Subject: Re: Face the Nation Backup Plan
From: Debbie Wasserman Schultz <[email-masked]>
To: Hilary Rosen <[email-masked]>, Leah Daughtry <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Banfill, Ryan" <[email-masked]>, "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>, Tracie Pough <[email-masked]>, Anita Dunn <[email-masked]>, "Bonosky, Garret" <[email-masked]>, Kate Houghton <[email-masked]>, April Mellody <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 12:22:00 -0400

Didn't you guys have a discussion about this this morning?

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From: Hilary Rosen
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 12:15 PM
To: Leah Daughtry
Cc: Banfill, Ryan; Debbie Wasserman Schultz; Miranda, Luis; Tracie Pough; Anita Dunn; Bonosky, Garret; Kate Houghton; April Mellody
Subject: Re: Face the Nation Backup Plan

Why not release it monday morning and make the first available interview Cummings and the Chair on the Andrea Mitchell show. If you do it earlier, the Bernie people will go on TV. I think if the names leak earlier that is fine. We dont have to confirm and can say it is being announced on monday. This way Sanders doesn't get the jump on criticism. 

Sorry for the keyboard typos

Hilary Rosen
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> On May 20, 2016, at 3:34 PM, Leah Daughtry <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> I don't think this is going to hold until Monday. We've been calls to confirming various committee member names. They mostly already have Elijah's name ... 
> Perhaps her announcement should be more about the public participation opportunities ?? 
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> Subject: RE: Face the Nation Backup Plan
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> We like the idea of announcing on Monday Andrea Mitchell and wonder if it woudn't be even better to have her and Elijah Cummings do Andrea together. Then he can own some of the fair and open to all views stuff.
> We publish her speech tomorrow so that it is in the ether and then she can point to it as a demonstration of unity and optimism by Monday. 
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> From: Banfill, Ryan [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 2:59 PM
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> Subject: Face the Nation Backup Plan
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> Good afternoon, 
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> Face the Nation is focusing on the Egypt Air tragedy on Sunday and the chair will not be on the program. So our plan to make news on FTN has fallen through. 
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> The chair and I were just talking about a back-up plan and she asked me to share this idea with the team: 
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> * Like we were going to do on FTN, have the chair appear on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC program midday Monday to make the announcement.
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> The other elements that have been discussed would still remain in place. All this does is push the announcement back 24 hours. 
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> Please share your thoughts. 
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> Thank you,
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> Ryan
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