the continuing internal in-fighting in trumpland? reporter: in-fighting but also something much more prominent that this reminds us of. that the president of the united states is very much in charge of his communications strategy. face it. if he could get the title of communications director, maybe they would be the most appropriate title for him to share with also being president of the united states. i just got off the phone with somebody who s familiar with sean spicer s thinking who told me that when it became clear that scaramucci was going to be the communications director, sean said, wait a second. if that is the case, if his title is communications director, then a effectively means that i, sean, will probably be doing two jobs. both spokesperson and communications director for those who, out there who may not understand. communications director is more strategic thinking, looking ahead crafting the message as
secretary role as others have been in administrations gone by. he said he would be even perhaps the deputy chief of staff of communications. it became clear to him this morning he would not have that role and effectively was out of work. would not be the press secretary, not the communications director and certain wouldn t be picking his successor. many friends of his i ve talked with some this morning, republicans in washington wonder, why didn t he resign earlier? he s been disrespected before, in their view. but today was obviously the final straw for sean spicer. right. and to that point i believe his loyalty to the president, who he served and his loyalty to reince priebus, for whom he s worked quite a bit of time as a partner and deputy was part of the reasons he stayed so well even when friends told him for months, get out of there. the bred is undermining you. and dana bash reported, his involvement, exclusion maybe from this, i support anthony 100%. we go back a long way, go
problem before they start to actually look and see if there a substantive issue, a legal issue, it s a communications problem. blame the front man. points in different factions winch the west wing. scaramucci is someone who s tight with jared kushner, tight with some of the trump sons, loyalists back in new york. sean spicer and reince priebus vehemently opposed to him coming into this position and that s what prompted the resignation today. six months into the administration you see competing factions. republican washington establishment, republican national committee establishment, reince priebus, chief of staff, longtime loyalist deputy sean spicer and katie walsh left earlier. part of that wing. steve bannon, and receded from public attention, still there. don t count steve bannon out, gone up and down in power and now the new york wing or giovaunk kaw, b
i have not sat down and talked to him. tells you a couple things. afraid to speak for the president, enough experience five months in the president might tweet or say something completely different within hours. two, not sat down and talked to him about it? what kind of press secretary are you? not criticizing sean there. the president s job, empower so that the press secretary is in the room, press secretary knows the apss to the questions and the press secretary can channel the president. your job as the white house press secretary. to be able to be president s voice. what does that tell us? particularly basic questions like that, what was the president s views on climate change? it was one he wasn t able to give a pat answer to ands that a problem. again, you know, sean spicer had issues with reporters in this town. a lot of that is the question, access to the president, the president affording him information. just one more i want to get here. part of the program. back to day o
this job, but according to the source posted at the white house, sean spicer was not going to have that. and there was a feeling that the president did not understand that the job of communications director is more than just being a surrogate on television and as you and i know and so many others know here at cnn, sometimes the president judges how his communications is going for the white house based simply on what he sees on the shows. what he sees on the multiple cable news networks who are speaking on behalf of his administration. how they re performing and so on but what he doesn t understand, go back to past administrations like jennifer pal mpalmieri, crafts the message for the white house, the press secretary. makes sure the president is out there to do a health care event. to push repeal of obamacare and so on, and according to the source, the president was just not understanding that there are