Short-lived White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Monday that if it were up to him, top adviser Steve Bannon would be gone from President Trump's administration. Related Image Expand / CollapseTrump gave Scaramucci the White House job in late July, in part for how he deftly forced CNN to take down an incorrect online story connecting him to the Russia investigations. “For the record, I thought that (call) was off the record,” Scaramucci, a former Wall Street financier and member of the Trump campaign’s finance committee, said Sunday. I paid the consequences of that.”Colbert showed a picture of Scaramucci and former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus glaring at each other. Of Trump's frequent off-the-cuff remarks, Scaramucci said, "That's him wearing his heart on his sleeve."

Source: Fox News August 15, 2017 04:44 UTC