be able to bring discipline to the white house? i think he will if the president lets him. maria: he has to give him the authority, jon. jon: it was odd to me that he chose to replace communications director before the chief of staff. chief of staff is really important job, that makes white house work efficiently and effectively, why didn t he do that first and play and then move down with staff replacements after that? maria: will scaramucci report to kelly instead of going to direct line to president trump? jon: that s exactly i asked the question, it was still priebus and he said, i m reporting directly to the president. we have to find out if the reporting lines are going to change. my guess is no that he will report to the president i think because the president cares so much about communications and, you know, watches a lot of television, he may be watching now. maria: that s right.
on purpose. so he likes this? you have been in the white house. is it effective to have your top advisors talking like this about each other publically? of course not. and i don t know if he really likes it. you know, he likes a lot of people bickers. scaramucci being a mini me that s exceeding the maxi me, exceeding trump being even bolder than anything trump said i suppose. you have to give him credit for being bolder than donald trump. but i think it is also more than a press and media thing. will scaramucci get an fbi security clearance? they do consider people s emotional stability. if this guy said what he said to reince priebus last night, is he really the kind of person you want having access i m serious about this. i think people are underestimating how bad this is and underestimating how much trump will dislike it and i
scaramucci knows that in order to please his boss, that means going out there and constantly praising him. but again, he has no communications background, he s done some television in the past, he will be interesting to see how he handles especially when the president is constantly undermeaning himself and his own staff. like how does scaramucci actually go out there on a daily basis and try to twedefend the president when he s undermining himself. you ve advised all sorts of campaigns and candidates. so would you have suggested to the white house to do this kind of a shakeup? well, i don t think they would listen to what i said. but i don t think they listen the president listens to what anyone says except for his gut reaction. i will say this, they actually handled the situation quite well. because it s the first time where there has been a significant change that they named the press secretary that position wasn t left open, there is usually a lot more questions
spicer and the press corps, but will scaramucci change that? well, that s the kind of sentiment we heard from scaramucci yesterday that he wanted some sort of detente with the media, he actually said the words de-escalate, that s the kind of thing he wanted. but at the same time there s a fear that scaramucci is cut from the same cloth as president trump that he could amplify trump s worst impulses when it comes to chaotic messaging strategy, when it comes to straying off topic, drawing attention back to his negative simply because he can t let a false charge or an unfair charge lie. those are the kinds of things that i think sean spicer in some of the more traditional press aides who come from a more traditional political background have tried to do to stop that kind of behavior, to try to add some more traditional conventional structure to the messaging strategy. and that hasn t always worked. and in fact it s sometimes backfired when they tried to say something that then the presi
previously worked. one of the things sayre 3450u67y may do is look at his team and see if there will be additional changes. but in the style, the things that the public will see, he talked about the president being himself. here is how he described it when he met reporters in the briefing room yesterday. i think we re doing an amazing job. the president himself is always going to be the president. i was in the oval office with him earlier today. we were talking about letting him be himself, letting him express his full identity. i think he s got some of the best political instincts in the world and perhaps in history. you think about it web started his political ascent two years and two months ago and he s done a phenomenal job for the american people. and when reporters asked scaramucci did not commit to doing on-camera briefings as a regular course. he said he talked to the president about that. also said that as best he can, he intends to be truthful from behind the electric tul