public record a felony. wrong. and the publicly challenges the white house chief of staff. when i put out a tweet and i put reince name in a tweet they re making the assumption it s him, because journalists know who the leakers are. so if reince wants to explain he s not a leaker, let him do that. all righty, then. with us to share reporting and insights, abbey phillip of the washington post. cnn s jeff zeleny, cnn s phil mattingly and jackie call, of the los angeles times. now, if the white house shake-up brought in anthony scaramucci as communications director was designed to take public all the messy white house in-fighting that previously played out for anonymous sources, then score a smashing success. as you know from the italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. i can tell you two fish that don t stink? okay? that s me and the president. i don t like the activity going on in the white house. i don t like what they re doing
threats, like we re going to play hardball, we re going to put it all out there. how much of this messy how much does this affects president s standing in the sense, throw brack to the campaign here. president said this would get done and the president repeatedly says to the candidate, wouldn t be that hard. under senate rules, that bill can be passed with 51 votes. 51. not a big deal. especially if we hold the senate, and i think we will. meaning, a republican congress and a republican president can save americans from this disaster in a single afternoon. very simple. who knew how hard health care could be? in a single afternoon. a learning experience. first seven months. look, these things are difficult. jeff noted, understatement of the century, health care affects
another conversation about whether the republican party is typically in this kind of business of meting out deal by deal, bringing jobs company by company back to the united states, but that s what this particular president promised to do sfulfilling that promise, more of thatened a less of all the other stuff. free market conservatives saying this isn t the way you re easy intoed to do. the president campaigned he would do this. bringing drama of other things soo this. photo, end of an interview the president did with the wall street journal. the wall street journal photographer caught this photo, reince priebus, new communications director anthony scaramucci, put it up on the screen. reince priebus from wisconsin. instrumental in this deal. we talked during the break the president didn t mention his chief of staff s role in this while at the would us yesterday. something he worked really hard on with the speaker staff and folks back in wisconsin to bring about. why? i m going
forgive me for interrupting. a force to what end? out reality tv, kardashians and housewives or to govern? the president is very fixated on leaks. what anthony scaramucci knows and keeps repeating it. it s what his job is now. not to be the communications director but ferret out leaks and rule the would us by fear. and that s what he s been doing for the last five days. it has pleased the president, which is why it continues. reince priebus is in a position, as jeff mentioned, where he is kind of viewed widely in the west wing and outside of it as being on his last legs. the smartest thing for him to do might well be to stay quiet, but that s not going to stop this pressure from inside and outside to force him into a corner, and anthony scaramucci is doing that out in the open, and the only reason he would do it is because the president has condoned it, said this morning he has the president s blessing to do what he s doing. so the president himself publicly humiliates and