sean spicer is out. if you're the speaker of the house or senate majority leader, you do business with the white house, the people you have relationships, sean spicers, reince priebus. been in washington some time. repeatedly -- mike pence. through this, frustrations from key members of congress, key members of the outside interest groups who say they are told by these officials in the white house, senior officials in the white house, this is the plan. this is the president's decision. this is what we're going to do. they plan based on those and then the plans blow up. either because something the president says or turns out that establishment faction thought it carried the debate, thought it had the upper hand and in the end doesn't. >> why the decline of the washington wing is so important too. it's not only whether or not they have power in the white house but that radiates out to larger washington, gop chairman, across the country, republican governors and now that has been weakened. you always hear

sean spicer leaving now. nbc news has confirmed, according to multiple sources, leaving his position as press secretary. concerned about the naming of scaramucci as essentially his boss. coms director, somebody he would be working extremely closely with in his position as press secretary. this all started to come to a head within about the last 18 hours or so. it is our reporting, craig, that president trump was getting increasingly frustrated with the lack of a named communications director. essentially saying to the coms team guys, you need some help here. taking it upon himself, and, again, based on our reporting, with the backing of ivanka trump, jared kushner, and i am told with wilbur ross, as well, to hire anthony scaramucci. the president and some of his staffers have talked about how they like that scaramucci is a fighter, always out on cable tv. he has done the shows, as you say. and has appeared to defend the himself. appeared on tv to do that. and to be kind of a fighter, in the words the presiden

it would be possible for sean spicer and anthony scaramucci to coexist if sean spicer would have stayed the press secretary and anthony scaramucci were to be the communications director. but in the proposed new structure, sean spicer was to be the equivalent of a deputy chief of staff and it would have a communications director and a press secretary who would both report to him. scaramucci because of his long-standing relationship with the president did not want to be in the position of reporting to sean spicer, who would be the one who would be the liaison with the president. he wanted a direct line of communication with the president because that is something he has always had. it was the president who brought scaramucci into the white house yesterday and said look, i would like you to be my communications director and brought him back in this morning at 10:00 a.m. and said you are the guy, you are going to be the communications director. this was over the protestations we know of at least a stephen bannon and likely reince priebus as well. we've got a statement saying priebus and sca

the line between reince priebus and sean spicer is a tight one. now that scaramucci is going to be in there, apparently this has to be fully confirmed by the white house, until it's out there on paper, anything can happen. this will create another point of conflict. there is no question of the president has not been happy with the communication. he wants someone in there who thinks will fight tooth and nail for him, scaramucci has proven that, he has the trust of the president, so he's going to be the one who survives this first battle and we'll see about battles going forward. this before this is melissa francis. tell us a little bit more about that. what does it mean for reince priebus, what does it mean for steve bannon, these are the battle lines for people who were there first, who are more washington establishment or republican establishment versus the new folks who came in and were thrown overboard when the administration one and move on to washington. what about the people who were there from the beginning and when the rest of the party di

sean spicer rejected this move. he feels like scaramucci might be good on tv but doesn't understand the strategy side of this position. this is certainly not an easy job. sean spicer has learned that in his six months at the podium, or not necessarily at the podium but back in his office. so i think this was also sort of an opportunity for him to make an exit, albeit a little quicker than he expected. >> listen to scaramucci when he was asked about reports of friction in the white house. >> this is the white house, the united states of america. we're serving the president. i want to make sure that our cultural template is that we put the president's agenda first, which is perfect for the american people, and we serve his interest. so we have a little bit of friction inside the white house as a result of that, it's okay, we can live with that. i'm a business person. i'm used to dealing with friction. >> certainly less combative than the response one is used to hearing from sean spicer or even sarah huckabee sanders w

i believe sean spicer gave him that. at some personal cost to himself. >> considerable personal cost. >> but -- can i finish? but he did not, you know, give it in return. and you can go down a list of people from chris christie to rudy giuliani, to sean spicer that this is a president who will cut you off aside from family, as you point out, who will cut you off if he feels that he has to do it. >> and brian stelter i know you have -- you have thoughts on this. >> i think it's notable dana was able to speak with spicer now out there tweeting as well saying he'll continue his service through august. so not leaving today. today is not his final day at least according to his twitter account and being very positive saying an honor and privilege to serve president trump in this amazing country. we know he'll be on sean hannity, the show later today. these are indications that sean spice sir not trying to burn the bridge on the way out. even though there are reports he was upset this morning. this happened quickly this morning

we have comments from sean spicer. kevin: sean spicer just tweeted his first tweet since he announced his regular nation. it's been an honor and a privilege to serve. i will continue my service. this is bloomberg. ♪ julia: the white house press briefing has been filling up over the last 30 minutes or so. we are going to be getting a briefing at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, sarah huckabee sanders we assume discussing sean spicer stepping down at anthony scaramucci formally set to take over. what does this mean in terms of future strategy going forward? and the relationships within the white house administration, and the intrigue their? i'm texting with my trump sources throughout the show, and i can tell you the original from campaign staffers think this is a victory. they can this is the president saying sean spicer, you had your turn and now we're going to try someone new area that said, there are a lot of business minded folks inside the beltway in washington who were big fans of sean spicer, who feel that he has a toug

certainly not sean spicer's fault. neither of them told donald trump to do the interview with the "new york times." neil: by the way, the president six months in, jfk had trouble, bill clinton had trouble. >> ronald reagan changed light of people on the staff. the one word, why? how many times have you asked that about what donald trump has done? if you go crazy if you ask that. accept donald trump for what he is, he is a person that hates life inside the beltway. ain't for nothing, not just for the money he's living in new york. this is proof he's not going to, neil. >> david, he's not been a very good president. he's got good policy, not able to implement them. >> as far as executive decisions go i disagree with you strongly. he changed the way business is done in the country. >> do you think, do your people tell you, charlie gasparino, that this president would listen and that an anthony scaramucci in this case would be able to offer free, unfiltered advice and tell the president not a good idea? >> he'll be fired i

sean spicer was doing two jobs. he was doing the job of communications director as well as press secretary. both of those jobs are 24/7 commitments. so there is no doubt that he had taken on a lot. having said that, the decision to resign in the wake of this announcement, we know that the president met with anthony scaramucci today at the white house and that's when the official offer was made. we know there was a lot of pushback within the white house from reince priebus who is the chief of staff. reince priebus, sean spicer are very closely aligned. i was working my sources throughout the night who say there was a lot of concern about anthony scaramucci. he's not someone who has a lot of experience in communications. there was a concern this was the wrong direction for the president to be going in. having said that, he's very successful. someone who, again, is a hedge fund wall street guy. and so, obviously, someone who has the respect of this president, and obviously, played a key role during the transition as we

president trump's press secretary sean spicer has resigned. it follows the president's appointment of a former wall street banker, anthony scaramucci, as his new head of communications and reports in the us media suggest mr spicer resigned in protest at the appointment. mr spicer‘s performance in the post had been heavily ridiculed, not least by the us tv comedy show saturday night live, on which he was regularly impersonated by hollywood actress melissa mccarthy. our chief correspondent gavin hewitt has more. a day of dramatic changes at the white house. sean spicer, the white house press secretary, and one of the most recognisable faces of the trump administration, abruptly resigned. spicer was a controversial figure. early on, he was forced to defend the crowd size at donald trump's inauguration, denying that more people turned out for barack obama. this was the largest audience to a witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe. but pictures suggested otherwise. and then there were his remarks about chemical weapon

will we see sean spicer, the real sean spicer on "snl" on saturday night? everyone likes when you make fun of yourself. >> it would be a good play for him, no doubt. i think there is something else at stake here, and i think the fact that you see in fact that he's coming out with his de facto replacement, scaramucci, you see that chief of staff rolling out there and going on with sean hannity, arguably the single most ardent defender of president trump, that it's very obvious if spicer he wants to demonstrate that he is not just going to hold the president armless but there's going to be a booster for president trump that he wants to show here that there's no blood blood, he's not mad, he's just moving on. he will continue to be a team player even if he is not the team at the white house. >> melissa: is on the bottom of your screen a short time ago, one of the quotes of coming out that sean spicer saying perhaps the president can benefit at this point from a clean slate. what you think of that? >> that's absolutely true. i think sean spicer did exactly the

host: sean spicer was on fox news, sean hannity last night, let's see what he said about media bias. >> i do not want to paint everybody with the same brush but you are accurate in terms of the majority of able now in this briefing room that are going to journalism, not therefore the facts or pursuit of the truth, rather trying to figure out how to get on tv and become a youtube star. but there are some good reporters that still spend time getting to know and learn the facts, getting the story out. they should be rewarded and praised for their journalism, it is not about easy, hard, right, it is about being right and trying to get the facts and the story correct and inform the readership or viewership and some reporters do do that but by a large more words about the clip or the click. host: carol wrote, the press corps was a lapdog for obama who seldom got a tough question and when he did come he got mad, got biggs consulate from the press. president new communications director went on the twitter approach friday, deleting years old treats bashing his new boss and supporting gun cont

loser, reince priebus losing sean spicer. not a good position for him to be in. >> james: new yorkers win just because they got a new york accent from anthony scaramucci today. byron. >> obamacare repeal and replace is the winner because it's not dead. every day it's not dead, it's winning a few days ago we were talking about shoveling dirt on top of it. it's still not dead and probably won't be that way. the loser is justin bieber. we learned he was banned by the chinese government from performing in china. they said they wanted to purify the chinese entertainment industry which might also mean that the chinese people are the winner here. >> james: [laughs] all right. charles. >> loser by far, melissa mccarthy. she lost old spicy. the irony is, she didn't even lose him. she didn't just lose the guy. she killed him. her betrayal was devastating. winner of the week is o.j. simpson. now he can resume his lifelong hunt for the real killers. >> james: oh, man. i like how byron named obamacare repeal as the winner of the week. i'm

., where sean hannity will have an interview with sean spicer and reince >> sean: tonight. >> i would like to read a statement from the president on the resignation of sean spicer. >> sean: change comes to the white house. press secretary sean spicer resigned. >> he is a true american patriot. he is a military serviceman. he has a great family. he has done an amazing job. >> sean: and anthony scaramucci is named communications director. >> as candidates i would like to be with you guys. it feels like there is a lot of media bias. >> sean: how all these moves impact the trump administration? >> there has been some speculation about me and priebus. we are a little bit like brothers, but we were up each other up a little bit. >> sean: sean spicer and reince priebus will join us tonight in two exclusive interviews. "hannity" starts right here, right now. this is a fox news alert. welcome to "hannity" on on this major breaking news night. press secretary sean spicer, and white house chief of staff reince priebus will be joining us in exclusive interviews tonight. also buchanan, ari fleisch

he's like reporters who are covering him than sean spicer and i think he's more relatable and sean spicer is going to start a fight behind the podium and scarramucci has more experience and credible. >> it is interesting we have presidents who are relatively more button down and discipline and some presidents like president clinton suffered from lapses of discipline whether it is personal discipline or managerial >> discipline is a good thing and i think if you are the president of the united states or a ceo of an organization, discipline is imperative people have to have consistency and in particular of the business community would like consistency right now. and so there are definitely moments where you got to be retroactive and you are running a large, either a large company or running, you know a company or country and sometimes you have to react. everything cannot be a reaction. you have to have this forward planning >> suzy, you know what's interesting of this situation? we asked of how the president manage sean spicer but how well does he manage bannon or jared kushner? can that al

sean spicer was combative. anthony scaramucci is calm, levelheaded and is clearly polished in front of the cameras. but when we talk about the press secretary schang, you talk about communications here, that's the wrapping paper. the real hoish as soon as we get past this sort of turbulent 24 hours is the president and the policies. that's the bottom line of what these guys' responsibility is to sort of represent the are president and his positions and that ultimately is where the challenge lies for this white house p. when people are asked their approval of president, they're not asked their approval of sean spicer or scaramucci. the reason he hofrs at those low levels is because a lot of americans are anxious about exactly where this president stands on a lot of different positions and whether he's effectively positioned as commander in chief and as sort of the leader of free world to direct the u.s. in the direction it wants to be going right now. obviously he's got a pretty good salesman and anthony scaramu

sean spicer. they weren't pro-trump at the very beginning. >> eboni: they felt very establishment. >> eric: at one point they said trump should pull out of the race. >> eboni: probably after the access hollywood. you may be right. >> eric: there is that column of power president, priebus, spicer, anthony comes in and maybe disrupts that i don't know if it's as -- >> eboni: amicable. >> eric: amicable. we are in a better place. >> do what's right for the president and the country. feelings aside you need toughness and whit to disarm people with humor or whatever. sadly is he a great guy. united states naval reserve, sean spicer doesn't have that sebastian gorka has that. >> i want root canal before that job. >> eric: i thought you were going to be named the press secretary. >> ka. >> it is right, the idea that i'm supposed to be tell pathicly linked to somebody else and to stand in that room for a fist fight with fake news representatives. >> eric: you know he is emailing. he is texting him while h

you spoke with sean spicer. what did he tell you? >> he sounded surprisingly up beat considering what had just happened, that he resigned from a job that those of us who have known him for a while know that it was his dream job. maybe not under president trump, but to be at the white house podium. but i asked him the obvious question, which is why now and why was this the moment and this the change at the white house, or the event at the white house that finally made you say, i'm out? and his answer was, i wanted to give the president and his new team a clean slate. he did say, brianna, that the president tried to get him to stay. he said, no, it's not the right time for the white house to be here -- for me to be here and it's not right time for me personally to be here. but it's no secret as sara just illustrated in her piece, it has not been easy for this press secretary and the press, but most importantly, at the end of the day, for the press secretary and the president sometimes. >> so, you said he sounded surprisingly up beat. i

sean spicer objective and thatis president. sean spicer objective and that is why he is leaving the white house. is there an assumption on capitol hill that this man was offered disposition to get rid of sean spicer? it is well—known that there has been some controversy surrounding him since donald trump took office. that is a possibility. ido took office. that is a possibility. i do not have much we want to read into the motivations behind it but it was quite an open secret that there were some conflict that sean spicer had questions over scan —— the new man in the imitation. he did not start working for trump initially, but when seeking one board and the waiters, he has been a very active, animated surrogates for the president you liked the positions —— for the president. sean spicer was not part of the trump campaign team. he was press secretary for the republican national committee in all 2016. he was brought in once donald trump won the white house and presidency. he was put forward as the press secretary perhaps

we saw sean spicer resign because of the pick. what is it about scaramucci that made them so reluctant to be onboard with the president's choice? >> just at a professional level, this is a job this man has never done. this is about the hardest version of this job that you can undertake in the entire country. so, they run the risk. the white house now runs the risk. and i think some of this pushback was an attempt to sort of warn the president about this. but you've got somebody who can fall flat on his face in front of one of the hungriest and most aggressive press corpses you're going to find anywhere. that alone should be reason for pause. the reality is, yes, he is slick, he is comfortable in front of the camera, he knows how to brand and make money. none of those are requirements for doing this job. this is a strategic job, when it's done properly. and here again, the reality is if he's going to simply be a mouthpiece and expected to get out every day and say exactly what donald trump wants him to say, including, i love you, d

howie: sean spicer was an rnc guy. reince priebus brought him in with the republican national committee. scaramucci has nobody this guy for years and maybe there are pluses and minuses to that. he's a former wall street hedge fund go and eventually that might help him. mole * people kept pointing -- mollie: people kept pointing out that scaramucci has liberal points of view. well, donald trump has liberal points of view. howie: he can spend more time with his family which is not just. >> cliche'. this is not fake news. this is donald trump sitting down with the "new york times" reporters saying he wouldn't have appointed jeff sessions as attorney general if he knew he was going to recuse himself. and the press says he doesn't understand the need for the top law enforcement official to be independent. mollie: this is an example of how the media doesn't understand how president trump talks. president obama changed the order in the justice department. when there are all these traps being laid and games being played in the

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sean has sean spicer and reince priebus. white house or palace intrying one thing, but how does it impact agenda for this president. healthcare, taxes, the stuff that matters. that's next. you always pay your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and up go your rates. what good is having insurance if you get punished for using it? news flash: nobody's perfect. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance. reporter: the personnel moves at the white house. spirals out, scaramucci in. adam? reporter: connell, the message, healthcare facing a hurd until the senate with potentially not even enough votes to pass a motion to proceed so they can debate the built. but tax reform over and over again. you hear that is going to happen. anthony scaramucci said as much. but here is more about what he said about where we go from here. >> i

sean spicer is saying farewell. for six months and one day, he's been defender in chief for the often tumultuous west wing. i think it was in the best interest of our communications department to our press organisation, to not have too many cooks in the kitchen. sean spicer courted controversy from his first briefing, just after the inauguration of donald trump. he berated reporters who said the crowd size was smaller than president 0bama's. this is the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period both in person and around the globe. he earned the nickname "spicey" when mocked on tv. he said some of it hit too hard. if i say something wrong, you guys should know what it is i'm meaning, right or wrong! some of the memes are funny and you have to laugh at yourself sometimes. but sometimes it goes from funny to mean. there is a difference when that happens. he left to give this man a clean slate to work with. wall street financier anthony scaramucci has a very different style with the press. 0utspoken and sl

sean spicer decided to resign as a result. he is a pretty high—profile casualty of this administration. he was the face of the ministration for months and months and months. but in recent times, he had begun to be frozen out. he did not want the president's trip to paris last week for example. he was not allowed to go and see the pope when the president went to europe previously, despite being a pretty devout roman catholic. and he has been really cut out of doing a lot of briefings and on camera briefings because it seems the president did not much like his performance. his position was becoming increasingly untenable and i think this appointment was, in a sense, the straw that broke the camel's back. he has been marked a great deal. melissa mccarthy has impersonated him so successfully. but how much can you blame him for the message having to give out? —— he is having to. he did not get off toa he is having to. he did not get off to a good start with reporters in particular. in a sense, you could argue that his primary

sean spicer looking very much forward to that opportunity was not allowed in that room. that is one of many moments that people thought this relationship was not going to last or perhaps sean spicer may be on the verge of quitting. has come. we will have to see what happens if they already have in mind who will take over for sean spicer. sarah huckabee sanders has been filling in quite a bit lately. many briefings have been off-camera. fewer on camera ones. they thought that was a bit of a defense against some of the scathing and scolding reports they had been receiving through cable news network's specifically almost daily after the briefings. a lot about moving developments on capitol hill and over at the white house. adrianna: thank you for the update. six months and one day, sean spicer is out. we will have much more on this coming up at 4:00. stay with us. adrianna: new numbers dwarf ge boomers a run for their money, now millennials are getting their own airline. air france says it is launching something geared to the people between ages 18 and 35. it will not be a

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>> the idea is, really sean spicer left because of scaramucci or did scaramucci come in and say sean's got to go. the big test of a sean spicer loyalty contest comes now when he's waking up with a big smile on his face singing zippidy do da. >> i think he lost faith with the president and had become too much of a lightning rod himself. "saturday night live" made him famous. that's not what you want to be when you're press secretary to the president of the united states. with regard to scaramucci, the challenge becomes how well he can get along with the president and how closely the president will listen to him. great well he can get along with the president. great press secretaries usually aren't big personalities. they're usually behind the scenes working behind the president. we'll see how well scare muchy do -- scaramucci does. >> then we've got the idea of potentially this bomb shell headline with the "new york times" reporting that trump could try to undermine mueller and his team with the independent investigation and republicans certainly aren't sure that's a good idea. here's h

sure if sean spicer has been reading the news lately. but he issued a statement saying the meeting was about getting opposition information on his opponent and donald trump jr. like you said released the e-mails where we saw in the subject line it said

sean spicer resigns. he doesn't say it's in protest, but our reporting says oh resigns because scaramucci was brought in. who is the next to go? >> yeah, it's a great question. a lot of eyes today on reince priebus for the very reasons you've already talked about. he didn't particularly like this appointment, and it's now been made over his objection. that's a pretty untenable position for a chief of staff to be in. but, you know, look, people have been writing reince priebus' political obituary for months and they've been wrong. be careful about making any predictions, especially in this white house. but it does feel like it's a staff right now that's on edge. people we've talked to inside talk about sort of the poisonous atmosphere, the tribes that exist inside the west wing v how surprised and even disappointed that they are that a team that they felt had been pretty unified to some extent at least during the campaign now is so driven apart like this. so i think more shoes will drop. >> peter baker, ro

the i-team scott mcfarlane. >> he interviewed sean spicer a number of times over the past decade or so. you're saying that sean spicer, we know, memorable and it's been sure, you see he had an impact on us here, locally. >> quietly and sometimes, not so quietly at other times. first of all, there was a level of time when sean spicer took the job at white house press secretary. president trump campaigned and took office as an outside force. spicer was high profile member, the gop communications as working as congressionalee back then. he truly authored on political activities. he later worked for the u.s. trade representative and republican national committee. the epi center of establishment. he had a local impact here. you'll recall, publicly, he expressed concern about the allegations this spring of rape inside rockdale high school. he did so before national audience. he also answered questions about dc's dignity law, saying the white house will not weigh in on it formerly until congress first intervened. these are not common topics. he involved local journalist including the tall

exclusive interview with sean spicer. we continue now with ari fleischer, jeanine pirro. no one would ever hire me and that's a job, i'm not suited for it like you are. -- >> it is a fun job. >> sean: i do admire you guys, with wow, i felt bad for sean he got the crap beat out of him and he is a gracious guy. >> tough job, it's tougher when you do it for donald trump. he does not do things the traditional way. so you get squeezed when you are the press secretary. and sean has taken the high road. that is good to see. good for him and his family. i do have to point out that there is another thing that i think they read between the lines. it was increasingly clear that he was going to be a man without a portfolio. there was going to be a new press secretary, and what would sean be doing? that's what he was getting at when he was head if he was hired, you make these changes coming to rev up communications, i won't have a role, and it is confusing to have me around. i think that's what it ultimately came down to. >> sean: i w

he basically told sean spicer to get a makeover. the ill-fitting suit, what have you, the tie and shirt weren't right, to get a makeover. how much of this is about optics for this president? >> optics are incredibly important the to him. we had -- the president and i, when we did our sessions of interviews, we talked about my appearance. he told me i was a good looking guy, though later on, he changed his mind. he wants to flatter people and he wants to be flattered, as well. he has a strict dress code at the white house. he wants people to look the part. you know, in a way, we occupy this age when the surface matters more than ever. >> that comes to reality television and also comes from the beauty pageants. >> absolutely. >> having to give an appearance when people walk into a building, especially if you're trying to sell real estate, right? >> he spoke to me actually about how cheerleading is really important. this is a beef he had with president obama. he said obama started out, he was a really great cheerleader, but something h

sean spicer. here's more from sean hannity's exclusive interview tonight with the outgoing white house press secretary. >> share the podium with sarah huckabee sanders. anthony scaramucci comes in. did you feel in any way that this was against you? did you feel that you are pushed out in anyway. was this totally your decision? >> is a mention, the president wanted to add to the team more than anything. it was in the best interest of our communications department, the press organization to not have too many cooks in the kitchen. c >> dana: and kimberly, we found out that anthony scaramucci will have some press appearances this week. i have to say, let's hear it from the italian-americans. we just keep kicking it. w >> kimberly: a lot of pride tonight coming from the humble background. nice middle class family out of long island, really the example of the american dream coming to fruition on america entrepreneur. a real patriot, believes in the message. the president has enjoyed a close relationship

sean, sean. >> come on, sean. sean. >> part of the sean spicer greatest hits reel. we're talking about the major shake-up today within the white house press corps. sean spicer will be out in august, and anthony scaramucci has been appointed as the coms director and sarah huckabee sanders will be taking sean's job as press secretary. let's talk to paul begala, cnn political commentator, and democratic strategist and a former adviser to president clinton. also with me, matthew whittaker, cnn legal commentator and executive director of the foundation for accountability and civic trust and last but not least, david, media critic for "the baltimore sun." gentlemen, my goodness. we thought we'd be talking about "the washington post" and the "new york times" reporting. to watch scaramucci, paul begala, your impressions and just you knowing the inner workings of a white house, what's his biggest uphill battle? >> well, a white house is a living organism, especially -- it's only been going six months but still in six mojnths, it forms us own ecosystem. now you're transplanti

sean spicer said he could not. he did tweet a couple minutes ago it has been an honor and privilege to serve the president and this amazing country. i will continue my service through august. >>> two people unhappy with the choice of scaramucci were reince priebus and steve bannon. we're watching that podium there at the white house where the reporters are lined up. while we wait, let's debrief with our reporters an analysts. kristen welker is at the white house. set the scene for us, what is happening in the white house right this moment? >> well, it is certainly been a frantic morning, cakatie as allf this unfolded. our reporters were waiting outside of the press office waiting to get clarification on what was happening. and so there was sort of a crush of reporters trying to get that information, finally of course it was confirmed. now the question becomes what happens next, who will replace him. let me set the scene here in the briefing room. this is a packed briefing room. people are standing, this reminds me

sean spicer resigning after the president's high financier anthony scaramucci

sean spicer, from when he was... he was at the republican party and he showed an incredible amount of loyalty a nd showed an incredible amount of loyalty and an incredible ability to speak up for the then candidate trump and president trump, in a way that was somehow out of sync with reality, like the clip he played about the crowd size. a formative moment for sean spicer was during the republican convention, melania trump gave a speech that it turned out was strikingly similar to a speech that first lady michelle 0bama gave at another convention. there were all of these questions about whether it was plagiarism and sean spicer came out and said, well, i think sparkle pony also said something that was similar, is that plagiarism? a day something that was similar, is that plagiarism ? a day later something that was similar, is that plagiarism? a day later he was com pletely plagiarism? a day later he was completely contradicted when a trump campaign without a statement from the person who wrote the speech saying, it w

. >>> plus sean spicer's out anthony scaramucci is in. can a new york banker change a communication strategy that's sometimes only as good as donald trump's cell phone. >>> as jared kushner prepares to answer questions on the hill we're learning more about his finances, what he didn't disclose before. as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a friday night. ♪ ♪ >>> and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. the friday night edition, day 183 of the trump administration, a year to the day since donald trump accepted the republican party's nomination. exactly six months to the day since our introduction to sean spicer. when he was ordered to berate the news media in the briefing room how we reported the crowd size. at the inauguration. tonight the long suffering and often parodied sean spicer is gone. and we'll talk about his tenure and his replacement later on. but first to the friday night breaking news centering on jeff sessions. this one comes from the "washington post." the headline tonight, sessions di

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