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Previously on The West Wing:
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C.J. Cregg was getting threats.
We put an agent on her.
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He walked into the middle
of an armed robbery.
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Crime.
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Boy, I don't know.
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Think the strike against me is nobody
likes the smartest kid in the class?
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It's not a strike
unless you watch it sail by.
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You're weak, you're liberal.
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And you can't be trusted.
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Horton Wilde's had a heart attack.
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The Democrats have nominated someone
who's had three heart attacks?
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If you're wondering:
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"Crime. Boy, I don't know," is
when I decided to kick your ass.
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- A crisis of confidence?
- Yeah.
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- I don't understand.
- I was on the helicopter...
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...and he's second guessing himself.
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He's revising answers in his head...
I know.
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When I left him he was ready.
I don't understand.
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- He's ready. You can see it.
- Not this morning.
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This isn't supposed
to happen with you.
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- Christians?
- Yes.
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What happened
to"steady as she goes"?
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A smart guy said presidential
elections are won and lost...
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...on 1 square foot of real estate.
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- Up here.
- Well, that's great.
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- Yeah.
- We still got a day before he debates.
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We'll go back to school.
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I think that's just gonna
pour gas on the problem.
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- What do you wanna do?
- We got a two-minute drill.
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I think whatever answers he gives,
we should just say:
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"That's terrific, Mr. President."
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- What's the point of the drill?
- We got five scheduled before tomorrow.
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- We're using one for this.
- This is crazy. I don't believe this.
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-"That's terrific, Mr. President."
- All right.
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- Leo.
- Listen, we're gonna do something...
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...in the drill right now.
- What?
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- No notes, just positive reinforcement.
- Why?
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He has a problem this morning.
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All right. Leo, I've got a 9:30 flight.
I'll be there sometime after lunch.
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- You can't do this with a phone call?
- Oh, God, I don't know.
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The man died. There's a widow.
We're asking them to pack.
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I'm an hour away in a rental car.
We didn't make it personal...
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- All right. I just need you in San Diego.
- Josh.
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We're still looking for 10 words.
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- I'm still looking for them too.
- Ten words, 10 words. Let's go.
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We're gonna expand the field.
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No notes during this drill.
That's you too.
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- What's that?
- No notes during the drill.
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- Why?
- He's in his head.
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- There's important feedback in the drills.
- We've got four more.
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- We've got one on the plane.
- When's Debbie starting?
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The president sent her to the Maxwell
School for a three-day crash course.
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You got a $ 10 bill
on your clipboard.
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- Yeah, I owe it to someone.
- You can all go on in.
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Thank you.
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- Ten words.
- We don't have them yet, Mr. President.
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All right, let's do a drill.
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Despite a rise in tension, you've held
up funding for a missile defense shield.
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Too much money for too little protection.
Next.
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You oppose a system that would
offer children a choice of schools.
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That would offer some
a choice of schools.
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I haven't given up on better
schools for everybody.
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Vouchers drain
money from that goal.
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This next question's on capital
punishment, which you oppose.
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If your daughter was
raped and murdered...
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...would you wanna see the man
responsible put to death?
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It's important to understand the
president doesn't make that decision.
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Though he appoints
Supreme Court justices who do so.
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Why...? Any...
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All right.
I'm not gonna say that.
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I'll just go right to...
No, I don't.
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I think you know
that I'm opposed...
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Let's not do that.
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I haven't seen any evidence
that it's a deterrent.
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And there are more effective...
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- In my state...
- Oh, my God.
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What?
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You weren't kidding.
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What's the matter with you?
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When I left you... I just mentioned
your daughter being murdered.
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And you're giving us an answer that's
not only soporific, it's barely human.
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Yes, you'd wanna see him put to death.
You'd want it to be cruel and unusual.
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Which is why it's a good idea
that fathers of murder victims...
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...don't have legal rights
in these situations.
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Now we're going
back to school.
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Let's go, 10 bucks.
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Crisis of confidence.
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You did 1 square foot
of real estate?
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- Yes, I did.
- Ten bucks for you.
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And you, you big bear, come to me.
I'm gonna kiss you right on the mouth.
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- Ten bucks.
- Anything else, sir.
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- Work hard.
- Thank you, sir.
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- Thank you.
- Thank you, Mr. President.
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- Have a safe flight.
- I'll see you in San Diego.
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Sorry about that.
It was the president's idea.
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He bet us you couldn't stay
quiet if he gave a bad answer.
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- What?
- He's ready.
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- Excuse me.
- Hang on one second.
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Can he do Inside Politics tomorrow?
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He can do it on tape, but we're
downtown at 5. Let me talk to them.
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- Yes.
- I'm Sam Seaborn.
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I'm here to see William Bailey.
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Okay.
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Hey, William Bailey.
Bill Bailey. I just got that.
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Mention it to him. He's probably
never heard that reference.
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- It's Will.
-"Merry Christmas...
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...you old Building and Loan."
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That's George Bailey.
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Well, why don't we get him.
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- Will!
- Will?
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Good to see you.
Be with you in a second.
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Darren and Sharon,
where are you?
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Good, but don't use
the words"waiting period."
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The point was to support a stricter
waiting period for handguns.
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Waiting period sounds
like an inconvenience.
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Keeping guns away from felons
is a national necessity.
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Have you called
on the ballot initiatives?
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- Hi.
- Hi. Sam Seaborn.
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Sure. Will Bailey.
You wanna come inside?
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- Will, you got like, two minutes.
- Yeah.
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There's a press conference.
I've been trying to study a little.
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I met your assistant.
She's funny.
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She's attractive.
I hope I'm not inappropriate.
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I have an assistant?
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- Well, somebody who works here.
- Yeah.
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First things first. I bring the condolences
of the White House on your loss.
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On Mrs. Wilde's loss, I should say.
Everybody's.
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And you ran a strong campaign
for the candidate. You should be proud.
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Thank you.
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- You know why I came here?
- It's not to tell me...
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...I ran a strong campaign
and should be proud.
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- It's not, though you did and you should.
- And I will once it's over.
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- It's over.
- Nothing I can do about election law.
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- The man's name stays on the ballot.
- Can't campaign without a candidate.
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- Campaign of ideas.
- The candidate died.
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But not the ideas.
The metaphor alone knocks me down.
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- Elsie!
- Mr. Bailey.
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- Yeah.
- I'm getting cold feet about the bow tie.
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You like it, but for me,
my whole world becomes about it.
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- Can we rustle up a real one?
- Yeah, and we have to get in the car.
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The campaign's become embarrassing
to us. It's a national joke.
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Sorry about that.
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I got a press conference.
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Sally and the suffragettes,
what you got?
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- Oh, we did the PSA.
- Let me see.
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Very nice, but do me a favor.
Read this for me.
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"It doesn't matter who you
vote for, make sure you vote."
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I like the sentiment but I think
it does matter who you vote for.
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What if it said"No matter who
you vote for, make sure you vote."
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What do you think?
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- Good.
- Good.
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- Will?
- Yeah.
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- I'm here for the president.
- I admire the president, Sam, I really do.
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- But?
- I don't work for him.
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Let's go.
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All right, everyone.
Thank you very much.
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Carol's passing out playbooks. Senator,
we've put you on criminal justice.
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- Martin, we moved you to welfare, okay.
- Sure.
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There's also
third-party validator information...
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...as well as names of the reporters
you'll be handcuffed to.
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If it's not your thing, don't try
to wing it, call somebody over.
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Surrogate plane leaves at 9.
See you tomorrow for pre-game.
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C.J., could I see you?
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And I need Congresswoman
Wyatt for just a moment.
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- Bennett's gonna spin for Ritchie.
- I could have told you that.
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Hang on. No, wait. I did.
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I find competitiveness
feminine in tall women.
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- On defense?
- Yeah. What the hell...?
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Don't heckle around with me.
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I got a Democrat shilling for Ritchie on
defense. I gotta get a guy. A Republican.
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This is why I'm talking to you.
You're gonna use Albie Duncan.
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- He'll do it? Duncan?
- Yes.
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Look at me.
He's not a little bit crazy?
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Albie Duncan? No, no.
A little bit.
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- Toby...
- He'll be great. See to it. Andy...
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I'm crazy about
the roundness of your head.
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- Thank you. Andy?
- She's nervous.
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- These are won and lost in the rooms.
- Not this one.
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- You think so?
- I know so.
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- Don't get overconfident.
- That ship sailed.
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Hey, you wanna know something?
C.J. doesn't like running.
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- Why not?
- Believe it or not...
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...because it takes time
away from helping.
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- I really like that about her, don't you?
- Yeah.
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- Good. Then marry me again.
- No.
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What else you got?
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All right, let's make it interesting.
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Let's add incentive.
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The president wins the debate tomorrow,
and you marry me again.
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How about the president wins the
debate, he gets elected president again.
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See that's the difference between
you and me. You're smalltime.
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And that's why the twins are gonna
need their father around full-time.
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Because your thing
would be a terrible trait...
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A terrible family trait
to pass on to little...
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...Beatrice and Bluto.
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I'm naming them Beatrice and Bluto now.
I don't care if they're boys or girls.
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- What do you need?
- Back up Albie Duncan.
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- Is he crazy?
- No. No.
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No. A little bit.
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No. Look, he's Albie Duncan.
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He was in the Eisenhower
State Department. He's brilliant.
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He's respected. He's a Republican.
If he's crazy, I don't wanna be sane.
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- You're not.
- Excellent.
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I'm out of here.
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Read Gabe Tillman's speech
to the Stanford Club last night.
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You're gonna think you wrote it.
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Only it was somebody better.
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Someone who will fight
for world-class schools.
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Someone who will take decisions away
from HMOs and give them to doctors.
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Someone who will make polluters
pay for the pollution they cause here.
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What are your plans
for the final week?
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Volunteers are going door-to-door.
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We've got six busloads of AFT
and AFL volunteers coming down.
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We've got six get-out-the-vote
rallies in the next six days.
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- We're in this to win it. Yeah.
- Ted Willard.
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Orange County Post-Gazette.
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What happens if that happens?
If your candidate wins?
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An election will be held
after no more than 90 days.
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- Does the party have someone in mind?
- We're vetting Wendell Wilkie.
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- Seriously?
- Seriously, one election at a time. Beth.
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Sixty percent of residents disagree
with the Horton Wilde gun position...
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...which doesn't distinguish it from
many issues important to voters.
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Is the Wilde campaign out of touch?
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Sixty percent is six of 10
in a focus group.
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We change one mind, it's a dead heat.
We change two, it's a landslide.
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This campaign's
a mechanism of persuasion.
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We're not asking
for a show of hands. Yeah.
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- June Wheeler, San Jose News.
- You're a long way from home.
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- This is a fun story.
- Glad I could help.
230
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We're all sitting here pretending
this is a regular press conference.
231
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And you're very engaging up there,
but your candidate died.
232
00:12:30,675 --> 00:12:33,047
So why isn't this all
a little preposterous?
233
00:12:33,219 --> 00:12:36,255
Chuck Webb is a congressman
who as chairman of not one...
234
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...but two commerce subcommittees...
235
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...has taken money
from companies he regulates.
236
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He's on the board of the NRA,
once challenged another congressman...
237
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...to a fistfight on the floor over
an amendment to make stalkers...
238
00:12:47,984 --> 00:12:52,195
...submit to background checks
before buying AR-15s, AK-57s...
239
00:12:52,363 --> 00:12:54,984
...Street Sweepers,
MAC-10s, MAC-lls.
240
00:12:55,157 --> 00:12:57,909
He's joined protests designed
to frighten pregnant women.
241
00:12:58,077 --> 00:13:00,366
- What's your point?
- There are worse things...
242
00:13:00,538 --> 00:13:02,162
...than no longer being alive.
243
00:13:02,331 --> 00:13:04,953
You said earlier that the 47th
pays more in taxes...
244
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How you doing?
245
00:13:14,093 --> 00:13:15,967
You don't want to be
in San Diego now?
246
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I'd want to be in San Diego.
247
00:13:17,930 --> 00:13:21,097
I'm about to head there.
I was just at your press conference.
248
00:13:21,267 --> 00:13:22,678
You guys ready?
249
00:13:22,852 --> 00:13:27,348
Yeah. It's gonna be great
or a disaster, nothing in between.
250
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Good.
251
00:13:29,817 --> 00:13:32,688
- So, what is this?
- Our contributors gave money to Wilde.
252
00:13:32,862 --> 00:13:35,269
- He's dead now.
- I know.
253
00:13:35,448 --> 00:13:38,947
And that's the metaphor. A
standard-bearer for a party that's dead...
254
00:13:39,118 --> 00:13:41,656
...in every bedroom community
in Southern California.
255
00:13:41,829 --> 00:13:43,573
- That guy had a point.
- Who?
256
00:13:43,748 --> 00:13:45,906
The Post-Gazette.
He asked if we had a name.
257
00:13:46,083 --> 00:13:49,001
- You want one yet?
- No, not me. Not right now.
258
00:13:49,170 --> 00:13:51,459
- Kay Wilde does.
- The widow?
259
00:13:51,631 --> 00:13:55,960
Yeah. She wants a Democrat to tell us
privately that they'll run if he wins.
260
00:13:56,135 --> 00:13:57,795
Nobody wants it.
261
00:13:57,970 --> 00:14:00,046
- Do you believe they're gonna need it?
- No.
262
00:14:00,223 --> 00:14:02,892
Then give her Winston Churchill.
What does it matter?
263
00:14:05,603 --> 00:14:07,062
All right, it matters.
264
00:14:07,230 --> 00:14:09,139
- What are you doing?
- I swear to God...
265
00:14:09,315 --> 00:14:10,975
...I'm trying to win an election.
266
00:14:11,150 --> 00:14:14,982
I'd think you, of all people, would be
able to recognize it when you saw it.
267
00:14:17,365 --> 00:14:18,989
All right.
268
00:14:19,158 --> 00:14:22,112
All right. I can get on the 405
if I go straight down there.
269
00:14:22,286 --> 00:14:24,445
Fourth light.
Give them hell tomorrow.
270
00:14:24,622 --> 00:14:25,997
All right.
271
00:14:26,791 --> 00:14:29,198
- You have more events tonight, right?
- Yeah.
272
00:14:30,503 --> 00:14:32,211
Your tie doesn't go.
273
00:14:39,595 --> 00:14:41,588
What are those stripes?
They're gonna blur.
274
00:14:41,764 --> 00:14:43,970
- You like the herringbone?
- I think it'll glow.
275
00:14:44,141 --> 00:14:46,715
- It is.
- This is the navy heraldic club.
276
00:14:46,894 --> 00:14:50,559
Any other year. They're broadcasting
in HD Digital now and with the pixels...
277
00:14:50,731 --> 00:14:52,309
Anybody, anybody
have digital yet?
278
00:14:52,483 --> 00:14:55,235
- A solid silk rep. Light mustard.
- Not with his coloring.
279
00:14:55,403 --> 00:14:58,107
Okay.
So it's the charcoal and blue.
280
00:14:58,656 --> 00:15:01,147
Yeah, it's good. Charlie?
281
00:15:01,784 --> 00:15:03,907
Thanks.
282
00:15:04,787 --> 00:15:07,741
- Hey, Charlie.
- Hi. You're starting in the Oval Office.
283
00:15:07,915 --> 00:15:09,244
- When do you leave?
- Now.
284
00:15:09,417 --> 00:15:10,959
- Good luck.
- Tell him.
285
00:15:11,127 --> 00:15:13,036
- Hey.
- Good afternoon, Mr. President.
286
00:15:13,212 --> 00:15:15,371
They've chosen a tie.
It's charcoal and blue.
287
00:15:15,548 --> 00:15:18,003
No, I decided to go ahead
and wear my lucky tie.
288
00:15:18,175 --> 00:15:20,252
You sure? This tie feels
pretty lucky to me.
289
00:15:20,428 --> 00:15:23,927
Then it's your lucky tie. Why don't
you get mine, we'll go to the plane.
290
00:15:24,765 --> 00:15:27,969
Listen, what do you say I sit
in on this meeting. We've got time.
291
00:15:28,144 --> 00:15:31,727
What do you say you get into pre-game?
Let me worry about this for tonight.
292
00:15:31,898 --> 00:15:33,605
- All right.
- Come here a second.
293
00:15:43,284 --> 00:15:45,857
There's no such thing as too smart.
294
00:15:46,037 --> 00:15:49,951
There's nothing you can do
that's not gonna make me proud of you.
295
00:15:51,459 --> 00:15:53,250
Eat them up.
296
00:15:53,419 --> 00:15:55,791
- Game on.
- Okay.
297
00:16:00,551 --> 00:16:01,880
We'll go next door.
298
00:16:02,053 --> 00:16:05,303
About a week ago we stopped
a Qumari ship called the Mastico...
299
00:16:05,473 --> 00:16:10,514
...on information that it was carrying
72 tons of weapons and high explosives.
300
00:16:11,604 --> 00:16:13,395
- Hello.
- What do you need?
301
00:16:13,564 --> 00:16:15,272
Ten words, let me try two. Defense.
302
00:16:15,441 --> 00:16:18,892
"I will make America's defenses
the strongest in history."
303
00:16:19,070 --> 00:16:21,228
When we say that
are we comparing ourselves...
304
00:16:21,405 --> 00:16:23,315
...to Visigoths
adjusted for inflation?
305
00:16:23,491 --> 00:16:26,741
Crime:"Some crimes are so heinous,
so hateful to American values...
306
00:16:26,911 --> 00:16:30,078
...that we ought to lock the prisoners
up and throw away the key."
307
00:16:30,248 --> 00:16:32,370
- Don't say yes to that one.
- Keep working.
308
00:16:32,541 --> 00:16:34,333
And call me every 30 minutes.
309
00:16:34,502 --> 00:16:37,207
You read Gabriel Tillman's
speech at the Stanford Club?
310
00:16:37,380 --> 00:16:40,167
- No.
- The governor's got a new writing staff.
311
00:16:40,341 --> 00:16:42,417
- Are you gonna call every 30 minutes?
- Yeah.
312
00:16:42,593 --> 00:16:46,258
- One more drill on the plane.
- We're gonna make you proud. Enjoy it.
313
00:16:46,430 --> 00:16:48,090
Okay.
314
00:16:49,892 --> 00:16:51,885
You stopped a Qumari
ship with what, Leo?
315
00:16:52,061 --> 00:16:54,552
Are we on another crime spree?
Why don't you call...?
316
00:16:54,730 --> 00:16:57,601
We stopped them with a warning
shot from the USS Austin...
317
00:16:57,775 --> 00:17:00,942
- Okay.
- An LPD San Antonio class warship.
318
00:17:01,112 --> 00:17:03,437
The weapons were not
on their way to the Qumari.
319
00:17:03,614 --> 00:17:05,358
They were on their way to the Bahji.
320
00:17:05,533 --> 00:17:09,577
If I can't get everyone else on board
with the fact that Qumar is our enemy...
321
00:17:09,745 --> 00:17:12,865
...surely we can all agree
that the International Bahji Cell is.
322
00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,077
Weapons were on their way to the
Bahji. The Austin stopped them.
323
00:17:16,252 --> 00:17:19,169
- Qumar's leveraging the Mastico.
- We know this.
324
00:17:19,338 --> 00:17:22,209
- What do they want?
- Yesterday they want missile technology.
325
00:17:22,383 --> 00:17:24,708
Today they want
convicted Bahji operatives...
326
00:17:24,886 --> 00:17:27,803
...let out of U.S. jails.
It changes.
327
00:17:27,972 --> 00:17:31,222
- You're gonna have to give them some...
- I don't have to do anything.
328
00:17:31,392 --> 00:17:32,934
I'm right, they're wrong.
329
00:17:33,102 --> 00:17:34,680
They're strong...
330
00:17:34,854 --> 00:17:36,728
...I'm much stronger.
331
00:17:37,398 --> 00:17:40,352
And what happens tomorrow morning?
The president gets on TV...
332
00:17:40,526 --> 00:17:42,234
...makes his case.
- We're not ready.
333
00:17:42,403 --> 00:17:44,146
- Nowhere near ready.
- What happens?
334
00:17:44,322 --> 00:17:46,563
Assuming we get around
the Boland Amendment...
335
00:17:46,741 --> 00:17:50,359
...and any potential violations of
domestic law and separation of powers.
336
00:17:50,536 --> 00:17:52,196
Forgetting international outcry...
337
00:17:52,371 --> 00:17:55,123
...and sticking Arab allies
with a choice of loyalties.
338
00:17:55,291 --> 00:17:57,497
You violated the Geneva Convention.
339
00:17:57,668 --> 00:17:59,625
- Since when...?
- Since Francisco Pizarro.
340
00:17:59,795 --> 00:18:02,713
Well, if you're gonna
throw the Swiss in my face.
341
00:18:05,968 --> 00:18:08,044
Ali Nissir is at the General Assembly.
342
00:18:08,221 --> 00:18:10,842
How hard would it be to quietly
get him here tonight?
343
00:18:11,015 --> 00:18:13,471
UN diplomats are
a little under pay scale.
344
00:18:13,643 --> 00:18:15,137
- He's a reasonable guy...
- Is he?
345
00:18:15,311 --> 00:18:18,146
Ali Nissir is what passes
for reasonable these days.
346
00:18:18,314 --> 00:18:20,935
How hard would it be
to get him here quietly tonight?
347
00:18:21,108 --> 00:18:23,148
Not hard.
348
00:18:23,319 --> 00:18:27,269
All right. Why don't you do it,
and we'll talk about the next step.
349
00:18:31,994 --> 00:18:35,114
- Margaret.
- What was that before with 10 words?
350
00:18:35,289 --> 00:18:37,116
It's a debating phrase.
351
00:18:37,291 --> 00:18:40,209
It has to do
with making things simpler.
352
00:18:41,170 --> 00:18:43,377
Would you get me
the National Security Council?
353
00:18:43,548 --> 00:18:44,958
Yes, sir.
354
00:18:48,427 --> 00:18:51,049
Broadcasting live at 9:00tonight on the East Coast...
355
00:18:51,222 --> 00:18:53,629
... and tape delayedon the West Coast.
356
00:18:53,975 --> 00:18:55,385
- What's going on?
- Okay.
357
00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,395
I understand it was the last
debate of the first campaign.
358
00:18:58,563 --> 00:18:59,891
- Everything all right?
- No.
359
00:19:00,064 --> 00:19:03,184
Before the debate the president
went out to sneak a cigarette.
360
00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,019
- He lit his necktie on fire.
- Yes.
361
00:19:05,194 --> 00:19:07,685
Josh gave him his, he won,
and now it's his game tie.
362
00:19:07,863 --> 00:19:11,232
It got wrecked by a cleaning solvent
we probably shouldn't use anymore.
363
00:19:11,409 --> 00:19:14,244
- Did you tell him?
- No. But that's a different conversation.
364
00:19:14,412 --> 00:19:17,413
My point is, doesn't this look
like the real one?
365
00:19:17,582 --> 00:19:19,788
I don't remember what
the real one looked like.
366
00:19:19,959 --> 00:19:23,209
- Where did you get a tie on a plane?
- The neck of a labor secretary.
367
00:19:23,379 --> 00:19:26,084
What am I thinking?
You can't pull this kind of fake-out.
368
00:19:26,257 --> 00:19:29,507
Now it becomes the bad-luck tie.
Bad things will happen in that tie.
369
00:19:29,677 --> 00:19:31,800
No, you gotta face
the music and dance alone.
370
00:19:31,971 --> 00:19:36,099
You know what? I think maybe you and
the president are obsessing on the tie.
371
00:19:36,267 --> 00:19:39,351
I'm gonna throw this notion out,
see if the cat licks it up.
372
00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,434
I think the president's performance
had actually very little to do with the tie.
373
00:19:44,901 --> 00:19:46,608
Okay.
374
00:19:46,777 --> 00:19:48,984
- You heard me say it was his game tie?
- Yeah.
375
00:19:49,155 --> 00:19:50,649
Okay.
376
00:19:53,451 --> 00:19:55,075
Mr. Secretary.
377
00:19:55,244 --> 00:19:56,573
Oh, Miss Cregg.
378
00:19:56,746 --> 00:20:00,245
- Thanks so much for helping us out.
- Yes.
379
00:20:00,416 --> 00:20:03,867
- Have you ever seen the Moscow Circus?
- No.
380
00:20:04,045 --> 00:20:06,583
Then I have no point
of reference to describe...
381
00:20:06,756 --> 00:20:08,629
...what a post-debate
spin room is like.
382
00:20:08,799 --> 00:20:10,922
I like you.
You're the one I like.
383
00:20:11,093 --> 00:20:12,801
Thank you very much.
384
00:20:12,970 --> 00:20:15,805
What happens is you'll be
taken into the room.
385
00:20:15,973 --> 00:20:17,765
A volunteer
will walk in behind you...
386
00:20:17,934 --> 00:20:20,057
...holding up a sign
with your name on it.
387
00:20:20,228 --> 00:20:22,516
And the press will surround you.
388
00:20:22,688 --> 00:20:24,017
Is that dignified?
389
00:20:24,190 --> 00:20:26,266
Absolutely not, don't even hope.
390
00:20:26,442 --> 00:20:30,060
They want you to talk about why is
a Republican spinning for the president.
391
00:20:30,238 --> 00:20:33,856
Nobody is expecting you to say a thing
that would embarrass the party...
392
00:20:34,033 --> 00:20:36,524
...to which you've been a loyal
and active member.
393
00:20:36,702 --> 00:20:38,825
He'll be attacked
during the debate on China.
394
00:20:38,996 --> 00:20:41,748
He'll have to defend trade goals
versus human rights.
395
00:20:41,916 --> 00:20:44,039
Trade's essential for human rights.
396
00:20:44,210 --> 00:20:48,208
Instead of isolating them, we make them
live by the same global trading rules...
397
00:20:48,381 --> 00:20:52,081
...as everyone else and gain
1.2 billion consumers for our products...
398
00:20:52,260 --> 00:20:54,252
...and strengthen the forces of reform.
399
00:20:54,428 --> 00:20:57,264
- That's it, it's that simple.
- No, it's not simple.
400
00:20:57,431 --> 00:20:59,258
- It's incredibly complicated.
- Sure.
401
00:20:59,433 --> 00:21:02,968
McGarry's boy's over there
coming up with greeting cards.
402
00:21:03,145 --> 00:21:04,604
- Josh?
- Sitting with me...
403
00:21:04,772 --> 00:21:08,355
...trying to boil down foreign policy
into a 10-word statement.
404
00:21:08,526 --> 00:21:11,942
No, no, he's the 10-word.
And believe me, he hates it.
405
00:21:12,113 --> 00:21:16,027
I've been at the State Department
for 30 years. There's no right answer.
406
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:20,068
And diplomacy needs all the words
it can get its hands on.
407
00:21:20,246 --> 00:21:22,535
Plus, he's from Connecticut.
408
00:21:24,041 --> 00:21:26,615
Yeah.
But the thing is Ritchie's good at it.
409
00:21:26,794 --> 00:21:29,546
We need to show we have
that club in our bag. That's all.
410
00:21:29,714 --> 00:21:31,790
What kind of shot
do you get with that club?
411
00:21:31,966 --> 00:21:34,837
According to the best people
who've analyzed polling data...
412
00:21:35,011 --> 00:21:37,846
...there are a million undecideds
who'd come to Bartlet...
413
00:21:38,014 --> 00:21:41,762
...if he displayed one quality that were
more like Ritchie, and we chose this.
414
00:21:41,934 --> 00:21:44,971
So for 90 seconds tonight
the mountain will come to Mohammed.
415
00:21:45,146 --> 00:21:47,471
And we'll pretend the whole
thing never happened.
416
00:21:47,648 --> 00:21:49,807
- It's incredibly complicated.
- Yes.
417
00:21:49,984 --> 00:21:52,653
- The answer I just gave you on trade.
- It was perfect.
418
00:21:52,820 --> 00:21:55,525
You know there's a decent
chance I'm full of crap, right?
419
00:21:55,698 --> 00:21:58,106
- Sure.
- Free trade is essential for human rights.
420
00:21:58,284 --> 00:22:00,158
The end of that sentence
is,"We hope.
421
00:22:00,328 --> 00:22:03,697
- Because nothing else has worked."
- But I wouldn't say that tonight.
422
00:22:03,873 --> 00:22:07,408
The president knows Chinese political
prisoners are gonna be sewing...
423
00:22:07,585 --> 00:22:11,630
...soccer balls with their teeth whether
we sell them cheeseburgers or not.
424
00:22:11,797 --> 00:22:15,249
- So let's sell them cheeseburgers.
- Nor, if it were I, would I say that.
425
00:22:15,426 --> 00:22:17,882
Let me tell you something, young lady.
426
00:22:18,054 --> 00:22:20,805
Thirty-seven hundred years
ago in the Shang Dynasty...
427
00:22:20,973 --> 00:22:23,678
...when a king died,
his slaves were beheaded.
428
00:22:23,851 --> 00:22:27,101
The lucky ones.
The unlucky ones were buried alive.
429
00:22:27,271 --> 00:22:30,356
Political repression?
This is progress.
430
00:22:30,524 --> 00:22:33,395
Still, I think the first answer's
our winner.
431
00:22:33,903 --> 00:22:37,901
So can I find an aide and have her bring
you some Schweppes Bitter Lemon?
432
00:22:38,074 --> 00:22:40,031
No, I'm too steamed.
433
00:22:40,201 --> 00:22:42,573
- Yes, yes, okay.
- Good.
434
00:22:44,372 --> 00:22:45,700
- Carol?
- Yeah.
435
00:22:45,873 --> 00:22:47,415
- Go to work.
- Yeah.
436
00:22:52,004 --> 00:22:53,878
- So is he crazy?
- Yes.
437
00:22:54,090 --> 00:22:56,047
- What do you think?
- Well, if we lose...
438
00:22:56,217 --> 00:23:00,167
...because of a 10-word answer
then I'm quitting show business.
439
00:23:02,306 --> 00:23:04,797
- What do you think?
- I think it depends who shows up.
440
00:23:04,976 --> 00:23:07,727
If it's Uncle Fluffy
we've got problems.
441
00:23:07,895 --> 00:23:11,478
If it's the president?
In his last campaign, his last debate?
442
00:23:11,649 --> 00:23:14,484
For the last job he'll ever have?
The president shows up...
443
00:23:14,652 --> 00:23:17,902
...I think it could be a sight to see.
I mean, a sight to see.
444
00:23:18,739 --> 00:23:20,399
What do you think?
445
00:23:21,659 --> 00:23:24,530
I think you're going
to enjoy yourself tonight.
446
00:23:37,675 --> 00:23:39,881
- Mr. Ambassador.
- Mr. McGarry.
447
00:23:40,052 --> 00:23:41,760
You know Jordan Kendall.
448
00:23:41,929 --> 00:23:44,337
I do, but I did not know
she worked here.
449
00:23:44,515 --> 00:23:47,220
Special counsel to the
office of the chief of staff.
450
00:23:54,942 --> 00:23:56,520
Mr. Nissir...
451
00:23:56,694 --> 00:23:59,102
...the president starts
his debate in four minutes.
452
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,273
I won't be there, obviously.
453
00:24:01,449 --> 00:24:03,940
And for me, it's like missing
my brother's wedding.
454
00:24:04,118 --> 00:24:05,660
A big Super Bowl or something.
455
00:24:05,828 --> 00:24:10,455
And I'm mentioning this to underline
the importance of this conversation.
456
00:24:11,209 --> 00:24:12,868
You have to turn the boat around.
457
00:24:13,044 --> 00:24:15,499
It's the match being held to the fuse.
458
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,956
I don't know anything about a boat.
459
00:24:19,926 --> 00:24:22,630
You're not getting access to THAAD.
460
00:24:22,803 --> 00:24:25,591
We're not gonna
release Bahji operatives.
461
00:24:25,765 --> 00:24:28,303
And we're not gonna
give you $30 billion...
462
00:24:28,476 --> 00:24:30,433
...to create the Trans-Qumari pipeline.
463
00:24:30,603 --> 00:24:32,845
You have to turn
the boat around.
464
00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:40,442
Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats.
465
00:24:40,613 --> 00:24:43,318
The debate will beginin two and a half minutes.
466
00:24:43,491 --> 00:24:46,326
We'd like to remind youthat this is a live broadcast.
467
00:24:46,494 --> 00:24:48,617
In the event of anytechnical difficulties...
468
00:24:48,788 --> 00:24:51,457
... we ask that everyoneremain quietly in their seats...
469
00:24:51,624 --> 00:24:53,415
... until the issuehas been addressed.
470
00:25:02,134 --> 00:25:04,341
I guess what
I don't understand is this:
471
00:25:04,512 --> 00:25:06,303
Have I ever exhibited any evidence...
472
00:25:06,472 --> 00:25:09,010
...that I'd be mad if a tie got ruined?
- No, sir.
473
00:25:09,183 --> 00:25:11,306
- No, I'm not that guy.
- This tie was special.
474
00:25:11,477 --> 00:25:13,517
Chemicals at the cleaner
don't know that.
475
00:25:13,688 --> 00:25:16,605
President Bartlet and Governor Ritchieto the stage, please.
476
00:25:16,774 --> 00:25:18,683
- Josh?
-This is their two-minute warning.
477
00:25:18,859 --> 00:25:21,148
Yeah. Guys we're gonna
give him the room now.
478
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,396
Bring it, boss.
479
00:25:27,118 --> 00:25:29,609
Nothing but strikes.
480
00:25:30,371 --> 00:25:32,245
Game on.
481
00:25:45,177 --> 00:25:47,585
I just assumed you
wanted to include me.
482
00:25:53,102 --> 00:25:56,601
Good evening from the Universityof California, San Diego.
483
00:25:56,772 --> 00:25:58,765
I'm Alexander Thompson.
484
00:25:59,775 --> 00:26:03,227
Well, it's in the bag.
You have someone here to show off for.
485
00:26:03,404 --> 00:26:06,322
- My daughters are here?
- You kidding? Ellie's wearing makeup.
486
00:26:06,490 --> 00:26:09,361
- I don't approve of that.
- You understand she's 27, right?
487
00:26:09,535 --> 00:26:11,195
I don't approve of that either.
488
00:26:11,370 --> 00:26:14,040
Remember the tie Josh
had to give me at the last minute?
489
00:26:14,206 --> 00:26:15,784
Yeah, I heard that happened.
490
00:26:15,958 --> 00:26:18,200
Think there's any
point in having the debate?
491
00:26:18,377 --> 00:26:20,868
There was juice in that.
It was in the last seconds.
492
00:26:21,047 --> 00:26:23,170
Just the energy
getting me out on stage.
493
00:26:23,341 --> 00:26:24,669
Well, tough.
494
00:26:24,842 --> 00:26:27,380
- Sir?
- Yeah. I gotta go.
495
00:26:27,553 --> 00:26:29,047
We'll do mushy later.
496
00:26:29,222 --> 00:26:33,718
So for now, I just gotta say I love you
so much, that my head's gonna fly off.
497
00:26:33,893 --> 00:26:37,262
But more importantly,
game on, boyfriend. Let's go.
498
00:26:37,438 --> 00:26:40,724
- Okay.
- By the way, I feel bad.
499
00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:43,142
I don't think I've done enough
to help prepare.
500
00:26:43,319 --> 00:26:45,644
Why are you telling me this now?
501
00:26:46,989 --> 00:26:50,654
- Just because.
- Oh, my God. You're insane.
502
00:26:50,826 --> 00:26:53,234
Are you...? You're insane!
503
00:26:53,663 --> 00:26:56,367
- Charlie!
- Thirty seconds, please.
504
00:26:56,707 --> 00:26:58,866
- Josh, we need your tie.
- What the hell?
505
00:26:59,043 --> 00:27:01,000
- Take it off!
- What happened?
506
00:27:01,170 --> 00:27:03,377
- My wife cut it off with scissors.
- Why?
507
00:27:03,548 --> 00:27:06,039
- I don't think we got time, Josh.
- Fifteen seconds.
508
00:27:06,217 --> 00:27:08,126
- We got it.
- No one's done camera tests.
509
00:27:08,302 --> 00:27:10,758
- She's right. Let's run some.
- Right here!
510
00:27:10,930 --> 00:27:15,841
Ladies and gentlemen, PresidentJosiah Bartlet of New Hampshire...
511
00:27:16,018 --> 00:27:19,268
- Would you keep it down?
...and Governor Ritchie of Florida.
512
00:27:19,438 --> 00:27:20,933
Quiet, please.
513
00:27:38,291 --> 00:27:41,457
The rules for tonight's
debate are as follows:
514
00:27:41,627 --> 00:27:44,545
A candidate will be asked
a question by one of the panelists...
515
00:27:44,714 --> 00:27:47,205
...and he will have
90 seconds to respond.
516
00:27:47,383 --> 00:27:49,708
His opponent will
then have 60 seconds...
517
00:27:49,886 --> 00:27:52,840
...with which to ask
a question and get an answer...
518
00:27:53,014 --> 00:27:55,421
...though it must be limited
to the same topic.
519
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,051
There will be two minutes
for closing statements at the end.
520
00:27:59,228 --> 00:28:01,137
By virtue of a coin toss...
521
00:28:01,689 --> 00:28:05,224
...Governor Ritchie,
the first question is for you.
522
00:28:06,193 --> 00:28:08,400
- Governor Ritchie, good evening.
- Good evening.
523
00:28:08,571 --> 00:28:11,904
The biggest philosophical difference
between you and the president...
524
00:28:12,074 --> 00:28:14,565
...is over the role of the
federal government itself.
525
00:28:14,744 --> 00:28:18,160
And whether national problems
really have national solutions.
526
00:28:18,331 --> 00:28:21,664
- Can you explain your view?
- Well, first, let me say good evening.
527
00:28:21,834 --> 00:28:24,242
And thank you.
It's a privilege to be here.
528
00:28:25,129 --> 00:28:27,585
My view of this is simple.
529
00:28:27,757 --> 00:28:31,291
We don 't need a federal departmentof education telling us our children...
530
00:28:31,469 --> 00:28:34,423
... have to learn Esperanto, they have to learn Eskimo poetry.
531
00:28:34,597 --> 00:28:36,424
- Eskimo poetry?
-Let the states decide.
532
00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:39,304
Let communities decide on health care.
533
00:28:39,477 --> 00:28:43,261
On education. On lower taxes, not higher taxes.
534
00:28:43,439 --> 00:28:46,393
Now, he's gonna throwa big word at you.
535
00:28:46,567 --> 00:28:48,607
Unfunded mandate. He's gonna say:
536
00:28:48,778 --> 00:28:53,190
"If Washington lets the statesdo it, it's an unfunded mandate."
537
00:28:53,366 --> 00:28:57,198
But what he doesn 't like isthe federal government losing power.
538
00:28:57,370 --> 00:29:01,202
- Hi.
-I call it ingenuity of American people.
539
00:29:01,374 --> 00:29:04,328
President, you have 60 secondsfor a question and answer.
540
00:29:04,502 --> 00:29:06,459
First, let's clear upa couple of things.
541
00:29:06,629 --> 00:29:09,583
"Unfunded mandate"is two words not one big word.
542
00:29:12,218 --> 00:29:14,175
There are times
when we're 50 states.
543
00:29:14,345 --> 00:29:18,177
And there are times when we're one
country and have national needs.
544
00:29:18,349 --> 00:29:22,347
The way I know this is that Florida
didn't fight Germany in World War II...
545
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,062
...or establish civil rights.
546
00:29:24,230 --> 00:29:26,935
You think states should do
the governing wall-to-wall.
547
00:29:27,108 --> 00:29:28,732
That's a perfectly valid opinion.
548
00:29:28,901 --> 00:29:34,108
But your state of Florida got
$ 12.6 billion in federal money last year...
549
00:29:34,282 --> 00:29:37,697
...from Nebraskans and Virginians
and New Yorkers...
550
00:29:37,868 --> 00:29:40,276
...and Alaskans
with their Eskimo poetry.
551
00:29:40,454 --> 00:29:43,658
Twelve-point-six out
of a state budget of 50 billion.
552
00:29:43,833 --> 00:29:47,533
And I'm supposed to be using this
time for a question, so here it is:
553
00:29:47,712 --> 00:29:49,918
Can we have it back, please?
554
00:29:50,089 --> 00:29:52,165
- Game on!
- Oh, my God.
555
00:29:52,383 --> 00:29:55,052
Strike them out, throw them out!
Anybody want spin?
556
00:29:58,890 --> 00:30:01,677
- It's not gonna be Uncle Fluffy.
- No.
557
00:30:02,852 --> 00:30:05,010
Mr. President, the next question is for you.
558
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:07,975
And the partisan bickering.
559
00:30:08,149 --> 00:30:10,900
Now I want people to work
together in this great country.
560
00:30:11,068 --> 00:30:13,738
That's what I did in Florida.
I brought people together.
561
00:30:13,905 --> 00:30:15,778
That's what I'll do
as your president.
562
00:30:15,948 --> 00:30:18,237
End the logjam, end the gridlock...
563
00:30:18,409 --> 00:30:20,817
...and bring Republicans
together with Democrats...
564
00:30:20,995 --> 00:30:24,198
...because Americans
are tired of partisan politics.
565
00:30:29,629 --> 00:30:30,957
Mr. President?
566
00:30:31,130 --> 00:30:34,499
What you did in Florida is bring
the right together with the far right.
567
00:30:34,675 --> 00:30:37,297
I don 't think Americansare tired of partisan politics.
568
00:30:37,470 --> 00:30:39,297
They're tired of hearingpoliticians...
569
00:30:39,472 --> 00:30:41,879
...diss partisan politics to get a gig.
570
00:30:42,058 --> 00:30:44,181
I've tried it before,
they ain't buying it.
571
00:30:44,352 --> 00:30:46,510
That's okay, though.
572
00:30:46,687 --> 00:30:48,976
That's okay
because partisan politics is good.
573
00:30:49,148 --> 00:30:51,853
Partisan politics
is what the founders had in mind.
574
00:30:52,026 --> 00:30:55,027
It guarantees that theminority opinion is heard.
575
00:30:55,196 --> 00:30:57,948
And as a life-long possessorof minority opinions...
576
00:30:58,115 --> 00:30:59,491
... I appreciate it.
577
00:30:59,659 --> 00:31:02,576
If you're troubled by it,
you should know in this campaign...
578
00:31:02,745 --> 00:31:06,196
...you've used the word
liberal 74 times in one day.
579
00:31:06,374 --> 00:31:07,951
It was yesterday.
580
00:31:09,293 --> 00:31:11,369
I'm not sure I can watch anymore.
581
00:31:11,546 --> 00:31:14,001
No, wait.
I can, I can.
582
00:31:14,215 --> 00:31:17,999
Israel launched an unwarranted,
illegal, unilateral air strike...
583
00:31:18,177 --> 00:31:19,802
...against the people of Qumar.
584
00:31:19,971 --> 00:31:24,348
The air strike was neither unwarranted,
nor was it against the people of Qumar.
585
00:31:24,517 --> 00:31:27,518
It was against two Bahji terrorist camps.
586
00:31:27,687 --> 00:31:31,767
After the Israeli foreign minister
was shot down by Bahji operatives...
587
00:31:31,941 --> 00:31:34,728
...of, by-the-by,
Qumari citizenship...
588
00:31:34,902 --> 00:31:38,485
...educated, if we're gonna use
that word, in Qumari madrasahs...
589
00:31:39,073 --> 00:31:42,323
...and financed by fat members
of the Qumari royal family...
590
00:31:42,493 --> 00:31:45,364
...including the sultan's brother,
Abdul ibn Shareef.
591
00:31:45,538 --> 00:31:47,198
Zionist propaganda.
592
00:31:47,373 --> 00:31:50,042
And we lost a cabinet
minister, as well.
593
00:31:50,209 --> 00:31:53,294
Yes, and you have
the results of joint U.S., U. K...
594
00:31:53,462 --> 00:31:56,167
...and Qumari search
and rescue operations...
595
00:31:56,340 --> 00:31:59,211
...that detail the tragic loss at sea.
596
00:31:59,385 --> 00:32:03,299
Yet your intelligence services seem
ready to tell the Arab world it was Israel.
597
00:32:03,472 --> 00:32:06,177
A state that sanctions
covert assassination.
598
00:32:06,350 --> 00:32:07,679
Of terrorists.
599
00:32:08,144 --> 00:32:10,267
Are you saying Mr. Shareef
was one of them?
600
00:32:11,939 --> 00:32:13,979
Excuse me, Mr. Ambassador.
Leo?
601
00:32:19,196 --> 00:32:21,273
You gotta stop it.
602
00:32:22,366 --> 00:32:25,237
You gotta turn the boat around.
You're gonna be at war.
603
00:32:25,411 --> 00:32:27,819
I can't play games anymore.
I can't do it anymore.
604
00:32:27,997 --> 00:32:32,042
Ben Yosef gave me the medal of David
and 10 hours later he was dead.
605
00:32:32,210 --> 00:32:34,202
I can't pretend Qumar's
our quirky ally...
606
00:32:34,378 --> 00:32:36,786
...whose culture it's
important to be tolerant of.
607
00:32:36,964 --> 00:32:38,791
They're not wearing
wooden shoes.
608
00:32:39,175 --> 00:32:42,259
I was a soldier.
I flew fighters over the DMZ.
609
00:32:42,428 --> 00:32:44,255
It was incredibly dangerous.
610
00:32:44,430 --> 00:32:47,466
What did I do that for?
What am I handing to the next guy...
611
00:32:47,642 --> 00:32:49,634
...and to my kid...?
- Turn the boat around.
612
00:32:49,810 --> 00:32:54,104
Do that for the next guy. Do that for
Mallory and the president. He's busy.
613
00:32:54,273 --> 00:32:55,732
No, the question is...
614
00:32:55,900 --> 00:33:00,229
... should we focus on 90 percentof the kids who go to public school...
615
00:33:01,155 --> 00:33:03,860
... or give parents moneyfrom the public school budget...
616
00:33:04,033 --> 00:33:06,524
... to send their kidsto private school at a time...
617
00:33:06,702 --> 00:33:09,739
... when private schools are turningaway kids who can afford it?
618
00:33:09,914 --> 00:33:13,497
Public schools are gonna be the bestschools. They're gonna be cathedrals.
619
00:33:13,668 --> 00:33:16,241
The answer is a changein the way we finance schools.
620
00:33:20,216 --> 00:33:22,374
Governor Ritchie, your rebuttal.
621
00:33:36,774 --> 00:33:38,233
Mr. McGarry...
622
00:33:39,193 --> 00:33:41,269
...I think we are both men.
623
00:33:41,445 --> 00:33:45,443
And we both know there's
a charade being enacted here.
624
00:33:46,867 --> 00:33:48,860
I understand Western politics.
625
00:33:49,537 --> 00:33:53,748
And I understand President Bartlet
is unable to admit Israel's complicity...
626
00:33:53,916 --> 00:33:57,119
...in the death of the sultan's
brother during a close election.
627
00:33:57,295 --> 00:33:59,287
So perhaps we could re...
628
00:33:59,630 --> 00:34:01,041
Did I say something funny?
629
00:34:01,632 --> 00:34:04,799
You think the president's afraid
that if he admitted complicity...
630
00:34:04,969 --> 00:34:08,136
...in Shareef's death, he would
lose votes in this country?
631
00:34:08,306 --> 00:34:12,683
To sweep all 50 states, the president
would only need to do two things:
632
00:34:12,852 --> 00:34:15,259
Blow the sultan's brains
out in Times Square...
633
00:34:15,438 --> 00:34:18,889
...then walk across the street
to Nathan's and buy a hot dog.
634
00:34:19,692 --> 00:34:23,227
Mr. Ambassador,
you're gonna turn the Mastico around.
635
00:34:23,404 --> 00:34:27,069
You are going to cease and desist
any disinformation campaign...
636
00:34:27,241 --> 00:34:29,613
...that links the death
of Shareef to Israel.
637
00:34:30,411 --> 00:34:32,487
And sometime next year...
638
00:34:32,663 --> 00:34:35,450
...the sultan is gonna propose
a Middle East peace plan...
639
00:34:35,625 --> 00:34:39,492
...the Qumar Plan,
and win the Nobel Peace Prize.
640
00:34:39,670 --> 00:34:41,414
Make your phone call.
641
00:34:42,089 --> 00:34:43,632
I'll be waiting.
642
00:34:47,386 --> 00:34:49,593
He's a little hot
under the collar, is he not?
643
00:34:49,764 --> 00:34:53,892
Excuse me. I have a meeting
of godless infidels next door.
644
00:34:55,269 --> 00:34:58,852
Governor Ritchie, many economists
have stated that the tax cut...
645
00:34:59,023 --> 00:35:01,561
...which is the centerpiece
of your economic agenda...
646
00:35:01,734 --> 00:35:03,774
...could actually harm
the economy.
647
00:35:03,945 --> 00:35:07,527
- Is now really the time to cut taxes?
- You bet it is.
648
00:35:07,698 --> 00:35:09,608
We need to cut taxes for one reason.
649
00:35:09,784 --> 00:35:12,489
American people know howto spend their money better...
650
00:35:12,662 --> 00:35:14,120
... than the government does.
651
00:35:14,580 --> 00:35:16,787
Mr. President, your rebuttal.
652
00:35:22,838 --> 00:35:24,463
There it is.
653
00:35:24,632 --> 00:35:26,459
- What the hell?
- He's got it.
654
00:35:27,802 --> 00:35:31,301
That's the 10-word answer my staff'sbeen looking for for two weeks.
655
00:35:31,472 --> 00:35:35,007
There it is. Ten-word answers
can kill you in political campaigns.
656
00:35:35,184 --> 00:35:36,762
They're the tip of the sword.
657
00:35:36,936 --> 00:35:38,311
Here's my question:
658
00:35:38,479 --> 00:35:40,887
What are the next 10 wordsof your answer?
659
00:35:41,065 --> 00:35:43,188
Your taxes are too high?
So are mine.
660
00:35:43,359 --> 00:35:46,146
Give me the next 10 words,
how are we gonna do it?
661
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,321
Give me 10 after that,
I'll drop out of the race right now.
662
00:35:50,866 --> 00:35:53,239
Every once in a while... Every once in a while...
663
00:35:53,411 --> 00:35:56,365
... there's a day with an absolute rightand an absolute wrong.
664
00:35:56,539 --> 00:35:59,374
But those days
almost always include body counts.
665
00:35:59,542 --> 00:36:02,578
Other than that, there aren't
very many unnuanced moments...
666
00:36:02,753 --> 00:36:05,423
...in leading a country
that's way too big for 10 words.
667
00:36:05,590 --> 00:36:07,463
I'm president of the United States...
668
00:36:07,633 --> 00:36:10,124
...not the president of the
people who agree with me.
669
00:36:10,303 --> 00:36:13,754
If the left has a problem with that
they should vote for somebody else.
670
00:36:15,182 --> 00:36:17,092
We begin closing statementswith Ritchie.
671
00:36:17,268 --> 00:36:19,426
- I'm gonna make a bold suggestion.
- What?
672
00:36:19,604 --> 00:36:21,430
Let's not spin.
Let's leave the room.
673
00:36:21,606 --> 00:36:24,975
Use experts. Nobody from the campaign,
nobody from the White House.
674
00:36:25,151 --> 00:36:26,479
- Definitely not us.
- Why?
675
00:36:26,652 --> 00:36:28,645
There's nothing left to do.
It's inelegant.
676
00:36:28,821 --> 00:36:31,193
The punch Ali never gave
Foreman when he was down.
677
00:36:31,365 --> 00:36:33,275
- Absolutely.
- Just a statement.
678
00:36:33,451 --> 00:36:36,405
The president's on his way
to Washington to get back to work.
679
00:36:36,579 --> 00:36:38,287
There'll be drinking on the plane.
680
00:36:38,456 --> 00:36:40,662
That shouldn't be included
in the statement.
681
00:36:46,380 --> 00:36:49,915
Trade with China
is essential for human rights.
682
00:36:50,092 --> 00:36:53,793
By engaging China and making them
live by the same global trading rules...
683
00:36:53,971 --> 00:36:57,506
...as everyone else, we gain
1.2 billion consumers for our products.
684
00:36:58,476 --> 00:37:01,430
We strengthen the forces of freedom,
the president knows this.
685
00:37:01,604 --> 00:37:03,063
Mr. Secretary?
686
00:37:03,231 --> 00:37:06,730
- I'm sorry, Miss Cregg, you need me?
- I have a question.
687
00:37:06,901 --> 00:37:09,818
Isn't there a decent chance
you and the president are wrong?
688
00:37:11,072 --> 00:37:12,447
I'm sorry?
689
00:37:12,615 --> 00:37:15,485
I mean, doesn't he also know
Chinese political prisoners...
690
00:37:15,660 --> 00:37:19,657
...are gonna sew soccer balls whether
we sell them cheeseburgers or not?
691
00:37:20,456 --> 00:37:26,744
I mention this because the president just
reminded us that complexity isn't a vice.
692
00:37:28,047 --> 00:37:29,375
You're the one I like too.
693
00:37:32,093 --> 00:37:34,844
Thank you very much and good night.
694
00:37:41,727 --> 00:37:43,056
It's over.
695
00:37:43,229 --> 00:37:45,850
You'll be back.
696
00:38:08,421 --> 00:38:10,828
Tammy, I'd like to buy
this old guy a beer.
697
00:38:11,007 --> 00:38:12,798
- He had a good night.
- Okay.
698
00:38:12,967 --> 00:38:15,292
- Thank you.
- How does it feel?
699
00:38:15,469 --> 00:38:16,798
- Winning?
- Yeah.
700
00:38:17,763 --> 00:38:19,803
- Good.
- I thought he was gonna fall over...
701
00:38:19,974 --> 00:38:22,097
...himself trying to be genial.
- So did we.
702
00:38:22,268 --> 00:38:26,135
But then, we were convinced by polling
that he was gonna be seen as arrogant...
703
00:38:26,314 --> 00:38:28,805
...no matter what performance
he gave in the debate.
704
00:38:28,983 --> 00:38:32,601
And then that morning at 3: 10,
my phone rings, it's Toby Ziegler.
705
00:38:32,778 --> 00:38:36,776
He says,"It's a gift that they're
irreversibly convinced that he's arrogant.
706
00:38:36,949 --> 00:38:38,278
Because now he can be."
707
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,027
If your guy is seen that way you might
as well knock some bodies down with it.
708
00:38:43,205 --> 00:38:45,875
- You don't fly with the team?
- Not this time.
709
00:38:46,042 --> 00:38:49,375
I had to return the rental car, that's
why I was glad to get together.
710
00:38:50,087 --> 00:38:52,625
One-way charges
on rental cars are insane.
711
00:38:52,798 --> 00:38:56,250
If everybody drove one-way it'd work
out in the wash. What do you think?
712
00:38:56,427 --> 00:38:58,420
Oh, I think every
rental car in America...
713
00:38:58,596 --> 00:39:01,301
...would be at the Grand Canyon
and the Tropicana.
714
00:39:02,225 --> 00:39:04,347
Let the campaign fold, man.
715
00:39:04,518 --> 00:39:07,354
- Stay out of the news this week.
- I'm sorry.
716
00:39:08,022 --> 00:39:09,896
- Thank you.
- Sure.
717
00:39:11,317 --> 00:39:14,437
- You grow up in California politics?
- I grew up in Brussels.
718
00:39:14,612 --> 00:39:15,940
Why?
719
00:39:16,113 --> 00:39:19,613
Several members of my family
worked at the NATO headquarters.
720
00:39:19,784 --> 00:39:22,405
You're not Thomas Bailey's
grandson by chance, are you?
721
00:39:22,578 --> 00:39:25,365
I'm his son.
I'm the youngest.
722
00:39:27,291 --> 00:39:29,580
That had to have been
a nice Career Day.
723
00:39:29,752 --> 00:39:33,797
"Hello, I'm Will's dad, I'm supreme
commander, NATO Allied Forces."
724
00:39:33,965 --> 00:39:36,835
- Not a lot of kids took your lunch money.
- No.
725
00:39:37,635 --> 00:39:39,544
It's embarrassing, Will.
726
00:39:40,763 --> 00:39:45,259
There's a campaign being waged
here, and I'm not embarrassed by it.
727
00:39:45,434 --> 00:39:47,925
There are things being talked about,
things you...
728
00:39:48,104 --> 00:39:51,769
...and the White House believe in. They'll
only be talked about in a blowout.
729
00:39:51,941 --> 00:39:53,565
You know there's no glory in it.
730
00:39:53,734 --> 00:39:56,486
And you still come here twice
and tell me my guy's a joke?
731
00:39:56,654 --> 00:39:58,397
That my people are embarrassing?
732
00:39:58,990 --> 00:40:01,659
How many told you to
get out of the way for John Hoynes?
733
00:40:01,826 --> 00:40:04,317
The bandwagon was in Texas,
the boys were in Nashua.
734
00:40:04,495 --> 00:40:07,330
How many Democrats
told you it was embarrassing?
735
00:40:08,124 --> 00:40:10,033
- I'm not kidding, how many?
- All of them.
736
00:40:10,209 --> 00:40:11,538
That's right.
737
00:40:12,461 --> 00:40:14,584
You're the one
who wrote Tillman's speech.
738
00:40:14,755 --> 00:40:17,128
- No, I'm not.
- At the Stanford Club. Yes, you are.
739
00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:19,755
- I don't even... I don't know what...
- That's fine.
740
00:40:20,469 --> 00:40:22,592
But you and I both
know different, right?
741
00:40:24,015 --> 00:40:26,173
So let's have some respect for that.
742
00:40:27,685 --> 00:40:30,141
You've ghosted
for senators, movie stars.
743
00:40:30,313 --> 00:40:33,729
I think the king of Belgium one time.
Do you say anything?
744
00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:35,228
- No.
- Why?
745
00:40:35,401 --> 00:40:37,441
- Speechwriters don't do that.
- Yeah.
746
00:40:38,321 --> 00:40:39,649
Okay.
747
00:40:39,989 --> 00:40:41,697
I'll just say it was very good.
748
00:40:42,825 --> 00:40:45,494
And a number of people think so.
Leave it there.
749
00:40:45,661 --> 00:40:47,987
Except to say
that the jokes worked too.
750
00:40:48,164 --> 00:40:50,121
I don't know who wrote them.
751
00:40:50,291 --> 00:40:52,616
But I know it wasn't
the governor of California.
752
00:40:54,420 --> 00:40:56,211
You see that girl over there?
753
00:40:56,672 --> 00:40:58,499
The one I thought
was your assistant.
754
00:40:58,925 --> 00:41:01,498
Her name is Elsie Snuffin.
755
00:41:01,969 --> 00:41:03,629
- What a great name.
- Isn't it?
756
00:41:03,804 --> 00:41:06,177
- Why did you tell me that?
- She wrote the jokes.
757
00:41:06,349 --> 00:41:09,848
- Anyway, you should know about her.
- Where'd you find her?
758
00:41:10,019 --> 00:41:13,554
She was the 11 th man on a 10-man
writing staff for a sitcom.
759
00:41:13,731 --> 00:41:16,898
They weren't using her stuff because
it was smarter than the show.
760
00:41:17,068 --> 00:41:18,396
But she didn't know that.
761
00:41:19,779 --> 00:41:21,273
All right.
762
00:41:21,656 --> 00:41:25,190
Thank you for the beer
and for the lively conversation.
763
00:41:27,411 --> 00:41:31,954
Listen.
If you can't find a Democrat...
764
00:41:32,124 --> 00:41:33,784
...tell Mrs. Wilde...
765
00:41:35,253 --> 00:41:38,503
- Tell Kay that I'll do it.
- Are you kidding?
766
00:41:38,673 --> 00:41:42,172
Tell her I'm a graduate of Princeton
and editor of the Duke Law Review.
767
00:41:42,343 --> 00:41:44,668
I've worked for congressmen
and the D-Triple-C.
768
00:41:44,845 --> 00:41:46,803
I have seven years at Gage Whitney.
769
00:41:46,973 --> 00:41:50,840
I've served as deputy communications
director and senior counselor.
770
00:41:51,978 --> 00:41:53,935
Tell her I grew up
two streets from here.
771
00:41:54,105 --> 00:41:57,271
- I'm not gonna ask anyone else.
- This is for election night.
772
00:41:57,441 --> 00:42:00,645
I read about it before then,
I'm gonna deny it and we're through.
773
00:42:02,071 --> 00:42:03,399
Excuse me.
774
00:42:07,910 --> 00:42:09,737
- Listen...
- We love you.
775
00:42:09,912 --> 00:42:13,744
Thank you. I've gotta get to a bed,
but I just wanted to say...
776
00:42:13,916 --> 00:42:17,083
...thanks for the hard work.
One more week.
777
00:42:17,253 --> 00:42:19,376
You're making a lot of people proud.
778
00:42:19,547 --> 00:42:20,875
And if you get a chance...
779
00:42:21,048 --> 00:42:23,586
...read the governor's speech
to the Stanford Club.
780
00:42:23,759 --> 00:42:26,796
It's gonna give you chills.
The jokes are particularly funny.
781
00:42:27,346 --> 00:42:29,303
Anyway, good luck.
782
00:42:34,687 --> 00:42:36,265
- Great job.
- Thank you.
783
00:42:40,109 --> 00:42:41,852
Good night, Will.
784
00:42:45,990 --> 00:42:47,401
Don't forget your necktie.
785
00:42:48,326 --> 00:42:49,950
Keep it.67890
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