Subject: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:28:02 -0700

Katrina Pierson on MSNBC with Kornacki
4/29/16 9:18 AM
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>> There is a report here in the "New York Times" this morning that suggests that your campaign is saying that Donald Trump may return to the attacks that he launched against bill and Hillary Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. This is how Donald Trump started to talk about this a few months ago and pulled back. This was trump a few months ago. Let me ask you about it.
Pierson: Trust me. They don't want to run against trump. She wants to accuse me of things and the husband is one of the great abusers of the world? Give me a break.
>> Is that something you are getting ready to bring up Monica Lewinsky?
Pierson: I think that depends on Hillary Clinton. This came about because she called Donald Trump a sexist. It boggles my mind if a woman is criticized that makes you a sexist. That's that is not the case. If Hillary Clinton or her team wants to go after Donald Trump, he will absolutely bring up that topic. There is a lot to discuss that was not brought out.
>> Do you think that is where she is and do you believe that at this point she is attacking him in a way that would warrant him bringing up the issues?
Pierson: Not at this point, but this was in response to an attack that she launched calling him a sexist and misogynist. That is all he wants to run on.

Notes:

>> Let's bring in the spokesperson for the trump campaign. Let's follow-up. If he is Donald Trump, he would have pause about taking support from John Boehner. There conservative activists who think John Boehner sold them out. Do you welcome support from John Boehner?
>> Anyone who wants to support Donald Trump can support him. John Boehner is no longer a sitting member of congress. You have to take pause when members of congress has endorsed Ted Cruz. With all due respect, if we are United States using his logic, Ted Cruz should dropout of the race. I understand the cruise campaign is trying to find a way to somehow magically force a convention to win the nomination even against the will of the people. It's not going to happen. It is time for Republicans to come and coalesce behind Donald Trump. He has the most votes and the most delegates and he is about to break the record in primary turn out. The writing is on the wall.
>> There is a report here in the "New York Times" this morning that suggests that your campaign is saying that Donald Trump may return to the attacks that he launched against bill and Hillary Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. This is how Donald Trump started to talk about this a few months ago and pulled back. This was trump a few months ago. Let me ask you about it.
>> Trust me. They don't want to run against trump. She wants to accuse me of things and the husband is one of the great abusers of the world? Give me a break.
>> Is that something you are getting ready to bring up Monica Lewinsky?
>> I think that depends on Hillary Clinton. This came about because she called Donald Trump a sexist. It boggles my mind if a woman is criticized that makes you a sexist. That's that is not the case. If Hillary Clinton or her team wants to go after Donald Trump, he will absolutely bring up that topic. There is a lot to discuss that was not brought out.
>> Do you think that is where she is and do you believe that at this point she is attacking him in a way that would warrant him bringing up the issues?
>> Not at this point, but this was in response to an attack that she launched calling him a sexist and misogynist. That is all he wants to run on.
>> Also here from your campaign saying that you guys have a plan here. You will be going after supporters of Bernie Sanders. What does that mean? How do you appeal to a Bernie Sanders vote?
>> I'm not sure that we are going after Bernie Sanders supporters. We are going after all voters. We have a lot of supporters who are coming to the campaign asking for clarification. If you are against government corruption and globalization and transnational corporations overhauling sovereignty, that's a trigger issue. There two people in the race who have been talking about the issues. That is Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. We saw this in Iowa. There were so many people in Iowa that were trying to figure out who they would support. Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump. That is a core issue and a cause of a lot of problems with making transnational agreements like nafta. We are looking at another overhaul with Obama trade coming up.

[9:20:28 AM]

People are very aware.
>> While Jeb Bush is back up making news this morning and giving an interview on CNN this morning talking about the possibility of an open convention and nobody getting to 1237. He was asking if they should get around trump if he is the nominee. They should support Ted Cruz. What do you say to that? He has bush staffers and the bush common core people are running his financial team. That makes sense to me. Ted Cruz is the Washington insider now. If you want a candidate to continue the status quo, you have an option. If you want an outsider that has created tens of thens of jobs and someone out there for decades doing good and wanting to give back, a candidate who is invested in the success or failure, there is one candidate

Lauren Hendricks