she is, the new freshly minted white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders leaving the -- it's been so long since we've had an on-camera briefing at the white house. so exciting to me s. good afternoon to you. sean spicer is out as white house press secretary. that news spled like wild fire moments after we learned that anthony scaramucci would be taking up the vacant post of white house communications director. and those two things happening nearly simultaneously is reportedly not a coincidence. a source with knowledge of the situation tells my colleague katy terr who is with me here that spicer was telling people last night he would resign if scaramucci was hired. katy is going to join me to tell us more about that. but first a short time ago, the first on-camera press briefing since june, and guess who showed up? >> i would love to have sean here. sean decided that he thought it would be better to go. and for me as it relates to sean, it speaks volumes to who he is as a human being, who he is as a team player. so his attitude is if anthony is coming in, let me clear

that sarah huckabee sanders would take over for sean spicer. announcement came directly from mr. scaramucci when he was announced at today's white house briefing. >> finally i would like to read a statement on the resignation of press secretary sean spicer. i am grateful for sean's work on the american people. i wish and continued success as he pursues new opportunities. anthony has been a great supporter and will help implement key aspects of our agenda violating the communications team. we have accomplished so much and being given credit for so little. the good news is that the people get it even if the media doesn't. i will be back after that to answer any follow-up questions. mr. scaramucci: thank you. i will be very brief, i will make my remarks in formal and take questions. i would like to announce formally that sarah huckabee sanders, you cannot hear me, i am sorry. sarah huckabee sanders will be the press secretary so you can congratulate her -- still can't hear me? no sound? better now? i will start over. you guys heard me in the front though. sarah will be the press se

spicer‘s deputy, so we will see more of sarah huckabee sanders, she has quite a lot on her plate, with having to react to donald trump's tweets, for example. the thing about sarah huckabee sanders is she has been filling in recently for sean spicer and there has been a lot of criticism that the white house hasn't been holding regular on camera briefings. but in recent weeks when they have been on camera it has been sarah huckabee sanders doing those. what i thought was interesting about watching anthony scaramucci in the briefing room is, as gavin says, he is slick and polished and he was trying to almost reset the relationship with the media. he said when he spoke to journalists, and going to take every question i can. when asked whether he would reinstate the regular daily on camera briefings he said, i will ask the president and ask sarah huckabee sanders, but i will try and do that. it seemed like he was a good operator on camera and if president trump was watching that one wonders whether he will be making more of an appearance on camera because he was a very robust defender

discussion. ♪ >> white house deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders has been with the trump administration since january. she sat down with us to discuss her role in the white house, her background, and what it was like growing up in a political family as the daughter of former arkansas governor and republican presidential candidate mike huckabee. this interview is under 25 minutes. >> sarah huckabee sanders, what was it like growing up in such a political family? >> most days it was incredible. you know, i was a political junkie from an early age and got a front row seat to something i loved to do and something to be a part of. even better than that i had a chance to do something i love and do that with my dad. i can't think of any better experience growing up. to me it was a privilege and honor, and something that frankly helped prepare me for the life i'm living right now. >> you were 11 or 12 when he was running for governor. >> the first time i was nine years old. when he first announced -- when most kids were going to summer camp i was doing the arkansas , festival cir

director. we are awaiting all white house news briefing with deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, that is to take place an hour from now. scheduled for 2:00 p.m. eastern time, lots to get to on this story. good afternoon to you, at least you are on the east coast. >> heather: nothing like us slow friday afternoon for this administration. >> jon: that never happens. >> heather: the white house press secretary, sean spicer reportedly resigning because of objections to the appointment of a new white house communications director, new york financier anthony scaramucci. we've got fox live coverage for you beginning with chief white house correspondent john roberts, who has been incredibly busy in the past hour. >> when are we not busy here at the white house? it's a sad day for those of us who know sean spicer very well. we know he put his all into this job. he was tireless, working 18 hours a day, neglecting his family and his children to do the best job he possibly could for the president. in the end, the present decided -- this is not replacing sean spicer. the president decided he is go

angry and very combative with the press. sarah huckabee sanders has been able to basically keep her cool together in a way that's different and helpful. as for anthony scaramucci, he is interesting guy because as we know, he understands wall street, he understands business, and he understands the media and he has a lot of connections to the media, but he also has connections outside the media. he'll have a little bit of a different take in a different approach. >> sandra: additional reporting from john roberts saying sean spicer was supposed to lead this newly structured communications operation. the communications director would report to him. reports right now are that anthony scaramucci would be the new communication's director. scare a mood she was not about to work for spicer which is likely why he resigned. >> steve: i think you've got it right. one point i would make, to actually, first of all, president trump in many ways as his own communications director. that's his strength as well. everyone knows what he thinks and he makes it clear. i do think it's important to remember

awaiting an off-camera briefing from sarah huckabee sanders. darren headache has capitol hill covered. and nbc national security analyst clint wats is back in knock. he's a former fbi special agent, part of the joint terrorism task force and a senior fellow at the research institute. peter, i'm going to get into that hearing in a second, but first we just got word about what president trump has to say in an interview with cbn. it's some of his first words in days. >> that's right. christian broadcasting network. to air tomorrow, but already we are getting some clue about the conversation. a write through from the christian brofting network. the topics included north korea, his recent meeting with vladimir putin that the president in effect zriebld as productive. here is in part what he says. he says of the conversation they had that i think we got along -- we get along very well and i think that's a good thing. that's not a bad thing. people said, oh, they shouldn't get along well, who are the people that are saying that? i think we get along very very well. notably in this conversation th

interesting. during mina, has press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. good evening to you. never a dull moment at the white house. i think everybody who has had a chance to read through these comments from a conversation that anthony scaramucci had with ryan at the new yorker, it's a jaw dropper. the language in there is unbelievable. >> i'm sorry, martha, just the last second. can you repeat the question? >> martha: absolute. the article that came out that came out in the new yorker that detailed his conversation with anthony scaramucci who is going to be the communications director at the white house, has language in it that the that thickest jaw-dropping and really and really shocked a lot of people. he's put out a statement about that. what's your response to a? >> i think he put out a statement just moments ago, and stated that this is a guy who sometimes uses colorful and in many circles probably not appropriate language. he's very passionate about the president and the president's agenda, and i think he may let the cap best of them. >> martha: i just want to put up one of th

huckabee sanders, will move into the role. sarah is going to be the press secretary, right? congratulations to you, sarah. >> reporter: president trump asked spicer to remain on staff, according to a white house official, but spicer decided to step down instead, a move that shocked white house staffers. the president has been pushing to add scaramucci to the staff for some time, but spicer opposed the move since scaramucci isn't a washington insider. scaramucci is known as a wall street wheeler and dealer who started his career at goldman sachs. he denied any problems with spicer and chief of staff reince priebus. >> i don't have any friction with sean, i don't have any friction with reince. >> reporter: he pledged to advance his role with the advancement the white house is making that the media hasn't given any credit for. >> we talked about letting him be himself, letting him express his identity. >> before i get to the news of the day, i think i'd like to cover the news of the last 24 hours. >> reporter: sean spicer stepped up to argue the fact that the crowd was conside

huckabee sanders. sarah: i do not know if there is a typical day but it starts at 5 a.m., i get up, i try to, i only have one early riser so my three euro, i spent some time visiting with him in the morning before i leave and get to the office early enough to read through and catch up on any news that took place before i went to bed and then we start with a series of staff meetings around 7:15 a.m., talking about the news of the day, prepping for what we want the message of the day to look like and responding to any stories that may be coming up. from there, every day is a little different than the one before which is one of the reasons i love what we do. no two days are alike and every day presents new challenges and gives us a new way to be part of the administration. >> you get home when? sarah: it varies but anywhere between 7 p.m. to 10 clock p.m. at night. sean you take on this job, spicer made some changes, how do you approach the job of deputy press secretary, how do you approach relations with the media in general? sarah: the way i approach it is the way ido that would any other

undermine the president and delegitimize his election. >> harris: that was sarah huckabee sanders from yesterday, before donald trump junior release that email chain on his meeting with that russian attorney today and now we are waiting for today's press briefing will their's will be a very front and center issue no doubt. kevin corke is live outside the white house. >> never a dull moment around here. how many times we said this? let them make sure the folks at home understand. the press briefing will be off-camera which means it is essentially a gaggle. what that means for you and me as we will hear sarah huckabee sanders on audio after the conclusion of the briefing itself. it's scheduled for 2:00, but we're probably looking at getting underway closer to 2:30. again, all of that is yet to come. i think the white house has a couple of problems here. most notably, how do you deconstruct the emails and compare and contrast that with the previous statements made not just by sarah huckabee sanders and donald trump himself, but also other campaign surrogates, this idea of not having conve

be sarah huckabee sanders stepping into the role. how soon anthony scaramucci decides to step up to the plate. plenty more to come talking about washington the next week ahead, from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ julia: this is "bloomberg markets: the trump economy." i'm julia chatterley. kevin: i'm kevin cirilli. ofare showing you live shots the press briefing room. julia: we will get a briefing from sarah huckabee sanders, who has a new boss. kevin: sean spicer is out, wall street known person around town anthony scaramucci is in. how he meshes with the inside the beltway crowd will be fascinating. donald trumpia: himself. we will be talking more about that, but we start more with headlines with emma chandra. emma: the russian lawyer who met donald trump junior during the 20 campaign has represented a military unit operated by russia's intelligence agency. that's according to court filings obtained by the associated press. president trump's eldest son, son-in-law, and campaign manager met with her in june 2016, after trump jr. was told she could provide potentially incriminating

announced as the deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders will replace him. brent: let's bring in our correspondent. what a day. do we know the back story here, why mr. spicer said it is time for me to go? correspondent: it seems it is directly connected with the announcement that anthony scaramucci, this is new york lawyer would be stepping in as communications director. the stories around washington are saying chavez admires -- trump admires anthony scaramucci and wanted to bring him in before this but he was blocked by his chief of staff reince priebus who does not like anthony scaramucci. stephen bannon also does not like anthony scaramucci and the problem is he is coming into this communication director role and spicer was being called back from his press secretary role. the cameras had been turned off from the daily briefings welfare huckabee sanders was doing those -- while sarah huckabee sanders was doing those. it seems he resigns just minutes after this announcement was made. brent: anthony scaramucci against the house of bannon. what do we know about this communicati

get his new team in there. so you can see sarah huckabee sanders behind scaramucci there. when he came out to meet the press late that friday afternoon. we expect she stay on as the press secretary. will sean spicer stay on. that's the questions of the hour. shep? >> shepard: we just got a statement from the new communications director, sarah huckabee sanders and i'll read that for you. from the press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders. she writes, "anthony scaramucci will be leaving his role as white house communications director. mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give the chief of staff, john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. we wish him all the best." so they sent him to the wishing well. his own people, his own supporters, the president's own supporters -- there's general kelly there as we wait for this medal of honor ceremony. it's his own supporters none other than the editorial board of the "wall street journal" saying this isn't a communications problem, this is a presidential problem. are they addressing that at all, john? >> the only thing we've

joking matter. >> that was sarah huckabee sanders giving the white house press briefing, the first such briefing since the latest massive shake-up, the shake-up of the shake-up, if you will. sarah huckabee sanders commenting on the sudden departure of former white house communications director anthony scaramucci says president trump found scare huamucscaramucci's that foul-mouthed interview inappropriate. she wouldn't go into what was inappropriate about it. president trump is known to employ salty language time and again. here in the studios with me, kaitlyn collins. zeleny, let me go to you first. more on the major exit in the west wing. correct me if i'm wrong, wasn't sh she saying last week after that new yorker interview came out that essentially it wasn't any big deal at all? >> she was, jake, and that shows you what's changed, and the one thing that's changed is the man who has the office in the corner of the west wing, john kelly, the new chief of staff. that is the thing that led to anthony scaramucci's dismissal from the white house. but jake, i think -- i was struck by t

be faithfully executed. impeded justice during a federal investigation. here is how sarah huckabee sanders responded to those claims.

house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, we've got jeff zeleny in the room and where to begin. i understand that jeff sessions was actually at the white house when the president tweeted against him. >> reporter: good afternoon, brooke. he was indeed. it's not uncommon for the attorney general to be here at the white house. he has routine meetings in the situation room and other places so he was here again today around 9:00 or so, simply going about his business. he was having meetings with officials, other members of the cabinet as well. what was unusual, that he still has not spoken with the president. the president is still not requested a meeting, you know, he's simply has chosen to talk at him, talk about him, but not to him. so that pattern continuesd this morning at the west wing and all indications that we are getting from people who are close to the attorney general that he is simply keeping his head down and simply staying on the job. simply doing the things that he believes in this agenda. he believes in this, from immigration to other matters, and he simply is trying t

thing. the path wanted sean to stay. the first mother ever sarah huckabee sanders will take the podium and be our press secretary. i find that particularly gratifying, she is a republican and it's a great perspective. anthony is a self-made businessman. and a true american success story. people are misleading this that this is to get somebody to defend the president. we are going to get out there and play offense. sean spicer had a great communications mind when it came to pulling out of paris accords and tax reform and made in america week. he had a good way of marshaling the resources to make sure the president's message is breaking through. but we need more of that. this media decided to be hostile and every chance it gets. a great follow very quickly. people are asked which of the following is most of important to you. healthcare got 35%. russia, 6% most of important. got 75% of the coverage. so this white house with anthony scaramucci's help, we are going to force the message through so that people stop talking about the nonsense and the garbage that doesn't create a single job or

at 8 p.m. tonight on c-span, portion.a >> so walk us through a typical day for sarah huckabee sanders. don't know if there is a typical day, usually starts retty early, around 5 a.m., i get up, i try to see at least, i ave one early riser, so hoff, my three year old, i spend time visiting with him in the morning before i leave. to the office early enough to try to read through any news that took place before i went to bed and then we start with a series meetings around 7:15, talking about the news of the what we want for the message of the day to look like and responding to any coming up t may be and, you know, from there, everyday is a little different which is ne before, one reason i love what we do is alike and days are everyday presents new challenges and gives us a new way to be administration. >> you get home when? > it varies, but usually anywhere between it could be 7:00 to 10:00 at night. take on this job, sean spicer has made a do you hanges, how approach relations with the media in general? > the same way relations with media the way i approach it, try to do that the same way i wo

comments from the president through his spokesperson, sarah huckabee sanders. quote, myon is a high-quality

washington, any minute now sarah huckabee sanders will hold a briefing and the cameras are l be on. no shortage of questions as the president continues to tear down jeff sessions. where does he stand on his attorney general, what was behind his surprise twitter announcement, and how does he feel about the efforts to repeal and replace obama care? mitch mcconnell and republicans failed to pass a repeal and replace vote. expected to vote and fail on a repeal only next hour. that brings us to our world of the day which is "fail." >> one health care vote in about two hours is expected to fate, another later this afternoon, also expected to fail. after that, who knows as the g.o.p. looks to avoid a final fail on their bill form. >> repeal and replace failed on tuesday night. >> the vote is going to fail. >> the system that many folks i serve with create and it is failing. >> we know that moving beyond the failures of obama care is the right thing to do. >> here with me, kristen welker? the briefing room at capitol hill, also with us today. usa today senior political repo reporter associ

know he was on the record. let's take a look at sarah huckabee sanders as she begins her briefing today. let's watch. >> -- to discuss the response to the maduro regime recent antidemocratic actions. they will take opening questions on the topic at hand and then your final time of day i'll come back up and take your questions. thank you. >> hi. good afternoon, everyone. i thought it was best to read the president's statement. since president trump's inauguration the trump administration has called on venezuela's maduro regime to respect venezuela's constitution, respect the role and authorities of the constitutionally established national assembly. hold free and fair elections. address the humanitarian needs of the venezuelan people. release political prisoners and stop depressing the great people. the regime has refused to heed this call and its recent actions culminating in yesterday's outrageous seizure of absolute power through the sham election of the national constituency assembly represent a very serious blow to democracy in our hemisphere. maduro is not just a bad leader.

. sarah huckabee sanders today did say kelly would be the person at the top here just underneath the president. all staff will report to him, but also scaramucci's comments may have had something to do with his departure. here's what she had to say. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position, and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. as i think we've made clear a few times over the course of the last couple of days to several of you individually, but general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to him. >> now, we should point out during the briefing that just wrapped up within the last hour, wolf, sarah huckabee sanders was asked how was it the president could be offended by that kind of inappropriate language coming from anthony scaramucci when he certainly has engaged in that himself? as a matter of fact, it was the president's language as a candidate during the campaign that almost derailed his candidacy when he was caught on tape sa

-- this was in the area known as upper press -- the office of the press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, a few others as well, by the oval. they said, hey, go down to lower press. we'll deal with you folks there, essentially. so we made the, i don't know, 30-foot walk down to lower press, and right now that is where a bunch of us and some of our producers as i came out to the camera are huddled, basically awaiting official word from the white house as to what is going on with the communiqueses department. official -- communications department. official word. but as it appears at this moment, anthony scare knew is in as the new communications director. they're reporting, multiple outlets at this hour, that sean spicer has resigned. and this would lead to a massive shake-up of the communications department when the white house officially announces this. i should note that every single day or every evening when the white house puts out its schedule, they've gone into this pattern over the last few weeks of saying, hey, we're going to update you in the morning as to whether or not there will b

, including health care. >>> sarah huckabee sanders did allude to the event at the white house any minute. the president will be addressing the american legion boys and girls nation, so before the president speaks and before we take that live, i wanted to make sure that we get to health care just a short time from now. the senate is expected to begin

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 transplanting an organ into that. the body's going to want to reject it. i don't know scaramucci well. i've met him a couple of times. he has a great conference investment group and paid me, smart enough to pay know give a

minutes. i'm guessing that this will be one of the first questions that gets asked of sarah huckabee sanders. but in the meantime, let me bring in ambassador chris hill. he is an nbc and former ambassador to iraq, south korea, poland and macedonia. karen, let me start with you. you wrote up the piece on this meeting. reports were calling this a secret dinner. in fact, that's not the case. i didn't hear anybody in the media say that this was a secret dinner. what are the facts here? >> well, this was a dinner at the end of the day's meetings, at the end of the two-day summit. actually, in the middle of the two-day summit, sorry. and it was leaders and spouses only. they were allowed to bring one interpreter, and people were seated next to spouses or leaders and generally brought an interpreter who knew the language of the person they were sitting next to. president trump, for example, was sitting next to the wife of the japanese prime minister. people -- i think the white house is entirely correct. people, as they do at any sort of private dinner like that, circulate around, talk to each other in

briefing, very often, in fact, deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders front and center. sean spice hear taken that step back at least in the public eye and we know president trump continually expressed displeasure with the communications team, with sean spicer as well. but we do know this resignation taking effect just a few minutes ago. he has resigned as press secretary here at the white house and, again, it's interesting to note that this resignation coming really minutes after the white house has named and asked anthony scaramucci to be communications director and we understand, of course, there could be a rift between sean spicer and scaramucci, that chief of staff reince priebus was not pleadsed with the possible appointment of scaramucci as white house communications director. really, a seismic shift for this white house at a time when they've come under siege with this russia investigation. so today coming out of the white house press secretary sean spicer resigning. he will no longer be a at that podium he's become so famous for being behind. john? >> jessica snyder,

something that sarah huckabee sanders will underscore. what does this mean for reince priebus. reince priebus was not supportive of this decision to bring anthony scaramucci on board, but now the public messaging is that he is 100% behind anthony scaramucci. we are waiting to hear from sarah huckabee sanders, this just one of a number of headlines that we were tracking heading into the day. >> so often we hear the public messages greatly differ from what we're hearing from private. >> jonathan, i was talking to sources yesterday and today and they said that sean spicer was telling people last night he would resign if anthony scaramucci was hired as a communications director. that he didn't believe scaramucci had the experience to do the job. that he didn't understand what the job entailed. ultimately the white house and the family and donald trump just were not happy with how the communications team was running things. they felt like they didn't have the appropriate push back. they were not defending the president the way they would have liked them to given all of the escalating scand

on health care and ignore the timetable. when sarah huckabee sanders was briefing just moments ago and talking about this, given numerous chances to answer this question on whether or not they blamed republicans. and she decided not to take the bait. they're putting the blame squarely on democrats and the whole theory, ali, is that they want to say that once health care is even more broken. once more insurance markets collapse, then they think the system will be so broken that democrats, therefore, have to come to the negotiating table. and this will then be a truly bipartisan process. but this is predicated on this strategy. let's be clear about this. predicated on americans losing access to health insurance on markets collapsing in individual states on things getting much worse before they get better. not having any sort of preventive care but going and making sure that this is almost accelerated the decline of it and then they think they could potentially start the policy process. we heard that from the president and we just heard it from sarah huckabee sanders. ali, i apologize

deputy press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders comes to the podium and takes these questions about these don trump jr. e-mails. the president on down have denied repeatedly that there were any contacts between the president, his team, his associates, and russians during the course of the campaign, all of that now goes by the wayside and even the president's defenders who have described this as a nothing burger would probably have to acknowledge that this is a something burger and even to the president's adversaries, this is starting to look like a steak dinner with all the trimmings. but in the meantime, what we don't have at this point, and typically a white house will wait until the briefing to deliver this kind of statement, what we don't have is any kind of reaction at this point to these e-mails. the white house has not responded to our requests for any kind of statement or response. i did talk to a white house official in the last half hour or so who said, we'll have some response to this during the briefing, although we should caution our viewers, not only is this briefing o

of briefing, not a lot of new information, sarah huckabee sanders repeatedly saying, i'm not going to get into the back and forth, i have nothing now add, i stand by the comments i made yesterday, not going to get into the details. this all after the bombshell development in the investigation and whether the trump campaign colluded with the russians. donald trump jr. has released an e-mail chain detailing the plan for a secret meeting he had with a russian lawyer last summer during the campaign, a meeting that was clearly set up with the intent of getting incriminating evidence against hillary clinton from the russians, a meeting that we're told the fbi did not know about until now. the first e-mail from rob goldstone, who's a confidant of the trump family, sent june 3, 2016, reads, in part, "the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. this is obviously very hi

want to get you right here. we just heard new reaction from the white house. sarah huckabee sanders in her off camera briefing was asked about this repeatedly. let's walk through the highlights. >> reporter: well, that was the highing -- hiring of alan futerfas, working on behalf of donald trump jr. he's a 25 year veteran of criminal defense cases whose expert east is in ethics investigations. that's the breaking news within the last minutes and specific to your questions about sarah huckabee sanders the deputy press secretary is speaking off camera a short time ago. following the defense we have heard from other white house officials. first kellyanne conway. among them today saying that donald trump jr. did nothing wrong and remains no evidence and there was no collusion between trump campaign officials and any russian operatives. here's sarah huckabee sanders in her own words a short time ago. >> don jr. took a very short meeting from which there was absolutely no follow-up. frankly, i think sometimes that may make sense just looking at the democratic national committee coordinated o

tell you that the deputy spokesperson, sarah huckabee sanders, is apparently placing blame squarely on the democrats' shoulders so there's that. but dana, let's talk about republican strategy here. still, listening to the senate majority leader, he says he wants to hold a vote, even though he doesn't have the votes. why? >> reporter: because there is so much frustration, really, exasperation, brooke. i'm just outside the capitol now. i just came down to talk to you after talking to a lot of senators, as have our colleagues in the hallway after this republican lunch which was also attended by the vice president and the white house chief of staff. the frustration is with and among themselves. they, republicans -- the republicans understand that this was, in the words of senator tim scott of south carolina to me, a golden opportunity that they are missing, a golden opportunity to reshape health care policy. not to mention, brooke, a political promise that these senators have made over and over. marco rubio said to me, i promised not once but twice on the campaign trail, running for the un

with that? it's a very odd construct. obviously sarah huckabee sanders did not want to move beyond any of the language that president trump has already said about a.g. sessions. we've learned that they did not talk at all this week. that much was clear, and that she would keep us posted if indeed they do. i also thought it was interesting that she said the president wants the attorney general to focus on his duties as attorney general. now, i would imagine jeff sessions would say, that's exactly what i've been doing and by the way, that's what i was doing when i recused myself from the russia investigation. >> right. >> was to stay focused on my duties as attorney general. and ones where i won't have a conflict of interest. it is odd to have the president have his attorney general twisting in the wind the way he is but say, i want him to focus on his job. i want him to do his job and even though i'm disappointed in him, he can do his job. this story's not over, brooke. they're going to have to, as anthony scaramucci has said, they're going to have to resolve this in some way between th

looks like. >> he started sharing the podium with sarah huckabee sanders, anthony scaramucci comes in, did you feel in any way that this was against you? did you feel push back, -- >> he wanted to add to the team more than anything. i think it was in the best interest of our communications to permit, of our press organization, to not have too many cooks in the kitchen. >> tucker: catch the rest of that interview in a little less than two hours at 10:00 p.m. eastern. meanwhile, dana perino was a white house press secretary, she is our friend over at the five, and she joins us tonight. high dana. >> how are you? >> tucker: i'm great. i'm wondering about the basic macro question, which is what the goal now? you've got anthony scaramucci as to medications director, you've got sarah huckabee sanders as press secretary, they are working together to achieve what? what is the primary goal? >> that's something i've been thinking about, because you obviously have to congratulate sarah huckabee sanders picture with the third woman to be white house press secretary. a job that immediately changes

and did not know it took place. today the president issued a statement read by sarah huckabee sanders that was audio only until after the briefing was complete. >> i have a quick statement that i'll read from the president. "my son is a high quality person, and i applaud his transparency. beyond that, i'll refer everything on this matter to don jr.'s counsel and outside counsel and i won't have anything else to say beyond that. >> multiple recorders asked several questions. sarah huckabee sanders answered none of them. donald trump jr. said he hired a new york criminal defense attorney to represent him in russian matters. the others reported to be attended at the meeting with the lawyer, paul manafort and the president's son-in-law jared kushner have not commented. in summation, the e-mail reveals the president's son agreed to meet with a russian national with the understanding that he wod reive incriminating force from the russian government about the now president and then political opponent, hillary clinton. regarding that reported information, the first son replied "if it's what you sa

, his attorney general. i spoke to him about it on friday and i don't know why sarah huckabee sanders went around on sunday saying he's okay and now she's coming back and backpedaling. here's why he's not okay with what jeff sessions is doing and has done. jeff sessions decided to step down, to recuse himself after he was named attorney general. had he told donald trump's plan -- wait a minute, that was a public hearing. that was a public event that jeff sessions shook hands with the foreign minister of russia which is certainly no grounds for recusal, however he decided to do that. had he sent to donald trump, i've been with you since day one, but i want you to know, if this russia thing gets any bigger, i'll recuse myself, he wouldn't be the attorney genera attorney general. the reason this matters is one sessions recused himself, rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general appointed special counsel. rod rosenstein was not appointed by donald trump. that paved the way for what has now become a witch hunt. >> rachel: i think i understand the president's frustration, i would be upset too,

service from my house. sarah huckabee sanders live on a camera briefing, something that's become clesing increasin in the white house. this will be the second on-camera briefing in 20 days. hall hall l hallie, through how this happened. >> reporter: we know we'll see sarah huckabee sande erers on t podium behind me. her boss is stepping down in august. in a new interview with the associated press, spicer said he wanted to give the incoming press secretary scaramucci a clean slate. scaramucci was loyal to the president in the past. he was a big face for him in the campaign, appearing all the time on public television as a surrogate for the president. he will now take a role inside the white house. let me bring you behind the scenes and some reporting how this all went down. this was not not an uncontroversial decision, although according to our sources, it was a decision made entirely by the president himself. we had been told all morning long that the chief of staff reince priebus was not happy about this, was pushing back on this. but in the last hour he told a spokesperson that he wasn

anthony scaramucci will be coming out to greet the press. sarah huckabee sanders will actually conducting the meeting but anthony scaramucci is no stranger to people who watch fox business network. as well, he took some time off to work the transition when he worked with the trump transition to try and get things up and running. he was bringing in a lot of special guest. he was bringing in a lot of members to meet the cabinet including betray to mack -- want to come back to the white house to look like he had a big job that might've been akin to the job in the administration. that didn't happen. he went into the white house and went to the bank and now he'll be right inside the west wing here, and he will be the new white house communications director. it's been a bit of a bloodbath over the last 24 hours as anthony scaramucci was brought in at the behest of the president who wanted him as his communications director. it was against the protestations of some other senior staff. it looks like now the president has made his decision and you can't argue with the king. the dust is

trying to block the appointment of an no thi as white house communications director. sarah huckabee sanders will take over in august. holding the first on camera press briefing since june. talking about reports of friction from the white house. >> he decided it would be better to go. >> sean felt like it would be best for that team to be able to start with a totally clean slate. reince and i have been friends for six years. i like the team. i love the mission that the president has. >> loyalty counts in the white house. spicer leaving after 182 days. there were clashes with reporter. there were saturday night live sketches. there were reports president trump was unhappy with his performance and then there were no more on camera briefings. >> the cameras are back. will you commit now to holding regular on camera briefings, sir? >> if she supplies hair and makeup, i will consider it. i need a lot of hair and makeup. i don't know. maybe. the answer is we may. i have to talk to the president about it. >> the staffing changes coming two hours after two bombshell reports about whether the president's

reality. >> jason. >> well, i love the pick, by the way, of sarah huckabee sanders to fill in to the press secretary spot. we've seen her handle the podium a number of times already so far and so i think she's going to do great in this position. but before the press conference started, what i was talking about, the mooch, as anthony is affectionately known, his friends call him that and even some of the detractors call him that as well but he has this calming influence. he's sufficient an affable person, someone who's able to connect with people and deliver the president's message and one of the things that really struck me throughout the press conference over and over seemed like the entire temperature in the room came way down. and what we're actually hearing and you could even see the faces of the reporters sitting in the room where folks were paying attention to the president's message and what anthony was trying to convey and i think this is a -- this is a very important point for this administration, because trump supporters firmly believe that we're doing some really great thi

sound. third day in a row. that will let us listen. we'll tell you what sarah huckabee sanders is saying as she says it. we'll have live updates when she starts and then play back the sound when it's over as i mentioned. first president trump is defending his oldest son and lashing out at the news media for its coverage with a russian lawyer. donald trump jr. told hannity he went for the meeting as a courtesy for an acquaintance. his own e-mails show "i love it" after a middleman told him a russian lawyer had information that was part of russia's effort to help candidate trump. donald trump jr. in that interview described the meeting as nothing. he said he doesn't think his sirens went up because it was all pre-russia mania. >> in retrospect, i would have done things differently, this is before the russia mania. this is before they were building it in the press. this is opposition research. they had something, maybe concrete evidence to the stories i had been hearing about, that were probably been reported for years, not just during the campaign. i wanted to hear it out. really, i

is out as a press secretary. sarah huckabee sanders is in it. and anthony scaramucci will now lead the white house communications team. spencer resigned after the president appointed scaramucci to the post. he gave his interview to sean hannity. it will air in an hour from now. 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 didn't. >> 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. i'm looking forward to watching anthony and sarah do a tremendous job. >> kimberly: a lot of nice things to say about sean spicer despite t

, thanks, neil. breaking right now, everyone. hearing from the white house any minute, sarah huckabee sanders will be having her daily press conference. all of this coming, of course, as there are possibly new leaks out of top white house staffers, incoming white house communications director anthony scaramucci suggesting the leaker, one of them, anyway, may be chief of staff, reince priebus. i'm trish regan, welcome everyone to "the intelligence report" as we wait here on press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. i want to bring in fox news contributor and former campaign manager for president reagan, ed rollins, to get his reaction to all this. wow, last night, anthony scaramucci, do we have the tweet? he tweeted basically he was going to go after the leakers. he was very angry because some of his own financial records had been disclosed. he said in light of the leak of my financial disclosure info, which is a felony, i will be contacting the fbi, the justice department, swamp. reince 45, that's reince priebus's twitter address. seems as though he was implicating reince as the leaker who possibly

briefing room. sarah huckabee sanders will go in front of the microphones at the top of the hour, we'll have live coverage of that, that's in about an hour from now. >>> and there's been no let up in the president's tirade against jeff sessions, he tweeted again just before sessions arrived at the white house. the president also tweeting he will reinstate a ban on transgender individuals serving in the united states military, and he cited medical costs and did ruppation. the natt meanwhile has delayed the next vote on a plan to repeal obamacare, scheduled for about 2 1/2 hours or so from now, we'll update the health care debate here in the united states in a live report, that's coming up this hour as well. >>> but let's start with the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions who was there at the white house when the president launched his latest attack against him. and i'll quote, why didn't a.g. sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe, a comey friend who was in charge of the clinton investigation, but got big dollars, $700,000 for his wife's run against hillary clinton and the re

and the ability to build his own team." sarah huckabee sanders --mented on the exit of the during the briefing. >> he does not have a role in the trump administration at this time. we put out a statement earlier, announcing that. i don't have much else to add. emily: we are joined by alex in washington. that was fast. what do we know about what went down? >> it was a memorable 10 days. here is what we know. either anthony scaramucci decided to resign and offered his resignation to john kelly, or john kelly asked him to his authorityng over the white house on his first day on the job. something sarah huckabee sanders said she told an money she wasn't going to talk about it anymore was that john kelly now over all authority personnel in the white house. everybody answers to him. that wasn't the case before he came on the job today. even steve bannon, jared kushner report to john kelly now. before him, they reported to the president. emily: interesting. what moved we expect john kelly to make? how will he remake the white house team in his image? >> this is the big one. sarah huckabee sa

"" some very big news out of the white house, anthony scaramucci scaramucci -- sarah huckabee sanders addressed it at the white house briefing a short time ago. >> was scaramucci fired by the president or asked to resign? >> i'm not going to get into anything beyond what i've already said. >> eric: scaramucci held the title for ten days. white house put out a statement saying they wished "scaramucci all the best." we are joined by john roberts. what's the latest? >> we did plumb the depths a little bit, a more aggressive trying than it normally does to get something out of sarah huckabee sanders. but we did. looks like the reasons for scaramucci's departure were twofold. he was outside the chain of command the way john kelly saud. he had a direct line to the president and he had made it very clear when he is hired by the president a week ago last friday that one of the things he'd asked for and received in the job was to not report to the chief of staff but directly to the president. john kelly said if i'm going to be the chief of staff, everybody reports to me. that means everybody. sarah huck