All language subtitles for The West Wing (1999) - S03E04 - On the Day Before (1080p AMZN WEB-DL x265 ImE)_track3_[eng]

Previously on The West Wing...

What you'd see is Victor Campos
sitting courtside with Buckland.

If we're going to spend millions
of dollars on tax breaks

we should consider spending it

on people who don't have
millions of dollars?

The veto's an awfully big risk
to take

if you can't
promise anything.

Then the veto's
an awfully big risk to take.

TOBY:
We're here to recommend
that you threaten to veto

any repeal of
the estate tax.

( door closes )

DOLAN:
Good evening.

Are you Dolan?

Yes, and you're
Mr. Kobeleskie?

Koveleskie; with a "v."

We spoke on the phone.

As I said,
I'm the only one here right now.

That's okay.

There's usually
seven of us, but...
Yeah.

And I'm new.

It's the end
of my second week.

Do you know what to do?

I call the Deputy
Chief of Staff.

And you tell him the
Clerk of the House
had delivered a bill.

Then you bring it
to the President

for his signature
or veto.

Yeah.

Okay, here it is.

Thank you.

( door closes )

Yes, this is Mr. Dolan in
the Executive Clerk's office.

I'd like Mr. Lyman, please.

Why don't you
just wear a pre-tied tie?

'Cause it's not the same.

It looks the same.

The end of the night,
you want to be able

to pull it open
like Tony Bennett.

You think the tie
is the only thing standing

between you and Tony Bennett?

He's also shorter than I am.

Do you know when you're
bringing Buckland back here?

I was going to do it
before the entree.

You should do it
after the entree.

Why?

I don't know.

It's more polite.

Is there etiquette for this?
No.

Then why are you
bothering me?

( phone rings )

I need to talk to you
about something.

My phone's ringing.

Yeah.

You want to answer it?

Can we talk sometime tonight?

Maybe after
the cheese course?

Donna...

Josh Lyman.

Yes.

It's here.

Call around.

C.J.:
Quiz me.

TOBY:
I don't think I will.

You're a lively
conversationalist.

You won't have any problem...

Quiz me.

Who are you sitting next to?

Dr. Kary B. Mullis

recipient of the 1993
Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Born 1944, North Carolina.

He earned his bachelors degree
from Georgia Tech

and his Ph.D. in biochemistry
from my alma mater, UC Berkley.

If all he wants to talk about
is where he's from

where he went to school and what
his name is, you'll be fine.

C.J...

It's here?

Yeah.
Uh...

I'll meet you over there.

Toby...

It's here.
Yeah, I know.

Listen,
the social office called.

And?
Seven Republicans

who RSVP'd for the dinner
aren't going to show up.

Well, it happened.

Do you think we should...
What? Put it off?

Yeah.
No.

The President said
he was going to
veto the bill.

C.J. announced
he was going
to veto the bill.

He's going to
veto the bill.

There's an emergency meeting
of the Republican leadership.

What do you think
they're going to be
talking about?

I think they're planning
a surprise party.

They could have left
after the entree.
Yeah.

They're going to
miss hot pumpkin soup
with cheese gnocchi

and a chévre brioche.
Yeah.

That's a pretty big
price to pay

just to override my veto.

Maybe they think
they've got the votes.

Maybe something shifted
in the last couple of hours.

Leo...

They just sent the bill up

five minutes ago.

They know
you're going to veto.

Why schedule
an override vote right now?

So I'd think twice
about vetoing.

Well, that's what I thought,
too.

JOSH:
Good evening, Mr. President.

Where is this thing?

It's on its way.

You know what we're
starting with tonight?

No, sir.
Hot pumpkin soup

with cheese gnocchi

and a chévre brioche.

Was anything you just said food?

Good evening, Mr. President.

Good evening, sir.

It's on its way.

Seven Republicans who RSVP'd
for the dinner...
We know.

You know that there's
an emergency meeting

of the Republic leadership?

Yeah.

until after the entree.

Maybe they didn't know
about the chévre brioche.

Does anyone
want to consider waiting?

The constitution
gives them ten days.

If it's a show of
strength and resolve

you don't wait to
think about it.

And if they override the veto

it's neither strong
nor resolute.

They don't have the votes
to override.

Says you.
Says me, Josh,

the Office
of Political Liaison,

Legislative Liaison,

and the Minority Whip.

Sometimes it's like
I don't even need to be here.

Good evening, Mr. President.

C.J., you look very nice.

Thank you, sir. Is it here?

It's on its way.

I've been seated
next to a chemist tonight.

Mullis?

23 Nobel Prize winners

in the East Room.

I couldn't get Literature,
or, I don't know,

Peace or something?

What's her problem?

She thinks she won't be able

to make conversation
with the guy,

but she's wrong,

'cause she knows what year
he was born and his name.

They speak in combinations
of letters

that don't spell anything
but end up meaning table salt.

Mr. President?

Is it here?
Yes, sir.

Okay.

PRESIDENT:
Hey.

Good evening, Mr. President.

What's your name?

I'm Donald Dolan

from the Office
of the Executive Clerk, sir.

I don't think
the congressional leadership

holds their members
back on a weekend for a bluff.

I don't think
they're bluffing, Sam.

I'm sure of it.
Why would they
hold a vote

if they didn't think
they could override?

What do you got in the box,
Mr. Dolan?

Mr. President,
I have House Resolution 10:

The Death Tax
Elimination Act.

It bears the signatures

of both the Speaker of the House
and the President of the Senate

and is presented to you

by the Congress
of the United States

for your signature or veto.

Excuse me.

Leo, you think we lost some
votes we don't know about?

I think we're
about to find out.

successfully
overrides the veto

we're going
to look weak.

If the House successfully

overrides the veto, we are weak.

N-A-C-L, C.J.

I'm sorry, sir?

Table salt.

Send it back.

presented the Executive Clerk
with H.R. 10,

a bill repealing the estate tax,

which opponents sometimes call
the "death tax"

or the we're-coming-
to-get-your-children tax.

We call it a tax on fewer than
two percent of American estates

valued at over a million
dollars, the revenue from which

helps fund frivolous
Democratic spending programs

such as teaching people to read
and curing disease.

As promised,
the President vetoed the bill.

This was his first veto since
taking office 33 months ago.

Will there be a vote
to override tonight?

We don't know. Phil.

You know why
the Republican leadership's

meeting in an emergency session?

No.
They've held the
members back.

Would they have done that
if they didn't think

and override?
You'd have to ask them. Yeah?

Can you tell us
what you're wearing?

It's a dress.

C.J...

Diane Cook. Anything else?

Okay, I'll be in
for periodic briefings

and we'll try not
to keep you too late.

What's Sherri Wexler
doing here?

It's Friday night.

Local news. She was here
to cover the Nobel dinner.

Yeah, but now she's got to cover
a veto override in the House

and I'm saying this is a girl

who can barely cover
the Easter Egg hunt.

What, are you afraid

she's going to misspell
Diane Cook?

I need to get back
to dinner.

Do you happen to have a copy of
the Periodic Table of Elements?

No.
Okay.

Yeah.

Toby...
What did...

That was the Minority
Leader's office.

They've scheduled a vote.
When?

90 minutes.

An hour to debate,
then 20 minutes
to vote.

What do they think?

They think they
must be down.

How did we lose votes
since yesterday?

A low-in-the-polls President
tells chicken-ass Democrats

to vote against a tax cut
in an election cycle.

What could possibly
have gone wrong?

Ginger!
Yeah.

We need ten phone lines
in the Roosevelt Room

and some bodies
from Legislative Affairs.

We need the whip count.

The old whip count
doesn't do us any good.

We need a new one.

That's going to take a while.

They're all
sitting there.

Tell them to raise
their hands.

Bonnie?
Yeah.

who've headed
for National,
get them back.

Page Delta, United,
American.

Nobody gets on a plane.

They've scheduled
a vote?

They start to debate
in 90 minutes

and vote an hour after that.

We need a new
whip count.

Ginger, the phones,
the bodies

and keep an open line
to the Whip's office!

GINGER:
It's coming.

And get Leo out of the dinner.

Excuse me.

Charlie.

Yeah.

How's the dinner going?

Fine.

You and I should
talk, you know.

Yeah?

Look, I'm not allowed
to talk about it.

You know what
it is, right?

I get immunity.

And I'm not allowed
to talk about it.

Hey.

We're waiting
for a new whip count.

Listen, how ready is he
on the environment?

He's been studying.

I don't think I'll be able
to be in there with him.

I've got this in here.
He'll be all right.

Sometime after the
appetizer, before
the entree.

at the latest EPA
stats on child asthma.

All right?
Tell him.

He's got them.

There's three we
can't account for.

We think Kimball flipped.

If it was Kimball

he'd have taken half
his committee with him.

Toby, the phone
in front of you.

Newhouse?

Illinois 17 is safe.
He doesn't want anything.

What's happening?

There's a vote scheduled.
We don't have the count.

I don't think it's Newhouse.
I don't think it's Kimball.

It's Kimball.
I'm telling you

if it's Kimball,
we'd have six...

He's on the phone right now.

Congressman,
this is Leo McGarry.

Please come to the White House
right away.

Donna!

I'm right here.

Where do you think...

My tie's falling apart.

Give me that.

It's not going to be...

You're not going to be
Tom Jones tonight.

Tony Bennett.

The Speaker's
calling a vote?

Yeah.

Sam's not going to be able

to be in the Buckland
meeting with you.

I'll be all right.

He wanted to make sure

you looked at
the new EPA stats
on child asthma.

I got them.

Can I talk to you
about something personal?

Can it wait
a little bit?

Yeah.

How's it look?

Good.

Maybe he wants
the compromise
back on the table?

He's ready to settle for
a $10 million exemption

instead of a five million.

Compromising with
a $10 million exemption--

here's a conversation
my father never had.

Leo...

You're going to have
to give away something,

but don't give
away the store.

Yeah?

Nancy McNally's
in your office.

What's going on?

Something's happened.

What's going on?

A bomb went off
outside a cafe

on Ben Yehuda in Jerusalem.

It was a suicide bomber.

He detonated explosives
strapped to his body.

How bad is it?

Ten people
were killed right away.

It looks about 125 injured--
mostly young adults.

Leo, two of the dead
were American students.

We think they
may have been targeted.

All right.

Margaret, I'll be
in the situation room.

Yeah.

Leo...
Yeah.

The INP thinks

they have traces of C-4.

Did this guy have a car
strapped to his chest?

MAN:
Ten-hut.

Have the parents been notified?

The Consul General
called the parents.

Has anyone
claimed responsibility?

Not yet.

In the next hour, everyone
will claim responsibility.

Nancy, hasn't State issued
travel warnings since Bekaa?

They were there
for a soccer match.

The Americans were targeted?

Initial
eyewitness accounts

indicate the bomber turned left

to go into the nightclub

then stopped
when he saw two people

wearing U.S. delegation
sweatshirts

with insignias
and flags.

They were brothers--

Ariel and Noah Levy.

He walked up to them
and detonated.

We know this?

These are the facts

as relayed by the embassy RSO
at the scene.

LEO:
And, Mr. President?

They think they've
found traces of C-4.

You think
there's an Afghan connection?

Or even Iran.

We'll know more
when the FBI attache

gives a forensic
analysis.

How long?

NANCY:
45 minutes,
an hour.

I'm going to want

some temperature-cooling
options.

Thank you, sir.
Yes, sir.

Sodium comes from the
English word "soda,"

so wouldn't it make sense
for the periodic symbol

to be somehow related to that?

No, because "Na" comes
from the Latin word "natrium."

What does "natrium" mean?

It means "sodium."

Come on in.

I'm pretty well briefed.

Is it on the news yet?

Yeah.

They were brothers.

What were
they doing there?

A soccer match.

we think
they were intentional targets?

Not yet, and we can't
release their names.

The Levys just lost their sons.

I'll take the heat
for a few hours.

The President'll call them?
Yeah.

Can I tell them
the President's

been in touch
with the Prime Minister?

The Israelis are going to
do what they're going to do,

so ratchet down
expectations.

Anything else?
No.

I'm going to get in there.

Thank you.

Charlie.

Yeah?

Listen, I wanted to...

I can't talk about it, C.J.

Word is, you're...

Say a guy your age
was offered a "Get
Out of Jail Free" card.

Nobody's going to jail.

But everybody's
getting called

and everybody's
getting lawyers

and if you
took immunity...

I'd still need a lawyer.

For a few hours,
not 100 hours.

Look...

I know what you're thinking.

I really
can't talk about it.

Okay. I'm going to
change my clothes.

I'll watch.

No.

What the hell's going on?

We're down four votes.

I thought it was one.

Three of our guys

are on airplanes,
and out of reach.

Why?

That's where
they wanted to be.

Where's Kimball?

He's on his way.

Toby's waiting for him.

Josh.
Is he in there?

Yeah.

I got to go.

Did you look at the
child asthma stats?

Yeah.

Governor.

Josh,
good to see you.

Sorry to interrupt
dinner.

You know Pam Wachtel

and Jonathan.

I do. Good to see you guys.

Anybody need a drink,
or anything?

I'm fine.
No.

Thanks, Donna.

( clearing throat )

So, Governor,
the president's
a tree-hugger?

"If you want to save
a spotted owl

"vote for Bartlet.

"If you want to save a job

vote for someone else"?

I never said that either.

No, she did, in
the Indianapolis
Post-Dispatch.

You weren't misquoted, right?

No.

Okay, listen.

I wouldn't know a spotted owl

if he walked up
and introduced himself,

but I do know the President's
a pro-business pragmatist

who has created
3.8 million new jobs.

Tell that to an unemployed
steelworker in Indiana

'cause he's working
three of those jobs

the President created
just to pay the mortgage.

isn't because
of the environment.

Of course it is.
Jonathan...

When the president
raised standards

and closed down industrial
plants across the Midwest.

that says if we hadn't passed
the Clean Air Act

two million more people
would have suffered

from heart disease, bronchitis,
respiratory...

how many healthy people we've
got on the unemployment line?

The EPA stats
on child asthma alone...

BUCKLAND:
I don't want to talk
about child asthma.

Neither does Josh.

Will the two of you
excuse us, please?

Yes, sir.

It doesn't destroy jobs, Jack,
it creates them.

There's a $400 billion
worldwide market

in creating technologies
that are environmentally safe.

You think
a 55-year-old steelworker's

going to get a job
building hybrid engines?

Ask me

what you want to know.

You invited Victor Campos
to Indiana.

Yeah.

Pam's quote
in the Post-Dispatch...

Yeah.

Jack, are you going to challenge
the President in the primary?

Let's have that drink.

Took you long enough.

I was held up.

And I'm not about to be.

We can win this
without you.

I've got four proxies
in my pocket

so you can't do anything
without me.

Don't worry about it--
I came with a shopping list.

How does a Democrat from
Tennessee farm country

where we championed
electrification,

the Tennessee Valley
Authority, farm
safety nets, the...

how do you do this to
a Democratic president?

Estate tax
costs 65 cents on the dollar.

Why would anyone
want to build up...?

That's not my point.

Well, what's the point?

You were with us yesterday

and now you're
holding us hostage.

I've got some things
I'd like to talk about

and I feel I'm in a fairly
strong negotiating position.

What?

Grazing fees.
Grazing fees?

Yeah.
Grazing fees.

Let's go;
we're running out of time.

I can't confirm the names
of any Americans killed. Arthur?

Is the White House
ready to call the
cease-fire a failure?

The parties themselves
negotiated the terms

of the cease fire,
and the government

of the United States

remains committed
to the peace process.

C.J., what do you
have to...?

I like to call on people,
Sherri.

What do you have to say
to the people of Dallas

who have just lost
one of their native sons

to this tragedy?

Well, as I said earlier

we can't confirm or
deny the identities

of any American victims

of the bombing.

How is it that
the United States government,

supported by
the citizens of Dallas,

knows less than CNN, AP,
and Israeli TV?

I think the citizens of Dallas
will understand

that the 1974 Privacy Act

precludes me
from discussing those details

until the family
gives its consent. Mark?

C.J., since two Americans
were killed,

is the U.S. considering
retaliating themselves?

We're still investigating
the circumstances.

In the meantime,
we continue to urge all parties

to demonstrate restraint. Phil.

It was a Palestinian
splinter group

called the Palestine
Freedom Front.

Agency and FBI concur?

Yeah.

And we shouldn't be looking
outside the box.

Hutchinson talked with the
Israeli Foreign Minister

and the Interior
Minister.

It was an
isolated incident.

Retaliation for Bekaa?

Yeah.

If that's the case

I want to hear it
from Arafat's mouth.

I want to hear it from him.

A denunciation of violence.

I want to see security
cooperation with the Israelis.

We'll have the U.N.
Secretary General

put the screws to the Chairman

and Scorza can be at the
Prime Minister's office.

Maybe, maybe, maybe
we can get Israel

to hold their fire tonight.

Would you?

No.

who graze their sheep and cattle
on Federal lands.

Yes, and they do it
for about one-tenth
of market value.

Mr. Seaborn...
Based on an
archaic formula

set by Congress
30 years ago.

There was cattle 30 years ago.

We're not trying to
stick it to ranchers.

We want to raise
grazing fees

and use the money
to restore streams,

watersheds...

Yes. Yes.
...fish and
wildlife,

habitats that have
been destroyed
by over...

And how do ranchers put food
on their tables?

And yours, for that matter?

It's cheaper for cattle
to graze on Federal lands

than to feed
a young basset hound.

And it's easier to sell out
the western states,

where you're not going
to win anyway,

than to help cattlemen
whose prices are plummeting.

If you look
at the range land...

I don't want to look

at the range land anymore.

A one-year moratorium.

The President waits a year

before he tries
to raise the fees?

One year.
Go vote.

No.

I've got more.

Really?

A GAO review

of the deficiencies
in the Freedom to Farm Act

and the need for a stronger
farm safety net,

administration support
for an increase

in production
flexibility contracts,

and a promise...

Donna.

Yeah?

I need Josh.

He's still in with...

Yeah, tell him
we're going to need more time.

( knocking )

Excuse me,

Governor, I'm sorry. Josh?

Yeah?

Tell him to call
the Minority Leader's office.

Tell him we need
to stage an exhibition.

There's a rule
against exhibitions

He'll have one of our members
bring a poster on the floor,

another one of our members
will object

and the Chair has to rule,

followed by a vote
of the full House,

and that'll buy 20 minutes.

Okay.

So...

you're polling
at slightly less

than five percent
in Iowa.

After hearing
your issue profile

that number actually goes down.

39% of caucus-goers say

they wouldn't even consider
voting for you.

"Shares our values"? 18%.

Did you know that?

No.

In New Hampshire,
you got three percent.

"Shares our values," 14%.

After hearing your profile,
41% think you're a Republican.

Did you know that?

No.

South Dakota,
three percent;

Georgia,
eight percent;

New York,
seven percent.

Did you know
any of that?

No.

The reason why you didn't know,
Jack,

to do out-of-state
polling right now.

So, you helped me out.

I did.
Now with those

kinds of numbers
and no kind of money,

how can you expect
to run a campaign?

Where were
the President's numbers?

And what kind of money
did he have

when he challenged...?

He wasn't challenging
a sitting president,

and nobody challenges
a sitting president in a primary

by going to his right.

This isn't a serious challenge
you're contemplating,

Well, if it isn't
a serious challenge

what are you doing
in this room?

Your health!

( chuckles )

We don't like your health.

You're a Heisman Trophy-winning
football player,

a U.S. Olympian,

you still run

the New York Marathon

and every time
we see B-roll of you

tossing a ball around
at the local Boys' Club

the President's got to campaign
in an oxygen tent.

( chuckles )

Well, it sounds like a bit
of a serious challenge.

It sounds like I need
to be listened to.

You want to see me
do some push-ups?

Yeah. That's what I want.

What do we know?

Keyhole sees 12 Israeli F-15s
on the tarmac

at Hatzerim Air Base.

What are they armed with?

Eight AIM sidewinders.

Pilots are
in the cockpits.
We see heat plumes.

We also got ten Douglas
A.H. Apache Longbows

airborne from Betzet.

They're armed
with Hellfires.

Any chance
it's a training exercise?

It's always a training exercise.

What do we think
are the targets?

It looks like the Abu Sneni Bab

and al-Sheikh neighborhoods
in Hebron,

a police station in Ramallah
and Al-Watan,

which is the newspaper
of Hamas,

but we could be wrong
about all of that.

Arab reaction?

Egypt will call
for an immediate Arab summit

if Israel retaliates.

Nancy, what about the C-4?

Good, 'cause this is
what's interesting.

The Agency indicates that the
bomber had ties to Abdul Mujeeb.

Really?

Well, that may be our way out.

All right, that may be it.

Sally, I need to
see the President.

Yes, sir.

The networks want to take you
live the next time you brief.

Is that okay?

Yeah.
Sherri Wexler is

about to do her stand-up.

The station can't
send over someone

who knows what
they're doing?

She thinks she knows
what she's doing.

I thought you showed great
restraint in there before.

Walk softly...

and do something else.

Carry a big stick.

Yeah.
Walk softly.

Walk around.

SHERRI:
...with the White House not able
to confirm or deny at this point

the names of the Americans

or, in fact, if any Americans
were involved at all.

In the meantime,
debate continues on Capitol Hill

over the President's veto
of the legislation

repealing the estate tax.

So, it's
a tense night here, Alan,

as staffers and press
burn the midnight oil.

ALAN:
Sherri, going back

to the suicide bomber,

you say the White House
can't confirm

whether Americans were involved,
yet other news outlets...

Yes. I should say
the Press Secretary, C.J. Cregg

can't confirm if Americans
were involved.

It's not clear
the extent to which

C.J.'s in the loop on this.

I can tell you, she's changed
her clothes several times

throughout the evening.

ALAN:
I'm sorry, Sherri, say again?

I say, C. J. Cregg's known to be
a bit of a clothes horse

and perhaps she's missed
some information

during one
of her wardrobe changes.

( clicks )

Well...

turns out she did know
what she was doing.

You want me
to take care of it?

I'll take care of it.

Hey, Margaret.

He'll be here
in just a minute.

( sighs )

Be back in a second.

Charlie?

I can't talk about it.

You don't know what
I was going to say.

Immunity?

Yeah.

I could have been talking
about a flu vaccine.

That's immunization.

Yeah.

Come on.

So, what's
happening in there?

( Toby sighs )

We've given him
a one-year moratorium

on grazing fees,
support for an increase

in the production
flexibility contracts,

a promise not to lower

agricultural export subsidies.

We're up
to a tougher FDA crackdown

on the illegal use
of antibiotics in milk.

Are you kid...?

How's Buckland?

JOSH:
He wants a seat

at the table,
that's for sure.

TOBY:
How far do we go
with these guys?

Can I offer Buckland...?

No.
Well, he's going to
keep mouthing off...

I don't care, take him out!

Enough's enough.

First, Victor Campos

then Kimball
and his band of four

then Buckland?

Let him know
we're going to put it out

he tried to blackmail
the President

unless he caved to industry
on clean air, clean water,

climate control,
and worker safety.

Emphasize
worker safety.

That'll get him in good
with the unions.

Everyone will know
the leak came from us.

Yeah.

LEO:
You know what?

Bill Russell was getting
eaten alive

'cause they could never get him
to throw an elbow.

He didn't want to do it.

So, Red Auerbach told him
to do it one time.

"Throw an elbow
in a nationally televised game.

You'll never have
to do it again."

You bet your ass they'll know
the leak came from us.

Toby, whatever's on
the table in there...

take it or leave it.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Thanks, Leo.

Hang on.

What?

Listen...

Yeah?

What's on the table,
don't you...?

Grazing fees,
farm nets, milk subsidies--

what's on the table.

Aren't they the same things

a farm district Republican
would want?

Yeah.

Let's offer it to them.

Offer it to who?

Republicans. Royce.

He'll carry six Republicans.
That'll be seven votes.

First off, when Kimball
and his four see

we're going to win,
they'll hop onboard,

so we've got a bigger margin.

Second, C.J. can make
a big deal out of
bipartisanship,

but mostly...
We threw an elbow.

On national TV.

We were talking about
a tougher FDA crackdown

on illegal uses of
antibiotics in milk,

such as excess
dosages of...

No.

Well, I wouldn't be
so quick to say no.

I think I will.

No to the FDA crackdown?

No to everything.

I mean no to
the FDA crackdown,

no to lower
agricultural subsidies,

no to the production

flexibility
contracts,

no to the GAO review,

and the President
will seek to raise
the grazing fees

at any time he sees fit.

We're going to need the room.

Would you mind, Congressman?

Well...

SAM:
Congressman?

We're a little pressed for time.

Good luck.

Thank you very much.

Ginger...

we need Congressman
Robert Royce,

Republican

of Pennsylvania, on the phone.

( sighing ):
Okay, well...

now this really needs to work.

Yeah.

Hey.

How you feeling?

You shouldn't get
too close.

It's all right.

I'm like a petri dish over here.

Yeah, you're
pretty gross.

How's the dinner?

It's good... but...

a suicide bomber

got two American
kids in Jerusalem.

No.

Yeah.

Were they targeted?

We're pretty sure.

We got some things going.

How old were they?

19 and 21.

They were brothers.

You speak to Zoey today?

No.

I thought the deal was
she calls once a day.

She calls most days.

I want her to call every day.

All right.

All right.

You need anything?

No.

Okay.

We can connect the bomber
to Abdul Mujeeb.

How?

and other chemicals
that are tagged.

So, you think I get
on the phone with
the Chairman and...

I think you get
on the phone

and I think you tell them
to hand Abdul Mujeeb over

to the Israelis.

You remind him
Israeli Secret Police

are going to kill
him anyway.

It's going to take
more than that.

If it does, you tell...

Congress?
Yeah.

We'll withhold the
$100 million in NGO aid

if they don't
hand him over.

Yeah.

And you think
handing him over

puts the pin back
in the grenade?

For a day.

For a day?

Yeah.

All right.
Set up the call.

Thank you, Mr. President.

BUCKLAND:
This isn't...

Hang on.
Wait.

I'm the Governor
of Indiana.
You hang on.

You're saying I
should get out

of the race, 'cause
I'm too healthy?

And you're telling me I'm
making a flaky argument?

I didn't say...
How am I supposed
to keep

advocating the issues
that I care about

if I don't get into
the race for a while?

You...
( knock at door )

( door opens )

I'm so sorry, Josh.

Yeah.

All right, tell him
to have a Democrat

call for a
journal vote.
Okay.

the full House has to
approve the previous
day's floor activity.

Okay.

After that, he can have
a member try to attach

an amendment to
the override vote.

What kind of amendment?

Doesn't matter.

"To qualify for the
estate tax repeal

the estates have to
have Astroturf."

And still,
it's hard to figure

why Congress can't get
anything done.

I'm sorry.

No, that's all right.

There's a lot going on
here tonight.

I meant... I'm sorry.

You came through for us
in Indiana.

Really, the whole Midwest.

You would have been great
in the number two spot.

And it was me as much
as anyone pushing Hoynes.

You couldn't win
without Hoynes.

Yeah.

I'm term-limited, Josh,

and I still have
things I want to say.

Listen, I have instructions
to, you know...

To bust me.

Yeah.

If I could convince Leo
to put you on the short list,

you think you could say
what you want to say?

You can't offer me quid pro quo.
It's against the law.

I know, but I can tell you
that Carl Reed wants

to accept a position at Shearson

and he'll be leaving
in about three months.

You guys are that afraid
of my health, huh?

Well, we're afraid
of everything.

( laughs )

But no kidding,
Jack, I-I...

I think you'd make
an interesting nominee

for Labor Secretary.

So, if I could
convince Leo...

I'm going to go
see if there's
any dessert left.

Thank you, Governor.

You're offering a one-year
moratorium on grazing fees...

Yeah.
...a GAO review
of the need

for a stronger
farm safety net...

Yeah.
...a promise
not to lower

agricultural
export subsidies...
Yeah.

...and a tougher FDA
crackdown on what?

The illegal use
of antibiotics in milk.

In exchange for my vote
to sustain the veto?

And the six that come with you.

And this is the exact
same deal you were
offering to Kimball.

Yes.
And he was ready
to take it?

Yes.

I don't want it.

Congressman,
you've been uneasy

about the estate tax
from the beginning.

That's right, I have.

And yet, the White House
did what it always does.

It went to the extreme
flank of its own party.

Which meant more
arm-wrestling,
more deal-making.

God knows how many
billions wasted in
pork barrel promises.

What are you saying?

That the moderates
get shut out.

Let me tell you something.

The idea of repealing
the estate tax

makes me embarrassed
to be a Republican.

We used to be about
the sensible center

about fiscal discipline.

( snorts ):
Of course, this thing
should be vetoed.

It was a Republican named
Oliver Wendell Homes who said

"Taxes are the price we pay
for a civilized society."

Are you saying...?

Don't target me

for defeat.

I'm vulnerable in my district.

The DNC will run
a conservative
Democrat.

If he's elected,
he won't even be

photographed with
the President

much less vote
with him.

Take a look around
at all the Democrats

running from you
right now.

Do you even know
who your friends are anymore?

If we do our best

to see that you're not
seriously challenged...?

You have seven new votes
tonight.

Oh, and, uh...

throw in the milk thing.

Go vote, Congressman.

You're home.

You? Get in here.

Take the immunity.

I'm not allowed...

Take it.

Is anyone else taking it?

No one else is being
offered it.

Would they take
it if they were?

Charlie, who the hell knows
what's going to happen

with this prosecution?

It's a partisan prosecution.

You could go broke.

You could be barred
from law school.

Doesn't immunity
imply guilt?

Not necessarily.
And if someone
in my position

took a deal to
protect himself...

what would that person
be saying to his employer?

That they were wrong
to trust him.

Don't be a hero.

Why not?

I'll stay with my team.

People should stop trying
to get me not to do that.

( knock at door )

( door opens )

MARGARET:
Leo?

Anyway, I'm not
supposed to
talk about it.

Yeah, okay.

Nancy.

Thanks.

Palestinian police arrested
Mujeeb at his residence in Gaza.

Margaret?

Yeah?

Get me C.J. on the phone.

And see if there's still
any food over there.

but you should
really learn how
to tie a bow tie.

Or you could.

Yeah, but that doesn't
seem that likely, right?

You can go home.

I'll stick around.

You wanted
to talk to me

about something before.

Yeah.

Listen...

I was fixed up

on a blind date
a few nights ago.

When?

A few nights ago.

And Ainsley fixed us up.

He's a Republican lawyer
working for Ways and Means

but he was being transferred.

And it turns out now

he's on Government
Oversight, so...

You can't see
him anymore.

You can't see
him anymore.

I know that.

It was just that night?

Yeah.

No...

We got together
the next night again.

We shouldn't have.

Yeah.

Look, when we got together
the first time...

You just thought he was
with Ways and Means

who I was battling
on the estate tax.

I'm sorry.
Did any reporters
see you?

No.
The second night?

No.

All right.

You can go home.

The President wants you
in five minutes.

Thanks.

REPORTERS:
C.J.!
Phil.

Did the President urge

the Chairman to hand
over Abdul Mujeed?

As I said,
the President urged

the parties to abide
by the terms of the cease fire.

And he reiterated
the United States' commitment

REPORTERS:
C.J.!
Katie.

C.J., an AP report
out of Gaza

says the President
threatened to withhold

more than $100 million
to Palestinian NGOs

unless the Chairman
handed over Mujeeb.

Well, I'm not
going to get

into the details
of the diplomatic exchange.

I'm told at this moment,
the House is getting ready

to vote on the override
of the President's veto

and I know you'll all want
to cover that.

Since this is
the President's first veto

I thought it might be helpful
if we brushed up on the rules.

Sherri, can you tell us
how many votes it takes

How many votes does it take
to override, Sherri?

A majority.
Actually, it takes
two-thirds.

Yes, a two-thirds majority.

Yeah, 290.

And how many votes
does it take to sustain?

That should be easy.

You just subtract 290
from the total number

of members in the House
and add one.

How many people sit

in the House
of Representatives, Sherri?

Okay, maybe you can get
the notes from a classmate.

That's all, guys.
I'll see you in the morning.

REPORTER:
Thank you, C.J.

They're meeting
in the Oval Office.

Thanks.

SHERRI:
C.J.?

Hey.

That was totally
uncalled for.

Yeah?

My competitors are going
to show that tape.

Every local station
in town...

That thing's going out
to 154 affiliates.

I changed my clothes
because I didn't think

it was appropriate to
talk about the death
of two teenagers

while wearing a
ball gown, and
you knew that,

because you're stupid,
but you're not stupid.
Know what I'm saying?

Security's going to take
your press credentials.

You call my office
every day, and I'll

decide if you get
into the room.

on Pebble Beach, you
can do your stand-ups

One more word out
of your mouth, and
every local station

in town but yours
gets an exclusive
with the President.

Hunting season
on me is over.

And the chemical
abbreviation for
table salt is NaCl.

You could say...

You could say, "On behalf
of Abbey and myself

"please accept our
deepest condolences.

Your sons' lives
were not lost in vain."

What I meant was
that this further calls

national attention
to the peace process.

"Though tragic, this tragedy
further calls national attention

to this... alarming,
escalating conflict."

Is there anything to "they went
there in the spirit of peace"?

The spirit of peace
at a soccer match?

Hope of Israeli and Palestinian
children playing together and...

JOSH:
Studying together,
discovering each others world's

This guy at the dinner

he told me something
I didn't know.

On Yom Kippur,
you ask forgiveness

for sins against God

but on the day
before Yom Kippur

you ask forgiveness
for sins against people.

Did you know that?

Yeah.

It's called, uh...
I can't remember.

It's Erev.

Erev Yom Kippur.

You can't ask forgiveness of God

until you've asked forgiveness
of people on the day before.

( knock on door, door opens )

Mr. President?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to do
this alone.

Have a good night,
everybody.

ALL:
Thank you, Mr. President.

( sighs )

Mr. and Mrs. Levy,
this is Jed Bartlet.

I have three children.

I really don't know what to say.