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Stay tuned. we ll see. brianna? all right, we will, sara murray at the white house. thank you very much. let s get more on sean spicer s thinking in all of this as he decided to step down. we have cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. you spoke with sean spicer. what did he tell you? he sounded surprisingly up beat considering what had just happened, that he resigned from a job that those of us who have known him for a while know that it was his dream job. maybe not under president trump, but to be at the white house podium. but i asked him the obvious question, which is why now and why was this the moment and this the change at the white house, or the event at the white house that finally made you say, i m out? and his answer was, i wanted to give the president and his new team a clean slate. he did say, brianna, that the president tried to get him to stay. he said, no, it s not the right time for the white house to be here for me to be here and ....
We have breaking news. we are standing by to hear if donald trump, jr. and paul manafort will appear before the senate judiciary committee. the deadline is tonight and there is a lot to discuss with our correspondents, analysts and specialists here. jeff zeleny, to you first, and then i want everyone to weigh in. let s take a look back at some of, let s call them sean spicer s greatest hits. this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe. when we use words like travel ban, that misrepresents what it is. i ve said it from the day that i got here until whatever, there is no connection. you ve got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight somehow that s a russian connection. but every single person no well, no, i appreciate your agenda here. but the reality is no, no, hold on. no, at some point report the facts. let me i am just reporting you re asking me a question ....
Tendered his resignation this morning, there simply was no job left for him. he had been essentially removed from the main job of press secretary, giving those on-camera briefings, he hadn t done one in quite sometime. he had essentially not gotten the job that he thought he was going to get, the communications director. sorlts of being a strategist heading all this up. despite his loyalty and he was loyal to this president, no question, he was not able to please him. he was not able to satisfy him. and it s the second example in this week where a loyalty is often a one-way street with this president. jeff sessions, the attorney general, saw that earlier this week as well. but at the end of the day, sean spicer was simply not able to do an effective job for this president. this is very controversial. he did not think this was going to happen. the president and a small circle of advisors of his son-in-law, his daughter, were very much supportive of anthony scaramucci coming in, but se ....
And i m going to answer, which is the president i m sorry, please stop shaking your head again. we didn t use chemical weapons in world war ii, you know. you had a someone as difficult spencer christianable as hitler who didn t even sink to using chemical weapons. sean, can i ask another question, please? sean? sean? sean? my goodness. jeff, he was through all of this, there were many moments where people wondered, might this be the end of this for sean spicer. maybe he ll resign in protest or something. but why was this the hiring of anthony scaramucci the step too far for him? brianna, that certainly was a walk down memory lane there. sitting in the front row of the briefing room during a lot of those moments. it certainly was contentious, but also at the end did not serve the president very well. but at the end of the day here, the reason that sean spicer ....
Steve bannon was not supportive of this, i m told. reince priebus was not, and certainly sean spicer was not. but i talked to several friends of sean spicer s today. they said he just saw this as a bridge too far. he did not think that this is, you know, the right answer here. but i think if you boil it down, brianna, there s been divisions between the washington set, the new york set, today the new york set won. they certainly did. in studio with me here, jacquie, jeremy and caitlyn. caitlyn, having spent the last several months at the white house and talking to your sources, are other people worried as they see sean spicer s firing, did they worry, look, this is someone who was so loyal. and even he s out of here. are those concerns? i think people definitely realize that the president is loyal to no one except maybe his family members that are in the white house and the ones that are outside, the whole don junior scandal that s happened over the last few weeks. but i definitely ....