how do you think he is taking this? i think i agree with my much older colleague, hugh hewitt here. he was carrying the communications director job and now press secretary. now comes a communications director that he has to answer to and he has to deal with the one part of the job that he probably hated which was the press briefings. i think she leavi he is leaving terms. sean spice ser is a true patrio he loves his country, and he believes he has been doing his duty for the president and for the country. for those of us that have known sean for a couple years now, and dana eluded to this earlier, people were surprised that he took the job, that was a bit of an under statement. were you surprised as well? i was, i was a little surprised and i thought about it
comes to putin he s a lover. he s a lover and he and he rolls over and plays dead while the russians effectively continue to launch cyber attacks against this country. it s really striking. as a former white house communications director this was energy week. that s right. and it was almost as good as infrastructure week. you don t think energy you don t think this fits with let me just read these again to see if you think this works for energy week. i heard poorly rated morning joe speaks badly of me. then how come low iq crazy mika along with psycho joe came to mar-a-lago? you don t think this happens with energy week? he called somebody low energy. and jeb bush was not out there this morning. it is really striking. you know, there s no surprise that they can t fill those jobs. can t fill the white house communications director job, can t fill the press secretary job because who wants that job of trying to get a coherent
hans, you re in the nbc family so you get to go back to work. eli and ashley drew the short sticks. they have to stick around. i m going to bring my panel in. joining me, msnbc national affairs analyst, john heilemann. former clinton campaign communications director jen palmieri. national action network president, the rev al sharpton. was from massachusetts, msnbc analyst, former senior adviser to the bush/cheney campaign, my friend, robert tranam. jen, you were nodding because the news that the president maybe intended to make today, his news on dreamers yeah, big deal. may have actually been something that received bipartisan praise, but when you wake up to headlines about your son-in-law s finances being scrutinized by the special counsel, when you wake up and you make more headlines, yourself, on twitter by acknowledging you re under investigation, not a lot of attention gets paid to the news you plan to make. yeah, this is why it s ridiculous for anybody to go in and t
people. i think we ve been on the other end of some of those phone calls. the interesting part about mike s departure is anybody who who s covered a white house knows, and you laid it out, communications director, in terms of the things that are very lacking in the white house for pushing their agenda forward, that s the communications director job. while mike never settled in with the team, he never gelled with the operation by all accounts, didn t gel with the guy who sits in the oval office, that should be a crucial component of whatever they re doing next. you don t leave that job open or have a slow transition period. that job is what lays out the opportunities for you to succeed on capital hill on the things you want to keep your head down and keep working toward as your outside team is fighting to not back any news about investigation. but it s hard to do that job to plan where is the president going to be? where is he going to be next week? what s he going to do in the big sp
sanctimonious, he placed his person who s now the secretary of homeland security in as his deputy, that they tried to rule the west wing with an iron fist, that they pushed out some of the president s favorites, his body guy, mr. schiller, mr. campaign guy corey lewandowski, he tried to isolate the president from some of the original cast. that whole group is using this situation, stringing it together with his other public controversies and making the case that it s time for john kelly to go. when kelly came into the office, he had said one thing he was going to do is try to crack down on these rivalries that divided the west wing for months. we saw, anthony scaramucci, too. someone made the case today that scaramucci was more qualified for the communications director job than hope hicks. i did say today, scaramucci, of course, ousted by john kelly, called for kelly s ouster. so what we re seeing, though