Subject: Nightly, 5/9
From: "Kasnetz, Joel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bauer, Nick" <[email-masked]>, "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>, "Graham, Caroline" <[email-masked]>, Veepstakes <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:14:36 -0700

Jeff Sessions gave a number of interviews since Friday, one to Wash Examiner and another to the Montgomery Advertiser. The Advertiser also ran an editorial chewing out him and Richard Shelby for helping to block the SCOTUS nomination (I sent my bullets from that over to Andy). So between those and monitoring for stories and tweets about Christie being named the transition chair for Trump, work on the dailies continued into the afternoon.

Also, Twitter seems to be split as to whether the "transition chair" position for Christie is a promotion or demotion. I'd figure that there's some expectation that someone with that responsibility, given that early, would keep him from campaigning with the nominee himself, right? Like they're trying to keep him out of the way.

After that, I continued on the Sessions Top Hits doc. We already have some decent stuff to go on in the "Bad for Latinos" section (e.g., everything he's ever said about immigration) but that's also veering off to awful things he's said about Muslims.

Like this:
Jeff Sessions On Acts Of Terrorism Committed By Muslims: "Their Faith Commands Them To Do These Things." "Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions says that Donald Trump's plan to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States has forced an 'appropriate' conversation on how the country should decide which immigrants to accept into the country. 'He's treading on dangerous ground because Americans are so deeply committed to freedom of religion, that is a major part of who we are,' Sessions said on Breitbart Radio this morning when asked about Trump's proposal. 'But at the same time, we're in an age that's very dangerous and we're seeing more and more persons enter and a lot of them have done terrorist acts.' 'Their faith commands them to do these things. They're not committing suicide on the assumption that this is the end, they're doing it because they believe their faith will reward them for doing it. So I think it's appropriate to begin to discuss this, and he has forced that discussion,' Sessions said." [Buzzfeed, 12/10/15<https://www.buzzfeed.com/natemcdermott/jeff-sessions-trumps-muslim-comments-have-forced-appropriate?utm_term=.ik5VE0rBR#.cvBye3rYn>]