Subject: Re: Barrish interview/story
From: <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter" <[email-masked]>, "Jim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:21:46 -0500

I agree. Cris routinely calls her for Biden stories, so it would be good to have her looped in.

Molly Magarik
302-377-2625 (m) 

> On Feb 13, 2014, at 9:10 AM, <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> We should get Margaret Aitkin involved in this. 
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> Subject: Fwd: Barrish interview/story
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> See below from Jason about the News Journal story Cris Barrish is supposedly working on for either next Sunday or the Sunday after. 
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> Happy to set up a call if we want to discuss further what Jason should say, beyond what he already has. 
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> 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. 
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> 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
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> Molly - Quick recap of Cris's story:
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> - It's set to run a week from Sunday
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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> Jason
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> =2