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Donald trump felt with the rnc folks, and co kaitlans point, loyalty. >> and leaking. scaramucci accused him of being a leaker. >> i think when you are the chief of staff and you cant hire your own communications director, thats basically the president saying, i dont have a whole lot of faith in you. he fought this guy -- >> there are a whole bunch of others on the white house staff who report directly to the president, not the white house chief of staff. >> toipt mai want to make a poi that. we...

West virginia. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> gloria, it is rather extraordinary. weve seen resignation now after resignation. sean spicer, the press secretary, resigned earlier in the week, his close friend and ally in the white house reince priebus now gone. >> right. i think in a way the reince priebus departure is not a surprise, although we did get pushback on it today, but we had heard -- >> when you say pushback, a lot of our viewers dont understand that. are these peo...

Staying in long island right now, or if youre back here in washington, congressman king. were you informed that reince priebus was about to go? >> we actually flew up with scaramucci and reince priebus were sitting at the table all the way up. nobody said anything. i stayed on the plane coming back afterwards. anthony stayed in new york and we were on the plane with reince the whole time. when the flight was over, reince said, all of us said good-bye. no one knew anything was up. the president w...

Reince was at the table, anthony was sort of near the end -- on the other side, and there was nothing, you know, no hostility. there was no hugging and kissing, but everything seemed fine. if you didnt know something was going on, you wouldnt have sensed anything. i give reince credit. he didnt tip his hand at all, on the way up or back down. >> did they exchange any words, scaramucci and reince priebus? >> i didnt see -- i certainly didnt see any hostility. >> you spoke yesterday, congressman k...

President was not well served by reince priebus for whatever reason, even though you would argue that perhaps their politics might be closer to reince priebus. there was a sense that he wasnt as organized as he should be as chief of staff, et cetera, et cetera. these are their complaints, so you see this playing out. now, i think this started way before health care failed. clearly it might have been, you know, the final straw, but nobody blamed him. i was told for mccains vote, there was nothing...

Everything else. also, to be honest with you, i was working on this -- i was going to introduce the president. anthony was working on what he was doing. reince was on the phone quite a bit. so, generally air force one planes are not a place where you get too social, especially when youre on the way to an event. everyone was getting ready for it. its only a 45-minute flight up. its not like going across the ocean. >> what was the presidents mood? >> he was up bet on the way up, he was up beat dur...

Before who have tried that, it was a disaster. so the big question for kelly here who is coming from the military, knows about the chain of command, did he get president trump promise him that he can hire and fire anyone he wants and that every single person reports him no matter what he previously promised? >> i think the answer is no, but go ahead. >> if he didnt, he set himself up to fail. >> if he got that promise, everything we know about donald trump is donald trump is constitutionally inc...

Surprise election of donald trump last november, and when reince priebus, the chairman of the republican national committee, suddenly became the chief of staff. it was never mr. trumps first choice, necessarily, but he thought it would be sort of the way to grease the skids here in washington with a legislative process. of course, he had a very good relationship with speaker paul ryan. that never really materialized, and it became clear as the weeks and months wore on that reince priebus didnt h...

This is scaramucci. he didnt get the hint that i was reporting directly to the president, because normally a communications director at the white house reports to the white house chief of staff. >> exactly. so scaramucci was basically telegraphing in that interview that reince is out. he didnt get the hint and now we have to do it the hard way. i know people close to reince said he resigned, but scaramucci on the record saying hes going to be gone soon. how could these two guys work together? i ...

Him honestly. >> the interviewed, extraordinary interview you did with anthony scaramucci in which he really levelled these charges against reince priebus accusing him of leaking saying he was going to go to the fbi, maybe had already gone to the fbi and digital proof of the leaks. thats pretty extraordinary. >> i guess you have to give the communications director some credit for being transparent. he said reince was on his way out and it is true, 24 hours later reince is gone. its a classic tru...