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Previously on The West Wing:

and everyone who works on the speech writing staff

Don't be ridiculous. It's a West Wing office.

Everyone who works in the White House is going to resent you.

Looks like some of the junior staffers

may have moved their bicycles in here in protest.

Jean Paul, this is Charlie Young.

Ah, Zoey talks about you all the time.do you do.

She talks about you so much

I think sometimes I want to kill you.

but don't mess me around on this story, okay?

Three guys out front were U.S. Army Rangers.

Danny thinks we somehow

got a Gulfstream to land in Bermuda

assassinated Shareef...

The tI'm absolutely certain that's what happened.

JOSH: Three years I've worked in the Senate

this is my first time fin the Republican cloakroom.

What do you think?

You guys use the same decorator we do.

Damn it, Josh. I decorated the room.

Hey, was Benjamin Harrison banned from here?

By Senate resolution

'cause he was lobbying too much.

And Warren Harding's mistress

was impregnated here.

Prompting another resolution?

No.

Is there any chance that Nearing is soft?

Is there anything that makes her vote yea?

No. You sure?

Yeah, look...

What about Herman Morton?

You'd have to rewrite the education bill.

It's 50-50, Jane.

Hoynes has a sleeping bag in there.

We need to, you and I...

The Senator's voting no.

Which Senator?

The one we work for.

What the hell...?

A Liberty Foundation poll...

Listen, a Liberty Foundation poll's

about to come out...

68% say we spend too much A poon foreign aid.

59% want foreign aid cut.

ThCome on. They're responding respondto being overtaxed

and then having that money sent to Burundi

instead of the school their kid goes to.

Now you're for more education funding?

That's not the point.

The people it's helping aren't the ones who are answering the phones!

Or paying the taxes, or voting.

The Senator just reached this conclusion

when the Liberty Foundation--

and the poll gives him cover with the New York , Times people.w tha

When you say the New York Times people

you're not talking about the people who work there, are you?

No. Look...

You mean "people who can read."

( buzzer sounding )

It's a quorum call.

I understand what it is.

Come on, Josh.

I think this is crap.

I think your boss has known about this poll for awhile

and he's embarrassing the President

at the eleventh hour

We begged you to keeparound the President out of Colorado.

On the first vote out of the box.

Bartlet had Colorado from the convention

and he went there five times.

President Bartlet.

You're one vote down on foreign aid.

Will they postpone again?

They won't do it.

Not after two continuing resolutions.

This expires at midnight.

I'm sorry, but is that our problem?

It massively is, yes.

What about Grace Hardin?

Yeah, I thought of her.

Can she say no to the President?

LARRY: She will. She's publicly against it.

I say she's a Democratd Local politiin Georgia.

and there's nothing wrong she owith Georgia

If it's no, it's that New Egot to be a fast no.

It's not going to be no.

Put the senior senator from Colorado in the nay column.

Move Grace Hardin to undecided and start the clock.

I hate that clock.

Excuse me, Josh.

Yeah, you're Bill Bailey, right?

I'm surprised Will Bailey. Yeahwe haven't met.

Yeah. You know, you getalked a pretty good aerobic workoutne.

Uh, well, I'm working talking to with Toby Ziegler on. in this buithe Inauguration...

Bill, I know who you are. What do you need?

and I'm in a legislative section

talking about bipartisan cooperation

and because it was legislative, Toby wanted you involved.

Boy, did you pick the wrong day

to write about bipartisan cooperation.

If there's a better time...

68% of respondents think

we hand out too much in foreign aid

59% think it should be cut.

Were you talking to me just then?

( laughs )

Read me what you got so far.

"The people, in their enduring wisdom

"have put in office a Chief Executive of one party

It's our duty "ato respect and enact...".

Strike "in their enduring wisdom."

You think electing a reactionary Congress

and progressive President was wise?

The people, in a fog of uncertainty

unsure of the difference

split tickets across the country.

Well, I agree, but I think Toby would say that lacks poetry.

68% say we hand out too much, 59% want to see it cut.

You know, there's plenty of work I can do in the meantime.

I'll find you later.

Hey, Ted.

Will.

Okay.

Leo's office called I need Senaover and we're on it.

Good.

Are you going to try Cantina?

I'm going to try everybody.

But Cantina's never voted to send any money anywhere.

I think he's against airmail stamps.

What about McKenna?

He needs Republican votes on broadband access.

And you think you're going to have luck with Grace Hardin?

She's a freshman Democrat.

She can't say no to the President if he asks her.

Have you seen how foreign aid polls in Georgia?

There's a hockey coach who's got a player

who's squandering his potential.

Coach says, "Are you ignorant or just apathetic?"

Player says, "I don't know and I don't care."

Yeah, I've seen how foreign aid polls in Georgia.

Gracie might be a little tough to get to the phone today.

We've been here before.

Tell me about it.

You have two different strategies

My job is to executen't take the plays Leo calls.ll for this.

Were you serious The rest doesn'tbefore...

about resigning?

Are we looking for Hardin?!

They're on it.

This pile goes to Personal Correspondence

for special handling.

These go to Main Correspondence.

So, Charlie, uh...

what you do is you sort the mail for Zoey's father.

And you don't like me very much Yeabecause I'm with Zoey now.

Jean Paul, I'm kind of working here.

Oh, I understand. Thank you.

And there's a great deal of mail to sort.

Also classified intelligence cables to prioritize.

And a meeting to break up between a president

and a king, so... Stacy?

That big blue envelope. Where's it going?Yeah

It was a servicewoman talking about food stamps.

She was in the service?

You know her?

No. Okay.

No, you know what? Leave it here.

Let me read it.

Huh...

( clicks tongue )

REPORTER: Will the White House

try to delay the vote?

C.J.: Like I said before

If Congress doesn't act,lution there's no foreign aid budget.

What's the President's reaction to Mosley saying

we're throwing money at problems halfway around the world?

The President wishes the Republican Leader

would throw some money at problems right here

but doesn't wish to have the United States retreat

from its role as a world leader.

Foreign aid's been cut 50% in the last decade.

In percentage of GNP spent

we are the bottom, dead last. Mark. rd the

Was it a bad idea to make the first bill

out of the second term such a controversial one?

something like that should be taken into consideration. Steve?

A Democratic senator says that if this goes down

We're not responding it'll stall momto a blind quote; onwe just assume you made it up.

I'm not kidding. (Thank you.

REPORTERS: Thank you.

come back to the office for a second?

Hey, off the record, what did the President say

about Mosley's "halfway around the world"?

He said, "Lord God, what a tool."

You can say several senior administration officials sayn officiaI figured

the White House will have a good memory

when the transportation bill comes up next year.

You don't mind blind quotes so much when they're from you.

No.

Okay. So...

I'll walk your threat around for you, but...

The pilot on pilot. YesShareef's Gulfstream?

What do you think it is I'm going to say?

His name was Jamil Bari

and the first thing you want to do is

you want to find out if Jamil Bari

had any history of pilot error

to see if that may have contributed to the crash.

So my new assistant, Maisy

she found out that Jamil Bari

got a certificate of qualification

on the Gulfstream in 1994.

Was that it?

been able And sooner of later,ingecking you'll find him.them all.aven't

I got to tell youSure. your tie goes with your shirt and your jacket...

You're dating a college graduate, aren't you?

Maisy ain't never gonna find him, C.J.

Jamil Bari is an invented identity for someone.

It has to be.

For this thing to have worked

the pilot had to be one of our guys.

Yeah, I just meant it was a nice tie.

I'll be around all day for the vote.

Okay.

What's up there, Gail.

Somebody's talking to the Dirksen office?

Campaign office Thesays she's at her at the cdistrict office.

That's where they say she is. Her district office And the district office?

Says she's on her way back here for the vote.

It's a commercial flight?

An hour and a half, we can't find a U.S. Senator.

She doesn't want the call. No kidding.

When she lands, says she's on she'll disappear till the vote.

Donna, your job is to take this

find her and stick it in her hand.

Make big plays today.

Donna, Delta Flight 15

lands at National in 35 minutes.

We live in an interdependent world and we should act like it.

We live in a global community and we should sustain it

we should cross borders.

We should cross borders to build sustainable democracy

that can banish privation and fear.

And we should cross borders to bring food and medicine

and roads and schools and teachers

to parts of the world forgotten by all but the warlords.

We're going to pass this Foreign Ops bill.

( applause ) This should be a century of hope and prosperity everywhere.

And America is going to lead the world and not just bully it.

Thank you.

( applause )

What the hell is going on?

That was great, Dad.

Hey, thanks, Peach Patch.

What the hell is going on?

Hardin is a yes if we can get her on the phone.

Which is why we can't get her on the phone?

She's been a little slippery, but this is where Josh eats.

We have many, many backup plans in the works?

and they're developing and executing rapid-le response backup plans?

Yeah, okay. Toby...

we should probably have a backup plan. Oh, my God.

A split second of humor injected in the middle of a stressful day, sir

sounds to me like we're talking about the act of a friend.

Please, my daughter's dating a kid

I have only so much RAMg to give over to-- C.J.!

Yes, sir. I'm sorry, but once again, there's a cow?

A photo op with a cow.

Yeah, I Heifer International, It was..it's called.

They give milking cows to poor families

in developing nations. And that's great.

But a picture of me and a cow...

I mean, you're okay with that art?

It's an organization certainly worthy of... Why did you agree to it Abbey set it up?ce?oncerns, sir.

I'll figure out a way to make the picture work, sir.

Now turn around casually and tell meith that.

if Le Viscount de Valvert has got his hands

anywhere near anyone who's related to me.

That is a good- looking young man.

I Yeah, I think you'd respond wheif I stopped feeding you.

Ignore him.

Oh, yes, I do.

This envelope that interests you, it was what?

A woman on a rope What envelopline this morning.

She's a private in the Army

and her family's on food stamps.

An American soldier on food stamps?

And you read this letter as if it was special.ily

Well, she handed it right to me.

you just throw it on the pile with the others.

Yes.

So this woman sees you

and she doesn't know thatnext you're powerless to help. fa

I'm not powerless.

I called the D.O.D. and asked them

to give special notice to the letter.

BARTLET: Charlie.

Yes, sir.

Get me that blue envelope back.

I got to call the D.O.D. Yeah.

Who writes this hand-holding crap

for the President anyhow?

Free food and the gentlelady from Tennessee.

The food wasn't free, and is the President

really comfortable defining 50 years

of security policy as bullying?

I don't think he was talking about the last half-century

What happened to politics stopping neither do yat the water's edge?

Hey, food is apolitical.

And you guys are going Notto have a bit of a timen't.

Jimmy, you want to tell me something I don't know?

I got a yea vote for you.

Mine. Can I be in your office in an hour?

Can you be there in half an hour?

No.

Okay.

Charlie, they phoned ahead and said you wanted this back.

Yeah. Thanks.

OPERATOR: Good afternoon, the Pentagon.

Sergeant Major Moreland, please.

Just a moment.

WOMAN: Secretary's office.

This is Charlie Young from the Office of the President.

Please hold.

MAN: Yes, this is Colonel Wolf.

Oh, no, sir, I was calling for Sergeant Moreland.

Yes, Mr. Young, how can I help you?

No, sir, I wouldn't want to impose.

I play basketball with Barry Moreland.

Sergeant Moreland works for me, Mr. Young.

How can I help the President?

Well, no, it's not...

I was handed a letter On from an enlisted womanng

whose family is eligible for food stamps

and I was just wondering whose eyes I could put it in front of.

Mine. You'll send it today?

Thank you. Yes, sir.

( typing )

Can't find Grace Hardin?

We're at the airport, we're at Dirksen

we're at her Senate office, we're at her second office

we're at her lawyer's office

I'm sorry, I know you're up against it... we're aThe legislative section.

I cut "enduring wisdom."

"The American people have spoken.

"They have chosen to return to Washington

a President of one party and a Congress of another."

You say that like constitutional scholars made a conscious choice

weighing checks and balances...

They did make a conscious choice.

And in their defense, a lot of people

have a hard time seeing the difference.

Are any of those people in this room?

No.

One wants to save Social Security

the other wants to privatize it.

One wants to make polluters pay to clean up pollution

the other wants to give tax breaks so they can pollute more.

One wants to send aid to countries...

Okay.

Yeah.

Cantina voted no on U.N. dues, no on Kosovo peacekeeping.

He's just going to burn time.

No kidding.

Toby.

Yeah.

Hoebuck?

He came to me.

He authored a bill to insert the word "God"

into the Pledge of Allegiance four more times.

Yeah, well, once you've broken that dam

what the hell does it matter?

Here's what I want from my vote tonight.

Yeah. $115,000.

Million.

I'm sorry?

You said you wanted 115,000

you meant million.

I appreciate the Democrats know how to read my mind

but I meant 115,000.

For what?

I want to pay people to pray.

Out of the federal budget?

And this woman leads a world-class team of psychiatrists?

( chuckles ): Not... not exactly.

But you're awfully close.

This is Dr. Gwendolyn Chen.

She's the chief cardiologist at Duke Medical Center.

Have you ever heard of intercessory prayer

This is where you draw up or rema list of sinners...

When people pray for you even though you're not aware of it.

Yeah, C.J. got spammed with that a few months ago.

Was that before or after her agent got shot at a fruit stand?

You really want to make a rim-shot

out of a Secret Service agent getting dead?

You really want to refer to people's prayers as spam?

Dr. Chen, what are you doing here?

Go ahead, please.

We completed a double-blind

placebo-controlled study.

I'd like to point out that Duke is non-sectarian

and Dr. Chen is agnostic.

Huh.

A thousand heart patients in the CCU

were split into two groups.

Half were prayed for by volunteers

the other half weren't. And?

The patients that were prayed for--

I know it sounds crazy

but the patients that were prayed for--

11 percent fewer heart attacks and strokes

far fewer complications.

Pacific College of Medicine, Mid-American Heart Institute

there are 12 other studies.

in the New England Journal Any of Medicine? lished

$115,000 for a wider study.

This one by the NIH. $115,000 in exchange for a $17 billion foreign aid bill.

That's all.

Dr. Chen.

It was nice meeting you.

Dr. Chen.

( door closes )

Ellen.

Ellen.

Where's the Senator? What do you mean?

The district office says she was on Delta 15.

She wasn't, or two other flights out of Atlanta.

She came in this morning. Yeah?

Yeah, we were cleaning up some things at the home store.

I'm trying to arrange a call to Senator Hardin

from the President of the United States.

I'm not sure where the Senator is right now

but as soon as I track her down

we'll set it up. I appreciate that.

Okay, I'll see you.

Sir, excuse me, my name is Donna.

And if you look at me, I think you'll know I'm not going to steal from you

Can I borrow that envelope for just one moment?

Yeah, it's nothing... Thank you.

Jason. Jason, I'm sorry, Excuse me, is itI'm new.

This needs to get to the Senator.

I'm going to Dirksen, but the Senator's atgoing in the Women in Media luncheon.

Right. Stupid, stupid.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Well, first of all, that's not a cow.

It's not.

It's a goat.

Yeah, I may have agreed to something about a goat.

Did the First Lady get you drunk and take you shopping?

Leo...

Yes.

The name of the group

is Heifer International.

I... I was under the impression it was going to be a cow.

Lending presidential aura to the photo.

is I think we're going to wait until after the vote at 10:30

'cause if we don't win then it'd be a mistake

How big a mistake? for this pOne from which to run tomcertainly

my job would have hung in the balance.

In the balGoats are heifers too?

I don't know.

If the President's wearing a hat

or that thing's wearing a Bartlet button

I'm hiding snakes in your car.

Come on, don't say that. Not even to joke.

You're never going to know where they are...

...or if you got them all out. Excuse me.Leo!

Going to lay their eggs right in the glove compartment.

So, this is going to be a little while.

Well, uh, Ron doesn't Cando that well in the cold.

Are you Ron?

I'm Mike.

Of course.

We'll find an empty room for him.

Uh, I have oats in the truck.

Well, you should bring the oats 'cause the mess closes at 6:00.

Hey.

This was delivered to my desk

It's a memo your office ordered from the Pentagon.

I can't order memos from the Pentagon.

And I don't have an office. I work in the Oval Office.

Oh, that may have been the confusion.

This is about... I just called the deputy's aide

and told him to look out for...

Who at the Pentagon thinks I can order a memo?

The Secretary of Defense.

All right... there's been a mistake.

You haven't shown this to anyone else, right?

No. Good.

to the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of State.

Uh-huh.

Anyone here?

Uh... yeah, here it is.

POTUS.

V-POTUS... Yeah.

...Leo McGarry and you.

I see.

What do you think it says?

"Revised D.O.D. Offsets and Cost Structure Adjustments

for the coming fiscal year."

And every other fiscal year.

The table of contents is six pages long.

You should read it.

Yeah.

Donnatella, you want me to fix you up a piece of salmon?

No thanks, Giuseppe.

What about fettuccine?

Beano's using a new cream.

I tried it last week, the technology conference.

Listen, the dais still exits through here, right? best.

You can go in there, you know

and just stand in the back.

She's trying not to scare somebody.

Would you leave the child alone?

I'm trying to feed her some food.

22 years in Washington D.C.

spent all his time in the kitchen.

He doesn't know how the place works.

if I beat you about the head with a sturdy ladle.

Ellen.

Wow. You know what you are?

You're the little aide who could.

She wasn't on the dais. She had to cancel.

I read a letter in her absence.

Ellen, here's the situation: I've been asked...

( cell phone rings )

Excuse me, it's Josh.

Yeah?

That's great. Who?

All right.

We've got two yes votes, McMichael and Schapp.

The Senator can come out of the woods.

I'm coming in.

Here's an Inauguration Day joke

about the first Jewish president.

His mother leans over to someone and says

"You see that guy with his right hand raised?

His brother's a doctor."

That's good.

You like it?

Yeah, if the President's

been booked into Ha-Ha's in Cleveland.

I wasn't suggesting it for the speech.

Then why did you tell it to me?

That's exactly the reaction WhI was hoping to elicit.

You've been a great audience.

Does it bother you

that for all the legitimate politician bashing

the voters themselves are no bargain?

No. Why?

'Cause I make a living writing jokes.

Not a very good one.

They think you can have more spending

Well, all it takes is two politicians cut taxes running against each other.time

Both of them saying it ain't going to happen

so here's what I'm going to do.

Is that all it takes?

Listen, when we were kids you would never shut up

about the Founders and the Framers and the Fathers.

This is what they wanted.

I may never have shut up

'cause the Founders were scared to death of the people.

You know the picture in the main stairwayem the guns.

of Dad's father with Churchill? Yeah.

He said the best argument against democracy

was five minutes with the average voter.

Grandpa said that? 'Cause it doesn't Chsound like Grandpa.

Thank you for the coffee. Willy?

who obviously became Don't call mpart of the family.

and the Seaborn posters They'lland the cold shoulder.

Yeah, I'm all right. I'm focused.

Hey, cool goat. When did you get it?

Professional comedian, Elsie... Aah...!

ELSIE: I think it's great

that you keep oats in the office... just in case.

I think when these people find out that kind of thing...

Could you leave me now, I'm focused, please.

Sure.

Right.

Well, Donna tried What's gto flush her out

and she did it well, but...

Ah... What? So her staff made She ntwo phone calls

and Hardin dove back under the bed.

Well, you were right, Hoebuck's crazy.

What'd he want?

$115,000.

Million.

No, thousand.

For what?

It doesn't matter.

For what?

An NIH study on remote prayer.

You're kidding.

Actually, he brought a Duke cardiologist who ran a double-blind...

$115,000, he votes yes on Foreign Ops?

Josh, it's the federal government investing...

I don't care if it's in communion wafers.

We'll deal with the the fedother thing tomorrow.

Well, I already dealt with it today.

Not yet and the clock's running.

I'm going to Leo.

I had asked an assistant I know to give it special attention.

I don't know the woman or anything.

It wasn't patronage.

But I was...

you know...

I was showing off for Zoey.

There are a couple of thousand

military families on food stamps.

I can't stand it; the Pentagon knows it.

Some families are eligible, some aren't.

But to change it

they'd have to raise everyone's pay

which they can't do

and this memo's a reminder.

And you thought you were donef- with turf wars.

Did it cause any damage?

You decommissioned two aircraft carriers.

Really?

No.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Boy, Zoey's growing up nicely, isn't she?ll be outs

Yes, she is.

I'm on your side in this thing, but just barely--

'Cause he's French and royal. just by a littYes, sir.

These are very special, very limited circumstances

under which we're allies

you and I. Understood, sir.

You still got it?

Sir?

The letter from the rope line?

Yes, sir.

Put it in my bag tonight.

( knocking ) Yes, sir.

Mr. McGarry, Mr. Ziegler, Mr. Lyman, Ms. Cregg.t.

It's the Temptations. I love you guys.

You only think you've heard everything

but you haven't.

Hit me.

TOBY: James Hoebuck will vote yea at 10:30

if we give him $115,000.

Million?

Thousand. $115,000.

For an RV? What's he want?

An NIH study on remote prayer.

I like it.

There should be a button on my desk

I can press and 49 people instantly pray for me.

C.J.: I got remote prayed for

by 3 million people. How'd it work out?

they were praying was going to happen. it wa

Well, that's the problem.

Excuse me.

The Earth is rotating rapidly on its axis.

Okay, well, good news.

Keep us posted on that.

Is there something I should be We're doing I'm not doing?, sir.

We should be talking about Jimmy Hoebuck.

You guys didn't come in here Ohto tell me something funny?

Three of us did.

You... you are the wild card, my friend

b...because you will throw out the baby, the bathwater

and the bubbles at curtain time if it means...

Excuse me, sir... Do you think, Mr. President, Fthe people who get this money

care about an NIH study?

I don't care if they care! I care!

And oh, by the way, so do you!

$115,000 is what Commerce spends on Post-its.

( sighs )

Toby?

Threats to civil liberties

only ever come a few dollars at a time.

It's a medical study.

The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

doesn't prohibit radiation therapy.

Sufi Muslims, Orthodox Jews

Indian shamans--

WellI never knew there wasnown idata available, but okay.s.

Anything else, sir?

No.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you, sir.

Maxine.

That's you.

I know.

I apologize for interrupting before.

Oh, I don't care.

But what I was going to say...

I'll toss it all overboard if it means winning

and I'd ask you to support and that with evidence.

I'm sorry. I don't know why I keep doing that.

You're not willing to toss it overboard to win.

You're willing to toss it overboard

to avoid disappointing Leo.

You know what the difference is between you and me?

I want to be the guy.

You want to be the guy the guy counts on.

We lost.

We know.

We can introduce another continuing resolution...

90 days.

And work down?

75% of current funding maybe.

If we can get it.

You understand if we introduce another continuing resolution

about ten Democrats will jump on as a reason to vote no on this.

Means losing 60-40

instead of 51-49.

When I lose, I don't look

for consolation in the score

and I know for sure you don't.

So it's what we should do, right?

Yeah.

All right, tough beat.

It's an unbelievably tough beat.

Yes, sir.

Hey, Zoey's growing up very nicely, isn't she?

Man, I'll say.

You know, I go for kiss-ass today

and the ball goes in the gutter.

Anything else?

Thank you, Mr. President.

I said the names.

I don't think it mattered.

She knows how to count to 51.

It would've loosened things up for an hour.

I'm sorry.

Shake it off.

And don't listen to the naysayers.

You've got a big future as a stalker.

I always felt like I had the makings.

I just had an interesting moment.

I just recommended to the President

that he buy a yea vote for $115,000

and the Bill of Rights.

Don't you mean $115 million?

Jimmy Hoebuck wanted to fund a study

on remote prayer for $115,000.

Is it me

or is this getting harder?

It's getting harder.

I'd say we're going to make more enemies in the second term

but I don't know if there's anybody left on the list.

You took funding from for remote prayer

to the President?

That's 'cause you don't know the story of Fishhooks McCarthy.

Is this a real person or a Donna person?

A corrupt politician on the Lower East Side

Every morning he stopped at the St. James Church

on Oliver Street and said the same prayer--

"O Lord give me health and strength.

We'll steal the rest."

Not that there needs to be, but was there a point?

You've got health and strength, both of which, coincidentally

I prayed for after hot lead was shot into your body.

Yeah, you're going to need some kryptonite, by the way.

Okay, settle down.

So you've got health and strength.

And we'll steal the rest?

Bet your ass.

All right.

Good work tonight.

Hi.

What's up, Mr. Daley?

Bailey.

Bill Bailey?

So, if we're lucky, foreign Will aid's going to be funded

for another 90 days at 75¢ on the dollar.

No one who has ever said they wanted bipartisanship

has ever meant it.

But the people are speaking.

Because 68% think we give too much in foreign aid

and 59% think it should be cut.

You like that stat?

I do. !Because nine percent think it's too high

and shouldn't be cut!

could not fully get their Niarms around the question.

There should be another box you can check for

"I've utterly no idea what you're talking about.

Please, God, don't ask for my input."

Why is foreign aid important?

It fosters democracy. There you go.

( with British accent ): Well, well played, young man.

Very good, yes, yes.

Someone said, "The best argument against democracynged voices.

is five minutes with the average voter."

"Democracy is the worst form of government." Churchill. See?He als

"Except for all the others."

I'll work with you on the legislative section..

But after the vote, okay? We'll get some food.

Yes. Excuse me.

Excuse me.

I believe you put a goat in my office and I just want you to know

that I stand here with full humor and total focus.

You can cover the windows with "Seaborn formy office Congress" posters.

You can bring in 101 Dalmatians.

I'm focused on what I'm doing.

Who are you?

I'm Will Bailey.

C.J. Cregg.

I didn't put the goat in your office.nice to meet you.

Someone else must have. You didn't?

I put it in the office that's being used by a new guy

Toby and Josh are trying to give a hard time to-- Oh, wait...

You understand I'm working on the Inaugural address, right?

There's bicycles and How's that ggoats in my office!

All right...

Any care and feeding I should know about?

The goat has a handler.

I'll get it out... I'll take my hazing like the Eton valedictorian that I am.

What's his name, please? Which one?

The handler. Mike.

The goat has a name? Ron.

Thank you.

Where do you learn to run out the clock like that?

The Senator's voting her conscience, Donna.

She understands foreign aid. I've heard her talk about it.

She's supposed to do what's right.

No, she was elected and she's supposed to do

Will you take this and walk it to herhat the people on the floor?think is right.

That's all you have to do.

PRESIDING OFFICER: All time has expired.

The yeas and nays have been ordered.

Win some, you lose some.

Can I tell you something?

Josh has asked me to work Saturdays

he has me there after 1:00 a.m. He's asked me to transpose

portions of the federal budget into base-8

go to North Dakota

and dress as an East German cocktail waitress.

In five years of working for him

he's never asked me to hide him from something.

Can I have my boss's phone back?

Thank you.

You having that? Yes.

All of it? Yes!

What about this? Yes!!

I'm pointing at 23 packets of soy sauce.

I give them to the homeless. Oh, that's helpful.

You're going to lose this one 60-40. Are you talking through the whole Danny...

Could you even have Did I ruinthis much sensitivity?

No. Why?

The Senate blew it. You did.ou blew it.

We did everything but pass a hat.

Nobody wants to put money in a hat in Botswana

when you got hats that need filling here.

You can't make this about charity.

It's about self-interest.

We cut farm assistance in Colombia.

Every single crop we developed was replaced with cocaine.

We cut aid for primary education in Northwest Pakistan and Egypt

Why weren't you making a case the the Republican senators

are bad on drugs and bad on national security?

Why are Democrats always so bumfuzzled?

By the way, 65 more flight schools today.

Maisy hasn't found your guy.

Don't worry, there are thousands more.

You know something there, General Cho?

If you had a story, you'd write it.

If you don't have one, shut up.

We just lost a vote.

We're not bumfuzzled.

Now, if you'll excuse me...

I have to cancel a photo op with a goat.

Tough beat, everybody.

Thanks for the work.

Next time we let Josh do it the way he wants.

Sir, have you met...

Bill Haley.

Will Bailey.

Okay.

Good evening, Mr. President.

When's this thing with the cow?

It's a goat now.

Okay.

We'll cancel it.

You think? A milking goat?

It's going to seem like a parody of foreign aid.

I don't know.

C.J. wants to cancel I don't the goat picture.

Half the world's people

live on less than two dollars a day

130 million will never step inside a school house

ingredients for bombs can be purchased at hardware stores

and we've just given the Third World

just what the doctor ordered:

rollbacks.

Heifer International...

they give free cows and goats to people who need milk?

Well, then, I don't think we're in any position to be snotty.

Carol? Let's do it... Let's do They're right out here.

So, I think this will work.

"Well, you're impoverished and while we don't care

"we don't want you to go away empty-handed

"so we offer this goat, Ron

to give you milk."

Do male goats give milk?

No. No, of course they don't.

So, we offer you this thing that'll just gnaw on your stuff.

PRESIDENT: I'm not standing in this picture alone.

This was a total teamfailure.

but I want my Chief of Staff and my Chief Political Advisor

standing near the goat.

Let's go!

TOBY: Hang on a second.

May I?

Thank you.

Now we're ready.

Let's go.

Set that clock for 90 days.