Kelly told The New York Times in a bombshell interview published on Tuesday that Trump had positive things to say about Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler “more than once,” saying that “Hitler did some good things,” then had to “try to explain to Mr. Trump why those comments about Hitler were problematic.”

CNN’s Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez asked Scaramucci about Kelly and if this matched up with his own experience with the four-star general. Scaramucci noted that despite their past professional run-in, his family and Kelly’s are actually friends.

I would tell you that he [Kelly] has said this privately for many years. He’s been very, very concerned. I think he stayed in the White House 18 months, the longest serving chief-of-staff, because he was so worried about the different things that Donald Trump was doing.

One of the things that he didn’t add in that interview was a lot of times he had to push [Trump] back from doing things that were illegal or against the Constitution or even against the institution of the presidency. So, I applaud him for being out there.