1 00:00:05,139 --> 00:00:06,807 Previously on The West Wing: 2 00:00:06,807 --> 00:00:07,941 What did they offer? 3 00:00:07,941 --> 00:00:08,809 Censure? 4 00:00:08,809 --> 00:00:09,843 Yeah. 5 00:00:09,843 --> 00:00:11,112 History forgets these things. 6 00:00:11,112 --> 00:00:13,081 Presidents don't. 7 00:00:13,081 --> 00:00:14,548 They never get over it. 8 00:00:14,548 --> 00:00:15,749 This one won't. 9 00:00:15,749 --> 00:00:17,085 I don't think it's such a good idea 10 00:00:17,085 --> 00:00:17,951 to be casual about the truth. 11 00:00:17,951 --> 00:00:19,253 Neither do I. 12 00:00:19,253 --> 00:00:20,521 Why can't you pick up a phone and say 13 00:00:20,521 --> 00:00:21,955 "Would you like to go out sometime?" 14 00:00:21,955 --> 00:00:23,324 PRESIDENT: No one in government 15 00:00:23,324 --> 00:00:26,094 takes responsibility for anything anymore. 16 00:00:26,094 --> 00:00:27,661 I'm to blame. 17 00:00:27,661 --> 00:00:29,563 I was wrong. 18 00:00:35,136 --> 00:00:37,738 PRESIDENT: We stand at a critical point-- 19 00:00:37,738 --> 00:00:39,740 a time of choosing. 20 00:00:39,740 --> 00:00:42,610 If we take the hard course, the right course 21 00:00:42,610 --> 00:00:46,380 there is no limit to what we can achieve. 22 00:00:46,380 --> 00:00:49,150 There is no limit to what we will achieve. 23 00:00:49,150 --> 00:00:51,685 ( applause ) 24 00:00:56,257 --> 00:00:59,293 The dials go from zero to 100. 25 00:00:59,293 --> 00:01:02,096 They dial up if they like what he's saying. 26 00:01:02,096 --> 00:01:03,664 They dial down if they don't. 27 00:01:03,664 --> 00:01:05,966 All the numbers lead to a central computer. 28 00:01:05,966 --> 00:01:07,435 Like the Nielsens. 29 00:01:07,435 --> 00:01:08,569 Yeah. 30 00:01:08,569 --> 00:01:10,204 They're behind a screen somewhere? 31 00:01:10,204 --> 00:01:11,805 Huh? The people with the dials-- 32 00:01:11,805 --> 00:01:13,741 they're behind a screen somewhere? 33 00:01:13,741 --> 00:01:16,144 They're in Macomb Country, they're in Portland 34 00:01:16,144 --> 00:01:19,113 in Los Feliz, California, Norman, Oklahoma. 35 00:01:19,113 --> 00:01:21,115 Joey puts together a decent snapshot. 36 00:01:21,115 --> 00:01:22,550 Which one's Joey? 37 00:01:22,550 --> 00:01:23,651 Kenny! 38 00:01:24,485 --> 00:01:26,120 Can we get Joey a second? 39 00:01:30,023 --> 00:01:31,192 When did you pick that up? 40 00:01:31,192 --> 00:01:32,360 I just said thanks. 41 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,128 Could he go easy with the pictures? 42 00:01:34,128 --> 00:01:34,995 You said it wouldn't be a problem. 43 00:01:34,995 --> 00:01:36,297 When did I say that? 44 00:01:36,297 --> 00:01:38,566 C.J. Cregg said it wouldn't be a problem. 45 00:01:41,202 --> 00:01:43,404 Joey, this is Lisa Sherborne. 46 00:01:43,404 --> 00:01:45,506 She's doing a piece for Vanity Fair. 47 00:01:45,506 --> 00:01:48,342 I don't have a lot of time right now. 48 00:01:48,342 --> 00:01:50,178 What do the different lines mean? 49 00:01:50,178 --> 00:01:53,414 Red's for Republicans, blue's for Democrats 50 00:01:53,414 --> 00:01:55,115 and green's for Independents. 51 00:01:55,115 --> 00:01:57,718 When we say something liberal, like... 52 00:01:57,718 --> 00:01:59,220 "Death is bad." 53 00:01:59,220 --> 00:02:03,023 Right-- blues go up and reds go down. 54 00:02:03,023 --> 00:02:06,760 When we talk about values, reds and greens go up. 55 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,930 You're usually lucky to break 65. 56 00:02:09,930 --> 00:02:11,665 I got to get back now. 57 00:02:14,034 --> 00:02:16,837 I have abiding respect for the Speaker of the House 58 00:02:16,837 --> 00:02:18,806 and the Majority Leader. 59 00:02:18,806 --> 00:02:21,242 They are men of fundamental decency 60 00:02:21,242 --> 00:02:23,277 and public servants of purpose. 61 00:02:23,277 --> 00:02:24,612 LISA: How much of this did you write? 62 00:02:24,612 --> 00:02:26,480 We don't really talk about that. 63 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,249 You think there's anything you're going to talk about 64 00:02:28,249 --> 00:02:29,116 or is this going to be 65 00:02:29,116 --> 00:02:30,318 an extraction? 66 00:02:30,318 --> 00:02:32,620 ...to the men and women of both chambers 67 00:02:32,620 --> 00:02:36,089 who have labored to shed the weight of partisanship 68 00:02:36,089 --> 00:02:37,725 and donned the cloak of progress. 69 00:02:37,725 --> 00:02:39,727 The lines don't seem to be doing much. 70 00:02:39,727 --> 00:02:40,861 Hang on. 71 00:02:40,861 --> 00:02:44,365 It may be said that in the last half century 72 00:02:44,365 --> 00:02:45,933 America won the Cold War 73 00:02:45,933 --> 00:02:48,736 and modeled freedom for a waiting world. 74 00:02:48,736 --> 00:02:52,273 Breaking out the greatest hits, huh? 75 00:02:52,273 --> 00:02:54,208 Now, in a new century 76 00:02:54,208 --> 00:02:55,709 when we meet and master 77 00:02:55,709 --> 00:02:59,480 new forms of aggression and hatred, ignorance and evil 78 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,883 our vigilance in the face of oppression 79 00:03:02,883 --> 00:03:06,153 and global terror will be unequaled 80 00:03:06,153 --> 00:03:08,989 by any moment in human history. 81 00:03:08,989 --> 00:03:10,858 ( applause ) 82 00:03:10,858 --> 00:03:14,362 Now you're cooking. 83 00:03:14,362 --> 00:03:16,464 And to the enemies of freedom 84 00:03:16,464 --> 00:03:19,500 the enemies of democracy, the enemies of America 85 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:21,935 the enemies of humanity itself 86 00:03:21,935 --> 00:03:26,574 we say here tonight with one voice 87 00:03:26,574 --> 00:03:30,511 there is no corner of this earth so remote, no cave so dark 88 00:03:30,511 --> 00:03:32,446 that you will not be found 89 00:03:32,446 --> 00:03:35,383 and brought to light and ended. 90 00:03:35,383 --> 00:03:37,217 ( applause ) 91 00:03:37,217 --> 00:03:39,152 That's a numbers spike. 92 00:03:39,152 --> 00:03:40,354 Hey, crank that up. 93 00:03:40,354 --> 00:03:42,456 You broke 65 on all the lines. 94 00:03:49,430 --> 00:03:51,665 We nearly had one almost as big. 95 00:03:51,665 --> 00:03:52,333 What? 96 00:03:52,333 --> 00:03:53,334 I said we nearly 97 00:03:53,334 --> 00:03:54,368 had one almost as big. 98 00:03:54,368 --> 00:03:55,903 What was it? 99 00:03:55,903 --> 00:03:57,305 We almost cured cancer. 100 00:03:57,305 --> 00:03:59,307 Really. 101 00:03:59,307 --> 00:04:01,108 This close. 102 00:04:01,108 --> 00:04:02,410 What happened? 103 00:04:02,410 --> 00:04:04,345 Just one of those things. 104 00:05:03,236 --> 00:05:05,005 Can I help you, ma'am? 105 00:05:05,005 --> 00:05:06,974 Glass of chardonnay, please. 106 00:05:09,677 --> 00:05:10,944 Hey, Amy. 107 00:05:10,944 --> 00:05:13,013 Are you talking to me? 108 00:05:13,013 --> 00:05:14,114 Yes. 109 00:05:14,114 --> 00:05:15,048 What did I say about that? 110 00:05:15,048 --> 00:05:16,116 You said not to talk to you. 111 00:05:16,116 --> 00:05:17,618 Yet, you're doing it anyway. 112 00:05:17,618 --> 00:05:19,252 Yes, I am. You're doing it again. 113 00:05:19,252 --> 00:05:20,754 Look... You're still doing it. 114 00:05:20,754 --> 00:05:22,356 Amy... I'm walking away now. 115 00:05:25,993 --> 00:05:29,430 Ice and vodka, please. 116 00:05:29,430 --> 00:05:31,164 MAN: Sam Seaborn! 117 00:05:31,164 --> 00:05:32,132 ( applause ) 118 00:05:32,132 --> 00:05:34,468 Thank you. 119 00:05:34,468 --> 00:05:36,103 Thank you. 120 00:05:36,103 --> 00:05:38,138 I am at Ha Ha's in Cleveland on the 16th 121 00:05:38,138 --> 00:05:39,206 and tip your waitresses. 122 00:05:39,206 --> 00:05:40,474 Sam. 123 00:05:41,141 --> 00:05:42,309 Congratulations. 124 00:05:42,309 --> 00:05:43,343 Hey, you, too. 125 00:05:43,343 --> 00:05:44,545 So far so good, huh? 126 00:05:44,545 --> 00:05:45,879 The dials are what we thought. 127 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:47,147 We'll wait for the overnights. 128 00:05:47,147 --> 00:05:48,549 Lisa. Josh. 129 00:05:48,549 --> 00:05:50,918 Still trying to get waived into Generation X? 130 00:05:50,918 --> 00:05:52,252 Still a pompous jackass? 131 00:05:52,252 --> 00:05:53,754 Oh, you betcha. 132 00:05:53,754 --> 00:05:54,788 See you later. 133 00:05:59,126 --> 00:06:00,394 Tell me about the cancer thing. 134 00:06:00,394 --> 00:06:01,995 It got cut. 135 00:06:01,995 --> 00:06:03,363 Jack Daniels. 136 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:04,732 You were going to cure cancer? 137 00:06:04,732 --> 00:06:06,834 We were going to say we were going to cure cancer. 138 00:06:06,834 --> 00:06:08,001 Curing it is someone else's department. 139 00:06:08,001 --> 00:06:08,869 How does that work? 140 00:06:08,869 --> 00:06:09,837 How does what work? 141 00:06:09,837 --> 00:06:11,271 Deciding what you're going to say? 142 00:06:11,271 --> 00:06:13,841 You mean, writing the State of the Union? 143 00:06:13,841 --> 00:06:15,208 Yeah. 144 00:06:15,208 --> 00:06:16,644 It's a long story. 145 00:06:16,644 --> 00:06:17,878 I'm writing a long story. 146 00:06:17,878 --> 00:06:20,213 Do you do any kind of preparation 147 00:06:20,213 --> 00:06:22,315 before you come to report... 148 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:23,316 I prefer to... 149 00:06:23,316 --> 00:06:24,552 Hang out at Moomba? 150 00:06:28,589 --> 00:06:31,425 The process begins six weeks beforehand with budget meetings. 151 00:06:31,425 --> 00:06:32,726 Why budget meetings? 152 00:06:32,726 --> 00:06:34,394 'Cause if we're introducing a new idea 153 00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:36,029 people are going to want to know 154 00:06:36,029 --> 00:06:37,164 how we pay for it. 155 00:06:37,164 --> 00:06:38,265 Memos are written-- 156 00:06:38,265 --> 00:06:39,199 they come from everywhere. 157 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:40,468 Every agency, department 158 00:06:40,468 --> 00:06:42,035 senior advisor, outside notable. 159 00:06:42,035 --> 00:06:43,604 What's an outside notable? 160 00:06:43,604 --> 00:06:44,605 Former presidents, Henry Kissinger 161 00:06:44,605 --> 00:06:46,273 Bill Gates, Jesse Jackson-- 162 00:06:46,273 --> 00:06:48,275 Mr. Rogers wants to write us a memo, we'll read it. 163 00:06:48,275 --> 00:06:50,043 We'll pass some of them on to the President 164 00:06:50,043 --> 00:06:51,945 and he'll start making notes in the margins. 165 00:06:51,945 --> 00:06:54,948 Then we have the "President's First Thoughts" meeting. 166 00:06:54,948 --> 00:06:57,485 That's when we all want to kill ourselves. 167 00:06:57,485 --> 00:06:58,919 Why? 168 00:06:58,919 --> 00:07:00,353 'Cause that's when the President 169 00:07:00,353 --> 00:07:01,221 tells us we're nowhere. 170 00:07:01,221 --> 00:07:02,289 Why? 171 00:07:02,289 --> 00:07:03,824 'Cause we're nowhere. 172 00:07:03,824 --> 00:07:05,493 So we try to figure out what people want to hear 173 00:07:05,493 --> 00:07:06,994 and that's when anybody 174 00:07:06,994 --> 00:07:08,596 who didn't want to kill themselves before 175 00:07:08,596 --> 00:07:09,497 has certainly been converted to the cult. 176 00:07:09,497 --> 00:07:10,998 Why is it so hard? 177 00:07:10,998 --> 00:07:13,133 'Cause it's a white piece of paper. 178 00:07:13,133 --> 00:07:14,134 How high are the stakes? 179 00:07:14,134 --> 00:07:15,302 How high can you count? 180 00:07:15,302 --> 00:07:17,004 So what do you do? 181 00:07:17,004 --> 00:07:19,206 Whatever it takes to get started. 182 00:07:19,206 --> 00:07:22,843 And we read new memos, and we try new themes 183 00:07:22,843 --> 00:07:24,812 and we hear new slogans and we test new lines 184 00:07:24,812 --> 00:07:26,446 and after a few weeks of that... 185 00:07:28,015 --> 00:07:30,283 we've still got a white piece of paper. 186 00:07:30,283 --> 00:07:31,351 So it's hard. 187 00:07:31,351 --> 00:07:32,486 Hmm? 188 00:07:32,486 --> 00:07:33,921 It's hard. 189 00:07:33,921 --> 00:07:36,890 It's hard under the best of circumstances. 190 00:07:36,890 --> 00:07:38,926 Obviously, it got a little harder two weeks ago. 191 00:07:38,926 --> 00:07:41,094 What happened two weeks ago? 192 00:07:43,196 --> 00:07:45,298 Congress censured the President. 193 00:07:45,298 --> 00:07:46,299 Yes. 194 00:07:46,299 --> 00:07:48,636 Good morning. 195 00:07:53,674 --> 00:07:55,142 What's going on? 196 00:07:55,142 --> 00:07:57,678 Late last night, early this morning, the President 197 00:07:57,678 --> 00:07:59,146 reached an agreement with the Leadership 198 00:07:59,146 --> 00:08:01,481 to accept a Congressional Censure. 199 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:14,862 C.J.: How's he feeling? 200 00:08:14,862 --> 00:08:15,563 Hmm? 201 00:08:15,563 --> 00:08:16,730 How's he feeling? 202 00:08:16,730 --> 00:08:19,399 Fine. It's over. 203 00:08:19,399 --> 00:08:21,569 Joint Resolution? 204 00:08:21,569 --> 00:08:24,738 Yeah. A Concurrent Resolution, actually. 205 00:08:26,907 --> 00:08:28,241 It'll take a couple of days 206 00:08:28,241 --> 00:08:30,711 for the lawyers to get together on the language. 207 00:08:30,711 --> 00:08:32,580 We should leak it in the meantime 208 00:08:32,580 --> 00:08:34,548 soften up the ground. Yeah. 209 00:08:34,548 --> 00:08:35,583 He's all right? 210 00:08:35,583 --> 00:08:37,184 He's about to be censured 211 00:08:37,184 --> 00:08:39,720 and then he's going to deliver the State of the Union 212 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:41,454 and then he's going to run for re-election. 213 00:08:41,454 --> 00:08:44,191 My guess is that there are some things on his mind. 214 00:08:49,229 --> 00:08:51,298 It's over. 215 00:08:51,298 --> 00:08:54,802 That's all. 216 00:08:54,802 --> 00:08:57,004 Thank you. Thank you. 217 00:09:17,791 --> 00:09:19,727 This is like the Civil War. 218 00:09:19,727 --> 00:09:20,894 When's the last time 219 00:09:20,894 --> 00:09:23,230 Congress rebuked a sitting president? 220 00:09:23,230 --> 00:09:24,765 The Civil War. 221 00:09:24,765 --> 00:09:26,133 And now, how do you... 222 00:09:26,133 --> 00:09:28,068 Yeah. 223 00:09:28,068 --> 00:09:29,770 Should we postpone the State of the Union? 224 00:09:29,770 --> 00:09:31,071 What are the rules on that? 225 00:09:31,071 --> 00:09:33,506 He's required to give Congress information 226 00:09:33,506 --> 00:09:34,775 on the State of the Union. 227 00:09:34,775 --> 00:09:36,076 If he buys Congress 228 00:09:36,076 --> 00:09:38,779 a subscription to the Wall Street Journal 229 00:09:38,779 --> 00:09:40,914 he's fulfilled his Constitutional... 230 00:09:40,914 --> 00:09:42,683 Postponing or canceling's an admission of defeat. 231 00:09:42,683 --> 00:09:43,984 He's accepting a censure. 232 00:09:43,984 --> 00:09:44,985 That is defeat, and you don't ask 233 00:09:44,985 --> 00:09:46,319 the school bully out to lunch 234 00:09:46,319 --> 00:09:47,955 the day after he stole your lunch money. 235 00:09:47,955 --> 00:09:50,157 You don't go on a starvation diet, either. 236 00:09:50,157 --> 00:09:51,424 And we can spin 237 00:09:51,424 --> 00:09:52,926 the censure as a bipartisan... 238 00:09:52,926 --> 00:09:54,394 You can't spin a formal denunciation 239 00:09:54,394 --> 00:09:56,263 from the legislative branch-- it spins itself. 240 00:09:56,263 --> 00:09:57,665 I don't... 241 00:09:57,665 --> 00:09:59,099 It's our biggest press hit of the year 242 00:09:59,099 --> 00:10:01,034 our biggest pre-convention campaign exposure. 243 00:10:01,034 --> 00:10:03,336 I don't know how you make a formal report to Congress 244 00:10:03,336 --> 00:10:04,938 when Congress just called you a liar. 245 00:10:04,938 --> 00:10:07,875 I say we strap a polygraph onto the TelePrompTer. 246 00:10:11,344 --> 00:10:13,914 Humor-- to lighten the load. 247 00:10:13,914 --> 00:10:17,050 I recommended that he take the censure 248 00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:19,052 and if any of you had been on the inside 249 00:10:19,052 --> 00:10:20,721 you'd have recommended it, too. 250 00:10:20,721 --> 00:10:21,855 How does he deliver 251 00:10:21,855 --> 00:10:23,323 the State of the Union in two weeks? 252 00:10:23,323 --> 00:10:25,625 He's the President of the United States. 253 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:27,560 When he walks into the House Chamber 254 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:29,396 they're all going to stand up. 255 00:10:29,396 --> 00:10:30,698 Anyone here not believe 256 00:10:30,698 --> 00:10:32,966 this President can take it from there? 257 00:10:33,867 --> 00:10:35,703 I still got my lunch money. 258 00:10:38,171 --> 00:10:39,539 Toby? Sam? 259 00:10:39,539 --> 00:10:41,374 You got to dig in. 260 00:10:47,214 --> 00:10:49,750 Anything else? 261 00:10:49,750 --> 00:10:51,752 ( chuckling ) 262 00:10:56,223 --> 00:10:57,090 All right. 263 00:10:59,226 --> 00:11:00,593 Hey, Sam. 264 00:11:00,593 --> 00:11:02,095 Yes? 265 00:11:02,095 --> 00:11:03,330 Well argued. 266 00:11:03,330 --> 00:11:05,398 Yeah. 267 00:11:05,398 --> 00:11:06,767 What do you want? 268 00:11:06,767 --> 00:11:08,435 What kind of attitude is that? C.J.... 269 00:11:08,435 --> 00:11:10,804 Vanity Fair's pitching my office a story on you. 270 00:11:10,804 --> 00:11:11,839 What's the angle? 271 00:11:11,839 --> 00:11:12,973 They want to do a profile 272 00:11:12,973 --> 00:11:14,241 and they want to start the reporting 273 00:11:14,241 --> 00:11:16,009 on the night of the State of the Union. 274 00:11:16,009 --> 00:11:18,211 Why don't they just cover the State of the Union? 275 00:11:18,211 --> 00:11:20,013 This is their way of doing that. 276 00:11:20,013 --> 00:11:22,649 The thing is... you know the writer. 277 00:11:22,649 --> 00:11:24,651 Who? Lisa Sherborne. 278 00:11:24,651 --> 00:11:26,820 That's funny, 'cause I used to be engaged 279 00:11:26,820 --> 00:11:28,355 to someone named Lisa Sherborne. 280 00:11:28,355 --> 00:11:29,656 Isn't it funny? 281 00:11:29,656 --> 00:11:31,825 I'm not doing it. I'd like you to. 282 00:11:33,927 --> 00:11:36,396 What happened to rule number one on staff profiles 283 00:11:36,396 --> 00:11:38,598 being that we don't do staff profiles? 284 00:11:38,598 --> 00:11:39,532 When did we have that rule? 285 00:11:39,532 --> 00:11:40,600 We should have that rule. 286 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,035 Keep the focus on the President. 287 00:11:42,035 --> 00:11:43,937 People should think he writes the State of the Union. 288 00:11:43,937 --> 00:11:46,106 I think people know about speechwriters. 289 00:11:46,106 --> 00:11:48,475 Then there's no more story to tell. 290 00:11:48,475 --> 00:11:49,977 In the past-- you tell me-- 291 00:11:49,977 --> 00:11:51,979 did it help or hurt that the campaign 292 00:11:51,979 --> 00:11:53,947 had a youthful and energetic energy? 293 00:11:53,947 --> 00:11:55,715 I'm not sure you can say "energetic energy." 294 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:56,984 Did it help or hurt? It helped. 295 00:11:56,984 --> 00:11:58,085 Do we need help right now? 296 00:11:58,085 --> 00:11:59,186 Do young women read Vanity Fair? 297 00:11:59,186 --> 00:12:01,021 So let them cover the President. 298 00:12:01,021 --> 00:12:02,455 They do cover the President. 299 00:12:02,455 --> 00:12:03,490 Right now, they want you 300 00:12:03,490 --> 00:12:06,093 and I want to give you to them. 301 00:12:06,093 --> 00:12:07,995 It's got to be Lisa Sherborne? 302 00:12:07,995 --> 00:12:10,397 Hey, is the reason you guys didn't get married 303 00:12:10,397 --> 00:12:13,366 'cause her name would've been Lisa Sherborne Seaborn? 304 00:12:13,366 --> 00:12:16,636 Yeah, that's the reason. 305 00:12:16,636 --> 00:12:19,306 I could do this for a living. 306 00:12:37,891 --> 00:12:38,758 Do you have anything? 307 00:12:38,758 --> 00:12:39,692 No. 308 00:12:39,692 --> 00:12:40,660 I don't believe you. 309 00:12:40,660 --> 00:12:42,362 I don't have anything. 310 00:12:42,362 --> 00:12:44,397 If you didn't have anything you wouldn't be down here 311 00:12:44,397 --> 00:12:45,598 at the party. 312 00:12:45,598 --> 00:12:46,699 I like parties. 313 00:12:46,699 --> 00:12:47,935 What do you have? 314 00:12:47,935 --> 00:12:49,536 I have the first 20 minutes. 315 00:12:49,536 --> 00:12:50,871 Okay. 316 00:12:50,871 --> 00:12:52,305 You don't want the first 20 minutes. 317 00:12:52,305 --> 00:12:53,173 Why? 318 00:12:53,173 --> 00:12:54,674 Sam... hi. 319 00:12:54,674 --> 00:12:55,642 Hi. 320 00:12:55,642 --> 00:12:57,444 I just need a minute, okay? 321 00:12:57,444 --> 00:12:58,678 I can wait. 322 00:12:58,678 --> 00:12:59,847 I need you to wait over there. 323 00:12:59,847 --> 00:13:02,082 Okay. 324 00:13:08,255 --> 00:13:10,157 Why don't I want the first 20 minutes? 325 00:13:10,157 --> 00:13:12,725 It's what we expected it would be. 326 00:13:12,725 --> 00:13:13,927 Tell me. 327 00:13:13,927 --> 00:13:15,528 It was the censure-- people saw it... 328 00:13:15,528 --> 00:13:16,763 Just tell me. 329 00:13:16,763 --> 00:13:20,400 Democrats, low to mid 50s. 330 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,335 Republicans, high 30s. 331 00:13:22,335 --> 00:13:23,703 Independents? 332 00:13:23,703 --> 00:13:25,105 Low 40s. 333 00:13:25,105 --> 00:13:26,506 You are kidding me. 334 00:13:26,506 --> 00:13:27,540 Sam... Low 40s? 335 00:13:27,540 --> 00:13:29,076 We knew the first 20 minutes... 336 00:13:29,076 --> 00:13:31,244 Ten minutes-- you said ten minutes and not this bad. 337 00:13:31,244 --> 00:13:33,313 Wait for the rest of the dials. 338 00:13:33,313 --> 00:13:35,916 We did Internet commerce in the first 20 minutes. 339 00:13:35,916 --> 00:13:37,417 We did child asthma... 340 00:13:37,417 --> 00:13:40,954 He wasn't the President in the first 20 minutes. 341 00:13:40,954 --> 00:13:44,057 Wait for the rest of the dial groups. 342 00:13:44,057 --> 00:13:46,226 Top line, cross-tabs, whatever you get 343 00:13:46,226 --> 00:13:48,428 I've got a bad feeling about tonight. 344 00:13:58,638 --> 00:14:00,307 Were those polling numbers? 345 00:14:00,307 --> 00:14:01,008 No. 346 00:14:01,008 --> 00:14:02,142 What was that about? 347 00:14:02,142 --> 00:14:03,977 It was polling numbers 348 00:14:03,977 --> 00:14:05,545 but it was... it was nothing. 349 00:14:08,015 --> 00:14:09,116 How does it look? 350 00:14:09,116 --> 00:14:11,418 It's too early to tell. 351 00:14:17,657 --> 00:14:19,859 ( people conversing ) 352 00:14:26,967 --> 00:14:28,668 ( chuckling ): Sam. 353 00:14:28,668 --> 00:14:30,503 Congratulations. You, too. 354 00:14:30,503 --> 00:14:34,241 Ed, Larry, this is Lisa Sherborne from Vanity Fair. 355 00:14:34,241 --> 00:14:36,709 Which one's Ed, which one's Larry? 356 00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:38,912 ED AND LARRY: Doesn't matter. 357 00:14:38,912 --> 00:14:40,914 Joey went back to the office. 358 00:14:40,914 --> 00:14:42,983 Thank you. 359 00:14:42,983 --> 00:14:45,185 You don't have to introduce me 360 00:14:45,185 --> 00:14:47,487 as Lisa Sherborne from Vanity Fair. 361 00:14:47,487 --> 00:14:49,756 I like to let them know they're talking to a reporter. 362 00:14:49,756 --> 00:14:53,093 You really are uncomfortable with me being here, right? 363 00:14:53,093 --> 00:14:55,295 You're not just, you know, being you? 364 00:14:55,295 --> 00:14:57,330 I don't know what that means. 365 00:14:57,330 --> 00:15:00,300 How did curing cancer get cut from the State of the Union? 366 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:02,435 A lot of things get cut. Curing cancer? 367 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:04,704 Hey, we had to cut a section about making government manuals 368 00:15:04,704 --> 00:15:06,940 easier to read, so curing cancer can take a number. 369 00:15:06,940 --> 00:15:08,908 Why are you pissed at me? 370 00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:11,478 I'm not pissed at you. I'm working. 371 00:15:11,478 --> 00:15:12,245 You're done working. 372 00:15:12,245 --> 00:15:13,880 I'm not done working. 373 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,084 You're confused because you see Absolut Cosmopolitans 374 00:15:17,084 --> 00:15:18,618 and famous people. 375 00:15:18,618 --> 00:15:19,852 ( laughs softly ) 376 00:15:19,852 --> 00:15:23,523 A section on government manuals. 377 00:15:23,523 --> 00:15:25,125 Donna? Yeah? 378 00:15:25,125 --> 00:15:27,427 Can you get me the most recent memo from the DPC 379 00:15:27,427 --> 00:15:29,329 on the welfare-to-work initiatives? 380 00:15:29,329 --> 00:15:30,663 Yeah. 381 00:15:32,732 --> 00:15:34,934 I'm seeing Amy again tonight. 382 00:15:34,934 --> 00:15:36,803 A second date? 383 00:15:36,803 --> 00:15:37,971 First date, really. 384 00:15:37,971 --> 00:15:40,107 Last night was more of a, you know... 385 00:15:40,107 --> 00:15:42,109 Scheme. Yeah. 386 00:15:42,109 --> 00:15:43,576 Good, 'cause the second date's usually 387 00:15:43,576 --> 00:15:45,778 where the wheels come off the wagon for you. 388 00:15:45,778 --> 00:15:47,814 That is so false. 389 00:15:47,814 --> 00:15:50,750 What are you doing? A late drink. 390 00:15:50,750 --> 00:15:53,953 Where are you going? Wilson's. 391 00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:55,188 I like that place. 392 00:15:55,188 --> 00:15:57,090 I don't. Why? 393 00:15:57,090 --> 00:16:00,560 Well, for one thing, the piano player only seems to know one song. 394 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:01,594 Which song? 395 00:16:01,594 --> 00:16:03,730 "Little things with fur better hurry..." 396 00:16:03,730 --> 00:16:05,632 "Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry"? 397 00:16:05,632 --> 00:16:07,534 Okay. "Surrey With the Fringe on Top." 398 00:16:07,534 --> 00:16:09,602 Whatever. It's like I'm on a hay ride. 399 00:16:09,602 --> 00:16:10,703 What are you doing? 400 00:16:10,703 --> 00:16:12,539 I'm trying to figure out if you have to pay 401 00:16:12,539 --> 00:16:13,773 for the plane ticket to Phoenix. 402 00:16:13,773 --> 00:16:15,075 It was official travel. 403 00:16:15,075 --> 00:16:16,609 Yeah, well, that doesn't really... 404 00:16:16,609 --> 00:16:17,677 What does the rule say? 405 00:16:17,677 --> 00:16:19,279 ( sighs ) 406 00:16:19,279 --> 00:16:20,647 "An employee may not use 407 00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:22,949 "contract airline/rail passenger service 408 00:16:22,949 --> 00:16:24,451 "provided under the contract 409 00:16:24,451 --> 00:16:26,586 "with the General Services Administration-- 410 00:16:26,586 --> 00:16:30,257 see part 301-15, subpart B, of this chapter." 411 00:16:30,257 --> 00:16:31,724 What's the problem? 412 00:16:31,724 --> 00:16:33,626 Let's set aside that there's no subpart B. 413 00:16:33,626 --> 00:16:35,295 The rest of it uses a sentence structure 414 00:16:35,295 --> 00:16:36,529 with which I'm not familiar. 415 00:16:36,529 --> 00:16:38,731 Just put it on my credit card. No. See? 416 00:16:38,731 --> 00:16:40,600 I think that's what this is designed to do. 417 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,502 I think it's designed to break a person's spirit. 418 00:16:42,502 --> 00:16:44,003 And damn it, that's my job. 419 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:45,605 We're getting beat by the system. 420 00:16:45,605 --> 00:16:47,274 We are the system. We suck. 421 00:16:47,274 --> 00:16:49,776 Yes. I need the welfare-to-work memo. 422 00:16:50,777 --> 00:16:52,312 How many words 423 00:16:52,312 --> 00:16:53,846 in the Gettysburg Address? 424 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:55,115 266. 425 00:16:55,115 --> 00:16:56,549 And the Ten Commandments? 426 00:16:56,549 --> 00:16:57,784 173. 427 00:16:57,784 --> 00:16:59,686 So you really wouldn't think you'd need 6,000 428 00:16:59,686 --> 00:17:01,821 to discover how a plane ticket gets reimbursed. 429 00:17:01,821 --> 00:17:03,590 No. No. 430 00:17:24,010 --> 00:17:26,746 What's going on? 431 00:17:26,746 --> 00:17:28,515 Welfare-to-work. 432 00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:35,855 I was happy when you said this morning 433 00:17:35,855 --> 00:17:37,757 that you recommended the censure. 434 00:17:37,757 --> 00:17:40,593 Your face didn't register much. I'm thinking about the speech. 435 00:17:40,593 --> 00:17:42,329 I figured. Don't ask me how it's going. 436 00:17:42,329 --> 00:17:43,530 I wouldn't. It's in the larva stage. 437 00:17:43,530 --> 00:17:45,165 You can't rush these things. 438 00:17:45,165 --> 00:17:48,067 It's not like putting a hammer to a nail. 439 00:17:48,067 --> 00:17:50,337 I need some pie. 440 00:17:52,339 --> 00:17:53,706 You should go get some. 441 00:17:58,278 --> 00:17:59,846 Come with me. 442 00:18:01,881 --> 00:18:03,350 Okay. 443 00:18:03,350 --> 00:18:06,052 But don't ask me about the speech. 444 00:18:06,052 --> 00:18:07,854 Wouldn't do it. 445 00:18:15,995 --> 00:18:17,997 How'd it end up going last night. 446 00:18:17,997 --> 00:18:19,666 With Amy Gardner? Yeah. 447 00:18:19,666 --> 00:18:21,534 Very, very well. 448 00:18:21,534 --> 00:18:23,736 Here's the memo. Thank you. 449 00:18:25,872 --> 00:18:27,640 You know Amy's seeing somebody. 450 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,842 I do know that. 451 00:18:29,842 --> 00:18:31,144 You know who? 452 00:18:31,144 --> 00:18:32,812 No, and I don't want to know. 453 00:18:32,812 --> 00:18:35,748 Yes, now that you mention it, who? 454 00:18:35,748 --> 00:18:37,684 John Tandy. Really? 455 00:18:37,684 --> 00:18:40,086 Yeah. 456 00:18:40,086 --> 00:18:42,355 Really? Yes. 457 00:18:44,023 --> 00:18:45,825 Interesting. 458 00:18:45,825 --> 00:18:48,661 Yeah. Interesting, and I'll tell you why. 459 00:18:48,661 --> 00:18:50,897 Why? 460 00:18:50,897 --> 00:18:54,501 Because John Tandy is a... 461 00:18:54,501 --> 00:18:56,569 I'll tell you why, seriously. Why? 462 00:18:56,569 --> 00:18:58,505 'Cause they started seeing each other 463 00:18:58,505 --> 00:19:00,307 shortly after Nan Lieberman announced 464 00:19:00,307 --> 00:19:04,744 she was going to make a primary challenge in the 20th district. 465 00:19:04,744 --> 00:19:06,145 Really? Yeah. 466 00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:07,847 Ah-so. 467 00:19:07,847 --> 00:19:10,049 I don't think he's courting Amy Gardner; 468 00:19:10,049 --> 00:19:12,785 I think he's courting women. 469 00:19:12,785 --> 00:19:14,787 I don't think you're right. Why? 470 00:19:14,787 --> 00:19:17,457 'Cause that's ridiculous. Really? 471 00:19:17,457 --> 00:19:19,125 No, it's not ridiculous. 472 00:19:19,125 --> 00:19:20,660 Of course you're right. 473 00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:21,961 ( sighs ) 474 00:19:21,961 --> 00:19:25,031 Hey, who's the President having dinner with tonight? 475 00:19:25,031 --> 00:19:26,466 Friends of Abbey. 476 00:19:26,466 --> 00:19:28,468 Good, 'cause when you're in his kind of mood 477 00:19:28,468 --> 00:19:30,237 having dinner with your wife's friends 478 00:19:30,237 --> 00:19:31,938 is just what you're hoping for. 479 00:19:31,938 --> 00:19:33,540 ( chamber music playing ) 480 00:19:33,540 --> 00:19:36,008 WOMAN: It's molecular pathology. 481 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:37,310 S.T.I. 482 00:19:37,310 --> 00:19:40,012 That's the Signal Transduction Inhibitor. 483 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,514 I'm sorry? 484 00:19:41,514 --> 00:19:44,851 S.T.I.-- stands for Signal Transduction Inhibitor. 485 00:19:44,851 --> 00:19:46,919 Abbey just went to take a phone call. 486 00:19:46,919 --> 00:19:48,888 WOMAN: We've tested it on 12 patients. 487 00:19:48,888 --> 00:19:51,991 Is this the first drug to target sphingosine kinase? It is, yeah. 488 00:19:51,991 --> 00:19:53,826 Where are you with the FDA? 489 00:19:53,826 --> 00:19:55,328 The FDA just ruled they can use higher doses. 490 00:19:55,328 --> 00:19:56,896 WOMAN: This they did. 491 00:19:56,896 --> 00:19:59,732 MAN: I'm telling you, we're ten years, $25 billion 492 00:19:59,732 --> 00:20:02,735 and a good luck charm away from curing human cancer. 493 00:20:02,735 --> 00:20:04,537 More than $25 billion, but the point is... 494 00:20:04,537 --> 00:20:06,806 Two, three more breakthroughs in molecular targeting... 495 00:20:06,806 --> 00:20:09,342 Which is what the Signal Transduction Inhibitor is all about. 496 00:20:09,342 --> 00:20:10,977 What did you just say? 497 00:20:12,979 --> 00:20:14,080 Bobby, what did you just say? 498 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,948 We're talking about a new drug 499 00:20:15,948 --> 00:20:18,885 which is a Signal Transduction Inhibitor. 500 00:20:18,885 --> 00:20:21,754 Sphingosine kinase was identified recently 501 00:20:21,754 --> 00:20:24,056 as the enzyme believed to control 502 00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:26,058 all the signal pathways 503 00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:27,560 to cancer growth. 504 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,130 This new drug can act as a kind of... guided missile. 505 00:20:31,130 --> 00:20:32,164 Smart bomb. Yeah. 506 00:20:32,164 --> 00:20:33,433 That destroys cancer cells 507 00:20:33,433 --> 00:20:34,967 without killing the healthy ones. 508 00:20:34,967 --> 00:20:37,404 Right. The part I understood was Bobby saying 509 00:20:37,404 --> 00:20:39,171 we could cure cancer in ten years. 510 00:20:39,171 --> 00:20:41,741 Not cure it, but... make it chronic. 511 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:42,909 In other words 512 00:20:42,909 --> 00:20:44,677 make it so that people could live with it? 513 00:20:44,677 --> 00:20:45,845 Yeah. 514 00:20:45,845 --> 00:20:48,281 What is standing between us and that happening? 515 00:20:48,281 --> 00:20:49,449 I don't know. 516 00:20:49,449 --> 00:20:51,551 Who at this table knows? 517 00:20:51,551 --> 00:20:53,286 How much money would it cost? 518 00:20:53,286 --> 00:20:54,621 Nobody knows that, either. 519 00:20:54,621 --> 00:20:56,055 You just said... It's cancer. 520 00:20:56,055 --> 00:20:57,457 Nobody knows anything. 521 00:20:57,457 --> 00:20:58,325 He just said ten years. 522 00:20:58,325 --> 00:20:59,492 I want to hear 523 00:20:59,492 --> 00:21:00,993 about this from the beginning. 524 00:21:00,993 --> 00:21:03,596 Talk to me like I'm not an oncologist. 525 00:21:06,232 --> 00:21:07,967 I'm not messing around. 526 00:21:07,967 --> 00:21:09,101 This isn't barbecue night. 527 00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:10,470 I'm the Commander in Chief. 528 00:21:10,470 --> 00:21:12,339 Put your asses in the chairs. 529 00:21:48,174 --> 00:21:50,176 I'm out of pie. 530 00:21:50,176 --> 00:21:52,479 We'll get some more. 531 00:21:56,282 --> 00:21:58,985 So, how's it going on the, uh... 532 00:21:58,985 --> 00:22:00,286 What are you doing? 533 00:22:00,286 --> 00:22:02,755 The economy. I'm getting somewhere. 534 00:22:02,755 --> 00:22:05,425 I can look at it when you're ready. 535 00:22:05,425 --> 00:22:07,627 About another two hours. 536 00:22:10,029 --> 00:22:12,432 Lisa's going to do a piece? 537 00:22:12,432 --> 00:22:14,233 It wasn't my idea. 538 00:22:14,233 --> 00:22:15,735 I wouldn't think so. 539 00:22:15,735 --> 00:22:17,970 C.J. asked me if the reason we didn't get married 540 00:22:17,970 --> 00:22:20,940 was because her name would have been Lisa Sherborne-Seaborn. 541 00:22:20,940 --> 00:22:22,975 That's funny. 542 00:22:22,975 --> 00:22:24,477 Yeah. 543 00:22:27,380 --> 00:22:29,782 So, why didn't you get married? 544 00:22:29,782 --> 00:22:30,917 Hmm? 545 00:22:30,917 --> 00:22:32,685 Why didn't you? 546 00:22:32,685 --> 00:22:35,254 She didn't like me very much. 547 00:22:35,254 --> 00:22:37,490 Ah. 548 00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:46,365 Good evening, Mr. President. 549 00:22:46,365 --> 00:22:48,100 Good evening, sir. 550 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:49,101 I want to call everybody in. 551 00:22:49,101 --> 00:22:50,169 I've just had dinner 552 00:22:50,169 --> 00:22:51,638 with some of Abbey's friends. 553 00:22:51,638 --> 00:22:52,939 They're all oncologists. 554 00:22:52,939 --> 00:22:54,707 I think in the State of the Union 555 00:22:54,707 --> 00:22:57,309 I can announce that I'm directing our researchers 556 00:22:57,309 --> 00:22:59,145 to have a cure for cancer in ten years. 557 00:22:59,145 --> 00:23:00,613 Call everyone in. 558 00:23:02,381 --> 00:23:05,151 This is about the censure. 559 00:23:19,165 --> 00:23:21,934 ( piano playing "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" ) 560 00:23:24,370 --> 00:23:26,272 What did you just say? 561 00:23:26,272 --> 00:23:28,841 I said it for your own good. 562 00:23:28,841 --> 00:23:29,709 Did you? 563 00:23:29,709 --> 00:23:31,110 I did. I like you. 564 00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:33,079 I hate you. 565 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:34,346 Let's look at the facts. 566 00:23:34,346 --> 00:23:35,548 Okay. 567 00:23:35,548 --> 00:23:38,217 He was polling at 69% among Democrats. 568 00:23:38,217 --> 00:23:41,754 And that's all Tandy's got in his district. 569 00:23:41,754 --> 00:23:43,189 Congressman Tandy. 570 00:23:43,189 --> 00:23:44,624 All right. 571 00:23:44,624 --> 00:23:47,026 He had a 69% favorability rating with women. 572 00:23:47,026 --> 00:23:50,029 You need 93% favorability among men to beat that 573 00:23:50,029 --> 00:23:52,665 and Mahatma Gandhi doesn't get that in the Florida 20th. 574 00:23:52,665 --> 00:23:54,100 Somebody's been studying. 575 00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:55,167 When Nan Lieberman announces 576 00:23:55,167 --> 00:23:56,969 that she might challenge him in the primary 577 00:23:56,969 --> 00:23:58,471 his favorability goes down to 52%. 578 00:23:58,471 --> 00:23:59,572 You know why? 579 00:23:59,572 --> 00:24:01,708 'Cause you're an idiot? 580 00:24:01,708 --> 00:24:03,175 'Cause women started going over to Lieberman. 581 00:24:03,175 --> 00:24:04,844 Look... Women's groups 582 00:24:04,844 --> 00:24:07,113 started hedging saying there aren't enough women in Congress. 583 00:24:07,113 --> 00:24:08,581 Tandy needs women. 584 00:24:08,581 --> 00:24:10,216 NOW hasn't endorsed him yet. 585 00:24:10,216 --> 00:24:11,618 It's January. 586 00:24:11,618 --> 00:24:14,954 Yeah, still, when did he start going out with you? 587 00:24:14,954 --> 00:24:16,756 A week after Lieberman announced. 588 00:24:16,756 --> 00:24:19,225 How do you know when we started going out? 589 00:24:19,225 --> 00:24:20,226 I know everything. 590 00:24:20,226 --> 00:24:22,762 And you are the door to women. 591 00:24:22,762 --> 00:24:24,697 The WLC put $9 million in the hands 592 00:24:24,697 --> 00:24:25,998 of pro-choice candidates. 593 00:24:25,998 --> 00:24:27,867 You narrowed the gap in the House 594 00:24:27,867 --> 00:24:29,836 from 14 to nine in one election. 595 00:24:29,836 --> 00:24:31,237 You bring home the bacon. 596 00:24:31,237 --> 00:24:33,405 You think John's worried about losing women? 597 00:24:33,405 --> 00:24:36,208 He runs and Emily's List practically makes a wire transfer. 598 00:24:36,208 --> 00:24:37,710 He crushed his last opponent in Lauderhill-- 599 00:24:37,710 --> 00:24:39,145 I don't even remember his name-- 600 00:24:39,145 --> 00:24:40,847 but he was a moderate, pro-choice Republican 601 00:24:40,847 --> 00:24:42,982 and there was a 29% gender differential. 602 00:24:42,982 --> 00:24:44,884 You think he's going around with me 603 00:24:44,884 --> 00:24:46,853 'cause he's afraid of Nan Lieberman? 604 00:24:46,853 --> 00:24:47,520 I do. 605 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:48,921 ( chuckles ) 606 00:24:48,921 --> 00:24:51,524 Well, I've never been so flattered in my life. 607 00:24:51,524 --> 00:24:53,092 I don't think I'm getting enough credit 608 00:24:53,092 --> 00:24:55,094 for saying this for your own good. 609 00:24:55,094 --> 00:24:57,396 Don't talk to me. 610 00:24:57,396 --> 00:24:59,599 Look... 611 00:24:59,599 --> 00:25:01,133 Don't talk to me. 612 00:25:01,133 --> 00:25:02,535 We'll change the... 613 00:25:02,535 --> 00:25:03,936 You're talking to me. 614 00:25:03,936 --> 00:25:07,173 Perhaps... Don't talk to me. 615 00:25:07,173 --> 00:25:09,542 I should just sit here? 616 00:25:09,542 --> 00:25:10,643 Yes. 617 00:25:10,643 --> 00:25:12,244 And? Not talk to me. 618 00:25:12,244 --> 00:25:14,046 Amy... 619 00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:16,148 I have wit, I have charm, I have brains 620 00:25:16,148 --> 00:25:17,316 I have legs that go 621 00:25:17,316 --> 00:25:19,852 all the way down to the floor, my friend. 622 00:25:19,852 --> 00:25:21,754 You don't have to... 623 00:25:21,754 --> 00:25:23,590 Don't talk to me. 624 00:25:31,798 --> 00:25:33,966 ( cell phone rings ) 625 00:25:33,966 --> 00:25:34,834 Hello? 626 00:25:34,834 --> 00:25:35,935 TOBY: Josh? 627 00:25:35,935 --> 00:25:36,769 Yeah. 628 00:25:36,769 --> 00:25:37,970 You got to come back. 629 00:25:37,970 --> 00:25:39,105 Why? 630 00:25:39,105 --> 00:25:40,673 The President thinks he can cure cancer. 631 00:25:40,673 --> 00:25:44,977 Well, that's some good news, I guess. 632 00:25:44,977 --> 00:25:47,814 Yeah. See you in a few minutes. 633 00:25:47,814 --> 00:25:50,917 JOEY: Did he find a cure for cancer? 634 00:25:50,917 --> 00:25:52,785 'Cause if he found a cure for cancer 635 00:25:52,785 --> 00:25:54,654 I'd think that would be interesting. 636 00:25:54,654 --> 00:25:57,156 I'd think that was something we should share. 637 00:25:57,156 --> 00:25:58,157 Yeah. 638 00:25:58,157 --> 00:25:59,058 But he didn't. 639 00:25:59,058 --> 00:26:00,760 He wants to find a cure for cancer 640 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,529 and he wants to say that in the State of the Union. 641 00:26:03,529 --> 00:26:04,563 You know what my response would be? 642 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:05,898 Me, too. 643 00:26:05,898 --> 00:26:08,134 But is this the first time you had that thought? 644 00:26:08,134 --> 00:26:09,936 Sign "union" again. That was cool. 645 00:26:12,004 --> 00:26:14,874 No. It must have been a different word. 646 00:26:14,874 --> 00:26:16,609 Is he serious about this? 647 00:26:16,609 --> 00:26:18,410 That's not my department. 648 00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:20,279 I get you to the meeting. 649 00:26:20,279 --> 00:26:21,347 Right. 650 00:26:21,347 --> 00:26:22,348 Joey? 651 00:26:22,348 --> 00:26:23,683 Yeah? 652 00:26:23,683 --> 00:26:26,218 How high are the stakes for the speech? 653 00:26:26,218 --> 00:26:27,453 They're high. 654 00:26:27,453 --> 00:26:29,155 But a magic trick isn't going to help. 655 00:26:29,155 --> 00:26:30,156 How high? 656 00:26:30,156 --> 00:26:31,157 High. 657 00:26:31,157 --> 00:26:32,759 How high? 658 00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:36,262 Well, you don't win anything in January. 659 00:26:36,262 --> 00:26:37,563 You only lose. 660 00:26:37,563 --> 00:26:41,200 If he doesn't park the State of the Union-- 661 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:42,669 and I mean deep-- 662 00:26:42,669 --> 00:26:44,603 it'll be his last one. 663 00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:45,738 All right. 664 00:26:45,738 --> 00:26:48,641 You're in the Oval Office. 665 00:26:51,644 --> 00:26:55,481 Hey, did I hear Toby right on the phone? 666 00:26:55,481 --> 00:26:57,616 Could be worse, you know. 667 00:26:57,616 --> 00:26:59,285 How? 668 00:26:59,285 --> 00:27:01,420 He could have cancer. 669 00:27:01,420 --> 00:27:03,990 Do the two of you ever go anywhere separately? 670 00:27:03,990 --> 00:27:05,424 It's weird, isn't it? 671 00:27:05,424 --> 00:27:07,126 A little weird, yeah. 672 00:27:07,126 --> 00:27:08,594 What's going on? 673 00:27:08,594 --> 00:27:10,797 What was that phone call? 674 00:27:10,797 --> 00:27:13,565 We're going to meet and talk. 675 00:27:13,565 --> 00:27:15,702 How did it go? 676 00:27:15,702 --> 00:27:16,803 Not at all well. 677 00:27:16,803 --> 00:27:18,771 You know whose fault it is? 678 00:27:18,771 --> 00:27:19,906 John Tandy's? No. 679 00:27:19,906 --> 00:27:21,107 Hers? Yours. 680 00:27:21,107 --> 00:27:23,242 Let's go. 681 00:27:29,348 --> 00:27:30,549 Leo, is he serious? 682 00:27:30,549 --> 00:27:32,218 He's on his way down. 683 00:27:40,392 --> 00:27:42,829 Totally your fault. 684 00:27:42,829 --> 00:27:44,864 I'm just, you know... 685 00:27:44,864 --> 00:27:48,434 I'm just the guy who does the thing. 686 00:27:48,434 --> 00:27:50,236 What? 687 00:27:50,236 --> 00:27:52,304 We've run out of pie. 688 00:27:53,305 --> 00:27:54,506 Good evening. 689 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:55,775 Thanks for being here so late. 690 00:27:55,775 --> 00:27:58,244 ALL: Good evening, Mr. President. 691 00:27:58,244 --> 00:28:03,482 A President stood up, he said we will land a man on the moon 692 00:28:03,482 --> 00:28:06,018 before the end of the decade. 693 00:28:06,018 --> 00:28:08,220 You know what we knew when he said that? 694 00:28:08,220 --> 00:28:10,656 Nothing. We didn't know anything. 695 00:28:10,656 --> 00:28:12,158 We didn't know about the lunar surface. 696 00:28:12,158 --> 00:28:14,794 We didn't know how to land one of these things. 697 00:28:14,794 --> 00:28:16,228 All we'd ever done is crash it into the ocean 698 00:28:16,228 --> 00:28:18,164 and God knows, if we could figure out 699 00:28:18,164 --> 00:28:20,666 how to land soft, we didn't know how to blast off again. 700 00:28:20,666 --> 00:28:23,669 But a President said we're going to do it, and we did it. 701 00:28:23,669 --> 00:28:25,504 So I ask you 702 00:28:25,504 --> 00:28:27,073 why shouldn't I stand up 703 00:28:27,073 --> 00:28:30,309 and say we are going to cure cancer in ten years? 704 00:28:37,683 --> 00:28:39,451 I'm really asking. 705 00:28:39,451 --> 00:28:42,254 Well, how close are we to really being able to do this? 706 00:28:42,254 --> 00:28:43,389 Nobody knows. 707 00:28:43,389 --> 00:28:45,257 Then... Toby? 708 00:28:46,959 --> 00:28:49,361 It'll be seen as a political ploy. 709 00:28:49,361 --> 00:28:50,529 Why? It can be seen-- 710 00:28:50,529 --> 00:28:52,364 Excuse me. 711 00:28:52,364 --> 00:28:53,232 It can be seen 712 00:28:53,232 --> 00:28:54,100 as self-serving. 713 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:54,767 How? 714 00:28:54,767 --> 00:28:55,902 Using cancer 715 00:28:55,902 --> 00:28:57,469 to deflect attention from MS. 716 00:28:57,469 --> 00:28:59,671 You think people with cancer care what my motives are? 717 00:28:59,671 --> 00:29:00,773 You think their families do? 718 00:29:00,773 --> 00:29:02,174 I'm saying... 719 00:29:02,174 --> 00:29:02,842 Joey? 720 00:29:02,842 --> 00:29:03,876 I agree with everything 721 00:29:03,876 --> 00:29:05,677 that's been said 722 00:29:05,677 --> 00:29:09,115 except I don't think they'll see it as deflecting the M.S. 723 00:29:09,115 --> 00:29:11,984 I think they'll see it as deflecting the censure. 724 00:29:11,984 --> 00:29:13,352 Once again... 725 00:29:13,352 --> 00:29:14,821 Everybody cares about motives, Mr. President. 726 00:29:14,821 --> 00:29:16,122 I didn't... 727 00:29:16,122 --> 00:29:17,723 She said, "Everybody cares about motives." 728 00:29:17,723 --> 00:29:18,657 Sam? 729 00:29:18,657 --> 00:29:20,059 Yes, sir? 730 00:29:20,059 --> 00:29:21,027 Why shouldn't I do it? 731 00:29:21,027 --> 00:29:22,494 I think you should. 732 00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:25,097 I think ambition is good. 733 00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:27,967 I think overreaching is good. 734 00:29:27,967 --> 00:29:30,036 I think giving people a vision of government 735 00:29:30,036 --> 00:29:31,804 that's more than Social Security checks 736 00:29:31,804 --> 00:29:33,339 and debt reduction is good. 737 00:29:33,339 --> 00:29:34,773 I think 738 00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:36,542 government should be optimistic. 739 00:29:43,282 --> 00:29:46,018 I'm sorry, I know it's late 740 00:29:46,018 --> 00:29:48,855 but I want to start seeing drafts of a new section 741 00:29:48,855 --> 00:29:50,356 in the next few hours. 742 00:29:50,356 --> 00:29:51,490 C.J., I want a sense 743 00:29:51,490 --> 00:29:53,192 of a media overview, too. 744 00:29:54,526 --> 00:29:55,627 Now. 745 00:29:55,627 --> 00:29:58,230 ALL: Yes, sir. Thank you. 746 00:30:10,742 --> 00:30:13,112 I just want to look at some drafts. 747 00:30:17,917 --> 00:30:20,219 I don't have an hour and half to spend on this. 748 00:30:20,219 --> 00:30:21,553 I can do it. 749 00:30:21,553 --> 00:30:23,155 You don't have an hour and a half to spend on it either. 750 00:30:23,155 --> 00:30:24,690 Why are you opposed to this? 751 00:30:24,690 --> 00:30:26,625 Stopping what we're doing to write about curing cancer? 752 00:30:26,625 --> 00:30:28,194 Yeah. 753 00:30:28,194 --> 00:30:29,996 'Cause it's never going to be in the speech. 754 00:30:29,996 --> 00:30:31,263 How do you know? 755 00:30:31,263 --> 00:30:32,965 What resources do we have to devote? 756 00:30:32,965 --> 00:30:35,201 I don't know. 757 00:30:35,201 --> 00:30:36,903 How much money is it going to cost? 758 00:30:36,903 --> 00:30:37,870 I don't know. 759 00:30:37,870 --> 00:30:41,007 That's how I know. 760 00:30:41,007 --> 00:30:43,876 The man's about to get a Congressional censure. 761 00:30:43,876 --> 00:30:45,744 He's trying to pull a rabbit out of his hat. 762 00:30:45,744 --> 00:30:46,879 What are you doing humoring him? 763 00:30:46,879 --> 00:30:48,247 I'm not humoring him. 764 00:30:48,247 --> 00:30:50,582 I don't want you spending more 765 00:30:50,582 --> 00:30:51,984 than an hour and a half. 766 00:30:51,984 --> 00:30:53,085 You're a pollster. 767 00:30:53,085 --> 00:30:54,120 Yes. 768 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,423 You don't think this would poll well? 769 00:30:57,423 --> 00:30:59,225 Do I think people are in favor 770 00:30:59,225 --> 00:31:01,160 of curing cancer? Yes, I do. 771 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:02,461 So? 772 00:31:04,063 --> 00:31:05,497 The federal government 773 00:31:05,497 --> 00:31:07,733 shouldn't be directing scientific research. 774 00:31:07,733 --> 00:31:08,600 Why? 775 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:09,969 Because you stink at it. 776 00:31:09,969 --> 00:31:11,670 If it was up to the NIH 777 00:31:11,670 --> 00:31:14,606 to cure polio through a centrally directed program 778 00:31:14,606 --> 00:31:17,643 instead of an independent investigator driven discovery 779 00:31:17,643 --> 00:31:20,012 you'd have the best iron lung in the world 780 00:31:20,012 --> 00:31:21,547 but not a polio vaccine. 781 00:31:21,547 --> 00:31:22,748 When did you get an MD? 782 00:31:22,748 --> 00:31:25,817 I was just quoting Samuel Broder. 783 00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:27,486 Who's he? 784 00:31:27,486 --> 00:31:29,922 The former director of the National Cancer Institute. 785 00:31:31,123 --> 00:31:33,092 The speech is going to work fine. 786 00:31:33,092 --> 00:31:35,027 Don't overreact to the censure. 787 00:31:35,027 --> 00:31:36,395 There is no speech yet. 788 00:31:36,395 --> 00:31:37,964 There will be. 789 00:31:37,964 --> 00:31:39,898 I have to work now. 790 00:31:39,898 --> 00:31:43,669 The President's asked me to try this. 791 00:31:43,669 --> 00:31:46,772 I'll be in my office. 792 00:31:46,772 --> 00:31:50,209 ( soft music playing, people conversing ) 793 00:31:53,445 --> 00:31:55,381 Listen... 794 00:31:55,381 --> 00:31:58,684 when the hell are we getting numbers? 795 00:31:58,684 --> 00:32:01,220 You are a pleasure to work for. 796 00:32:01,220 --> 00:32:03,655 I hear that a lot. When are we getting numbers? 797 00:32:03,655 --> 00:32:06,158 When I say so. 798 00:32:09,828 --> 00:32:13,499 So many women, so little charm. 799 00:32:13,499 --> 00:32:17,269 What in God's name could you possibly want right now? 800 00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:18,504 Let me tell you something. 801 00:32:18,504 --> 00:32:20,606 Making government manuals easier to read? 802 00:32:20,606 --> 00:32:21,607 Yeah. 803 00:32:21,607 --> 00:32:22,808 Would have been a winner. 804 00:32:22,808 --> 00:32:24,576 AMY: Come with me. 805 00:32:26,112 --> 00:32:27,579 Excuse me. 806 00:32:27,579 --> 00:32:30,582 ( whispering ): He happens to be more feminist 807 00:32:30,582 --> 00:32:32,118 than the White House. 808 00:32:32,118 --> 00:32:34,920 I have no idea what you just said. 809 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,223 I said he happens to be more feminist 810 00:32:37,223 --> 00:32:38,757 than the White House. 811 00:32:38,757 --> 00:32:39,625 Feminine? 812 00:32:39,625 --> 00:32:40,826 Feminist. 813 00:32:40,826 --> 00:32:43,262 He wrote the amendment to the HHS appropriations bill 814 00:32:43,262 --> 00:32:45,597 that made violence near abortion clinics a Federal crime 815 00:32:45,597 --> 00:32:47,499 while you guys were seeking legal commentary. 816 00:32:47,499 --> 00:32:49,235 Forgive us for talking to lawyers about the law. 817 00:32:49,235 --> 00:32:50,402 He almost single-handedly 818 00:32:50,402 --> 00:32:51,870 beat back three parental consent bills 819 00:32:51,870 --> 00:32:54,206 and, on two of them, he ran his own damn whip operation 820 00:32:54,206 --> 00:32:55,641 'cause they weren't Leadership priorities. 821 00:32:55,641 --> 00:32:58,410 The Minority Whip doesn't work for us. 822 00:32:58,410 --> 00:33:00,346 And he ties the Violence Against Women Act 823 00:33:00,346 --> 00:33:01,647 to the last crime bill... Amy... 824 00:33:01,647 --> 00:33:02,881 over White House objection. 825 00:33:02,881 --> 00:33:04,616 I'm not quarreling with his credentials 826 00:33:04,616 --> 00:33:05,617 as a lover of women. 827 00:33:05,617 --> 00:33:07,819 I happen to know he excels in that area. 828 00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:08,820 Look who's talking. 829 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:10,156 I'm just saying... 830 00:33:10,156 --> 00:33:11,190 That he's using me. 831 00:33:11,190 --> 00:33:12,358 I was saying that. 832 00:33:12,358 --> 00:33:13,959 I was saying it two weeks ago. 833 00:33:13,959 --> 00:33:16,862 Now I'm not saying anything in the vicinity of that. 834 00:33:16,862 --> 00:33:17,829 Hey... 835 00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:18,830 Hey. 836 00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:20,466 Congressman. 837 00:33:20,466 --> 00:33:21,900 Josh. Great night for us. 838 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:23,402 We'll see. 839 00:33:23,402 --> 00:33:25,037 Amy, we're doing some pictures 840 00:33:25,037 --> 00:33:27,073 with the President in the Mural Room. 841 00:33:27,073 --> 00:33:29,007 You don't want to do them yourself? 842 00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:30,242 No, come on. 843 00:33:32,044 --> 00:33:34,480 Go ahead. 844 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:35,714 Photo-op. 845 00:33:45,357 --> 00:33:46,458 Amy? 846 00:33:46,458 --> 00:33:47,259 Yeah. 847 00:33:47,259 --> 00:33:49,361 Congratulations. 848 00:33:52,798 --> 00:33:54,633 We'll see. 849 00:34:05,177 --> 00:34:06,178 ( knocking ) 850 00:34:06,178 --> 00:34:07,213 PRESIDENT: Yeah. 851 00:34:07,213 --> 00:34:09,081 Come on in. 852 00:34:10,182 --> 00:34:12,718 Good evening, Mr. President. 853 00:34:12,718 --> 00:34:14,086 You got it? 854 00:34:14,086 --> 00:34:15,387 Yeah. 855 00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:42,481 This is good. 856 00:34:42,481 --> 00:34:45,717 You know we can't do it. 857 00:34:45,717 --> 00:34:47,153 Yeah. 858 00:34:47,153 --> 00:34:48,454 We'd need to line up experts 859 00:34:48,454 --> 00:34:50,822 who can face the press, and in just two weeks. 860 00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:51,823 Yeah. 861 00:34:51,823 --> 00:34:53,625 Sloan-Kettering... 862 00:34:53,625 --> 00:34:55,060 Dana-Farber... 863 00:34:55,060 --> 00:34:56,328 The Cleveland Clinic, UCLA. 864 00:34:56,328 --> 00:34:57,563 We'd want to include 865 00:34:57,563 --> 00:34:59,531 the Society of Clinical Oncology. 866 00:34:59,531 --> 00:35:00,532 And the NCI. 867 00:35:00,532 --> 00:35:02,368 The OMB would have to score it. 868 00:35:02,368 --> 00:35:05,437 We haven't identified the offsets to pay for it 869 00:35:05,437 --> 00:35:08,207 and we can barely tell them what the it is. 870 00:35:08,207 --> 00:35:10,642 Clinical trials under Medicare and Medicaid... 871 00:35:10,642 --> 00:35:13,445 Science and Technology Democrats... 872 00:35:13,445 --> 00:35:15,347 the pharmaceutical companies... 873 00:35:15,347 --> 00:35:19,185 ( sighs ) 874 00:35:19,185 --> 00:35:22,254 It was a good idea, though. 875 00:35:22,254 --> 00:35:23,522 We have other good ideas. 876 00:35:25,191 --> 00:35:27,259 So we don't get water from a rock. 877 00:35:27,259 --> 00:35:29,895 We just do our thing and take our chances. 878 00:35:29,895 --> 00:35:31,197 I think so. 879 00:35:32,531 --> 00:35:35,934 We're going to have to do it awfully well this time. 880 00:35:35,934 --> 00:35:37,403 We've done that before. 881 00:35:40,071 --> 00:35:42,107 Anything else? 882 00:35:42,107 --> 00:35:44,410 Thank you, Mr. President. 883 00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:03,195 ( partygoers conversing ) 884 00:36:05,030 --> 00:36:06,265 C.J. 885 00:36:06,265 --> 00:36:08,434 Would you excuse me? 886 00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:25,417 Well. 887 00:36:25,417 --> 00:36:27,986 Something happened at the half-hour mark. 888 00:36:27,986 --> 00:36:28,854 What? 889 00:36:28,854 --> 00:36:30,155 They remembered 890 00:36:30,155 --> 00:36:32,858 why they liked him in the first place. 891 00:36:34,426 --> 00:36:36,595 The breakdowns are being handed around 892 00:36:36,595 --> 00:36:39,431 but the really good news are the panel backs. 893 00:36:39,431 --> 00:36:42,468 16 Democrats, 16 Republicans 894 00:36:42,468 --> 00:36:44,770 and 12 Independents 895 00:36:44,770 --> 00:36:47,973 were asked identical questions two days ago and one hour ago. 896 00:36:47,973 --> 00:36:49,975 Two days ago 897 00:36:49,975 --> 00:36:54,346 48% said he was able to handle his job effectively. 898 00:36:55,347 --> 00:36:57,616 Tonight that number's 59. 899 00:36:58,984 --> 00:37:00,286 "Trustworthy" 900 00:37:00,286 --> 00:37:02,020 60%, up from 41. 901 00:37:02,020 --> 00:37:02,988 Give us the real one. 902 00:37:06,425 --> 00:37:10,262 "Strong leader..." 69%. 903 00:37:10,262 --> 00:37:11,763 ( whooping ) 904 00:37:11,763 --> 00:37:13,231 We're back! Yes! 905 00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:14,566 Yes! 906 00:37:35,220 --> 00:37:37,088 Somebody get these guys some pie. 907 00:37:37,088 --> 00:37:38,390 ( laughter ) 908 00:37:38,390 --> 00:37:40,392 Joey is there an extra copy of the panel backs? 909 00:37:40,392 --> 00:37:41,627 I didn't get one. 910 00:37:41,627 --> 00:37:42,528 I got one. 911 00:37:44,029 --> 00:37:45,464 Thanks. C.J. 912 00:37:45,464 --> 00:37:46,965 Hang on. Dance with me. 913 00:37:46,965 --> 00:37:49,935 Hang on. I'm just going to toss this in my office. 914 00:37:51,437 --> 00:37:52,671 Congratulations, boss. 915 00:37:52,671 --> 00:37:53,505 Nice job. 916 00:37:53,505 --> 00:37:54,840 Take the rest of the night off. 917 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,142 Yeah. It's 1:00 in the morning. 918 00:37:57,142 --> 00:37:58,344 Well, you earned it. 919 00:37:58,344 --> 00:38:00,145 Sam, Sam, the sunshine man. 920 00:38:00,145 --> 00:38:02,414 Get on the couch. I'm going to do you right now. 921 00:38:02,414 --> 00:38:04,516 Okay. Sorry, I was still talking to Carol. 922 00:38:04,516 --> 00:38:05,484 What is wrong with you? 923 00:38:05,484 --> 00:38:07,052 We really don't know. 924 00:38:07,052 --> 00:38:09,588 Lisa mentioned that it wasn't going that well tonight. 925 00:38:09,588 --> 00:38:12,190 You've still got a couple of weeks with her, you'll... 926 00:38:12,190 --> 00:38:14,292 Yeah, I wish we hadn't started tonight. 927 00:38:14,292 --> 00:38:16,294 Why? It was a shining moment. 928 00:38:16,294 --> 00:38:17,429 It got the job done 929 00:38:17,429 --> 00:38:18,930 but it's ironic 930 00:38:18,930 --> 00:38:20,932 that a thing, a sort of a thing between us 931 00:38:20,932 --> 00:38:23,101 is-- I'm supposed to know the difference 932 00:38:23,101 --> 00:38:24,269 between flash and substance. 933 00:38:24,269 --> 00:38:25,371 Sometimes a little flash 934 00:38:25,371 --> 00:38:26,237 is what's required. 935 00:38:26,237 --> 00:38:27,606 You said that to me. 936 00:38:27,606 --> 00:38:29,708 I say that when I don't have anything to say. 937 00:38:29,708 --> 00:38:31,543 It wasn't a Vegas act-- it was stirring. 938 00:38:31,543 --> 00:38:32,744 And I wouldn't hang your head 939 00:38:32,744 --> 00:38:34,380 when you say it got the job done. 940 00:38:34,380 --> 00:38:36,348 That job was impossible and it had to be done. 941 00:38:36,348 --> 00:38:37,749 There aren't ten guys in the country 942 00:38:37,749 --> 00:38:39,184 who could write that speech. 943 00:38:39,184 --> 00:38:40,251 I'll bet the Cancer Committee 944 00:38:40,251 --> 00:38:42,153 can't wait to buy me a beer. 945 00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:44,456 Hey, I'm just... You know. 946 00:38:44,456 --> 00:38:46,692 Anyway, congratulations-- and if you're serious 947 00:38:46,692 --> 00:38:48,126 about that thing with Carol 948 00:38:48,126 --> 00:38:49,227 I can just sit in the corner 949 00:38:49,227 --> 00:38:50,696 and not even say... Get out. 950 00:38:53,765 --> 00:38:55,534 SAM: Sorry, I was just getting some numbers. 951 00:38:55,534 --> 00:38:57,002 Can you tell me what they were? 952 00:38:57,002 --> 00:38:58,537 They're internal numbers. 953 00:38:58,537 --> 00:39:01,306 CNN/USA Today will have something in a little while. 954 00:39:01,306 --> 00:39:02,307 Anyway... 955 00:39:02,307 --> 00:39:03,609 this is my office over here. 956 00:39:03,609 --> 00:39:04,776 Sam 957 00:39:04,776 --> 00:39:06,244 I'm going to give my notes from tonight 958 00:39:06,244 --> 00:39:08,113 to someone else and let them finish the reporting 959 00:39:08,113 --> 00:39:09,548 over the next few weeks. 960 00:39:09,548 --> 00:39:11,349 You're obviously not comfortable with this. 961 00:39:11,349 --> 00:39:13,084 They're internal numbers, Lisa, I can't... 962 00:39:13,084 --> 00:39:14,386 Yeah, whatever. 963 00:39:14,386 --> 00:39:16,888 I'm going to give my notes to someone else. 964 00:39:19,257 --> 00:39:21,092 Anyway. 965 00:39:21,092 --> 00:39:22,728 This is my office. 966 00:39:24,963 --> 00:39:26,465 It's nice. 967 00:39:28,967 --> 00:39:30,502 C.J. asked me a couple of weeks ago 968 00:39:30,502 --> 00:39:31,970 if the reason we didn't get married 969 00:39:31,970 --> 00:39:33,972 is because your name would be Sherborne-Seaborn. 970 00:39:33,972 --> 00:39:37,476 That's exactly why we didn't get married. 971 00:39:40,646 --> 00:39:42,347 Why didn't we get married? 972 00:39:42,347 --> 00:39:43,982 Why do you think? 973 00:39:43,982 --> 00:39:45,283 'Cause I don't know 974 00:39:45,283 --> 00:39:48,019 what the cool restaurant is and I don't care. 975 00:39:48,019 --> 00:39:50,088 When I get hungry, I want to eat 976 00:39:50,088 --> 00:39:53,058 and I don't know where the Tommy Hilfigger party is 977 00:39:53,058 --> 00:39:55,293 and I don't know what to do once I get there. 978 00:39:55,293 --> 00:39:56,294 You're full of crap. 979 00:39:56,294 --> 00:39:57,863 I was never cool enough for you. 980 00:39:57,863 --> 00:40:00,365 You're full of crap and you think too little of me 981 00:40:00,365 --> 00:40:02,333 and I didn't leave you-- you left me 982 00:40:02,333 --> 00:40:03,935 and you did it to do this. 983 00:40:03,935 --> 00:40:05,871 The reason you're pissy is 'cause I'm here 984 00:40:05,871 --> 00:40:07,606 looking at you and writing about you 985 00:40:07,606 --> 00:40:09,575 and you're wondering if I'm going to think 986 00:40:09,575 --> 00:40:11,409 you've been doing anything at all. 987 00:40:12,878 --> 00:40:15,313 Often it's not clear to me whether or not I have. 988 00:40:15,313 --> 00:40:16,247 You have. 989 00:40:16,247 --> 00:40:17,115 How would you know? 990 00:40:17,115 --> 00:40:19,117 I don't know. 991 00:40:22,253 --> 00:40:24,155 Here's something interesting. 992 00:40:24,155 --> 00:40:26,725 In 1940, our armed forces weren't among 993 00:40:26,725 --> 00:40:29,995 the 12 most formidable in the world, but obviously 994 00:40:29,995 --> 00:40:32,063 we were going to fight a big war 995 00:40:32,063 --> 00:40:35,066 and Roosevelt said the US would produce 996 00:40:35,066 --> 00:40:36,968 50,000 planes in the next four years. 997 00:40:36,968 --> 00:40:38,570 Everyone thought it was a joke 998 00:40:38,570 --> 00:40:41,840 and it was, 'cause it turned out we produced 999 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:46,512 Gave the Air Force an armada that would block the sun. 1000 00:40:48,046 --> 00:40:50,381 Do you still have what you wrote that night? 1001 00:40:50,381 --> 00:40:52,784 About curing cancer? 1002 00:40:52,784 --> 00:40:54,219 Yeah. 1003 00:41:05,263 --> 00:41:07,599 Read it to me. 1004 00:41:10,101 --> 00:41:13,071 "Over the past half century, we've split the atom 1005 00:41:13,071 --> 00:41:17,408 "we've spliced the gene and we've roamed Tranquillity Base. 1006 00:41:17,408 --> 00:41:19,044 "We've reached for the stars 1007 00:41:19,044 --> 00:41:22,213 "and never have we been closer to having them in our grasp. 1008 00:41:22,213 --> 00:41:25,216 "New science, new technology is making the difference 1009 00:41:25,216 --> 00:41:27,385 "between life and death, and so we need 1010 00:41:27,385 --> 00:41:28,887 "a national commitment 1011 00:41:28,887 --> 00:41:32,057 "equal to this unparalleled moment of possibility. 1012 00:41:32,057 --> 00:41:34,392 "And so I announce to you tonight that I will bring 1013 00:41:34,392 --> 00:41:36,895 "the full resources of the Federal Government 1014 00:41:36,895 --> 00:41:40,031 "and the full reach of my office to this fundamental goal: 1015 00:41:40,031 --> 00:41:43,769 We will cure cancer by the end of this decade." 1016 00:41:45,403 --> 00:41:47,272 That was nice. 1017 00:41:49,775 --> 00:41:51,509 I'll pass the notes along.