and then spicer being aligned with previous didn t like it and apparently has thrown in the towel. we are awaiting official word from the white house, but this all revolves around the idea that the president wanted his man in the communications director position, that man is anthony scaramucci. he was not interested in going through a chain of command back to the president, he wanted to have a direct line of communication, sean spicer apparently did not like that idea or the idea of scaramucci being installed in a position and so now, he has tendered his resignation. we hope to find out officially very soon, there s a big meeting going on in the press secretary s office just a short time ago, we were all ushered out of that area, but we should be brought in soon to learn what the finer points of all of this word. what a friday morning. harris: i picked up on what you said, this is an art of the deal style. of course don t tell anybody what you re about to do with regard to someone wh
sandra: we are just now getting word that there will be a white house press briefing at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. of course, the dash the world will anticipate that moment, certainly because the big question will be, who s at the podium? we ve got ari fleischer, former white house press secretary and fox news contributor. you re on the phone right now on this breaking news, sean spicer has resigned. you have been on our show defending sean spicer, saying he is doing just fine. what you make of this news? of the pot boiled over. sean has had enough. i think a normal white house clearly, sandra: stay with us, i have a jump in and get back to john roberts of the white house. he s got breaking news. just confirming, absolutely that this is all going on now. the president i m told, he
and for the president to basically say, i want my director and if that means spicer s leaving, that s a real statement. and certainly, it weakens the position inside the white house. i will say, spicer, it may be merciful for him to leave this white house. he really has suffered a lot of indignities, it s been no secret that the president has been unhappy with spicer and his briefings. as time went on, you saw spicer, the briefings went off camera, then spicer did fewer and fewer of the off-camera briefings, audio only and sarah huckabee sanders did more and more, plus a whole melissa mccarthy spoofs on snl, they say people don t get paid enough, i wonder if spicer might feel like he stopped hitting his head against a wall when he leaves the
such things to basically stay on message, yet the president will take that advice and he ll throw out the window along with the messaging on make america great and obamacare. by doing this, the president needs to get back on message because i have a sense when it comes to the intraadministration messaging, scaramucci s going to run a very tight ship. the other question we talked about before, who s going to take that press secretary job? that s an open question. sandra: john roberts life rest of the white house on this breaking story, sean spicer has resigned. steve hilton is joining us today and you have worked harris: you were wanting to jump in there. steve: i was laughing because i used to do that kind of stuff. they hardly ever work.
competing five domes. the line between reince priebus and sean spicer is a tight one. now that scaramucci is going to be in there, apparently this has to be fully confirmed by the white house, until it s out there on paper, anything can happen. this will create another point of conflict. there is no question of the president has not been happy with the communication. he wants someone in there who thinks will fight tooth and nail for him, scaramucci has proven that, he has the trust of the president, so he s going to be the one who survives this first battle and we ll see about battles going forward. this before this is melissa francis. tell us a little bit more about that. what does it mean for reince priebus, what does it mean for steve bannon, these are the battle lines for people who were there first, who are more washington establishment or republican establishment versus