Subject: Fwd: How cheap is Hillary Clinton’s campaign? This cheap. - The Washington Post
From: Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Milia Fisher <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 11:40:47 -0400

JP - I like your quote. Palmieri agrees. Ok to bless her using it on the
record?

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From: *Gearan, Anne* <[email-masked]>
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Subject: How cheap is Hillary Clinton’s campaign? This cheap. - The
Washington Post
To: Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>

 Very helpful - thank you.
I asked John a little about this at the end of our trip. We were done with
the explicitly on-record part so wanted to run his quite by you. He said
he's not yet sure whether HRC will do an overseas swing like all the Rs are
likely to do.
"I'm not sure she needs to. She doesn't need to go to England to prove she
knows the difference between the queen and the prime minister."
Would love to use on record. If it has to be on background I can live with
that, but it's a good line.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 9, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Brian Fallon <[email-masked]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[email-masked]');>> wrote:

 Sure. In meantime, not as a hillary person but as a dem I would say there
are two phenomena at work in terms of gop focus on foreign policy:

 1. Gop focus on foreign policy derives less from some read of the
electorate that dems are missing and more from their desire to
attack/confront obama wherever possible. Economy is improving so that is
not great place to go after him. But they think rise of isis/negotiations
with iran/etc give them place to attack him as soft/leading from behind.
They are overvaluing how much voters care about this stuff but that is less
the point than the opportunity to attack obama.

 2. There are true fissures on gop side on foreign policy such that is a
natural topic of conversation in their primary as they seek to
differentiate themselves from each other. This is most true with respect to
paul and the libertarian/isolationist wing of the party he represents. But
it has also surfaced as a salient issue within the primary in that jeb's
brother owns iraq, so some of his rivals have been happy to tweak him on
that/jump on his stumbles on what he would do knowing what we know now.
This dynamic is less at work on our side. We dont have major disagreements
on foreign policy currently. Focus will more be on how far college
affordability plan goes etc

 Podesta actually made the first point in the background briefing a couple
weeks ago if you look back at that

On Tuesday, June 9, 2015, Gearan, Anne <[email-masked]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[email-masked]');>> wrote:

>  Thanks for your help. It was fun to do. Now back to the grind. Got a
> piece in the works on how foreign policy goes pretty much unmentioned at
> this point on the D side while it's a big part of the R debate. Can we talk
> today?
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jun 9, 2015, at 9:04 AM, Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
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>  Funny! Nice detail on john's devices automatically set to the
> wireless...
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> On Tuesday, June 9, 2015, Gearan, Anne <[email-masked]> wrote:
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