Is if if the president of the United States continues to call in aides and instruct them or give them leave to go out and make comments and starts exciting inconsistent with what the policy is of the administration or changing it, i think that the general is going to have to do this hes going to have to tell the president , look, mr. President , if youre going to tweet, let us know beforehand and let us take a look at it, if you will, and also folks coming into your office, when they come out of your office, if you call them in, instruct them that they will have to come by me and inform me whats been said, and hes going to have to structure this thing. I dont know whether thats going to work, but i do know that those below the general, given what he did today, i think will have gotten the message, and i think hes certainly got the possibility of imposing a new sense of discipline and order on the staff below him but were dealing with the president of the United States i mean, thats one
Into the close with the dow finishing at another brand new high. To hell with the torpedoes, full speed ahead. All major averages ending july let in green up 2 or higher for the month. Hi, everybody. What a day. Im david asman. Glad you could be here. Melissa glad you can join us, this is after the bell. On big market movers. What else were covering this very busy hour. Never a dull moment at the white house. Breaking news this afternoon, Controversial Communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, has been removed from his position after only 10 days on the job were expecting a White House Press briefing to begin at any moment. Well hear more how this came to pass. What role did general john kelly, the new white house chief of staff, play in all of this . More details on kellys first day in the office. Lets not forget there is a lot of chaos going on in venezuela with the countrys president , now assuming near absolute power. The white house is expected to respond to this as well. Were
Things. Stuart with me, hes not going to get away with it. He says kim jong un should be very, very nervous, china state media says this, if north korea shoots first, china stays out, if america starts it and tries regime change, china steps in. Face to face standoff and thats what investors have to live with as the weekend approaches. The possibility of Armed Conflict with the markets are closed. Each new headline will have new impact. Follow it all minute by minute on Varney Company, the friday edition is about to begin. Stuart so where we are in 28 and a half minutes when the market opens . Slightly higher across the board. Heavy selling from yesterday has not continued so far this morning. But, remember, the duh has dropped just 1. 25 since monday. Here comes a tense weekend, would you buy ahead of that . We shall see. How about the price of gold . Thats another twomonth high at 12. 91. Flight to safety. Oh, will you look at this. Its can you believe this. Jc penny resulted the res
Days that you were here, he told it that he got out of the leakers. He drags the white house into the gutter. One said she was skeptical about kellys ability to change the way that this white house but he shot and killed mooch on day one shows that maybe things can change. The fact that he had to be shot and killed doesnt say much about his tenure. He wasnt shot and killed he was gone after six days. Hes still in the administration. Heres what people dont understand. Hes a utility player. The president uses him when needs him. Sounds like an assassin. Utility players do what the president is asking him to do. Steve schmidt, if you were asked to assassinate someone by having comments that would mortify your wife and kids, would you do that . No. General kelly spent his life in an important institution, the United States marine corps. His core values are honor, commitment and courage. The comportment of scaramucci if he was a senior officer of the marine corps he would have been courtmar
Clear the decks. Let me go back to the xm back and let john kelly have his clean slate to put his own team in there thats the way its coming down. We dont know if its because of the chain of command and kelly wanted to make a change there or if it had something to do with the interview that scaramucci gave last week, the profanitylaced interview that he gave with the correspondent from that one publication. Clearly john kelly likes to run a tight ship. If hes got somebody out there who he believes is a bit of a loose cannon, not to say he was, he probably will want to reign that person in. Kelly comes from a live of Combatant Commanders that includes james mattis and joe dunford. I remember in the iraq war of 2003, dunford relieved the commander of the unit that was traveling with right in the heat of battle. So this is a group of Combatant Commanders that when they see a problem, they deal with it swiftly and quickly. What is really interested about this, neil, is the fact that the pr