to ever witness an inauguration, period. both in person and around the globe. reporter: in recent weeks, sean spicer was frequently replaced at the daily press briefings by deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. don t f with me, glen. next question! reporter: spicer s place at the podium was widely spoofed on saturday night live. and this is the new spicy. reporter: spicer says his departure won t be immediate, tweeting it s been an honor and a privilege to serve potus at real donald trump and this amazing country. i will continue my service through august. the president issued a statement thanking spicer. i m grateful for sean s work on behalf of my administration and the american people. i wish him continued success as he moves on to pursue new opportunities. just look at his great television ratings. reporter: so the president there pointing to his penchant for television spectacle. and in that same vein, anthony scaramucci was asked today if we
people, highly talented, extremely successful in the financial or business sector, who said no when they were asked to take a position in the trump administration for this reason, that they didn t want to go through months of divulging all of their financial assets and thousands of pages of financial disclosure. we really need to ask ourselves, do we want people of wealth to be in public service? now, i would make the case to you, jake, that the american people knew that donald trump was a real estate man. you asked a really interesting question earlier, when you played the devil s advocate about do we want a special prosecutor going through every financial transaction that donald trump has engaged in, in the last 10 or 15 years? this could be the kind of thing that could cripple and paralyze his presidency at a time when we have to deal with health care reform and tax reform. we re not talking about that tonight, we re talking about russia and these financial
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sessions and his view that jeff sessions need not have recused himself certainly has added to that specter of obstruction of justice. there is so much news that happens it feels like every few hours there is some huge breaking story. sean s aside, a few big stories. at about this time last night, the washington post and new york times were reporting a whole host of fascinating and to many people troubling facts, including the fact that trump has individuals i believe on his legal twheeam who are looking i efforts to discredit the mueller investigation by looking into the past histories, political donations and more of investigators working for bob mueller, and the washington post reported that president trump had asked advisers about his ability, his power to pardon individuals, whether associates or family members or even
hillary clinton? so those russian financial dealings may be very relevant to collusion. plus moneylaundering is definitely a pocket. there were reports that paul manafort is under investigation for moneylaundering. deutsche bank, trump s bank, president trump s bank has encountered investigation and in fact potential prosecution ongoing criminally for moneylaundering. there are these allegations that are swirling around the collusion or conspiracy to join with the russians in interfering with the 2016 election by the trump campaign. so it is highly relevant. and it is more than a distraction or a sort of outlying investigation. the complaint made about the starr investigation, which led