Subject: June 12 Evening Cable News Coverage
From: Charles Hicks <[email-masked]>
To: HRC Rapid <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Julie McClain <[email-masked]>, Meredith Thatcher <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:34:33 -0400
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National

-- Led with report on HRC’s relaunch; Martha MacCallum guest hosts;
MacCallum reported HRC had not done a single sit-down interview with a
reporter and questions still have zero answers; panel with Howard Kurtz,
Chris Stirewalt, and Ed Henry; Henry said the Saturday rally was HRC’s
third relaunch – the other two being the book tour and the video launch in
April; Henry said HRC has two big problems – that HRC claims she’s a
fighter but that she was noncommittal on the trade deal and an American
Crossroads poll that showed people in battleground states don’t think HRC
is trustworthy; Henry said he’d be watching to see what role WJC had in the
rally, noted WJC was in damage control this week; Stirewalt said he wished
reporters talked about the context of this speech; Stirewalt said HRC
talked about her mother when things were going wrong for HRC; Stirewalt
brought up HRC’s scandals and said HRC caused the problems for herself;
Stirewalt said HRC had too much baggage; Stirewalt said HRC may win but not
based on trustworthiness, said HRC may win on competence; Kurtz said HRC
was going to change the storyline for herself, and the press would lap it
up; Kurtz said HRC had not been talking to the press which created a vacuum
that the press filled with aggressive stories; Kurtz said he didn’t expect
we would see WJC very much this year. Fox News’ The Kelly File
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=e3da2857-316e-4538-bfc8-9ad46b316fda>,
2015 06 13 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, HRCs campaign launch
preview.mp4

-- Report on HRC’s rally on Saturday; Matthews reported on the HFA
“Fighter” video; Matthews said HRC was playing up Rodham more than Clinton,
said that HRC was playing up her ties to the left; panel with David Corn,
Jonathan Capehart, Francesca Chambers; Chambers said she thought HRC was
going to try to come across as a champion, said HRC was going to remind
people that she was once an everyday America; Capehart said the video did
not show WJC, said the rally was going to deliver HRC from WJC’s shadow;
Corn said the big question for HRC was why she wanted to be POTUS, said HRC
was going to talk about progressive and populist issues; Matthews said it
was HRC’s race to lose. MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews
<http://mms.tveyes.com/transcript.asp?StationID=205&DateTime=6/12/2015%207:51:37%20PM&playclip=true>,
2015 06 12 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Discussion about HRCs rally on
Roosevelt Island.mp4

-- Report on HRC’s campaign rally on Saturday; angle was can HRC energize
the Obama coalition; used mashup footage of HRC talking about policy during
the campaign so far; Al Sharpton showed that HRC’s favorability ratings
among liberals, Hispanics, and AfAms were similar to BHO’s favorability
ratings; Sharpton said HRC also needed progressives to endorse her, cited
EAW and Bill de Blasio; panel with Clarence Page and Victoria Defrancesco
Soto; Page said HRC needed intensity in support from African Americans;
Soto said HRC’s ability to hold onto the Obama coalition would depend on
who the GOP nominee was; showed HRC’s “Fighter” video; Page said HRC hadn’t
made up her mind yet about whether she was a progressive or a centrist,
cited HRC’s demurral on trade; Soto said HRC needs to start talking about
specifics and needed EAW and De Blasio to support her; Page said HRC would
answer the question about why she’s running for POTUS by talking about
fighting for Americans and talking about her mother. MSNBC’s PoliticsNation
With Al Sharpton
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=52b89897-4b97-4952-92b2-2bd8fd711e5d>,
2015 06 12 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Discussion about HRC and the
Obama coalition.mp4

-- Report on BHO’s failure on trade; Bret Baier asked Ed Henry what the
fallout was for HRC; Henry said HRC took a hit because she waffled and
pleased nobody; Henry said HRC could have stuck with trade and maybe had
the clout to get it over the finish line; Henry said HRC could have come
out against it and claimed a victory with organized labor. Fox News’
Special Report with Bret Baier
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=a166a703-25bc-4677-827f-17a6e5e52f20>,
2015 06 12 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Report on how Obamas trade
failure affects HRC.mp4

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Charles Hicks
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