Subject: RE: Nightly, 4.19
From: "Brinster, Jeremy" <[email-masked]>
To: "Kasnetz, Joel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:37:20 -0700

Great, don't forget to put "editorial" here:

*         The Anniston Star Editorial: "In Defending His Vote, Sessions Tried To Draw A Distinction Between Our Mature Society And Others." "On Wednesday, the Senate failed by three votes to give military detainees the right to take their case to court... In defending his vote, Sessions tried to draw a distinction between our mature society and others. 'These kinds of dictators and communists and Nazis, they go out and grab people and put them in jail and never charge them, never announce where they are even,' Sessions said. 'So, that's not what we want to do here.'" [Editorial, The Anniston Star, 9/20/07]

From: Kasnetz, Joel
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 7:45 PM
To: Bauer, Nick; Dillon, Lauren; Graham, Caroline; Veepstakes
Subject: Nightly, 4.19

*         Completed Sessions and Christie dailies. The new WaPo article on Sessions and Trump's relationship took a while to bullet, but there wasn't anything too explosive in there, other than a few recycled indications that Trump might choose him as a running mate.

*         Searched for frequent radio outlets that Jeff Sessions makes appearances on

*         Did SEC training with Lindsey

*         Met with Veepstakes team to discuss top hits list

*         During my second dump, on personhood/nazi/life at conception, I found an article that referred to an event in 2013 that Sessions, Cruz, and others spoke at, where one of the speakers suggested that Hispanic people were genetically inferior to white and black Americans. I dug in and found the original videos, got the ones that weren't already up there to Vantage and I passed along the Ted Cruz bullet to Eric.

The Nation's George Zornick: On 7/15/13, Jeff Sessions Gave The Keynote Address At An Anti-Immigration Rally Where Another Speaker Claimed Hispanic People Were Genetically Inferior To Americans. On July 15th, 2013 "Several hundred people gathered in Upper Senate Park to denounce immigration reform as a job-killer... Ken Crow, who used to be president of the Tea Party of America until he bungled logistics of a Sarah Palin speech and is now affiliated with Tea Party Community, got up and started talking about 'well-bred Americans.'... At minimum, Craw was making a crude nativist argument that people from other cultures have the heritage of a donkey, compared to our race-horse DNA. And, although he worked in a Martin Luther King reference, the 'breeding' talk made it pretty tempting to see this in racial terms as well... Not only was this said in the presence of hundreds of people on Capitol Hill, but many important Republican politicians were present. Senator Jeff Sessions, who helped lead the opposition to the immigration bill in the Senate, was directly behind me, glad-handing attendees, as I shot this video. Congressman Steve King, who is taking up Session's mantle in the House, was also there. Both men spoke (Sessions is the keynote)." [The Nation, 7/15/13<http://www.thenation.com/article/ugly-opposition-immigration-reform-comes-back-capitol-hill/>]

The Nation's George Zornick: On 7/15/13, Ted Cruz Addressed An Immigration Rally Where Another Speaker Claimed Hispanic People Were Genetically Inferior To Americans. On July 15th, 2013 "Several hundred people gathered in Upper Senate Park to denounce immigration reform as a job-killer... Ken Crow, who used to be president of the Tea Party of America until he bungled logistics of a Sarah Palin speech and is now affiliated with Tea Party Community, got up and started talking about 'well-bred Americans.'... At minimum, Craw was making a crude nativist argument that people from other cultures have the heritage of a donkey, compared to our race-horse DNA. And, although he worked in a Martin Luther King reference, the 'breeding' talk made it pretty tempting to see this in racial terms as well...many important Republican politicians were present... Senator Ted Cruz [was] also on the roster.'" [The Nation, 7/15/13<http://www.thenation.com/article/ugly-opposition-immigration-reform-comes-back-capitol-hill/>]

*         I also found an editorial that blasted Sessions and Richard Shelby for not stopping the Bush administration from suspending habeas corpus for military prisoners, and Sessions said, essentially, that we're not Nazis, so it's ok when we hold people without charges.

*         The Anniston Star Editorial: "In Defending His Vote, Sessions Tried To Draw A Distinction Between Our Mature Society And Others." "On Wednesday, the Senate failed by three votes to give military detainees the right to take their case to court... In defending his vote, Sessions tried to draw a distinction between our mature society and others. 'These kinds of dictators and communists and Nazis, they go out and grab people and put them in jail and never charge them, never announce where they are even,' Sessions said. 'So, that's not what we want to do here.'" [The Anniston Star, 9/20/07]

*         Jeff Sessions On Why The United States Can Hold Detainees With Habeas Corpus: "These Kinds Of Dictators And Communists And Nazis, They Go Out And Grab People And Put Them In Jail And Never Charge Them, Never Announce Where They Are Even. So, That's Not What We Want To Do Here." SESSIONS: "These kind of dictators and communists and Nazis, they go out and grab people and put them in jail and never charge them, never announce where they are even. So that's not what we want to do here. Never in the history, however, of the writ's existence has an English or American court granted habeas to enemy combatants held during a time of war." [Morning Edition, NPR, 9/19/07]