Subject: Re: Barrish interview/story
From: "Molly Magarik" <[email-masked]>
To: "Kaufman Ted" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter" <[email-masked]>, "Jim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:35:13 -0500

And Cris just left me a message saying he wants to talk to me about his
upcoming story.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:10 AM, <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
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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*
>
> 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.
>
> Jason
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