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gathered at the King’s Palace in Marrakesh Tuesday night for a traditional
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First Family visited Liberia on Monday and were scheduled to travel to Spain on
Wednesday.
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Meeting on Thursday at 10am in Chappaqua
There is some background here that Im happy to share.
Mandy has been helpful and will provide good intel.
As for Mindy, we have frustrated her but yes she will also be very helpful.
But I think everytime EW says something interpreted as not being effusive enough or critical, she hears from a Neera, Gillibrand, Mandy or we suggest that Dan talk to her policy person. Basically her people are saying say enough already, lets just talk direct.
We should assume meeting will leak as we are currently doing it at a hotel in Boston and I am sure they are prepared for that too. We conveyed that we are happy to meet wherever EW wants.
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Might make sense of us to brainstorm a bit in advance as well.
I just think it would be good for HRC to go into the mtg with one or two objectives. And some potential action items to get EW's help on. Has Mindy given any intel on what EW wants/needs/hopes for? Or could Mandy provide some intel? It would just be such a big deal for this meeting to go well and have EW walk out feeling positive and on board.
And then there's the press question--not sure how high the chance of a leak is, but it would be good to have a joint plan with Mindy in the event it gets out to shape coverage. Or to proactively leak if that's what EW wants. Not a bad thing to put out there that they had a constructive mtg.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Huma Abedin <Huma@clintonemail.com<mailto:Huma@clintonemail.com>> wrote:
I think that would be useful to her. Dan and I discussed a fact sheet the other day but this might be more of what she needs.
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This is all really helpful. On the Warren meeting: should there be a short, small call to discuss what her goals for that meeting should be--what input she wants on policy, what she should ask for, what we think Warren is going to challenger her on, etc? Seems like that could strengthen her briefing.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Huma Abedin <Huma@clintonemail.com<mailto:Huma@clintonemail.com>> wrote:
I am sorry I missed the meeting although I was able to get detailed downloads here in the office. A few things I was going to mention at meeting that I flag for your situational awareness. Happy to share further details:
1. A unified message: Brynne and Nick were probably too polite to raise it last week but it has been a total zoo in the office since November 4th (not that it wasnt a zoo before). Like all of you, the questions we get asked 20 times a day is a. where is she and what is she doing? and b. what are John and CDM doing?
Our answer is as honest as possible. We are giving her the time and space to think through the things she needs to think through. We acknowledge that there is policy process continuing and that is fairly well known. And if people have 2016 ideas, we are happy to have them. On John and CDM, we say you have been her closest advisors for a hundred years and that hasnt changed. Since we have never discussed this as a group or agreed on what to say, sharing with everyone.
2. Progressive friends:
- Elizabeth Warren: We confirmed this meeting last week. It is set for December 4th. We were having problems with them because this was supposed to take place in June. They do not want intermediaries discussing the relationship or the potential policy differences as they feel that is happening too much. They want to have a direct conversation about economic policy.
- Bill de Blasio: I stay in touch with him and his team a lot. He has recently asked to have increased direct access to her so he can tell his progressive partners what she thinks about issues important to them. He also thinks he can be most helpful to her if he has that kind of relationship. He wants to be seen as the loudest progressive voice for her and in order to do that he needs access. In the next 6 months, someone else will have to inherit this relationship because it will not be tenable for HRC.
3. Schedule issues 2015:
- We ended up locking in ALL her remaining paid speaking offers a few weeks ago. She reviewed them all with you at meeting so you know everything.
- Listening Tour: I know you discussed. Just a note that she only loved it in hindsight. Also flagging that we have some repair work to do in some early states like NH and Iowa based on activity of the past year.
- Morocco: No matter what happens, she will be in Morocco hosting CGI on May 5-7, 2015. Her presence was a condition for the Moroccans to proceed so there is no going back on this. Important that you know background.
4. Constituency Groups:
- Emilys List: Their 30th year gala is March 3rd, 2015. They have been lobbying for her attendance for over a year. Need to keep in mind for whatever other March activities we discuss. We have other EL issues we should discuss in next call/meeting.
- Executive Action: We have now heard from 1 friend in community saying specifically "we planning on getting more aggressive in our stance with Hillary (showing up at events and in press statements). if possible she should support executive order before the President". Need to assume starting TOMORROW, our friends will show back up at her open press events.
- LGBT and faith community: We have friends in both groups that want to start now or at least be part of steering committees on behalf of HRC and are in a holding pattern.
Random:
- We should be thoughtful about any group that wants to rent Friend of Hillary list now because there is interest. This is also probably best discussed off email.
Sorry to be so long!
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Folks
HRC wants to have a meeting on Thursday at 10am in Chappaqua. It will likely last until 2pm or 3pm. If you can coordinate your schedules accordingly to be there that would be ideal.
In addition, Robby and John will do a pre-call -- likely on Monday afternoon or evening depending on what is best for folks' schedules. There also will be read-ahead materials shared on Tuesday.
Thanks
cdm
FYI CGI Africa
Thank you for sharing.
Just to give you some context, the condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If hrc was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter.
CGI also wasn't pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn't their first choice.
This was HRC's idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believe they are doing this at her request. The King has personally committed approx $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting.
It will break a lot of china to back out now when we had so many opportunities to do it in the past few months.
She created this mess and she knows it.
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Came up on our call with HRC. John flagged the same issues we discussed, Huma.
HRC said she's sitll considering.
MARRAKESH, Morocco — The scene that unfolded here last week
as Bill Clinton convened world leaders for a philanthropic conference was
hardly what his wife’s champion-for-everyday-Americans campaign would have
ordered up.
Gathered in Marrakesh for a Clinton Global Initiative
confab, foreign oligarchs and corporate titans mingled amid palm trees,
decorative pools and dazzling tiled courtyards with the former president and
his traveling delegation of foundation donors — many of whom are also donors to
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign.
When daughter Chelsea moderated a discussion on women’s
empowerment, the only male panelist was Morocco’s richest person, Othman
Benjelloun, whose BMCE Bank is a CGI sponsor. For the week’s biggest party,
guests were chauffeured across the city to an opulent 56-room palace that
boasts a private collection of Arabian horses, overlooks the snow-capped Atlas
Mountains and serves a fine-dining menu of “biolight” cuisine.
Ahead of that event, Bill Clinton greeted Saudi Prince Turki
al-Faisal. “See you tonight, Turki,” he told his royal highness.
It was a long way from Hillary Clinton’s campaign-trail
visits to Chipotle. The luxe week in Morocco highlighted the overarching
question facing the Clintons and their coexisting circles of political
advisers: What to do with Bill?
Clintons’ travels in Africa
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and Chelsea Clinton toured four countries ahead of a conference in Morocco to
showcase their foundation’s charitable work.
The question applies not only to the campaign but also to
his role as first gentleman if she gets elected.
In a presidential race that could include two dozen
candidates, none has a spouse like Bill Clinton — a former president whose
sprawling charitable ventures are rife with potential conflicts of interest; an
admired public figure whose common touch propelled his rise but who now charges
up to $500,000 to give a speech; a curious ideas man whose penchant for
speaking his mind drives news cycles; and a globe-trotting icon whose
recognizable tuft of white hair draws onlookers everywhere, from his old
Arkansas haunts to the bustling souks around Marrakesh’s central square.
Bill Clinton is a political animal who logged 168,000 miles
on the campaign trail in 2014. Yet senior aides say he does not plan to do any
campaign activities for his wife in 2015, including fundraisers for her
campaign or allied super PACs. He has said privately that she should lead the
campaign on her own, aides said.
“He’s completely focused right now on the foundation,” said
Tina Flournoy, Bill Clinton’s chief of staff. “That does not mean that he does
not realize his wife is running for president. But he is not directly engaged
in the campaign. As he has said before, if his advice is asked for, he’s happy
to give it.”
But even if he’s off the campaign trail, Bill Clinton is
never out of the limelight. He will remain prominent in the public eye with a
busy schedule of appearances, including visits this week to a Harlem food festival
and next month to Little Rock for a charity ball. In mid-June, he will be in
Denver to host CGI America, a domestic-themed spinoff of his foundation
conference.
On Tuesday, he’ll be on the “Late Show with David
Letterman.”
He will also speak for pay at Univision’s presentation to
advertisers in New York on Tuesday. The prominent Spanish-language television
network is owned in part by Haim Saban, a foundation and campaign donor who
hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton last week at his Beverly Hills mansion.
One strategist said
Hillary Clinton, shown here with Bill Clinton and former senator Tom Harkin,
should not campaign with her husband: “It’s hard to shine when you’re standing
next to the sun.” (Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press)
“Bill Clinton is like nuclear energy,” said David Axelrod, a
strategist on President Obama’s campaigns. “If you use it properly, it can be
enormously helpful and proactive. If you misuse it, it can be catastrophic.”
‘A supporting spouse’
Keeping the former president at a distance is one way the
2016 Clinton campaign is trying to prove it has learned from the mistakes of
2008. Although as her aides know well, it is impossible to truly isolate him
from her campaign.
“He is a very smart political strategist and practitioner,”
said Ann Lewis, a longtime Hillary Clinton adviser. “He has never thought that
politics is beneath him. He believes that politics is the way that we govern
ourselves.”
Bill Clinton has many assets. He is universally known and
unusually popular; 73 percent of voters approved of his job performance as
president in a Washington Post-ABC News poll in March, while his personal
favorability rating stood at 65 percent in a CNN-ORC poll in March. He also is
considered one of the Democratic Party’s most talented communicators; his 2012
convention speech was a standout moment in support of Obama’s reelection.
“Any conversation about Bill Clinton and his impact on the
campaign has to start with the fact that Americans like him and they’ve liked
him for a long time,” said Geoff Garin, a pollster for Hillary Clinton’s 2008
campaign who now works for Priorities USA, a pro-Clinton super PAC.
But as Bill Clinton showed in 2008, he can be an
undisciplined and rogue surrogate. Some of the ugliest episodes in his wife’s
campaign were his making, including his stray remarks about Obama that angered
black voters in South Carolina and his behind-the-scenes meddling in the
campaign’s strategy.
Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), who feuded with Bill Clinton
in 2008 over what he saw as race-baiting, said in a recent interview that the
former president should be “a supporting spouse” this time around.
“He should refrain from doing anything or saying anything
that would take the attention off of her candidacy,” said Clyburn, who has not
endorsed anyone in the 2016 race. “It’s got to be about Hillary. It’s got to be
about her vision, and he’s got to be supportive of that.”
Axelrod, recalling the Clintons’ joint appearance in the
fall at retiring Sen. Tom Harkin’s steak fry in Iowa, said it would be foolish
for them to campaign together regularly. “It’s hard to shine when you’re
standing next to the sun,” he said recently. “He’s a luminescent character, and
it is diminishing to have him out there at her side.”
Aides insisted that Bill Clinton is not calling up campaign
aides, devouring polls or mapping out strategies. The campaign has no “Bill
whisperer” tasked with managing him, although Flournoy is in regular contact
with top aides at Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters. The former president
also has long-standing relationships with campaign chairman John D. Podesta and
other advisers.
The Clintons speak to each other often, sometimes multiple
times a day, but usually about personal matters and rarely about the nity-gritty
of her race, aides said. Some days, he doesn’t know where she’s campaigning.
And on the Africa trip, he was more attuned to the British elections — glued to
the BBC — than to her campaign.
One afternoon in April, Bill Clinton looked up at a television
in his midtown Manhattan office and saw the grainy security-camera photo of his
wife and her aide, Huma Abedin, at a Chipotle in Ohio, appearing incognito in
dark sunglasses. He turned to aides and wondered, “What are she and Huma doing?
Are they robbing that place?”
Far away, but still making news
As Hillary Clinton raised money in California last week,
Bill Clinton was about as far away as he could get, visiting the family
foundation’s projects in Africa and convening the CGI meeting in Morocco.
Yet he was still making big headlines. In an interview with
NBC News in Kenya, he appeared testy while defending the foundation’s foreign
fundraising. He also said he would continue giving six-figure paid speeches:
“I’ve got to pay our bills,” he said, sounding out of touch, considering he has
reported earning $105 million in speaking fees over 12 years.
There were other awkward moments as well. As Bill Clinton
wrapped up the CGI meeting in Morocco, a top Coca-Cola executive joined him
onstage to announce a $4.5 million program to help African youths obtain job
skills and career counseling.
Then Curtis A. Ferguson, the company’s regional president,
shifted to the sales pitch. “I hope they’re thirsty,” he said, referring to the
young Africans. Then he said he wanted to “share a Coke with Bill,” pulling out
a Coke bottle inscribed with the former president’s first name in Arabic. They
posed for photos holding the bottle, smiling.
But much of the Africa trip — which stretched for 10 days
and included stops in Tanzania, Kenya, Liberia and Morocco — was aimed at
showcasing the good works of the foundation and its partners.
At a hearing-aid fitting in Kenya, Bill Clinton witnessed a
young man hearing the voice of his sister for the first time. In Tanzania, he
met farmer Wazia Chawala, a single mother with seven children, who with
foundation help has improved crop yields with modern soil, seed and
crop-rotation techniques.
Clinton also visited a drab Nairobi laboratory, where he
listened to a presentation on tracking carbon emissions and rainfall patterns
so farmers could improve their yields. When he asked the donors with him if
they had any questions, Drew Houston, the chief executive of Dropbox, asked,
“What were your biggest technical challenges?”
For Clinton and his staff, it was a proud moment of synergy
— the founder of one of the world’s largest cloud-computing companies asking a
Kenyan lab technician a question about uploading data to the cloud.
Clinton, who declined a request to be interviewed for this
report, is grappling with what the future might hold. He is continuing to raise
money for the foundation, where his daughter has assumed a greater leadership
role. Last year, the foundation raised a $250 million endowment to provide
long-term stability in his absence.
His advisers understand that the foundation’s activities
could complicate a Hillary Clinton presidency.
“In his heart and mind, I think he wants there to always be
a scenario where his foundation is doing the work that he’s deeply invested in,”
Flournoy said. “How does that look, and what does experience and time and
history mean you might have to change? We don’t know. But this is his life’s
work.”
‘What does she want me to do?’
Bill Clinton says his role would be determined by his wife.
“What does she want me to do?” he said in an interview last week with CNN’s
Christiane Amanpour. “I have no idea.”
One option is that Hillary Clinton could draft him as a
special envoy somewhere or give him a portfolio in her administration. He is
continually fascinated by science, aides said, and lately has been thinking
about creating a fairer economy. He also has talked about bringing together
corporate partners to rebuild Baltimore after last month’s riots.
A return of the Clintons to the White House would also usher
in a blurring of traditional gender roles, not to mention titles: Bill
Clinton’s aides still refer to him as “the president.”
“Even if he were assigned the responsibility of picking out
china, I think others would probably overrule him on taste,” said Skip
Rutherford, a longtime adviser and friend. “People used to kid him about
picking out his crazy ties. I can’t imagine.”
The closest historical parallel is Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt. During Franklin’s presidency, Eleanor earned personal income from
paid speeches, newspaper columns and a weekly radio show, which was sponsored
by Simmons mattresses, said Carl Anthony, a historian at the National First
Ladies’ Library. He said she gave most of her income to the March of Dimes
Foundation, which her husband founded to combat polio.
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