CAMEROTA: Because we actually have Anthony Scaramucci on the phone. CUOMO: Right so let’s get him. White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci joins us this morning. Anthony Scaramucci can you hear us? ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI, WHITE\u2026<\/b>
\nCAMEROTA: Because we actually have Anthony Scaramucci on the phone.
CUOMO: Right so let\u2019s get him. White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci joins us this morning. Anthony Scaramucci can you hear us?
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI, WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Yeah so when I was speaking to you last night Ryan I said it was unpatriotic that you weren\u2019 t telling me who the leakers were. I was on a plane landing in New York I have to go visit my mom. And so you may have caught it the wrong way.
I was teasing you and it was sarcastic. It was one Italian to another, it wasn\u2019 t me trying to get you to say, if you could give me some sense of who they are because I have a responsibility to the President of the United States\u2013
CUOMO: Anthony?
SCARAMUCCI: When you said you didn\u2019 t I totally respect your journalism and your integrity. Chris I don\u2019 t know\u2013
CUOMO: Hold on Anthony I just want to make sure, I don\u2019 t know if Ryan could hear you.
LIZZA: I can.
SCARAMUCCI: Good.
CUOMO: But just in case, it did go out over the air so he heard what you meant when you were talking to him about being unpatriotic. Let\u2019s just reset us at zero here. What\u2019s going on here from your perspective?
SCARAMUCCI: I want to reset at zero. But I also want you to know, I just spent about 15 minutes on the phone talking with the President of the United States who has given me his full support and his full blessing. And I\u2019 m going to read you something Chris and you\u2019 ll bear with me. And the president also told me, if you\u2019 re nice to me in this segment, he\u2019 ll let me come back on the show. Is that cool?
So why don\u2019 t you let me talk for a little bit and then you can ask me questions. But this is super, super important to the country. Now whether you agree with the president or you disagree with the president, you have to love the institution of the presidency. You have to love the office and you have to love our country.
And what is going on right now I\u2019 ve done a major amount of work over the last five days. I\u2019 ve interviewed most of the assistants to the president. I\u2019 ve interviewed most of the people on the Communications Team in the White House. And what the president and I would like to tell everybody we have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the White House. We\u2019 ll get to that in a second.
What I also want to say is that we are working together, the president and myself and other members of his team and law enforcement to undercut and undercover or out if you will the leakers in the entire country. As the president would say in his own words, the White House leakers are small potatoes. I\u2019 ll talk to you about a few leaks that happened last night that I find reprehensible.
But the White House leaks are small potatoes relative to things that are going on relative to things that are going on with leaking things about Syria or North Korea, or leaking things about Iraq. Those are the types of leaks that are so treasonous that 150 years ago people would have actually been hung for those types of leaks.
So the president brought me in. He knows I\u2019 m his friend first Chris. You\u2019 re from New York, I\u2019 m from New York, the president is from New York, we had dinner last night. I sat next to the First Lady. I love the president. I said that. I know the press wants to ridicule me for saying it six times from the podium. But we started out as friends. I am not a politician. I\u2019 m an American businessman, an entrepreneur who has built two businesses and I try to play it straight with people.
The president is trying to play it straight with people which is why he has 140 or 125 (PH) social media followers because they want to hear it straight from the president. And I said to the president this morning, I can\u2019 t afford to be a sycophant to you sir. I have to talk to you straight as a friend so I can help you with this problem.
And so what I want to say to you is I understand the law. I know that there was a public disclosure mechanism in my financial forms. What I\u2019 m upset about is the process and the junk pool, the dirty pool Chris in terms of the way this stuff is being done. And the leaking won\u2019 t stop.
I can\u2019 t have a couple of friends up from \u201cFox & Friends\u201d and Sean Hannity who\u2019s one of my closest friends, dinner with the president and his First Lady without it being leaked in seven minutes. It\u2019s absolutely, completely and totally reprehensible.
And the, as you know, from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. Well I can tell you two fish that don\u2019 t stink OK? And that\u2019s me and the president. I don\u2019 t like the activity that\u2019s going on in the White House. I don\u2019 t like what they\u2019 re doing to my friend. I don\u2019 t like what they\u2019 re doing to the President of the United States or their fellow colleagues in the West Wing.
If you want to talk about the Chief of Staff, we have been at odds, we have had differences. When I said we were brothers from the podium, that\u2019s because we\u2019 re rough on each other. Some brothers are like Cain and Able. Other brothers can fight with each other and get along.
I don\u2019 t know if this is repairable or not, that will be up to the president. But he\u2019s the Chief of Staff, he\u2019s responsible for understanding and uncovering and helping me do that inside the White House which is why I put that tweet out last night.
When the journalists who actually know who the leakers are, like Ryan Lizza, they know the leakers. Jonathan Spain at Axio (PH) , these guys know who the leakers are. I respect them for not telling me because I understand and respect journalistic integrity. However, when I put out a tweet and I put Reince\u2019s name in the tweet; they\u2019 re all making the assumption that it\u2019s him because journalists know who the leakers are. So if Reince wants to explain that he\u2019s not a leaker let him do that.
Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter. I\u2019 ll go right to the heart of the matter. OK so I\u2019 m done talking. You can ask me questions. But be nice on this segment Chris because this is a very serious matter of interest to all of America.
CUOMO: Anthony look, I know when you say be nice you\u2019 re in part joking. Because you know the job is to be fair. So let\u2019s be fair in this situation, let\u2019s get a sense of what\u2019s going on\u2013
SCARAMUCCI: I\u2019 m saying again the way I said it to Ryan Lizza, unpatriotic, it\u2019s that nuance Chris.
CUOMO: Absolutely.
SCARAMUCCI: It\u2019s sometimes hard to pick it up on Twitter.
CUOMO: Ryan heard it. He accepts what you said.
SCARAMUCCI: Be fair, be fair Chris. And the truth of the matter is I\u2019 m used to all different types of questions. I\u2019 m used to meanness. It doesn\u2019 t matter to me. I\u2019 m here to play it straight for the American people and to protect my friend who\u2019s President of the United States. Go ahead.
CUOMO: And understood. And Alyson and I have felt the bite of personal comments from power as well. But we still do the job and we do it the right way because that\u2019s what matters more.
SCARAMUCCI: Go ahead.
CUOMO: So let\u2019s do that right now instead of talking about doing it.
SCARAMUCCI: Go ahead.
CUOMO: These tweets seem to indicate a problem that didn\u2019 t start today. And I\u2019 m not talking about the leaking. It is well known Anthony Scaramucci that Reince Priebus was against you getting a job in the administration. You\u2019 ve talked about it privately with reporters.
SCARAMUCCI: Yeah.
CUOMO: He has denied it but there are tons of reports that denial is hollow. And when you named him in the tweet it seems to call that. Where is your head on that situation? What do you believe the reality to be? Because it seems much more like Cain and Abel than it does brothers who can get along.
SCARAMUCCI: I know. Here\u2019s what I believe. After running two reasonably successful companies and one which the entire world knows I\u2019 m about to sell for $180 million, here\u2019s what I know. When you\u2019 re running a successful company or an organization, you can take this human equation to the bank: Under confidence plus insecurity always equals paranoia and backstabbing.
And so what you have to do as a manager is you have to go through the process in the system and figure out where the backstabbing is coming from. That will lead you to the people that are insecure or under confident. If you can\u2019 t bolster them and make them better, then you have to remove them from the process because then it becomes addition by subtraction.
That\u2019s what I know.
CUOMO: Understood.
SCARAMUCCI: I don\u2019 t want to talk about anybody specifically because we\u2019 re on a live television wire. But the people know. The journalists know. You know the young kids in the Comm Team are taking a lot of heat from me now. They know Chris. The people know. You know who knows? The President of the United States.
The President of the United States again, whether you guys like the guy, you dislike the guy, he\u2019s the smartest person that I\u2019 ve ever worked for. OK? So let Vanity Fair write about that, I honestly don\u2019 t care. He has intuition, he has judgement and he has a temperament in a way that I have never seen.
Last night we were having dinner, I told his wife, I looked over at the First Lady and I said I forgot how much fun I used to have when I hung out with him on the campaign trail. He\u2019s a very interesting and very unique guy. There are people inside the administration that think it is their job to save America from this president. OK? That is not their job.
Their job is to inject this president into America so that he can explain his views properly and his policies so that we can transform America and drain the swamp and make the system fairer for the middle and the lower income people.<\/p>\n

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