1 00:00:04,472 --> 00:00:06,274 Previously on The West Wing: 2 00:00:06,340 --> 00:00:07,541 And how good is Haffley? 3 00:00:07,608 --> 00:00:09,043 He's better than anyone we've seen 4 00:00:09,110 --> 00:00:10,911 on the other side of the table in a long time. 5 00:00:10,978 --> 00:00:13,881 We don't go out there until we agree on a game plan! 6 00:00:13,947 --> 00:00:15,149 JOSH: How about the voters? 7 00:00:15,216 --> 00:00:16,317 How are we gonna create jobs? 8 00:00:16,384 --> 00:00:17,618 And we can do better, 9 00:00:17,685 --> 00:00:18,619 and we must do better 10 00:00:18,686 --> 00:00:19,720 and we will do better. 11 00:00:19,787 --> 00:00:21,089 How we gonna fix health care? 12 00:00:21,155 --> 00:00:23,724 To ensure that the promise of this country 13 00:00:23,791 --> 00:00:26,094 is the birthright of all the people. 14 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:27,628 How can we make the lights go on? 15 00:00:27,695 --> 00:00:29,197 How are we gonna protect ourselves? 16 00:00:29,263 --> 00:00:30,631 When we were elected, 17 00:00:30,698 --> 00:00:33,167 I really thought we were gonna own the place. 18 00:00:40,841 --> 00:00:42,143 Hey! Congratulations. 19 00:00:42,210 --> 00:00:43,644 Thank you. 20 00:00:43,711 --> 00:00:46,046 So Leo's turned you into a big-time trade negotiator. 21 00:00:46,114 --> 00:00:48,816 No different than baby-sitting or negotiating with Congress. 22 00:00:48,882 --> 00:00:51,285 You sit there and let 'em wear themselves out. 23 00:00:51,352 --> 00:00:52,720 They're up to 200 tractors now. 24 00:00:52,786 --> 00:00:54,054 Yeah, I know. 25 00:00:54,122 --> 00:00:55,323 200 tractors, that doesn't worry you. 26 00:00:55,389 --> 00:00:56,890 Not being a bale of hay. 27 00:00:56,957 --> 00:00:58,492 You're flying to Brussels in nine hours, 28 00:00:58,559 --> 00:01:00,128 the place is surrounded by tractors, 29 00:01:00,194 --> 00:01:01,629 every pair of overalls in Europe 30 00:01:01,695 --> 00:01:03,497 has come out to protest your trade agreement. 31 00:01:03,564 --> 00:01:05,966 I'll bring you back a straw hat. 32 00:01:06,033 --> 00:01:07,868 For the joint press conference after the signing. 33 00:01:07,935 --> 00:01:09,103 That's not the message. 34 00:01:09,170 --> 00:01:10,404 "Protecting intellectual property 35 00:01:10,471 --> 00:01:11,805 through international copyright enforcement." 36 00:01:11,872 --> 00:01:13,507 Okay, I know what you're talking about, 37 00:01:13,574 --> 00:01:14,575 and I have no idea what you're talking about. 38 00:01:14,642 --> 00:01:15,709 LARRY: Isn't that what we...? 39 00:01:15,776 --> 00:01:16,810 Free trade creates jobs! 40 00:01:16,877 --> 00:01:18,446 it creates better, higher-paying jobs. 41 00:01:18,512 --> 00:01:20,148 We still have to pass this through Congress. 42 00:01:20,214 --> 00:01:21,415 Let's not outsmart ourselves-- 43 00:01:21,482 --> 00:01:22,950 as if that were, you know, possible. 44 00:01:23,016 --> 00:01:24,852 They're up to 200 tractors-- it's on TV. 45 00:01:24,918 --> 00:01:25,819 I know. 46 00:01:25,886 --> 00:01:27,188 Bill Parsons called. 47 00:01:27,255 --> 00:01:28,889 What are European farmers so upset about? 48 00:01:28,956 --> 00:01:31,192 That they can't cling to a dying way of life, 49 00:01:31,259 --> 00:01:33,761 that free trade means that some of them may have to wear neckties, 50 00:01:33,827 --> 00:01:35,863 that they can't beat Pentium chips back into plowshares. 51 00:01:35,929 --> 00:01:37,531 Take your pick. 52 00:01:37,598 --> 00:01:39,667 USTR says India's signing on. 53 00:01:39,733 --> 00:01:40,934 You're kidding. 54 00:01:41,001 --> 00:01:43,571 I barely know what that means, how could I be kidding. 55 00:01:43,637 --> 00:01:46,307 India has all kinds of problems with this trade deal, why would they...? 56 00:01:46,374 --> 00:01:49,109 USTR says India's in. 57 00:01:49,177 --> 00:01:51,679 Ask Ed and Larry to poke around the India thing. 58 00:01:51,745 --> 00:01:53,347 I brought my luggage too, you know. 59 00:01:53,414 --> 00:01:55,216 Yeah, I'm still working on that. 60 00:01:55,283 --> 00:01:56,750 PRESIDENT: That's wonderful, Mr. Prime Minister, 61 00:01:56,817 --> 00:01:59,287 I look forward to seeing you in Brussels. 62 00:01:59,353 --> 00:02:01,655 You did a great job wrapping this up, 63 00:02:01,722 --> 00:02:03,023 I've sent a little something over to your office. 64 00:02:03,090 --> 00:02:04,492 LEO: You should've seen him. 65 00:02:04,558 --> 00:02:06,394 Like a bull terrier crossed with a rottweiler 66 00:02:06,460 --> 00:02:08,362 crossed with a Fuller Brush salesman. 67 00:02:08,429 --> 00:02:09,863 Months of work by a lot of people, sir. 68 00:02:09,930 --> 00:02:11,632 I just tossed in some free combs. 69 00:02:11,699 --> 00:02:13,401 Start working on Congressional passage. 70 00:02:13,467 --> 00:02:15,068 I'm meeting with the Speaker today. 71 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:17,070 He could argue we gave too much to labor in these side agreements. 72 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:18,606 We'll need Republican votes, 73 00:02:18,672 --> 00:02:20,408 but there's plenty in here Democrats'll like. 74 00:02:20,474 --> 00:02:21,809 Sell it right, and we'll squeak through. 75 00:02:21,875 --> 00:02:23,577 CHARLIE: Reporters are waiting, sir. 76 00:02:23,644 --> 00:02:25,246 Mr. President, you're doing five advance interviews 77 00:02:25,313 --> 00:02:26,914 on the Brussels Round: three domestic print, 78 00:02:26,980 --> 00:02:29,517 plus CNN-FN, plus the International Herald-Tribune. 79 00:02:29,583 --> 00:02:30,851 Foreign press doesn't count. 80 00:02:30,918 --> 00:02:32,486 We haven't globalized pandering yet? 81 00:02:32,553 --> 00:02:34,822 Our audience is Congress, not the Finnish Parliament. 82 00:02:34,888 --> 00:02:36,390 What do you say to the opponents of free trade, 83 00:02:36,457 --> 00:02:37,491 people who say it exports jobs. 84 00:02:37,558 --> 00:02:38,992 That "giant sucking sound." 85 00:02:39,059 --> 00:02:40,661 Any half-decent economist'll tell you to wear earplugs. 86 00:02:40,728 --> 00:02:41,795 JOSH: Sir... 87 00:02:41,862 --> 00:02:43,163 Then file immediately for unemployment. 88 00:02:43,231 --> 00:02:44,698 Sir, have you read the talking points? 89 00:02:44,765 --> 00:02:47,201 I'm an economist, some would say half-decent. 90 00:02:47,268 --> 00:02:49,069 I don't need a primer on this. 91 00:02:49,136 --> 00:02:50,804 Due respect, sir, your answers on economic issues can be a bit... 92 00:02:50,871 --> 00:02:51,872 Polysyllabic? 93 00:02:51,939 --> 00:02:53,040 Academic. 94 00:02:53,106 --> 00:02:54,242 I was gonna go with incomprehensible. 95 00:02:54,308 --> 00:02:56,344 Hey, listen: Any economic advancement 96 00:02:56,410 --> 00:02:58,011 involves what Schumpeter 97 00:02:58,078 --> 00:02:59,079 called "creative destruction." 98 00:02:59,146 --> 00:03:00,047 Bad answer. Not a good answer. 99 00:03:00,113 --> 00:03:00,948 Why? 'Cause that word 100 00:03:01,014 --> 00:03:02,049 "destruction" will 101 00:03:02,115 --> 00:03:02,916 really mollify our critics. 102 00:03:02,983 --> 00:03:04,418 Free trade creates jobs. 103 00:03:04,485 --> 00:03:05,786 Selling our products to the world... ...creates better 104 00:03:05,853 --> 00:03:07,120 higher-paying jobs. 105 00:03:07,187 --> 00:03:08,922 It's gotta be that simple, or we lose the argument. 106 00:03:08,989 --> 00:03:11,425 Anybody have any crayons, so I can color in my Ph.D.? 107 00:03:11,492 --> 00:03:12,826 Josh makes a point. 108 00:03:12,893 --> 00:03:14,828 We're losing old economy jobs in steel 109 00:03:14,895 --> 00:03:16,897 and textiles, all across manufacturing... 110 00:03:16,964 --> 00:03:17,798 In economics. 111 00:03:17,865 --> 00:03:18,832 Clearly, economics... 112 00:03:18,899 --> 00:03:20,334 That's why we fought so hard 113 00:03:20,401 --> 00:03:21,702 in this deal for copyright enforcement: 114 00:03:21,769 --> 00:03:23,971 to protect the fruits of the new economy. 115 00:03:24,037 --> 00:03:28,141 Technology, inventions, ideas-- the stuff 116 00:03:28,208 --> 00:03:29,677 where America can't be beat, 117 00:03:29,743 --> 00:03:32,112 where they can't do it in Malaysia for a dollar a day. 118 00:03:32,179 --> 00:03:33,247 Okay. 119 00:03:33,314 --> 00:03:34,382 What about these tractor protests 120 00:03:34,448 --> 00:03:35,616 in the streets of Brussels? 121 00:03:35,683 --> 00:03:37,285 PRESIDENT: Global economic forces 122 00:03:37,351 --> 00:03:39,553 are unstoppable, just like technology itself. 123 00:03:39,620 --> 00:03:41,789 Should we have banned ATMs to protect bank tellers? 124 00:03:41,855 --> 00:03:45,459 Or digital watches, to prop up the folks who fix grandfather clocks? 125 00:03:45,526 --> 00:03:46,894 JOSH, C.J. and LEO: Free trade creates better, 126 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,195 higher-paying jobs. 127 00:03:48,262 --> 00:03:49,697 JOSH: It's gotta be that simple. 128 00:03:49,763 --> 00:03:51,665 The President bashing the clock industry in here. 129 00:03:51,732 --> 00:03:53,367 India. What? 130 00:03:53,434 --> 00:03:54,902 The Communications union 131 00:03:54,968 --> 00:03:56,637 was close to a new contract for 17,000 programmers. 132 00:03:56,704 --> 00:03:58,772 Jace Computer Networks broke off the talks. 133 00:03:58,839 --> 00:03:59,773 JCN. 134 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,108 ED: The union thinks JCN's moving 135 00:04:01,174 --> 00:04:03,243 17,000 computer programming jobs 136 00:04:03,311 --> 00:04:05,145 to India, and that's why India signed on. 137 00:04:05,212 --> 00:04:09,717 17,000 jobs because of the deal I just negotiated. 138 00:04:09,783 --> 00:04:10,951 That's what they think. 139 00:04:13,787 --> 00:04:15,423 Okay. Who else knows about this? 140 00:04:15,489 --> 00:04:16,724 LARRY: No one. 141 00:04:16,790 --> 00:04:17,691 Don't... 142 00:04:17,758 --> 00:04:19,393 Leo. 143 00:04:21,362 --> 00:04:22,763 We may have a situation. 144 00:04:22,830 --> 00:04:23,764 Congress? 145 00:04:23,831 --> 00:04:24,765 Where were we? 146 00:04:24,832 --> 00:04:26,467 Creating better, higher-paying jobs. 147 00:05:16,350 --> 00:05:18,786 17,000 programming jobs. 148 00:05:18,852 --> 00:05:20,320 That's what they're saying. 149 00:05:20,388 --> 00:05:21,589 Because of the deal we just negotiated. 150 00:05:21,655 --> 00:05:23,223 We don't know that for sure yet. 151 00:05:23,290 --> 00:05:24,224 Those are new economy jobs. 152 00:05:24,291 --> 00:05:25,393 Yeah. 153 00:05:25,459 --> 00:05:26,827 Not like putting beads on an abacus. 154 00:05:26,894 --> 00:05:30,097 Which I'm gonna say is a lot harder than it sounds. 155 00:05:30,163 --> 00:05:32,099 This could kill the deal on the Hill. 156 00:05:32,165 --> 00:05:33,701 In this economic climate, 157 00:05:33,767 --> 00:05:35,536 I gotta think both parties are gonna run pretty fast. 158 00:05:35,603 --> 00:05:36,837 "Send your job to Southeast Asia--" 159 00:05:36,904 --> 00:05:38,305 not the best slogan for globalization. 160 00:05:38,372 --> 00:05:39,440 There's another problem. 161 00:05:39,507 --> 00:05:40,808 The programmers are represented 162 00:05:40,874 --> 00:05:42,342 by the Communications Workers of America. 163 00:05:42,410 --> 00:05:43,377 The CWA. 164 00:05:43,444 --> 00:05:44,845 Yeah. 165 00:05:44,912 --> 00:05:46,914 I already got a message from Parsons-- If this is real... 166 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:48,916 You've been working with JCN on these talks. 167 00:05:48,982 --> 00:05:50,283 All the tech companies, 168 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:51,885 I can't believe they'd sandbag me like this. 169 00:05:51,952 --> 00:05:52,986 Talk to JCN. 170 00:05:53,053 --> 00:05:54,422 You did a great job on this. 171 00:05:54,488 --> 00:05:55,923 I was serious about the rottweiler thing. 172 00:05:55,989 --> 00:05:57,324 Thanks. 173 00:05:57,391 --> 00:05:58,426 How are the President's interviews going? 174 00:05:58,492 --> 00:05:59,960 Oh, let's see. 175 00:06:00,027 --> 00:06:02,530 He used the phrase "market inelasticity" three times, 176 00:06:02,596 --> 00:06:04,231 "direct entitlement failure" two times. 177 00:06:04,297 --> 00:06:06,467 I was waiting for him to start waving a piece of chalk, 178 00:06:06,534 --> 00:06:08,068 maybe a piece of the Gross National Product. 179 00:06:08,135 --> 00:06:09,302 Professor-in-Chief. 180 00:06:09,369 --> 00:06:10,971 More like Professor Incoherent. 181 00:06:11,038 --> 00:06:12,873 What're we hearing from the press? 182 00:06:12,940 --> 00:06:14,942 How come they're staying at a two-star hotel in Brussels, 183 00:06:15,008 --> 00:06:17,144 where are the Speaker and the Majority Leader 184 00:06:17,210 --> 00:06:18,412 on this trade deal, 185 00:06:18,479 --> 00:06:21,381 plus Counsel sent some press guidance 186 00:06:21,449 --> 00:06:22,916 on their new FCC ruling. 187 00:06:22,983 --> 00:06:24,585 The FCC reached a compromise with Congress 188 00:06:24,652 --> 00:06:26,420 on media consolidation-- happened about an hour ago. 189 00:06:26,487 --> 00:06:27,988 Media consolidation? 190 00:06:28,055 --> 00:06:29,590 You know, that plan to let corporations 191 00:06:29,657 --> 00:06:30,991 buy up more and more local TV stations. 192 00:06:31,058 --> 00:06:32,593 So they backed off. 193 00:06:32,660 --> 00:06:33,994 Yeah, 'cause who wants the same bunch of big-shots 194 00:06:34,061 --> 00:06:35,663 controlling the media. 195 00:06:35,729 --> 00:06:37,465 Those are talking points on the VP's energy speech, 196 00:06:37,531 --> 00:06:39,399 so you can help me... control the media. 197 00:06:39,467 --> 00:06:40,568 What's the compromise? 198 00:06:40,634 --> 00:06:41,569 Instead of letting one company 199 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:43,804 own stations reaching 45% 200 00:06:43,871 --> 00:06:45,839 of all the viewers, the FCC's agreed 201 00:06:45,906 --> 00:06:49,376 they can only reach 39.37%. 202 00:06:49,443 --> 00:06:51,712 39.37%? 203 00:06:51,779 --> 00:06:53,280 This stuff can be very scientific. 204 00:06:53,346 --> 00:06:56,116 I'm going to need a slide rule in my briefing-- 39.37%? 205 00:06:56,183 --> 00:06:58,285 On the energy speech, if you get questions, you'll help me... 206 00:06:58,351 --> 00:06:59,587 Control the media. Thanks. 207 00:07:04,992 --> 00:07:06,960 Today's my last day at the White House. 208 00:07:07,027 --> 00:07:08,796 Thank you. 209 00:07:08,862 --> 00:07:11,264 I was hoping you'd give a toast at my going-away party. 210 00:07:11,331 --> 00:07:14,935 How about a plaque, for best impersonation of a blue blazer. 211 00:07:15,002 --> 00:07:18,305 So you're coming to the party. 212 00:07:18,371 --> 00:07:19,973 I'm having my own celebration, 213 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,910 with five cloves of garlic and the cast of The Exorcist. 214 00:07:22,976 --> 00:07:24,712 The Speaker's coming in at 3:15, 215 00:07:24,778 --> 00:07:25,846 Parsons called again twice, 216 00:07:25,913 --> 00:07:28,448 plus the President sent you a gift. 217 00:07:28,516 --> 00:07:30,217 Make sure Ed and Larry are calling Democrats. 218 00:07:30,283 --> 00:07:31,819 I want some votes in my pocket when I meet with the Speaker. 219 00:07:31,885 --> 00:07:35,022 He's gonna hate these labor side agreements. 220 00:07:35,088 --> 00:07:36,657 My charts... 221 00:07:36,724 --> 00:07:38,692 The JCN lobbyist is coming in. 222 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:41,662 I need those charts on everything we gave tech 223 00:07:41,729 --> 00:07:43,697 versus light industry in this trade round. 224 00:07:46,033 --> 00:07:47,668 If you're all out of joint 225 00:07:47,735 --> 00:07:49,236 'cause we favored tech over light industry... 226 00:07:49,302 --> 00:07:50,370 You're leaving in eight hours. 227 00:07:50,437 --> 00:07:52,039 Any progress getting me on the trip? 228 00:07:52,105 --> 00:07:54,241 You don't want to go to Brussels. 229 00:07:54,307 --> 00:07:55,576 Which is why I asked 15 times. 230 00:07:55,643 --> 00:07:57,511 It's Presidential hand-holding. 231 00:07:57,578 --> 00:07:59,046 It's a motorcade to a hotel room 232 00:07:59,112 --> 00:08:00,648 to a battle of the balding Belgian finance ministers. 233 00:08:00,714 --> 00:08:02,282 It's Pittsburgh with an accent. 234 00:08:02,349 --> 00:08:04,017 Which I'd known if you'd taken me on the Pittsburgh trip. 235 00:08:04,084 --> 00:08:05,553 This isn't taxpayer- funded tourism. 236 00:08:05,619 --> 00:08:06,654 We got jobs to do. 237 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,155 And I'm trying to grow in mine. 238 00:08:08,221 --> 00:08:09,823 I've been helping on these trade talks for months. 239 00:08:09,890 --> 00:08:11,592 How are you going to manage by yourself? 240 00:08:11,659 --> 00:08:13,927 I'll grab someone off advance staff. I'll be fine. 241 00:08:13,994 --> 00:08:15,095 The charts. 242 00:08:15,162 --> 00:08:16,864 Grab someone off the advance staff, 243 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:18,732 maybe they can find them for you. 244 00:08:18,799 --> 00:08:21,068 I didn't mean to... I'm busy, okay? 245 00:08:21,134 --> 00:08:23,937 Maybe if you shackled me to my desk, it'd speed up my typing. 246 00:08:24,004 --> 00:08:25,573 This isn't a workers' collective. 247 00:08:25,639 --> 00:08:27,074 Don't get all Woody Guthrie on me. 248 00:08:27,140 --> 00:08:27,875 I got a situation here. 249 00:08:27,941 --> 00:08:29,342 You're the oppressor. 250 00:08:29,409 --> 00:08:30,744 That's Latin for "boss." 251 00:08:30,811 --> 00:08:31,912 I'm not talking to you. 252 00:08:31,979 --> 00:08:33,080 Fine. 253 00:08:42,022 --> 00:08:44,191 Katherine Harper, this is Debbie Fiderer, 254 00:08:44,257 --> 00:08:45,693 the President's personal secretary. 255 00:08:45,759 --> 00:08:47,127 Kate's our new NSC Deputy. 256 00:08:47,194 --> 00:08:48,328 I'm bringing her in to see the President. 257 00:08:48,395 --> 00:08:49,797 Very nice to meet you. 258 00:08:49,863 --> 00:08:51,865 The President's been running quite a bit late today. 259 00:08:51,932 --> 00:08:53,100 That's okay, ma'am. 260 00:08:53,166 --> 00:08:54,334 Please call me Debbie. 261 00:08:54,401 --> 00:08:55,502 Thank you, ma'am. 262 00:08:55,569 --> 00:08:56,937 Top of her class at Annapolis. 263 00:08:57,004 --> 00:08:58,471 Once an ensign, always an ensign. 264 00:08:58,538 --> 00:09:00,340 Uh, your locator box. 265 00:09:00,407 --> 00:09:01,875 Why, yes, this is so we know 266 00:09:01,942 --> 00:09:03,911 where the First Family are at all times. 267 00:09:03,977 --> 00:09:07,180 Forgive me for... do you think you should have it facing out? 268 00:09:07,247 --> 00:09:08,949 Excuse me? 269 00:09:09,016 --> 00:09:10,550 Secret Service locator boxes 270 00:09:10,618 --> 00:09:12,119 are code-word clearance or higher. 271 00:09:12,185 --> 00:09:13,787 Guests in this wing of the building just need an absence 272 00:09:13,854 --> 00:09:15,222 of felony charges. 273 00:09:15,288 --> 00:09:16,724 Some Congressmen don't even meet that standard. 274 00:09:16,790 --> 00:09:18,325 NANCY: We've been looking for a reason 275 00:09:18,391 --> 00:09:19,693 to keep out the Congressmen. 276 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,762 Just trying to be helpful, ma'am-- Debbie. 277 00:09:21,829 --> 00:09:23,530 On second thought, feel free to call me ma'am. 278 00:09:23,597 --> 00:09:25,398 NANCY: You'll let us know when the President's free. 279 00:09:25,465 --> 00:09:26,399 Yes. 280 00:09:26,466 --> 00:09:27,400 So nice to meet you. 281 00:09:27,467 --> 00:09:28,602 Mm-hmm. 282 00:09:28,669 --> 00:09:29,903 All packed and ready for Brussels? 283 00:09:29,970 --> 00:09:31,471 Let's talk about India. 284 00:09:31,538 --> 00:09:34,374 Bit out of the way for a layover. 285 00:09:34,441 --> 00:09:36,109 The CWA says you're shipping 286 00:09:36,176 --> 00:09:38,879 17,000 computer programming jobs there. 287 00:09:38,946 --> 00:09:41,114 That's proprietary information. 288 00:09:41,181 --> 00:09:44,217 Then why's India signing this trade deal? 289 00:09:44,284 --> 00:09:46,119 India, which hated the agricultural provisions, 290 00:09:46,186 --> 00:09:48,088 hated the light industrial provisions... 291 00:09:48,155 --> 00:09:50,724 There's a chance JCN'll be moving some programmers there. 292 00:09:50,791 --> 00:09:53,226 You can't do this. 293 00:09:53,293 --> 00:09:54,962 After everything I negotiated for you? 294 00:09:55,028 --> 00:09:56,529 You toughened copyright enforcement, 295 00:09:56,596 --> 00:09:57,931 now it's safer for us 296 00:09:57,998 --> 00:09:59,833 to move sensitive programming work overseas. 297 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:01,534 Over time, fine, but not overnight. 298 00:10:01,601 --> 00:10:04,137 We worked together for months, without one word about this. 299 00:10:04,204 --> 00:10:06,239 It's an internal business decision. 300 00:10:06,306 --> 00:10:07,675 Yet, somehow, the nation of India, 301 00:10:07,741 --> 00:10:09,242 population one billion and rising, 302 00:10:09,309 --> 00:10:10,944 slipped into a JCN board meeting? 303 00:10:11,011 --> 00:10:12,545 We lobbied through our trade association. 304 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:14,047 That's how these things work. 305 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:16,416 No-- when I help you on a trade deal, 306 00:10:16,483 --> 00:10:18,551 you don't lobby behind my back. 307 00:10:18,618 --> 00:10:20,187 That's how these things work. 308 00:10:20,253 --> 00:10:21,054 It's economics. 309 00:10:21,121 --> 00:10:22,322 It's politics, and you know it! 310 00:10:22,389 --> 00:10:23,657 Now I got a union problem! 311 00:10:23,724 --> 00:10:25,826 When they go nuts, I got a Congressional problem! 312 00:10:25,893 --> 00:10:27,327 We'll help you lobby; we're good at that. 313 00:10:27,394 --> 00:10:28,929 It's not gonna pass! 314 00:10:28,996 --> 00:10:31,164 17,000 flesh-and-blood families, 315 00:10:31,231 --> 00:10:34,501 spread over who-knows-how-many Congressional districts. 316 00:10:34,567 --> 00:10:37,604 It's more like 3.3 million jobs, over the next ten years. 317 00:10:37,671 --> 00:10:39,539 Industry-wide, of course. 318 00:10:39,606 --> 00:10:42,475 You're... You're... handing out pink slips 319 00:10:42,542 --> 00:10:45,879 when we're popping champagne corks and Brussels sprouts. 320 00:10:47,047 --> 00:10:49,249 We can hold the announcement, 321 00:10:49,316 --> 00:10:51,518 but American programmers make 40 bucks an hour, 322 00:10:51,584 --> 00:10:53,020 in India, it's 10. 323 00:10:53,086 --> 00:10:55,856 How much would you save if you move your CEO to India? 324 00:10:55,923 --> 00:10:57,390 This is how free trade works. 325 00:10:57,457 --> 00:10:59,727 You can't be surprised jobs are moving overseas. 326 00:10:59,793 --> 00:11:02,830 These jobs, yes; $80,000-a-year jobs, yes. 327 00:11:02,896 --> 00:11:05,198 The jobs this deal is supposed to create 328 00:11:05,265 --> 00:11:06,767 on the day we're leaving to sign it...? 329 00:11:06,834 --> 00:11:09,136 If automakers innovated the way we do, 330 00:11:09,202 --> 00:11:11,872 today's cars'd get 100,000 miles per gallon and cost 50 cents. 331 00:11:11,939 --> 00:11:13,206 Yeah, but they'd only be this big. 332 00:11:13,273 --> 00:11:15,075 ( wry laugh ) 333 00:11:15,142 --> 00:11:17,677 I need you to spread the layoffs over a couple years. 334 00:11:17,745 --> 00:11:19,146 Can't do it. Retrain 'em, 335 00:11:19,212 --> 00:11:20,714 shove 'em in a back office. 336 00:11:20,781 --> 00:11:22,682 We're a business, not a halfway house. 337 00:11:24,317 --> 00:11:26,086 Is that what you told the head of your union? 338 00:11:26,153 --> 00:11:27,154 No. 339 00:11:27,220 --> 00:11:28,822 But feel free to tell him yourself. 340 00:11:28,889 --> 00:11:31,258 I'm sure he's on his way over here right now. 341 00:11:33,626 --> 00:11:36,029 ...for many European farmers who say globalization 342 00:11:36,096 --> 00:11:38,231 is destroying a way of life on their continent, 343 00:11:38,298 --> 00:11:41,001 that global corporations will now reap the gains they... 344 00:11:41,068 --> 00:11:43,871 Can you and Josh spend some time with Reuters on the flight to Brussels? 345 00:11:43,937 --> 00:11:45,372 They helped us on that steel story. 346 00:11:45,438 --> 00:11:46,774 You think something's funny 347 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:47,975 about these new media ownership limits? 348 00:11:48,041 --> 00:11:49,542 Who's-on-first funny? 349 00:11:49,609 --> 00:11:51,144 Something's-rotten-in- the-state-of-Denmark-funny. 350 00:11:51,211 --> 00:11:53,013 Let's you and me never do a stand-up act. 351 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,782 Or a local TV broadcast, if I'm reading this correctly. 352 00:11:54,848 --> 00:11:56,449 Our press guidance says it's a victory. 353 00:11:56,516 --> 00:11:58,685 They were gonna let conglomerates like MertMedia, 354 00:11:58,752 --> 00:12:00,653 Viacom get into 45% of all homes. 355 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,856 Now it's 39.37%, 356 00:12:02,923 --> 00:12:04,624 a number that ought to come with a decoder ring 357 00:12:04,691 --> 00:12:06,226 and a jar of Ovaltine. 358 00:12:06,293 --> 00:12:07,027 What do you want? 359 00:12:07,094 --> 00:12:08,228 There was a public outcry, 360 00:12:08,295 --> 00:12:09,529 they settled for a lower number. 361 00:12:09,596 --> 00:12:10,730 A number no one can explain. 362 00:12:10,798 --> 00:12:12,132 The FCC's totally independent. 363 00:12:12,199 --> 00:12:13,700 These media companies are your constituents. 364 00:12:13,767 --> 00:12:14,902 No, the public are my constituents, 365 00:12:14,968 --> 00:12:16,236 and when big business 366 00:12:16,303 --> 00:12:18,071 can soak up more and more local media... 367 00:12:18,138 --> 00:12:19,840 Ben needs to stop by before you leave for Brussels. 368 00:12:19,907 --> 00:12:21,809 No. Tell him it's a bad day. He can't. 369 00:12:21,875 --> 00:12:23,043 Tell him I'll call him from the plane. 370 00:12:23,110 --> 00:12:24,611 You're going to Belgium. 371 00:12:24,677 --> 00:12:26,379 He wants to make sure you don't sample the endive. 372 00:12:26,446 --> 00:12:28,015 I can't become one of those women who sits around, 373 00:12:28,081 --> 00:12:29,449 eyes a-fluttering, waiting for her man. 374 00:12:29,516 --> 00:12:30,617 "Eyes a-fluttering"? 375 00:12:30,683 --> 00:12:32,085 You know, parasols a-twirling. Ah. 376 00:12:32,152 --> 00:12:34,254 Tell him I'll call him from the plane. 377 00:12:34,321 --> 00:12:36,890 How come no one can explain this number? 378 00:12:36,957 --> 00:12:38,525 Well, you're talking about deregulation. 379 00:12:38,591 --> 00:12:40,393 You want to crack that code? 380 00:12:40,460 --> 00:12:41,962 Follow the money. 381 00:12:42,029 --> 00:12:44,397 I'll take care of your Reuters thing. 382 00:12:44,464 --> 00:12:46,099 C.J.: Carol... 383 00:12:46,166 --> 00:12:48,168 pull the FCC's media ownership records 384 00:12:48,235 --> 00:12:50,237 from last year, will you? 385 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:57,177 Yes. And you could say Christmas came a bit early this year. 386 00:12:57,244 --> 00:12:58,345 I'm not normally in the business 387 00:12:58,411 --> 00:12:59,579 of doing your investigative reporting. 388 00:12:59,646 --> 00:13:00,948 As opposed to blocking it. 389 00:13:01,014 --> 00:13:03,150 Christmas, and you can throw in Arbor Day. 390 00:13:03,216 --> 00:13:04,717 Is this about the Brussels trip? 391 00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:06,319 This is about the Federal Communications Commission. 392 00:13:06,386 --> 00:13:07,320 They just ruled 393 00:13:07,387 --> 00:13:09,056 that media conglomerates can buy stations 394 00:13:09,122 --> 00:13:12,125 reaching up to 39.37% of all TV viewers. 395 00:13:12,192 --> 00:13:15,128 We wrote about this when they tried to make it 45%. 396 00:13:15,195 --> 00:13:16,663 GEORGE: Why do you think they're rolling it back? 397 00:13:16,729 --> 00:13:20,000 And why, you might ask, to 39.37%? 398 00:13:20,067 --> 00:13:22,602 I have here the FCC media ownership records. 399 00:13:22,669 --> 00:13:25,572 Turns out last year, MertMedia 400 00:13:25,638 --> 00:13:28,041 illegally purchased nine local TV stations, 401 00:13:28,108 --> 00:13:30,677 which brings them up to the magic number of-- 402 00:13:30,743 --> 00:13:34,281 drum-roll please-- 39.37%. 403 00:13:38,318 --> 00:13:44,992 And Viacom's at 38.8% and News Corp's at 37.8. 404 00:13:46,459 --> 00:13:49,562 In other words, the FCC is bailing out-- 405 00:13:49,629 --> 00:13:50,998 as in, posting bail-- 406 00:13:51,064 --> 00:13:53,433 for huge companies that were illegally gobbling up 407 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:55,936 TV stations like greasy hors d'oeuvres. 408 00:13:58,538 --> 00:14:00,673 Would you like me to draw you a diagram? 409 00:14:00,740 --> 00:14:02,109 Can I ask about the Brussels trip? 410 00:14:02,175 --> 00:14:04,144 No you can't ask about the Brussels trip, 411 00:14:04,211 --> 00:14:05,245 this is a big story. 412 00:14:05,312 --> 00:14:06,579 My business desk is handling this. 413 00:14:06,646 --> 00:14:07,948 Then bang on your editors. 414 00:14:08,015 --> 00:14:09,883 This isn't some technical business story. 415 00:14:09,950 --> 00:14:11,919 This is about diversity on the airwaves-- 416 00:14:11,985 --> 00:14:17,390 the market place of ideas, ensuring a healthy exchange of... 417 00:14:17,457 --> 00:14:19,126 ( sighs ) 418 00:14:19,192 --> 00:14:20,627 You don't want to write this 419 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:22,695 'cause it's about your corporate owners. 420 00:14:22,762 --> 00:14:24,197 There are a million places to get news. 421 00:14:24,264 --> 00:14:25,532 We compete for every story. 422 00:14:25,598 --> 00:14:26,967 Like you're competing for this one? 423 00:14:31,338 --> 00:14:34,274 Let me walk you through the numbers; talk to your editors. 424 00:14:34,341 --> 00:14:36,076 Trust me, this is a story. 425 00:14:36,143 --> 00:14:38,011 The tractor protests are accelerating. 426 00:14:38,078 --> 00:14:39,712 From four miles an hour to five? 427 00:14:39,779 --> 00:14:41,214 They're up to 230 tractors. 428 00:14:41,281 --> 00:14:43,816 Why do I get the feeling soil's going untilled? 429 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:45,318 Advance is worried. 430 00:14:45,385 --> 00:14:47,420 They're jamming up the Place de Brouckere. 431 00:14:47,487 --> 00:14:49,289 Just keep the tractors away from the President. 432 00:14:49,356 --> 00:14:50,690 It's two centuries off our message. 433 00:14:50,757 --> 00:14:52,159 How are we doing on Democratic votes? 434 00:14:52,225 --> 00:14:53,660 It's tough with this economy. 435 00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:55,795 They're terrified of losing jobs in their districts. 436 00:14:55,862 --> 00:14:57,397 Well, keep making calls, tell them-- 437 00:14:57,464 --> 00:14:59,066 talk about the labor side agreements. 438 00:14:59,132 --> 00:15:01,334 LEO: The President's concerned Andy Wyatt 439 00:15:01,401 --> 00:15:03,971 and these Congressmen'll negotiate on their own. 440 00:15:04,037 --> 00:15:05,272 Are you sure you want me on 441 00:15:05,338 --> 00:15:06,906 a Congressional Delegation to the Middle East? 442 00:15:06,974 --> 00:15:08,608 It'll only lend it legitimacy. 443 00:15:08,675 --> 00:15:09,943 The President wants you to go. 444 00:15:10,010 --> 00:15:11,311 Someone's got to block them 445 00:15:11,378 --> 00:15:13,313 from trying to move the Israeli border 446 00:15:13,380 --> 00:15:15,015 and rename the synagogues 447 00:15:15,082 --> 00:15:17,117 after prominent North Dakotans. 448 00:15:17,184 --> 00:15:18,451 Just meet with him on this. 449 00:15:18,518 --> 00:15:20,387 Of course I'll meet with my President. 450 00:15:20,453 --> 00:15:22,022 We'll get you in this afternoon. 451 00:15:22,089 --> 00:15:23,890 You know I almost don't recognize you 452 00:15:23,957 --> 00:15:25,993 without the hardware store on your chest. 453 00:15:26,059 --> 00:15:29,029 Only way I could shed those extra pounds. 454 00:15:29,096 --> 00:15:31,498 Josh. Admiral. 455 00:15:31,564 --> 00:15:32,765 How'd it go with JCN? 456 00:15:32,832 --> 00:15:34,767 Great, if you write computer code 457 00:15:34,834 --> 00:15:36,436 and live in suburban Bombay. 458 00:15:36,503 --> 00:15:38,771 They're serious about the 17,000 jobs? 459 00:15:38,838 --> 00:15:41,274 They say it's going to be 3.3 million over ten years-- 460 00:15:41,341 --> 00:15:42,642 the tech lobby screwed me on this. 461 00:15:42,709 --> 00:15:45,278 They were pressing India the whole time. 462 00:15:45,345 --> 00:15:47,714 Parsons and his guys from the CWA are coming here now. 463 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:49,549 If I let you down on this, 464 00:15:49,616 --> 00:15:51,884 if I missed some... 465 00:15:51,951 --> 00:15:54,921 I sent you in there to close a deal, no one does it better. 466 00:15:54,988 --> 00:15:57,490 We need a strategy. 467 00:15:57,557 --> 00:15:58,925 For Capitol Hill. 468 00:15:58,992 --> 00:16:00,627 If it becomes a story, yeah, 469 00:16:00,693 --> 00:16:02,529 I'm worried Republicans won't like this deal as it is, 470 00:16:02,595 --> 00:16:04,064 but that's not our biggest problem. 471 00:16:04,131 --> 00:16:05,398 We don't run the computer industry. 472 00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:08,101 No. Look. We have to give something to Parsons, 473 00:16:08,168 --> 00:16:09,836 to the union, to balance this out. 474 00:16:09,902 --> 00:16:11,038 Give them what? 475 00:16:11,104 --> 00:16:13,640 The government only buys software 476 00:16:13,706 --> 00:16:15,175 made in America. 477 00:16:15,242 --> 00:16:17,644 First, foreign countries would retaliate against us. 478 00:16:17,710 --> 00:16:19,879 Second, we buy only the lowest-cost goods 479 00:16:19,946 --> 00:16:21,448 or we burn taxpayers' money. 480 00:16:21,514 --> 00:16:23,550 So we help a few taxpayers earn money. 481 00:16:23,616 --> 00:16:25,085 Congress would laugh us out of the room, 482 00:16:25,152 --> 00:16:26,686 and it'd cost 15, 20 billion a year. 483 00:16:26,753 --> 00:16:28,121 I'm talking short-term, 484 00:16:28,188 --> 00:16:30,223 till the benefits of the trade deal kick in. 485 00:16:30,290 --> 00:16:32,625 Where's your suit made? 486 00:16:32,692 --> 00:16:34,061 I get this in Georgetown. 487 00:16:34,127 --> 00:16:35,428 Where's it made? 488 00:16:37,730 --> 00:16:38,731 Mexico. 489 00:16:38,798 --> 00:16:39,766 I think those "Made in the USA" 490 00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:42,402 labels are sewn in Mexico now. 491 00:16:42,469 --> 00:16:45,072 You want to ask Congress and the OMB to do 492 00:16:45,138 --> 00:16:48,841 what no self-respecting clothes horse would do. 493 00:16:48,908 --> 00:16:51,344 Let's see if this becomes a thing on the Hill. 494 00:16:51,411 --> 00:16:52,979 I'm talking about the union. 495 00:16:53,046 --> 00:16:55,648 The President's right, or Schumpeter, or whoever-- 496 00:16:55,715 --> 00:16:57,784 sometimes you destroy to create. 497 00:17:03,090 --> 00:17:05,292 Your 11:00 is here, Mr. President. 498 00:17:05,358 --> 00:17:06,659 It's quarter past 12:00. 499 00:17:06,726 --> 00:17:09,096 Would you please stop calling it my 11:00? 500 00:17:09,162 --> 00:17:10,363 Very well, sir. 501 00:17:10,430 --> 00:17:12,532 Your 11:05 is still waiting outside. 502 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:13,700 Thank you. 503 00:17:13,766 --> 00:17:16,236 Anyone has a stopwatch, we can boil some eggs. 504 00:17:16,303 --> 00:17:17,470 Sir, this is Kate Harper, 505 00:17:17,537 --> 00:17:19,539 your new Deputy National Security Adviser. 506 00:17:19,606 --> 00:17:23,210 Yes, yes, I have your C.V.-- very impressive. 507 00:17:23,276 --> 00:17:25,112 You're fluent in Arabic. 508 00:17:25,178 --> 00:17:27,480 ( speaking Arabic ) 509 00:17:27,547 --> 00:17:30,217 Thank you. I always forget the punchline myself. 510 00:17:30,283 --> 00:17:31,651 My own 11:00 is waiting, 511 00:17:31,718 --> 00:17:33,920 so I'll give you two a chance to get acquainted. 512 00:17:33,986 --> 00:17:35,155 Thank you, Nancy. 513 00:17:35,222 --> 00:17:36,523 Four years in Naval Intelligence. 514 00:17:36,589 --> 00:17:38,291 You served at our embassy in Ulan Bator. 515 00:17:38,358 --> 00:17:39,759 Yes, Mr. President. 516 00:17:39,826 --> 00:17:40,760 Ah... 517 00:17:40,827 --> 00:17:44,164 Yeah... 518 00:17:44,231 --> 00:17:45,132 So we're off to Brussels. 519 00:17:45,198 --> 00:17:46,499 Nancy may have told you 520 00:17:46,566 --> 00:17:48,501 about this French bilateral I'm dreading. 521 00:17:48,568 --> 00:17:50,303 They're holding two documented terrorists, 522 00:17:50,370 --> 00:17:52,772 won't extradite them 'cause they don't like our sentencing laws. 523 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:54,707 We can't even interrogate bloodless murderers 524 00:17:54,774 --> 00:17:56,776 if we don't put the right crease in their linen napkins. 525 00:17:56,843 --> 00:17:58,911 That's one way of looking at it, sir. 526 00:17:58,978 --> 00:18:00,413 You've got another way. 527 00:18:02,349 --> 00:18:03,816 That's not really my job, Mr. President. 528 00:18:03,883 --> 00:18:05,352 I'm asking you. 529 00:18:05,418 --> 00:18:07,187 There's a French side and an American side. 530 00:18:07,254 --> 00:18:08,555 I want your argument. 531 00:18:08,621 --> 00:18:10,290 Officially, I don't have an argument. 532 00:18:10,357 --> 00:18:12,459 Yet we're having one right now. 533 00:18:14,194 --> 00:18:17,297 Well, sir... 534 00:18:17,364 --> 00:18:18,765 I guess what I would say is 535 00:18:18,831 --> 00:18:20,667 that France has a body of law and a constitution 536 00:18:20,733 --> 00:18:22,569 and it's wrong to trample on either, 537 00:18:22,635 --> 00:18:24,237 let alone the extradition process. 538 00:18:24,304 --> 00:18:25,972 They see it as imperialism 539 00:18:26,038 --> 00:18:27,274 and you do it at the risk 540 00:18:27,340 --> 00:18:28,775 of shredding an already-fragile relationship. 541 00:18:28,841 --> 00:18:30,877 Officially, however... PRESIDENT: Debbie... 542 00:18:30,943 --> 00:18:33,380 would you bring in my 11:03-- whatever the hell it is? 543 00:18:33,446 --> 00:18:34,681 Mr. President, I don't mean to... 544 00:18:34,747 --> 00:18:35,515 Thanks for answering. 545 00:18:35,582 --> 00:18:36,916 It was nice meeting you, uh...? 546 00:18:36,983 --> 00:18:41,754 Ma'am. I mean, Kate. 547 00:18:41,821 --> 00:18:44,491 PRESIDENT: By the way, welcome to the White House. 548 00:18:44,557 --> 00:18:46,326 ( knocks ) 549 00:18:46,393 --> 00:18:47,860 No. 550 00:18:47,927 --> 00:18:49,596 Okay, second question. What? 551 00:18:49,662 --> 00:18:51,331 Trade. These Belgian farmers 552 00:18:51,398 --> 00:18:53,099 think it's going to cost them jobs. 553 00:18:53,166 --> 00:18:55,568 It probably will, 'cause it lets in cheaper produce. 554 00:18:55,635 --> 00:18:57,136 But Belgium's for it anyway? 555 00:18:57,204 --> 00:18:58,538 It might be bad for their farmers, 556 00:18:58,605 --> 00:19:00,307 but it's good for their economy. 557 00:19:00,373 --> 00:19:01,541 Then who's their economy for? 558 00:19:01,608 --> 00:19:03,009 Would you please tell Josh... 559 00:19:03,075 --> 00:19:04,477 Harpo speaks. 560 00:19:04,544 --> 00:19:07,046 Would you please tell Josh that Bill Parsons with the CWA 561 00:19:07,113 --> 00:19:08,648 will be here any minute, 562 00:19:08,715 --> 00:19:11,751 and his 3:30 with Congressman McKenna's been moved to 3:00. 563 00:19:11,818 --> 00:19:12,919 Your 3:30... 564 00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:14,421 McKenna's lucky if I only keep him waiting 565 00:19:14,487 --> 00:19:15,522 a half hour out of spite. 566 00:19:15,588 --> 00:19:16,423 He says Congressman McKenna... 567 00:19:16,489 --> 00:19:17,757 Tell him the Social Office 568 00:19:17,824 --> 00:19:19,726 wants to remind him about your going-away party. 569 00:19:19,792 --> 00:19:21,361 The Social Secretary'd be mighty... ! Tell Ms. Mozzarella 570 00:19:21,428 --> 00:19:22,595 a pack of wild bison on stilts 571 00:19:22,662 --> 00:19:24,130 couldn't drag me to your party. 572 00:19:24,197 --> 00:19:26,933 He says that, actually, he'd be quite tickled-- stilts? 573 00:19:26,999 --> 00:19:29,502 Tell him McKenna's got an issue with his beloved trade deal. 574 00:19:29,569 --> 00:19:30,770 Tell her McKenna can take a check, 575 00:19:30,837 --> 00:19:32,705 and I can handle a ninth-string Congressman. 576 00:19:32,772 --> 00:19:34,307 Tell him there's something he ought to know about that meeting, 577 00:19:34,374 --> 00:19:35,775 and I've got half a mind to... 578 00:19:35,842 --> 00:19:38,945 Tell Donna wherever Skippy the translator's going, 579 00:19:39,011 --> 00:19:40,347 she ought to go, too. 580 00:19:40,413 --> 00:19:42,449 He says, give that dashing young Ryan a great big... 581 00:19:42,515 --> 00:19:44,551 Harpo can hear, bright boy. 582 00:19:49,589 --> 00:19:51,123 Now can we talk about the Brussels trip? 583 00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:52,892 No, we can't. 584 00:19:52,959 --> 00:19:54,961 Carol tells me you're not even pitching the FCC story. 585 00:19:55,027 --> 00:19:56,463 It's a business story. 586 00:19:56,529 --> 00:19:58,865 Just 'cause I don't agree with your take on it... 587 00:19:58,931 --> 00:20:00,667 I... I don't have a "take." The FCC looked 588 00:20:00,733 --> 00:20:02,369 at how many stations were already owned 589 00:20:02,435 --> 00:20:03,503 by the six or seven biggest companies 590 00:20:03,570 --> 00:20:04,671 and used that as the number, 591 00:20:04,737 --> 00:20:06,205 so nobody'd have to sell anything. 592 00:20:06,273 --> 00:20:07,574 Media monopolies are history. 593 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,342 The Internet's exploding, 594 00:20:09,409 --> 00:20:12,044 TV's every guy with a camcorder and a digital uplink. 595 00:20:12,111 --> 00:20:14,213 Yet one company can now own stations 596 00:20:14,281 --> 00:20:16,383 in 199 of the nation's 210 media markets-- 597 00:20:16,449 --> 00:20:19,452 one company can influence the elections of 98 Senators, 598 00:20:19,519 --> 00:20:20,420 382 House members... 599 00:20:20,487 --> 00:20:22,322 It's a free country. 600 00:20:29,028 --> 00:20:30,330 Till Comcast and Clear Channel 601 00:20:30,397 --> 00:20:32,499 puts a big bullhorn in every town square it is. 602 00:20:34,166 --> 00:20:36,068 A free country. 603 00:20:36,135 --> 00:20:37,404 I am not a media critic. 604 00:20:37,470 --> 00:20:39,406 No one in the media is, that's the problem. 605 00:20:39,472 --> 00:20:40,940 You're just trying to knock me off this story 606 00:20:41,007 --> 00:20:42,275 about job losses. 607 00:20:42,342 --> 00:20:44,143 That isn't a story, it's an allegation. 608 00:20:44,210 --> 00:20:45,678 Those are white-collar jobs; 609 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:48,147 the new-economy jobs the President brags about creating. 610 00:20:48,214 --> 00:20:51,451 People need to know this FCC thing isn't a victory-- 611 00:20:51,518 --> 00:20:53,986 it's less, but by the exact amount the companies wanted. 612 00:20:54,053 --> 00:20:56,823 Now you're getting into glass-empty, glass-full territory. 613 00:20:56,889 --> 00:20:59,359 I'm trying to talk about who pours the water. 614 00:20:59,426 --> 00:21:00,927 Then let's talk about it, 615 00:21:00,993 --> 00:21:02,829 'cause when seats come open in your briefing room, 616 00:21:02,895 --> 00:21:05,264 I don't see you giving them to the Pennsauken Post, 617 00:21:05,332 --> 00:21:06,533 or Radio Free Botswana, 618 00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:07,867 or some guy with a digital uplink. 619 00:21:07,934 --> 00:21:09,869 We're not the ones buying up all the media. 620 00:21:09,936 --> 00:21:11,738 But you're the ones giving them access. 621 00:21:11,804 --> 00:21:14,707 How many seats does MertMedia alone have in there? Three? 622 00:21:14,774 --> 00:21:16,343 How many companies are even represented? Seven? Eight? 623 00:21:16,409 --> 00:21:17,777 You want there to be even fewer? 624 00:21:17,844 --> 00:21:21,180 No, I want to talk about Brussels and you don't. 625 00:21:21,247 --> 00:21:22,982 And I'm on a deadline. 626 00:21:23,049 --> 00:21:24,984 ( sighs ) 627 00:21:34,661 --> 00:21:37,330 Aren't you going to offer us a drink? 628 00:21:37,397 --> 00:21:38,831 Bill, I don't know how this happened. 629 00:21:38,898 --> 00:21:40,132 I do. 630 00:21:40,199 --> 00:21:41,601 You were so desperate to help 631 00:21:41,668 --> 00:21:43,603 a bunch of soft-money- donating CEO's, 632 00:21:43,670 --> 00:21:45,505 that you sold us up the Ganges River. 633 00:21:45,572 --> 00:21:46,673 I'm sorry, but I-I got to ask you 634 00:21:46,739 --> 00:21:48,040 not to go public with this yet. 635 00:21:48,107 --> 00:21:49,776 Hard as it seems, 636 00:21:49,842 --> 00:21:52,211 we're creating jobs, we're growing this economy... 637 00:21:52,278 --> 00:21:53,446 For who? Foreign investors? 638 00:21:53,513 --> 00:21:54,947 I mean, what good is the economy 639 00:21:55,014 --> 00:21:56,182 without the people in it? 640 00:21:56,248 --> 00:21:57,517 You knew we were for free trade. 641 00:21:57,584 --> 00:21:59,185 You knew it when you endorsed us five years ago. 642 00:21:59,251 --> 00:22:02,622 Yeah, 'cause you told us that we might lose old economy jobs-- 643 00:22:02,689 --> 00:22:04,957 shoe manufacturing-- to some dirt-poor country, 644 00:22:05,024 --> 00:22:07,860 but if we trained ourselves, we'd get better jobs. 645 00:22:07,927 --> 00:22:10,262 Now they're being vacuumed out of here, too. 646 00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:13,366 We're gonna fight for more job training, 647 00:22:13,433 --> 00:22:15,868 more transition assistance... 648 00:22:15,935 --> 00:22:18,104 I have members on their third and fourth careers, 649 00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:20,306 what do they train for now, nuclear physics? 650 00:22:20,373 --> 00:22:21,408 Cello playing? 651 00:22:21,474 --> 00:22:23,443 Or should they just give up 652 00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:25,011 and bag groceries for minimum wage? 653 00:22:25,077 --> 00:22:27,747 Well, that'd still buy them a nice house in Bangalore. 654 00:22:27,814 --> 00:22:30,149 Well, I've got three kids in college-- 655 00:22:30,216 --> 00:22:32,919 a little late for a transfer, isn't it? 656 00:22:34,921 --> 00:22:38,157 You'll have pension assistance, 657 00:22:38,224 --> 00:22:39,526 wage assistance, you name it. 658 00:22:39,592 --> 00:22:41,193 I don't want burial insurance. 659 00:22:41,260 --> 00:22:43,362 My career isn't over yet. I want to keep my job. 660 00:22:43,430 --> 00:22:45,532 WOMAN: You owe us that, Mr. Lyman. 661 00:22:45,598 --> 00:22:47,667 You made that promise five years ago, 662 00:22:47,734 --> 00:22:49,636 to my face, in the Wayfarer Hotel. 663 00:22:49,702 --> 00:22:51,504 They're going to stay right here 664 00:22:51,571 --> 00:22:54,173 till you tell them how you plan to honor it. 665 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,408 Where are you going? 666 00:22:55,475 --> 00:22:56,976 To your press room, 667 00:22:57,043 --> 00:22:58,678 then to Capitol Hill. 668 00:22:58,745 --> 00:23:02,181 One thing about the Communications Workers-- 669 00:23:02,248 --> 00:23:04,383 we know how to communicate. 670 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,956 You look a lot better on TV. 671 00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:17,764 17,000 white-collar jobs will be shipped to India. 672 00:23:17,830 --> 00:23:18,831 JCN spokesmen declined comment on... 673 00:23:18,898 --> 00:23:21,434 No, Congressman. Yes, of course. 674 00:23:21,501 --> 00:23:22,935 Yeah, I understand. 675 00:23:23,002 --> 00:23:25,638 ...be addressing in the coming weeks, in any case. 676 00:23:25,705 --> 00:23:27,474 What are you doing out here? 677 00:23:27,540 --> 00:23:29,809 Donna's not talking to me, plus there are some 678 00:23:29,876 --> 00:23:32,512 soon-to-be-unemployed workers camped out in my office. 679 00:23:32,579 --> 00:23:33,880 With tractors, I presume. 680 00:23:33,946 --> 00:23:34,747 Something like that. 681 00:23:34,814 --> 00:23:36,415 Think this job story's true? 682 00:23:36,483 --> 00:23:38,618 It's proprietary. 683 00:23:38,685 --> 00:23:39,952 Think it'll give the GOP 684 00:23:40,019 --> 00:23:41,688 an excuse to squash this trade deal? 685 00:23:41,754 --> 00:23:43,089 With midterms coming up? 686 00:23:43,155 --> 00:23:44,223 What do you think? 687 00:23:44,290 --> 00:23:46,025 How'd you become a free-trader? 688 00:23:46,092 --> 00:23:48,961 America has a quarter of the world's wealth 689 00:23:49,028 --> 00:23:50,497 and only two percent of the customers. 690 00:23:50,563 --> 00:23:51,764 You have to sell to others. 691 00:23:51,831 --> 00:23:53,132 So how do you make that case 692 00:23:53,199 --> 00:23:54,867 to people who're going to lose jobs? 693 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:56,736 Ask them how often they go to Wal-Mart 694 00:23:56,803 --> 00:23:57,837 to buy cheap cardigans 695 00:23:57,904 --> 00:23:59,305 or drill-bits. Drill-bits? 696 00:23:59,371 --> 00:24:00,272 I don't wear cardigans. 697 00:24:00,339 --> 00:24:01,474 Okay. 698 00:24:01,541 --> 00:24:02,809 But I like a nice drill-bit. 699 00:24:02,875 --> 00:24:04,744 So it all comes down to cheap drill-bits. 700 00:24:04,811 --> 00:24:06,078 Pay more for a drill-bit, 701 00:24:06,145 --> 00:24:08,080 you have less to spend on other things. 702 00:24:08,147 --> 00:24:09,949 Keep out cheap foreign drill-bits, 703 00:24:10,016 --> 00:24:12,284 and that country will keep out cheap American something-else. 704 00:24:12,351 --> 00:24:14,020 And that costs us jobs. 705 00:24:14,086 --> 00:24:18,725 Do you ever wonder if we forget the human face of trade, 706 00:24:18,791 --> 00:24:20,727 the blood and muscle? 707 00:24:20,793 --> 00:24:23,229 You have to go with what grows 708 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:24,597 the economy for everyone. 709 00:24:24,664 --> 00:24:26,533 There's blood and muscle in India, too. 710 00:24:26,599 --> 00:24:29,235 Yeah. 711 00:24:30,637 --> 00:24:32,805 Hoynes was pretty critical of free trade 712 00:24:32,872 --> 00:24:34,707 when you worked for him, wasn't he? 713 00:24:34,774 --> 00:24:36,208 That was mostly politics. 714 00:24:36,275 --> 00:24:38,244 So how'd you become a free-trader? 715 00:24:39,478 --> 00:24:41,981 I came to work for one. 716 00:24:45,217 --> 00:24:47,687 Did you need something? 717 00:24:47,754 --> 00:24:50,089 The Vice President is going to distance himself 718 00:24:50,156 --> 00:24:53,392 from this trade deal. 719 00:24:53,459 --> 00:24:54,594 You did a great job. 720 00:24:54,661 --> 00:24:56,128 It's mostly politics. 721 00:24:59,365 --> 00:25:02,802 C.J.: I'm sorry, I can't do this right now. 722 00:25:02,869 --> 00:25:04,236 Do what? This leaving-on-a-jet-plane- 723 00:25:04,303 --> 00:25:06,205 can't-bear-to-be-without-you- for-36-hours bit. 724 00:25:06,272 --> 00:25:07,674 Okay. 725 00:25:07,740 --> 00:25:09,241 I've got labor leaders frothing at the mouth, 726 00:25:09,308 --> 00:25:11,944 making unverified claims, a media conspiracy run amok. 727 00:25:12,011 --> 00:25:13,780 I can't need to see you every 37 seconds 728 00:25:13,846 --> 00:25:15,615 to achieve completion as a human being. 729 00:25:15,682 --> 00:25:17,083 Fine. Are we clear on this? 730 00:25:17,149 --> 00:25:18,050 Sure. Good. 731 00:25:18,117 --> 00:25:19,485 Can I say something? Go right ahead. 732 00:25:19,552 --> 00:25:21,588 You left your passport at my house, 733 00:25:21,654 --> 00:25:23,723 you left your wallet at my house, 734 00:25:23,790 --> 00:25:25,692 you left your driver's license 735 00:25:25,758 --> 00:25:28,661 and all your credit cards at my house. 736 00:25:30,396 --> 00:25:32,665 Have a safe flight. 737 00:25:32,732 --> 00:25:34,000 Are you...? 738 00:25:35,434 --> 00:25:38,204 There's this... 739 00:25:38,270 --> 00:25:40,039 nice little place... 740 00:25:45,712 --> 00:25:48,748 Can I interest you in a late lunch? 741 00:25:56,789 --> 00:26:00,492 LARRY: Josh. Josh. 742 00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:01,994 This jobs story's killing us with the Democrats. 743 00:26:02,061 --> 00:26:03,262 Yeah. 744 00:26:03,329 --> 00:26:04,764 Think the Speaker's going to smell blood in the water 745 00:26:04,831 --> 00:26:06,599 and spike this thing? 746 00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:07,700 Belgian Prime Minister's letting the tractors 747 00:26:07,767 --> 00:26:09,201 into the Place des Palais. 748 00:26:09,268 --> 00:26:11,070 260 tractors, right next to the site of the ceremony. 749 00:26:11,137 --> 00:26:12,739 It's like the Hayseed Olympics out there. 750 00:26:12,805 --> 00:26:14,607 Maybe if we plant a row of corn... 751 00:26:14,674 --> 00:26:16,008 Stop mocking the farmers. 752 00:26:16,075 --> 00:26:17,944 They're just trying to scratch out a living. 753 00:26:21,948 --> 00:26:25,084 This no-talking thing isn't working for me. 754 00:26:28,220 --> 00:26:29,155 You have a 3:00, 755 00:26:29,221 --> 00:26:30,156 I need to brief you. 756 00:26:30,222 --> 00:26:32,124 And they won't leave your office. 757 00:26:32,191 --> 00:26:32,825 I know. 758 00:26:32,892 --> 00:26:34,126 I tried to move them. 759 00:26:34,193 --> 00:26:35,394 Do you want me to call the Secret Service? 760 00:26:35,461 --> 00:26:37,930 ( sighing ): No. 761 00:26:37,997 --> 00:26:42,001 I just want to grow in my job, do something meaningful, 762 00:26:42,068 --> 00:26:45,304 do more than earn a paycheck till I die. 763 00:26:45,371 --> 00:26:47,306 Why are you saying that? 764 00:26:47,373 --> 00:26:49,108 I only have one career, and I want it to matter, 765 00:26:49,175 --> 00:26:50,542 or I might as well be a soda jerk. 766 00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:51,811 That's why I wanted to... 767 00:26:51,878 --> 00:26:53,345 Let's go back to not talking for a while. 768 00:26:53,412 --> 00:26:54,947 RYAN: Missed a great party. 769 00:26:55,014 --> 00:26:58,050 I've got bigger problems than your brass parachute. 770 00:26:58,117 --> 00:26:58,851 Where you going? 771 00:26:58,918 --> 00:27:00,619 To meet Congressman McKenna. 772 00:27:00,687 --> 00:27:02,421 That's funny, actually... 773 00:27:02,488 --> 00:27:03,923 No, it isn't funny. 774 00:27:03,990 --> 00:27:05,825 He's a two-bit jerk of a junior House member. 775 00:27:05,892 --> 00:27:09,028 He holds us hostage every time we have a budget or a trade deal, 776 00:27:09,095 --> 00:27:10,697 or enough discretionary authority 777 00:27:10,763 --> 00:27:12,131 to buy an ice cream cone. 778 00:27:12,198 --> 00:27:14,667 I've got the Speaker of the House in ten minutes. 779 00:27:14,734 --> 00:27:16,035 I'm going to smile, bob my head 780 00:27:16,102 --> 00:27:17,704 and stick him in the out box. 781 00:27:22,775 --> 00:27:23,776 Beat it. I've got a meeting. 782 00:27:23,843 --> 00:27:24,977 So do I's the thing. 783 00:27:25,044 --> 00:27:26,312 It's just me and McKenna. 784 00:27:26,378 --> 00:27:27,880 I'm his new Legislative Director. 785 00:27:29,749 --> 00:27:31,083 Hi. 786 00:27:31,150 --> 00:27:32,451 He figured it'd be leverage enough 787 00:27:32,518 --> 00:27:34,120 that he's on two authorizing committees 788 00:27:34,186 --> 00:27:36,322 and can stall half your budget priorities. 789 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:38,925 Is this the part where you smile and bob your head? 790 00:27:41,327 --> 00:27:43,996 McKenna has a problem with the Brussels Round? 791 00:27:44,063 --> 00:27:47,166 He just wants a seat on the plane. 792 00:27:47,233 --> 00:27:50,669 That question you asked: who's an economy's for...? 793 00:27:50,737 --> 00:27:51,938 I don't care about trade. 794 00:27:52,004 --> 00:27:53,405 If you taught me anything, 795 00:27:53,472 --> 00:27:55,307 it's that my view doesn't matter anyway. 796 00:27:55,374 --> 00:27:57,676 You take your boss's position lock, stock, and sound bite, 797 00:27:57,744 --> 00:27:59,245 and you get what you came for. 798 00:27:59,311 --> 00:28:00,880 Am I right? 799 00:28:00,947 --> 00:28:03,015 BEN: I think there's too many channels as there is. 800 00:28:03,082 --> 00:28:05,417 There's the Cooking Channel, the Botany Channel-- 801 00:28:05,484 --> 00:28:07,053 I'm waiting for the channel 802 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:08,788 that's devoted to explaining the other channels. 803 00:28:08,855 --> 00:28:10,422 We have to do all the news mags. 804 00:28:10,489 --> 00:28:13,159 You know when they passed the laws that limit media ownership? 805 00:28:13,225 --> 00:28:15,594 In the 40's, as a response to fascism in Europe. 806 00:28:15,661 --> 00:28:17,396 Think I saw that on the Fascism Channel. 807 00:28:17,463 --> 00:28:18,697 Laugh now, channel-boy. 808 00:28:18,765 --> 00:28:20,099 Soon it'll be the only one left. 809 00:28:22,068 --> 00:28:22,802 Hi. 810 00:28:22,869 --> 00:28:23,836 Hi, Leo McGarry. 811 00:28:23,903 --> 00:28:24,904 You must be Ben. 812 00:28:24,971 --> 00:28:26,472 C.J.'s just nuts about you. 813 00:28:26,538 --> 00:28:28,440 Not really, actually. Why are you hawking this FCC story? 814 00:28:28,507 --> 00:28:30,943 I got calls from two network news heads. 815 00:28:31,010 --> 00:28:32,511 Of course you have. They're crazy about this ruling, 816 00:28:32,578 --> 00:28:34,413 and the people that aren't, can't get us on the phone. 817 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,016 My problem right now is I'm too easy to get on the phone. 818 00:28:37,083 --> 00:28:38,818 I need you pushing back on the job losses. 819 00:28:38,885 --> 00:28:40,219 Our Caucus is going bananas. 820 00:28:40,286 --> 00:28:42,521 This is a bail-out for MertMedia, and all the big... 821 00:28:42,588 --> 00:28:44,723 The President's against excessive media ownership. 822 00:28:44,791 --> 00:28:47,259 If we think the FCC's not looking out for the little guy, 823 00:28:47,326 --> 00:28:48,694 use the Briefing Room to say it. 824 00:28:48,761 --> 00:28:50,329 No one's writing about it. 825 00:28:50,396 --> 00:28:52,598 They're all afraid of their media-mogul robber-baron bosses. 826 00:28:52,664 --> 00:28:54,500 This is the biggest media conspiracy 827 00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:56,268 since William Randolph Hearst was starting wars 828 00:28:56,335 --> 00:28:57,103 and crushing filmmakers. 829 00:28:57,169 --> 00:28:58,404 We don't run the press. 830 00:28:58,470 --> 00:28:59,806 We certainly don't run the FCC. 831 00:28:59,872 --> 00:29:00,940 They made the ruling. 832 00:29:01,007 --> 00:29:02,741 Local news is getting trampled. 833 00:29:02,809 --> 00:29:04,844 You think corporate media's going to take on 834 00:29:04,911 --> 00:29:06,913 corporate polluters, describe mega-mergers 835 00:29:06,979 --> 00:29:08,647 as anything other than a rising stock price? 836 00:29:08,714 --> 00:29:10,917 BEN: When was the last time you watched local news? 837 00:29:10,983 --> 00:29:13,119 I mean it's just high school ping-pong 838 00:29:13,185 --> 00:29:15,421 and weathermen predicting hailstones 839 00:29:15,487 --> 00:29:16,889 the size of canned hams. 840 00:29:16,956 --> 00:29:18,357 National programming doesn't bother you? 841 00:29:18,424 --> 00:29:20,559 I've spent my entire career living in Moosejaw. 842 00:29:20,626 --> 00:29:21,660 I get my news off CNN. 843 00:29:21,727 --> 00:29:22,795 I like this one. 844 00:29:22,862 --> 00:29:24,230 He's about to become available. 845 00:29:26,866 --> 00:29:28,100 Had to be MertMedia. 846 00:29:28,167 --> 00:29:29,468 MertMedia? 847 00:29:29,535 --> 00:29:31,804 The CEO calls me every few months to offer me a job, 848 00:29:31,871 --> 00:29:33,139 corporate communications. 849 00:29:33,205 --> 00:29:34,907 I'm due for a call next week. 850 00:29:34,974 --> 00:29:36,275 You're not thinking of leaving... 851 00:29:36,342 --> 00:29:37,509 No, I'm not. 852 00:29:37,576 --> 00:29:39,245 And I don't know who the FCC is looking out for, 853 00:29:39,311 --> 00:29:41,347 but I came here to look out for the little guy. 854 00:29:41,413 --> 00:29:43,950 How come only the big guy is trying to hire me? 855 00:29:44,016 --> 00:29:45,751 Call facilities maintenance. 856 00:29:45,818 --> 00:29:47,219 Get me two or three workmen. 857 00:29:47,286 --> 00:29:48,054 CAROL: Workmen. 858 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,721 Carpenters, joiners, quitters, 859 00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:50,722 whatever they've got down there. 860 00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:51,991 May I ask you...? 861 00:29:52,058 --> 00:29:53,725 Like a surgeon wields his scalpel, 862 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:56,929 like a barrister wields his... whatever it is he wields, 863 00:29:56,996 --> 00:29:58,430 I'm using my Briefing Room. 864 00:29:59,999 --> 00:30:03,502 Mr. Speaker, I guess you've seen this story about the job losses. 865 00:30:03,569 --> 00:30:04,736 I have. 866 00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:06,738 I know it's easy to play politics here, 867 00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,640 but it's just an allegation. 868 00:30:08,707 --> 00:30:10,709 This deal will create jobs over time. 869 00:30:10,776 --> 00:30:14,280 No one is more concerned about the dislocation than me, 870 00:30:14,346 --> 00:30:16,815 so, if you've got some issues, we should... 871 00:30:16,883 --> 00:30:18,650 Let's get right to my issues. 872 00:30:18,717 --> 00:30:19,718 Sure. 873 00:30:19,785 --> 00:30:21,120 I have no issues. 874 00:30:21,187 --> 00:30:22,221 Meaning? 875 00:30:22,288 --> 00:30:25,724 Meaning you're home, Josh. 876 00:30:25,791 --> 00:30:27,326 Excuse me? 877 00:30:27,393 --> 00:30:28,327 You're home. 878 00:30:28,394 --> 00:30:29,528 I can get you 200, 879 00:30:29,595 --> 00:30:31,130 maybe 210 Republican votes. 880 00:30:31,197 --> 00:30:32,564 My members love it. 881 00:30:32,631 --> 00:30:33,665 You did a fantastic job. 882 00:30:33,732 --> 00:30:35,001 They love it? 883 00:30:35,067 --> 00:30:37,403 Business lobby loves it, tech lobby loves it, 884 00:30:37,469 --> 00:30:39,238 unions always complain about trade. 885 00:30:39,305 --> 00:30:40,606 The labor side agreements. 886 00:30:40,672 --> 00:30:42,574 Those things aren't even enforceable. 887 00:30:42,641 --> 00:30:45,511 And if there really are white-collar job losses? 888 00:30:45,577 --> 00:30:46,979 We knew there might be. 889 00:30:47,046 --> 00:30:48,948 The tech lobby was pressing India to sign the thing. 890 00:30:51,150 --> 00:30:52,618 You knew about that? 891 00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:54,220 Yeah. So did the White House. 892 00:30:54,286 --> 00:30:56,889 It's the way things were going anyway. 893 00:30:56,956 --> 00:30:59,391 India can have our programming jobs. 894 00:30:59,458 --> 00:31:03,029 We'll give them up like we gave up horses and buggies. 895 00:31:03,095 --> 00:31:05,264 They can't take away what's great about the American spirit. 896 00:31:05,331 --> 00:31:07,934 That's... that's it? 897 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,738 Unless I can interest you in running for Congress as a Republican. 898 00:31:12,804 --> 00:31:15,107 I'm kidding. 899 00:31:15,174 --> 00:31:17,443 Tell the President to have a great trip. 900 00:31:17,509 --> 00:31:19,278 We'll start whipping up votes. 901 00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:37,196 So the Vice President's distancing himself. 902 00:31:37,263 --> 00:31:39,165 Lots of Democrats are. 903 00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:41,934 But things went well with the Speaker. 904 00:31:44,803 --> 00:31:49,775 We knew the tech lobby was leaning on India. 905 00:31:49,841 --> 00:31:51,110 Lots of lobbies lean on lots of people. 906 00:31:51,177 --> 00:31:52,378 You sent me into that room 907 00:31:52,444 --> 00:31:54,546 knowing it might cost the CWA jobs. 908 00:31:54,613 --> 00:31:55,447 I sent you into that room 909 00:31:55,514 --> 00:31:56,582 to close a deal. 910 00:31:56,648 --> 00:31:58,584 No one put you in charge of economic policy. 911 00:31:58,650 --> 00:32:01,053 You didn't tell me 'cause I never would have made the deal. 912 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:02,321 When the President wants a deal, 913 00:32:02,388 --> 00:32:03,622 it's your job to close it. 914 00:32:03,689 --> 00:32:05,157 We don't sign waivers around here. 915 00:32:05,224 --> 00:32:06,225 We made a promise-- 916 00:32:06,292 --> 00:32:09,061 me and the President. 917 00:32:09,128 --> 00:32:10,596 That's how we got the CWA. 918 00:32:10,662 --> 00:32:12,999 The first union to endorse us in the first campaign, 919 00:32:13,065 --> 00:32:17,503 which is how we got the AFL-CIO, how we won Iowa, South Dakota. 920 00:32:17,569 --> 00:32:18,971 That was my job, too. 921 00:32:19,038 --> 00:32:21,273 You think we'd be here without it? 922 00:32:21,340 --> 00:32:24,143 You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. 923 00:32:24,210 --> 00:32:26,478 We promised that union we would protect their jobs. 924 00:32:26,545 --> 00:32:28,347 We said it right to Parsons' face. 925 00:32:28,414 --> 00:32:29,915 We said we'd try to look out for them. 926 00:32:29,982 --> 00:32:30,983 I'm not parsing words. 927 00:32:31,050 --> 00:32:32,418 That's not what we meant. 928 00:32:32,484 --> 00:32:34,520 We have to strip out the copyright provisions. 929 00:32:34,586 --> 00:32:36,255 We'll give them transition assistance. 930 00:32:36,322 --> 00:32:37,789 They call it burial insurance. 931 00:32:37,856 --> 00:32:40,459 Well, it's all burial insurance, isn't it? 932 00:32:40,526 --> 00:32:45,864 Great. Let's revise those talking points: 933 00:32:45,931 --> 00:32:48,100 the case for sweatshop labor, 934 00:32:48,167 --> 00:32:49,501 send your nine-year-old to a sneaker factory. 935 00:32:49,568 --> 00:32:50,769 Let's just call 936 00:32:50,836 --> 00:32:52,471 this whole trade deal "to hell with everything." 937 00:32:52,538 --> 00:32:54,440 I sent you in there to close a deal, and you did. 938 00:32:54,506 --> 00:32:55,907 Thank you. 939 00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,409 There are trade-offs. 940 00:32:57,476 --> 00:33:01,147 Lose 17,000 here, gain 30,000 there. 941 00:33:01,213 --> 00:33:02,281 They're human beings. 942 00:33:02,348 --> 00:33:03,982 You're talking in abstractions. 943 00:33:04,050 --> 00:33:05,351 As opposed to what, 944 00:33:05,417 --> 00:33:07,086 meeting every factory worker in America? 945 00:33:07,153 --> 00:33:08,987 Reviewing every line of computer code 946 00:33:09,055 --> 00:33:10,522 and giving little check-marks? 947 00:33:10,589 --> 00:33:12,891 We run a country, we deal in abstractions. 948 00:33:12,958 --> 00:33:14,460 That's easy for you to say. 949 00:33:14,526 --> 00:33:16,862 You're not the one who just screwed 3.3 million people. 950 00:33:16,928 --> 00:33:18,030 Neither are you. 951 00:33:18,097 --> 00:33:20,232 It's the President's agenda. 952 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:23,802 And it was the President's promise. 953 00:33:23,869 --> 00:33:26,938 Which you can't break, I can't break, 954 00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:28,740 and I am taking this to him, 955 00:33:28,807 --> 00:33:32,211 if I have to park a tractor on the South Lawn to do it. 956 00:33:48,527 --> 00:33:49,428 Hey. 957 00:33:49,495 --> 00:33:50,762 Hey. 958 00:33:50,829 --> 00:33:52,964 The CWA said some nasty things about you to the press. 959 00:33:53,031 --> 00:33:54,300 Yeah, I saw. 960 00:33:54,366 --> 00:33:56,034 Tell your pals at JCN to buy some TV stations, 961 00:33:56,102 --> 00:33:57,303 shut this down in a hurry. 962 00:33:57,369 --> 00:34:00,172 That's good advice. 963 00:34:00,239 --> 00:34:02,274 All the work you do with the unions, 964 00:34:02,341 --> 00:34:04,910 why'd Leo put you at that negotiating table? 965 00:34:04,976 --> 00:34:08,180 'Cause I asked him. 966 00:34:08,247 --> 00:34:11,717 You spend your whole career trying to get in the room, 967 00:34:11,783 --> 00:34:14,986 as if you're the one who can square every circle. 968 00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:15,987 And it turns out... 969 00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:18,490 A circle's a circle. 970 00:34:18,557 --> 00:34:20,058 There's our geometry lesson for the day. 971 00:34:20,126 --> 00:34:21,327 See you on the plane. 972 00:34:22,361 --> 00:34:24,196 You know what these CODELs are like. 973 00:34:24,263 --> 00:34:26,132 We don't need any dime-store diplomats 974 00:34:26,198 --> 00:34:27,899 gumming up the peace process. 975 00:34:27,966 --> 00:34:29,768 There is no peace process. 976 00:34:29,835 --> 00:34:33,539 Dime-store diplomats may be better than no diplomats at all. 977 00:34:33,605 --> 00:34:35,040 We really need a bunch of Congressman 978 00:34:35,107 --> 00:34:37,909 doing back-seat diplomacy? 979 00:34:37,976 --> 00:34:39,245 You really want me to go all the way 980 00:34:39,311 --> 00:34:41,147 to the Middle East with a whistle around my neck, 981 00:34:41,213 --> 00:34:43,449 teach Congressmen how to make lanyards? 982 00:34:43,515 --> 00:34:45,584 I need you to go so we can stay out of trouble. 983 00:34:45,651 --> 00:34:48,053 It's the best we can do in that region right now. 984 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,555 Come back with some lanyards, 985 00:34:49,621 --> 00:34:51,056 I'll toss in a couple of new medals. 986 00:34:51,123 --> 00:34:52,491 ( knocking ) I'll go. 987 00:34:52,558 --> 00:34:54,993 You know I'll do whatever you want, Mr. President, 988 00:34:55,060 --> 00:34:56,328 but I think we should 989 00:34:56,395 --> 00:34:58,164 be more engaged over there, not less. 990 00:34:58,230 --> 00:34:59,298 Thank you, Fitz. I appreciate it. 991 00:34:59,365 --> 00:35:00,599 Thank you so much. 992 00:35:00,666 --> 00:35:01,800 Would you give us a minute, please? 993 00:35:01,867 --> 00:35:03,101 Sure. 994 00:35:13,312 --> 00:35:15,347 Leo's told me about the 17,000 jobs. 995 00:35:15,414 --> 00:35:17,216 We have to fix this thing. 996 00:35:17,283 --> 00:35:19,318 We've talked about creative destruction. 997 00:35:19,385 --> 00:35:20,652 We made a promise. 998 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,189 It's the evolutionary nature of capitalism. 999 00:35:23,255 --> 00:35:26,192 This isn't economic theory. 1000 00:35:26,258 --> 00:35:27,626 Where's our allegiance? 1001 00:35:27,693 --> 00:35:30,196 To our own people or to Third World plutocracies? 1002 00:35:30,262 --> 00:35:31,763 There are children in those plutocracies 1003 00:35:31,830 --> 00:35:35,434 who dig through trash heaps for food, 1004 00:35:35,501 --> 00:35:38,404 who'd kill for a low-wage job. 1005 00:35:38,470 --> 00:35:40,339 You think if they're not sewing sneakers, 1006 00:35:40,406 --> 00:35:42,040 they're downing cocktails at a debutante ball? 1007 00:35:42,107 --> 00:35:43,342 This is different. 1008 00:35:43,409 --> 00:35:44,610 These programmers have middle-class jobs. 1009 00:35:44,676 --> 00:35:46,245 Different how? Because we know them? 1010 00:35:46,312 --> 00:35:47,913 Different... 1011 00:35:47,979 --> 00:35:51,082 because you and I looked them in the eye, five years ago, 1012 00:35:51,149 --> 00:35:52,918 at the Wayfarer Hotel. 1013 00:35:55,053 --> 00:35:57,789 I know that we did. 1014 00:35:57,856 --> 00:36:01,527 Sometimes I wish I could stick to the theory. 1015 00:36:01,593 --> 00:36:03,662 I don't like seeing our friends get hurt. 1016 00:36:03,729 --> 00:36:05,564 Then let's not hurt our friends. 1017 00:36:05,631 --> 00:36:06,598 By doing what? 1018 00:36:06,665 --> 00:36:08,667 Building a wall around the country 1019 00:36:08,734 --> 00:36:12,338 so we can keep those jobs a bit longer and never create any new ones? 1020 00:36:12,404 --> 00:36:14,740 Passing a law that no one can be fired, 1021 00:36:14,806 --> 00:36:17,709 even if they play video games at their desks all day? 1022 00:36:17,776 --> 00:36:19,511 I'd probably get a spike in the poll for that one. 1023 00:36:19,578 --> 00:36:21,547 The CWA's the reason we're in this room. 1024 00:36:21,613 --> 00:36:23,249 And they would prefer a Republican 1025 00:36:23,315 --> 00:36:24,850 who'd support free trade 1026 00:36:24,916 --> 00:36:28,420 then gut job training and eviscerate unemployment insurance? 1027 00:36:28,487 --> 00:36:30,422 We made a promise. 1028 00:36:33,992 --> 00:36:35,594 There was a man named Canute, 1029 00:36:35,661 --> 00:36:38,497 one of the great Viking kings of the 11th century. 1030 00:36:38,564 --> 00:36:41,300 Wanted his subjects to be aware of his limitations, 1031 00:36:41,367 --> 00:36:43,269 so he led them down to the sea 1032 00:36:43,335 --> 00:36:45,937 and he commanded that the tide roll out. 1033 00:36:47,473 --> 00:36:49,140 It didn't. 1034 00:36:49,207 --> 00:36:51,743 Who gave us the notion 1035 00:36:51,810 --> 00:36:55,180 Presidents can move the economy like a play-toy? 1036 00:36:55,247 --> 00:36:58,116 That we can do more than talk it up 1037 00:36:58,183 --> 00:37:00,619 or smooth over the rough spots? 1038 00:37:06,992 --> 00:37:09,761 It's a lie. 1039 00:37:09,828 --> 00:37:13,665 What we really owe that union is the truth. 1040 00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:15,767 We're running around saying 1041 00:37:15,834 --> 00:37:18,203 free trade creates high-paying jobs. 1042 00:37:18,270 --> 00:37:19,471 And it will. 1043 00:37:21,273 --> 00:37:24,676 But I've been trying to tell you it's not that simple. 1044 00:37:26,745 --> 00:37:28,814 I'll set up a call with Bill Parsons. 1045 00:37:32,484 --> 00:37:34,953 Be nice to roll back that tide, 1046 00:37:35,020 --> 00:37:37,289 wouldn't it? 1047 00:37:37,356 --> 00:37:39,491 Yes, Mr. President, it sure would. 1048 00:37:41,327 --> 00:37:43,429 I want you to do me a favor. 1049 00:37:43,495 --> 00:37:44,430 What's that? 1050 00:37:44,496 --> 00:37:45,931 Start preparing a statement. 1051 00:37:45,997 --> 00:37:47,399 Saying what? 1052 00:37:47,466 --> 00:37:48,967 Retracting everything I'm about to say to the room. 1053 00:37:49,034 --> 00:37:51,570 ( lively, indistinct conversation ) 1054 00:37:51,637 --> 00:37:53,372 Good afternoon, folks. 1055 00:37:53,439 --> 00:37:54,740 I have to apologize-- 1056 00:37:54,806 --> 00:37:56,908 the pre-Brussels briefing won't start 1057 00:37:56,975 --> 00:37:57,743 for half an hour or so. 1058 00:37:57,809 --> 00:37:59,545 MAN: What happened in here? 1059 00:37:59,611 --> 00:38:01,279 We're making adjustments to your seating assignments. 1060 00:38:01,347 --> 00:38:03,114 WOMAN: Adjustments? 1061 00:38:03,181 --> 00:38:05,751 You're all aware of the FCC's new rules on media ownership. 1062 00:38:05,817 --> 00:38:07,986 As you've reported, they're a big victory 1063 00:38:08,053 --> 00:38:09,254 for the little guy-- 1064 00:38:09,321 --> 00:38:11,757 if by little, of course, we mean 1065 00:38:11,823 --> 00:38:14,393 transnational multi-billion-dollar conglomerates. 1066 00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:16,027 And in that spirit of runaway populism, 1067 00:38:16,094 --> 00:38:18,397 the White House Briefing Room will now offer 1068 00:38:18,464 --> 00:38:19,465 just one seat per corporate owner. 1069 00:38:19,531 --> 00:38:20,566 ( grumbling ) 1070 00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:22,133 One seat for MertMedia, 1071 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,903 one for GE, one for Disney, Viacom, News Corp, 1072 00:38:24,970 --> 00:38:26,271 Clear Channel, Tribune. 1073 00:38:26,338 --> 00:38:29,174 Guess you'll have to flip a coin to see who gets to sit. 1074 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:30,776 Why are you doing this? 1075 00:38:30,842 --> 00:38:32,778 'Cause if America's choices are gonna be restricted, 1076 00:38:32,844 --> 00:38:34,580 so are yours and everyone's gonna know it. 1077 00:38:34,646 --> 00:38:36,848 Brock, see if your business desk'll lend you 1078 00:38:36,915 --> 00:38:37,716 a folding chair. 1079 00:38:37,783 --> 00:38:40,486 See seven of you in half an hour. 1080 00:38:45,657 --> 00:38:48,093 They're still in your office. 1081 00:38:49,127 --> 00:38:50,061 Yeah. 1082 00:38:50,128 --> 00:38:51,062 What are they doing? 1083 00:38:51,129 --> 00:38:53,999 Waiting by the sea. 1084 00:38:58,036 --> 00:38:59,104 What's this? 1085 00:38:59,170 --> 00:39:02,641 Your diplomatic passport. 1086 00:39:05,444 --> 00:39:06,612 You got me a seat on the... 1087 00:39:06,678 --> 00:39:08,346 No, I even had to give mine to McKenna. 1088 00:39:08,414 --> 00:39:09,681 I'm going on the press plane. 1089 00:39:09,748 --> 00:39:11,483 Oh. 1090 00:39:11,550 --> 00:39:12,784 Well, you tried. 1091 00:39:12,851 --> 00:39:15,421 You're going on a CODEL to the Middle East 1092 00:39:15,487 --> 00:39:16,455 with Fitzwallace and Andy. 1093 00:39:16,522 --> 00:39:18,223 No presidential hand-holding. 1094 00:39:18,289 --> 00:39:21,326 You're gonna see what's going on; brief me and Toby about it. 1095 00:39:21,393 --> 00:39:22,360 What I did wrong 1096 00:39:22,428 --> 00:39:25,363 wasn't breaking my word. 1097 00:39:25,431 --> 00:39:26,665 It was making a promise 1098 00:39:26,732 --> 00:39:30,636 I couldn't keep in the first place. 1099 00:39:36,542 --> 00:39:37,776 ( knocking ) 1100 00:39:37,843 --> 00:39:40,512 I understand we lost about 39.37% of the seats 1101 00:39:40,579 --> 00:39:41,647 in the Briefing Room. 1102 00:39:41,713 --> 00:39:43,348 I've retracted that, 1103 00:39:43,415 --> 00:39:45,283 and I'm having the government bill me for the carpentry. 1104 00:39:45,350 --> 00:39:47,285 I know you have a two-by-four 1105 00:39:47,352 --> 00:39:48,620 to pick with the FCC. 1106 00:39:48,687 --> 00:39:50,088 You said I could use the Briefing Room. 1107 00:39:51,423 --> 00:39:52,458 I did. 1108 00:39:52,524 --> 00:39:53,792 Our own press guidance 1109 00:39:53,859 --> 00:39:55,026 said it was a victory for the little guy 1110 00:39:55,093 --> 00:39:56,462 when it was an amnesty for monopolists. 1111 00:39:56,528 --> 00:39:59,230 And when do we stop rewarding it? 1112 00:39:59,297 --> 00:40:00,298 Can I ask you a question? 1113 00:40:00,365 --> 00:40:01,900 Sure. Who's the little guy? 1114 00:40:01,967 --> 00:40:04,670 I'm serious. Who is he? 1115 00:40:04,736 --> 00:40:07,606 Do you know of any poor, struggling station owners? 1116 00:40:07,673 --> 00:40:08,940 Some guy in hand-me-downs 1117 00:40:09,007 --> 00:40:11,242 tying antennas to a pick-up truck? 1118 00:40:11,309 --> 00:40:13,211 No. 1119 00:40:13,278 --> 00:40:15,614 Even the smallest stations earn tens of millions. 1120 00:40:15,681 --> 00:40:17,683 Lots of 'em have no news programming at all. 1121 00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:19,518 We're supposed to upend the marketplace 1122 00:40:19,585 --> 00:40:21,419 on principle alone? 1123 00:40:21,487 --> 00:40:23,088 People need to know what's going on. 1124 00:40:23,154 --> 00:40:24,823 They need to know big changes are happening 1125 00:40:24,890 --> 00:40:26,157 when no one's looking. 1126 00:40:26,224 --> 00:40:28,093 That doesn't mean we can stop them. 1127 00:40:28,159 --> 00:40:30,796 It doesn't mean we go down without a fight, either. 1128 00:40:37,135 --> 00:40:38,103 Send me that bill. 1129 00:40:39,538 --> 00:40:42,508 I'd like to pay for the carpentry myself. 1130 00:40:42,574 --> 00:40:46,077 Thanks, but it was worth every nickel. 1131 00:40:46,144 --> 00:40:49,080 MAN: I'm educated, I work as hard as anybody, 1132 00:40:49,147 --> 00:40:55,086 and this isn't the first time I've lost my job. 1133 00:40:55,153 --> 00:40:56,221 Where does it end? 1134 00:40:56,287 --> 00:40:59,558 Am I gonna be working at a video rental counter 1135 00:40:59,625 --> 00:41:01,893 next to some high school dropout? 1136 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,564 The staff vans are leaving. 1137 00:41:05,631 --> 00:41:10,001 Ten years ago, I worked for this Senate candidate. 1138 00:41:10,068 --> 00:41:14,105 He had this idea that health care, pensions, 1139 00:41:14,172 --> 00:41:17,208 even vacation time ought to be portable, 1140 00:41:17,275 --> 00:41:20,546 that it should follow you from job to job, 1141 00:41:20,612 --> 00:41:24,716 'cause everyone was gonna work 15 jobs in a lifetime. 1142 00:41:24,783 --> 00:41:28,419 Might as well fly in the teeth of it. 1143 00:41:28,486 --> 00:41:30,756 And we talked him out of it. 1144 00:41:30,822 --> 00:41:32,724 We told him he was scaring the bejeesus out of people. 1145 00:41:32,791 --> 00:41:36,027 Who wants to know about 15 jobs? 1146 00:41:37,428 --> 00:41:39,865 Maybe we should've done that; I don't know. 1147 00:41:39,931 --> 00:41:42,100 What do you know, Mr. Lyman? 1148 00:41:44,402 --> 00:41:48,006 We can't save your jobs. 1149 00:41:48,073 --> 00:41:50,508 We are gonna create more in the long run, 1150 00:41:50,576 --> 00:41:53,478 but we can't save your jobs. 1151 00:41:53,545 --> 00:41:54,479 It's the short run 1152 00:41:54,546 --> 00:41:57,949 we got to figure out. 1153 00:41:58,016 --> 00:42:01,152 The world's moving faster, we can't stop it. 1154 00:42:01,219 --> 00:42:03,589 I wish we could. 1155 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,564 We are gonna do more to prepare you. 1156 00:42:12,631 --> 00:42:14,532 We have to. 1157 00:42:19,605 --> 00:42:21,006 Is that a promise? 1158 00:42:21,072 --> 00:42:24,442 No. 1159 00:42:24,509 --> 00:42:25,944 But we're gonna try.