i kind of see a picture of him and mr. scaramucci together. i think he will melt him with his eyes in any kind of a meeting when mr. scaramucci goes off the radar and gets kind of crazy. that s just the kind of guy he is. he s a marine! what can i say? he s a very good one, and he knows his business. and beyond all that, barbara said he s very loyal to president trump. he s also very patriopatriotic. he loves his country dearly. he s fought for it 45 years. and i think he will be a very good addition to the white house to get things under control. the job, also beyond organization, organizationally he s run the department of homeland security. obviously he was a top marine. the structure of those organizations, very different than the white house, which seems to have, in this white house, multiple power centers with people reporting directly to the president, having the president s ear. so a, there s the challenge of dealing with that. and there s the politics of the
other for months, but now they re working in the white house. one went out and mowed down the other in public. and a day later, the guy that got mowed down in public in pretty crude ways has been fired. so what lessons does that teach you about working for president trump, about going public against your enemies, adopting a sort of trump-like style? if you re anthony scaramucci, you re feeling pretty good tonight. you just won you know, you ve won the war without barely firing a shot. reince is on the way out, and you have a confidence that your job is secure. and by the way, it s being reported tonight that there s no change in his status. he ll continue to report to the president.
thank you. outfront now with more, april ryan. she s cnn political analyst and white house correspondent. former communications director for president trump s transition team and former deputy communications director for the trump campaign and dan phieffer. i want to play for you, april, again how reince priebus answered wolf blitzer s question why did he resign and just see if you buy it. have a listen. did the president formaly ask you to resign? no. i resigned and he accepted it. and that conversation was just simply like that? he didn t try to talk you out of it? no. we talked about it. you re confusing something. we talk all the time about this subject. so, april, putting something of a brave face on it, but we know that there have been some the knives have been out
necessary to do so? it s a great point. i think donald trump has learned a big lesson that he had to be much more engaged. he wasn t as engaged as he needed to be. he needed to use all the executive bully pull bit of the white house and the executive branch powers to push this through. and he wasn t able to do it. but i was explaining in part because he was told by the republican leaders they could do it. he could stand back and they would deliver this for him. by the way, this has implications going forward, because of course, now we turn to tax cuts and tax reform. trump has to score a victory on that, given that by the way, i agree with president trump. i don t think obamacare repeal is dead yet. i really think there s still a chance later in the fall. they could revisit this. but for now, the shift is towards tax reform. i think you re going to see him
later had to apologize for. in the same vein, the suffolk county police department distanced itself from a speech the president gave. back to the timeline, tuesday the president said that he was disappointed in attorney general jeff sessions for recusing himself for the russian investigation. the president followed that up bright and early wednesday, announcing on twitter that transgender people are banned from serving in the military. and yesterday, we heard more than we ever thought we would hear about white house dysfunction from the white house of anthony scaramucci, which brings us to today. reince priebus out. it turns out he resigned yesterday, he says, after the name calling and allegations of leaking against him. we didn t find out about it until late today. here s part of what scaramucci said about reince priebus in a phone call to cnn yesterday, insisting they were bros. not tight bros like scaramucci says he and the president are. as you know from the italian