He tweeted basically he was going to go after the leakers. He was very angry because some of his own financial records had been disclosed. He said in light of the leak of my Financial Disclosure info, which is a felony, i will be contacting the fbi, the Justice Department, swamp. Reince 45, thats Reince Priebuss twitter address. Seems as though he was implicating reince as the leaker who possibly put out his financial forms and he deleted the tweet and wrote meantime, he was also on cnn, to get the viewer fully up to speed, saying reince would have to answer for these leaks to the president himself. What do you make of all this . Right now, ed, is he trying to basically get rid of the chief of staff . First of all, ive worked in three white houses. Ive worked around washington for 50 years. I cant imagine anyone doing this, my first boss, Bob Halderman or jim baker or don rumsfeld, they would have had his butt out of there in 35 seconds. Hes supposed to be developing a Communications Plan and created a gigantic controversy. I like anthony, this is about as dumb and stupid a thing as i have seen in my life. Hes created a big controversy. He has tound that Financial Disclosures are public documents, part of going into the white house. Trish the political reporter put that out there. Challenge the chief of staff at a time of critical, critical fights on the hill right today with all the chaos over sessions and what have you, is about as dumb a thing as ive seen. Trish he must have good support from the guy that matters. It does not matter. Youve created chaos in the white house, and if the president told him to do, this which i dont think the president did, thats stupid. At the end of the day, youve created another controversy. Trish but he feels like he can. Regardless whether the president told him to do it or not, to why did he do it . Who gets hurt . The president gets hurt. When you have a chaotic white house, you can take any town in america, and no town with more pr, more sophisticated people about Public Relations than washington, d. C. , every hill guy has his own person and what have you. The talk of the town is not about his effectiveness and the fact hes come on board or not about sessions, its about how could you be so stupid . Thats not a good way to start to be the Communications Director. Again, i like him, hes my friend, i wish he hasnt done. This shouldnt have gone until the 15th of august. I will say this. The president has himself entangled with one of his most loyal supporters. If he is behind this thing, it is absolutely dumb, dumb, dumb. Trish you are referring, of course, to Jeff Sessions. Jeff sessions, as the attorney general. Trish and you think that Anthony Scaramucci might be behind . No, no, saying if the president is president is behind scaramucci. Trish oh, okay, then that is dumb. As dumb as it can be, and i can promise you, the president doesnt like priebus, he should get rid of him. If he does like priebus, priebus has a job to do, at the time you are trying to get health care legislation. He knows everybody in the town, hes been the party chairman, the chief of staff of the white house, hes the guy who has to negotiate. Hes one of the best friends of the speaker of the house, and anthony coming in, you know, four days ago, has created a controversy, and the other thing is once you tweet something, you dont get on take it back. Trish he took it down, yeah. Doesnt go away, its out there. Should have learned that from the things he said about President Trump with other candidates. I hope its a learning lesson here. I get my head down and learn whats going on before us. Trish he deleted the tweet and yet went on cnn, we have the clip to share with you now this morning. Watch. When i put out a tweet, i put reinces name in the tweet, theyre all make the assumption that its him because journalists know who the leakers are. If reince wants to explain hes not a leaker, let him do that. Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter and ill go right to the heart of the matter. Trish once again, seeming to implicate Reince Priebus saying he needs to explain himself to the president. Two top guys, bannon and priebus didnt want him in the white house, they had their case proven the last three or four days, and the white house is about allies, everybody is a type a personality. There are no clear fences, everybody gets in everybodys turf and about making friends and allies. This is the worst start ive seen. Trish again, getting back to the number one friend and ally, the president is the one who wants him there. He is seen as one of the president s guys. Does that give him the free rope . Youre saying no, but unless he comes down on him for this, one can anticipate i would think more. If youre going to get more, have you more chaos, and the reality is youre going to have anthony and nobody else in the white house functioning effectively for the president. Youre at a very critical time. I go back to were trying to get legislation through, weort verge of going down on health care, weve got tax bills and everything else. Priebus is the guy whos dealt with the hill. He knows the players, knows the speaker, knows everybody else. The chairman of the party for a long time and i think its not a way to treat him. Wasnt a way to treat sessions and at the end of the day, this is going to hurt the president and hurt the president severely. Trish do you believe Reince Priebuss days could be numbered . I think they could be numbered, but its not going to be this that sends him off. He may decide he doesnt want to be there anymore. While hes there, every single day he gets up and the Staff Reports to him and he has to go up and negotiate on the hill, and if all of a sudden everybody on the hill thinks priebus doesnt have the power anymore, and anthony doesnt have the knowledge to deal on the hill, so my sense is youve created chaos when you had no business creating chaos. Trish and the Jeff Sessions issue . Is that going to be resolved . Is the president going to come around there, as he watches him go after some of the leakers and go after some of the sanctuary cities. You now see a person who is the most loyal guy to donald trump. The first senator to support him, a guy who is beloved by the senators, who will have a onevote margin. John mccain is going to be ill in the next year, probably wont be there most of the time, and basically take a senator who is a beloved senator, that is absurd. Trish breaking news we want to bring you right now on the tax plan. This all as we await secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders. I do want to take a look at market, which is up 16 points. Youve had tech stocks dragging down the major averages after touching new record highs, earlier in todays session. Moments ago, heres the news for you. Lawmakers who have been working on tax reform issued a joint statement ahead of todays press briefing. Including House Speaker paul ryan and Senate Leader mitch mcconnell. And in it they say, we are all united in the belief that the single most important action we can take to grow our economy and help the middle class get ahead is fix the broken tax code for Small Businesses and american job creators, competing at home and around the globe. So theyre stressing here their commitment to tax reform, and that they are united in this belief that we need to fix what they view as a broken tax code. Joining me as we await Sarah Huckabee sanders, republican strategist Ford Oconnell along with capri cafaro. To taxes in a minute. The story du jour is the palace intrigue which is taking us away, should i point out, Ford Oconnell, as mr. Rollins eloquently pointed out as well from the things that need to happen, i. E. , health care and tax reform right now . That is the problem, we are taking away from the important things have, to get the tax reform through. That said, my advice to the white house is simple, do not air dirty laundry in public, you undercut your own mission, to make America Great again and put americans back to work. I find this to be completely selfdefeating. Trish selfdefeating, capri, i imagine you agree with that. People are getting frustrated within conservative ranks, and frankly a lot of people that were very loyal supporters of the president. Because theyre look at his treatment of Jeff Sessions. Thats right. Trish theyre looking at, reince is an establishment guy, he may not have a lot of sympathy from the base, but sessions most certainly, is he running into interference . The president , that is, given all this drama thats going on when you have so many important things ahead, namely, health care reform. Look, one of the things i think is the biggest problem for the Trump White House right now and how they are dealing with some of their cabinet members like Jeff Sessions is that, you know, this reflects on whether or not President Trump, number one, believes in the people he put around him, and frankly, undermining his own choices. He made these choices. He chose Jeff Sessions, he chose Reince Priebus. And all of a sudden, as ford said, airing dirty laundry on front street, and i think that undermines the perception that donald trump is a strong negotiator. Let me say one thing, i think the priebus and the sessions situation are very different. I agree with that. If donald trump wants Reince Priebus out of there. He needs to say privately, tender your resignation right now. With Jeff Sessions, its a totally different ball game. Jeff sessions should have never recused himself from the russia probe. I disagree with that. Hold on. Jeff sessions is doing an excellent job, hes the essence of trumpism, which is immigration, tough on terror, which is trade, putting people back to work and protecting our borders. Which begs the question why, why would President Trump undermine his own agenda with his own attorney general that he chose simply because Jeff Sessions chose to be err on the side of caution. Good question, Jeff Sessions if he was going to recuse himself and you knew this was likely to come up because youve been banging the tomtoms. Dont say you guys. The democrats, capri. And Jeff Sessions if this had come up, should have said straight up, i have to recuse myself. He would be the secretary of department of Homeland Security and not attorney general. This is a problem. 50 of the problems that donald trump has come from a russia probe, we have no evidence of a crime and you guys are hitting us over the head and here he is with the media, and a major problem. What i believe on that, we as democrats are better served actually holding this administrations feet to the fire in regards to the things they have not done for reasons like my own in ohio. They havent taken action on nafta. Taken action on labeling china a currency manipulator. There are areas like this, they think we need to get at. Trish back to health care, which is a biggie right now. Do you think, as they consider this skinny bill, which would basically repeal the individual and employer mandate, ford, that its going to happen . And if it does, are we at risk for seeing more debilitation, if you would, still of the health care process and system in this country and do republicans get blamed for it . Look, heres the deal, action is not an option, they have to get it done, if they dont, theyre fine with the status quo which is obamacare. Yes, it has to get done because it dovetails into tax reform without question the biggest item on the agenda and has to get done. Heres the bottom line, whether its tax reform or health care. We have a bridge a divided republican caucus, and they have to overcome this and realize something is better than nothing. They have to understand that the democrats, no matter what, their hatred of trump, supercedes, i disagree with the currency manipulation trade, democrats have canceled themselves out and ready for the 2018 midterm elections. They are helping themselves if they dont focus on the areas the administration has fallen short, that mean something to main street america, like the economy, and the stock market is going well, as i said a few weeks ago on a piece for the washington examiner, a lot of times the successes of wall street are not trickling down to those on main street. I personally believe, if someone who had been in office for ten years and the minority leader of the ohio senate, my advice to the democrats on capitol hill is be adults, come to the table, have your own policy proposals that are real. Dont make it for show, try to actually work with the republicans, because the clock is ticking and you know, spinning tops about russia is only going to get you so far. And what youre saying capri is absolutely right, but that is not the course of action the Democratic Party has taken. The republicans have to be smarter to understand that. Problem is Chuck Schumer and company arent going to call out issue, and the republicans have to recognize trish all right, weve got more breaking news to bring you all right now. One of the things you heard discussed over and over was this border tax idea, that anything coming into the country would be slapped with a significant tax, which one would have to assume would then carry onto consumers, and so there were concerns about it, and this is something that was seen as possibly really holding up tax reform. We have learned that that is dead right now. Border adjustment tax, talk of that is no longer happening. They are no longer going to include that in the tax package, and so there is some sense as you watch a market thats up 25 points right now that, in fact, we are one step closer, and i say this with a little caution here, perhaps one step closer to actually seeing a tax plan that will get passed, now that we no longer have the sticking issue of the border tax provision. Guys, stay with me, i want to remind the viewers, still waiting on press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders to come out for todays briefing. She will likely face some of the questions about tax reform, including the border tax adjustment. The border adjustment tax. Health care, whether that is going to happen, whether we are going to see the senate before the skinny bill and vote on that as well as attorney general Jeff Sessions, and then as i was talking about at the top of the show with ed rollins, the palace intrigue going on between Anthony Scaramucci, and, of course, Reince Priebus, the chief of staff of the president. You know, look, Jeff Sessions, meanwhile, another thing people are caught up in and showing no signs of quitting, despite this onslaught of public attacks from the president. Today, he flew to el salvador on a mission to find ways to end brutal street Gang Violence by ms13. Also, members of the Senate Judiciary committee are working on legislation that would keep special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired, no matter who is running the Justice Department. Here to discuss all of this, we have republican senator, former republican senator jim demint, who along with former Senate Colleagues is defending sessions against trumps attacks right now. Senator, donald trump isnt too happy with him right now. Youre saying you dont like the way hes going about this. Is there anything Jeff Sessions should be doing to appease the president . I certainly understand the president s frustration. A witchhunt has been unleashed on him and his family, but on the other side of that, Jeff Sessions is probably the one in washington whos most passionate about the trump agenda, and he will run a Justice Department in a way that americans will be proud of. So i hope the president and the attorney general can work this out, it would be very bad for the country right now, for the Trump Administration, to have another distraction and Chuck Grassley has already said no one new would be confirmed for the rest of the year, so we would have a Justice Department in chaos. They need to work this out. I know the president is disappointed, but i think they can pull this back together and Work Together again. Trish let me ask you your thoughts on whats going on with the battle that has erupted between Anthony Scaramucci and chief of staff Reince Priebus . Anthony scaramucci who runs communications, newly appointed to run communications, really going on the attack on twitter, and then again on cnn, basically accusing Reince Priebus of being the leaker in the administration does. This suggest to you that Reince Priebuss days may be numbered . I dont know, its hard to te