message and coming out of the white house. we know you ve been anemic in that area for months and months. i have a big question, though. you talk about who steps up into sean spicer s role, sarah huckabee standards has been doing that when he is not in that role, what do you know about her experience and what s being said from the white house that she might step into that role. is sarah huckabee sanders someone he would be considering comfortable to be with? speak out let s straighten out the workflow here. the communications director does not report to the press secretary. and the hierarchy that has existed up until now at the white house is the communications director reports directly to the president, the press secretary reports to the president. they are parallel and pretty much coequals. in some cases, the communications director seems to be the senior member. for example, during the bush
now. president trump returning to those people that he knows our 100% behind him. harris: i referred to that, that lingo of writer die by saying sometimes people only realize how valuable you are when you park your ride. the president needs somebody he can turn around. what we re talking about and depth here and having people he can say in the shadows and in the open, i know you re with me. sandra: one of our frequent #oneluckyguy is has ari fleischer. he s always been complementary of sean spicer, saying it s a tough job and it s one you learn on the job and he said he s been getting better as he goes along, but one thing ari fleischer falls back on is nobody understands how difficult it is to stand up there that podium every day and take those questions. i spoke to sean spicer day one of his job, the date was announced he would be taking over that role. he knew what he was taking on and he knew the daunting tasks
that were ahead of him. this is big news. steve: it is. it will be seen at harris: we ve been going on other people s reporting, but now we can for our own team at fox news confirm that sean spicer has resigned as white house press secretary. we are waiting to bring in our own john roberts will bring his reporting with him right now. sandra and i are getting his alert emails as he s learning things. right now, john roberts is at the white house outside with more on this. this was kind of a shock that sean spicer resigned. we didn t know that this is going to provoke a big battle with anthony scaramucci who is a contributor at fox business network to come on board as a communications director, because the way that communications shot was going to be structured under sean spicer was that he was going to be akin to a deputy
message against the greatest headwind that you felt in your business career and now in your political career, you want people who have your back. anthony scaramucci is someone who can do that. and on chang s bond spicer can t, but he does have a history with the president. steve: that sense of team spirit and everyone being united is really important. it was before you bring up a great point because there has been division in the white house between the people who really have only come to washington under president trump and weren t there before that. anthony scaramucci is in that group. the republican infrastructure who is sort of over to president trump after he won, whether that was reince priebus or sean spicer, the ones if meghan mccain were here, she was a writer die for the president, having their own people who worked there before who only care about you versus the republican establishment and maybe that s what we re saying
sean spicer is said reported about the new york times to a vehemently disagreed with appointment of anthony scaramucci as the munication s director. the president reportedly requested that spicer stay on, but spicer told him that he believed the appointment was a major mistake. we know there had been tensions between those two in the past and i think that s not something that we know from having had anthony here on the couch, but that s something that was out there at the same time when sean spicer stepped back from the podium, one of the things we heard he was angling for was the communications director. it s not surprising. let s be frank, the communications of the white house has not gone terribly successfully out of the gate. i don t fault sean spicer that it felt like when he came out here, he was given the mission of being and credibly combative with the press, but it didn t