Scaramucci Suggests Bannon Is a Leaker and Is Undermining Trump’s Agenda

STEPHANOPOULOS: But is there anyone in the White House who said, boy, you just made a real mistake there?

SCARAMUCCI: I think people are probably reluctant to tell him the truth. Maybe Ivanka would do that. You saw her tweet this morning. Maybe Jared would do that.

But you also got this sort of Bannon-bart influence in there, which I think is a snag on the president. If the president really wants to execute that legislative agenda that I think is so promising for the American people, the lower-middle class people and the middle class people, then he has to move away from that sort of Bannon-bart nonsense.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You mean Bannon and Breitbart? Steve Bannon.

SCARAMUCCI: Yes. The whole thing is nonsensical. It’s not serving the president’s interests. He’s got to move more into the mainstream, he’s got to be more into where the moderates are and the independents are, George, that love the president. And so if he does that, he’ll have a very successful legislative agenda that he’ll be able to execute. And if he doesn’t do that, you’re going to see inertia and you’re going to see this resistance from more of the establishment senators that he needs to curry favor with.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You have been tough on Steve Bannon, does he have to go?

SCARAMUCCI: Well, I think the president knows what he’s going to do with Steve Bannon.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Which is what?

SCARAMUCCI: Well, let’s leave it up to the president. It’s his decision. But I mean, at the end of the day, I think the president has a very good idea of who the leakers are inside the White House. The president has a very good idea of the people that are undermining his agenda that are serving their own interests.

STEPHANOPOULOS: They include Steve Bannon?

SCARAMUCCI: Well, yes. Look, I mean, we’re not on a phone call, and a taped phone call. And so we’re on live television, and so I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.