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You have to consider a change at the top. anthony scaramucci who served for 11 days as communications director for the white house and defended the president relentlessly on tv since then tells us that the president is giving people a license to hate and that anthony scaramucci lo nonger backs the president for re-election. >> he calls him out and says he will no longer support. here are highlights. >> last time i was in this chair with you, john, we were talking about the racially charged rheto...

Collar president." thank you so much for being with us this morning. with this axios interview, you compared the president to chernobyl. something of a nuclear meltdown. then you went on to say a couple more weeks like this and country over party is going to require the republicans to replace the top of the ticket in 2020. a couple more weeks like this, you say. a couple more weeks like what? >> well, the last time i was in this chair with you, john, we were talking about the racially charged rh...

Inner circle. i think things change when they become public. we havent seen that yet. >> he seems to think someone is going to come forward and say something. i have to say, im with you, its suspect. i dont see it happening at this point. >> let me read you what he says. he said this in the interview but after the interview he went on twitter to emphasize again to those asking what took so long, "youre right. i try to see best in donald trump based on personal interactions and policy line but hi...

>> why not avoid it? why fall into the same -- >> how can you avoid people making up lice about you? >> what i said earlier, dont talk about white supremacists and antifa at the same time. two shootings on the same weekend. >> i want to play sound for you and you can make your point. one last point is the president made the decision not to allow to hospitals, patients privacy but cell phone video surfaced of one of the trips and they got a lot of play on news channels from cnn. >> this other vid...

Whether the president has the will to get that passed federally? >> theres no question well need the president to stick to his promises. i hope he isnt going to backtrack on background checks as he has in the past. hopefully this time he means it. its going to take that kind of support from washington to move the party, to keep the nra from stepping in and dominating the conversation. lets hope he stays where hes at. >> you said you hoped that the president would be moved when he came to dayton ...

Two different cities, this was a huge crisis and a lot of his advisers will privately admit this was a commander in chief moment that he did not need in realtime. >> in fact, to your point, he ultimately made it a fumble of his own making. im wondering what youre hearing about what are people in the white house actually saying about, you know, the rock star tweet and the president talking about beto orourke and his crowd sizes and -- >> he has -- the president, most of his aides will say the sam...

Its i would say unbelievable, but its completely believable and its completely pathetic. >> yeah, well, people are who they are, anderson. we know who donald trump is. hes a very narcissistic person. he is very much consumed about how people think of him and, you know, we know from history that things like crowd sizes are important to him. i remember at the time of that el paso rally of his that he seemed a little bit rattled that there was this competing rally that might have been even larger t...

Before, the presidents didnt go to natural disasters. 2,000 people die in the johnstown national flood and the president didnt go. now all of the local areas have become nationalized. we watch them in realtime, you need that president to go and console and to reassure about action. you know when i think of fdrs first inaugural or lincolns second, there were times of real sadness that we needed consolation, but they assured us they would act and thats the big thing thats left out, what are we goi...

This baby will be growing up without either of his parents because his mother and father died shielding him from the gunfire in el paso. the baby had been discharged from the hospital. was brought back to meet the president. the family says they wanted to share their pain with the president which they have every right to do, but for the president to flash a thumbs up? >> you know, i rarely get angry, brooke. im not even going to look at the photo. i get so angry. because this is a man who utterl...

Was to me, that was the most egregious thing, was that video that they -- i was like who signed off on that? why would they ever put something -- even if it was signed off on, wouldnt you say, are you sure you want to do this? go on, rick. sorry. >> don -- don, ive made a lot of political ads in my career and done a lot of things that are pretty much out there on the borderline of should we do this or not. this is one i would have said, no, bro. no. uh-uh. stop. this is a guy who would make a vi...