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Previously on The West Wing:
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Toby keeps coming back
at me with this... .
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- He says I let the pitch go by.
- What pitch?
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I smooth myself out publicly.
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You're not just folks.
You're not plainspoken.
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Do not... Do not... Do not act like it.
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I don't wanna be killed.
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Then make this election
about smart and not.
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Qualified and not.
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Make it about a heavyweight.
You're a heavyweight.
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-Morning, Mr. President.
- Good to be talking to you.
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-You're in the Map Room this morning?
- The Mural Room.
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Welcome to Sunrise Cincinnati, sir.
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I know you only have a moment
and wanna talk...
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... about Thursday's
prime-time press conference.
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Right, and Thursday night we're
gonna talk about energy dependence...
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...versus independence
and cleaner-burning fuels...
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...that get up to 80 miles per gallon
versus oil-based fuels...
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...that pump billions of pounds
of pollution into our air...
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...and, perhaps just as important, are
vulnerable to very volatile price spikes.
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We wanna talk about controlling
our destiny through innovation...
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...instead of relying
so heavily on foreign oil.
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Okay, now, you mentioned foreign oil...
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Yeah. 65% of the world's oil reserves
are in the Mideast.
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3% are here at home. I wouldn't mind
sending a little less of my money...
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...over there, and the only alternative
is to use less oil.
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Last question, Mr. President.
Governor Robert Ritchie of Florida...
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... likely Republican nominee
for the fall campaign...
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... in his new book, A Promise to Lead,
he says we should be exploring...
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... the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve
for new sources of energy.
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Will this be a hotly contested
campaign topic?
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I hope so, but there's plenty of time
for campaigning come fall.
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Thursday night
is about America's energy future.
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Thank you very much,
President Jed Bartlet.
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It's 12 past the hour. Don 't go away,
we'll be back with traffic...
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- ... and weather updates.
- We're out.
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- Thank you very much, sir.
- Thank you, Kim.
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- Terry.
- Terry. I'm sorry.
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-That's all right.
- That was my ninth interview.
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Are you ready to run against Ritchie?
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I guess we'll be ready to run against
whoever we have to.
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What do you think of him?
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Rob Ritchie?
I don't know him very well.
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- Well, good luck.
- Thank you.
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- They wanna talk about Ritchie's book.
- We could talk about my book.
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Theory and Design of Macroeconomics
in Developing Nations?
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Okay, sir, we've got 2 minutes and 20
seconds, and it's WKZN in Philadelphia.
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- Thanks.
- They say"exploring," you say"drilling."
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There's a 12-point kick with ANWAR
between exploring and drilling.
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- What else?
- Saudi Arabia, bad.
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Got it.
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- How's it going?
- Good.
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- Do you have a minute?
- Well, that's all I've got.
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Could you do me a favor?
I got faxed a letter from Tabatha Fortis.
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She's not comfortable
with dinner next week...
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...unless she can chastise
the administration...
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...for backing off
on banning land mines.
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It's just a matter of handholding.
Would you ask Sam to talk to her?
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- I'll do it.
- Sam's more familiar with land mines.
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- I'll talk to her.
- Why?
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Because.
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What?
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Is it possible you've got a little touch
of the poet?
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Or would like a little touch of the poet?
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Yes.
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Okay, then learn something
about land mines.
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We don't wanna cancel. 300 of the
finest minds in the country are coming...
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...plus some congressmen.
- I'll be fine.
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Knock them dead, de Bergerac.
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Okay.
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Okay, what?
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Nothing, I just meant,
you know, okay.
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We're back from commercial
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- Drilling/exploring.
- Yes, sir.
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- Saudi Arabia, bad.
- Saudi Arabia, very bad.
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- Okay.
- Okay.
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Why are you smiling?
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Happiness is my default position.
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Joining us now from the Mural Room
of the White House is President Bartlet.
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- Good morning.
- Morning, thanks for having me.
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You wanna talk
about Thursday's press conference.
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And to shill for my new energy plan...
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...to raise fuel economy standards,
working with Detroit...
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...to develop hybrid cars and using tax
incentives to promote alternative energy.
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Why is alternative energy important?
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After a decade of wars with Iraq
and the spread of religious extremism...
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...in Saudi Arabia, we still rely on this
very dangerous, very uncertain region...
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...for a quarter of our oil reserves.
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And l, for one, wouldn't mind not sending
quite so much of my money there.
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Wouldn 't that suggest that Florida
Governor Robert Ritchie was correct...
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... in his book, A Promise to Lead?
He says we should open up...
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... the Arctic for exploration?
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Exploring is what Magellan did,
and Balboa and Jacques Cousteau.
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This is drilling, which is the only way
you know if there's oil there...
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...and which will forever damage
natural treasures like ANWAR.
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What about clean coal?
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That's a term pollsters came up with
because it polls higher than regular coal.
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We want real cleaner-burning fuels, to
control our destiny through innovation.
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That's what we'll talk
about Thursday night.
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Mr. President, thank you
for being with us today.
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- My pleasure.
- It's 16 past the hour.
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We'll be back with traffic and weather
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- Okay.
- That was terrific.
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- Leslie, right?
- Yes, sir.
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- Thanks a lot.
- I mentioned Governor Ritchie's book...
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... because I hoped
you'd rise to the bait.
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There will be plenty of bait
in September, October.
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- Have you read it?
- I'll read it when he does.
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- What's your read on him?
- I don't know.
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I think we might be talking about a.22
caliber mind in a.357 Magnum world.
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- Okay.
- Okay, thanks again.
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Who's next?
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- You were hot.
- What?
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When you said that just now,
you were hot. They've got it on B-roll.
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- How did the tape get out already?
- We were discussing that.
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A local AP reporter
was at the station.
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- They didn't keep it exclusive?
- They want their call letters splashed...
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And the networks will carry it tonight.
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This is amateur crap, Sam.
How did it happen?
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- First of all, I wasn't there.
- Who was?
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My boss, the White House director
of communications.
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It wasn't his fault either. It was
8 seconds, it was his 10th interview.
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- He didn't see that the green light was...
- You're right. What's first?
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- I have the briefing room in 20 minutes.
- What are you gonna get?
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- Is he saying Governor Ritchie's stupid?
- Yes.
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- No.
-"Yes" is the only answer to that.
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Why not,"He has
the highest regard for Ritchie...
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...believes he's a broad thinker
and a dedicated public servant"?
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It's the Press Briefing Room, not
the lmprov. She can't walk this back.
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She'll sound disingenuous at best,
naive at worst.
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My concern
is how the president sounds.
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I've got 80 people
who don't make the distinction.
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If I pretend Ritchie's
a nuclear physicist...
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Then don't answer. Our focus
is on energy independence this week.
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No, we're focusing on this
this week.
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I can try a non-apology apology.
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Try it.
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"The president didn't realize the camera
was hot, and he said something...
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...he shouldn't have,
as we all do from time to time."
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- Nice.
- Yeah.
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- It's a head-fake towards contrition.
- And we hold our heads high.
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All right. Good.
We'll see how it goes.
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Why is this one so hard to spin?
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It's the classic Washington scandal.
We screwed up by telling the truth.
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All right. Let's try not to do that
that much.
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I know.
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- What's going on?
- Hi, sugar-lips.
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- I'm sorry?
- Donna struck gold.
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- What is it?
- Lemon-Lyman. Com.
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- What is it?
- Your fan site.
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- What?
- A website devoted to all things"Josh."
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- You're kidding me.
- No.
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- Lemon-Lyman. Com?
- You have fans, Josh.
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Not many of them,
but what they lack in numbers...
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...they make up for in fervor.
- What do they talk about?
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You on Capital Beat, Meet the Press,
U.S. News and World Report.
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There's a section called
"Sightings About Town."
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This is reserved for actual
Josh encounters of the third kind.
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Most seem to take place
in restaurants...
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...you've never been to,
unless you lead a double life.
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- And we know you're not that clever.
- Lemon-Lyman. Com?
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Right now we're viewing the section
devoted to the"Josh Fantasy Date."
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This, it should be painfully
self-explanatory, is where the women...
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...and more than a few men, I must
say, discuss what they'd do with you if...
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All right, can everybody
who doesn't work here...
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...please go work where they work.
- I wanna work here now.
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You can get this at your own desk.
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You better believe it.
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See you at lunch.
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You've got Senior Senior Staff
at the COS...
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...then Senior Staff
at the Roosevelt Room.
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Meeting with the economic team
to pre-brief for fed chair...
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...then Advance, State and NSC to go
over the next 6 months of foreign travel.
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Let me look at this thing.
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Right. Yes. Let me know
when C.J. 's briefing starts.
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- Sorry I'm late.
- Good morning, Mr. President.
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- We hearing from Michigan's delegation?
- We will.
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They'll want assurances, no mandates,
no timetables...
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...make the whole thing voluntary
and industry-led.
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Polluters won't write environmental
laws. And the Energy Workers Union?
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They wanna know
it's Saudi jobs we're after.
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- It is.
- The money's in raising...
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...CAFE standards to 40 miles per gallon,
that's the meeting.
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- What else?
- You're gonna be reprimanded...
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...tomorrow night on the House floor.
- For what?
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It's not nice to call people dumb.
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Let me ask you something. You're
pretty dumb, did you take offense?
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- Look, I did it again.
- Mr. President?
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- Yeah.
- She's ready to start.
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Seriously, the GOP's lining up
a bunch of people for order speeches.
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- Calling me impolite?
- I guess.
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He's here, you can send her in.
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Anyway, the whip's got
about 150 Democrats ready to rebut.
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You have any
special preferences?
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I don't know,
I guess the biggest names.
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You know what we'd do if we
were smart? We wouldn't send anybody.
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We'd look so good by not showing up.
Let them whine by themselves.
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Morning, C.J.
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-Good morning.
-Was the president saying...
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... Governor Ritchie
isn 't up to the job of being president?
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He didn 't realize the camera was hot
and said something he shouldn 't have.
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- Something we all do from time to time.
- Nice.
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Isn 't it early in the season
to be going negative?
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He said something he wouldn 't have...
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... if he knew it was gonna be public.
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C.J., has he made the same
kind of remarks in private?
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There's a reason
they call it private, Stuart.
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All right, I'm going back to work.
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Is he saying
he's smarter than Governor Ritchie?
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The voters get to make
those kinds of judgments.
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-C.J.!
-Yes?
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Governor Ritchie asked
the president to apologize.
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Will he?
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As I said yesterday,
he didn't realize the camera was hot...
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...and he said something
he shouldn't have.
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- Katie?
- The Ritchie camp is challenging...
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...the president to sign a pledge,
a promise to run a positive campaign.
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While the governor is the presumptive
Republican nominee, it's presumptive.
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So is the president's renomination.
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But more important,
the president has been a candidate...
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...in seven statewide and national
elections, and all have been...
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...substantive, issue-based campaign,
one reason why voters elected him...
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...every time his name
has appeared on a ballot. Phil?
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You're aware news
organizations are trying to obtain...
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...Ritchie's transcripts
from the University of Florida?
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- You mean since yesterday?
- Yeah.
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- No, I wasn't.
- My question is...
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...does he feel college transcripts
are an accurate barometer...
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...of a person's fitness
to hold high public office?
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I've never asked him,
but my guess is...
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...he feels a person's college transcript
is a reasonable barometer...
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...for how a person did in college.
The president graduated...
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...summa cum laude
from the University of Notre Dame...
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...majored in American Studies
with a minor in theology...
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...received a master's and doctorate
at London School of Economics...
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...and an honorary doctorate in humane
letters at Dartmouth...
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...where he was a tenured professor.
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I myself attended Cal Berkeley, go Bears.
Thank you very much, talk to you later.
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Thanks, C.J.
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- All right, so far not bad.
- What's next?
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- Bud Wachtel's in my office.
- Of course he is.
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- Don't give him what he wants.
- I seldom do.
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We can't hold a bipartisan summit
on bipartisanism. We'll look ridiculous.
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- We're used to that.
- Sam...
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- I won't give him what he wants.
- Is it me, or are Ritchie's people wrong?
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- It's not you.
- Why keep at it? They won't look good.
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"The president was mean to me"?
Let it go.
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By the way, my Princeton Tigers
could whip your Cal Bears anytime.
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- At what?
- Logarithms, possibly.
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- He's in your office.
- Thank you.
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- Congressman.
- It smells of partisanism in the air, Sam.
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Actually, you know,
they just sprayed for bugs.
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How did Ziegler let this happen?
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First of all, it wasn't Toby's fault,
it was mine.
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And it happened quickly
and we regret it.
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- How's reaction been so far?
- Our base is very happy...
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...but when our base is happy
there's usually trouble someplace else.
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- Moderates talk of bolting the party.
- Nobody's bolting.
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It was an honest mistake.
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And by the way,
it had nothing to do with partisanism.
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- Something has to be done.
- Little can be done...
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...from the Communications Office.
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- A summit.
- Congressman...
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- A summit on bipartisan cooperation.
- It'll get laughed out of the room.
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- Why?
- It's election year. We want partisanism.
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- We're trying to beat them.
- I've gotta tell...
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...my moderate friends something.
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What about a Republican appointment
or a promotion?
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- We've got Ainsley Hayes.
- Name sounds familiar.
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She was associate White House
counsel, promoted to deputy counsel.
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She's slightly to the right
of the Kaiser.
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- I'd make her visible right now.
- Yes, sir, that's a good idea.
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And learn to tell the difference
between red and green.
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Yes, sir.
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Okay then.
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- Ginger, I need to see Ainsley.
- She's on vacation.
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- When's she coming back?
- Next week.
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Not so much, no.
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- Donna!
- Yeah.
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We're gonna post
a response on the site.
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- What site?
- Lemon-Lyman...
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- No.
- Yeah, we gotta post a response.
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- It's a bad idea.
- Why?
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- You don't know these people.
- Neither do you.
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- I do.
- What's wrong with them?
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- Nobody knows.
- These people...
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...take an interest in government.
They should be applauded.
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- Applaud, but stay off the site.
- These are the people talking.
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- I'm not an elitist.
- You are.
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I am, but I have respect for people
who don't measure up.
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People on these sites tend
to be hysterical.
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- We gotta correct something.
- What?
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Irmatrude writes,"Three nights ago on
Nightline, Josh said we'll be asking...
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...for a GAO study of Medicare drug
pricing. Apparently, no one's told Josh...
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...that only Congress can ask the GAO
to do anything."
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How cool is it that they know
what the GAO can and can't do.
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- Oh, it's cool as all giddyup.
- Sit down.
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- Please don't do this.
- Sit down.
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Irmatrude...
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...thanks for watching me
on Nightline.
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Yes, I do know that only Congress
can instruct the GAO.
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When I said,"we'll be asking," I meant
Democrats and not the White House.
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Thank you for your concern.
Josh"Lemon-Lyman."
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- You sure you wanna sign off like that?
- It's playful.
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Okay.
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You could get more
in the spirit of this.
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- The people?
- Yes.
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What Josh doesn't know
is that some of these people...
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...haven't taken their medication.
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Let's watch what happens now.
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- Excuse me.
- Hey. You're done.
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Is this tie all right?
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- I'm sorry?
- This necktie, does it go with the jacket?
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God, I don't know, Toby.
The tie, is it red or is it green?
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Congratulations, you're the 100th
person to make that joke.
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- The tie's fine. Why?
- I'm meeting someone.
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When?
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Now.
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Excuse me.
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- Ms. Fortis?
- Yeah.
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I'm Toby Ziegler.
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I've been thinking a lot about it
since you called.
324
00:17:01,444 --> 00:17:03,082
Yeah?
325
00:17:03,284 --> 00:17:05,434
There's nothing that rhymes
with Ziegler.
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- It's why no one writes about me.
- They could write in blank verse.
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00:17:08,844 --> 00:17:11,199
- Dylan could do it.
- Yeah, but he hasn't yet.
328
00:17:12,484 --> 00:17:15,521
Am I really weird right off the bat?
329
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Do you wanna be?
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- No.
- Then you're not.
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I think you're just being nice.
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I think if you ask around,
you'll discover that's unlikely.
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- You wanna come back to my office?
- Yeah.
334
00:17:35,284 --> 00:17:37,673
So you know what everybody's
talking about out there?
335
00:17:37,844 --> 00:17:39,323
The president's open-mike gaffe.
336
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- That's exactly what I was gonna say.
- Toby.
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Sam, say hello to the newly minted
U.S. poet laureate, Tabatha Fortis.
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- Hi.
- Yes, indeed.
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- Poetry, I must tell you...
- That's fine.
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- Nice meeting you.
- You too.
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00:17:52,244 --> 00:17:55,236
- You guys poetry fans around here?
- Can't get enough of it.
342
00:17:55,444 --> 00:17:58,516
- Oh, yeah? Who's your favorite?
- You.
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- Nice.
- Come on in.
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- Nice office.
- Exactly 63 feet from the Oval Office.
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If you don't think we measure,
you're out of your mind.
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00:18:08,964 --> 00:18:10,841
Okay. So... .
347
00:18:11,444 --> 00:18:14,402
- Hello.
- How you doing?
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We have a problem?
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Yes.
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We have arranged a dinner in your honor.
We've invited 300 important people.
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00:18:24,524 --> 00:18:26,674
We've invited press,
we've shined our shoes.
352
00:18:26,844 --> 00:18:28,755
You gotta sign
the land mine treaty, Toby.
353
00:18:30,724 --> 00:18:32,635
What happened to the nuance
of diplomacy?
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00:18:32,844 --> 00:18:35,404
- I'm sorry, the shoes are shined.
- No, we're there now.
355
00:18:35,564 --> 00:18:38,158
- You can't go back.
- Sorry.
356
00:18:40,804 --> 00:18:43,193
- Right.
- 142 countries have signed it.
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84 have ratified,
12 destroyed their entire stock.
358
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- Yes.
- You know who hasn't signed it?
359
00:18:48,844 --> 00:18:52,314
- Us and Cuba.
- You know who initiated it? Us.
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00:18:52,484 --> 00:18:54,793
And the nations of the world
rallied around it...
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00:18:54,964 --> 00:18:57,762
...in yet another impressive display
of American leadership.
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00:18:57,924 --> 00:18:59,596
- And then?
- We bolted.
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00:18:59,764 --> 00:19:01,083
- Right.
- The reason we did...
364
00:19:01,244 --> 00:19:04,316
...is because we love anti-personnel
land mines. We love them.
365
00:19:04,884 --> 00:19:08,001
We think the government should be
selling them, like the post office.
366
00:19:08,164 --> 00:19:10,519
The post office is the venue
we're considering.
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00:19:10,684 --> 00:19:12,800
- Toby, l...
- It's Korea, Tabatha.
368
00:19:12,964 --> 00:19:15,398
There are 900,000 North Korean soldiers
in the DMZ.
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The only thing stopping them
from walking into South Korea...
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00:19:18,524 --> 00:19:21,914
...are 37,000 U.S. troops and about
a million land mines along the border.
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00:19:22,084 --> 00:19:25,554
We have said over and over that we
would be thrilled to sign this treaty...
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...if we could have an exemption for
South Korea, and we have been rebuffed.
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Rebuffed, I say.
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00:19:33,804 --> 00:19:37,160
Look, so we disagree on this.
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00:19:37,844 --> 00:19:40,438
Clearly. What's the big deal?
376
00:19:41,404 --> 00:19:44,555
- It's not a big deal at all.
- Except?
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If you voice your disagreement
at a party in your honor...
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...hosted by the president,
with the press in attendance...
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...then it's a gigantic deal which travels
the 63 feet right to this office.
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00:20:03,604 --> 00:20:05,276
All right then.
381
00:20:07,324 --> 00:20:09,884
I'm sorry we can't have the party.
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00:20:10,044 --> 00:20:12,478
But I like talking to you.
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00:20:14,764 --> 00:20:17,801
Yeah, you're cute...
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...and I love the way you write.
385
00:20:33,836 --> 00:20:37,192
C.J., could you give it to us unvarnished?
Was the president calling...
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00:20:38,516 --> 00:20:41,110
...Governor Ritchie stupid?
- Oh, my God, day three.
387
00:20:41,276 --> 00:20:43,836
- Was he?
- I think this one may be unspinable.
388
00:20:43,996 --> 00:20:46,271
And that's saying something
coming from my office.
389
00:20:46,436 --> 00:20:47,915
Yeah, he was calling him stupid.
390
00:20:48,076 --> 00:20:50,544
How has his mood been
the last few days? Does he regret it?
391
00:20:50,756 --> 00:20:53,634
He hasn't been able to feed
or bathe himself.
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00:20:53,796 --> 00:20:56,674
The governor's doing a 10-state tour.
His campaign indicates...
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00:20:56,836 --> 00:20:59,873
...they'll try to rally the nation
around his clean campaign pledge.
394
00:21:00,076 --> 00:21:03,546
A quote,"A different kind of politics
is sweeping the nation.
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Once the president understands
the American people...
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00:21:06,476 --> 00:21:08,671
...he'll have no choice
but to sign the pledge."
397
00:21:09,076 --> 00:21:12,273
Mark, I swear to God,
as soon as the president needs help...
398
00:21:12,436 --> 00:21:14,154
...understanding
the American people...
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00:21:14,316 --> 00:21:16,466
...he'll call
Florida's Republican governor.
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But this week, we're focused
on the press conference...
401
00:21:19,236 --> 00:21:21,989
...on our National Strategy
for Energy Independence.
402
00:21:22,156 --> 00:21:25,466
Speaking of which, we've been
dependent on foreign oil for far too long.
403
00:21:25,636 --> 00:21:29,629
65% of our crude oil reserves come
from the Gulf, only 3% here at home.
404
00:21:29,796 --> 00:21:32,071
C.J., policy is the president's forte.
405
00:21:32,236 --> 00:21:34,352
Are you guys trying
to bait Governor Ritchie...
406
00:21:34,516 --> 00:21:36,825
...into an argument on energy
because you'll win?
407
00:21:37,036 --> 00:21:40,028
We tried to convince the president
that talking about policy...
408
00:21:40,196 --> 00:21:42,585
...was unsportsmanlike,
but we didn't get anywhere.
409
00:21:42,756 --> 00:21:46,226
Listen, I've had a lot of fun,
I know you have too. I'll see you later.
410
00:21:46,436 --> 00:21:48,427
Thank you, C.J.
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00:21:49,436 --> 00:21:51,154
- C.J.
- Chuckles.
412
00:21:51,316 --> 00:21:54,149
The president wants another
pre-brief and run-through tonight.
413
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- Sure.
- Full-blown run-through.
414
00:21:56,036 --> 00:21:57,515
Maybe then you can explain...
415
00:21:57,676 --> 00:21:59,667
...your problem
with drilling ANWAR for oil.
416
00:21:59,836 --> 00:22:04,227
If we wanna be energy-independent,
what's wrong with drilling in Alaska?
417
00:22:04,396 --> 00:22:06,864
It'll do huge and lasting damage
to the environment...
418
00:22:07,036 --> 00:22:10,108
...and won't reap that much oil.
- It won't impact the environment.
419
00:22:10,276 --> 00:22:12,585
You won't know how much
is there until you explore.
420
00:22:12,756 --> 00:22:14,030
- Explore?
- Yes.
421
00:22:14,196 --> 00:22:17,154
- You mean drill?
- That's how you get where the oil is at.
422
00:22:17,316 --> 00:22:19,227
- You've been reading his book.
- Excuse me?
423
00:22:19,396 --> 00:22:22,433
-A Promise to Lead, Ritchie's book.
- Whoever ghosted it isn't bad.
424
00:22:22,596 --> 00:22:25,110
Carol, put together a page
on the impact of drilling...
425
00:22:25,276 --> 00:22:27,312
...the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.
426
00:22:27,476 --> 00:22:29,751
Note exactly how many caribou
we've made unhappy.
427
00:22:29,956 --> 00:22:32,186
- Thank you.
- You bet.
428
00:22:34,436 --> 00:22:35,869
Come in.
429
00:22:36,276 --> 00:22:38,870
- Hey, welcome back.
- What?
430
00:22:39,076 --> 00:22:42,705
- How was the vacation?
- It was 40 hours long.
431
00:22:42,876 --> 00:22:44,309
- Where did you go?
- Hilton Head.
432
00:22:44,476 --> 00:22:45,795
What did you do?
433
00:22:45,956 --> 00:22:48,265
I unpacked and then I packed.
434
00:22:48,436 --> 00:22:51,314
By the way, congratulations.
Babish is promoting you to deputy.
435
00:22:52,356 --> 00:22:54,950
- When did this happen?
- Right after I told Bud Wachtel...
436
00:22:55,116 --> 00:22:57,505
...that we already had.
- What the hell is going on?
437
00:22:57,676 --> 00:23:01,464
Well, Monday morning there was a little
incident during the satellite interviews.
438
00:23:01,636 --> 00:23:04,434
I read about it. How could you
let something like that happen?
439
00:23:04,596 --> 00:23:08,475
Okay, for everybody who works outside
the building, I'll fall on the sword.
440
00:23:08,636 --> 00:23:11,275
But for everybody who works inside,
I wasn't there!
441
00:23:11,436 --> 00:23:13,154
Okay.
442
00:23:13,636 --> 00:23:16,196
- Didn't get much of a tan.
- What do you need?
443
00:23:16,396 --> 00:23:18,387
Capital Beat, Capital Gang,
Inside Politics.
444
00:23:18,556 --> 00:23:20,751
- To say what?
- The president isn't an elitist.
445
00:23:20,916 --> 00:23:22,952
- He respects everyone.
- That's why he made...
446
00:23:23,116 --> 00:23:25,914
...a Southern Republican
a deputy counsel.
447
00:23:26,076 --> 00:23:28,636
- Congratulations, again, by the way.
- He is an elitist.
448
00:23:28,796 --> 00:23:31,390
It's elitist, geocentric,
lvy League snobbery to think...
449
00:23:31,556 --> 00:23:33,786
...if you haven't written
six journal articles...
450
00:23:33,956 --> 00:23:36,675
...on monetary support mechanisms,
you're not fit to lead.
451
00:23:36,836 --> 00:23:40,351
We believe that if you're gonna set
policy, it'd be a bonus to understand it.
452
00:23:40,516 --> 00:23:43,474
At this point, we'd be astonished
to discover Ritchie had read...
453
00:23:43,636 --> 00:23:47,185
...six journal articles on anything,
other than athletic support mechanisms.
454
00:23:47,356 --> 00:23:49,995
There's a difference
between intellect and instinct.
455
00:23:50,196 --> 00:23:53,313
252 million people in the country,
you don't think we should elect...
456
00:23:53,476 --> 00:23:57,105
...somebody who's got both?
- Presidents can have good advisors.
457
00:23:57,276 --> 00:24:00,427
And good advisors can better advise
informed and curious presidents.
458
00:24:00,596 --> 00:24:04,305
But what if the lvy League presidents
are surrounded by intellectual snobs?
459
00:24:04,516 --> 00:24:06,905
Let's clear up things.
That's the second time...
460
00:24:07,076 --> 00:24:10,432
...you've invoked the Evil 8. First of
all, Notre Dame isn't lvy League.
461
00:24:10,596 --> 00:24:13,156
Their football is independent.
Basketball, in the Big East.
462
00:24:13,316 --> 00:24:15,625
Second, education is important
in this White House.
463
00:24:15,796 --> 00:24:18,788
What's wrong with the lvy League?
Should we discourage parents...
464
00:24:18,956 --> 00:24:21,311
...from hoping their kids get
into Princeton and Yale?
465
00:24:21,476 --> 00:24:24,274
All I know is, we got into Vietnam
via the Beltway Chapter...
466
00:24:24,436 --> 00:24:26,154
...of the Harvard Alumni Association.
467
00:24:26,316 --> 00:24:29,911
Yeah, except, that's not all you know,
because you're bright and curious...
468
00:24:30,076 --> 00:24:33,386
...you worked hard and got into Smith,
and got your law degree where?
469
00:24:33,556 --> 00:24:36,514
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
You lose, I win, 'twas ever thus.
470
00:24:37,316 --> 00:24:38,908
I was on vacation.
471
00:24:39,716 --> 00:24:41,752
Life's tough
in the aluminum siding business.
472
00:24:41,916 --> 00:24:43,827
Check the press office
on your TV schedule.
473
00:24:43,996 --> 00:24:46,590
I will do the TV shows
because I serve the president.
474
00:24:46,756 --> 00:24:48,826
But I do not want a promotion
I didn't earn.
475
00:24:49,116 --> 00:24:52,074
- I'll talk to Babish.
- Let me check the pay differential first.
476
00:24:52,236 --> 00:24:53,749
You bet.
477
00:24:56,516 --> 00:24:57,869
- Toby.
- Yes.
478
00:24:58,036 --> 00:25:01,028
Four networks are carrying
the press conference instead of one.
479
00:25:01,196 --> 00:25:02,914
- Are you kidding?
- No.
480
00:25:03,076 --> 00:25:05,590
- I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
- No.
481
00:25:05,756 --> 00:25:07,155
- Where you going?
- Sightseeing.
482
00:25:07,316 --> 00:25:09,307
- Really?
- Tabatha's never been to Washington.
483
00:25:09,476 --> 00:25:11,546
You're gonna get that thing done,
or should I?
484
00:25:11,716 --> 00:25:13,274
- It's gonna be fine.
- You sure?
485
00:25:13,436 --> 00:25:15,950
She's a poet.
She's new to things like consequences.
486
00:25:16,116 --> 00:25:17,788
- Okay.
- All four networks?
487
00:25:17,956 --> 00:25:21,585
Listen, I have a crazy thought.
Is it possible...?
488
00:25:22,076 --> 00:25:23,828
What?
489
00:25:25,516 --> 00:25:27,825
Never mind. I'll see you later.
490
00:25:28,196 --> 00:25:29,595
Okay.
491
00:25:31,156 --> 00:25:33,670
- Donna!
- Yeah?
492
00:25:33,956 --> 00:25:36,311
- Something weird has happened here.
- What?
493
00:25:36,956 --> 00:25:39,186
- Lemon-Lyman...
- No.
494
00:25:39,356 --> 00:25:41,631
They didn't take
my response in the spirit...
495
00:25:41,796 --> 00:25:43,946
...in which it was intended.
- Yeah.
496
00:25:44,116 --> 00:25:46,710
Seems to be a very unusual
social structure.
497
00:25:46,876 --> 00:25:49,674
For instance, there's a leader
who seems to pride herself...
498
00:25:49,836 --> 00:25:52,111
...on her organizational skills
and discipline.
499
00:25:52,276 --> 00:25:56,064
- That's what's called a control freak.
- She does do an awful lot of scolding.
500
00:25:56,236 --> 00:25:58,704
"You posted it in the wrong place."
"Stay on topic."
501
00:25:58,876 --> 00:26:01,754
"No capital letters."
"I don't have time to tell you twice."
502
00:26:01,916 --> 00:26:05,625
Clearly, she does have time to tell
us twice. But that's not the problem.
503
00:26:05,796 --> 00:26:10,711
"Someone needs to deal
with Josh's planet-sized ego...
504
00:26:10,876 --> 00:26:12,548
...by teaching him Government 101.
505
00:26:12,716 --> 00:26:15,025
Who made him overlord
of the Democratic Party?"
506
00:26:15,196 --> 00:26:17,949
And someone else writes,
"Is Josh delusional...
507
00:26:18,116 --> 00:26:21,108
...or is he actively trying to destroy
the separation of powers?"
508
00:26:21,396 --> 00:26:22,875
- Well, are you?
- No!
509
00:26:23,036 --> 00:26:25,391
Then turn off the computer,
and go back to work.
510
00:26:25,556 --> 00:26:28,946
- I need to clarify my post.
- There's a press conference tomorrow...
511
00:26:29,116 --> 00:26:31,391
...on a new energy policy
that you've spent months...
512
00:26:31,556 --> 00:26:34,514
...shepherding down the field. And now...
- Sit down in the chair.
513
00:26:34,676 --> 00:26:38,032
- Has the pressure to get the energy pack...
- Sit down in the chair.
514
00:26:41,916 --> 00:26:44,555
I think you've gone 'round the bend.
515
00:26:44,916 --> 00:26:46,986
I'm dictating now.
516
00:26:50,276 --> 00:26:52,915
I don't think it falls under the category
of outrageous...
517
00:26:53,076 --> 00:26:56,466
...to suggest that I might have friends
on the other end of the Avenue...
518
00:26:56,636 --> 00:26:58,547
...who have the phone number
of the GAO.
519
00:26:58,716 --> 00:27:02,629
Let me put this more plainly. The
White House can get a GAO review...
520
00:27:02,796 --> 00:27:07,108
...of anything it wants without posing
a threat to the separation of powers.
521
00:27:07,276 --> 00:27:10,348
And I believe I'll use capital,
lowercase or Sanskrit...
522
00:27:10,516 --> 00:27:15,032
...right up until the moment the font
police cuff me and read me Miranda.
523
00:27:15,676 --> 00:27:18,315
- That'll show them.
- These are good people by and large...
524
00:27:18,476 --> 00:27:20,910
...but they're under the thumb
of a dictatorial ruler.
525
00:27:21,076 --> 00:27:23,715
So as with a small,
Central American country...
526
00:27:23,876 --> 00:27:27,346
...my role is to incite the people
to topple her.
527
00:27:27,516 --> 00:27:30,155
You're way 'round the bend.
Can I get you a damp towel?
528
00:27:30,316 --> 00:27:31,908
- No, but do we have Yoo-hoo?
- Yeah.
529
00:27:32,076 --> 00:27:33,953
- I'll take one.
- I'm on it.
530
00:27:34,996 --> 00:27:37,988
- What are you doing?
- Crossing off the FDR Memorial...
531
00:27:38,156 --> 00:27:41,432
...the Atrium and the Folger Library.
532
00:27:41,836 --> 00:27:45,272
I like crossing off lists,
it's very satisfying.
533
00:27:45,436 --> 00:27:46,949
Do you like lists?
534
00:27:47,116 --> 00:27:49,266
- Yes.
- You like crossing things off?
535
00:27:49,436 --> 00:27:51,392
I'll let you know if it happens.
536
00:27:51,556 --> 00:27:53,626
Hey, how did you know
what hotel I was at?
537
00:27:53,796 --> 00:27:55,912
We have you watched
when you're in D.C.
538
00:27:56,076 --> 00:27:57,953
- Are you serious?
- No.
539
00:27:58,116 --> 00:27:59,629
Good.
540
00:27:59,796 --> 00:28:01,787
We always have you watched.
541
00:28:04,036 --> 00:28:06,231
So you know what I was thinking
might be fun?
542
00:28:06,396 --> 00:28:08,591
If I came to the White House dinner
and shut up?
543
00:28:08,756 --> 00:28:10,872
That's not what
I was gonna say at all.
544
00:28:11,156 --> 00:28:13,670
- What were you gonna say?
- If you came to the dinner...
545
00:28:13,836 --> 00:28:16,430
...wore a beautiful dress
and shut the hell up.
546
00:28:19,556 --> 00:28:24,630
I got a list of nine former l-Corps
commanders who served in Korea...
547
00:28:24,796 --> 00:28:28,709
...who say land mines aren't necessary
to protect our troops anywhere.
548
00:28:28,876 --> 00:28:31,390
- We're aware of all nine.
- And we have, do we not...
549
00:28:31,556 --> 00:28:35,629
...other weapons that are more effective
and less deadly to our side...
550
00:28:35,796 --> 00:28:39,345
...that are part of a U.S. response plan
to the North crossing the DMZ?
551
00:28:39,516 --> 00:28:41,711
I work in communications.
552
00:28:42,276 --> 00:28:46,349
And land mines
would actually slow a counterinvasion.
553
00:28:48,436 --> 00:28:50,825
You have an answer to any of this?
554
00:28:51,156 --> 00:28:55,707
The president of the United States
requests the honor of your presence...
555
00:28:55,876 --> 00:28:58,549
...and I'm sorry, but you show up.
556
00:28:58,876 --> 00:29:01,470
And I'm sorry, but I tell the truth.
557
00:29:01,676 --> 00:29:04,110
Not every minute
of the damn day, Tabatha.
558
00:29:05,396 --> 00:29:09,309
I've seen what I've seen,
and I've been told what I've been told...
559
00:29:09,516 --> 00:29:12,872
...and I have an audience with the person
who can do something about it.
560
00:29:13,076 --> 00:29:16,591
To smile for a photo-op and recite 64
couplets on the American experience...
561
00:29:16,756 --> 00:29:19,111
...that's treasonous.
- Can we stop with the drama?
562
00:29:19,276 --> 00:29:21,426
- Toby...
- You don't know what you're doing.
563
00:29:21,596 --> 00:29:24,827
This isn't kid's stuff.
If you stand up in the president's face...
564
00:29:25,036 --> 00:29:28,108
...that's the story and nobody will care
about what you care about.
565
00:29:28,276 --> 00:29:31,234
Nobody is going to care
about what you care about.
566
00:29:32,836 --> 00:29:36,909
And it'll be bad for you, for us,
for the land mines. Everybody.
567
00:29:37,076 --> 00:29:39,636
Can we just not talk for a minute?
568
00:29:40,796 --> 00:29:42,070
Yeah.
569
00:29:43,396 --> 00:29:47,833
Yeah. I gotta give a lecture
tomorrow night at Georgetown.
570
00:29:47,996 --> 00:29:49,714
I just need to...
571
00:29:49,876 --> 00:29:52,185
I need to not talk for a minute.
572
00:29:54,276 --> 00:29:55,994
Yeah.
573
00:30:08,476 --> 00:30:10,194
- Wait a second.
-"Sunny honeymoon"...
574
00:30:10,356 --> 00:30:12,745
...is what you were looking for.
- No, wait a second.
575
00:30:12,916 --> 00:30:15,225
He's absolutely right. Hang on.
576
00:30:20,676 --> 00:30:23,315
Excuse me. Sorry for interrupting.
No, keep your seats.
577
00:30:23,476 --> 00:30:26,274
- Leo, you're absolutely right.
- About what?
578
00:30:26,436 --> 00:30:29,348
We shouldn't show up. Tell the whip
we wanna yield all our time.
579
00:30:29,516 --> 00:30:32,314
While they complain on camera
about me making fun of Ritchie...
580
00:30:32,476 --> 00:30:35,036
...Democrats caucus on literacy
and tuition tax credits.
581
00:30:35,196 --> 00:30:36,993
- We wanna yield all our time.
- Yes, sir.
582
00:30:37,156 --> 00:30:38,669
Thank you.
583
00:30:46,988 --> 00:30:49,263
The president begins
his press conference at 9...
584
00:30:49,428 --> 00:30:52,943
...or more accurately, the walk down
the red carpet will happen at 9:01:30...
585
00:30:53,108 --> 00:30:54,427
...per the network's request.
586
00:30:55,748 --> 00:30:58,182
He'll open with his
strategy for energy independence.
587
00:30:58,348 --> 00:31:01,738
That will last about 15 minutes,
then he'll take questions for 45 minutes.
588
00:31:02,188 --> 00:31:05,100
C.J., a senior official
in the communications office...
589
00:31:05,268 --> 00:31:08,658
...of the Ritchie campaign said,
"If the president thinks his candidate...
590
00:31:08,828 --> 00:31:11,865
...is stupid, he should just come
right out and say so."
591
00:31:12,068 --> 00:31:14,059
- Really?
- Really.
592
00:31:15,668 --> 00:31:19,058
Let's start a pool to guess how long
the senior communications official...
593
00:31:19,228 --> 00:31:23,619
... is gonna keep his job if once a day he
suggests we call his candidate stupid.
594
00:31:23,788 --> 00:31:26,302
This has to stop.
We're the only ones scoring points...
595
00:31:26,468 --> 00:31:28,060
... and we're not even playing.
Mark?
596
00:31:28,228 --> 00:31:29,707
She's got a point there.
597
00:31:29,868 --> 00:31:33,065
Does it concern you that the smartest
presidents have been the worst?
598
00:31:33,228 --> 00:31:36,425
- I don't grant your premise.
- John Quincy Adams was full of himself.
599
00:31:36,588 --> 00:31:39,705
He could hardly build a coalition
around having eggs for breakfast.
600
00:31:39,868 --> 00:31:44,020
Wilson's grand theories on international
relations were dead on arrival in Congress.
601
00:31:44,188 --> 00:31:45,462
- I don't care.
- Why?
602
00:31:45,628 --> 00:31:48,301
Before I look for anything,
I look for a mind at work.
603
00:31:48,948 --> 00:31:52,179
Nobody's saying a president needs
to have a tenured chair in semiotics.
604
00:31:52,348 --> 00:31:53,747
- But you have to have...
- What?
605
00:31:54,308 --> 00:31:56,663
-Gravitas.
- And how do you measure that?
606
00:31:56,828 --> 00:31:58,944
You don't,
but we know it when we see it.
607
00:31:59,108 --> 00:32:01,668
And Republicans tend
to mock it when they do.
608
00:32:01,828 --> 00:32:03,625
- You think I'm wrong?
- I do not.
609
00:32:03,788 --> 00:32:07,667
No, you don't. The way I know you
don't is I saw you say so on television.
610
00:32:08,868 --> 00:32:10,506
Hey, Toby.
611
00:32:11,548 --> 00:32:14,381
- Why are you here?
- The TV isn't working in my office.
612
00:32:15,668 --> 00:32:17,624
- You did good on TV.
- Thanks.
613
00:32:17,788 --> 00:32:19,267
I'll be in my office.
614
00:32:26,108 --> 00:32:28,668
- How's it going with the poet?
- I'm not sure.
615
00:32:28,828 --> 00:32:30,739
Does she have
a strong history of activism?
616
00:32:30,908 --> 00:32:33,741
She has no history of activism.
617
00:32:33,948 --> 00:32:37,907
She said something yesterday.
She was talking about land mines.
618
00:32:38,068 --> 00:32:41,265
She said,"From everything I've seen
and everything I've been told..."
619
00:32:41,428 --> 00:32:42,941
You think she's getting pressure?
620
00:32:43,108 --> 00:32:44,382
- Toby?
- Yeah?
621
00:32:44,548 --> 00:32:47,745
It's someone from Georgetown
University. I think there's a problem.
622
00:32:52,948 --> 00:32:55,906
- The Internet people have gone crazy.
- You're kidding!
623
00:32:56,068 --> 00:32:58,628
They're calling the GAO
"General Josh's Standing Army"...
624
00:32:58,788 --> 00:33:00,744
...and saying I don't understand
its purpose.
625
00:33:00,908 --> 00:33:02,944
They say if I can get a review
of anything...
626
00:33:03,108 --> 00:33:07,226
...I should start by reviewing the job of
deputy COS. One guy compares me...
627
00:33:07,388 --> 00:33:10,619
...to a poor man's Clark Clifford
and a page and a half of posts...
628
00:33:10,788 --> 00:33:14,098
...debating whether I was mocking
Egyptians with the Sanskrit reference.
629
00:33:14,268 --> 00:33:16,782
- I said they're hysterical.
- I thought you meant funny.
630
00:33:16,948 --> 00:33:19,098
- They're not.
- I know! It's Lord of the Flies!
631
00:33:19,268 --> 00:33:22,066
- Who invited you in the first place?
- It's got my name on it.
632
00:33:22,228 --> 00:33:24,219
Look, I don't wanna hear
about it anymore.
633
00:33:24,388 --> 00:33:27,061
- We've got an energy plan in 10 minutes.
- Oh, Josh!
634
00:33:27,268 --> 00:33:28,621
- Yeah.
- The Federal Page...
635
00:33:28,828 --> 00:33:32,138
...of The Washington Post called to
confirm you're the one who stated...
636
00:33:32,308 --> 00:33:36,221
...on a website that the White House
could order a GAO review of anything.
637
00:33:36,628 --> 00:33:39,017
Without threatening
the separation of powers.
638
00:33:39,188 --> 00:33:42,624
- You posted on a website?
- I was communicating with the people.
639
00:33:42,788 --> 00:33:44,187
Really?
640
00:33:45,628 --> 00:33:50,019
C.J., it's a crazy place.
It's got this dictatorial leader...
641
00:33:50,188 --> 00:33:52,941
...who, surely, wears a muumuu
and chain-smokes Parliaments.
642
00:33:53,148 --> 00:33:57,426
- Why did you go there in the first place?
- It's called Lemon-Lyman. Com.
643
00:33:57,588 --> 00:34:01,945
Let me explain something to you, this
is my field. The people on these sites?
644
00:34:02,108 --> 00:34:04,417
They're the cast of
One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest.
645
00:34:04,588 --> 00:34:07,307
The muumuu-wearing Parliament smoker?
That's Nurse Ratched.
646
00:34:07,468 --> 00:34:09,936
When Nurse Ratched is unhappy,
the patients are too.
647
00:34:10,148 --> 00:34:13,424
You're McMurphy. You swoop in
with your card games and fishing trips...
648
00:34:13,588 --> 00:34:15,863
I didn't swoop.
I came in like everybody else did.
649
00:34:16,028 --> 00:34:18,417
Well, open the wardroom window
and climb out...
650
00:34:18,628 --> 00:34:20,744
...before they give you
a prefrontal lobotomy...
651
00:34:20,908 --> 00:34:22,864
...and I have
to smother you with a pillow.
652
00:34:25,708 --> 00:34:27,699
- You're Chief Bromden?
- Yes, at this moment.
653
00:34:27,868 --> 00:34:29,745
I'm assigning an intern
to that website.
654
00:34:29,908 --> 00:34:32,820
They'll check it.
If they discover you've been there...
655
00:34:32,988 --> 00:34:36,264
...I'm gonna shove a motherboard
so far up your ass... What?
656
00:34:36,748 --> 00:34:40,821
- Well, technically, I outrank you.
- So far up your ass!
657
00:34:41,028 --> 00:34:42,586
- Okay.
- Okay?
658
00:34:42,748 --> 00:34:44,306
- How you doing?
- Are we ready?
659
00:34:44,468 --> 00:34:47,221
- We are.
- I believe we are. You wanna walk over?
660
00:34:48,268 --> 00:34:50,338
Donna, let's go. It's time.
661
00:34:53,228 --> 00:34:55,788
- Excuse me.
- Are you Mr. Ziegler?
662
00:34:55,988 --> 00:34:57,262
What happened?
663
00:34:58,188 --> 00:35:02,306
Well, she was giving her lecture,
and then towards the end, something...
664
00:35:02,468 --> 00:35:04,663
I don't know.
I think she's okay.
665
00:35:04,828 --> 00:35:06,944
But I asked her
if there was anyone I can call.
666
00:35:07,108 --> 00:35:09,224
- Where is she?
- She's sitting out on the steps.
667
00:35:10,148 --> 00:35:11,581
Okay, thanks.
668
00:35:14,228 --> 00:35:16,105
Was there any press there tonight?
669
00:35:16,268 --> 00:35:18,224
For a poetry lecture?
670
00:35:18,668 --> 00:35:20,499
Right.
671
00:35:46,348 --> 00:35:50,341
There was a man
in Banja Luka that I met.
672
00:35:51,948 --> 00:35:54,223
He took his son and I...
673
00:35:55,268 --> 00:35:58,021
...to go fishing in the Sava River.
674
00:35:59,068 --> 00:36:01,218
And the little boy...
675
00:36:02,068 --> 00:36:04,821
...hooked a piece of garbage...
676
00:36:07,148 --> 00:36:10,857
...and when he tried to take it off
the line, it blew him up.
677
00:36:12,628 --> 00:36:17,577
Right in front of his father,
and right in front of me.
678
00:36:22,148 --> 00:36:24,264
What happened tonight?
679
00:36:28,308 --> 00:36:32,506
I decided to highlight poets
who were never chosen poet laureate...
680
00:36:32,668 --> 00:36:34,977
...because they were too rebellious.
681
00:36:35,228 --> 00:36:38,823
Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton,
Allen Ginsberg.
682
00:36:39,108 --> 00:36:44,546
And I went into"Howl." I know"Howl"
like you know voting districts.
683
00:36:47,028 --> 00:36:50,498
I saw the best minds
Of my generation destroyed by madness
684
00:36:51,308 --> 00:36:53,378
Starving hysterical naked
685
00:36:53,548 --> 00:36:56,346
Dragging themselves through...
686
00:36:57,508 --> 00:36:59,339
And then... .
687
00:37:00,868 --> 00:37:02,665
What?
688
00:37:03,148 --> 00:37:05,616
I couldn't remember anymore.
689
00:37:06,908 --> 00:37:08,785
I couldn't... .
690
00:37:09,028 --> 00:37:12,259
You know,
I couldn't remember anymore.
691
00:37:17,348 --> 00:37:22,376
You think I think that an artist's job
is to speak the truth.
692
00:37:24,148 --> 00:37:26,457
An artist's job...
693
00:37:26,788 --> 00:37:31,578
...is to captivate you for however long
we've asked for your attention.
694
00:37:32,828 --> 00:37:36,138
If we stumble into truth,
we got lucky.
695
00:37:37,148 --> 00:37:40,265
And I don't get to decide
what truth is.
696
00:37:42,068 --> 00:37:44,377
What you said about South Korea
makes sense.
697
00:37:44,548 --> 00:37:47,904
You know,
people know more than I do.
698
00:37:48,068 --> 00:37:49,820
I shouldn't be... .
699
00:37:49,988 --> 00:37:51,740
You know.
700
00:37:54,428 --> 00:37:58,262
I write poetry, Toby,
that's how I enter the world.
701
00:38:02,588 --> 00:38:04,624
I was thinking maybe, you know...
702
00:38:04,788 --> 00:38:07,382
I don't know
if you can do this...
703
00:38:07,668 --> 00:38:12,867
...but I was thinking if I could get
a few minutes alone with the president...
704
00:38:13,268 --> 00:38:17,659
...so that I can tell him
what I saw in Banja Luka.
705
00:38:21,548 --> 00:38:25,336
Then it wouldn't have to be a thing.
You know, the dinner.
706
00:38:25,508 --> 00:38:27,658
And there I could... .
707
00:38:30,428 --> 00:38:32,737
I have 64 couplets
on the American experience...
708
00:38:32,908 --> 00:38:35,342
...that I think might be appropriate.
709
00:38:39,908 --> 00:38:41,978
Yeah, we can do that.
710
00:38:52,788 --> 00:38:54,619
What's that say?
711
00:38:54,868 --> 00:38:57,541
"Meet Tabatha Fortis."
712
00:39:07,108 --> 00:39:09,668
I have to be at a press conference.
713
00:39:09,828 --> 00:39:11,659
Right.
714
00:39:12,948 --> 00:39:15,508
So as a matter of cold fact, Chipper...
715
00:39:15,668 --> 00:39:19,297
...you'll see it's the porcupine caribou
and ANWAR's their calving ground...
716
00:39:19,468 --> 00:39:23,256
...and you can't put a price tag on that.
But that's hardly the point.
717
00:39:23,428 --> 00:39:28,548
36 species of fish, 36 land mammals,
160 different bird species.
718
00:39:28,708 --> 00:39:31,381
- I admit, this is a lot of wildlife.
- Forget the wildlife.
719
00:39:31,548 --> 00:39:34,824
It hurts subsistence hunters in the area,
changes migratory patterns...
720
00:39:34,988 --> 00:39:38,583
...in ways we don't know, increases
freezing depths of rivers and lakes...
721
00:39:38,748 --> 00:39:40,864
- And the emissions from drilling.
- Welcome home.
722
00:39:41,028 --> 00:39:43,940
It'll cause pollutant haze, acid rain.
All this in exchange for?
723
00:39:44,148 --> 00:39:47,265
- Not a lot of oil to begin with.
- Here we go. What time is it?
724
00:39:47,428 --> 00:39:48,702
9:00, sir.
725
00:39:48,868 --> 00:39:51,098
- We'll see you inside.
- Thank you, everyone.
726
00:39:51,268 --> 00:39:53,179
Thank you, sir.
727
00:39:54,268 --> 00:39:56,020
C.J.
728
00:39:56,548 --> 00:39:58,379
- Yes.
- I've been meaning to tell you...
729
00:39:58,588 --> 00:40:00,738
...you've done well
with the open-mike thing.
730
00:40:00,908 --> 00:40:02,546
- Thank you.
- Didn't turn out too bad.
731
00:40:02,708 --> 00:40:04,619
No, sir, it didn't turn out
too bad at all.
732
00:40:04,788 --> 00:40:08,303
The whole country's talking about if
Ritchie's smart enough to be president.
733
00:40:08,468 --> 00:40:10,698
You didn't take a hit
because it was an accident.
734
00:40:11,108 --> 00:40:13,986
It occurs to me even your choice
of language was interesting.
735
00:40:14,148 --> 00:40:16,946
"A.22 caliber mind
in a.357 Magnum world"...
736
00:40:17,108 --> 00:40:20,145
...that's unusual for you,
a gun metaphor.
737
00:40:21,468 --> 00:40:24,062
Toby mentioned to me
that when each interview was over...
738
00:40:24,228 --> 00:40:26,662
...the interviewers wanted
to talk to you about Ritchie...
739
00:40:26,828 --> 00:40:28,739
...and you took a pass each time.
740
00:40:28,908 --> 00:40:30,705
Until Philadelphia.
741
00:40:34,468 --> 00:40:38,905
Mr. President, is it possible
you saw the green light was on?
742
00:40:41,588 --> 00:40:45,581
Ladies and gentlemen,
the president of the United States.
743
00:40:51,228 --> 00:40:53,264
That was old-school.
744
00:40:54,148 --> 00:40:55,422
Go knock them dead.