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Previously on The West Wing:
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This man got in front of millions
of people and screwed his wife.
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I'm running again, Abbey.
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The FDA is signing off on RU-486.
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You think he apologizes
and numbers go up?
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I think you brought me in
because they haven't.
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- What's Toby's problem?
- What?
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He's got a problem with me
and I'd like to know why.
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Justice Department needs $30 million
for its suit against tobacco companies.
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Now I want to turn the heat up
and issue a release.
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Leo, talk to me.
I know what you're thinking about.
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Would you say the president's situation
makes it harder for him to focus on...?
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He's relieved to focus on
something that matters.
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- Relieved?
- She was tired.
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- C.J. doesn't misspeak.
- She just did.
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Damn it!
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"We're more than a set of borders.
We're bounded by the reach of freedom.
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We have mastered every moment.
We have vanquished every foe.
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We are strong, we are prosperous,
we are at peace with the world.
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We are, as we have ever been,
the envy of every civilization.
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We are, as we have ever been,
the hope of all mankind.
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But I am not satisfied.
Indeed, I am restless.
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I come before you not to speak of
the America we have..."
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- Excuse me, sir.
- Yeah?
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- We're the envy of every civilization?
- Yeah.
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- Really?
- They don't vote in England, Toby.
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- They do, actually.
- He meant that they don't...
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- We know what he meant.
- I'll change it, sir.
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Somebody stick some
pom-poms in his hand.
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"But I am not satisfied.
Indeed, I am restless.
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I come here not to speak of
the America we have...
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...but of the better, stronger, more
prosperous America we can create."
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- There's a snake.
- What kind?
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I don't know and I don't wanna ask him.
Can somebody shoot it, please?
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- Probably a garter snake.
- It's a garter snake, don't worry about it.
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"I seek re-election to the presidency,
not because of its glories...
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...but its challenges."
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- And I have a problem here.
- I wrote that.
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I'm happy for you."Its challenges"...
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...sounds like you're overwhelmed.
This is exactly the wrong time for that.
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No, it's exactly the right time
to raise the stakes of the election.
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Sorry, America wants a happy warrior
to lead the country, not Dr. Kevorkian.
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It's true, sir, America does not want
Dr. Kevorkian to lead the country.
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We've got polling data on that.
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- All right, we'll revisit it.
- The snake is looking at me now.
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"A candidate owes his campaign
no less than he owes his country:
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Everything he has,
everything he can give, all his..."
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- Again, I'm sorry, sir.
- Yeah?
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I'm not wild about your
campaign and country.
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- No, that's okay.
- People don't hear that well.
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The people there hear fine.
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He doesn't mean people don't hear well,
he means hear"that" well. I disagree.
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I see the snake now too.
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You're entitled to declare
yourself the leader...
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...of the campaign and country
since you are.
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Except if it's him and not the voters,
it points the pundits toward the MS.
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I think the cat's out of the bag
on the MS.
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Does somebody here have MS
and they haven't said anything?
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Seriously, that's a pretty big snake.
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"I am not satisfied." Indeed, I am close
to taking my life with a wheat thresher.
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- Bruno?
- Yeah, listen up. I've been thinking.
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It might not be such a bad idea
for me to lock you all in here...
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...and set the place on fire.
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We have 48 hours before we kick off
this campaign. We will work hard...
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...we will work well,
and we will work together...
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...or so help me, Mother of God...
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...I will stick a pitchfork so far up your
asses you will, quite simply, be dead.
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"And so, with pride and purpose,
I hereby announce my candidacy...
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...for the presidency
of the United States."
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Jed?
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- I didn't see you there.
- Yeah.
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- I didn't see you.
- What's going on?
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Peter thinks sanctions
are a waste of time, I agree.
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In about a half-hour, we're
buzzing the island with...
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...what they call an alpha-strike
formation to show Bazan... .
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Will it work?
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- Jed?
- Yeah?
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I said, will it work?
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Sorry, I said I don't know. We'll see.
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C.J. got beaten up pretty good
in the briefing room.
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Yeah, that was bound to happen.
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Maybe you wanna think about
sitting her down for a few days.
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- Jed?
- Yeah?
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I said, maybe you want to think about
benching C.J. for a few days.
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- Yeah.
- At least on Haiti.
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Well, that's Leo's call.
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Send in Nancy or Peter
or someone from State?
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- That way the stories don't get mixed up.
- Yeah, that's Leo's call.
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Look, I'm sorry,
I can't get into our thing tonight.
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Two days ago,
you said you had a lot to say.
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I do, that's why I can't get into it.
I have to read.
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That's all right.
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All right, I'm going in the study.
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Okay.
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Abbey, you were lying down
when I came in, I didn't see you.
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I believe you.
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- He has to sell the greatness of America.
- Why?
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It's an implicit argument
to stay the course.
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- We're selling the greatness.
- Not enough.
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We're selling it in paragraphs
1, 2, 8, 16, 26 and 34.
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Listen, it's a simple equation:
Bartlet rules America...
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...America rocks, therefore Bartlet rocks.
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-"America rocks"?
-"Bartlet rocks"?
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- Yes.
- He really doesn't that much.
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- Leo, can I see you for a second?
- Yeah.
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- RU-486.
- There's nothing we can do.
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The last thing we need
is to come out of the gate...
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...waving a flag to the heartland,
saying,"We don't share your values."
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The president understands all that.
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- And?
- That's the way it goes.
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The FDA's an independent agency.
They can announce when they want.
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The FDA's a division of HHS and
technically, not an independent agency.
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I can keep him away from this,
call the chief of staff.
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- I got him his job, they can wait...
- No.
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...two weeks to announce the drug,
not on Monday.
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- I can fix tobacco.
- Tobacco?
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No, I meant 486.
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Leave the FDA alone.
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Morning.
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- Hey, C.J.
- You just get in?
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- A few hours ago.
- Ellie and Zoey are here?
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Yeah. Liz will be here. They're going
for a hike if you wanna join them.
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No, I can't, but I did want to
talk to you about a photo-op.
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- Would you like some cider?
- No, I'm fine.
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We grow the apples
down the hill, it's good.
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Okay. So at any rate...
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- A photo-op.
- Yes.
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My husband and I together.
With the kids.
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Because my husband and I
came to the house separately.
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There were photos of him
getting on the plane alone.
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Ma'am, this is uncomfortable territory,
and obviously, I'd... .
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The press has sources that say
you and the president...
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- Do they have names?
- I'm sorry?
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- The sources.
- No, they're...
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Unnamed sources.
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C.J., unnamed sources make me crazy.
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Just one time, I'd like to see, instead of
"according to unnamed sources"...
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...I'd like to see"according to tweaky,
little ill-informed, chicken-ass wannabe..."
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Don't ever come to me again
with unnamed sources, C.J.
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You don't get any cider.
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Yes, ma'am.
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I spoke to the first lady before.
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I thought it might not be
a bad idea...
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...if there were some opportunities
with them together at the house.
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- What was her reaction?
- Well, she denied me cider.
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- What else?
- I'll brief the Sunday papers...
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...on what they can expect
from the speech.
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- It's not written yet.
- I'm just giving highlights.
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- What highlights?
- I'm making them up.
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I thought maybe you could speak to her.
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- Who?
- The first lady.
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Every paper had a picture
on the front page...
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...of the president going home
by himself.
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- It's a Saturday paper.
- There are questions...
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We're two private men, C.J.,
we don't talk about our marriages.
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What do you want from me?
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I'm not wild about the fact
you told Toby what we discussed.
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He's the communications director,
you don't think he should know?
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When I think it's time, I will tell anyone
working for me anything I damn please.
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You know what, C.J.?
Stop being pissed at me about Haiti.
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Yeah, okay.
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-It's a surrender.
-It's not a surrender if he has demands.
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-It's as close as we come these days.
-What does he want?
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Ten million dollars, U.S.,
a private plane...
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... and a guarantee he won 't
be prosecuted for war crimes.
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What else?
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Asylum for himself
and 60 of his family members.
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- Where?
- Here.
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That's a bit of a dilemma.
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Does anybody have room at their place
for Bazan and 60 of his relatives?
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Any amnesty conditions could be
in violation of Hague treaties.
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Yeah.
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Do we want to say anyone can stage a
coup and walk away if it doesn't work?
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And with 10 million dollars
and a private plane?
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A shootout in the palace
is the worst outcome...
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...Bazan's full surrender is the best,
and that's what we've got on the table.
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I want to end this peacefully, right now.
Nancy, what do you think of Venezuela?
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Venezuela wants to be a resource for
supplying Strategic Petroleum Reserves.
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Tell them I'll give the SPR
strong consideration.
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Mike, have the Canadians
get a message through.
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We'll unfreeze his U.S. accounts,
but he can't remove money from Haiti.
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Only his wife, his children
and his parents can seek asylum.
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If he tries to go back,
he'll be under arrest.
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He can screw a private plane, he'll fly on
a C-9 from Port-au-Prince to Caracas...
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...and if he's very good, we won't
shoot him in the head on the way.
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- Tell me when it's done.
- Yes, sir.
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- Thank you, Mr. President.
- Thank you, sir.
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- Nancy?
- Yeah?
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Let me talk to you a second.
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When this is a done deal, I want you
to stick around and brief the press.
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- She made a mistake.
- I'm not punishing her.
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- She made...
- I'm not punishing her.
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You're not the face
of this administration...
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...you had no part of the MS thing, and
you won't be asked questions about it.
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I don't feel right about this.
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I don't care.
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- Can I talk to him?
- He's on his way up from the Sit Room.
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Good news about Haiti.
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We should've gone in with four tank
divisions and turned it into a casino.
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- Manifest destiny.
- Bet your ass.
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- You got a second?
- Yeah.
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- So I wanted to apologize about before.
- Don't worry about it.
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- You know what I'm talking about, right?
- Yeah.
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So I wanted to make you
aware of something.
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I looked through the transcript
a couple times and he never apologized.
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- What do you mean?
- In the interview.
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It's something we'll get
hung with later.
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Wait a few weeks, see what happens
with numbers and take another look.
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- Yeah.
- Anything else?
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- He wanted a private plane?
- You believe it?
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State Department suggests
we praise the French government...
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...for their help in resolving this matter.
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I would, but I'm worried
they'd surrender.
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You did well, Mr. President.
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- When do you think C.J. can brief?
- Nancy's gonna brief.
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- Yeah?
- Don't worry about it.
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You did well.
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We haven't picked up any ground in
lowa, Kansas, Arkansas and Illinois.
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It's only been a week.
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Yeah, but we struck the agricultural
trade deal with Argentina.
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Farm country ought to love that.
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Well, that story got a little drowned out.
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Yes, it did.
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I could stand on the Sears Tower with
a Stratocaster, and it'd be drowned out.
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- I'm not assigning blame.
- Really?
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Yes. We need help.
229
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- I'm bringing in Bruno Gianelli.
- It's too early for him.
230
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- No.
- Toby, Sam and Josh aren't gonna like it.
231
00:13:38,083 --> 00:13:40,410
They'll have to live with it.
232
00:13:49,728 --> 00:13:52,564
"I say to you today, 'I love this country. '
233
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And I will make sure our military
continues to be the best-trained...
234
00:13:56,698 --> 00:13:59,700
...best-equipped, best-led
fighting force in the world."
235
00:13:59,869 --> 00:14:01,663
- Oh, God.
- I think Sam wants this one.
236
00:14:01,832 --> 00:14:04,751
If you wanna substitute testosterone
for foreign policy...
237
00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,089
...have the president challenge
the crowd to an arm wrestle.
238
00:14:08,259 --> 00:14:09,969
The foreign-policy section was long.
239
00:14:10,138 --> 00:14:12,215
And there are no votes in foreign policy.
240
00:14:12,391 --> 00:14:15,929
It's 98 percent of the world population
and three-quarters of the job.
241
00:14:16,314 --> 00:14:19,104
That thinking makes us
the envy of every civilization.
242
00:14:19,821 --> 00:14:21,482
- Scrap this.
- I have a problem here.
243
00:14:21,657 --> 00:14:22,987
Where?
244
00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,410
"It isn't about the disease God gave me,
but the chances God gave our country."
245
00:14:27,625 --> 00:14:30,118
- You're going back to what failed.
- What's that?
246
00:14:30,297 --> 00:14:31,626
All MS, all the time.
247
00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,592
Damage control needed to be done.
248
00:14:33,761 --> 00:14:37,133
You couldn't stop educating the public.
Nothing makes you happier.
249
00:14:37,642 --> 00:14:40,397
A month ago, 74 percent of them
thought MS was fatal.
250
00:14:40,606 --> 00:14:44,025
And every time you told them it wasn't,
there was a story about MS!
251
00:14:44,236 --> 00:14:47,276
- Just change the subject!
- Why the hell didn't I think of that?
252
00:14:47,451 --> 00:14:50,538
I don't know, Toby, but if you had,
I probably wouldn't be here!
253
00:15:02,310 --> 00:15:03,936
- Hello.
- Yes?
254
00:15:04,105 --> 00:15:06,313
I'm Bruno Gianelli.
255
00:15:07,568 --> 00:15:09,064
Yes?
256
00:15:09,571 --> 00:15:11,613
I have an appointment.
257
00:15:22,469 --> 00:15:24,427
Who's Bruno Gianelli?
258
00:15:24,597 --> 00:15:26,674
- A strategist.
- Really?
259
00:15:26,852 --> 00:15:29,689
He got five senators elected,
three governors.
260
00:15:29,857 --> 00:15:33,478
He got Hacket elected where they
haven't elected a Democrat in 46 years.
261
00:15:33,655 --> 00:15:35,862
He got the prime minister
of Israel elected.
262
00:15:36,159 --> 00:15:38,831
And it's entirely possible
he's never voted in his life.
263
00:15:38,998 --> 00:15:40,327
He's here.
264
00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:42,660
- Why didn't you send him in?
- No appointment.
265
00:15:42,879 --> 00:15:44,873
- I did it.
- You did it yourself?
266
00:15:45,383 --> 00:15:47,959
- Yes.
- And you're not supposed to do that.
267
00:15:48,138 --> 00:15:49,847
Bruno.
268
00:15:54,356 --> 00:15:56,351
You guys can find
more ways to blow it... .
269
00:15:56,778 --> 00:15:59,947
- We might be running out.
- No, I don't think so.
270
00:16:00,241 --> 00:16:02,319
Why didn't you call
before the announcement?
271
00:16:02,538 --> 00:16:05,029
- What would you have done?
- Tell him not to make it.
272
00:16:05,209 --> 00:16:08,793
- That'd be concealing the truth.
- Oh, would it, now?
273
00:16:09,256 --> 00:16:10,587
Can you help us?
274
00:16:12,471 --> 00:16:13,848
I need to see your internals.
275
00:16:14,057 --> 00:16:16,384
Joey Lucas has been polling
every day for months.
276
00:16:16,603 --> 00:16:18,681
- The girl?
- Yeah.
277
00:16:19,817 --> 00:16:21,895
Worked with her in California,
she's good.
278
00:16:23,156 --> 00:16:24,486
What do you want?
279
00:16:24,867 --> 00:16:29,200
Fifteen percent of the ad buys.
You're gonna say 10.
280
00:16:29,375 --> 00:16:31,334
So why don't we just say 13.
281
00:16:32,130 --> 00:16:35,751
- Why don't we say 12.
- Why don't we say 13.
282
00:16:36,971 --> 00:16:39,643
I want hiring and firing prerogatives
in my department.
283
00:16:39,810 --> 00:16:43,015
For starters, I'm bringing in
Doug Wegland and Connie Tate.
284
00:16:43,357 --> 00:16:45,564
A room at the Hay-Adams
and a car and a driver.
285
00:16:45,778 --> 00:16:47,024
Fine.
286
00:16:48,366 --> 00:16:51,238
- And unfettered access to the president.
- No.
287
00:16:51,788 --> 00:16:53,616
- I need it.
- Can't have it.
288
00:16:53,792 --> 00:16:57,662
Leo, the only races I've ever lost are
ones where the candidate didn't listen...
289
00:16:57,882 --> 00:16:59,841
...or the advice didn't get through.
290
00:17:00,344 --> 00:17:02,754
- That isn't gonna happen this time.
- Can't do it.
291
00:17:02,974 --> 00:17:05,181
This is ego, you know it as well as I do.
292
00:17:05,352 --> 00:17:09,898
I take this request to the president,
tell him it's a deal-breaker, he'll say yes.
293
00:17:10,111 --> 00:17:12,521
Knock yourself out. Margaret?
294
00:17:14,075 --> 00:17:16,783
Would you take Mr. Gianelli
into the Oval Office, please?
295
00:17:16,998 --> 00:17:18,992
- Sure.
- Are you playing with me?
296
00:17:20,462 --> 00:17:22,123
Mr. Gianelli, would you follow me?
297
00:17:23,175 --> 00:17:24,920
Sure thing.
298
00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:35,068
- Bruno.
- Good morning, Mr. President.
299
00:17:35,237 --> 00:17:37,362
I understand you're gonna
be working with us.
300
00:17:37,533 --> 00:17:39,492
Obviously, I'm pleased to be approached.
301
00:17:39,662 --> 00:17:43,198
- I believe there is a great deal I can do.
- You have one or two demands.
302
00:17:44,169 --> 00:17:45,415
Yes, sir.
303
00:17:48,635 --> 00:17:51,342
You want 12 percent of the ad buys.
304
00:17:54,687 --> 00:17:56,313
Okay.
305
00:17:56,607 --> 00:17:58,067
Twelve. And...
306
00:17:58,235 --> 00:18:00,478
A room, a car and a driver,
that's no problem.
307
00:18:00,698 --> 00:18:02,108
Well, thank you, sir.
308
00:18:02,284 --> 00:18:04,823
- I'll also need unfettered access to you.
- No.
309
00:18:05,247 --> 00:18:08,286
- Sir...
- I'm sorry, Bruno, Leo runs the show.
310
00:18:09,421 --> 00:18:11,498
- Respectfully, sir...
- It's a deal-breaker.
311
00:18:17,685 --> 00:18:19,595
Okay.
312
00:18:21,525 --> 00:18:24,444
Anyone else I have to
field things through?
313
00:18:28,161 --> 00:18:30,950
I was sorry to hear about
Dolores Landingham.
314
00:18:33,337 --> 00:18:34,915
Can you help us out?
315
00:18:35,883 --> 00:18:37,544
Yes, sir.
316
00:18:42,769 --> 00:18:46,307
Do I need to explain rules on making
appointments again? Are you confused?
317
00:18:46,484 --> 00:18:49,652
- Get out.
- I'll jot them down.
318
00:18:51,743 --> 00:18:53,369
How'd it go?
319
00:18:53,872 --> 00:18:56,244
- Shut up.
- What's first?
320
00:18:56,417 --> 00:18:58,376
- We get together in a room.
- After that?
321
00:18:58,545 --> 00:19:01,300
- An event.
- How's two weeks from Monday?
322
00:19:01,468 --> 00:19:03,378
- Is that the soonest we can do it?
- Yeah.
323
00:19:03,554 --> 00:19:07,258
We'll scout locations in New Hampshire.
Maybe a high school.
324
00:19:32,895 --> 00:19:34,440
- Sam.
- Yeah?
325
00:19:34,608 --> 00:19:38,525
"Columbia, Gem of the Ocean"?
Is he christening a minesweeper?
326
00:19:38,698 --> 00:19:41,535
Columbia High School marching band
gets to play their song.
327
00:19:41,703 --> 00:19:43,364
We had to negotiate with the band?
328
00:19:43,540 --> 00:19:46,543
They'll be live on four networks.
They'll play what we want.
329
00:19:46,712 --> 00:19:48,373
- Bruno!
- Hey. How you doing?
330
00:19:48,548 --> 00:19:52,845
Whose throat do I shove these down,
whose skull do I crack with this sign?
331
00:19:53,014 --> 00:19:55,341
-"Bartlet for president."
- We'll get rid of them.
332
00:19:55,517 --> 00:19:58,889
I was there when he won. I saw him
get sworn in. I rode in the limo.
333
00:19:59,066 --> 00:20:00,442
Write me a speech, would you?
334
00:20:00,610 --> 00:20:03,019
One that doesn't make me think
I'm sitting shiva...
335
00:20:03,198 --> 00:20:04,776
...black curtains on the mirrors.
336
00:20:12,714 --> 00:20:14,257
We'll use this as the greenroom.
337
00:20:14,425 --> 00:20:16,336
He can walk out the door
and up on stage.
338
00:20:16,513 --> 00:20:18,673
What's this room usually used for?
339
00:20:18,849 --> 00:20:22,055
I don't know. Desks, a blackboard.
Could be some kind of classroom.
340
00:20:22,231 --> 00:20:23,975
- C.J.
- Yeah?
341
00:20:24,234 --> 00:20:27,154
- What's going on?
- What do you mean?
342
00:20:27,949 --> 00:20:29,278
- Nothing.
- You sure?
343
00:20:29,450 --> 00:20:33,072
Yeah. What's going on with RU-486?
344
00:20:33,249 --> 00:20:36,121
Leo won't let me wave off the FDA.
345
00:20:36,296 --> 00:20:38,337
It's against the law.
346
00:20:39,928 --> 00:20:42,598
I'm not talking about sticking up
a fruit stand.
347
00:20:42,765 --> 00:20:46,432
It's a phone call. A favor from a friend.
348
00:20:46,605 --> 00:20:50,986
I know the chief of staff for
the subcommittee, I got him his job.
349
00:20:51,155 --> 00:20:53,196
You mean the FDA?
350
00:20:55,787 --> 00:20:58,495
This is the second time
this weekend I've done that.
351
00:20:58,668 --> 00:21:00,543
Hey, see this?
352
00:21:00,713 --> 00:21:04,415
This is why I didn't want
to do an announcement.
353
00:21:06,806 --> 00:21:09,679
- We're taking care of it.
- No, I'm taking care of it.
354
00:21:10,855 --> 00:21:15,437
I want to say for the 18th time that
we shouldn't do an announcement event.
355
00:21:15,613 --> 00:21:18,652
If he's gonna run for re-election,
he's gotta announce it.
356
00:21:18,826 --> 00:21:20,157
He did that two weeks ago.
357
00:21:20,330 --> 00:21:23,037
He's not gaining enough ground,
which means he's bleeding.
358
00:21:23,250 --> 00:21:26,753
If we put him up like any candidate,
we trade away our one big advantage.
359
00:21:26,924 --> 00:21:28,753
- What?
- He's the president already.
360
00:21:28,969 --> 00:21:32,340
Signing executive orders
and decorating the tree isn't gonna do it.
361
00:21:32,517 --> 00:21:35,971
Fellas, I'm getting old over here.
This subject was closed on Tuesday.
362
00:21:36,190 --> 00:21:39,359
He's gotta stand up, he's gotta declare,
and he's gotta apologize.
363
00:21:39,529 --> 00:21:40,859
- He won't apologize.
- Why?
364
00:21:41,032 --> 00:21:44,201
- For what?
- For your campaign perpetrating a fraud.
365
00:21:46,249 --> 00:21:50,499
I'm from Oregon. We like to see a man
say he's sorry. Where are you from?
366
00:21:50,715 --> 00:21:52,756
Me? I'm from the United States
of Suck My...
367
00:21:52,969 --> 00:21:54,547
All right.
368
00:21:59,647 --> 00:22:01,724
Let's take lunch.
369
00:22:01,942 --> 00:22:04,649
Republicans talk about
how arrogant you guys are.
370
00:22:04,822 --> 00:22:07,362
I thought it was the reaction
to not getting the girl.
371
00:22:07,953 --> 00:22:10,196
I can't believe how much
they low-balled it.
372
00:22:10,374 --> 00:22:12,035
Josh. Wait up.
373
00:22:12,918 --> 00:22:14,914
Let me walk you to your office.
374
00:22:15,090 --> 00:22:16,550
Sure.
375
00:22:19,305 --> 00:22:20,930
- You know, he had a point.
- Who?
376
00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:23,141
- Doug.
- That we're arrogant?
377
00:22:23,353 --> 00:22:26,891
I guess that means Doug won't be
coming to my sweet-16, then.
378
00:22:27,110 --> 00:22:29,817
- You sent them the press release?
- What press release?
379
00:22:29,990 --> 00:22:33,443
- Subcommittee. About tobacco.
- Yes.
380
00:22:33,622 --> 00:22:35,033
Well, that was stupid.
381
00:22:35,208 --> 00:22:36,584
- You think?
- I know.
382
00:22:36,752 --> 00:22:39,375
I got two years as legislative director
in the House...
383
00:22:39,547 --> 00:22:41,459
...two years as Senate floor director...
384
00:22:41,635 --> 00:22:44,674
...and 30 months as deputy chief
of staff, what do you got?
385
00:22:44,848 --> 00:22:47,092
Kalmbach's a fat-ass Rotarian gasbag.
386
00:22:47,269 --> 00:22:51,484
I knew once I sent it, he'd raise the
profile and give us the press we needed.
387
00:22:51,652 --> 00:22:54,145
Kalmbach is vulnerable in his home state.
388
00:22:54,323 --> 00:22:58,110
He's got an influx of tech and clean
industries along his Route 9 corridor...
389
00:22:58,288 --> 00:23:02,040
...and the suburban voters with it,
parents who don't want kids smoking.
390
00:23:02,254 --> 00:23:04,497
We got the money, Bruno.
391
00:23:06,261 --> 00:23:09,466
You don't want the money,
you want the issue.
392
00:23:10,184 --> 00:23:14,398
You should've waited until fall when the
bell rings, then we hammer them with it.
393
00:23:14,732 --> 00:23:17,820
And Kalmbach, Ross, O'Rourke, Stevens,
whoever gets nominated...
394
00:23:17,989 --> 00:23:21,075
...has it hanging around their necks,
they're nicotine pushers.
395
00:23:21,244 --> 00:23:22,573
Plus, you get the money.
396
00:23:24,876 --> 00:23:28,710
The sooner you get I know what
I'm talking about and I'm on your side...
397
00:23:28,882 --> 00:23:31,340
...the sooner your world gets better.
398
00:23:32,013 --> 00:23:33,389
Of course you got the money.
399
00:23:33,557 --> 00:23:36,975
I'm amazed he didn't send it to you
with candy and a stripper.
400
00:23:39,232 --> 00:23:43,234
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio.
401
00:23:43,407 --> 00:23:47,622
Three swing states you could've
brought over with that.
402
00:23:50,002 --> 00:23:51,960
That's an election.
403
00:24:30,237 --> 00:24:32,196
You still get nervous talking to crowds?
404
00:24:32,366 --> 00:24:36,948
I've never been nervous talking in front
of big crowds. It's talking to one person.
405
00:24:38,458 --> 00:24:40,869
I didn't know she was gonna be here.
406
00:24:48,017 --> 00:24:51,305
- I didn't know you were gonna be here.
- I'm introducing you.
407
00:24:52,065 --> 00:24:54,737
- I thought Leyland was.
- C.J. thought it would be good...
408
00:24:54,945 --> 00:24:56,275
- Okay.
- I can tell them...
409
00:24:56,448 --> 00:24:58,775
- No, I think it's a good idea.
- Okay.
410
00:25:00,998 --> 00:25:03,455
You need to reach out to the staff.
411
00:25:03,793 --> 00:25:06,085
Once you do that, they'll feel better.
412
00:25:06,257 --> 00:25:08,417
And then so will you.
413
00:25:09,094 --> 00:25:11,172
I'm going back to the house.
414
00:25:16,441 --> 00:25:17,770
What are you reading?
415
00:25:18,361 --> 00:25:20,485
I don't know enough about agriculture.
416
00:25:20,656 --> 00:25:23,659
I wouldn't worry about it.
Agriculture isn't really your field.
417
00:25:23,829 --> 00:25:30,417
Agriculture is responsible for one in five
American jobs, so it is a bit my field.
418
00:25:30,590 --> 00:25:34,127
Fifteen percent of the world's cotton,
25 percent of the world's beef...
419
00:25:34,304 --> 00:25:37,343
...and 50 percent of the world's
soybeans are grown in my field.
420
00:25:37,519 --> 00:25:41,305
Farmers pay taxes in my field,
their kids go to school in my field...
421
00:25:41,484 --> 00:25:45,270
...they go to jail in my field. From time
to time, they go to war in my field.
422
00:25:45,699 --> 00:25:48,452
If I say,"It's not my field,"
I'm not saying something...
423
00:25:48,621 --> 00:25:50,163
...I'm trying to learn so I can.
424
00:25:50,541 --> 00:25:52,949
- Why won't you talk to me?
- Why aren't you with me?
425
00:25:53,169 --> 00:25:55,544
- How do you know I'm not?
- You're not.
426
00:25:56,843 --> 00:26:00,262
- You're pissed at me?
- I'm trying to read here.
427
00:26:00,473 --> 00:26:03,098
You're pissed, I don't believe it.
I don't believe you.
428
00:26:03,271 --> 00:26:05,099
I don't believe you.
429
00:26:05,316 --> 00:26:07,143
You go from"I've got a lot to say"...
430
00:26:07,319 --> 00:26:10,856
...to"I can't say it right now,
because I've got so much to say"...
431
00:26:11,034 --> 00:26:16,743
...to"I gotta read about agriculture"
and"You're not with me and go to hell."
432
00:26:16,961 --> 00:26:18,705
That's an extraordinary evolution.
433
00:26:18,923 --> 00:26:20,917
Can I go a week without
explaining myself?
434
00:26:21,135 --> 00:26:24,969
You can go as long as you want without
explaining yourself, read your book.
435
00:26:25,183 --> 00:26:28,851
- Sit down, we'll talk about it now.
- I'm not in the mood, jackass.
436
00:26:29,023 --> 00:26:33,487
Is there any way to change your mind?
Because I really had my heart set on it.
437
00:26:35,284 --> 00:26:36,613
Go to hell.
438
00:26:53,856 --> 00:26:55,602
You feel all right?
439
00:26:55,777 --> 00:26:57,189
Yeah.
440
00:26:58,114 --> 00:27:00,358
C.J. wants her to introduce me?
441
00:27:00,535 --> 00:27:02,613
Yeah, I thought it was a good idea too.
442
00:27:02,789 --> 00:27:06,410
I wouldn't mind a little... . You know.
443
00:27:08,966 --> 00:27:11,803
There's gonna be a big crowd
here tomorrow.
444
00:27:11,971 --> 00:27:14,678
Well, that's your kind of crowd.
445
00:27:18,064 --> 00:27:20,853
- I need to finish the speech.
- Yeah.
446
00:27:46,746 --> 00:27:48,407
What are you doing?
447
00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:50,121
What are you doing?
448
00:27:50,295 --> 00:27:51,874
- I'm...
- Going over the transcript?
449
00:27:52,925 --> 00:27:54,800
He needs to apologize.
450
00:27:54,970 --> 00:27:57,723
- Don't worry about it.
- He lied.
451
00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:01,601
He didn't lie. It's what your people call
a"sin of omission."
452
00:28:01,815 --> 00:28:05,862
I'm not Catholic. It's what everybody
calls a sin of omission. Bartlet lied to us.
453
00:28:06,615 --> 00:28:09,107
President Bartlet, Sam, come on.
454
00:28:09,286 --> 00:28:13,951
Did you know many multiple sclerosis
advocates actually instruct victims...
455
00:28:14,127 --> 00:28:17,499
...to hide the illness because
it's so misunderstood?
456
00:28:17,675 --> 00:28:20,382
You think they advise
presidential candidates to do that?
457
00:28:20,555 --> 00:28:22,015
I don't.
458
00:28:25,605 --> 00:28:27,398
- That night he told you...
- Yeah.
459
00:28:27,567 --> 00:28:30,189
- Didn't you feel like...?
- I went crazy.
460
00:28:30,363 --> 00:28:32,987
I whaled on him in the Oval Office.
461
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,282
- None of us had the chance to do that.
- I know.
462
00:28:36,457 --> 00:28:37,785
We could've gotten it done.
463
00:28:37,959 --> 00:28:40,713
If he had just told us,
this would've been a different...
464
00:28:40,881 --> 00:28:42,341
Yeah.
465
00:28:42,927 --> 00:28:44,470
Go home.
466
00:28:45,055 --> 00:28:46,598
All right.
467
00:28:58,370 --> 00:28:59,829
Hey.
468
00:29:00,081 --> 00:29:02,075
- Hey.
- What are you doing?
469
00:29:02,251 --> 00:29:04,707
- Talking to myself.
- I'll join you.
470
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,589
Feel free.
471
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,845
I thought the speech was locked,
but they're at the house, arguing.
472
00:29:14,021 --> 00:29:16,312
It's not locked till
the president says so.
473
00:29:19,405 --> 00:29:21,815
I was out trying to find a Starbucks.
474
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,160
A guy in a gas station said,"Around
here, people don't pay $4 for coffee."
475
00:29:26,334 --> 00:29:28,542
New Hampshire: Live Free or Cheap.
476
00:29:30,132 --> 00:29:32,375
Doug means well, you know,
and he's smart.
477
00:29:34,306 --> 00:29:37,808
It seems to me, your job is to wait
until Doug leaves the room, then say:
478
00:29:37,979 --> 00:29:40,222
"What Doug really meant was... ."
479
00:29:40,441 --> 00:29:42,102
How much do they pay you for that?
480
00:29:42,278 --> 00:29:45,315
Sometimes it's my job to say it
when he's in the room.
481
00:29:45,532 --> 00:29:46,778
Yeah.
482
00:29:47,161 --> 00:29:50,829
We're making a mistake
not including an apology.
483
00:29:51,335 --> 00:29:54,291
- Is this what you mean or Doug means?
- Both.
484
00:29:55,257 --> 00:29:56,801
- It's not gonna happen.
- Why not?
485
00:29:56,968 --> 00:29:59,889
Because Jed Bartlet's Jed Bartlet
and that's the way it goes.
486
00:30:00,058 --> 00:30:03,097
That's what you're saying and it
makes sense, but you know what?
487
00:30:03,271 --> 00:30:06,191
You want him to apologize
and not just for political reasons.
488
00:30:08,030 --> 00:30:10,523
I haven't really thought
that much about it.
489
00:30:10,701 --> 00:30:14,072
There's been a lot going on and I haven't
really thought much about it.
490
00:30:14,249 --> 00:30:16,373
You were with him at the beginning.
491
00:30:16,585 --> 00:30:19,588
You got him elected.
You work for Bartlet 18 hours a day.
492
00:30:19,758 --> 00:30:21,088
- You never felt...?
- Connie.
493
00:30:22,722 --> 00:30:24,845
Please, it's President Bartlet.
494
00:30:26,729 --> 00:30:28,272
Okay?
495
00:30:29,483 --> 00:30:30,813
Yeah.
496
00:30:31,361 --> 00:30:32,856
I should get back to the hotel.
497
00:30:33,030 --> 00:30:34,407
We have to mention values.
498
00:30:34,575 --> 00:30:37,151
If we don't, we're gonna spend
the next 15 months...
499
00:30:37,329 --> 00:30:39,822
...trying to convince people
we did mention values.
500
00:30:40,001 --> 00:30:43,336
"My values are New Hampshire's values:
hard work and responsibility.
501
00:30:43,507 --> 00:30:45,216
Strong families and communities.
502
00:30:45,427 --> 00:30:47,587
Boundless faith in
an ideal of self-reliance.
503
00:30:47,764 --> 00:30:49,924
And poor people can go
screw themselves."
504
00:30:50,144 --> 00:30:53,515
My point is, for 30 years, Democrats
have been labeled tax-and-spend...
505
00:30:53,691 --> 00:30:56,528
...as if they don't believe in getting up
and going to work.
506
00:30:56,696 --> 00:31:00,032
- That's why we have to say it.
- Then nobody's gonna understand it.
507
00:31:00,243 --> 00:31:03,164
Which is why I wanted to
cut the three paragraphs about...
508
00:31:03,373 --> 00:31:05,167
Do you want to solve problems...
509
00:31:05,377 --> 00:31:08,714
...or are you helping us run for grand
marshal of the Rose Bowl Parade?
510
00:31:09,093 --> 00:31:10,837
- Look...
- I'm stretching my legs.
511
00:31:19,944 --> 00:31:21,274
Yeah?
512
00:31:24,953 --> 00:31:26,662
Okay.
513
00:31:42,732 --> 00:31:44,727
Is that something you run for?
514
00:31:47,408 --> 00:31:49,864
The Rose Bowl Parade.
515
00:31:50,163 --> 00:31:53,119
Don't you just get picked?
516
00:31:54,879 --> 00:31:56,753
I don't... .
517
00:31:57,968 --> 00:31:59,629
I don't know.
518
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,102
You guys are so pissed at him
you don't even know it.
519
00:32:07,901 --> 00:32:10,524
You're more pissed at him
than the press is.
520
00:32:10,698 --> 00:32:12,857
You're more pissed at him
than the party is.
521
00:32:13,368 --> 00:32:16,621
You're so pissed at him,
you're pissed at me.
522
00:32:17,209 --> 00:32:20,330
If he hadn't lied, you could've run
the campaign you wanted to...
523
00:32:20,506 --> 00:32:25,385
...instead of lots of people coming in and
teaching you how not to bother anybody.
524
00:32:28,478 --> 00:32:32,228
I never drank the Kool-Aid, Toby.
I came to win.
525
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,235
And you're so pissed at him, you can't
even admit that for the last two weeks...
526
00:32:36,407 --> 00:32:39,495
...you've gone to sleep at night
thanking God that I did.
527
00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:44,002
Yeah?
528
00:32:49,889 --> 00:32:52,262
Bruno just got off with Leo.
529
00:32:52,434 --> 00:32:54,559
The speech is locked.
530
00:33:13,662 --> 00:33:16,073
Whitley left in the first van.
He's there already.
531
00:33:16,251 --> 00:33:18,874
So somebody sit with The Boston Globe.
532
00:33:19,048 --> 00:33:21,337
Donna, where's Josh?
533
00:33:21,510 --> 00:33:23,303
I'll get him.
534
00:33:34,282 --> 00:33:35,611
Come in.
535
00:33:35,784 --> 00:33:37,862
- You're supposed to be downstairs.
- Yeah.
536
00:33:38,038 --> 00:33:40,531
- You're not ready?
- We're blowing this RU-486 thing.
537
00:33:40,708 --> 00:33:42,418
You gotta get in the shower.
538
00:33:42,588 --> 00:33:46,207
It'll look like we're starting the campaign
by pandering to women's groups.
539
00:33:46,386 --> 00:33:49,674
No question, most voters are pro-choice,
but the ones that aren't...
540
00:33:49,849 --> 00:33:52,639
...are gonna devote their lives
and money to beating you.
541
00:33:52,813 --> 00:33:55,770
"Guns don't kill people, Bartlet does."
542
00:33:55,944 --> 00:34:00,775
It'll look like we screwed up the timing,
so the press will write about process...
543
00:34:00,952 --> 00:34:04,324
...not issues, and getting political
reporters to write about issues...
544
00:34:04,625 --> 00:34:08,376
...is like getting kids to eat vegetables.
- You gotta shave.
545
00:34:08,590 --> 00:34:10,917
Don't you wanna know
how it's like getting kid...?
546
00:34:11,095 --> 00:34:12,423
Shave and shower.
547
00:34:12,848 --> 00:34:15,138
It helps if there's nothing else
on their plate.
548
00:34:15,310 --> 00:34:17,803
- You couldn't sleep?
- I know I could stop this thing.
549
00:34:17,981 --> 00:34:20,355
One phone call.
The president's not even involved.
550
00:34:20,527 --> 00:34:23,151
"Could you do us a favor?
Could you hold off two weeks?
551
00:34:23,324 --> 00:34:26,161
We love your drug, but we don't
want it in our news cycle."
552
00:34:26,329 --> 00:34:28,869
- I could've picked up the phone... .
- Josh?
553
00:34:29,083 --> 00:34:30,627
God!
554
00:34:32,339 --> 00:34:34,132
What's this about?
555
00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:41,510
I blew the tobacco thing.
556
00:34:44,193 --> 00:34:47,064
That could've helped us. That was... .
557
00:34:51,705 --> 00:34:54,377
It's gonna be a very close election.
558
00:34:56,838 --> 00:34:58,880
I gotta take a shower.
559
00:35:06,230 --> 00:35:08,806
- Good morning.
- You can go on up.
560
00:35:27,225 --> 00:35:29,468
- Mr. President?
- Come in.
561
00:35:29,645 --> 00:35:31,520
- I was told you wanted to see me.
- Yeah.
562
00:35:32,525 --> 00:35:35,730
Don't be a marriage counselor,
it pisses me off, okay?
563
00:35:36,407 --> 00:35:38,531
- I'm sorry?
- You know what I'm talking about.
564
00:35:38,702 --> 00:35:40,780
That part of my life
doesn't belong to you.
565
00:35:40,956 --> 00:35:43,663
I simply put together what I thought
was the best event.
566
00:35:43,878 --> 00:35:47,249
- The first lady is an excellent speaker...
- All right. That's all.
567
00:35:51,433 --> 00:35:55,100
I think if you get a bump in the polls
after today's speech, as we expect...
568
00:35:55,272 --> 00:35:56,898
...it'd be good for me to resign.
569
00:35:57,944 --> 00:35:59,487
Yeah?
570
00:36:00,865 --> 00:36:04,284
- To leave earlier would be strategically...
- Yeah. Okay.
571
00:36:04,580 --> 00:36:07,369
- The press is...
- That's nonsense to me and I don't care.
572
00:36:07,919 --> 00:36:12,418
For all the jobs we've created, single
mothers work two at minimum wage.
573
00:36:12,594 --> 00:36:15,550
There are school districts
where less than half graduate.
574
00:36:15,724 --> 00:36:19,594
And a kid born in Harlem is more likely
to go to prison than a four-year college.
575
00:36:19,773 --> 00:36:21,564
They're bringing guns to school!
576
00:36:21,776 --> 00:36:25,397
Don't you dare lecture me, sir,
don't you dare do it!
577
00:36:44,231 --> 00:36:46,985
I was never supposed to win.
578
00:36:48,279 --> 00:36:51,366
I got in it polling in the single digits.
579
00:36:51,535 --> 00:36:52,863
Hoynes had it locked up.
580
00:36:53,038 --> 00:36:56,574
I got in it to give some speeches
and keep him honest.
581
00:36:59,798 --> 00:37:01,710
Then you guys came along...
582
00:37:01,886 --> 00:37:05,588
...and all of a sudden,
I got 22 percent in lowa and then...
583
00:37:05,768 --> 00:37:09,638
...South Carolina and Michigan.
And then Illinois.
584
00:37:12,820 --> 00:37:16,822
It was a mistake benching you
for that last press conference.
585
00:37:19,750 --> 00:37:22,077
Excuse me. C.J., they need you.
586
00:37:31,645 --> 00:37:33,556
I need you too.
587
00:37:37,739 --> 00:37:39,982
Thank you, Mr. President.
588
00:38:08,082 --> 00:38:11,251
Did you know that hardly any of
the guys who landed on the moon...
589
00:38:11,421 --> 00:38:15,469
...are married to the same people they
were married to before they went there?
590
00:38:16,263 --> 00:38:17,806
What?
591
00:38:18,349 --> 00:38:22,267
I'm just saying it could be worse.
I could've been an astronaut.
592
00:38:23,859 --> 00:38:27,396
- You could not have been an astronaut.
- I'd have been a great astronaut.
593
00:38:27,574 --> 00:38:30,696
You're afraid of heights, speed, fire
and small places.
594
00:38:30,871 --> 00:38:33,578
I'd have overcome it to go to the moon.
595
00:38:34,668 --> 00:38:36,497
I know you would've.
596
00:38:39,887 --> 00:38:44,183
I'm really happy you're introducing me.
I'm really happy about that.
597
00:38:51,406 --> 00:38:53,447
There's something important
I have to say.
598
00:38:55,871 --> 00:38:57,581
Say it.
599
00:38:59,754 --> 00:39:02,923
I haven't really made up my mind yet...
600
00:39:04,053 --> 00:39:06,047
...but at the moment...
601
00:39:06,474 --> 00:39:09,262
...I'm leaning towards voting for you.
602
00:39:25,673 --> 00:39:29,804
"Fall victim to torpor and timidity."
Torpor...
603
00:39:29,972 --> 00:39:32,465
...is not a word a lot of people know.
604
00:39:32,642 --> 00:39:34,388
- It means apathy.
- And dullness.
605
00:39:34,605 --> 00:39:36,479
- I know what it means.
- Doug means...
606
00:39:36,692 --> 00:39:39,232
- They know what I mean.
- Hi.
607
00:39:43,579 --> 00:39:45,407
If they don't know what it means...
608
00:39:45,624 --> 00:39:47,285
- What's the word?
- Torpor.
609
00:39:47,711 --> 00:39:49,502
- It means apathy.
- And dullness.
610
00:39:49,714 --> 00:39:53,299
I know what the word means. I'm saying
if people don't know what it means...
611
00:39:53,470 --> 00:39:56,592
- They can look it up.
- Good morning, Mr. President.
612
00:39:56,768 --> 00:40:00,768
It's not our job to appeal to the lowest
common denominator, we have to raise it.
613
00:40:00,941 --> 00:40:05,772
If you're gonna be the education president,
don't hide that you have an education.
614
00:40:06,534 --> 00:40:07,864
Bruno, would you mind?
615
00:40:21,936 --> 00:40:23,764
Churchill and F.D.R.
616
00:40:23,939 --> 00:40:27,855
Serious men using big words
for big purpose.
617
00:40:36,168 --> 00:40:39,955
It occurs to me I never said I'm sorry.
618
00:40:41,051 --> 00:40:42,630
I am.
619
00:40:43,471 --> 00:40:45,466
For the lawyers, for the press...
620
00:40:45,684 --> 00:40:49,137
...for the mess, for the fear.
621
00:40:49,858 --> 00:40:54,405
Bruno, Doug, Connie, these guys are
good and they wanna win. So do we.
622
00:40:54,575 --> 00:40:57,493
The only thing we want more
is to be right.
623
00:40:58,748 --> 00:41:01,157
I wonder if you can't do both.
624
00:41:04,133 --> 00:41:06,886
There's a new book,
and we're gonna write it.
625
00:41:07,597 --> 00:41:11,347
You can win if you run a smart,
disciplined campaign...
626
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,598
...if you studiously say nothing...
627
00:41:13,774 --> 00:41:16,694
...nothing that causes you trouble,
nothing that's a gaffe...
628
00:41:16,863 --> 00:41:21,528
...nothing that shows you think a wrong
thing, nothing that shows you think...
629
00:41:21,703 --> 00:41:24,458
...but it isn't worthy of us, is it, Toby?
- No, sir.
630
00:41:24,626 --> 00:41:29,505
It isn't worthy of us or America.
It isn't worthy of a great nation.
631
00:41:30,094 --> 00:41:32,846
We're gonna write a new book,
right here, right now...
632
00:41:33,014 --> 00:41:34,475
...this very moment, today.
633
00:41:37,064 --> 00:41:38,524
Sir?
634
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:41,108
It is my pleasure...
635
00:41:42,030 --> 00:41:44,072
... and my great fortune...
636
00:41:44,368 --> 00:41:46,908
... to introduce my husband...
637
00:41:48,124 --> 00:41:50,164
... our friend...
638
00:41:50,503 --> 00:41:52,913
... New Hampshire's greatest son...
639
00:41:53,091 --> 00:41:58,301
... and the President of the United States,
Josiah Bartlet!
640
00:41:59,018 --> 00:42:01,475
You know what? Break's over.