Subject: Nightly, 5.16
From: "Haxo, Chris" <[email-masked]>
To: Veepstakes <[email-masked]>, "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>, "Graham, Caroline" <[email-masked]>, "Bauer, Nick" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 17:15:46 -0700

Corker:
*       Dodged a question about Obama not using the term radical Islamic terrorism in a TN interview over the weekend.
*       Said that Trump is evolving, and that he doesn't foresee a Goldwater-esque reaction among voters in the general.
*       Said that he is not initiating conversations with the Trump campaign, that they're reaching out to him. Also said he's only spoken to Trump once, which was after his foreign policy speech.

Newt:
*       Said that he'd talked to Trump regularly over the course of the last 5-6 years. Said he would be hardpressed to no accept a VP offer (last week he said that he wouldn't automatically turn it down).
*       Said that Donald Trump has "made no claims for his before he ran for politics"

Jordan
*       Huffpost used Jordan as an example for how GOPers pivot to HRC when asked about their support for Trump
*       Was really excited that they're going to be impeachment hearings for the head of the IRS