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Previously on The West Wing:
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Come by tonight.
We can not talk some more.
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Her mother wants to take her back
to New Hampshire for a while.
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-What do you think?
-I think her mom is right.
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You're gonna have to handle things
for me a little while longer.
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I trust you.
That's why I hired you.
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You're not willing to toss
it overboard to win.
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You're willing to toss it overboard
to avoid disappointing Leo.
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-Come on. We created 9 million jobs.
-We've created no jobs.
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There's lots of ways of looking
at the numbers--
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Work for an economist,
he'll tell you.
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Government doesn't create jobs,
business creates jobs.
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-They did it on our watch.
-Your point?
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This calendar is every event, every
speech the president's gonna give.
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Talk about economic accomplishments.
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-Not when we're losing jobs.
-Put that on a bumper sticker.
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You don't talk about economic
accomplishments in a lousy economy.
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-We put it in a context.
-Don't want people saying:
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"Hey, thanks for the jobs. I've got three,
and I can't make my house payments. "
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Fridays. We don't have
any events on Fridays.
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-Fridays don't count.
-Why not?
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No one watches the Friday evening
news, no one reads the Saturday papers.
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No presidential events on Fridays.
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I can think of a few assignment editors
who'd resent that remark.
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-Nothing on Fridays.
-You don't need my input.
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I'm gonna go home.
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This is how we get past
crisis-of-the-hour.
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Seize the agenda again.
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I'm gonna have nightmares
about color-coded six-day weeks...
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-...with no accomplishments.
-You need to learn.
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I need to see my bed.
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I'm thinking about carrying
a picture of it in my wallet.
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We've barely had a message
since the campaign...
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...let alone since Zoey.
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This is your life
the next three months.
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Seven-four-three-one.
Is that in the OEOB?
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-I'll drop you in Dupont Circle.
-Okay.
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You think we should tout
economic accomplishment?
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-I do.
-Politics isn't about past performance.
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It's "What have you done for me lately
and where's my Turtle Wax?"
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I'd better return this.
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It's someone looking for
one of your jobs.
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See you tomorrow.
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Hi, it's Will Bailey.
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Advertise your product or brand here
contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today
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-Are you Will Bailey?
-I could be. I mean, yes.
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He elected the dead guy.
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-He did the hard part.
-What was that?
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-Dying.
-Is that a joke?
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Not really, no.
Am I in the right place?
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-Thanks for coming on short notice.
-Mr. Vice President.
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-Drink?
-Anything with caffeine.
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-Sir, I wanna say again--
-Forget about the speech.
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-Thank you.
-I admire speechwriters.
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They need the tendency to doubt and
the capacity to believe in equal measure.
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-Why am I here, sir?
-You're the president's voice.
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-You don't think I have an interest?
-At 12: 15 on a weeknight, no.
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I have to work longer hours,
I'm playing with a handicap.
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Spare tire on the automobile
of government.
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Heartbeat away
from having a heartbeat.
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The story of the two brothers. One went
to sea, one became vice president.
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-Neither was heard from again.
-That's new.
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I need more help than that dead guy
you got elected in Orange County.
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-I need some political life support myself.
-I'm afraid I don't follow.
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I'd like you to be my
communications director.
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First senior hire in the White House.
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-I'm flattered, but--
-You don't think I'm politician enough.
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-I didn't say that.
-Play baseball coach a moment.
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Two players run to first.
They have the same time.
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One has perfect form, the other,
lousy form. Which do you pick?
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-The one with lousy form.
-Teach him the right form--
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-He beats the other guy. Neat analogy.
-I know I'm not the best politician.
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But I am vice president
of the United States.
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Imagine what we can do
when you teach me the right form.
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Sir, I'm special assistant
to the president.
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Chief strategist and senior counselor
to the vice president.
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-Are we playing poker?
-I'm showing you my hand.
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You're looking for your own
Toby Ziegler.
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I'm looking for someone
who can beat Toby to first.
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-Thank you, sir, but I'm not interested.
-I like loyalty. I respect loyalty.
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But you can run out the clock
on a Bartlet presidency...
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...that, politically speaking, is over.
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You can finish something
you never started.
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You can run around those little hallways
until Toby turns out the lights.
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Or you can shape the next
presidency from the ground up.
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Total access. Coach of the team.
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Of course, I understand
if you're not interested.
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Did you read it?
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I'm now reading it. There's some
new stuff since the early edition.
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-Great piece.
-It's a puff piece...
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...so I'll return the guy's calls,
which I won't.
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"A one-man Congressional majority.
Bartlet's legislative juggernaut. "
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It's an embarrassment.
You should steal everyone's copies.
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-And burning them on the South Lawn.
-I'm serious.
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-Save one for my mom.
-She'll be proud of her little birthday boy.
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Look, Donna, no gifts, no parties,
just another day, okay?
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-A coffee and... .
-Yeah, with a thing.
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Senior staff in five minutes,
Ward Room at 7:45.
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You're not wearing a tie.
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Like your suit, though.
Liked it when you wore it yesterday too.
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Speaker's trying to roll us again
on stimulus.
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This story about me sending
a congressman a dead fish...
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-...the Post get this from you?
-No.
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-Coffee and a... .
-Yeah.
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Great piece in the Post.
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Your clipping service
must be busy today.
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Why, was there something in the paper?
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101 st senator.
Is that like being the fifth Beatle?
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Yeah, I was the one who played sitar
and made procedural changes.
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So listen, Mr. Rip-Up-the-Constitution-
and-Behold-My-Awesome-Powers.
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-I've got a meeting.
-Mr. Cloture-Motions-Flow-Like-Blood...
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...Through-My-Gavel-Wielding-Veins.
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-Okay, I don't think veins wield gavels.
-HHS Appropriations.
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What about HHS Appropriations?
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How far under budget cap
was our submission?
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Get that from Legislative Affairs.
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-I'm getting it from you.
-Josh, nice piece.
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If the first lady's got some budget
requests, run it through the process.
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The first lady's got nothing.
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Because our budget's locked,
and she's a sensitive topic around here.
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Or not around here,
as the case may be.
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-It's nothing, Josh.
-Nothing's nothing.
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I'll get it from Legislative Affairs.
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Don't. Come on.
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-Nice profile.
-I didn't talk to them.
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Hats off to the
Jewish-Connecticut Corleone.
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I'm still trying to make the cover
of Jane's Defence Weekly.
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-That fish story, you guys--
-Let's talk about the DNC poll.
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We got the first half sample.
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President's job approval's down
to 49 percent.
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Abbey's 11 points higher.
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Personal approval's separate
from job performance.
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But "strong leader" is down,
"handling of economy," way down.
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People don't feel safe with what's going
on, don't feel economically secure.
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Republicans are pounding us, and people
don't think the president's leading.
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They love him at a barbecue,
not so much with launch codes.
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We didn't vote down
the stimulus package.
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Our job's to get that message out.
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And we're gonna do this
like in the campaigns.
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Toby's working a message calendar.
When the president signs off...
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...we treat it like it's chiseled stone.
No lurching from issue to issue...
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...no more governors' brother-in-laws'
bar mitzvahs driving the schedule.
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Just our positive message, opportunity
and security, one day at a time.
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Except Fridays.
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What?
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217 military promotions that were
supposed to pass the Senate last night.
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-What about them?
-A senator put them on anonymous hold.
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-A hold? On military promotions?
-It's Carrick.
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Why would a conservative Democrat
block military promotions?
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He threatened it last week when
he stiffed us on the stimulus package.
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-So much for opportunity and security.
-A fight in our party over the military.
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-It's not gonna be a fight. I got this one.
-No, I'll handle it.
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Thanks, everybody.
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I can handle Carrick.
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-The president's ready in the Residence.
-It's not a thing.
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You're a little hot after last week.
I wanna be sure--
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This is what I do. You got time to
wrangle a senator on the Hill?
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Okay. Thanks. Hey.
I got a message from Legislative Affairs.
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HHS Appropriations. For some reason,
they're reopening the bill.
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HHS Appropriations?
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-You know about this?
-No. No, I don't.
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I'll call them. It's probably nothing.
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Yeah, it's probably nothing.
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-Donna, I need Amy.
-What's wrong?
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Just-- I need Amy.
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-Morning, Mr. President.
-What's with the Belgian elections?
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-Is this a riddle?
-The intelligence briefing.
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The anti-immigrationists are gaining,
doesn't say why or how.
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-You want more on the Flemish Bloc.
-I want a CIA briefer here in person.
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-Why'd I get this on paper?
-You never have briefers in quarters.
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-That was Abbey's rule.
-Yes.
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-What's next?
-Budget review at 9.
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Toby needs you to sign off...
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-...on the message calendar.
-Can't let this sit.
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It's been months since
we had a clear message.
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Months since we reduced a $2-trillion
government to poll-tested bromides.
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You think James Madison ran his
presidency off a message calendar?
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-Probably.
-Life on Mondays...
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...liberty, Wednesdays, shaking off
the yoke of the monarch...
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...on alternate Thursdays.
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Toby needs your okay this morning.
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One more thing. HHS Appropriations.
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Remember our
violence-prevention initiative?
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Republicans gutted it because domestic
violence isn't a public-health issue.
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As if spousal abuse were part
of the Atkins diet.
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The Republicans just reopened the bill
and added back every penny.
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Just like that.
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We'll get you more
on the Flemish thing.
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Five minutes with Amy.
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Take 10, you're over 21.
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-Post said you're the 101 st senator.
-I'm impressed.
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-You read headlines.
-What's that mean?
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I used to work in the Senate,
I do Senate politics, I got some sway.
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-You sent a congressman a dead fish?
-He tried to bottle up the fisheries bill.
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-Is this an inquisition?
-Glad it wasn't a whaling bill.
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Gather up those profiles.
Lord Bullingdon's having a field day.
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-We had a rule today: No gifts.
-Your birthday is not for you...
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-...it's for the rest of us.
-How does that work, exactly?
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We get to eat cake
and wear pointy little hats.
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Don't tell. I don't want one of those
parties in the Indian Treaty Room...
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...where some guy drones on about
how I saved the aquatic weed subsidy.
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Amy doesn't have time.
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-I'm going to the Hill.
-What's on the Hill?
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Some buildings and a big statue.
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I meant the meeting.
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You don't get to know
everything, okay?
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This isn't an all-access pass.
You're not backstage at a concert.
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-You ever been backstage?
-No.
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-It's pretty great.
-I want him sorting mail.
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When consumer confidence drops
seven points instead of two--
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That's not why our poll numbers
are down.
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-Ben again.
-You can stop giving me his messages.
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Plus, Leo's ready for the pre-brief.
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-Who's Ben?
-A guy I lived with for six months.
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I didn't know you lived with a guy.
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-There's a lot you don't know about me.
-Like what?
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Well, that's about it, really.
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-You don't want his calls?
-Oh, if I take his call...
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...it'd be great to hear his voice.
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He has this low, husky radio voice.
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We'd swap memories, old jokes,
pet names...
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...and then it's the frisky little e-mails,
and pretty soon it's, you know...
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...a weekend in Little Washington
and the late-night phone calls...
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...and that's when we start
to get on each other's nerves.
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He has this thing where
he twirls his hair and... .
226
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The bloom's off the rose,
I don't call as much...
227
00:13:00,394 --> 00:13:02,554
...and it's the guilt
and cherchez la femme...
228
00:13:02,732 --> 00:13:05,487
... "Why didn't it work out?"
and it's years till we talk.
229
00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,995
That was like a bad romantic comedy
in 15 seconds.
230
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Straight-to-video.
231
00:13:10,875 --> 00:13:14,164
-What are you getting from the gaggle?
-Drop in consumer confidence.
232
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Pivot to the stimulus package.
233
00:13:16,011 --> 00:13:18,766
New version comes out next week,
give it back to Congress.
234
00:13:19,268 --> 00:13:22,474
Why is the president dragging his feet
on naming a new chairman?
235
00:13:22,650 --> 00:13:25,322
The president's making his decision...
236
00:13:25,489 --> 00:13:27,318
-...one chairman at a time.
-What else?
237
00:13:27,493 --> 00:13:31,081
Reuters has a report that we scrubbed
two paragraphs from an EPA report.
238
00:13:31,252 --> 00:13:34,089
-Scrubbed two paragraphs?
-The EPA's report on energy needs.
239
00:13:34,299 --> 00:13:37,755
Reuters is saying the White House
scrubbed language critical of coal.
240
00:13:37,974 --> 00:13:40,219
What lackey tampers
with an independent report?
241
00:13:40,521 --> 00:13:42,183
You're looking at him.
242
00:13:42,567 --> 00:13:44,229
I didn't mean to... .
243
00:13:44,446 --> 00:13:45,942
Are we defending coal?
244
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Reuters has the original draft.
245
00:13:48,121 --> 00:13:50,662
We have to do a mea culpa,
make it a one-day story.
246
00:13:50,834 --> 00:13:53,839
We're not. "The report will
reflect administration views. "
247
00:13:54,008 --> 00:13:56,086
It's not gonna fly
if they have the draft.
248
00:13:56,305 --> 00:13:59,512
"The report will reflect
administration views," that's the line.
249
00:13:59,687 --> 00:14:01,017
What else?
250
00:14:01,566 --> 00:14:03,477
Great. Thanks.
251
00:14:08,915 --> 00:14:10,494
You worried about that EPA thing?
252
00:14:10,669 --> 00:14:14,089
I'm worried about anything
that takes us off our new message.
253
00:14:14,260 --> 00:14:16,836
Now that we've officially settled
on our new message.
254
00:14:17,016 --> 00:14:19,141
What's our new message?
255
00:14:21,651 --> 00:14:24,061
-Some changes.
-The president signed off.
256
00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,493
-I thought I'd have a chance to weigh in.
-You'll have a big role.
257
00:14:27,663 --> 00:14:29,741
Hand-coloring copies of the calendar?
258
00:14:29,918 --> 00:14:33,921
You need to sit with the Labor secretary,
Commerce secretary, vice president.
259
00:14:34,094 --> 00:14:36,089
Walk them through
their economic speeches.
260
00:14:36,265 --> 00:14:38,890
-That's a bad idea.
-We've been over this.
261
00:14:39,062 --> 00:14:41,521
If the president stumps
for the stimulus package...
262
00:14:41,693 --> 00:14:43,772
...Iook at the calendar,
then the Labor secretary--
263
00:14:43,948 --> 00:14:46,952
The vice president, we can't pretend
he's a Cabinet flunky.
264
00:14:47,121 --> 00:14:49,282
Right. Cabinet flunkies
have responsibilities.
265
00:14:49,460 --> 00:14:51,585
He's a constitutional officer,
get his input.
266
00:14:51,756 --> 00:14:55,295
-I am not interested in his input.
-What if he doesn't like it?
267
00:14:55,473 --> 00:14:57,218
-You want me in the meeting?
-No.
268
00:14:57,393 --> 00:14:59,721
Give him his assignment.
I don't care if he likes it.
269
00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:02,737
You work for the president,
so does he.
270
00:15:16,685 --> 00:15:19,689
-Mr. Lyman.
-I get it. Idaho. That's funny.
271
00:15:19,858 --> 00:15:21,603
Do you have an appointment?
272
00:15:21,779 --> 00:15:24,273
No, but he'll wanna see me.
273
00:15:24,493 --> 00:15:26,571
Josh Lyman from the White House.
274
00:15:26,748 --> 00:15:28,208
Go on in.
275
00:15:28,585 --> 00:15:31,043
I'm surprised the White House
sent Senator Lyman.
276
00:15:31,216 --> 00:15:33,376
You can't block military promotions.
277
00:15:33,554 --> 00:15:37,425
We can't have an intraparty fight when
Republicans are thrashing us on security.
278
00:15:37,604 --> 00:15:39,017
Oh, I don't wanna fight.
279
00:15:39,191 --> 00:15:43,573
These are career officers who've risked
their lives in the Gulf, in Africa.
280
00:15:43,742 --> 00:15:47,281
We'll keep promises to our troops once
we keep our promises to each other.
281
00:15:47,458 --> 00:15:51,626
-What promises are those?
-The MB-827 triple-missile launcher.
282
00:15:53,221 --> 00:15:54,882
The MB-827.
283
00:15:55,058 --> 00:15:58,062
To be built in my state of Idaho.
284
00:15:58,399 --> 00:16:00,477
I'd like a signed letter of intent today.
285
00:16:01,446 --> 00:16:03,737
-Senator.
-Yes?
286
00:16:03,910 --> 00:16:07,080
-One problem with the MB-827 launcher.
-What's that?
287
00:16:07,251 --> 00:16:08,996
It doesn't work.
288
00:16:09,171 --> 00:16:12,342
It's a missile defense system
that can't hit missiles.
289
00:16:12,512 --> 00:16:16,466
It's a $270-million slingshot
the Pentagon doesn't want.
290
00:16:16,645 --> 00:16:19,686
Let's talk about why
you wanna build that launcher.
291
00:16:19,861 --> 00:16:23,447
No, let's talk about what
you're gonna do for our underpaid...
292
00:16:23,619 --> 00:16:25,530
...under-promoted fighting
men and women.
293
00:16:25,706 --> 00:16:27,831
Not a damn thing
till I get my launcher.
294
00:16:28,462 --> 00:16:31,800
-And when were you promised we'd--?
-Seven years ago.
295
00:16:32,221 --> 00:16:34,928
-Under the last president?
-Right.
296
00:16:35,477 --> 00:16:39,943
Okay, a bunch of things have fallen by
the wayside since then, like communism.
297
00:16:41,114 --> 00:16:43,026
You want promotions,
give me my launcher.
298
00:16:43,202 --> 00:16:46,741
If you want party favors, you shouldn't
have voted with the Republicans.
299
00:16:46,918 --> 00:16:50,422
You shouldn't have voted with them
to kill our stimulus package.
300
00:16:50,593 --> 00:16:56,389
You tell Leo McGarry I look forward
to a letter approving the MB-827.
301
00:16:57,441 --> 00:16:59,685
I want these to go back
to the staff secretary.
302
00:16:59,862 --> 00:17:02,356
-Absolutely, Mr. President.
-Thank you.
303
00:17:02,535 --> 00:17:04,328
Did you hear about the chief justice?
304
00:17:04,497 --> 00:17:08,546
He was presiding over a moot court.
Thought he was at the Supreme Court.
305
00:17:09,341 --> 00:17:12,096
Fine, if we can get NYU to rule
on the Second Amendment.
306
00:17:12,264 --> 00:17:14,805
-He's losing it, Leo.
-It's a lifetime appointment.
307
00:17:15,020 --> 00:17:17,514
That doesn't mean he gets
to decompose on the bench.
308
00:17:17,693 --> 00:17:19,937
-Are we taking care of Carrick?
-Josh is.
309
00:17:20,574 --> 00:17:25,122
There's more on HHS Appropriations.
Violence prevention's now been doubled.
310
00:17:25,292 --> 00:17:28,046
-It went from gutted to doubled?
-Two hundred million.
311
00:17:28,214 --> 00:17:30,791
-Budget problem?
-Legislative Affairs are concerned.
312
00:17:30,970 --> 00:17:35,138
It could cut into bioterrorism, global
pandemics. 200 million's real money.
313
00:17:35,354 --> 00:17:38,810
You think the Republicans want to
make it so expensive we'll cut it?
314
00:17:39,030 --> 00:17:41,904
-It's possible.
-They trying to outflank us on the left?
315
00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:45,622
-I can't see why.
-Let's find out.
316
00:17:45,794 --> 00:17:49,464
Josh is against the launcher because
he thinks it's make-work jobs for Idaho.
317
00:17:49,635 --> 00:17:53,258
But he supports workfare,
which gives people make-work jobs.
318
00:17:53,435 --> 00:17:56,274
Find me a military contractor
on food stamps and we'll talk.
319
00:17:56,484 --> 00:17:59,404
-Josh's guidance on the DSCC.
-Thanks.
320
00:18:02,329 --> 00:18:05,119
So I'm giving Josh
an expensive birthday present.
321
00:18:05,335 --> 00:18:08,174
Can't. You're his subordinate,
that's a violation of ethics.
322
00:18:08,342 --> 00:18:10,087
Then I'm giving it to you.
323
00:18:10,263 --> 00:18:11,972
You're my subordinate...
324
00:18:12,183 --> 00:18:15,354
...and I don't think you even bought
a present at all.
325
00:18:16,526 --> 00:18:20,778
There's a party
at the Australian Embassy later.
326
00:18:20,952 --> 00:18:22,994
-Are you...?
-No.
327
00:18:24,251 --> 00:18:26,126
It's just... .
328
00:18:26,756 --> 00:18:30,295
There aren't enough books in the
District of Columbia for you to stand on.
329
00:18:30,515 --> 00:18:32,806
How about suburban Maryland?
330
00:18:39,074 --> 00:18:42,613
-How's Carrick?
-He wants the MB-827 missile launcher.
331
00:18:42,790 --> 00:18:44,370
-The one that doesn't work.
-Yeah.
332
00:18:44,544 --> 00:18:47,501
The 97th Airborne's a stickler
for that kind of thing too.
333
00:18:47,675 --> 00:18:49,386
I got a breakdown on the promotions.
334
00:18:49,555 --> 00:18:51,930
Two dozen are headed
for rotations in the Gulf.
335
00:18:52,102 --> 00:18:54,097
If they're not promoted,
they can't leave.
336
00:18:54,273 --> 00:18:56,268
Carrick wants that launcher today.
337
00:18:56,445 --> 00:19:01,028
I'm gonna send Fitzwallace to cut a deal,
call it his farewell tour.
338
00:19:01,205 --> 00:19:02,748
I've got a better idea.
339
00:19:02,916 --> 00:19:07,334
No Fitzwallace, no letter, no deal.
Five years, he's voted Republican.
340
00:19:07,509 --> 00:19:10,003
Switched his vote,
jammed us on the stimulus package.
341
00:19:10,182 --> 00:19:12,723
That's why we're in this mess.
We wanna roll over?
342
00:19:12,938 --> 00:19:16,145
He's a Democrat from Idaho,
they use Democrats for target practice.
343
00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,315
Sometimes he's gotta
lean to the right.
344
00:19:18,492 --> 00:19:20,367
We give him everything.
He screws us.
345
00:19:20,538 --> 00:19:22,865
He makes Machiavelli
look like a social worker.
346
00:19:23,085 --> 00:19:26,421
We need his vote when we bring
stimulus up, we need it on our agenda.
347
00:19:26,592 --> 00:19:29,466
So we reward him for rolling us?
That'll keep him in line?
348
00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,100
We can't afford an ugly fight.
349
00:19:31,268 --> 00:19:34,973
Unless we want more, we gotta
stop feeding the hand that bites us.
350
00:19:35,152 --> 00:19:37,728
No Fitzwallace, no letter, no deal.
351
00:19:40,288 --> 00:19:42,033
I need your proxy on this.
352
00:19:43,168 --> 00:19:46,007
Okay. But go easy.
353
00:19:48,179 --> 00:19:52,396
That "one-man majority" stuff,
you know they didn't get that from me.
354
00:19:52,564 --> 00:19:54,809
I don't care about
The Washington Post.
355
00:19:54,986 --> 00:19:57,064
Take care of Carrick.
356
00:20:00,121 --> 00:20:03,958
Call Carrick's chief of staff.
The launcher's off the table.
357
00:20:04,130 --> 00:20:06,422
Tell him there's no such thing
as a free launch.
358
00:20:06,594 --> 00:20:09,433
-That's cute.
-Just made it up.
359
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,512
Amy can see you from 1: 10 to 1: 15.
360
00:20:11,688 --> 00:20:13,350
How about telling me I can see her.
361
00:20:13,525 --> 00:20:17,278
I got five minutes for her. She can
wait in my office all day if necessary.
362
00:20:17,450 --> 00:20:20,657
-Amy can see you from 1: 10 to 1: 15.
-Fine.
363
00:20:20,833 --> 00:20:22,911
Is this a private birthday celebration?
364
00:20:23,087 --> 00:20:24,916
Need some dollar bills and a smock?
365
00:20:25,091 --> 00:20:27,300
It's a meeting, would you...?
366
00:20:27,472 --> 00:20:29,383
I don't do birthday celebrations.
367
00:20:29,559 --> 00:20:31,388
Childhood trauma, I presume?
368
00:20:31,563 --> 00:20:35,019
My 7th birthday, my parents
hired a birthday clown.
369
00:20:35,197 --> 00:20:37,025
Big nose, seltzer bottle, whole drill.
370
00:20:37,201 --> 00:20:41,072
He did all his tricks for my sister.
She got to keep one of his floppy shoes.
371
00:20:41,251 --> 00:20:43,875
Okay, I wouldn't tell that
to anyone else.
372
00:20:44,048 --> 00:20:45,794
Tell Amy's office I'm on my way.
373
00:20:46,011 --> 00:20:48,552
Copy this.
Get me the committee roster. Thanks.
374
00:20:48,725 --> 00:20:51,135
-Nice profile, Josh.
-Thanks.
375
00:20:51,314 --> 00:20:57,276
So this guy calls his mother,
he says, "Mom, how are you?"
376
00:20:57,453 --> 00:21:01,537
She says, "I'm terrible.
I haven't eaten in 38 days. "
377
00:21:01,711 --> 00:21:04,003
"Why haven't you eaten in 38 days?"
378
00:21:04,509 --> 00:21:07,348
"I didn't want my mouth to be full
in case you should call. "
379
00:21:07,557 --> 00:21:10,265
-You telling me to call my mom?
-I'm telling you a joke.
380
00:21:10,438 --> 00:21:15,485
What's the first lady doing? Why do you
need lists of Congressional committees?
381
00:21:15,658 --> 00:21:19,197
I'm Amy Gardner, I work for
Abigail Bartlet. Have we met?
382
00:21:19,416 --> 00:21:21,292
She's running around
the budget process.
383
00:21:21,462 --> 00:21:23,457
-You're not supposed to--
-Run her office?
384
00:21:23,633 --> 00:21:26,174
Leo's onto what you're doing
with HHS Appropriations.
385
00:21:26,347 --> 00:21:28,758
I practically lied.
Next time, I'm not gonna.
386
00:21:28,978 --> 00:21:32,184
-Will I find a horse's head on my desk?
-Don't tempt me.
387
00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,614
-You got a problem, call--
-Like I'm gonna get between the Bartlets.
388
00:21:35,826 --> 00:21:37,571
You run it through the process.
389
00:21:37,746 --> 00:21:40,454
Afraid we're gonna get called
to the principal's office?
390
00:21:40,670 --> 00:21:42,331
I am the principal's office.
391
00:21:43,258 --> 00:21:47,557
-Call your mother.
-Thanks.
392
00:21:47,726 --> 00:21:50,932
Is the president concerned
joblessness will affect his standing?
393
00:21:51,108 --> 00:21:53,863
The president's concern is passing
his stimulus package...
394
00:21:54,031 --> 00:21:55,492
...to get Americans good jobs.
395
00:21:55,659 --> 00:21:58,913
He's hopeful Congress will move
his new version to the floor.
396
00:21:59,083 --> 00:22:02,587
Does the president wish his press
were as good as Josh Lyman's?
397
00:22:02,758 --> 00:22:05,169
We've set up a whole wing
to handle his paparazzi.
398
00:22:05,346 --> 00:22:08,636
I'm just hoping for a decent table
at the Palm. Yes.
399
00:22:08,812 --> 00:22:12,814
The EPA says the White House censored
a report critical of coal-based energy.
400
00:22:12,988 --> 00:22:14,365
Is that appropriate?
401
00:22:14,533 --> 00:22:17,906
The White House feels the EPA report
will reflect administration views.
402
00:22:18,082 --> 00:22:22,250
Not the EPA's. Their draft cited stunted
trees, poisoned fish and wildlife...
403
00:22:22,466 --> 00:22:24,591
...as just some of the problems
with coal--
404
00:22:24,763 --> 00:22:27,304
The report will lay out views
on a range of issues.
405
00:22:27,477 --> 00:22:29,721
Why'd the White House tamper
with an independent report?
406
00:22:29,899 --> 00:22:31,443
-I addressed that.
-You haven't.
407
00:22:31,611 --> 00:22:34,615
Why is independent analysis
subject to White House censorship?
408
00:22:34,826 --> 00:22:36,453
I don't accept your premise.
409
00:22:36,622 --> 00:22:39,115
I'm sure you all look forward
to reading the report.
410
00:22:39,294 --> 00:22:42,749
I've read both the censored one
and the original. Are you defending--?
411
00:22:42,927 --> 00:22:47,095
If there was interference with an
independent report, that was a mistake.
412
00:22:48,856 --> 00:22:50,566
-Margaret!
-But I assure you...
413
00:22:50,735 --> 00:22:54,357
... the final report will reflect
administration policy. Sally.
414
00:22:54,535 --> 00:22:57,789
It's been months since Admiral
Fitzwallace announced his retirement.
415
00:22:57,959 --> 00:22:59,419
Is the president sticking... ?
416
00:23:05,016 --> 00:23:06,844
I'll see him.
417
00:23:07,772 --> 00:23:11,690
-Something you wanna say, say it now.
-They had both drafts, there was--
418
00:23:11,864 --> 00:23:14,191
I gave you the line.
Who said you could drop it?
419
00:23:14,369 --> 00:23:17,741
Coal is the dirtiest energy on the planet.
That's worth censoring?
420
00:23:17,959 --> 00:23:20,287
What wasn't in that report
was any clean coal.
421
00:23:20,507 --> 00:23:22,834
-Any mention of... .
-Clean coal's a myth.
422
00:23:23,054 --> 00:23:25,013
They turn it into gas and steam.
423
00:23:25,225 --> 00:23:28,396
Clean coal's like saying healthy
botulism, child-safe plutonium.
424
00:23:28,608 --> 00:23:31,862
Tell me the alternative.
Getting people to stop using electricity?
425
00:23:32,032 --> 00:23:35,202
I don't know, neither does the EPA,
but they're telling the truth.
426
00:23:35,372 --> 00:23:37,366
And we gagged them.
Who gave us the right?
427
00:23:37,543 --> 00:23:39,373
Are we surprised our polls are down?
428
00:23:39,547 --> 00:23:43,384
We have a responsibility to the country,
we can't just spin any line we make up.
429
00:23:43,556 --> 00:23:46,893
You have a responsibility.
When I give you the line, that's the line.
430
00:23:47,063 --> 00:23:50,519
-Not when no one will believe it.
-Put out a statement in your own name.
431
00:23:50,696 --> 00:23:52,691
It's gonna say what you should
have said...
432
00:23:52,868 --> 00:23:54,577
...that we stand behind that report.
433
00:23:57,461 --> 00:23:59,254
-You don't want me to do that.
-I do.
434
00:23:59,423 --> 00:24:01,964
That's saying I wasn't speaking
for this White House.
435
00:24:02,179 --> 00:24:04,304
You weren't.
436
00:24:09,027 --> 00:24:11,651
On my desk within the hour.
437
00:24:11,866 --> 00:24:14,871
Violence prevention jumped
another 30 million in an hour?
438
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,249
It's a bidding war, sir.
439
00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:20,211
Do we know why it's happening?
440
00:24:21,930 --> 00:24:24,804
-Do we or don't we?
-Direct request from the first lady...
441
00:24:24,978 --> 00:24:29,110
...to the members of the
HHS Appropriations subcommittee, sir.
442
00:24:30,031 --> 00:24:31,776
After Zoey's kidnapping...
443
00:24:31,951 --> 00:24:34,790
...she's hugely popular,
even in the Republican conference.
444
00:24:34,957 --> 00:24:37,997
First lady's office requested it.
They're fighting to fund it.
445
00:24:38,172 --> 00:24:40,214
What does this mean
for the CDC budget?
446
00:24:40,385 --> 00:24:42,594
They're cutting almost everything
to make room.
447
00:24:42,765 --> 00:24:45,770
Bioterror, infectious diseases.
448
00:24:45,939 --> 00:24:47,850
-Do you wanna call the first lady?
-No.
449
00:24:48,236 --> 00:24:50,230
-Would you like us to work--?
-Don't.
450
00:24:50,407 --> 00:24:53,495
-Thank you.
-Thank you, Mr. President.
451
00:25:00,637 --> 00:25:02,513
Don't touch that.
452
00:25:05,355 --> 00:25:07,315
Don't touch that either.
453
00:25:07,610 --> 00:25:09,569
Pierce.
454
00:25:15,753 --> 00:25:18,542
Your family's had a lot
of press attention, right?
455
00:25:18,717 --> 00:25:22,969
My great-great-great-granddad whipped
up a lather when he annexed Cuba.
456
00:25:23,143 --> 00:25:25,388
I mean, since Reconstruction.
457
00:25:25,565 --> 00:25:28,854
-Yeah, we get some press.
-How do you, you know, deal with it?
458
00:25:29,031 --> 00:25:30,942
I never read any of it.
459
00:25:31,118 --> 00:25:33,909
-Really?
-Actually, I read all of it.
460
00:25:34,125 --> 00:25:37,498
-So answer the question.
-The biggest enemy of truth isn't the lie.
461
00:25:37,674 --> 00:25:40,429
-It's the myth.
-Meaning what?
462
00:25:40,597 --> 00:25:43,352
Meaning I'd be better off
if I never read any of it.
463
00:25:45,148 --> 00:25:46,811
Hey.
464
00:25:54,126 --> 00:25:55,456
Happy birthday, by the way.
465
00:25:55,629 --> 00:25:57,707
I really don't want you
making a big deal.
466
00:25:57,926 --> 00:26:01,049
-I was all done.
-Good.
467
00:26:01,225 --> 00:26:03,766
I walked the minority leader
through the calendar.
468
00:26:03,939 --> 00:26:06,183
Triplehorn ought to be jazzed,
his stuff's on.
469
00:26:06,361 --> 00:26:09,483
He tells me we're not giving Carrick
a missile launcher he wants.
470
00:26:09,659 --> 00:26:11,452
The minority leader wants us to cave.
471
00:26:11,621 --> 00:26:15,125
If he could manage his own caucus,
we wouldn't have this problem.
472
00:26:15,296 --> 00:26:17,755
We can't win back
the Senate without him.
473
00:26:18,345 --> 00:26:21,966
You're suggesting we build
a multimillion dollar heap of garbage?
474
00:26:22,645 --> 00:26:25,270
Sometimes they find
other uses for the technology.
475
00:26:25,443 --> 00:26:27,771
Turn it into a toaster
that doesn't make toast.
476
00:26:27,948 --> 00:26:30,074
This has zero to do
with defense technology.
477
00:26:30,245 --> 00:26:32,786
The minority leader thinks
we could lose our chance...
478
00:26:32,959 --> 00:26:36,331
...to get him on the new
stimulus package, on our tax bill.
479
00:26:36,508 --> 00:26:40,012
-It's a bluff.
-Forty-nine percent job approval.
480
00:26:40,225 --> 00:26:42,219
We gotta get off this,
on to our issues.
481
00:26:42,396 --> 00:26:46,861
The stuff this guy has already bilked us
for, out of a state of about nine people--
482
00:26:47,031 --> 00:26:50,284
He's an endangered species,
if he needs a little pork... .
483
00:26:50,454 --> 00:26:54,587
The Volcanic Soil Museum,
the Canola Oil Fuel Cell Initiative.
484
00:26:54,756 --> 00:26:56,132
It's low-fat pork.
485
00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:58,378
Shakespeare in
Military Communities Program.
486
00:26:58,555 --> 00:27:00,050
What's wrong with Hemingway?
487
00:27:00,726 --> 00:27:03,399
-Maybe we cut our losses.
-That's easy for you to say.
488
00:27:03,607 --> 00:27:06,612
I lost him on stimulus,
I have to get him on our agenda.
489
00:27:06,781 --> 00:27:10,783
I'm the one lacing up concrete shoes
on the front page of the Post.
490
00:27:14,798 --> 00:27:18,052
Been on a--? Have you been on
a fishing trawler recently?
491
00:27:18,264 --> 00:27:20,342
Donna!
492
00:27:21,478 --> 00:27:24,649
I'm fine on Carrick.
Do your job, I'll do mine.
493
00:27:27,032 --> 00:27:30,203
It stinks in here. It's like working
in Moby Dick's gym locker.
494
00:27:30,582 --> 00:27:32,957
What do you expect?
A fish was here all night.
495
00:27:33,171 --> 00:27:35,878
-All night?
-Amy left it last night.
496
00:27:36,051 --> 00:27:37,084
Amy?
497
00:27:41,020 --> 00:27:43,264
Mr. President.
498
00:27:44,570 --> 00:27:47,610
We're doing pretty well
on violence prevention.
499
00:27:47,869 --> 00:27:49,281
-Yes.
-They were gonna gut it.
500
00:27:49,455 --> 00:27:51,580
-First lady turned it around.
-You don't--
501
00:27:52,211 --> 00:27:55,666
We probably should have run it
through Legislative Affairs.
502
00:27:55,885 --> 00:27:58,129
I'm not gonna have Abbey
jump through hoops.
503
00:27:58,307 --> 00:28:01,431
Intimate partner violence affects
more people than breast cancer.
504
00:28:01,606 --> 00:28:03,435
-How many calls today?
-Sir?
505
00:28:03,610 --> 00:28:07,909
The first lady, how many calls did she
make to members of the subcommittee?
506
00:28:08,078 --> 00:28:09,408
No calls.
507
00:28:09,582 --> 00:28:13,714
She's hiking in the White Mountains.
She made no calls, you made them.
508
00:28:14,508 --> 00:28:17,263
-It's a cause she believes in.
-Don't tell me what she believes.
509
00:28:17,473 --> 00:28:20,976
-I'm telling the Congress.
-My wife is not a budget appropriation.
510
00:28:21,148 --> 00:28:23,642
She's not a line.
Don't put words in her mouth.
511
00:28:23,820 --> 00:28:26,859
Don't treat her like
she's your blank checkbook.
512
00:28:28,789 --> 00:28:30,665
With due respect,
it's what she'd want.
513
00:28:32,463 --> 00:28:35,801
She has to be here to want things.
514
00:28:36,096 --> 00:28:39,053
And you don't have to be here at all.
515
00:28:43,028 --> 00:28:45,022
You wanted economic events
shaded green.
516
00:28:45,199 --> 00:28:46,861
I said, blue. Blue.
517
00:28:47,036 --> 00:28:49,660
Green is the color of money.
518
00:28:49,834 --> 00:28:51,413
This is about people's lives.
519
00:28:51,587 --> 00:28:53,000
What color are those?
520
00:28:53,174 --> 00:28:55,667
Just stick to black and white,
quill and parchment.
521
00:28:55,846 --> 00:28:59,302
I need this for the Treasury secretary.
Did you get the VP's sign-off?
522
00:28:59,479 --> 00:29:02,234
-Not exactly.
-What did you get, exactly?
523
00:29:02,402 --> 00:29:06,107
He offered me a job last night
as his chief strategist.
524
00:29:10,043 --> 00:29:11,373
What's funny?
525
00:29:11,672 --> 00:29:15,971
Russell's an empty cowboy suit, you
work for the leader of the free world.
526
00:29:16,307 --> 00:29:20,178
I work for a guy who works for a guy
who works for the leader of the world.
527
00:29:21,568 --> 00:29:24,441
Treasury secretary's ready
in the Roosevelt Room.
528
00:29:25,159 --> 00:29:27,034
The calendar. I need the calendar.
529
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,040
He has lunches with the president,
direct access.
530
00:29:31,214 --> 00:29:34,502
-He's not taking orders from us.
-What did you tell Russell?
531
00:29:34,679 --> 00:29:37,137
I didn't tell him anything. Yet.
532
00:29:38,020 --> 00:29:40,145
-You're not considering it.
-Clock's running.
533
00:29:40,316 --> 00:29:42,893
-You're not considering it.
-How long are we gonna make calendars?
534
00:29:43,072 --> 00:29:45,317
You think I wanna be making calendars?
535
00:29:45,494 --> 00:29:48,452
You think I like being in a P.R.
dogfight with Congress...
536
00:29:48,625 --> 00:29:50,917
...writing banner copy for photo-ops?
537
00:29:52,885 --> 00:29:54,880
The Treasury secretary's waiting.
538
00:29:55,349 --> 00:29:58,471
And did you want all this flush-right?
539
00:30:02,948 --> 00:30:05,239
Calendars aren't... .
540
00:30:06,998 --> 00:30:10,287
It's a calendar, make it look like
a calendar. How hard is that?
541
00:30:13,554 --> 00:30:17,888
This is the NBA.
You don't go back to shirts and skins.
542
00:30:35,475 --> 00:30:37,268
"Amy, looks like you had a tough day.
543
00:30:37,438 --> 00:30:40,228
Tell me all about it
while I give you a foot massage. "
544
00:30:41,322 --> 00:30:44,075
Okay. Let's talk about the fish.
545
00:30:44,452 --> 00:30:46,744
You don't understand this building.
546
00:30:46,958 --> 00:30:49,202
Not being an architect
or a steamfitter.
547
00:30:49,380 --> 00:30:53,049
I'm talking about a code,
an ethos you don't understand.
548
00:30:53,264 --> 00:30:55,305
-Josh, I was just... .
-That Post profile...
549
00:30:55,477 --> 00:30:57,436
...the "legislative juggernaut" ...
550
00:30:57,648 --> 00:31:00,438
...all those anecdotes,
all those quotes came from you.
551
00:31:01,405 --> 00:31:06,037
-Happy birthday.
-We don't glorify ourselves.
552
00:31:06,207 --> 00:31:10,080
How is the president gonna feel
when I've got better press than him?
553
00:31:10,258 --> 00:31:12,586
How is every Congressional
staffer gonna feel...
554
00:31:12,764 --> 00:31:15,970
...when I'm taking victory laps
the week after losing a key vote?
555
00:31:16,187 --> 00:31:18,182
Like you're not gonna
lose the next one.
556
00:31:18,358 --> 00:31:21,316
We don't advertise,
it's not the code.
557
00:31:21,532 --> 00:31:24,406
It's not the code to look
strong to your constituents?
558
00:31:24,580 --> 00:31:26,409
The only constituency that matters...
559
00:31:26,584 --> 00:31:29,078
...is the constituency of the guy
in the round room.
560
00:31:29,257 --> 00:31:32,260
I came here to work on issues,
not be part of a messianic cult.
561
00:31:32,430 --> 00:31:34,140
Serve the issues by serving the man.
562
00:31:34,309 --> 00:31:37,229
I'm pretty sure the man
just revoked my parking privileges.
563
00:31:37,649 --> 00:31:40,060
-What?
-I'm pretty sure I was just fired...
564
00:31:40,238 --> 00:31:44,111
...by the president of the United States
for doing my job.
565
00:31:44,497 --> 00:31:46,042
HHS Appropriations.
566
00:31:47,504 --> 00:31:48,834
Sort of.
567
00:31:49,007 --> 00:31:52,177
Apologize. You gotta go apologize.
568
00:31:52,389 --> 00:31:54,680
I've got a constituency
of one too, Josh.
569
00:31:54,853 --> 00:31:56,183
But it's me.
570
00:32:02,369 --> 00:32:05,207
Hang on.
Just hang on a second, okay?
571
00:32:06,753 --> 00:32:09,081
Senator Carrick held up
another 56 promotions.
572
00:32:09,258 --> 00:32:11,883
-What?
-The Army secretary wants a meeting.
573
00:32:12,056 --> 00:32:15,429
Unless the meeting's to strap
Carrick to his idiot missile launcher...
574
00:32:15,606 --> 00:32:18,479
...and fling him headfirst into an ICBM,
which he'll miss--
575
00:32:18,653 --> 00:32:20,447
He's concerned if it becomes public--
576
00:32:20,616 --> 00:32:22,742
-I'm making it public.
-You are?
577
00:32:22,912 --> 00:32:27,331
I'm leaking to every newspaper that
Carrick's blocking military promotions...
578
00:32:27,506 --> 00:32:30,843
...that he's doing it for a hunk
of pork-barrel, defense scrap metal.
579
00:32:31,013 --> 00:32:32,758
-You're sure?
-I'm calling his bluff.
580
00:32:32,934 --> 00:32:36,521
I'm making him crawl down here
on his knees. I'll be in the Press Office.
581
00:32:50,137 --> 00:32:52,215
Sorry about before.
582
00:32:55,774 --> 00:32:59,646
You have a future here.
583
00:32:59,824 --> 00:33:02,532
-We should talk about it.
-I'd like to.
584
00:33:04,752 --> 00:33:07,959
My portfolio, the speeches,
the day-to-day...
585
00:33:09,052 --> 00:33:10,549
...I'm gonna give it to you.
586
00:33:10,765 --> 00:33:12,260
-You're leaving.
-Stepping back.
587
00:33:12,435 --> 00:33:14,810
To do big think
and work on the legacy.
588
00:33:15,024 --> 00:33:18,313
You're never gonna give up the job.
You're not capable of it.
589
00:33:18,531 --> 00:33:21,155
You could move from
Pennsylvania Avenue to the state.
590
00:33:21,328 --> 00:33:23,240
It's a Commonwealth.
We'll figure it out.
591
00:33:23,416 --> 00:33:25,791
-I don't want your job.
-Why not?
592
00:33:26,005 --> 00:33:28,048
Bartlet's never gonna finish the job.
593
00:33:28,218 --> 00:33:30,628
Name an issue,
you're still clawing your way back.
594
00:33:30,807 --> 00:33:32,968
Someone has to be ready
to take the handoff.
595
00:33:34,565 --> 00:33:36,477
You took the Russell job.
596
00:33:40,703 --> 00:33:43,624
This isn't a line on a résumé.
597
00:33:43,793 --> 00:33:45,669
None of us.
598
00:33:47,218 --> 00:33:49,592
-You don't walk away.
-We're on the same team.
599
00:33:49,806 --> 00:33:52,644
Yeah, well,
maybe we'll print up T-shirts.
600
00:33:56,654 --> 00:33:59,693
-Your statement on the coal thing?
-It just went out.
601
00:34:01,164 --> 00:34:04,500
-There's a typo in the... .
-Carol caught it.
602
00:34:04,963 --> 00:34:06,958
-Okay.
-Is that all?
603
00:34:07,176 --> 00:34:09,634
I don't like coal any more than you do.
604
00:34:09,807 --> 00:34:12,515
But tomorrow, we're gonna
get the results of that poll.
605
00:34:12,688 --> 00:34:15,527
I'm gonna have to tell him
his numbers are crumbling...
606
00:34:15,695 --> 00:34:17,523
...the dogs don't like the dog food...
607
00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:19,694
-...on the eve of a budget fight.
-I know.
608
00:34:19,870 --> 00:34:23,290
We attack the coal industry and
however many thousand coalminers...
609
00:34:23,503 --> 00:34:26,709
...and what's our answer? Nuclear?
Drill in the Arctic?
610
00:34:26,885 --> 00:34:29,557
Forty percent unemployment
in West Virginia?
611
00:34:29,724 --> 00:34:33,429
Like it or not, we're the Saudi Arabia
of coal, coal's what we've got.
612
00:34:33,607 --> 00:34:35,733
The EPA's an independent agency, Leo.
613
00:34:35,904 --> 00:34:39,823
The day we don't get blamed for their
screwups, count them as independent.
614
00:34:39,997 --> 00:34:41,825
-I disagree.
-Okay.
615
00:34:42,001 --> 00:34:45,254
And holding your line makes it
a two- or three-day story at least.
616
00:34:45,424 --> 00:34:48,595
The whole room thinks we screwed up
whether we admit it or not.
617
00:34:48,765 --> 00:34:51,520
-You made that point.
-I appreciate your apology.
618
00:34:51,688 --> 00:34:55,191
If I'm gonna fulfill my duty, I don't
need to know what you're thinking.
619
00:34:55,362 --> 00:34:59,151
I need to know that you're listening
to me when I say you made a mistake.
620
00:34:59,330 --> 00:35:01,823
I'm not apologizing to you.
621
00:35:02,419 --> 00:35:05,507
I'm telling you my thinking
as a courtesy.
622
00:35:05,676 --> 00:35:09,096
But you work for me. When I make
a decision, that's the decision.
623
00:35:09,267 --> 00:35:12,936
If you can't back it up,
don't go in the briefing room.
624
00:35:16,073 --> 00:35:19,362
-We are here to serve the country.
-We are the country.
625
00:35:22,671 --> 00:35:26,258
-Mr. President, Amy Gardner's here.
-Thanks, Charlie.
626
00:35:33,861 --> 00:35:37,031
The Flemish Bloc
is gaining in the north.
627
00:35:37,536 --> 00:35:38,865
Excuse me, sir?
628
00:35:39,039 --> 00:35:42,162
The Flemish Bloc,
ultranationalists in Belgium.
629
00:35:42,338 --> 00:35:44,748
Skinheads, really. Neo-Nazis.
630
00:35:44,927 --> 00:35:48,798
They're wearing three-piece suits,
speaking in coded discourse now...
631
00:35:48,977 --> 00:35:52,432
...instead of angry chants,
and they're gaining in the north.
632
00:35:52,610 --> 00:35:54,105
Everyone wears the same suit...
633
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,952
...how does anyone know
which side they're on anymore?
634
00:35:57,119 --> 00:36:00,040
-You asked to see me, Mr. President.
-You're not fired.
635
00:36:01,336 --> 00:36:04,460
Abbey would choose you
over me anyway.
636
00:36:11,024 --> 00:36:13,184
I think it's best for me to leave, sir.
637
00:36:14,531 --> 00:36:16,573
What I did today, lobbying, prodding...
638
00:36:16,786 --> 00:36:19,327
...prying money out of that
HHS subcommittee...
639
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:21,579
...that's what I'm good at.
640
00:36:22,297 --> 00:36:27,464
I wasn't made to serve
at someone else's pleasure.
641
00:36:27,642 --> 00:36:31,015
I don't think my staying
would please anyone anyway.
642
00:36:32,319 --> 00:36:34,194
She didn't... .
643
00:36:34,365 --> 00:36:37,073
I didn't talk to Abbey about this.
644
00:36:37,246 --> 00:36:38,991
Zoey told me she was hiking.
645
00:36:43,468 --> 00:36:46,840
This building's not very conducive
to relationships, sir.
646
00:36:50,774 --> 00:36:53,315
I'll call back the members
of the subcommittee.
647
00:36:53,489 --> 00:36:57,076
Tell them the first lady wants
violence prevention fully funded.
648
00:36:58,625 --> 00:37:00,666
A hundred million?
649
00:37:02,467 --> 00:37:04,260
Make it 110.
650
00:37:25,474 --> 00:37:27,053
You were looking for me?
651
00:37:27,227 --> 00:37:29,768
What did you wanna talk about
with the president?
652
00:37:29,941 --> 00:37:32,696
Did I forget the secret password?
653
00:37:36,873 --> 00:37:39,414
We talked about my giving up
communications...
654
00:37:39,587 --> 00:37:42,711
...leaving it to Will
and focusing on the big picture.
655
00:37:43,179 --> 00:37:45,257
This is not the time.
656
00:37:45,433 --> 00:37:47,512
When will it be the time?
657
00:37:50,402 --> 00:37:52,861
Message of the day,
top of the news hour.
658
00:37:53,033 --> 00:37:55,527
Second term, and we're acting
like a losing campaign.
659
00:37:55,705 --> 00:37:58,199
-You're not lecturing him.
-Stop protecting him.
660
00:37:58,419 --> 00:38:01,708
It's my job to protect.
It's your job to get us back on message.
661
00:38:01,927 --> 00:38:04,301
-Will can, I'll supervise.
-You supervise him now.
662
00:38:04,474 --> 00:38:05,850
What does that matter?
663
00:38:06,018 --> 00:38:09,142
It matters because I need you
doing what you're doing now.
664
00:38:12,449 --> 00:38:15,656
I'm holding this together
with Scotch tape and baling wire.
665
00:38:16,583 --> 00:38:19,921
We have an economic policy held
together with tape and baling wire.
666
00:38:20,090 --> 00:38:22,216
FDR built the middle class
in 100 days.
667
00:38:22,428 --> 00:38:25,932
-How many days do we even have left?
-Forty-nine percent.
668
00:38:26,103 --> 00:38:28,942
-We can't start another New Deal.
-Fight for the old one...
669
00:38:29,152 --> 00:38:33,023
...instead of haggling with Republicans
over how much to cut.
670
00:38:33,201 --> 00:38:36,989
We created 9 million jobs.
Now they're disappearing.
671
00:38:37,168 --> 00:38:40,422
Outsourcing, downsizing, buyouts.
672
00:38:40,592 --> 00:38:42,884
They build TVs in Mexico
for a dollar a day...
673
00:38:43,056 --> 00:38:45,894
-...on dirt floors with cardboard walls.
-That's our fault?
674
00:38:46,104 --> 00:38:48,598
It's on our watch, Leo.
Where's our 100 days?
675
00:38:48,777 --> 00:38:52,779
Where's our Great Society?
Where's our New Frontier?
676
00:38:53,203 --> 00:38:56,372
Somebody's gotta do
what we came here to do!
677
00:38:58,088 --> 00:38:59,999
Those jobs aren't coming back.
678
00:39:00,176 --> 00:39:03,216
We lose or cave every battle
we have with Congress...
679
00:39:03,391 --> 00:39:06,811
...and we have a calendar, not a plan.
680
00:39:06,982 --> 00:39:08,977
Will's gonna work
for the vice president.
681
00:39:18,381 --> 00:39:20,257
I'm asking the president
not to let him.
682
00:39:20,427 --> 00:39:23,348
He told Russell he could have him.
It's done.
683
00:39:29,112 --> 00:39:31,523
You got a problem with your job?
684
00:39:31,701 --> 00:39:33,827
I could use one of those
ergonomic chairs.
685
00:39:33,998 --> 00:39:35,827
Never mind.
686
00:39:36,002 --> 00:39:37,498
Anything from Amy?
687
00:39:37,672 --> 00:39:40,629
I left messages for her everywhere
to come see you.
688
00:39:41,514 --> 00:39:43,889
This isn't about the dead fish.
689
00:39:44,061 --> 00:39:47,184
-Not exactly, no.
-What happened?
690
00:39:47,526 --> 00:39:49,937
I think she's been fired.
691
00:39:50,115 --> 00:39:52,526
She thinks so,
and I kind of unloaded on her.
692
00:39:52,704 --> 00:39:55,198
-Josh... .
-She'll be-- I don't know what she'll be.
693
00:39:55,377 --> 00:39:57,336
Find her. Forget about budget bills...
694
00:39:57,506 --> 00:40:00,130
...and poll samples and missile launchers.
Go find her.
695
00:40:00,304 --> 00:40:03,511
-What else have I got?
-Senator Carrick's in the Roosevelt Room.
696
00:40:03,727 --> 00:40:06,400
Chris Carrick's here? Now?
697
00:40:17,841 --> 00:40:19,670
Josh?
698
00:40:21,348 --> 00:40:23,142
Senator.
699
00:40:23,979 --> 00:40:25,855
Well, that was quite a press coup...
700
00:40:26,025 --> 00:40:29,149
...telling the Idaho papers
about my anonymous hold.
701
00:40:29,324 --> 00:40:31,153
-What can I do for you?
-You know what?
702
00:40:31,328 --> 00:40:33,073
Absolutely nothing.
703
00:40:33,290 --> 00:40:37,163
I've released the military promotions.
Can't defend that to the people of Idaho.
704
00:40:37,341 --> 00:40:40,048
I hope that lesson won't be lost
on the stimulus package.
705
00:40:40,222 --> 00:40:42,431
-Oh, it won't be.
-Good.
706
00:40:42,894 --> 00:40:47,727
-Josh, I need one last favor from you.
-What's that?
707
00:40:48,364 --> 00:40:53,613
I got my own letter here. I'd like you to
personally deliver that to the president.
708
00:40:54,002 --> 00:40:57,505
-What's this?
-It's my letter of resignation...
709
00:40:57,676 --> 00:40:59,255
...from the Democratic Party.
710
00:40:59,638 --> 00:41:01,051
Come again?
711
00:41:01,226 --> 00:41:03,386
I'm running as a Republican
next election.
712
00:41:03,898 --> 00:41:06,439
You're switching because
we won't give you a launcher.
713
00:41:06,611 --> 00:41:08,441
The launcher is a deterrent.
714
00:41:08,658 --> 00:41:11,615
It says we're serious
about perfecting missile defense...
715
00:41:11,831 --> 00:41:14,788
...so rogue governments
don't build missile programs.
716
00:41:14,963 --> 00:41:17,837
Building it is more important
than whether it works.
717
00:41:18,053 --> 00:41:19,715
We don't want it to have to work.
718
00:41:19,890 --> 00:41:22,015
We can't win back the Senate
without Idaho.
719
00:41:22,228 --> 00:41:26,147
We can't pass the tax bill,
the new stimulus package.
720
00:41:27,448 --> 00:41:29,573
I'll get you a meeting with Fitzwallace.
721
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:31,746
A meeting with the president.
722
00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:37,713
I don't work for the president or you.
I work for the people of Idaho.
723
00:41:38,095 --> 00:41:40,969
You're leaving the party be--?
724
00:41:41,143 --> 00:41:43,768
This is because of me?
725
00:41:43,941 --> 00:41:45,936
I'm not leaving because of you.
726
00:41:46,154 --> 00:41:49,028
But you made it a whole lot easier.
727
00:42:00,727 --> 00:42:05,275
Josh, Leo wants you
in the Mural Room.
728
00:42:15,843 --> 00:42:18,384
Surprise!
729
00:42:19,141 --> 00:42:20,971
Happy birthday!
730
00:42:21,305 --> 00:42:27,710
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