Subject: RE: Video Request: Jeff Sessions on OTR at 7:20pm tonight
From: "Kasnetz, Joel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Deutsch-Feldman, Ezra" <[email-masked]>, Research_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 08:42:43 -0700

VAN SUSTEREN: The Pentagon releasing new information about the U.S. Navy SEAL killed yesterday by ISIS.
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Keating the IV was shot and killed during a gun battle with ISIS fighters. Keating was part of a rescue team that moved in to help American military advisers. The Americans were under attack and the 31-year-old Navy SEAL was the third American combat casualty in Iraq since 2014.
Donald Trump's critics are constantly attacking his foreign policy plan. So what will be the Trump foreign policy doctrine.
Alabama senator and chair of Trump's National Security Advisory Committee Senator Jeff Sessions goes ON THE RECORD.
Nice to see you, sir. And you are an early and strong supporter of Donald Trump.
SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL), DONALD TRUMP'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIR: Right. And it's been a good day, yesterday. A very good day.
VAN SUSTEREN: Indeed, I bet you feel that way.
All right. First, before we get to foreign policy. Donald Trump is going to have to pick a vice presidential nominee at some point.
Do you want to throw out a name or two?
SESSIONS: Well, I won't throw out a name, but he needs to get the best person he can. One that can govern this country if called upon and one that can help him win the election.
VAN SUSTEREN: Is -- turn to foreign policy. Is there -- it's really early, but is there some way to describe the Donald Trump foreign policy doctrine?
SESSIONS: I think so. First, he is saying we need to put the national interest first. We have got to evaluate any potential military action in terms of does it impact the interest of the American people. We simply can't afford to be drawn in to action after action, where we don't have a direct interest.
[19:25:50] I think he believes in the realism. Thinking through these situations. He is dubious about excessive military involvements. But he is going to lead. The United States will have to continue to be a world leader. And we will do that. But we've got to be careful about excessive involvement.
VAN SUSTEREN: How does that differ from a Hillary Clinton foreign policy doctrine and President Obama foreign policy doctrine?
SESSIONS: Well, you can just say a lot of things have just been disastrous, it's the Clinton-Obama policy. She was secretary of state for President Obama. And he is -- he sets these -- he chose her and she is his top advisor.
VAN SUSTEREN: And what is his -- how does his policy differ from Trump?
SESSIONS: Then a colossal series of errors. Maybe the biggest error of the 21st century was withdrawal completely of all troops out of Iraq. If we just left a few thousand, Iraq wouldn't have fallen.
Now we are trying to retake Mosul and now Al Anbar Province. And all of that happen. That was a colossal error. And she was, of course, part of that leadership. Then in Libya, we had no national interest in Libya. Secretary of Defense Gates at the time opposed that. They voted 8 to 4 not to take action in Libya, but Hillary and Barack Obama decide to do so. And now we have chaos in Libya. ISIL involved there, too.
So this is a series of errors, where we don't stand with our friends like in Egypt. We turn against them. And we ended up with chaos as a result.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Let me zero in on one issue.
Former FBI agent Bob Levinson. We had his son on the other night. He's still -- he got picked up in Iran in 2007. And the deal was struck with Iran and he didn't come home as part of the deal.
What would you advise Donald Trump to do if anything about Bob Levinson, if he is alive?
SESSIONS: He has got to make that a part of our negotiating relationship with Iran. Iran is a nation that shoves us hard. They are very relentless, tough negotiators. Trump has said time and again, you need to know how to walk away from a negotiation when it's going nowhere.
The problem with the Obama administration was they got so committed, years went by and they were afraid to walk away, eventually and ended up with a bad deal.
VAN SUSTEREN: Senator, thank you. Nice to see you, sir.
SESSIONS: Thank you.

From: Deutsch-Feldman, Ezra
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 7:54 PM
To: Kasnetz, Joel; Research_D
Subject: RE: Video Request: Jeff Sessions on OTR at 7:20pm tonight

Watch here:

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Ezra

From: Kasnetz, Joel
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 5:28 PM
To: Research_D
Subject: Video Request: Jeff Sessions on OTR at 7:20pm tonight

Thank you!

Sen. Jeff Sessions<https://twitter.com/SenatorSessions>
@SenatorSessions<https://twitter.com/SenatorSessions>
Senator Sessions will appear on On The Record with Greta Van Susteren at approximately 7:20 pm EST/ 6:20 pm CST.
5:03pm * 4 May 2016<https://twitter.com/SenatorSessions/status/727966837716205568> * Twitter Web Client<http://twitter.com/>