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White hous factionalized, making sure that everything is running through him. so its a sign that perhaps kelly has more authority than reince priebus did, if instead kelly asked or want this had to happen. those are my initial thoughts. >> yes to the clean slate, that was part of the white house statement, and also apparently general kelly, hi chief of staff on day one, apparently he wanted scaramucci removed, because he didnt think scaramucci was disciplined and has burned his credibility. we w...

Team. if he can do that and establish the ground rules. we have big personalities and people who have worked with and have known the president a long time including his family members. and those relationships arent going to change with or without general kelly in that position. so i think he needs to do his job in managing the white house as best he can with the parameters that will be set for him. >> shannon: there is a little frustration and friction when he took over dhs that he couldnt get s...

News, few stand out more than that expletive laced phone interview given by the new white house communications director anthony scaramucci. the reporter on the other end of that call is "the new yorker" ryan lizza. i talked with lizza about their interview that he calls the most insane hes ever had. >> the communications director of the white house who speaks for the white house called me up to ask me about sourcing for a tweet id written about who he was having dinner with. and then from there ...

Regret saying things. i think thats what he was saying with that tweet, although in the previous tweet he didnt seem to have much remorse. he just said, you know, he just joked that he used some off color language. but, you know, from a reporters perspective, the important thing is one, was it on the record, were there any ground rules, it was on the record, no ground rules that he asked me to commit to. and then, two, was it newsworthy? and if the most important communicator at the white house ...

Were burning him if you wrote on it? >> we had a conversation yesterday where we both agreed that the conversation was 100% on the record, right? now, did he want me to publish it? no. after the fact, the morning after, he was not very excited about the fact that it would be published, but the key question that you asked about being on the record, we were in agreement and we had a conversation -- in fact, that conversation was recorded as well. so there was no ambiguity about this, chris. the co...

You have way too much improvisation. we havent faced a real crisis, and i dont believe the administration has what it needs should something materialize. what i think is there should be a collective intervention in the office. the president cant afford to lose all of them. kelley would be four. he cant afford to lose all of them. that would be a crisis of confidence. they should insist on certain ground rules about how this administration is going to run itself. and the president has to stop the...

>> thats correct. these sorts of interviews are done under a variety of different circumstances. i dont know what the particular case will be here. chance there will be some kind of transcription of the interview and theyll be able to use that, meaning congress and the committee. >> why would jared as a white house official be treated differently by senate intelligence than the open hearing for don jr. and paul manafort? is that at the discretion of the committee? >> yeah. there are long held be...

>> they spoke at the end of a dinner. someone said it looked like they were off on their own and not engaging with other leaders. it wasnt off secretly, it was a casual meeting, he was sitting next to melania. the president went over to talk to vladimir putin and engaged in a conversation with him that went on for an hour. i think its a little extreme for us to somehow make this into a conspiracy that the president of the united states talked to the leader of russia at a dinner where other world...

>> this is a president who doesnt handle anything like prior presidents and air force one and talking to reporters is no exception. it does happen from time-to-time, particularly on foreign trips, the presidents come back on air force one. the ground rule is, its off the record. we push for it to be on the record. particularly with this president, since hes held so few news conferences, theres a need to push back against those things. he wanted to stay and have a conversation. the reporters in t...

Asking about russian involvement. we are told, again, through this multistep process, that vladimir putin denied, as he has in the past, any direct involvement with such cyber intrusion into our 2016 election. the two leaders, according to this, agreed this is a substantial hindrance. im going to presume that means in the u.s.-russian relationship. they agreed to exchange further work and commitments of noninterference. thats critically important, because there are many in the u.s. who say 2018 ...