Anthony Scaramucci and Tina Brown on How To Fix America, Live in London

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm senior producer Mia Sorenti. Today's episode is the full recording of our recent event with former White House communications director, outspoken Trump critic and co-host of The Rest is Politics US, Anthony Scaramucci. Scaramucci kicked off his nationwide Intelligence Squared tour in style on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in London. Then conversation with former editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, Tina Brown, Scaramucci shared his insider's account of how America reached Trumpism and where it goes next.

Drawing on his new book, All the Wrong Moves, the pair discussed how decades of mistakes by both Republicans and Democrats paved the way for Trump's rise and how America could chart a different course. Let's join our host, Tina Brown, now, live from the Lyceum. Well, welcome everybody, ladies and gentlemen, and I want now to talk about the man that we're about to meet, because he holds the record for the shortest tenure in modern White House history. 11 days. He was fired before his office furniture arrived.

Okay? That's not a job, that's a very expensive cameo. And if this was Trump the musical, I'd have him crossing the stage left to right, juggling. That's how he would be. Well, of course, he's Anthony Scaramucci, Wall Street financier, founder of Skybridge Capital, which he built from scratch in 2005, and a man known to absolutely everybody as The Mooch.

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