Scaramucci Reaches for a 'Cultural Reset Button'

What will new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci do to shake things up in the West Wing? Let’s go to the tape, specifically to Fox News Sunday, where Scaramucci spoke extensively with host Chris Wallace about his plans. Scaramucci listed (in his discursive manner) three actions he and his team would take to bridge what described as a “disconnect” between how the White House views President Donald Trump’s job performance and how the press report it to the public. Here they are:

1) Scaramucci told Wallace he wants to “hit a cultural reset button” with the staff.

“I would like to reset the culture inside the comms department so that people recognize that I’m actually there to serve them and they’re going to be working with me, not for me. That's a very big distinction,” he said. “And that all of us are there to serve the president of United States and his agenda.”

2) Stopping the leaks. This is an issue long perceived by President Trump and his senior aides as the source of many of the administration’s problems. “I know that it's Washington, so it's going to be impossible to stop all of them, but I think what's going on right now is a high level of unprofessionalism and it's not serving the president,” Scaramucci said. “I am a businessperson and so I will take dramatic action to stop those leaks.”

What kind of dramatic action? Wallace pressed. Scaramucci said, at least within the communications office, he’d be willing to “pare down” the staff if leaking doesn’t stop.