White house correspondent and also an all star, john roberts. John, huge day. Its. Melissa, good afternoon to you. Its been 22 days since weve had in on camera briefing and longer than that simply been been in this briefing. Doing lab reports. We understand the Anthony Scaramucci will be coming out to greet the press. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will actually conducting the meeting but Anthony Scaramucci is no stranger to people who watch fox business network. As well, he took some time off to work the transition when he worked with the trump transition to try and get things up and running. He was bringing in a lot of special guest. He was bringing in a lot of members to meet the cabinet including betray to mack want to come back to the white house to look like he had a big job that mightve been akin to the job in the administration. That didnt happen. He went into the white house and went to the bank and now hell be right inside the west wing here, and he will be the new White House Commun
Monologue. So the special election last night in the georgia sixth district was supposed to be a big, big huge monumental moment for democrats in their effort to resist president donald trump. Guess what . Like with all the other races, turns out to be a major win for the president and a massive huge disappointment and failure for the democrats. The republican candidate, karen handle, beat jon ossoff from the left. He couldnt even vote in the race. Why . He doesnt live in the district. The democrats spent over 30 million trying to help ossoff win. It was the most expensive race in history and they came up short. And the democrats would have been better served if they dig a giant hole and threw their money in or maybe set it on fire. It was a total waste of time. Heres why. Democrats have zip, nothing to offer to you, the American People. Theyre out of touch with you and their ideas are old, tired. Every single thing they tried has failed because they always believe more government is a
President trump tests u. S. Defenses and promises action. Kim jongun now claiming all 50 states are potential nuclear targets. And russia retal yates. Vladimir putin orders the u. S. To slash his diplomatic staff on his turf, hitting back at new sanctions. Well take a closer look at the impact of an aggressive move with echos of the cold war. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking tonight, Anthony Scaramucci forced out as Communications Director only ten days after he was hired. Sources tell cnn the president soured on scaramucci and the president s chief of staff john kelly wanted him removed after he unleashed a vulgar tie raid against two white house officials. Also the white house says scaramucci has no role in the administration. We are told he was escorted off the white house grounds. Retired general kelly clearly is trying to take charge of the turbulent
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to this special edition of the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin tonight with breaking news in the politics lead. And just like that, poof, he was gone. Anthony scaramucci doing his best kaiser sose impression before he could begin. A weekend change after walking into the west wing. Scaramucci was asked today moments after general john kelly was sworn in as white house chief of staff. Officially scaramucci offered to resign. But sources tell cnn that general kelly wanted him out and scaramucci was escorted out of the white house. The retired marine general thought scaramucci undisciplined and without credibility after his profanitylaced tirade about since fired chief of staff Reince Priebus and steve bannon to the new yorker magazine on thursday. Today this is what the white house had to say about why he was ousted. The president certainly felt that anthonys comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. And he didnt want to burden general kelly
Had with cnn recently and thenned up with three journalists being fired from that network and said how would you like to be my communications correct. Scaramucci said fine, no problem. There was a bit of a war overnight when steve bannon the president s streef strategist and ribs were chief of staff making the case against it scaramucci went back in to seat president at 10 00 this morning. The president said here is my decision. Everybody better get on the same page with it. However, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer kind of seeing the writing on the wall here of a lot of changes coming down and being really in on opposition to scaramucci. I think its best if you had the running resume room to put your new team in. I am going to resign. Scaramucci has a very, very difficult job. Despite what the white house says, the ship here is listing badly in terms of trying to get legislative achievement through and staying on message. I put that question to Anthony Scaramucci what he was go