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- Previously on The West Wing:
- We need help.
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- I'm bringing in Bruno Gianelli.
- It's too early.
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- No.
- Sam and Josh aren't gonna like it.
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- They'll have to live with it.
- The only races I've ever lost...
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...are ones where the candidate didn't
listen or advice didn't get through.
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- That won't happen this time.
- It seems your job is to wait...
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...until Doug leaves the room and then
say,"What Doug really meant was... ."
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How much they pay you for that?
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Sometimes it's my job to say it
when he's in the room.
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- Mrs. Bartlet, I wanna talk to you...
- Dr. Bartlet.
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When did I stop being Dr. Bartlet?
When in the campaign...
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...did I decide that women were gonna
like me more if I called myself"Mrs."?
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One day, I'll get called to the
Situation Room and it'll be good news.
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We'll have discovered
buried treasure.
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Or it turns out there's
life on Andromeda...
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...and they think we're doing
a good job. When's that day coming?
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- When's that gonna happen?
- Settle down.
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- What do you need?
- The Pac Fleet commander...
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...informed us he lost contact with the
USS Portland, a Seawolf class sub.
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- What were their orders?
- They were on a close-in.
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They were supposed to
report in yesterday at 1400.
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They were gonna surface
to periscope depth...
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...and download deterrence
intelligence data.
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They've gone quiet,
they're a submarine.
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- Sure. Maybe.
- But?
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They usually call in
and say they're going quiet.
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- Other possibilities?
- They've lost power...
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...and are drifting in hostile waters.
- What hostile waters?
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They're in the Yellow Sea, their last
location was 60 miles west of Seoul.
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We haven't heard from them
and they're in North Korea?
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What do we have ready if we need to
order a massive rescue mission?
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We put two DSRVs on alert
from Ballast Point, San Diego.
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Two C-141 Starlifters are on alert at
North Island, ready to get a rescue crew.
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They'll meet up with Seawolfs
stationed off Japan...
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...each carrying 50 Tomahawks.
They practice for this all the time...
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...but we shouldn't do it.
- Why not?
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- I think they've gone quiet.
- You said they usually call.
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- They usually do.
- I've gotta tell the president.
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He'll hit the panic button.
If the Portland went quiet...
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...somebody's sitting on top of them.
They know what to do.
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I'll be back.
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- Their propellers aren't going.
- No.
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- They know I wanna leave now?
- Yes.
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- The propellers aren't going.
- Maybe they're saving fuel.
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That makes sense. Also, there's a
chance I can get hit getting on or off.
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- Excuse me?
- Sir?
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You think I'm not tall enough to get
hit by the propellers on Marine One?
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Dikembe Mutombo isn't tall enough
to get hit by the propellers.
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I duck when I get on that helicopter.
You should too. It's good safety sense.
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- Yes, sir.
- They know I wanna leave?
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- Yes, sir.
- Filing day, Charlie.
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Last to get on the ballot
in New Hampshire. I'm going myself.
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- I could send an aide.
- You're going yourself?
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- Always have, always will.
- There's nothing left to run for.
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Fair enough. Always have, never will.
But I'm going myself. You know why?
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- It's a statement about democracy?
- A profound statement about democracy.
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- Are you mocking me?
- No, sir.
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- That was a crack about my height before?
- No... Yeah, it was.
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- You all set to leave?
- I am. I'm going myself.
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It's a profound statement
about democracy.
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It's not a problem.
I'm up and back in two hours.
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It's great and I know
how much you love doing it.
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- It's one of my all-time favorite...
- You can't go.
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Why not?
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This is something that
sounds worse than it is...
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...because of your inexperience
with the military.
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- What is it?
- Okay.
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The USS Portland is a Seawolf-class...
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...or big nuclear submarine.
- Yeah.
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It has a crew of 137.
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It is loaded down with highly classified
intelligence gathering equipment.
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- It's in the waters off North Korea.
- Right.
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- We don't have it right now.
- What does"we don't have it" mean?
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Well, as you know, with our ships,
our boats and our submarines...
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...we keep in pretty close touch
with radar, sonar...
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...satellites, radio, encrypted messages.
And we don't have the Portland now.
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- We don't have it?
- We do not.
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- And they're in North Korea?
- Yes. Last we heard.
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So we're gonna set up meetings
in the next few hours.
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Plus, if anything happens,
I don't like people knowing...
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...you were running for election
while the boat was out there.
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I think I'll go ahead
and cancel that trip...
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...if only to stay and see how this
sounds worse than it really is.
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- I'll stick around too.
- I think you will.
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- Hey, I'm here.
- I'm glad.
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- What's this song about?
- This is"I'm Too Sexy."
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- For his shirt he's too sexy.
- Other things too.
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- He lists them.
- Well, I think he's feeling good.
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- I think he's feeling sexy.
- Too sexy.
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I think it's the kind of thing where
someone says,"This is just too good."
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- Hyperbole?
- Yeah.
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So it's not a problem? It's not a song
about somebody having a problem?
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No. He's feeling good,
that's why he's singing.
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- You see the wires?
- Not yet, is there anything?
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The majority leader was doing
news in Cleveland. They asked him...
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...why he wants to be president.
- What did he say?
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- I really don't know.
- Wait a second.
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- He got the question and he...?
- It was a train wreck.
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- I recognized all the words...
- Get me the transcript.
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Ten-hut.
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Where's the submarine, Nancy?
I don't wanna hear"I don't know."
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I wanna hear how many people
are out there looking for it.
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- And I thought you were gonna panic.
- I happen to agree with the president...
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...who on military matters is smarter...
- Shut up.
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- How long can the crew survive?
- We don't know what's going on.
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- Want the worst-case scenario?
- Yes.
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If they're flooding, it could be hours.
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How close are these guys to landfall?
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About 4000 yards off the
southern coast of Kaesong in Haeju Bay.
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Four thousand yards!
They get that close?
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Yes, they set a wiretap on a cable in
North Korea's coastal operations zone.
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- Four thousand yards?
- Yeah.
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Can they send a distress signal?
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They can, but they won't
if they think they'll be detected.
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They would wait to send a signal
and risk their lives?
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Mr. President, submariners understand
that if they sink...
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...it won't be a rescue,
it'll be a recovery.
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They measure risk and rewards
not just in terms of their lives...
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...but in terms of national interest.
- Well, that's great.
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I assess the national interest by
the number of people alive.
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You have four hours before I order
the Pacific Fleet into Haeju Bay.
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- Thank you, sir.
- Thank you, Mr. President.
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We need to weigh in
with somebody at State.
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- I agree. Is Peter still recovering?
- Yes.
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All right, we'll talk to someone else,
someone we trust. Anybody but...
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- Albie Duncan.
- Anybody but him.
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No, I'm saying
it's gotta be Albie Duncan.
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- He knows what to say.
- So does Peter.
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- Peter's recovering from heart surgery.
- Was it serious heart surgery?
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We gotta meet with Albie.
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He's gonna scold me.
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He's been at the State Department
since Truman. He thinks I'm a kid...
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...and that he outranks me.
- You'll be fine.
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I gotta tell him I lost a submarine.
Can I make something up like, say:
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-"What if my friend hypothetically...?"
- We'll meet with him when he's here.
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Bring a copy of the Constitution.
I wanna show him I'm not scared.
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- Morning.
- Can you devise a campaign strategy...
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...that involves beating up Leo?
- Why not?
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Okay, let's get started.
Where's Toby?
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- He's in the...
- I don't care.
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These are direct-mail leaflets.
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"Bartlet: Hopelessly Liberal."
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"Bartlet: Super-Liberal."
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"Bartlet: Liberal, Liberal, Liberal."
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- These aren't coming from our side?
- No.
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- Wanna run an ad?
- The most dangerous time...
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...in an incumbent's campaign
is before there is opposition.
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- The hearings are around the corner.
- There's a stealth war going on.
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- Leaflets, flyers, phone trees.
- How much is it gonna cost?
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One million five for this one.
But in the next three months...
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...I'll need eight million
for new ads and air time.
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Work up an ad for 60 bucks
and a waffle and we'll talk.
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- Sam.
- We need the money in lowa in 9 weeks.
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If you don't spend now,
we'll have problems.
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- We don't know if there's a challenger.
- If there is, scare him.
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The best way to do that isn't
to keep the war chest intact?
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- You're talking about hard money.
- Yeah.
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I'm talking about hard money.
What are you talking about?
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- Excuse me.
- Listen, Toby...
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- What does $ 105 million mean to you?
- What?
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I just got tipped that the new budget
will include $ 105 million...
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...for the National Park Service. I can't
remember what that number means.
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- I don't know.
- Anybody?
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- No.
- Give me a few minutes, I'll be back.
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Does $ 105 million
mean anything to you?
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- I'm a simple girl, Toby.
- Yes. Yes, you are.
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- Bonnie, 105 million?
- My answer hasn't changed.
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- Toby.
- C.J.
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- What in...?
- He got the question.
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The Majority leader, last night,
local news, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Cleveland, Ohio. He got the question.
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- Which?
- Why do you wanna be president?
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- What'd he say?
-"The reason I'd run, were I to run...
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...is I have a great belief
in this country and in this people...
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...that go into making this country
a nation with the greatest resources...
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...and population of people,
educated people."
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I'll spread it around.
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C.J.?
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The new budget will have 105 million
for the National Park Service.
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- Does 105 million mean anything to you?
- No.
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But it's the same amount as the budget
for the National Endowment for the Arts.
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- Get me...
- I'll get her on the phone.
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- Why, Dr. Bartlet.
- Don't start with me, Oliver.
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- Start what?
- If you give me grief about my ankle...
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...do it quickly, so we can
move on with this rectal probe.
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- Know why I call you doctor?
- I have a medical license?
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You have a medical license.
And when I look at you...
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...I think about health.
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Goodness, what happened
to your ankle, Dr. Bartlet?
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- I broke it. Otherwise, I'd ram it up...
- How did you break it?
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It was in the newspapers,
I'm sure you read about it.
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- I read Le Monde. Was it in Le Monde?
- I don't know, I don't read Le Monde.
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- Pity.
- I was hiking, Oliver. I was hiking.
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- Are you that much an enemy of nature?
- Nature is to be protected from.
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Nature, like a woman,
will seduce you with its sights...
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...and its scents and its touch...
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...and then it breaks your ankle,
also like a woman.
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What the hell kind of dates
are you going on, Oliver?
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- I hear you.
- Yeah.
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Here's what you should do, and I'm
speaking to you as White House Counsel.
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Make a national address
encouraging women not to go hiking...
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...or at least not ask me
to go with them.
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- Can we work?
- Jonathan Hawkings, Nina Alva...
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...Maurice Blustein, Jessica Nording.
They mean anything?
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- Where did you get them?
- Democrats on Oversight.
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- They're on the witness list?
- Yes.
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Those are some of the patients involved
in malpractice suits against me.
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How many have there been altogether?
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Four were immediately dismissed
as nuisance suits.
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I went to court on two and won.
One was settled.
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- The life of a doctor.
- From this witness list...
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...it is becoming clear what the
president's biggest liability will be.
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- What?
- You.
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- Tawny.
- Throne, by Rain Billings...
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...a photographer from North Dakota
whose work consists of Polaroids...
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...of his dysfunctional family
in the bathroom.
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One Horse-Two Horse,
by Marc Moloney.
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He calls himself an installation artist.
It's two big-screen TVs...
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...side by side, one with footage
of stallions running in reverse...
220
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...the other one showing The Godfather.
"Slut" is a one-word poem...
221
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...by Jules Waltz.
It's stamped in scarlet...
222
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...on a piece of 40-by-40 black canvas.
223
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Here's a woman who gets naked,
covers herself in chocolate...
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...and sings. Does that appeal to you?
- I am not wild about musicals.
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They're all funded by Oakenwood during
his chairmanship of the Endowment.
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You're dissolving the Endowment
to give money to Parks?
227
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Hold the Lettuce. Lydia Benedict's
two bacon-cheeseburgers...
228
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...were constructed from burlap
and rottweiler dung.
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It's not me,
it's the committee I work for.
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Look...
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- Excuse me. Hey, Tawny.
- Sam.
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- Have you heard of Andrew Hawkins?
- No.
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You funded his performance
where he destroyed...
234
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...all his belongings outside
a Starbucks in Haight-Ashbury.
235
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I did that a couple times. I didn't know
there was funding available.
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- Can I talk to you a second?
- Yeah.
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- What's going on?
- Appropriations wants to eliminate NEA.
238
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- What's going on in there?
- He wants to run ads.
239
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- With what?
- Soft money.
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All right, I'll be in when I can.
241
00:14:26,624 --> 00:14:30,617
Oh, hey. You know what?
The NEA, that's 105 million.
242
00:14:30,784 --> 00:14:32,422
Yeah.
243
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Sam, did you hear?
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00:14:36,184 --> 00:14:39,335
- The majority leader got the question.
- And?
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- Get me the transcript.
- We've got an answer, right?
246
00:14:42,544 --> 00:14:45,263
- To what?
- If asked why he wants to be president.
247
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I'm sure we do.
I've gotta get back in there.
248
00:14:50,784 --> 00:14:52,775
Arlene Neiderlander.
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00:14:52,944 --> 00:14:56,653
The wife of a patient upon whom I
performed a coronary artery bypass graft.
250
00:14:56,824 --> 00:14:59,577
She filed a wrongful-death suit,
claiming he died...
251
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...as a result of complications
due to surgery.
252
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- Did he?
- He developed an infection...
253
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...like two percent of CABG surgeries,
in his case, mediastinitis.
254
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He was 74, diabetic,
and the infection spread to his liver.
255
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New York Superior Court Judge Nguyen
dismissed the case.
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Oliver, draw a line for me
from the malpractice suits...
257
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...to the Committee's investigation
of the president.
258
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It's an investigation of you too, Abbey.
259
00:15:25,984 --> 00:15:29,420
You had prescriptions filled in your
name, which you gave to the president.
260
00:15:29,584 --> 00:15:30,983
- But that in itself?
- Hang on.
261
00:15:31,144 --> 00:15:34,454
You're not a medical expert,
you didn't keep records...
262
00:15:34,624 --> 00:15:37,502
...you violated medical practices
in three states.
263
00:15:37,664 --> 00:15:39,780
And most important, you're his wife...
264
00:15:39,944 --> 00:15:42,174
...which is a violation
of the AMA's ethics code.
265
00:15:42,344 --> 00:15:45,541
How is this the purview of House
Government Reform and Oversight?
266
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It's not.
267
00:15:48,024 --> 00:15:52,176
They don't have a criminal case
against the president, do they?
268
00:15:52,384 --> 00:15:55,296
- No.
- But they can develop one against me.
269
00:15:55,504 --> 00:15:58,337
- Yeah.
- And in going after me...
270
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...they can paint the president.
271
00:16:00,304 --> 00:16:03,819
- Sure.
- Distract him from governing.
272
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Distract the public's attention
from the campaign.
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Yeah.
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It was an infection.
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It was a liver infection.
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- Should we keep going?
- Yeah.
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- You know what we're talking about?
- Sure.
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Do you know what we're talking about?
I wanna make sure Connie knows.
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I know what we're talking about.
Sam?
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- You know what we're talking about?
- We're talking about unlimited...
281
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...unregulated money that can be
raised in staggering amounts.
282
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It's not like there's a law that
envisioned soft money. No law bans it.
283
00:16:46,024 --> 00:16:49,096
It's a loophole so big you could
race the America's Cup through it.
284
00:16:49,264 --> 00:16:51,732
How can he oppose it
one year and take it the next?
285
00:16:51,904 --> 00:16:54,293
Where will he be on
campaign-finance reform tomorrow?
286
00:16:54,464 --> 00:16:57,217
Exactly where he is today.
Leading the charge against it.
287
00:16:57,384 --> 00:17:00,660
In the meantime, Congress and the FEC
have been sitting on their hands.
288
00:17:00,824 --> 00:17:05,579
Is that our fault? No. Now Bartlet
should obey a law that doesn't exist?
289
00:17:05,744 --> 00:17:07,575
What's next, imaginary street signs?
290
00:17:08,184 --> 00:17:11,460
Excuse me,
but there's such a thing as... .
291
00:17:12,224 --> 00:17:15,614
- What?
- There's such a thing as... .
292
00:17:15,824 --> 00:17:17,337
What?
293
00:17:19,904 --> 00:17:22,293
Okay, we're gonna
sit quietly for a moment.
294
00:17:22,464 --> 00:17:24,022
Okay.
295
00:17:25,024 --> 00:17:28,494
Leadership by example. There's
such a thing as leadership by example.
296
00:17:28,664 --> 00:17:31,462
It comes right before
getting your ass kicked in an election.
297
00:17:31,624 --> 00:17:33,819
We're really talking about this, huh?
298
00:17:34,024 --> 00:17:37,983
- Toby's gonna be in in a minute.
- Every single election.
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00:17:38,144 --> 00:17:39,736
Yes.
300
00:17:40,784 --> 00:17:44,857
- Legislature, House, governor.
- Yeah.
301
00:17:45,424 --> 00:17:49,622
- President.
- It's a statement about democracy.
302
00:17:51,344 --> 00:17:54,336
I've heard it before, I was just...
303
00:17:55,504 --> 00:17:57,699
- Is he here?
- Yes, sir.
304
00:17:57,864 --> 00:18:01,220
It's a profound statement
about democracy.
305
00:18:01,384 --> 00:18:03,978
- Mr. President.
- Good morning, Albie.
306
00:18:04,144 --> 00:18:06,658
- Good morning. Hello, Leo.
- Good to see you, Albie.
307
00:18:06,824 --> 00:18:09,941
Can I get you anything?
Some coffee? A soft drink?
308
00:18:10,104 --> 00:18:13,380
- No, sir.
- Okay. Okay.
309
00:18:13,544 --> 00:18:16,980
I've asked you here because you
are the Assistant Secretary of State...
310
00:18:17,144 --> 00:18:19,817
...and I am the president.
- What have you done?
311
00:18:19,984 --> 00:18:22,862
- You see, right away.
- Don't worry about it.
312
00:18:23,024 --> 00:18:28,018
The Pac Fleet commander has informed
us we've lost contact with the Portland.
313
00:18:28,184 --> 00:18:31,620
The Portland's a Seawolf class?
Where is it?
314
00:18:31,784 --> 00:18:33,900
- Lake George.
- Somewhere in Haeju Bay.
315
00:18:34,904 --> 00:18:39,295
You've lost a nuclear submarine
in North Korea, Mr. President.
316
00:18:39,464 --> 00:18:43,662
Thanks, Albie. That much the National
Security Council has made clear to me.
317
00:18:43,824 --> 00:18:46,577
- Any chance they've gone quiet?
- Nancy thinks there is.
318
00:18:46,744 --> 00:18:49,417
- I'm assuming they didn't radio.
- No.
319
00:18:49,584 --> 00:18:52,656
If they were in trouble,
they wouldn't send a distress signal...
320
00:18:52,824 --> 00:18:56,658
...because they might be detected and
submariners have different criteria...
321
00:18:56,824 --> 00:19:01,022
...when assessing risk versus reward.
322
00:19:01,784 --> 00:19:03,217
He knows.
323
00:19:03,384 --> 00:19:05,978
- Okay, I'll just stand over there.
- Where are we?
324
00:19:06,144 --> 00:19:09,739
The president wants to give four hours
before a rescue. We're an hour into it.
325
00:19:09,904 --> 00:19:11,781
- All the pieces in place?
- Yeah.
326
00:19:11,944 --> 00:19:13,935
- Who do we talk to in the meantime?
- Nobody.
327
00:19:14,104 --> 00:19:17,141
You sure? We don't talk
to the North Koreans?
328
00:19:17,304 --> 00:19:20,262
And tell them what?
You've got casus belli?
329
00:19:20,424 --> 00:19:22,699
Cause for war.
Little thing called Latin.
330
00:19:22,864 --> 00:19:27,540
If we tell North Korea we've violated
their waters, it could be interpreted...
331
00:19:27,704 --> 00:19:29,934
...as an act of war?
- It is an act of war.
332
00:19:30,104 --> 00:19:31,981
- We'll tell them it's not.
- It is.
333
00:19:32,864 --> 00:19:35,856
You violated international law.
334
00:19:36,024 --> 00:19:40,654
You've taken provocative action. At best
you'd create a crisis atmosphere...
335
00:19:40,824 --> 00:19:44,658
...and North Korea's got the
fourth largest army in the world.
336
00:19:45,064 --> 00:19:47,624
1968, the USS Pueblo...
337
00:19:47,784 --> 00:19:51,743
...was on an intelligence mission
off the DPRK.
338
00:19:51,904 --> 00:19:55,374
North Korea attacks
with vessels and a MiG jet.
339
00:19:55,544 --> 00:19:58,536
The 82 surviving crew are captured.
340
00:19:58,704 --> 00:20:01,423
They're held and tortured
for 11 months...
341
00:20:01,584 --> 00:20:05,896
...until we issue an apology
for the grave acts...
342
00:20:06,064 --> 00:20:09,739
...of espionage committed
by the U.S. ship.
343
00:20:09,904 --> 00:20:12,941
- I was there.
- Okay.
344
00:20:13,104 --> 00:20:16,062
- Can I talk to you alone for a second?
- Yeah.
345
00:20:22,704 --> 00:20:25,980
- Let's not call North Korea just yet.
- No.
346
00:20:26,144 --> 00:20:29,819
Leo, gut feeling.
Has the boat gone quiet?
347
00:20:29,984 --> 00:20:31,303
Yeah.
348
00:20:31,464 --> 00:20:34,262
Trust the captain, trust the crew.
349
00:20:35,624 --> 00:20:38,377
All right. Three more hours.
350
00:20:38,544 --> 00:20:40,933
I think Albie should stay.
351
00:20:41,104 --> 00:20:43,015
He can talk us through some things.
352
00:20:43,184 --> 00:20:45,618
If we need to start
making calls he'll be helpful.
353
00:20:45,784 --> 00:20:49,663
Also, he'll be good to have around for
morale because he's Mr. Happy Fun Guy.
354
00:20:49,824 --> 00:20:53,180
- Look...
- I'm gonna ask you to stay for a while.
355
00:20:54,944 --> 00:20:57,822
Well, then, I'll take that
soft drink now...
356
00:20:57,984 --> 00:21:00,054
...if you've got it, Mr. President.
357
00:21:00,584 --> 00:21:04,577
Just a little Schweppes
Bitter Lemon on ice with a twist.
358
00:21:05,864 --> 00:21:07,741
Charlie!
359
00:21:08,704 --> 00:21:11,616
- Yes, sir.
- Could you have someone bring some...
360
00:21:11,784 --> 00:21:16,335
...Schweppes Bitter Lemon and a copy of
the constitutional order of succession?
361
00:21:16,504 --> 00:21:17,983
Yes, sir.
362
00:21:25,696 --> 00:21:30,053
New paragraph: As always, your
thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated.
363
00:21:30,216 --> 00:21:33,094
Also appreciated was the
visit to the White House...
364
00:21:33,256 --> 00:21:36,965
...by some 50 of your constituents
on board a bus...
365
00:21:37,136 --> 00:21:40,333
...that was chartered by your office.
366
00:21:40,496 --> 00:21:43,932
Their complaints were respectfully
heard by my assistant...
367
00:21:44,736 --> 00:21:47,489
...and I regret that matters
escalated to the point...
368
00:21:47,656 --> 00:21:51,126
...where she felt it necessary
to call in the Park Police.
369
00:21:51,856 --> 00:21:54,848
You'll be happy to know
that their bus has been refueled...
370
00:21:55,016 --> 00:21:57,086
...and the seniors
are on their way home...
371
00:21:57,256 --> 00:22:00,612
...each having been allowed to keep
their security tags as a souvenir.
372
00:22:00,776 --> 00:22:03,336
- Look...
- Signed. Do it.
373
00:22:03,496 --> 00:22:05,134
- Hey.
- You got a second?
374
00:22:05,296 --> 00:22:06,285
Type that.
375
00:22:06,456 --> 00:22:08,128
- I was just...
- Type it.
376
00:22:09,696 --> 00:22:12,608
- May I use your computer?
- What's wrong with yours?
377
00:22:12,776 --> 00:22:15,848
One of them poured Wheatena
on the keyboard.
378
00:22:16,496 --> 00:22:18,248
Go ahead.
379
00:22:26,736 --> 00:22:28,852
We had a little problem earlier.
What's up?
380
00:22:29,016 --> 00:22:31,655
The majority leader
got the question last night.
381
00:22:31,816 --> 00:22:34,569
And just kept on digging.
382
00:22:34,776 --> 00:22:37,654
"We have the greatest technology
of any country in the world...
383
00:22:37,816 --> 00:22:41,331
...along with the greatest, not the
greatest, but very serious problems...
384
00:22:41,496 --> 00:22:44,454
...confronting our people,
and I want to be president...
385
00:22:44,616 --> 00:22:47,414
...in order to focus on these problems
in a way that uses...
386
00:22:47,576 --> 00:22:50,648
...the energy of our people
to move us forward, basically."
387
00:22:50,816 --> 00:22:53,376
- Yes.
- It's the"basically" that makes it art.
388
00:22:53,536 --> 00:22:57,051
The best thing we can do is step back.
We can't be seen to be gloating.
389
00:22:57,216 --> 00:22:59,286
Yeah, we do that
when nobody's looking.
390
00:22:59,456 --> 00:23:00,935
- Anything else?
- No.
391
00:23:01,096 --> 00:23:04,168
- They poured Wheatena on her keyboard.
- Listen...
392
00:23:04,576 --> 00:23:05,975
...how good is our answer?
393
00:23:06,176 --> 00:23:07,165
- It's good.
- Really?
394
00:23:07,336 --> 00:23:08,928
What is it?
395
00:23:10,616 --> 00:23:12,527
Do we have one?
I'm sure we have one.
396
00:23:12,696 --> 00:23:15,415
- Will you check? Will you check today?
- Yeah.
397
00:23:15,576 --> 00:23:18,534
- Thank you.
- Okay.
398
00:23:18,696 --> 00:23:22,928
No, the problem is that Oakenwood
thinks that the mission of the NEA...
399
00:23:23,096 --> 00:23:25,166
...is to subsidize artists
in this country.
400
00:23:25,336 --> 00:23:28,965
The mission of the NEA is to
subsidize artists in this country.
401
00:23:29,136 --> 00:23:32,572
- Then that's the problem.
- In fact, it's to subsidize art.
402
00:23:32,736 --> 00:23:35,296
Go ahead and explain
that distinction in Topeka.
403
00:23:35,456 --> 00:23:38,414
They're bright. No artists you
mentioned received direct money...
404
00:23:38,576 --> 00:23:42,285
...from the Endowments because the last
time Republicans tried losing the NEA...
405
00:23:42,456 --> 00:23:45,892
...not three times ago, but last time,
we got rid of the individual grants.
406
00:23:46,056 --> 00:23:48,411
And Oakenwood found
a back door by giving money...
407
00:23:48,576 --> 00:23:51,613
...directly to the museums
that put on...
408
00:23:52,456 --> 00:23:55,493
Toby, do you like this stuff?
409
00:23:55,656 --> 00:23:59,774
You'd need the Budweiser Clydesdales
to drag me to Picasso and Monet.
410
00:23:59,936 --> 00:24:04,054
I'm not the guy you want deciding this.
You're not the guy I want deciding this.
411
00:24:04,216 --> 00:24:07,526
I don't know where you get the idea
taxpayers shouldn't have to pay...
412
00:24:07,696 --> 00:24:09,732
...for anything of which
they disapprove.
413
00:24:09,896 --> 00:24:11,727
Lots of them don't like tanks.
414
00:24:11,896 --> 00:24:14,729
Even more don't like Congress.
415
00:24:14,896 --> 00:24:17,933
- Hi.
- Lisa Mulberry, 28...
416
00:24:18,096 --> 00:24:23,454
...specializes in placing genitalia
in anatomically incorrect...
417
00:24:24,256 --> 00:24:26,167
- Excuse us.
- Sure.
418
00:24:29,936 --> 00:24:33,451
Look, we can't spend soft money
on a primary ad anyway, so...
419
00:24:33,616 --> 00:24:36,084
- No, he's passing the magic-words test.
- What test?
420
00:24:36,256 --> 00:24:38,565
U.S. Supreme Court,
Buckley v. Valeo.
421
00:24:38,736 --> 00:24:41,887
The Court created a loophole
by ruling that campaign-finance laws...
422
00:24:42,056 --> 00:24:44,968
...only apply to communications
that in express terms...
423
00:24:45,136 --> 00:24:47,775
...advocate the election or defeat
of a candidate...
424
00:24:47,936 --> 00:24:49,813
...for Federal office.
425
00:24:53,336 --> 00:24:56,214
If you don't put"Vote Bartlet"
in the ad...
426
00:24:56,376 --> 00:24:59,812
...you can pay for it with unmarked
bills from a bank heist if you want to.
427
00:24:59,976 --> 00:25:03,730
There's also Footnote 52, where the
Court said campaign-finance laws...
428
00:25:03,896 --> 00:25:07,650
...only apply to communications with the
terms"vote for,""elect,""support"...
429
00:25:07,816 --> 00:25:11,570
..."cast your ballot for,""vote
against,""defeat,""reject." That's it.
430
00:25:13,456 --> 00:25:14,969
I'm savant-like.
431
00:25:15,136 --> 00:25:19,573
- If it doesn't use those specific words?
- It is an issue ad.
432
00:25:19,736 --> 00:25:22,534
You know what they say
about money in politics.
433
00:25:22,696 --> 00:25:24,607
- It's like water on pavement.
- Why?
434
00:25:24,936 --> 00:25:27,291
- That's a good...
- It finds every crack and crevice.
435
00:25:27,456 --> 00:25:30,528
The standard should be,"Does the ad
try to influence the outcome?
436
00:25:30,696 --> 00:25:34,530
- If so, you can't use soft money."
- Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Sam.
437
00:25:34,696 --> 00:25:38,655
- Excuse me?
- That isn't what the standard is.
438
00:25:39,056 --> 00:25:42,332
Now, I think we should run in the
same election as everybody else.
439
00:25:42,776 --> 00:25:44,528
Toby?
440
00:25:46,736 --> 00:25:48,055
I've gotta go back in there.
441
00:25:48,216 --> 00:25:52,004
When I come back, show me an ad
without the magic words.
442
00:25:56,216 --> 00:25:58,172
- Francis Pendleton.
- Frank.
443
00:25:58,336 --> 00:26:00,645
- This was the case you settled?
- Yeah.
444
00:26:00,816 --> 00:26:04,604
$58,000 payout from SVM Mutual.
445
00:26:04,776 --> 00:26:07,734
- Why wasn't that out in the campaign?
- Confidentiality clause.
446
00:26:07,896 --> 00:26:11,525
No one would know that figure unless
they subpoenaed the Pendleton papers.
447
00:26:11,696 --> 00:26:13,334
They did.
448
00:26:14,376 --> 00:26:18,847
- You performed an atrioventricular...
- Is there a deal to be made?
449
00:26:20,616 --> 00:26:22,288
Is there?
450
00:26:22,536 --> 00:26:26,893
Oliver, I raise my right hand, they're
halfway to where they wanna be.
451
00:26:27,256 --> 00:26:30,009
- Is there a deal?
- Can't guarantee they'll be interested.
452
00:26:30,176 --> 00:26:32,849
- But they might be.
- If putting you on the stand is too risky.
453
00:26:33,016 --> 00:26:34,654
Why would it be a risk for them?
454
00:26:34,856 --> 00:26:38,166
You know the story of the man who
breaks into the pharmacy for medicine.
455
00:26:38,336 --> 00:26:40,566
A life is saved, a window's broken.
456
00:26:40,736 --> 00:26:42,215
Right.
457
00:26:42,376 --> 00:26:45,448
- And I get to pay to have it fixed.
- So they might be interested.
458
00:26:46,696 --> 00:26:49,085
- What would they want?
- At best?
459
00:26:49,536 --> 00:26:50,935
Start with at worst.
460
00:26:51,096 --> 00:26:52,688
- At worst?
- Yeah.
461
00:26:53,216 --> 00:26:55,969
Suspended jail sentence
of three to five years.
462
00:26:56,136 --> 00:26:57,728
What's the one right above that?
463
00:26:57,896 --> 00:27:00,774
USS Glomar, top-secret debacle.
464
00:27:00,936 --> 00:27:02,813
Project Jennifer.
465
00:27:02,976 --> 00:27:06,969
Glomar goes after Clementine,
the sunken Russian Golf.
466
00:27:07,136 --> 00:27:09,525
Six feet a minute, that's how fast
we pulled her up.
467
00:27:09,696 --> 00:27:13,006
Then, all of a sudden:
Her claw breaks in two.
468
00:27:13,176 --> 00:27:17,533
The Golf dangles loose, one sub
from another, steel ripping off.
469
00:27:17,696 --> 00:27:20,415
Everything we needed,
including its nuclear missile...
470
00:27:20,576 --> 00:27:24,285
...its transmitters,
its code books, everything, gone.
471
00:27:24,456 --> 00:27:27,926
The USS Gudgeon, 1957.
472
00:27:28,096 --> 00:27:31,805
Eight Soviet ships caught her,
kept her cornered for four days.
473
00:27:31,976 --> 00:27:35,730
The oxygen depletion,
migraines, fainting.
474
00:27:35,896 --> 00:27:39,013
You couldn't cook.
You couldn't light a cigarette.
475
00:27:39,176 --> 00:27:41,246
- They smoke in subs?
- They used to.
476
00:27:41,416 --> 00:27:43,532
The Oklahoma...
477
00:27:43,736 --> 00:27:47,615
...the Hornet,
the Lexington, a CV-2...
478
00:27:47,776 --> 00:27:49,528
...the USS Wasp.
479
00:27:49,936 --> 00:27:53,246
The Wasp was a CV-7
out in the Solomon Islands... .
480
00:27:55,856 --> 00:27:58,324
God, I'm sorry. Am I still here?
481
00:27:58,496 --> 00:28:01,294
You lost your boat in the
wrong part of the world.
482
00:28:01,456 --> 00:28:03,845
I haven't lost the boat yet,
Mr. Secretary.
483
00:28:04,016 --> 00:28:08,407
I'm the only one who thinks we should
send the fast-attack subs right now.
484
00:28:08,576 --> 00:28:12,171
And I'm an hour away from gathering
the NSC and calling Japan.
485
00:28:12,336 --> 00:28:13,849
I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.
486
00:28:14,016 --> 00:28:16,974
I say you lost your boat
in the wrong part of the world.
487
00:28:18,056 --> 00:28:21,048
- Albie...
- It was a UN action, Mr. Secretary.
488
00:28:21,216 --> 00:28:24,970
Sixteen countries were involved
in that police action, Mr. Secretary.
489
00:28:25,136 --> 00:28:27,650
Thirty-three, 34,000 American dead.
490
00:28:27,816 --> 00:28:31,206
How come we're the only ones still
fighting? Where did everybody go?
491
00:28:31,376 --> 00:28:35,335
Well, Colombia's fighting a drug war.
Ethiopia's trying to feed itself.
492
00:28:35,496 --> 00:28:40,889
Belgium and the Netherlands,
they have cheese and chocolate to make.
493
00:28:41,896 --> 00:28:43,887
- Sir? Josh.
- Send him in.
494
00:28:44,616 --> 00:28:46,447
- Good afternoon, sir.
- Hey, Josh.
495
00:28:46,616 --> 00:28:48,811
- Joshua.
- Good afternoon, Mr. Secretary.
496
00:28:48,976 --> 00:28:52,412
- Anything going on I should know about?
- We're just catching up.
497
00:28:52,816 --> 00:28:57,128
- This can wait for another time.
- Give it to me. I want a distraction.
498
00:28:57,296 --> 00:28:59,093
- No, it's all right.
- Give it to me.
499
00:28:59,256 --> 00:29:01,975
- It's campaign related.
- That's okay.
500
00:29:02,296 --> 00:29:05,333
Well, the majority leader
got the question last night.
501
00:29:05,496 --> 00:29:07,373
- He tanked.
- We're putting together...
502
00:29:07,536 --> 00:29:09,925
...an answer for when you get it.
- The question?
503
00:29:10,096 --> 00:29:12,132
- Why do you wanna be president?
- I don't.
504
00:29:12,616 --> 00:29:15,494
Well, we'll put that in the hopper
and show you a draft.
505
00:29:15,656 --> 00:29:17,931
- Good.
- Thank you, Mr. President.
506
00:29:22,696 --> 00:29:24,334
Leo?
507
00:29:25,816 --> 00:29:28,011
Fifty-five minutes.
508
00:29:35,688 --> 00:29:39,078
This is a time of dizzying change
and progress around the world.
509
00:29:39,248 --> 00:29:41,887
I'm running for re-election because
I wanna make sure...
510
00:29:42,048 --> 00:29:45,040
...that all our people can share
in 21 st-century jobs...
511
00:29:45,208 --> 00:29:48,086
Jobs and industries
we can't even imagine today...
512
00:29:48,248 --> 00:29:52,321
...bring the benefits of new medical
advancements to all our families...
513
00:29:52,488 --> 00:29:54,718
And harness new technology
and the Internet...
514
00:29:54,888 --> 00:29:57,038
...as a force
for faster economic growth...
515
00:29:57,208 --> 00:30:00,644
Better education and a freer exchange
of ideas around the world.
516
00:30:00,808 --> 00:30:03,003
- There it is.
- That's fine.
517
00:30:08,168 --> 00:30:09,886
- You wanna say something?
- No.
518
00:30:10,088 --> 00:30:11,567
I thought it was...
519
00:30:12,688 --> 00:30:15,486
It's got crisp, commanding phrases.
520
00:30:15,648 --> 00:30:18,958
It's got active verbs like"harness."
It paints a picture of the future.
521
00:30:19,128 --> 00:30:22,484
Someone wants to be president for
medical research and the Internet?
522
00:30:23,688 --> 00:30:26,680
- She's got a point.
- Sometimes you get your face on a coin.
523
00:30:27,048 --> 00:30:29,243
Okay, this shouldn't be hard.
524
00:30:29,408 --> 00:30:31,876
You should charge money for this.
Sell tickets...
525
00:30:32,048 --> 00:30:35,040
...and charge money and call it
"Journey Back to Germany"...
526
00:30:35,208 --> 00:30:38,166
...where in 1937 they held a show
of degenerate art...
527
00:30:38,608 --> 00:30:42,317
...vilifying art they deemed sick,
art featuring mockery of the divine...
528
00:30:42,488 --> 00:30:45,798
...art that wasted the taxes
of the German working people.
529
00:30:46,008 --> 00:30:48,966
Well, how much do you think
we could get?
530
00:30:49,128 --> 00:30:51,437
- Look...
- I think it's in incredibly bad taste...
531
00:30:51,608 --> 00:30:53,997
...to equate the U.S. Congress
with the Nazis.
532
00:30:54,168 --> 00:30:58,400
Me too. In Europe and Japan they're
spending between 1.5 and 3 billion...
533
00:30:58,568 --> 00:31:02,197
...on the arts. Congress thinks
105 million is indulgent?
534
00:31:02,368 --> 00:31:04,245
- Yes.
- There is a connection...
535
00:31:04,408 --> 00:31:08,447
...between the progress
of a society and progress in the arts.
536
00:31:08,608 --> 00:31:11,361
The age of Pericles
was also the age of Phidias.
537
00:31:11,528 --> 00:31:14,918
The age of Lorenzo de' Medici
was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci.
538
00:31:15,088 --> 00:31:17,477
The age of Elizabeth
was the age of Shakespeare.
539
00:31:17,648 --> 00:31:20,162
Ain't none of these guys
da Vinci or Shakespeare.
540
00:31:20,328 --> 00:31:22,080
Says you.
541
00:31:22,248 --> 00:31:26,605
Let's wait till November,
see how many voters agree with me.
542
00:31:27,888 --> 00:31:30,277
National Parks?
543
00:31:34,208 --> 00:31:37,564
National Park security.
544
00:31:38,048 --> 00:31:39,606
Security?
545
00:31:39,768 --> 00:31:42,407
- Yeah.
- Really?
546
00:31:42,568 --> 00:31:44,286
Yeah.
547
00:31:45,568 --> 00:31:48,526
The parks are safe, Tawny.
We spend a lot of money on that.
548
00:31:49,248 --> 00:31:50,567
They could be safer.
549
00:31:50,728 --> 00:31:54,038
And the money for that
could come from someplace else.
550
00:31:54,208 --> 00:31:56,119
- Like where?
- Like...
551
00:31:56,288 --> 00:31:57,926
New taxes?
552
00:32:00,408 --> 00:32:02,046
Yeah.
553
00:32:04,728 --> 00:32:06,605
What do you want?
554
00:32:08,248 --> 00:32:10,478
Get rid of Oakenwood.
555
00:32:10,648 --> 00:32:12,843
We'll find the money someplace else.
556
00:32:14,608 --> 00:32:16,519
Get rid of Oakenwood?
557
00:32:18,288 --> 00:32:19,960
Yeah.
558
00:32:23,208 --> 00:32:25,358
What if I agree to a suspension
of my license?
559
00:32:25,528 --> 00:32:29,521
I agree to a suspension of my license
for the length of Jed's term.
560
00:32:29,688 --> 00:32:32,919
If he serves a second term,
it includes those years too.
561
00:32:33,088 --> 00:32:36,398
- All three states?
- New Hampshire, Missouri and Arizona.
562
00:32:36,568 --> 00:32:38,718
I pay a fine. I pay a fine...
563
00:32:38,888 --> 00:32:42,324
...and the violation is recorded
in the Practitioners Databank.
564
00:32:42,488 --> 00:32:46,527
I resign from boards and organizations.
That gives them a win, right?
565
00:32:46,808 --> 00:32:49,368
- Yeah.
- So, what do you think?
566
00:32:49,808 --> 00:32:53,596
You're not my client. It's not my job
to protect your medical license.
567
00:32:53,768 --> 00:32:56,157
- What do you think?
- I think it's good.
568
00:32:56,328 --> 00:32:58,159
Any White House Counsel
would think that.
569
00:32:58,328 --> 00:33:00,205
Will you help me
convince the president?
570
00:33:00,368 --> 00:33:02,404
- It stinks.
- You just said it was good.
571
00:33:02,568 --> 00:33:04,763
- It stinks.
- In a good way?
572
00:33:04,928 --> 00:33:07,726
You broke some laws.
You should be ashamed of yourself...
573
00:33:07,888 --> 00:33:09,844
...but this investigation
isn't about that.
574
00:33:10,008 --> 00:33:12,602
It's about the criminalization of politics.
575
00:33:12,768 --> 00:33:15,566
An attempt to do what they
couldn't do at the ballot box.
576
00:33:15,728 --> 00:33:19,403
- But we don't have the luxury...
- Stop eating fruits and vegetables.
577
00:33:19,568 --> 00:33:21,240
It's doing something bad to you.
578
00:33:21,408 --> 00:33:24,127
Fruits and vegetables will seduce you
like a woman with...
579
00:33:24,568 --> 00:33:28,527
Truth isn't a luxury. You're gonna
go in there, you're gonna swear an oath.
580
00:33:28,688 --> 00:33:31,282
You're gonna get asked questions
and tell the truth.
581
00:33:31,448 --> 00:33:35,327
It's the way you stand up
and say,"Stop."
582
00:33:44,288 --> 00:33:45,960
You should be careful, Oliver.
583
00:33:46,128 --> 00:33:49,165
You keep talking like a person,
they'll kick you out of the bar.
584
00:33:49,328 --> 00:33:51,000
I've been kicked out of bars before.
585
00:33:51,168 --> 00:33:53,636
- I meant...
- I know what you meant.
586
00:33:56,128 --> 00:33:59,359
Instead of"Jed Bartlet's fighting
to rebuild crumbling schools"...
587
00:33:59,528 --> 00:34:02,520
...we'll make it,"We're fighting
to rebuild crumbling schools."
588
00:34:02,688 --> 00:34:05,202
And we've got a picture
of the president on the screen.
589
00:34:05,408 --> 00:34:08,480
Yeah, and we change
"Vote Bartlet for America"...
590
00:34:08,648 --> 00:34:11,242
...to"Paid for by
Democrats for America."
591
00:34:11,408 --> 00:34:13,364
- You changed five words.
- Magic words.
592
00:34:13,528 --> 00:34:14,847
- They're not magic.
- It's illusion.
593
00:34:15,008 --> 00:34:16,680
- It's a scam.
- Yeah.
594
00:34:17,048 --> 00:34:18,481
- Where are we?
- Bruno and Connie...
595
00:34:18,648 --> 00:34:21,481
...have fought their way out of
our campaign-finance laws.
596
00:34:21,648 --> 00:34:24,287
- It's an issue ad.
- It's a candidate ad with words changed.
597
00:34:24,448 --> 00:34:26,245
- Magic words.
- Connie.
598
00:34:26,408 --> 00:34:28,797
I don't know any other way
to fight fire, Toby.
599
00:34:28,968 --> 00:34:31,038
Why are you bent on
countering these leaflets?
600
00:34:31,208 --> 00:34:33,847
Because I am tired
of working for candidates...
601
00:34:34,008 --> 00:34:38,559
...who make me think I should be
embarrassed to believe what I believe.
602
00:34:38,728 --> 00:34:42,118
I'm tired of getting them elected.
603
00:34:42,288 --> 00:34:46,167
We need therapy because somebody
came along and said liberal means...
604
00:34:46,328 --> 00:34:49,923
...soft on crime, soft on drugs,
soft on Communism...
605
00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:53,478
...soft on defense. And we're gonna
tax you back to the Stone Age...
606
00:34:53,648 --> 00:34:57,163
...because people shouldn't have to
go to work if they don't want to.
607
00:34:57,328 --> 00:35:01,241
And instead of saying,"Well, excuse me,
you right-wing, reactionary...
608
00:35:01,408 --> 00:35:05,447
...xenophobic, homophobic,
anti-education, anti-choice...
609
00:35:05,608 --> 00:35:09,044
...pro-gun, Leave it to Beaver
trip back to the '50s"...
610
00:35:09,208 --> 00:35:12,564
...we cowered in the corner and said:
611
00:35:12,728 --> 00:35:15,879
"Please, don't hurt me."
612
00:35:17,808 --> 00:35:19,287
No more.
613
00:35:20,688 --> 00:35:23,327
I really don't care who's right,
who's wrong.
614
00:35:23,488 --> 00:35:26,446
We're both right. We're both wrong.
615
00:35:27,168 --> 00:35:30,524
Let's have two parties, huh?
What do you say?
616
00:35:39,768 --> 00:35:41,520
I agree.
617
00:35:41,688 --> 00:35:44,486
- Toby...
- Let's stick to the spirit of the law.
618
00:35:44,648 --> 00:35:46,798
The spirit of the law
means no soft money.
619
00:35:47,048 --> 00:35:49,562
I'm saying let's do an issue ad,
an actual issue ad.
620
00:35:49,728 --> 00:35:53,038
Let's do a bunch.
Health care, equal opportunity.
621
00:35:53,208 --> 00:35:54,687
School construction.
622
00:35:54,848 --> 00:35:58,477
Anyone think raising awareness
of crumbling schools won't help us?
623
00:35:58,648 --> 00:36:00,479
There's actually
a reasonable point here.
624
00:36:00,648 --> 00:36:04,118
New polls see Republicans as better
on education with no basis for it.
625
00:36:04,288 --> 00:36:07,007
The ad could spark a debate
on the issue, which would help.
626
00:36:07,168 --> 00:36:09,602
And we take a parallel path
in our free media.
627
00:36:09,768 --> 00:36:11,838
Across America our schools
are crumbling.
628
00:36:12,008 --> 00:36:15,796
Holes in the walls, kids packed
into trailers like sardines in a can.
629
00:36:15,968 --> 00:36:18,402
Half of America's schools
are in disrepair.
630
00:36:18,568 --> 00:36:20,763
And when schools fall down,
so do test scores.
631
00:36:20,928 --> 00:36:23,761
- This isn't bad, I like this.
- Yes.
632
00:36:23,928 --> 00:36:27,045
- Why am I nervous?
- It's not amoral.
633
00:36:28,128 --> 00:36:29,447
Yeah.
634
00:36:29,608 --> 00:36:31,280
Okay.
635
00:36:31,448 --> 00:36:34,565
Across America
schools are crumbling.
636
00:36:34,728 --> 00:36:37,481
...sweeping Wonsan Harbor
near Sindo Island...
637
00:36:37,648 --> 00:36:41,402
...turned to starboard,
hit a mine. Sank.
638
00:36:41,568 --> 00:36:44,082
The USS Gurke, the St. Paul...
639
00:36:44,248 --> 00:36:46,478
...the Irwin, a DD-794...
640
00:36:46,648 --> 00:36:51,005
...the John W. Morrison,
which took 150 rounds...
641
00:36:51,168 --> 00:36:55,559
...of 107 mm air bursts
from a shore battery at Hodo Pando.
642
00:36:55,728 --> 00:36:59,607
- 1953, the Manchester...
- Okay.
643
00:36:59,768 --> 00:37:01,724
- I beg your pardon?
- It's time.
644
00:37:01,888 --> 00:37:06,678
- You still got 10 minutes by my watch.
- Yeah, we're going now.
645
00:37:07,088 --> 00:37:10,205
- You contact Pac Fleet?
- Pac Fleet contacts Ballast Point.
646
00:37:10,368 --> 00:37:13,166
- In San Diego, right?
- Yes. We've got a C-141 Starlifter...
647
00:37:13,328 --> 00:37:15,364
...at North Island.
It'll transport the DSRVs.
648
00:37:15,528 --> 00:37:18,042
- What do they do?
- They'll dock with Whiskey-Three.
649
00:37:18,208 --> 00:37:20,642
- Whiskey-Three?
- It's Portland's code name.
650
00:37:20,808 --> 00:37:22,799
Rescue team blows out
the docking collar...
651
00:37:22,968 --> 00:37:25,163
...and survivors will exit
in groups of 24.
652
00:37:25,328 --> 00:37:26,681
How many trips will it take?
653
00:37:26,848 --> 00:37:29,237
- Six trips to offload them all.
- What about injured?
654
00:37:29,408 --> 00:37:33,162
There will be a medical team. Seriously
injured will be medevaced to Tokyo.
655
00:37:33,328 --> 00:37:36,764
- Let's go get them. Time's up.
- We have Whiskey-Three-Charlie...
656
00:37:36,928 --> 00:37:38,839
...on sat high com.
- What does that mean?
657
00:37:39,008 --> 00:37:41,397
- The Portland is on satellite.
- What does that mean?
658
00:37:41,568 --> 00:37:43,479
- We have them.
- Whiskey-Three-Charlie...
659
00:37:43,648 --> 00:37:46,526
... this is Pac Fleet,
report your whiskey, over.
660
00:37:46,688 --> 00:37:50,920
Whiskey-Three-Charlie, whiskey is
36. 6 degrees north by 110 west.
661
00:37:51,088 --> 00:37:54,763
Went quiet to avoid close aboard
contact with Luda-class destroyer.
662
00:37:54,928 --> 00:37:56,884
Mechanical situation 's at full op.
663
00:37:57,328 --> 00:38:00,525
Whiskey-Three-Charlie, this is
Pac Fleet. Roger all. Happy hunting.
664
00:38:04,248 --> 00:38:05,522
All right.
665
00:38:05,688 --> 00:38:07,360
Okay.
666
00:38:08,008 --> 00:38:10,761
There they are.
See, they went deep and quiet...
667
00:38:10,928 --> 00:38:13,647
...to avoid a close aboard
with a Luda-class destroyer.
668
00:38:13,808 --> 00:38:17,562
What you gotta do in these
situations is, you trust the captain...
669
00:38:17,728 --> 00:38:19,844
...you trust the crew.
670
00:38:20,008 --> 00:38:21,521
Yes, sir.
671
00:38:28,528 --> 00:38:29,961
- Hey.
- Good afternoon, sir.
672
00:38:30,128 --> 00:38:32,039
- It got filed?
- Yes, sir.
673
00:38:32,208 --> 00:38:35,086
- It got filed?
- Yes, sir.
674
00:38:35,368 --> 00:38:38,405
- So I'm on the ballot in New Hampshire?
- Yeah.
675
00:38:38,568 --> 00:38:40,160
Okay.
676
00:38:47,128 --> 00:38:49,358
When Romans ran
for the office of consul...
677
00:38:49,528 --> 00:38:51,564
- Did I just see you roll your eyes?
- No, sir.
678
00:38:51,728 --> 00:38:55,243
They wore whitened togas to show
their intent. A bit silly, perhaps.
679
00:38:55,408 --> 00:38:57,638
- Perhaps.
- It was an act of personal commission.
680
00:38:57,808 --> 00:39:01,960
I know how much you like to think
of yourself as a man of the people...
681
00:39:02,128 --> 00:39:03,800
...Roman references and all...
682
00:39:03,968 --> 00:39:06,687
...but you're the only one who can
launch our nuclear weapons.
683
00:39:06,848 --> 00:39:09,157
You travel in a
fully secured perimeter.
684
00:39:09,328 --> 00:39:11,364
You rescue submarines.
685
00:39:11,528 --> 00:39:14,998
Maybe it's time for it to be okay
that an aide delivers a piece of paper.
686
00:39:15,248 --> 00:39:17,159
You're pretty mouthy today.
687
00:39:17,808 --> 00:39:19,605
C.J. 's waiting inside, sir.
688
00:39:23,568 --> 00:39:25,638
- Hey.
- Good afternoon, Mr. President.
689
00:39:25,808 --> 00:39:27,321
Hey.
690
00:39:28,008 --> 00:39:30,238
Do you duck when you're
getting on Marine One?
691
00:39:30,408 --> 00:39:32,080
No, sir. Should I?
692
00:39:32,248 --> 00:39:34,284
I think the blades are high enough.
693
00:39:34,448 --> 00:39:36,757
The majority leader
got the question last night.
694
00:39:36,928 --> 00:39:39,283
- He went to the zoo.
- Yeah. Listen...
695
00:39:39,448 --> 00:39:42,485
...I want you to go easy on him.
He's conscientious and dedicated.
696
00:39:42,648 --> 00:39:44,718
It's not an easy question.
697
00:39:45,608 --> 00:39:48,566
- Can you answer it?
- Why do I want to be president?
698
00:39:48,728 --> 00:39:50,207
Yeah.
699
00:39:57,128 --> 00:39:59,722
I've been thinking about it
for the last couple of hours.
700
00:39:59,888 --> 00:40:01,606
I almost had it.