working for the white house. he s in there and he s not finished with his security clearance because this deal hasn t gone through. well, you ve hit on it. this is the key issue and a bit of an under reported part of the key issue. sh has sort of gotten lost in the ryan lizza interview. but sifous, which is the government body that you re referring to that steve mnuchin chairs has to approve this deal. and today, you know, the wall street journal reported that another deal at hna was trying to buy, a company called global eagle for about $500 million, that deal fell apart because i think they didn t believe that sifous was going to approve it. that hna deal fell apart. obviously that s much bigger than the anthony scaramucci sky bridge deal. so people are wondering if this deal is going to get approved. anthony thought this deal was going to get approved july 15th. he s now technically not supposed to start at the white house until august 15th. he clearly looks like he has started be
hna, a chinese conglomerate. andrew, we have to talk about how important this is. anthony scaramucci is looking to sell his company he will pocket $90 million. there s no other bidder. he needs government approval. the journal reported today hn action got turned down for a recent deal. the treasury department oversees this. that s a lot of money. but that s why the deal is done. it s done because guess who aproves it? the president of the united states. that s how this is ultimately this is how anthony wants it done. yes, but it would become very complicated for it not to become done for those reasons. look, to me, bill may disagree, i just want to go back for half a second. bill, why do you think that anthony s a different person? i think he s about authentic as it gets, maybe too authentic for the public given some of the comments he made. it s very hard to have a conversation with your children
in hedge fund. it s a fund of funds. he s in the process of potentially selling his stake to hna, a china conglomerate also under major scrutiny for potentially having ties directly to the chinese government. anthony could make $125 million. i m not saying there is anything that lacks scruples but it s not done. he has to get regulatory approval. on friday he said i m not going to be working here for another few weeks. in the last five days, it s scaramucci all the time. is that not dangerous territory when you need to get regulatory approval from an agency which is run by the treasury? it would seem to be concerning, certainly. i would note the closing seems to have been delayed a few times. i think they were originally expecting may. here we are practically august. maybe there is additional regulatory oversight being put on the deal. i can t explain why he said he wasn t going to be here for a few weeks and he seems to be there around the clock.
yeah, it will be something that continues to be an issue. on the other hand, i think they have bigger concerns in the administration when it comes to russia, when it comes to any number of ongoing questions. the policy issues looming large and the time running out on this calendar year on health care, on tax reform which is the next priority, supposedly, and they are hoping to get a bill ready to introduce on the house floor in early september. in terms of free-wheeling, it is stunning. i heard from sources inside the white house, the president himself is very happy with the job anthony has done so far. that comes as no surprise. he s done exactly what would suit the president. he s moved the ball forward. until that company is sold, you said it, it s been delayed. there is more and more scrutiny on these types of deals. in 2016, hna spent $20 billion investing in companies around the world. this year alone, they spent almost $6 billion. if that deal doesn t go through, like anthony
my understanding is that that uav arrived about an hour and 11 minutes after the attack had begun and was focused on the primary facility there to try to determine what was taking place. soon after the initial reports about the attack in benghazi were received general dempsey and i met with president obama, and he ordered all available dodassetts to respond to the attack in libya and to protect u.s. personnel and interests in the region. it s important to remember that in addition to responding to the situation in benghazi we were also concerned about potential threats to u.s. personnel in tunis, tripoli, cairo, sahna, and elsewhere that could potentially require a military response. in consultation with general dempsey and africom commander,