Subject: Re: Barrish interview/story
From: "Molly Magarik" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Kaufman Ted" <[email-masked]>, "Jim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:38:26 -0500

I forwarded Jason's email to her, and left her a message asking her to call
me. Guessing she's bogged down with the boys today because they're out of
school.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Hunter Biden <[email-masked]>wrote:

> Has someone reached out to Margaret- does she know what to say?
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> RHB
> 202.333.1880
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> On Feb 13, 2014, at 3:35 PM, Molly Magarik <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> And Cris just left me a message saying he wants to talk to me about his
> upcoming story.
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> On Thu, 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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>> Sent from Xfinity Connect Mobile App
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: [email-masked]
>> To: [email-masked],[email-masked],[email-masked]
>> Sent:Thu Feb 13 01:17:19 UTC 2014
>> Subject: Fwd: Barrish interview/story
>>
>> 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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>> Begin forwarded message:
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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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