Subject: Re: Call with HRC
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: "Margolis, Jim" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Matt Paul <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, Bonnie Rubin <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:44:46 -0400

I think Podesta has some concerns about referencing emails, even like this

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Margolis, Jim <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> That works too Joel.
> I think her using it shows strength
> Not worried about credit for Bernie
>
> Jim Margolis
> Sent from my iPhone.
> Please excuse typos.
>
> On Oct 24, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Joel Benenson <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> It’s a joke that would work and room would love it.  However one caveat:
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> I think it gives Bernie the credit for putting the email crap behind us
> instead of her --- she crushed the debate and she crushed at the
> committee.. And while crowd may love it question for comms team is whether
> reporters would take it as proof that Bernie “saved” her campaign from the
> email tempest.
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> Maybe I’m being too literal here but that was my thought process.
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> If others think I’m overthinking this, we can use it.
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> Line could  be ----    I don’t if you all saw it but the hearing went on
> for 11 hours.  Eleven hours.  I was kind of expecting around hour # 8
>  Bernie Sanders would burst in and shout --- “enough about your damn emails
> Hillary!!”
>
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>
> *From:* Margolis, Jim [mailto:[email-masked]
> <[email-masked]>]
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 24, 2015 11:52 AM
> *To:* Robby Mook
> *Cc:* Jennifer Palmieri; Joel Benenson; Matt Paul; Jake Sullivan; John
> Podesta; Mandy Grunwald; Bonnie Rubin; [email-masked];
> [email-masked]; [email-masked];
> [email-masked]; [email-masked];
> [email-masked]
> *Subject:* Re: Call with HRC
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> You all think wjc's joke is too much about her kinda wishing after hour 8
> that Bernie would come through the door with his damn email line ..,?
>
> I think it's funny and confident and the room would love it.
>
> Jim Margolis
>
> Sent from my iPhone.
>
> Please excuse typos.
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Robby Mook <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Is there some Apprentice joke to make?  I never saw the show.  I'm also
> the worst person to generate jokes....
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> On Oct 24, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Margolis, Jim <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> All that said… we really could use a little humor in here…
>
> Thinking.
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> *From: *Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
> *Date: *Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 11:40 AM
> *To: *Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>
> *Cc: *Matt Paul <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <
> [email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>,
> Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, Bonnie Rubin <[email-masked]>,
> Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <
> [email-masked]>, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>,
> GMMB GMMB <[email-masked]>, Milia Fisher <
> [email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <
> [email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <
> [email-masked]>, Marlon Marshall <
> [email-masked]>
> *Subject: *Re: Call with HRC
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>
> I was kidding!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 24, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Joel Benenson <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Not ninnies.
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> We own the high ground right now. We should stay there.
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> *From:* Jennifer Palmieri [mailto:[email-masked]
> <[email-masked]>]
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 24, 2015 11:38 AM
> *To:* Matt Paul
> *Cc:* Jake Sullivan; John Podesta; Mandy Grunwald; Bonnie Rubin; Robby
> Mook; [email-masked]; Joel Benenson; [email-masked];
> Jim Margolis; [email-masked]; [email-masked];
> [email-masked]; [email-masked]
> *Subject:* Re: Call with HRC
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>
> Wow.  You people are a bunch of ninnies.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 24, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Matt Paul <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Agree-tempting.   but she shouldn't go there tonight
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> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Jake Sullivan <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
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> I love the joke too but I think HRC should stay above the committee - and
> especially above personal insults about it.   She's got every inch of the
> high ground right now.
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> On Oct 24, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Jennifer Palmieri <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
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> That's because you love your own joke.
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>
> But I think it is okay.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 24, 2015, at 11:04 AM, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> I don't think so.
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> On Oct 24, 2015 10:54 AM, "Mandy Grunwald" <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> LOVE the Trey Gowdy line.
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> Just wonder if that undercuts our statesmanship point too much.
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> *Mandy Grunwald*
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> *Grunwald Communications*
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> *202 973-9400 <202%20973-9400>*
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
> To: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jim Margolis <[email-masked]>; Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>;
> Robby Mook <[email-masked]>; Jake Sullivan <
> [email-masked]>; Sawsan Bay <[email-masked]>;
> Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>; Bonnie Rubin <
> [email-masked]>; Marlon Marshall <[email-masked]>;
> Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>; Milia Fisher <
> [email-masked]>; Matt Paul <[email-masked]>; Kate
> Offerdahl <[email-masked]>; Huma Abedin <
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> Sent: Sat, Oct 24, 2015 10:49 am
> Subject: Re: Call with HRC
>
> I couldn't talk on the call,  but I agree with Joel,  let's not go back to
> emails.
> Re Jen's point on this being a partisan crowd salesmanship not
> partisanship is a hard shot at the Republicans,  so I think it's fine.
> On freshening things up, what about: I used to be obsessed with Donald
> Trump's hair, that was until I got to spend 11 hours staring at the top of
> Trey Gowdy's head
>
> On Oct 24, 2015 9:38 AM, "Dan Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Here's Obama in 2007:
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>
> Barack Obama, 2007
>
>
>
> Thank you so much. To the great Governor of Iowa and Lieutenant. Governor
> of Iowa. To my dear friend Tom Harkin
> <http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/h000206/> for the
> outstanding work that he does. To the congressional delegation of Iowa that
> is doing outstanding work and to Nancy Pelosi
> <http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000197/>, Madam
> Speaker, thank you all for the wonderful welcome and the wonderful
> hospitality.
>
>
>
> [Responding to audience] I love you back.
>
>
>
> A little less than one year from today, you will go into the voting booth
> and you will select the President of the United States of America. Now,
> here's the good news -- the name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot.
> The name of my cousin Dick Cheney will not be on the ballot. We've been
> trying to hide that for a long time. Everybody has a black sheep in the
> family. The era of Scooter Libby justice, and Brownie incompetence, and
> Karl Rove politics will finally be over.
>
>
>
> But the question you're going to have to ask yourself when you caucus in
> January and you vote in November is, "What's next for America?" We are in a
> defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war. The planet is in
> peril. The dream that so many generations fought for feels as if it's
> slowly slipping away. We are working harder for less. We've never paid more
> for health care or for college. It's harder to save and it's harder to
> retire. And most of all we've lost faith that our leaders can or will do
> anything about it.
>
>
>
> We were promised compassionate conservatism and all we got was Katrina and
> wiretaps. We were promised a uniter, and we got a President who could not
> even lead the half of the country that voted for him. We were promised a
> more ethical and more efficient government, and instead we have a town
> called Washington that is more corrupt and more wasteful than it was
> before. And the only mission that was ever accomplished is to use fear and
> falsehood to take this country to a war that should have never been
> authorized and should have never been waged.
>
>
>
> It is because of these failures that America is listening, intently, to
> what we say here today -- not just Democrats, but Republicans and
> Independents who've lost trust in their government, but want to believe
> again.
>
>
>
> And it is because of these failures that we not only have a moment of
> great challenge, but also a moment of great opportunity. We have a chance
> to bring the country together in a new majority -- to finally tackle
> problems that George Bush made far worse, but that had festered long before
> George Bush ever took office -- problems that we've talked about year after
> year after year after year.
>
>
>
> And that is why the same old Washington textbook campaigns just won't do
> in this election. That's why not answering questions, because we are afraid
> our answers won't be popular just won't do. That's why telling the American
> people what we think they want to hear instead of telling the American
> people what they need to hear just won't do. Triangulating and poll-driven
> positions because we're worried about what Mitt or Rudy might say about us
> just won't do. If we are really serious about wining this election
> Democrats, we can't live in fear of losing it.
>
> This party -- the party of Jefferson and Jackson; of Roosevelt and Kennedy
> -- has always made the biggest difference in the lives of the American
> people when we led, not by polls, but by principle; not by calculation, but
> by conviction; when we summoned the entire nation to a common purpose -- a
> higher purpose. And I run for the Presidency of the United States of
> America because that's the party America needs us to be right now.
>
>
>
> A party that offers not just a difference in policies, but a difference in
> leadership.
>
>
>
> A party that doesn't just focus on how to win but why we should. A party
> that doesn't just offer change as a slogan, but real, meaningful change --
> change that America can believe in. That's why I'm in this race. That's why
> I am running for the Presidency of the United States of America -- to offer
> change that we can believe in.
>
>
>
> I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of
> setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other
> candidate in this race to take on lobbyists -- and won. They have not
> funded my campaign, they will not get a job in my White House, and they
> will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am President.
> I'm in this race to take those tax breaks away from companies that are
> moving jobs overseas and put them in the pockets of hard working Americans
> who deserve it. And I won't raise the minimum wage every ten years -- I
> will raise it to keep pace so that workers don't' fall behind.
>
>
>
> That is why I am in it. To protect the American worker. To fight for the
> American worker.
>
> I'm in this race because I want to stop talking about the outrage of 47
> million Americans without health care and start actually doing something
> about it. I expanded health care in Illinois by bringing Democrats and
> Republicans together. By taking on the insurance industry. And that is how
> I will make certain that every single American in this country has health
> care they can count on and I won't do it twenty years from now, I won't do
> it ten years from now, I will do it by the end of my first term as
> President of the United States of America.
>
>
>
> I run for president to make sure that every American child has the best
> education that we have to offer -- from the day they are born to the day
> they graduate from college. And I won't just talk about how great teachers
> are -- as President I will reward them for their greatness -- by raising
> salaries and giving them more support. That's why I'm in this race.
>
>
>
> I am running for President because I am sick and tired of democrats
> thinking that the only way to look tough on national security is by
> talking, and acting, and voting like George Bush Republicans.
>
>
>
> When I am this party's nominee, my opponent will not be able to say that I
> voted for the war in Iraq; or that I gave George Bush the benefit of the
> doubt on Iran; or that I supported Bush-Cheney policies of not talking to
> leaders that we don't like. And he will not be able to say that I wavered
> on something as fundamental as whether or not it is ok for America to
> torture -- because it is never ok. That's why I am in it.
>
>
>
> As President, I will end the war in Iraq. We will have our troops home in
> sixteen months. I will close Guantanamo. I will restore habeas corpus. I
> will finish the fight against Al Qaeda. And I will lead the world to combat
> the common threats of the 21st century -- nuclear weapons and terrorism;
> climate change and poverty; genocide and disease. And I will send once more
> a message to those yearning faces beyond our shores that says, "You matter
> to us. Your future is our future. And our moment is now."
>
>
>
> America, our moment is now.
>
>
>
> Our moment is now.
>
>
>
> I don't want to spend the next year or the next four years re-fighting the
> same fights that we had in the 1990s.
>
>
>
> I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America, I want to be the
> President of the United States of America.
>
>
>
> And if those Republicans come at me with the same fear-mongering and
> swift-boating that they usually do, then I will take them head on. Because
> I believe the American people are tired of fear and tired of distractions
> and tired of diversions. We can make this election not about fear, but
> about the future. And that won't just be a Democratic victory; that will be
> an American victory.
>
>
>
> And that is a victory America needs right now.
>
>
>
> I am not in this race to fulfill some long-held ambitions or because I
> believe it's somehow owed to me. I never expected to be here, I always knew
> this journey was improbable. I've never been on a journey that wasn't.
>
>
>
> I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called "the fierce
> urgency of now." Because I believe that there's such a thing as being too
> late. And that hour is almost upon us.
>
>
>
> I don't want to wake up four years from now and find out that millions of
> Americans still lack health care because we couldn't take on the insurance
> industry.
>
>
>
> I don't want to see that the oceans have risen a few more inches. The
> planet has reached a point of no return because we couldn't find a way to
> stop buying oil from dictators.
>
>
>
> I don't want to see more American lives put at risk because no one had the
> judgment or the courage to stand up against a misguided war before we sent
> our troops into fight.
>
>
>
> I don't want to see homeless veterans on the streets. I don't want to send
> another generation of American children to failing schools. I don't want
> that future for my daughters. I don't want that future for your sons. I do
> not want that future for America.
>
>
>
> I'm in this race for the same reason that I fought for jobs for the
> jobless and hope for the hopeless on the streets of Chicago; for the same
> reason I fought for justice and equality as a civil rights lawyer; for the
> same reason that I fought for Illinois families for over a decade.
>
>
>
> Because I will never forget that the only reason that I'm standing here
> today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky.
> Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because
> that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood
> up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and
> clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.
>
>
>
> That's why I'm running, Iowa -- to give our children and grandchildren the
> same chances somebody gave me.
>
>
>
> That's why I'm running, Democrats -- to keep the American Dream alive for
> those who still hunger for opportunity, who still thirst for equality.
>
>
>
> That's why I'm asking you to stand with me, that's why I'm asking you to
> caucus for me, that's why I am asking you to stop settling for what the
> cynics say we have to accept. In this election -- in this moment -- let us
> reach for what we know is possible. A nation healed. A world repaired. An
> America that believes again. Thank you very much everybody.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Dan Schwerin <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Here is latest draft
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> She just called about the JJ speech. Isn't entirely convinced it is
> the right speech to deliver. I suggest we get on phone with her to
> discuss. Our only window is 930 for 30 minutes. Hope that works.
>
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