but that i am the person that can bring people together on the other side and actually get stuff done. cnn s political director david challan is with me now. the democratic field are growing. and there are many still out there, some big names, too, like joe biden, beto o rourke, michael bloomberg. we re still awaiting some big names to give us their decision. but this is now the second governor to get in the race, brianna, and he s trying to plot a cent rirrist, a little more central path, which the big question that s hanging over him is, is this what the electorates are looking for now? he feels he can not only bring people together at a time when that has to happen, but as mayor of denver, as governor of
executed on. he said repeatedly when we can finally execute the agenda, when we can execute the agenda, i read that as the white house communications director saying that the last six months have been for not when it comes to executing the agenda, which i thought was a really astonishing concession. pause. you know, one of the reasons it s so extraordinary because alisyn and i have sat together next to all of this as it s unfolded since the beginning is that there s so many layers of what s going onto david s point. for sure. david doesn t know where to begin. palace intrigue, real, true, at this point my take is scaramucci is not the bad guy, he s a victim and brought in to clean it up and that s what he s going to do. but who s the bad guy? i think there s several bad guys in there because, next layer, the president in terms of the tortured reference that he put on the italians of the fish stinks from the head down, the president has engendered a culture where it is okay to
extraordinary reporting experience i have ever been a part of. that says a lot, because you ve had some extraordinary reporting experiences in your career. i have never experienced anything like this. by the way, that s not a criticism. it s unusual on a number of levels. and the access that we ve had this morning into what s going on i ve never seen before in something that wasn t an investigation that didn t happen after the fact. this is happening right now. i think it s an extraordinary viewing experience as well for our viewers, so let s talk about all of it with our panel. we have cnn political director david challan, david drucker, julia pace. david, you watched it unfold along with us in realtime. what do you make of what anthony scaramucci is focused on and talking about? well, there were so many things there to unpack. i do think at its core when you heard anthony scaramucci tell you, chris, that he believes
because this isn t but in the communications department or everywhere? both. i think initially it will probably be comms because that s his bailiwick right now. but i think as your effectiveness grows as we saw with kellyanne conway, your portfolio grows, your reach grows, the people you can have around you that your respect grows, you can t have reince priebus and scaramucci if things stay the way they are. but now then you get to the next layer, david chalian, which is what won t be talked about as long as leaks are that matters every bit as much, this lgbt move is not just patent hypocrisy for donald j. trump because he said the exact opposite, he swore to protect this community his doj just came out with a report saying they re not a protected class when coming to work discrimination issues. that s a huge blow. then does this point to the military that by all accounts the d.o.d. was not aware of, which means this wasn t hoisted upon him, he initiated this, and
don t think that they can accomplish what they want by going about it this way. one last thing and david chalian brought up a great point about whether or not the agenda has been successful. look, i think they ve had some victories, they ve had some problems. but we have seen over the years that whenever a politician has trouble, whenever their approval ratings aren t where they want them to be, supporters always believe the problem is communications. that if we can just talk about this better and focus on this better, that somehow it s going to be better received and people will look at it differently. and that s usually never the case. it s usually the case that people are reading what s going on the way they would read it no matter what and this is the judgment they re rendering. i think this is what the white house really needs to grapple with. one little bit of more insider insight into this is scaramucci can be effective if he brings in his own people. i think we re going to st