All language subtitles for The West Wing (1999) - S05E04 - Han (1080p AMZN WEB-DL x265 ImE)_track3_[eng]

Previously on The West Wing:

JOSH:
Our first priority
is to name a Vice President.

The one guy the President wants,
and I can't get it done.

So be quiet
for one moment.

Who is Robert Russell?

Wasn't sure you could pick
me out of a crowd.

Luckily, I didn't
have to, Bob.

PRESIDENT:
Folks in Western Colorado

had four chances

to change their minds
about Bob Russell,

and they haven't.

Bob Russell?

LEO:
Remarkable.

C.J.:
His playing?

I don't know.
It's classical piano.

Who can tell
one from the other?

The President.

So he claims.

So what's...?

He's North Korean.

God knows how he managed
to even learn.

Their music's all hymns
to the barley harvest.

Not that they ever have one.

Too busy reprocessing
plutonium to feed anybody.

Why they're a rogue state.

"Rogue" state...

Makes them sound
raffishly charming.

It should be thug state...
psycho state.

We'll ask the U.N.
to so designate.

Punk state-- that's what
they are, a bunch of punks.

Bunch of punks
with what could be
six nuclear warheads.

In a minute, everyone.

Okay. You could obliterate
Australia, but know what?

You're still just a punk.

Good opener;
use that.

PRESIDENT:
Yeah, I took lessons
for six years--

hopeless.

( man speaking Korean )

No sense of time.

I could read okay,
and get the fingering down,

but I should've been
sent to rhythm prison.

( translating )

What I did to
the "Appassionata..."

War criminals can't
get near the Hague.

I have to stay out of Vienna.

( translating )

It's more amusing in English.

Marginally.

My Chief of Staff,
Leo McGarry.

C.J. Cregg,
Press Secretary.

Welcome.

An honor.

C.J. Cregg.

( speaking Korean )

He asks if you
both play as well.

No, no.
"Chopsticks."

( translating )

C.J.:
A beginner's piece...

with an incredibly
insensitive name; I'm sorry.

Are we ready?

Okay, everyone,

remember-- pics only,
no questions.

Come on in.

Hi.

( speaking Korean )

Welcome to the White House.

( translating )

I want to say how honored we are

to be hosting your first concert
appearance here in the West.

( translating )

We thank the North Korean
government

for so generously sharing one
of their national treasures.

And we hope this marks
just the first of many

such cultural exchanges

leading to improved relations
between our two countries.

( translating )

( speaking Korean )

( speaking loudly )

He thanks the President

for his words

and says all glory flows
to our dear leader,

for whom he wishes long life
and good health.

Really?

Next time he's overseas,

be nice if Yo-Yo Ma
said that.

( laughter )

I want to thank you
for the visit.

We greatly look forward
to tonight's concert.

( translating )

C.J.:
Okay, everyone,

thank you very much.

Will you be seeing

any sights during your day
here in Washington?

We will visit

Lincoln's Memorial,

commemorating the shameful
practice of slavery;

the Vietnam wall of death.

Uh-huh.

CD's. I will sign.

Great.

I'll treasure this. Thank you.

Pleasure... all mine.

Sweet kid.

C.J.:
The handlers are

a lot of laughs.

Bet they can pretty much
transform any place

into their own little
wall of death.

What?

This isn't an autograph.

It's a message.

Get the Counsel's office,
Justice, NSC, State,

Immigration in right away.

Let's find out what we're
talking about here.

Yes, sir, but it's...

Complicated. I know.

Sir, is there anything
you need me to...

When's he back
in the building?

Rehearsal and sound check
at 2:30.

We behave normally,
like this isn't happening.

It may not be happening.

I don't understand.

We've been in secret
negotiations

with North Korea in Geneva,
the last three weeks--

about their nuclear program.

This guy defects,
everybody goes home.

PRESIDENT:
We don't know that.

Get people in;
let's find out.

But we're not turning him away.

Of course not.

It's complicated.

Thank you,
Mr. President.

Thank you, sir.

Congressman Thiele
needs to come over

before the V.P.
confirmation vote.

Which is noon?

Get him in after the
Punch and Judy show.

The citizenry would be
comforted knowing

that's how you refer to the
President's economic advisers.

The citizenry doesn't have
to sit in a room with them.

Why do you want Thiele?

He's voting against.

Confirmation's going
to be 534 to 1.

Squeaker like this,
I can see why you want
to squeeze him.

If Thiele's
the only "no" vote,

he's catch-of-the-day
for a week,

gets on every talk show

explaining why Russell's
a lousy choice for V.P.

Which you agree with.

But don't want anybody
saying out loud.

Sorry.

I either have to turn him,

or get ten other guys
to vote "no."

So, if I tell you something

could you try not
to be so you about it?
Yeah. What's going on?

I'm taking my aunt
and uncle from Wisconsin--

who are perfectly nice people--

on a tour of the White House
later today,

and I'd rather not go through
an entire morning

of cheesehead jokes,
which are beneath you anyway.

Know what's the state bird
of Wisconsin?

The muenster.

State motto?
"Live brie or die."

It narrowly beat out
"You can have my wheel
of cheddar

when you pry it out of my cold,
dead, stinky fingers."

Drag about
the unemployment numbers, huh?

You're going to be added to 'em

if you don't get out
from behind my desk.

You have an office.

Don't read my memo.

I can't learn anything from you

if I'm sitting across
the street all day.

Here's a lesson:

Ask permission
before you do stuff.

Where you going?

Meeting with
the economic advisers.

( enunciating ):
Can I go with you?

No.

But that was good.

( knocking )

PRESIDENT:
Oh, I couldn't agree more.

Yes, the moment calls
for bipartisanship.

I'll see you
in the Rose Garden

for the announcement
this afternoon.

Parlous.

It's like I was talking
to John C. Calhoun.

This draft of the Rose Garden
thing, it needs more altitude.

Altitude?
Loftier.

If I don't sound enthused,

how do we expect the country

to get excited about this guy?

Yes, sir.

You're not very excited
about him.

Oh, no... I mean, sure.

I mean, I'm not not excited
about him.

What you sounded like
just then is how this reads.

Let's take the equivocation
out of it.

Yes, sir.

( intercom buzzes )
Okay.

Thank you,
Mr. President.
Yeah.

So, Will's working out.

Seems to be.

The President loved
his Zoey speech.

We all did.

( sighs )

So, I'm going to start
doing other things.

What other things?

We're drifting.

We've had to deal
with some stuff.

Which has left us
kind of drifting.

Okay.

We need to refocus,
get back on message.

Okay.

So, I'll start with that.
Good.

Since Will's working out.

Actually, the President's
not crazy

about his Rose Garden draft.

Gentlemen.

Morning, everyone.

Morning, Mr. President.
ALL:
Morning, sir.

What's the bad news?

Well, sir,
there are

some troubling indicators.

ISM's still below 50, consumer
confidence remains low...

That's just hangover
from the kidnapping.

The kidnapping,
the bombing...

Regardless... it's down.

And now these new
unemployment numbers.

So where are we headed?

Signs indicate
we could be sliding toward...

bagel.

JOSH:
Sir, Larry doesn't
need a vacation.

That's the word

we've agreed to use in-house

to avoid using the "R" word.

Recession?

What I need is your
recommendation

for keeping us out of...

I really don't have
to call it that, do I?

Of course not.

For keeping us out
of a... thing.

We do nothing.

The tech bubble led
to over-investment.

This is a normal correction.

We don't know that.

Bubbles burst;

that's why
they're called bubbles.

Explain that to the
1.2 million people
who've just lost their jobs.

Phone 'em; they're home.

The Fed does its thing.

A reduction of 25 basis points
stops the bleeding.

You can't just leave this
to the Fed.

It'll look like we're asleep
at the switch.

LARRY:
A stimulus package.

Yeah, let's increase

the deficit--
that's responsible.

Something temporary.

A one-year increase
in the standard deduction.

Which helps not at all
the bottom 40% of wage earners

who don't pay income tax.

We have to stop or
I'm going to start

shooting people--
starting with myself.

I asked for a recommendation,
not a debate.

Wake me when
there's a consensus.

ALL:
Thank you, Mr. President.

What's the matter
with you guys?

Man's got a Nobel in this.

My other meeting's here.

Good morning.

Good morning.
Good morning.

Please.

Thanks for coming.

What do we think?

You don't blow
a negotiation

of this magnitude
over some kid.

I don't care if he plays
Schubert with his feet.

It violates international law.

U.S. law.

One thing at a time.

The negotiations,
they for real?

And we're not just talking
about another freeze.

Hundreds more
sensors installed.

Inspectors on the ground
at Youngdoktong.

They've broken agreements
before.

What's different now?

The Chinese.

They're worried that the North's

nuclear program will push Japan

into finally developing
the bomb.

The Koreans screw around
this time,

they piss off the only ally
they have left.

This is that serious--

they going to blow it
over some piano player?

It's the most unpredictable
regime in the world.

Walking out on
the negotiations

could be the least
thing they'd do.

They'd shell Seoul over this?

You want to find out?
!
( knocking )

Swell and lovely,

but we can't send him back.

Listen very carefully:
It's against the law.

Title Eight of the Immigration
and Nationality Act

prohibits sending
an alien back

to his homeland
if he has

a well-founded fear of
being persecuted there.

Persecuted?

He's the most privileged guy
in the entire country.

And since the penalty
for attempted defection
is death,

that may just change.

He's only in jeopardy
if the Koreans find out.

You going
to tell them?

Any straws in the wind?

All quiet.

This appears
locked down for now.

My office
is monitoring it.

This gets out,
it's game over.

This conversation
gets out.

And we're comfortable
with that?

What's your point?

Understand--
he doesn't want to go,

he has the legal right
to apply for asylum.

Can we get back
to the real world?

The North Koreans
are peddling

their missile
technology

all over
the Middle East,

and sensors on the border

have picked up elevated levels
of krypton 85.

They are making plutonium,
they can get it on warheads,

and their best customers
are the people who hate us.

Why are we still
talking about this.

I don't see how

we get past
the legal issues.

I don't see how you can
send someone back

to the bleakest place
left on the planet

after he tells you
he doesn't want to go.

C.J...
It's not
that bleak.

The DMZ
is beautiful.

Like a nature preserve.

Endangered black-faced
spoonbills, Amur leopards...

What's your point?

That I know more about this
than you do.

LEO:
The legal issues.

The guy doesn't know his rights.

It's a non-problem.

What's a big
problem

is if he tells
anyone else.

Where is he now?

C.J.:
Sightseeing.

He'll be back
for rehearsal at 2:30.

Don't let him
back in the building.

Well, the good
news is

his handlers don't let
him out of their sight.

Today, it's like
they're working for us.

Our very own
totalitarian helpmates.

Excuse me
a minute.

C.J.?

What are you doing?

"Don't let him
back in the building"?

We look at this
from every angle.

The President said
he's not sending him back.

My job is to present him
with options.

Your job, at the moment,
is to butt out.

We've certainly come a long way

from "Give me your tired,
your poor."

If we don't allow
this defection,

if we blithely exploit
this young man's ignorance,

then I don't know who we are
any more.

V.P. intro needs to go
on a prompter by 2:00.

How you doing?

I have altitude sickness.

I'm sorry?

The President
wants more altitude.

I'm having conscience issues.

You've read friends' poetry,
had girlfriends.

I could use help.

Just hold your nose
and hype him.

The President hated this.

My self-confidence
is down around my ankles.

Well, hitch it up
and start typing.

Come on, clackety-clack.

You're really
not going to help me?

I have things to do.

REPORTERS:
C.J.! C.J.!

C.J.:
Lyle.

This being his first visit,

can you share Jai Yung Ahn's
impressions of America?

You'd need to ask him,
but I can tell you

his impression of our buffet
table seemed favorable.

C.J.
Katie.

Is there
concern

this sort of cultural exchange

confers legitimacy on the
repressive North Korean regime?

It's hoped exchanges like this
help bring light to such places,

nudging them toward more open
policies in the future.

And while he's here, is he free
to go where he pleases?

His mother didn't want him
hitting any strip clubs,

but as far as I know,

he's seeing the sights
even as we speak. Yes?

Moving to the economy...

Do today's unemployment figures

indicate we're moving
into recession?

Recession
has a specific meaning--

two consecutive quarters
of negative growth.

That's not
the current situation.

LYLE:
How would you
characterize

the state of the economy then?

I wouldn't.

If not recession,

what word would
the administration use?

Slowdown, downturn, torpor.

Torpor?
It means...

I know what it means.

I'm feeling a little
coming on now,

as a matter of fact.

John?

( knocking at door )

JOSH:
Yeah?

LEO:
You can't ditch
the kid.

Leo...

Can't do it, Josh.

I don't need his old man
on my call sheet.

( sighs ):
Okay.

Our poll numbers are down.

What poll?

An internal.

His approval rating,
down 11 points.

It was artificially high
from the kidnapping.

Yeah.

We knew it wasn't going
to stay up there.

Yeah.

Where are we on Thiele?

He's coming over.

He votes against,

it'll be all Thiele,
all the time.

Is something going on?

Get us Thiele.

Josh.

My Aunt Barbara
and Uncle Ted.

Hi, good to meet
you both. Welcome.

DONNA:
Any chance of getting them
into the concert tonight?

Oh, sorry.

There are Senators
on the waiting list.

Mostly Republicans.

You're Republicans.

There's a rehearsal
or something

I can get you into
this afternoon

Wonderful.

Donna tells us
you were meeting

with the economic advisers.

Not so much meeting

as fighting off
slipping into a coma.

( chuckling ):
Pretty dense, huh?

Plus they never agree,

yet no one is remotely
afflicted by doubt.

It's like with diets.

How there's all these
different diet theories,

all completely
contradictory,

when most doctors agree
that the healthiest advice

is just to eat a variety
of food in moderate amounts.

Uh-huh.

Maybe that's the approach
to take with economists.

Take from every theory
in moderation.

Yeah.
Interesting.

So, Ted, what is it
that you do?

I'm a sales rep
for a dairy consortium.

You mean... cheese?

Absolutely.

Well,
enjoy your tour.

Have fun.

Did you know North Korea's

the only country left
in the world

where it's impossible
to access the Internet?

That all TVs and
radios are preset

before they're sold

so they receive only
state-controlled stations?

It's a bad place.

Can you imagine what it
must be for a musician

to live in a society
so completely regimented,

where the only music allowed
is what glorifies the state?

It's amazing he'd
want to go back.

Thank you, Mr. President.

LEO:
C.J.

We're controlling media access

to Jai Yung Ahn?

Pool spray at
the sound check.

If he's still doing one.

No questions.

The press understands

the Koreans won't allow it.

So... he's being allowed

back in
the building.

Leo tells me you have
a strong view on this.

Yes, sir.

For one thing,
sending him back

would seem to be illegal.

Our hand's not legally forced

unless he tells anyone.

He's told us.

He's asked the President
of the United States

for asylum.

Are we saying he'd
have been better off

asking some cab driver?

You know the rationale
for sending him back.

So the Iranians don't
wake up one morning

and decide, "Hey, it's a
good day to nuke Israel."

Sir, seven North Korean
nuclear scientists

defected through China
last year.

We helped pay for it.

Are we saying if this kid

were more valuable to us,
we'd accept him?

Is that such an
unreasonable distinction?

This isn't
your real argument.

Sending him back will play
as a disaster in the press

if it ever
gets out.

That's not your real
argument either.

No, sir, it's not.

This young man's
asking for freedom.

It's what this country
was built on.

Everyone's from somewhere
else, someplace less free.

That's my argument.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you, sir.

( door closing )

We have a meeting.

Outstanding.

Okay, you can't say things
like "outstanding" during it.

I was pretty sure
you didn't want me

saying anything at all.

Yeah.

We're meeting with...?

Congressman Thiele,
a Democrat from...

Rhode Island.

He interned
for my uncle.

Of course he did.

He's voting against
Russell.

I have to whip him
into shape.

Watch and learn.

( knocking )
Yeah?

Will's fixing
the V.P. intro.

Good, since that
would be his job.

I'm not sure
I was clear before.

We need to get back
our focus.

Work up a message calendar,
like in the campaigns.

Long term, I'm talking
about something else.

Not articulating
the message, shaping it.

You do shape it.

I mean full time.

You have responsibilities.

That I could turn over.

To Will?

We should discuss it.

Not today.

"Tomorrow and tomorrow
and tomorrow..."

Yeah.

We are drifting.

JOSH:
This doesn't
make any sense.

THIELE:
I don't like the guy,
I'm voting against him.

What doesn't
make sense?

You're embarrassing
the President.

( chuckles )

He's got a margin
of 533 votes.

He must have a pretty low
threshold of embarrassment.

It's grandstanding,
Congressman.

It's a cheap and easy way
to get your name in the paper;

only it's going
to make you look eccentric,

like some kind
of goofball crank.

I beg your pardon?

You're not embarrassing
the President.

You're embarrassing
yourself.

Look...

You want the President's
backing for anything

you might actually want
to accomplish this term--

as opposed to pulling
pointless little
publicity stunts--

you'll swallow hard
whatever petty animus

you bear toward
the guy about to be

the number two man
in your party;

and you'll give your President
what he wants:

a unanimous confirmation.

My "petty animus" is that
Russell's not good enough,

which is exactly what you've
been saying to each other

around here since
his name was announced.

You think I don't know how
you got rolled on Berryhill?

Were forced to settle
for this party hack?

You've put someone second-rate

next in line to a President
with a serious health problem.

You want to talk
about embarrassment?

Be embarrassed about that.

LEO:
The North Koreans have
canceled the pool spray

at the sound check.

Okay.

He doesn't like people
around when he's rehearsing.

Sorry.

Talk to Thiele?

Yeah. I'm going
to need a Plan B.

The V.P. intro is finished?

Will's doing last touches.

Help him out, will you?

He's got it handled.

He was having some trouble.

Look it over, punch it up.

Yes, sir.

C.J.:
Sir, something happened
today at the briefing.

I got questions
about the economy

and I felt like
I was tap-dancing.

Saw it.
I thought you were fine.

Deft, extremely deft.

As much as I appreciate
your attempt

to compliment me
out of my point,

I'm starting to feel a little
self-conscious

about our lack of a vocabulary
to describe the economy.

Didn't she get the bagel memo?

JOSH:
You could argue
the President's

got a responsibility to do it.

Setting a positive tone

conceivably helps bring about
positive results.

C.J.:
I'm not saying I want
to don a shroud.

I just think the Pollyanna act's
not wearing well.

Sir, I'm worried that,
at some point, avoidance

starts to look like maybe
we just haven't noticed.

We run the risk of appearing
out of touch,

like one of those presidents

who doesn't know
the price of milk.

Sir, do you know
the price of milk?

Not precisely.

Neither do I.

Do any of us?

( sighing ):
Okay.

Let's get on
coming up with a language plan

for talking more realistically
about the economy.

That session
this morning

with the advisers...

Everybody's got a magic lever
they want you to push.

I've studied economics
all my life,

but in this job only a fool
is ever certain.

You don't push
any one lever.

You want to push
a little on them all.

From every theory,
in moderation...

Exactly.

Thank you, everyone.

Thank you, Mr. President.

C.J.

These negotiations are
the real thing.

I can't allow
this defection.

I know you disagree,
but that's my decision.

Thank you, Mr. President.

It's not that I disagree, sir.

I'm disappointed.

( door closes )

We'll get someone
from State to tell the kid.

No. I'll do it.

Sir...
It's my call;

I tell him.

Is she okay?

I don't know.

Hey.

Hello.

Got my ass kicked,
a little bit ago, by Thiele.

The Russell vote?

Yeah.

It was in front of Richie Rich.

The Pierce kid?

Thiele's going to be everywhere.

The Republic will stand.

I got to do damage control.

I'm going to leak
Thiele wanted it.

The Vice Presidency?

Yeah, make it just look
like pique.

A second-term Congressman
from the smallest state

expecting to be named V.P.?

He's really going seem
like a crackpot.

God, don't ever get mad at me.

I've gotten mad at you.

Why it's better
when we don't talk.

Come by tonight,

we can not-talk some more.

( keyboard clacking )

( rhythmic banging )

"It's with abundant

pleasure and pride..."

Surpassing.

More altitude.

Still tweaking?

The prompter guys needed
the disk half an hour ago.

Go away.

"It's with surpassing
pleasure and pride..."

blah, blah, blah...
"Robert Russell..."

blah, blah, "confirmed by

overwhelming vote as befits
this distinguished choice."

Distinguished...

Want to use surpassing again?

Eminent... illustrious...

The problem being,
he's none of those things.

This is my problem.

Nor is he estimable,
laudable, or someone

you'd walk across the room
to shake hands with.

And the President wants
altitude.

"...as befits this

vertiginous choice."

Distinguished is
as high as we go.

You'd have to be high
to go loftier.

Here's what
it should be:

"In a triumph of the middling,

"a nod to mediocrity,
and with gorge rising,

"it gives me great nausea
to announce Robert Russell--

"Bingo Bob himself--
as your new Vice President."

"This lapdog of mining interests

is as dull as he is
unremarkable..."

"...as lackluster as he is
soporific."

Good.

"This reversion
to the mean..."

"...this rebuke
to the exemplary..."

"...gives hope to the millions
unfavored by the exceptional."

Yes.
"The Vice Presidency

"being famously once described
as not being worth

"'a warm bucket of spit',

"let's now hawk a big loogie
for Bob Russell:

"not the worst, not the best,

just what we're stuck with."

Amen.

Where were we?

Let me get
back to it.

"This distinguished choice..."

"This redoubtable choice."

It's perfect.
Nobody knows what it means.

( sighs )

Ryan Pierce.

Uh, is Congressman Thiele
in please?

( classical music playing )

I love this Chopin.

Fooled with it myself,

but could never quite get
the fingering down.

White House photographer's
going to get

some shots of them.

Excuse me, Leo.

Oh, we in the way?

You mind for a minute,
please?

Right here.

So how's your day been?

Get to see much?

I'm sorry to say,
I cannot let you defect.

Do you understand me?

( music stops )

You have to keep playing.

( music resumes )

There's an important
nuclear agreement

being worked out.

Do you understand
my English?

I try to stay...

you arrest me?

No.

You give me back to them.

No.

Freedom means choice.

You must decide which is
the most responsible course.

You know Korean word "han"?

No.

I could practice the fingering
every day

for the rest of my life,

I'd never be able
to play it like that.

It is... this...

( playing mournful melody )

We have to cancel
the concert.

PRESIDENT:
No.

LEO:
You don't even know
if he understood you.

His English is better
than he lets on.

You don't know
if he understood
your English,

much less your meaning.

You're a persuasive man,
Mr. President,

but it helps if you're
talking to someone
who speaks the language.

We're not canceling the concert.

Sir, you're not positive
if he got it or not?

No.

Leo...

Otherwise we're
putting the fate

of what is potentially
the most significant

international agreement
of this presidency

in the hands of a 23-year-old
who may have only understood

every fifth word of what
you were saying.

We cancel the concert,
it's a red flag.

I told him freedom means choice.

My choice is
to trust in his decision.

Get things ready in case
it goes the other way.

Thank you, Mr. President.

It's a crapshoot.

The negotiations are
a crapshoot.

Whole damn job is a crapshoot.

HOUSE RECORDER:
Tewes...

Aye.

Thayer...

Aye.

Thibodeaux...

Aye.

Thiele...

Aye.

Thomberg...

Aye.

Tulk....

Aye.

DONNA:
Josh, Dory Macklin
from the Post

returning your call
on three.

Yeah. Tell her never mind.

Nice work on Thiele.

Yeah.

How'd you get
him to turn?

I don't know exactly.

Margaret, I'm going
to need State again.

We have a Vice President.

About time.

I may actually
sleep tonight.

Probably not.

Probably not.

See you in the Rose Garden.

Okay.

PRESIDENT:
Good afternoon.

I want to welcome you all.

It's with surpassing pleasure
and pride

that I announce that Congress,
just a short time ago,

voted to confirm Robert Russell

as the new Vice President
of these United States.

Confirmed by unanimous vote,

as befits
this redoubtable choice.

In a triumph of...

( clears throat )

In a triumph of the meritorious,

Bob Russell is someone
I have come to know,

trust, and immeasurably respect

over the past five years

of our working together,
as have all of us here

at the White House.

His estimable legislative record
is but one facet

of his laudable public
service to his country.

Service that now ascends
to an even loftier level

as he assumes his
new responsibilities

as Vice President.

Mr. Robert Russell.

( applauding )

I'm going to get fired.

Nobody's getting fired.

I'm the new guy;
I'll be made an example.

They'll put my head on
a pike on the South Lawn.

You're working out.
Leo agrees.

You're not going
to get fired.

Gentlemen.

( sighs )

Mr. Vice President,
please accept...

I'd like a copy.

There are
no copies.

We've shredded...

Wiped hard drives...

We're considering
putting out our own eyes.

Find one;
send it to my office.

I thought it was hilarious.

( snorts )

Hilarious, sir?

I know my public profile,
my political persona.

I'm just glad to see there's
such a keen awareness

of the scale of the job
you've all got ahead of you.

I'm part of the team now,

which makes all this
pretty much your problem.

Good luck with it.

JOSH:
Yeah, sometimes happens
that way.

Delayed reaction.

Obviously, my little talk stayed
with the good Congressman.

Yeah.

That's the reason
you hammer hard.

It's all they understand.

That's not really
my personality.

I'm more the get-more-
bees-with-honey type.

Oh, you'll learn.

Hey.

Hey.

So what's
the deal there?

Boyfriend-girlfriend?

Friends with
privileges?

What?

Something's going on.

PRESIDENT:
You like Chopin, Charlie?

If I say I've
never heard any,

am I going to get
the life history

of the guy and
a shopping list?

You'll thank me, one day.

I'd thank you now, sir,
but could you hold off?

I'm still working through
the 14 discs

of Bach you made me
buy last year.

The Well-Tempered Clavier?

Both books.
You know what
that means?

You already told me
what tempered means.

Good. Listen.

I need you to research
something for me.

Could you find out the price
of a gallon of milk?

Two dollars
and sixty-nine cents.

$2.89
in Georgetown,

and $2.54 with a coupon
from the paper.

Will you make sure everybody
knows that tomorrow?

( piano playing over speakers)

Thank you for earlier.

You were absolutely right.

They're perfectly nice people.

I meant when I went into that
whole diet/economics harangue.

That was quite an oratorio.

I was showing off
and it was ridiculous,

and you didn't make fun
of me and I appreciate it.

You know the President made

almost the exact same basic
point this afternoon?

Very funny.

It's true, actually.
It was uncanny.

Oh, my God.

'Course, he left out
the whole goofy diet part.

Don't blow it now.

Perfectly nice people--

for residents
of the only state

that considers rind

one of the four
major food groups.

( playing piano )

( playing continues )

Good, I didn't
miss it.

No, I think there might be

30 or 40 seconds left.

( chuckles )

You look great.

Thanks. So do you.

Everyone looks great in a tux;
chimps look great.

With none actually present,

I'll have to settle for you.

So, listen, um, Ryan...
of all people,

asked me
straight out

about our
relationship,

and I couldn't have
avoided the subject more

if I had faked a stroke.

Cheeky little brat.

That's, that's
not the point.

Even if I'd wanted
to answer him,

I wouldn't have known
what to say.

It's like what C.J. said
today about the economy.

By refusing

to put language to it,

we're trying to pretend
it doesn't exist;

but it's something.

Even if we don't
know what to call it.

I just think it's time
to start thinking

about a language plan for
whatever it is we're doing, too.

( playing continues )

( playing ends )

Bravo!

Bravo!

Ladies,

gentlemen.

I wish to...

I wish to...

...thank... the President,

the American
people,

for this
opportunity.

I wish it be
started

many exchange,

improve relations

between our countries.

( speaks Korean )

( applauding )

He didn't realize what it was.

What what was, sir?

Freedom.

You could've
canceled the concert.

There's a Korean word-- "Han."

I looked it up.

There is no literal
English translation.

It's a state of mind.

Of soul, really.

A sadness.

A sadness so deep
no tears will come.

And yet, still, there's hope.

Good night, Mr. President.

I got a call from
Geneva 15 minutes ago.

The negotiations are on hold.

The North Koreans
didn't like the size

of everyone's flags
at the table.

( sighs )

Good night, sir.