Subject: Politico on TPP and WJC comments on Daily Show
From: Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
To: Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, Amanda Renteria <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Marlon Marshall <[email-masked]>, Christina Reynolds <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:54:38 -0400

Annie Karni has been pitched a story by organized labor that, with WJC
making positive comments about free trade last night on the Daily Show, the
Clintons are deliberately trying to have it both ways on trade. I have
dissuaded her from making that accusation the lede, but she will still
frame the story as WJC muddling/complicating HRC's message from Iowa on
Sunday, even if Karni is convinced that it is not a deliberate two-step.

The story will also still denote labor's conspiracy theory by including a
blind quote from a union official saying it is insulting to voters to try
to so clearly play to both sides in the debate.

I would like to provide the below to dispute the premise that her position
is muddled:

"No president would be a tougher negotiator on behalf of American workers –
either with our trading partners or Republicans on Capitol Hill -- than
Hillary Clinton. She was very clear in her comments in Iowa about what she
believes must occur in the ongoing trade negotiations."