Down after trump appoints Anthony Scaramucci as Communications Director. Garrett tenney joins us live, and what more have we learned about the shakeup . Reporter President Trump hasnt been pleased with his Communications Team really since the inauguration, and in scaramucci, the president sees a mediasavvy, selfmade businessman with a reputation as a fighter. The two men have had a close perm relationship more years perm relationship for years. Thats something that hasnt gone unnoticed. Not everyone at the white house was onboard with this decision though. Were told that chief of staff Reince Priebus, press Secretary Sean Spicer and steve bannon all strongly objected to bringing scaramucci job board. The new Communications Director yesterday dismissed reports that there is any beef between him and Reince Priebus. Reince and i have been personal friends for six years. We are a little bit like brothers where we rough each other up once in a while which is totally normal for brothers. You
Hear. We know the president will address the nation from ft. Myer, outside of washington. He announced on twitter saturday that he made a final decision in that regarding afghanistan after he met with his National Security team at camp david last friday. The president has been presented with a number of options. Defense secretary james mattis was at the camp david meeting. Heres what he had to say about the president s decision. I would not be willing to make significant troop lifts until we made certain what we knew was the stratstrategy, wha the commitment going in in that regard, the president has made a decision. He wants to announce it to the American People. Ill stand silent until then, until that point. So this is a big moment for the president here, jim. Hes essentially asking the american america to trust his decision regarding afghanistan. All of hthis comes after one of the worst weeks of his presidency following the comments he made about the violence in charlottesville wha
Jerry lewis, the legendary entertainer has passed away at 91 careers old. What are you doing asleep. Sleeping . Are you kidding . Im standing like a horseback here like a dog. My, my dont let the sun go down on me ainsley thats an appropriate song. Arent you excited . We all came back in town because its a big day. Steve it certainly is. Brian earth getting blocked by something. Steve Solar Eclipse. I cant see nothing when i put those on. Ainsley can i see a red dot. Brian mine are prescription. Steve here is the thing about the eclipse here in new york city we are not in the 70 wild path. However 70 of the sun is going to be blotted out. You cant use regular sunglasses. Dont use your bare eyeballs. Have you got to use some sort of device. Abby only lasts two minutes. Dont look up. You lived through the eclipse. You lived through it dont work up its not worth it. Brian i live in the area of the country where everyone is flocking too. I was heading the opposite way. People streaming the
Buck this week. And congressional meanwhile, new reports have place at spotlight on a controversial aid who had not been a key figure in the russia case before, unlike, say, manafort or sessions, steve miller is not tied up in high legal meetings, but the time has broken the story that he was the man donald trump put in charge of the first effort to fire jim comey that was vetoed by the president s own lawyer. When this story broke friday heading into that long holiday weekend, a top former federal prosecutor hotold us for the fit time, miller could be hauled before the grand jury. For the first time, miller could be called as a witness. You think hell be hauled in front of the grand jury . We know that mueller is looking at obstruction because trumps attorneys wrote a letter to muller making various obstruction arguments. A lot of talk about letters there. Lets break it down, that first letter never saw the light of day, something was so wrong with it that trumps own white House Couns
Realize that, you know, that we could be heading towards world war iii with the comments that hes making. The president , remember, was quote unquote not finished with corker according to a white house official and tweeted again this morning, this, the failing New York Times set Liddle Bob Corker up by recording his conversation was made to sound a fool and thats what i am dealing with. Well, hes also dealing with this, from a fight with a member of his own party to more tension with a member of his own cabinet, the president planning lunch today with secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Insert your favorite food fight joke here because i couldnt come up with a good one. This, of course, comes after the report surfaced that a frustrated tillerson had called his boss a moron over the summer. Just this morning trump is firing back in a new interview with forbes magazine, asked about the moron report, trump said this, i think its fake news but if he did that, i guess well have to compare i.