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
sandra: you mean the made in america theme? steve: you re trying to organize the message. harris: ever worked on the campaign trail. steve: that s because it was a very simple everybody s focusing on the campaign and the president did such a great job in the election. the thing that really intrigues me about this, because we ve heard this story about the infighting of the intrigue earlier this week and that s all you ever hear from anyone, they can t stand each other, they re all pursuing their own agenda, i m talking about all the people in the white house, that s what everyone said in d.c. the interesting thing that i found about this is this alliance of reince priebus and stephen bannon, both wanting to stop this. scaramucci a stephen bannon kind of guy. what would be really helpful is
sandra: this is something he s had a lot of practice at. melissa: he s been incredibly effective. if you think back to the things that have reverberated, i can t think of anything off the top of my head that involved anthony scaramucci. it s true, we were saying he doesn t have a ton of experience, but he actually doe does. trish: this is about strategy too, so it s one thing to do a television performance and articulate your ideas, he s going to lay out a strategy. this is something that stephen bannon is very gifted at. the question is, can anthony transfer, or maybe he doesn t have to because maybe bannon and trump are doing that and all anthony needs to do is be a good spokesperson for those policies. steve: i think you re right, but is more than that. it s managing as well. it s running the operation.
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