Truly the most prized thing to have come out of our country have been the brave men and women who have risked their lives protecting the freedom of americans and our allies around the globe. Just a few minutes ago at 2 00 the president signed an executive order that will ensure the men and women of the greatest military in the world lives protecting the freedom of americans and our allies around have the ships, aircraft, vehicles, and other supplies they will need to keep us safe in the years ahead. This order commissions the first ever whole government assessment of Americas Industrial base, marking the First Time Since have the ships, aircraft, president eisenhower that an american president is investing personal attention into the health of the United StatesDefense Industrial base. President trump is committed to maintaining the secure supply chain and robust work force that will support our nations heroes for decades to come. Next week well be heighting american heroes like world war ii veterans, First Responders who keep our communities safe every day, and the boys and girls who will grow up to be the next generation of american leaders. Responders of the our communities safe everyday and and boys and girls who grew up to be the next generation of american leaders. While i am on the topic of the men and women who protect us, i want to note that the the president commended the house yesterday for voting to reauthorize the department of Homeland Security for the first time. The Homeland Security authorization act authorizes u. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the first time. Secretary kelly has made tremendous progress in fulfilling the president s promise to end illegal immigration and fully enforce the laws of the United States and this bill reflects the president s strong commitment to ensuring that progress continues. Also on the hill, Senate Republicans this week continue to work toward our shared goal of saving the American People from the disaster of obamacare. Earlier this afternoon, Vice President pence and secretary of health and Human Services dr. Tom price hosted representatives from several grassroots organizations calling on the senate to take action on health care legislation. As the president has said, in action is simply not an option. These groups want lawmakers to know that their members want them to follow through on their promise to the American People. Finally, i would like to read a statement from the im grateful for seans work on behalf of my administration and the American People. I wish him continued success as he moves on to pursue new opportunities. Just look at his Great Television ratings. Sean will continue to serve the administration through august. And the president has also appointed Anthony Scaramucci as Communications Director, and i have a statement on anthonys appointment as well. Anthony is a person i have Great Respect for. And he will be an important addition to this administration. Hes been a great supporter and will now help implement key aspects of our agenda while leading the communications team. We have accomplished so much, and we are being given credit for so little. The good news is the people get it even if the media doesnt. And id like to bring anthony up to say a few words and take a few questions and, as always, ill be back after that to answer any followup questions. Mr. Scaramucci thank you very much. So i am going to the very brief and make my remarks informal and then i will take questions from everybody. First off id like to announce formally that Sarah Huckabee sanders is going to be the press oh, you cant hear me . Sorry. Better . Sarah Huckabee Sanders is going to be the press secretary. And so you can congratulate her after the session. Still cant hear me . No sound . Ok. Better . Better now . Better . I am going to start over. You guys heard me in the front, right . What did i say, john . Sarah is going to be the press secretary. Right . So congratulations. [applause] scaramucci and, so, i want to say a couple things. I want to thank personally sean spicer not only on behalf of myself, the president , the administration, but sean is a true american patriot. Hes a military serviceman. Hes got a great family. And hes done an amazing job. This is obviously a difficult situation to be in, and i applaud his efforts here, and i love the guy, and i wish him well. And i hope he goes on to make a tremendous amount of money. As it relates to me in this position, im going to spend a couple weeks getting to know the people here. And im going to be as coordinated as i can with the people inside the west wing. Theres been some speculation in the press about me and reince, so i just want to talk about that real quickly. Reince and i have been personal friends for six years. We are a little bit like brothers where we rough each other up once in a while, which is totally normal for brothers. There is a lot of people in here have brothers so you get that. He is a friend. He brought me into the political system. He brought me into the Republican National committee network. He introduced me to governor walker. We have spent many times together socially. A lot of people are not aware of this, but after the Romney Campaign, i invited reince into skybridge. I think it reflects poorly on reince that he did not take my offer and come in to be our chief operating officer. But i say that in jest, obviously. So what i want you guys to know, he was my first call this morning, i met with him before we sat in the oval office and we are committed as True Professionals to the team and the process of getting the administrations message out. I think that is going to be one of the big goals for us. I said during the transition, ill say it up here. I think theres been at times a disconnect between the way we see the president and how much we love the president , and the way some of you, perhaps, see the president. I certainly say the American People probably see the president the way i do, but we want to get that message out there, and to use a wall street expression there might be an arbitrage spread between how well we are doing and how well some of you guys think were doing, and were going to work hard to close that spread. Im done. Ill take the questions. I will get to as many people as i can. Number one, what we have seen from this administration so far is the president being his own messenger very frequently. And that has caused, you know, some trouble for the communications staff. How do you expect to get this white house back on track . Mr. Scaramucci i am going to take slight issue with the question. The white house is on track and i think were doing a really good job. I actually do from an interesting perspective. I have a whole list of things. I did not want to come out with a whole list of our accomplishments, and for marshall right now advertisement informercial right now. I really just wanted to talk about Personnel Movement and how were thinking about things. I think were doing an amazing job. The president , himself, is always going to be the president. I was in the oval office with him earlier today. We were talking about letting him be himself, letting him express his full identity. I think he has some of the best political instincts in the world and perhaps in history when you think about it. He started his political ascent two years and two months ago and he has done a phenomenal job for the American People. People i grew up with, they so identify with the president , and they love him. And so we are going to get that message out. My second question mr. Scaramucci we will get to everybody, dont worry. A little bit about how you plan to handle any potential conflict of interest and how was the offer made to you . Was it by was it extended when you were here . Mr. Scaramucci i dont think it is fair to the president to go into the exact conversation because i want to keep those conversations between me and him private, but we talked a little bit about the white house. We talked a little bit about our personal relationship. And then when he extended the offer to me, i said ill do it because i want to serve the president. I have a lot of family members that have served the american military. Unfortunately my generation, born in 1954, i did not serve. I filled out the selective service. That is one of the regrets for my life, so this is an opportunity for me to serve the country. I love the president. I obviously love the country. Look at my Life Experience here in the country. It is an honor to be here, it is an honor to stand here. My personal so i have worked with the office of governmental ethics to take care of all of my business conflicts. My start date is in a couple weeks so there is a 100 totally cleansed and clean, and i dont see an issue with it. The Government Ethics Office doesnt nor does the white House Counsel. Something i want to say about this, though. When you are bringing American Business people into the administration that have had some level of success in society , they have to unencumber themselves. It is just a very interesting thing. And it is somewhat ironic. You want to go serve the country and so the first thing you have to do is take on this mega opportunity cost by getting rid of all of your assets. But im willing to do that because i love the country. John. I am going to get to everybody. Anthony, youve been watching this white house somewhat from outside and im sure you have , your own perspective on what youve seen. Mr. Scaramucci not quite as much as you. What is the first thing youre going to change to try to right this ship and put it on course . Mr. Scaramucci again, i take issue with that. I think the ship is going to go the ship is going in the right direction. I think weve got to just radio signal the direction very, very clearly. I like the team. Let me rephrase that. I love the team. And so im an incrementalist. Most entrepreneurs youll find are incrementalists. To Say Something overly bold or overly dramatic is unfair. What good entrepreneurs do is they start the day, and they go through the process. The navy seals would tell you if you want to eat an elephant, you got to eat it one elephant at a time. Sarah and i are going to do that together. Anthony, did you have any hesitation taking this job knowing it might cause some friction in that it might lead to sean leaving, which is whats going to happen, and the two are at least somewhat coincidental . And did you have any hesitation about how you would relate to the rest of the white house staff if you came in under those circumstances . Mr. Scaramucci ok, well listen. Im a business person, and so what happens in business a lot of the times is you have some rotation in personnel. As youre making changes, and you have lifestyle choices that people are also making. I would love to have sean here. Decided that he thought it would be better that the go. He go. And for me, as it relates to sean it speaks volumes to who he is as a human being and a team player. His attitude is if anthony is coming in, let me clear the slate for anthony. I do appreciate that about sean and i love him for it, but i dont have any friction with sean, i dont have any friction with reince. This is the white house of the United States of america. Were serving the president. And i want to make sure our cultural template is that we put the president s agenda first, which is perfect for the American People. And we serve his interest. So if we have a little friction inside the white house as a result of that, its ok. We can live with that. Im a business person, and im used to dealing with friction. During the transition, was it disappointing that you did not land a post here from the getgo . Mr. Scaramucci again, i would say as an entrepreneur you have to be accustomed to setbacks. Ive had a series of setbacks in my life, which i have written about. I wrote a best selling book. If you dont believe me, you can come into my basement, and ill show you every copy. I am very honest about mistakes that i have made and setbacks ive had. Was i disappointed . Yes. I said that candidly that i was disappointed. But i love the president , and im very, very loyal to the president. I love the mission that the president has. Ok since the early days of the , campaign, when i went to these rallies, and i saw the love that the people had for the president , and a lot of i grew up in the middle class. And so there is a struggle out there. The president saw that before i did. I wish i could tell you i saw that before him, but he said that to me. I feel that struggle and i have empathy for that, and i want to make it better for the American People. I am going to try to get to everybody. I promise you. Sean believed that he and others felt that the president needed a clean slate. How does that go with a white house in the right direction, and secondly how badly does the president need a win on health care . Mr. Scaramucci ok, so here is the one problem with the way our society is working. Right now we are micromanaging the seconds of the new cycle. I predicted the president will get a win in health care. That is my honest prediction just because i have seen him in operation over the last 20 plus years. The president has really good karma. Ok . And the world turns back to him. He is genuinely a wonderful human being, and i think as members of congress get to know him and get comfortable with him, theyll let him lead them to the right thing for the American People. Well get health care done, and i think well get tax reform done. Whatever else is on the president s agenda, well work very studiously to make it happen. John. The cameras are back. Will you commit now to holding regular on camera briefings . Mr. Scaramucci if she supplies hair and makeup, ill consider it. I need a lot of hair and makeup, john. I dont know, maybe. Not at all. This is the press secretary. Im up here today only because i think its the first day we made a mutual decision that it would make sense for me to come up here and try to answer as many questions as possible. The answer is, we may. I have to talk to the president about it. I like consulting with the president before i make decisions like this. Keep it going, john. I know you have been one of the president s strongest supporters for a while now. But does he know what you said about him in 2015 when you said he was a hack politician . Mr. Scaramucci he brings it up every 15 seconds. One of the biggest mistakes i made because i was an inexperienced person and i was supporting another candidate. He should have never said that about him. Mr. President , if youre listening, i personally apologize for the 50th time for saying that. Here is the wonderful thing about the news media that was three minutes of my life, he has never forgotten it, you have never forgotten it. But you know, i hope that some day, mr. President , you will forget it. Lets go to the next question. There has been a question about credibility, things that have been said in this room. Let me ask you a variation of what i asked sean spicer on his first day. Is that your commitment to the best of your ability to give Accurate Information from that podium . Mr. Scaramucci i almost feel i dont have to answer that question. You can tell from me and my body language that is the kind of person i am. You mentioned your relationship with reince. Was he involved in offering you this position . Was he consulted by the president ahead of time . Mr. Scaramucci yes, he was consulted. He was involved in the thing. There was a lot of speculation about the timing and forth. What i am here to tell you is we are a team. Reporter job was offered . Mr. Scaramucci some of this stuff, it is unnecessary to go into the granular detail. Because then it is almost like the book the circle, you have a Police Camera on you when you are having conversations. I dont think its fair to the president. Heres what i would tell you. Im a team player. Ive played team sports my whole life, at least as a kid. And i believe you have to subordinate yourself to the greater good of the team. And if teammates dont have disagreements about certain things, then they are not going to get the championship. You have got to get together and mix it up a little bit from time to time. I have no problem mixing up with these guys. I love these guys, i respect to respect these guys. Is it perfect everything ok . Tell me whose life is perfect every single day . Heres the commitment im you, and to the people and to the president , im here to serve him in the west wing. Then to regular televised briefings and having a transparent relationship with the press . Mr. Scaramucci again, i am obviously committed to being transparent as i am standing here, but i would like to talk it over with the president. We have a new press secretary , i would like to talk it over with her. We will get back to you on it. Listen im standing right here , and ill im trying to answer every question. Sarah go ahead. , reporter the president has been feeling under siege with investigation both with the department of justice and also on the hill. Do you feel he was being exposed and that he did not have people coming to his defense . Is that part of the reason we have you here . Mr. Scaramucci i dont think so. Not at all. So one of the things im doing today is i sort of have my white House Counsel briefing before i am having the press briefing. I want to limit my remarks related to the russian situation and things like that. Here is what i will tell you about the president. He is the most competitive