Subject: July 6 Evening Cable News
From: Charles Hicks <[email-masked]>
To: HRC Rapid <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, Julie McClain <[email-masked]>, Meredith Thatcher <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:30:46 -0400
List-Id: <HRCRapid.hillaryclinton.com>

National

-- Report that HFA roped off the press in New Hampshire; Eric Bolling guest
hosts; panel with Jehmu Greene and Mercedes Schlapp; Greene noted that Brit
Hume said earlier in the day that the press can get jumbled up near the
candidate; Greene said the press thinks HRC’s responsibility was to them
not to the voters; Schlapp said the optics were bad, said it was bad
campaign management; Bolling said HRC treats the press like 5-year olds
because they act like 5-year olds; Bolling brought up reporters chasing
HRC’s van; shifted into report that Brianna Keilar attended an HFA’s aide’s
wedding; Greene asked who cared about that, said people in DC attend
weddings; Schlapp said HFA kept HRC from press because it was paranoid;
Greene said the press was obsessed with HRC and needed to go to therapy;
Schlapp said people do not trust HRC; Greene said HRC was still in the
lead; Schlapp said HRC was running like a dictator; Greene said HRC’s
answered questions for 30 years. Fox News’ Hannity
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=9c2e3ce7-5dd2-4fcd-962a-6aac642aad3d>,
2015 07 06 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Mercedes Schlapp Jehmu Greene
HRC first interview.mp4

-- Report that HFA roped off the press in New Hampshire; Shannon Bream
guest hosts; reported that HFA said the rope line was a way to accommodate
the press; panel with Chris Stirewalt and Howard Kurtz; Stirewalt said it
was like 50 Shades of Grey came to New Hampshire; Stirewalt said there was
something masochistic about the press’s relationship with HRC, said the
Clintons always beat the press up and the press comes back; shifted into
conversation about HRC doing national interviews; Kurtz said he broke the
story about national interviews on Sunday, said Jen Palmieri confirmed it
to him; Kurtz said the rope was a metaphor for a campaign that was trying
to lasso reporters, said this would have been a blip for someone else’s
campaign but was a problem for HRC’s due to her press relationship; shifted
into report about HRC’s interview with Brianna Keilar; Bream noted there
was some criticism that Keilar attended an HFA staffer’s wedding; Bream
said DC was a small town and a lot of people know one another; Stirewalt
said HRC needed to sit down with someone where there weren’t questions
about how strong the interview would be. Fox News’ The Kelly File
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2015 07 06 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Kelly File on HRC national
interviews CNN wedding.mp4

-- Read a letter to the show that said Bill O’Reilly’s statement that HRC
was subjected to false accusations was humorous; O’Reilly said there was no
person in the country more mocked than HRC; O’Reilly said he wanted to get
to the bottom of the email scandal and every other scandal. Fox News’ The
O’Reilly Factor
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2015 07 06 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Bill OReilly said HRC countrys
most mocked person.mp4

-- Report that Bernie Sanders wrote for The Vermont Freeman in the 1960s
and 1970s about people causing cancer; noted Sanders is holding his own in
the race for POTUS; reported HRC trailed HRC by eight points in a CNN/WMUR
poll and drew huge crowds in rallies in Denver and Madison; showed Jen
Palmieri on Morning Joe saying HFA was worried about Sanders; panel with
David Corn, Jennice Fuentes, and Jonathan Allen; Corn said the root of the
Sanders’ story wasn’t HFA; Chris Matthews asked Jon Allen whether Sanders
could win New Hampshire; Allen said he thought Sanders could win NH. MSNBC’s
Hardball with Chris Matthews
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2015 07 06 Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Clips, National, Chris Matthews
on Sanders surge and HFA oppo.mp4

-- Report that HRC roped off reporters for the July 4th parade; panel with
Rick Klein and Betsy Woodruff; Klein said he was stunned by the pictures,
said he understood what HFA was trying to do but the image was not the
best; Woodruff said she wasn’t surprised because this is a reflection of
how HFA views the press. Fox News’ On the Record With Greta Van Susteren
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=dce53df8-6337-4ca2-a4b4-368269131f1d>,
2015 07 06 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Greta Van Susteren on HRCs
July 4 rope line.mp4

-- Report that HRC planned to interview with Brianna Keilar; Pamela Brown
(guest host) reported that HRC shifted to make herself available to the
media; panel with Sara Murray, Gloria Borger, and Jeff Zeleny; Murray said
HFA was a well-planned campaign, said it now wants to move into these
longer interviews; Murray said sitting for interviews allows HRC; Borger
said HRC could look like the serious adult in the room as long as Donald
Trump was getting so much attention; Zeleny said interviews give HRC the
chance to lower expectations. CNN’s Situation Room
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2015 07 06 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Preview of HRCs first national
interview on CNN.mp4

-- Report on Bernie Sanders’ campaign surge; interviewed Angela Rye; Rye
said Sanders would continue to hold HRC’s feet to the fire, said she wanted
to know more about Sanders’ campaign team; Rye said it is “very very clear
that Hillary Clinton’s campaign team reflects the face of America. Where
are the diverse folks that are running Sen. Sanders’ campaign?”; Sharpton
agreed that HRC’s had diversity for a long time with the “Minyon Moores…
and the younger people now”; Rye said Sanders could beat HRC in Iowa, noted
Edwards beat HRC in Iowa. MSNBC’s PoliticsNation With Al Sharpton
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2015 07 06 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Angela Rye Al Sharpton on HFAs
staff diversity.mp4

-- Report that many in the media are “fit to be tied” about HRC roping off
the press in New Hampshire; Doug McKelway reports; McKelway mentioned New
Hampshire’s motto is “Live Free or Die,” said roping off reporters
backfired; McKelway said Twitter lit up with comments like, “Hogtied”;
showed Chris Christie calling the rope line outrageous, read a quote from
Jennifer Horn; used footage of Jen Palmieri on Morning Joe, noted the
Morning Joe team laughed at Palmieri’s answer; McKelway explained the rest
of Palmieri’s answer that the rope was a compromise between a static press
and a free-for-all, showed Palmieri saying the press couldn’t get in the
way of HRC campaigning; showed footage of Palmieri saying the campaign
didn’t have all of the vehicles it would have later in the campaign;
reported that the Fox News camera operator said he was free to come and go
from the rope line so long as he didn’t get closer than the rope or ask
questions; led into report that on June 1st journalists covering HRC met
about not having enough access to HRC; McKelway said HRC’s press aversion
took its toll on HRC in polls. Fox News’ Special Report With Bret Baier
<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=f251e51b-d61b-4106-8152-9c7a27986429>,
2015 07 06 Hillary Clinton, Clips, National, Doug McKelway on HRCs Iowa
rope line.mp4

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Charles Hicks
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