Emails (excerpted), Zach Hunter, regional press secretary, National Republican Congressional Committee, Oct. 4-5, 2016

From: Zach Hunter

Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 2:40 PM

To: Selby, Gardner (CMG-Austin)

Subject: Egregiously Edited Political Ad in TX-23

On background, I wanted to flag an example of an egregiously false political ad against Rep. Will Hurd in TX-23 by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Pete Gallego. The ad asserts that Hurd supports Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall across the southern border and uses a clearly truncated clip of Hurd from an appearance on MSNBC. However, the editing is incredibly egregious, as Hurd makes clear he opposes Trump’s plan to build a wall “from sea to shining sea.” In fact, MSNBC titles the segment “Texas congressman refutes Trump's wall idea.”

You can see the ad here:

 http://admo.advertisinganalyticsllc.com/tve/#/viewer/06e6a7d5-1b98-49e2-8691-7bfd20770a2f

And you can see the full MSNBC segment here: http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/texas-congressman-refutes-trumps-wall-idea-520884291875

Is this something you think you’d like to look into further?

Zach Hunter

Regional Press Secretary

National Republican Congressional Committee

From: Selby, Gardner (CMG-Austin) [mailto:wgselby@statesman.com]

Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 3:59 PM

To: Zach Hunter

Subject: RE: Egregiously Edited Political Ad in TX-23

I only work on the record. Retry?

From: Selby, Gardner (CMG-Austin) [mailto:wgselby@statesman.com]

Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 1:51 PM

To: Zach Hunter <zhunter@NRCC.org>

Subject: Update

Zach:

I am at the point of wrapping up our draft. For our readers’ sake, I am bound to say you brought this to our attention.

G.

1 p.m.

Oct. 5, 2016

Thank you for the heads up...