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Previously on The West Wing:
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I always get asked,"What would
be a win in the debates?"
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If we don't get elected,
I promise you, President Ritchie...
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...is gonna have a lot less
sympathy for your agenda.
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You're what my friends call
a superior son of a bitch.
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- And you can't be trusted.
- Wait till the debates.
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- Election's in six weeks, Mr. President.
- Where are we in the vote?
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- We're slipping a little bit, sir.
- Are you taking this personally?
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We should have a great debate, Rob.
We owe it to everyone.
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I know how Ritchie
will win the election.
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Affirmative action and quotas
are about two different things.
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Affirmative action provides opportunities
people might not otherwise get.
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You talk about providing opportunity,
but support racial profiling.
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- I don't support racial profiling.
- Your nominee for attorney general did.
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- Can you tell us why you nominated him?
- Why?
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- Yes.
- Because bite me, that's why.
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- It's a legitimate question.
- It's been almost four years, Sam.
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- How long you wanna say"Told you so"?
- He wasn't saying"I told you so," sir.
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- We need an answer on Rooker.
- What's wrong with"bite me"?
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- I think we'd lose.
- Not in New Jersey.
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"It's never been shown
profiling works. I'm against it."
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- That answer's simple.
- We can make it complicated.
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A lot of people in...
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- Do you mind if I...?
- No.
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She was talking to me, Dexter.
What?
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Lots of people in law enforcement
believe it helps them do a better job.
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- Not everyone's against it.
- I'm against it.
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So are the voters, but I think what...
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- How you doing there, Joey? Kippy?
- Kenny.
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I think, Mr. President, that what
Congresswoman Wyatt was saying is...
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...if we can figure out a way to make
this answer about the drug war...
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...we can talk about successes.
- That what you were saying?
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- Yes.
- Ritchie will bring back the fact...
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...you don't know your position on it.
- I do know.
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We're losing the question.
It's,"What was the story with Rooker?"
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We gave him support until it was clear
an increasingly divided Congress...
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...would shoot down our nominee.
- We withdrew the nomination.
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Why not blow past the nomination fight
and give an unambiguous statement...
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...in support of law enforcement.
No one's for fairer law enforcement.
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- That won't be the question.
- Why not just say we screwed up?
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"Mr. Rooker is a devoted crime-fighter.
We had our differences.
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- But on this, all Americans can agree..."
- Excuse me.
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- Were you doing me just then?
- I was offering an answer...
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- You were doing me.
- I may have slipped into it.
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Anybody else do a pretty good Bartlet?
It's talent night here at debate camp.
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- Anybody wanna do a little skit?
- No, sir.
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Apparently eight
Israeli Thunder fighters...
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...also known as American-made
Boeing F-15E Strike Eagles...
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...have hit two terrorist bases
in the north and south of Qumar.
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While no Qumari government personnel
or institutions were destroyed...
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...Qumar, of course, considers an attack
on its soil to be an act of war.
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So we are, as always,
one bad bottle of tequila...
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...away from all-out war in West Asia.
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Would you like to take this one
or shall I?
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Why don't you get this one,
I'll get the next one.
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- Okay.
- We've got a secure room.
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I agreed to be locked up with you for
48 hours. How much time do I have left?
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Forty-seven hours, 41 minutes.
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Hutchinson and Berryhill are hooked in,
along with Nancy and Fitzwallace...
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...and we're still getting Peter.
- Defense Condition 3...
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...for the bases in Qumar is what?
- Mike.
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It deploys the Independence to the Gulf.
They've got 75 aircraft.
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- What's happening on the ground?
- AC Striker recon says 30,000 troops...
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...are massing at the Syrian border.
- That was fast.
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- We're not there.
- We're getting MILSAT confirmation.
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Ten-hut.
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You have Secretaries Hutchinson
and Berryhill, Director Kato...
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...Chairman Fitzwallace and Dr. McNally.
- All right.
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Well, we've got ourselves
a Marx Brothers' movie.
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Sir, it's Ken. On your order
we'll put CTU on high alert.
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You have the order.
Oh, Fitz? How you doing?
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Fine, thank you, sir, and you?
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Well, we've made camp
in North Carolina for prep...
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...so I've been thinking about
killing myself. Let me ask you.
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Besides Qumar, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah...
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...they've all got
short- And medium-range missiles.
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If Israel feels threatened by them,
what happens?
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-They launch a pre-emptive strike.
- But before that...
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...Qumar shows its teeth, right?
Yeah, so what happens then?
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They'll want something in exchange
for standing down.
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For the moment they haven't stood up.
But in the meantime...
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...let's think of something to give them.
- We should do that in the meantime?
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We should think of something
to give them?
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Can we not fight
in front of the Joint Chiefs?
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It just scares the hell out of them.
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- Yes.
- Would you put our bases in Qumar...
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...at Defense Condition 3
and put the U.S. military at DEFCON-4.
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-Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
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Andy? Couple of things.
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I need you to look at a couple
of answers on defense readiness.
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I need concrete examples of waste
in Pentagon procurement.
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We need two more members
of the IRC for post-spin.
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Fill out this marriage license and
paperwork for a joint checking account.
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And review the 60-second answer
on Rwanda.
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Okay. Okay. Okay.
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Under no circumstances.
And, sure.
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By my count, you said"Under no
circumstances" to the IRC post-spin...
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I said"under no circumstances"
to marrying you again.
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- May I ask why?
- I have the experience of having done it.
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- Well...
- I have to get to the things you gave me.
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A person's running for president.
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- Hey.
- Hey. That was good, Sam.
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- Stay up in his face, don't back off.
- You wanna shoot for two minutes?
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- Yeah.
- He's right, don't back off.
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- What's up with Andy?
- Nothing.
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I think you're wrong
and you're getting back together.
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- We're not.
- But you want to.
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- Yes.
- I think... Wait, what?
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See, sometimes if I slam on the brakes
you just run right past.
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Fill us in on everything so far
between the two of you.
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Yeah. That's what's
gonna happen right now.
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- If you do...
- You gonna stay up in his face?
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- Did you hear me say I would?
- No.
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Well, I will.
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Listen, let me tell you something.
What I said wasn't personal.
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- Who said it was?
- He did.
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He said it's been years, when will I
stop saying"I told you so"...
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...and that wasn't... I was...
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Let's say we were new, we made
mistakes. We'd just gotten to the...
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We weren't even in the White House
when we heard Rooker...
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- It was, like, January 5th.
- It was the 15th.
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It was January 15th.
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-How do you remember?
-I just do.
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Cornell Rooker's gonna be
the attorney general.
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He's on the phone
with the governor right now.
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- We're settled on that?
- Yes. It's Cornell Rooker...
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...if he's on the phone saying yes.
If he's saying no, it'll be somebody else.
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- Well analyzed.
- I thought there'd be...
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...more conversations about
the conservative tendencies.
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- Like privacy?
- Yeah.
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He's a Democrat with a record
the right wing can't complain about.
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- Josh, I'm looking for Donna.
- Donna's at the White House.
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- She's at the White House?
- Yes.
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- The old tenants are there.
- Her predecessor's taking her out.
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The assistant to Mack McConnell,
assistant to the Deputy C.O.S.
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Nobody did that with me.
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- Anybody do that with you?
- He's who Judiciary calls...
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...when they wanna put a stamp on,
and has a record conservatives like.
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Our opponent had a record conservatives
can't complain about, but he lost.
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- Excuse me, Mr. Ziegler?
- Yeah?
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Congresswoman Wyatt is here in person
and she's asking to see you.
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Yeah.
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Congresswoman Wyatt
is also Mrs. Ziegler. Just...
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- I'll be right out.
- Yes, sir.
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- You think we'll get hit from the left?
- I do. Look...
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- He gets a honeymoon.
- You're missing my point.
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- What?
- I think he'll be confirmed.
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We might even get
the honeymoon from the left.
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- But?
- I'm not sure he's the right guy.
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We got Rooker.
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- Donna?
- Yeah.
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Jeff Johnson. Come on back.
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This was incredibly nice of you.
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The guy before did it for me. Maybe you
will do it for someone else in four years.
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- Eight years.
- Whatever.
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- Is this where I'll be working?
- Who knows.
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The White House re-invents itself every
administration. It's never the same.
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There are things that won't be
in your briefing. Wanna hear them?
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- Sure.
- Never wear your badge off-campus.
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It's like wearing a bull's-eye. Don't let
your kids get mail out of the mailbox.
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You don't know what separatist
sent you mail.
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- I don't have kids.
- Good.
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There are days you'll need
to be here at 8...
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...and not go home till 6 or 7.
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What else?
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The iodine tablets, some people
take them, some don't.
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I did, but you can ask your doctor.
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What's the iodine for?
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It protects your thyroid
from the radiation.
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- Why is there radiation?
- There's an XW-9 warhead...
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...in a silo 93 feet below
the Eisenhower Putting Green.
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They say it's not enough radiation to
hurt you, but you wanna take chances...
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...with something like that?
- Really. Wow. God, no.
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Listen, before I forget,
I've gotta hit you up for a favor.
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My girlfriend's a stringer for a
teen magazine, it's called Twenty-one.
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With all the young people coming in,
they wanna do a story, and...
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...with the way you look... Any chance
she could get a 10-minute phoner?
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No problem, you can
give her the number.
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You ready for lunch?
Where to?
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- You tell me. I don't know anything.
- Okay.
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- Everything okay?
- I couldn't get you on your phone...
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...and I was on the tenth floor.
They need another sample.
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- Why?
- There was a blackout in Alexandria...
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...and the incubator
was without power for 45 minutes.
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We maybe talk about this over here?
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- A blackout in Alexandria?
- It's a cab ride.
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- You're in, you're out, no sweat.
- No, it's not no sweat.
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In fact, it's a little bit gruesome.
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- It's gruesome?
- It's something.
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You get off on the fourth floor,
which is clearly marked...
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...for all the other elevator passengers
to read that it's the fertility clinic.
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You try to show with body language
that it's not you, and that's impossible.
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An 84-year-old Welsh nurse hands you
a paper bag with a cup and a video...
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...and points the way toward a room.
I won't even tell you the name.
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- What's the name?
- It's not a good out-loud word.
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You take the longest walk of your life
back to the Welsh nurse...
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...who takes the cup out of the bag
and says,"Very nice."
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I need you to do this now.
There is a timing thing.
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Can it wait until next week because...?
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It's January 15th, Andy.
I can't have a baby today.
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He's getting sworn in in five days.
I'm not saying never. Can we...
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...wait five days?
- Sure.
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How's it going?
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Rooker's gonna be the AG.
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Mr. Ziegler!
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- Yeah?
- Sorry for shouting. Joey's ready.
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- I'm sorry?
- Electoral math.
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When do you suppose Georgia
got so far out of reach?
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- Was it because we burned it down?
- I was gonna say.
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Okay, let's start.
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I'm taking Ohio out of the red
and putting it back in play.
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- How much money to win there?
- A lot more than we have there.
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We're on the air in 18 of the top 25.
There's no new money to spend on this...
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I'm gonna stop you there.
Joey, I can't go to him with it.
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- Let me go to him with it. Let Bruno.
- No, I'm with Toby.
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You don't know how the president
feels about his home state.
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He's a New Hampshire Bartlet.
It's been home for centuries.
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He's a Democrat elected
to the statehouse with close to 60%.
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The fact the state's in play
is embarrassing for him.
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He doesn't wanna campaign there,
because that's embarrassing too, but...
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I'm trying to tell you
it's not in play anymore.
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If you asked the president...
224
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...which he'd rather win,
New Hampshire or the election...
225
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...he'd have to think before answering.
Put a pin in it. We'll come back.
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President Bartlet,
the next question 's to you.
227
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Ritchie contends there's a crisis
in the American family.
228
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That parents aren't
spending time with kids.
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- We're trying this again, sorry.
- Yeah.
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And that your solution is essentially
to have government raise children.
231
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Well, that's an extraordinary and
unsurprisingly dumb interpretation...
232
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...of what my administration
is trying to accomplish.
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It's hard enough to raise kids
with help from Family Leave...
234
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...subsidized daycare, preschool.
We need more, not less.
235
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The government can't raise kids,
Mr. President, parents have to.
236
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I have three grown daughters. You
wanna tell me how to raise my family?
237
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You comfortable with that? You wanna
tell other fathers and mothers...
238
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...what they're doing wrong?
I didn't think so.
239
00:14:40,539 --> 00:14:43,905
Let's stick to what government can do,
which is collect money...
240
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...and stop wasting time
by sentimentalizing families.
241
00:14:46,998 --> 00:14:48,657
That's not good, sir.
242
00:14:48,832 --> 00:14:52,873
We lost every stay-at-home-mom vote
and their husbands who are henpecked.
243
00:14:53,041 --> 00:14:56,822
- Who are you now?
- I like the aggressive answer, it's right.
244
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We're letting Ritchie put him
on the opposite side of values.
245
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The question was,
"What do I have against families?"
246
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And the answer is
"I have nothing against them at all."
247
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We have to put him
on the right side of this.
248
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He is on the right side of this.
We need help with the answer.
249
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You're asking me to do that
which I don't wanna do.
250
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- Yes.
- Okay.
251
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I have a press briefing.
252
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Good afternoon.
253
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Today is January 22nd.
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Let me brief you on the president's
morning schedule. He started with...
255
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- How's that?
- Good.
256
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- You don't care.
- No.
257
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- I've got boxes to unload.
- I'm gonna stay here and practice.
258
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"No, David, the president
was very clear about that."
259
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"Mark, then Katie."
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Mark, Katie, Jessie, Phil, Steve,
Betsy, Julie, Julie, Julia...
261
00:16:00,929 --> 00:16:04,461
...Kevin, Paul, Tom, Sondra, Suzanne...
262
00:16:04,638 --> 00:16:07,008
...Mike, Danny...
263
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...Elizabeth.
264
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Eighteenth seat. Eighteen you can vote.
265
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Vote sounds like moat,
which is a trench. Trent.
266
00:16:15,348 --> 00:16:17,339
- Excuse me, C.J.?
- Yeah.
267
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Bill Stark, I'm with Kingspeak.
268
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We're a magazine that reaches over
600,000 Christian evangelicals.
269
00:16:23,392 --> 00:16:26,971
- I heard your first briefing went well.
- I can do better.
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I wanted to tell you
that on December 10th...
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...all 600,000 will be praying for you.
272
00:16:32,727 --> 00:16:35,346
- Really?
- That's right.
273
00:16:35,519 --> 00:16:38,268
- I don't understand.
- Well, once a year...
274
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...we identify the 365
most influential people in media...
275
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...and we assign each of them
a calendar day and we pray for them.
276
00:16:51,730 --> 00:16:56,139
I really don't know what to say
in response to that sort of kindness.
277
00:16:56,314 --> 00:17:00,807
Well, maybe the administration will
reconsider their position on some issues.
278
00:17:00,982 --> 00:17:02,772
Like what?
279
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School prayer?
280
00:17:05,608 --> 00:17:09,353
- The president's made up his mind.
- Millions of Americans want it.
281
00:17:09,525 --> 00:17:13,223
- There are a lot of votes there.
- We got as many as we needed for now.
282
00:17:14,068 --> 00:17:17,315
- Just wanted to say hi.
- I'll see you around.
283
00:17:18,277 --> 00:17:21,311
By the way, just so you don't think
we disagree on everything...
284
00:17:21,486 --> 00:17:23,773
...I think Cornell Rooker is terrific.
- Really?
285
00:17:23,945 --> 00:17:26,398
We served on the city council together.
286
00:17:26,570 --> 00:17:31,228
First African-American man I've ever
heard make sense on racial profiling.
287
00:17:36,530 --> 00:17:37,858
Look at this.
288
00:17:38,031 --> 00:17:40,863
Leonardo da Vinci.
Madonna and Child With a Pomegranate.
289
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It's nice.
290
00:17:43,073 --> 00:17:46,984
- Here's Botticelli. Adoration of the Magi.
- What are we doing right now?
291
00:17:47,157 --> 00:17:49,646
Choosing pictures
from the National Gallery.
292
00:17:49,824 --> 00:17:53,653
- They'll loan stuff?
- Anything in the Gallery or Smithsonian.
293
00:17:53,825 --> 00:17:56,314
Really? I want Apollo 11.
294
00:17:56,492 --> 00:17:58,567
- You can't have that.
- Then don't bother me.
295
00:17:58,743 --> 00:18:03,033
I'm meeting with the leadership.
I'm signing six executive orders I don't...
296
00:18:04,452 --> 00:18:07,155
- Mr. President.
- God, I thought that was a closet.
297
00:18:07,453 --> 00:18:12,028
- That's my office.
- The room's got four doors, it's huge.
298
00:18:12,287 --> 00:18:15,700
- I wanna run through these orders.
- Do you understand them?
299
00:18:15,871 --> 00:18:18,325
- Not quite yet.
- C.J., what are you doing?
300
00:18:18,663 --> 00:18:21,152
I'm sorry, sir. I just wanted to see Leo.
301
00:18:21,330 --> 00:18:23,950
- He's standing right there.
- Yeah.
302
00:18:24,123 --> 00:18:28,069
Would you get your ass in here?
Could everyone stop acting strange?
303
00:18:28,248 --> 00:18:30,074
What's up?
304
00:18:31,457 --> 00:18:35,119
A reporter for a conservative
Christian magazine...
305
00:18:35,291 --> 00:18:38,409
...mentioned that he served
on a city council with Rooker...
306
00:18:38,584 --> 00:18:41,119
...which is true, it was in Miami.
- Yeah.
307
00:18:41,292 --> 00:18:44,457
The reporter said he liked
Rooker's position on racial profiling.
308
00:18:44,626 --> 00:18:48,324
- That's strange.
- No, it's not. We found the transcript.
309
00:18:48,502 --> 00:18:52,082
"I'm not saying it should be active policy
but there is no question that...
310
00:18:52,253 --> 00:18:56,117
...in certain situations,
racial profiling can be helpful to law..."
311
00:18:56,295 --> 00:18:58,582
- Law enforcement?
- Yeah.
312
00:18:59,671 --> 00:19:02,539
- How do you think it's going so far?
- We'll get into it.
313
00:19:04,505 --> 00:19:05,879
Yes.
314
00:19:10,881 --> 00:19:13,963
And down the stretch, here she comes.
Here comes Gardner.
315
00:19:14,132 --> 00:19:16,040
She's gonna take the yellow jersey...
316
00:19:16,216 --> 00:19:19,582
...past the picturesque farms
and hillsides of the Champs d' Leamps...
317
00:19:19,758 --> 00:19:23,373
...from the white cliffs of Dover.
Where do the Americans find this spirit?
318
00:19:23,550 --> 00:19:26,086
Her cell phone's ringing now.
Probably be a sponsor.
319
00:19:26,259 --> 00:19:28,131
- Hello.
- It's Josh.
320
00:19:28,301 --> 00:19:29,629
Hello.
321
00:19:29,802 --> 00:19:32,634
- You're breathing very hard.
-I'm riding.
322
00:19:32,802 --> 00:19:34,674
- Then what are you doing?
-Later?
323
00:19:34,844 --> 00:19:37,594
I'm having dinner with Peter Harlow.
324
00:19:37,761 --> 00:19:39,302
How's Peter's wife?
325
00:19:40,178 --> 00:19:43,509
- They're separated.
-Yes, I know.
326
00:19:43,763 --> 00:19:46,298
- What do you need?
- How do we stand strong...
327
00:19:46,471 --> 00:19:48,546
...for the modern family
with all its quirks...
328
00:19:48,722 --> 00:19:52,716
...and not seem like we're
dissing everyone born before 1962?
329
00:19:52,889 --> 00:19:54,715
- By doing it.
-Can I call you back?
330
00:19:54,890 --> 00:19:57,213
-You'll think about it?
- Yeah.
331
00:19:57,390 --> 00:19:58,966
Thank you.
332
00:20:05,433 --> 00:20:07,092
- You're going to this meeting?
- Yes.
333
00:20:07,267 --> 00:20:11,475
- WW-160. You been able to find it?
- I don't know where I am right now.
334
00:20:11,643 --> 00:20:15,305
- I'm looking on this side again.
- You mind if I talk to you while we walk?
335
00:20:15,477 --> 00:20:19,423
Well, we may as well get used to having
meetings in corridors from now on.
336
00:20:19,603 --> 00:20:22,352
I now know why they made
the Oval Office a special shape.
337
00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:27,308
Six new editorials.
NAACP, the Urban League, La Raza...
338
00:20:27,479 --> 00:20:29,885
NAACP doesn't wanna see
a black attorney general?
339
00:20:30,063 --> 00:20:32,552
I think they do, but they also stand
for the ones...
340
00:20:32,730 --> 00:20:35,931
...who get pulled over
for having too nice a car.
341
00:20:36,272 --> 00:20:39,224
- Intergovernmental's also...
- I'm talking to Intergovernmental.
342
00:20:39,398 --> 00:20:42,266
Does anybody know where WW-160 is?
343
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:47,431
Hi, I'm Josh Lyman, you all work for me.
Does anybody know where WW-160 is?
344
00:20:47,608 --> 00:20:49,480
I haven't seen it.
345
00:20:49,650 --> 00:20:53,265
That one hasn't seen it.
She's keeping an eye out, though.
346
00:20:53,817 --> 00:20:56,141
I don't think he's gonna be confirmed.
347
00:20:56,318 --> 00:20:59,684
I think the first thing is we're gonna
lose a confirmation battle...
348
00:20:59,860 --> 00:21:04,068
...spend the next four years
with two outs and a full count.
349
00:21:04,236 --> 00:21:08,728
If we pull him out now, it's a story for a
day until we announce the next guy.
350
00:21:08,904 --> 00:21:12,684
- If we wait a week...
- This is the guy. This is the story.
351
00:21:12,863 --> 00:21:14,486
Good.
352
00:21:15,155 --> 00:21:17,644
Because you know why?
Hubris always wins in the end.
353
00:21:17,822 --> 00:21:20,109
The Greeks taught us that.
354
00:21:22,031 --> 00:21:25,314
- We were looking for West Wing 160.
- I think it's in the Kremlin.
355
00:21:25,490 --> 00:21:29,319
- Let's just meet here.
- Leo, this is a strong, deserving nominee.
356
00:21:29,491 --> 00:21:31,980
Sam, it's not hubris.
He should be attorney general.
357
00:21:32,158 --> 00:21:34,445
But he won't be,
so let's take it from there.
358
00:21:34,617 --> 00:21:38,232
- The president doesn't wanna give it up.
- Let's line up people for I.P.
359
00:21:38,409 --> 00:21:41,076
"Rooker has an exceptional record
as a U.S. attorney.
360
00:21:41,243 --> 00:21:43,696
A leader in fighting
employment discrimination.
361
00:21:43,868 --> 00:21:47,069
Was college chair of..."
"He's tough on crime, fair on justice."
362
00:21:47,244 --> 00:21:50,859
That's the line, say that.
Do not say that. What the hell is that?
363
00:21:51,036 --> 00:21:54,367
"He's tough on crime, fair on justice,"
sings a song, has a mustache?
364
00:21:54,537 --> 00:21:56,991
- What's that supposed to...?
- Toby's gone to the zoo.
365
00:21:57,163 --> 00:21:59,912
We may have killed these two guys
with the inauguration.
366
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:04,026
I beseech you. Let me take a pass at
some remarks the president can make...
367
00:22:04,206 --> 00:22:08,034
...withdrawing the nomination. We're
gonna do it anyway, let's do it now.
368
00:22:08,206 --> 00:22:11,786
"Take a thorough look at
Cornell Rooker's record, you'll see...
369
00:22:11,957 --> 00:22:14,114
...he's fought for justice
his entire career."
370
00:22:14,291 --> 00:22:18,451
"If you look at his record, he's fought
for justice his entire career."
371
00:22:18,625 --> 00:22:20,497
I wanna read that quote tomorrow.
372
00:22:20,917 --> 00:22:22,707
- Anything else?
- No.
373
00:22:22,876 --> 00:22:24,203
Thank you.
374
00:22:25,543 --> 00:22:28,790
Hey. I don't think there is a WW-160.
375
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,579
Yeah, hey. How do you do?
376
00:22:31,752 --> 00:22:33,245
- What?
- Guess what I have here.
377
00:22:33,419 --> 00:22:37,117
It's a copy of Twenty-one magazine.
It's for Generation Now.
378
00:22:37,295 --> 00:22:39,369
Is my thing in there?
379
00:22:39,796 --> 00:22:41,123
What?
380
00:22:41,296 --> 00:22:45,242
"In sleek Selia Yang slacks
and DKNY button-down...
381
00:22:45,422 --> 00:22:47,496
...she's not afraid to bring a note of:
382
00:22:47,672 --> 00:22:49,580
'Let's drink after work' to the office."
383
00:22:49,756 --> 00:22:51,912
That's untrue,
but I do like the sound of it.
384
00:22:52,090 --> 00:22:56,748
"But much as we love her style,
we worry about her inexperience...
385
00:22:56,924 --> 00:23:00,753
...and Bambi-esque naïveté.
'There's so much to learn, ' says Moss.
386
00:23:00,925 --> 00:23:04,456
'I didn't even know there was
a nuclear missile silo under this place. '"
387
00:23:05,967 --> 00:23:09,547
- Who told you that?
- Jeff, when I met him for lunch.
388
00:23:10,301 --> 00:23:13,881
Let me take a guess at something.
Jeff set you up with the reporter, right?
389
00:23:14,052 --> 00:23:16,173
- His girlfriend.
- You didn't bring this up?
390
00:23:16,344 --> 00:23:18,915
The girlfriend led you there?
391
00:23:20,387 --> 00:23:23,551
- Bambi-esque?
- As does pertain to Bambi.
392
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,762
There's a reason why we keep these
missile silos in the middle of nowhere.
393
00:23:27,930 --> 00:23:30,762
It's because they're working
with some nasty materials.
394
00:23:30,930 --> 00:23:34,379
Also, there's not much point in
keeping nuclear secrets from China...
395
00:23:34,556 --> 00:23:37,092
...when all they have to do
is take the free tour.
396
00:23:37,265 --> 00:23:41,010
Did it sound right when he said it?
What'd you think, we go to war...
397
00:23:41,182 --> 00:23:44,714
...and Hercules rockets
come flying out of the Rose Garden?
398
00:23:44,891 --> 00:23:47,178
- The Eisenhower Putting Green.
- Oh, my God!
399
00:23:47,350 --> 00:23:48,677
I'm too stupid to live!
400
00:23:48,850 --> 00:23:51,304
This is like when I was
in Li'I Abner in 8th grade...
401
00:23:51,476 --> 00:23:55,091
...and rehearsals are going fine, and
suddenly there's sets and costumes...
402
00:23:55,268 --> 00:23:57,306
...and everyone's tripping
over themselves.
403
00:23:57,477 --> 00:24:00,310
You walked into the building
and got freaked by the lights.
404
00:24:00,477 --> 00:24:02,931
I walked in and, you know,
something else happened.
405
00:24:03,103 --> 00:24:06,018
- We can't all be you.
- You can all try a little harder to be.
406
00:24:06,187 --> 00:24:08,474
For sure I'm not taking
the iodine tablets.
407
00:24:09,687 --> 00:24:12,472
I should be sitting at my desk.
Do I have a desk yet?
408
00:24:12,646 --> 00:24:14,436
- No.
- Okay.
409
00:24:14,605 --> 00:24:16,810
Then I'll just walk around some more.
410
00:24:16,981 --> 00:24:19,730
See if I can get into a pickup meeting.
411
00:24:19,898 --> 00:24:21,355
- Toby?
- Yeah?
412
00:24:21,523 --> 00:24:23,395
- You going to dinner?
- Yeah.
413
00:24:25,065 --> 00:24:27,471
I'm a bad friend.
I should've been there for you.
414
00:24:27,649 --> 00:24:30,932
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- Josh and Sam talked to me.
415
00:24:31,108 --> 00:24:34,107
I'm onboard with Team Toby.
416
00:24:34,317 --> 00:24:37,351
See, I lent voice to thought
and that was my mistake.
417
00:24:37,526 --> 00:24:40,097
If you wanna marry Andy,
then damn it, so do I.
418
00:24:40,277 --> 00:24:42,979
- Want that to happen for you.
- I get it.
419
00:24:43,152 --> 00:24:47,063
- Do you? Because this is about love.
- I think you have a different motivation.
420
00:24:47,236 --> 00:24:49,227
- Laughs?
- Yes.
421
00:24:49,403 --> 00:24:54,310
Sure, but also as much love really
as either one of us are comfortable with.
422
00:24:54,488 --> 00:24:58,067
Well, let me start here:
Have you asked her?
423
00:24:58,238 --> 00:25:01,153
- Yes.
- And she said no?
424
00:25:01,989 --> 00:25:04,525
This is excruciating.
425
00:25:05,156 --> 00:25:09,400
You'll give me your white blood cells.
Not all of them, but as many as I want.
426
00:25:09,615 --> 00:25:12,187
- Why?
- Because you love me.
427
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,779
No, what's the matter
with your white blood cells?
428
00:25:17,950 --> 00:25:21,198
Nothing. It's my immune system.
429
00:25:21,368 --> 00:25:25,113
It's not recognizing that a pregnancy
isn't something it's supposed to attack.
430
00:25:25,285 --> 00:25:29,149
So they draw blood from you
like a rabid dog...
431
00:25:29,327 --> 00:25:31,117
...clean it, thank goodness...
432
00:25:31,286 --> 00:25:34,699
...and give me injections of your
blood cells to build up tolerance.
433
00:25:35,787 --> 00:25:39,153
You know how you're always saying
you wish people were more like you?
434
00:25:40,788 --> 00:25:45,031
- The guy's had a lot of success.
- It sounds like something we should try.
435
00:25:46,164 --> 00:25:50,656
But let me ask you something...
And bear in mind that I'm happy.
436
00:25:50,831 --> 00:25:55,952
I'm eager to go to as many doctors
as there are...
437
00:25:58,208 --> 00:26:00,282
...but should we talk about
a stop date?
438
00:26:04,334 --> 00:26:07,747
- You mean, talk about adoption?
- Yeah, we can talk about adopting.
439
00:26:07,918 --> 00:26:10,407
- You meant a"stop date" stop date.
- I meant adopting.
440
00:26:10,585 --> 00:26:14,034
I meant surrogacy.
And, yes, I love kids.
441
00:26:14,211 --> 00:26:16,664
And I want them
and I don't have to have them.
442
00:26:16,836 --> 00:26:18,164
I want them.
443
00:26:20,587 --> 00:26:22,459
And I'm there.
444
00:26:29,922 --> 00:26:31,249
Okay.
445
00:26:37,257 --> 00:26:39,544
- You're getting killed on Rooker.
- No kidding.
446
00:26:43,258 --> 00:26:44,585
- Hey, C.J.
- Is he in there?
447
00:26:44,758 --> 00:26:48,290
- Yeah. Is anything wrong?
- No.
448
00:26:51,510 --> 00:26:55,006
- There's a problem.
- I just said a stupid thing.
449
00:26:56,094 --> 00:26:58,049
What's the problem?
450
00:26:59,303 --> 00:27:02,883
I did a one-on-one with Danny
Concanon a few days ago on Rooker.
451
00:27:03,678 --> 00:27:06,760
Did you say,"If you take a
look at Cornell Rooker's record"...
452
00:27:06,929 --> 00:27:08,636
Yes, as a matter of fact. He did.
453
00:27:08,804 --> 00:27:11,589
- Oh, man.
- A DUI got fixed in law school.
454
00:27:11,763 --> 00:27:14,003
He doesn't want to write about that
so much...
455
00:27:14,180 --> 00:27:16,302
...as about us being the
Capital Clampetts.
456
00:27:18,598 --> 00:27:22,758
- What was the stupid thing you said?
- It doesn't matter. Let's fix this.
457
00:27:47,895 --> 00:27:50,598
- What was that?
- It's an old camp song.
458
00:27:52,563 --> 00:27:55,134
- What's it mean?
-"Let us be merry, therefore...
459
00:27:55,438 --> 00:27:59,136
...while we are young men.
After the joys of youth...
460
00:27:59,314 --> 00:28:01,435
...after the pains of old age...
461
00:28:01,606 --> 00:28:04,142
...the ground will have us."
462
00:28:04,565 --> 00:28:06,307
True.
463
00:28:09,399 --> 00:28:11,307
How can I get you onboard with me?
464
00:28:11,483 --> 00:28:13,273
- New Hampshire?
- Yeah.
465
00:28:13,442 --> 00:28:16,013
- By coming out with me.
- On what?
466
00:28:16,192 --> 00:28:19,440
The president must spend more time in
congressional districts. We won't win.
467
00:28:19,609 --> 00:28:23,556
- Why would he spend time in districts...?
- To build Democratic momentum...
468
00:28:23,735 --> 00:28:26,271
...in the very places
we traditionally tank.
469
00:28:26,444 --> 00:28:29,063
We're running weak candidates
in these districts.
470
00:28:29,236 --> 00:28:31,725
The Tennessee 7th.
Horton Wilde in Orange County...
471
00:28:31,903 --> 00:28:36,111
...is in the hospital with a heart attack.
Who knows when he'll campaign again?
472
00:28:37,488 --> 00:28:41,317
I can't make a pitch about
putting resources in the right places...
473
00:28:41,489 --> 00:28:44,937
...and then advocate sending
the president to districts...
474
00:28:45,114 --> 00:28:48,362
...where the last Democrat won
by railing against Abraham Lincoln.
475
00:28:48,532 --> 00:28:50,439
That's a reasonable point.
476
00:28:50,615 --> 00:28:52,571
- Will you help me?
- Yeah.
477
00:28:55,741 --> 00:28:57,946
I have to say, you look good.
478
00:28:58,117 --> 00:28:59,491
Thank you.
479
00:28:59,659 --> 00:29:03,107
I don't remember you looking
this good. Is something different?
480
00:29:03,409 --> 00:29:07,356
I don't know, the autumnal equinox
is usually good to me.
481
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,566
I think that's your cell phone
that's been ringing.
482
00:29:11,661 --> 00:29:13,984
Yes, excuse me.
483
00:29:17,912 --> 00:29:20,117
- Hello?
-Hey.
484
00:29:20,538 --> 00:29:22,196
- Hello.
-You on your date?
485
00:29:22,371 --> 00:29:23,829
Well, I wouldn't call it that.
486
00:29:23,997 --> 00:29:27,612
You don't wanna let him know it's me
on the phone, it's too intimidating.
487
00:29:27,789 --> 00:29:30,159
It's like going out with Cher
and Sonny calls.
488
00:29:30,331 --> 00:29:32,038
- How can I help you?
- Any thoughts?
489
00:29:32,206 --> 00:29:35,122
Yes. Ritchie's right.
There's a family crisis in America.
490
00:29:35,290 --> 00:29:38,739
So a radical feminist is saying
women should stay home with the kids?
491
00:29:38,916 --> 00:29:41,701
First of all, I don 't think
I'm a radical anything.
492
00:29:41,875 --> 00:29:44,909
Second of all, who said women
should stay home? And third is...
493
00:29:45,084 --> 00:29:48,865
...the capitalist treadmill encourages
scheduling quality time on a Palm Pilot.
494
00:29:49,043 --> 00:29:51,117
That's not how they do it in Scandinavia.
495
00:29:51,293 --> 00:29:53,533
But everybody kills themselves
in Scandinavia.
496
00:29:54,294 --> 00:29:55,621
That's hard to deny.
497
00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:58,200
We must defend our accomplishments
on work and family...
498
00:29:58,378 --> 00:30:01,045
... many of which you pushed for,
and show that we get...
499
00:30:01,212 --> 00:30:04,578
...what working parents are
going through. Can you help us?
500
00:30:04,754 --> 00:30:06,164
- Yes.
- I'll call back.
501
00:30:06,338 --> 00:30:08,210
What would be a really bad time?
502
00:30:08,380 --> 00:30:10,501
Oh, really, anytime.
503
00:30:10,672 --> 00:30:12,746
Outstanding.
504
00:30:13,422 --> 00:30:14,750
Josh?
505
00:30:14,923 --> 00:30:17,708
- Yeah?
- Mr. Michael Gordon is here to see you.
506
00:30:17,882 --> 00:30:20,714
- Does he have an appointment?
- No, he's with the NSA.
507
00:30:20,882 --> 00:30:22,459
- NSA?
- Yeah.
508
00:30:22,633 --> 00:30:24,540
Send him in.
509
00:30:26,258 --> 00:30:28,664
Mr. Lyman. Michael Gordon.
510
00:30:28,842 --> 00:30:30,667
Donna says you're with the NSA.
511
00:30:30,842 --> 00:30:32,668
I'm not here to bug your office.
512
00:30:32,843 --> 00:30:35,130
Yeah, but you wouldn't tell me
if you were.
513
00:30:35,302 --> 00:30:37,707
- It's about Miss Moss.
- What's the trouble?
514
00:30:37,885 --> 00:30:40,505
Probably nothing, but a few days ago
a teen magazine...
515
00:30:40,678 --> 00:30:44,174
...published an interview with her.
- The old guys were playing a joke.
516
00:30:44,345 --> 00:30:48,802
It's not a good idea for a staffer to say
there's a missile in the capital.
517
00:30:48,971 --> 00:30:51,638
She hit a little close to home
for our comfort.
518
00:30:51,805 --> 00:30:54,590
- What do you mean?
- Obviously I can't elaborate.
519
00:30:55,972 --> 00:30:59,220
- She hit a little close to home?
- Yeah.
520
00:31:01,348 --> 00:31:03,802
- You saying...?
- You don't have code-word clearance.
521
00:31:03,974 --> 00:31:06,379
- We need to stay professional.
- Yeah.
522
00:31:06,808 --> 00:31:09,261
How long has she been working for you?
523
00:31:10,308 --> 00:31:12,595
Listen, this...
524
00:31:12,767 --> 00:31:15,801
This is silly, she was just duped.
It was a joke.
525
00:31:15,976 --> 00:31:19,093
- How long has she worked for you?
- This is a misunderstanding.
526
00:31:19,268 --> 00:31:21,473
I would vouch for Donna with my life.
527
00:31:21,644 --> 00:31:24,180
She doesn't know about missiles.
She's from Wisconsin.
528
00:31:24,352 --> 00:31:27,600
I'm simply asking
how long she's been working for you.
529
00:31:31,395 --> 00:31:33,719
No. Look, I'm sorry.
530
00:31:34,229 --> 00:31:37,678
I'm sure your intentions are good...
531
00:31:38,563 --> 00:31:40,969
...and this is just routine...
532
00:31:41,147 --> 00:31:43,719
...but I'd like to have her
talk to somebody.
533
00:31:44,356 --> 00:31:46,726
- A lawyer?
- Yeah.
534
00:31:47,565 --> 00:31:51,014
Until this is straightened out,
I'll need to revoke her credentials.
535
00:31:51,358 --> 00:31:53,514
She's my assistant. For how long?
536
00:31:53,691 --> 00:31:55,729
As long as it takes.
537
00:31:57,150 --> 00:31:59,817
- All right.
- Thank you.
538
00:32:11,403 --> 00:32:13,359
Donna.
539
00:32:14,654 --> 00:32:16,977
- What was that?
- You gotta go home.
540
00:32:17,654 --> 00:32:19,859
- Why?
- That idiot interview you did...
541
00:32:20,030 --> 00:32:22,779
...popped a red flag.
They're revoking your credentials...
542
00:32:22,947 --> 00:32:24,938
...till it's straightened out.
543
00:32:26,239 --> 00:32:27,566
I don't believe it.
544
00:32:27,906 --> 00:32:30,063
I'm talking to someone
in Cochran's office.
545
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,946
What am I supposed to do?
546
00:32:32,407 --> 00:32:34,612
Take a few days off.
Go home. Go to the beach.
547
00:32:34,782 --> 00:32:37,106
- It's February 2nd.
- I wouldn't go to the beach.
548
00:32:37,783 --> 00:32:41,149
- You've got a meeting in Leo's office.
- Don't worry about this.
549
00:32:41,325 --> 00:32:43,565
I'm gonna fix this.
550
00:32:48,118 --> 00:32:52,195
The president's not gonna be available
for a little bit. Fitzwallace just got here.
551
00:32:52,369 --> 00:32:54,656
Any idea what's going on?
552
00:32:55,286 --> 00:32:56,779
All right, listen up.
553
00:32:58,495 --> 00:33:02,655
We still have an open question on family.
We have an open question on Rooker...
554
00:33:02,829 --> 00:33:06,658
...missile defense and vouchers. We start
dress rehearsals tomorrow at 3.
555
00:33:06,830 --> 00:33:10,659
Let's split up in our groups.
I really want vouchers by 10...
556
00:33:10,831 --> 00:33:12,205
...missile defense by 11.
557
00:33:12,373 --> 00:33:14,447
Anyone not doing anything
at midnight...
558
00:33:14,623 --> 00:33:17,290
...Team Toby, my cabin.
559
00:33:17,457 --> 00:33:20,409
- Good.
- Break's over.
560
00:33:26,667 --> 00:33:28,160
Ten-hut.
561
00:33:31,335 --> 00:33:33,207
- Thanks for coming down.
- Yes, sir.
562
00:33:33,377 --> 00:33:34,953
- What's going on?
- The Mastico...
563
00:33:35,127 --> 00:33:38,576
...a 200-foot Qumari cargo ship
is heading east...
564
00:33:38,753 --> 00:33:42,830
...in the Mediterranean toward Lebanon.
- Is it carrying Qumari arts and crafts?
565
00:33:43,004 --> 00:33:46,286
No, it's carrying 72 tons
of weapons and explosives...
566
00:33:46,463 --> 00:33:48,833
...including the
Multiple Launch Rocket System.
567
00:33:49,046 --> 00:33:54,498
This fires 12 warheads
with 644 M77 munitions.
568
00:33:54,672 --> 00:33:56,379
It does it in 60 seconds.
569
00:33:56,548 --> 00:34:00,293
The Global Positioning Device
on the MLRS is how we found the ship.
570
00:34:00,465 --> 00:34:02,752
This is the message
we've been waiting for.
571
00:34:02,924 --> 00:34:05,129
They turn around the ship
in exchange for what?
572
00:34:05,299 --> 00:34:08,049
Access to the High Altitude Area
Defense Program.
573
00:34:08,217 --> 00:34:13,337
That's just the most sophisticated
anti-ballistic missile system in history...
574
00:34:13,509 --> 00:34:14,919
...short of Star Wars.
575
00:34:15,093 --> 00:34:17,084
- What else?
- They're arming the Bahji, Leo.
576
00:34:17,260 --> 00:34:20,045
Two training camps
of which the Israelis just attacked.
577
00:34:20,219 --> 00:34:23,964
I've gotta turn around the boat. Tonight.
Tomorrow we'll worry about tomorrow.
578
00:34:24,136 --> 00:34:27,253
Or we can invite the sultan over
for a nice mixer.
579
00:34:27,429 --> 00:34:30,344
Punch, sack races, whatnot.
580
00:34:30,512 --> 00:34:32,587
Why are we playing games
with these people?
581
00:34:32,763 --> 00:34:37,089
They refuse to prosecute the Bahji.
They support them in a variety of ways.
582
00:34:37,264 --> 00:34:40,464
Why isn't that
the end of the conversation?
583
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:44,420
"We'll worry about tomorrow
tomorrow." We said that yesterday.
584
00:34:51,475 --> 00:34:53,845
- Fitz?
- I couldn't agree with Leo more.
585
00:34:54,017 --> 00:34:56,636
- What about Nancy?
- Yeah.
586
00:34:59,893 --> 00:35:01,849
What's available from the Sixth Fleet?
587
00:35:02,352 --> 00:35:06,844
One forward unit east of the Mastico.
The 26th Marine Expeditionary.
588
00:35:07,769 --> 00:35:09,097
Stop the boat.
589
00:35:09,270 --> 00:35:12,103
- Don't shoot it unless I tell you to.
- Yes, sir.
590
00:35:17,521 --> 00:35:20,010
This doesn't feel good, does it?
591
00:35:20,397 --> 00:35:22,269
It's quiet, you know? It's too quiet.
592
00:35:22,439 --> 00:35:24,098
- C.J.
- Yeah?
593
00:35:28,940 --> 00:35:32,104
The president has withdrawn
Rooker's name from nomination.
594
00:35:32,274 --> 00:35:34,941
- Well, at least it's behind us.
- Not quite.
595
00:35:35,525 --> 00:35:39,898
Our report card
for our first two weeks in office.
596
00:35:40,067 --> 00:35:43,931
The president's approval has gone from
61 º% º during the transition...
597
00:35:44,110 --> 00:35:48,602
...when I suppose there's nothing
to approve, to 49º% º once there was.
598
00:35:48,777 --> 00:35:51,101
Forty-seven percent see him
as a strong leader...
599
00:35:51,278 --> 00:35:53,434
...a result of bungling
the Rooker nomination.
600
00:35:53,611 --> 00:35:56,183
And African-American support...
601
00:35:56,362 --> 00:35:59,444
...which basically elected him,
has gone from 92 to 78.
602
00:35:59,613 --> 00:36:03,275
Finally, if the election were held today,
the president would be chairman...
603
00:36:03,447 --> 00:36:06,611
...of the economics department
at Phillips Andover Academy.
604
00:36:10,406 --> 00:36:13,274
Can anyone report anything good?
605
00:36:14,324 --> 00:36:17,405
Six hundred thousand evangelicals
are praying for me.
606
00:36:17,574 --> 00:36:21,355
- So we have that going for us.
- What the hell are you talking about?
607
00:36:21,533 --> 00:36:24,448
It's true. A guy gave me this card,
365 people in media.
608
00:36:24,617 --> 00:36:27,367
- Who are the others?
- I don't know, let's see.
609
00:36:27,534 --> 00:36:31,150
Hugh Hefner, Don lmus, Howard Stern.
All the late-night guys.
610
00:36:31,327 --> 00:36:33,650
This is...
One, two, three.
611
00:36:33,827 --> 00:36:36,494
This is the editorial board of
The New York Times.
612
00:36:36,661 --> 00:36:39,909
This isn't a good list. It's a list
of people who are going to hell.
613
00:36:40,203 --> 00:36:42,111
They aren't praying
because they like me.
614
00:36:42,287 --> 00:36:44,362
It's because I'm doomed
to eternal damnation.
615
00:36:44,538 --> 00:36:47,287
- If you weren't it'd be a waste of praying.
- You're on it too.
616
00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:49,860
- Can I see that?
- You can all leave.
617
00:36:50,039 --> 00:36:52,279
We're gonna do better for you, boss.
618
00:36:52,456 --> 00:36:54,945
- Do better for him.
- We will.
619
00:36:55,123 --> 00:36:56,913
We will.
620
00:37:02,541 --> 00:37:04,449
- Sam?
- Yeah?
621
00:37:04,625 --> 00:37:07,244
- Can you walk with me a second?
- Yeah.
622
00:37:08,751 --> 00:37:10,907
Well, you were right, I was wrong.
623
00:37:11,084 --> 00:37:14,367
More often than not it's gonna be
the other way around, so...
624
00:37:14,543 --> 00:37:17,079
- Thanks. I've got a weird problem.
- What?
625
00:37:17,252 --> 00:37:20,665
Remember Donna had lunch
with Mack's assistant a few weeks ago?
626
00:37:20,836 --> 00:37:24,285
He told her there's a missile silo
on the grounds.
627
00:37:24,462 --> 00:37:28,705
She repeated it to a magazine
and an NSA guy...
628
00:37:28,879 --> 00:37:33,004
...came to see me just now and he
said she struck a little close to home...
629
00:37:33,172 --> 00:37:37,629
...and they want to investigate. In the
meantime, they revoked her credentials.
630
00:37:38,006 --> 00:37:41,621
-"Struck too close to home"?
- It means somehow, she...
631
00:37:41,798 --> 00:37:45,959
There's actually some kind of weapons
system right here on the White House...
632
00:37:46,133 --> 00:37:48,373
...or intelligence gathering...
633
00:37:48,550 --> 00:37:50,340
Wait a minute.
634
00:37:51,217 --> 00:37:53,884
- This doesn't sound right.
- No.
635
00:38:06,886 --> 00:38:08,214
Hi.
636
00:38:08,970 --> 00:38:12,668
Hey.
Just hanging with my friend Michael.
637
00:38:12,846 --> 00:38:17,136
He works in the staff secretary's office.
Plus, he's got his own band.
638
00:38:17,305 --> 00:38:20,055
By the way, you know what
your name is for the next month?
639
00:38:20,222 --> 00:38:23,304
- It's gonna be Bambi, isn't it?
- Yeah, it's gonna be Bambi-ass.
640
00:38:23,473 --> 00:38:27,598
I'll call you Abner because you came
into the White House and didn't flinch.
641
00:38:32,808 --> 00:38:34,846
I'm making phone calls.
642
00:38:38,767 --> 00:38:40,308
-Yeah?
- How you doing?
643
00:38:40,476 --> 00:38:42,514
- I'm freezing.
-Where are you?
644
00:38:42,685 --> 00:38:45,470
- I'm at my front door.
- Well, go inside.
645
00:38:45,644 --> 00:38:48,559
- I can't, I'll lose you.
- You'll never lose me, Amy.
646
00:38:48,728 --> 00:38:51,395
- Please don't say that.
- What do you have?
647
00:38:51,853 --> 00:38:54,721
- I don't have anything.
- I don't believe you.
648
00:38:58,104 --> 00:39:00,676
I don't know what
you want me to say.
649
00:39:03,730 --> 00:39:05,887
I want women to have help
from the government.
650
00:39:06,064 --> 00:39:09,063
I want women to earn what men earn
and everyone to earn enough...
651
00:39:09,231 --> 00:39:11,602
...so everyone can choose right
for their family.
652
00:39:11,774 --> 00:39:15,720
And after that it's none of your business
who stays home and who goes to work.
653
00:39:16,024 --> 00:39:18,560
You don't know more about
raising a family than I do.
654
00:39:18,733 --> 00:39:22,644
That was it. We got it. We'll give it
a test and I'll call back around 1.
655
00:39:22,817 --> 00:39:24,310
- A.M.?
-Yeah.
656
00:39:24,484 --> 00:39:25,812
Good.
657
00:39:26,193 --> 00:39:28,978
Let's get that in the form of an answer.
658
00:39:29,819 --> 00:39:32,272
- We got something from Amy.
- Good.
659
00:39:32,444 --> 00:39:34,814
He was wondering:
The Team Toby meeting...
660
00:39:34,986 --> 00:39:37,938
...Toby doesn't need to be there, right?
- I wasn't wondering.
661
00:39:38,112 --> 00:39:40,731
Do your job as a man
and get that nice girl pregnant.
662
00:39:40,904 --> 00:39:42,314
I did.
663
00:39:42,488 --> 00:39:44,609
- Wait, what?
- What?
664
00:39:44,780 --> 00:39:46,107
Andy's pregnant.
665
00:39:51,364 --> 00:39:52,941
Toby, Andy's pregnant?
666
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:54,649
With twins.
667
00:39:58,866 --> 00:40:00,904
This is incredible.
668
00:40:04,450 --> 00:40:06,488
And they're yours?
669
00:40:06,659 --> 00:40:08,650
- Yeah.
- Both of them?
670
00:40:12,785 --> 00:40:14,527
I'm going downstairs.
671
00:40:18,536 --> 00:40:20,860
Well, we're gonna have to
step this up now.
672
00:40:21,037 --> 00:40:24,201
Yeah. I'm gonna get hats.
673
00:40:24,371 --> 00:40:26,113
Let's go.
674
00:40:29,538 --> 00:40:31,245
- Mr. President.
- Did you have a good day?
675
00:40:31,414 --> 00:40:34,910
Yes, sir. We haven't found the answer
we like on the Rooker question yet.
676
00:40:35,206 --> 00:40:37,660
You know what I remember
he said to me. He said:
677
00:40:37,831 --> 00:40:40,996
"Mr. President, when I hear black
footsteps behind me, I'm scared.
678
00:40:41,165 --> 00:40:43,322
When I hear white footsteps, I'm not."
679
00:40:43,624 --> 00:40:46,409
Well, I think we both know
people who'd say different.
680
00:40:46,583 --> 00:40:50,791
But you have to respect him for voicing
an unpopular opinion amongst his people.
681
00:40:50,959 --> 00:40:54,076
You pay for these things
for such a long time, don't you think?
682
00:40:54,251 --> 00:40:56,657
I do. And I don't know why
we struggle with it.
683
00:40:56,835 --> 00:40:58,625
I made a mistake, I corrected it.
684
00:40:58,794 --> 00:41:00,536
- I'll make more.
- Yes.
685
00:41:00,711 --> 00:41:05,250
Humans can't rebut that, it's prevent
defense and has the merit of being true.
686
00:41:06,003 --> 00:41:07,876
Am I gonna lose New Hampshire?
687
00:41:08,045 --> 00:41:09,669
Yes, sir.
688
00:41:12,338 --> 00:41:15,290
I don't mind blowing
the knucklehead stuff like Rooker.
689
00:41:15,464 --> 00:41:19,244
Rooker's not knucklehead.
But if I'm making mistakes there...
690
00:41:19,423 --> 00:41:22,706
...how do I know I'm not doing it
when it comes to matters...
691
00:41:22,882 --> 00:41:24,375
...like death and destruction?
692
00:41:24,549 --> 00:41:27,630
Well, probably you don't,
because there's no manual.
693
00:41:27,799 --> 00:41:31,580
Sir, we expect the president
to face the world in his own way...
694
00:41:31,758 --> 00:41:33,998
...in his own time.
695
00:41:34,175 --> 00:41:37,209
Luckily for all of us you have
better advisers in that area...
696
00:41:37,384 --> 00:41:40,418
...than you do in domestic
and political policy.
697
00:41:40,593 --> 00:41:43,592
When we're done we should
talk about moving money to Ohio.
698
00:41:43,761 --> 00:41:46,084
Yes, and maybe making a stop
in Orange County.
699
00:41:46,261 --> 00:41:49,259
You know, our candidate
in the 47th is such a dynamo...
700
00:41:49,428 --> 00:41:52,877
...that he's in the hospital...
- Not anymore. He's dead.
701
00:41:54,262 --> 00:41:56,930
- Okay.
- Let's go.
702
00:41:59,180 --> 00:42:02,511
- And stay up in my face, okay?
- Yes, sir.
703
00:42:12,099 --> 00:42:15,928
I swear to God, the winner of this
debate's gonna be the next president.
704
00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:18,968
- Anybody wanna be on the losing team?
- No, sir.
705
00:42:19,142 --> 00:42:21,429
Then let's pump it up.
706
00:42:21,601 --> 00:42:23,509
Let's go, Claudia Jean.
707
00:42:23,685 --> 00:42:26,256
Good evening and welcome
to the presidential debate...
708
00:42:26,435 --> 00:42:29,599
...between President Bartlet and
Gov. Ritchie, being brought to you...
709
00:42:29,769 --> 00:42:32,472
...from the
University of California, San Diego.
710
00:42:32,645 --> 00:42:36,225
The format, agreed to by
both candidates, is as follows:
711
00:42:36,395 --> 00:42:38,552
A candidate will have
90 seconds to respond...
712
00:42:38,729 --> 00:42:41,562
...followed with a 60-second
questioning by his opponent...
713
00:42:41,730 --> 00:42:43,637
...followed by a 60-second summation.
714
00:42:43,813 --> 00:42:46,516
By virtue of a coin toss, Mr. President...
715
00:42:46,689 --> 00:42:49,012
...the first question goes to you.
716
00:42:50,305 --> 00:42:56,547
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