So many ways to look at this. Because you asked about sean, thats one way. Another way is also what this says, maybe much more importantly, about the president of the United States, and how he has learned from the First Six Months about the way he wants to craft his white house with people who are loyal to him. People who know him, who are new yorkers. And are much more fluent in the language of trump than in the ways of washington. Were going to talk much more about that. Jen palmieri, white house comes director for President Obama and of course, you will know her from the Hillary Clinton campaign where she also served chief of communications there. Jen, thanks for joining us. Give us your reaction to this. All right. Can jen . Can you hear me . All right. Were going to try to work out the connection with jen palmieri, well bring her in soon as we have her. Going to scaramucci, and im sure sean believes that hes not the right guy for the job. And hed been we were seeing him sidelined as the spokesman. Then squeezed from the more strategic side, squeezed out by scaramucci. Bringing back jen palmpalmieri. I think shes on the phone. Oh. Not meant to be today. All right. Were going to keep trying. Make third time will be a charm here. Right . I know. Better reception. Okay. Chris, your thoughts on this . Fights and slights. Thats the story of sean spicer over six monthss fights with the press. Slights from the president. Right . This is a very difficult job for anyone. 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, hes best everything, probably. Some the start, dana mentioned that sean is someone who if you spent any time in washington you knew hes 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 dont know. Hes always been i wrote a piece i dont 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 youre also beholden to a White House Press corps that has asks, has demands, has waying in which they want to interact with
you. From the start, january 21st, a saturday, the day after donald trump became president , sean spicer opened with a lecture of the media what they were covering and why, dana mentioned this, inauguration size. Proved a couple things. One, he was going to be a trump guy. Right away. Willing to basically state a lie from the podium. And willing to say whatever to make donald trump happy. We felt that the audience at that time was donald trump nap it wasnt really the press he was before. I want to talk about that, but tell us as were looking at these live pictures coming to us from the brady Briefing Room at the white house, all reporters gathered there. What are they doing . Probably trying to go back into lower press. The area behind that door theyre gathered outside. Exactly. Where other white house spokespeople and Deputy Spokespeople Sit or go through the door and then to the left, which takes you up in the direction of the oval office and the area we call upper press. Where sean has his office or where the Press Secretary has
his or her office. Is this a normally its open. Right . At least it was during the obama administration. Is it open in the Trump Administration . Normally open. There are times they cut the press off something going on and dont want people to come back for. A president s movement or just dont want the throng of reporters to steep back there. And as weve watched, i want to get to Brian Stealther in a moment. As weve watched sean spicer over these months, the audience was the president. Right . As much or maybe perhaps more than it was the reporters that he was sparring with in the Briefing Room. He has been absolutely 100 loyal to President Trump. Whether or not that is a decision he will be happy with now that he leaves the white house is something only sean can talk about, but during his time as Press Secretary, interactions with us as the correspondents association, with reporters generally from the podium, he has been the number one advocate for President Trump. Which is somewhat
interesting, only because hes not a trump guy, per se. Again. No. This is the person during the election working for the rnc and part of the really establishment republican wing. Hes a wanted that job. He did. Reince priebus advocated for him to have the job and seen as trump bringing in outsiders. Its important, it was mentioned. Spicer matters for spicer but also matters symbolically. This is donald trump bringing in friends, people close to him and close to his family. I want to get in Brian Stelter joining us from new york. New reporting. What can you tell us . Our colleague Michael Smerconish might have been the last person to meet with spicer when this went down. In his office between 9 00 and 9 45. Quoting smerconish, nothing of his mannerisms that would tell you this was a person that was about to quit his job. Maybe he was thinking about it
for a while but it erupted this morning. You have to go back to the year 2000 to find the last time a Press Secretary resigned after only six months. That was the end of the clinton administration. That person had to leave and let the bushes come in. Normally these Press Secretaries stay a couple of years. Robert gibbs. First Obama Press Secretary stays two years. Guys, this is a symptom of a larger disease. Spicers struggles are the symptoms of a bigger disease, the president s dishonest, selfdefeating merging. Well see if Anthony Scaramucci can change that. Dana, Michael Smerconish talking to sean spicer, doesnt seem like a guy who was going to quit his job. What does that tell us how out of The Loop Spicer was when it came to this announcement . My understanding, i talked to a source close to sean who said sean was very well aware as of last night that this was a very real possibility. And you know, he didnt my sense is that hes worked for donald trump long enough to know it wasnt real until was actually happening, because hes heard stories of his demise many times before. Or about about white house shakeups, whatever you want to call this. As of last night he understood that scaramucci would be brought in as Communications Director that that was a very real possibility and he didnt know how he would react realtime, whether he would quit. Clearly when presented, he decided, im out. I want to listen to what have become memorable moments of sean spicer as Press Secretary. This was the largest audience to ever witness and inauguration, period. Both in person and around the globe. When we use words like travel ban that misrepresents what it is. Ive said it from the day that i got here until whatever that there is no connection. Youve got russia. If the president puts russian Salad Dressing on his salad, somehow thats a russian connection. But every Single Person well, no. Thats, i appreciate your agenda here but the reality 2340, no. Hold on. At some point report the facts. Sean, do you have hey, Sean Sean Sean come on, sean all right. So those were i mean pretty astounding moments you dont normally see with a Press Secretary. You covered president bushs, second president bush, you covered President Obamas white house. When you look at those moments just in the last six months what do you think with some Institutional Knowledge you have about what is normal . Its been a very, shall we say, Temperatu Tempestuous year. Its been tricky. The relationship between the white house and the press corps
is largely set by the Press Secretary and the Press Secretarys staff, and weve worked, the correspondents association, which im about to leave as the president next week, has worked really hard on that relationship. It hasnt always been successful. We certainly havent always agreed on a lot of things. Its been tricky. And you know, did you say the word normal . Okay. Thats an important word. Yeah. Because the definition of normal washington standard normal, Press Secretaries, press briefing, press corps. The interaction, strategy of communications. This has been underscored to me by people close to the president and close to all the players again this morning. What we have learned and it was obvious watching it unfold in the last six months, now especially in retrospect and at this moment, that was gone. That was never really going to work with donald trump in the white house but now we know that he tried. He tried to sort of twist himself into the washington
the washington ways, i mean, the most traditional, the most basic level of how communication strategy works, but its not who he is. Which is why end of the day he is his Communications Director. He does it, end of story, and he wants a guy who gets how he thinks, been loyal a killer on tv to kwum come on tv and be th guy. Strategizing on communications will never work for a guy maybe selfaware enough to know he changes that with a single tweet. I just heard from a source, this is all trumps call. Trump is the one who stopped scaramucci from coming in, in the first place. Initially. And now he wants him in. The question i have and have been talking to people about is, how does this affect the Balance Of Power inside the white house . What does this doss to Reince Priebus . He and Reince Priebus havent been close. He blames Reince Priebus, dana
reported, for stopping him from getting another job as Special Advisers. They were going to move him into the white house. They did not occur. Pending drama . Well, how will that how will that play out . The truth of the matter is, as dana is pointing out, is that everything now seems to be up in the air. People have to figure out a way to deal with each other. In these relationships that start out very fragile, because there is history. There is history here. And can i say one thing jie was told by a source very close to scaramucci that he, you know, even though he feels reince blocked him particular being in the white house the First Six Months he doesnt hold grudges, doesnt want to be chief of staff. He wants to do the kind of thing trudge is bringing him in to do and will probably try to make nice with Reince Priebus giving an on the record quote saying hes fine with this, wants to make nice. In their selfinterests. And to your point, too, that donald trump at some level likes the clash of advisers. Hes set a system up where there were four people, steve bannon, Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner and Kellyanne Conway who were going to clash with one another. Who had different views. He placed them off of one another. Thats what he does. The fact they dont necessarily havent always gotten along is less disqualifying in this way than others. Can i make one other very quick point . Well be back for more and jeff has to run to get to the briefing, outgoing president of the White House Correspondents Association final word. Well, i know that the next four that starts next week will want to work with the incoming Communications Director and whoever becomes the Press Secretary as well, but it will be interesting to watch just to sort of sum up what weve didnt saying here and also what the other implications are of this move for the rest of the press team, that reporters rely on every day for information from the white house. Hold tight. When we come back, much more on our Breaking News. The resignation of White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer. Stay with us. If you have moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis like me, and youre talking to your rheumatologist about a medication. This is humira. This is humira helping to relieve my pain. And protect my joints from further damage. Humira has been clinically studied for over 18 years. Humira works by targeting and helping to. Block a specific source. Of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. Its proven to help relieve pain and. Stop further joint damage in many adults. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections,
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because the conference is about to happen in a few minutes. Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen of maryland. Sir what is your reaction to this Breaking News . Well, brianna, its impossible being the Press Secretary or the Communications Director in this administration, because the chaos starts at the very top. It starts with the president. The president who tweets out stuff that pops into his mind. The president that invites reporters into the white house and at a time when were discussing health care, talks to the New York Times about, you know, putting pressure on mueller to drop his investigation. Goes after his own attorney general. This is a president that cannot stick to the issues that the American Public cares most about, which is get health care, the economy, and those issues. This is a perfect example of the chaos at the white house taking
the focus of thie things important to the country. Do you think this signifies Something Different inside the west wing . Clearly not only a chaotic involvement but seems to be a lot of infighting because a lot of people strongly objected to this appointment. That only compounds sort of the natural chaotic dna of this administration, because we know week to week when people want to focus on one thing, all of a sudden, you know, theyre over the rails talking about something else. So look, in the in the senate were supposedly taking up a health care proposal. All have been rotten so far. The president , you know, begged the senators to get on with that bill, and here we are where hes again changing message, changing focus away from things the public cares about. This seems to be something that is very much a part of this president , a part of this
administration, but i would say this latest development has exposed the infighting even more than before. Do you think that as we see a new Communications Director come in, that that could spell Something Different for the white house . Or are you just expecting more of the same, since scaramucci is such a loyalist to the president . Its hard to see anything different. Again, because youve got a president of the United States who at all hours of the day or night tweets out whatever pops into his head and seems to be really obsessed with the russia investigation. Right . All of these big issues that were looking at as a country, whether its the health care issue. Or the economy. But he seems very obsessed with Robert Mueller and the fbi investigation. Which i think is leading a lot of people to ask, what is it that they are trying to hide here . Why is he so determined to sabotage that investigation rather than come clean . And as long as thats the top of mind for the president , then its going to be really hard for the administration to move on. They should just cooperate with the investigation. Come clean and focus on issues that are important to the country. Senator Chris Van Hollen, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. With this Breaking News. We were going to talk about Something Different and here we are with this story really just dominating our discussion. Standinging by now for the First White HouseBriefing Since the announcement of sean spicers resignation. Were going to, of course, bring that to you live when it happens. I want to get now to cnn White House Reporter kaitlyn collins, joining us now. Tell us what we are expecting from this briefing, kaitlyn . Reporter we are expecting a briefing any minute. The first oncamera briefing in several weeks. Irony the day the Press Secretary steps down from his position we will finally see Sarah Huckabee sanders, Deputy Press Secretary oncamera today. You know sean spicer quit earlier after being announced Anthony Scaramucci would join the team as the Communications Director. Were told no other staffers knew last night that scaramucci would be tagged by the president this morning, that sean spicer, Reince Priebus and steve bannon were largely left in the dark for this decision and did not know. Were told that though sean spicer is upset he was there in his office as Reince Priebus introduced him to the rest of the Communications Team with a round of applause. Just were looking there at live pictures, reporters in the room, in the Briefing Room there, kaitlyn. Not unusual to be milling about as they wait for this briefing but really trying to get answers and it seems like the door there to the Lower Press Office is closed at this hour. Right . As they get their ducks in a row for the briefing . Reporter yeah. A mad house ever since. So many reporters standing outside of sean spicers office to ask questions about
scaramucci, when sean spicer came out, shut his door and a few reporters standing there, when the news broke he had resigned. Its been kind of crazy. Reporters can typically stand up in that upper hall way outside of the upper White House Communications staffers offices but theyve been pushed downstairs as they sort out the messages for the briefing today at 2 00. Quite a scene. Stand by kaitlyn in the Briefing Room as we await this briefing and well bring that to you live here on cnn. News, of course, the White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer resigned. What is sending shock waves through the white house there. You see pictures. Joining me on the phone former white house Communications Director for President Obama and Communications Director on the Hillary Clinton campaign, Jennifer Palmieri with me now. Jen, youve been following this Breaking News. Whats your reaction . I guess i have two thoughts. One is, with sean, i know him a
little bit. See him at the base. Seems like a nice person and i i think he probably should have resigned on day one, when he was first asked to do the, to go out with the fake news about the president s inaugural crowd, and no job is worth that. But im glad you know, i am glad he has he has left now. A lot of people questioned whether he stayed in the white house. But i can understand why they would want to do that. In terms of Anthony Scaramucci taking over white house Communications Director. You know, theres a i think people who have had has job, we all tried to support each other. When i had that job, president bushs Communications Director was very supportive and helpful to me. Theres a rhythm to a white
house regardless of the party in there and we try to support each other, but im not sure that an her to scaramucci i know a little bit but my impression is, hes not going to do the job with the idea that your job is to help te president of the United States communicate with the American Public. Thats a very important responsibility. Thats not about spin or putting or saying i want to even convey the president s message if a possible light although hats part of the job. The fundamental responsibility you have is making sure that the president of the United States is appropriately communicating with the American People which is a big part of his job. From what i have seen of how Anthony Scaramucci performs, hell be, you know, on television and affective, if you consider, you know, just being a very aggressive sort of attack dog affective. But i dont suspect hell do you know, well see. I dont expect hell do the part of the job i would do and about actually trying to plan, communications you know, advantages of the team and communicating what the president was trying, his agenda and what hes trying to speak to, to that point, dan fyfe, senior adviser, he proceeded you . Right. Proceeded you and fwetweeted saying i have a particular buy is, white house Communications Director is a much harder and complicated job than campaign surrogate. You were talking a litte bit about that. Certainly being a member of an administration, jen, theres an element of loyalty. Right . But sometimes it that loyalty comes in the form of maybe some constructive criticism. You know what im saying here . This idea that you i do. And it does seem like this president values l s loyalty a. Is there a way essentially, is this kind of being shuffled where scaramucci might be the face but there may be someone else kind of helping out with the job that traditionally, that you had . Right. Doing the actual work of, you know, creating the communications by the administration. I dont know. This administration doesnt seem to worry too much about communication planning. I expect Anthony Scaramucci will end up on television and and the network will have to decide how to handle that if he just goes on and lies a bunch. Its a difficult job because you are caught between the press and the president that you serve. Ed the attendance at you
get the rap when a bad story comes out. Jennifer, looks like a big Press Problem just because the press is covering something wasnt going well. That doesnt make it a Press Problem, but not every politician and certainly President Trump is not equipped so to speak, to accept that just because a story, a bad story appears in the press doesnt mean that its the fault of the communications staff, and you have to, you know, president s get very frustrated with the press and youre the person that can absorb that, have to absorb that frustration and also tell the hard truth. Let me just tell you. I know thats what you want to say, but if you say that, this is the impact of, you know, of of spouting off that way, and that might be okay in the moment but it will have reaper
cushion repercussions. The rubber meets the road. You live in the reality the press covers every day and youve got to tell the president the hard things how its going to be covered. Im not sure that scaramucci, im not sure hes really going to do that. It is certainly a tough job. Jen palmieri, former Communications Director under president Obama Joining us there on the phone. Dana bash, you just spoke with sean spicer. I did, while talking to jen palmieri, scooted off the set to take a quick call from sean spicer. Headline, answer to the question, why now, that he gave to me is, he wanted to give the president and the new team a clean slate. That thats the answer. That he is giving. He said, he told me that the president made clear that he, the president , Wanted Sean Spicer to stay and sean told him, you know, that he said he didnt want to stand in the way from letting this happen, from letting changes happen, and that
he felt in the moment that the time was right for the white house and the white house staff and also for sean spicer personally. Time to go. Sources say hes upset. They do. I can tell you that he did not sound upset when i talked to him. He sounded a lot like the sean spicer that we used to know back in the day at the rnc and the nrcc and all of the, the Alphabet Soup of republican groups he used to work for. You know, i dont know. Relieved . He sounded okay. This is all, you know all consumed with this. I mean, were in breaking coverage about the, his professional life and the changes in his life, but he didnt sound upset to me, and i can tell you that i know that our colleagues have spoken to sources who have spoken to him and said he had been upset. Who else may be upset . Brian stelter has information on that. What can you tell us, brian . Worth noting spicer not the only trump world spokesperson to
resign in the past 24 hours. So much news lately, buried a little. Mark kerala, spokesman for trumps outside legal team resigned last night. Happy said really anything about this yet. He was close to mark castowitz. Im not saying the two are connected but more signs of dysfunction. You know, look, he wasnt mocked on snl the way spicer was mocked by melissa mccarthy, Wasnt High Profile but another example of this dysfunction. And brian, do you have information about steve bannon and Reince Priebus sort of where they stand on how this is all shaking out . And i think we should make the point i think gloria and dana have as well, that according to multiple sources priebus and bannon were very concerned about the idea Anthony Scaramucci was coming in, taking a big role in the white house
nap they fought this decision and ultimately the president went ahead and did it. Brian stelter, thank you so much. So sean spicer, of course, out as White House Press secretary. More on that in a moment and sneak in a quick break here and also spicers deputy Sarah Huckabee sanders what were looking at live. She is going to be briefing the press here shortly. We are watching for when she comes out. Stay with us. Well be right back. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare . Works best for you. With these types of plans, youll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. Plus, there are no networks, and virtually no referrals needed. Theres a range of plans to choose from, too, and they all travel with you anywhere in the country. Join the millions who have already enrolled in the only Medicare Supplement insurance plans endorsed by aarp, an Organization Serving the needs of people 50 and over for generations. And provided by unitedhealthcare insurance company, which has over 30 years of experience behind it. Call today. Remember, Medicare Supplement insurance helps cover some of what medicare doesnt pay. Expenses that could really add up. These kinds of plans could save you in outofpocket medical costs. Youll be able to choose any doctor who accepts medicare patients. And there are virtually no referrals needed. So dont wait. With all the good years ahead, look for the experience and commitment to go the distance with you. Call now to request your free decision guide. This easytounderstand guide will answer some of your questions and help you find the aarp Medicare Supplement plan thats right for you. Yeah, and i can watch thee bgame with directv now. . Oh, sorry, most broadcast and sports channels arent included. And you can only stream on two devices at once. This is fun, were having fun. Yeah, we are. No, youre not jimmy. Dont let directv now limit your entertainment. Xfinity gives you more to stream to more screens. All right. A busy day here with Breaking News. Keeping our eye on the like pictures on the right of your screen. The Briefing Room at the white house we we are awaiting an
oncamera press briefing. Been same time since weve seen that and Deputy Press SecretarySarah Huckabee sanders will brief the case as sean spicer resigned. With me to talk more about that, dana bash, gloria borger, Brian Stelter and Chris Cillizza from new york as well. This is so much chaos. What does this say, chris, about what is going on at the white house . I mean, chaos in ways is normal for this white house. This is more chaos than usual, but not as though this has been, know, a smooth process over these six months. In some ways this is indicative of the six months and one day of Donald Trumps presidency. Unexpected moves causing chaos. I think if you step back from sean, who had been diminished significantly in terms of a public figure over e the past months anyway, step back, what does it say . In terms of sean, in terms of
scaramucci coming in, something sean Wasnt In Favor of our Reince Priebus or the staff Wasnt In Favor. Something weve known all along from his professional and now his political career. Donald trump when chips are down its family, family, family. Theres a shrinking of already quite small usually inner circle pap. A shrinking of that to family and friends. Who is scaramucci, a friend of the family and friends with trump. Is this someone family members, ivanka and jared, the opinion that won out bringing Scaramucci In . Jeff zeleny reports that jared and ivanka supported the idea, that steve bannon was fiercely opposed to this idea. And why . Why . Well, you know, i think that, you mow, there is a school of thought, which is that scaramucci is just about donald trump. And not about an agenda that
that is larger than donald trump, which steve bannon clearly steve bannon clearly wants to push. But this will affect i dont think we can underscore this enough. This will affect everything in the white house right now. Reince priebus has expressed his support as dana points out, to scaramucci, but was never a huge supporter of his. The president is a huge supporter. I will tell you one other thing. This is a president who demands 100 ultimate loyalty. I believe sean spicer gave him that. At some personal cost to himself. Considerable personal cost. But can i finish . But he did not, you know, give it in return. And you can go down a list of people from Chris Christie to rudy giuliani, to sean spicer that this is a president who will cut you off aside from family, as you point out, who will cut you off if he feels
that he has to do it. And Brian Stelter i know you have you have thoughts on this. I think its notable dana was able to speak with spicer now out there tweeting as well saying hell continue his service through august. So not leaving today. Today is not his final day at least according to his twitter account and being very positive saying an honor and privilege to serve President Trump in this amazing country. We know hell be on sean hannity, the show later today. These are indications that sean spice sir not trying to burn the bridge on the way out. Even though there are reports he was upset this morning. This happened quickly this morning. He seems to be signaling that hes going to try to speak positively about the president and meanwhile, we dont know who the new Press Secretary will be. Does Sarah Huckabee sanders want the job . Indication she does not. An open question about whos going to be sitting at the podium in the future. We know sarah will be in a few minutes but not in the future. We dont know. Dana bash, final thoughts to
you . Gloria hit on something important. Beyond whos at the podium and beyond the specific players and their names, its what they stand for and what this means for the Trump Presidency six months in. And how much he has learned about himself and what he need to do to be himself, and not, again, sort of put himself in the structure of traditional washington, and for him, that means bring people in who know him well who support him. Im not is it a shift not saying d just trying to explain it. Is that what it is . Let donald be donald mentality . He wants people in his comfort zone, who will go on tv and be killers apparently the word hes used behind the scenes about Anthony Scaramucci and also, something just said this to me earlier. Its important i think. That the bannon ands the bannon wing or reince wing are trying to push donald trump into, you know, kind of parts of the Republican Party or ideology and
what Anthony Scaramucci brings is somebody who just pushes donald trump. Thank you to all of you. We are, of course, moments away from the white house briefing. This is the first oncamera since the surprising resignation a sport time ago. The first oncamera not just since then but in a long time. Not just since sean spicer resigned. Jake tapper picks up our special coverage, right after this. Cases chronic flatulence. No sooooo gassy girl. So gassy. If youre boyz ii men, you make anything sound good. Its what you do. If you want to save 15 percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Next next [radi alarm]
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ask him to stay, but that he, sean, said that given the situation, he thought it was better for the white house and it was also better for sean, personally, to leave now. But what was the issue with the scaramucci hiring . He didnt he was going to have to report to scaramucci . What exactly was the issue . We didnt get into that that. It was a very brief conversation but i can answer that based on other people who have talked to machine and are familiar with the situation that, yes, not only would he have to report to scaramucci, he didnt think that scaramucci would be doing the job would be able to do the job of a traditional Communications Director, strategize, visavis washington, outside groups, the things that you need to do and sean would end up doing that job and also the Spokesperson Job and he thought im going to end up doing two jobs and he was not very happy. Thats the answer. My sense is that this kind of gave him an out and maybe one
that he didnt realize that he was looking for, but it presented itself to him, and he took it. Sean spicer did recently tweet a special message. Lets put that up if we can. Its been an honor and privilege to serve potus and this amazing country. I will continue my service through august. So that is the message from sean spicer via twitter. What exactly do we know, gloria, about Anthony Scaramucci when it comes to communications, running a Communications Department . Obviously, the president thinks hes good on tv, and certainly hes eloquent and telegeneralic but thats not the same thing as knowing how to manage a Communications Department for the most important government in the world. And i was talking to somebody whos close to the president , and his fear is that while scaramucci is, as dana uses the word, killer, right, and thats a favorite word of the
president s, while he his agenda is President Trump, its not an ideological agenda, its not a political agenda. His agenda is defending donald trump. This person said to me that his fear is that it will not work, because you have to have broader expertise in terms of Communication Skills in this job, and thats not thats not his skill set. This person also said to me, look, this was a slap in the face to sean, but there was a sense on the part of the president , you know, this was the president s decision, another source said to me, but this source said, look, scaramucci had been promised a lot of jobs. Export import banking, i think. And they were going to move him into the white house as some kind of Special Adviser and Reince Priebus was not in favor of that. Theres friction there, although as danas reported today that Reince Priebus says hes 100 behind this. So that theres a feeling on the
part of the president at least, that he had been promised all these jobs and that he hadnt gotten them and this was a guy who was 100 loyal to him with no other agenda other than defending donald trump and that trump wanted him in and Jared Kushner wanted him in and according to jeff zeleny, that Reince Priebus and steve bannon were usually opposed to this. So this is going to have repercussions inside the white house. I want to bring in ani anita dunn. She was a white house Communications Director for President Obama several years ago. Anita, Lets Posit For The Sake Of Argument that Anthony Scaramucci is a great talking head and a Great Television representative for President Trump. President trump thinks so, and thats really all that matters when it comes to hiring and firing in that gig. But youre a former Communications Director. What else do you have to know to do that job . Well, jake, theres no doubt this is a not a traditional
choice or a traditional background for white house Communications Director. On the other hand, there is nothing traditional about either this president or the way this administration functions. But here is what i would be concerned about if i were a republican on capitol hill, especially having watched what happened with the health care bill. Which is, a huge part of the White House Communications offices job is really to market and to get out the president s agenda and to create a Communications Message around that agenda that helps things get passed on the hill, helps communicate to the American People why those policies are right, and this is not what his background is, you know, if the job is defending President Trump, that is one job. But actually moving forward an agenda for this administration, given the challenges theyve had in the first six amongmonths of getting any kind of coherent message out about what they want to do to keep those promises the president made during the campaign, its a big job. Its a big government. Communications across all the
agencies, across the independent agencies, all of that, at the end of the day, falls on the white house Communications Directors office, and on that desk, and you know what . Its more than just going on tv. And john king, i mean, the contrast between how involved President Obama was in Passing Obamacare and how involved President Trump was in terms of reepeeling a repealing and replacing obamacare is day and night and you didnt see President Trump going to swing districts, explaining in detailed speeches what the bill what the action would do for voters, personally lobbying individual members of the congress with knowledge of the policy, but thats not necessarily sean spicers fault. No, its not. The president has constantly undermined a lot of people he works with and who work for him by saying things contrary to what they have said. Sean spicer lays out an explanation or strategy on day a and by breakfast the next day,