how this all rolls into this, because what we have is news that anthony scaramucci is trying or has negotiated some sort of a return to the export-import bank, which is where he had been sort of in a holding pattern for a little while. there s some important stuff here because anthony scaramucci has attempted to sell his business to a company called hna, which has a murky ownership structure, but some of it is tied to the chinese government. and that is running into some regulatory problems. and stephanie was saying that those in the white house were saying that anthony scaramucci could not serve in this white house unless he did not have a conflict of interest. so the fact had that he had not yet sold sky bridge was a conflict that was enduring. remember, scaramucci was not sworn in. he had not been sworn in. he just had a hard pass to the white house instead of that temporary pass but last week when he was asked questions repeatedly in the white house press conference does anth
conversation i just had with him suggested. right. he said he was laying low, that he was trying to just keep it cool while the storm passed, essentially. right. the storm meaning what was happening with him last week, specifically when he was talking to reason lizza of the new yorker where he went on a profanty laced tirade against the people that were inside the white house, reince priebus being one of them, steve bannon being another. i can t say on television what he said about steve bannon. he did call reince priebus a paranoid schizophrenicic,ible. and a par noi ak. a yeah word. eelgts a character and that s part of the reason why drt and john kelly is not. john kelly is not. it s significant for john kelly to come in and for scaramucci to come out, even as quickly as scaramucci was within this white house. but scaramucci was somebody who would go on television and he would sound very much like donald trump in definiting donald trump, and that s what he apprecia
calculuses about what they need to do and not much gets done here in washington legislatively. and there s a debt ceiling coming up. there s stuff that has to happen. kristen, when of the things that kelly and scaramucci had in common they have both spoken out very strongly against the leaks that come out of the white house. scaramucci had made that or said he was going to make it his top priority, the basis on which he went after reince priebus. what where do we stand with this? is this white house leakier than prior administrations or are they all kind of leaky? it is leakier than previous administrations, no doubt about that. however, having said that, i think there s an important caveat to that which is that a lot of the officials here are simply giving the press information they need to do their jobs. understand the president s thinking better. for example, having said that, i think the leaks that kelly wants to crack down on are leaks of classified and sensitive information
that the president himself enoi had that display of dysfunction on cnn between scaramucci in private. so what extent can keel rein in this president, andy, i heard you mention a lot of people about the structure of the white house and all the positive things that kelly can bring, but you didn t mention the president and i think that is the most important person that he needs to impose discipline on. we ll see to what extent the president is receptive to that because kelly can t be there for every single call and judgment. he can t be at his bedside in the east room in the morning when he s sending off some of those most harmful tweets. right. and it s not, roland, like scaramucci was a hold over in the white house. it was president trump s decision to bring scaramucci in. yeah. he definitely count enanswered or stood by as scaramucci did what he did last week, which struck most people as strange, the profanty laced interview and the denials that it was on the record and all that
selfish is actions in the eyes of many by anthony scaramucci where he was targeting reince priebus and steve bannon with that crude, that vulgar, that profane series of comments to the new yorker that ultimately required his being candidate. so he is out. that means we now wait after just ten days for yet another communications director. this is the beginning of a new tenure for the new chief of staff. the general, john kelly, retired four-star general formerly the secretary of homeland security. what s notable is the influence behind that, which of it came from the president s close egs advisers, including his daughter vagua trump, son-in-law jared kushner praised sources familiar with those private conversations they praised the professionalism of john kelly. they according to sources say they were prepared to follow his lead. well, it appears that john kelly has in effect taken the lead here, trying to professional lies as best he can the west wing, which may be a good indication fo