own dana perino and sarah huckabee sanders in the history of press secretary. if this had been a liberal woman and hillary clinton were president the left and right column what amazing performance yesterday was. instead team of rivals at the lecturn for president. it s a contrast between scaramucci and sarah huckabee sanders. was she sidelined. is her tone too different? is it going to work or not. [have you watched her. she is fantastic behind the podium. managing an assault from the fake news media. clayton: they don t like her. comes in an era shut the cameras off. adversarial tone from the press against sarah huckabee sanders in that room. abby: she is in a tough position. she is the middle woman between the president and the media who has never really had been treated by the media that any president has throughout history. i admire her for stepping into that role. she is not the only one who we have seen at least in this administration being treated by the press as a woman in an
trying to find some sort of drama the press was, right, with these tweets that happened a while ago that he wrote that were negative about the president. i love how he responded there. clayton: i do, too. abby: president brings up to me every chance we get which we know is true he acknowledges what it is. clayton: acknowledges it was 2015. abby: how do you respond to that. clayton: he called him a political hack and other things. he was working on other campaigns at the time. he had some different opinions about president trump than candidate trump. even before he was candidate. and that s the way to handle it which is, look, i apologized to him and these things are going to be out there and that s how i m handling it. pete: this is a guy in the media. defended the president on other networks. he took on cnn for fake news against him, tying him to a russian conspiracy. did he it quietly behind the scenes. he got three reporters fired and the story retracted. i think the president sees
former george w. bush ned ryan: a couple things to unpack here. first of all, it s good to see spicer to go. you don t believe he was ever on his team to begin with. he was not trump s pick. to be honest this was in the trump s pick. i was surprised he had lasted this long. i called a few months ago he would be gone by the summer. this is not a real surprise when white house staff leave in the first year. it s a tough job. it s a hard job. it takes it out of you. i think i read somewhere the average for first white house staff is 9 to 12 months. it s not that unusual. now trump has got his guy. he has got his pick. it s an outside the box pick but again why should would he be surprised trump is outside the box president and candidate. yesterday was great. i thought scaramucci s touch was great with the press. it wasn t in your face. but, you know, when he is talking about fake news and the bias is very light touch. we will be addressing that we will be pushing become. they asked some
that was not a fair question. abby: he was not combative at all. very nice touch and feel to it the thing that s interesting about this timing too is first of all anthony has a ton of tv experience as people have noticed he has been on a lot of i couldn t tell let s and one of president s test defenders. interesting timing because tax reform is coming up. this guy knows tax issues and knows tax reform. and that s what trump has to get done by the end of the year. trump has a guy that he has picked. he has picked anthony. he knows somebody who knows the tax issue very well. somebody who is going to have a different interaction with the press. abby: that s something that the president said yesterday in a statement is he an agenda guy. we need someone at the top who can help lead that charge. theland though, as they usually are really trying to test the new guy coming. in they tried that yesterday. the reaction for many people in the press was really positive about scaramucci. i want to r
say is i want to thank personally sean spicer. sean is a true american patriot. he is a military service man. he has a great family. he has done an amazing job. the navy seals will tell you if you want to eat an elephant you will eat it one bite at that time. save and i will do that together. me and ryan are like brothers. we rough each other up once in a while which is totally normal than brothers. hav have you been one of the president s strongest supporters for a while now. but does he know what you said about him back in 2015 when you said he was a hack politician? he brings it up every 15 seconds. one of the biggest mistakes that i made because i was unexperienced person in the world of politics. so, mr. president, if you you re listening i personally apologize for the 50th time for saying that i m super optimistic guy. i m too short to see the glass anything other than half if yofull.i think the president isg to have a phenomenal relationship with the press. we will get there