Anthony Scaramucci Says He Would Fire Steve Bannon

If it were up to the Mooch, the president's chief strategist would be gone.

August 15, 2017 9:15 am
Anthony Scaramucci appears on the "Late Show" with Stephen Colbert on August 14, 2017.
Anthony Scaramucci appears on the "Late Show" with Stephen Colbert on August 14, 2017. (CBS)

Steve Bannon would be out if it were up to Anthony Scaramucci.

The former White House communications director stopped by Stephen Colbert’s Late Show on Monday night to talk about his brief time in the president’s inner circle — and since his honest opinion of his colleagues was fully exposed following a profanity-laced interview with the New Yorker, in which he failed to ask for off-the-record privileges, the Mooch held nothing back in front of Colbert’s audience— including the fact that he thinks President Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, is currently leaking information to the press.

“If it was up to me he would be gone,” Scaramucci told Colbert. “But it’s not up to me…that’s up to the president.”

Take a look at the tense clip above.

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