Anthony Scaramucci, the newly tapped White House communications director, said on Thursday that President Trump will be the judge of whether his tense relationship with White House chief of staff Reince Priebus is "repairable."

"Now, if you want to talk about the chief of staff, we have had odds, we have had differences," Scaramucci told CNN’s “New Day” over the phone. "When I said we were brothers from the podium, that's because we're rough on each other."

Despite describing his relationship with Priebus as brothers who may fight at times, Scaramucci went on to reference a biblical story in the book of Genesis in which one brother, Cain, murders his younger brother Abel.

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"Some brothers are like Cain and Abel. Other brothers can fight with each other and get along. I don't know if this is repairable or not. That will be up to the president,” he said.

The two men, who have had a tense relationship, now work under the same roof — but that has not stopped Scaramucci from attacking the chief of staff in the open.

Scaramucci publicly began airing his rift with Priebus on Twitter after Politico reported that he is still profiting from his former hedge fund company. The newspaper cited his financial disclosure forms, which it claimed are publicly available.

In his interview with CNN, Scaramucci said Priebus could be one of the leakers that he has vowed to weed out of the administration.

"When I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in a tweet, they all make the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are," Scaramucci said, referencing a tweet in which he tagged Priebus after threatening to have federal investigators become involved over a leak.

“So if Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that. But let me tell you about myself. I'm a straight shooter and I'll go right to the heart of the matter,” Scaramucci added.

"In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting [the FBI] and the [Justice Department]," Scaramucci said in a since-deleted tweet late Wednesday, while tagging Priebus’s Twitter handle at the end — a move some viewed as an accusation.

Scaramucci added that he and Trump “have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the White House."

Scaramucci, however, did not go so far as to directly accuse Priebus on CNN, arguing that he meant he is working with senior officials on eradicating the leaking problem.