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Previously on The West Wing:
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- Ben on five. Is he really a park ranger?
- Don't talk to him.
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- Put him on hold and find me if he calls.
- lf?
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Russell comes out of the gate
as a seltzer-bottle-squirting partisan.
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The happy warrior. The guy who puts
the fun back in Democratic politics.
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The speaker is "propulgating" a tax bill.
We're never gonna get budgets passed.
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You guys are asking me to groom
a backwater congressman. I can't.
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We didn't ask you to groom Russell
for a presidential run. He asked you.
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- He was chosen by the president.
- He was chosen by the Republicans!
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Yes. Please.
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Yeah, Leo.
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Ten-hut.
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- Good morning.
- Good morning, sir.
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Or whatever 3 a.m. is.
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Please.
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Let's have a look.
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Where?
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Over the north-central
Indian Ocean, sir.
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Not near anything.
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- You're sure?
- It's the telltale double flash.
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All atmospheric detonations produce
that unique signature, sir.
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Initial one-millisecond flash,
the fireball...
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...which is then overtaken and obscured
by the expanding shock front.
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- So it couldn't be anything else.
- No.
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And no false alarms have
ever been ascribed to the NDS.
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- Other sensors?
- Still being analyzed...
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...but both the x-ray
and the EMP detectors...
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...show readings consistent
to atmospheric detonations.
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Who else knows?
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- Sir?
- Who else in the world.
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The Russians and the Chinese have
satellite detection capability for NUDET.
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- Nuclear detonation, sir.
- Sir...
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...no test was scheduled or reported...
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...by the other six
declared nuclear powers.
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Yeah.
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There's a new member of the club.
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The mess isn't open. This is from
the Secret Service command post.
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- lf it's too hot, they wrestle it.
- CIA director is held up...
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I'm here.
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Sorry. Construction on Lee.
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- They do it at night.
- Avoid snarling traffic.
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- That's the theory.
- We just started.
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Thanks, Charlie.
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- We talk to Russia and China?
- They agree about keeping this quiet.
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Whoever this was knew we'd pick it up.
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- Likely suspects?
- North Koreans or Iran.
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- Yeah.
- They've been heading down this road.
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- We didn't know either got this far.
- We were sure about Korea.
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"Sure" is a word we don't
throw around at Langley.
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There've been indications
the North has nuclear weapons.
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- What about Iran?
- The intel is sketchy.
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- We know they've been working on it.
- There's that other word.
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- "Know."
- What we know...
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...and are sure of is this happened.
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We're gonna need to focus less
on semantic distinctions...
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...and more on how this caught us
so completely by surprise.
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We need to make contact.
The Chinese for Korea?
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- Iran?
- Usually the Italians or the Swiss.
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- No good. Don't want them in the loop.
- The Russians, then.
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We can assume Moscow's not crazy
about the idea of another nuclear state...
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...in their neighborhood.
- Sir, what if this wasn't a state?
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- A terror group?
- No terrorists have the capability...
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...for a test on this scale.
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Their nuclear event will be a
suitcase bomb detonated in Manhattan.
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Or Pennsylvania Avenue.
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- Thank you, everyone.
- Thank you.
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- Thank you, sir.
- Thank you.
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- Rough with the director.
- I'll send him a lollipop.
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You want your intelligence head
focused, at his best.
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Guy couldn't find a clear route in
at 4 a.m.
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I'm not over-brimming with confidence.
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- This is the nightmare.
- Yeah.
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I thought when the Soviet Union fell,
we could actually have disarmament.
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You go from trying to get rid
of these weapons...
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...to holding your breath
one doesn't go off.
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Strike another goal off the list.
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We find out who this was, then what?
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We'll have to do something.
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I want a defense briefing
on contingency plans.
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- We act, we'll need a statement.
- Toby.
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- Sooner is better.
- Okay. Oh, God.
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- What?
- The vice president.
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Yeah. I'll brief him.
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Apologize. Tell him...
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I don't know what the hell to tell him.
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- Hey.
- Morning.
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- So this meeting's a breakfast.
- Okay.
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- So you have to eat.
- I already ate.
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- Or else it's rude.
- I'm not hungry.
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Or else it's rude.
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This order, soon as I get back. Why am
I meeting with geeks from NASA?
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I'm sure they're not geeks.
They're not all geeks.
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And it's to discuss the
administration's space priorities.
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- Do we even have any space priorities?
- Exactly.
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- Morning.
- Good morning.
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You have nametags.
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Haven't been here much
these years. Thought it'd help.
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Right. Carl.
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I recommend the scones.
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- They're...
- Out of this world?
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- Leo.
- Mr. Vice President.
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- Please.
- Thank you.
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What's up?
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Sir, this is to be kept
in the strictest confidence.
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At approximately 2: 17 a.m.
Eastern Time...
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...a nuclear detonation was detected...
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...by a DSP satellite
over the Indian Ocean.
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Pakistan's attacked India.
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No, sir. This was a test.
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Pakistan being provocative.
Shot-across-the-bow thing.
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It wasn't Pakistan. If you'll let me finish.
No nation claimed credit.
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We're trying to ascertain
who was responsible...
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...but it appears there's a new player
on the nuclear stage.
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Is India mobilizing?
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It was 1200 miles from India.
India has no idea that it happened.
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- I don't...
- Let me start again.
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Hang on.
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- It's him again.
- Him, who?
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- Ben. Take a message.
- Gets more persistent...
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...they're gonna open a case.
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- Can I tell him you're not worth it?
- We used to date. He knows better.
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Feeling frisky?
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- Remembrance of things past.
- The briefing. Two things to deflect.
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New Israeli settlement activity
in the West Bank. You can do it.
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We discourage new settlements,
deplore terror...
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...balance but not too much,
no moral equivalence.
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- Greatest hits.
- Golden oldies. Second.
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- RINOs.
- Endangered, powdered horn...
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...considered an aphrodisiac.
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- That where "horny" comes from?
- Not precisely.
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It's... These aren't the animals.
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- It's Republicans in Name Only.
- RINOs. Adorable.
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Right wing's new name for
GOP members who voted with us.
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They're being targeted in the primaries.
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We're happy to stay out
of that slap fight in the schoolyard.
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Make it "sandbox."
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Thanks, Leo. Don't hesitate to call
on me if I can be useful in any way.
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Be sure to let you know, sir.
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Leo. Anything I need to be aware of?
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I've been thinking,
to build the VP's issue profile...
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...I wonder if there's some policy
the administration could give.
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- Such as?
- I have some notions, certainly.
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- Take it up with Toby.
- Yeah.
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- He and l...
- With him. That's what he does.
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If you two have problems, work
them out. I'm not a couples therapist.
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Yeah.
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A probe must launch by then to use...
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...Jupiter's gravitational field
as a slingshot.
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The data gathered about Kuiper Belt
objects would be invaluable.
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Listen, I appreciate your coming in...
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...but you may be meeting
with the wrong guy.
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My knowledge is like the old joke about
the official announcing a new program.
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He says, "We're gonna go
where no one's been.
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We're gonna land on the Sun."
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Reporter says, "But, sir, the Sun's
a burning mass of fire."
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Official replies, "Thought of that.
That's why we're gonna go at night."
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What I know is politics.
Public perception.
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And the image of NASA is not good.
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Telescopes launched that can't focus.
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Planetary probes that crash because
engineers mixed up meters and feet.
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The only time NASA makes
the front page anymore...
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...is when something goes wrong.
You need to get off the front page.
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This administration has only one space
priority: that you guys stop screwing up.
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Thanks for your time.
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Will's gonna come to you about
a policy brief for the vice president.
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Unfortunately, everything we have
we actually care about.
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- Give him something.
- What can he handle?
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- Potholes.
- Infrastructure?
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No, I mean actual potholes.
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On, I don't know, the interstate.
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Come up with something
low profile and easy.
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Keep him out from underfoot.
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There's another thing.
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We got trouble, Toby.
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DPS satellite noted
an atmospheric nuclear detonation...
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...this morning at 2: 17 a.m.
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You go see the vice president?
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When I briefed him,
he kind of tilted his head...
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- I'll update him after.
- Sir?
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Everyone's here.
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You can come in.
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Where are we?
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Chinese have no indication
Korea did this.
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Beijing feels comfortable
ruling out North Korea.
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- What do we think?
- Good and bad.
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We think North Korea's got two bombs.
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- Probably more.
- Please let that be the bad news.
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We also believe their technology's
so advanced they don't need tests.
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Why does the good news
make me feel worse?
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- Iran.
- Moscow doesn't think so.
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They might be covering their own ass.
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There's rumors about three missing
warheads from Kazakhstan...
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...that supposedly wound up in Iran.
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Rumors.
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Persistent ones.
That I get from your people.
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The IAEA report said Iran's had a secret
nuclear program for the past 18 years.
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It makes more geographic sense.
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The Korean peninsula's 4000 miles
from the blast site.
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What it's near is Iran.
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Sir, given the volatility of the region...
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...a secret test would be
how Iran would proceed.
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All right, put our cards on the table.
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What helped keep the Cold War cold...
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...was a sense of restraint that
these weapons were too terrible to use.
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That won't exist in jihadists...
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...who strap bombs to their chests
and enter nightclubs.
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There are moderate elements
on the ascendancy in Iran.
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"In the Koran, God commanded
to kill the wicked...
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...and those who do not see
the rights of the oppressed.
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If we abide by the Koran,
all of us should mobilize to kill."
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Televised address by President Alijani.
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Moderate.
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Mr. Slattery, have the Iranian
ambassador to the U.N. fly down...
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...and meet with you
at the Swiss embassy.
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- Thank you, Mr. President.
- Thank you.
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- Thank you, sir.
- Thank you.
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- Lyle.
- What's the reaction...
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...to the announcement
of new Israeli settlements?
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Our position remains that
we discourage such activities.
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Are you contemplating
more forceful disapproval?
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We urge all parties in the region
to take every step to reduce tensions.
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- Steve.
- Do you have a response to Taylor Reid?
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That's hard to say, never having
heard of... Is it him or her?
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On his new cable show last night,
you were named Chicken of the Week.
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- Sorry?
- His designation...
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...for the person who he says
refuses to appear on his show.
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It's hard to refuse something
you've never heard of.
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- You'd be willing to go on?
- I have no idea...
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...though what girl can resist
being referred to as poultry? Gail.
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What about going to the U.N.?
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It will be discussed.
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Isn't that what it's there for?
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Yeah.
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But this isn't the room
where you talk about that.
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Follow-up confirms
it was a nuclear blast?
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Yes, sir. We're still gathering data
on precise yield and type.
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Options, general?
238
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North Korea's nuclear facilities
and weapons...
239
00:13:26,698 --> 00:13:30,151
...are stored in tunnels a half mile
underground, unreachable by air.
240
00:13:30,370 --> 00:13:33,159
They've threatened retaliation
in the event of attack...
241
00:13:33,376 --> 00:13:37,162
...presumably against the South, but
conceivably against Australia or Japan.
242
00:13:37,798 --> 00:13:41,170
Or us. They've tested a missile
that could possibly reach the U.S.
243
00:13:43,141 --> 00:13:46,641
- And Iran?
- There are nuclear targets for air strikes.
244
00:13:46,855 --> 00:13:51,186
The downside is a potential
retaliatory nuclear strike at Israel.
245
00:13:55,994 --> 00:13:57,655
Mr. Lyman?
246
00:13:58,248 --> 00:14:01,453
Alex Moreau, assistant administrator,
NASA. I was at the breakfast.
247
00:14:01,670 --> 00:14:04,292
You were hardly there long enough
to take any of us in.
248
00:14:04,466 --> 00:14:07,588
You're wrong about us getting on
the front page when we screw up.
249
00:14:07,763 --> 00:14:09,672
Hubble images make page one
all the time.
250
00:14:09,850 --> 00:14:13,185
- You're sending up a new telescope.
- The Webb, yes. Past the moon.
251
00:14:13,355 --> 00:14:17,485
Every news story noted it'll be
too far out for the shuttle to fix...
252
00:14:17,654 --> 00:14:20,442
...if it's all screwed up
like the Hubble was.
253
00:14:20,658 --> 00:14:23,198
I prepare even for meetings
that I don't wanna go to.
254
00:14:23,371 --> 00:14:26,410
I wasn't improvising.
You guys are lost in space.
255
00:14:26,626 --> 00:14:27,955
Well, I agree with you.
256
00:14:28,129 --> 00:14:32,343
But NASA's problem isn't getting off
the front page, it's getting back on.
257
00:14:32,510 --> 00:14:36,047
The Times never published a larger
headline than Armstrong on the Moon.
258
00:14:36,225 --> 00:14:37,850
Only, you don't do that anymore.
259
00:14:38,020 --> 00:14:40,939
It's launches to the pointless
International Space Station...
260
00:14:41,108 --> 00:14:44,064
...which should be rechristened
the SS Good Money After Bad.
261
00:14:44,238 --> 00:14:47,775
It's all low Earth orbits.
It's like if 30 years after Columbus...
262
00:14:47,952 --> 00:14:51,205
...Spain expected people to get hot
over a trip to Mallorca.
263
00:14:51,707 --> 00:14:53,703
- Why we need to do this.
- What's this?
264
00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,540
Mars or bust. We want the government
to commit to a manned mission to Mars.
265
00:14:57,718 --> 00:15:01,504
There aren't 20 votes for it in Congress.
You couldn't get funding for buttons.
266
00:15:01,682 --> 00:15:04,804
The Republican Congress
isn't the problem. It's liberals.
267
00:15:04,979 --> 00:15:07,388
Yeah, because we like
to use government money...
268
00:15:07,567 --> 00:15:09,227
...to, I don't know, help people.
269
00:15:09,403 --> 00:15:11,692
Space travel's inspirational.
That doesn't help?
270
00:15:11,865 --> 00:15:15,912
- Not like feeding them or getting jobs.
- You have to feed the soul too.
271
00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,789
Ever look through a telescope?
272
00:15:17,958 --> 00:15:23,169
In school, a guy on my floor
liked to aim one at the women's dorm.
273
00:15:24,885 --> 00:15:26,963
What are you doing tonight?
274
00:15:27,139 --> 00:15:31,186
Until you get a good look at what's up
there, you only think you're prepared.
275
00:15:32,064 --> 00:15:33,690
Pick you up at 8.
276
00:15:44,541 --> 00:15:47,034
Donna, cancel my dinner
with Breakstone tonight.
277
00:15:47,213 --> 00:15:48,922
Stargazing?
278
00:15:49,091 --> 00:15:50,550
You were listening?
279
00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,926
I'm right outside.
280
00:15:54,140 --> 00:15:56,930
Would you be going
if she weren't attractive?
281
00:15:57,188 --> 00:15:58,932
We'll never know.
282
00:16:06,619 --> 00:16:08,244
- Did you...?
- I spoke to Leo.
283
00:16:08,413 --> 00:16:12,034
- I got the vice president a policy focus.
- Great.
284
00:16:12,211 --> 00:16:13,670
Good government.
285
00:16:13,839 --> 00:16:16,462
Not that chestnut.
286
00:16:16,635 --> 00:16:19,756
"Reducing bureaucracy.
Rewriting regulations into plain English."
287
00:16:19,932 --> 00:16:21,842
- Extremely important.
- Incredibly boring.
288
00:16:22,019 --> 00:16:24,226
As is the vice president.
Match made in heaven.
289
00:16:24,439 --> 00:16:28,024
I don't think theologians would stipulate
Toby Ziegler's office as heaven.
290
00:16:28,237 --> 00:16:30,030
You asked and ye hath received.
291
00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,863
And yet my joy is less than full.
292
00:16:33,035 --> 00:16:35,743
- "Revoking the franking privilege."
- I have work to do.
293
00:16:38,962 --> 00:16:40,755
Close the door.
294
00:16:46,265 --> 00:16:48,259
- Lovely room.
- The Swiss like nice things.
295
00:16:49,938 --> 00:16:53,890
You can afford them when you
don't have to pay for a national defense.
296
00:16:55,155 --> 00:16:57,778
- Mr. Ambassador.
- Mr. McGarry.
297
00:16:58,076 --> 00:17:00,319
- Do you require anything else?
- No, thank you.
298
00:17:00,496 --> 00:17:02,870
National Security Advisor McNally.
299
00:17:03,042 --> 00:17:05,748
Assistant Secretary of State Slattery.
300
00:17:06,965 --> 00:17:09,089
I hope the trip down
wasn't too inconvenient.
301
00:17:09,302 --> 00:17:11,675
- The summons was a bit abrupt.
- Please.
302
00:17:16,772 --> 00:17:20,144
We'd like to discuss
your nuclear program.
303
00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:24,486
We have agreed to IAEA inspections,
suspended production...
304
00:17:24,702 --> 00:17:26,992
...on enriched uranium.
- Temporarily.
305
00:17:27,206 --> 00:17:29,365
Your 40-megawatt
heavy-water reactor at Arak.
306
00:17:29,543 --> 00:17:33,958
It's a size too small for electricity
generation and larger than for research.
307
00:17:34,134 --> 00:17:37,669
The type that provides fuel for
nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan.
308
00:17:37,889 --> 00:17:39,385
And Israel. I understand.
309
00:17:39,601 --> 00:17:42,306
The Iranian exile organization, NCR...
310
00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,649
...has identified other
secret enrichment facilities.
311
00:17:45,819 --> 00:17:49,687
The Lashkar-Abad site near Hashtgerd,
a site near Ramandeh village.
312
00:17:49,908 --> 00:17:52,995
- Why are you enriching uranium?
- For reactor fuel.
313
00:17:53,163 --> 00:17:54,956
For power generation.
314
00:17:55,125 --> 00:17:58,413
As our European friends acknowledge,
it's our sovereign right.
315
00:17:58,630 --> 00:18:01,549
Power you don't need,
with your oil and gas reserves.
316
00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:05,713
It is necessary because of rising
domestic consumption rates...
317
00:18:05,892 --> 00:18:09,179
...and our desire to preserve oil
to generate foreign currency.
318
00:18:09,356 --> 00:18:11,979
You displayed the Shehab-3 missile.
The only purpose...
319
00:18:12,152 --> 00:18:15,440
...for such a long-range weapon
is to carry a nuclear payload.
320
00:18:15,658 --> 00:18:17,367
And we enjoy stable relations...
321
00:18:17,536 --> 00:18:20,787
...with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
Turkey, Afghanistan.
322
00:18:20,999 --> 00:18:22,910
These are the nations within range.
323
00:18:23,086 --> 00:18:25,377
And Israel. I understand.
324
00:18:27,678 --> 00:18:31,973
Sir, we believe your country has been
engaged in developing nuclear weapons.
325
00:18:32,183 --> 00:18:35,685
The ayatollah has decreed
their production to be haraam...
326
00:18:35,856 --> 00:18:37,649
...prohibited on religious grounds.
327
00:18:37,860 --> 00:18:41,112
We consider the development and use
of such weapons to be immoral...
328
00:18:41,282 --> 00:18:44,486
...inhumane and against
our basic Islamic beliefs.
329
00:18:44,704 --> 00:18:46,164
In contrast to the U. S...
330
00:18:46,331 --> 00:18:49,833
...which is not merely the only nation
to ever employ such weapons...
331
00:18:50,839 --> 00:18:55,171
...twice, but also brought the world
to the brink of nuclear holocaust...
332
00:18:55,388 --> 00:18:56,967
...with the Cuban missile crisis.
333
00:18:57,141 --> 00:19:01,603
The United States will not tolerate
these weapons' further proliferation.
334
00:19:02,065 --> 00:19:07,358
It is disconcerting to be dictated to by
the only transgressor in human history.
335
00:19:07,573 --> 00:19:10,612
Let me make myself plain,
Mr. Ambassador.
336
00:19:10,787 --> 00:19:13,956
Evidence that Iran possesses
or has tested a nuclear weapon...
337
00:19:14,126 --> 00:19:18,505
...will be greeted by the United States
as a matter of gravest consequence.
338
00:19:19,259 --> 00:19:21,051
Are we finished?
339
00:19:27,188 --> 00:19:29,431
I know what terrifies you.
340
00:19:30,652 --> 00:19:34,402
- An Islamic bomb.
- And I know what concerns Iran.
341
00:19:34,575 --> 00:19:36,236
A Jewish bomb.
342
00:19:36,453 --> 00:19:40,323
Einstein, Oppenheimer, Teller.
343
00:19:40,501 --> 00:19:42,709
They're all Jewish bombs.
344
00:19:56,527 --> 00:19:57,987
You all right? You look tired.
345
00:19:59,656 --> 00:20:01,947
- I've been tired five years.
- Tired-er.
346
00:20:02,118 --> 00:20:04,077
One of those days.
347
00:20:04,248 --> 00:20:07,583
- So I had this meeting with NASA...
- What a waste since the Moon.
348
00:20:07,753 --> 00:20:10,625
My generation never got
the future it was promised.
349
00:20:10,799 --> 00:20:12,378
- What?
- Thirty-five years later...
350
00:20:12,553 --> 00:20:16,137
...cars, air travel's exactly the same.
We don't have the Concorde anymore.
351
00:20:16,308 --> 00:20:18,468
Technology stopped.
352
00:20:18,895 --> 00:20:20,224
The personal computer?
353
00:20:20,397 --> 00:20:23,354
A more efficient delivery system
for gossip and pornography?
354
00:20:23,528 --> 00:20:26,649
Where's my jet pack?
My colonies on the Moon?
355
00:20:26,826 --> 00:20:28,949
Just a waste.
356
00:20:30,706 --> 00:20:33,033
Chris Aldrich of the Sun
wants 10 minutes...
357
00:20:33,210 --> 00:20:35,750
...and Danny Concanon left
a message.
358
00:20:36,215 --> 00:20:39,253
- And it is?
- I'm not sure I can do it justice.
359
00:20:39,428 --> 00:20:42,099
- Carol.
- Okay, it's:
360
00:20:49,152 --> 00:20:52,190
Chicken noises.
This Taylor Reid show thing.
361
00:20:52,366 --> 00:20:53,695
Chicken of the Week.
362
00:20:53,868 --> 00:20:56,361
Get me a copy of the show.
363
00:20:57,122 --> 00:21:00,292
- Latest intel?
- Combing through spy satellite data...
364
00:21:00,461 --> 00:21:03,714
...analyzing for any suspicious
presence in the blast zone.
365
00:21:03,884 --> 00:21:08,014
U-2s are over Iran and North Korea,
monitoring for unusual activity.
366
00:21:08,183 --> 00:21:09,559
Any conclusions?
367
00:21:09,727 --> 00:21:11,805
No smoking gun.
368
00:21:11,981 --> 00:21:13,440
Recommendations.
369
00:21:13,607 --> 00:21:15,103
- lf it's North Korea?
- It's not.
370
00:21:15,319 --> 00:21:18,985
- Chinese don't think so, the CIA...
- We can't say definitively.
371
00:21:19,159 --> 00:21:22,280
But, no, it doesn't appear likely
it was the Koreans.
372
00:21:22,455 --> 00:21:23,784
Iran, then.
373
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,622
- General?
- Surgical air strikes on enrichment sites.
374
00:21:26,795 --> 00:21:28,790
- Which ones?
- All five.
375
00:21:29,008 --> 00:21:31,465
- In for a penny.
- And if they retaliate?
376
00:21:31,679 --> 00:21:33,138
They'll regret it.
377
00:21:35,601 --> 00:21:38,687
- Get the B-2s in the air, general.
- Yes, sir.
378
00:21:38,857 --> 00:21:43,022
We go the minute, and I mean the
minute, we're certain. Thank you, all.
379
00:21:43,196 --> 00:21:45,439
- Thank you, sir.
- Thank you, Mr. President.
380
00:21:46,660 --> 00:21:49,498
- Good government.
- Curtailing Congressional junkets...
381
00:21:49,665 --> 00:21:51,992
...shuttering archaic
agricultural field offices.
382
00:21:52,169 --> 00:21:55,006
- You don't think I should do it.
- It buries you in minutiae.
383
00:21:55,215 --> 00:21:57,708
The public's for it,
but they'd rather chug sewage...
384
00:21:57,886 --> 00:21:59,216
...than hear it discussed.
385
00:21:59,431 --> 00:22:03,182
It's easy to characterize junkets
as vacations at taxpayers' expense...
386
00:22:03,354 --> 00:22:04,683
...but they serve a purpose.
387
00:22:04,856 --> 00:22:07,146
Contacts get made,
frank exchanges take place...
388
00:22:07,318 --> 00:22:09,229
...that would never happen
in Washington.
389
00:22:09,405 --> 00:22:10,734
Reason enough to beg off.
390
00:22:10,907 --> 00:22:13,696
You don't fully agree
with the administration's stance.
391
00:22:15,290 --> 00:22:16,868
Sir?
392
00:22:17,251 --> 00:22:18,580
Will you excuse me?
393
00:22:19,922 --> 00:22:21,666
Yeah, of course, sir.
394
00:22:25,055 --> 00:22:27,179
When you work for a manlike the president...
395
00:22:27,351 --> 00:22:32,063
... who 's got what you could characterizeas a casual relationship with the truth...
396
00:22:32,233 --> 00:22:35,651
... when your job is to go outand to be his spokesperson...
397
00:22:35,823 --> 00:22:38,196
... the question that naturally arises is:
398
00:22:38,368 --> 00:22:42,534
How can you justify lying for yourboss the way C.J. Cregg has to?
399
00:22:42,708 --> 00:22:46,375
And if Ms. Cregg isn 't a liar, thenthe only obvious conclusion to draw...
400
00:22:46,547 --> 00:22:48,376
... is that she's gullible, an idiot...
401
00:22:48,551 --> 00:22:52,217
... or so completely out of the loopshe shouldn 't be drawing a salary.
402
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,177
I wanna see where he calls
you a chicken. But can wait.
403
00:22:56,355 --> 00:22:58,348
- I want a piece of that twerp.
- Can't win.
404
00:22:58,524 --> 00:23:00,732
I'd mop the floor with him, smirk first.
405
00:23:00,945 --> 00:23:03,105
You'd just keep it alive.
Old newspaper adage:
406
00:23:03,282 --> 00:23:06,653
Never pick a fight with someone
who buys ink by the barrel.
407
00:23:11,379 --> 00:23:14,167
- I gotta go.
- Something going on?
408
00:23:14,466 --> 00:23:17,174
I'll see you in the morning.
409
00:23:27,863 --> 00:23:29,323
Excuse me, sir.
410
00:23:29,491 --> 00:23:33,656
I know, I gotta get dressed
for the HHS thing.
411
00:23:34,332 --> 00:23:35,957
Mr. President, you should cancel.
412
00:23:36,544 --> 00:23:38,454
It's been a long day, sir.
413
00:23:38,630 --> 00:23:39,959
I'll be fine.
414
00:23:40,383 --> 00:23:41,795
You should get some rest.
415
00:23:42,428 --> 00:23:44,587
I'm not sure I could sleep.
416
00:23:46,685 --> 00:23:48,726
I'm gonna get dressed.
417
00:23:50,399 --> 00:23:52,559
Yes, Mr. President.
418
00:23:59,413 --> 00:24:01,704
- Yeah.
- Shut the door.
419
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,429
B-2s have taken off. Their targets are
five uranium enrichment sites in Iran.
420
00:24:13,602 --> 00:24:14,932
We've confirmed it was them?
421
00:24:15,439 --> 00:24:19,486
- It's not a go till we're sure.
- Is this the room?
422
00:24:19,654 --> 00:24:21,315
- What?
- Where we talk about the U.N.
423
00:24:21,491 --> 00:24:24,825
- So far I'm the only one bringing it up.
- The U.N. doesn't want this.
424
00:24:24,995 --> 00:24:27,702
They wanna wring their hands
and censure us after...
425
00:24:27,876 --> 00:24:30,582
...but they expect us to take care
of things like this.
426
00:24:31,298 --> 00:24:36,093
And after they've exhausted themselves
calling us warmongers and imperialists...
427
00:24:36,264 --> 00:24:39,267
...they'll go home and quietly
drink toasts to their relief.
428
00:24:39,477 --> 00:24:41,306
Unilateral air strikes.
429
00:24:41,523 --> 00:24:43,646
Have a statement ready.
430
00:24:50,787 --> 00:24:52,531
I have a political question.
431
00:24:52,707 --> 00:24:55,544
The theory of democracy is
people have direct connection...
432
00:24:55,712 --> 00:24:57,752
...to officials at the most local level.
433
00:24:57,922 --> 00:25:01,923
Everyone can name the president, but no
one knows who their assemblyman is.
434
00:25:02,097 --> 00:25:03,556
Complacency.
435
00:25:03,724 --> 00:25:05,053
Who knows.
436
00:25:05,226 --> 00:25:08,478
It's like asking why the sky is blue.
437
00:25:09,108 --> 00:25:11,351
The colors of light
have different wavelengths.
438
00:25:11,528 --> 00:25:14,199
The shortest wavelength, blue,
is most easily dispersed.
439
00:25:14,366 --> 00:25:18,947
So when sunlight hits the Earth's
atmosphere, blue gets scattered most.
440
00:25:19,959 --> 00:25:21,952
Why the sky is blue.
441
00:25:31,310 --> 00:25:32,804
Yeah.
442
00:25:34,815 --> 00:25:37,106
Can this wait till tomorrow?
443
00:25:40,909 --> 00:25:42,700
Put him on.
444
00:25:45,791 --> 00:25:48,331
Yes, Mr. Vice President.
445
00:25:50,507 --> 00:25:52,133
This is good.
446
00:26:08,578 --> 00:26:10,867
- Here. Could you...?
- You want me to carry that?
447
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,416
Yes, please.
448
00:26:12,584 --> 00:26:14,411
Okay.
449
00:26:14,587 --> 00:26:19,168
When you said... I thought we were
going to some big observatory.
450
00:26:19,344 --> 00:26:21,053
No, you're not ready for that.
451
00:26:21,223 --> 00:26:22,552
You need the experience...
452
00:26:22,725 --> 00:26:26,559
...9- year-olds are having
all across the country tonight.
453
00:26:26,898 --> 00:26:29,985
Are they ruining their shoes too?
454
00:26:46,054 --> 00:26:48,297
Amazing once you get away
from the city lights.
455
00:26:48,474 --> 00:26:52,771
There's one named after me up there.
The Josh and Linda star.
456
00:26:52,940 --> 00:26:56,642
The International Star Registry.
Romantic.
457
00:26:56,820 --> 00:26:58,150
Yeah.
458
00:26:58,323 --> 00:27:00,447
Name something that's there
for years...
459
00:27:00,618 --> 00:27:04,619
...after two people who won't
be speaking in six months.
460
00:27:05,376 --> 00:27:07,666
Alex and Guillermo.
461
00:27:08,046 --> 00:27:11,168
- Guillermo?
- Yeah, Chilean. Long story.
462
00:27:11,344 --> 00:27:13,634
Sexy. Player. Dumped you.
463
00:27:13,807 --> 00:27:16,014
Okay, not such a long story.
464
00:27:16,185 --> 00:27:17,728
Go ahead.
465
00:27:22,403 --> 00:27:23,779
Jupiter.
466
00:27:23,948 --> 00:27:26,618
The dots on either side
are the four Galilean moons.
467
00:27:26,785 --> 00:27:29,159
You're seeing what Galileo
saw 400 years ago.
468
00:27:29,539 --> 00:27:32,875
Yeah, I remember studying Jupiter.
It has 13 moons.
469
00:27:33,045 --> 00:27:34,754
Yeah, it has 61.
470
00:27:34,924 --> 00:27:36,751
Sixty-one?
471
00:27:38,179 --> 00:27:39,840
Okay.
472
00:27:43,562 --> 00:27:46,185
- Wow, what is that?
- The Orion Nebula.
473
00:27:46,358 --> 00:27:49,314
Gas and dust. Stars are born in that.
474
00:27:49,489 --> 00:27:52,028
Well, born and die, actually.
475
00:27:52,201 --> 00:27:55,987
Everything, every atom in our bodies
comes from exploding stars.
476
00:27:56,165 --> 00:27:59,037
I guess Joni Mitchell was right.
We are stardust.
477
00:27:59,504 --> 00:28:01,913
Or put another way, nuclear waste.
478
00:28:07,893 --> 00:28:10,100
- Is that...?
- Mars.
479
00:28:10,272 --> 00:28:12,099
Because it's near its closest point...
480
00:28:12,274 --> 00:28:16,322
...you are getting the best look
anyone's had at it in 60,000 years.
481
00:28:26,130 --> 00:28:27,625
Ten-hut.
482
00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:30,007
- Everyone.
- Good evening, sir.
483
00:28:30,220 --> 00:28:34,885
One thing about this job, it's hard
to unobtrusively slip out of a party.
484
00:28:39,943 --> 00:28:43,860
Mr. Vice President, would you tell
everyone what you told me.
485
00:28:44,659 --> 00:28:47,448
I was on a Congressional junket
to the Mideast last year.
486
00:28:47,622 --> 00:28:50,031
Wound up on a boat
cruising the Mediterranean.
487
00:28:50,377 --> 00:28:55,006
The combination of jet lag, booze
and choppy seas made some guests sick.
488
00:28:55,218 --> 00:28:58,588
As they leaned over the rail, one
of our high-level government hosts...
489
00:28:58,765 --> 00:29:01,092
...came up to me
and drunkenly mused he hoped...
490
00:29:01,270 --> 00:29:04,972
...they weren't puking
on one of their nuclear subs.
491
00:29:05,151 --> 00:29:09,020
He winked and lurched off,
and the official's country...
492
00:29:09,741 --> 00:29:11,070
...was Israel.
493
00:29:11,493 --> 00:29:13,701
He was talking about
nuclear-powered subs.
494
00:29:13,873 --> 00:29:16,412
- Israeli subs are diesel-powered.
- Guy was drunk.
495
00:29:16,793 --> 00:29:19,916
Israel's nuclear capability
has been an open secret for years.
496
00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:21,926
Why would they perform a test now?
497
00:29:22,136 --> 00:29:24,462
Getting warheads
on submarine-based missiles...
498
00:29:24,639 --> 00:29:28,935
...requires miniaturization technology
that could need to be tested.
499
00:29:29,104 --> 00:29:30,897
- Could.
- I know, that's not a word...
500
00:29:31,067 --> 00:29:33,939
...you're fond of at Langley.
Let the man talk.
501
00:29:34,113 --> 00:29:36,606
Israel's developing advanced
fusion-boosted weapons.
502
00:29:36,784 --> 00:29:41,116
This technology is extremely difficult and
requires testing to produce warheads...
503
00:29:41,291 --> 00:29:43,618
...capable of being shrunk
to the size needed...
504
00:29:43,796 --> 00:29:46,288
...to be placed on submarine-based
cruise missiles.
505
00:29:52,434 --> 00:29:55,105
- Where are the bombers?
- Three hours out of Missouri.
506
00:29:55,271 --> 00:29:57,646
They'll be over their targets
in Iran in 14 hours.
507
00:29:59,696 --> 00:30:02,817
Tell the Israeli ambassador to get
his prime minister on a plane.
508
00:30:03,034 --> 00:30:05,491
- I want him in the Oval Office by noon.
- Yes, sir.
509
00:30:05,706 --> 00:30:08,494
- General? Put a hold on the bombers.
- Yes, sir.
510
00:30:08,668 --> 00:30:10,079
Leo, Mr. Vice President.
511
00:30:10,546 --> 00:30:13,465
- Thank you all.
- Thank you, Mr. President.
512
00:30:15,053 --> 00:30:17,261
We'll need a cover story for the visit.
513
00:30:17,431 --> 00:30:21,563
Brief Toby. Have him
get with C.J. right away.
514
00:30:22,356 --> 00:30:23,685
Thank you, Bob.
515
00:30:23,859 --> 00:30:28,109
I'm sure Leo's wondering how
it is I know so much about all this.
516
00:30:28,283 --> 00:30:30,028
All those jokes about me being...
517
00:30:30,202 --> 00:30:33,823
...the congressman
from Western Colorado Mining.
518
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,956
Colorado Plateau is this country's
leading source of uranium.
519
00:30:38,006 --> 00:30:39,882
Good night, Mr. President.
520
00:30:40,260 --> 00:30:42,136
Leo.
521
00:31:08,555 --> 00:31:11,344
Okay, it's not gonna happen, but...
522
00:31:12,227 --> 00:31:14,802
Tell me about going to Mars.
523
00:31:15,357 --> 00:31:17,185
Right here?
524
00:31:21,826 --> 00:31:23,404
The plan is called Mars Direct.
525
00:31:23,579 --> 00:31:24,991
What'll it cost?
526
00:31:25,165 --> 00:31:27,740
Thirty, 40 billion.
527
00:31:27,919 --> 00:31:30,162
Over 10 years.
528
00:31:30,465 --> 00:31:33,836
- It's the cost of one weapons system.
- Go on.
529
00:31:34,345 --> 00:31:37,265
We launch a crew directly there,
like we went to the Moon...
530
00:31:37,434 --> 00:31:43,228
...and use the resources found
on Mars to make the fuel to get back.
531
00:31:43,403 --> 00:31:46,155
- Is that doable?
- It's 19th-century chemistry.
532
00:31:46,323 --> 00:31:48,068
It's all doable now.
533
00:31:48,243 --> 00:31:52,195
All we lack is the ambition
and political will.
534
00:32:01,181 --> 00:32:03,174
The Israeli prime minister's flying in...
535
00:32:03,351 --> 00:32:05,640
...to discuss their new
settlement activity.
536
00:32:05,813 --> 00:32:08,519
The thing you had me shrug off
yesterday as a nonstory?
537
00:32:08,693 --> 00:32:10,901
- That was yesterday.
- I'm trying to decide...
538
00:32:11,072 --> 00:32:14,858
...if I'm gullible, an idiot or just being
completely kept out of the loop.
539
00:32:15,494 --> 00:32:17,205
Yeah.
540
00:32:19,918 --> 00:32:23,040
- Mr. Vice President.
- I've been thinking about this thing.
541
00:32:23,216 --> 00:32:26,384
Speak to the president about
your reasons for not going along.
542
00:32:26,554 --> 00:32:29,427
No. I'm gonna do their bidding on this.
543
00:32:29,601 --> 00:32:31,642
Due respect, it's not a serious policy.
544
00:32:31,813 --> 00:32:34,483
You have to get the West Wing
to treat you with respect.
545
00:32:34,651 --> 00:32:37,903
I'm a team player. I do what's asked.
546
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,785
And, Will, for the record, I'm not worried
about having the president's respect.
547
00:32:45,627 --> 00:32:47,834
Thanks for your concern yesterday.
548
00:32:48,005 --> 00:32:51,043
- Did you get some sleep, sir?
- Not much.
549
00:32:59,398 --> 00:33:02,567
Some terrible choices have
had to be made in this room...
550
00:33:02,737 --> 00:33:05,823
...none more agonizing
than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
551
00:33:05,992 --> 00:33:09,993
- I can't imagine.
- When you sit here, you have to.
552
00:33:12,669 --> 00:33:16,040
Would you have made
the same decision Truman made?
553
00:33:19,556 --> 00:33:21,846
On Okinawa, the Japanese knew
they couldn't win...
554
00:33:22,018 --> 00:33:24,308
...so they killed as many
Americans as possible.
555
00:33:24,771 --> 00:33:26,766
There were 110,000
Japanese troops...
556
00:33:26,942 --> 00:33:30,728
...and a quarter of a million people
died there, including Japanese civilians.
557
00:33:30,906 --> 00:33:32,235
To defend Japan itself...
558
00:33:32,409 --> 00:33:34,699
...they'd mobilized
2 and a half million...
559
00:33:34,872 --> 00:33:37,993
...with a civilian militia
of 30 million more...
560
00:33:38,168 --> 00:33:40,660
...pressed into service
just to die for the emperor.
561
00:33:42,384 --> 00:33:45,006
So you could claim the bombings
actually saved lives.
562
00:33:45,179 --> 00:33:47,755
That's one argument.
Another is that after Potsdam...
563
00:33:47,934 --> 00:33:52,265
...Truman wanted Stalin to know we had
the bomb and we were willing to use it.
564
00:33:52,692 --> 00:33:54,317
But would you have done it, sir?
565
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,962
Donna!
566
00:34:08,133 --> 00:34:09,628
Yes?
567
00:34:10,887 --> 00:34:13,509
- How long have you been there?
- Long enough.
568
00:34:16,813 --> 00:34:19,021
I need a breakdown of NASA funding...
569
00:34:19,192 --> 00:34:21,519
...as a percentage
of discretionary spending...
570
00:34:21,696 --> 00:34:25,566
...in five-year increments,
starting in 1969.
571
00:34:25,786 --> 00:34:27,116
Wanna hear something cool?
572
00:34:27,289 --> 00:34:30,909
Voyager 1 just crossed the termination
shock, 8 billion miles away.
573
00:34:31,086 --> 00:34:33,709
First humanmade object
to leave the solar system.
574
00:34:33,882 --> 00:34:36,719
Funny, I'm going through
a little termination shock myself.
575
00:34:37,012 --> 00:34:39,172
- What?
- Suddenly this interest in space...
576
00:34:39,850 --> 00:34:42,473
...because some NASA administrator
batted eyes at you?
577
00:34:42,646 --> 00:34:45,435
- You hate that I'm interested.
- What was your first hint?
578
00:34:45,651 --> 00:34:47,062
That's perfect. Sit down.
579
00:34:48,030 --> 00:34:50,949
Sit. I need to play out an argument.
580
00:34:55,375 --> 00:34:57,867
- Everyone hates us.
- Inspiring start.
581
00:34:58,045 --> 00:35:00,086
We're the most dominant nation
on Earth...
582
00:35:00,299 --> 00:35:03,467
...but too often, the face
of our economic superiority...
583
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,009
... is corporate imperialism.
584
00:35:05,182 --> 00:35:10,476
Our technological dominance shownby smart bombs and Predator drones.
585
00:35:10,649 --> 00:35:11,978
We could do something else.
586
00:35:12,736 --> 00:35:17,068
Something generousand uplifting for all humankind.
587
00:35:17,284 --> 00:35:22,412
We could send the first representatives
from Earth to walk on another planet.
588
00:35:22,585 --> 00:35:25,337
We could land people on Mars.
589
00:35:30,598 --> 00:35:32,222
Needs work.
590
00:35:32,392 --> 00:35:33,768
Needs something.
591
00:35:33,936 --> 00:35:36,607
Yeah, that inspiration thing.
592
00:35:38,903 --> 00:35:42,689
Voyager, in case it's ever
encountered by extraterrestrials...
593
00:35:42,909 --> 00:35:47,574
... is carrying photos of life on Earth,greetings in 55 languages...
594
00:35:47,750 --> 00:35:53,376
... and a collection of music,from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry.
595
00:35:53,551 --> 00:35:59,508
Including "Dark Was the Night
(Cold Was the Ground)"...
596
00:35:59,686 --> 00:36:02,178
...by '20s bluesman
Blind Willie Johnson...
597
00:36:02,774 --> 00:36:06,275
...whose stepmother blinded him
at 7 by throwing lye in his eyes...
598
00:36:06,445 --> 00:36:09,568
...after his father beat her
for being with another man.
599
00:36:09,784 --> 00:36:13,287
He died, penniless, of pneumonia...
600
00:36:13,457 --> 00:36:15,784
...after sleeping
bundled in wet newspapers...
601
00:36:15,961 --> 00:36:18,205
...in the ruins of his house
that burned down.
602
00:36:19,050 --> 00:36:22,420
But his music just left the solar system.
603
00:36:25,602 --> 00:36:28,438
Okay. That got me.
604
00:36:34,032 --> 00:36:36,489
Thank you for coming,
Mr. Prime Minister.
605
00:36:36,661 --> 00:36:40,577
You've had a long flight,
and I've had a long last day and a half.
606
00:36:40,750 --> 00:36:45,297
Let's not waste any time with
veiled questions and coy answers.
607
00:36:45,591 --> 00:36:48,962
Your government conducted
an atmospheric nuclear test...
608
00:36:49,180 --> 00:36:51,852
...over the Indian Ocean 36 hours ago.
609
00:36:52,019 --> 00:36:56,980
This action poses enormous problems
for the region, for the world.
610
00:36:58,195 --> 00:37:00,153
- And for the U.S.
- Yes.
611
00:37:00,323 --> 00:37:02,899
It undercuts our
counter-proliferation policy...
612
00:37:03,078 --> 00:37:07,623
...and makes us look, at best, biased
and, at worst, like outright hypocrites.
613
00:37:07,794 --> 00:37:10,962
You do not look hypocritical
espousing nonproliferation...
614
00:37:11,132 --> 00:37:16,510
...while funding research on a new
generation of tactical nuclear bombs?
615
00:37:16,808 --> 00:37:18,552
This is not my view.
616
00:37:18,728 --> 00:37:22,598
The U.S. is merely looking after
its national interest...
617
00:37:22,818 --> 00:37:24,478
...as Israel has a right to do.
618
00:37:24,654 --> 00:37:26,564
Proliferation breeds proliferation.
619
00:37:26,740 --> 00:37:30,610
China's bomb produced India's,
India's begat Pakistan's.
620
00:37:30,789 --> 00:37:37,045
The United States' ideal number
of nuclear-weapons states is one.
621
00:37:37,966 --> 00:37:42,466
No matter if it's merited or arrogant,
it's irrelevant.
622
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,593
Our chief of military intelligence
asserts...
623
00:37:46,773 --> 00:37:51,817
...that if Iran completes
its enrichment program...
624
00:37:51,989 --> 00:37:55,740
...it will be able to produce
nuclear weapons within one year.
625
00:37:55,912 --> 00:37:58,535
No one disputes Israel lives
under threat.
626
00:37:59,001 --> 00:38:00,459
Threat?
627
00:38:00,628 --> 00:38:05,008
We are 6 million surrounded
by 200 million who wish us obliterated.
628
00:38:06,263 --> 00:38:09,716
For Israel, deterrence is not an option
but an imperative.
629
00:38:09,893 --> 00:38:13,845
There's a fine line between
deterrence and provocation.
630
00:38:14,024 --> 00:38:17,609
We model our approach
on America's during the Cold War.
631
00:38:17,780 --> 00:38:19,109
Mutual assured destruction.
632
00:38:19,282 --> 00:38:23,200
There's a reason its acronym was MAD.
633
00:38:24,164 --> 00:38:26,836
It succeeded entirely in keeping
the world safe.
634
00:38:27,004 --> 00:38:31,466
Iran will become a nuclear state.
635
00:38:31,636 --> 00:38:35,683
I mean, what difference if it takes one
year or five or 10? What difference?
636
00:38:35,850 --> 00:38:39,186
We can stop them.
By force, if it comes to that.
637
00:38:39,357 --> 00:38:44,151
But should this fail, all that would stand
in the way of an Iranian first strike...
638
00:38:44,364 --> 00:38:47,320
...is an assured
second-strike capability.
639
00:38:47,787 --> 00:38:51,655
Submarines armed with nuclear missiles.
640
00:38:51,835 --> 00:38:55,750
Mr. President, this is essential...
641
00:38:55,924 --> 00:38:58,631
...for Israel's survival.
642
00:38:59,681 --> 00:39:03,930
Your argument boils down to asking
that the world trust you.
643
00:39:04,354 --> 00:39:07,274
As does America's.
644
00:39:11,992 --> 00:39:16,287
It's telling that the physicists involved
with the creation of these weapons...
645
00:39:16,457 --> 00:39:19,793
...became the most fervid opponents
of their use.
646
00:39:20,129 --> 00:39:23,916
Einstein, Oppenheimer, Szilard.
647
00:39:24,094 --> 00:39:28,095
Hans Bethe wrote, "If we fight
a war and win it with H-bombs...
648
00:39:28,268 --> 00:39:32,932
...what history will remember is
not the ideals we were fighting for...
649
00:39:33,108 --> 00:39:35,731
...but the methods used
to accomplish them.
650
00:39:35,905 --> 00:39:40,119
These methods will be compared
to the warfare of Genghis Khan...
651
00:39:40,411 --> 00:39:44,245
...who brutally killed every last
inhabitant of Persia."
652
00:39:51,595 --> 00:39:53,222
Hey.
653
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:55,384
It's over.
654
00:39:57,982 --> 00:39:59,441
It was the Israelis.
655
00:40:01,278 --> 00:40:03,900
The bombers have turned back.
656
00:40:05,451 --> 00:40:08,905
That's a hell of a dress rehearsal.
657
00:40:11,085 --> 00:40:13,079
This is our plan.
658
00:40:13,505 --> 00:40:16,462
This is our nuanced, reasoned...
659
00:40:16,636 --> 00:40:19,889
We bomb, then they nuke,
then we nuke.
660
00:40:20,351 --> 00:40:23,139
This is the best we've gamed this out?
661
00:40:23,313 --> 00:40:25,805
The fate of the world hung
on a Bingo Bob brainstorm.
662
00:40:25,985 --> 00:40:28,025
You wanna live by those odds?
663
00:40:28,196 --> 00:40:32,861
As opposed to sanctions, inspections
and never-ending talks...
664
00:40:33,037 --> 00:40:37,951
...while a Hezbollah martyr leads
a donkey cart packed with plutonium...
665
00:40:38,129 --> 00:40:40,586
...smack into downtown Tel Aviv.
666
00:40:43,429 --> 00:40:45,388
It's not over.
667
00:40:47,143 --> 00:40:51,523
And we need a better plan.56262
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