development. we went weeks and weeks, as you know, chris, without having the cameras on in the briefing and had to tolerate the audio-only briefings that we couldn t air until after the briefing was over and it was a ridiculous situation and it sounds like anthony scaramucci going by this memo that was released to our jake tapper earlier this evening said, listen, we need to get on better terms with the news media and i and others have been saying this and i think april would join me on this that the white house would be well served to cut out this fake news, enemy of the people, going after the press and some of the stuff that we saw from stephen miller today does not serve the president s agenda well and i think anthony scaramucci for all of his faults and the profanity-laced tirade, he had his finger on something that i think would have been pretty useful for the white house. april, jim, there s more to report from the conversation. let s take a break right now. thank you for sett
the media but comms cannot. talking about the communications department. having different levels of interchange with the media. comms, again, communication department, should seek to de-escalate tensions with the media. so how does he reconcile being a short-timer with having this kind of intricate plan that obviously was going to take time. he says he was going to try to put in place a team, including bill shine, the former head of fox news and others to be in place even if he became a casualty of the infighting. he wasn t paranoid in general but anthony was keenly aware that people were out to get him and he still believes that that is true. jim? and also, chris, i want to give a shout out, at least in one regard for anthony scaramucci. anthony scaramucci announced that the television cameras would be back on in the briefing room. that is a hugely welcomed development. we went weeks and weeks, as you know, chris, without having the cameras on in the briefing and had to tolerate the
drag. probably wouldn t go over in the north dakota gun club, but that s what they do. they perform variety shows that include jokes we couldn t air with you on the ed show. there was a homo phobic joke made about congressman frank. if it wasn t for the federal government, they wouldn t be having their offensive party. these wall street executives are making fun of you the taxpayers. you ve been game. they don t live in a world of reality as most americans. they only care about their money and their lifestyle. they re not the job creators. they re the paper shufflers. they make money off money, shuffling paper, and they resent