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Our own ryan liz sa, scaramucci absolutely unloads on his fellow white house staffering and in the r-rated -- x-rated remarks i should say, scaramucci beginning threatening the entire white house communications department and evolve into calling reince priebus a paranoid skits nchizoc and more profane words and wanteds to "kill all the leakers in the white house." and senior political reporter and cnn political director are with us, and keep a watch on air force one and the president as he depla...

Election meddling, wolf. >> and interestingly, good reporting our own mark preston the first to report that reince priebus actually offered his resignation yesterday. it was only announced by the president today. jeff zeleny, stand by. sara murray is getting a new white house statement thats just coming in. sara, what are you learning? >> reporter: well, thats right, wolf. we do have a new statement from sara huckabee sanders on the latest staffing change. im going to read you that. in the state...

About leaks, this one did not leak. they really held it very closely, wolf. >> yep, they certainly did. and now we know the result. david chalian, as we look at these developments, a lot of positive reaction coming in for the new white house chief of staff, general kelly, retired four-star marine general, homeland security secretary, is he going to be able to run the white house along the lines of a sophisticated military operation where everybody on the staff basically reports to him and he r...

>> wolf, he has had such a wild ride with trump, right, for two years, right? first when he was at the rnc and he was being pressured by a lot of establishment republicans to sort of brush back trump, do something about him, stop him. then going in for trump when he was the nominee, protecting his nomination at the republican national -- >> convention? >> convention. its been a long 24 hours. and then in that famous access hollywood moment, reince was the one guy who waive erred and suggested he...

And others are reporting, that he privately tendered his resignation last evening, it is not something that allies here at the white house or, in fact, at the rnc knew about. and it is something that this -- wolf, he told me many times that he wanted to stay in this position at least a year. he said that he wanted to serve the first year of the presidency. that, of course, didnt happen, so wolf, what this does, it makes reince priebus one of the shortest serving chiefs of staff in history. we ac...

As well. what are you learning? >> reporter: thats right, we do have a statement now from secretary kelly who of course is going to be starting here on monday as the next chief of staff. im going to read you that statement, wolf. it has i have been for the nat to have served my country for more than 45 years, first as a marine, then as a secretary of the department of homeland security. i am honored to be asked to serve as the chief of staff to the president of the united states. to the tremendo...

They just pointed to scaramuccis words. sarah huckabee sanders did. >> exactly. >> and said, he said he probably went outside of the lines there, but no -- recrimination or thats unacceptable behavior for a white house staffer. not the way colleagues should treat colleagues. >> shocking, by the way. >> theres was no retribution. >> or defense of reince priebus, whos done a fantastic job. >> and didnt hear strong vote of confidence in the attorney general at that press briefing yesterday either, ...

The aisle and get things done in a way that john mccain so eloquently and so powerfully said should be done, and then by his vote demonstrated an example of leadership and led by example just last night on the senate floor. >> senator blumenthal, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> all right. were going to -- about to interview reince priebus, his first interview since all of these dramatic developments were announced by the president about an hour and a half or so ago. in the mean...

Joint base andrews, he explained his decision to reporters who were standing just outside air force one. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a great, great american. reince priebus, a good man. thank you very much. >> reporter: so, the president there explaining his decision briefly as he arrived back at andrews. wolf, this decision was actually made as the plane was just about to lan...

Out this information. there had been speculation growing that reince priebus, the outgoing now chief of staff, was on thin ice with the president, but that certainly was up for some debate. but earlier today when the president was in long island, he mentioned in very flattering terms the homeland security secretary john kelly. he said this about him. >> i want to congratulate john kelly, who has done an incredible job of secretary of home lapped security. [ applause ] >> incredible. one of our r...