Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 1 August 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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He burned fast and bright. A play-by-play of the brief and tumultuous tenure of Anthony Scaramucci. And how President Putin’s bet on a Trump presidency backfired spectacularly. Guests: Glenn Thrush, a White House correspondent for The New York Times; David E. Sanger, chief Washington correspondent. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.
0:09.0	Today, he burned fast and bright, the brief tumultuous tenure of Anthony Scaramucci
0:16.0	and how President Putin's bet on a Trump presidency backfired spectacularly.
0:23.0	It's Tuesday, August 1st.
0:34.0	Thrasch. Hey.
0:35.0	How have a time? Amazing day.
0:38.0	And you're ready to go?
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	Oh, geez, this is not a good sign.
0:41.0	Are you yawning?
0:42.0	Not about you.
0:44.0	Okay. Glenn Thrasch.
0:46.0	This was like the breaking news alert for the ages.
0:50.0	Good day, everyone. We're breaking in with news of another shake up for the Trump administration,
0:55.0	White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is now out of that position just over a week into the job.
1:02.0	Give us the play by play of this 10-day stretch that Anthony Scaramucci had as White House Communications Director.
1:09.0	What happened here was you have a guy who was essentially brought in to blow up the existing order of the White House.
1:18.0	In the course of it, he detonated himself.
1:21.0	I mean, this is what somebody in the West Wing described to me as he was a political suicide bomber.
1:26.0	That's very vivid.
1:27.0	Well, it started off a couple of Fridays ago.
1:30.0	Listen, I don't think I'd be standing here. I didn't have a good relationship with the president. I love the president.
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