HUGH HEWITT: Now, Anthony Scaramucci's a very smart guy. Harvard Law School trained, made a lot of money out of Wall Street, charismatic on television. But I think Sean [Spicer] believes -- and he's a friend of mine, so discount it for lie of the green -- that this job requires a great deal more knowledge of how Washington, D.C., operates than Mr. Scaramucci has. So we'll see. But I do believe -- very much reject what Dana Milbank had to say. I think Sean will be employed on one of the cable channels by a week.
CRAIG MELVIN (HOST): Big surprise there, big shocker.
HEWITT: Yeah, big shocker.
MELVIN: You think he'll be on a cable channel in a week?
HEWITT: Yeah, I do, because not only has he done a very good job -- not only did he do a fine job at the RNC, but he knows everyone in Washington, D.C., and has the most important thing, which is a score card and phone numbers next to it, and the president will talk to him. The chief of staff will talk to him. The special assistants to the president will talk to him. The cabinet members will talk to him. So as a reporter, I think he's going to be fine. And I do believe -- he just did not want to be number two to an individual who may find the job is more challenging and very different from Manhattan.
MELVIN: Really, Hugh? I mean, you really think that the Scaramucci hiring is the straw that breaks the camel's back here? We played some clips earlier. All of the things that he said that turned out not to be true, all of the situations in which he was placed, uncomfortable situations, because he clearly wasn't armed with accurate information or information at all. You think this was really the thing that did it?
HEWITT: Yes. One hundred percent. I will point out, every press secretary has to live with a lot of heat. Sean had to live with Saturday Night Live and Melissa McCarthy and Stephen Colbert and everybody else, in a way that was perhaps exponentially more difficult than previous press secretaries. Nevertheless, he's a loyal guy. He's a lieutenant commander, a commander in the Navy, I can't remember what. He does his job, he salutes, he carries it out. But I don't think he wants to take a mission in which he's not flying that particular plane. And I also know -- it's good reporting from Glen Thrush, that the president wanted him to stay, and he did not want to stay. And so I think Reince Priebus is right -- he's going to be 100 percent behind the president in what he chooses to do, the chief of staff has to be that way. But Sean Spicer will be fine. He'll absolutely be fine.
