Subject: RE: UPDATE: Video Request: Jeff Sessions On The Situation Room, 5pm
From: "Kasnetz, Joel" <[email-masked]>
To: Research_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:34:35 -0700

WOLF: Will party members rally around Trump?

SESSIONS: They already are. You can feel it.

WOLF: You feel it from Capitol Hill?

SESSIONS: Yes, he has more enthusiasm. I presume he'll win. He'll have more than he needs for victory

WOLF: He's being nicer to Reince

SESSIONS: Trump knows Reince is a good leader. I hope we'll move forward to the party being united then getting Congress members onboard

WOLF: Carly/Cruz

SESSIONS: Unusual step. For media attention? Trump just won almost every county

WOLF: Kasich/Cruz dropout?

SESSIONS: Yes, I think they should, but they have a right to continue.

WOLF: More on policy speech after the break

[Commercial break]

[New segment]

[back to Sessions]

WOLF: Were you involved in the speechwriting?

SESSIONS: I did write some of the speech, but you can hear Trump's voice

WOLF: The ideas he seems to be putting forward advocate disengaging from the world

SESSIONS: We can't go around nation building the way we have done in the last decade. But when we use force, we'll do it decisively.

WOLF: "America First"?

SESSIONS: US has to be about the USA first and foremost. We're going to meet with NATO allies and make them pay more.

We're going to make our Asian allies pay more, too.

WOLF: He doesn't seem to be getting more people on his bandwagon

SESSIONS: I'm getting phone calls from members of Congress.

WOLF: Who are those people?

SESSIONS: I'm not going to talk about private conversations

WOLF: Do you think they're going to endorse?

SESSIONS: Trump is more interested in getting votes. But I think members will come together

WOLF: When Trump says, trust me I know what I'm doing

SESSIONS: No, you shouldn't tell the country exactly how you're going to do something

WOLF: What would be different between Obama and Trump admins in fighting ISIS

SESSIONS: We haven't done very well, incl. destabilization of countries in MENA

WOLF:  But what would he do differently?

SESSIONS: He can't tell you exactly what he'd do.

WOLF: WOLF: WOLF: (missed)

SESSIONS: Pulling out of Iraq prematurely led to Mosul's fall to ISIS

WOLF: Would you support sending troops in?

SESSIONS: No, we have allies that can strengthen the special forces there now. Sustained effort can defeat ISIS.

WOLF: Didn't say build a wall. Why?

SESSIONS: He did say that we need to restrict immigration. That's not what the speech was about.

WOLF: Didn't elaborate on waterboarding. Torture? Didn't talk about it.

SESSIONS: I told him not to get into specifics. He needed to state his approach to represent the US and how he is going to protect this nation.

He also said he thinks he can advance our relationship with Russia.

WOLF: You think he'll be the nominee and beat HRC?

SESSIONS: Yes, he's on track to win nom. People will see what kind of leader he is. People are flocking to him. We'll see how this goes.

From: Kasnetz, Joel
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 6:10 PM
To: Research_D
Subject: RE: UPDATE: Video Request: Jeff Sessions On The Situation Room, 5pm

On now

From: Kasnetz, Joel
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 5:05 PM
To: Research_D
Subject: UPDATE: Video Request: Jeff Sessions On The Situation Room, 5pm

Sen. Sessions will appear on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on CNN at 6:00 pm EST tonight.
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/SenatorSessions/status/725430391851614209
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From: Kasnetz, Joel
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 2:55 PM
To: Research_D
Subject: Video Request: Jeff Sessions On The Situation Room, 5pm

Sessions will be on with Wolf. Not sure when during the show, at the moment.