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Winning. >> one other question. in terms of the relationship that this press operation has had with news outlets, they've made a habit of calling news outlets they don't like fake news, calling stories they don't like fake news, calling errors that were corrected, using that as an excuse to call it fake news. is that the kind of relationship you want with news outlets? >> i want to speak for myself right now because it's my first day on the job, i got to get familiar with everybody, get direction from the president but i had a personal incident with your news organization, and i thought i hand...

He's taking on this position left empty since dovekey resigned in early june and left the white house. a position sean spicer handled the last few months and we hear anthony scaramucci is the new communications director here at the white house. >> fascinating move. something may have been rumored and now confirmation of it. thanks for bringing the breaking news. bring in cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter on this. brian, talk of a shake-up in the press shop, it's been much discussed for a significant period of time. >> oh, yes. >> anthony scaramucci, he's not a -- he's become a ver...

Scaramucci because he wants comfort. he is a finance guy, he does not have background and communications strategies. he's effective on tv, but he's been brought in -- i have questions still about the white house's ability to manage communications issues. >> harris: this is harris, good to talk to you. there were some among the staff in the inner circle of the president who weren't so sure about scaramucci as as a communications director because next on the agenda is the push to overhaul the tax system and other policy issues, one of the officials said spicer objected to trump's vision for the ...

So i don't think the president views the communications and press operation the way you just described it as one of the important pieces that supports the legislative agenda. i think the president views the press operation, the communications director and the press secretary as people who fight his fights. in the very same way we now know thanks to "the new york times" interview he viewed the attorney general as someone who would protect him from incoming fire. he has laid bare that he has no understanding of the basic functions of the white house staff. and you also -- you can't take any of t...

Been critical but now are more massaging of the president's agenda or the president himself, you are going to get much more of a pass. and the reality is, there are a lot of folks outside the administration who were critical during the campaign, because they were with another team or whatever, who have been kicked to the curb. who have been loyal, dedicated republican servants. i can think of a former governor of a state. >> yeah, we all know -- >> comes to mind. >> right. >> who took the bullets that unnecessarily, in my view, but that's how they are rewarded. and that's not lost on folks and...