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Previously:
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You look like
you could use a client.
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Wanna work for the leader
of the free world?
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Our job approval's 48%,
and I think that number's soft.
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I'm tired of being a captain for
the gang that couldn't shoot straight.
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You ran great guns
in the campaign.
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Then you drove to the middle of
the road the moment you took the oath.
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I wanted a Democrat,
and instead I got you.
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Leo, there are times
when we are absolutely nowhere.
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- It looks like it's gonna rain.
- It's overcast.
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Isn't that usually
what it is before it rains?
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- But in this case?
- It's gonna rain later.
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- If it rains, change the opening line.
- It's not gonna rain until maybe 2:00.
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If you're wrong,
you gotta change the line.
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This isn't from morning radio.
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This is from Lt. Emily
of the Coast Guard...
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...who wouldn't let me down.
She has a very comforting voice.
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Here's my thing. If you're wrong,
if the Coast Guard is wrong...
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...the remarks open with: "As I look
out over this magnificent vista. "
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If it gets moved indoors, he won't be
looking out over a vista of any kind.
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You think he can't change it,
that he wouldn't know where he is?
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This isn't major.
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This is the United Organization
of Trout Fishermen. If it's moved...
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I got it from the U.S. Coast Guard.
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They use satellites.
They use technology.
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This is the same technology we use
to detect ballistic missiles, right?
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Yeah.
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- All right.
- We should move it inside.
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Sam says it won't rain until later.
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Have you heard about
a paper going around?
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- What paper?
- I don't know.
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Dave Trillin asked what I knew
about a piece of paper going around.
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I haven't heard.
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- You should find out.
- Good advice.
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We're in the auditorium.
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- Are they moving people inside?
- They moved 20 minutes ago.
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The weather report called for rain.
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- It did?
- Yeah.
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Is it possible Lt. Emily
is yanking me around?
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- Where's the president?
- How's his mood?
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He had breakfast. He seemed upbeat,
energetic, optimistic.
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How long will that last?
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Can we hurry so I can go preside
over a civilization gone to hell?
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Nice talk. You know what this is?
Your mood, sir.
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- Nothing wrong.
- It's your diet. You need roughage.
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I'd like to beat you senseless
with a head of cabbage.
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Your immaturity about
vegetables isn't presidential.
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- Who has my remarks?
- Sam's bringing them.
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Is Toby on his way?
Why aren't they here now?
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They didn't know it was raining.
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Nothing like surrounding yourself
with the best.
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- Good morning.
- You didn't know it was raining?
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To our credit, we knew it was raining
once it started.
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- Here are your remarks.
- Who am I talking to now?
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- An organization of trout fishermen.
- Seriously.
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Give me the speech.
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There are anecdotes
about fishing.
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- Have I ever been fishing?
- Probably not.
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- Morning.
- What's going on?
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The CBO is gonna
revise its projections...
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...two FEC commissioners
resigned today...
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- ...and the NGA endorsed trigger locks.
- How much?
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The projections?
Maybe 200 billion.
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Hang on.
Two FEC commissioners resigned?
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There are two seats open on the FEC?
This is interesting.
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This is not the best time
for an idealistic...
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Two seats just opened
on the election commission.
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- The Senate leaders will fill them.
- What if we want our guys?
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- We won't win.
- We can try.
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It's not a good idea.
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You're thinking about
changing democracy.
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I'm talking about dangling our feet.
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Get Leo two candidates who back
campaign finance reform.
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I gotta stand with Leo on this.
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I'm not saying jump off the boat.
I'm saying dangle our feet.
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- Mr. President?
- Yes?
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- Somebody?
- United Organization of Trout Fishermen.
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Is your head gonna be
in changing democracy?
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No, I'm gonna be thinking
about trout fishermen.
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- You felt better earlier.
- Try a year ago.
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Does anybody know anything
about a paper?
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- C.J., are you taller than usual?
- I'm my usual height.
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Couldn't pick a trout out of a lineup.
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- Two FEC seats open on the same day?
- Dream all you want. It won't happen.
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That's what I thought,
but after your pep talk....
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Thank you very much.
It's good to see you.
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- Damn it!
- What?
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I forgot to do something.
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As I look out over this
magnificent vista....
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How does the FEC work?
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Commissioners are in for six years.
Two seats come up every two years.
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Two just resigned?
How many times has that happened?
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Including this? Once.
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The president has the opportunity
to impact campaign finance reform?
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- Do it, baby.
- It's not easy.
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When a vacancy comes up,
the party leadership on both sides....
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- Did you just call me "baby"?
- Yeah.
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When a vacancy comes up,
the president fills it.
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The party leadership on both sides
always dictates who to appoint.
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One Republican, one Democrat.
That's how you keep the peace.
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- You're gonna change it?
- No, but I'm gonna try.
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Come on,
you're trying to change democracy.
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You're right.
I'll need a bagel.
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The Egg Hunt and the Egg Roll
are different.
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This year's theme is "Learning is
Delightful and Delicious. "
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As, by the way, am I.
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The collection which will
be on display here...
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...features eggs decorated by artists
from each of the states.
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This is coordinated
by the American Egg Board.
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I've hung with some of the Egg Board
cats, and they are party people.
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Thank you, that's it
till this afternoon.
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- Steve? You got a second?
- Sure.
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What have you heard
about a paper that's out there?
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Same thing you've heard.
There's a piece of paper out there.
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- If you hear anything, you'll tell me?
- If I do, I'll tell my editor.
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I keep forgetting
you don't work for me.
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- See you.
- Bye.
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There's a buzz
in the room, about a paper...
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- Do you know anything?
- I know everything.
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I wrote it.
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What is it?
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I wrote a memo for Russell,
outlining strategy...
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- Excuse me, C.J.?
- Katie, they're in the Blue Room.
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When I worked for Russell,
I wrote a memo...
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...outlining the Bartlet
administration's weaknesses...
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...and mapping out a strategy
to defeat him for renomination.
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C.J., this is embarrassing
and a little mortifying.
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But remember how mad I was...
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You worked for us before,
and you work for us now.
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- In between, you wrote how to beat us?
- I was working for Russell...
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I need to see a copy of it right now!
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Margaret!
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I can't e-mail.
What's the problem?
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Lynette, from the Council
on Fitness, remember her?
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She's the one where you say, "Who?"
And I say, "Lynette from Fitness. "
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She sent me an e-mail about the number
of calories in our raisin muffins.
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I forwarded it to several
hundred secretaries in the west wing.
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Jolene Millman, in Political Liaison,
hit "reply," which...
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Margaret, I'm sorry. I'm gonna have...
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I hung in there, but you passed
the point when I stopped caring.
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If you're curious,
it was around "raisin muffin. "
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- I'll leave you two alone.
- Fix the e-mail.
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- Who'd you find?
- Bacon and Calhoun.
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I know Bacon. Who else?
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Patty Calhoun's director of economic
studies at the Heritage Foundation.
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She worked for two Republicans.
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- She favors campaign finance reform?
- Aggressively.
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- The leadership will hate them both.
- What do you want me to do?
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- Meet with the leadership offices.
- You want me to meet with the leaders?
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No, meet their guys
outside the building, over a meal.
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The president can't think we'll
get anywhere, can he?
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The president doesn't think
we'll get anywhere, right?
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No.
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- What happened with the e-mail?
- Has to do with the Fitness Council.
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- Who'd you find?
- Bacon and Calhoun.
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- Not in a million years.
- What are you doing?
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It's our turn with the boys.
- Good luck.
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Do you want me
to do the talking?
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- Why?
- Just asking.
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Morning. Morning.
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We all know each other.
Why don't we sit down?
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We've been meeting
with various senior staff...
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...on the DOD, NSC, and House
and Senate Armed Services.
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We feel a little hamstrung
because of the policy inherited...
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...regarding gays in the military...
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...and we'd like input before making
recommendations to the president.
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- Can I interrupt for a moment?
- Sure.
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What will come from
your recommendation?
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Well, actually, it'll be
Sam's recommendation to the president.
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I'm just helping out.
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What do you think
will be the consequence?
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Major, I would imagine
the consequences to be little.
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I would imagine it to be very little.
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If the president orders that gays
can serve openly...
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...that's how it'll be. Anyone who
disobeys can stand court-martial.
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The president can give
all the orders he wants.
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It takes an act of Congress
to amend the Uniform Code...
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...which makes sodomy
a crime. End of story.
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- I guess it'll be a short meeting.
- Yeah.
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There will be 25,000 wooden eggs
and 7500 other eggs.
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What are the other eggs?
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- The other eggs are...
- Real eggs.
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- Mandy's waiting.
- Where's Josh?
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- FEC commissioners.
- Tell him I'd like to see him.
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- 25,000 wooden eggs.
- Added to the 7500 eggs that are....
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- They're just regular eggs.
- Right.
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Is that it?
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Yeah.
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Who has it?
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I don't know.
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But somebody does.
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Yeah.
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Okay. I'm gonna read it now.
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Go back to your office
and don't answer any questions.
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You'll call me
when you're done reading?
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I'd count on it.
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Soft money renders the 1974
Campaign Reform Act toothless.
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Soft-money contributions, which were
designed for party building...
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...only eviscerate election controls.
We are, by definition, corrupt.
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- I wouldn't say that.
- No, but this money isn't 1 Os and 20s.
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It's coming in in denominations
of 100, 200, 500,000 dollars!
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It comes from special interests
whose interests aren't the same...
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...as those who don't have money. It's
going to issue ads and candidates.
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It's called free speech.
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If the insurance industry wants
to buy ad time, they can.
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If the airplane industry wants to back
a candidate, they can.
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If big tobacco wants to wave a sign,
they are free to do so.
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That's free speech, money isn't.
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I like it when Josh comes here and
teaches us a lesson we richly deserve.
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I came at the request of Leo McGarry.
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The president is
strongly considering...
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...John Branford Bacon and
Patty Calhoun to fill the two seats.
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We've already got our guys.
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- It's Kalen.
- Grant Kalen and Joe Barkley.
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People who oppose
any campaign finance reform.
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I thought you liked Kalen.
He's elected Democrats from Indiana.
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He's raised money in Indiana.
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Barkley says people can
spend whatever they want on politics.
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So does the Supreme Court.
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We can't do this every time Bartlet
wants to make the world better.
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The party leadership's gonna choose
a Republican and a Democrat.
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That's the way it's been, the way
it's gonna be, and the way it is.
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- Really?
- Yes.
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- The president makes FEC appointments.
- The Senate confirms them.
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I'm speaking for the majority leader.
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Embarrass us, and we'll
give the same back to you.
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Any legislation you want
off the table will show up.
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Our greatest hits: 541, school prayer,
family support, entertainment decency.
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- English as the national language.
- That will be our leadoff hitter.
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- Why not just not confirm our guys?
- We'll do that too.
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In addition to voting down
our nominees...
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00:16:42,335 --> 00:16:45,547
...there will be retribution
for nominating them?
233
00:16:45,714 --> 00:16:47,799
Yes. You know why?
234
00:16:47,966 --> 00:16:52,596
Because you know you're gonna lose,
and we're gonna look bad winning.
235
00:16:52,762 --> 00:16:57,017
I reject maintaining free speech
through government regulation.
236
00:16:57,183 --> 00:16:59,185
- Reject what you want.
- What?
237
00:16:59,352 --> 00:17:01,021
Reject whatever you want.
238
00:17:01,187 --> 00:17:05,150
This was a fool's errand for me
and the president knew it.
239
00:17:05,317 --> 00:17:09,654
This was a test balloon,
an "out of curiosity, what if" meeting.
240
00:17:09,821 --> 00:17:13,950
- But you've got me on board.
- Steve, we've got a caucus.
241
00:17:14,117 --> 00:17:16,286
We gotta go.
242
00:17:29,716 --> 00:17:33,094
- I'm going to lunch.
- The president won't eat his.
243
00:17:33,261 --> 00:17:34,846
Why is he dissatisfied?
244
00:17:35,013 --> 00:17:38,058
- It's entirely vegetables.
- It's a salad.
245
00:17:38,224 --> 00:17:42,062
He'd prefer a sandwich.
Roast beef, pastrami, steak.
246
00:17:42,228 --> 00:17:46,858
He will eat it, and if he doesn't
like it, he knows where to put it.
247
00:17:47,025 --> 00:17:51,988
I don't think I will tell him that,
but I appreciate your help.
248
00:17:53,073 --> 00:17:56,910
- If it ain't broke....
- "Don't ask, don't tell" works.
249
00:17:57,077 --> 00:18:00,163
It doesn't. Want to know
how much it doesn't?
250
00:18:00,330 --> 00:18:04,376
- 1145 gays were discharged in 1998.
- That's a record.
251
00:18:04,542 --> 00:18:07,420
A 92% increase since
"don't ask, don't tell. "
252
00:18:07,587 --> 00:18:11,216
414 Air Force discharges,
the highest in two decades.
253
00:18:11,383 --> 00:18:16,179
271 of them during basic training
at Lackland Air Force Base.
254
00:18:16,346 --> 00:18:19,974
- What's going on there?
- I don't like your humor.
255
00:18:20,225 --> 00:18:22,936
- I get that a lot.
- Sorry, I need Toby.
256
00:18:23,186 --> 00:18:25,355
Yeah. Come here a sec.
257
00:18:28,233 --> 00:18:30,026
You're doing good.
258
00:18:30,193 --> 00:18:32,654
- What?
- I know what the paper is.
259
00:18:32,821 --> 00:18:35,323
A strategy memo Mandy wrote.
260
00:18:35,490 --> 00:18:37,700
- Strategy to do what?
- Beat us.
261
00:18:37,867 --> 00:18:40,203
- Did you read it? Is it bad?
- Yeah.
262
00:18:40,370 --> 00:18:42,330
Let's go to my office.
263
00:18:46,292 --> 00:18:47,669
How'd it go?
264
00:18:49,754 --> 00:18:54,175
- How do you know to be here?
- I see you out your office window.
265
00:18:54,342 --> 00:18:58,596
- Why are you in my office?
- Looking for you out the window.
266
00:18:58,763 --> 00:19:00,181
How'd it go?
267
00:19:00,348 --> 00:19:03,685
- It went fine.
- Fine? You don't want to say more?
268
00:19:03,852 --> 00:19:07,230
I don't, and you know I don't
because I'm not.
269
00:19:07,397 --> 00:19:11,151
- This is our time together.
- I can't mess around.
270
00:19:11,317 --> 00:19:15,405
I need to be prepped on
English as the national language.
271
00:19:15,572 --> 00:19:17,824
- Why?
- Might come up.
272
00:19:17,991 --> 00:19:20,285
Because....
It doesn't matter.
273
00:19:20,452 --> 00:19:25,623
If we do the FEC thing, English as
the national language is on the table.
274
00:19:25,790 --> 00:19:27,917
Are we for it or against it?
275
00:19:28,084 --> 00:19:31,004
We don't favor another language,
do we?
276
00:19:31,171 --> 00:19:32,589
Dutch or something.
277
00:19:32,755 --> 00:19:35,633
Didn't I just tell you
I can't mess around?
278
00:19:37,218 --> 00:19:41,306
- Bullet points? Give me 30 minutes.
- Thank you.
279
00:19:41,472 --> 00:19:45,560
Toby said to come by
as soon as you got back.
280
00:19:54,652 --> 00:19:58,364
I'm not taking any calls.
I'll call them back.
281
00:20:01,159 --> 00:20:05,622
"The reality of the Bartlet
White House is a flood of mistakes.
282
00:20:05,788 --> 00:20:09,167
An agenda stalled
and lacking a coherent strategy.
283
00:20:09,334 --> 00:20:12,253
An administration
plagued by indecision. "
284
00:20:12,420 --> 00:20:14,505
- Ginger.
- What's going on?
285
00:20:18,051 --> 00:20:22,889
Mandy wrote a manual for Russell,
and it's out. I don't know where.
286
00:20:23,056 --> 00:20:24,432
How bad is it?
287
00:20:24,599 --> 00:20:26,017
She takes us to town.
288
00:20:26,184 --> 00:20:29,771
We don't look like rocket scientists,
but we're not.
289
00:20:29,979 --> 00:20:33,733
- Who is it bad for?
- The president and Leo.
290
00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:36,319
- Who has this?
- I'm finding out.
291
00:20:36,736 --> 00:20:38,029
Do it quietly.
292
00:20:38,196 --> 00:20:42,033
Quickly. Whose paper is it in
tomorrow? We have to know.
293
00:20:50,333 --> 00:20:55,338
Our second year doesn't seem to be
going better than our first, does it?
294
00:20:56,089 --> 00:20:57,215
No.
295
00:21:09,102 --> 00:21:13,064
- Does he have a minute?
- He's finishing with the chairman.
296
00:21:13,231 --> 00:21:16,025
They almost done?
I'll wait.
297
00:21:23,074 --> 00:21:25,952
You having problems
with your e-mail?
298
00:21:27,078 --> 00:21:29,997
Support says the pipeline's
been flooded.
299
00:21:30,164 --> 00:21:35,128
It happened when I forwarded an e-mail
to people and one tried to reply.
300
00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:38,506
E-mail boxes are clogged.
Replies are...
301
00:21:38,673 --> 00:21:44,345
...automatically bouncing
back and forth at subatomic speed.
302
00:21:45,596 --> 00:21:49,517
I've passed the point
where you're interested, haven't I?
303
00:21:50,143 --> 00:21:51,185
Yeah.
304
00:21:52,812 --> 00:21:55,314
- Thank you, Fitz.
- Thank you.
305
00:21:55,481 --> 00:21:57,733
- Good afternoon.
- You here for me?
306
00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:00,903
Is the Philippines redundant?
307
00:22:01,070 --> 00:22:05,491
- It is. That's the beauty of it.
- You'll have to convince him.
308
00:22:05,658 --> 00:22:07,618
- I will.
- If you say so.
309
00:22:07,785 --> 00:22:11,747
- Who are those guys?
- A meeting on gays in the military.
310
00:22:11,914 --> 00:22:14,792
- Why?
- Sam's trying to build a position.
311
00:22:14,959 --> 00:22:17,462
If he comes up with one,
let me know.
312
00:22:17,628 --> 00:22:21,215
There may be a security breach
with the computers.
313
00:22:21,382 --> 00:22:27,054
- White House computers aren't secure.
- That explains that.
314
00:22:31,851 --> 00:22:36,898
- He wants to put A1-M1 s in Manila.
- The president will say it's redundant.
315
00:22:37,064 --> 00:22:40,610
- How much does it cost?
- Not much. 20 billion.
316
00:22:40,776 --> 00:22:43,905
- So there's gonna be a thing.
- About what?
317
00:22:44,071 --> 00:22:47,909
Mandy wrote a memo for Russell,
and someone's got it.
318
00:22:48,075 --> 00:22:51,329
- Who?
- C.J.'s finding out.
319
00:22:51,495 --> 00:22:55,249
That's politics.
She was playing for the other guys.
320
00:22:55,416 --> 00:22:57,543
Yeah.
321
00:22:58,169 --> 00:23:02,340
There's some observations
the president won't be wild about.
322
00:23:02,632 --> 00:23:05,509
I move him to the middle.
323
00:23:05,676 --> 00:23:10,598
The sense is that he's aggressive
and you take him to safe ground.
324
00:23:12,934 --> 00:23:14,769
Don't worry about it.
325
00:23:14,936 --> 00:23:17,230
Don't worry about it.
326
00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:20,399
- Want to see a copy?
- No.
327
00:23:34,330 --> 00:23:39,168
Six pages on English as the national
language. Stuff on James Madison...
328
00:23:39,335 --> 00:23:43,464
James Madison? I didn't ask
for a damn social studies paper.
329
00:23:43,631 --> 00:23:45,841
- Don't snap at me, Josh.
- Donna...
330
00:23:46,008 --> 00:23:50,304
Look at the memo. I gave you
what you asked for. Don't snap.
331
00:23:52,723 --> 00:23:55,267
What's wrong with everyone today?
332
00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:58,312
It's been all day.
Is it Mandy's memo?
333
00:23:58,479 --> 00:23:59,939
No.
334
00:24:01,607 --> 00:24:06,237
Why is everyone walking around
like they've already lost?
335
00:24:06,737 --> 00:24:08,531
I wasn't snapping at you.
336
00:24:08,698 --> 00:24:12,576
I didn't realize that you
also gave me what I asked for.
337
00:24:13,077 --> 00:24:17,540
I thought you just
gave me James Madison.
338
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,794
Look at the James Madison.
It's gonna help you.
339
00:24:22,878 --> 00:24:24,463
Thanks.
340
00:24:28,926 --> 00:24:31,804
- How will Madison help you?
- I don't know.
341
00:24:32,847 --> 00:24:36,100
The president
wants two reformers on the FEC.
342
00:24:36,267 --> 00:24:40,730
Onorato will retaliate with
English as the national language.
343
00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:45,443
- The president won't look good.
- Tell me what else I should know.
344
00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:48,904
The president won't look good
fighting that one.
345
00:24:49,071 --> 00:24:53,617
You oppose flag burning, school
prayer, gays in the military.
346
00:24:53,784 --> 00:24:57,204
Say no to this,
and they'll paint a picture...
347
00:24:57,371 --> 00:24:59,957
I understand, Mandy.
348
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,254
Fine. I'm just saying
it's my job to tell you that.
349
00:25:05,421 --> 00:25:09,675
Today isn't the best day
for you to tell me what your job is.
350
00:25:09,842 --> 00:25:12,428
I wrote an op memo.
We've written 20!
351
00:25:12,595 --> 00:25:16,474
- Ever hear of a burn bag?
- They got it off my hard disk.
352
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,853
Do you know who has it?
Then there's not much you can do.
353
00:25:22,813 --> 00:25:25,774
Don't let the president
debate English...
354
00:25:26,108 --> 00:25:31,780
It won't happen. The president won't
nominate who he wants to the FEC.
355
00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:33,991
Why not?
356
00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:39,997
Because that's not what we do.
357
00:25:43,584 --> 00:25:44,752
All right.
358
00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:49,673
- I'll leave you alone.
- Thanks.
359
00:25:57,097 --> 00:26:00,684
- Everyone's feeling this way today?
- Yeah.
360
00:26:00,851 --> 00:26:03,187
Okay. Thanks.
361
00:26:06,315 --> 00:26:09,193
Hang on.
A lot of those cases...
362
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:13,822
- This report, by the way...
- We can read. We know the report.
363
00:26:13,989 --> 00:26:18,786
Lots of cases of gays being discharged
came from voluntary statements.
364
00:26:18,953 --> 00:26:23,499
These aren't voluntary, not by any
definition given by a court.
365
00:26:23,666 --> 00:26:26,543
It's not voluntary
if given to a therapist...
366
00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:29,505
...as in
Corporal David Blessing's case.
367
00:26:29,672 --> 00:26:33,133
It is not voluntary
when it's in a personal diary...
368
00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:35,678
...as in Nicole Garrison's case.
369
00:26:35,844 --> 00:26:40,641
It's not when it's made when asked,
as in Officer Diane Kelli's case.
370
00:26:40,808 --> 00:26:44,687
And it is not when it is coerced
out through fear...
371
00:26:44,853 --> 00:26:48,232
...intimidation, death threats,
and prosecution...
372
00:26:48,399 --> 00:26:54,822
...as in the case of Bob Kiddis, Kevin
Keys and four sailors on the Essex.
373
00:26:54,989 --> 00:26:57,449
We'll take care of our guys.
374
00:26:57,616 --> 00:27:01,954
- Your guys are looking for jobs.
- Those weren't our guys.
375
00:27:02,121 --> 00:27:04,081
- Oh, my God.
- Attention!
376
00:27:04,248 --> 00:27:06,625
- Good afternoon, Sam.
- Mr. Chairman.
377
00:27:07,459 --> 00:27:10,421
- How do you do, admiral?
- Good to see you.
378
00:27:10,587 --> 00:27:12,214
We haven't met.
379
00:27:12,381 --> 00:27:14,425
From Oregon.
Percy Fitzwallace.
380
00:27:14,591 --> 00:27:17,761
- It's an honor, admiral.
- I imagine it would be.
381
00:27:17,928 --> 00:27:20,305
This is Chairman Fitzwallace.
382
00:27:21,265 --> 00:27:25,269
They won't speak until I speak
to them. They're well-trained.
383
00:27:25,561 --> 00:27:26,979
Stand easy.
384
00:27:28,439 --> 00:27:31,442
- This Danish for anybody?
- Yes, sir.
385
00:27:31,608 --> 00:27:34,445
We're discussing gays in the military?
386
00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:37,948
What do you think?
387
00:27:38,532 --> 00:27:41,660
- I said, what do you think?
- We're here to help...
388
00:27:41,827 --> 00:27:45,289
- I'm asking what you think.
- We're not prejudiced.
389
00:27:45,456 --> 00:27:48,751
- You just don't want them serving.
- No, I don't.
390
00:27:48,917 --> 00:27:52,463
They pose a threat
to discipline and cohesion.
391
00:27:52,629 --> 00:27:54,381
That's what I think too.
392
00:27:54,548 --> 00:27:59,470
The military wasn't designed
as an instrument of social change.
393
00:27:59,636 --> 00:28:02,973
Problem is, they said that about me
50 years ago.
394
00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:08,812
Blacks shouldn't serve. It disrupts
the unit. Know what? It did.
395
00:28:08,979 --> 00:28:11,356
The unit got over it and changed.
396
00:28:11,774 --> 00:28:15,694
I'm an admiral and chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
397
00:28:15,861 --> 00:28:17,946
Beat that with a stick.
398
00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:19,531
We'll see you, Ken.
399
00:28:22,618 --> 00:28:23,994
Excuse me.
400
00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:29,416
Mr. Chairman.
401
00:28:31,293 --> 00:28:33,796
Just... Thanks for stopping in.
402
00:28:33,962 --> 00:28:36,590
You're not gonna get anywhere.
403
00:28:36,757 --> 00:28:40,302
The president wanted
some exploratory meetings.
404
00:28:47,935 --> 00:28:51,730
- I was hoping to find you. I wanted...
- Hang on.
405
00:28:54,441 --> 00:28:57,152
- I wanted to ask...
- Hang on.
406
00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:10,249
- Is it the Magna Carta...?
- I'm finishing a thought.
407
00:29:13,252 --> 00:29:14,711
I'm finished.
408
00:29:16,463 --> 00:29:19,883
You've heard there's a paper?
Know what it is?
409
00:29:20,050 --> 00:29:24,137
- A strategy memo for Russell.
- That's right.
410
00:29:24,304 --> 00:29:28,433
You gotta know I don't like
exploiting our friendship...
411
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:33,272
...and I don't like taking advantage
of any feelings you have for me.
412
00:29:33,522 --> 00:29:35,524
- You have them too.
- I don't.
413
00:29:38,902 --> 00:29:41,655
I need to be ready for this.
414
00:29:42,656 --> 00:29:45,117
- Do you know who has it?
- Yes.
415
00:29:47,369 --> 00:29:49,705
Who has it?
416
00:29:50,455 --> 00:29:51,748
I do.
417
00:29:53,834 --> 00:29:56,920
You have it?
You're gonna write about it?
418
00:29:57,087 --> 00:29:59,214
- Sure.
- Why?
419
00:29:59,381 --> 00:30:01,758
- Because it's news.
- It's not news.
420
00:30:01,925 --> 00:30:04,177
Just because it's entertaining!
421
00:30:04,344 --> 00:30:07,347
It's news. The president's
media director...
422
00:30:07,514 --> 00:30:11,560
...wrote a memo to a party leader
describing his weaknesses.
423
00:30:11,727 --> 00:30:17,816
People in the party buy my paper.
They'd like to know what Mandy thinks.
424
00:30:17,983 --> 00:30:23,321
- Mandy wasn't working here then.
- I don't care where she was working!
425
00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:28,285
She's a key player, and she says
the president's vulnerable.
426
00:30:28,452 --> 00:30:31,830
That may not be
good news for you, but it's news.
427
00:30:33,123 --> 00:30:36,126
You asked us
to write about Easter eggs...
428
00:30:36,293 --> 00:30:39,546
Fine. We'll have a comment
for you by day's end.
429
00:30:39,713 --> 00:30:42,549
- None of this is our fault!
- None of what?
430
00:30:42,716 --> 00:30:45,093
Mandy's letter was pretty accurate.
431
00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:48,472
She was working for Russell.
You knew why.
432
00:30:48,638 --> 00:30:52,059
Why didn't you ask her,
"What are we doing wrong?"
433
00:30:52,225 --> 00:30:57,064
Because you knew what she'd say.
There was nothing you could do.
434
00:30:57,230 --> 00:31:00,192
You guys are stuck in the mud
around here...
435
00:31:00,358 --> 00:31:03,236
...and none of it is the press' fault.
436
00:31:03,612 --> 00:31:05,572
I know you're frustrated.
437
00:31:05,739 --> 00:31:10,368
But that's nothing compared
to the people who voted for you.
438
00:31:10,535 --> 00:31:13,622
"We'll have a comment
for you by day's end"?
439
00:31:13,789 --> 00:31:18,585
When I want the White House to
comment on a story, I'll ask for it.
440
00:31:21,421 --> 00:31:23,173
I have to do this work.
441
00:31:41,066 --> 00:31:46,279
- I'd like to go on record...
- There is no record.
442
00:31:46,446 --> 00:31:51,660
I have no objection to what somebody
does in their own home.
443
00:31:52,369 --> 00:31:57,707
But when we're talking about schools
or Boy Scouts, we're talking about...
444
00:31:57,874 --> 00:32:02,087
Why does being gay mean
you can't keep your hands to yourself?
445
00:32:02,254 --> 00:32:06,883
And how can the armed forces
lay claim to restraint in that area?
446
00:32:07,050 --> 00:32:10,845
Want me to get the file
on sexual harassment in the DOD?
447
00:32:11,012 --> 00:32:12,764
I've had enough of this.
448
00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:16,935
"Don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue"
is federal law.
449
00:32:17,102 --> 00:32:19,854
It takes an act of Congress to change.
450
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:23,358
If the president was serious
about changing it...
451
00:32:23,525 --> 00:32:28,113
...he would not send you in here
with me and two junior DOD staffers.
452
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:33,159
He'd call his staff together and say,
"I want a resolution in the House.
453
00:32:33,326 --> 00:32:37,747
I want 50 high-profile cosponsors.
I want a deal right now. "
454
00:32:38,415 --> 00:32:41,543
- Has the president done that?
- The president...
455
00:32:41,710 --> 00:32:44,713
Has the president done that, Sam?
456
00:32:46,673 --> 00:32:48,383
No.
457
00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:50,385
Okay, then.
458
00:32:50,552 --> 00:32:54,973
Is this meeting anything more
than a waste of time?
459
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,228
No.
460
00:33:01,021 --> 00:33:02,564
Okay, then.
461
00:33:09,362 --> 00:33:14,326
I.T. Support is now accusing me
of being a hacker.
462
00:33:14,492 --> 00:33:17,162
They're accusing me of smurfing.
463
00:33:17,329 --> 00:33:21,833
They asked me if I was running
a Trojan horse. I said no.
464
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,088
I was simply telling people the raisin
muffin calorie count was wrong.
465
00:33:27,255 --> 00:33:32,093
You don't believe me, take one
of those muffins down to the lab.
466
00:33:32,802 --> 00:33:34,596
- I'll do that.
- Will you?
467
00:33:35,472 --> 00:33:42,145
Get me a muffin. Use gloves. Slip it
in a bag. I'll send it to the lab.
468
00:33:42,354 --> 00:33:45,774
You're mocking me now,
aren't you?
469
00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:47,067
Yes.
470
00:33:51,362 --> 00:33:52,530
Come in.
471
00:33:54,282 --> 00:33:58,620
Margaret thinks the FBI's
gonna bust in here any minute.
472
00:34:00,580 --> 00:34:03,458
Got a second bit of bad news
for you today.
473
00:34:03,625 --> 00:34:06,002
- You got new numbers?
- Yeah.
474
00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:07,212
How bad is it?
475
00:34:07,378 --> 00:34:10,924
CNN/USA Today puts
our job approval at 42%.
476
00:34:11,341 --> 00:34:13,927
We dropped five points.
In a week?
477
00:34:14,969 --> 00:34:18,098
Unfavorables are higher
for the first time.
478
00:34:18,264 --> 00:34:23,561
54% of the country is likely to vote
for a Republican in November.
479
00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:27,524
We dropped five points?
We didn't do anything last week.
480
00:34:27,690 --> 00:34:29,400
I'll say.
481
00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:35,198
Toby, when you start thinking about
jumping ship, you'll let me know?
482
00:34:35,365 --> 00:34:38,827
One victory in a year.
We got Mendoza on the court.
483
00:34:38,993 --> 00:34:44,207
This president was elected with
48% of the vote. Without a mandate.
484
00:34:44,374 --> 00:34:48,002
- The majority voted for somebody else.
- I don't care.
485
00:34:48,169 --> 00:34:52,006
He was elected and sworn in.
I was there at the time.
486
00:34:52,173 --> 00:34:56,344
It's not the easiest circumstance...
One victory isn't so bad.
487
00:34:56,511 --> 00:34:59,556
One victory stinks
for an administration.
488
00:34:59,722 --> 00:35:05,103
It's not the ones we lose that bother
me. It's the ones we don't try for.
489
00:35:05,895 --> 00:35:10,108
And I'm not too crazy about you
questioning my loyalty.
490
00:35:16,030 --> 00:35:18,283
The president's reading the memo.
491
00:35:18,449 --> 00:35:22,161
I wish you hadn't done that.
It's gonna piss him off.
492
00:35:22,328 --> 00:35:26,332
- It'll be in the paper tomorrow.
- Did you find out who has it?
493
00:35:26,499 --> 00:35:30,378
- Danny.
- And he's writing it?
494
00:35:30,545 --> 00:35:34,716
- Right next to the poll numbers.
- How do we drop five points?
495
00:35:34,882 --> 00:35:37,427
It happened.
Let's move on.
496
00:35:37,594 --> 00:35:41,180
I think the Senate
will confirm Bacon and Calhoun.
497
00:35:41,347 --> 00:35:44,475
They'll have to.
Voters want campaign reform.
498
00:35:44,642 --> 00:35:48,563
As punishment, their agenda
is to force the president...
499
00:35:48,730 --> 00:35:53,526
...to be unpopular on everything.
Like English as the national language.
500
00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:56,738
We're not going
to let it on the table.
501
00:35:56,904 --> 00:36:00,617
- We shouldn't be afraid...
- He won't let it on the table.
502
00:36:00,783 --> 00:36:05,747
- Then we'll take their FEC candidates.
- As we always have.
503
00:36:07,123 --> 00:36:09,375
- What about you?
- My meeting?
504
00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:13,838
It was the same meeting
we've been having for...
505
00:36:14,422 --> 00:36:15,798
It was fine.
506
00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:28,895
I'm sorry to interrupt.
507
00:36:43,368 --> 00:36:45,745
- Who's got this?
- Danny Concanon.
508
00:36:46,204 --> 00:36:50,917
- Why am I finding out about this now?
- We learned about it today.
509
00:36:53,086 --> 00:36:56,672
I really did wake up
energized this morning.
510
00:36:56,839 --> 00:37:00,551
- I never go to bed that way.
- I know.
511
00:37:00,718 --> 00:37:06,432
Just once I'd like to end a day
feeling as good as when it started.
512
00:37:07,642 --> 00:37:10,186
- Are you bothered by this?
- The memo?
513
00:37:10,353 --> 00:37:11,979
Yeah.
514
00:37:13,272 --> 00:37:14,690
Yes.
515
00:37:14,899 --> 00:37:19,403
We've heard it before. You drive
me to safe ground. It's not true.
516
00:37:19,570 --> 00:37:22,573
- I know it's not true.
- Good.
517
00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:25,827
You drive me there.
518
00:37:27,912 --> 00:37:30,414
- What did you say?
- And you know it.
519
00:37:30,790 --> 00:37:34,460
We're in neutral because
that's where you say to stay.
520
00:37:34,627 --> 00:37:36,420
- You're wrong.
- I'm not.
521
00:37:39,549 --> 00:37:41,300
You want to do this now?
522
00:37:41,467 --> 00:37:46,347
You came to my house, Leo, and
you said, "Let's run for president. "
523
00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:47,557
I said, "Why?"
524
00:37:47,723 --> 00:37:50,685
You said, "So you can say
what you think. "
525
00:37:50,852 --> 00:37:53,229
- Where'd that part go?
- You tell me.
526
00:37:53,396 --> 00:37:58,609
I don't see a shortage of microphones.
What the hell were you waiting for?
527
00:37:58,776 --> 00:38:04,949
Everything you do says, "I don't
wanna be a one-term president. "
528
00:38:05,116 --> 00:38:08,953
- Didn't I say put our guys on the FEC?
- No, you did not.
529
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,873
No. You said,
"Let's dangle our feet...
530
00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:18,546
...in the water like we do when
we want to look like we're trying. "
531
00:38:18,713 --> 00:38:21,382
That's a fascinating version
of history.
532
00:38:21,591 --> 00:38:25,511
Take a look at Mandy's memo.
That's a fascinating version.
533
00:38:25,678 --> 00:38:29,265
You brought me in
on teachers, on capital gains.
534
00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:32,310
You brought me in
on China and on guns.
535
00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:36,689
From where? You've never been
out there on guns or teachers.
536
00:38:36,856 --> 00:38:39,609
You dangle, and I'm the hall monitor.
537
00:38:39,775 --> 00:38:43,237
It's my job to make sure
nobody goes off too far.
538
00:38:43,404 --> 00:38:48,284
Josh goes to the Hill on campaign
finance, he knows nothing will happen.
539
00:38:48,451 --> 00:38:53,956
Sam can't push "don't ask, don't tell"
and everyone knows that.
540
00:38:54,123 --> 00:38:58,544
If I said to get aggressive on
finance or gays in the military...
541
00:38:58,711 --> 00:39:01,631
...you'd tell me, "Don't go too far. "
542
00:39:01,797 --> 00:39:04,175
If you said be aggressive, I'd say:
543
00:39:04,342 --> 00:39:07,637
"I serve at the pleasure
of the president. "
544
00:39:07,803 --> 00:39:10,389
We'll never know,
because you won't...
545
00:39:10,556 --> 00:39:14,435
- I have! Nothing happens!
- Want me to orchestrate this?
546
00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:19,940
You wanna see me mobilize these people
who would walk into fire for you?
547
00:39:20,107 --> 00:39:24,779
These people who showed up to lead,
who showed up to fight.
548
00:39:24,945 --> 00:39:28,115
He gets threats because
he dates your daughter.
549
00:39:28,282 --> 00:39:31,619
He was warned, "Don't show up.
You're in danger. "
550
00:39:31,786 --> 00:39:34,664
He said, "I'm going anyway. "
You said no.
551
00:39:34,830 --> 00:39:39,627
Prudent or not prudent, this
21-year-old, at $600 a week, said:
552
00:39:39,794 --> 00:39:44,173
"I'm going where I want to,
because a man stands up. "
553
00:39:45,257 --> 00:39:49,887
Everyone's waiting for you.
I don't know how much longer.
554
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,517
I don't want
to feel like this anymore.
555
00:39:54,683 --> 00:39:55,893
You don't have to.
556
00:39:57,061 --> 00:40:01,440
- I don't wanna go to sleep like this.
- You don't have to.
557
00:40:01,607 --> 00:40:03,192
I want to speak.
558
00:40:04,193 --> 00:40:05,611
Say it to me.
559
00:40:07,530 --> 00:40:10,699
It's more important than
re-election. I want to speak.
560
00:40:10,950 --> 00:40:12,159
Say it again.
561
00:40:12,326 --> 00:40:15,830
This is more important than
re-election. I want to speak now.
562
00:40:15,996 --> 00:40:17,748
Now we're in business.
563
00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:22,461
We got our asses kicked,
but it's time to get up. Say it.
564
00:40:22,628 --> 00:40:25,881
More important than re-election.
I want to speak now.
565
00:40:26,048 --> 00:40:28,676
I'm gonna take the staff
off the leash.
566
00:40:28,843 --> 00:40:33,347
You have a strategy for all this?
What is it?
567
00:40:33,514 --> 00:40:35,349
I'm gonna try that for a while.
568
00:40:43,399 --> 00:40:47,945
The ground game isn't working.
We're gonna put the ball in the air.
569
00:40:48,404 --> 00:40:52,867
If we're gonna walk into walls,
I want us running into them.
570
00:40:53,033 --> 00:40:54,201
What?
571
00:40:54,368 --> 00:40:59,665
Tell the Hill the president's
named his nominees to the FEC.
572
00:41:02,459 --> 00:41:05,045
We're gonna lose some battles.
573
00:41:05,212 --> 00:41:07,631
We might even lose the White House.
574
00:41:07,798 --> 00:41:12,303
We won't be threatened by issues.
We'll put them front and center.
575
00:41:13,262 --> 00:41:17,308
We'll raise the level
of public debate in this country...
576
00:41:17,474 --> 00:41:20,686
...and let that be our legacy.
577
00:41:21,812 --> 00:41:24,064
That sound all right
to you, Josh?
578
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:29,361
I serve at the pleasure
of the president.
579
00:41:31,071 --> 00:41:34,575
I serve at the pleasure
of the president.
580
00:41:35,826 --> 00:41:39,455
I serve at the pleasure
of President Bartlet.
581
00:41:41,832 --> 00:41:45,294
I serve at the pleasure
of the president.
582
00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:50,007
Good.
583
00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:54,762
Let's get in the game.