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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,240 Mel, can I get you to proof this? 2 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:33,960 Mel, which one? 3 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:35,920 This one. 4 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:40,680 Come on, people... 5 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,720 What have you done for me lately? 6 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,040 Overnights, Mel, read them and weep! 7 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,840 Where's Boise? I don't see Boise. 8 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,160 Where's Pakistan? Come on! 9 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,080 Mel baby, you're going to just love today. 10 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,800 I better, Alan. 11 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,760 I don't see much team work! 12 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:58,840 Caroline, my coffee is cold. 13 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,720 "We tell ourselves we are after the truth." 14 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,160 "We tell ourselves we deal in facts." 15 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:05,240 "And yet for those of us... 16 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,320 who've been in my business long enough... 17 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,320 we're haunted by the realization that the facts alone... 18 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:11,480 don't always lead to the truth." 19 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,360 From the White House after the speech, okay? 20 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:14,440 No spin! 21 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,440 Do not tolerate any spin what so ever... 22 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,720 Where's Boise? 23 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,040 "Like most of the really important stories we covered, this one... 24 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,960 the biggest armed confrontation in America since the Civil War... 25 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,560 started with seemingly unrelated incidence... 26 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:31,680 that had first been almost unnoticed... 27 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,720 and then spun out of control." 28 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,720 Most of you know, Governor Farleys on his way back from Washington... 29 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,240 he'll be addressing you at some point later today or tomorrow. 30 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:42,480 However... 31 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:47,000 he has authorized me to make this statement on his behalf. 32 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,600 "Effective immediately... 33 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,440 the State of Idaho is closing it's borders... 34 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,400 if necessary, by the use of force." 35 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:55,760 "I have ordered our state troopers... 36 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,960 to set up check-points on the boarders." 37 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,240 "And no one will be allowed in without authorization... 38 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:01,880 from the Idaho authorities." 39 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,360 "There will be no questions at this time." 40 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,160 He's closing the borders, people. 41 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,040 Thank God for arrogance, lust and greed... 42 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,640 or we'd all be doing infomercials. 43 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:11,960 Let's go people, I smell a twenty share! 44 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,720 Where the hell is Pakistan? Where's the White House? 45 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,320 Do we still have a White House or has Tokyo foreclosed on it? 46 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,760 - Coming up! - We'll return to Boise momentarily. 47 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:25,080 "Meanwhile, developments in Pakistan are continuing as more orphans... 48 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,160 are being assembled for the flight to America." 49 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:33,040 "It is now thirty eight days since the event that started it all." 50 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,280 "The nuclear explosion from the Indian missiles... 51 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,560 that devastated over ten thousand square miles of the area... 52 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,080 around the Pakistani Capitol of Islamabad." 53 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,800 "At the Peshaware airport in Northern Pakistan... 54 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:47,720 the first of several plane loads of children... 55 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,040 orphaned by the atomic blast, is preparing to leave." 56 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,480 "Destination: Twin Falls, Idaho." 57 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,600 "The rescue mission is under the supervision of Amelia Sims... 58 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,080 head of the controversial, Give to the Children Corporation." 59 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,320 "However, as we've just reported... 60 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,680 Governor Farley has closed the border of that state." 61 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:06,920 "As politicians maneuver... 62 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,240 behind the scenes to avoid a crisis... 63 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,880 a confrontation seems increasingly inevitable." 64 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:14,120 "The governors press secretary... 65 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,040 has said that no one will be allowed in... 66 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,400 without permission from the Idaho authorities..." 67 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,240 Jesus Christ! 68 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,120 The country's becoming un-glued and the bird goes down! 69 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:23,480 It's not off the satellite we got Bombay... 70 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,280 - off the same bird. - I don't care what it is, okay. 71 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,120 I want the orphans. 72 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,600 Can't do it, we're losing them. 73 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,840 Go to the White House. Go ahead. Go! 74 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,800 "We apologize for the technical difficulties." 75 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,200 "Steven Kingsley is standing by at the White House... 76 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:44,760 with a live report." 77 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:47,640 Helena, Matthew, we've just seen an indication... 78 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,440 of the way the White House is handling these events. 79 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,880 "When Jack Buchan, high powered lobbyist... 80 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,200 and unofficial Public Relations advisor to the President... 81 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:59,560 arrived here as President of Cathers and Hilton... 82 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,960 the huge Washington P.R. firm." 83 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,480 "Buchan is not a member of the Cabinet... 84 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,880 but in times of extreme crisis... 85 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,280 he is often seen around the White House." 86 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,880 So, what do the polls say? 87 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,640 Fifty two percent are in favor of strong action. 88 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,720 There is no other kind, Idaho will be stopped. 89 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,400 - I want those orphans in there. - Yes, sir. 90 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:21,640 What do the polls show in Florida? 91 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,400 Florida was the swing vote in the last election. 92 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,920 In Florida only thirty eight percent are in favor of strong action... 93 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,440 and most of them are over the age of seventy five. 94 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:30,760 Statistically... 95 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:33,640 most of them will be dead before the next election. 96 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,320 Dead supporters are the worst. 97 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:36,640 I mean, they take up a ton of your time... 98 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,880 and then where the hell are they when you need them? 99 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,800 Shit. So, what do we do? 100 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,520 Sometimes, the best action is no action. 101 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,440 Well, nobody believes in action more than I do, Mike. 102 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,600 Mr. President. 103 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,800 I think the answer is to move the whole damn thing up... 104 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,840 to a new paradigm, like... 105 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,680 I'm talking about moving it onto the image level. 106 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,400 Now, that's my business, I know image. 107 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,960 And the great thing about image is that... 108 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,120 you look like you're doing something strong... 109 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,000 but you don't necessarily do it. 110 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:13,160 That way, they nail you and... There's nothing to hit. 111 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:14,280 And? 112 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,160 I got them! Mel, I got them back. 113 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:18,800 The first plane load of orphans is in the air. 114 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:20,360 It's the one we put Tony Phillips on. 115 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:21,800 But they may have to make an emergency landing somewhere. 116 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:23,360 What do you mean emergency land... 117 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:24,880 Get Phillips on the horn, please. 118 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:26,600 What is our 20 at JFK, please? 119 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,760 Keep them out of the bathroom! You cannot have... 120 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,840 "Tony what the hell's going on up there?" 121 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,000 Mell, for Christ sake, I got no control over it. 122 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,440 We got a plane full of orphans... 123 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,240 and the toilets have stopped working, okay. 124 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:42,600 - "So what?" - Look... 125 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,280 we just have to land in Newfoundland just for a few hours to fix it. 126 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:46,360 "Tony?" 127 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,320 Let me ask you something, do you want to land at JFK... 128 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,200 in the middle of the afternoon when nobody is watching... 129 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:53,520 and maybe get a 1.2 share? 130 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,880 Or do you want to land at JFK primetime in the morning... 131 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,120 and perhaps garner a 28 share? 132 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:00,600 "What you want, Tony?" 133 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,360 Mel, I'm telling you, this is a flying planeload of shit! 134 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:08,680 "Tony, this is the biggest story in the last half of the century... 135 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,520 and you are the human side of it, okay?" 136 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:12,800 So, whatever you have to do to keep those kids up there... 137 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,080 stick a cork up their asses, you do it. 138 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,120 - Do you understand? What? - Hey, Mel! 139 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:18,680 Idaho is coming. 140 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,600 We apologize again for the technical difficulties. 141 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,320 We'll return to the orphans remaining... 142 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,080 at the Pakistan airport for their flight to America. 143 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,200 Excuse me, Helena. We have just received word that... 144 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,160 Governor Farley will be returning to the State House momentarily. 145 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,240 And as you know the Governor expected to make some sort of statement... 146 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,080 within the next twenty-four hours. 147 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,440 "And he's certainly one of the more controversial... 148 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,200 governor's in this country." 149 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,040 "Once known for his liberal views Jim Farley has been criticized... 150 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,000 for playing to State's conservative majority." 151 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,560 "And indeed, Governor Farleys approval ratings have jumped... 152 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,360 twelve percentage points... 153 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,560 since he adopted his bold anti-immigration stance... 154 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,000 an outgrowth of his successful reelection campaign... 155 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,040 which played to a theme that still resonates today." 156 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,120 "America. As it should be." 157 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,240 "Governor Farley has just arrived on the steps of the Capital." 158 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,600 "Let's switch there now. Live." 159 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,440 Okay, line up the reacts from the White House. 160 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,360 Tell Kingsley to get the President! 161 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,560 Get the President, like in send out a search party? 162 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,240 - Correct. - Who's got Christina Fernandez? 163 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:30,800 Christina? 164 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,160 Yes. 165 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,760 The universe shall unfold as it does, ladies and gentlemen. 166 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,560 Governor! 167 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,320 - Alan? - Govenor, answer the question... 168 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,640 Alan, I could hardly hear you. The balloon's going up. 169 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,280 "I know. You'll be hearing from me soon on the matter." 170 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:50,360 "Yes, you will." 171 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:51,760 This is what it comes down to. 172 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,560 One guy controls the fate of the whole damn country? 173 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:56,600 You've all been very understanding. 174 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:01,360 Yes, tomorrow. Guaranteed. 175 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,960 My life is out of control. 176 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,960 Christ, she hardly acknowledges I'm alive. 177 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:12,960 You saw her out there, it's like I'm a goddamn window... 178 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:14,040 she looked right through me! 179 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,680 But Governor, I don't know if this is really the time... 180 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,800 to let her be getting to you like this. I mean... 181 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,080 What the hell is it with women? 182 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:20,600 Christ. Doesn't going to bed... 183 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,200 and fucking your brains out mean anything anymore? 184 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,160 Well, Governor, I can get the State Troopers... 185 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,280 to cut you another one out of the heard. 186 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:28,720 There's plenty of cocktail waitresses... 187 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,280 you ain't been through down there at the Frontier Lounge. 188 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:31,920 I want Christina. 189 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,680 What is it with her? She knows I can't leave my wife. 190 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,520 Well, Governor, you got a crisis to handle... 191 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,440 and she knows damn well you do. 192 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,960 That's the problem with women they never listen to reason. 193 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,360 "It's your fault!" 194 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:45,920 Governor, the White House just called. 195 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,280 Goddammit, get the hell out of here. This is important. 196 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,080 Close the damn door! 197 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:54,640 The White House... 198 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:55,960 Look, Governor... 199 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,080 I'll see what I can do to get her thinking straight again. 200 00:09:58,160 --> 00:09:59,720 But right now you got to get yourself ready... 201 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,360 to go out there in front of the whole damn country tomorrow. 202 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,360 Politics is just another form of sex. 203 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:06,920 You know that, don't you? 204 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:10,640 - Jim, I need you to do... - Mel, I just got through... 205 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,360 to Tony Phillips, I'm going to go out to JFK... 206 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:13,560 and meet the plane in the morning. 207 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:14,720 I need you here. 208 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,360 Yeah, but I'd do better work out there. 209 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,920 Jim, I don't want better work, alright? 210 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,120 I need grab-them-by-the-throat news. 211 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,080 Alright? Haven't you noticed ethics and taste are passe, history... 212 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,640 - this is not the '90s anymore, Jim. - Mel, you're living proof of it. 213 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,400 - Tony Phillips is holding on line 5. - You know something? 214 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,920 I hold you responsible for my predicament. 215 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,240 Let me explain, when I was in J school... 216 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,280 I used to watch you on ABC and I'd say... 217 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,920 "Look at that dignity and class." 218 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,280 "Maybe you could be in news without being a cynical cog... 219 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,720 in some son of a bitch corporate structure." 220 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,600 Boy, was I conned. You suckered me in. 221 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:50,360 - I'm going to get you for that. - Mel, you have many times. 222 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,320 - Tony, it's Jim again. - "You want us to do what?" 223 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,000 "Just a minute. Jim, hold on." 224 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,200 "We will not be silenced by some ridiculous need for primetime." 225 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:01,680 Tony, grab yourself a barf bag... 226 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,200 and put Miss First Amendment on the line. 227 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,160 "It's Mel Burgess, our executive producer." 228 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,400 "He wants to talk to you." 229 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:09,480 "Hot wire to the..." 230 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:12,480 Having quite a ride up there, aren't you, Miss Sims? 231 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:16,120 Mr. Burgess, was is it that you want? 232 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,600 Well, I just wanted you to know if you didn't land in Newfoundland... 233 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:22,680 and arrived at JFK in the middle of morning primetime... 234 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,400 "Yeah, well, what the hell do I care about primetime?" 235 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:29,320 Miss Sims, let's face it right now you're a two-bit charity, okay? 236 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,680 But if you land at JFK... 237 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,440 smack in the middle of morning primetime... 238 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,760 America sees these kids getting off the plane in their wretched state... 239 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,320 you will be inundated with money, Miss Sims. 240 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,160 You'll be bigger than "Save the Children"! 241 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,480 Well, that is the most ridiculous thing that I... 242 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:48,880 Did he say, bigger than "Save the Children"? 243 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,520 Everybody's got a magic button, our job, find it and push it. 244 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:53,800 Okay, Jim, you're it. 245 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,000 Orphan patrol, get to JFK... 246 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,080 keep them up there for a couple hours until prime time. 247 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,000 "There is still no word from the White House... 248 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,840 but unofficially, one aide has said that... 249 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,280 and I quote, 'Strong action will be taken'." 250 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:10,240 Governor Farley won't come to the telephone. 251 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,560 Fuck. 252 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,480 So, what now? 253 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:16,320 Well, if that son of a bitch is... 254 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,640 going to make the speech I think he's going to make... 255 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,760 then he could wipe us out. 256 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,440 I smell an Image Deficiency Syndrome on our hands. 257 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,200 What the hell are we talking about... 258 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:28,920 Image Deficiency Syndrome? 259 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,920 If I may, sir. 260 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,200 When I set up your election campaign I knew you'd be elected... 261 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,800 like all other Presidents because of image. 262 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:38,920 Now, no disrespect, sir... 263 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,040 but the American people vote for the sizzle, not the steak... 264 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:43,200 its only afterwards that the poor bastards... 265 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,160 have to bite into that fat and gristle. 266 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,200 - This is not about image! - I beg your pardon, Warren. 267 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,480 Mr. President, we're dealing with something a hell of a lot more... 268 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:55,360 than just "messy reality" here. 269 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,120 See, at my shop we represent everyone... 270 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,480 from the Apple Growers Association to the Government of Zimbodway. 271 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:02,720 And I've got a dozen clients... 272 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,920 who are going to load their collective pants... 273 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,480 if that son of a bitch looks like he's going to run circles around us. 274 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:10,600 No one's going to run circles around us, Chuck. 275 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:12,080 Exactly. 276 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,680 Now, we've an election next year and unless you keep that in mind... 277 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,040 when it's over this President... 278 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,520 could be out building houses for the poor like Jimmy Carter. 279 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,600 I've never even fixed a faucet. 280 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,480 Jim's at JFK! Hang in there, Jim. 281 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:32,000 Idaho's coming up! Farley's about to make his speech! 282 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,760 Christina, stay with him all the way up to the podium, okay? 283 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,200 You stay with him! 284 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,680 Mel, he's not even here, he's still upstairs. 285 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,360 It's going to be a feeding frenzy down here. 286 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:43,840 But you see, Governor... 287 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,400 you got to look at this as an opportunity, not a problem. 288 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,360 I don't see this as much of an opportunity, Jimmy. 289 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,600 Hell, she's talking about wanting to get transferred out of state! 290 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:55,680 So, there you go now, you stand up there... 291 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,200 you make that speech in a few minutes... 292 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,680 she's going to be watching you like a hound in heat. 293 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:02,640 - You really think so? - You're goddamn right. 294 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,720 I mean, women love power. 295 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,920 They swarm around it like flies around shit. 296 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,680 I mean, how could she do this to me? 297 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:12,400 We made love just last Friday, right here in this office. 298 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,680 On that damn couch you're sitting on right now. 299 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,840 You know, counting for loyalty these days? 300 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,760 - By the way your wife called. - Cover for me. 301 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,560 Planeful of orphans, one hour out of JFK! 302 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,760 So, Caroline, you want to be in the news business... 303 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,000 start thinking train wrecks, electronic train wrecks... 304 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,280 only the trains are people, like Farley and the White House... 305 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,520 all we do is put them on the same track... 306 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:41,200 and let them head towards each other. 307 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,200 You told me she was staying here, and I'm telling you she's gone. 308 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,920 She's here. Let's just keep movin. 309 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,720 Good morning. 310 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:05,600 You all know that I've just ordered the borders of Idaho to be closed. 311 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:09,760 Now, this action is being implemented to preserve our way of life. 312 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,920 The American dream that has been falsely... 313 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,400 and cynically held out to the entire rest of the world... 314 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,520 which has grown by a billion people in merely the last ten years... 315 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,480 count them folks, one billion. 316 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,400 Standing room only from Maine to California. 317 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,440 And by, by allowing the stampede of... 318 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,880 Whatever you want to call them, immigrants, refugees... 319 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,880 illegals, legals, migrants, aliens, you name it... 320 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,200 we are being swamped. 321 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,360 "And we are destroying our own way of life... 322 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,640 at a time when the business community... 323 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,160 has presided over the wholesale destruction of... 324 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:45,560 our manufacturing capability, shift it overseas." 325 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:48,560 - I don't know. - "In the name of efficiency..." 326 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,000 I liked him better when he was a blonde. 327 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,840 "We are told that we have to stand by... 328 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,800 and let the rest of the world flood into America!" 329 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:58,040 Steady with these kids. 330 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,240 What? Hello? Come on. 331 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,000 Where's the news crew? 332 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:03,400 Excuse... I don't see... 333 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,560 Is that? Hi, are you with the News Net? 334 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:06,640 - Yes. - Amelia Sims. 335 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,360 - Is this the camera? Yeah. - News Net control room. 336 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:09,840 Tony's in pretty bad shape. 337 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:11,720 - "That's why you're there, Jim." - That's good, honey. 338 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,720 Okay, this one, too. All of these are orphans... 339 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,960 - "Folks, America is no longer..." - The global village on primetime... 340 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,840 Boys, if it ain't on the screen, it ain't happening. 341 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,480 Lets go, bring it in. Come on! 342 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,400 - Standby in Effects 2, this is... - Yes. Good. 343 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,000 "This group of activists, who have decided on their own... 344 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,520 to bring into Idaho thousands and thousands... 345 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,240 of these unfortunate Pakistan children... 346 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,840 who've been orphaned by that terrible war..." 347 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,160 Beautiful. 348 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,040 "And the people of this state to mind our own business." 349 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:48,760 Well, as it turns out, that is exactly what I tend to do. 350 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:53,400 I mean, I was not elected by the people... 351 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,720 Of Idaho... 352 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,520 to... 353 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,480 "to..." 354 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:11,280 "to preside over this solution" of our way of life. 355 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:13,920 Therefore... 356 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,400 I am taking control of all matters related to our own borders. 357 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,640 And to immigration and citizenship. 358 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,120 This is unconstitutional. You can't do this. 359 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,560 I just have. Thank you. 360 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,680 "Come on, Christina, stay with the Governor!" 361 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,760 Goddamnit. The Governor's the center of the whole thing! 362 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,880 Go in closer. Closer. 363 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,640 Any closer and I'd be going down on him. 364 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,600 What was the question, Miss Fernandez? 365 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:53,080 Christina, stay with the Governor. 366 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,640 What the hell's going on with her, she's always right on top of him. 367 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,160 I'm trying to tell you... 368 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:58,240 Hey, Troy. 369 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,640 Look, come on, sugar, I don't mean any harm. 370 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:02,600 I just thought you might want a little quality time... 371 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,640 to patch up this little lovers tiff that you and him have. 372 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:09,440 Mr. Cannon, I don't need you to sort out my personal life. 373 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:10,880 Come on, Darling. 374 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,960 Hey, I'm just trying to be a friend here, okay? 375 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,640 And he is crazy about you, you know that. 376 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,120 Please. 377 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,720 It was an affair, okay? Let's just keep it at that. 378 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,440 Right now, I just need to remember... 379 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,280 that I'm a reporter and get on with my life. 380 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:30,400 You know, I'm always amazed at how wrong I can be. 381 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,000 You know, hell, I figured you really had a thing for him. 382 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,920 Are you aware that I was born in Mexico? 383 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,360 See, I came here when I was three years old. 384 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,840 That makes me an immigrant. 385 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,720 He wants to keep people like me out. 386 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,800 So, I'm out. 387 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,920 Aren't you taking this a little personally? 388 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,600 I hope so. 389 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,520 He wants to marry you. 390 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,200 He what? 391 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,120 Look, the budget's all blown to hell. 392 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:08,920 - Why can't we take at least a few... - Sorry, I'm late. 393 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,680 But those darned orphans didn't read the inter-office memo. 394 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,720 "When I started out as a reporter, the world seemed more remote." 395 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,240 "News came at us slower, in ways we could absorb." 396 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:20,920 "We never dreamed of satellite feeds... 397 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,480 or live reports from distant lands... 398 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:28,000 but now, Idaho and Pakistan might as well be right next door." 399 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,720 "The entire world is swarming into our video monitors... 400 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,040 as well as into the towns and cities of America... 401 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:35,680 and it's changing us all." 402 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,720 "And you tell yourself, you're a pro... 403 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,720 that you can handle the passions and tensions... 404 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,160 without letting your own feelings get in the way." 405 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:43,720 "At least, that's what you tell yourself." 406 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,800 This network, isn't that worth a little bit of money? 407 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:47,520 What do we got on the White House? 408 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,800 - Hi you, Sandy. - Still nothing, the scum buckets. 409 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:51,640 - They're your people. - Bullshit, Alan! 410 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,440 Alright, stop. What about the backgrounds? 411 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:54,840 We got one running right now. 412 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,760 Okay, I want backgrounders on everything, environment... 413 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,440 immigration, refugees, the whole nine yards, okay? 414 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,320 - Blitz it. - "The three freighters... 415 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,960 filled with Albanians fleeing the Russian conflict... 416 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:06,200 have been refused entry at the already crowded port of... 417 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,800 - Charleston, South Carolina." - Yes, we should ignore the fact... 418 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,400 the economic infrastructure of every American city is crumbling. 419 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,040 It's not the fault of the refugees and the immigrants... 420 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:16,120 For Christ sake, Alan... 421 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:17,600 that's not even the goddamn issue right now. 422 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,080 It's right in the middle of the fucking issue. 423 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,200 "The crisis began when 3 million starving refugees fled... 424 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:23,480 Figian Province." 425 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,080 - "The pesticides that seeped..." - Human beings... 426 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,840 let it get out of control, this is not some act of God. 427 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:30,120 They had their worst famine... 428 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,720 in the last hundred and fifty years, for Christ sake. 429 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,160 Could I have a glass of milk with this, please? 430 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,560 "There's no way I'm going to let Idaho go... 431 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,440 like other small population states like Rhode Island... 432 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,720 which became almost totally Chinese in six years... 433 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,520 when it was swamped by refugees..." 434 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,840 "Millions of Chinese settled in Rhode Island... 435 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,680 in the same Presidential election year... 436 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,040 when the controversial department of ethnic affairs was created." 437 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:53,160 So, its our fault they cut down all their forests... 438 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,640 or breed like rabbits and then want to come to America? 439 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:57,360 Don't talk to me about breeding, I'm eating, here. 440 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:58,560 I'm not talking about breeding. 441 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,880 I'm talking about the social situation on the planet. 442 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:02,800 "Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol... 443 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,280 have been unable to stem the unprecedented numbers of... 444 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:09,640 - Salvadorians flooding into USA." - The Chinese item we'll let on... 445 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,240 but drop any Latin stuff. 446 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,400 We've got too many Hispanic advertisers. 447 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,680 For christ sake, are we still a news organization... 448 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,400 or are we the home shopping network now? 449 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,640 Chris, don't bite the hand that feeds you... 450 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,320 which happens to include Hispanic advertisers. 451 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:23,840 The country is, you know... 452 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,000 "El Country-o es muy" fucked up... 453 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,040 Can you network guys understand that? 454 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:30,960 You got an attitude problem. 455 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:35,800 I find this impassioned tone of yours very offensive. 456 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,240 I'm offensive? Jesus... 457 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,200 Africa's a mess. Use the last Rwanda massacre. 458 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,640 - There are no Rwanda advertisers. - "Third time in recent years... 459 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,080 the people of Rwanda are being massacred at an alarming rate." 460 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,320 "Entire villages are being wiped out." 461 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,120 Heads up everyone, orphan alert! 462 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,280 JFK is coming in. 463 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:55,200 Second batch of Pakistani orphans. Runway 23. 464 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,480 And what have you done for Mel lately? 465 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,400 "To Runway 23 at JFK International Airport." 466 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,800 "News Nets Jim Kallas there." 467 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,480 "This is Jim Kalla, the News Net... 468 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,440 - I'm here with Amelia Sims of..." - "Thank you. Alright." 469 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,400 "Let me just say that we are... 470 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,000 bringing these children to our shelters in Idaho... 471 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,240 come hell or high water, and it's our right." 472 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,480 "And no Governor is going to stop it, let me also say that this is..." 473 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,960 Standby Boise, as soon as we dump JFK, we'll be coming to you. 474 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,760 I love the smell of burning ambition. 475 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,760 "And we are going to deal with them and... 476 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,840 let me just also say that the organization'll be open..." 477 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,480 "Of course I care about those poor Pakistan orphans... 478 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,040 but I don't live in Pakistan, I live here!" 479 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:38,320 "This is where..." 480 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,600 "This is what I'm all about, the American dream." 481 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,600 How come every time I see that guy I think I'm going to barf? 482 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,440 Alan, anything American makes you want to barf! 483 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,760 Stop with the cause debates, we're news, alright. 484 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,280 Emotions happen outside. 485 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:52,800 "Governor Farley!" 486 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,120 Folks, the Governor. 487 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,800 Good morning. 488 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:05,680 That's cute. 489 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,560 Folks... 490 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,280 I know you all want to let the Governor know... 491 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:20,720 just how much you're supporting him... 492 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,480 but if you could just give us a few minutes... 493 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,880 to discuss some important matters, I'd really appreciate it. 494 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,680 Is there a room that we could use? 495 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,120 Why sure, you could use our bedroom, right down the hall. 496 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,240 Turn left at the rocket launcher. 497 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,280 Excuse us. Thank you. 498 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,640 - Hey, big fella. - You got to talk to these people. 499 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,560 Hey. Jesus. 500 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,480 I'm tellin you, this is getting to be too much. 501 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,480 - What is? - Christina, she's... 502 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,800 She's not out there. 503 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,480 - Governor, I've got it wired... - Jesus Christ. 504 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,360 Who keeps a bowl of grenades in their bedroom? 505 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,600 Jesus, Howard, get away from there! 506 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,200 Look, I got it wired. I've talked to News Net people... 507 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:02,840 and told them that we'd give her an exclusive... 508 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,680 so they're on her to stay close. 509 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,440 Now, let's just think about those people in the next room? 510 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,640 I mean, these militia folks can come in real handy. 511 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,440 What the hell is this? 512 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,280 Bosoms and bazookas? 513 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:19,880 Maybe Ladies Auxiliary? I don't know. 514 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,640 Jesus Christ. 515 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,080 I don't know about all this. 516 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,280 Governor, lets just not forget who voted for you? 517 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:33,040 I mean, the whole goddamn state's one big militia now. 518 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,120 "As Governor Farley avoided reporters questions... 519 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,920 on his links with militia groups..." 520 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,600 It doesn't make any sense. 521 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:45,800 Just because we got a President... 522 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,720 who's face belongs on the back of milk cartons... 523 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,440 doesn't mean that the whole goddamn White House got to be quiet. 524 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,120 Its fishy. 525 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,920 Steve, smoke them out. 526 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,600 And what amazes most observers here... 527 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,320 there still been no response from the President. 528 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,280 Well, you got the Chief of Staff, what more do you want? 529 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:06,840 Same to you. 530 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,400 The President's on his way, but before he arrives... 531 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,480 - a few things I want to go over. - Mr. Buchan... 532 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,160 since when does a lobbyist set the agenda for the White House? 533 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,880 Mr. Secretary. 534 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,080 I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that "L" word you just used. 535 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,560 I'm a political facilitator. 536 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,040 You can pretend what you want, Jack. 537 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:24,320 But we're trying to handle a crisis here. 538 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,720 - Really Mike? - Yes. 539 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,360 Well, I think its time we started considering that... 540 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,200 a Presidents first four year term is what he's got to put up with... 541 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,560 in order to get himself elected again. 542 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,080 Tell me something I don't know. 543 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,040 "There is speculation that the White House's in some disarray... 544 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,040 and that the President has become... 545 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:40,640 politically immobilized... 546 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:41,720 - by events that are..." - What did I tell you? 547 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,880 The bastards are trying to smoke us out. 548 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,480 Now, look, people... 549 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,760 This Presidents going to end up as confused as a goat on astro-turf. 550 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,160 - Unless we're careful. - Careful about what? 551 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:58,560 Every President has his foibles, this one just needs a role model. 552 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,440 Now, I've been through this with him before... 553 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,360 that last crisis, that Trade War thing. 554 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:08,120 We got him all fired up over Harry Truman and it worked. 555 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,280 When it ended... 556 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:12,640 I swear, I thought he was going to nuke the Japs all over again. 557 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,600 And, on this one... 558 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,760 we have to bring him up to something more... 559 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,800 Statesman like, like Roosevelt. 560 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,520 Excellent question. 561 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,840 What would Roosevelt have done if hed had this crisis? 562 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,040 Especially when they're playing the "orphan card." 563 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:30,360 Well, we should be playing our own orphan card. 564 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,040 Exactly. 565 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:37,840 Sir, what exactly is our "orphan card?" 566 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:47,560 Mr. President, its a deadline. 567 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,240 Precisely! It's a deadline... 568 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,480 we're giving Idaho to get those damn orphans in there. 569 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,200 Seventy-two hours, no ifs, ands, or buts. 570 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,600 Teddy Roosevelt would've played the orphan card. 571 00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:58,680 No, Mr. President... 572 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,000 I was referring to F.D.R. Franklin Roosevelt. 573 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,040 Teddy Roosevelt. 574 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:07,440 When he lead the rough riders over the hill... 575 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,200 on that charge when he declared war on Spain... 576 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,880 now that was an orphan card. 577 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,000 Shit. 578 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,400 I know something's going on, I could smell it a mile away. 579 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,080 Somethins happening... Caroline! 580 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,320 Did we fire that odd ball, Techy Godfrey from the last cutback? 581 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,640 No, his office is down stairs. 582 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,320 - What room? - Fifty-five. 583 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,880 So, Tom comes up to me you know, Brocaugh, and he says... 584 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,160 "Vincent, you belong on camera, on camera..." 585 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,920 Godfrey, tell me you know something. What's going on? 586 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,360 BTU's. 587 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,720 This is something I've been doing calculations on for months... 588 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,520 the Pentagon on a "normal night." 589 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,040 Taken from the infrared satellite that I got us to buy time on. 590 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:58,280 You remember how the twenty-second floor... 591 00:27:58,360 --> 00:27:59,360 didn't want to put money into it. 592 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,560 How they said, infrared was dead, microwave maybe... 593 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,800 I remember, Godfrey. I was thrilled for you, go ahead. 594 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:07,120 On a normal night... 595 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,720 the Pentagon gives off a fairly constant amount of heat. 596 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,600 About 3.28 million BTUs, that's British Thermol Units... 597 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,640 its a way of measuring how... 598 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,960 Yeah. 599 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,360 But here is how it looked ten minutes ago. 600 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,680 You see this hot spot right here? 601 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,760 All the lights and electrical equipment... 602 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,560 it added an extra half million BTUs. 603 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,880 - So? - Well, I... 604 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,800 I don't have a spectrum analysis they wouldn't authorize... 605 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:34,960 the system upgrade at the last budget meeting... 606 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,200 Godfrey, forget about spectrum analysis... 607 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,400 stay with the BTUs and how they relate to the orphans... 608 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,040 that's why we're here. 609 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,200 This is where they plan military operations. 610 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,480 Holy shit. 611 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,480 Look here, North Carolina half an our ago. 612 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:57,720 You see this little area right here lit up like an infra-red blowtorch. 613 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,760 What about it? 614 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:06,080 That's Fort Brag, home of the 173rd Airborne. 615 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,120 Jesus Christ. We're going to invade Idaho... 616 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,440 over a bunch of orphans. 617 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:12,720 Get me to the White House. 618 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,360 I don't care if you have to use tear gas... 619 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:15,960 get the President out of there. 620 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,120 Who's at Fort Brag? 621 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:19,520 "News Net has just learned that... 622 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,200 two battalions from Fort Brag have been put on alert... 623 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,560 and are preparing to be moved to Utah near the Idaho border." 624 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,320 "You actually want me to believe they're sending in troops?" 625 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,720 "They may have a credibility gap in Washington... 626 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,640 but even the lobbyists that swarm all over that city..." 627 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:32,720 "Are you're telling me that... 628 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,680 the White House is still denying reports that... 629 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,200 Federal troops are being shipped to the Idaho boarder?" 630 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,880 So, we're in the Eisenhower mode? Jack, I think Ike's a great idea. 631 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,000 Well, thank you, Mr. President. 632 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,240 Eisenhower had a calming influence. 633 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:45,440 Yes, I thought you would like that, sir. 634 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:50,120 And he gave fabulous deadlines. I saw the videos you gave me. 635 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,880 That's what I want to talk to you about, Sir. 636 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,600 Seventy-two hours, three days, has a nice ring to it. 637 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,320 - That's the problem, Sir. - What is? 638 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,120 Well, the seventy-two hours, the end of seventy two hours... 639 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,280 Falls right in the middle of... 640 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:03,760 "All My Children." 641 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,720 What the hell is, "All My Children"? 642 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,720 It's a soap opera. 643 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,120 Remember what happened last time we preempted those soap operas? 644 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,680 Women all over the country went absolutely ape... 645 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,160 went crazy. 646 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,080 Jack, let's understand something. 647 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,400 I wasn't elected President... 648 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,280 to sit back and watch the United States disintegrate. 649 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:23,640 Here. 650 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:28,640 Sir, we lost the women's vote last time. 651 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,600 Shouldn't have happened. 652 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,920 It's Susan Luchis final episode. 653 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,440 - She's about to leave her husband. - Excuse me? 654 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,480 Susan, the star of "All My Children." 655 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,440 Shes about to leave her husband and run off with Antonio. 656 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,320 - The gardener? - Yes. 657 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,840 - Erica's running off with Antonio? - Exactly. 658 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,600 Would it be possible that, for the sake of the country... 659 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,680 Erica not run off with the gardener for a few days? 660 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,560 Well, I checked with the network. 661 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,040 The episodes already been taped, it airs in three days... 662 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,200 right smack dab in the middle of our deadline. 663 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,520 Eisenhower would've changed the deadline. 664 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,400 It's a soap opera, for Christ sakes. 665 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,800 Since when does a soap opera control the future of the country? 666 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,440 Why do you keep asking me if I love him? 667 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,640 Hey, I'm just trying to help. 668 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,400 I mean, I can see the pain you're in. 669 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,280 The pain is from you trying to get me back... 670 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,480 into something that made me crazy. 671 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,320 Look, I only know what I see. 672 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,600 And I see you hurt more now than you ever did before. 673 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,640 Tell me I'm wrong. But I know I'm not, Darling. 674 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,000 Phone message, Jimmy. Code Blue. 675 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,080 In a minute. 676 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,120 Governor, Mrs. Fernandez is here to discuss the News Net interview. 677 00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,640 - Where's the last Code Blue? - Three. 678 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,880 Hello, Mrs. Farley, how are you? 679 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,120 Good. 680 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,000 No, he's behind closed doors right now. 681 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,080 Well, its very important, its with a foreign dignitary. 682 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,840 Right. 683 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,320 No problem. I'll have the fella go shopping for you. 684 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,800 Right. The Popov Vodka. Good. Bye. 685 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,600 You're all aware of the proclamations coming from Idaho... 686 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,320 where the Governor of the state has said it is his intention... 687 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:37,280 to close the borders to a group of refugee children. 688 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,720 This action is unconstitutional. 689 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,680 And it represents an illegal challenge... 690 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,080 "to the authority of the Federal government." 691 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,840 He's actually going to have to make a decision. 692 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,400 Christina, I don't care what you have to do... 693 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,440 to get access to Farley, do it. 694 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,400 Christina? 695 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,320 - So much. - No. 696 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:57,680 I don't believe you anymore... 697 00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,400 and I don't believe myself anymore either. 698 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,000 I mean, what the hell am I doing with a married man? 699 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,680 Eleanor and I have not lived as man and wife... 700 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:04,760 For three years. 701 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,080 And she doesn't understand you and the check is in the mail... 702 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,840 and I'm really Irish. 703 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,880 Television has just fucking gone crazy. 704 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,800 I just... 705 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,480 I just thought maybe we could go away... 706 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,840 somewhere for a couple of days. 707 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,720 Just get away from all this. 708 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,600 "And I'm calling on Governor Farley, who I know is watching this... 709 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,160 - to recognize the hour of peril..." - Christina, where are you? 710 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,560 I need a reaction, please! 711 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,240 "Christina?" 712 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,680 Mel, I want a transfer. 713 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,760 Christina, this is not the appropriate time. 714 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,080 "I want to go somewhere..." 715 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,840 and have babies and lead a normal sane life... 716 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,280 and I want to get up in the morning... 717 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,440 and drive kids to school and I want a husband I can trust. 718 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,800 Please, no mommy-track crisis now. 719 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,480 Christina, please! 720 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,280 "It was almost half a century ago... 721 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,400 that another President, Dwight D. Eisenhower... 722 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,440 found it necessary to use U.S. troops... 723 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,040 to enforce the constitutional rights of the Federal government... 724 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:19,440 when the state of Arkansas refused to obey a Supreme Court order." 725 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,880 "If necessary, I will do the same." 726 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,240 "I am therefore declaring a deadline of sixty-seven... 727 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,320 and a half hours from now." 728 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,000 - Sixty-seven and a... - "By which time... 729 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,640 - the state of Idaho must comply..." - The fuck is that? 730 00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:35,560 "The constitutional prerogatives of the Federal government... 731 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,480 of these United States of America." 732 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,360 - "As they we're delineated by..." - What an asshole. 733 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:43,800 That dumb son of a bitch. 734 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,480 Up to his ass in lobbyists and deals to keep himself in power. 735 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,280 Now he tries to be Eisenhower. 736 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,800 Like a dwarf trying to be a high jumper. 737 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,480 Goddamit. 738 00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,520 How the hell did we let it all get to this? 739 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,280 Sixty-seven and a half hours? 740 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,440 Okay, do it. 741 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,680 Put up the road blocks, and I promised... 742 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,800 you know that News Net lady an exclusive. 743 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,320 Governor! 744 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,520 You're supposed to brief Colonel McNally, Sir, right away. 745 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,160 You know the one? Yeah. 746 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:24,440 "I have today issued an executive order... 747 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,200 directing the use of troops..." 748 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,840 "There have been comparisons made between the President... 749 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,440 and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower." 750 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,840 "It was in 1958 that Eisenhower sent in troops... 751 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,400 to forcibly integrate the public schools in Little Rock." 752 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,920 "Observers say that the President's actions are..." 753 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,920 Okay, people, the whole country is tuned in! 754 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,960 Meaning, it's primetime for the next three days... 755 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,600 twenty-four hours a day, nobody goes home. 756 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,480 The Feds are on their way, okay? Everybody on deck? 757 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,480 Karachi, New York, the White House, Boise. 758 00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,280 Who's on the Idaho border? 759 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,440 Vinnie. 760 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,600 Vinnie? Vinnie Franco? 761 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,360 Yeah. 762 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:19,680 Man, that John Wayne was a hell of soldier? 763 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,480 Hey, Vinnie, he was an actor. 764 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,280 Bullshit, if they'd a put the Duke in charge of Vietnam... 765 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,080 we would've been out of that war in a fucking week. 766 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,320 Hey, what are you doing turning the sound up? 767 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,160 I told you, you're going to blow the fucking speakers on this thing. 768 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:33,920 I didn't. 769 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,600 Holy shit. 770 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,400 Hello? Hey! 771 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,120 Hey, who are you guys? 772 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,000 Who are you? 773 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,800 - Who are you? - I asked first. 774 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,720 I ain't telling till you do. 775 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,240 We're a News Net crew. 776 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,840 - No kidding? - Yeah. 777 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,320 Hey, Charlie, Sam, its News Net, we're going to be on TV. 778 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,560 Goddamn. 779 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,760 I'm Arnold Tooney, Jr., two "os" in Tooney. 780 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,640 I own a drugstore in Boise. 781 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:19,200 Really? 782 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,200 Well, I might be slow, Arnold, but where I come from... 783 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,960 guys who own drugstores don't drive around in tanks... 784 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,160 - You know what I mean? - Bet some of them do. 785 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:28,200 On weekends, at least. 786 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,920 You're not the army, you're the National Guard. 787 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,680 Idaho National Guard. 788 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,200 Fuck. 789 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,120 Boys, looks like Idaho's going to war. 790 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:43,320 God. 791 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,240 "I smell another fucking Emmy, here." 792 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,920 There are sixty-five hours left in the Presidents ultimatum. 793 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,520 There now exists the possibility of... 794 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,480 American troops fighting against other American troops... 795 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,080 for the first time since the Civil War. 796 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,280 "Despite a complete press blackout established by... 797 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,720 by the military on both sides... 798 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,280 we're expecting exclusive coverage potentials..." 799 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:05,880 Civil War? 800 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,440 The Second Civil War. 801 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,120 The Second Civil War. Get me graphics! 802 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,400 Alright. 803 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,640 Okay, we have... We have not sought... 804 00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:29,920 nor will we instigate any combat situation. 805 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,480 But I am hereby serving notice on the Federal government... 806 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,400 that should any armed hostilities break out... 807 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:41,240 the State of Idaho will immediately secede from the United States. 808 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,840 And with Governor Farleys dramatic declaration of secession... 809 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,960 America appears just days away from a deepening crisis. 810 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,400 Some observers fear the possibility of an armed attack... 811 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:53,960 by Federal troops. 812 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,440 An announcement from the White House is expected within the hour. 813 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,480 Brendon. 814 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,920 I'm going to need an Eisenhower kind of quote. 815 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,840 Something with a ring of leadership to it. 816 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,120 An Eisenhower quote. I'll do me best, sir. 817 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,360 I'm sure you will, Brendon. Thank you very much. 818 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:22,520 Now, we're going to need another Eisenhower quote. 819 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,480 So, let's dream one up lads. 820 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,160 It's blackmail! No blackmail. 821 00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:30,040 We'll not be party to such high-handed... 822 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:31,280 - tactics. - No. 823 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,840 How about this, in my judgement... 824 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,120 we got to call in the army because otherwise... 825 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,680 The flower of democracy will not be trampled... 826 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,760 under the foot of rebellion. 827 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,600 That's closer, Vaclav. 828 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:49,240 But still, I'm missing the poetry boys. 829 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,920 Raul, let's hear it, lad. 830 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,200 We must endure... 831 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,600 and we must prevail if the slender thread of truth... 832 00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,880 is to remain woven into the fabric of civilized life. 833 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,800 Slender thread of truth. 834 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,000 "And just as Eisenhower said years ago." 835 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:12,120 "We must endure, we must prevail, if the slender thread of truth... 836 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:17,200 is to remain woven into the fabric of civilized life." 837 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:18,440 "It was with that sentiment... 838 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,360 that my predecessor of so many years ago..." 839 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,200 That Eisenhower had a way with words. 840 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,040 "Washington continues to mobilize troops... 841 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,600 with sixty-four hours left, two battalions from North Carolina." 842 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,320 "An entire brigade from the 1st Infantry... 843 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:36,120 and several armored companies from Texas are being sent to Utah... 844 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,440 not far from the Idaho border. 845 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,080 "Citizens from across that state... 846 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,000 are signing up as volunteers in the National Guard." 847 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,920 "Others are rallying around the various private militias... 848 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,320 that support Governor Farley." 849 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,280 Hi, folks. How's everybody doing? 850 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:58,920 Good. We're a News Net crew from New York city. 851 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,400 Well, near New York, it's practically New Jersey. 852 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,480 We're here because we want to tell your side of the story. 853 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,720 Now, I know you're probably pretty suspicious of the media... 854 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:12,840 because of the way they've portrayed you in the past. 855 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:14,400 Let's face the facts, why not? 856 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,280 They're always portraying you as these... 857 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:20,520 sort of stereo-typical, ultra-right-wing, gun crazed... 858 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,760 union-busting, wackos. 859 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,160 Good, Vinnie. 860 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:27,280 But, I'll tell you what... 861 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,760 let's take this opportunity to jump right over those... 862 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,400 left wing liberal East coast media-elite-types... 863 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:39,000 and bring your story right to the American people. 864 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,560 "And that's why I'm supporting Governor Farley. 865 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,080 "The foreigners are taking our jobs, and enough is enough." 866 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,960 "Because I want my grandson to live in country... 867 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,560 where we don't owe every cent to bankers from around the world." 868 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,800 "Well, I knew it was time for me and my brother Alan here... 869 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,800 to start buying missiles to defend our farm... 870 00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:57,960 from the Federal government... 871 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,400 that was trying to take all our guns away." 872 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,000 "And once all the guns are gone... 873 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:03,640 who's going to stand up to the people that are... 874 00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:05,160 trying to take your freedom away?" 875 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:07,640 Goddamit, Christina, please don't do this. 876 00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:09,080 Come here. 877 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,960 I've already done it. I've asked for a transfer. 878 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,560 - Why? - Because I'm Mexican. 879 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,680 I should be reporting from Tiawana, not Boise, for Pete's sake... 880 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:18,960 - Please. - People are watching. 881 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,800 Christina, don't let all this national issue stuff... 882 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,000 screw things up between you and me. 883 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,640 Just because you're Mexican is no reason to go crazy. 884 00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:30,320 And I'm not just keepin back Mexicans... 885 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,440 its everyone from Afgans to Zambians. 886 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,480 Now just don't make this into a personal thing... 887 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,640 between you and me. Now, come on. 888 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:38,880 I feel sick. 889 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,120 What's wrong with you? 890 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,640 I've been sick for three days. 891 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:46,600 I have to go. 892 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,320 Christina. 893 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,120 - Steve! Get an ambulance! - No. I'm okay. 894 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,600 - I'm okay. I just want to be alone. - You sure? 895 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,400 You know who fucked it up? 896 00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,800 All your mink coat "do-gooders" who talk more about their rights... 897 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:01,920 than their duties throwing money at every problem they see. 898 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,040 Fuck you, Chris, alright. 899 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,600 Half the people I went to school with can't get jobs now. 900 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,800 So, seal the borders, bring the jobs back. 901 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:09,240 There's more to life than cheap sneakers. 902 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:10,520 This is not a fraternity, alright. 903 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:11,800 We're a news network, we got work to do... 904 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,160 Mel, Jim, I got this idea... 905 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:14,560 that hits exactly what you're talking about. 906 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:15,760 - What is it? - Anybody want coffee? 907 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,440 The orphans, right. 908 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,560 Okay, Rachel, bring up JFK. 909 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,760 Okay, you remember those old rockin rollers from years ago... 910 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,440 they sang "We Are The World." 911 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,280 Well, how about we get a copy of the old video of them... 912 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,800 singing their hearts out, you know, noble, caring humanity... 913 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,720 the world coming together, brighter day and all that shit. 914 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,960 We intercut it with shots of these orphans. 915 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:35,040 I mean, these orphans are alive... 916 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:36,640 but hell, we could get some dead ones. 917 00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:38,960 You know and you cut back and forth between these wonderful lyrics... 918 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:40,600 and maybe go instrumental like a... 919 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:42,560 like violins over the orphans, I mean... 920 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,880 Christ, who in their right mind would ever tune that out... 921 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,440 and go to the home shopping network, I ask you? 922 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,320 Mel, the border just came alive. 923 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,680 It's a hell of an idea, Matthew, work on it. 924 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:52,920 But also you could superimpose... 925 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,760 a face of the rock musicians on the orphans to make them look like... 926 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,240 they're playing the instruments. 927 00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,320 Or you could take the... 928 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,520 the orphans faces and put them on the rock musicians... 929 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,440 and make them look like they're singing... 930 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,720 Or you could take a hologram of one of the rock, musicians... 931 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:08,520 and put them amongst the orphans... 932 00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,680 Mary Anne? 933 00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,360 Is anybody listening to me in Brownsville? 934 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:17,800 Mary Anne? Hello? 935 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,600 Mel, I'm having trouble hearing you. 936 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,280 Theres huge numbers of Mexicans pouring over the border. 937 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,640 I'm ready. 938 00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:30,400 "And these people streaming across... 939 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,840 the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas... 940 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:34,280 are moving north for the same reason... 941 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,800 as those in California, Arizona and New Mexico." 942 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:42,680 - "A fear that Governor..." - "Mel, why am I here in Boise?" 943 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,720 "My parents crossed the border, just like those people are now." 944 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,760 "I should be on the border, not Mary Anne Wong." 945 00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,600 Christina, I can't have Mexicans covering Mexicans. 946 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,280 and Arabs covering Arabs. 947 00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:58,880 Mel, its L.A. 948 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,080 Later, Christina. 949 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,480 Okay, people, teamwork! 950 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,240 "Let's go now to Los Angeles where the mayor... 951 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,040 Javier Clarke is speaking." 952 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,080 Shit. Simul... 953 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,840 Where the hell's simultaneous translation? 954 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,120 - What? - Where's Domingo? 955 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,080 - Domingo! - Domingo's wife is having a baby. 956 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:27,200 Wait. Christina? 957 00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:32,160 - Christina, honey, I need you to... - Don't honey me. You cut me off. 958 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:34,600 It was a snafoo, Darling, please, listen to me. 959 00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,120 We're patching up a feed from L.A. 960 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,160 Do me a favor and do the simultaneous translation. 961 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:40,880 I'm a reporter, not a translator. 962 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,800 Christina, I'm begging you, okay. 963 00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,800 For all that we've meant to each other? 964 00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:47,600 All we've meant to each other? 965 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:52,360 Are you crazy? Never. 966 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,320 And there is no question of the so-called border... 967 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,080 being closed unless we agree. 968 00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:01,760 Just because Mr. Farley... 969 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,840 and his anglos want to set the clock back... 970 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,720 and keep us in our place for the next two centuries... 971 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,160 whatever the politicians up North want to do, that's there problem... 972 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:14,560 but here its different. 973 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,360 The border is no longer just a matter for Washington... 974 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,680 or the Senor Farleys of the world, no. 975 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,320 We have as much to say over the border... 976 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,680 as any bureaucrat in Washington. 977 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,800 See, Los Angeles is not simply American territory anymore... 978 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,240 I mean, just listen to our name... 979 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:33,400 - Los Angeles. - What is she doing? 980 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:39,160 Letting us all know how much you've meant to each other. 981 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:41,640 These are the names that our people gave them... 982 00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:44,240 before the lands were ripped them from their ancestors... 983 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,360 and distributed them among the anglos! 984 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,840 Well, who do we have there, anybody? 985 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,920 Mohammed Amin! 986 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,360 "Over there! The roof sniper!" 987 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,400 "We are trying to establish contact with reporter... 988 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,000 Mohammad Amin." 989 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,400 - "Mohammad?" - "Helena, you see them shooting!" 990 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:24,080 "It is still going on. I saw three. Maybe four snipers on the roof." 991 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,960 "One was wearing the colors of one of the city's black gangs... 992 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,480 and they said that they will stop the Latinos... 993 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,680 from completely takin over Los Angeles." 994 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:32,760 "The black gangs have said... 995 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,240 they will not recognize Mexican authority here!" 996 00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,000 "Does anybody here speak English?" 997 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,080 "Anybody?" 998 00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,360 "Arabic?" 999 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:50,960 That is why I'm closing the damn border. 1000 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,760 Governor, Colonel McNally on the phone. 1001 00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,640 Governor, we can see two bus loads of orphans... 1002 00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:04,720 being unloaded the other side of the border here. 1003 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,480 "I just want to clarify our mission with... 1004 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,680 respect to these children." 1005 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:11,800 What do we do, if they march them up... 1006 00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,200 between us and the Federal troops? 1007 00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:21,440 "You could always tell when a crisis... 1008 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,160 started really affecting us." 1009 00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:28,720 "When it gets too close to home, all the bad taste jokes cease." 1010 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,520 "And when the orphans move up to the Idaho border... 1011 00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:36,280 people started looking harder at the images of those kids." 1012 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,480 "Of the soldiers." 1013 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,320 "And the ordinary people, like themselves." 1014 00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,360 What the hell are they doing bringing orphans to a fucking war zone? 1015 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,520 Vinnie, for Christ sake shut up, we're taping you, moron. 1016 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,000 I'm going to give this woman a piece of my mind. 1017 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,560 Vinnie, don't go down there. 1018 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,400 "Come on, fellas!" 1019 00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:57,360 Eddie, what's going on? 1020 00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,320 Show me a picture. What's happening there? 1021 00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,520 "You cocksucker!" 1022 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,360 "Hey, Mel." 1023 00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:10,360 "You know, we're just looking for my contact lens." 1024 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,960 - "Here it is. It's right here." - "Great!" 1025 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:14,040 "Alright, I guess we're ready then." 1026 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,640 - "Yeah, got it." - "Alright, lets shoot." 1027 00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:18,800 Idiots. 1028 00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,040 And with no sign that the deadline will be... 1029 00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,840 extended by the President both sides are hardening their positions. 1030 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,440 Federal troops are arriving at Hill Air Base in Northern Utah. 1031 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:32,000 "So far, more than 8,000 combat ready troops are there... 1032 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,920 under the command of General Charles Buford." 1033 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,280 "Buford was second-in-command of the army unit sent into Algeria... 1034 00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,200 to rescue the hundreds of American oil workers... 1035 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,880 facing execution by Islamic fundamentalists." 1036 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,800 What the hell is he doing? 1037 00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:51,040 I've been waiting twelve years for this candy-ass. 1038 00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:54,320 Hey, Chuck. Fuck you. 1039 00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:56,960 No, you ain't. Not after what you did to us... 1040 00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:58,800 in the Persian Gulf, you... 1041 00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:03,080 Why you puffed up piece a shit if you hadn't been chasing headlines... 1042 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,120 I was supposed to get into Kuwait city first. 1043 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:07,720 It was mine, goddamit. 1044 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:12,800 Who's fault was it that you stopped, for an interview with ABC news? 1045 00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,560 And you lied to me about your position, didn't you? 1046 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:17,080 Of course I did, Chuck. 1047 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,640 It was a race, and I got to Kuwait first! 1048 00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:22,320 Well, fuck you. 1049 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:28,080 Well, you're kind of a sore loser, aren't you, shithead? 1050 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:31,360 Theres an incredible dignity to something like this. 1051 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,080 There is? 1052 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,360 Two military commanders facing each other... 1053 00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,080 across a gulf of human passion. 1054 00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,400 Its like General Lee... 1055 00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,960 and General Grant meeting after the Civil War. 1056 00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:44,440 And Lincoln would have been waiting for Grant... 1057 00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,120 to report back to him. 1058 00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:50,600 Wouldn't Lincoln have been dead by the time Lee and Grant met? 1059 00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,320 Whatever. 1060 00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:58,560 Theres something compelling, something eloquent about those two. 1061 00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,960 Blow it out your ass, you prick. 1062 00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:05,360 Fuck you, asshole. Go find your mama. 1063 00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:18,840 Intake, intake. C-Set 4. It better be recording this. 1064 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:21,560 - Where's it coming from? - The Alamo, Trisha Lee. 1065 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,800 "The Alamo. They've blown up the Alamo." 1066 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,680 "There are crowds of people all around..." 1067 00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:34,880 "It's like a celebration!" 1068 00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:51,960 Do you speak English? You speak English? 1069 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:53,120 I don't understand you. 1070 00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:57,640 Alamo gone. 1071 00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:00,200 No need to speak English no more. 1072 00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,280 They trashed the Alamo. 1073 00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:08,320 Davy Crockett, he whipped the Mexicans there. 1074 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,520 What kind of book you been getting your information from, son? 1075 00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,840 Davie Crockett wasn't on the winning team. 1076 00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:14,560 Davie Crockett was a hero. 1077 00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:15,960 The only reason Davie Crocketts a hero... 1078 00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,480 is because Disney figured out how to make a buck off those hats. 1079 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,480 Federal troops moving toward Idaho! 1080 00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:37,520 Governor? 1081 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,240 You spent the night here last night? 1082 00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:41,480 Yeah. 1083 00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,160 I was thinking of that beautiful piece of land... 1084 00:53:43,240 --> 00:53:44,320 I wanted to buy, out by the lake... 1085 00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,440 the one with its own boat dock. Is that still available? 1086 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,360 Governor, I don't know, we got an escalation problem on our hands. 1087 00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:50,320 I should've bought it. 1088 00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,160 I'd love to go out there for a few days with Christina, just... 1089 00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:55,280 Governor, the Feds have stopped their troops... 1090 00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,520 less than a mile from our border, now, we got to get to the media... 1091 00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,120 and see some moral high ground on this one. 1092 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,480 I'm getting damn tired of all this moral high ground. 1093 00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,320 I prefer rolling around in the mudd... 1094 00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:05,680 you meet more interesting people there. 1095 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,520 - It's the media, you got... - I'm sick of the goddamn media. 1096 00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,200 That's how we got in this mess in the first place. 1097 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:12,960 Now, if Moses... 1098 00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,560 had public opinion polls and TV cameras to contend with... 1099 00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:17,200 he never would've lead his people out of Egypt. 1100 00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:19,440 Look, Governor, we got no choice. 1101 00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,920 Now, all the troops in the world ain't worth a squirrels dick... 1102 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,040 unless we got those media whores kissing our ass! 1103 00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:25,320 That's the problem. 1104 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,240 People are terrified of being called racist... 1105 00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:31,720 for tryin to preserve their own culture. 1106 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,960 Yeah? Hold on. 1107 00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,040 They want to know what you want for breakfast. 1108 00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,240 - The usual. - Fajitas. 1109 00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,600 And Matthew, Helena, these units from the 173rd Airborne... 1110 00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,480 suddenly began taking up positions here... 1111 00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:47,520 shortly after the news of the Alamo came through. 1112 00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,360 "I'm talking to you from just inside Utah... 1113 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,280 very close to the border with Idaho." 1114 00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:52,360 "And just over here to my right... 1115 00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,640 is the encampment of Pakistani orphans where... 1116 00:54:54,720 --> 00:54:55,920 according to our information... 1117 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,200 bus loads more are expected to arrive today." 1118 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,440 General, I know you don't trust the media. 1119 00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:03,560 I'm with you a 100 percent on that, absolutely, but I think... 1120 00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:05,320 you're missing the opportunity here... 1121 00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:06,760 to counter attack what's being said about you... 1122 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,240 by these militia nut jobs... 1123 00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,040 and these opportunistic politicians and... 1124 00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:15,640 Well, Mr. Franco, you and the rest of your ilk... 1125 00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:19,720 are a carbuncle on the ass of the military. 1126 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:21,800 Carbuncle. 1127 00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,000 I'll try to put a good spin on that word, General... 1128 00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,040 because I'm sure you mean it as some kind of compliment, right? 1129 00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,360 I ordered the media out of this sector... 1130 00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:30,000 - and that includes you! - But what about all... 1131 00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:31,240 that great press I gave you during the Persian Gulf thing... 1132 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,560 - doesn't that count? Okay. - Get out of here! 1133 00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,920 It's too bad, though, I was going to give you this present. 1134 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:42,240 I guess I can give it to somebody else, it's a tape of... 1135 00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,080 you in that Panama whorehouse a couple years ago. 1136 00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:46,280 If you don't mind my saying so, General. 1137 00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:50,400 You didn't have any carbuncles on your ass that night. 1138 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:53,800 Are there any more copies of that tape? 1139 00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,520 "Protests supporting both sides of the Idaho conflict... 1140 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,280 are increasing all over the country... 1141 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,360 in the wake of the bombing of the Alamo." 1142 00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,280 "As government officials fear more serious outbreaks of violence... 1143 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,960 there is trouble from an unexpected source on the Idaho Utah border." 1144 00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,880 "Blaine Gorman has more." 1145 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,640 "Matthew, Helena, the Sioux Indians on this reservation... 1146 00:56:13,720 --> 00:56:17,080 have issued a statement saying that this conflict is and I quote... 1147 00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,320 "Part of the white mans war that we will not be drawn into." 1148 00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:21,840 "And in fact, they too, like Governor Farley... 1149 00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,240 are closing the borders to their big reservations." 1150 00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:25,600 "The Indians are receiving support... 1151 00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,960 from dozens of other fans all across America..." 1152 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,200 It's getting to be a tad ridiculous. 1153 00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,360 Mr. President, I mean, a bunch of Indians on the war path. 1154 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,000 If I may be so blunt, who gives a shit? 1155 00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:38,200 We do. 1156 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:39,760 That reservation is right smack... 1157 00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,640 between our troops and the Idaho border. 1158 00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:46,080 The Sioux, aren't they the ones who wiped out General Custard? 1159 00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,440 Yes, Sir. Not far from there. 1160 00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:52,440 Well, I'm not going to have another General Custard on my hands. 1161 00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,200 I intend to take the appropriate action... 1162 00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,960 to ensure this does not happen. 1163 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,160 Can't we just let them have another casino or something? 1164 00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:09,160 "This is News Net." 1165 00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:12,160 "Good evening. I'm Matthew Langford." 1166 00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:13,840 "And I'm Helena Newman." 1167 00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,120 "There are now less than forty-one hours left... 1168 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,960 in the countdown to the Idaho crisis." 1169 00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,120 "And the White House has announced the granting of... 1170 00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,880 gambling licenses to the Lacoda Sioux Indian tribe... 1171 00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,080 for a casino next to the little big horn... 1172 00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,440 where General Custard was killed when he lead his troops..." 1173 00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:30,840 There's nothing sacred. 1174 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,880 Next they'll be paving Gettysburg, or worse, Disneyland... 1175 00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:35,880 Jim? Jim Kalla, I need you in Washington! 1176 00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,160 "More than anything else, what the Idaho crisis has done... 1177 00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,960 is to highlight all the fractions all the divisions in America." 1178 00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:47,600 "And no where are they closer to the surface... 1179 00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,080 than in the House of Representatives in Washington." 1180 00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:51,240 Time out here! 1181 00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:52,560 If you got a problem with something... 1182 00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:53,640 "It's become kind of... 1183 00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,400 a political bazaar built on the ruins of the melting pot." 1184 00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,000 Hey, translator! Come on over here. 1185 00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:01,480 What the hell's he saying? 1186 00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,000 We don't, we're aware of the deals that the other groups... 1187 00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,480 the nation has come against us Chinese. 1188 00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:07,600 Hey, man, this is Washington! 1189 00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,240 This is what we do here, make deals! You understand? 1190 00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:12,600 "The situation here changes hourly." 1191 00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:16,240 "What this crisis comes down to is wheeling and dealing." 1192 00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,880 "Most of it orchestrated by the White House and Kenya Nkomo... 1193 00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,480 the leader of the nation of Islam caucus... 1194 00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:24,280 before being elected to congress... 1195 00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:26,440 he made his name on the streets of Los Angeles... 1196 00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:29,720 as one of its most feared gang leaders." 1197 00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,040 "Every party's demanding concessions... 1198 00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,080 in exchange for their supporting the President." 1199 00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,760 "If he needs to use force against Idaho." 1200 00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,920 "Now, I'm standing here next to Congressmen Singh of Alabama." 1201 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:41,360 "Congressman Singh." 1202 00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:43,240 "What concessions did you get from the White House?" 1203 00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:44,920 "A great deal for my people." 1204 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,520 "I told Mr. Buchan, from the White House... 1205 00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,520 you all want our support against Idaho, fine." 1206 00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,880 "But you all have to give us three thousand acres in Alabama... 1207 00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,080 and the money to build our temples." 1208 00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,760 "And he said, "No problem." So, no problem!" 1209 00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:03,320 "No problem. Jim Kalla, News Net." 1210 00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:17,440 Can't make an omelet without busting some sacred eggs. 1211 00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,400 We're making history here. 1212 00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,520 And you ain't us, aren't you? 1213 00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,360 - No, I'm not. - You should be. 1214 00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:33,560 Why not? 1215 00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:38,880 Maybe because I'm a reporter, I ain't with anybody. 1216 00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:43,680 Maybe because too many sacred eggs are getting busted. 1217 00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:45,400 See, I road the buses back in the sixties... 1218 00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:51,920 to bring people together, pretty unfashionable now, isn't it? 1219 00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:02,320 Your wife, she's Jewish, ain't she? 1220 01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:08,640 You know, I've forgotten what she is. 1221 01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:12,840 All I remember is that we met on the back of a bus. 1222 01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,160 Hey! Is the Governor in the car? 1223 01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,520 Well, has anybody seen him? 1224 01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:22,520 I'll be dipped in dog shit. 1225 01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,000 Where the hell are you? 1226 01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:26,920 Son of a bitch. 1227 01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:34,360 Governor? 1228 01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,280 Jesus Christ, Governor, scooch over. 1229 01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:41,120 Jesus, I've been looking all over hell for you... 1230 01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:42,920 She always parks right over there. 1231 01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,920 You see that empty parking space, that's her. 1232 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,600 Governor, we've got crisis after crisis going on in there... 1233 01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:49,960 You want to know about crisis, Jimmy? 1234 01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:51,560 She won't even look at me now. 1235 01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:53,400 Jesus. 1236 01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:00,240 There she is! 1237 01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:06,280 Governor! 1238 01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:09,840 I knew she'd come back. 1239 01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,520 What the hell is she doing? 1240 01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:30,240 Christina, are you all right? 1241 01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:34,640 Christina? Are you all right? 1242 01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:36,880 No. Not really. 1243 01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:40,200 What we're you doing behind that tree? 1244 01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:45,240 I was barfing. I have to go. 1245 01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,600 What's going on? 1246 01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:57,520 She's pregnant. I'm going to be a father. 1247 01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:59,720 And if it's a boy... 1248 01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:03,000 we're going to call it Juan Pablo Farley. 1249 01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:17,640 I got you hooked up again. It was a faulty switch. 1250 01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,440 Hey, I owe you one. 1251 01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:24,840 No, you don't. How's Arla doing? 1252 01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:27,280 She has good days and bad days. 1253 01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:31,840 - What did the doctor say? - Nothing I want to hear. 1254 01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:34,560 - Say hello for me. - I will. 1255 01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:46,000 I came across another great line. 1256 01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:48,800 "The best lack all conviction while the worst... 1257 01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,360 are full of passionate intensity." 1258 01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:54,240 That is a good line. 1259 01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:59,800 The poets, nobody pays enough attention to the poets anymore. 1260 01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:02,400 Good night, Godfrey. 1261 01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:11,960 Hey, what the hell's going on? 1262 01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:14,520 They're movin them out. 1263 01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:17,080 Man. Jesus Christ. 1264 01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:21,520 Come on, enough is enough. 1265 01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:28,160 You know what? I had it with you. 1266 01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:30,240 All you do is use the wide angle lens... 1267 01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:32,520 so it looks like there's less orphans than there really is. 1268 01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,480 Lady, I don't have an orphan lens, okay? 1269 01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:36,320 - I use a normal everyday lens... - Yeah. 1270 01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:37,880 if we we're the "Save the Children" fund... 1271 01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:41,160 you wouldn't use a wide angle lens, you would use a telephoto lens. 1272 01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:43,600 - You're a big expert, right? - Yes, I am. 1273 01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:44,680 - Thank you. - The hell are you talking about? 1274 01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:48,600 I'm talking about media, asshole. Well, fuck reality, this is image! 1275 01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:50,720 Fuck the media, these kids shouldn't camp near the border! 1276 01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,280 You know what, if these kids we're not near the border... 1277 01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:54,360 you wouldn't have your story. 1278 01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:57,600 It is my constitutional right to do as I see fit. 1279 01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,600 Alright, you know what? You are a fascist. 1280 01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:00,680 Do you know that? 1281 01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:01,760 - How do yo feel about that? Yeah. - I'm a fascist? 1282 01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:03,480 That's what you call everybody... 1283 01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:05,120 Yeah, Blaine? 1284 01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,040 I want you to get that idiot a message. 1285 01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:10,960 You tell him that you never get in the middle of a story. 1286 01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:12,920 - "He's fired, as of now!" - Burgess is going crazy. 1287 01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:14,840 He says you're fired again. 1288 01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:18,760 Really? Fuck it. I'm done. I'm out! 1289 01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:20,800 Vinnie, will you do us all a favor and just shut up? 1290 01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:22,480 That's all we ever do around here, Blaine, is shut up. 1291 01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:24,040 Well, don't be an idiot, we're in the news business. 1292 01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,160 We're a wall of noise, Blaine! Wake the fuck up. 1293 01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:27,480 You know what, I quit. I'm done! 1294 01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:29,520 I'm going back to New York, I'm going to tie one on. 1295 01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:30,600 I'm going to finish that novel... 1296 01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:31,920 I started a couple years back, because you know what? 1297 01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,080 It's just about a big enough piece a shit to become a best seller! 1298 01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:35,800 And then I'm going to take the money, move down to the Bahamas... 1299 01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:36,960 the only time I'll see you fucking guys... 1300 01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:39,280 is when I'm channel surfing. I fucking quit. I've had it. 1301 01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:40,920 Fuck you, fuck him, everybody! 1302 01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,160 that's too bad, Vinnie, we could've used you. 1303 01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:44,520 I hear Mel's thinking of bringing in one of those... 1304 01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:46,280 young CNN producers, anyway. 1305 01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:50,800 - What? - Well, that's what I heard. 1306 01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:53,160 Really? 1307 01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:01,640 Fuck. 1308 01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:05,080 Come on, we got a lot of work to do. Let's go! 1309 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:07,640 It is our understanding... 1310 01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,240 that General Buford has been ordered to march the orphans... 1311 01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:12,040 to the border and formerly demand that... 1312 01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:15,160 Governor Jim Farley allow them passage into Idaho. 1313 01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:17,440 Clearly, Governor Farley is going to be the man of the hour. 1314 01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:27,840 Governor? 1315 01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:29,600 You really want to get down off that damn ledge there. 1316 01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:31,560 You don't want to be slipping or nothing. 1317 01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:33,840 I'm terrified of heights myself. 1318 01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:35,680 Shit. 1319 01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:39,440 Look at that commotion down there. News crews. 1320 01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:42,560 National Guard, crowds. 1321 01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:45,000 Yeah, I just realized something, I created that, 1322 01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:46,240 Well, you sure as hell did, Governor. 1323 01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:47,800 Now, why don't you just come down there off the edge... 1324 01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:49,640 - you know you could slip... - I love the edge. 1325 01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:51,480 That's where life is. 1326 01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:53,680 I know that about you, Governor. That's for sure. 1327 01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:56,400 And nothing ever happens in the middle, the edge. 1328 01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:57,920 That's where it all happens. 1329 01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,720 - You still fuck your wife? - What? 1330 01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:02,680 Yeah, after a few years. 1331 01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,920 It fades. The mating urge, I mean. 1332 01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:10,080 I haven't slept with Eleanor for three years. 1333 01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:11,720 We're all just animals, you know that, don't you? 1334 01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:14,200 Yeah, I know that Governor, but the White House... 1335 01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:15,320 - has Federal troops coming in... - Scratching for our... 1336 01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:18,080 little piece of turf. 1337 01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:19,720 Mating like animals for a few years... 1338 01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:23,440 all in the name of that thing they call romance and then it fades. 1339 01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:26,120 The males have to go looking somewhere else... 1340 01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:29,080 - to plant their seed. - Jesus. 1341 01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:32,520 Juan Pablo Farley! 1342 01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,240 John Paul in Spanish, named after the last Pope. 1343 01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:37,520 Governor, I don't think we want to get into that right now. 1344 01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:38,920 I mean, we got our National Guard... 1345 01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:41,320 keeping out about a million Juan Pablos right now. 1346 01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:43,560 Well, hell yes! That's because there is a million of them... 1347 01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:48,400 but one single Juan Pablo, one cute little kid. 1348 01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,520 One future leader that'll take our nation to greatness... 1349 01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:55,760 you're telling me we keep him out? My son? 1350 01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,760 No way! 1351 01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:08,680 - Jack? - Yes, Sir? 1352 01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:09,920 Who allowed the media in here? 1353 01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,200 Well, its better to have them on the inside of the tent pissing out... 1354 01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:15,160 than outside the tent pissing in. 1355 01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,680 All right, let's start at the beginning. 1356 01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,080 How the hell do we stop this thing? It's already gone too far. 1357 01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:26,640 We can order General Buford to withdraw his troops. 1358 01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:28,200 That's weakness. 1359 01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:32,600 Well, then we can wait for the deadline and attack. 1360 01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:35,480 - Madness. - Well, its one thing or the other. 1361 01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:38,000 I know which one I would choose. 1362 01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:42,320 Mr. President, the public hates weakness. 1363 01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:46,800 It shows up in all the polls. 1364 01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:48,040 Well, we've got another problem... 1365 01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:50,240 and you're not going to want to hear it. 1366 01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:51,560 When we set these deadlines... 1367 01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:54,720 we we're presuming that it wouldn't go this far. 1368 01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:56,920 If the shit hits the fan... 1369 01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:00,720 it's going to wind up spilling over into "All My Children." 1370 01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:02,800 For Christ sake! 1371 01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:11,160 Mel, I'm trying to find Vinnie. 1372 01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:14,840 He took the minicam and said he smelled a better story. 1373 01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,800 I got to go, they're movin out now. 1374 01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:31,760 Mel, you dimwitted schmuck, its me. Your favorite person in the world. 1375 01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:34,320 Vinnie! How are you doing, Vinnie? 1376 01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:38,000 Where are you? Palm Beach? Basking at Malibu? 1377 01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:39,160 I'm on the Idaho side of the border. 1378 01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,400 I'm about to send back the most important shots of the whole crisis. 1379 01:08:41,480 --> 01:08:42,480 "You know something, Vinnie... 1380 01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:44,240 I don't even know why I'm talking to you." 1381 01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:47,280 If I'm not mistaken, you we're fired. 1382 01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:49,040 Really? That's great. Because now that I'm a freelancer... 1383 01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:51,480 that means you have to pay me a whole lot of money for these shots. 1384 01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,720 Or hire me back with a raise. 1385 01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:57,000 Vinnie, there is zero probability of that. 1386 01:08:57,080 --> 01:08:59,880 Yeah? Take a look at this, my friend. 1387 01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:05,000 It's a cowboy boot. 1388 01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:06,760 What does that have to do with anything? 1389 01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:08,240 The gonzo has lost his mind. 1390 01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:11,040 Wait. Vinnie, it's Jim. 1391 01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:12,840 Move in on the shoulder patches. 1392 01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:15,160 "Excuse me, would you mind turning around?" 1393 01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:18,800 "Jim, you're on the verge of breaking the code, I can tell." 1394 01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:21,200 Since when have you ever seen cowboy boots on a guardsman... 1395 01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:22,920 except in that peace we had last year... 1396 01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:24,760 about that group that is in Montana? 1397 01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:26,960 Montana? What does that have to do with anything? 1398 01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:30,920 Look at the shoulder patches, Montana National Guard. 1399 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:35,640 "Told you, now look here. Hey guys, how are things in Fargo?" 1400 01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:37,400 We're from Bismarck. 1401 01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,040 North Dakota. 1402 01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:44,240 Jesus Christ, if the Governors from the other states... 1403 01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:47,000 are sending in their National Guards... 1404 01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:48,280 "News Net has just learned that... 1405 01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:51,200 America is on the brink of a Civil War." 1406 01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:54,360 "It is no longer just Idaho against the Federal Government." 1407 01:09:54,440 --> 01:09:55,640 "Our Producer, Vince Franco... 1408 01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:59,560 has just sent these images of troops from Montana, North Dakota... 1409 01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:03,240 and possibly other states that are prepared to fight." 1410 01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:18,520 "Sometimes the choice between war and peace... 1411 01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:20,640 between survival and destruction... 1412 01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:24,480 can hang on a gesture, a word, and a reflection." 1413 01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,240 "After any major crisis, we could always look back... 1414 01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:29,440 and find out that one moment that'd change it all." 1415 01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:32,320 "That instant when a line is drawn in the sand... 1416 01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:34,520 and there's no turning back." 1417 01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:47,720 Well, you're actions are unconstitutional and illegal... 1418 01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:50,560 I'm ordering you to remove this road block. 1419 01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:55,120 You posing for the cameras again, Chuck? 1420 01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,040 My orders come from the President. 1421 01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:58,440 What I got to do is ensure... 1422 01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:01,240 that these children are admitted into the state of Idaho. 1423 01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:04,240 Well, I have orders from the Governor of Idaho... 1424 01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:08,200 to see that that does not happen. 1425 01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:10,560 Well, you know there won't be no second chance, don't you? 1426 01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:13,080 Wrong again. Chuck. 1427 01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:19,280 This is your second chance to be first, into Kuwait. 1428 01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:24,600 How dare you? 1429 01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:31,960 Turn the little rag heads around. 1430 01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:37,200 By the way, you still owe me a case of whiskey... 1431 01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:41,960 from that card game in Sarajevo, you cheap son of a bitch. 1432 01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,440 What's going on? 1433 01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:55,800 Retreating is not an option! Fuck this fascist shit! 1434 01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:59,680 No! 1435 01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:01,080 Twenty hours to go, people. 1436 01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:05,000 Eleven states supporting Farley, and counting. 1437 01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:07,040 Mel, the difference is, is that this one here... 1438 01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:09,080 it has these three little exclamation marks. 1439 01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:11,280 There are no exclamation marks. 1440 01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:13,360 Well, I could just sort of have them fade off then... 1441 01:12:13,440 --> 01:12:15,520 - just right after this thing... - The country is falling apart... 1442 01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:16,920 we don't need exclamation marks, okay? 1443 01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:18,080 Mel, I got an even better idea. 1444 01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:21,120 A telethon like Jerry Lewis thing only with orphans and all that stuff? 1445 01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:23,280 - Is this a work in progress? - Mel, just think for one second... 1446 01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:25,560 its your own rule, "The Three Ts of Great News... 1447 01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:27,120 tits, tots and tears." 1448 01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:28,920 Christ, we got two "T"s right off the bat. 1449 01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,640 Then we get Helena to dress up one of those pushup things... 1450 01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:35,760 - It's a classic idea, Matthew. - Then we got the three "T"s! 1451 01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:37,280 - Twenty hours left, Mel. - Okay. 1452 01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:38,360 What's with Christina? 1453 01:12:38,440 --> 01:12:39,880 Nobody's going home tonight, we're ordering in. 1454 01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,200 I could swear she's having an affair with Farley. 1455 01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:44,760 God, I hope so, we can get some milage out of it. 1456 01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:45,880 Don't be ridiculous... 1457 01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:48,360 this is a news outfit not a gossip column. 1458 01:12:48,440 --> 01:12:50,520 Don't get pious with me, Alan. 1459 01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:52,320 We're talking about what makes people tick... 1460 01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:55,120 If Christina is fucking the Governor of Idaho... 1461 01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:57,200 it is nobody's business but Christina's! 1462 01:12:57,280 --> 01:13:00,200 What, Alan, what'd you say? 1463 01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:02,760 Christina is what? 1464 01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:05,400 Christina is fucking the Governor of Idaho? 1465 01:13:05,480 --> 01:13:06,800 I know where you're going with this thing, Mel. 1466 01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:08,320 - I don't believe this! - Mel, you're not going to turn... 1467 01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:10,880 that raving lunatic into a human interest story! 1468 01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:12,120 - It's Christina. - Jesus Christ. 1469 01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:17,200 Hello, Christina? 1470 01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:20,560 Yeah, no, you look a little pale, something new? What's the matter? 1471 01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:24,480 No, Christina. I don't need you on the Mexican border. 1472 01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:27,520 I need you where you are in Idaho. 1473 01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:30,400 And by the way, I, I can't commend you enough... 1474 01:13:30,480 --> 01:13:34,640 on the job you're doing with the Governor. 1475 01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:38,320 Who are these guys, they were'nt here an hour ago. 1476 01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:40,480 I got a battalion of Chinese out here. 1477 01:13:41,480 --> 01:13:44,040 Hundreds of them. 1478 01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:45,440 What Chinese? 1479 01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:48,960 If that's Vinnie, I don't care if he's got the ghost of Chairman Mao... 1480 01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:50,800 no overtime. 1481 01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,200 Have a nice day, Sandy. 1482 01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:57,440 Excuse me, who are you? Where you from? 1483 01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:59,440 Rhode Island. 1484 01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:00,600 "The Colonel says to tell you... 1485 01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:03,000 that we are the Rhode Island National Guard." 1486 01:14:03,080 --> 01:14:04,440 "That we are American Citizens... 1487 01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:06,720 who will do our duty in this conflict..." 1488 01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:14,480 Yeah? 1489 01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:18,200 Sir? Sir? 1490 01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:19,600 The Governor of Rhode Islands on News Net. 1491 01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:20,880 - What? - The Governor of Rhode Islands... 1492 01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:22,960 on News Net. 1493 01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:26,680 "Our actions in support of Governor Farley have been taken... 1494 01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:30,960 because of boat loads and planes of refugees from Mainland China... 1495 01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:33,720 who continue to descend on Rhode Island... 1496 01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:37,920 it is becoming increasingly difficult to cope and to govern." 1497 01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:41,080 "We therefore are supporting the position taken by Idaho... 1498 01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:42,880 in closing its borders... 1499 01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,320 and declaring that we too have the right to close our borders... 1500 01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,000 as we see fit..." 1501 01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:52,040 - You know what they say, Jim? - No, what do they say, sir? 1502 01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:57,520 Character is destiny. We all have our destinys. 1503 01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:00,840 And I have mine. 1504 01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:04,000 How soon are we going to be on the plane? 1505 01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,160 Because we got to get there by tonight, okay? 1506 01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:08,440 - God. - Christina. 1507 01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:10,080 What are you doing here? 1508 01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:12,480 - I need to talk to you. - There is nothing to talk about. 1509 01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:13,920 - Yes, there is. - What? 1510 01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:19,200 I want to know what it would take to make you change your mind. 1511 01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:23,400 - You couldn't begin... - Try me. 1512 01:15:23,480 --> 01:15:28,280 Anything. Just name it. 1513 01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:32,960 I want the man I fell in love with. 1514 01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:36,640 Terrific, I do just as you advise. 1515 01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:40,560 Dot every ethnic "I" and cross every racial "T"... 1516 01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:43,120 and what do we get, the goddamn Chinese... 1517 01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:45,080 our goddamn Chinese, for Christ sake. 1518 01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:47,360 Side with that prick Farley and his red necks? 1519 01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:49,120 Is this what it's all about? 1520 01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:51,360 Sitting at the bottom of the goddamn melting pot... 1521 01:15:51,440 --> 01:15:55,640 when it's all boiled away and there's nothing left but lumps! 1522 01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:58,320 Well, you can always renege on that deal with Kenya Nkomo... 1523 01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:00,840 and that nation of Islam group. 1524 01:16:00,920 --> 01:16:03,440 How many Electoral College votes do they control? 1525 01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:07,520 Sixty, seventy on a good day. 1526 01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:12,720 - How about the Koreans? - Well, twenty-six? 1527 01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:13,920 There's your answer. 1528 01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:15,760 Well, no, not necessarily. 1529 01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:18,680 We could let in a million more Koreans. 1530 01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:22,040 Jack up the Electoral Votes to eighty and bingo... 1531 01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:23,360 you've got them eating chop suey right out of your hand. 1532 01:16:26,480 --> 01:16:27,920 - Mr. President? - What? 1533 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:31,440 They've blown up the Statue of Liberty. 1534 01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:34,520 "At the height of the Reagan era, it was this... 1535 01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:36,440 a gala event that thrilled American... 1536 01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:39,960 when the refurbished Statue of Liberty was unveiled." 1537 01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:42,800 "And tonight, it is this." 1538 01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:45,720 "A shattered mass of steal and dreams." 1539 01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:46,920 "A group calling itself... 1540 01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,560 Patriots for Farley has claimed responsibility... 1541 01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:52,240 in a message phoned into News Net that reads... 1542 01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:55,560 We will no longer take in the huddled masses of the world..." 1543 01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:57,520 I need to know that I can trust you. 1544 01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:07,080 "Security around Americas most revered historic sights... 1545 01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:09,360 such as the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia... 1546 01:17:09,440 --> 01:17:11,800 has been heightened in the wage of the destruction of the Alamo..." 1547 01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:14,760 All right, turn that thing off. Everybody get back in their tents. 1548 01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:16,560 I don't think so, Major. 1549 01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:18,520 I don't think I heard you right. 1550 01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:22,920 "You heard me, Major. My sister lives in Idaho." 1551 01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,000 "I didn't get into this army to fight other Americans." 1552 01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:26,520 "Especially for this bullshit." 1553 01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:30,000 - "At ease, Sergeant." - "Fuck you, Sir!" 1554 01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:33,800 "No cameras! I said, no cameras!" 1555 01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:35,360 "Put it down, asshole!" 1556 01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:40,400 "He shot the Major! My God!" 1557 01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:45,000 "My God, they have shot the officer, killed the officer in charge." 1558 01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:47,120 - "They're shooting at others." - "Hey, get that camera!" 1559 01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,560 They killed them. They killed their own officer. 1560 01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:54,720 So, what do you expect, you can only push people so far. 1561 01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:56,000 What the fuck are you talk... 1562 01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:57,520 What, are you trying to justify murder here? 1563 01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:58,760 No. You know, fuck you, Manieski! 1564 01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:00,320 Push me, you motherfucker. 1565 01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:03,320 Mutiny? 1566 01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:07,120 But this is the army. The U.S. Army. 1567 01:18:09,760 --> 01:18:11,000 Shit. 1568 01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:16,440 You all obey orders now, you hear me? 1569 01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:18,440 Goddamn! 1570 01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:19,520 I think we should get out of here. 1571 01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:21,520 Not yet. 1572 01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:24,720 - Now? - Yeah. 1573 01:18:31,440 --> 01:18:36,120 What are you getting unravelled for now? 1574 01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:38,600 We're inside, not outside. 1575 01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:40,760 Mel, you just don't get it, do you? 1576 01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:44,440 Its all outside, now. Just get used to it. 1577 01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:47,760 There's desertions all over the place. 1578 01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:49,480 Well, tell Buford to get some movement... 1579 01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:50,920 anything to pull it all together. 1580 01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:52,680 Move some armored brigades out. 1581 01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:55,480 - We can't. - What do you mean, "We can't?" 1582 01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:58,520 Most of the tanks need spare parts for the turbine compressors. 1583 01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:00,080 So, what am I, a repair shop foreman? 1584 01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,040 Get the goddamn parts, fix them! 1585 01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:05,760 - We can't. - What are you telling me? 1586 01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:07,800 Hold on a minute. 1587 01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:09,000 Mr. President. 1588 01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:11,760 After the free-trade talks you signed with Taiwan... 1589 01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:16,000 we stopped making spare parts because they could make them cheaper. 1590 01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:20,240 And then you got into that argument, that dialogue with them... 1591 01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:23,760 and they stopped shipping us any military parts. 1592 01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:25,800 Let's look on the bright side, shall we? 1593 01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:29,920 I mean, after all the glass is really half full. 1594 01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:32,880 I mean, about those seventy Electoral College votes. 1595 01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:35,400 See, we don't really need the nation of Islam... 1596 01:19:35,480 --> 01:19:38,680 the Chinese, the Koreans, or hell, anybody. 1597 01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:42,240 What we do is take the Irish off birth control... 1598 01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:45,160 they will breed like rabbits. I know, they're my people. 1599 01:19:45,240 --> 01:19:46,640 They fuck like drunking minks... 1600 01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:52,200 we'll be up to eighty votes in no time at all, by God... 1601 01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:58,320 Line them up! 1602 01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:03,440 "And we're being ordered out of the area now." 1603 01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:05,200 "Military's ordered us away." 1604 01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:07,080 "They're setting up a firing squad right over here... 1605 01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:08,640 this is not happened before." 1606 01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:11,080 "They're going to execute three..." 1607 01:20:11,160 --> 01:20:13,320 - Hey, turn that camera off! - Hey, what are you doing? 1608 01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:14,440 Get the hell out of here! 1609 01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:15,880 What, you're not really going to shoot these guys, are you? 1610 01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:18,080 Who is this guy? Get this guy out of here! 1611 01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:19,560 Are you going to shoot these guys? 1612 01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:21,320 What, now you're going to shoot me? 1613 01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,200 You're not going to shoot me. You can't shoot me... 1614 01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:24,720 "we're on national television here, okay?" 1615 01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:26,480 "Come on, let these guys go..." 1616 01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:30,520 Get out of here! 1617 01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:37,680 "Go ahead! Kill your own! Kill America!" 1618 01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:39,520 "There's nothing left of it anyway!" 1619 01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:42,320 "Just a bunch a politicians and executives... 1620 01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:44,760 who hire people in places we don't live!" 1621 01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:46,200 "Are you going to kill for that?" 1622 01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:47,520 Squad ready! 1623 01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:49,000 Go ahead you bastards! 1624 01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:50,240 Aim. 1625 01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:52,880 "Fire!" 1626 01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:58,680 They shot them. Shit! What is this? 1627 01:20:58,760 --> 01:20:59,840 "Please, we're on the air." 1628 01:20:59,920 --> 01:21:01,000 "In other news... 1629 01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:03,320 - related to this..." - "Fuck this..." 1630 01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:05,640 - We're killing our own people! - Helena, we're on the air! 1631 01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:09,480 In other news, the White House has said... 1632 01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:11,040 that they will be making a statement... 1633 01:21:11,120 --> 01:21:13,920 Fuck you, Matthew, there is no other news! 1634 01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:15,800 About this, particular situation... 1635 01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:16,880 Get her off. 1636 01:21:16,960 --> 01:21:19,240 Our News Net correspondents are there. 1637 01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:23,360 We will bring you this when we hear it. 1638 01:21:23,440 --> 01:21:28,240 "And we have, I believe now, four correspondents..." 1639 01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:30,640 at the White House, as soon as... 1640 01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:34,320 - There is no other news! - As soon as we are able... 1641 01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:38,520 Shut up! Shut up, you little wanker! Shut up! 1642 01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:40,280 Don't you get it? There is no other news! 1643 01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:45,720 Shut up! 1644 01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:29,000 - This has to be your decision. - It was made a long time ago. 1645 01:22:29,080 --> 01:22:31,400 I just don't want you to feel like you have to... 1646 01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:42,640 Jimmy, I'm going to want to make a statement... 1647 01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:45,960 to the press in the morning, about an hour before the deadline. 1648 01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:54,840 Mr. Buchan. 1649 01:22:54,920 --> 01:22:57,840 I have some information that you might want to know about. 1650 01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:07,920 Mr. President. 1651 01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:15,800 Secession! 1652 01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:18,400 He's going to announce one hour before the deadline... 1653 01:23:18,480 --> 01:23:19,880 that Idaho's going to secede... 1654 01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:23,080 and start a whole new country like the South did in the Civil War? 1655 01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:25,040 Well, that's what this News Net guy said, yeah. 1656 01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:26,440 How the hell does he know? 1657 01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:28,120 Well, I'm not supposed to know this... 1658 01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:31,080 but it seems that one of their reporters is... 1659 01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:32,320 shacking up with Farley. 1660 01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:36,560 That son of a bitch. He's waging a public relations war! 1661 01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:37,840 You're damn right. 1662 01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:38,920 And if I know anything... 1663 01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:42,240 I know P.R. and that is what runs this country! 1664 01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:44,520 - Now, if Eisenhower we're... - Forget Eisenhower. 1665 01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:48,080 Yeah, but don't forget, you're on the line for those orphans. 1666 01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:51,560 Screw the orphans. 1667 01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:55,320 We went out on a limb for them, what did they get us in return? 1668 01:23:55,400 --> 01:24:00,160 Every damn ethnic group in the country crying the blues. 1669 01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:04,520 This isn't a time for Eisenhower. It's a time for Lincoln. 1670 01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:06,280 Lincoln took the bull by the horns... 1671 01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:09,120 when the South tried to secede gentlemen. 1672 01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:10,600 If Lincoln was here... 1673 01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:13,600 you think he'd let a bunch of orphans decide everything? 1674 01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:17,720 I've said it all along, action. 1675 01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:49,280 Jesus Christ, what now? 1676 01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:54,840 What the hell, nobody lives forever. 1677 01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:56,680 Let's get a story! 1678 01:24:58,120 --> 01:24:59,960 This one's for the Duke. 1679 01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:10,680 "This is Blaine Gorman reporting from just inside the Idaho border." 1680 01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:13,200 "The Federal troops have attacked!" 1681 01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:15,920 "There is war. The Second Civil War has just broken out... 1682 01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:17,560 two hours before the deadline." 1683 01:25:17,640 --> 01:25:20,440 "All around me are..." 1684 01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,840 "Blaine!" 1685 01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:31,640 "It's too late, Eddie. Come on." 1686 01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:42,160 I'm trying to remember the words to the pledge of allegiance. 1687 01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:48,400 I said it a million times when I was a kid. 1688 01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:51,880 Right now... 1689 01:25:58,120 --> 01:26:00,120 I can't seem to remember the words. 1690 01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:05,560 Jack? 1691 01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,560 What in God's name is this? 1692 01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:13,680 - Action. Not a reaction. - Why? Farley was going to quit! 1693 01:26:17,560 --> 01:26:18,560 What are you talking about? 1694 01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:20,560 You told me yourself and we had to take action... 1695 01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:22,560 before Farley made his secession speech. 1696 01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:28,080 I said succession, not secession. 1697 01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:31,720 He was going to step down. 1698 01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:32,800 He was going to announce... 1699 01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:34,160 that he was going to hold a convention... 1700 01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:38,560 to choose someone to succeed him, for Christ sake! 1701 01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:40,080 What are you yelling for? 1702 01:26:40,160 --> 01:26:43,040 He's going to marry Christina Fernandez... 1703 01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:45,080 and raise Mexican babies. 1704 01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:53,800 Well, the President's in his Lincoln mode right now... 1705 01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,320 and I think this would just confuse the shit out of him. 1706 01:26:56,400 --> 01:27:03,000 So, I think we had just better play this one out? 1707 01:27:57,360 --> 01:28:01,080 Alan, why isn't our logo on that shot, please? 1708 01:28:07,400 --> 01:28:12,560 I promised my wife. I'd be home to make breakfast. 1709 01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:26,800 "I read years ago that someone once said... 1710 01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:30,720 Those whom the gods destroy, they first make mad." 1711 01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:34,600 "Or maybe its just that we're an unfinished piece of art... 1712 01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:39,800 part tragedy, part comedy, part joy, part farce, a work in progress." 1713 01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:41,480 "But, for the moment... 1714 01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:44,360 we're still painting and writing in blood." 1715 01:28:44,440 --> 01:28:47,520 "And it always seems to come out of a lot of suffering." 1716 01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:52,480 "And someday, after it all dries, it will be magnificent." 1717 01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:57,600 "But until then, like all art, its messy as hell." 1718 01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:12,960 "Border has been restored throughout the country... 1719 01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:16,200 and within the secession of the military activities now a week old... 1720 01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:19,320 the former president appealed for calm." 1721 01:29:19,400 --> 01:29:21,520 "And in other news, the delayed broadcast... 1722 01:29:21,600 --> 01:29:24,960 last night of Susan Luci's final episode of "All My Children"... 1723 01:29:25,040 --> 01:29:27,640 in which Erica finally runs off with Antonio... 1724 01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:30,680 become the most watched television program in history..." 1725 01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:32,240 outdoing even the final episode of... 140397