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Read the letter that Ben Ginsberg drafted for the GOP summit

November 1, 2015 at 9:40 p.m. EST

At the start of a meeting Sunday night between 12 of the 14 leading Republican presidential campaigns, GOP lawyer and dealmaker Ben Ginsberg distributed a draft of a letter that could be sent to any media sponsor. The campaigns agreed that more needed to be done. Ginsberg agreed, and the campaigns left the Hilton Alexandria Old Town expecting to see a new list of demands, incorporating their ideas, in the next few days.

The draft letter, provided by a source inside the room, is below.