At 10 00 p. M. Eastern. We have some previews. From what i understand, all of the reports are, the president did not want you to go. Tell us what happened. He didnt. He has been very gracious throughout the process wanted to bring some new folks in to rev up the communications operation. And after reflection, my decision was to recommend to the president that i gave anthony and sarah a clean slate to start from so that they can talk about the president s agenda and help move it forward. And he after some back and forth understood that the offer that i was making was something that was in the best interest of the administration. I thanked him for the opportunity. Im looking forward to watching anthony and sarah do a tremendous job. Kimberly a lot of nice things to say about sean spicer despite the reports of a few. 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 servicemen. He has a great family, and he has done an amazing job. This is a difficult situation to be in. And 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. I would love to have him here. Sean decided that it would be better to go. His attitude is, anthony is coming in, let me clear the slate for anthony. I appreciate that about him. I love him for that. Because of that occurred today. No one better to go to than yourself. Dana i love the job of press secretary. Im glad that it had an end date, i might still be there, because i really did love it. But the job has changed a lot even since i was there. In january of 2009 when i left, i did not have a twitter account. If you think of how social media has changed the way that we communicate with each other and the scrutiny that comes with the job anyway, it was tough. I also think that sean who i worked with in the bush administration. He was a trade representative spokesman. Great on strategy, excellent tactician. Wonderful guy, right . On his very first day as press secretary when the president asked him to go into the brief room. We were live on the five. We were watching it and thinking, what in the world is happening . And from that day on, he had kind of a rough road. Because of the proud ties press conference. Ran out with a meat accent tried kimberly slaughterhouse to cleave various members of the press. South. That was the day, from that first day, people said he was going to get fired. But he showed a lot of tenacity. I think you did a really good job with what he was asked to do. And i think some of the reporters in the Briefing Room thought, why are you fighting with us all the time . I think thats what the president wanted to see. And then recently has not been doing as many on camera briefings. Serving and abdul rule as a Communications Director. Thats impossible. It is not possible to do both jobs well. Both need an absolute focus. You get about four hours of sleep if you are doing either job, trying to do both is too difficult. There are three things that you can do in a situation like this. If your boss wants to layer in somebody on top of your next to you and you disagree with it, you can accept it and try to work within that. You can maybe acquiesce, that is fine. Or you can make your case, lose, and to then decide that the right thing to do is resign, or you can stay and get better, leak against your colleagues. Who do things that would be pretty despicable in washington. What we saw today was somebody doing something what you would hope other people in the government, not just in the Political Administration but the entire government, if you disagree and do not think you can do your job the way that you want to do it, resign. And honorably. And he also leaves the white house amicably. He has a Good Relationship with the president and with scaramucci and Reince Priebus. And good will still with the press, because people know them from before. Probably the best outcome was to resign, and it looked like he felt a little bit better. [laughter] can you imagine . I should add that i dont think saturday night live ever knew my name. I cannot imagine how that mustve felt every time. Dealt with it pretty well. He laughed about the gum. Suggestions for melissa mccarthy. But we know about being bullied on twitter by russian robots, it hurts. That humiliation takes a toll. Juan i think there is a different version of events that is circulating in washington. That sean was left to be deputy chief of staff to Reince Priebus. And to take the communications job. And the problem is that he was blindsided. You see the president very impressed by the fact that Anthony Scaramucci was able to get cnn to apologize. Cnn to fire people, that he was combative with them, and won. And then he taps into jared kushner, to ivanka and his daughter. Had a meeting that night. And Reince Priebus was not aware that scaramucci was going to be hired. He had blocked him previously. So now you have a situation where Reince Priebus looks like he is on the edge as well as seeing sean spicer pushed out. And you know, you think about what this means. It has been one hell of a week for the trump white house. Think about the health care bill, now you have a situation where the white house the white house chief of staff is on the edge. Dana dont forget the made in america week. Juan i forgot made in america week. And i dont think they should be celebrating scaramucci coming into the Communications Director position. He is going to bring the Democratic Party a lot of pain and a lot of suffering. This guy is a straight up killer. He is polished. He is wellspoken. He is personable. He has made a ton of cash on wall street, and he commands a lot of respect. I think what you saw on the podium there tonight was a guy in total control. He did not miss a beat. He never stammered. He never started. He executes. He gets things done. Whereas spicer did not have a mind meld going on with President Trump. I think that scaramucci is cut from the same cloth. They are both from queens. They grew up in Humble Beginnings, so to speak. Whatever that means for some people. And they are very successful juan trump grew up in Humble Beginnings . Jesse if they are from queens and started off on the street. Kimberly long island. Jesse long island, queens, we are going to give him the border. [laughter] my point is that scaramucci is going to breathe new life into the white house. And from what we are hearing from our sources in washington is that we are going to go back to trump the campaigner. And trump the campaigner scares the life out of democrats, because thats who beat hillary clinton, and thats when he is most successful. When he is doing his rallies and among the people, when he is making moves. He is not successful when he is playing defense in the white house. He is most successful when he is driving the conversation. Dana like made in america week. Juan Robert Mueller ending investigation. Scaramucci is coming into fights, you are right now. We are on the verge, this is like, who is the guy that comes out in big and says ladies and gentlemen, lets get ready to rumble . Kimberly and sometimes you do it in war times. But you have to have somebody in there that i think understands the president. He has a longstanding relationship with him. They get each other like jesse was saying, and this is somebody that enjoys the confidence of the president in the family, also a lawyer, graduated from harvard law, so all of these things are going to come into play given the investigations going on, so you want somebody that you can count on that you know can do your messaging effectively during a time like this. Chris the internal pressure and tension in the white house has been, do you go to war with Robert Mueller . Do you get in a fight with him so that you can force him out, fire him, or when he comes to whatever conclusion he comes to, and i think the broad consensus is that it will not be all rainbows and sunshine when he gets to the end, whatever it is, paul manafort, whatever, there will be some bad news for the administration, do you try to push hard and advance or do you say, we welcome his participation. We are going to work cooperatively with him. They have been back and forth a little bit. I think the arrival of scaramucci, the ouster, the handwriting on the wall for spicer shows us that you are exactly right in the sense that this is a war footing. This is the time for the struggle, they are going to go against mueller hard. They are going to bring a lot of heat. Kimberly this is a fox news alert. We are going to go to the press. Listen in. Harteau has served the Minneapolis Police department and the people of minneapolis for 30 years with vision, determination, and strength. She has overcome barriers and chains to become one of the top Law Enforcement officials in america in a maledominated profession. She deserves everyone things for her dedicated service. I have worked closely with chief for three and a half years. In that time we have done more faster to transform policing, public safety, and public trust and any other mayor, police chief, Police Department or city in america while putting the safety of the residents first and working hard every day to keep minneapolis a safe city for everyone. I give chief tremendous credit for taking on the body of work and leading through all of this change. As far as we have come chief harteau is not in a position to lead us further. And from the many conversations i have had with people around the citys especially this week, i know that some in minneapolis have lost confidence in police leadership. For us to continue to transform policing and Community Trust and policing both the chief and i concluded that we need new leadership at npd. In conversation with the chief today, she and i agreed that she would step aside to make way for new leadership and i asked chief harteau for her resignation, she tendered it. And i have accepted it. We are not slowing the pace of our transformation. The work will continue until it is done. Until justice, dignity, and the sanctity of life are reflected in every police encounter. And until everyone feels safe and is safe and one minneapolis. We will not waver from that. Now is the time for new leadership at npd to get us where we all need to be in every police encounter. Following harteaus resignation, effective at the end of business day. Ive announced that i will nominate Current Assistant chief as police chief. Over the next few years, the Minneapolis Police department will work to continue the transformational change that we know we all need, and to strengthen and ingrain into the policing the changes that we have already made. I am confident that assistant chief is the right person to lead us through it. The experience working closely with him over the last week which has been so hard on everyone in minneapolis. It has solidified my confidence. Assistant chief in redondo joined the npd in 1989 as a Patrol Officer in the third present he has served as a beat officer. He has also internal affairs and investigation experience. He has served as inspector for the first precinct and the deputy chief and chief of staff. We do not want you as you our mayor of minneapolis anymore. We are asking that you take your staff with you. We dont want you to appoint anybody anymore your leadership has been ineffective, and if you do not remove yourself, we are going to put somebody in place to remove you. We do not want you as the mayor your Police Department has terrorized us enough. Your press conference is ineffective. You hear me now. We do not want you as the mayor of minneapolis. [cheers and applause] we do not want you as the mayor. You have been ineffective as a mayor. [indistinguishable yelling] i hear and understand for folks who are listening, i hear and i understand. You need to leave. You do not represent us. You are ineffective as a leader, and we want you to step down just as harteau did. And we dont want you we want you to take your staff to appoint anybody. With you. They have terrorized us enough. We dont need it any longer [cheers and applause] we do not want you as the mayor any longer. I hear and understand. I hear and understand your objections and the work that we have done. This is our house. This is our house. We want you out of this office. [cheers and applause] you are ineffective as a leader and we did not want you as the mayor of minneapolis anymore. We dont want you to appoint a police chief because you have failed us for all the years you have been in office. If we can get on with the press conference i appreciate this appointment to the chief of Minneapolis Police department. So you will have to accept it. You are by yourself. You are by yourself. [indistinguishable] [indistinguishable] so i hear and understand peoples objections. For the person who has a microphone on. And i am happy to sit down and talk to people about the future policing in minneapolis. I hear and understand your objections. I have heard you and i have listened. And i am happy to sit down with folks and talk about the future if we need to. Tonight i am announcing that chief harteau is no longer the police chief. This is a tough time for the city. This is a tough time around the world. [indistinguishable chanting] i am happy to sit down with people. [indistinguishable chanting] bye, bye, betsy bye, bye, betsy bye, bye, betsy bye, bye, betsy bye, bye, betsy we want to new leadership, we need we are looking for new leadership we are tax payers. There is policy not being changed, and it is unacceptable. We are holding the press conference. It has now become the Peoples Press conference we have had enough here in the city of minneapolis. This is our house. [indistinguishable chanting] hang on a second. Hang on a second. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on a second, guys. Listen to what the press conference is about, everyone. Hang on a second. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on a second, guys. It is time for our voices to be heard. So this is what a press conference is about, everybody we are going to do it. Everybody back up a little bit to get set, this is the peoples city everybody back up for him. So if i can say this, hang on, guys. If i can say this, hang on, guys. Hang on, guys. Okay, hang on. She is right here. No, the people are right here. Okay. That is the chief in the corner. Let the people come to the front we are not going to be tricked by this effort, all right. The former chief was not doing her job, but we understand that it is beyond the chief. Or that it is probably institutional. Right . If it was not institutional, then those cameras, those body cameras wouldve been on the police the other day, right . But the problem is deeper than that. We are not going to be tricked. We understand that the chief looks like us, but we understand that he is not one of us. That he was, so the Police Department that has a history of brutalizing us, and we are not buying this prejudice will not work. What we want, we dont want them to change clothes, we want them to change institution. All they have done is a cosmetic change. And we want institutional change and so if betsy hodges cannot and deliver it, then she should step aside and the people should run the city. Who shuts this down . We shut us down. Listen, i understand that people are in love with him, but those are people who have been paid off, who had been ineffective in our community. We see today, this is our house. You cannot lock us out of this building. You cannot lock us out of this building you cannot hide from us, and we put you in office, today is day for the new world. We are not having that anymore. You are not going to give us the chance that we put in this office and likely put it in this office. We put these chairs in this office. We put you in office to represent us, and if you cant represent us, we are going to remove you out of those seats so today harteau resigns. Im asking that betsy hodges do the same thing. All the rest of the staff are ineffective. The city of minneapolis needs a new start. Take all the people who have been paid off for the past 20 years who praise the activities of the police chief have been doing for the past 20 and 30 years. Take them to eden prairie somewhere. We dont want anymore. Who shuts us down . We shut this down. If the police dont get it . Shut it down. If the police dont get it shut it down if the police dont get it shut it down if tomorrow dont get it shut it down if tomorrow dont get it shut it down if tomorrow dont get it shut it down if the towns dont get it shut it down if the towns dont get it shut it down if tomorrow dont get it shut it down if tomorrow dont get it shut it down if tomorrow dont get it shut it down if the towns dont get it shut it down if the towns dont get it shut it down if the towns dont get it shut it down if they dont get it shut it down if they dont get it shut it down if they dont get it shut it down if they dont get it shut it down all right, now today, everybody in this as you know, you are watching history today, you are watching history we are taking it back, we are taking it back, we are taking the city back. No longer will we pay you to kill us. No longer will we pay you to kill us. Thats what we need to do. Change is coming change is coming america, we want our city back. We want our city back. Are you all right . Yes, i probably do need a little bit of staff. I have a really loud voice. Im going to be heard. Let me tell you, these problems did not start with harteau, they are not going to end because harteau leaves. Thats the reality of things. This tragic killing of justine by the Police Officer has exposed to the world, not just the city, not just the state, not just the country, but the whole world knows how rotten cops are in minneapolis. These problems, they fall strictly at the feet of the city leadership. Strictly at the feet, and that means that betsy, the city council, and yes, it was on harteau, and it will be on whoever takes over for her whether it is rondo or somebody else. Because thats what has been go