Subject: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:14:03 -0700

Katrina Pierson on CNN with Wolf
4/29/16 1:20 PM
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>> We heard Hillary Clinton who Donald Trump may face in the general election and will give it later today on the program at 4:00 P.M. Eastern. She basically dismissed Donald Trump's temper tantrums, what he she called bullying. React.
Pierson: I think it does bother her and that's why she's running against Donald Trump because she knows that she's not going to be able to hide behind the gender card she is playing. She'll have to face some of the decisions she's made whether it's Libya or Iraq or Goldman Sachs or Boko Haram for that matter.
She does have a record that she's not wanting to run on and that's why Mr. Trump says the gender card is all she has. She's talking about equal pay. She's talking about abortion. She's talking about women's issues which don't even fall within the scope of the federal government.
>> Not just for women but men as well.
Pierson: Very important issues but those don't fall within the scope of the federal government and not at the executive level.
>> The government plays a role with legislatively or the judiciary branch. The federal government plays roles in women's health. That's an important issue to millions.
Pierson: It's an extremely important issue but these are not issues that should be held at the federal level. We should empower states to take on these projects. That's a way of abuse.
>> That's a constitutional issue that can be debated but the federal government is involved in issues affecting women including women like you.
Pierson: I can tell you now what's more affecting women is national security.

Notes:

here to talk with me. Katrina Pierson, the national spokeswoman for the trump campaign. This is a clip of Donald Trump speaking about Mike pence not that long ago.
>> The governor's a great guy. I've met with him. He may not endorse. I don't think he'll endorse anybody, actually, and he may endorse us. I don't know. He's a great guy. He's become -- he's done a very good job as governor. And he's a great guy. I don't know if we'll get his endorsement. I don't think --
>> You don't think so?
>> No, I don't think so.
>> Well, he did sort of endorse. He said he was going to vote for Ted Cruz. You're the spokeswoman for the campaign. Your reaction.
>> I think this quasi-endorsement was about the reelection more than it was about helping senator Ted Cruz. We'll notice in his endorsements, he didn't say anything particularly bad about Mr. Trump and just that he was going to vote for senator Cruz but it was wise of him, if he's going to support anyone, to try not to alienate anyone. He had a tough race last night and will have a tough race this time.
>> Mr. Trump must be disappointed he didn't get that endorsement. He didn't think he would endorse anybody.
>> Mr. Trump obviously would have wanted the endorsement of the governor and didn't get an unendorsement. I think that's the point.
>> Did the governor pence and Donald Trump talk a lot? Did he try to lobby him?
>> I'm sure they discussed all the relevant issues. It is a risk for the governor to do this considering he just mentioned the recent polls coming out of Indiana showing the voters there So this is definitely a risk he's taking.
>> Did the trump campaign do polling?
>> We don't. We believe in just putting forth our vision. We're not interested in being politically correct or telling people what they want to hear the way they want to hear it and give them an opportunity to vote someone that's real with them.
>> If Cruz votes on Tuesday, how much of a setback is that with Donald Trump?
>> Not much of a setback because he won't win all of the delegates. Again, we would love to win Indiana. I feel confident we are going to win Indiana but this is a do or die case for the Cruz campaign even though senator Cruz has already been mathematically eliminated. This is where he's taking the last stand.
>> Let's talk about last night. There was a huge Donald Trump rally in southern California. A lot of people, thousands of people were there but outside, there were protesters and 20 people were injured and various people were arrested. One person was injured. Is this a scene of things to come down the road?
>> You know, I'm not sure. You would have to ask the anti-trump and anti-american protesters. You'll notice when you see trump people, they have American flags. You saw Mexican flags and these are the people inciting violence, getting physical, defacing property, breaking car windows. That's not for something that Donald Trump needs to answer. I think we should ask who they support for president and ask those people.
>> They'll argue the protesters are pro-american and love the United States and strongly disagree.
>> I don't know, wolf. If you are protesting an American candidate running for the president of the united States, you're not flying any other flag than the united States flag. We don't allow physically assaulting people. We don't allow defacing property. We don't allow jumping on police cars. Which is something that the left obviously encourages. Look at what happened in Baltimore. That is not what Donald Trump stands for and that is not American. And what we saw last night is the true fight that we're facing in this country. It's pro America versus anti-america.
>> We can disagree on whether this is anti-america just to be critical of a presidential candidate because that's the right of all Americans to go out there --
>> That was overstepping the boundaries of protesting.
>> Jeb Bush gave an exclusive interview. The first time he's spoken up since he dropped out of the presidential contest. Here's a little of the conversation.
>> My personal belief is that Donald Trump is the nominee, look, my views have been pretty consistent about this. We'll lose the senate. And we'll lose the presidency in the landslide and our country can't afford that.
>> Do you think the Republican party should get around him? If he is?
>> I think they should support Ted Cruz.
>> Your reaction.
>> This makes perfect sense. There are bush operatives now working on Cruz's campaign. He comes from the bush administration so it makes perfect sense to get behind the establishment candidate. He wants a candidate that's going to take these cookie cutter policies and then spew them to the public and Mr. Trump doesn't speak in platitudes. He said you shouldn't be unpredictable and you shouldn't be unless he wants to go out there and say, no, no taxes and then go and raise everyone's taxes. We've seen politicians time and time again make a ton of campaign promises and keep none of them and we don't want to be that campaign.
>> We heard Hillary Clinton who Donald Trump may face in the general election and will give it later today on the program at 4:00 P.M. Eastern. She basically dismissed Donald Trump's temper tantrums, what he she called bullying. React.
>> I think it does bother her and that's why she's running against Donald Trump because she knows that she's not going to be able to hide behind the gender card she is playing. She'll have to face some of the decisions she's made whether it's Libya or Iraq or Goldman Sachs or Boko Haram for that matter.
She does have a record that she's not wanting to run on and that's why Mr. Trump says the gender card is all she has. She's talking about equal pay. She's talking about abortion. She's talking about women's issues which don't even fall within the scope of the federal government.
>> Not just for women but men as well.
>> Very important issues but those don't fall within the scope of the federal government and not at the executive level.
>> The government plays a role with legislatively or the judiciary branch. The federal government plays roles in women's health. That's an important issue to millions.
>> It's an extremely important issue but these are not issues that should be held at the federal level. We should empower states to take on these projects. That's a way of abuse.
>> That's a constitutional issue that can be debated but the federal government is involved in issues affecting women including women like you.
>> I can tell you now what's more affecting women is national security.

Lauren Hendricks