Subject: RE: Video Request: Trump morning shows
From: "Sarge, Matthew" <[email-masked]>
To: "Roberts, Kelly" <[email-masked]>, "Bhatnagar, Akshai" <[email-masked]>, Comm_D <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 04:53:09 -0700

Trump on Fox & Friends:

Notes from Erin and I

Clip of George Clooney bashing Trump and saying he is a product of the news programs not asking tough questions

  *   “Well at least he’s right about the ratings”
  *   I get asked the toughest questions on Earth
  *   I’ve gotten more votes than anybody who’s run for President in the history of the Republican party – will break the record
  *   It’s a movement, a movement for common sense
  *   What we have right now is the stupid leadership – that’s what we call it, they don’t know what they are doing
  *   I would rather see unity, I am a Republican, I am a conservative
  *   I am more conservative than anybody on Trade – I am a free trader, but a conservative, we make bad deals
  *   My trade is make good deals

Meeting with Paul Ryan

  *   Great meeting with Paul Ryan
  *   Over time, things will come together
  *   Says he thinks Ryan will endorse him
Muslim ban just a suggestion?

  *   Everything is just suggestion
  *   I’m not the president yet, so everything I say is just a suggestion
  *   We are going to  study the problem, it’s a temporary ban
  *   We have to find out and get to the bottom of the problem before we can solve it
  *   Have to find out what the problem is
  *   Giuliani agreed to lead commission
  *   Commission will look at Muslim immigration, but also Southern border

NY Post “Blond Bombshell” story. Bill Clinton steered Foundation money to a company owned by a woman Bill may have been involved with?

  *   I’ve been hearing about this for years
  *   I hope you put the word “charity” in quotes regarding foundation
  *   HRC plays the women card, I have to hit back

Letters to schools on transgender bathrooms?

  *   Should be a state issue
  *   New issue, just don’t have an opinion
  *   Would like states to make the decision
Meeting with Republicans?

  *   Over the years, candidates never agree with all parts of the platform
  *   There will always be differences between the candidate and platform

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From: Roberts, Kelly
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 7:42 AM
To: Bhatnagar, Akshai; Comm_D
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Subject: RE: Video Request: Trump morning shows

Today Show:

Replaying clip from 1991 of someone pretending to be a PR person, sounds like Trump.
- Trump says he doesn't know anything about it, doesn't sound like his voice. Many people are trying to pretend to be him
- Doesn't sound like him

Guthrie pressing, he's admitted he used to do this.
- Wasn't him on the phone, doesn't sound like him. You're going so low as to talk about something that happened 25 years ago? The answer is no, we have more important things to discuss

Meeting with Paul Ryan, disappointed no endorsement?
- It's a process. A little surprised, not that surprised. Got many endorsements yesterday
- Thinks he'll win the election because HRC is a disaster, assuming she even gets to run

Muslim ban a suggestion or a proposal? Softening stand
- Not the president, so everything he says is a suggestion. If he were president he would put in legislation and do what he had to do. He's looking at it very strongly

Pressed on whether softening stance
- Not softening stance at all, but always flexible on issues
- We have a major problem we have to solve, president won't even use its name

President transgender bathroom order
- Would leave that and many other things up to the states, it's a local issue not a federal one
- Everyone has to be protected, but you're talking about a tiny, tiny group of the population. Everyone has to be protected

Portman as VP?
- was with him in group yesterday. Had a great talk with all of them. Portman is a good man
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From: Bhatnagar, Akshai
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 7:29 AM
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Subject: RE: Video Request: Trump morning shows

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From: Roberts, Kelly
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 7:11 AM
To: Comm_D
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Subject: Video Request: Trump morning shows

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