Subject: RE: ABC This Week
From: "Miller, Lindsey" <[email-masked]>
To: "Jakubiec, Matthew" <[email-masked]>, Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 07:07:23 -0700

Brutal interview part 2

Everyone expects Ryan will endorse. Agree?
Reince: I get the sense it was a great meeting and everything both parties wanted. I don’t speak for Ryan. I’d be surprised if he doesn’t get there because he wants to get there.

Was it right of Ryan to go to that meeting and come out and still refuse to endorse?
No, I think most people involved would agree in a 45 minute meeting to come out and do a big bear hug, everyone gets process better going through details of what everyone brings to the table. Both parties left pleased with how it ended.

Who is the leader of the Republican party right now? Who speaks for it?
You know what people ask that all the time. I speak for RNC, Paul speaks for House Republicans, Trump speaks for voters. A lot of people speak for our party. There are only 2 parties so we have a lot of speakers. We have to do the party of the open door. Differences among each other doesn’t mean we ask people to leave. A lot of people speak for the party.

Cruz called Trump a pathological liar. You heard about Trump posing as spokesperson and deny that. Do you have any doubts about Trump’s truthfulness?
It doesn’t matter what Cruz said or Jeb or Marco or the whole 17 folks but what does matter.

Does it matter to you?
Listen, I have to judge people based on how I have dealt with individuals. I’ve never had a situation where he lied to me or was not gracious. Obviously we fought over delegate allocation but I didn’t back off and he was ok.

So you trust him?
(sutters) Yes, of course but people are also entitled to forgiveness and redemption. Question whether people are who they say they are. You can talk about 30 years ago but the bigger question is cash for favors in Clinton Foundation. Whether someone impersonated someone in some dumb story in WaPo is interesting but what about four dead American heroes in Benghazi? These are issues guys!

Your nominee from four years ago what’s Trump to release taxes. (reads Romney statement) Do you agree with Romney or with Trump who says it is not our business?
(sigh, stutter) The American people look at someone like Trump and say ‘ok, here’s a guy whose never run, I don’t think the traditional playbook applies. He’s rewritten playbook.

So he doesn’t have to return his taxes?
Up to the American people. They will decide if it’s a big issue. Trump represents such a massive change to how things are done that people don’t look to him as whether he releases taxes but whether he will cause an earthquake in DC and make something happen. That is how the American people judge him. All these things we analyze for a year, it hasn’t oden a thing.

NYT story on his relationship with women. Do you have any doubts about Trump’s relationship with women?
He will have to answer for it but things from many years ago and as Christians judging each other problematic. When people live in glass houses and throw stones they get in trouble. This is classic Clinton. It’s whether person launching charge is authentic and pure enough to make such a charge. That is what it is going to look like. Trump being based on whether he will shake up Washington and that is why he is doing so well.

From: Jakubiec, Matthew
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 9:40 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: ABC This Week

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