White House press secretary Sean Spicer is leading a search for his own replacement at the briefing room podium as part of a larger plan to shake up the White House communications operations, according to two people with knowledge of the process.

Last week, Spicer and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus reached out to Fox News personality Laura Ingraham about the role of press secretary and Daily Mail editor David Martosko about the role of communications director, according to a White House official.

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Spicer and Priebus have had preliminary discussions with Ingraham and interviewed Martosko, according to the White House official. Neither responded to a request for comment.

FOX News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was considered for press secretary during the transition, has not been interviewed, according to the people familiar with the process.

The White House has been seeking to restructure the press shop since communications director Michael Dubke resigned from the role last month.

“We have sought input from many people as we look to expand our communications operation,” said White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “As he did in the beginning, Sean Spicer is managing both the communications and press office.”

Spicer has been pushing to move into a new role senior to both the communications director and press secretary, according to the people familiar with the discussions.

“Spicer should be elevated and if he’s not, I would not blame him for leaving,” said the White House official. “The president owes him this much for all he’s done for him. Sean is indispensable and I think the president knows that.”

Trump and senior staff have expressed their displeasure with way Spicer and Dubke handled the response in the hours following the firing of former FBI director James Comey, according to two White House sources.

They were criticized for failing to line up surrogates to go on television and for not having talking points that call out the hypocrisy of Democrats, who criticized Comey when he was investigating Hillary Clinton.

The Republican National Committee, under the leadership of Dubke and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh, managed the surrogate response when Comey testified two weeks ago before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

An adviser to Trump said that the president hasn’t yet signed off on making changes to the communications shop.

“Until you have the president buying in, any outreach or talk, is just that,” this person said.