Subject: Re: Draft Statement for HRC for Tues (comment)
From: Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>
To: Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>
Cc: Heather Samuelson <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>, Philippe Reines <[email-masked]>, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>, Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, Jim Margolis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:33:21 -0400

Sorry gang - sent an old q/a instead of statement comments - which is now
attached.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Kristing
>
> Not sure who is the keeper of the document but find an additional comment
> attached.
>
> I didn't cir to everyone to not clutter inboxes (I am having a hard time
> with mine)!
>
> thanks
>
> cdm
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Joel, Jim and I have drafted the following for HRC to say tomorrow:
>>
>>  thx
>>
>>  Mandy
>>
>>  Before we get started, I'd like to take a minute to talk about the
>> topic...of emails.
>>
>>  I think there has been some confusion out there about my emails as
>> Secretary of State, so I want to talk about it directly.
>>
>>  When I was in the Senate, I used a Blackberry for both work and
>> personal emails. When I got to work as Secretary,  I wanted to do the same
>> thing.  So I opted to use my personal email account -  which was permitted
>> by the department -  because I thought it would be easier to carry just one
>> device for my work and for my personal emails, instead of two.
>>
>>  A lot of you know, I'm not exactly a technological whiz.
>>
>>  Looking back, it would have been better if I had simply used a second
>> email account and carried a second phone, but at the time, this certainly
>> didn't seem like an issue.
>>
>>  I sent my work emails to government employees at their government
>> addresses, which meant they were immediately preserved on the system at the
>> State Department.
>>
>>  After I left office, when the Department asked  for all emails from
>> former secretaries of state sent from their personal accounts, I
>> responded  right away and we have turned over all of my work related
>> emails,  which total roughly 55,000 printed pages.
>>
>>  I have also asked that the State Department make all of these emails
>> public so everyone can see them for themselves.
>>
>>
>> *Mandy Grunwald*
>> *Grunwald Communications*
>> *202 973-9400 <202%20973-9400>*
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Heather Samuelson <[email-masked]>
>> To: Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: john.podesta <[email-masked]>; Robby Mook <
>> [email-masked]>; Jennifer Palmier I <
>> [email-masked]>; Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>;
>> Philippe Reines <[email-masked]>; Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>;
>> Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>; jbenenson <[email-masked]>;
>> [email-masked] <[email-masked]>; gruncom <[email-masked]>;
>> john <[email-masked]>; Turner, Katherine <[email-masked]>; Kendall,
>> David <[email-masked]>
>> Sent: Sun, Mar 8, 2015 3:30 pm
>> Subject: Revised Q&A and Statement
>>
>>   Revised Q&A and statement are attached, incorporating edits/comments
>> from this morning.    Thx
>>
>>   *From:* Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, March 8, 2015 3:24 PM
>> *To:* Heather Samuelson <[email-masked]>
>> *Cc:* [email-masked], Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Jennifer
>> Palmier I <[email-masked]>, Huma Abedin
>> <[email-masked]>, Philippe Reines <[email-masked]>, Nick Merrill
>> <[email-masked]>, Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>,
>> [email-masked], [email-masked] <[email-masked]>,
>> [email-masked], [email-masked], Turner, Katherine <[email-masked]>,
>> Kendall, David <[email-masked]>
>>
>>   Attached is Jen's press and surrogate plan.
>>
>>
>>
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