Subject: Fwd: Barrish interview/story
From: "Molly Magarik" <[email-masked]>
To: "Jim Smith" <[email-masked]>, "Ted Kaufman" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:16:37 -0500

See below from Jason about the News Journal story Cris Barrish is
supposedly working on for either next Sunday or the Sunday after.

Happy to set up a call if we want to discuss further what Jason should say,
beyond what he already has.

Definitely helpful that Paul Calistro was so forceful at pushing back
against Cris and his leading questions about Beau's health. It's also good
that Jason and Joe continue to post what Beau is doing on Facebook/Twitter,
so Cris can see that he's out beyond the office, and he has people to call
who can verify that he's fine and on the job.

Begin forwarded message:

*From:* Jason Miller <[email-masked]>
*Date:* February 12, 2014 at 5:17:02 PM EST
*To:* Molly Magarik <[email-masked]>, Joe Rogalsky <
[email-masked]>
*Subject:* *Barrish interview/story*

Molly - Quick recap of Cris's story:

- It's set to run a week from Sunday

- Cris has sought a sit-down interview with Beau since his procedure last
fall. Initially the story would have been a "how's Beau's health" story.
More recently, noting that this is an election year, Cris has argued the
sit-down would be for a "state of Beau Biden" story on his election plans,
what he has in mind for DOJ in a next term, how's his health, etc.

- Cris has indicated that he's writing a story about Beau either way - if
he gets a sit-down interview it'll be written as a profile piece.  If he
doesn't get an interview it'll be a "where's AG Biden" piece, with a focus
being that he hasn't given interviews or held press events or had speaking
engagements since he fell ill.

- I have reiterated to Cris that Beau is in the office nearly every day,
that he looks great, and that's he out in he community a lot.  Cris knows
that Beau attended State of the State and led our budget hearing in Leg
Hall last Fall.

- Cris follows our social media postings.  He saw our posts of Beau's visit
to West End Neighborhood House yesterday, and today he contacted Paul
Calistro to press him on how Beau looked (did he look healthy, did he look
angry?).  Paul replied that Beau was very energetic and looked great.

- I have explained to Cris numerous times that Beau is not going to do an
interview about his political future and his health - that Beau has said
repeatedly and publicly that he does not look too far ahead, and that he
talked with media at Leg Hall about his health.

- We need to decide whether Beau or anyone is going to talk with Cris for
this story, and whether/what a statement from our office says.  We also
need to decide whether there are any individuals we want to direct Cris to
- individuals who have spent time with Beau and can comment from personal
experience on how Beau's doing just fine.

Jaso