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Fwd: Story Flag -- LAT - WH Coordination

From:slatham@hillaryclinton.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2016-01-22 22:55 Subject: Fwd: Story Flag -- LAT - WH Coordination

· Halper got Podesta talking on this subject in the spin room. Podesta basically said that obviously he talks with folks at the White House but there's not been any coordination of activities or messages. Begin forwarded message: * LA Times (Memoli and Parsons) are doing a piece at how the WH is dealing with the primary, given how it is taken a more competitive turn. They will likely file tomorrow (Saturday) or Sunday for Monday papers. We don’t need to provide anything more here but if there is anything we want to push into it, we can. · To the extent they thought they might have to deal with an awkward situation in a Dem primary it was when Biden was still thinking about it. · The guns op-ed and the dust up that followed was what inspired the idea originally. So they are building from it. They have folks at the WH conceding that they didn't expect it to kick up the kind of dust it did vis-a-vis Bernie until we told them after it was posted that they would be drawing attention to it. · Halper got Podesta talking on this subject in the spin room. Podessta basically said that obviously he talks with folks at the White House but there's not been any coordination of activities or messages. · WH folks saying that because there are alumni in the campaign and they are friends, of course they chat from time to time. And sometimes the campaign will say, hey we're going to make a push on X. Something like that happened early in the year as the WH started leaking the gun push, someone checked in from the campaign to say FYI, we were already planning a guns event, too. But that they've stayed out to the extent they can. · FYI: They have been trying to track down the alleged Bernie one-on-one with POTUS. It seems like it was pre-campaign but the WH seemed flat footed in answering that Q when Denis got it on MTP and Josh later in the week.