SHOT : Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter Says Messina Used His Personal E-Mail Because He Was E-Mailing His Friends. CNN’s CANDY CROWLEY: “That’s what I was trying to get at was, is it a fairly common practice to end up doing business on personal e-mail accounts?” OBAMA DEPUTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER STEPHANIE CUTTER: “It’s not a common practice to do business on personal e-mail accounts, but if you have a friend on the outside who is used to corresponding with you on your personal e-mail address, every now and then it does happen.” (CNN’s “The Situation Room,” 8/1/12)

CHASER: As Obama’s Deputy Chief Of Staff, Jim Messina Used His Personal Email Address Instead Of His White House Address To Conduct Government Business. “The interactions between the Finance Committee and PhRMA were detailed in an earlier report from the Energy and Commerce Committee, but Messina’s use of his private email address - at issue because he was conducting government business on a non-government, undisclosed account - is a new revelation.” (Jennifer Epstein, “GOP: W.H., Messina ‘Failed’ On Transparency,” Politico, 7/31/12)

• Messina To PhRMA Lobbyist, From His Personal Account Days Before ObamaCare Passed: “I Will Roll [P]elosi To Get The 4 Billion.” “‘I will roll [P]elosi to get the 4 billion,’ Messina wrote Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) lobbyist Jeffrey Forbes from his personal account just days before the Affordable Care Act cleared Congress in March 2010. ‘As you may have heard I am literally rolling over the house. But there just isn’t 8-10 billion.’” (Jennifer Epstein, “GOP: W.H., Messina ‘Failed’ On Transparency,” Politico, 7/31/12)

CHASER 2: CNN’s Brianna Keilar: “I’ve Asked The White House Repeatedly On This, They Won’t Say If Messina Looped In His White House Account.” KEILAR:”Yeah Candy, the Romney campaign and the RNC are seizing on this report that’s been put out by a House Committee — a Republican House Committee important to note. It shows personal emails were used and that meetings were scheduled offsite to avoid there being a record in the White House visitors log. Five days before health care reform passed the House, Jim Messina, who was then the President’s Deputy Chief of Staff, now the head of the Obama campaign, emailed a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry and he said in part, “I will roll Pelosi to get the $4 billion,” talking about the funding for the deal that got Pharma on board with the President’s health care reform bill. Now here’s the thing. It is okay for a White House official to use a personal email account for official business, but only if they cc or forward that email from their personal account and they loop it into their official White House account. This is a legal issue. White House officials receive briefings on how to comply with the law. But, Candy, on this particular email, and I’ve asked the White House repeatedly on this, they won’t say if Messina looped in his White House account. A spokesman for the White House, Eric Schultz saying, ‘Mr. Messina occasionally received and sent email on a long standing personal account. When some of those emails contained information relating to official communications, he took steps to preserve such e-mails by forwarding them to his White House email account or copying his White House email account as a recipient.’” (CNN’s “Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer,” 8/1/12)