At the White House, divisions among senior staff were on full display Thursday, after newly appointed communications director Anthony Scaramucci railed against leaks in a series of expletive-laden interviews. On Wednesday, Scaramucci phoned New Yorker correspondent Ryan Lizza and demanded to know who leaked details about a White House dinner, and threatened to fire the entire White House communications team. Scaramucci then accused Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, of being the leaker, predicting Priebus would soon be asked to resign and calling him a “f****g paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.” Scaramucci also took a swipe at Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, with a crude reference to a sexual act and added, “What I want to do is I want to f****g kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people.” On Thursday morning, Scaramucci phoned into CNN’s “New Day” program, where he compared his relationship with Reince Priebus to the biblical brothers Cain and Abel and said leakers should be met with harsh punishment.

Anthony Scaramucci: “The White House leaks are small potatoes relative to things that are going on with leaking things about Syria or North Korea or leaking things about Iraq. Those are the types of leaks that are so treasonous that 150 years ago people would have actually been hung for those types of leaks.”

At the White House, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to say whether President Trump still has confidence in his chief of staff, Reince Priebus.