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🗓️ 12 February 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci joins David to talk about is upbringing on Long Island, how the economy has impacted communities like his home town, what went wrong during his tenure in the White House, the Rob Porter scandal, and more.
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0:00.0 | And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your |
0:12.5 | host, David Axelrod. |
0:16.9 | Anthony Scaremucci was like a shooting star in the night skies of Washington last summer. |
0:23.3 | He was appointed on July 21st as White House Communications Director, played bumper cars |
0:28.5 | with many of the central figures in the Trump administration at that time, and then found |
0:33.0 | himself bounced out by the new chief of staff, John Kelly, the mouche, as he's known by |
0:38.8 | his friends, is very much like the man he served. |
0:42.8 | He is a pugnacious New Yorker who gives as good as he gets and knows how to make good copy. |
0:49.2 | I sat down with him last week when he was visiting the University of Chicago, and we talked |
0:53.7 | about his experiences and some of the turmoil in the White House today. |
1:00.9 | Anthony Scaremucci, good to see you again here on the campus of the University of Chicago. |
1:06.3 | It's great to be here. |
1:07.3 | There'll be no bets for me this year. |
1:09.7 | I lost a bet to you five years ago. |
1:12.0 | For a good cause. |
1:13.0 | It was for a good cause. |
1:14.0 | For a dead blep series. |
1:15.0 | We've done an amazing job. |
1:16.0 | My wife's foundation, Cure. |
1:17.0 | You've done an amazing job. |
1:19.0 | You know, I shake my wrist. |
1:20.0 | Thank you. |
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