Subject: July 13 Evening Cable News
From: Brooke Goren <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:44:18 -0400
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--Chris Matthews discusses NY Times article this weekend which looks at
Republican attack machine against HRC. Says NYT reports looked at focus
groups set up by Karl Rove Super PAC Crossroads which gathered about 50
voters representing groups that it believes can be persuaded to vote
against HRC. The group was made up of an all-white group of young men, low
income adults, married mothers, and politically moderate women. Shows as
attacking HRC as untrustworthy, secretive, scandal-ridden, as well as rich
and out of touch. Perry Bacon joins the show and says the GOP is trying to
capitalize on polls which show that people already question HRC’s honesty
and trustworthiness so that Jeb or Marco can stay more positive. Matthews
says the GOP just likes to bash HRC. Michelle Bernard says that’s not smart
and she questions what we see coming out of these focus groups. Says HRC
has made some foolhardy statements such as, we were dead broke coming out
of the White House, but HRC is not a Mitt Romney in pantsuit – she has
always been a champion for women, children, and the underclass. Voters will
look at it through the lens of, whose policies will be better for me. Says
that everything else won’t hurt HRC too much. Bernard says HRC has said she
will do something with the tax code to incentivize profit sharing – that is
something that people will legitimately attack her on. Bacon says the email
issue itself is not going to win the Republicans the election, polls show
that issue is not very strong. Says Republicans need to peel some voters
away from Obama who currently has very high approval. Bacon says that one
way they can do this is by attacking her personality since most people
don’t vote strictly on policy. Thinks this is a smart angle for the
Republicans to test. Matthews says in 2008 when HRC became very emotional,
she came across better when she was on the defensive. Bernard says it’s a
big risk for the Republicans to take because people will constantly be
targeting women, especially women of color who traditionally vote democrat
who are going to like that HRC has broken through the glass ceiling. Hardball
with Chris Matthews
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=f1ebf4dc-e63b-421e-8ed6-8e13af3f4b52>.
2015 07 13,Hillary Clinton,Commentary,National,Commentary on Republican
attack strategy.mp4

--Lou Dobbs comments on HRC economic agenda. Says she called for higher
taxes and more regulation of Wall Street and lashed out at Republicans.
Shows clip of HRC saying Scott Walker stomps on worker’s rights. Lou Dobbs
says she wants minimum wage increases and wants companies to share their
profits with employees. Lou Dobbs Tonight
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=cdafea23-b5be-4246-810d-0be81c2d164f>.
2015 07 13,Hillary Clinton,Commentary,National,HRC Economic Speech
Review.mp4

--Commentary on HRC economic address. Says HRC promoted growth through
higher taxes and profit sharing as well as advocating higher wages. Shows
clip of HRC saying that wages need to rise to keep up with checks. Jonathan
Hoenig joins the show and criticizes HRC for talking about fairness, saying
she talked about fair market rather than free market and says that her
version of that is the government having a hand in everything. Calls it
“full economic dictatorship.” Says it’s worse than Obama. Says Obama’s
efforts have made the rich richer and the middle class even further down
the line. Hoenig claims that the country is primed for HRC’s policies and
we are in trouble because her speech reflected the economic views of many
Americans right now. Kennedy says that places like Venezuela show why HRC’s
plan doesn’t work. Hoenig says HRC will decide how the economy is going to
run and who is going to get helped and who will get hurt. Kennedy on Fox
Business Network
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=a5703e99-103a-4f53-96d6-1b361bb1c8b7>.
2015 07 13,Hillary Clinton,Commentary,National,Jonathan Hoenig on HRC
economic speech.mp4

--Review of HRC’s economic speech and speech at La Raza. Says she targeted
Scott Walker and pledged to stand behind corporate profit sharing. Shows
clip of HRC saying she believes in and will fight for profit sharing. Says
HRC slammed republicans during her La Raza speech for not speaking out
against Donald Trump sooner. Mark Preston joins the show and says HRC is
moving to the left and some think she has been pushed that way by Bernie
Sanders. Host says HRC talked about imposing more regulations on financial
institutions and host wonders how this will be possible since financial
institutions are so strong and HRC is seen as a friend of Wall Street.
Preston says HRC has done very well with people on Wall Street. Preston
says it doesn’t matter all that much because the executive branch still
have to work with Congress. CNN Today
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=d19240a1-435c-4485-8c82-52936a571b62>.
2015 07 13,Hillary Clinton,Commentary,National,Discussion of HRC economic
agenda.mp4

--Lawrence O’Donnell jokes that Scott Walker was welcomed to the campaign
today by HRC. Shows clip of HRC saying that Republican governors like
Walker have been stomping on workers’ rights. Says she will fight back
against the attacks. Charlie Cook joins the show and says HRC is running
for the Democrat nomination and talking about the appropriate themes and
Scott Walker is doing the same for his party. The Last Word with Lawrence
O’Donnell
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=71e3d5c2-ddf9-492c-9ca3-a2336e08c158>.
2015 07 13,Hillary Clinton;Scott Walker,Commentary,National,HRC attack on
Scott Walker.mp4

--Shows clip of Gene Sperling saying the worst thing is when a president
lobs in too many policies at once and no one can understand them. Lawrence
O’Donnell says this is the justification for very few specifics in HRC’s
economic speech. Quotes what he says are all specific policy proposals in
the entire speech including closing loopholes that reward companies for
sending jobs and profits overseas, funding scientific and medical research
that spawns innovative companies and create entire new industries, closing
carried interest loophole that lets wealthy financiers pay an artificially
low rate, providing universal pre-k, going beyond Dodd-Frank to simplify
financial institutions and make them less risky. O’Donnell says the rest of
the speech was made up of attacks on Republicans and boiler-plate
speechmaking that could be put into any speech by any politician. Shows
clip of HRC saying we must raise incomes for hardworking Americans so they
can have a middle class life and that will be her mission. Shows clip of
HRC commenting on Jeb Bush saying American workers need to work longer
hours. O’Donnell says Bernie Sanders talks much more specifically. E.J.
Dionne joins the show and says HRC is thinking of a general and Bernie is
focused on the primary. Dionne defends HRC saying she talked about
specifics like profit sharing and overtime and family leave. Says what HRC
was doing was saying that the Republicans want to make it about growth and
she’s for that too, but she is for more fair, sustainable growth. Says she
is challenging them on the issue of stagnating wages. She wants it to be a
bidding war for the votes of working class and middle class voters. So many
of the issues she’s had have been about issues. Seems to be taking a leaf
out of WJC’s book and giving a whole bunch of policy speeches and banking
on the fact that voters care more about their wallets than any other
issues. O’Donnell says she went on for 45 minutes and most of it was a
drone and Bernie is more engaging. Charlie Cook says no normal person is
watching a 45 minute speech by any politician. Cook says there’s nothing a
campaign strategist likes more than their opponent being very specific
because it allows for attacks. Says income inequality is not a dangerous
place to go and it goes beyond the Democratic base. Stuart Stevens says HRC
seems to be the most joyless candidate to run for president ever. Says it’s
like someone made her go say these things and Jeb seems to be having the
time of his life compared to HRC. O’Donnell says it’s the tension of being
the frontrunner because there’s so much pressure to be cautious. Stevens
says since January HRC has done nothing but lose votes. Says when Howard
Dean was the front runner he seemed to be having the time of his life, says
Bernie seems to be having a lot more fun. Dionne says HRC is being very
careful, maybe more careful than she should be. Thinks she is too cautious
with the press but she is a policy wonk and she’s banking on the voters
wanting that. The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=112053dd-77ca-4e88-afd3-19e76f3272bf>.
2015 07 13,Hillary Clinton;Bernie Sanders,Commentary,National,Commentary on
HRC speech-giving style.mp4