Subject: June 15 Evening Cable News
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: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:38:29 -0400
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National

-- Report that Republicans are avoiding talking about George W. Bush’s
presidency while HRC is talking about WJC’s and BHO’s presidencies; panel
with Kasie Hunt, Anne Gearan, and Maria Teresa Kumar; O’Donnell noted that
HRC was very comfortable talking about the BHO presidency, Gearan
agreed; Gearan
said HRC was extremely complimentary of BHO; Gearan said HRC is talking
more about WJC on the trail than any time in the last year or so; Gearan
noted HRC broke with BHO and WJC on trade; O’Donnell noted HRC said the TPP
would be the gold standard of trade agreements when she was Secretary of
State; Kumar said labor was surprised by HRC’s stance on trade; Kumar said
HRC’s switch plays into the question of if HRC would be consistent or flip
flop; Hunt said she did not know whether we were seeing the real HRC
because the policies she’s putting forward are different from her husband’s
policies; discussion shifted to polling about HRC’s trustworthiness; Gearan
said it was to be expected that HRC’s poll numbers would go down after
leaving Secretary of State; Gearan noted poll numbers that show people
could see HRC being POTUS; Gearan said HRC has to get past the trade
discussion which was a nightmare for HFA because it’s split the party; Hunt
noted HRC’s goal was to pit the Republicans against one another; Hunt said
she was not convinced that anyone in the GOP field could beat HRC;
O’Donnell noted that the poll questions of trustworthiness had only been
asked about HRC; Gearan said the question of trustworthiness couldn’t even
be asked of GOP candidates with the possible exception of Jeb Bush because
people don’t know who they are; Gearan said Jeb Bush was the one to watch
for HRC. MSNBC’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell
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2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Clips, National, Anne Gearan on HRCs
trustworthiness.mp4

-- Report on a CNN/ORC poll and a WaPo/ABC News poll that show voters do
not think HRC is not honest or trustworthy; showed a clip of people from
HRC’s rally on Saturday saying that they trust HRC; panel with Peter
Schweitzer, Doug Schoen, and John Sununu; Schweitzer said the challenge for
HRC was transparency which she could start resolving through disclosure of
donors to The Clinton Foundation; Schweitzer said HRC was convinced HRC
could just ride this out unfortunately; Schoen said strategically that this
was not the time for HRC to address concerns about her; Schoen said
peoples’ political choice are not limited to who is honest and trustworthy;
shifted into conversation about Marco Rubio’s ad about HRC talking about
“yesterday”; Schweitzer said the 2016 campaign was about a generational
shift with Rubio saying it’s time for generational change. Fox News’ Hannity
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2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Peter Schweitzer on HRCs
honesty and trust polling.mp4

-- Discussion about how Jeb Bush could compete against HRC; interview with
Gloria Borger; Cooper said if Bush gets the nomination then Republicans
lose the attack against HRC that she is a throwback to the past; Borger
said GOP is already talking about Bush as a relic and as a throwback to the
past; Borger said Bush’s campaign said that Bush was the only candidate who
could take on HRC on equal footing. CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360
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2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Clips, National, Discussion of how
Bush could run against HRC.mp4

-- Report on Jeb running without using his last name; said HRC is going by
just Hillary but is not running away from her last name, WJC, or BHO; used
footage of HRC talking about WJC and BHO at Roosevelt Island on Saturday;
commercial break; used footage of HRC talking about WJC and BHO in Iowa,
with the Des Moines Register, and in Concord; Maddow said people didn’t
know how HRC was going to position herself to BHO, said now people know HRC
is going to embrace BHO; contrasted HRC with Bush whose brother and father
weren’t at his announcement; interviewed Andrea Mitchell; Mitchell said
HRC’s embracing BHO and WJC; Mitchell said HRC was distinguishing herself
on policy; Mitchell noted HRC was under pressure from Elizabeth Warren;
Mitchell noted that HRC’s trade stance was noted in the White House;
Mitchell said HRC’s movement has been artfully done; Mitchell said that HRC
took questions from the press served HRC well, said HRC was adept at
answering press questions. MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show
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2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Maddow on HRC staying with BHO
and WJC pt 1.mp4 MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=77102f44-8613-496a-82c1-f6b62f1e1fc4>,
2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Maddow on HRC staying with BHO
and WJC pt 2.mp4

-- Report that HRC took questions from the press on Monday; Chris Hayes
noted that if the low level of press access HRC gives is unprecedented that
so too is the media scrum surrounding her; Hayes said HRC is being covered
like a sitting POTUS with an overwhelming media presence tracking her every
move; reported more than 500 reporters showed up to cover HRC’s rally and
“That is crazy”; Hayes said very few people would blame HRC for being wary
of the media but noted HRC’s avoidance of the press was not without
consequences; interviewed Eric Boehlert; Hayes said BHO proved that no one
cares about press access to the candidate; Boehlert said the demand for
content from journalists 18 months out is ridiculous; conversation shifted
to trade; Hayes said he thought it was reasonable for the press to ask HRC
how she would have voted on trade if she was in the Senate; Hayes noted HRC
was supportive of the TPP while she was Secretary of State; Boehlert said
the press keeps saying HRC won’t answer about trade but it’s really that
the press just doesn’t like HRC’s answer. MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=e5575c1a-70fb-4367-8881-4c0515c987b8>,
2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Eric Boehlert on HRCs press
coverage.mp4

-- Discussion about Jeb Bush’s announcement; panel with Michael Steele;
brief discussion about Bush discussing The Little Sisters of the Poor;
Steele said Bush put down a marker like HRC and said Bush wanted to be the
champion of religious rights; led into report about Bush and HRC not using
their last names in their logos; showed Mitt Romney’s interview answers
about HRC’s wealth from MSNBC Monday; showed clips of HRC’s response to
Romney’s comment on Monday, showed footage from HRC’s rally when she spoke
about kindergarten teachers and hedge fund CEOs; noted HRC talked about her
gender on Saturday; interviewed Rebecca Traister; Hayes said the soundbite
about HRC being the youngest woman POTUS was a repudiation of 2008;
Traister said HRC was running a completely different kind of campaign, said
HRC was leading with populism and comparing herself to FDR; Traister said
it feels like HRC has taken off in a new direction, noted HRC said she
would work with willing partners—and that she didn’t say she would reach
across the order; Traister and Hayes have an extended interaction about how
HRC running to be the first woman POTUS was extremely progressive; Traister
said HRC’s recent move reflects a lot of the work she did early in her
career as a law student, lawyer in Arkansas, work in legal services, noted
that Jimmy Carter appointed HRC to run the legal services corporation,
noted HRC was a public defender in Arkansas and set up a legal aid clinic;
Traister said HRC’s investment in criminal justice reform has roots in her
early career. MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=0fec2369-8fde-44d6-9300-7715813f4f34>,
2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Clips, National, Rebecca Traister on
HRCs progressive history.mp4

-- Led with HRC’s campaign rally; O’Reilly said HRC gave a 40-minute speech
that was about 20 minutes too long; O’Reilly’s Talking Points section was
about how HRC is trying to convince working people that the economy is
rigged against them; O’Reilly predicted that HRC would continue not talking
to the press even though she answered a few questions in New
Hampshire; O’Reilly
said HRC is embracing BHO’s economic failed economic policies; O’Reilly
said no POTUS can regulate capitalism; O’Reilly pointed to a WSJ editorial
that said HRC’s rally speech went against WJC’s policies; interviewed Brit
Hume; Hume said it was bizarre that HRC was complaining about what people
could make, given that HRC and WJC made a killing in speaking fees; Hume
said HRC seems far ahead of anyone in the Democratic Party but she is
running like she’s scared to death that someone is going to come at her
from the left; showed HRC saying in Concord that she thought BHO did an
extraordinary job on the economy; Hume said HRC was trying to give BHO
credit for work that was done before HRC was put into office. Fox News’ The
O’Reilly Factor
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2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, OReilly and Hume on HRCs
rally.mp4

-- Matthews’ Let Me Finish segment was on HRC’s platform; Matthews said HRC
refused to let the Democratic Party be confused with the British Labor
Party; Matthews said the debate among the left of center in the US was
interesting with Bernie Sanders and HRC debating what the left of center
should look like. MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=e405c580-b798-4ab3-8f76-bce3402c5c02>,
2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Clips, National, Matthews
talked about HRCs and Sanders economics.mp4

-- Report on HRC becoming comfortable being a woman candidate; Chris
Matthews loved HRC’s line about being the youngest woman President; panel
with Howard Fineman, Erin McPike, and Perry Bacon; Fineman said he thought
the presence of Angela Merkel on the world stage may be affecting HRC’s
willingness to run as a woman; Matthews wondered why HRC had not talked
about her tenure as Secretary of State; Bacon said Democrats tend to care
about the economy more, said the BHO/HRC foreign policy is not something to
brag about given ISIS and Iraq; Fineman said HRC wants to run as an
outsider. MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=6515ee38-6fc7-4e6b-ae93-78e8d824cb78>,
2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Discussion about HRC as first
woman POTUS.mp4

-- Report on HRC putting up her points (basketball reference) over the
weekend; Chris Matthews said HRC was just missing an opponent, and now
she’s got one in Bernie Sanders; panel with David Axelrod, Lissa Muscatine,
and Eugene Robinson; showed footage of HRC talking about success during her
Concord campaign stop; Robinson said HRC and Sanders are trying to talk to
the soul of the Democratic Party, said HRC was speaking about the standard
Democratic platform; Matthews said HRC was talking about the Democratic
platform and Sanders is a socialist; Axelrod said HRC’s fundamental
approach reflects the mainstream of the Democratic Party, said Sanders was
like a fun date who you flirt with but that HRC would be the nominee;
Muscatine said HRC and Sanders agreed that income inequality was a key
problem; Axelrod said some people view HRC as better at navigating
Washington than BHO; shifted into a report on HRC scolding Wall Street
during her launch; Matthews said Sanders sounded like he wanted to destroy
Wall Street during his launch; Robinson said the sweet spot was somewhere
between the two of them; Matthews said HRC’s speech wasn’t as good as Jeb’s
speech; Muscatine talked about the purpose of HRC’s launch, noted HRC went
more into policy than she expected; Axelrod said HRC gave the State of the
Union speech early with her launch; Matthews noted that “Nick Merrill”
picked who got to ask HRC questions during her event in Concord; shifted
into HRC’s trade answer from the weekend; Matthews noted HRC’s answer
sounded like WJC’s answer in a 1992 debate; Axelrod noted that HRC said the
TPP would be the gold standard of trade agreements; Matthews said it’s
clear that WJC was in favor of TPP. MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews
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2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Discussion about HRCs launch
pt 1.mp4 MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews
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2015 06 15 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Discussion about HRCs launch
pt 2.mp4

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Charles Hicks
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