does he real? we have ned ryun, pablo enriquez. ned, you have inside connections inside the white house. what are people saying right now? how does steve bannon feel about this? how does reince feel about this? >> that remains to be soon. this is not unusual, trish. people come and go. you know i have strong feelings about sean spicer. quite frankly he lasted this long. i called he would be leaving in the summer. here we are, he left in the summer he. anthony scaramucci has been one of the president's most effective defenders on variety of outlets. that is something the president deeply admirers. somebody willing to punch it out no matter where they are. trish: i hear you on that. i think there is a lot of reasons why the president admirers anthony. anthony is businessman. who started his own company. he has been very, very successful and does understand the economy, business, et cetera at a time trying to get tax cuts through. it is important someone to understand that, economic background, that business background. that said, it is different, right? i'm going to joe concha joining us as well along with mr. enriquez. joe, different being a business person, understanding how to get something done to that end. you know, it is different thing. if you're talking strategy, right? you say i want to to from point a, to point z. here are all the things we need to do along the way. is that going to be more challenging thing for anthony to do that? i thought they were one in the same, trish. business is trying to buy your product. white house communications is same thing, buy our message, buy our agenda. while content is different, scaramucci may be better suited for this position given credit forgiven his business background. trish: they need help for sure. messaging has been kind of a mess. this whole week was about made in america, right? improving our manufacturing sector here in america. it is turned into a domino of other stories. so you need someone who can help pivot, bring this back on track. maybe anthony can do it. pablo you have your doubts. >> i'm sorry, i stepped on you. go ahead. >> no worries. ned talking about how anthony scaramucci is a fighter. he is a fighter. he is brawler. we've seen him on air defend the president big way. joe is talking about something else, driving agenda forward. we talked about tax reform and incredibly complex, sort of complex reform package that it always is. never gets messaged effectively. the american people never know what washington is talking about. bringing a wall street guy to explain to missourians or people in oklahoma, i don't see win are in terms of driving agenda forward. will scaramucci defend the president complex egos that is the washington press corps? maybe, maybe not. will he drive the adenda forward? i doubt it. neil: he has good relationships with many members of the media. >> so does sean. trish: to add to that he does actually understand finance. he understands the economy. he understands what tax cuts will mean to businesses and everyday americans in a way frankly a lot of folks in washington, they're talented at one thing. they're not talented in terms of understanding the minutia of financial policy. go ahead, ned. >> pablo, i disagree a little bit. anthony was tv host at this network, fox business. he has had a lot of tv experience. his ability to communicate, communicate on financial things is a strong point. he had years of experience. i think too also interesting to think about, sean spicer was not donald trump's pick for white house press secretary. that was rhynes. donald trump got to pick his own press secretary, anthony scaramucci. this is donald trump's pick for president secretary. see how it plays out. this is now his pick. the thing with trump, he admirers two types of people. he admirers generals and admirers business people. he has his on pick with a lot of experience in business. trish: joe, has experience in business. he has experience in media. but, he is dealing with, i was going to say candidate, in this case now the president, a person who is very much his own man, doesn't necessarily need someone mapping out his strategy, a to b, to c, to d, but improvises, creates a lot of strategy on his own which by the way he had much success with. at end of the day how valuable is acom director in the white house when you have a president strong as this one when it comes to his own communication? >> nfl preseason starts next week. i will use a nfl analogy for everybody playing fantasy teams. president is like quarterback with twitter gets out front of his offensive line without blocks around. sean spicer was having to defend tweet he may not even seen or talked to the president about, that makes had job hardest white-collar job in my opinion even before president trump came in. infinitely more difficult. scaramucci will not be the press secretary. he will be communications director. for now that appears to be sarah huckabee sanders sanders, or lawyer are you ink great many, president trump was interested in, or kimberly guilfoyle signed a long term contract is in for now. right now huckabee sanders with scaramucci in the background not so much foreground. >> trish, donald trump was not traditional candidate. he is not traditional politician. he thinks outside the box, at some point d.c., and media will accept the facts he will not do things always been done. is this outside the box? of course it is. that is donald trump at large, the way he ran campaign an been in office. trish: it was very effective. >> it was effective. he is sitting in the white house. trish: he is effective for sure, did amazing job with the campaign. the problem now i think. pablo you have a swamp in washington. >> with do. trish: you have people too invested in various things that you've got lobbyists very active. you have politicians who frankly are scared, terrified. look how many didn't know he what to do with donald trump. they didn't know how to support him. kelly ayote in new hampshire. first she was for him. then she was against him. now she is for him, because she has played instrumental role in some of what this administration trying to do. this is what i tell you, politicians don't know how to deal with him. they know how to deal with lobbyists. they know how to deal with the mainstream media. where does that leave his ability to get things done? >> his ability to get things done, depends on how you define what he needs to get done. if his job will be to defend or somehow serve as buffer between the mainstream media and the trump campaign tactics so much under scrutiny, this seems like good choice for communications director. if his idea to make a wall street-led tax reform push palatable to middle america that is whole different animal. i think we would need somebody, i think that to appeal, even to the center on that specific policy issue, we're going to need something that isn't necessarily, doesn't have the wall street stink on it the way middle america would evaluate wall street. obviously washington has terrible reputation. and it is a swamp. trish: you think wall street stink, that what you're trying to tell me? >> with all due respect of course. i think like washington, wall street is a place of incredibly complex things that go on, with real big winners that the rest of america just doesn't really understand. scaramucci right now, just in the rollout of his new, this is only an hour-old news, just in the rollout we're already seeing him branded as wall street brawler, and not -- trish: nowadays, you're not allowed to ever made any money. you can't ever work on wall street. you can't ever drunk a white russian in a bar anywhere. >> or moscow mule. trish: mainstream media requirements are getting increasingly difficult to meet. thanks, guys, don't go anywhere. i want to talk a little bit the other big issue here. we look at anthony scaramucci coming into this seat. we talked there with pablo about the importance of tax reform, how they will get it through, that is something that will be left up to the president and also to the treasury secretary steve mnuchin to try to get done. now anthony scaramucci as i was pointing out, formerly fox business network anchor and contributor and he knows a thing or two about finance. will his expertise really help in the way of actual getting tax reform? are we going to get it? that is the big question. joining me treasury department assistant director for public affairs tony sayegh. good to have you here. this market down 51 points right now, they put a big down payment on tax cuts. investor think they're coming. they hope they're coming. if they don't come, there is worry would not be very good. you could see a pretty significant question in these markets. what can you tell us what you know, what secretary mnuchin is working on? >> we're in a very strong position, trish, to get tax reform done, and done this year. we've been working on this before the inauguration. people have to remember secretary mnuchin on the campaign trail with donald trump as his campaign advisor helped craft tax plan we campaigned on and won on and that is the blueprint we're basing tax reform plan on. we have been working on it ever since. 100 people at treasury focused on tax policy. principles on the hill and secretary mnuchin and gary cohn from the national economic council brief the president on this issue. we're coordinated with paul ryan, with kevin brady, with orrin hatch and leader mcconnell. trish: leaving the whole border adjustment tax thing by the wayside if he is coordinating? >> what it means we're focused on a unified plan we bring out to the members and others to turn into legislation hopefully december. trish: 35%, that is or tax rate for corporations. by the way when you factor in state and local taxes you have number one highest tax rate in the world. >> correct. trish: canada does a better job taxing corporations less onerous than us. what would be it be? >> it renders us totally uncompetitive by the way. when you take such egregious tax rate, you have tax on worldwide income versus territorial you're disincentivizing businesses investing in our own country. our businesses invests in our own country. business tax rate, not just on corporations, owner operated businesses from the manufacturing side and others will benefit from a strong lower rate. we proposed 15. that is what we would like it to be. we feel that is very pro-growth. that we feel will create lot more jobs. let's not forget, trish. this is a jobs bill as much as tax reform bill. you're also talking about repatriating a lot of trillions of dollars left offshore by the prohibitive high corporate tax rate. >> i love way you said that. pablo enriquez, democratic strategist you can not get this done, because reality will see it as giveaway for corporations and giveaway for the wealthy, that is not what it is. i keep telling anyone who says that to go back to their econ 101 textbook, you understand if you want to unleash prosperity, want to unleash growth, give money back to people making it in the first place and corporations. it is fortuitous cycle if you get the cuts through. you have to sell it. you have to have a strategy behind that. >> look if we don't have economy that is growing around 3%, you're not going to have the kind of unleashing of prosperity in this country that we know our economy is capable of. you you have had about 1.2, 1.5% growth since the financial crisis. that is not very good. wall street does okay. we're happy wall street does fine but we want main street to excel as well. when you have a tax reform package like ours focused on growing the economy in a sustained way around 3%, focused on reinvestment of job creation and expand the tax base that helps everybody. we've been in a mode very few people are helped by the existing economic policies. when you talk about tax reform, trish, job creation growing economy and giving people a chance at the american dream again which they have not had over past eight years. trish: that is not what bernie sanders or elizabeth warren say. >> they talk about redistribution. trish: socialism or redistribution. >> we changed conversation after eight years after being focused on redistribution. under economic growth everybody can win. that is with we're focusing on. trish: donald trump has done truck truck as tremendous favor -- donald trump has done tremendous favor because first time in years republicans seen as party of working class. hillary clinton seemed elitist. nancy pelosi seems elitist. chuck schumer seems elitist. donald trump who by the way can buy and sell them all, that is the billionaire that relates to middle-class americans. if anyone can get through a tax cut policy, reform, it may just indeed be him. >> look at individual side. you talked a little bit about the business side. we've been pushing forward with gary cohn at nec, focusing on middle income tax cut most important part. other part is code simplification. when you get rid of deductions and that makes tax code -- 95% of the taxpayers are probably going to have a significant tax cut on that basis alone. then you're collapses from seven brackets down to three. there is absolutely a focus on giving real relief to middle income families in the individual side of this bill as well. trish: never understood, i keep making the point, should be bipartisan point for this one, almost gone done under obama administration, i understand why it is we're okay leaving all that money overseas in other countries where they are able to make those funds work for them. they are able to many ploy more people. they are able to build more factories. why not bring all overseas profits back here at home. trillion dollars sitting overseas. if you guys get that one, that is big one, tony. >> certainly a focus of the secretary's to bring the money back, trillions of dollars to reinvest in job creation in this country. that is a very powerful thing. that is the bottom line, trish, if you think about growing this economy, magnitude of each decimal of economic growth and compounded impact of that is significant. that helps everybody because that's what creates not just jobs, good-paying jobs. that helps companies gain profits. that hps businesses grow. that helps creation of real opportunity, economic opportunity for a lot of americans shut out of this economic system. trish: tony, a lot of news going on today. you're reluctant to talk about it. anthony scaramucci has financial background. do you consider that an aid rolling out the platform to cut taxes for americans. >> anthony scaramucci is talented individual. he understands taxes and economics very few people do. i will push back what was said on previous segment. i don't think just wall street, anthony advocate of administration's policies over the course of this year understand that he knows we have a lot to do as far as growing this economy that helps main street as much as wall the street. don't forget, anthony one of the first people who really articulated and paraphrased a little bit this idea that free trade goes through the american worker. we want to do it in a way brings balanced playing field for our american workers and companies. i think he is going to be on the strategic level, organizational level, a huge asset to the communications operation. i think he has a lot of trust of people all across the administration to do that. trish: that is good to hear. they need some of that right now. tony, good to see you. thank you for coming in. we're watching, what do you think, this year? before the end of the year? >> that's what we're focused on. that's what we're working on very aggressively. trish: we're watching that, sir. as we await white house briefing to begin, i'm joined by arizona congressman andy biggs. good to have you here. what is your reaction to the news we saw someone new in charge there in terms of the communications director position and sean spicer leaving? >> well, to be quite frank, i think that is inside baseball to be honest with you. i don't think middle america will say oh, my gosh we have somebody new there in the white house press office. i'm not going to get asked that. i will be asked things you are talking about which are health care, tax reform. trish: come on, congressman, he was on "saturday night live." melissa mccarthy kept doing impressions of him. i think sean spicer transcended the whole washington insider thing. he has become someone every day americans do know. so i think there is a little interest in it, just a little? >> there may be a little bit. but i do think that we shouldn't overshadow really what people want to know about is the agenda, how that is going, how that is progressing and i do think it will be great -- we need someone to continually to set the narrative. trish: perhaps this is good. guyser, great guy. we like him a lot. frequent guest on this show. hope he comes back. there is feeling that the messaging stalled out, right? that the messaging was here, there, everywhere. so if you can get someone that have the ear of the president in a way that scaramucci, frankly he has. i don't know if sean spicer had that in the way anthony does. if you have someone in there help him along, help move his agenda forward, that may be very good because all these things that you're talking about, health care reform taxes, infrastructure they have got to get done. >> right. you want your messaging focused. that is one thing people are concerned about. in that instance i will give you to you trish. this is a big deal. we want to focused narrative. that will help us. reality most constituents will not ask me about spicer versus scaramucci. trish: you are in arizona, by the way. so i imagine a lot of people there are asking you, of course everybody has a heavy heart, not just in arizona, but all over the country right now for john mccain's diagnosis. very briefly, if you could give us your thoughts on senator mccain and whether or not he will in fact be returning to capitol hill very soon? >> i don't know when but i do know, i have known senator mccain for a long time. met him on the first campaign for congress. although we're not close personally, every time we talked it has been cordial, collegial. very professional. very been, very good to me personally but i will tell you this i don't know anybody tougher than senator mccain, anybody who is bigger fighter than senator mccain. if there is a way to get back i would say he is the guy to do it. he is the guy to do it. trish: congressman, thank you very much for joining us here today on breaking news day. appreciate your thoughts. i'm joined again by be ned ryun, pablo enriquez an joe concha. we don't know who is speaking. there is some expectation scaramucci may come to the podium there to talk. we may hear from spicer. we probably most certainly will hear from sarah huckabee sanders. the drama continues shall we say, ned ryun. this is sort of the "game of thrones" white house for some people. >> a little bit. again this is not unusual. i think average tenure of the first wave of white house staff is about nine months. this isn't that unusual. change happens. i think the thing too that is interesting with trump's choice, i would advise the president on this, goes to second wave of hires, look outside of d.c. i think that is very important. because if you've been in d.c. too long your think something conditioned to be a certain way, and you know the thing about trump, i made point earlier. he is is not traditional candidate. does not do things traditional way. he does not look to d.c. to make hires. should be looking outside of d.c. the then with scaramucci will be important role. trish: here we go. sarah huckabee sanders coming to the podium. listen in. >> quiet crowd. good afternoon. mark the last day of made in nerc week this afternoon. the president will welcome several living survivors of the attack on uss arizona at pearl harbor and their families. other event focused mainly on products and goods barely that highly-esteemed made in america label. truly the most prized thing coming out of our country is the brave and women who risked they're lives protecting freedom of americans and allies around the globe. just a few minutes ago at 2:00 the president signed executive order that will insure the men and women of the greatest military in the world, have the ship, aircraft, vehicles other supplies they will need to keep us safe in the years ahead. this order commissions the first-ever whole government assessment of america's defense industrial base, marking first time since president eisenhower that american president investing personal attention into the health of the united states defense industrial base. president trump is committed to maintaining the secure supply chains and robust workforce that will support our nation's heroes for decades to come. next week we'll be highlighting american heroes like the world war ii veterans, first-responders who keep our communities safe every day and the boys and girls who will grow up to be the next generation of american leaders. while on the topic of men and women who protect us i also want to note that the president commended house yesterday voting to reauthorize the department of homeland security for first time. the homeland security authorization act also authorizes u.s. immigration and customs enforcement for the first time. secretary kelly has already made tremendous progress if fulfilling the president's promise to end illegal immigration and fully enforce the laws of the united states. this bill reflects the president's strong commitment to insuring that progress continues. also on the hill of course, senate republicans this week continue to work towards our shared goal of saving the american people from the disaster of obamacare. earlier this afternoon vice president pence and secretary health and human services dr. tom price hosted representatives from several grassroots organizations calling on the senate to take action on health care legislation. as the president has said inaction is simply not an option. these groups want lawmakers to know that their members want them to follow through on their promise to the american people. finally i would like to read a statement of the president on resignation of press secretary sean spicer. i'm greatful for sean's work on behalf of my administration and the american people. i wish him continued to success as he moves on to pursue new opportunities. look at his great television ratings. sean will continue to serve the administration through august. the president has also appointed anthony scaramucci as communications director. i have a statement on anthony's appointment as well. anthony is a person i have great respect for. he will be an important addition to this administration. he has been a great supporter and will now help implement key aspects of our again a today while leading communications team. we have accomplished so much and we're being given credit for so little. the good news the people get it even if the media doesn't. i would like to bring anthony up to say a few words, take a few questions. as always i'll be back after that to answer any follow-up questions. >> thank you, very much. so i'm going to be very brief. i will make my remarks informal. then i will take questions from everybody. first off i would like to announce formally that sarah huckabee sanders will be the press secretary. can't hear me. sorry, better? sarah huckabee sanders will be the president secretary. so you can congratulate her after the session. still can't hear me. no sound? okay. better now? better now. i'm going to start over. you guys heard me in the front though, right. what did i say, john? sarah is the press secretary right? congratulations to you, sarah. [applause] and so i want to, make a couple statements. first thing i want to say, i want to thank personally sean spicer, not only on behalf of myself, the president, the administration but sean is a true american patriot. he is a military serviceman. he has a great family. and he has done an amazing job. this is obviously a difficult situation to be in. i applaud his efforts here. i love the guy. i wish him well. i hope he goes on to make a tremendous amount of money. as it relates to me in this position, i'm going to spend a couple of weeks getting to know the people here. and i'm going to be as coordinated as i can with the people inside of the west wing. there has been some speculation in the press about me and reince. i want to talk about that very quickly. reince and i have been personal friends for six years. we are a little bit like brothers where we rough each other up once in a while which is totally normal for brother. a lot of people in here have brothers so you get that but he is a dear friend. he brought me into the political system. he brought my into the republican national committee network. he introduced me to governor walker. we spent many times together socially. a lot of people are not aware about this but after the romney campaign, i invited reince into skybridge. i think it reflects poorly on reince that he didn't take my offer to come in and be our chief operating officer, i say that in jest obviously. what i want you guys to know, my first call this morning. i met with him before we sat in the oval office. we are committed as true professionals to the team and the process of getting the administration's message out. i think will be one of the big goals for us. i said during the transition, i say up here, i think there at times between a disconnect way we see the president and how much we love the president and way some of you perhaps see the president. i certainly think the american people see the president the way i do. we want to get that message out there. to use a wall street keg expression, there might be arbitrage spread how we'll we're doing and how well some of you guys think we're doing, so i'm done. i will get to as many people as i can. >> number one, what we've seen from the administration so far, president being his own messenger very frequently, that caused struggles are to the communications staff. how do you expect to get this white house back on track. >> take slight issue with the question. the white house is on track. i think we're doing a very good job. i actually do think interesting perspective. i didn't want to come out here with list of accomplishments and start advertisement infomercial right now, talk about personnel movement how we're think about things i think we're doing amazing job. president himself 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 has some of the best political instincts in the world, perhaps in history, when you think about it, he started his political asses sent, two years and two months ago. he has done a phenomenal job for american people. people i grew up with, they so identify with the president an they love him. we will get the message out. >> my second question. >> will get to everybody. >> how do you plan, you're a business guy, wall street guy, how do you plan to handle any potential conflicts interest. how this offer was made to you, what the president said, while you were here, what the conversations were like? >> i don't think it is fair for the president to go into the exact conversation because i want to keep those conversations between me and him private but we talked a little bit about the white house. we talked a little bit about our personal relationship. they were when he extended offer to me i said i would do it because i want to serve the president. one of the things i have a lot of family members that serve in the american military. unfortunately my generation, i was born in 1964. i did not serve. i filled out selective service. this is one of my regrets for my life. this is opportunity to serve the country. i love the president and i love the country. look at my life experience in the country. it is honor to be here and stand here. >> conflicts? >> my personal business conflicts in. >> yes. >> i have worked with the government ethics office to work with business conflicts. my start date is couple weeks so it is totally 100% cleansed. office of ethics doesn't see issue nor does the white house counsel. when you are bringing american business people into the administration with some little of success in the society, they have to unencumber themselves. it is very interesting thing. somewhat ironic. you want to serve the country. first thing you have to do is take on this megaopportunity cost by getting rid of all your assets but i'm willing to do that because i love the country. john. get to everybody. >> anthony you've been watching this white house from somewhat outside of your own per speck what you've seen. >> not quite as candid as you. not that outside. >> what is the first thing you're going to change to right this ship and put it on a course? >> again i take issue with that. i think the ship is going to, is going in the right direction. i think we've got to radio signal the direction very, very clearly. i like the team. let me rephrase that. i love the team. i an incrementalist. most entrepreneurs you find are incree men alists. to say something overly bold or dramatic is unfair. what good entrepreneurs do, they start the day. they go you there the process. navy seals will tell you if you want to eat an elephant you have to eat it one bite at a time. sarah and i will do it together. >> anthony, did you have any hesitation taking job, knowing it might cause some friction in, it might lead to sean leaving which is what is going to happen? the two are at least somewhat coincidental? did you have any hesitation how you would relate to the rest of white house staff if you came in under those circumstances? >> well, listen, i'm a business person. so what happens in business a lot of times you have some rotation in personnel, as you're making changes. you have lifestyle choices that people are also making. i would love to have sean here. sean decided he thought it would be better to go. for me as it relates to sean, it speaks volumes who he is as human being, who he is as team player. his attitude is, if anthony is coming in, let me clear the slate for anthony. i do appreciate that about sean. i love him for it. but i don't any friction with sean. i don't have any friction with reince. this is white house. this is united states of america. we're serving the president. i want to make sure our cultural template we put the president's agenda first, which is perfect for the american people we serve his interests. we have a little bit of friction inside of the white house as a result of that it is okay, we all can live with that i'm a business person. i'm used to dealing with friction. >> significant player during transition, was it disappointment you didn't land a -- >> as entrepreneur accustomed to setbacks. i have a series of setbacks. i wrote a best-selling book. if you don't believe me i come into my basement i show you every copy of my best-selling book. i am honest about mistakes i made, setbacks i had. was i disappointed. i said that candidly i was disappointed. but i love the president. i'm very loyal to the president. i love the mission the president has. since early day of campaign, i went to rallies saw love people have for the president, i grew up in the middle class. so there is a struggle out there. the president saw that before i did. i wish i could tell you i saw it before him. he taught it to me. i feel for that struggle. empathy for that struggle. i want to make things better for the american people. try to get to everybody, i promise you. >> sean told ap and others that the president needed a clean slate. how does that comport with white house headed in right direction? secondly how badly us did the president need a win on health care in order to make progress? >> so here's one problem with the way our society working. right now we're micromanaging the seconds of the news cycle. i predicted the president will get a win in health care. that is my honest prediction because i've seen him in operation over the last 20 plus years. the president has really good karma, okay? the world turns back to him. he is again winly a wonderful human being. i think as members of congress get to know him better, get comfortable with him, they will let him lead them to the right things for the american people. i think we'll get health care done. i also think we'll get tax reform done. whatever else is on the president's agenda, we'll work very, hard, very studiously to make it happen. john? >> cameras back. will you commit to holding regular on camera briefings? >> if she supplies hair and make up, i consider it. i need a lot of hair and make up, john. i don't know, maybe. >> [inaudible] >> this is the press secretary. i'm up here today only because first day we made a mutual decision that would make sense for me to come up here to try to answer as many questions as possible. but, answer is we may. i have to talk to the president about it. i like consulting with the president before i make decisions like that. john, keep going. >> you've been one of the president's strongest supporters for a while now. does he know what you said about him in 2015 he was hack politician? >> he brings it up every 15 seconds. one of the biggest mistakes i made, because i was unexperienced person in the world of politics, i was supporting another candidate. i should have never said that about him. mr. president if you're listening i personally apologize for 50th time saying that. here is wonderful thing about the news media. that was three minutes of my life. he never forgotten it. you have never forgotten it. some day, mr. president, i hope you forget it. next question. >> there is question about credibility, some things have been said in this room. let me ask you variation what i asked sean spicer on first day, is it your commitment to best of your ability to give accurate information, the truth from that podium? >> i mean, i sort of fool like i don't even have to answer that question. i hope you feel that from me, just from my body language that is person i am. i will do the best i can. get to everybody. go ahead. >> anthony, you mentioned your relationship with reince. was he involved in offering you this position? was he consulted by the president ahead of time? >> yes. he was consulted. he was involved in the thing. there is a lot of speculation in the press about the timing, so on, so forth. what i'm here to tell you, we're a team. >> walk that through, how the job was offered? >> like i said i think some of this stuff is unnecessary to go into that granular he detail because then, it is almost like the circle, you're wearing a police camera on you when you're having conversations. i don't think that is fair to the president. here is what i would tell you, okay? i'm a team player. i played team sports my whole life at least as a kid. i believe you have to subordinate yourself to the greater good of the team. if teammates don't have disagreements about certain things, then they're not going to get to the championship. you you have to get together, mix it up a little bit from time to time. i have no problem mixing it up with these guys. is it perfect every single day? whose life is perfect every single day? this is the commitment i make to you, the american people and the president i'm here to serve him and people inside the west wing. sarah. >> are you admitted to regular televised briefings and having transparent relationship with the press? >> again, i obviously am committed to being transparent because i'm standing here but i would like to talk it over with the president and we have a new press secretary. i would like to talk it over with her. and then we'll get back to you on that. but listen, you know i'm standing right here. i will try to answer every question. sarah, go ahead. >> few quick questions. the president is feeling under siege with the russia investigation. department of justice, also on the hill. do you feel like he was feeling exposed? he didn't have people adequately coming to his defense? is that part of the reason we have you here -- >> i don't think so. so one of the things that i'm doing today is i sort of didn't have my white house counsel briefing before i'm having a press briefing. so i want to limit my remarks really on the russia situation and thinks like that. here is what i tell but the president, he is most competitive person ever met. i seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire. i seen him at madison square garden with top coat, standing at key hitting foul shots, swishing them. he sinks three-foot putts. this guy is never under siege. he is competitive person. a lost incoming into the white house. the president is a winner. what we'll do is a lot of winning. >> one other question in terms of the relationship press office operation. they made a habit of fake news, calling people they don't like fake news, calling errors corrected, using that as example fake news, is that the kind of relationship you want with media outlets? what do you -- >> i want to speak for myself right now because i don't, that is my first day on the job. i have to get familiar with everybody, get direction from the president. but i had a personal incident with your news organization and i thought i handled it well. you guys said something about me totally unfair and untrue. you retracted it, issued me an apology. i accepted the apology immediately. so for me i have never been journalist, but i played a journalist on television. i used to host "wall street week" for fox business. i have empathy for journalists sometimes they will get stories wrong. i don't sort of like the fake news. if you said to me there is some media bias out there, you want me to be as candid i would like to be with you, there feels like there is little bit of media bias. we hope we can do de-escalate, turn that around. message from the president get out there to the american people. >> anthony? >> really, how are you doing. >> president, welcome. president be his best known spokes person that was clearly a challenge that sean had ad the podium. how do you plan 1/2 geisting this differently? >> here is what i say. sean did a very, very good job. he is very articulate person. he had 30 years in communications. i would imagine people that are here are going to be super excited when he lands in a job that he really -- he will be very effective communicate for for wherever he goes. relates to standing at podium. everybody has their own individual personality. i do believe the best messenger, best media person, most savvy person in in the white house is president of the united states. i'm frankly hoping to learn from him and learn from sarah and other people here. >> how would you describe your relationship with the president? how long has it lasted? how -- >> he is probably not remember this, first time i met the president, he was a name brand even back in the day, i was 31, michael fastelli personal friend of mine. we were at goldman sachs. he introduced me to the president. i met him a few more times. randy levine, president of the yankees introduced me a few times. i would say we got closer during the romney campaign where we did a couple of fund-raisers at his magnificent apartment. i think, listen, i don't think i would be standing here. i didn't have good relationship with the president. i love the president. a lot of you guys know in the media i'm been very loyal to him. do my best i can with my heart and soul and do the best job i can. >> do you plan changes in the the come ecom shop? >> dan and hope are staying. i love the two of them. i go back a long ways with them. i think they're two phenomenal people as relates to other people in the com shop, i need to get to know them. we hat in sean's office and he spoke to them on my behalf. reince was incredibly gracious. i need to get to know the people. hopefully they like me and want to stay. we'll make it very fun place to work. try to get to everybody. >> are you going to -- national security issues at this podium? >> that is really good question. it is inappropriate for me toance at that question right now. unfortunately i have to get back to you on that, i have to get direction from the general mcmaster and the president. break i will get to you. do everything i can to get to every person in this room. >> president want to have a press conference with us in the near future? >> i'll talk to him, absolutely. i mean, listen, president is phenomenal with the press. he is a great communicator. he won this election, i used to know the math a lot better when i was in the campaign during the transition, we spent, 60% of the money and had 1/3 personnel. we won the presidency of donald j. trump. he is a an unbelievable politician. of course he at some point with we'll make sure that happens. i don't know what point that will be because i have to talk to him. >> blake, i will do my very best to get to everybody. let me go in way with order. go here first. >> anthony you seem like very savvy person. you said the white house is a difficult place. how are you going to handle a couple things? >> when did i say that? let me explain that. let me be specific. it is a difficult place because here is what happens. it is a little cramped in there. you've got a lot of reporters from international news agencies, and it is a difficult place trying to get a job done but sitting inside of a fishbowl. that is what i mean by difficult place. i don't mean difficult place if terms of working with the people. you find there is a lot less palace intrigued getting reported about. but that does create some 10 should be and anxiety. i will work alongside to reduce tension and anxiety. we all generally like each other. >> how are you growing to handle when crises or big things come up and you put very sophisticated message out at night, and the president in the morning tweets something very different? >> okay. >> are you willing to say you have made a mistake, two questions right there? >> well, listen, i took trial advocacy at harvard law school, a little name dropping if you don't mind. i will not answer that because that is hypothetical. first thing they teach you in trial advocacy not to answer a hypothetical. i love the president. the president is very effective communicator. he will use social media. if i get this wrong, i know i will hear it from him, 113 million or 114 million. he is picking up 300,000 followers a day, bod bless him. to me has been very effective use of reaching the american public directly. listen, i welcome him continuing to do that. i think it is very, very important for him to express his identity because what i have found when i travel around the country, people love him. try to get to everybody. >> what if his message is different what you put out the night before? >> that is hypothetical. totally unfair to even answer that, how can i answer that? i don't know what the tweet is. i don't know what happened. that is unfair, learn that early in law school not to answer the that question. >> frustration a lot of these briefings have been off camera. since he wants to get his message out, put them on camera would be beneficial? >> he hasn't expressed that to me. i don't know his opinion on that. i can't answer question honestly. >> how involved with the day-to-day operations of press department will he be going forward? >> as much as or little as he wants to be. he is president of the united states. i'm here to serve him. i will do my very best to communicate to him what is the most effective strategy for him to get his message out to the american people, to the global community. as much or as little he wants to be. he gave me orders i'm in charge. i report directly to him. i will do my very best to serve him of the as much or little as he wants. >> follow on with this, your relationship with the chief of staff, is he your boss or do you report directly to the president. >> so i will let reince answer that. i have no problem working for reince. i can only speak about my management style, okay. i have been on wall street for 29 years. nobody has ever worked for me. people work with me. i believe in a lot of collaboration. i think if you do that it is very, very empowering for people. i have no problem working for reince. president said i report to him directly but, listen, you guys will be very, very surprised about the relationship that i have with reince and the closeness that we're going to have in terms of working to the serve the president. so he is the chief of staff. so, it would be foolish of me not to communicate with him, not to relate to him every single thing i'm doing. >> can you stand by claims by administration, three million illegal votes cast? do you endorse all of those statements? >> so, a little bit of unfair question because i'm not up to speed on all of that. candidly he tell you that. >> 3 million people voted illegally. >> so -- do you stand by that or not. >> if the president says it, let me do more research on it, my guess there is probably some level of truth to that. i think what we've found sometimes the president says stuff, some of you guys think it is not true or it isn't true. turns out closer to the truth than people think. let me do more homework on that. i will get back to you. i'm feeling hook here. i want to answer more questions. [shouting questions] blake first. blake first. >> congrats on the new job. >> really congratulating me on new job? >> really, congrats. you have gone through your past, law school, business. finance. but you have never held a communications type role. what would you say to your critics who say he has never done anything like this, this is the white house? secondly, if you can just lay out kind of why you wanted the job? thirdly before you go, why you chose immediately right off the bat sarah, press secretary. >> i want to start with sarah first. the president loves sarah. he think she is doing phenomenal job. i agree with him. i think reince priebus and other members of the staff agree. i'm super proud to work with her. i think she will be phenomenal as press secretary. as it relates to me, you find in my background and career i have a lot of communications experience. i spent a lot of time on television. i spent a lot of time shaping message for my old firm, my predecessor firm. and so time will tell. here is something i will tell you about myself, there is a lot of stuff i don't know. so i will lean on people like sarah and other people to help me be the best that i i can possibly be. take one last question. this question right here. given the hook. >> [inaudible] two questions. because of your legal background and fact that you mentioned the white house counsel can you explain to us what role as someone who has been trained in the law you plan play communications interacting with the president's legal team? >> good question. >> secondly, can i add on, most analysts would ever look at white house communications have academia or historians, have said that when a president says that he has communications problems, what he has is usually policy and political problems. you're arguing that we're not understanding in the united states how much the president should be appreciated and how much they love him, but can you describe to us how much you think that it goes beyond that concept and that the president has political and policy problems? >> okay. so let's start with the first question, just repeat the first question was what again? >> legal, you're going to interact with the president's legal team? >> that is good question. i'm close personal friends with jay sekulow. i have a relationship with john dowd, and i'm going to work with john again and other people make sure we're on message, handling ourselves in most appropriate way possible. that is best i can say about that. so -- i have not met ty. >> follow up, communications problems versus policy and political problems, the way you see that in the context of this president? >> we, not long ago, teddy roosevelt said the presidency is bully pulpit. the president has a great gift he is able to control the news cycle and control messaging. so i think if we get super coordinated around here with the president, we go back to what he did, some of the great successes he had in the campaign, transition, even presidency frankly, delivering that message directly to the american people. so to me i think policies are fantastic. i think he has done a phenomenal job. sarah read something i totally believe, is is that he is doing a phenomenal job. we need to get it out there a little more aggressive and we'll try to do that i have to go. [shouting questions] >> take one more. right there. >> thank you very much you talked several times about your relationship reince priebus and some of communications staff. you talk about your relationship with steve bannon? he said to have strong objections about you taking this job as well. i have one other? >> i'm on the record, i've been interviewed about steve. i think he is one of the smartest people i know. he was instrumental helping us win the election. he has a strong personality. i have a strong personality. we didn't really overlap at goldman sachs but we both worked there at a period of time. there is something great about culture yesteryear. maybe it is true today. i've been out of goldman, 21, 22 years, there were two great things out of the culture. you subordinated yourself to the team even if you had disagreements the legendary john weinberg who is now deceased once said some people grow, other people swell. that is a great line to think about yourself. for me i want to keep my head in the game. i want to keep my ego low. i want to work with steve bannon closely as i possibly can. i have a huge, enormous amount of respect. [shouting questions] sarah said i can keep going. >> she said you don't need to right the ship. doing great work. but the president has a 38.8% approval rating in his second quarter. that is historically low. what are you going to do to change that? >> so that is actually really good question. and so, these polls are moving targets. we all know from statistics i taken plenty of statistics courses sometimes polls can we be wrong. >> that is gallup's average. >> we're using gallup's average. using averages during the campaign people said we would lose and we ended up winning. polls are barometric pressure reading for right now today but the american people are playing a long game. i think they really, really love the president. the look individual state by state polls you see the guy is doing phenomenally well. indicating to me personally, that the president is really well-loved. there seems to be disconnection in terms of some of the things that are going on. we want to connect that, sara and i best of our capability. people feel great about what he is doing. i feel great about what he is is doing. maybe you're not, i don't know you, but i want american people in general to feel great about what he doing. sarah says i can keep going. i will keep going. >> thank you, anthony. there are reports about general mcmaster having disagreements on policy over russia. can you say that there will be other high-profile resignations or exits from the white house staff? >> so that again, another hypothetical. i honestly can't answer that one way or the other, although i have enormous amount of respect for general mcmaster. i don't know the situation. i don't know. >> you said you will work with the legal team and messaging as it relates to russia. >> i didn't say that. no, i specifically said that i haven't been briefed yet by the white house counsel about what is appropriate to talk about from this podium. so therefore i don't want to take any questions related to russia. >> okay. i would like to ask you though if, is the strategy that seems to be coming from this white house now going after robert mueller's credibility, the right one? >> okay. so, again, that is sort of in that zip code of like, you know, legal team, and not really? sarah or my zip code. i want to stay away from the he question. >> this is a messaging question. >> that is very complicated. i don't want to bore all people here with legal details related to it, but i think important for my first day standing up here that i don't go in that direction. so i will not answer the question. not because i'm not trying to be forthcoming. there are legalities i don't want to touch. i take this question first. last two questions. i'm going to go. >> saying that president is great communicator. how important is the relations with president an the press? do you think, how is it going to change? how much he has trust in the white house press? what is the future. >> i'm super optimistic guy. i'm too short to see the glass anything other than half full. i'm a super optimistic guy. i think president will have phenomenal relationship with the press. get there together. last question. >> the question is in the zip code. larry speaks who once stood there, don't tell us how to staling the news, we won't tell you how to report the news. do you think that is accurate reflection what y'all's job is? >> say it again. >> don't tell us how to state the news, we won't tell you how to report the news do you think that is accurate reflection. >> i have enormous respect for press secretary speaks, when he was standing here it was very different world. etch one has sound studio, recording studio, television studio right in the palm of our hands. we can stage certain things, read certain ways, what sarah and i i work on reaching as many people as we possibly can for today's era. so maybe he was accurate in the 1980s but when sarah and i think of something cute to say once we start working together. [shouting questions. ♪. yeah? >> possible for the communications to know what -- at every moment. how will you make sure you are on the same page as this president? what have you said to him about the need to know what he is thinking and where he stands as it relates to policy? >> listen, i know i'm not going to speak on behalf of the president. i have a close relationship with him. sarah has close relationship with him. i think it is super important for us to let him express his personality. it has been a very successful life experience for president trump to be president trump. and so let's let him do that. i, let me just finish. let's see where the chips fall. something happens you don't like or like, you talk to me and sarah. we'll address it. unnecessary facetime with the president but i do have oval office privileges if that's what you're talking about and i have opportunity to meet with him. he told me he's gopu