scaramucci was brought in for a purpose, and that was to humiliate reince. >> he was called "reincy" by the president as if he was a pet and not the chief of staff. >> the president has confidence in general kelly. he has to have a person around him that he has confidence in. >> at no turn has this white house demonstrated functionality. i don't think introducing one competent person is going to change that. >> they should have approved health care last night. you can't have everything. boy, oh, boy. they have been working on that for seven years. can you believe this? >> the credit goes to a lot of people. at the top of the list are the three who showed amazing courage to resist the pressure and do what's good for the country. >> at the end of the worst week for the

howie: on the "buzzfeed" the media all wrapped up over the change of staff in the white house. and anthony scaramucci raises the decibel level. >> there is a word that supposedly reince priebus knew about this yesterday and they were going through the motions. i don't buy it for a moment. this was executed gangland style. >> the situation in the white house was unsustainable. it could not continue like this. there needed to be a shakeup. he was not able to do his job and the best thing for everybody is for him to move on. howie: scaramucci vowed to stop leaks from the white house. >> you are either going to work with the culture as the president wants it or you will be out on the streets. when i put reince's name out in a tweet they assume it's him because the journalists know who the leakers are. there are people inside the administration who think it's their job to save america from this president. that's not their job. howie: can scaramucci stop the leaks? or is that a hopeless mission? >> how much longer with the attorney general be able to take all this trolling? >> he's th

the white house only going public after they were asked about the discussion. white house also acknowledging the only witness to this one-on-one chat with russia's translator. just russia's translator. the u.s. translator at the dinner only spoke japanese. >> the conversation raising some big questions about what exactly was discussed and why the meeting was never disclosed. president trump responding to coverage of the revelation with a fiery series of tweets. our reporting begins with sara murray at the white house. >> reporter: good morning. another meeting between president trump and vladimir putin coming to light yesterday. this one was after they held their formal bilateral meeting at the g-20. later there was a dinner for world leaders and their spouses. a senior white house official says that president trump and president putin spoke for nearly an hour and trump is already chafing at the coverage. he took to twitter calling the coverage sick and saying the fake news is becoming more and more dishonest. even a dinner arranged for top 20 leaders is made to

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where is the white house on this? we heard a lot on the sunday shows yesterday, particularly when it comes to jared kushner and with this meeting. what is the strategy to address this issue? have heard,what i they are still coming up with a strategy in terms of dealing with the path. they have attorneys handling the day-to-day. i am hearing the idea that they are political me a fights and the reason don jr. met with them was because of a lack of knowledge of the rules, pure ignorance, and that there was really no malicious intent or intent to collude. of course, they are going to push back. it is just harder for them to get it on the record on tv, because you see the stories keep changing and the information given on tuesday is different from information on friday. you saw sean hannity take that and heew with don jr., put his own credibility on the line having him on the show. i just think, you know, how much longer can they rely on these big-name tv hosts to give them that when days later the hosts feeling burned? it

a big division between different people in the white house. the pentagon to add 3900 additional troops to the 10,000 or so the u.s. already has in afghanistan. that seems to be sort of the pentagon general's plan. others in the white house who want to scale back. don't add anything. there is a big division about what exactly would be successful in terms of a policy there. one of the big problems the u.s. over 17 years has pretty much tried just about every strategy there. none of them have fully worked. they've shown improvement at times in terms of troop levels adding a lot the violence will go down. but day in and day out afghanistan is a deadly place and the pentagon and white house and other policymakers in d.c. struggle to find something that they say this will work. for the time being there isn't a policy on the table right now that everybody can agree on, shannon. >> shannon: connor powell, thank you very much. >> bill: meanwhile, back at the white house west wing, first cabinet meeting getting underway with general john kelly in his new

scaramucci, to offer him a job in the white house. and the question tonight is will the president insult the taxpayers of the united states by actually putting anthony scaramucci on the white house payroll, make the taxpayers pay his salary? will the president allow anthony scaramucci to disgrace the white house? that is a question of presidential judgment. >> reince is a expletive deleted, paranoid schizophrenic. >> a profanity laced tirade from the new white house communications director. >> this is where we have come to. >> reince priebus, if you want to leak something, he'll be asked to resign very shortly. >> we are a little bit like brothers. >> you can't even put on air what he said about steve bannon. >> where i grew up in the neighborhood i'm from, we're fun stabbers. >> his title is communications director. i'm just sort of -- i can't. >> we've got the best people. >> you've seen the president's criticism of you. do you think it's fair? >> well, um, it's kind of hurtful. >> if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell t

we have cameras at the white house as well. if you want to go in front of the camera, we welcome you to do so. it wouldn't be unusual for him to call in and say, here's what's going on. >> i think it's you from the situation room calling the white house. >> he has undergone a lot of drama the last few weeks. being overruled by the scaramucci hire. the last few days, this public feud of scaramucci attacking him so viciously. no one has heard from this guy, non knows his side of the story here. he has aides and advisers he uses to get a sense of what's going on with him, but he's just been silent. >> what would you like to hear from reince priebus? let's say he does call us. >> i would really like to hear his thoughts on what it was like inside these last six months now that he is free to talk. but looking at that video of him walking with dan scovino that you just played, wolf, we heard from the pool reporters there, they got in the same car in the motorcade, and then dan scovino and other aide left that car because it became cle

problem is when the obama white house leaks, when the clinton white house was leaking, when the george bush white house was leaking, the minor leaks like who had dinner with whom, no one cared about that. no one went nuts. no one said they were going to stick the fbi after the leakers. that's -- you know, there's wheat and then there's substance that's leaked. you don't want national security stuff leaked, i get that. that's a crime. and as a journalist, i wouldn't want to publish something of an american soldier or spy. i get that. but these sort of insignificant leaks that people go nuts over really shows a degree of intempence that i can't describe here. so getting back to kelly, he needs to be empowered where he basically puts all of the children in the room and say listen to me. here's the way it goes. and you only do that if the president empowers you to do that. liz: uncle? >> i don't know. he has a very linearly -- remember the first thing anthony scaramucci said when he got the job? i report to the president. >> no. that was absolutely the case, and that's what scaramucci priz

i mean, being the press secretary for the white house. it is an even more difficult job if you are the press secretary for donald trump, because donald trump views himself as his best press secretary, chief strategy, he's best everything, probably. some the start, dana mentioned that sean is someone who if you spent any time in washington you knew he's been around campaigns for a long time. been around the republican national committee a long time. folks i talk to who are friends of his when he got this job initially said i don't know. he's always been -- i wrote a piece i don't think is published. >> if he could do it? >> yeah. always been a bulldog -- how he would come out of it. always had the reputation, go over get that person and did that well in the context of campaigns especially. this job is not that. and i think he struggled as anyone would to balance, you are, jeff can speak to this more so, but your boss is the president of the united states. period. but you're also beholden to a white house press corps that has asks, has deman

i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house. ak-in occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon lidy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> they thought they were james bond. we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> prosecutor earl silbert read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >>

this is about the white house. and this is how you stop it. our vote. >> while senator mcgovern is out campaigning tirelessly, trying to get his message across to the people, president nixon is sitting in the white house and carrying out his presidential duties and leaving the hard campaigning to vice president agnew. >> people want to trust the king. people don't want to believe this about their president. >> pennsylvania decisively important state for the democrats drawn tonight to the republicans. kansas, connecticut, texas, michigan, delaware, arkansas and north dakota, those are the states that we show for president nixon. >> that was one of the greatest victories any president has ever had, carrying every state except massachusetts and the district of columbia. >> i think that the shadow on his victory is the watergate affair, and i believe a great many people very close to the president would like to have a move on that as one of the high priorities of his new administration. >> either have these people exonerated or get them out and per

north lawn of the white house. what more are you learning about the priebus resignation? >> reporter: we've learned a lot of details in the past 24 hours. the resignation has been long coming and rumored for months but it came to a fever pitch this week with the new communications director making pretty serious allegation against reince priebus saying he was leaking information to reporters. and reince priebus was actually asked about this during his interview with wolf blitzer last night. it was his first interview since he resigned. so let's take a listen to what reince priebus had to say to wolf. >> are you the leaker in the white house? >> that's ridiculous. wolf, come on. give me a break. i'm not going to get into his accusations. >> why not respond to -- >> because i'm not going to. because it doesn't honor the president. i'm going to honor the president every day. i'm going to honor his agenda. and i'm going to honor our country. and i'm not going to get into all of this personal stuff. so -- >> is there a le

a key job in the white house. we know the names of some of the former communications directors in the bush and obama years. dan pfeiffer, karen hughes. nicolle wallace, jennifer palmieri. visible on television back then and still today. it's a really crucial job helping shape a president's image. deciding when and where they'll give interviews, when they won't. this president believes its his own best p.r. person. he's a hedge fund guy, entrepreneur. appointment at the export/import bank. now moving into this job. unclear what it means for sean spicer. reported he'll stay in the white house. asked and spicer reportedly slammed the door in his face. we don't know if there will be a press briefing and if so, on camera or off. >> great to see you. >> a quick reaction on this? >> smart, super savvy. the president has ultimate faith and trust in him. he is a street fighter, as brian said. the goal of any com work, plan your work and work your plan. that's needed here. unfortunately the president is calling the shots by

at the white house core will appreciate it. there is a balance between doing with the trump administration has done and taking on the washington press corps. in many cases not justified, but overdue. and then antagonizing the washington press corps. they have aired on the side of antagonizing, and when it is not necessary or advancing your case. take them on reported by reporter when they do bad stories. as harris says, when they report something wrong, take them out. ascended to the editor and try to get it corrected. push it again and again and again. fighting and trying to brand everybody has fake news, certainly makes the president -- >> harris: maybe it is an indication, i'm not working at any other newsroom than the one i have been in, and i have worked in this business for a long time, and i know that there is media bias out there. it may not be as widespread as peanut butter as you are just saying, but it is out there as a flavor. so may be may be the push back, calling this fake news, maybe it is because you feel like y

the white house's initial statement suggested that scaramucci resigned, but just moments ago at the white house press briefing it sure sounded a lot like he was fired because of that obscene and profane enter voo view he gave to the new yorker last week. >> 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. as i think we've made clear a few times over the course of the last couple of days to several of you individually, but general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to him. >> but the white house would not definitely come out and say that scaramucci was fired. >> did general kelly ask him to leave or did the president ask him to leave? did he volunteer his riz nation or how did that come about? >> i'm not going to get into the process particular to come. look, as we've said several times before, what matters most to us is not who is employed in the white house but who is employed in the rest of the country,

lou: john roberts from the white house. tgoing press secretary sean spicer telling our sean hannity why he resigned. that interview airs tonight. he started sharing the podium with sarah huckabee sanders, anthony scaramucci comes in. did you feel this was against you? did you feel you were pushed out in any way or was this totally your decision? >> the president wanted to add to the team more than anything. i just think it was in the best interest of our press organization not to have too many cooks in the kitchen. lou: you can watch sean hannity's interview with sean spicer and reince priebus tonight at 10:00 on the fox news channel. the. fox news chain of tell jones correspondent catherine herridge has our report. >> they love to stick it to america. reporter: mike pompeo said russia is work against the u.s. he also cast doubt on russia's commitment to crush isis in syria. >> do you see evidence that russia has worked to crush isis. >> only minimal. reporter: he was a staunch critic of the nuclear deal with iran. now pompe

are you the leaker in the white house? >> that's ridiculous. wolf, come on, give me a break. >> why not respond? >> because it it doesn't honor the president. i'm going to honor the president every day. i'm going to honor his agenda and i'm going to honor our country and i'm not going to get into all of this personal stuff. >> priebus a short time ago. we have new details of what went on reporting from the white house on a very busy friday night. what are your sources saying about how everything went down? was this really a mutual decision? >> i don't think something like this can be a mutual decision when we're talking about the president replacing his chief of staff. he also said he gave the president his resignation yesterday but what we had been hearing is that the president and also people close to him have just been growing frustrated with reince priebus in the chief of staff role. they believed he was no longer serving the best interest of the presidents but that he also wasn't being very effective in shepherding the president's agenda on

just to give you an example, when i was the chief white house correspondent in the reagan white house for nbc, the communications director would call the nbc booth at about 5:00, this is back in the early '80s when the evening news was a lot more than they do now. they wanted to know what story you were doing and to the degree we were willing to share what the plans on the story were and maybe try to turn that around a little bit. there were a lot of things that i communications director does. >> jon: he was a good one, if i recall. >> he served in a different role in the clinton administration. he served nixon as a speechwriter. he was a good or communications director because he had a very good, strategic sense and also sense of the media. an understanding of what they are going to buy and what they are not going to buy. it is over-the-top in terms of trying to sell your argument. >> jon: now that there is an incoming white house communications director we know you need some time to go update your role. >> i do, and to try to get a new desk guest for sunday. >> jon: we appreciate yo

you are at the white house. tell us what really happened. >> well, jim, first of all, you know, riens he is the former he the rnc. he also said that he and the president have been talking over time and that time is not more than seven months of, you know, they had outs. if either side wanted an out. so reince priebus did the right thing for the sake of saving face. reince priebus said that he resigned, but we know from very early on that reince priebus had been on the list of those who had a bulls eye on his back. reince priebus is someone who was the establishment, who was going to help reign in this white house that's in chaos. you know, i remember hearing many stories from many sources about how he would tell people within the white house who had walk-in privileges all the time, you have to do it this way. you are under my purview. there were people who would buck him. but reince priebus tried to keep order in a chaotic place where people felt they could run in at any time. and dan will tell you that when you

by the time a little roosevelt gets the white house she rectifies the situation by firing all the whitel let you decide if that is progress or not but no longer segregation because you have one race working in the kitchen. overall we see we have these cooks who are culinary artists and many times family confidants, presidents go to their funeral, their wedding, send notes and gifts when significant family events happen, presidents terribly moves when they have to leave at the change of administration, there is always a tradition where the staff lined up and the president goes down the line and thanks them for their service. we see there are often civil rights advocates pressing for african-americans to have their humanity accepted in broader society. we saw lizzie mcduffie for fdr while campaigning but another example is ever right, longtime private cook for lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson when pressing for the 1964 civil rights act uses her jim crow experiences to persuade congress and members of congress to support that bill because the family would drive back and forth from texas to w

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he was seen in the wings of the white house yesterday evening. kellyanne conway went on fox this morning and described him as somebody that's been an incredible asset to the president and the team. he is one of those killers on tv. do you think he's going to get the top coms job? >> it's posz zable. the question is, do they need another killer on television? kellyanne conway, no slouch herself. sean spicer, representing the administration and their style. the president big footing all of them, putting out his own tweets, statements and interviews and running communication himself. can government thrive in that? sure. you have a lot of sharks. sometimes they bite each other and they are not going in the same direction. they need to put order to the whole thing and the white house will benefit. >> we'll watch. brian, to you, as a legal scholar and league expert on this panel, "the washington post" reporting the president and his team have been discussing the pardon possibilities. can he pardon his aides, yes. can he pardon himself? we don't know. yo

open warfare in the white house. a vulgar war of words. apparently with at least tacit approval from the president, himself. this is the with twith the cnn " i'm don lemon. remember when what was shocking in washington is president obama wearing a tan suit, oh, my gosh, the president wore a tan suit. well, no, this is shocking. the president's new communications director's scorched earth attack on the chief of staff and language that's so terrible, so explicit i can't repeat most of it on tv which is probably good because there are no words. really no words. this is not politics as usual. this is a butte brutal campaign against anybody perceived to be the president's enemy, inside or outside the white house. exhibit "a," tomorrow's front page of the "new york post," as th trump, this president, knows a tabloid-worthy mess. meanwhile live on the senate floor, vote-a-rama main even. so-called skinny repeal of obamacare. last-ditch effort to repeal and replace obamacare after seven years and multiple, multiple failed attempts. lot to get to. s

we are at the white house following this. one of the things that started this is reporting that came out of who scaramucci and the president were having dinner with last night. what is going on here? >> reporter: ryan lizza of the reporter said he was having dinner with the president, melania trump, sean hannidy and kimberly gill foil. scaramucci got anoied that got out. he called the reporter to ask him how he found out about that. this happened around the same time politico published a story on the financial disclosure form. this is a publicly available document that scaramucci got saying it was illegal, a felony that someone leaked it and he was going to report it to the fbi and the justice department. what raised eyebrows that he tagged reince priebus in this tweets. many assumed it meant he was saying reince priebus leaked this document to the media. this morning, he called into cnn. it made it clear it is all out war in the west wing right now. divided factions. he was saying he didn't know if he was a leaker. only reinc

zm who are paul ryan's allies inside the white house? obviously his closest allies, the mafia, the it who does he t? >> you're right about that. that's the answer. the vice president is the one person he could look to. it is clear the president is ready to move on from the health care fiasco. you mention this week, he started to distance himself from what was going on in capitol hill. he was saying they, the republicans should, not really mentioning himself. saying it was their last chance even. so it is very clear when the white house put out a tax policy, a joint statement, with paul ryan, with the majority leader, before the votes had finished, they were ready to move on to something else. remember, they have to raise the debt ceiling. they have a bunch of spending bills and that would be before they can vote a tax reform package and of course they want to get to infrastructure this year. the president wants a win. it is clear that he will take what he can get. >> you talked little about factionalism in the white house. if now the pres

is there anything the white house can do to stop that? >> once again, the president's point is he doesn't want special counsel to move beyond the scope and outside of his admission and he has been very clear of his accounts and teams that he has no financial feelings with russia. i think he's been extremely clear on that. >> in the house in the first go-round of the health care bill there that was going to fail, it was pulled at the last minute, at the last hour. when you look at both the repeal and replace potential, the number suggest that they don't have the votes. why does the white house believe this time around the boats will receive? >> we are continue to be focused on repealing and replacing obamacare. we are not going to stop until we can continue to move that forward and get that done. not only have we wanted to commit to that, but frankly, a lot of the peoples in the senate and the house have not only committed but campaigned on that. it's time for them to step up and get that done. >> vote should take place at some point next w

house to the wider world about what the white house's message and agenda is. it is a sophisticated nuanced position but does involve the basic brass tacks of answering reporters' questions and knowing the washington press corps i want to give you an e-mail i just got from a source close to the white house press operation, that is the current and perhaps outgoing press operation, who e-mailed me moments ago and said this is a joke trump wanted scaramucci on television as a surrogate for the white house and wanted to give him more of a formal title. there was simply no understanding by the president that the communications director title comes with lots of responsibilities, not just going on television. so some real criticism here by people close to this white house press shop who are saying the president simply has misunderstood what's happening here, there's confusion as to why sean spicer had to resign, why he is being forced out and what anthony scaramucci's role is going to be we expect within the next hour to get some answers to some of those questions, but

the reason was jerry ford had a white house structure -- one of the reasons, had a white house structure just like trump's. nobody was empowered. everybody came and went from the oval willy nilly. he called it the spokes of the wheel with the president in the center. it was a disaster. it's very much like donald trump's model of governance. >> so you don't think john kelly and making this switch will make the difference? >> the fact that kelly -- you know, so far at least there's no indication that he has asked for or made conditions that would show that he understands the nature of the job. he's got to be the guy who is in charge of executing the agenda. people need to report to him through him to the president. if scaramucci is going directly to trump and reporting directly to trump, that way lies disaster. >> all right. chris whipple, thanks for the insight. great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> let's bring in our panel now, political analyst and with us historian professor of princeton university julian zalazar, ta tara -- terrell, do you think there's something to this idea

he was escorted out of the white house. off the grounds. >> which is an amazing detail april is reporting. bob, i know this is the outcome that you wanted and you saw the statistic. he's the shortest communications director tenure in history. michael flynn, shortest in history, reince priebus, shortest serving chief of staff. let's emphasize, though, bob !$! the president says there's no white house chaos. >> it's obvious there is white house chaos. general kelly says there's a chaos. that's why it's a restart today. in one of my tweets i said we're going to see what kind of day it is if kelly gets rid of scaramucci or if scaramucci stays. if scaramucci would have stayed, it would have been business as usual. that would have been warning signs for all of us watching this unfold. kelly has shown he's the leader. he's in charge. and now we're really hoping and praying that some order and clarity is going to go forward. but for that to go forward, president trump also has to allow general kelly to lead and needs to listen to ge

i think he was right to hit the reset button, and i think it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it's healthy. and i support him in it. >> was he not happy with the direction you were setting? >> look, i mean, i think bringing in fresh face, fresh people is a good thing. so, look, he has the best political instincts. he's -- hang on a second. >> yeah. >> he knows, i think, intuitively when things need to change. i've seen it now for a year and a half on this wild ride with the president that i loved being a part of. but he intuitively determined that it was time to do something differently. and i think he's right. >> but it's only been six months, not very long. when you say he wanted to do things differently, tell us precisely what he said to you, why he wants to do things differently and why you concluded that didn't include you. >> i'm not going to get into that personal stuff. the president is a professional, and i'm a professional and professional people don't discuss private conversations in public. but what i will tell you is this president has the hearts of

spicer seemed to be sidelined at the white house and on the president's trips abroad. in recent weeks sean spicer was replaced in daily press briefings by deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, and the president left spicer off the list in late may. he fumed about being excluded when other staffers like social media master dan scovino were present. spicer's place at the podium was widely spooked on "saturday night live." he became a house name as comedian melissa mccarthy took aim at his combative reputation. he said, it's been an honor to serve potus and this amazing country. i will continue my service through office. >> i commend him as he moves on to pursue new opportunities. just look at his television ratings. >> reporter: today marks six months and one day for press secretary sean spicer. scaramucci was asked if we would see a return to the on-camera press briefings which have been noticeably been less in the last three weeks. he jokingly said he would need hair and makeup and then say to stay tuned. >> moments ago we saw saef leavi -- sean spicer leaving

the white house says the president will sign it. moscow has ordered embassy staff cuts and first though, president trump's purge of what he calls the dc swamp. he's moving further away from the washington establishment. i want to bring in athena jones. what is the latest change mean for the white house? >> well, one thing it means is that the so-called washington establishment wing is seeing its power diminished pretty significantly just in the past couple of weeks. if you look at the resignation of sean spicer as press secretary and now the ousting of reince priebus. priebus insisted yesterday that after the news broke that he actually tendered his resignation on thursday privately to the president. what was interesting is that some of his allies were insisting that he wasn't going to be going anywhere. that, offense, is not the case. in the end, his 1289 day tenure just over six months making him the shortest serving chief of staff in modern presidential history, but as you just played in the open there, priebus is putting a good

here now with the latest is margaret talev at the white house. josh green also joins us, the author of the new book "devil's bargain." margaret, the get us up to speed on what is going on on capitol hill. the majority leader promising a late night on capitol hill tonight, where do things stand the bigpoint margaret: news was supposed to be the action on the hill with the zvonareva scheduled. the future of the health care tax predicts the future of reform, other items, but a large degree of that has been superseded by this bombshell interview that the communications director at the white house, anthony scaramucci gave on cnn this morning, which is calling into question, tested the reins of power for rights previous. that is affecting all of the conversations and the ability to talk to people on the white house and on the hill. seat, you had a front row you are on cnn as this was happening. about theet publication of a financial disclosure form. politico found that you could find it easily in the public records. what are the ramifications of what ha

kaitlan collins at the white house. thanks so much. >> reporter: thank you. >> important to put into context here the role reince priebus played during trump's campaign. and in the republican party as a whole. many saw him as an intermediary between the white house and moderate republicans valued for his connections in the washington establishment. cnn correspondent boris sanchez joining me now with more on this. so, boris, any more reaction coming from washington insiders? >> reporter: yeah, fred, republican lawmakers especially have come out to thank reince priebus for his service. perhaps no more heartfelt statement upon his departure from the white house than from his close friend house speaker paul ryan. both men have worked together closely for some time. both of them from wisconsin. paul ryan writes, quote, reince has left it all out on the field for our party and our country. here's a guy from kenosha, wisconsin, who revitalized the republican national committee and became white house chief of staff. he has serve

i think normally the white house chief of staff runs the white house. paraphrase the old joke in the trump white house, the white house runs you. i think general kelly is much less likely to be run than perhaps reince priebus was. the question is whether trump actually wants him to be in charge of the process. >> you're absolutely right, the president has instincts and he always puts in the right person at the right time. comey was the right person at the right time. then he brought in manafort to get him in the position. then he brought in kellyanne conway to get him over the finish line. he knew the donors, he knew the party base, but he was unable to get him across the finish line, so he brings in, trusting his instincts, john kelly to come in and set the order. i have no way of proving this, but i also think scaramucci came in at the right time to set the tone. three big names left that white house. leaks would not be tolerated. general kelly came in and the reorder is going to happen. >> just so i'm clear, i don't think the president's instincts ar

sara murray live at the white house. and jared kushner is up on capitol hill this hour answering questions from the senate intelligence committee. staff members, that's hours, this questions hours after the president's son-in-law and senior adviser released a lengthy statement defending interactions with russians during the campaign and presidential transition. kushner disclosed all russia contacts explains them all as innocent and said i did not collude nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded with any foreign government. cnn manu raju on capitol hill. we are told we can expect a public statement from jared kushner when done with this session? >> reporter: yes, that's right. in fact, he's expected to leave his meeting momentarily, what we're waiting for him here standing in a, a crowded room of reporters. he'll walk down this hallway. there are microphones set up here in case he wants to make a public statement. we are not expecting him to do that here but we do expect him to say something publicly at the whi

smart political move for the white house. let's give them credit tonight for doing the thing i think was the clear correct choice politically. >> this is happening amid the shake-up with his chief-of-staff, reince priebus is out, secretary john kelly, formally of dhs is now in. reince sat down with wolf blitzer tonight for his very first interview. take a listen. >> the president wanted to go a different direction. i support him in that and like i said a couple weeks ago, i said the president has a right to change directions. the president has a right to hit a reset button. i think it's a good time to hit the reset button. i think he was right to hit the reset button and i think it was -- it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it's healthy and i support him in it. >> david, reince he was a loyal soldier right there to the very end but this must have been tremendously difficult, if not humiliating for him. >> it's amazing. the new yorker story broke it yesterday. it was extraordinary what scaramucci the ne

meanwhile, big change about the white house. an spicer has resigned, anthony scaramucci has been named white house munication's director. you have a live look at the white house press briefing room where we now know there will be a press briefing happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. sarah huckabee sanders will step up to that podium and we will likely learn more on this breaking news a story, things are quickly changing, thank you so much for joining us and thanks to steve hilton for joining us. good to have you. we are back on tv monday at >> jon: we will take the baton in this fox news alert, a major white house shakeup under underway right now. sean spicer resigning, protests over the hiring of a new communications director. we are awaiting all white house news briefing with deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, that is to take place an hour from now. scheduled for 2:00 p.m. eastern time, lots to get to on this story. good afternoon to you, at least you are on the east coast. >> heather: nothing like us slow friday af

reporter: a major shakeup at the white house. general john kelly, the homeland security secretary is his replacement. he will officially start monday. two white house sources telling fox that priebus secretly resigned yesterday. the president tweeted i am pleads into form you i just named general john kelly as white house chief of staff. he is a grate american. i would like to thank reince priebus for his service and dedication to his country. we accomplished a lot together, and i am proud of him. when asked about the move, the president praised both men. >> general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, and respending by everybody. a great american. reince priebus a good man. thank you very much. reporter: priebus issuing this statement, saying it' it's beene of the greatest honors of my life to serve the president and this country. i will continue to serve as a strong supporter of the president's agenda and policies. i can't think of a better person than general john kelly to succeed me. i wish him god's blessin

the white house blowing him a kiss goodbye. but let it not be said it was an uneventful ten days he told the bbc he be straight talking approach and one of the things i cannot stand about this tow. is the backstabbing that goes on here okay where i grew up in the neighborhood i'm from were front stampers who like to tell you exactly where we're from. and what we're doing. turbulent doesn't begin to describe it in a foul mouth tirade he went to war with the two most senior people in the west wing. who want the president? in his conversation with the new yorker magazine missed the scaramucci said of the ex chief of staff. right this is a. paranoid schizophrenic. paranoiac. i deceive baden. i'm not trying to build my own brand of the. strength of the president i'm here to serve the country. by last friday the chief of staff had been fired left abandoned at andrews airforce base. a scout to scaramucci. but now irony of ironies general john kelly on day one is new chief of staff. how changes he wanted to make as the president lavishe

lori: joining us to discuss the shakeup at the white house. d barnes and back with us, the dean, ed rollins. fred, first to you. let me out up by asking you your thoughts on john kelly the new chief of staff. if you were surprised by the late friday news. fred: i was surprised. but this is the best thing to happen at the white house in across long time. it's like hiring bill belichik to be your football coach. i like him. kelly is exactly what he needs. he has a huge job there. he was such an impressive cabinet member, the most of impressive one, and he diffused the whole immigration issue. the problem at the white house is the way donald trump conducts the presidency. it's not the policies. john kelly is going to have to advise the president to change them. i actually think the president is a little afraid of john kelly. he talks about his generals. and he's a little scared by them. i think kelly will be a tremendous force for good. lori: you think the president will be intimidated by general kelly and it will result in further organization at