very expensive stuff. skybridge has not sold to h & a, the large chinese conglomerate who is buying the firm, and most analysts say they re overpaying for the firm. wall street is cutting their fees for everything across the board. so what you have is this guy who was joining the administration selling his firm that is in a business that is not looking so hot right now to a chinese conglomerate that wants to overpay for it. there are a lot of questions there. and the deal is pending treasury approval. if donald trump wanted to kill that deal, he could do it tomorrow. obviously you haven t talked to him, but knowing him, how would the news of essentially being pushed out fall on his ears? it depends on how he s seeing it. i know scaramucci has political aspirations beyond this white house. but i know he also sacrificed a lot for this white house, and he sacrificed relationships and friends, not just diedre, his
it s insulting when you say that. what s that? it s unsurlting when you say something like that to jake tapper. i m teasing him. that s not a nice thing to tease a journalist about. you re allowed to hit me with a battle axe. when you say to a journalist i ll bring you a kleenex, you re suggesting they re biassed. i m making a joke. you hit me three times hard. i say something teasing, you guys get upset. you think this is hard? i m giving you pats on the head like you re a puppy. these are just regular questions. finally we re having a real straight-up conversation. let me ask you something straight up. one of the reasons that people from politico wanted the disclosure form, another journalist did, is there s a question about what happens with your relationship with skybridge and whether or not you ll still benefit or profit from skybridge while working with the white house. what is your response? i m not benefiting from
skybridge. i don t understand how i could be benefiting from skybridge. i m entitled, because of my ownership, i m entitled to some residual profit. i m happy to fully disclose that. because they re releasing all this information, trying to hit me tried to foul me from coming into the west wing. now that i m there, they re trying to figure out how to eject me from the west wing. my official start date got changed. i was supposed to start august 15th. they got any effective yesterday to try to protect me. i appreciate those guys very much. people know what s going on. now they re going to say how is he making money? i sold skybridge. i don t work there anymore. there s residual profits that once the sale occurs i ll receive. i m not on salary. what do you want me to tell you? just the truth. that s what the disclosure form was full. that s what i m telling you. by the way, i went through that
bought of the slow start that he got because of his china sale and reported tension with reince priebus, which exploded into public view in the last week or so. he s definitely got a strong personality and he s doing this sure he s empowered by the president right now because he is the new guy on board and he has pledged loyalty in a variety of ways. so for the moment, he s in power. he is certainly empowered by tpt. he s not reporting to reince priebus. he s reporting directly to the president. in terms of free-wheeling, think about this for a moment. on friday when anthony scaramucci stood at the podium, he said i m not going to be starting at the white house for a few weeks because he s got a conflict of interest. you mentioned the sale of skybridge. the company has not yet been sold. it s not clear. months ago, we learned when he wanted to join the administration, he was selling skybridge. his stake in it. dan nathan of cnbc even wrote selling a fund of funds, this is like a
intense immunological system. they don t want him in there, they are trying to reject him in every way they can. it will be interesting to see what happens. kimberly: you think this is something he can turn around and relatively short order with the right people in place? last week we did the sold conference at skybridge. we did a survey. we had a collection of different people. universally, at the table, every person more or less said they thought the president could correct this. he s got a big opportunity to control the narrative, one great thing about the presidency, it sets the news cycle every day. he s a great communicator and people genuinely like the president. that s one short year ago i was in albuquerque, new mexico, with him. 8,000 people in the civic center, 9,000 people waiting outside. he is going to iowa in the next five or ten days.