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JOSH:
It's fun.

LEO:
I like you.

I've been trying
to get it in

under the wire.

Two pipe bombs were set off

inside the Geiger Indoor Arena.

C.J./PRESIDENT:
44 people...
are dead...

...were killed
a couple of hours ago

at Kennison State University.

I'm Matt Kelley.

I'm Toby Ziegler.

I work at the
White House.

Have a minute to talk?

We have reason to believe
that in the next 48 hours

the Qumari rescue team
will announce

that they've recovered
a military-issue

Israeli-made parachute.

What do we do now?

We're in the
Situation Room.

Let's go.

Nancy's in her office.

There are some calls
I asked her to make.

I've told the President
about the parachute.

Tommy, do they even
make parachutes
in Israel?

They're saying it's
an Israeli-made parachute.

They make 'em.
They're good ones.

Listen, I know we're here
for a serious purpose--

for a sober purpose,
but I wanted to say

I've never been part
of a street gang before

and that's basically
what we are--

a pretty well-financed one--

but anyway, I wanted to say
it feels good, and I think

when we're done
with this meeting

I think we
should go out

and get girls,
and I don't know

maybe knock over a fruit stand
or something.

Okay.

We're going to need to learn
to sing and dance.

The information's
basically coming

from the NSC
operations unit.

A cell phone intercept
between the Sultan and Habib.

"The Butcher of Kafr will have
no choice but to resign."

And we're sure
he's talking about Israel?

"The Butcher of Kafr will have
no choice but to resign."

LEO:
Well, the B-movie
dialogue aside...

Toby and Josh are back.

Toby Ziegler
and Josh Lyman

missed the motorcade
in Indiana yesterday.

It's taken them 20 hours
to get home.

They're walking into DC
right now.

Doesn't matter.

Let's assume the Sultan

that Shareef's planel Jazeera
didn't go down accidentally--

that it was brought
down by the Israelis.

What are the options
we've come up with so far?

Do nothing.
Which we can't do.

Call Qumar's bluff.

Demand they
produce proof.

We can't call their bluff.

Why?

'Cause they're
calling our bluff.

When they produce
manufactured proof

we'd have to say,
"You manufactured that."

And they'd say,
"How do you know?"

So, the next option is
we defend Israel.

You're not curious why
they're walking into DC?

No.

What happens
if Hezbollah

launches a missile
at Israel?

Walking into DC
Israel attacks...

from where I guess
you got to ask yourself.

You want to hunker down?

Okay, just for that

when it comes time
to give out gang nicknames

you're going to be...
I don't know

but you're not going
to have a good nickname.

Ellie had a teacher
named Mr. Pordy

who had no interest
in nuance.

He asked the class
why there's always

been conflict
in the Middle East

and Ellie raised her hand
and said

"It's a centuries-old
religious conflict

involving land and suspicion
and culture and..."

"Wrong," Mr. Pordy said.

"It's because
it's incredibly hot

and there's no water."

I'm hunkered down.

I'm going to East Lansing.

We're going
to need a lawyer.

covering the hour-to-hour
movements of the President.

Only the cream of the crop
ride here with me.

The rest are consigned
to the zoo plane

where they do not have
moist towelettes.

This is why I'm so disappointed

that with the exceptions of
Terry, Mike, Mark and Rachel

you all misspelled
Muhziriabolah.

I'm on
television.

It was misspelled in your copy.
I could tell.

Speaking of copy--
is there an advance

on the speech
to the teachers?

An advanced
copy of text?

You must be new.

Can you tell us what
he's going to say

about the pipe bombing?

He's obviously going
to talk about it

but I don't know
what he's going to say.

There's a filing center
behind the press riser.

You'll have 50 minutes to file

while the President meets
with the Executive Board.

Open to
the pool?

Pool photos,
that's it.

Has he spoken
to the University President?

He's spoken
to Chancellor Bayless

twice now,
and the President's

accepted an invitation
to speak at the memorial service

on the KSU campus this Saturday.

Anything new
from the FBI?

Well, I'm still referring
those questions

to Zane Littleton
at the FBI.

But I do want to underline
their initial finding

that it doesn't appear
to have been an act

of foreign terrorism.

And that's based on...?

The nature of the explosive.

Okay, then.

The flight to Battle Creek
Air National Guard Base

is an hour and 45 minutes.

It will be a 45-minute ride
to Michigan State

where the President will address
the delegates from the NEA

for approximately 25 minutes.

I noticed Josh and Toby
aren't on the plane.

Are they still at a gas station
in Unionville?

No, they made it home

and their mothers
are very relieved.

They've been given
a four hour vacation.

Anything else?

M-U-H-Z-I-R-I-A-B-O-L-A-H.

He might get asked
about Title IX.

Why?

Richie mentioned
yesterday it was
worth reexamining

so they'll ask him
for a reaction.

You may want to
talk to Josh for
first-thoughts.

What are yours?

On Title IX?
Yeah.

I have none.
I'm indifferent.

You can't be indifferent.

I have to be.

I have only so much RAM
in my head.

I have to prioritize.

I have to throw
some things overboard

so I've chosen,
for instance

not to care whether or not
Purdue has a fencing team.

Sam.

Bruno.

This is Debbie Fiderer,
the President's new Exec.

This is Bruno Gianelli

General Chairman,
Committee to Re-Elect.

Hello.
Hi.

The DC District Court

is ruling today
on a debate case.

Do you know
anything about it?

Yeah, I think
it's Sullivan v.

Commission on
Presidential Debates

ABC, CBS, NBC News et. al.

This is the third
party rule? 15%?

Happens every four years.

All right.

There are, like,
500 citizen lawsuits

trying to get their
guy in the debate.

It never goes anywhere.

All right.

Fiderer's a funny name.

It's not ha-ha funny,
it's just, you know...

Okay.

Sullivan v. Commission
on Presidential Debates.

Stay on it.
Yeah.

It's a guy suing,
so Stackhouse can
be in the debate.

I thought Stackhouse
was supposed to end up
endorsing the President.

He is. He will.

Why would he be
in the debate?

Presumably he's endorsing
the President

because he knew
he wouldn't be.

How bad would it be?

Which is why even
if, for some reason

he was allowed
in the debate,
he wouldn't do it.

Stackhouse isn't trying
to hurt the President.

But let's get
back to you.

Josh Lyman's going
to give you a
security briefing

and an ethics
briefing.

Charlie's going
to tell you some things.

You have
provisional clearance

right now pending successful
completion of the SF-86

and GC-1 background check.

What is it?

It's a questionnaire.

Extensive questions
on your past

personal, professional,
financial... pharmaceutical...

No, I know the form.

What is a GC-1?

They contact family members
and friends and neighbors

and former neighbors
to corroborate.

Well, this
is fine

but I've worked at
the White House before.

At my last job,
the background check

wasn't nearly
as extensive...

You have a button
on your phone,
a crash button.

Hmm?

You have a crash button

which will bring the Secret
Service in instantly

and turn your office
into a live microphone

which will be broadcast
all over the building.

It's the button you push
if someone's trying to
take the Oval Office.

This isn't your last job.

Sam, we need
you in here.

Excuse me.

Bruno thinks we
dump the whole thing.

I think 44 people are dead

and we can't give a speech
on education.

I'm concerned it's going
to look opportunistic

if we talk about Iowa
at a campaign event.

Plus, we're using
the teachers like props.

C.J.:
He's got to mention
it, though.

Yeah, he can't
not mention it.

BRUNO:
There are dead children

and then you segue
to what?

I don't know.

I don't
know either.

What are your
feelings, sir?

I don't know.
It's a seven-ten split.

Can you work on it a while?

Yes, sir.

I'm going to call Leo.

I'll be in my office.

Let her on in, Becky.

Good morning.

Hello.

You look sensational

in your Gabriella
Something thing there.

Thank you.

"Cloak and dagger."

Look...
"Cloak and dagger."

It was one sentence
in a two-page note.

And you sent
me a note?

I was asked here
on business

which I usually conduct
at my office.

I was going
to come there

but then I thought,
between the lobby,
the elevator

the reception area,
the paralegal's area

the associate's area
and the coffee room

of a Washington DC law firm,
there was an outside chance

that somebody might recognize
the White House Chief of Staff.

All I meant by
cloak and dagger

is that I'm not cut out
for the security meetings

and the secret this
and the back channel
ambassadors.

It's like you're
in the Mafia.

Well, it may be like
I'm in the Mafia,
but I'm not.

I work for
the good guys.

It was one sentence.

The problem was,
you were never

at the other
end of the phone.

That's an entirely
different kettle of beans

and we can have
that discussion

but history's shown
that if you just wait

and tell it
to a divorce lawyer

you can have
half my stuff.

I don't want
half your stuff.

You don't know--
some of it's good stuff.

Where are we going?

Someplace quiet
where we can talk.

The White House Situation Room.

We just call it that.

Am I even allowed
to be in here?

Look at this stuff.

It's a map
of North America.

What are you
worried about?

Hey, where are
you from?

I'm from Lincoln, Nebraska.

Hey, Lieutenant, can you
throw an Opal Drill

up on the wall?

Lincoln, Nebraska.

What's it doing?

LEO:
It's showing a first strike
nuclear attack

from Beijing and North Korea.

Hey, look at that.

Lincoln survives
the first of...

( explosion )

No, not so much.

Leo...

Alright?

First of all

we have to go beyond the normal
attorney/client privilege here.

This is sensitive.

There are no degrees
of attorney/client privilege.

I don't care
if it's sensitive.

No, I'm talking
about State secrets

with highest security
classification.

If you told anyone,
you'd be convicted of treason

and sent to prison,
probably for life.

No, I wouldn't.

No, you wouldn't.
It's nothing like treason.

But if you told anyone,
it'd be bad.

What?

Do you remember

last May,
that a private plane

carrying Qumari Defense Minister
Abdul Shareef

went down near Bermuda

and that all the passengers,
including Shareef, were dead?

No.

No?

No.

Okay, well, it happened.

Qumar has been
investigating the accident

because they believe
there was foul play.

And we believe, in fact we know,
they're trying to frame Israel.

They're producing
phony evidence.

How do you know?

I'm sorry.

You said "we know."
How do you know?

Because we do.

Why isn't it possible
for Israel...?

Jordon...

We know any evidence
of assassination

is manufactured.

How?

'Cause we destroyed
all the evidence.

( beep )

WOMAN:
Mr. McGarry,
I have the President

on your line.

Yes, sir.

How's it going?

Fine.

Is she there?

Yeah.

What do you know?

Casper's here, he's going
to talk to me.

I'll send him to you
next, all right?

Thank you.

What are you about to say?

I don't know.

I still have about two minutes.

Okay.

PRESIDENT:
"The bullying nature

"of the intrusive
and invasive government

"of the United States
has to be rendered

"quickly and decisively
a wake-up call.

And this opportunity..."

What do you
think of this letter?

He's not Tom Paine.

No.

It's rhetoric common
to separatists.

They're telling us
that English is
his first language

but that he's not
very well educated.

Is it credible?

Yes, sir.

You guys think it was
sent by the bomber?

Or his group.

We think
there's a group.

We don't know.

Now, you've been
told, sir...

The end of the letter
promises more.

Yes, sir.

In the next
48 hours.

Obviously, we
expected that.

It's what they always say.

Unless what?

That's where I'm confused.

He didn't make
any demands, sir.

This letter
isn't a threat.

It's an announcement.

All right, what
do you have?

"We will catch the perpetrators.

We will track them down,
we will punish..."

Along those lines.

It's too early
for Rocky, right?

Yes, plus once you
catch a perpetrator

you don't need
to track him down.

I told you,
he likes the rhythm.

It was his line.

It's a dummy phrase.
It's a placeholder.

I think I'm just going
to talk for a little bit.

MAN:
Ladies and gentlemen

the President
of the United States.

( applause )

SAM:
"Joy cometh in
the morning," sir.

Thank you.

( applause continues )

( cheering and applause )

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

"Joy cometh in the morning,"
scripture tells us.

I hope so.

I don't know if life
would be worth living

if it didn't.

And I don't yet know who set off
the bomb at Kennison State.

I don't know if it's one person
or ten

and I don't know what they want.

All I know for sure,
all I know for certain

is that they weren't born
wanting to do this.

There's evil in the world.

There'll always be

and we can't do anything
about that.

But there's violence
in our schools

too much mayhem
in our culture

and we can do something
about that.

There's not enough character

discipline and depth
in our classrooms.

There aren't enough teachers
in our classrooms.

There isn't nearly enough

not nearly enough

not nearly enough money
in our classrooms

and we can do
something about that.

We're not doing nearly enough,
not nearly enough

to teach our children well.

And we can do better,
and we must do better

and we will do better.

And we will start
this moment today.

They weren't born

wanting to do this.

( cheering and applause )

LEO:
I've been thinking a lot

about an egg salad sandwich
on a Kaiser roll.

If it's Milos making
the potato salad

then potato salad.

If not, then a potato
in any other form
will be fine.

Why did you
tell me that?

I didn't.
I was talking
to Margaret.

I know that.

She knows that, sir.
She meant...

( hangs up phone )

He's got a secret ingredient
he puts in the potato salad

that makes you crave it
beyond what's usually reasonable

for something like that.

I'm like two, three
forkfuls away

from the final piece
of the puzzle

and then this monkey's
off my back.

Why, you know,
in the world

did you tell me
what you just did?

I was ordered to
this morning by the President.

He told you to talk to me?

He told me to make contact
with a lawyer.

Commander, Jordan Kendall,
please.

First of all

that's a nice picture
of you.

Sometimes, these pictures
aren't that nice.

Look at that smile.

You could light up
Chicago.

You just have this
at the push of a button?

No. But you give
these guys some notice

they can put on a show.

Second page, please.

Maxwell School of Diplomacy

and International Relations.

Associate Counsel
U.S. Delegation

to the United Nations.

General Counsel, U.S. Delegation
to the United Nations.

General Counsel for
the United Nations.

Which is when you found out
you could buy stuff with money.

Page three, please.

Partner, Whitcomb, Wiley,
Hawking, Harrison and Kendall.

Was there a Burt
Kendall at the firm?

Maybe his portrait's
hanging up

in the partner''
dining room.
No.

No, they're talking
about you, right?

It wasn't my idea
to add my name to the firm.

They needed to raise the profile

of their international
law department.

A specialty in international
law, you say? Interesting.

Have you any experience
dealing in matters

that receive
wide media coverage?

Let's take a trip to page four.

You have a good time
doing this, right?

You don't even know.

Orlando Ruiz

of the 101-mile-an-hour
fastball and Cuban citizenship.

Richard White of Lackland
Chemical and wrongful death.

I do not have any experience
with what you're talking about.

Hmm?

I don't have any experience

with what you're
talking about.

Nobody does.

And we're talking about
we killed Shareef.

We put 14 bullets in his chest
on an airstrip in Bermuda.

It's helpful to start
saying it out loud.

( beep )

MARGARET:
I'm sorry, Leo.
Yeah?

I thought you might
want to know

that there's a message here

from Harold Harrison saying
there's about to be a decision

from the District Court,
and it's not what you think.

Come down here
and show Ms. Kendall out.

Excuse me.

Donna.

Josh.

Josh.

Yes. I have
to talk to you.

I have to talk
to you.

Me first.
Why's that?

'Cause it's
important.
Okay.

Go ahead.
No, you go.

I'm perfectly fine waiting.

I have the patience
of an adult.

You have 20 seconds.

It came to me
in my sleep this morning

'cause when I got home
the paper was already there.

Page two of the
Business Section
in today's Post

there's an article
about Redstar

and the $35 million
retention bonus

they gave to...
I can't remember his name.

Wadkins.

So we all know that CEOs
get bonuses that workers don't.

But in the sixth graph,
they talk about Congress

ending the deductibility
of salaries over a million

and that the measure
excluded items

that the IRS deemed
to be incentive based.

In other words, the bonuses
are tax deductible.

In other words

Wadkins gets $35 million
for crashing the company

and the company gets
a deduction.

Toby, college costs-- investment
in the future workforce

in innovation,
in the ideas economy

investment
in crime reduction--

isn't that a better use
of capital

than writing off
the bonuses?

The guy last night
in the bar, Matt Kelly

the one who's taking
his daughter

to visit colleges.

He said it needs to be
just a little easier.

Not a lot easier,
a little.

Toby every nickel spent
on college tuition

should be 100%
tax deductible.

Not capped and indexed
and bracketed.

Every nickel

100 percent.

What?

That's exactly what
I was going to tell you.

No, it wasn't.

Exactly.

You're saying that now
just to make it seem...

I'm gonna make
some time with Leo.

And figure out a way
to pay for it.

Yeah.
Good.

Good.

Hello.
Hey.

Did you sleep
all right?

I did, but then
I read this thing...

How you doing?
Good.

What's on for tonight?

You'll have a meeting
with the state party chair

and you'll say energizing
things to the staff.

Any we in any danger at all
of losing Massachusetts?

No.

Why am I doing
this again?

Because.

I can't just go
straight to the event?

No.
Why?

Because everybody's going
to the campaign first

and we just spent 20 hours
trying to get out of Indiana.

Who's at the event?

Aimee Mann, Barenaked Ladies,
Chrissie Hynde,

Sixpence None The Richer,
Aaron Neville

Diamondback Whale,
Daisy Chain, Next Big Thing

the Cruel Shoes,
and Single-Cell Paramecium.

You've just been practicing

for when I asked
the question, right?

Yes.

And you made up
the Cruel Shoes.

No. Single-Cell
Paramecium.

Okay.

The motorcade.

We're here!

Would you stop?

We're here!

Everybody's really
over that now.

Admiral Scott,
your expedition's returned.

All right.

Let me take a look at you,
Don Quixote de La Mancha.

Don Quixote wasn't
an explorer.

No, but he rode around
on a horse.

You sleep?

I did better
than that.

Well, keep it
to yourself.

I need you to weigh in
on Ritchie and Title IX.

Yeah, I saw that.
I wrote a memo.

Thank you.

Toby and I are working
on tuition. It would be...

Josh.

They're back.

They are?
Yeah.

Are they being funny?

I think it's over.

Barnum, Bailey and
their sister Sue.

They're almost over it.

We want to talk to you
about an issue

that should be in play
in the campaign right away.

You know that
the District Court

is ruling on
Sullivan today?

v. Commission
on Presidential Debates?

Yep.

They're never going
to rule for him.

Sullivan?

Yeah, they're never
going to rule for him.

The suit gets brought
all the time.

Ordinarily, I
wouldn't be concerned

but it's Justice Wingding
heard the case.

Wengland?
Yeah.

He's not so crazy.
Yeah?

Hey!
We're back!
We're never leaving again.

Your mother and I
were very worried.

Me, too.

Fellows.

Would you tell him
he doesn't have to worry

about the District Court?

I told him already.

They're not going
to rule for Sullivan.

He's worried
'cause it's Wengland.

He's not that crazy.

with a Federal Judge being
even a little bit crazy.

I'm going back
to my office.

BRUNO:
The speech to the
teachers this morning?

24 years in
professional politics

I have never seen
anything like it.

You would have
been proud.

We're going to win this
election, you know?
I do.

Leo.

They ruled for Sullivan.

( door opens )

They ruled for Sullivan?

Yeah.

C.J., when you guys

vet your judicial candidates

do you go so far as to meet
and speak with them?

Can I see a copy
of the decision?

"The Commission

"a tax-exempt entity,
is legally precluded

"from partisan politics
of any kind.

"The 15% rule,
benefiting

"the two major parties

"is partisan politics
of the worst kind--

"regulatory duopoly,
democracy

"by favoristic fiat,
a bureaucratic junta...

Yes.
"...that is clearly

prohibited under Federal law."

There's no way "favoristic's"
a word.

We all agree with you, Toby,
we just don't think

it's grounds for appeal.

It's not like we're
going to have

to search high
and low for that.

ED:
This means what
I think it means

right?
Yep.
Yeah.

No one can be excluded
from the debates.

You can be excluded,
but the bar is set much...

The Libertarian Party,
Natural Law

Right to Life.
Right to Left.

The Republicans, we're going
to probably have to let in.

LEO:
The appeals process
is going to take too long.

We're going to have to go
to the Supreme Court.

Sam, they can stay the effect
of the trial court

in advance of appeal, right?

Yeah.
And you got
to get

Ritchie's people to join us
in the motion.

Oh, yeah.
All right.

All right.

JOSH:
Sam?

Yeah?

I had a thought before
and Toby claims, at any rate

to have had
the same thought.

I showed you, like,
DNA evidence of...

JOSH:
When Congress put the million
dollar cap on deducting salary

they left a loophole for
incentive-based bonuses.

Yeah, are not all
bonuses incentive based?

Are there any bonuses
you get just automatically?

And isn't that called salary?

Which is also incentive based.

By the way, I don't think
there are a lot of people

would go to work without one.
Sam...

Come back to the pack?
Yes.

Why isn't college tuition
100% tax deductible?

I don't know.

Why do flammable and inflammable
mean the same thing?

What if we capped it
at 80,000?

You're really talking
about this?

Yes.

And you pay for it by closing
the loophole for bonuses?

Nobody's talked
to the OMB

but I think it
costs $50 billion.

Closing the loophole
is about $35 billion.

Am I close?

Yeah.

And the $15 billion's
gettable through...

Yeah.

C.J.:
"Yosh"?

She's talking
to me, right?
Yeah.

I'm reading your memo.

Memo?

The machismo manifesto.

Title IX.
Oh, yeah.

Bruno asked me
to weigh in.

I can't image
why he called on you.

I was asked
as a campaign issue

if we should
reexamine Title IX.

Which is, by the way,
a wedge with male voters

in Ohio, Michigan
and North Carolina.

So are a lot of things.

There's something
fair but dumb about
a 50-50 split

when more men are interested
in sports than women--

and don't cite the WNBA
and soccer.

More men are interested
in sports than women.

We don't need a study
to tell us that.

But if we did, there's
about 493 of them.

Are you going to talk to someone
in Stackhouse camp?

About the Sullivan
decision?

You should probably
just make sure.

The Court's going to stay
the judgment

and even if they don't

Stackhouse will pass
on the debate.

He's not out to kill
the President.

He just wants to
keep him honest.

It might be nice if you make
a courtesy call, though

so we're not taking
him for granted.

I'll call Stackhouse.

Since Title IX,
women's participation in sports

has increased 800%.

That's not a typo--
it worked.

Okay.

Hello.

Yes.

Okay,
how's your day so far?

Very exciting.

You had your
security briefing?

Yes.
I'd like to go through

some of your answers
on the SF-86

if that's all right?
Sure.

Three years ago,
you were asked

"Have you ever been
an officer

or a member or made a
contribution to an organization

dedicated to the violent
overthrow of the government?"

You answered... "Yes."

Yes.

You answered yes.

I see where you're
going with this.

Because while we respect
your rightI do.

to overthrow
the government

we don't respect your right
to do it violently

nor from inside
the Oval Office.

I worked in the
Personnel Office

when I answered that

and I did it to demonstrate
a problem with the form.

If the FBI wants
people to admit to
extremist tendencies

they've got to
tailor a more subtle
question than that.

Like, "Have you ever
participated in organizations

that seek radical solutions
to egregious social problems?"

I've had some experience
with this.

So has the FBI.

Is this going
to screw me up?

Not this probably as much

as when you suggested
killing the President.

I did not.

Yeah, you did.

No, sir.

"Let's stick some arsenic

"in President Bartlet's
drinking water

"and see if he delegates
the responsibility

to the World Bank then."

Okay, um, where
it says "arsenic"

that should read
"Schweppes Bitter Lemon."

I don't know how that...

Debbie!

Come on, 35 million
people in Bangladesh

were drinking
contaminated water

and the White House
issued a statement

saying they supported
the World Bank's efforts

to address the problem

but made no move to
intervene independently.

I wrote a letter.

FBI read it as a threat.

It wasn't.
Don't be ridiculous.

I'm not being ridiculous,
Debbie!

I was, however,
four feet away from him

when the guns started firing.

I know. I-I apologize.

Who can I talk to?

I want this job,
Charlie.

I didn't before
and I do now.

Who can I talk to?

Let me find out.

PRESIDENT:
What else?

C.J.:
It's making
the rounds that

Governor Ritchie called
the Chancellor's office.

What's wrong with that?

He's angling for
an invitation to the
memorial on Saturday.

He wants to speak.
Oh, for the love
of Mike.

The Chancellor was
with us in Iowa

and the Ritchie people
are quietly saying

that allowing you to be
National Healer in Chief...

Look, win or lose
on the fifth

I'm the President right now,
right?

Um, yeah,
I'm almost sure.

Six, look, six of the girls
were exactly Zoey's age.

Tell the Chancellor's office
if it'll make his life easier

I'll sit in row 19
and you'll keep out the press.

This has to be
about the students
and the families

and Ritchie and I are simply

going to have to summon
the humanity

to keep this from being
a political event.

Yes, sir.

Good afternoon,
Mr. President.

Claudia Jean.
Sailor.

In the Oval Office,
you're really going to...

No.
Good.

Thank you,
Mr. President.

How did you do
with Jordon?

She's a little wary

but I think she
might be willing

to go out
with me again.
Yeah?

But you meant
the other problem.

Yeah.

She's a little wary.

Yeah.
She's gone
to her office

and then she's going
home for the day

and she's going to think.

All right.

In the meantime, what do we have
by way of stalling tactics?

A misinformation campaign.

We ought to be good at that.

Sir,
State feels Shareef

was never comfortable
with the Sultan's

friendly relationship
with the West.

State thinks he had a friendly
relationship with the West.

"The one-eyed man is king
in a world of..." whatever.

We leak that Shareef used his
U.S. trip as an opportunity

to fly to Libya.

Shareef is now alive and well
and living in Libya?

And planning to overthrow
his brother

and install
a fundamentalist regime.

All right.

Come back and tell me
how we do it.

Yes, sir.

Blind men.

"The one-eyed man is king
in a world of blind men."

Thank you,
Mr. President.

Special Agent Casper?

Yes, please.

Good afternoon,
Mr. President.

What do you know?

We're ready to say
the manuscript was credible.

We ran a search using some more
of the unique rhetoric

or catchphrases
and we found a match.

A lot of it was lifted
straight off the Web site

of a separatist group
called the Liberation Cause

which is a splinter
of the Patriot Brotherhood.

The Internet has been
a phenomenal tool

for hate groups.
Yes, sir.

You should know
that we're working
on some good leads.
Good.

Don't pipe bombs
usually kill

just two or three people?

Yes, sir.

How is it so many yesterday?

The bombs were set
off indoors, sir.

There was a huge fire.

Anything else, sir?

No. Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Ten of those things

under the bleachers
at a basketball game?

They've got good leads.

Okay.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Charlie?

Yes, sir?

In ascending order of age

would you get my daughters
on the phone, please?

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

* I'm the kind of guy
who laughs at a funeral *

* Can't understand what I mean?
You soon will *

* I have a tendency
to wear my mind on my sleeve *

* I have a history
of losing my shirt *

* It's been one week
since you looked at me *

* Dropped your arms to your
sides and said, "I'm sorry" *

* Five days since
I laughed at you and said *

* "You just did just what I
thought you were gonna do *

* Three days
since the living room *

* We realized we're both to
blame, but what could we do? *

* Yesterday, you
just smiled at me *

* 'Cause it'll still be two days
till we say we're sorry *

* It'll still be two days
till we say we're sorry... *

I just tried
Stackhouse again.

He hasn't returned?

Stackhouse is going to be fine.

I've called twice.

At 55,000

Matt Kelly's
in the 27.5% bracket.

Let's assume
he takes the standard deductions

and let's forget
for a moment mortgage payments.

What's his tax
liability?

$13,300.

Tuition at Notre Dame's $25,850.

Let's throw in books,
room and board

and it's $34,000.

We're saying the books are
tax deductible, too, right?

I personally think the beer
should be tax deductible

but we've live
to fight another day.

So, with one
kid in college

Matt Kelly's tax
liability

just dropped
from $13,300...

( applause and cheering )

to $3,800?

If we can get this done

it'll be a good
day's work.

Let's take it to C.J.

when she gets off.

C.J.:
Barenaked Ladies

helping out
in the labor/delivery room

of American democracy

the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.

Whoo!

( applause and cheering )

25 years ago,
half of all

18 to 24 year olds voted.

Today, it's 25%.

18 to 24 year olds represent 33%
of the population, but only

seven percent
of the voters.

You think government
isn't about you?

How many of you have
student loans to pay?

( applause and cheering )

How many have credit card debt?

( applause and cheering )

How many want clean air
and clean water

and civil liberties?

( applause and cheering )

How many want jobs?

How many want kids?

How many want their kids to go

to good schools
and walk on safe streets?

( applause and cheering )

Decisions are made
by those who show up.

You got to rock the vote!

( applause and cheering )
Whoo!

PRESIDENT:
What's going on?

LEO:
Casper's got something.

Mr. President,
three hours ago

Sheriff's deputies
in Johnson County, Iowa

surrounded a house
when they were tipped off

that several men
in their 20s have been

buying all the pseudoephedrine
they could get their hands on.

Three of the stores they went to
were owned by the same man.

Allergy medicine?

Allergy medicine
with tractor starter fluid

strained through a coffee filter
is methamphetamine.

Tractor starter fluid
doesn't kill you?

No, it'll definitely kill you

but first
you'll get pretty high.

The Sheriff's deputies were
shot at from the house.

We think these
might be our guys?

The address and the name
of the occupants match a couple

of names that we've linked
to the Patriot Brotherhood.

We have reason
to believe

they're connected
to KSU?

They're telling us
they are.

They're also telling us
they have Mac-10s, MP-5s

and Car-15s.

Are there kids inside?

Yes, sir.
All right.

Let's get the Director
and the Attorney General.

We only go in on my order, okay?

It'll be my order.

Yes, sir.

You just knew
it was going to
end up like this.

Good evening,
Mr. President.

Allergy medicine

and tractor fluid,
we're getting high on now.

All right.

You guys getting
strippers or something?

How do we do it?
Basically

Langley manufactures
documents, photographs

audio messages

even a body double,
if necessary.

Is this going
to get ridiculous?

Absolutely.

We make sure

agents in Iraq,
Syria and Iran

get a whiff
of the story

and word inside and outside
of the palace spreads.

We'll see it on al Jazeera?

If we do our jobs.

No disinformation
to U.S. press, right?

We don't give disinformation
to the American press?

Unless it's
about my medical history?

Yes, sir.

All right, let's go.

Thank you,
Mr. President.

( door closes )

All this posturing is a preamble
to something.

You ready to say hello?

Why not?

Hey, Jordon.

Good evening,
Mr. President.

What do you think?

I'm sorry, sir?

What do you think?

I don't know.

Yeah.
I have to
tell you

I'm very uncomfortable
knowing what I know.

That makes three of us.

I haven't had any sort
of time...

Take all the time you want.

You done yet?

You understand domestically

you're looking at possible
injury to separation of powers

internationally a possible
war crimes charge?

At the very least

we'd be wading
up to our necks

into unprecedented

legal waters,
exposing the Presidency

to culpability undreamed of

by the creators of the U.N.
and the U.S. Constitution.

Well, that makes us
ground-breaking, doesn't it?

Mr. President

I've defended guilty people
before

but I've never had a client

that was willing
to admit the crime

but didn't expect
to go to trial.

More ground-breaking.

Due respect, Mr. President,
this isn't funny.

Due respect, Ms. Kendall

I'm the last person

to whom that needs
to be pointed out.

And Article 51 of the United
Nations Charters says

every nation has a right
to wage war to defend itself.

The Article's incumbent
on wars being declared.

Wars don't work like that
anymore.

Laws work like that.

44 people are dead in Iowa,
most of them college kids.

Shareef has murdered Americans
in uniform.

He's murdered Americans
out of uniform.

He was trying to blow up
the Golden Gate Bridge

and I didn't have time
to file an amicus brief.

How can justice that has to be
served in secret be justice?

I don't know,
I'm working on that.

Anyway, at the moment
I'm having trouble

foreseeing the exact
legal consequences

on the international stage.

Why?

Because most
of international law

doesn't exist yet.

Well, that's what I was hoping
you'd say.

I want there to be justice.

That's why I'm talking
to a lawyer.

Anyway, I just came in
to say hello.

Charlie?

Yes, sir.

I'm heading back
to the residence.

Do you have a moment
for Debbie?

Oh, God.

Yeah.

Good evening,
Mr. President.

Arsenic?

( laughs ):
You got to give me
points for...

Nothing.

There's nothing
you can give me points for.

I don't get any points.

No.

I sincerely apologize.

It was a higher

environmental cancer risk
than Chernobyl.

We spend 20 million a year
on strategic milk reserve.

We can't toss...

Why couldn't you
have stopped

with "I sincerely
apologize?"

I should have.

I-I see that.

Your argument is totally
fuhkakta by the way.

The World Bank
has a $17 billion
budget contributed

by a hundred...

Uh, it doesn't matter.

Don't worry about it.

Don't worry
about it, huh?

Yeah.

I don't know
what that means.

You can keep the job.

Great.

Why?

Why, because you knock
me out, that's why.

How did I do that?

"Let's stick some arsenic

"in President Bartlet's
drinking water and see

if he delegates responsibility
to the World Bank then."

President Bartlet.

You referred to me

and to the office
with respect.

You're a class act.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Whack job.

Yes, sir.

( organ music playing )

* Let us turn our thoughts today
to Martin Luther King *

* And recognize
that there are ties between us *

* All men and women
living on the earth *

* Ties of hope and love

* Sister and brotherhood...

DONNA:
It's not the fault
of women's sports.

It's the fault
of football.

It's the fault of football?

Yeah.

Football pays
for all the other sports.

There are 53 players
on an NFL team.

The University
of Colorado has 130

85 of whom are
on full scholarship.

I'm all for back-ups
and substitutes

but can't the guy

whose fourth on
depth chart at
right outside

linebacker also be fourth
on the depth chart

at left outside linebacker?

If a college football team

cut back to
70 scholarships

they'd still be three deep
at every position

and have a fourth string punter
and place-kicker.

15 scholarships.

That's a wrestling team.

Excuse me.

* There is a feeling
like the clenching of a fist *

* There is a hunger
in the center of the chest *

* There is a passage
Hi.

* Through the darkness
and the mist... *

What are you doing up here?

I do some work
for these guys.

It's a great event.

Yeah.

You look good.

Yeah?

No.

You look tired.

Well, you look good.

Yes, I know.

( chuckles )

Okay.

* Just a little light,
oh Lord *

Hey did you... ?

I heard you got
left behind by
the motorcade.

Yeah, it-it took us 20 hours
to get out of Indiana.

You should have been with us.

You'd have had fun.

( laughs )

I would have.

* Wanna walk it on down

* Shed a little light, oh Lord

I don't know what to say
about the pipe bombing.

There's nothing to say.

* Can't get no light
from a dollar bill *

I-I was trying...
I miss you.

to call Stackhouse.

I'm sorry?

What did you say?

No, you said you called Howard?

Yeah, I haven't heard back.
What...

What did you say?
You were calling
about Sullivan?

Yeah. They're-they're not
returning my call.

I shouldn't be nervous, right?

No, you should be.
Did you say
you missed me?

Josh...

What do you mean
I should be nervous?

We're considering...
We?

Stackhouse.

* Shed a little light

The District Court says

Howard Stackhouse can appear
in the debates.

Is Stackhouse...

under new management?

It's been...

For debate prep, it's
been offered to me.

This is not-not the deal
we made with them.

In one week

he is supposed
to endorse the President.

He never thought he'd
get in the debate.

He's not!

So, he-he's...

moving you from consultant...

I don't know.

It's all happening fast.

It's just today.

* Shed a little light, oh Lord

I'm considering it.

( sighs )

It wasn't the deal we had.

( quietly ):
I miss you.

I mean, you've got
to ask yourself

multi-million dollar bonuses
are deductible and not tuition?

It's 'cause corporations donate

to all the members
of the tax writing committees.

I didn't mean you really
have to ask yourself.

I knew you knew the answer.

Ritchie's already
coming after us

for politicizing
the budget.

Plus, Leo hates to make policy
through tax code

'cause then we can't do any kind
of reform without unraveling it.

Was that Amy?

Yeah.

If the Sullivan
decision's upheld

Stackhouse wants
into the debate.

He's not going
to endorse the
President.

Had to see that coming.

I'm calling Bruno.

The Court's going
to stay the effect.

He's not going to be
in the debate.

Josh'll take care of it.

Anyway, college tuition.

Another reason
not to do it.

There are a lot of reasons
not to do it.

But...

( sighs )

we met a guy last night

at an airport hotel
in the bar.

His daughter was
upstairs in the room.

They'd been looking
at colleges.

He makes
$55,000 a year.

His mutual fund
got beat up

yesterday on
Wall Street.

And he was so happy

to be taking his daughter
to colleges.

He came downstairs
to the bar

'cause he didn't want her to see

that he didn't know
how he was going to pay for it.

There are a lot of reasons
not to do it

but during the first campaign
the President said

there are two kinds
of politicians.

SAM:
The ones
who try to say yes

and the ones who try to say no.

We're going
to throw these guys out

'cause they want
to say no.

* Stand it on up, oh Lord

I guess if we're going
to get thrown out

I don't want it to be for that.

Let's take it
to Leo.

* Wanna walk it on down

* Shed a little light, oh Lord

WOMAN:
Hello?

Matt?

Matt?

Yeah.

It's for you.

A man named Toby Ziegler.

Do you know him?

Yeah.

* There is a hunger
in the center of the chest *

Hello.

Matt, it's me from last night.

Yeah, we got... we got home
fine, thanks.

Now, let me tell you
what we're working on.

* Oh, let us turn
our thoughts today *

* To Martin Luther King.