as we heard scaramucci said yesterday, he intends to reach out to these people and get to know them and see if they ll be a right fit under his leadership as communications director. i can t imagine a lot of them are feeling comfortable with and happy about this decision. they ve been working with sean surpriser for years, both at the rnc and now at the white house. i m sure a lot of them felt slighted and almost blindsided by this decision, not only for him to resign but for the president to overstep and ignore the advice from steve bannon, from reince priebus and appoint him to this role. it will be interesting to see if there are more departures in the next few weeks. we all take this at face value, his resignation. it could be scaramucci coming in and saying if i m going to do
thank you for having me. first and foremost i d like to say sean gave me my first job in politics, and i will always be grateful that he took a chance on me and similarly i thank him for serving our country. i think it s important to stop and take a moment and thank those who have stepped forward to serve in any administration for their service. that said, you know, i think yesterday we saw mr. scaramucci did an excellent job in the briefing, you saw tweets from the left and right and the media everybody saying he did tremendously well. i think we are looking well positioned in terms of the white house communications shop to move forward and focus on the issues that matter to the president s agenda. lauren, i that i you make a great point. i think we all know sean, show video of him smiling ear to ear. i think he is probably one of the happiest people in america waking up today knowing there s a fresh start. bill we know this has been a tough job for sean spicer, death
by a thousand cuts trying to deal with a right message from this white house when the president has access to twitter, and creating great distractions. do you think scaramucci will be able to get that smartphone, iphone, twitter account away from the president? well first, let me say that i ve been at the white house covering the briefings now under four press secretaries which isn t all that many but of the four, i mean i hate to rain on everybody s parade this morning but i think sean spicer was clearly the worst. sean spicer actually came in there and told lies to the white house press corps about the size of the crowd, about the fact that they never used these plastic coating on the mall before but at the same time, i do want to say this, as bad as he was, sean spicer was a real pro. knows washington. he knows the press corps. he respected us. scaramucci does not. sarah sanders does not. i think this shakeup is really bad news for the white house,
i think there s been at times a disconnect between the way we see the president and how much we love the president and the way perhaps some of you see the president. i think he s got some of the best political instincts in the world. there we have anthony scaramucci. no word yet on what s next for the outgoing sean spicer. he did say he d be on this job for the next couple of weeks. he said through august. great to have my guests here. mike, let s dive into what trump hopes to get out of a scaramucci white house here. it s his job to downplay divisions between him and the president. there s also a disconnect between what he was saying just
looking in to pardons for himself and his family, how tough of a job does this white house communications team have now? well, you know, it s not an easy job, being a press person is not an easy job but what i m hoping is that mr. scaramucci and president trump can be on the same page. lot of the stuff that we ve talked about this week has come out of that new york times interview the president did earlier this week. what i m hoping is that mr. scaramucci and president trump can be on the same page in terms of evaluating opportunities and whether or not they are beneficial for the president s agenda in terms of reforming our health care system and passing tax reform. we have to keep our eyes on the prize in terms of what the people who elected president trump elected him to do and that is to make significant changes to our health care system and our tax code. let s talk about the electorate, because bill, i want to ask you, we ve got donald trump jr., paul manafort, jared kushner