no, but it is incredibly look, it is incredibly effective. it is getting a lot of attention. well, if you re if you support swearing, right? i think it is incredibly effective. the swearing caucus is now fully engaged do we take a position on that? engaged. cnn s blanking coverage continues right now. good morning. top of the hour here. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. there is a lot of news this tuesday morning. we do begin with major news out of the nfl. breaking overnight, the coach of the las vegas raiders jon gruden is stepping down after disturbing revelations involving highly offensive emails he sent through the years. the former super bowl champion s unceremonious departure comes after a new york times report revealed the emails containing deeply homophobic, misogynistic
a up until today, a u.s. attorney general being a whipping boy of the president of the united states. that s what he s been treated as. and i was a former career prosecutor for doj. as you enter the building and as you leave, as attorney general, you have people lining the hallways in support. i ve been under both bush and obama. and to see somebody like jeff sessions, the attorney general of the united states, have an unceremonious departure is just confounding to most people. i don t agree with his policies and the roll back of the civil rights agenda and the lgbtq issues and consent decrees, but you should give respect to the attorney general. and what you saw there were people in the line of succession, including rod rosenstein and the attorney general there, and his now successor who is not in the line, standing there. and i think that you had jeff sessions trying to be as gracious as he could to shake his hand. i suspect he was not pleased. and he never really had a good rela
needs to try to deal with all the permits. right. right. she makes a great point. president of the united states just reading i am pleased to inform you that i have just named general secretary john kelly as white house chief of staff. he s a great american. reince didn t really have a celebrated tenure it, but yank of a more unceremonious departure. yes. not just unceremonious, brutal and brutish. think about the way this played out. last friday over reince priebus objections publicly known trump installs anthony scaramucci with a direct line to the statement. then over the course of this week scaramucci with the bless lg of the president makes these incredible comments. there s no world in which he did not know he was on the record. he s talked to a lot of reporters in his life. any suggestion that he was somehow conned by the reporter