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Previously on The West Wing:
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When was the last time
you went to a meeting?
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AA?
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- What meeting could I possibly go to?
- Mine.
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John, tell me you are not
showing your face...
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I have got my own meeting.
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There are nine of us: three senators,
two cabinet secretaries...
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...one federal judge
and two agency directors.
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There's an agent outside.
It looks like a card game.
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- Do I have enemies in that room?
- All our people. Think about it.
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"We humbly asked him
to remove our shortcomings.
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We made a list
of persons we had harmed...
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...and became willing to make amends.
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We made amends
to such people where possible...
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...except when
it would injure them or others.
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We continued to take personal inventory,
and when wrong, promptly admitted it.
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We sought through prayer
and meditation to improve our contact...
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...with God as we understood him.
As we understood him.
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Praying only for knowledge of his will
for us and the power to carry that out.
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Having had a spiritual awakening
as a result...
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...we try to carry this message to
alcoholics and practice these principles...
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...in all our affairs." Okay.
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I haven't chaired in a while.
What do we do next?
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- Now is when we usually start drinking.
- Okay.
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I wanna talk
about something before we start.
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He's gonna try and get my committee
to fund that airplane that can't fly.
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- It can fly.
- Right. It just can't land.
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- Small price to pay to be able to fly.
- I wanted to talk about Leo.
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I'll fund the plane,
but I'm not gonna fly on it.
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I'm wondering if it's a good idea that
Leo keeps coming to these meetings.
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- Why?
- Look, every meeting's for anybody.
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You don't have a password.
Just walk in and sit. Except...
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...where anonymity is crucial,
even among other alcoholics:
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Commercial airline pilots,
surgeons and us.
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- Right.
- Well, Leo's out.
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Is it wise that he's leaving
a trail to this room...
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...when he could go to any meeting...
- He can't.
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There'd be photographers
camped at the door...
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I don't know a meeting where
guys wouldn't beat up...
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...anybody who barged in...
- That's what we want.
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- I think we should consider this.
- Guys.
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My meeting. Leo stays.
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There it is. Know what I forgot?
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"What we see here, what we say here,
what we hear here, stays here."
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- Here, here.
- Anybody wanna start?
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I will.
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- I'm John. I'm an alcoholic.
- Hi, John.
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Advertise your product or brand here
contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today
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- You wanted me.
- You guys go out?
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- Toby had Capitals tickets.
- Good game?
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You know what I'd do if l...
It wasn't.
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You know what I'd do if I owned a
hockey team? I'd hire a sumo wrestler.
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I'd give him a uniform, transportation,
500 bucks a week to sit in the goal...
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...eat and enjoy the game.
We wouldn't get scored on.
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- You'd get scored on constantly.
- Maybe, but we'd sell a few tickets.
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Yeah, because sumo wrestling sells
out all the time in big hockey towns.
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- My idea is total unviable.
- Well, you're a Democrat.
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It's a pretty big club.
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What did you need?
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Health, Education and Welfare is marking
up the Internet Education Act tomorrow.
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- Tomorrow?
- Yeah.
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- And they told us when?
- An hour ago.
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They're zeroing out
the Technology Challenge Fund.
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- That's the vice president's thing.
- Wanna know how long?
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I was working for him
when he created it.
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- Does he know?
- No.
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What will he say when you tell him?
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He's gonna say,"Josh, you look
remarkably like Sam Seaborn."
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There are people better suited
to this than I am. Leo.
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- Leo says you.
- Why not you?
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Leo and I don't have
the best relationship with Hoynes.
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I don't understand. You say,"Sorry, Mr.
Vice President, it isn't gonna happen."
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Isn't he gonna be miffed if it comes
from the communications director?
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We don't want you to say I'm sorry.
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We want you to work with him
and save the bill.
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All right. When?
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His office is expecting
you in 20 minutes.
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- What about the meeting?
- My meeting?
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- Yeah.
- You'll come late.
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- What's it about?
- You'll find out.
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All right.
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Thank you.
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I've lost my binder
from National Strategies.
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- The blue one?
- The black one...
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...with the secret launch codes.
- It'll turn up.
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I also need the Cabinet Affairs
amplification report.
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If you can get the AP farm guy
back online...
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...I'm almost sure Toby gave me
a punchier quote on Ag reorganization.
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I shall do those things.
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- You shall?
- I shall.
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- I'll tell you what I'd like in exchange.
- How about a weekly salary?
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- Yes, plus a favor.
- Name it.
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- It's a big favor.
- What do you need?
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I had an English teacher named Molly
Morello, one of those teachers...
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...and she's retiring.
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For me, it was Mr. Feig
for American History AP and Con Law.
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Right. Unusual as it may seem,
we're talking about me.
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- And the big favor you want?
- All right, tell me about Mr. Feig.
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No. That moment's done, except to say
he meant the world to me and he died...
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...four years ago.
- Okay. Well, Mrs. Morello is retiring.
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- Not as bad as dying.
- How hard is it...
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...to get a Presidential Proclamation?
- Morello Day?
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I was hoping for Morello Month.
I should be realistic.
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- That would be Molly Morello Day?
- A nice letter from the principal.
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Oh, come on. Get him to sign
a piece of paper. A little proclamation.
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A little piece of paper?
Proclamations have the full force of law.
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The Emancipation Proclamation,
to name just one.
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- To name the only one.
- I don't know what's involved.
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Probably have advisory boards,
commissions.
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The NATO commander's involved,
possibly.
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Can I find out what's involved?
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- Yeah. Find me the blue notebook first.
- Yeah.
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I'm going to the meeting now.
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- Got a minute?
- If I said no, would it stop you?
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No. NEAP figures are out today.
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- Okay.
- They're up.
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How many Third World countries
do we trail in reading and math?
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Up's better than down. The education
secretary ought to make a statement.
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Tomorrow's no good.
We've got half a dozen events.
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We're saying education's our priority.
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Tomorrow, we're trying to make news
on five of our other priorities.
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- Don't you have a meeting?
- Two meetings, actually.
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- I'll check the calendar.
- Up's better than down.
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Where to find a chisel
and a stone tablet.
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I need to know what
the Cabinet's doing tomorrow.
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Ideally, sometime before tomorrow.
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10:30, Drug Czar on border control. Noon,
HUD secretary on home-ownership loans.
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Also noon, technical briefing
at ONDCP on...
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- Is it...? Go back. What's at noon?
- ONDCP technical...
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- No, the housing secretary.
- Home-ownership loans...
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...at the HUD event stage.
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Something wrong?
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Page the secretary of Housing and
Urban Development. I wanna see him.
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- When?
- Look at me.
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- Now.
- I'm in the Roosevelt Room.
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- Want me to pull you out...?
- Please.
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Okay, we're e-filing the old 1040-A.
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You're single, head of your household.
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Deanna's a dependent. Your adjusted
gross income is 35,000 per annum.
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- Sir, I could do most of this myself.
- I love this.
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- Really? Filing tax returns?
- Yeah.
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- Okay.
- What?
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I was thinking about the plurality
of Americans who decided...
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...to pull a lever with your name.
- Suckers. Okay.
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Your mom's
social security pension benefit is $ 1536.
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- Police pension, $2400.
- And here's where my question is...
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Do you take
a standard deduction or itemize?
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- Yes, sir.
- Did you make any charitable donations?
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Five hundred dollars
to the First Baptist Church.
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One hundred eighty-five dollars to the
Salvation Army in clothing and items.
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Five hundred dollars to the Police
Benevolence Society of Washington D.C.
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And $250 to Big Brothers
and Sisters of Washington D.C.
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- Really?
- Yeah.
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Plus, $430
in non-reimbursed medical expenses.
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You're better off
with the standard deduction.
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- Okay.
- I'm hitting send now.
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- If you're lying, you're going to the joint.
- Yeah.
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It's gonna tell us what your refund is,
but I've done a calculation...
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...and it will be $ 700.
- That's what I got.
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- You spent it already.
- I'm getting a scan DVD player...
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...with MP3 playback.
Free shipping and tax is $499...
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...which leaves enough
to buy a DVD I found on eBay.
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- Yeoman of the Guard?
- How well you know me, Mr. President.
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- On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
- Can I tell you what's wrong about Bond?
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- Nothing.
- Shaken not stirred...
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...will get you water
with a dash of gin and vermouth.
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The reason you stir it with a special
spoon is so not to chip the ice.
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James is ordering a weak martini
and being snooty about it.
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I'll reflect on that while watching
my digital-enhanced picture...
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...with theater-quality sound.
- Okay.
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- Seven hundred dollars?
- Four hundred.
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- I'm only getting $400 back?
- You owe $400.
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- I owe the government money.
- You don't need a stamp. Hand it over.
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- There's a mistake.
- Hand it over.
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- There's no way I owe money.
- That's not quite how we see it.
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- Could I sit down there, please?
- Sure.
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- Good evening.
- You need me?
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- Yes, sir.
- Let's go inside. Milo? Coop?
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- Help Mr. Young find his pockets.
- I'm fine. There's been a mistake.
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I'm sorry to come straight to you,
but Leo's unavailable now.
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You should be getting a call from
the energy secretary any minute.
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- What happened?
- The wire service is reporting a vehicle...
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...carrying depleted uranium rods crashed
in the Seven Devil Mountains in Idaho.
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- It crashed?
- It was hit head-on by another truck...
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...in the Goldfield Tunnel on Route 234.
- Are there populated areas nearby?
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Elk Horn's 20 miles away with 20,000.
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- Charlie.
- Energy secretary's on the phone.
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Conference in the chief
of the radiological assistance team.
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Charlie.
Get me Fitzwallace, Nancy McNally...
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...and let the senior members
of the NFC know I need them.
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Thank you, Mr. President.
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A truck carrying depleted
uranium fuel rods just crashed...
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...in Idaho 20 miles
from a populated town.
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- What's happening?
- The president's talking to Tommy...
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...about the radiation threat
and to National Security.
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- There's a problem.
- I'm just telling them.
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It was a 24-ton type B, holding fuel
rods from the nuclear carrier Truman.
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Does 24-ton type B
mean anything to anybody?
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- It's a heavy truck.
- Why National Security?
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You said he was talking
to National Security.
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Two trucks in a deserted area, and
they happen to crash into each other?
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- I'd wanna talk to somebody, at least.
- All right, listen. Postpone the meeting.
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- Let's do it.
- This is gonna be all night.
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When we get pulled out,
we get pulled out.
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It doesn't really
seem appropriate right now.
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You spent a long night
with Bruno last night.
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Yeah. And Bruno spent a long night
with Doug the night before.
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And?
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There's no electoral math they can
come up with, none, that says...
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...it's not worth exploring replacing
the vice president on the ticket.
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Not five months ago in this room,
I said... I joked...
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...that if we win reelection, it was gonna
be on the vice president's coattails.
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Why I'm sure I said it
is because it was leaked.
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How has the electoral math
changed since then?
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By the way,
the group of people were chosen...
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...because Leo
wanted to hear from them...
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...but also because he was confident
there wouldn't be a leak...
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...and I hope we live up to that.
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- How has the math changed?
- Bruno doesn't think Hoynes buys Texas...
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...with Ritchie in the race.
If we lose Texas, we lose Florida.
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That's a third
of the electoral votes we need.
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There's a reason the Republicans
are nominating him.
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Who does?
Who does win Texas for us?
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- Nobody. We're losing Texas.
- Wait a second.
225
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- Before we go on to who wins Texas...
- I was saying...
226
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We've been talking
for a minute and 17 seconds...
227
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...and we're discussing
new candidates?
228
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If no one wins us Texas,
why change at all?
229
00:13:13,838 --> 00:13:16,212
Can I make it clear
nobody's advocating anything.
230
00:13:16,384 --> 00:13:18,924
- Bruno and Doug are.
- Bruno asked for a discussion.
231
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- What's the answer to C.J. 's question?
- Northeast, Pacific Coast and Northwest.
232
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If we don't have Florida and Texas,
it means we have to sweep those three.
233
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- And he thinks Hoynes hurts us there?
- He thinks someone else could help.
234
00:13:31,747 --> 00:13:33,788
- Did he say who?
- Yes.
235
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- Who?
- Fitzwallace.
236
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He said Fitzwallace, Toby.
And you think about it... .
237
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Yeah.
238
00:13:44,605 --> 00:13:46,979
- Josh?
- Yeah.
239
00:13:53,455 --> 00:13:57,159
- How's it going in there?
- Well, you know, we're just starting.
240
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Get creative. Get people thinking,
even though you know it's... .
241
00:14:00,927 --> 00:14:03,966
I'm gonna go in there alone for a minute.
242
00:14:09,777 --> 00:14:11,356
Hey.
243
00:14:11,531 --> 00:14:16,493
I was just briefed. They're setting up a
joint operations command in Elks Horn.
244
00:14:16,666 --> 00:14:19,206
I wish I'd been here a half-hour ago.
245
00:14:19,379 --> 00:14:22,834
What would you have done a half-hour
ago that hasn't already been done?
246
00:14:23,011 --> 00:14:26,383
I'd have known a half-hour
ago what I know now.
247
00:14:26,559 --> 00:14:29,646
This is why I'm not going
to my meeting anymore. It's a luxury.
248
00:14:29,816 --> 00:14:31,192
I know.
249
00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,314
If only technology could invent
some way to get in touch with you...
250
00:14:35,493 --> 00:14:38,948
...in an emergency.
Some sort of telephonic device...
251
00:14:39,125 --> 00:14:43,423
...with a personalized number we could
call to let you know we needed you.
252
00:14:43,592 --> 00:14:46,132
Perhaps it would look something
like this, Mr. Moto.
253
00:14:46,305 --> 00:14:48,680
- You should've called me.
- Would you stop?
254
00:14:48,852 --> 00:14:50,347
All right.
255
00:14:50,522 --> 00:14:54,439
We're coordinating with the governor's
office and state FEMA in Boise.
256
00:14:54,613 --> 00:14:58,281
You know, I've noticed that other people
keep a set of comfortable clothes...
257
00:14:58,453 --> 00:15:01,623
...in their office for when they
have to work late. I like that.
258
00:15:01,793 --> 00:15:04,203
- You should do that too.
- I do do that.
259
00:15:04,381 --> 00:15:07,587
- You should change.
- You see me wearing a necktie?
260
00:15:07,763 --> 00:15:09,757
Never mind.
261
00:15:09,934 --> 00:15:12,261
Can I have my pager back?
262
00:15:12,731 --> 00:15:15,520
The hazard assessment
by the RAD team is good.
263
00:15:15,694 --> 00:15:20,906
No airborne release of cesium isotopes.
No gamma or neutron radiation readings.
264
00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,121
- But... .
- But the trucks are still burning.
265
00:15:23,292 --> 00:15:26,961
The fire commander is pulling out his
men and equipment as soon as possible.
266
00:15:27,133 --> 00:15:29,840
- I'm sure he's right.
- They haven't tested tunnel fires.
267
00:15:30,013 --> 00:15:34,229
They're built to withstand
1475 Fahrenheit for 30 minutes...
268
00:15:34,772 --> 00:15:38,275
...but apparently a train tunnel
in Baltimore burned at 1500.
269
00:15:38,446 --> 00:15:41,984
- Leo, I knew this a half-hour ago.
- Right.
270
00:15:42,161 --> 00:15:45,368
This whole night I'm gonna
be a half-hour smarter than you.
271
00:15:45,543 --> 00:15:48,463
Okay. So you know
about the other truck.
272
00:15:48,632 --> 00:15:50,543
- No.
- It was stolen from a rest stop...
273
00:15:50,719 --> 00:15:53,593
...outside Glenn's Ferry two weeks ago.
- The driver's dead?
274
00:15:53,767 --> 00:15:55,097
- Yeah.
- Arab?
275
00:15:55,312 --> 00:15:57,140
No. He's Gary Vernon Clarke.
276
00:15:57,357 --> 00:16:00,195
Is that his name or is that
what we think it is right now?
277
00:16:00,363 --> 00:16:02,404
Looks like it was an accident.
278
00:16:03,285 --> 00:16:07,369
In what happens to be the most
dangerous and unanticipated situation...
279
00:16:07,543 --> 00:16:11,165
...for transportation of nuclear waste.
- Yes.
280
00:16:12,553 --> 00:16:16,554
- What's that meeting next door?
- Don't worry about it.
281
00:16:19,816 --> 00:16:26,359
Did I leave a folder called
Southeast Targets and... Thank you.
282
00:16:26,830 --> 00:16:29,038
I've been putting together
a folder of my own.
283
00:16:29,209 --> 00:16:32,546
Things that need to be done
for the president to issue a proclamation.
284
00:16:32,716 --> 00:16:35,090
- What has to be done?
- Let me check. Nothing.
285
00:16:35,262 --> 00:16:36,806
- Donna...
- Nothing has to be done.
286
00:16:36,974 --> 00:16:39,182
- He can't just issue a proclamation.
- He can.
287
00:16:39,354 --> 00:16:41,432
He can't just because you want him to.
288
00:16:41,608 --> 00:16:44,647
What's next, executive clemency
if you're having a bad hair day?
289
00:16:44,822 --> 00:16:49,405
I never have a bad hair day. Molly
Morello was a teacher for 41 years.
290
00:16:49,581 --> 00:16:52,455
Which is nice, but these things
are for important causes...
291
00:16:52,629 --> 00:16:54,540
...not individual perks for staffers.
292
00:16:54,716 --> 00:16:57,292
National Digestive Diseases
Awareness Week.
293
00:16:57,471 --> 00:16:59,382
- When was that?
- Now. It began after...
294
00:16:59,559 --> 00:17:02,562
...General Pulaski Memorial Day.
- You're gonna mock the dead...
295
00:17:02,731 --> 00:17:04,476
February was National Sewing Month.
296
00:17:04,652 --> 00:17:08,238
It's the president's name and reputation.
We haven't vetted this woman.
297
00:17:08,409 --> 00:17:12,327
- You're saying, what if she's a lesbian?
- If she were a lesbian we could talk.
298
00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:14,494
I'm saying, what if she's a bicycle thief?
299
00:17:14,671 --> 00:17:16,962
- I doubt that...
- Don't doubt it. Know it.
300
00:17:17,134 --> 00:17:20,672
Do a Google search. Then talk to me.
301
00:17:23,688 --> 00:17:26,645
- Sorry. You been waiting?
- Good evening, sir. No, that's fine.
302
00:17:26,819 --> 00:17:29,277
- I got held up at a poker game.
- I love poker.
303
00:17:29,449 --> 00:17:31,242
- I heard you had Caps tickets?
- Yes, sir.
304
00:17:31,411 --> 00:17:34,617
- How was the game?
- Not very good.
305
00:17:34,792 --> 00:17:36,870
Have you ever seen
a good hockey game?
306
00:17:37,047 --> 00:17:40,715
- No.
- Me neither. I can't get next to hockey.
307
00:17:40,929 --> 00:17:43,849
See, I think Americans like
to savor situations.
308
00:17:44,018 --> 00:17:47,022
One down, bottom of the ninth.
One-run game, first and third...
309
00:17:47,191 --> 00:17:50,895
...left-hand batter, right-hand reliever,
here's the pitch.
310
00:17:51,073 --> 00:17:53,614
Scoring in hockey seems
to come out of nowhere.
311
00:17:53,787 --> 00:17:56,280
The play-by-play guy is always shocked.
312
00:17:56,459 --> 00:17:59,415
"LePetier passes to Huckenchuck,
who skates past the blue line.
313
00:17:59,590 --> 00:18:02,843
Huckenchuck was traded
from Winnipeg for a case of Labatts...
314
00:18:03,013 --> 00:18:06,301
...after sitting out last season with...
Oh, my God, he scores!"
315
00:18:06,728 --> 00:18:08,639
So, what's going on?
316
00:18:08,815 --> 00:18:12,947
They're marking up the
Internet Education Act tomorrow.
317
00:18:13,658 --> 00:18:14,988
- Tomorrow?
- Yes, sir.
318
00:18:15,161 --> 00:18:17,915
And they're zeroing out the
Technology Challenge Fund.
319
00:18:19,461 --> 00:18:22,381
- Tomorrow?
- Yes, sir. We only heard about it tonight.
320
00:18:22,550 --> 00:18:24,675
- We're gonna save this.
- That's why I'm here.
321
00:18:24,846 --> 00:18:27,339
- It's only 52 million.
- It's gonna be embarrassing.
322
00:18:27,559 --> 00:18:30,231
75% percent of the poorest
don't have Internet access...
323
00:18:30,398 --> 00:18:34,067
...60% of blacks and Hispanics
don't have Internet access.
324
00:18:34,448 --> 00:18:36,775
I have to make some calls.
325
00:18:37,495 --> 00:18:40,949
- Yeah. The problem is... .
- What?
326
00:18:41,127 --> 00:18:42,587
The chairman.
327
00:18:42,755 --> 00:18:45,925
- You attacked him at the DNC spring...
- You sent me to attack him.
328
00:18:46,136 --> 00:18:47,881
I understand.
329
00:18:49,017 --> 00:18:51,855
- They're marking it up tomorrow?
- Yes, sir.
330
00:18:52,983 --> 00:18:55,690
You're gonna do this for me.
You're gonna get this done.
331
00:18:55,863 --> 00:18:59,033
- Yes, sir.
- Decorated in Vietnam, defense hawk...
332
00:18:59,203 --> 00:19:02,990
There'd be astronomical black turnout in
Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana.
333
00:19:03,169 --> 00:19:06,707
- The South is on the table.
- Is he a Democrat?
334
00:19:06,926 --> 00:19:09,502
- He would be now.
- No Republican would criticize him.
335
00:19:09,681 --> 00:19:12,720
Black turnout would explode.
We'd realign the country.
336
00:19:12,937 --> 00:19:17,069
- That's assuming it's a two-man race.
- Who's gonna get into it this late?
337
00:19:20,285 --> 00:19:21,828
John Hoynes.
338
00:19:22,247 --> 00:19:25,001
Hoynes as an Independent?
339
00:19:25,461 --> 00:19:27,206
- Yeah.
- The guy...
340
00:19:27,382 --> 00:19:29,709
...practically has corporate sponsorship.
341
00:19:29,886 --> 00:19:33,223
The Tostitos vice president is gonna lead
an Independent movement?
342
00:19:33,435 --> 00:19:36,557
- It's not that ridiculous.
- It is! He'd be finished in politics.
343
00:19:36,774 --> 00:19:40,360
Some future after we publicly humiliate
him by kicking him off the ticket.
344
00:19:40,573 --> 00:19:42,948
- What are we afraid of?
- A household name...
345
00:19:43,162 --> 00:19:46,498
...with his base of conservative
Democrats and populist Independents.
346
00:19:46,668 --> 00:19:49,422
Starts at 15, 20 percent.
Now every state's up for grab...
347
00:19:49,590 --> 00:19:51,918
...because it's a three-way.
- But he'll lose.
348
00:19:52,137 --> 00:19:55,723
Which is gratifying, but not much
of a consolation since we'll lose too.
349
00:19:56,813 --> 00:19:59,733
Say what you want.
Hoynes is a pragmatist. To do this...
350
00:19:59,902 --> 00:20:04,817
...he'd be the craziest vice president
since Aaron Burr. And Burr shot a guy.
351
00:20:06,832 --> 00:20:09,788
- I can't believe we're talking about this.
- Your meeting.
352
00:20:09,963 --> 00:20:11,624
Getting that a lot these days.
353
00:20:11,883 --> 00:20:14,970
So that leaves us where?
354
00:20:15,139 --> 00:20:19,223
Wondering if Fitzwallace
is a Democrat or a Republican.
355
00:20:23,989 --> 00:20:26,399
Yeah. It sounds like
you're tripped up on 1783.
356
00:20:26,577 --> 00:20:30,080
- Which is?
- HR-1783. A tax rebate from last year.
357
00:20:30,251 --> 00:20:32,246
Why would that affect
my return this year?
358
00:20:32,422 --> 00:20:34,250
- Did you get a rebate last year?
- Yeah.
359
00:20:34,426 --> 00:20:35,755
- There's the answer.
- Where?
360
00:20:35,929 --> 00:20:38,885
Your rebate came off this year's taxes.
That's how we paid.
361
00:20:39,060 --> 00:20:42,182
Hang on. The money I got back last year
has to be paid for?
362
00:20:42,357 --> 00:20:44,566
- Yeah.
- That's not a rebate. That's an advance.
363
00:20:44,737 --> 00:20:46,696
- Technically, I guess.
- Not technically.
364
00:20:46,866 --> 00:20:50,238
This is like getting a bonus and having
it deducted from your paycheck.
365
00:20:50,414 --> 00:20:53,288
This doesn't sound like very
patriotic talk to me, Charlie.
366
00:20:53,462 --> 00:20:57,510
- It's not. Why did you call it a rebate?
- So people would spend it.
367
00:20:57,678 --> 00:21:00,386
- If it was an advance they'd save it.
- It was an advance.
368
00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:02,138
- You spend it?
- On my Visa bill.
369
00:21:02,312 --> 00:21:04,603
We would have preferred
you ate out or traveled.
370
00:21:04,817 --> 00:21:06,942
- Me too.
- Well, in any event... .
371
00:21:07,781 --> 00:21:11,913
- What? Oh, what are you, the collector?
- Leo.
372
00:21:12,122 --> 00:21:16,076
- He used the rebate to pay his Visa bill.
- It wasn't a rebate. It was an advance.
373
00:21:16,297 --> 00:21:21,260
A trip to Banana Republic
would have killed you? Let's go.
374
00:21:27,944 --> 00:21:32,195
- The problem is we don't know anything.
- That's never been a problem for us.
375
00:21:32,369 --> 00:21:35,077
We don't know anything
until we can get into the tunnel.
376
00:21:35,250 --> 00:21:38,419
And we can't get into the tunnel
until the place cools down.
377
00:21:38,589 --> 00:21:41,878
Until we can get in, we don't know
if we have to evacuate Elk Horn.
378
00:21:42,054 --> 00:21:43,514
Well, that's FEMA's call.
379
00:21:43,724 --> 00:21:46,847
FEMA's indicated they're gonna wanna
make it the governor's call.
380
00:21:47,022 --> 00:21:49,598
The governor's indicated
he wants you to step in...
381
00:21:49,819 --> 00:21:52,858
I should set a ransom.
I'll tell you the radiation levels...
382
00:21:53,034 --> 00:21:56,287
...but first I want your electoral votes.
Or is that a bad strategy?
383
00:21:56,457 --> 00:21:57,917
- It's pretty bad.
- No ransom.
384
00:21:58,085 --> 00:22:00,792
We'll play this one straight.
What about other shipments?
385
00:22:00,965 --> 00:22:03,043
There are two
other shipments on the road.
386
00:22:03,220 --> 00:22:05,891
One's low-level radioactive waste,
mostly medical.
387
00:22:06,058 --> 00:22:09,727
- It's on three rail cars in South Carolina.
- Have we stopped the train?
388
00:22:09,899 --> 00:22:12,737
The National Guard's securing
it till we know what happened.
389
00:22:12,905 --> 00:22:15,944
- What about the second one?
- That's more problematic.
390
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:20,785
There's 200 pounds of transuranic
materials from Rocky Flats...
391
00:22:20,962 --> 00:22:22,707
...where they assemble the triggers.
392
00:22:22,882 --> 00:22:26,550
They're about 150 miles from Carlsbad,
and we can't tell them to pull over.
393
00:22:26,723 --> 00:22:29,430
- That makes them vulnerable.
- They beefed up the escort?
394
00:22:29,645 --> 00:22:30,974
- Yeah.
- Okay.
395
00:22:31,148 --> 00:22:33,189
Thank you, Mr. President.
396
00:22:33,819 --> 00:22:37,156
No one knew if Eisenhower was a
Democrat or Republican before he ran.
397
00:22:37,326 --> 00:22:39,819
Grant only voted once,
and it was for the other guys.
398
00:22:39,998 --> 00:22:43,500
Grant works as an example in almost
any situation. That's Grant's legacy.
399
00:22:43,672 --> 00:22:45,880
- Plus, he won the Civil War.
- What about Leo?
400
00:22:46,093 --> 00:22:48,551
- What'd I do?
- As running mate. Bartlet-McGarry.
401
00:22:48,848 --> 00:22:50,724
- Done.
- It's not absurd, you know.
402
00:22:50,894 --> 00:22:52,473
- It is.
- It's not totally absurd.
403
00:22:52,689 --> 00:22:55,264
- Yes, it is.
- He wants your parking space.
404
00:22:55,444 --> 00:22:57,569
- I really do.
- It's not totally absurd.
405
00:22:57,740 --> 00:22:59,236
You have a good parking space.
406
00:22:59,410 --> 00:23:02,330
You know, if it weren't
for the drinking and the Valium... .
407
00:23:03,083 --> 00:23:04,496
- Yet, Grant... .
- That's right.
408
00:23:04,670 --> 00:23:06,830
They told Lincoln,
"Grant's a drunk." He said:
409
00:23:07,008 --> 00:23:09,086
"Send my generals a case
of what he drinks."
410
00:23:09,262 --> 00:23:13,097
- I see a 30-second spot.
- An alcoholic can't be vice president?
411
00:23:15,190 --> 00:23:19,655
You really think the 20th century didn't
see an alcoholic in the West Wing?
412
00:23:21,243 --> 00:23:22,988
I'll be around.
413
00:23:39,444 --> 00:23:42,401
Hey, Leo.
414
00:23:44,454 --> 00:23:47,873
- They didn't mean anything.
- Yeah, I didn't take anything.
415
00:23:48,837 --> 00:23:50,167
What's going on in Idaho?
416
00:23:50,340 --> 00:23:54,555
The tunnel's still hot.
We're looking at evacuating Elk Horn.
417
00:23:54,849 --> 00:23:57,769
- Elk Horn's 20,000.
- Yeah.
418
00:23:57,938 --> 00:24:01,310
- We've done this before?
- For hurricanes. Yeah.
419
00:24:01,486 --> 00:24:05,190
- This is a radioactive cloud.
- I wouldn't call it a cloud.
420
00:24:05,369 --> 00:24:08,289
You wouldn't call it the end
of a Yankee game, either.
421
00:24:08,458 --> 00:24:12,376
I don't know. You got your sirens, route
and tone alerts on local radio and TV.
422
00:24:12,549 --> 00:24:15,089
- Paul Reveres go out.
- Civil defense volunteers.
423
00:24:15,304 --> 00:24:18,807
Yeah, we got the armory in Caldwell,
75 miles away, for refugees.
424
00:24:18,978 --> 00:24:22,682
Still, we're talking about
widespread panic and chaos, right?
425
00:24:22,902 --> 00:24:24,730
I assume.
426
00:24:28,204 --> 00:24:30,993
- Anything else?
- I don't wanna go back to my meeting.
427
00:24:31,209 --> 00:24:35,163
- Well, you're not staying here.
- Okay.
428
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,810
There must be 110 million
for distance learning and telemedicine.
429
00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:43,310
Can we shave that down?
430
00:24:43,483 --> 00:24:46,736
There are three rural committee members
who love distance learning.
431
00:24:46,906 --> 00:24:50,741
I'm not sure I see the point if the rural
poor don't have Internet hookups.
432
00:24:50,914 --> 00:24:53,241
- Why don't we plus-up the entire bill?
- Sir?
433
00:24:53,418 --> 00:24:56,375
We get our Internet 52 million.
They get to add 52 million...
434
00:24:56,549 --> 00:25:00,135
...for Internet-blocking software or
whatever they want. Can't we do that?
435
00:25:00,306 --> 00:25:02,681
One of the problems is
they're deficit hawks.
436
00:25:02,853 --> 00:25:05,726
- We're deficit hawks too.
- That's the other problem.
437
00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:10,068
All right, work with me here. What
do they want? A bridge, a highway...
438
00:25:10,242 --> 00:25:13,828
...a soda machine? What do they want?
- They want your name off the bill.
439
00:25:14,458 --> 00:25:16,749
They want your name off it.
They love this bill.
440
00:25:16,921 --> 00:25:20,875
Helping the poor learn computers so they
can lift themselves up by the bootstraps?
441
00:25:21,054 --> 00:25:24,557
It gets voted out of committee
unanimously, but it's an election year.
442
00:25:24,728 --> 00:25:27,352
When is it not an election year?
443
00:25:29,696 --> 00:25:33,483
I like what Daniel Webster said when the
Whig Party offered him vice president:
444
00:25:33,662 --> 00:25:36,915
"I do not propose
to be buried until I am dead."
445
00:25:38,462 --> 00:25:41,881
I used to be every Republican's
favorite Democrat.
446
00:25:44,933 --> 00:25:47,224
- Screw it, Sam.
- Absolutely, Mr. Vice President.
447
00:25:51,070 --> 00:25:53,064
Let's take my name off it.
448
00:25:54,660 --> 00:25:56,321
Yes, sir.
449
00:26:04,721 --> 00:26:07,641
- Where's Secretary Fisher?
- He can't make it tonight.
450
00:26:07,810 --> 00:26:10,517
- Excuse me?
- The secretary's at an NGA reception...
451
00:26:10,690 --> 00:26:13,647
...at the Willard Hotel.
She says he can see you tomorrow.
452
00:26:13,821 --> 00:26:15,151
- She?
- His scheduler.
453
00:26:15,324 --> 00:26:17,996
- You paged him.
- She called back.
454
00:26:20,292 --> 00:26:22,832
Call Fisher or his scheduler and say:
455
00:26:23,005 --> 00:26:25,333
"I want the secretary here
in half an hour...
456
00:26:25,510 --> 00:26:28,847
...to talk about moving his
announcement to the briefing room...
457
00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,808
...because we have more TV cameras."
- Because we have...
458
00:26:31,981 --> 00:26:37,146
The most dangerous place in Washington
is between Bill Fisher and a TV camera.
459
00:26:44,004 --> 00:26:46,248
Clean as a whistle.
460
00:26:46,968 --> 00:26:48,511
- Thank you.
- Molly Morello.
461
00:26:48,679 --> 00:26:52,016
When was the last time
I asked you for anything?
462
00:26:52,186 --> 00:26:55,439
- By the way, I found this.
- What?
463
00:26:55,609 --> 00:26:58,399
"A proclamation to modify
the quantitative limitations...
464
00:26:58,573 --> 00:27:01,779
...applicable to the imports
of wheat gluten."
465
00:27:01,955 --> 00:27:04,245
We are just a little rococo, aren't we?
466
00:27:04,418 --> 00:27:07,872
Why is Molly Morello less worthy
of a proclamation than General Pulaski?
467
00:27:08,049 --> 00:27:10,543
- I wish I knew who Pulaski was.
- This is what I mean.
468
00:27:10,721 --> 00:27:13,760
She's not less worthy,
but neither is she more than the other...
469
00:27:13,936 --> 00:27:16,773
...ninety thousand public school teachers
who are retiring.
470
00:27:16,941 --> 00:27:19,945
Who weren't lucky enough
to have a staffer as a former student.
471
00:27:20,114 --> 00:27:21,658
- That's trouble.
- Who would find out?
472
00:27:21,826 --> 00:27:26,825
"Who would find out" is also
where we frequently find trouble.
473
00:27:27,002 --> 00:27:29,626
- You're right.
- Yes.
474
00:27:30,592 --> 00:27:32,801
All right, you're right.
475
00:27:34,349 --> 00:27:35,679
- Hey.
- You get it done?
476
00:27:35,852 --> 00:27:37,597
- Yeah.
- He's taking his name off it?
477
00:27:37,773 --> 00:27:39,149
Yeah.
478
00:27:39,317 --> 00:27:41,989
Well, it feels like we're
almost done in there.
479
00:27:42,156 --> 00:27:44,483
You wanna tell me what
this meeting's about now?
480
00:27:44,661 --> 00:27:46,869
Replacing Hoynes.
481
00:27:47,541 --> 00:27:50,165
- What are you...?
- Bruno wanted us to look at replacing.
482
00:27:50,338 --> 00:27:52,083
- Josh.
- So we're looking at it.
483
00:27:52,259 --> 00:27:55,013
We're looking at it,
and everybody's treating me like... .
484
00:27:55,181 --> 00:27:59,847
- Why?
- There's electoral math.
485
00:28:00,107 --> 00:28:02,351
- Was I sent away?
- No.
486
00:28:02,528 --> 00:28:05,698
- So I wouldn't be at that meeting?
- No.
487
00:28:05,868 --> 00:28:07,862
Are you talking about names?
488
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,834
Fitzwallace, Leo and Ulysses S. Grant.
489
00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:17,053
Not for nothing, but before
we go in there, I wanna be clear.
490
00:28:17,223 --> 00:28:19,846
I didn't have to convince him
or even suggest it.
491
00:28:20,020 --> 00:28:23,392
Right off the bat he said,
"Let's take my name off it."
492
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,448
- Yeah.
- Leo? The vice president.
493
00:28:28,619 --> 00:28:30,578
Thanks. You can go home now.
494
00:28:30,748 --> 00:28:34,120
- I go home when you go home.
- I'll get back to you.
495
00:28:36,092 --> 00:28:40,307
Mr. Vice President, I like your style.
496
00:28:40,475 --> 00:28:43,598
- It's money well spent.
- It deserved to have your name on it.
497
00:28:43,773 --> 00:28:45,518
I've got my name on other stuff.
498
00:28:45,693 --> 00:28:49,231
You know what I don't like?
I don't like we can't campaign on it.
499
00:28:49,409 --> 00:28:52,863
- Can you sit for a minute?
- Yeah.
500
00:28:56,881 --> 00:28:59,755
I'm in a bind,
and I think you know what it is.
501
00:28:59,971 --> 00:29:02,012
I'm sorry, I don't.
502
00:29:02,183 --> 00:29:06,398
I respect the anonymity of an alcoholic,
I can't reveal what's said in a meeting...
503
00:29:06,567 --> 00:29:11,114
...but I've got a responsibility to the
president, and in fact, to the country.
504
00:29:11,284 --> 00:29:14,656
Leo, I'm sorry. I honestly
don't know what you're saying.
505
00:29:14,832 --> 00:29:17,242
- You've gotta tell the president.
- Tell him what?
506
00:29:17,420 --> 00:29:21,124
- That you're an alcoholic.
- Are you telling me he doesn't know?
507
00:29:21,303 --> 00:29:23,843
- How would he know?
- You didn't tell him?
508
00:29:24,058 --> 00:29:25,388
Of course I didn't.
509
00:29:25,603 --> 00:29:28,226
- Before you picked me, you didn't tell?
- No.
510
00:29:34,578 --> 00:29:39,161
- I always assumed...
- No.
511
00:29:47,812 --> 00:29:49,438
Well... .
512
00:29:52,487 --> 00:29:54,482
Let's go see our boss.
513
00:30:22,252 --> 00:30:25,339
- Hey.
- How was the NGA?
514
00:30:25,508 --> 00:30:28,761
Oh, you know the governors,
too many mandates, too little money.
515
00:30:28,973 --> 00:30:31,763
- I can hear that one at home.
- Good one.
516
00:30:31,979 --> 00:30:33,890
- The governors liked it.
- Yeah.
517
00:30:34,066 --> 00:30:36,690
Have you announced
for the governor of New Jersey bill?
518
00:30:36,863 --> 00:30:38,988
- Excuse me?
- Did I miss an announcement?
519
00:30:39,201 --> 00:30:41,361
That's three years away.
I'm trying to serve...
520
00:30:41,539 --> 00:30:46,004
I never heard of these loans. So I'm
assuming it's a campaign proposal.
521
00:30:46,173 --> 00:30:49,010
Camden and Newark will go nuts.
I know it's not national.
522
00:30:49,220 --> 00:30:51,974
- Give me a break.
- Know how I know? National programs...
523
00:30:52,184 --> 00:30:56,649
...are announced by the president unless
this White House passes on them first.
524
00:30:56,818 --> 00:30:59,490
Toby, this is a nickel-and-dime program.
Calm down.
525
00:30:59,657 --> 00:31:02,993
Right. We're announcing a new
replacement for Social Security...
526
00:31:03,205 --> 00:31:05,532
- I thought we were...
- They're not your nickels.
527
00:31:05,710 --> 00:31:08,499
- They're not your dimes!
- Hang on a minute.
528
00:31:08,674 --> 00:31:11,001
The president asked me
to join his Cabinet.
529
00:31:11,220 --> 00:31:14,592
He asked me to stall my career
with the agreement that he'd help me...
530
00:31:14,769 --> 00:31:16,810
You don't want it.
You're helping yourself.
531
00:31:16,981 --> 00:31:20,685
If this announcement makes A17
of the Metro section, I'd be surprised.
532
00:31:20,905 --> 00:31:23,066
There's one name on
the ballot this November.
533
00:31:23,243 --> 00:31:25,783
Not yours, not mine,
not the governor of New Jersey.
534
00:31:25,957 --> 00:31:28,794
No one will work harder
than Jed Bartlet to put you there.
535
00:31:28,962 --> 00:31:33,712
This president loses reelection,
your career is finished, and so is mine.
536
00:31:34,222 --> 00:31:36,133
What's your point?
537
00:31:38,522 --> 00:31:41,561
Next time you announce
new policy that isn't cleared...
538
00:31:41,737 --> 00:31:44,360
...we're announcing you're moving
back to New Jersey.
539
00:31:46,913 --> 00:31:50,332
- What about the loans?
- C.J. will announce them tomorrow.
540
00:31:50,545 --> 00:31:52,670
Come on.
Let me do it with the president.
541
00:31:53,008 --> 00:31:54,919
It's too small for the president.
542
00:31:57,642 --> 00:31:59,850
I've gotta go back to a meeting.
543
00:32:00,606 --> 00:32:04,358
- Yep. It was the rebate.
- It wasn't a rebate. It was an advance.
544
00:32:04,530 --> 00:32:07,653
- You say potato... .
- I do say potato, so does everybody.
545
00:32:07,828 --> 00:32:10,535
We wanted to inject money
into retail and tourism.
546
00:32:10,708 --> 00:32:13,463
Why not wait until people
were supposed to have the money?
547
00:32:13,631 --> 00:32:16,040
The economy might have
improved on its own by then.
548
00:32:16,219 --> 00:32:18,427
In which case,
it would have been pointless.
549
00:32:18,598 --> 00:32:21,638
- Yeah.
- Economists make it up as they go along.
550
00:32:21,813 --> 00:32:24,733
- Yeah.
- Did it work?
551
00:32:24,902 --> 00:32:27,442
Not that much.
Most people did what you did.
552
00:32:27,616 --> 00:32:30,405
They saved or they paid down debt.
553
00:32:30,580 --> 00:32:32,704
We don't want people
to save and reduce debt?
554
00:32:32,876 --> 00:32:36,248
We do,
but when the next guy's president.
555
00:32:36,466 --> 00:32:38,544
- You win.
- I always do.
556
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,346
Yes, sir.
557
00:32:41,308 --> 00:32:43,884
- I'll tell you what I find interesting.
- What's that?
558
00:32:44,064 --> 00:32:47,650
You. $35,000 a year,
a sister to support...
559
00:32:47,821 --> 00:32:50,575
...and you gave $ 1435 to charity?
560
00:32:51,536 --> 00:32:54,208
I'm not sure that check
isn't better off in your hands.
561
00:32:54,375 --> 00:32:56,951
Oh, I'm taking it.
Don't be ridiculous.
562
00:32:57,130 --> 00:33:00,134
When you get to your place,
you're gonna find a DVD player...
563
00:33:00,345 --> 00:33:03,551
...and that wimp-ass Bond movie.
- Mr. President...
564
00:33:03,726 --> 00:33:06,813
And I threw
in Yeoman of the Guard on CD.
565
00:33:08,235 --> 00:33:11,571
- That was an incredibly nice gesture.
- I'm really something.
566
00:33:11,783 --> 00:33:13,694
Mr. President.
567
00:33:14,246 --> 00:33:16,240
- Hey, John.
- Could we have a minute, sir?
568
00:33:16,417 --> 00:33:18,827
- Yeah.
- Charlie, get that woman on the phone.
569
00:33:19,005 --> 00:33:20,584
I'm feeling magical tonight.
570
00:33:23,514 --> 00:33:25,923
They're in the tunnel.
The readings show nothing...
571
00:33:26,102 --> 00:33:28,310
...beyond the predictable level
of radiation.
572
00:33:28,481 --> 00:33:31,520
The flatbed's back on its way,
and the Carlsbad is behind gates.
573
00:33:31,696 --> 00:33:33,940
- So we dodged a bullet.
- Yeah.
574
00:33:34,117 --> 00:33:38,450
We pack this stuff in two inches
of stainless steel, four inches of lead.
575
00:33:38,626 --> 00:33:41,832
We rammed it with trains
and dropped it from helicopters...
576
00:33:42,007 --> 00:33:45,676
...and it still isn't gonna protect
us from the thing we haven't thought of.
577
00:33:45,848 --> 00:33:49,896
They took a cast to Aberdeen Proving
Ground and shot a missile through it.
578
00:33:50,106 --> 00:33:53,312
They showed me video.
What can I do for you?
579
00:33:53,487 --> 00:33:56,990
Sir, there's something very important
we need to talk to you about.
580
00:33:57,161 --> 00:33:58,573
What?
581
00:33:59,749 --> 00:34:02,421
Well, it's delicate and surprising...
582
00:34:02,588 --> 00:34:06,256
...and I wanna make sure your first
reaction is measured, so I'd like us to...
583
00:34:06,429 --> 00:34:08,423
I'm a recovering alcoholic.
584
00:34:09,309 --> 00:34:11,019
- Really?
- Yes, sir.
585
00:34:11,981 --> 00:34:14,059
- Is there anybody left who's not?
- Sir...
586
00:34:14,235 --> 00:34:16,064
- For how long?
- I'm sorry?
587
00:34:16,281 --> 00:34:18,904
- How long have you been in recovery?
- My last drink...
588
00:34:19,078 --> 00:34:22,284
...it was the year I was 22.
- Did you say 22?
589
00:34:22,501 --> 00:34:24,626
- Yes, sir.
- You haven't had a drink since 22?
590
00:34:24,797 --> 00:34:27,551
- That's right.
- I didn't start drinking till I was 25.
591
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,391
- What the hell do you guys count...
- There's a history...
592
00:34:30,558 --> 00:34:33,265
...in my family, and I had
a few experiences in college.
593
00:34:33,438 --> 00:34:36,395
I liked beer a lot.
So I started going to meetings.
594
00:34:36,611 --> 00:34:38,771
- I'm pretty sure if I stopped...
- Twenty-two?
595
00:34:38,990 --> 00:34:42,363
- Yes, sir.
- You and James Bond ought to team up.
596
00:34:42,539 --> 00:34:44,118
- I don't... .
- Don't worry.
597
00:34:44,292 --> 00:34:47,795
He's ordering a watered-down martini,
and Leo, what is this meeting...
598
00:34:47,966 --> 00:34:50,923
...going on across the hall?
- We can talk about it later.
599
00:34:51,139 --> 00:34:53,679
It's a meeting about having me
replaced on the ticket.
600
00:34:53,894 --> 00:34:56,304
I know how to count to 270.
601
00:34:59,363 --> 00:35:04,159
John, I assure you... I assure you that
if it were a serious notion, we would...
602
00:35:04,372 --> 00:35:07,292
- Texas is gone. So is Florida.
- We're not doing it.
603
00:35:07,461 --> 00:35:11,213
- You should think about it.
- Are you taking your name off that bill?
604
00:35:11,427 --> 00:35:15,927
Nobody benefits from the Internet
right now more than the rural poor.
605
00:35:16,103 --> 00:35:19,023
You're taking your name off.
We can't campaign on it.
606
00:35:19,192 --> 00:35:21,982
- Yes, sir.
- And if somebody's attacking us...
607
00:35:22,156 --> 00:35:24,364
...you know what to do.
608
00:35:26,414 --> 00:35:27,910
I call Leo.
609
00:35:28,084 --> 00:35:31,586
Yeah, but don't discount the possibility
that it might be Leo.
610
00:35:31,799 --> 00:35:33,129
Yes, sir.
611
00:35:33,302 --> 00:35:37,517
John, despite this recent revelation
that you drank beer in college...
612
00:35:37,685 --> 00:35:40,808
...I've always liked you a little
more than you thought I did.
613
00:35:40,983 --> 00:35:45,032
But that's not why you're staying.
It's this.
614
00:35:47,078 --> 00:35:48,871
Four words.
615
00:36:01,982 --> 00:36:04,736
I've always liked you more
than you thought I did too.
616
00:36:04,946 --> 00:36:06,607
Just a little, right?
617
00:36:06,782 --> 00:36:09,656
- Yes, sir.
- Me too.
618
00:36:09,830 --> 00:36:11,955
Anything else?
619
00:36:13,378 --> 00:36:16,667
- Thank you, Mr. President.
- Thank you, sir.
620
00:36:21,143 --> 00:36:22,805
Charlie!
621
00:36:24,525 --> 00:36:26,815
- Yes, sir.
- Let's go. I'm a magic man.
622
00:36:33,709 --> 00:36:36,036
- Donnatella.
- Good evening, Mr. President.
623
00:36:36,213 --> 00:36:40,796
Tell Josh that General Pulaski
was a Polish brigadier general...
624
00:36:41,014 --> 00:36:45,016
...who vanquished the Russian and
Prussian military, came to the colonies...
625
00:36:45,189 --> 00:36:47,682
...and commanded our cavalry
during the Revolution.
626
00:36:47,861 --> 00:36:49,356
- I will.
- It says here...
627
00:36:49,530 --> 00:36:53,662
...in a briefing paper hastily
written by Deputy Josh Lyman...
628
00:36:53,830 --> 00:36:57,914
...that in the '60s, when the Madison
superintendent banned Twelfth Night...
629
00:36:58,088 --> 00:37:00,249
...for reasons passing understanding...
630
00:37:00,468 --> 00:37:05,597
...a Mrs. Molly Morello had students over
to her home on Saturdays to read it.
631
00:37:05,770 --> 00:37:07,598
I didn't know that, sir.
632
00:37:07,773 --> 00:37:09,898
Josh wrote you a memo
on Molly Morello?
633
00:37:10,070 --> 00:37:13,773
Yeah, because all I had tonight
was a nuclear spill in Idaho.
634
00:37:13,952 --> 00:37:18,167
It says,"She came in two hours early
to teach an AP English class...
635
00:37:18,377 --> 00:37:21,001
...she developed,
because the school didn't offer one."
636
00:37:21,174 --> 00:37:24,427
- I was in that class.
- She deserves a proclamation.
637
00:37:24,597 --> 00:37:27,636
- I wish I could give her one, but I can't.
- I understand.
638
00:37:27,853 --> 00:37:30,976
It's just too much inside baseball,
you know?
639
00:37:31,151 --> 00:37:33,276
You're very nice to even talk
to me about it.
640
00:37:33,489 --> 00:37:37,537
Charlie, I've been tapping my finger
on the desk for about a minute now.
641
00:37:37,705 --> 00:37:41,124
- Sir?
- The magic-man thing works better...
642
00:37:41,296 --> 00:37:44,133
...when you pick up on signals,
Tonto. What's that you say?
643
00:37:44,301 --> 00:37:46,877
There's a phone call for Donna?
Good evening.
644
00:37:47,057 --> 00:37:49,632
This is the White House.
For whom are you holding?
645
00:37:49,812 --> 00:37:52,899
I'm holding for Donna Moss.
This is Mrs. Morello.
646
00:37:53,068 --> 00:37:55,644
- Oh, my God.
- Donna?
647
00:37:55,823 --> 00:37:58,577
- Mrs. Morello, it's me.
- Is everything all right?
648
00:37:58,745 --> 00:38:00,538
Everything's fine.
649
00:38:00,707 --> 00:38:03,082
I hadn 't heard from you
in a long time, so l...
650
00:38:03,254 --> 00:38:08,051
No. Everything's fine. Sally
Seidelman told me you were retiring.
651
00:38:08,222 --> 00:38:09,634
Yes, at the end of this year.
652
00:38:11,269 --> 00:38:14,772
Well, I just wanted to say... .
653
00:38:16,780 --> 00:38:18,821
I don't know, I just... .
654
00:38:19,952 --> 00:38:22,327
I just wanted to say... .
655
00:38:23,459 --> 00:38:27,081
- I don't know.
- Are you sure everything's all right?
656
00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:29,341
- Tell her where you are.
- Donna?
657
00:38:29,512 --> 00:38:32,967
I'm in the Oval Office with the
President of the United States...
658
00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:35,518
...and it's because of you.
659
00:38:38,822 --> 00:38:42,276
- Mrs. Morello?
- What a thing to say.
660
00:38:42,454 --> 00:38:47,250
- We're all very proud of you, Donna.
- She didn't do anything.
661
00:38:47,421 --> 00:38:50,710
- Was that...?
- It's Jed Bartlet, Mrs. Morello.
662
00:38:50,886 --> 00:38:53,011
I've got a couple of questions.
663
00:38:53,182 --> 00:38:55,890
When you taught Beowulf,
did you make the kids read it...
664
00:38:56,063 --> 00:38:59,102
...in the original Middle English
or did you use a translation?
665
00:38:59,277 --> 00:39:01,687
- We used a translation, Mr. President.
- Okay.
666
00:39:01,865 --> 00:39:04,573
- We'll call that the James Bond version.
- Yes, sir.
667
00:39:04,746 --> 00:39:06,954
What are you doing
with your retirement?
668
00:39:07,125 --> 00:39:10,580
- My husband and I were gonna travel.
- That's great.
669
00:39:10,757 --> 00:39:15,340
I'd stay away from the Elk Horn,
Idaho area for a little while.
670
00:39:15,516 --> 00:39:17,261
You'll read why in the morning.
671
00:39:18,898 --> 00:39:21,023
Let's talk about Twelfth Night.
672
00:39:21,194 --> 00:39:23,022
- Twenty-two?
- Yeah.
673
00:39:23,198 --> 00:39:25,821
- You haven't had a drink since 22?
- Right.
674
00:39:26,036 --> 00:39:29,124
- Grant would have slapped your face.
- He did once.
675
00:39:29,293 --> 00:39:33,875
Listen, it's fine that this is funny and,
Mr. Vice President, I couldn't care less.
676
00:39:34,093 --> 00:39:36,254
- But what about the campaign?
- What about it?
677
00:39:36,431 --> 00:39:39,554
- President just got past an honesty issue.
- He's not past it.
678
00:39:39,771 --> 00:39:42,264
- If it becomes public...
- That's a big assumption.
679
00:39:42,443 --> 00:39:43,606
No, it's not.
680
00:39:43,779 --> 00:39:46,699
I think that issue
is probably worth further discussion...
681
00:39:46,868 --> 00:39:48,946
...but we're done talking
about the ticket.
682
00:39:49,164 --> 00:39:52,702
The president wants the vice president
to remain the vice president...
683
00:39:52,879 --> 00:39:55,836
...and he wrote down
his one and only reason.
684
00:40:07,449 --> 00:40:09,657
"Because I could die."
685
00:40:13,001 --> 00:40:15,328
Well, of course, he's right, sir.
686
00:40:18,094 --> 00:40:20,504
It doesn't solve the problem
of the electoral math.
687
00:40:20,682 --> 00:40:23,639
I don't know what the field
will look like after Labor Day.
688
00:40:23,813 --> 00:40:26,686
It'll be shaken up,
but right now the math's tough.
689
00:40:26,860 --> 00:40:29,734
And I know you all think he's
a punch line, and I know why.
690
00:40:29,908 --> 00:40:31,783
But I disagree.
691
00:40:31,953 --> 00:40:34,708
They're sure running
the right guy against us.
692
00:40:48,067 --> 00:40:50,608
Am I the only one who thinks
a giant sumo wrestler...
693
00:40:50,781 --> 00:40:53,488
...and a hockey goal
might get the job done?
694
00:40:58,504 --> 00:41:02,719
I don't know. I'm open to new ideas.
695
00:41:03,305 --> 00:41:09,552
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