CNN’s Dana Bash: Reince Priebus’ Call to Trump ‘Not Intended to Chastise’ Him (clip)

‘At the end of the conversation is when the RNC chair just basically said, look, go easy on the tone here’

COOPER: "Part two is tonight. But first, Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash joins us. So what do we know about this phone call between Donald Trump and the RNC chair, what are your sources telling you about how it actually played out?"
BASH: "Anderson, I’m told that this was a phone call not intended to chastise Donald Trump. That perhaps Trump is right in that there was congratulations there. But it was a wide ranging discussion. The two of them I am told, it is not uncommon for them to speak. And at the end of the conversation is when the RNC chair just basically said, look, go easy on the tone here. And the context, I’m told was quite obvious, in that Priebus has spent the past four years, trying to help the Republican Party build back confidence and trust and outreach with the Hispanic community. This community that was turned off in a big, big way after a series of Republican primaries and elections where there was a lot of very hot rhetoric. Mitt Romney talking about self-deportation. The concern that Reince Priebus made clear I'm told privately is that this is the same kind of rhetoric  that Donald Trump is using now which will crush the Republicans big picture in 2016 with that community which is incredibly important."

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