5.29.15 HRC TV Coverage

National 

-- Report on an RNC ad that showed HRC and WJC speaking about income inequality juxtaposed against a ticker of HRC and WJC’s speaking fees; Julie Roginsky said attacks on the Clintons’ wealth was unwarranted; Roginsky mentioned FDR and JFK came from wealthy families; Dana Perino noted Fiorina gave all of what she raised for her charities to her charities whereas the Clintons gave 13 cents on the dollar. Fox News’ The Five, 5.29.15

-- Report on MOM’s entry into the 2016 race; Halperin said MOM had a chance to be the prominent HRC alternative but that Sanders had outflanked him; reported Sanders was the cooler candidate, going after HRC, and the liberal’s liberal. Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect, 5.29.15

-- Reported on the NYT story about WJC accepting a $500,000 donation for The Clinton Foundation in exchange for WJC to give a speech to a charity; WJC’s open letter about The Clinton Foundation that he sent today; reported on Nancy Pelosi saying the Clintons would have to answer questions about The Clinton Foundation; Halperin said the most ominous of the three stories was a tie between the NYT and Pelosi’s comment; Heilemann said the Pelosi comment was the most ominous given that Pelosi did not more fully come to HRC’s defense. Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect, 5.29.15

-- Report on HRC not giving a definitive answer about the TPP; Schultz said Americans deserve an answer about what HRC thinks about the TPP; showed footage of Sanders talking about HRC’s perspective on the TPP on Wednesday; Schultz said HFA said they were frightened of Sanders; panel with Larry Cohen, Genevieve Wood, and Lori Wallach; Cohen said it was important for HRC to speak out against fast-track; Wood said HRC had to give some answers on TPP; Wood said HRC was not speaking out because she didn’t have to. MSNBC’s The Ed Show, 5.29.15

-- Report on MOM’s entry into the 2016 race; interviewed Mark Plotkin; Plotkin said Sanders was polling higher than MOM; Cavuto said the inevitable nominee is not always the inevitable nominee; Plotkin mentioned MOM worked for Gary Hart and Hart beat Mondale; Plotkin said it was important to win early. Fox News’ Your World, 5.29.15

-- Report on Quinnipiac University poll that showed Rand Paul and Marco Rubio trailing HRC by four points apiece; interviewed Caitlin Huey-Burns; Huey-Burns said Paul was building momentum; Huey-Burns said Paul could represent a matchup with HRC, questioned whether Paul could make it through a Republican primary; Huey-Burns said Rubio was capitalizing on his youth against HRC. Fox News’ Shepard Smith Reporting, 5.29.15

-- Interviewed Perry Bacon; Bacon noted that MOM’s mom has worked for Barbara Mikulski for 30 years; said Mikulski endorsed HRC recently; Bacon, “This gets you to the point of how bad this is” for O’Malley. MSNBC’s The Cycle, 5.29.15

-- Panel with Robert Gibbs, Kurt Anderson, Janelle Ross, and McKay Coppins; Anderson said MOM would be a fine candidate in another year; Coppins said if he were MOM, he’d be upset that half the coverage of him was about how hard he would hit HRC. MSNBC’s Now With Alex Wagner, 5.29.15

-- Discussion about HRC’s Southern accent in Columbia on Wednesday; panel with Robert Gibbs, Kurt Anderson, Janelle Ross, and McKay Coppins; Ross said it was sad this was one of the major news stories of the week; Ross said it may that HRC had a case of nerves and adopted an accent when she tried to connect with people; Ross noted BHO does the same thing by putting on a black preacher accent when speaking with black audiences. MSNBC’s NOW With Alex Wagner, 5.29.15

-- Report on the Happy Hearts Fund’s $500,000 donation to The Clinton Foundation in exchange for WJC speaking at their event; interviewed Ed Henry; used footage of WJC at the Happy Hearts Fund; Henry said HFA officials said there was a good story to tell about philanthropy at The Foundation; Henry said HFA officials said that WJC would be at HRC’s rally on June 13^th; Henry said the question was whether HFA was keeping WJC off the campaign trail due to the scandals popping up. Fox News’ The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson, 5.29.15

-- Interviewed Nancy Pelosi; Roberts brought up the Quinnipiac poll that said a majority of respondents did not trust HRC; Roberts asked Pelosi whether HRC could be a successful candidate without people’s trust; Pelosi noted the same poll showed majorities said HRC was a good leader and could relate to people; Pelosi said some of the numbers were probably affected by negative stories; Pelosi zoomed out to that there would still be a primary with MOM and Bernie Sanders in the race; Pelosi said it was clear HRC was way out front and that people were excited about having a woman President as capable as HRC; Roberts asked about the NYT story about WJC’s appearance at a charity event only after the charity agreed to donate to The Clinton Foundation; Pelosi said the Clintons would have to answer for The Foundation but that she would imagine WJC’s appearance increased the take and the money that went to The Clinton Foundation was for a good cause as well; Roberts asked Pelosi about WJC’s “we have to pay the bills” comment; Pelosi noted that HRC was the candidate; Pelosi said she was glad HRC came out for campaign finance reform; Roberts asked if HRC was the nominee then whether Democrats in the House could ride HRC’s coattails to a majority; Pelosi said she hoped so. MSNBC’s Live With Thomas Roberts, 5.29.15

-- Report on how the 2016 GOP candidates are competing for poll numbers; Gloria Borger mentioned that Carly Fiorina getting national attention by showing up where HRC is and using HRC’s press entourage to gain national attention. CNN’s Wolf, 5.29.15

-- Report on Republicans coming out with an ad that shows HRC talking about everyday Americans while scrolling through a list of HRC’s millions of dollars in speaking fees; Jackie Kucinich said that was a potential point of attack for Republicans against HRC; Kucinich noted HRC adopted a lot of EAW’s talking points on purpose to push back against the narrative that HRC is in league with big banks. Fox News’ Happening Now, 5.29.15

-- Report on the NYT story about WJC receiving an award from the Happy Hearts Fund when the group offered a $500,000 donation to The Clinton Foundation; interviewed Ed Henry; Henry profiled the Happy Hearts Fund; Henry said the money given to the Foundation could have built ten schools; Henry said he spoke to HFA officials who said there was no lasting damage from the stories about The Clinton Foundation, said HFA officials said there was a lot of philanthropy going on during the time; Henry noted HRC’s big roll out was happening on June 13^th and the WJC would be there; noted WJC would not do any solo events for the campaign for a few months after the roll out; shifted into talk about MOM; Henry said there were questions about whether MOM could be viable; played MOM’s “Hail to the Chief” campaign ad. Fox News’ Happening Now, 5.29.15

-- Interviewed Chuck Todd about MOM; Todd said MOM could in hindsight wish he’d announced three months ago; Todd mentioned the Baltimore riots that could hurt MOM. MSNBC’s Live With Thomas Roberts, 5.29.15

-- Interviewed Chuck Todd; Mitchell said she heard young people say they were intrigued by Bernie Sanders; Todd said HRC had the reputation for being risk-adverse; Todd said millennials may gravitate towards Sanders, the non-risk-adverse candidates; shifted into conversation about how Sanders may be the chief Dem against HRC instead of O’Malley; Mitchell said HFA officials told her they wanted to raise $100 million this year for the primary, said HFA officials told her the $2 billion number was crazy; reported on HFA’s 50-state strategy; reported that HFA was serious about fighting in the primaries; reported that the way HRC addressed race and gender issues in SC was interesting; Todd said what was missing for Sanders was talk about immigration and race; Todd said Sanders was not as connected yet to black and Hispanic voters in the Democratic base, said he didn’t know how Sanders could connect. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, 5.29.15

-- Discussion about pay-for-play allegations against HRC and WJC; pointed to WJC giving speech in Saudi Arabia prefacing State increasing funds for projects in Saudi Arabia a few months later; reported on The Clinton Foundation paying Sidney Blumenthal $10,000 per month; Kirsten Powers pointed out that Saudi Arabia was an ally of the United States, noted that money going to The Clinton Foundation was going to good works; Powers disputed the notion The Foundation was a slush fund for the Clintons; Powers pointed to the NYT story from Friday where it seemed shady that someone made a $500,000 donation to The Foundation until she saw that the money went to build ten schools in Indonesia; discussed Norway’s donation to The Clinton Foundation; Powers said diplomats get overruled all the time, said there was no proof of causation; discussed Blumenthal; Powers said you should judge someone based on facts not coincidence; noted HFA officials said they saw no long-term damage from the series of Foundation stories; noted HFA was putting together a battle plan based on The Foundation’s good works; noted HFA expected a competitive election, planned to keep WJC away from campaign events; led into conversation about how WJC did not help HRC on the campaign trail; Tantaros said the Clintons deal with problems the same way; Tantaros said if WJC had apologized to Paula Jones then he would not have had to pay $700,000 and lose his law license; Faulkner noted the undisclosed donors from CHAI, said there was a lot to be investigated; Faulkner noted something nefarious had to be proven to show criminality and maybe to convince voters. Fox News’ Outnumbered, 5.29.15 [Part Two]

-- Interviewed Mark Murray; report on O’Malley’s likely announcement; Murray said O’Malley’s biggest competition to get into the next tier of candidates was Bernie Sanders; said O’Malley was trying to make a generational argument against HRC. MSNBC’s News Nation, 5.29.15

-- Led with MOM playing “Hail to the Chief”; led into discussion about MOM’s likely entry into the 2016 race; panel with AB Stoddard and Charlie Hurt; Stoddard said MOM thought he could bring youth to the race; Stoddard said MOM did not begin to have the experience to go toe-to-toe with HRC; Hurt said MOM’s pitch was he wasn’t a Clinton or a socialist; Hurt mentioned Baltimore; Stoddard said HRC had been running since 2005 and HRC means business; Stoddard said if MOM got aggressive against HRC then he could be a real player if HRC had a health issue. Fox News’ Happening Now, 5.29.15

-- Report on MOM’s likely candidacy announcement on Saturday; reported on Quinnipiac poll that showed 80% of respondents did not know enough about MOM to have an opinion on him; profiled MOM; noted WJC once wrote to MOM that he could “go all the way”; noted MOM supported HRC over BHO in 2008; said polls showed MOM trailing badly in the polls; said MOM took slight jabs at HRC but had not attacked aggressively; led into O’Malley’s connection to Baltimore and the Freddie Gray’s riots; reported O’Malley was not welcomed well in Baltimore after the Gray riots; shifted into brief report that HRC was fundraising in Florida on Friday; interviewed Marc Caputo and Alex Seitz-Wald; Caputo said early polls showed Florida was HRC’s to lose; Caputo said the Quinnipiac Poll released on Thursday showed Rubio would do better against HRC than Bush; Diaz-Balart asked why HRC was not hosting a campaign stop in Florida; Seitz-Wald said he asked that question to campaign officials in Brooklyn on Thursday, said officials said it was not time yet; Seitz-Wald reported HFA’s fundraising was in direct response to Bush’s fundraising; Caputo noted it was challenging to find HRC on the campaign trail; Caputo said HRC was going to have a public event in Florida but so far had decided against it; Caputo said the Tampa Bay Times asked HRC what her position was on off-shore oil drilling and that the campaign wouldn’t respond; Caputo said John Morgan asked a question about HRC’s stance on medical marijuana, said the campaign was not clear on what HRC’s position is; Seitz-Wald said HFA was going to ignore MOM right now; Seitz-Wald said MOM need to focus on Sanders before he could go after HRC. MSNBC’s The Rundown With Jose Diaz-Balart, 5.29.15

-- Showed Bush’s comments on HRC’s inability to distance herself from BHO’s foreign policy during a speech at the University of Michigan on Thursday; report on how foreign policy would affect 2016; interviewed Chuck Todd; Todd said the public did not like George W. Bush’s foreign policy which made it challenging for Jeb Bush to make that argument against HRC. MSNBC’s The Rundown With Jose Diaz-Balart, 5.29.15

-- Report on Peggy Noonan’s op-ed The Hillary Clinton Paradox; discussion about how Americans don’t care about HRC’s scandals; Mika said she hadn’t met a single person who cares; Mika and Willie Geist said HRC has huge qualifications to be POTUS; Mika said she has questions for HRC, noted a woman at one of her book signings asked Mika to lay off of HRC; Scarborough said even with Monica Lewinsky that WJC’s approval ratings went up afterwards; Harold Ford, Jr., said there was a body of the Clintons’ work that people could look to; Ford said WJC restored the Democratic Party and balanced the budget; Ford said HRC’s greatest achievement was advocating for women. MSNBC’s Morning Joe, 5.29.15

-- Interviewed Peter Schweizer; reported on The Clinton Foundation paying Sidney Blumenthal $10,000 a month while Blumenthal was advising HRC at State and doing business with Libyan companies; shifted into talk of The Clinton Foundation’s shell companies in the UK, Sweden, and Canada; Schweizer said the FBI or someone needs to launch a criminal investigation into The Clinton Foundation; Hannity conspired that HRC’s emails may be stored somewhere in Utah due to the Patriot Act; Schweizer said it was almost certain HRC’s server was hacked. Fox News’ Hannity, 5.28.15

-- Report on Paula Jones’ interview with the Daily Mail; used footage from Jones’ interview; panel with Ainsley Earhardt, Deneen Borelli, and Jedediah Bila; Hannity pondered how HRC could be the candidate of women’s rights with WJC’s history and The Clinton Foundation accepting money from Saudi Arabia; Earhardt said you couldn’t put WJC’s mistakes on HRC; Borelli said we have no idea what’s going to come out with WJC on “orgy island”; Bila said HRC was not who she claimed to represent, given the server and The Foundation. Fox News’ Hannity, 5.28.15

-- Used footage of Fiorina’s interview with Andrea Mitchell in Columbia on Wednesday; led into a panel about Fiorina’s campaign style; panel with Andrea Tantaros and Jessica Tarlov; Tantaros said HRC was waiting on the GOP men to overreach, said Fiorina takes that ability away from HRC; conversation about how HRC pays women less than men and about The Clinton Foundation taking money from Saudi Arabia; Tarlov noted that HRC paid women on her Senate staff the same as men under a different metric; shifted into conversation about HRC’s shifting drawl in front of black audiences; Tantaros said HRC’s drawl made her look authentic; Hannity asked Tarlov for three specific reasons she was supporting HRC; Tarlov said HRC was a driving force behind Lilly Ledbetter, advocating to raise the federal minimum wage; Tarlov was cut off; Tantaros said HRC only looked out for one woman. Fox News’ Hannity, 5.29.15

-- Interviewed Danny Vargas about the GOP debates; Vargas noted the GOP had a strong bench whereas the Democrats only have HRC; Vargas said there was not a lot of enthusiasm behind HRC; Maddow said Democrats had no worries about organizing their debates because the party lined up behind HRC; Maddow noted the GOP was the party with serious problems going into 2016. MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, 5.28.15

-- Report on HFA’s campaign store; noted HRC’s pantsuit tee; panel with Greg Gutfeld and Bernard McGuirk; Gutfeld noted there was no blue dress in the store; noted into conversation about Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders’ stores; both Gutfeld and McGuirk noted the HFA store was not selling bottoms because WJC does not wear pants. Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, 5.28.15

-- Let Me Finish… segment on HRC’s Columbia stop on Wednesday; Matthews said HRC spoke in the words, thoughts, and feelings of a real human being in Columbia; Matthews said HRC spoke openly about her desire to be President; Matthews said HRC went further by talking about dying her hair, said people want to feel for POTUS; Matthews said HRC showed she knew how to make people feel for her in Columbia. MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews, 5.28.15

-- Report on HRC showing her authentic self during her Columbia speech on Wednesday; contrasted her authenticity problem from 2008 with her authenticity now; used footage of HRC’s hair comment from Columbia; panel with Heidi Przybyla, Perry Bacon, and Liz Mair; Matthews said HRC laid it right out there that she wanted to be President; Przybyla noted Mark Penn gave HRC bad advice in 2008 when he told her to be tough; showed HRC’s NH victory speech in 2008 where she seemed guarded; Mair said HRC does not come across as authentic; Matthews said he disagreed; used footage HRC talking about having seen the presidency up close and personal; Bacon said HRC was experienced, noted black activists were supporting HRC; Bacon said HRC made a mistake not using a state.gov email. MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews, 5.28.15

--  Comedic bit about the 2016 candidates; noted Bernie Sanders was running for President; showed footage of news anchors dismissing Sanders; commented on how people in the news made Sanders sound crazy; showed footage from Sanders’ launch; Stewart said Sanders was not crazy; Stewart joked the difference between Sanders and HRC, besides that HRC has her own server and he’s not sure if he’s online unless he hears a dial tone, is that HRC has image handlers who tell her to comb her hair; joked about HRC’s accent in SC; Stewart said he would take care of the Lindsey Graham impressions. Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, 5.28.15

-- Report on Richard Trumka’s comment that the AFL-CIO could hold back an endorsement of HRC; led with footage of Bernie Sanders hitting HRC for not giving a definitive answer on the TPP; panel with AB Stoddard, Steve Hayes, and Charles Krauthammer; Stoddard said HRC had access to the current draft of the TPP; Stoddard linked HRC’s demurral on the TPP with her demurral on the Keystone XL pipeline; panelists agreed HRC would probably come out against the TPP; Hayes noted that HRC’s pivot to Asia centered around the TPP; Krauthammer said this points to HRC having no legacy as Secretary of State; Baier noted the most recent Quinnipiac poll showed HRC’s trustworthiness was underwater; Stoddard said if HRC did not win the general election that it would not be due to the TPP. Fox News’ Special Report With Bret Baier, 5.28.15

-- Report on Richard Trumka calling out HRC on the TPP; Ed Henry reports; showed footage of Trumka from his USA Today interview; reported the unions could offer a weak endorsement; noted HRC was trying to keep the left happy; said HRC had flip-flopped on same-sex marriage and drivers licenses for illegal immigrants; noted HRC supported BHO during her Columbia speech on Wednesday; showed the Quinnipiac University poll that showed the majority of Americans thought HRC had strong leadership qualities; speculated Americans may not be able to be a middle-class champion due to her speaking fees and WJC’s shell corporation; showed Quinnipiac poll that showed a slim majority of Americans said HRC cared about their problems; reported on The Clinton Foundation paying Blumenthal $10,000 per month while giving HRC advise on Libya; Henry mentioned he just attended an event at HFA headquarters; Henry said HFA officials said the negative stories were a part of a 20-year GOP playbook of attacking the Clintons; Henry said HFA officials were feeling good about the early stages, said officials did not see any permanent damage from Foundation stories; Henry said HFA officials acknowledged that if HRC gets the nomination that the general election would be a dogfight. Fox News’ Special Report With Bret Baier, 5.28.15

States 

South Carolina 

-- Report on a federal judge’s order for the State Department to start releasing HRC’s emails; reported the release will involve 30,000 emails on June 30^th; said the release would continue through January 2016; reported HRC said she wanted the emails released as soon as possible. WSPA 7 On Your Side at 11pm, Greenville (SC), 5.28.15

Iowa 

-- Report on Rand Paul signing books in Davenport on Thursday; used footage of Paul saying he was the only candidate beating HRC in polls in Colorado, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Pennsylvania. WHBF Local 4 News at 6 PM, Davenport (IA), 5.28.15

-- Report on Rand Paul signing books in Davenport on Thursday; reported Paul said he was different from the other GOP candidates; used footage of Paul saying, “Many of these policies came under the first Clinton. Do we want another Clinton? Is this Clinton going to be any different than the first Clinton?” WQAD News 8 at 10, Davenport (IA), 5.28.15

New Hampshire 

-- Report on Pataki’s announcement in New Hampshire; included Pataki’s comment about HRC and the Democrats being the party of privilege. WMUR News 9 at Six, Manchester (NH), 5.28.15

Nevada 

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