Subject: RE: Face the Nation Backup Plan
From: April Mellody <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 20:35:18 +0000

Will do.  Thanks! 

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Subject: RE: Face the Nation Backup Plan

Ok, please let me know if you can share a tic toc with my team, talking points to circulate to allies/talkers/and DNC members, and any backgrounder so we're ready. If you're putting out a press release we can also forward it to our list to make sure everyone gets it. Thanks.
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Subject: RE: Face the Nation Backup Plan

Yes. That's what we are aiming to do.

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Subject: RE: Face the Nation Backup Plan

Leah raises a good point if the campaigns have notified the people who will be on it, it will likely leak befoer then. My suggestion is that you feed a positive story to a reporter who can then ensure the first story is decent as opposed to just sending out a press release.
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Subject: RE: Face the Nation Backup Plan

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

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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Subject: Face the Nation Backup Plan

Good afternoon,

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.

The chair and I were just talking about a back-up plan and she asked me to share this idea with the team:

* Like we were going to do on FTN, have the chair appear on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC program midday Monday to make the announcement.

The other elements that have been discussed would still remain in place. All this does is push the announcement back 24 hours.

Please share your thoughts.

Thank you,

Ryan

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