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
he probably had some conditions coming into this it and one of them were i m going to make some of these decisions. let me go to stephanie rule whoa is on the phone with us. so let s just walk through this. when anthony scaramucci was on the podium not this last week, last friday, he said i am not starting for a few weeks. i want to be conflict free. sky bridge was not yet sold. it s still not. hna, the chinese con grom rate had shown an interest, had a bin for this company for months. reince priebus was one of the people who brought an issue up to the president months ago saying there s some hair on this deal. there are concerns, there are issues there, people saying a company like this could be interested at sky bridge, at this kind of price, because it s to curry favors. now, that is one of the reasons anthony sort of got blocked months ago. anthony was then brought back in by the president. but the diesel still hadn t closed. in order for sky bridge to be sold, you have to get
the white house daily briefing when that s supposed to happen. that has now been delayed to 3:45. there s john kelly right there. many of us are wondering why it had been delayed, and part of that may be because this news about anthony scaramucci is going to be discussed. so we ve got a very, very busy hour for you, but let s start with nbc s peered alexander, who is in the white house press briefing room where we re going to get that briefing very shortly. peter, this is news that has developed in the last ten minutes or so. yeah. that s right. i was upstairs behind me behind the closed doors on the west wing outside of what remains sean spicer s office where we know some of the communications team is now gathered as they prepare to at release some sort of formal statement about anthony scaramucci s dpor tour. it s striking as we talk about what the headline should be for this white house which is the awarding to a medal of honor to a medic who fought nearly 350 years ago. instead i