we ve seen bad communications directors and now for the last two months, we have no communications director in the white house. i think there s been some draft, whether scaramucci can get under control, more power to him. but i think that s a legitimate question to ask. sandra: sean spicer, white house press secretary has resigned, we are getting pictures now coming out of the white house. look at this. this is reporters trying to get anything they can as the story breaks. chris wallace, you are still with us. this is a story that even caught reince priebus and steve bannon by surprise. we are told that the president did not inform them that he was making this decision about sean spicer. you re getting a look at reporters getting anything they can at the white house, trying to get reaction to the story. chris, this is catching a lot of people off guard and i have to ask you very simply, what message is this sending as we
you can tell us as reporters are flocking to the door of the press room, trying to see if anybody s going to walk through there at any moment as we have learned a breaking news this afternoon, white house press secretary sean spicer has resigned. but you know? we know the white house will be releasing an official statement soon. let me give you the lay of the land. what you re seeing on the left side of your screen. thus the white house press gathered at the door and there also inside the lower press office. there waiting to go upstairs. a number of us were upstairs and there is a meeting going on and sean spicer s office with the enteric indication staff, including anthony scaramucci. we heard some laughter from time to time coming from the room, which would seem to be contradictory, given the news that we are hearing and we were all asked by one of the deputy press secretary s, please go downstairs while they work on an official statement. that s what everybody s crowd around the d
the president does, but he does have a lot of say in the staff, he certainly oversees the staff and particularly, as i pointed out earlier, spicer was priebus man behind the podium. he was brought in by priebus. and for him to be let go or quit when it was a choice of scaramucci or spicer, again, very much raises questions about priebus standing in this white house. it s become clear, as we see with jeff sessions that there is no tenure. there is no permanence. you serve at the pleasure of the president and the president s pleasure contains on a dime. that seems to have happened without sessions, seems to have happen with spicer to some degree. you have to wonder now about reince priebus. sandra: and we are left wondering who steps into that everyday role of holding the
that role. i think a lot of presidents believe they are the most effective comfort they don t want to go out. you hear stories of this president live run video watching these briefings. there are sometimes televised briefings and sean spicer would be there and someone would come in from that door and hand him a note and it was a note from the president basically saying tell it this way or hears a clarification. you ve got to wonder, however steps into that role, whether the president isn t always going to think i can do a better and i want to do it better, and that s a frustrating thing. sometimes people are great players, not managers, because they re frustrated when their players don t do it as well as they can. sandra: chris wallace, thank you so much for jumping on this breaking news for us. if you don t mind sticking around, will get back to a little bit later, but we want to go back to the white house, john roberts standing by. john, is there anything new that
who were initially here in this position had to go. this may be the beginning of more, i don t think more today, but more in the coming days. sandra: john roberts, thanks for that update. let s go back to ari fleischer on the phone. you just heard confirmation of sean spicer, he has resigned an order to make room for a new appointment and that is anthony scaramucci-esque munication director. what do you make of what you re hearing coming out of the white house right now he s quoted as saying scaramucci would be a terrible choice. sean had no choice but to leave. they have to get along hand in glove, then to see things eye to eye, otherwise there are cross purposes. there s something else going on here and that s the president s comfort zone. he s brought on anthony