1 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:07,441 Senator, you're the prohibitive favorite 2 00:00:07,508 --> 00:00:09,310 to be the Democratic Party's nominee for President. 3 00:00:09,377 --> 00:00:11,879 I'd like you to come to Nashua, New Hampshire, Thursday night 4 00:00:11,945 --> 00:00:13,147 and hear Jed Bartlet speak. 5 00:00:13,214 --> 00:00:14,515 I work for Senator Hoynes. 6 00:00:14,582 --> 00:00:18,086 I'd like you to be the Vice President. 7 00:00:18,152 --> 00:00:19,520 Josh Lyman. Joseph Quincy. 8 00:00:19,587 --> 00:00:21,322 A guy this qualified, I'd know who he was. 9 00:00:21,389 --> 00:00:22,923 Something's wrong. 10 00:00:22,990 --> 00:00:23,957 You're a Republican. 11 00:00:24,024 --> 00:00:25,259 Yes. Oh-ho! 12 00:00:25,326 --> 00:00:26,627 Joe, it's fine. 13 00:00:26,694 --> 00:00:27,861 Ainsley Hayes was a Republican. 14 00:00:27,928 --> 00:00:29,230 It is not fine! 15 00:00:29,297 --> 00:00:30,431 Why not? 'Cause if you're 16 00:00:30,498 --> 00:00:31,865 a Republican, then you damn well 17 00:00:31,932 --> 00:00:33,067 better look like Ainsley Hayes! 18 00:00:33,134 --> 00:00:34,602 He does! 19 00:01:16,043 --> 00:01:17,445 I'm Charlie Young. 20 00:01:17,511 --> 00:01:18,512 Mm. 21 00:01:26,387 --> 00:01:28,689 ( heels clicking crisply ) 22 00:01:45,206 --> 00:01:46,507 What is your name? 23 00:01:46,574 --> 00:01:48,142 It's Cl-- um... It's Claire. 24 00:01:48,209 --> 00:01:49,810 It's Claire Huddle. 25 00:02:11,932 --> 00:02:13,467 ( door opens ) 26 00:02:19,207 --> 00:02:20,741 Claire Huddle, Mr. President. 27 00:02:20,808 --> 00:02:25,213 Uh, it turns out it has to go to the Secretary of State. 28 00:02:25,279 --> 00:02:28,182 There's a law: It's 3-USC-20. 29 00:02:28,249 --> 00:02:30,083 It goes to the Secretary of State. 30 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:31,752 But we'll take care of it. 31 00:02:36,957 --> 00:02:38,592 Why did you take a cab? 32 00:02:38,659 --> 00:02:40,894 ( quietly ): My car wouldn't start. 33 00:02:40,961 --> 00:02:42,296 I'm sorry? 34 00:02:42,363 --> 00:02:45,266 ( louder ): My car wouldn't start. 35 00:02:48,168 --> 00:02:49,570 You know what's in here? 36 00:02:51,372 --> 00:02:53,541 It's okay. 37 00:04:01,542 --> 00:04:04,478 ( all murmuring ) 38 00:04:04,545 --> 00:04:06,246 C.J.: Good morning! Hi, C.J. 39 00:04:06,314 --> 00:04:07,681 C.J., we have a question about... 40 00:04:07,748 --> 00:04:09,550 Hang on-- before we do anything, happy birthday, Mark. 41 00:04:09,617 --> 00:04:11,251 And don't ever say I don't pay attention to these things. 42 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:12,920 My birthday's in December. 43 00:04:12,986 --> 00:04:14,555 Alright, go ahead and say it, then. What do I care? 44 00:04:14,622 --> 00:04:15,723 Do you know if the President 45 00:04:15,789 --> 00:04:17,458 has any opinion on the Trustees Report? 46 00:04:17,525 --> 00:04:18,792 You're talking about Medicare? I don't think 47 00:04:18,859 --> 00:04:20,394 he's seen it yet, but I'll find out. 48 00:04:20,461 --> 00:04:21,395 HR 235: Increasing Fuel Efficiency Standards. 49 00:04:21,462 --> 00:04:22,530 Is he going to twist arms? 50 00:04:22,596 --> 00:04:23,631 He gonna do what he's gotta do. 51 00:04:23,697 --> 00:04:24,865 Does that involve having the OMB-- 52 00:04:24,932 --> 00:04:26,266 He gonna do what he's gotta do, Phil. 53 00:04:26,334 --> 00:04:27,501 And do you know if he's going to go 54 00:04:27,568 --> 00:04:28,802 to the Children's Defense Fund dinner? 55 00:04:28,869 --> 00:04:30,404 I don't know. I know he wants to, 56 00:04:30,471 --> 00:04:31,539 but it's still pretty early in the week. 57 00:04:31,605 --> 00:04:32,740 I'm going to go into the office. 58 00:04:32,806 --> 00:04:34,241 No, C.J.-- Wait, Katie, I'm sorry. 59 00:04:34,308 --> 00:04:35,743 You were asking something at the beginning 60 00:04:35,809 --> 00:04:37,311 and I cut you off to wish Mark a happy birthday. 61 00:04:37,378 --> 00:04:38,412 You know, just in case, why don't you 62 00:04:38,479 --> 00:04:40,213 come in with me-- the rest, 63 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:42,450 I'll see you at 11:00. Well, this is Ralph Gish, our science editor. 64 00:04:42,516 --> 00:04:43,684 Hi. We've never met. It's my pleasure. 65 00:04:43,751 --> 00:04:44,852 Same here. 66 00:04:44,918 --> 00:04:46,186 Why is Science coming to the White House? 67 00:04:46,253 --> 00:04:47,054 It's about the Vice President. 68 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:48,322 Come on in. 69 00:04:51,692 --> 00:04:53,627 Uh... 70 00:04:53,694 --> 00:04:54,695 Are you familiar with the NASA Commission 71 00:04:54,762 --> 00:04:56,196 on Space Science and Research? 72 00:04:56,263 --> 00:04:58,466 Only to the extent that I'm aware that it exists. 73 00:04:58,532 --> 00:04:59,733 But I can take your question 74 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,369 to the President's science advisor. 75 00:05:01,435 --> 00:05:02,736 No, this is not a science question. 76 00:05:02,803 --> 00:05:05,339 Is the White House concealing a report 77 00:05:05,406 --> 00:05:06,740 from the Commission 78 00:05:06,807 --> 00:05:08,376 containing two different pieces of evidence 79 00:05:08,442 --> 00:05:09,743 of water molecules on Mars? 80 00:05:09,810 --> 00:05:12,312 Is there a report that's not being released, 81 00:05:12,380 --> 00:05:14,114 a report from the NASA Commission 82 00:05:14,181 --> 00:05:15,483 on Space Science and Research 83 00:05:15,549 --> 00:05:17,217 saying fossilized water molecules 84 00:05:17,284 --> 00:05:19,152 were found on a meteorite-- 85 00:05:19,219 --> 00:05:21,254 I won't tell you when this thing blew off the surface of Mars-- 86 00:05:21,321 --> 00:05:22,122 but, that this report... 87 00:05:22,189 --> 00:05:23,391 Come here. 88 00:05:26,226 --> 00:05:27,828 I called you back for a single in front of everybody. 89 00:05:27,895 --> 00:05:28,862 That costs me. 90 00:05:28,929 --> 00:05:30,798 Your question is: "Is there life on Mars?" 91 00:05:30,864 --> 00:05:32,933 And "Is the White House hiding that there's life on Mars?" 92 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,736 And what the hell does this have to do with the Vice President?! 93 00:05:35,803 --> 00:05:37,705 The Vice President heads the NASA Commission. Katerina-- 94 00:05:37,771 --> 00:05:39,807 The source says the Vice President told them personally. 95 00:05:39,873 --> 00:05:41,442 That's absurd! I know, but Gish... 96 00:05:41,509 --> 00:05:43,511 You've got to ask Gish what kind of credible source 97 00:05:43,577 --> 00:05:45,413 goes to the science editor with a story, instead of-- 98 00:05:45,479 --> 00:05:46,780 He doesn't know who the source is. 99 00:05:46,847 --> 00:05:48,616 The source went to another reporter at our paper 100 00:05:48,682 --> 00:05:49,917 and that reporter went to Gish. 101 00:05:52,886 --> 00:05:56,690 I can't imagine that it's true. 102 00:05:56,757 --> 00:05:58,892 Is there an existing report that says anything at all, 103 00:05:58,959 --> 00:06:00,160 and if so, what? 104 00:06:00,227 --> 00:06:01,328 And will it be made public, 105 00:06:01,395 --> 00:06:02,896 and, if not, why? 106 00:06:02,963 --> 00:06:05,332 And, if not, isn't that illegal? 107 00:06:05,399 --> 00:06:06,767 Um, I don't know. 108 00:06:06,834 --> 00:06:09,470 But I'll find out, to the first bunch of questions 109 00:06:09,537 --> 00:06:11,572 and, as for "legal" and "not legal," 110 00:06:11,639 --> 00:06:14,207 that's a matter for the Counsel's Office. 111 00:06:14,274 --> 00:06:17,377 Oh, hey, yeah, that's a matter for the Counsel's Office. 112 00:06:17,445 --> 00:06:19,713 I know the right guy to speak to down there. 113 00:06:19,780 --> 00:06:22,082 He's going to fix you right up. 114 00:06:22,149 --> 00:06:23,651 ( sighs ) 115 00:06:23,717 --> 00:06:25,553 ( chuckles softly ) 116 00:06:41,469 --> 00:06:43,203 Mr. Quincy? Yeah. 117 00:06:43,270 --> 00:06:45,739 I'm Blair Spoonhour. I'm staffed with the Counsel's Office. 118 00:06:45,806 --> 00:06:47,207 You're staffed with the Counsel's Office? 119 00:06:47,274 --> 00:06:48,408 Yeah. 120 00:06:48,476 --> 00:06:50,110 What are you, 14? Thank you. No. 121 00:06:50,177 --> 00:06:51,244 I'm 22. 122 00:06:51,311 --> 00:06:52,846 I'm a law student at GW. 123 00:06:52,913 --> 00:06:53,647 What year? 124 00:06:53,714 --> 00:06:55,783 I just finished my first. 125 00:06:55,849 --> 00:06:58,351 Anyway, they share assistants in the Counsel's Office 126 00:06:58,418 --> 00:06:59,720 but they asked me to stick around 127 00:06:59,787 --> 00:07:01,054 for your first couple days 128 00:07:01,121 --> 00:07:02,055 to break you in. 129 00:07:02,122 --> 00:07:03,757 Break me in? 130 00:07:03,824 --> 00:07:06,494 You're 22 years old, and where am I right now? 131 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:07,828 This is the office traditionally given 132 00:07:07,895 --> 00:07:09,029 to new lawyers who are hired. 133 00:07:09,096 --> 00:07:10,230 Uh-huh. 134 00:07:10,297 --> 00:07:12,365 And what is it when it's not occupied? 135 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:14,301 The steam pipe trunk distribution venue. 136 00:07:14,367 --> 00:07:17,771 This White House doesn't like lawyers very much, do they? 137 00:07:17,838 --> 00:07:20,207 Really, they just hold them one rung above being a Republican. 138 00:07:20,273 --> 00:07:22,175 Well, then we've won the jackpot, haven't we? 139 00:07:22,242 --> 00:07:23,511 Oh, don't tell me 140 00:07:23,577 --> 00:07:25,479 that you're one of those people who group up 141 00:07:25,546 --> 00:07:26,814 with the parents... You know what? 142 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,381 Law School, let's just settle down. 143 00:07:28,448 --> 00:07:29,783 Do I have briefing memos I have to read? 144 00:07:29,850 --> 00:07:32,586 What did you think that these were? 145 00:07:32,653 --> 00:07:35,055 I thought that was Xerox paper. 146 00:07:35,122 --> 00:07:37,024 You're Associate White House Counsel, Mr. Quincy. 147 00:07:37,090 --> 00:07:39,359 We're not going to store Xerox paper in your office. 148 00:07:39,426 --> 00:07:40,994 Sure. We'd never want to 149 00:07:41,061 --> 00:07:42,663 compromise the aesthetic integrity 150 00:07:42,730 --> 00:07:44,832 of the steam pipe trunk distribution venue. 151 00:07:44,898 --> 00:07:46,867 Triage those: What I should read 152 00:07:46,934 --> 00:07:48,502 ( knocking at door ) first, second, third. 153 00:07:48,569 --> 00:07:49,837 Excuse me. 154 00:07:52,740 --> 00:07:54,174 That's a great outfit, Blair. 155 00:07:55,743 --> 00:07:58,478 Mr. Quincy, this is White House Press Secretary C.J. Cregg. 156 00:07:58,546 --> 00:07:59,713 Yeah. Thanks. 157 00:07:59,780 --> 00:08:01,014 I don't want you to feel like 158 00:08:01,081 --> 00:08:02,550 you should be helping me with these boxes, 159 00:08:02,616 --> 00:08:03,851 because there are only nine of them, 160 00:08:03,917 --> 00:08:05,118 and it's an easy flight of stairs... 161 00:08:05,185 --> 00:08:06,086 Go to work. 162 00:08:06,153 --> 00:08:07,821 Thank you. He's a Republican, too. 163 00:08:07,888 --> 00:08:10,123 Yes, he's a Republican, too, Mr. Quincy is. 164 00:08:10,190 --> 00:08:11,759 Joe. 165 00:08:11,825 --> 00:08:13,360 This is a cool office, Joe. 166 00:08:13,426 --> 00:08:14,895 Ha. 167 00:08:14,962 --> 00:08:17,330 Got a little window up there near the ceiling 168 00:08:17,397 --> 00:08:19,199 that looks out onto the, uh... the... 169 00:08:19,266 --> 00:08:20,067 What do you call it? The... 170 00:08:20,133 --> 00:08:21,735 Alley? Yeah. 171 00:08:21,802 --> 00:08:22,770 And, you know, if you hang 'em on that pipe 172 00:08:22,836 --> 00:08:24,104 in the corner, late afternoon, 173 00:08:24,171 --> 00:08:25,839 you get your suits pressed right in front of you. 174 00:08:25,906 --> 00:08:27,474 You're the welcoming committee, aren't you? 175 00:08:27,541 --> 00:08:29,042 Hey, no, but that's a good idea. 176 00:08:29,109 --> 00:08:30,310 Let me show you around. 177 00:08:30,377 --> 00:08:32,379 As a matter of fact, I should probably stay here 178 00:08:32,445 --> 00:08:34,582 and get started on... Joe, I outrank you by, like, 17 rungs, 179 00:08:34,648 --> 00:08:35,883 so follow me, would you? 180 00:08:35,949 --> 00:08:37,317 Sure. 181 00:08:37,384 --> 00:08:38,552 Come on, it's going to be fun. 182 00:08:38,619 --> 00:08:40,187 But if it's not, you should pretend 183 00:08:40,253 --> 00:08:41,922 that it is, anyway. You know why? 184 00:08:41,989 --> 00:08:44,024 'Cause you outrank me by, like, 17 rungs? 185 00:08:44,091 --> 00:08:46,493 Hey, no, but again, I like how you're thinking. 186 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:48,729 So, do you know what I'm going to get asked about probably 187 00:08:48,796 --> 00:08:49,997 at my first briefing today? 188 00:08:50,063 --> 00:08:51,298 The Department of Agriculture report 189 00:08:51,364 --> 00:08:53,000 that'll come out this morning 190 00:08:53,066 --> 00:08:55,035 saying that commodity prices are down six percent this year, 191 00:08:55,102 --> 00:08:57,004 and do I suppose the White House is going to respond 192 00:08:57,070 --> 00:08:58,872 to the farmers who are going broke? 193 00:08:58,939 --> 00:09:01,675 And I thought, since the Republicans tore up the farm safety net, 194 00:09:01,742 --> 00:09:03,811 you might have a good idea for what I should say. 195 00:09:03,877 --> 00:09:05,879 How about "food is cheaper, and that's good"? 196 00:09:05,946 --> 00:09:07,347 You're saying it's good that farmers 197 00:09:07,414 --> 00:09:08,849 can't sell what they grow for a living wage? 198 00:09:08,916 --> 00:09:10,283 No, as a matter of fact, I wasn't. 199 00:09:10,350 --> 00:09:11,952 I was saying that it's good that you can buy food 200 00:09:12,019 --> 00:09:13,520 for less than an entire wage. 201 00:09:13,587 --> 00:09:15,656 It's good except, whoa! Those pesky farmers again. 202 00:09:15,723 --> 00:09:17,290 Don't worry about it, though, 203 00:09:17,357 --> 00:09:19,326 'cause it's not like there are that many of them. 204 00:09:19,392 --> 00:09:21,061 No, wait, I misspoke. 205 00:09:21,128 --> 00:09:22,863 Agriculture is this country's biggest industry. 206 00:09:22,930 --> 00:09:24,798 Aren't you supposed to be showing me around? 207 00:09:24,865 --> 00:09:26,533 That was the staircase, okay? What do you want? 208 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,135 It was the Dolly Madison staircase. 209 00:09:28,201 --> 00:09:29,870 There's the Roosevelt Room. I've been in there. 210 00:09:29,937 --> 00:09:30,871 Nobody cares. Okay. 211 00:09:30,938 --> 00:09:32,606 Well, this may sound silly, 212 00:09:32,673 --> 00:09:35,275 but the science editor from the Washington Post 213 00:09:35,342 --> 00:09:36,810 has a source-- a blind source-- 214 00:09:36,877 --> 00:09:39,079 who says the Vice President personally told him-- 215 00:09:39,146 --> 00:09:40,347 the blind source-- 216 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:43,216 that the Vice President interfered to classify a report 217 00:09:43,283 --> 00:09:45,385 that a NASA commission, which he heads, has 218 00:09:45,452 --> 00:09:47,020 saying there's life on Mars. 219 00:09:47,087 --> 00:09:49,723 God, why would you think that would make you sound silly? 220 00:09:49,790 --> 00:09:51,358 Would you find out who broke the law, please? 221 00:09:51,424 --> 00:09:52,826 Sure. 222 00:09:52,893 --> 00:09:54,728 The farmers are victims of this Republican Congress. 223 00:09:54,795 --> 00:09:57,064 I don't get a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, 224 00:09:57,130 --> 00:09:58,431 but I do go to the grocery store. 225 00:09:58,498 --> 00:09:59,700 I know that food is cheaper, 226 00:09:59,767 --> 00:10:01,902 and I know that when life expectancy goes up, 227 00:10:01,969 --> 00:10:03,370 that's not victimizing undertakers. 228 00:10:03,436 --> 00:10:04,772 Well-argued, though 229 00:10:04,838 --> 00:10:06,306 I do hate you and everything you stand for. 230 00:10:06,373 --> 00:10:08,642 Claudia Jean, you've only known me for four minutes. 231 00:10:08,709 --> 00:10:10,678 It usually takes people the better part of an hour 232 00:10:10,744 --> 00:10:12,045 to hate me and everything I stand for. 233 00:10:12,112 --> 00:10:13,747 I'm the press secretary, Boo-Boo. 234 00:10:13,814 --> 00:10:14,982 I don't have that kind of time. 235 00:10:15,048 --> 00:10:16,817 Can I ask you something? Yeah. 236 00:10:19,286 --> 00:10:22,055 What do I do if I need to speak to the Vice President? 237 00:10:22,122 --> 00:10:24,424 You speak to the Vice President, Joe. 238 00:10:24,491 --> 00:10:25,993 You're his lawyer. 239 00:10:38,672 --> 00:10:40,808 and, yeah, even Rex are all loaded up 240 00:10:40,874 --> 00:10:42,976 for that vacation you've worked hard for all year. 241 00:10:43,043 --> 00:10:44,577 Rex is the dog? Yeah. 242 00:10:44,644 --> 00:10:45,979 Is that what you want to have happen 243 00:10:46,046 --> 00:10:48,015 on the way to your favorite campsite? 244 00:10:48,081 --> 00:10:50,718 Tell your Congressman that America's about freedom. 245 00:10:50,784 --> 00:10:54,054 Tell your Congressman to vote "no" on 235. 246 00:10:54,121 --> 00:10:57,758 That family isn't going to be able to drive up that hill 247 00:10:57,825 --> 00:10:59,760 if we increase fuel efficiency standards. 248 00:10:59,827 --> 00:11:01,929 Well, that family isn't gonna get up the hill 249 00:11:01,995 --> 00:11:03,263 'cause Dad's trying to pull 250 00:11:03,330 --> 00:11:05,598 the kids, the camping gear, Rex the dog 251 00:11:05,665 --> 00:11:09,970 and what would appear to be his den up K-2 in a Ford Falcon. 252 00:11:10,037 --> 00:11:11,805 No, actually, it's the power of the ad. 253 00:11:11,872 --> 00:11:12,973 Say that again. 254 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,275 Actually, the power of the... 255 00:11:15,342 --> 00:11:16,944 You thought that ad was powerful? 256 00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:18,245 Yeah. You think it sucks? 257 00:11:18,311 --> 00:11:20,480 Yeah! If I'm watching that ad... 258 00:11:20,547 --> 00:11:21,815 The ad wasn't for you. 259 00:11:21,882 --> 00:11:23,583 It wasn't about Dad, it was about Mom 260 00:11:23,650 --> 00:11:24,985 looking worried in the front seat. 261 00:11:25,052 --> 00:11:26,186 That was for soccer moms? Yes. 262 00:11:26,253 --> 00:11:27,755 That? Yes. 263 00:11:27,821 --> 00:11:29,790 Soccer moms recognize a Big 3 hosing 264 00:11:29,857 --> 00:11:32,259 when it walks up and introduces itself good as anyone, 265 00:11:32,325 --> 00:11:34,261 and they know it often begins with 266 00:11:34,327 --> 00:11:36,864 "Tell your Congressman America's about freedom." 267 00:11:36,930 --> 00:11:38,498 And that mom was worried 268 00:11:38,565 --> 00:11:41,601 'cause Dad's hauling a yard sale up Kilimanjaro. 269 00:11:41,668 --> 00:11:44,637 And she's thinking, "Wow, I married an idiot." 270 00:11:44,704 --> 00:11:46,173 She's worried 'cause the kids are in back. 271 00:11:46,239 --> 00:11:47,707 That's what the ad's about. 272 00:11:47,775 --> 00:11:49,676 You think it's gonna be effective? 273 00:11:49,743 --> 00:11:52,412 I think it says the President and a bunch of Hollywood types 274 00:11:52,479 --> 00:11:53,914 want to put your kids in a small car 275 00:11:53,981 --> 00:11:55,382 so they can save the sky. 276 00:11:55,448 --> 00:11:56,917 How did the Hollywood types get into this equation? 277 00:11:56,984 --> 00:11:58,351 I don't know, how do they ever? 278 00:11:58,418 --> 00:12:01,955 You think we should run a counter ad. 279 00:12:02,022 --> 00:12:03,023 We have to. Saying what? 280 00:12:03,090 --> 00:12:04,591 Oh, I don't know. 281 00:12:04,657 --> 00:12:07,260 What do you mean? 282 00:12:07,327 --> 00:12:08,929 What do you mean? 283 00:12:08,996 --> 00:12:10,764 We've been sitting here for 20 minutes. 284 00:12:10,831 --> 00:12:12,399 I came in to show you the spots and to tell you 285 00:12:12,465 --> 00:12:14,167 I think we should run a counter ad. 286 00:12:14,234 --> 00:12:15,302 I don't have an idea for one. 287 00:12:15,368 --> 00:12:18,271 Well, get one. Have an idea. 288 00:12:18,338 --> 00:12:21,008 Don't come in here with half a thing and not be able to-- 289 00:12:21,074 --> 00:12:22,843 you know, after you've walked me to the brink 290 00:12:22,910 --> 00:12:25,712 and say, "We've got to do this, it's important, 291 00:12:25,779 --> 00:12:27,848 though I have no earthly idea how." 292 00:12:27,915 --> 00:12:30,183 Like one of those guys who buys a big new thing 293 00:12:30,250 --> 00:12:32,719 but doesn't really know how to get the most out of it! 294 00:12:32,786 --> 00:12:37,690 Toby, either get Andy to marry you or kill yourself. 295 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:39,159 Yeah. 296 00:12:39,226 --> 00:12:42,029 I'll start putting together a counter ad. Thanks. 297 00:12:42,095 --> 00:12:45,098 You want me to turn these lights down, draw the blinds? 298 00:12:45,165 --> 00:12:46,433 No. 299 00:12:46,499 --> 00:12:48,468 Okay. 300 00:12:48,535 --> 00:12:50,503 ( tapping ) 301 00:12:55,308 --> 00:12:57,144 ( tapping ) 302 00:12:59,712 --> 00:13:01,081 ( tapping ) 303 00:13:01,148 --> 00:13:03,817 Stop it. 304 00:13:03,884 --> 00:13:05,652 ( tapping ) 305 00:13:05,718 --> 00:13:07,988 Stop it. 306 00:13:08,055 --> 00:13:09,656 ( tapping ) 307 00:13:09,722 --> 00:13:12,492 Stop it. 308 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:13,626 ( tapping ) 309 00:13:13,693 --> 00:13:16,196 You have to stop it. 310 00:13:18,899 --> 00:13:20,968 ( sighs ) 311 00:13:21,034 --> 00:13:21,668 ( tapping ) 312 00:13:21,734 --> 00:13:24,504 Stop it. 313 00:13:24,571 --> 00:13:26,339 ( tapping ) 314 00:13:26,406 --> 00:13:27,640 Stop it. 315 00:13:27,707 --> 00:13:29,276 You are gonna hurt your beak. 316 00:13:29,342 --> 00:13:30,743 ( tapping ) Stop it. 317 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:32,179 What the hell are you doing? 318 00:13:32,245 --> 00:13:34,047 I'm sorry, but this bird has been sitting here 319 00:13:34,114 --> 00:13:35,815 tapping on the window for... I'm not kidding, 320 00:13:35,883 --> 00:13:37,584 I don't know how long, but a long time. 321 00:13:37,650 --> 00:13:39,786 I've lost track 'cause I'm moving into certain phases 322 00:13:39,853 --> 00:13:40,954 of dementia with this thing. 323 00:13:41,021 --> 00:13:41,855 Well, let me get rid of it. 324 00:13:41,922 --> 00:13:42,923 No, no, no, no, no. 325 00:13:42,990 --> 00:13:44,024 What? What are you gonna do? 326 00:13:44,091 --> 00:13:45,758 I'm gonna scare him away. No. 327 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:48,061 I'm not gonna hurt him. No, come on, he's a bird. 328 00:13:48,128 --> 00:13:49,462 He's not bothering anybody. 329 00:13:49,529 --> 00:13:51,131 In a second, he's gonna be bothering me, right? 330 00:13:51,198 --> 00:13:51,999 No. 331 00:13:52,065 --> 00:13:53,733 ( tapping ) Stop it. 332 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,103 No, because you're gonna want to go see Leo right now. 333 00:13:56,169 --> 00:13:57,037 Why? 334 00:13:57,104 --> 00:13:58,371 Carol got a call in the press office. 335 00:13:58,438 --> 00:14:00,507 "Did the White House press the Justice Department 336 00:14:00,573 --> 00:14:02,642 to call off their anti-trust investigation of Casseon?" 337 00:14:02,709 --> 00:14:04,444 No. No what? 338 00:14:04,511 --> 00:14:05,478 No, we didn't. 339 00:14:05,545 --> 00:14:07,047 You don't want to take the call to Leo. 340 00:14:07,114 --> 00:14:08,415 Justice didn't call off the investigation. 341 00:14:08,481 --> 00:14:10,483 They reached a settlement with Casseon. 342 00:14:10,550 --> 00:14:12,385 The call was from the Post, and they say they have a source. 343 00:14:12,452 --> 00:14:14,187 You can work with C.J.'s office 344 00:14:14,254 --> 00:14:15,923 to run down the source and see what's going on. 345 00:14:15,989 --> 00:14:17,390 You're saying I can do this? 346 00:14:17,457 --> 00:14:19,459 Excuse me. 347 00:14:19,526 --> 00:14:20,994 Hey. Hang on. How's it going so far? 348 00:14:21,061 --> 00:14:22,562 Good. Thanks. 349 00:14:22,629 --> 00:14:24,965 I was wondering if I had a few questions for Leo McGarry, 350 00:14:25,032 --> 00:14:26,199 do I go straight to his office 351 00:14:26,266 --> 00:14:27,800 or do you like me to run it by you first? 352 00:14:27,867 --> 00:14:30,037 At the beginning I'm gonna ask you to give me a quick hit 353 00:14:30,103 --> 00:14:31,838 just so you can learn to keep the crazy stuff 354 00:14:31,905 --> 00:14:33,106 out of his office. 355 00:14:33,173 --> 00:14:35,208 ( tapping ) Stop it. Stop it. 356 00:14:35,275 --> 00:14:36,509 Why, what do you got? 357 00:14:36,576 --> 00:14:38,078 A reporter looking into the White House 358 00:14:38,145 --> 00:14:40,780 suppressing a NASA Commission. 359 00:14:40,847 --> 00:14:42,815 This is two in one day. 360 00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:44,051 I just got "Did the White House 361 00:14:44,117 --> 00:14:46,253 interfere with Casseon anti-trust?" 362 00:14:46,319 --> 00:14:48,455 Yeah, 363 00:14:48,521 --> 00:14:50,723 you can go ahead and work with C.J.'s office... and sure. 364 00:14:50,790 --> 00:14:52,492 Thanks. 365 00:14:52,559 --> 00:14:55,062 Wait. 366 00:14:55,128 --> 00:14:56,163 What did they say we got in exchange 367 00:14:56,229 --> 00:14:57,230 for calling off the D.O.J.? 368 00:14:57,297 --> 00:15:00,300 100,000 computers in classrooms. 369 00:15:00,367 --> 00:15:03,636 They said that? You weren't just making a joke? No. 370 00:15:03,703 --> 00:15:05,238 They said that to... 371 00:15:05,305 --> 00:15:06,739 Carol said the reporter said that? 372 00:15:06,806 --> 00:15:07,640 Yeah. 373 00:15:07,707 --> 00:15:09,509 Well, now we go see Leo. 374 00:15:11,378 --> 00:15:13,313 So you're our new sawbones. 375 00:15:13,380 --> 00:15:15,248 A sawbones is a doctor. Is it? 376 00:15:15,315 --> 00:15:17,017 Yeah. Lawyer's a shyster. 377 00:15:17,084 --> 00:15:18,151 I got him to say it. 378 00:15:18,218 --> 00:15:20,787 I don't... Josh is a lawyer. 379 00:15:20,853 --> 00:15:24,591 Well, yeah, I mean, he went to law school, but... 380 00:15:24,657 --> 00:15:26,759 You don't practice law is all I was saying. 381 00:15:26,826 --> 00:15:28,095 I don't practice law? 382 00:15:28,161 --> 00:15:29,762 I help write the laws, I write the laws, 383 00:15:29,829 --> 00:15:32,599 I make the laws, I am the law. 384 00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:34,968 We're having a problem with a bird outside our office, 385 00:15:35,035 --> 00:15:35,969 are you having that problem? 386 00:15:36,036 --> 00:15:37,170 Oh, better than that. 387 00:15:37,237 --> 00:15:38,505 I think I may have a family of bats. 388 00:15:38,571 --> 00:15:40,240 Margaret, this is Joe Quincy. 389 00:15:40,307 --> 00:15:41,341 Yes, Joe. 390 00:15:41,408 --> 00:15:43,410 The girls in the Political Affairs office 391 00:15:43,476 --> 00:15:45,412 saw you before and asked me to tell you 392 00:15:45,478 --> 00:15:47,547 that they wouldn't have covered your parking spot with mayonnaise 393 00:15:47,614 --> 00:15:48,848 if they'd known you were a biscuit. 394 00:15:48,915 --> 00:15:50,783 Okay. 395 00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:52,885 Well, tell them, you know, no problem. 396 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:53,987 Leo... 397 00:15:54,054 --> 00:15:55,322 What do you need? Quickly. 398 00:15:55,388 --> 00:15:58,158 Set a record, right now. Make the news. 399 00:15:58,225 --> 00:15:59,692 You mind if I go first? 400 00:15:59,759 --> 00:16:02,129 Okay, Donna just got a question from the Post... 401 00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:03,363 I'm sorry, by the way, 402 00:16:03,430 --> 00:16:05,098 have you met... Yeah, I met him. What? 403 00:16:05,165 --> 00:16:06,633 Alright, you go first. 404 00:16:06,699 --> 00:16:09,302 Yeah, Mr. McGarry, the Press Secretary came to me 405 00:16:09,369 --> 00:16:12,239 with a question from the Post's science editor, 406 00:16:12,305 --> 00:16:14,307 who has a source claiming that a NASA study was classified 407 00:16:14,374 --> 00:16:15,808 at the urging of the White House. 408 00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:17,177 What do they think it said? 409 00:16:17,244 --> 00:16:20,113 That... sir, I'm, you know... 410 00:16:20,180 --> 00:16:23,550 they claim it said that a meteorite from Mars... 411 00:16:23,616 --> 00:16:27,454 ( clears throat ): from Mars was discovered in Antarctica 412 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:32,092 about 30 years ago and that we found fossilized carbonate molecules. 413 00:16:33,326 --> 00:16:34,894 That we know there's life on Mars, 414 00:16:34,961 --> 00:16:36,729 that's what they're saying we're suppressing. 415 00:16:36,796 --> 00:16:38,265 The Defense Department classified 416 00:16:38,331 --> 00:16:40,467 the NASA Commission report. 417 00:16:40,533 --> 00:16:44,171 I'm sorry? That report was classified by the Department of Defense. 418 00:16:44,237 --> 00:16:45,705 The report exists. 419 00:16:45,772 --> 00:16:48,375 Well, I can't tell you that, Joe, it was classified. 420 00:16:48,441 --> 00:16:49,876 But I can tell you it was classified 421 00:16:49,942 --> 00:16:50,877 by the Defense Department. 422 00:16:50,943 --> 00:16:52,345 What about you? 423 00:16:52,412 --> 00:16:55,082 Did we get the Justice Department to call off 424 00:16:55,148 --> 00:16:57,684 it's anti-trust investigation with Casseon. 425 00:16:57,750 --> 00:17:00,153 They didn't call it off, they settled. 426 00:17:00,220 --> 00:17:02,055 I know, but ask Donna what they bribed us with. 427 00:17:02,122 --> 00:17:04,124 Tell him what the Post said we got in exchange 428 00:17:04,191 --> 00:17:05,892 for calling off Justice. 429 00:17:05,958 --> 00:17:07,460 100,000 computers in classrooms. 430 00:17:09,662 --> 00:17:11,098 What? 431 00:17:11,164 --> 00:17:14,567 That was part of the settlement-- 100,000 computers. 432 00:17:14,634 --> 00:17:15,702 There's a leak. 433 00:17:15,768 --> 00:17:17,504 This, the Mars, people... 434 00:17:17,570 --> 00:17:19,206 don't even get me started on that, 435 00:17:19,272 --> 00:17:23,610 'cause the stuff I think you still won't tell me. 436 00:17:23,676 --> 00:17:26,479 Who knew about the terms with Casseon outside us... 437 00:17:26,546 --> 00:17:28,047 and now them? 438 00:17:28,115 --> 00:17:30,617 The President, me and you, Counsel, 439 00:17:30,683 --> 00:17:32,819 Counsel at Treasury and Commerce. 440 00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:35,455 Two, three guys at NEC. Hackley, Little, May... 441 00:17:35,522 --> 00:17:37,224 The Vice President. Yeah. 442 00:17:37,290 --> 00:17:39,259 The Assistant Attorney General for anti-trust. 443 00:17:39,326 --> 00:17:40,460 Did we say the... Excuse me. 444 00:17:40,527 --> 00:17:42,061 Are you saying the Vice President 445 00:17:42,129 --> 00:17:43,730 knew the terms of the Casseon settlement? 446 00:17:43,796 --> 00:17:45,598 Sure. Fix this, would you please? 447 00:17:45,665 --> 00:17:47,700 There's a story out there we're obstructing justice 448 00:17:47,767 --> 00:17:50,270 and another one we're like in a Ray Bradbury yarn. 449 00:17:50,337 --> 00:17:52,139 These things make me crazy. Yes, sir. 450 00:17:52,205 --> 00:17:53,273 Thank you. Thank you. 451 00:17:53,340 --> 00:17:54,674 Thank you. Thank you. 452 00:18:13,426 --> 00:18:16,196 It's going to be something-- all it needs to be is, 453 00:18:16,263 --> 00:18:18,064 it's got to be something pointing toward.... 454 00:18:18,131 --> 00:18:20,900 I'm sorry. Cassie, you have the turkey? Yeah. 455 00:18:20,967 --> 00:18:22,335 A soccer mom. No. 456 00:18:22,402 --> 00:18:24,237 Fade in on an SUV 457 00:18:24,304 --> 00:18:26,373 stuck in the mud. 458 00:18:26,439 --> 00:18:28,175 The soccer mom behind the wheel 459 00:18:28,241 --> 00:18:30,177 is switching from reverse to drive, 460 00:18:30,243 --> 00:18:31,811 her wheels spinning in place, 461 00:18:31,878 --> 00:18:35,081 and behind her, we see she's pulling-- wait for it-- 462 00:18:35,148 --> 00:18:36,616 A Saudi oil rig. 463 00:18:36,683 --> 00:18:39,686 A Saudi oil rig, that's exactly right. 464 00:18:39,752 --> 00:18:42,121 She's trying to pull a Saudi oil rig. 465 00:18:42,189 --> 00:18:44,391 We're in mind meld right now, Lauren number two and I. 466 00:18:44,457 --> 00:18:45,625 I'm number three. 467 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,961 How are people gonna know it's a Saudi oil rig? 468 00:18:49,028 --> 00:18:51,431 How are people gonna know it's a Saudi oil rig? 469 00:18:51,498 --> 00:18:52,799 Well, that's a good point. 470 00:18:52,865 --> 00:18:55,235 Yeah, you know, you had the number two ranking 471 00:18:55,302 --> 00:18:56,969 among the Laurens, but you lost it. 472 00:18:57,036 --> 00:18:59,005 She's number one 'cause she got the food, 473 00:18:59,071 --> 00:19:01,241 then I expect the two of you to compete for the two spot. 474 00:19:01,308 --> 00:19:02,542 Will? What you got, Lauren Shelby? 475 00:19:02,609 --> 00:19:04,911 What if instead of hauling a Saudi oil rig, 476 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:06,313 she's hauling actual Saudis? 477 00:19:06,379 --> 00:19:08,114 Hauling Saudis? 478 00:19:08,181 --> 00:19:10,116 Like a U-Haul full of Saudis? 479 00:19:10,183 --> 00:19:13,386 Maybe the oil rig could have Arabic writing on it. 480 00:19:13,453 --> 00:19:17,156 Is this coming awfully close to a 15-second spot the Klan might produce? 481 00:19:17,224 --> 00:19:19,058 I was about to say. You had the chicken? 482 00:19:19,125 --> 00:19:20,960 Thank you. I'm starving. You know what we should do? 483 00:19:21,027 --> 00:19:22,562 We should use the same family. 484 00:19:22,629 --> 00:19:23,996 Hey, yes, it's the same family. 485 00:19:24,063 --> 00:19:25,865 We get the same actors, driving an SUV this time, 486 00:19:25,932 --> 00:19:27,900 but they have to stop every three miles for gas. 487 00:19:27,967 --> 00:19:29,936 I like it. Who else? 488 00:19:30,002 --> 00:19:31,704 How's that joke gonna play in 15 seconds? 489 00:19:31,771 --> 00:19:34,441 How's it gonna play in 15 seconds? 490 00:19:34,507 --> 00:19:36,209 Alright, give your food back. 491 00:19:36,276 --> 00:19:37,677 Will? We're not hauling Saudis. 492 00:19:37,744 --> 00:19:39,446 You understand I'm not saying 493 00:19:39,512 --> 00:19:41,648 the soccer mom's dragging them up the hill, 494 00:19:41,714 --> 00:19:42,949 They'd be super comfortable. 495 00:19:43,015 --> 00:19:43,983 Stop talking. 496 00:19:44,050 --> 00:19:45,218 Okay. 497 00:19:49,121 --> 00:19:51,491 CHARLIE: Helen Baldwin is gonna write a book. 498 00:19:51,558 --> 00:19:53,059 She's retained an agent, 499 00:19:53,125 --> 00:19:54,994 who sent around a two-page outline, 500 00:19:55,061 --> 00:19:56,429 and there's a bidding war. 501 00:19:56,496 --> 00:19:58,865 Random House has bought it for low seven figures 502 00:19:58,931 --> 00:20:01,734 according to Stu Winkle. 503 00:20:01,801 --> 00:20:04,371 Could that possibly be his real name? 504 00:20:04,437 --> 00:20:07,440 "Baldwin, long a fixture in D.C. and Manhattan society, 505 00:20:07,507 --> 00:20:09,609 "whether for her work on charity boards 506 00:20:09,676 --> 00:20:12,445 "or her position on the arm of some of Wall Street, 507 00:20:12,512 --> 00:20:14,947 "Washington and Hollywood's most eligible men, 508 00:20:15,014 --> 00:20:17,784 as well as hosting some of the Beltway's favorite..." 509 00:20:17,850 --> 00:20:20,152 What the hell kind of sentence is this? 510 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:21,554 ( sighs ) 511 00:20:25,024 --> 00:20:28,060 This is 73-year-old lady who works in the Residence, 512 00:20:28,127 --> 00:20:30,196 cleaning and winding all the clocks. 513 00:20:30,263 --> 00:20:31,264 She won't retire. 514 00:20:31,331 --> 00:20:32,699 She inherited it from her mother 515 00:20:32,765 --> 00:20:34,401 who inherited it from her mother. 516 00:20:34,467 --> 00:20:35,902 She earns $22,000 a year. 517 00:20:35,968 --> 00:20:37,637 She's trusted to walk in and out of rooms 518 00:20:37,704 --> 00:20:39,406 where there's personal correspondence, 519 00:20:39,472 --> 00:20:42,709 where she can hear if the President and First Lady are having a fight, 520 00:20:42,775 --> 00:20:45,244 where she can see people come for secret meetings, 521 00:20:45,312 --> 00:20:46,479 and she's been doing this 522 00:20:46,546 --> 00:20:48,448 for five decades worth of Presidents. 523 00:20:48,515 --> 00:20:49,949 Her name is Mrs. Wheely, 524 00:20:50,016 --> 00:20:53,586 and I said, "Mrs. Wheely, you should really write a book," 525 00:20:53,653 --> 00:20:57,924 and she said, "No, no, no, we don't do that." 526 00:20:57,990 --> 00:21:00,727 22,000 a year. 527 00:21:03,796 --> 00:21:07,334 You said I wouldn't even know you were here. 528 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,269 Just so you know, I can tell that you are. 529 00:21:14,507 --> 00:21:16,008 Are you eating a salad? 530 00:21:18,277 --> 00:21:20,413 Yeah. Why? 531 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,782 'Cause I am. 532 00:21:22,849 --> 00:21:25,385 I don't think I've ever seen you eat a salad. 533 00:21:25,452 --> 00:21:26,886 What kind of salad is it? 534 00:21:26,953 --> 00:21:29,188 I don't know. 535 00:21:29,255 --> 00:21:30,857 Just mixed greens? 536 00:21:30,923 --> 00:21:32,559 I don't know what kind of salad it is. 537 00:21:32,625 --> 00:21:33,993 I'm eating a salad, okay? 538 00:21:34,060 --> 00:21:35,895 I'm doing it. Do I have to know the names? 539 00:21:35,962 --> 00:21:37,964 There's no difference between them. 540 00:21:38,030 --> 00:21:39,098 It's a bowl of weeds. 541 00:21:39,165 --> 00:21:40,467 Some of them have cheese. 542 00:21:40,533 --> 00:21:42,402 This isn't the kind with cheese. 543 00:21:42,469 --> 00:21:43,870 Does that answer your question? 544 00:21:43,936 --> 00:21:46,005 How many years have you guys been-- 545 00:21:46,072 --> 00:21:47,374 "Toby, you eat like a teenager." 546 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:48,475 "Toby, that's red meat." 547 00:21:48,541 --> 00:21:49,876 "That's your second cigar." 548 00:21:49,942 --> 00:21:51,478 Here I am eating a salad, which by the way, 549 00:21:51,544 --> 00:21:53,245 you can cover this thing in barbecue sauce 550 00:21:53,312 --> 00:21:54,947 and it would still taste like the ground, 551 00:21:55,014 --> 00:21:56,749 and I'm getting heckled from the gallery, 552 00:21:56,816 --> 00:22:00,052 who wanted to come in here to eat his roast beef sandwich 553 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:01,754 with ketchup on a kaiser roll 554 00:22:01,821 --> 00:22:05,257 and watch the damn tennis on my TV! 555 00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:07,627 That's all I'm saying. 556 00:22:07,694 --> 00:22:09,429 Man, Toby, you're really doing everything 557 00:22:09,496 --> 00:22:11,030 you can do to get that woman to marry you? 558 00:22:11,097 --> 00:22:12,699 Yes, I'm doing everything I can. What? 559 00:22:12,765 --> 00:22:14,300 Excuse me, I'm Joe Quincy. 560 00:22:14,367 --> 00:22:16,102 They told you I was coming by? 561 00:22:16,168 --> 00:22:17,704 Yeah. You are the new sawbones. 562 00:22:17,770 --> 00:22:20,573 Donna Moss already got me to say it. 563 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:21,474 ( snaps fingers ) Damn it. 564 00:22:21,541 --> 00:22:22,675 This is Charlie Young. 565 00:22:22,742 --> 00:22:23,476 Sure. 566 00:22:23,543 --> 00:22:24,744 How you doin'? 567 00:22:24,811 --> 00:22:26,446 Your office had requested comments 568 00:22:26,513 --> 00:22:28,515 on your draft statement about a decision 569 00:22:28,581 --> 00:22:30,417 from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. 570 00:22:30,483 --> 00:22:31,951 Yeah. If Counsel's fine, 571 00:22:32,018 --> 00:22:34,286 you just have C.J. Cregg's office put it out. 572 00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:35,988 Yeah, I saw it was headed there, 573 00:22:36,055 --> 00:22:38,825 the language is incendiary, and I wasn't sure if you knew 574 00:22:38,891 --> 00:22:40,993 that you can't beat up on the Appeals Courts 575 00:22:41,060 --> 00:22:43,362 and then expect the Supreme Court to hear the case. 576 00:22:43,430 --> 00:22:47,066 Did I beat up on them in the notes for the press comments? 577 00:22:47,133 --> 00:22:48,100 Yes. What did I say? 578 00:22:48,167 --> 00:22:49,702 You said in this case 579 00:22:49,769 --> 00:22:52,572 that the Fourth Circuit lacked judicial imagination 580 00:22:52,639 --> 00:22:54,441 God gave pistachio nuts. 581 00:22:56,175 --> 00:22:57,810 ( laughs ) 582 00:22:57,877 --> 00:22:58,978 They did! 583 00:22:59,045 --> 00:23:00,813 Perhaps. 584 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,451 Joe, did you think I was going to have the Press Secretary, 585 00:23:04,517 --> 00:23:06,486 on behalf of the President, 586 00:23:06,553 --> 00:23:10,490 compare a Federal judge to a pistachio nut? 587 00:23:10,557 --> 00:23:14,160 The language gets cleaned up on C.J.'s desk. 588 00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:16,362 That makes sense. 589 00:23:16,429 --> 00:23:17,897 Toby is distracted by a woman. 590 00:23:17,964 --> 00:23:18,698 And salads. 591 00:23:18,765 --> 00:23:20,332 You know when you do ten minutes 592 00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:23,002 on Helen Baldwin getting a book deal, it's righteous, 593 00:23:23,069 --> 00:23:25,638 but I speak my mind after getting poked with a stick 594 00:23:25,705 --> 00:23:26,873 and it's 'cause of Andy! 595 00:23:26,939 --> 00:23:28,174 Helen Baldwin has a book deal? 596 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,375 Yeah. 597 00:23:29,442 --> 00:23:30,677 Where did you find that out? 598 00:23:30,743 --> 00:23:32,311 I'm glad you asked, 599 00:23:32,378 --> 00:23:35,414 'cause it gives me the opportunity to say Stu Winkle. 600 00:23:35,482 --> 00:23:38,685 I got it from Stu Winkle, the Post's man in the thick of it. 601 00:23:38,751 --> 00:23:41,087 He's their gossip guy? Yeah. 602 00:23:41,153 --> 00:23:42,889 Is he new there? Yeah. 603 00:23:46,526 --> 00:23:49,562 Okay. 604 00:23:49,629 --> 00:23:52,665 The northwest lobby is... is that way? 605 00:23:52,732 --> 00:23:54,100 Yeah. 606 00:23:54,166 --> 00:23:57,036 You just go that way and then, you know, ask somebody else. 607 00:23:57,103 --> 00:23:59,572 Thanks. Sorry for jumping the gun 608 00:23:59,639 --> 00:24:01,608 on the Fourth Circuit. Joe? 609 00:24:02,609 --> 00:24:04,210 What's going on? 610 00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:06,713 I'm sure it's nothing, and this is just my first day. 611 00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:13,520 Two press inquiries, they came to my attention 612 00:24:13,586 --> 00:24:17,156 that sounded... alike is all. 613 00:24:17,223 --> 00:24:19,191 Can I get back to you? 614 00:24:19,258 --> 00:24:21,460 Make sure you do. 615 00:24:30,670 --> 00:24:32,605 Josh thinks you should advance the numbers 616 00:24:32,672 --> 00:24:34,106 on sales of first homes to the Journal. 617 00:24:34,173 --> 00:24:36,142 He says the Times got sales of existing homes. 618 00:24:36,208 --> 00:24:38,144 You know what happens with negotiated press leaks? 619 00:24:38,210 --> 00:24:40,246 Two thirds of the press gives us lousy coverage 620 00:24:40,312 --> 00:24:41,681 'cause they're tweaked they didn't get the leak, 621 00:24:41,748 --> 00:24:43,816 and the other third... ( tapping ) 622 00:24:43,883 --> 00:24:46,018 ...doesn't give us better coverage 'cause they... ( tapping ) 623 00:24:46,085 --> 00:24:47,954 What was that? I don't believe it. 624 00:24:48,020 --> 00:24:50,089 ( tapping ) Josh has this guy at his window, too. 625 00:24:50,156 --> 00:24:52,191 They think they see their reflection in the window, 626 00:24:52,258 --> 00:24:54,193 and they think it's another bird. ( tapping ) 627 00:24:54,260 --> 00:24:55,728 What's the learning curve on a bird? 628 00:24:55,795 --> 00:24:56,963 ( tapping ) 629 00:24:57,029 --> 00:24:57,630 Stop it. 630 00:24:57,697 --> 00:24:58,898 ( knocking ) 631 00:24:58,965 --> 00:25:00,867 Excuse me. 632 00:25:00,933 --> 00:25:02,101 Sorry, we thought for a second, 633 00:25:02,168 --> 00:25:03,836 you were a huge bird knocking on the door. 634 00:25:03,903 --> 00:25:05,572 Is something going on with birds? 635 00:25:05,638 --> 00:25:07,039 Well, one of them is obsessed with Donna. 636 00:25:07,106 --> 00:25:08,875 It's true, I'm like Tippi Hedren around here. 637 00:25:08,941 --> 00:25:10,109 I'm sorry, would you mind if... 638 00:25:10,176 --> 00:25:12,111 No. 639 00:25:16,382 --> 00:25:17,584 Can I close the door? 640 00:25:17,650 --> 00:25:18,585 Donna just did. 641 00:25:18,651 --> 00:25:21,921 You said the science editor, 642 00:25:21,988 --> 00:25:22,922 when he came to you with the question 643 00:25:22,989 --> 00:25:24,156 about the NASA Commission... 644 00:25:24,223 --> 00:25:25,958 I wouldn't worry too much about Mars. 645 00:25:26,025 --> 00:25:28,260 I gave it to you to give you a hard time. No kidding. 646 00:25:28,327 --> 00:25:29,729 By the way, there was a report, 647 00:25:29,796 --> 00:25:32,031 but it was classified by the Defense Department. 648 00:25:32,098 --> 00:25:34,166 And we'll leave how much, I didn't want to know about that 649 00:25:34,233 --> 00:25:35,902 for another time. What's the problem? 650 00:25:35,968 --> 00:25:38,738 You said the science editor had a blind source, that it came 651 00:25:38,805 --> 00:25:40,673 from someone else at the paper, and I... I think 652 00:25:40,740 --> 00:25:42,709 I know who it was. Who? 653 00:25:42,775 --> 00:25:45,311 A guy named Stu Winkle who has a new gossip column. 654 00:25:46,478 --> 00:25:48,280 get a hold of a story How wouabout the Pentagon?st 655 00:25:48,347 --> 00:25:49,816 I'd rather not say yet. Why? 656 00:25:49,882 --> 00:25:51,751 'Cause if I'm wrong, it'll be inappropriate 657 00:25:51,818 --> 00:25:54,053 that I suggested it, and I'll be held in contempt. 658 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:55,387 You are wrong. 659 00:25:55,454 --> 00:25:58,290 No, I'm not. 660 00:25:58,357 --> 00:25:59,826 Stu Winkles don't get tips 661 00:25:59,892 --> 00:26:02,261 about the White House illegally suppressing reports. 662 00:26:02,328 --> 00:26:03,395 The NASA report's over. 663 00:26:03,462 --> 00:26:05,031 I'm not concerned with that. 664 00:26:05,097 --> 00:26:07,466 Would you mind calling him right now and leading him to confirm 665 00:26:07,533 --> 00:26:08,668 that he's the other reporter? 666 00:26:08,735 --> 00:26:10,169 You want me to call Stu Winkle? 667 00:26:10,236 --> 00:26:12,271 He has a new column, you're calling to wish him luck. 668 00:26:12,338 --> 00:26:14,573 I don't usually make personal calls to gossip columnists. 669 00:26:14,641 --> 00:26:15,908 He's going to be very flattered. 670 00:26:15,975 --> 00:26:17,076 And you won't tell me why? 671 00:26:17,143 --> 00:26:19,011 No. Even if I give you assurances 672 00:26:19,078 --> 00:26:20,913 that I already hold you in contempt? 673 00:26:20,980 --> 00:26:22,849 Yes. 674 00:26:25,017 --> 00:26:26,085 ( sighs ) 675 00:26:26,152 --> 00:26:28,054 Carol! 676 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:30,690 Would you get me Stu Winkle at the Washington Post. 677 00:26:30,757 --> 00:26:31,691 I'm sorry? 678 00:26:31,758 --> 00:26:34,093 Stu Winkle at the Post. 679 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,096 Winkle? Yes. 680 00:26:37,163 --> 00:26:39,666 Okay, when you get him on the phone, here's what you say... 681 00:26:39,732 --> 00:26:41,233 I know what to say. 682 00:26:43,736 --> 00:26:45,905 ( sighs ) 683 00:26:49,842 --> 00:26:51,510 ( chuckles ) 684 00:26:51,577 --> 00:26:53,713 Judicial imagination of pistachio nuts. 685 00:26:53,780 --> 00:26:55,848 Can't say that to the Fourth Circuit. 686 00:26:55,915 --> 00:26:57,316 No. 687 00:26:57,383 --> 00:26:58,450 ( door opens ) 688 00:26:58,517 --> 00:27:02,254 C.J., you have Stu Winkle on one. 689 00:27:06,025 --> 00:27:08,695 Stu, this is C.J. Cregg at the White House. 690 00:27:10,362 --> 00:27:11,831 Stu? 691 00:27:11,898 --> 00:27:13,700 Oh, my God, it's really you, isn't it? 692 00:27:13,766 --> 00:27:16,568 It is, and I saw you have a new column 693 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:18,270 and I think it's terrific 694 00:27:18,337 --> 00:27:21,373 and everyone here at the White House wishes you a lot of luck. 695 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,276 You are the classiest thing for calling me. 696 00:27:24,343 --> 00:27:25,678 Well... 697 00:27:25,745 --> 00:27:27,279 You are the classiest thing. 698 00:27:27,346 --> 00:27:29,181 You're my hero, C.J. 699 00:27:29,248 --> 00:27:31,784 Your brilliance and your sense of humor and your clothes. 700 00:27:31,851 --> 00:27:33,119 Thank you. 701 00:27:33,185 --> 00:27:35,321 The evening gowns, who makes them for you? 702 00:27:35,387 --> 00:27:37,824 Do not tell me you buy off the rack, I'll kill you. 703 00:27:37,890 --> 00:27:39,191 Well, I'm a girl on a budget. 704 00:27:39,258 --> 00:27:40,793 Oh, don't try that on me. No, really. 705 00:27:40,860 --> 00:27:42,128 ( clears throat ) 706 00:27:42,194 --> 00:27:44,196 Oh, yeah, like the party at the Japanese Embassy, 707 00:27:44,263 --> 00:27:45,698 you were wearing a dress from Saks. 708 00:27:45,765 --> 00:27:47,834 Stu, I wanted to get you a direct answer 709 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:49,535 to that NASA Commission question 710 00:27:49,601 --> 00:27:52,471 that Ralph Gish and Katie brought me this morning. 711 00:27:52,538 --> 00:27:54,907 It was the Defense Department 712 00:27:54,974 --> 00:27:58,978 and not the White House who classified the report. 713 00:28:03,315 --> 00:28:05,084 Stu? 714 00:28:06,886 --> 00:28:09,321 Uh, well, that makes perfect sense. 715 00:28:09,388 --> 00:28:11,157 I hope, I hope you don't mind, it sounded crazy enough, 716 00:28:11,223 --> 00:28:15,394 but what do I know? So, you got to run these things down. 717 00:28:15,461 --> 00:28:18,497 You know, I know you have all the free time in the world, 718 00:28:18,564 --> 00:28:20,466 but it would be great if we could get together 719 00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:22,434 for a quick coffee one day, and I'll tell you why. 720 00:28:22,501 --> 00:28:24,570 You may find it hard to believe, but before I got 721 00:28:24,636 --> 00:28:27,774 into this lighter stuff, I was a serious journalist. 722 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,442 I don't mean boring/serious, but, you know... 723 00:28:30,509 --> 00:28:32,278 ( Stu continues talking ) 724 00:28:37,950 --> 00:28:40,252 ( Stu still talking ) 725 00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:42,721 ( Stu chuckling ) 726 00:28:42,789 --> 00:28:44,290 And then after that, I spent two years 727 00:28:44,356 --> 00:28:46,225 getting people to call me at Town and Country 728 00:28:46,292 --> 00:28:48,727 before I realized I was better off getting... 729 00:28:50,529 --> 00:28:52,264 So, I freelanced my butt off. 730 00:28:56,235 --> 00:28:57,770 ( Stu continues rambling ) 731 00:28:57,837 --> 00:28:59,839 I felt good about myself, but you know what? 732 00:28:59,906 --> 00:29:01,908 That stuff pays the same amount per word 733 00:29:01,974 --> 00:29:04,877 as if I sat down with Angela Moviestar for an hour... 734 00:29:09,348 --> 00:29:14,086 Somebody else gets the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation... 735 00:29:14,153 --> 00:29:16,388 I need to maximize the amount I make per hour. 736 00:29:16,455 --> 00:29:19,058 But now that I've been doing this for, like, geez, gosh, 737 00:29:19,125 --> 00:29:21,260 what, ten years already, I'm doing what... 738 00:29:21,327 --> 00:29:23,729 at the Post... 739 00:29:23,796 --> 00:29:27,499 Stu, thank you very much. 740 00:29:27,566 --> 00:29:28,901 I'm sorry, I have to go. 741 00:29:28,968 --> 00:29:30,970 Well, I cannot tell you how class... 742 00:29:43,249 --> 00:29:44,450 Carol? 743 00:29:47,586 --> 00:29:48,787 Yeah. 744 00:29:48,855 --> 00:29:50,356 I need to see Josh and Toby, 745 00:29:50,422 --> 00:29:52,992 and Joe needs to see the Vice President. 746 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,294 Okay. 747 00:30:09,909 --> 00:30:11,978 on legal and regulatory reforms. 748 00:30:12,044 --> 00:30:13,312 We've got the whole 749 00:30:13,379 --> 00:30:15,547 regulatory agenda left over from last time. 750 00:30:15,614 --> 00:30:16,748 We do. 751 00:30:16,815 --> 00:30:18,550 Seriously, the whole agenda is left over. 752 00:30:18,617 --> 00:30:20,752 And Vice President Abou El-Azm wants the trade 753 00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:22,054 and investment framework. 754 00:30:22,121 --> 00:30:24,023 Yeah, well, my point is, we can get to that 755 00:30:24,090 --> 00:30:25,257 in a closed-door session, 756 00:30:25,324 --> 00:30:26,859 and you understand it can't appear 757 00:30:26,926 --> 00:30:28,560 as if I'm saying the Syrian question 758 00:30:28,627 --> 00:30:30,562 is less urgent. 759 00:30:30,629 --> 00:30:33,265 Yes, sir. 760 00:30:35,067 --> 00:30:37,369 Well, it's been a long day. 761 00:30:37,436 --> 00:30:38,537 We're done. 762 00:30:38,604 --> 00:30:39,705 Thank you, sir. 763 00:30:39,771 --> 00:30:40,839 Thank you, Mr. Vice President. 764 00:30:40,907 --> 00:30:42,241 Thank you, Mr. Vice President. 765 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:45,011 Guys? 766 00:30:45,077 --> 00:30:46,946 Do me a favor. 767 00:30:47,013 --> 00:30:48,580 Don't go home yet. 768 00:30:48,647 --> 00:30:50,616 Wait for me a minute, okay? 769 00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:51,650 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 770 00:30:51,717 --> 00:30:52,952 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 771 00:31:01,493 --> 00:31:03,896 ( sighs ) 772 00:31:03,963 --> 00:31:05,464 ( door opening ) 773 00:31:08,968 --> 00:31:10,903 Good evening, Mr. Vice President. 774 00:31:10,970 --> 00:31:13,739 Good evening. 775 00:31:13,805 --> 00:31:15,774 You brought friendly faces. 776 00:31:15,841 --> 00:31:16,775 Sir? 777 00:31:16,842 --> 00:31:17,944 You brought friendly faces. 778 00:31:18,010 --> 00:31:19,878 That was considerate. 779 00:31:19,946 --> 00:31:21,747 You're Joe Quincy? 780 00:31:21,813 --> 00:31:23,315 Yes, sir. This is your first day? 781 00:31:23,382 --> 00:31:24,116 Yes, sir. 782 00:31:24,183 --> 00:31:25,317 Well, they're going 783 00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:27,053 to put your picture up someplace. 784 00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:28,887 You're going to get honored at a luncheon. 785 00:31:28,955 --> 00:31:31,090 We were just meeting in here. 786 00:31:31,157 --> 00:31:33,292 I have a bilateral commission 787 00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:35,194 with the Vice President of Egypt. 788 00:31:35,261 --> 00:31:36,695 It's in Cairo this year. 789 00:31:36,762 --> 00:31:39,898 We see how legal and financial systems can attract 790 00:31:39,966 --> 00:31:42,101 foreign investments, so look out 791 00:31:42,168 --> 00:31:44,570 for ShopEgypt.org, I suppose. 792 00:31:46,638 --> 00:31:48,907 And you're going to tell me I'm not going to Cairo. 793 00:31:48,975 --> 00:31:50,342 Mr. Vice President, have you been 794 00:31:50,409 --> 00:31:51,910 having an affair with Helen Baldwin 795 00:31:51,978 --> 00:31:53,312 while here at the White House? 796 00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:55,714 He's asking because... 797 00:31:55,781 --> 00:31:57,049 I should hit you in the face. 798 00:31:58,084 --> 00:31:59,685 He's asking because... 799 00:31:59,751 --> 00:32:01,653 I know why he's asking. 800 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:02,921 I know why he's asking. 801 00:32:02,989 --> 00:32:04,523 I understand why you're here. 802 00:32:04,590 --> 00:32:06,558 I've spoken with C.J. 803 00:32:17,369 --> 00:32:19,371 Yes. 804 00:32:22,441 --> 00:32:23,809 ( sighs ) 805 00:32:23,875 --> 00:32:25,877 And I like to show off. I... 806 00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:28,414 said things. 807 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,251 I said I'd seen proof of life on Mars. 808 00:32:34,586 --> 00:32:35,921 I said I'd 809 00:32:35,988 --> 00:32:39,158 intervened at the Justice Department 810 00:32:39,225 --> 00:32:42,161 to put a 100,000 computers into classrooms, 811 00:32:42,228 --> 00:32:44,663 which I thought made me sound like a good guy. 812 00:32:45,764 --> 00:32:47,899 ( sighs ) 813 00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:49,701 What, did you hear a rumor once? 814 00:32:49,768 --> 00:32:51,837 Yes, sir. 815 00:32:51,903 --> 00:32:53,772 And you saw Helen had a book deal, 816 00:32:53,839 --> 00:32:55,907 and you knew she must have teased them with something. 817 00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,409 It's a tell-all. 818 00:32:57,476 --> 00:32:59,445 A couple of items in the gossip columns. 819 00:32:59,511 --> 00:33:02,448 Maybe the gossip guy was the science editor's contact? 820 00:33:02,514 --> 00:33:04,016 Yes, sir. 821 00:33:04,083 --> 00:33:07,086 Whew. Well, you earned your money today. 822 00:33:08,454 --> 00:33:10,622 This could have been bad, 823 00:33:10,689 --> 00:33:12,958 but you found it early. 824 00:33:13,025 --> 00:33:14,193 What do I do now? 825 00:33:14,260 --> 00:33:16,128 Sir, I'm an Associate Counsel, 826 00:33:16,195 --> 00:33:17,829 and this is my first day. 827 00:33:17,896 --> 00:33:19,831 I've spoken to Oliver Babish, 828 00:33:19,898 --> 00:33:20,999 who's gotten on a plane... 829 00:33:21,067 --> 00:33:23,069 What do I do now? 830 00:33:28,807 --> 00:33:32,010 I think you've got to talk to your family now, sir. 831 00:33:47,459 --> 00:33:49,328 Thanks. 832 00:33:58,337 --> 00:33:59,838 Thank you, Mr. Vice President. 833 00:33:59,905 --> 00:34:01,207 Thank you, Mr. Vice President. 834 00:34:01,273 --> 00:34:04,210 Thank you, sir. 835 00:34:25,264 --> 00:34:27,399 I hope I didn't see you smile in there. 836 00:34:27,466 --> 00:34:28,767 You didn't. Josh? 837 00:34:28,834 --> 00:34:30,169 Yeah? You didn't. 838 00:34:35,441 --> 00:34:36,608 LAUREN SHELBY: Gas Masks. 839 00:34:36,675 --> 00:34:37,809 WILL: Yes. 840 00:34:37,876 --> 00:34:38,944 Something with gas masks. 841 00:34:39,010 --> 00:34:39,945 Sing to me, Lauren Romano. 842 00:34:40,011 --> 00:34:41,447 I'm Lauren Romano. 843 00:34:41,513 --> 00:34:42,781 Keep going with the gas masks. 844 00:34:42,848 --> 00:34:45,851 Mothers barely able to even see their children 845 00:34:45,917 --> 00:34:47,619 through the haze of gas masks. 846 00:34:47,686 --> 00:34:49,855 Wow, you rode it right off the rails there, didn't you? 847 00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:51,323 I did. 848 00:34:51,390 --> 00:34:53,925 Anyone else think it's weird that Toby had a salad? 849 00:34:53,992 --> 00:34:55,227 Anyone else think it's weird 850 00:34:55,294 --> 00:34:56,695 that it was nine hours ago, 851 00:34:56,762 --> 00:34:58,897 and Lauren Romano's still talking about it? 852 00:34:58,964 --> 00:35:00,566 I'm Lauren Romano. 853 00:35:01,233 --> 00:35:02,701 Clear blue sky. 854 00:35:02,768 --> 00:35:05,537 The camera tilts down into a slowly thickening haze... 855 00:35:05,604 --> 00:35:06,638 Listen to this. 856 00:35:06,705 --> 00:35:07,839 Clear blue sky. 857 00:35:07,906 --> 00:35:11,042 The camera tilts down into a slowly thickening haze 858 00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:13,145 until it levels on a suburban street. 859 00:35:13,212 --> 00:35:15,547 An SUV filled with mom, dad and the kids-- 860 00:35:15,614 --> 00:35:18,284 the same actors from the other ad, and Rex-- 861 00:35:18,350 --> 00:35:20,419 they get out, and they're wearing gas masks. 862 00:35:20,486 --> 00:35:21,787 We've also got one 863 00:35:21,853 --> 00:35:24,122 where the family's towing Saudis in a U-Haul. 864 00:35:24,190 --> 00:35:25,791 ( sighs ) 865 00:35:25,857 --> 00:35:29,161 Doesn't really have the feel of high-minded debate, does it? 866 00:35:29,228 --> 00:35:30,929 No, but actually, you don't want it to. 867 00:35:30,996 --> 00:35:32,331 Why not? 868 00:35:32,398 --> 00:35:33,899 'Cause we're countering an attack ad, 869 00:35:33,965 --> 00:35:36,302 and when you're in the trenches on one of these things, 870 00:35:36,368 --> 00:35:37,503 and they're throwing... 871 00:35:37,569 --> 00:35:39,371 But we're not in the trenches. 872 00:35:40,105 --> 00:35:41,507 ( laughs ) 873 00:35:41,573 --> 00:35:43,875 Two bodies of government are debating fuel efficiency 874 00:35:43,942 --> 00:35:44,943 at the highest level. 875 00:35:45,010 --> 00:35:46,345 We're not in the trenches. 876 00:35:47,946 --> 00:35:49,014 ( sighs ) 877 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,216 I don't know. 878 00:35:50,282 --> 00:35:51,783 I know, it's a 15-second spot. 879 00:35:51,850 --> 00:35:52,951 We got to scare them. 880 00:35:53,018 --> 00:35:55,587 I just don't feel like doing that tonight. 881 00:35:57,289 --> 00:35:58,390 ( sighs ) 882 00:35:58,457 --> 00:35:59,891 Will, you need to come with me. 883 00:35:59,958 --> 00:36:02,428 I need to tell you what's about to happen. 884 00:36:34,460 --> 00:36:36,395 You've talked to Suzanne? 885 00:36:36,462 --> 00:36:37,729 I'm sorry, sir? 886 00:36:37,796 --> 00:36:39,631 You've talked to Suzanne? 887 00:36:39,698 --> 00:36:40,899 Yeah. 888 00:36:40,966 --> 00:36:42,634 What happened? 889 00:36:42,701 --> 00:36:44,670 You know what happened. Tell me again. 890 00:36:44,736 --> 00:36:46,137 How many times? When did it start? 891 00:36:46,204 --> 00:36:47,406 I don't think it matters. 892 00:36:47,473 --> 00:36:48,840 I'll tell you what, Mr. Vice President. 893 00:36:48,907 --> 00:36:50,242 For this moment, tonight, 894 00:36:50,309 --> 00:36:53,078 I'm going to be in charge of deciding what matters. 895 00:36:53,144 --> 00:36:55,314 47 phone calls? 896 00:36:55,381 --> 00:36:56,748 Did you not know 897 00:36:56,815 --> 00:36:59,184 that the White House keeps records of phone calls? 898 00:36:59,251 --> 00:37:00,419 Did you not know that? 899 00:37:01,387 --> 00:37:03,489 How many times? 900 00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:04,456 When did it start? 901 00:37:04,523 --> 00:37:05,857 It is none of your business. 902 00:37:05,924 --> 00:37:07,393 I'm about to read about it in a book! 903 00:37:07,459 --> 00:37:08,460 Then read about it! 904 00:37:08,527 --> 00:37:09,495 Didn't it ever occur to you 905 00:37:09,561 --> 00:37:10,762 that she might do this? 906 00:37:10,829 --> 00:37:11,930 No. 907 00:37:11,997 --> 00:37:13,164 I didn't think she would. 908 00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:15,367 You were wrong. 909 00:37:20,472 --> 00:37:23,008 Do you think there's anyone else behind this? 910 00:37:23,074 --> 00:37:24,009 I don't know. 911 00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:25,344 Do you think she may have 912 00:37:25,411 --> 00:37:26,778 been coached by Republican Leadership? 913 00:37:26,845 --> 00:37:27,879 I don't know. 914 00:37:27,946 --> 00:37:29,481 John, if we're going to weather this, 915 00:37:29,548 --> 00:37:30,782 then we're going to have to... 916 00:37:30,849 --> 00:37:32,183 We're not going to weather this. 917 00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:33,419 We will. We won't. 918 00:37:33,485 --> 00:37:35,454 I'm resigning. 919 00:37:37,489 --> 00:37:40,292 If we're going to do this, we've got to start tonight, now, 920 00:37:40,359 --> 00:37:42,027 and I need you thinking now, and not giving up... 921 00:37:42,093 --> 00:37:44,095 Yes, sir, I'm resigning the Vice Presidency. 922 00:37:44,162 --> 00:37:45,597 What about "It's none of your business?" 923 00:37:45,664 --> 00:37:47,866 I leaked classified information. 924 00:37:47,933 --> 00:37:49,200 It is their business. 925 00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:50,436 It's also a felony. 926 00:37:50,502 --> 00:37:52,203 Are you in a position to deny it? 927 00:37:52,270 --> 00:37:53,905 No. 928 00:37:53,972 --> 00:37:55,974 She's made a seven-figure book deal. 929 00:37:56,041 --> 00:37:58,644 She's not going to have a lot of credibility. 930 00:37:58,710 --> 00:38:00,512 Well, since when does she need credibility? 931 00:38:00,579 --> 00:38:02,113 Apologize and move on. 932 00:38:02,180 --> 00:38:03,682 Accept responsibility. 933 00:38:03,749 --> 00:38:04,950 You don't need to disclose details. 934 00:38:05,016 --> 00:38:06,785 She's going to take care of that for you. 935 00:38:06,852 --> 00:38:08,520 You're going to be the dinner special 936 00:38:08,587 --> 00:38:10,856 for two months, and then you've got two and a half years 937 00:38:10,922 --> 00:38:11,723 to get the nomination. 938 00:38:11,790 --> 00:38:13,725 I'm not getting the nomination. 939 00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:14,993 In the middle of MS, it looked like 940 00:38:15,060 --> 00:38:17,062 we were never going to recover, and we did. 941 00:38:17,128 --> 00:38:19,097 Which is why it's never going to happen again. 942 00:38:19,164 --> 00:38:20,098 John... That was it. 943 00:38:20,165 --> 00:38:21,400 That was the one you get. 944 00:38:21,467 --> 00:38:23,234 Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Vice President, 945 00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:26,405 if my multiple sclerosis was a bummer for your sex life. 946 00:38:26,472 --> 00:38:28,474 How the hell did you do this to us?! 947 00:38:39,385 --> 00:38:41,653 ( sighs ) 948 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:43,655 You can't resign, John. 949 00:38:43,722 --> 00:38:45,824 It's a terrible signal to send. 950 00:38:45,891 --> 00:38:48,093 Sir, 951 00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:51,196 if I stay, it sabotages an entire agenda, 952 00:38:51,262 --> 00:38:52,764 and you know I'm right, 953 00:38:52,831 --> 00:38:54,199 and the party's going 954 00:38:54,265 --> 00:38:55,701 to need a candidate who can win. 955 00:38:55,767 --> 00:38:58,670 And I think the least I can do for Suzanne is not 956 00:38:58,737 --> 00:39:00,639 to drag her through it so much. 957 00:39:00,706 --> 00:39:02,207 Is there more? Is there another shoe, 958 00:39:02,273 --> 00:39:03,642 'cause if it's a series of... 959 00:39:03,709 --> 00:39:05,176 I'd imagine she's going to describe... 960 00:39:05,243 --> 00:39:06,878 You're still going to get dragged through it, sir. 961 00:39:06,945 --> 00:39:08,580 It's not going to change anything. 962 00:39:08,647 --> 00:39:11,149 Only now, you're going to be out there alone 963 00:39:11,216 --> 00:39:13,351 with no mechanism or apparatus for a comeback. 964 00:39:13,419 --> 00:39:15,421 Leo... Which I'm telling you you can do. 965 00:39:15,487 --> 00:39:16,788 You can make it. 966 00:39:16,855 --> 00:39:18,390 I can help you. 967 00:39:20,191 --> 00:39:23,695 I don't want to take my family through it. 968 00:39:29,768 --> 00:39:32,103 You're a giant, John. 969 00:39:33,138 --> 00:39:34,673 You're a U.S. Senator, 970 00:39:34,740 --> 00:39:37,509 the Vice President of the United States, 971 00:39:37,576 --> 00:39:40,011 and presumptive nominee of your party. 972 00:39:40,078 --> 00:39:43,281 You cannot be taken down by this... cheap person 973 00:39:43,348 --> 00:39:46,251 and her customers huddled around Macy's window 974 00:39:46,317 --> 00:39:49,555 waiting for someone to turn themselves inside out. 975 00:39:49,621 --> 00:39:56,161 It's cause for divorce... not resignation. 976 00:39:56,227 --> 00:40:01,733 You can't be taken down by this cheap person. 977 00:40:02,834 --> 00:40:05,203 The President knows I'm right. 978 00:40:05,270 --> 00:40:08,406 So do you. 979 00:40:10,476 --> 00:40:12,611 The truth is, 980 00:40:12,678 --> 00:40:15,914 I took an oath, too... 981 00:40:15,981 --> 00:40:18,183 so... 982 00:40:20,385 --> 00:40:21,853 Didn't you have any sense 983 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,090 that this was the kind of person who would do this? 984 00:40:27,025 --> 00:40:29,160 Hasn't it been your experience 985 00:40:29,227 --> 00:40:31,730 that they look pretty much like the people who wouldn't? 986 00:40:33,231 --> 00:40:34,566 Well, I want you 987 00:40:34,633 --> 00:40:35,834 to sleep on it. 988 00:40:35,901 --> 00:40:38,169 I want all of us to sleep on it. 989 00:40:40,572 --> 00:40:42,574 Thank you, Mr. President. 990 00:41:07,666 --> 00:41:09,968 ( rolling thunder ) 991 00:41:41,867 --> 00:41:44,002 Why did you take a cab? 992 00:41:44,069 --> 00:41:46,004 ( quietly ): My car wouldn't start. 993 00:41:46,071 --> 00:41:47,806 I'm sorry. 994 00:41:47,873 --> 00:41:50,241 My car wouldn't start. 995 00:41:51,442 --> 00:41:55,146 You know what's in here? 996 00:41:55,213 --> 00:41:57,248 It's okay. 997 00:42:09,327 --> 00:42:11,897 Okay. 998 00:42:25,143 --> 00:42:28,046 Yeah, we're going to need a new Vice President.