REPORTER: The cameras are back. Will you commit now to holding regular on camera briefings, sir?

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: If she supplies hair and make-up I will consider it but I need, I need a lot of hair and make-up.

TONY SCARAMUCCI: Where I grew up and the neighbourhood I'm from, we're front stabbers.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: If you want to eat an elephant, you have to eat it one bite at a time.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: This city, known as Washington DC, is a pretty tough place. It has a very thick immunological system. The President is literally like a donor organ transplant into the system.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: And Reince is a **** paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: There are so many things about the President.

REPORTER: He's a celebrity. He's a billionaire.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: How about the cheeseburgers?

CONOR DUFFY, NORTH AMERICA CORRESPONDENT: Anthony Scaramucci, welcome to 7.30. Thanks for joining us.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: It's a real pleasure to be here, Conor, thank you and I apologize to your viewers. It's the first time on TV where I'm not in a suit. I thought we were doing a radio interview but it's fine.

CONOR DUFFY: Well, the Australians will see a different side of the Mooch.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: Since it's Australia, I get the culture down there, I'm sure they'll cool with it.

CONOR DUFFY: You might not know this but you have got a lot of fans Down Under in Australia from your time in the White House.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: Yeah, a little bit of cursing probably helped me out there, right?

CONOR DUFFY: That's right. It went down well in Australia. Take us back to that time ...

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: First of all, I've just got to say, I would never curse on TV, nor will I ever.

I had to apologise to my mum, I had to apologise to Vice-President Pence. Actually Sarah Huckerby's dad, Governor Huckerby, I called him to apologise.

But I do talk like that and by the way, you know what, other people inside the West Wing, trust me, talk like that and I would imagine there are people in your great capital that talk like that.

And I don't know what's the name of your television station, but I guarantee some people in your television station talk like that.

Do you talk like that, Conor?

CONOR DUFFY: Sometimes.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: Yeah, sometimes you do, right? So I got nailed but c'est la vie, I owned it.

I accepted my firing graciously and I wish the President and General Kelly well and I'm an American and no problem.

CONOR DUFFY: Your tenure just lasted 10 days.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: Eleven, see, you're going to hurt my feelings because you say 10 but I can empirically prove that it's 11, okay, because it started on the 21st and it ended on the 31st. So you're adding that up and saying it's 10 but you got to count that day, the 21st.

CONOR DUFFY: The day that you started.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: It gives you 11 days. Don't cheat me out of the one day because it's like 9.1 per cent of my federal career.

CONOR DUFFY: That's right.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: Don't cheat me out of it.

CONOR DUFFY: On that, you apparently missed the birth of a child to do it. Do you regret at all what happened in those 11 days?

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: I'm going to tell you something. I actually don't regret it because I was serving my country.

I have visited Afghanistan and I have visited, unfortunately, Iraq and I bet you there's a lot of men and women there, particularly men, servicemen, that miss the births of their children and I'm sure they felt terrible about it but they were serving their country.

So I can't say I regret it. Do I feel bad or terrible that I wasn't there, absolutely.

CONOR DUFFY: Anthony Scaramucci's career was revived by the controversy over the Michael Wolff book, Fire and Fury.

He says the President invited him back to advocate on his behalf after the excommunication of his old enemy, Steve Bannon.

JOHN LEGEND: Trump won't read anything. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.

JAMES CORDON: Cut.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: I think it's very funny to watch these bozos on the Grammy, like reading from the guy's book.

You're reading from a fictional book that happens to be incorrectly placed in a non-fiction category in the book shelf. Anyway, I'm done with the Michael Wolff stuff.

The guy is a complete loser, look at me, loser and if you're reading the book, recognise that it's mostly fiction.

CONOR DUFFY: In the Fire and Fury book, Steve Bannon imploded spectacularly. You had some pretty choice words to say about him in that interview. How did you react when you saw Steve Bannon's political career basically be executed.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: The guy is off his rocker and he's furious and he's trying to paint a picture of himself that clearly wasn't true.

He was trying to suggest that he was the puppet master and Donald Trump, President Trump was his hand puppet.

This is a bunch of nonsense.

CONOR DUFFY: And in the book Michael Wolff also had some bad words to say about you, saying that you were one of the most ludicrous and most catastrophic hires in White House history.

What would you say to him?

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: Lawrence O'Donnell actually called me the dumbest person that ever joined the White House. I mean that didn't make the book but I thought that was great too.

I don't need to respond to that. So Michael Wolff can say whatever he wants but the reason why I know he's a liar is the stuff he said about me was a bunch of lies. It wasn't even fact checked or sourced properly.

So it's fine, it's all good. I'm a big boy. People can say whatever they want about me, bro, I'm fine.

CONOR DUFFY: Amid the reality show brawling, this is still the most powerful government in the world, dealing with issues like North Korea.

Anthony Scaramucci says the best idea is not to take the President's words too literally and focus on the results.

In Australia people have been really concerned about the rhetoric with the President calling Kim Jong Un, Little Rocket Man. Does Australia need to be worried or should Kim Jong Un be worried?

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: Well, listen, if you know the President, I know him pretty well. I'm very close to Don Junior and Ivanka and Eric, when the President is doing that, there's an aspect of his nature that I think people will eventually get accustomed to.

There's a little bit of sardonic humour there, there's a little bit of sarcasm.

I think one of the funnier things he said was that his button was bigger than the other guy's button. If you know him, you're snickering while he's saying that and I think the problem is that because he's now the American President, people get all warm but you have to recognise that he became President for a reason.

He acted unpresidential during the campaign. He's not going to change at age 71, about to be 72 and what you see with him is what you get and so when people realise that, well wait a minute, they'll calm down.

As it relates specifically to North Korea, I think Moon in South Korea said that it was because of President Trump that these parties have gotten together.

So I think the heat is down, at least for now but listen, the American people are not going to accept, President Trump is not going to accept ballistic missile activity that can reach the continent of the United States.

It's just not something that we're going to tolerate and so that's good news for the Australians because those missiles can reach you guys too and that's just nonsense.

CONOR DUFFY: In terms of his own future, Anthony Scaramucci says the new White House chief of staff, General John Kelly, has made it clear he's not returning to the White House but says he will continue to fight for Donald Trump.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: You have to remember something about me, I am not a politician but I am a loyal friend and so I got fired for political reasons.

I also got fired for self-bone headed reasons, right. I made a mistake. I own the mistake. I apologised to the President and General Kelly for it and I don't take it personally that I got fired.

Okay, moreover, I'll give you guys a quick learning lesson if you want to go into politics - the minute you declare yourself in American politics, 40 to 60 per cent of people are going to automatically hate you in whatever it is.

I mean I may have their same view on social progress like marriage equality, which I happen to have, but the fact that I'm supporting President Trump, these people go bonkers. You know, they light their hair on fire, they run around in a circle and they light me up on Twitter.

I don't care.