Subject: RE: question
From: Erik Smith <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>, "Wei, Shu-Yen" <[email-masked]>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 13:51:13 +0000

That's completely up to the network's discretion.

From: Miranda, Luis [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 9:50 AM
To: Wei, Shu-Yen; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Erik Smith
Subject: RE: question

Plus Erik who has negotiated our debates. I believe we left that to the networks. If you get a little more info from him on what kind of story he's working on we can decide if it's worth giving him any insight.
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From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 9:38 AM
To: Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis
Subject: Fwd: question
Do you guys have any idea on this? I don't know anything about debate negotiations

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From: "Fritze, John" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: May 20, 2016 at 9:15:03 AM EDT
To: "[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: question
I have a question I am hoping someone there can help me with on background, attributable to a "Democratic official" or whatever terms we negotiate.

Regarding the primary election debates, does anyone there know definitively whether the presidential campaigns negotiate the share of questions they will receive (40% of the questions asked, 50%, etc.), or is that something the network has license to decide? During the general election debate, I'm told, an equal number of questions is a negotiated point.  But how does it work for the primary?

Thanks much for any guidance.

John Fritze
Washington correspondent
The Baltimore Sun
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