1 00:01:34,220 --> 00:01:36,340 Mel, can I get you to proof this? 2 00:01:36,420 --> 00:01:39,060 Mel, which one? 3 00:01:39,140 --> 00:01:41,020 This one. 4 00:01:44,460 --> 00:01:45,980 Come on, people... 5 00:01:46,060 --> 00:01:48,020 What have you done for me lately? 6 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:51,340 Overnights, Mel, read them and weep! 7 00:01:51,685 --> 00:01:54,521 Where's Boise? I don't see Boise. 8 00:01:54,568 --> 00:01:57,013 Where's Pakistan? Come on! 9 00:01:57,091 --> 00:01:59,210 Mel baby, you're going to just love today. 10 00:01:59,241 --> 00:02:00,733 I better, Alan. 11 00:02:01,733 --> 00:02:03,490 I don't see much team work! 12 00:02:03,694 --> 00:02:05,129 Caroline, my coffee is cold. 13 00:02:05,154 --> 00:02:07,772 "We tell ourselves we are after the truth." 14 00:02:08,115 --> 00:02:10,355 "We tell ourselves we deal in facts." 15 00:02:10,590 --> 00:02:11,659 "And yet for those of us... 16 00:02:11,684 --> 00:02:13,777 who've been in my business long enough... 17 00:02:13,934 --> 00:02:16,824 we're haunted by the realization that the facts alone... 18 00:02:16,989 --> 00:02:18,369 don't always lead to the truth." 19 00:02:18,394 --> 00:02:20,176 From the White House after the speech, okay? 20 00:02:20,285 --> 00:02:21,043 No spin! 21 00:02:21,355 --> 00:02:23,754 Do not tolerate any spin what so ever... 22 00:02:24,410 --> 00:02:25,988 Where's Boise? 23 00:02:26,846 --> 00:02:29,939 "Like most of the really important stories we covered, this one... 24 00:02:30,308 --> 00:02:34,088 the biggest armed confrontation in America since the Civil War... 25 00:02:34,292 --> 00:02:36,917 started with seemingly unrelated incidence... 26 00:02:37,140 --> 00:02:39,180 that had first been almost unnoticed... 27 00:02:39,260 --> 00:02:41,189 and then spun out of control." 28 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,220 Most of you know, Governor Farleys on his way back from Washington... 29 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:48,672 he'll be addressing you at some point later today or tomorrow. 30 00:02:49,344 --> 00:02:50,055 However... 31 00:02:50,460 --> 00:02:54,320 he has authorized me to make this statement on his behalf. 32 00:02:55,253 --> 00:02:56,500 "Effective immediately... 33 00:02:57,034 --> 00:02:59,128 the State of Idaho is closing it's borders... 34 00:02:59,784 --> 00:03:02,300 if necessary, by the use of force." 35 00:03:03,036 --> 00:03:04,515 "I have ordered our state troopers... 36 00:03:04,540 --> 00:03:06,184 to set up check-points on the boarders." 37 00:03:06,653 --> 00:03:09,105 "And no one will be allowed in without authorization... 38 00:03:09,130 --> 00:03:10,580 from the Idaho authorities." 39 00:03:10,660 --> 00:03:12,716 "There will be no questions at this time." 40 00:03:13,614 --> 00:03:15,167 He's closing the borders, people. 41 00:03:15,192 --> 00:03:17,277 Thank God for arrogance, lust and greed... 42 00:03:17,302 --> 00:03:18,912 or we'd all be doing infomercials. 43 00:03:18,959 --> 00:03:21,209 Let's go people, I smell a twenty share! 44 00:03:21,318 --> 00:03:24,115 Where the hell is Pakistan? Where's the White House? 45 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:26,820 Do we still have a White House or has Tokyo foreclosed on it? 46 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:30,260 - Coming up! - We'll return to Boise momentarily. 47 00:03:30,568 --> 00:03:35,028 "Meanwhile, developments in Pakistan are continuing as more orphans... 48 00:03:35,053 --> 00:03:37,598 are being assembled for the flight to America." 49 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:42,067 "It is now thirty eight days since the event that started it all." 50 00:03:43,612 --> 00:03:45,438 "The nuclear explosion from the Indian missiles... 51 00:03:45,463 --> 00:03:49,149 that devastated over ten thousand square miles of the area... 52 00:03:49,174 --> 00:03:52,214 around the Pakistani Capitol of Islamabad." 53 00:03:53,621 --> 00:03:56,447 "At the Peshaware airport in Northern Pakistan... 54 00:03:56,472 --> 00:03:58,675 the first of several plane loads of children... 55 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:01,723 orphaned by the atomic blast, is preparing to leave." 56 00:04:02,067 --> 00:04:04,208 "Destination: Twin Falls, Idaho." 57 00:04:04,575 --> 00:04:07,892 "The rescue mission is under the supervision of Amelia Sims... 58 00:04:07,917 --> 00:04:11,017 head of the controversial, Give to the Children Corporation." 59 00:04:11,460 --> 00:04:13,620 "However, as we've just reported... 60 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:16,980 Governor Farley has closed the border of that state." 61 00:04:17,471 --> 00:04:18,970 "As politicians maneuver... 62 00:04:18,995 --> 00:04:20,799 behind the scenes to avoid a crisis... 63 00:04:21,081 --> 00:04:24,180 a confrontation seems increasingly inevitable." 64 00:04:24,660 --> 00:04:26,127 "The governors press secretary... 65 00:04:26,152 --> 00:04:28,064 has said that no one will be allowed in... 66 00:04:28,089 --> 00:04:29,807 without permission from the Idaho authorities..." 67 00:04:29,832 --> 00:04:30,800 Jesus Christ! 68 00:04:31,464 --> 00:04:34,301 The country's becoming un-glued and the bird goes down! 69 00:04:34,473 --> 00:04:36,180 It's not off the satellite we got Bombay... 70 00:04:36,260 --> 00:04:37,980 - off the same bird. - I don't care what it is, okay. 71 00:04:38,005 --> 00:04:40,820 I want the orphans. 72 00:04:40,845 --> 00:04:42,505 Can't do it, we're losing them. 73 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:49,151 Go to the White House. Go ahead. Go! 74 00:04:49,745 --> 00:04:52,830 "We apologize for the technical difficulties." 75 00:04:53,838 --> 00:04:56,423 "Steven Kingsley is standing by at the White House... 76 00:04:56,448 --> 00:04:57,460 with a live report." 77 00:04:58,138 --> 00:05:01,121 Helena, Matthew, we've just seen an indication... 78 00:05:01,146 --> 00:05:03,724 of the way the White House is handling these events. 79 00:05:04,020 --> 00:05:06,552 "When Jack Buchan, high powered lobbyist... 80 00:05:06,577 --> 00:05:10,036 and unofficial Public Relations advisor to the President... 81 00:05:10,061 --> 00:05:13,458 arrived here as President of Cathers and Hilton... 82 00:05:13,483 --> 00:05:15,908 the huge Washington P.R. firm." 83 00:05:16,041 --> 00:05:18,377 "Buchan is not a member of the Cabinet... 84 00:05:18,658 --> 00:05:21,102 but in times of extreme crisis... 85 00:05:21,127 --> 00:05:23,431 he is often seen around the White House." 86 00:05:24,736 --> 00:05:26,048 So, what do the polls say? 87 00:05:26,392 --> 00:05:29,141 Fifty two percent are in favor of strong action. 88 00:05:29,235 --> 00:05:31,953 There is no other kind, Idaho will be stopped. 89 00:05:32,383 --> 00:05:34,969 - I want those orphans in there. - Yes, sir. 90 00:05:35,235 --> 00:05:36,578 What do the polls show in Florida? 91 00:05:36,620 --> 00:05:38,300 Florida was the swing vote in the last election. 92 00:05:38,380 --> 00:05:41,868 In Florida only thirty eight percent are in favor of strong action... 93 00:05:42,072 --> 00:05:44,533 and most of them are over the age of seventy five. 94 00:05:44,572 --> 00:05:45,884 Statistically... 95 00:05:45,915 --> 00:05:48,666 most of them will be dead before the next election. 96 00:05:49,020 --> 00:05:50,737 Dead supporters are the worst. 97 00:05:50,783 --> 00:05:52,110 I mean, they take up a ton of your time... 98 00:05:52,135 --> 00:05:54,236 and then where the hell are they when you need them? 99 00:05:55,478 --> 00:05:58,291 Shit. So, what do we do? 100 00:05:58,510 --> 00:06:02,188 Sometimes, the best action is no action. 101 00:06:02,524 --> 00:06:04,740 Well, nobody believes in action more than I do, Mike. 102 00:06:05,180 --> 00:06:06,900 Mr. President. 103 00:06:07,780 --> 00:06:10,085 I think the answer is to move the whole damn thing up... 104 00:06:10,110 --> 00:06:11,681 to a new paradigm, like... 105 00:06:12,189 --> 00:06:15,509 I'm talking about moving it onto the image level. 106 00:06:16,188 --> 00:06:18,078 Now, that's my business, I know image. 107 00:06:18,980 --> 00:06:20,561 And the great thing about image is that... 108 00:06:20,586 --> 00:06:23,620 you look like you're doing something strong... 109 00:06:23,974 --> 00:06:25,500 but you don't necessarily do it. 110 00:06:25,779 --> 00:06:29,240 That way, they nail you and... There's nothing to hit. 111 00:06:30,318 --> 00:06:31,232 And? 112 00:06:31,490 --> 00:06:33,835 I got them! Mel, I got them back. 113 00:06:34,540 --> 00:06:36,216 The first plane load of orphans is in the air. 114 00:06:36,241 --> 00:06:37,660 It's the one we put Tony Phillips on. 115 00:06:37,740 --> 00:06:39,599 But they may have to make an emergency landing somewhere. 116 00:06:39,624 --> 00:06:40,660 What do you mean emergency land... 117 00:06:40,927 --> 00:06:42,367 Get Phillips on the horn, please. 118 00:06:42,404 --> 00:06:44,349 What is our 20 at JFK, please? 119 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,448 Keep them out of the bathroom! You cannot have... 120 00:06:49,473 --> 00:06:51,473 "Tony what the hell's going on up there?" 121 00:06:51,886 --> 00:06:54,378 Mell, for Christ sake, I got no control over it. 122 00:06:55,039 --> 00:06:57,399 We got a plane full of orphans... 123 00:06:57,846 --> 00:06:59,566 and the toilets have stopped working, okay. 124 00:06:59,652 --> 00:07:00,487 - "So what?" - Look... 125 00:07:00,512 --> 00:07:03,715 we just have to land in Newfoundland just for a few hours to fix it. 126 00:07:03,824 --> 00:07:04,564 "Tony?" 127 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,739 Let me ask you something, do you want to land at JFK... 128 00:07:07,764 --> 00:07:09,948 in the middle of the afternoon when nobody is watching... 129 00:07:09,973 --> 00:07:12,144 and maybe get a 1.2 share? 130 00:07:12,277 --> 00:07:15,823 Or do you want to land at JFK primetime in the morning... 131 00:07:15,848 --> 00:07:18,183 and perhaps garner a 28 share? 132 00:07:18,208 --> 00:07:19,629 "What you want, Tony?" 133 00:07:19,654 --> 00:07:22,254 Mel, I'm telling you, this is a flying planeload of shit! 134 00:07:22,540 --> 00:07:28,004 "Tony, this is the biggest story in the last half of the century... 135 00:07:28,029 --> 00:07:30,012 and you are the human side of it, okay?" 136 00:07:30,037 --> 00:07:32,357 So, whatever you have to do to keep those kids up there... 137 00:07:32,382 --> 00:07:34,835 stick a cork up their asses, you do it. 138 00:07:34,860 --> 00:07:36,888 - Do you understand? What? - Hey, Mel! 139 00:07:36,966 --> 00:07:38,218 Idaho is coming. 140 00:07:38,577 --> 00:07:41,452 We apologize again for the technical difficulties. 141 00:07:41,647 --> 00:07:43,475 We'll return to the orphans remaining... 142 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:46,235 at the Pakistan airport for their flight to America. 143 00:07:46,260 --> 00:07:49,539 Excuse me, Helena. We have just received word that... 144 00:07:49,564 --> 00:07:53,072 Governor Farley will be returning to the State House momentarily. 145 00:07:53,220 --> 00:07:56,878 And as you know the Governor expected to make some sort of statement... 146 00:07:56,903 --> 00:07:58,513 within the next twenty-four hours. 147 00:07:58,723 --> 00:08:01,277 "And he's certainly one of the more controversial... 148 00:08:01,302 --> 00:08:02,669 governor's in this country." 149 00:08:02,801 --> 00:08:06,073 "Once known for his liberal views Jim Farley has been criticized... 150 00:08:06,098 --> 00:08:08,755 for playing to State's conservative majority." 151 00:08:09,161 --> 00:08:11,777 "And indeed, Governor Farleys approval ratings have jumped... 152 00:08:11,802 --> 00:08:13,590 twelve percentage points... 153 00:08:13,615 --> 00:08:17,004 since he adopted his bold anti-immigration stance... 154 00:08:17,029 --> 00:08:19,692 an outgrowth of his successful reelection campaign... 155 00:08:19,717 --> 00:08:22,569 which played to a theme that still resonates today." 156 00:08:22,686 --> 00:08:24,787 "America. As it should be." 157 00:08:26,863 --> 00:08:29,983 "Governor Farley has just arrived on the steps of the Capital." 158 00:08:30,220 --> 00:08:32,500 "Let's switch there now. Live." 159 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,999 Okay, line up the reacts from the White House. 160 00:08:44,024 --> 00:08:46,650 Tell Kingsley to get the President! 161 00:08:47,140 --> 00:08:49,260 Get the President, like in send out a search party? 162 00:08:49,340 --> 00:08:51,689 - Correct. - Who's got Christina Fernandez? 163 00:08:52,150 --> 00:08:53,400 Christina? 164 00:08:55,627 --> 00:08:56,611 Yes. 165 00:08:57,340 --> 00:09:02,133 The universe shall unfold as it does, ladies and gentlemen. 166 00:09:02,158 --> 00:09:03,895 Governor! 167 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:05,747 - Alan? - Govenor, answer the question... 168 00:09:05,772 --> 00:09:10,161 Alan, I could hardly hear you. The balloon's going up. 169 00:09:10,186 --> 00:09:13,035 "I know. You'll be hearing from me soon on the matter." 170 00:09:13,060 --> 00:09:14,060 "Yes, you will." 171 00:09:14,085 --> 00:09:15,623 This is what it comes down to. 172 00:09:15,648 --> 00:09:18,260 One guy controls the fate of the whole damn country? 173 00:09:18,578 --> 00:09:20,555 You've all been very understanding. 174 00:09:20,580 --> 00:09:24,261 Yes, tomorrow. Guaranteed. 175 00:09:30,075 --> 00:09:32,566 My life is out of control. 176 00:09:32,591 --> 00:09:35,698 Christ, she hardly acknowledges I'm alive. 177 00:09:35,723 --> 00:09:37,763 You saw her out there, it's like I'm a goddamn window... 178 00:09:37,788 --> 00:09:38,940 she looked right through me! 179 00:09:39,020 --> 00:09:40,580 But Governor, I don't know if this is really the time... 180 00:09:40,660 --> 00:09:42,700 to let her be getting to you like this. I mean... 181 00:09:42,780 --> 00:09:43,980 What the hell is it with women? 182 00:09:44,005 --> 00:09:45,555 Christ. Doesn't going to bed... 183 00:09:45,580 --> 00:09:47,965 and fucking your brains out mean anything anymore? 184 00:09:48,372 --> 00:09:50,370 Well, Governor, I can get the State Troopers... 185 00:09:50,395 --> 00:09:52,180 to cut you another one out of the heard. 186 00:09:52,860 --> 00:09:54,401 There's plenty of cocktail waitresses... 187 00:09:54,426 --> 00:09:55,835 you ain't been through down there at the Frontier Lounge. 188 00:09:55,860 --> 00:09:57,191 I want Christina. 189 00:09:57,500 --> 00:10:00,180 What is it with her? She knows I can't leave my wife. 190 00:10:00,449 --> 00:10:02,291 Well, Governor, you got a crisis to handle... 191 00:10:02,316 --> 00:10:04,244 and she knows damn well you do. 192 00:10:04,269 --> 00:10:07,064 That's the problem with women they never listen to reason. 193 00:10:07,089 --> 00:10:09,860 "It's your fault!" 194 00:10:10,433 --> 00:10:12,020 Governor, the White House just called. 195 00:10:12,045 --> 00:10:14,933 Goddammit, get the hell out of here. This is important. 196 00:10:16,870 --> 00:10:18,894 Close the damn door! 197 00:10:19,628 --> 00:10:20,740 The White House... 198 00:10:21,214 --> 00:10:22,245 Look, Governor... 199 00:10:22,511 --> 00:10:24,347 I'll see what I can do to get her thinking straight again. 200 00:10:24,784 --> 00:10:26,469 But right now you got to get yourself ready... 201 00:10:26,494 --> 00:10:28,557 to go out there in front of the whole damn country tomorrow. 202 00:10:29,096 --> 00:10:31,586 Politics is just another form of sex. 203 00:10:32,305 --> 00:10:33,805 You know that, don't you? 204 00:10:35,980 --> 00:10:37,795 - Jim, I need you to do... - Mel, I just got through... 205 00:10:37,820 --> 00:10:39,460 to Tony Phillips, I'm going to go out to JFK... 206 00:10:39,485 --> 00:10:40,701 and meet the plane in the morning. 207 00:10:40,896 --> 00:10:42,006 I need you here. 208 00:10:42,115 --> 00:10:43,895 Yeah, but I'd do better work out there. 209 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,489 Jim, I don't want better work, alright? 210 00:10:46,514 --> 00:10:48,554 I need grab-them-by-the-throat news. 211 00:10:48,835 --> 00:10:52,835 Alright? Haven't you noticed ethics and taste are passe, history... 212 00:10:52,860 --> 00:10:55,591 - this is not the '90s anymore, Jim. - Mel, you're living proof of it. 213 00:10:55,616 --> 00:10:58,490 - Tony Phillips is holding on line 5. - You know something? 214 00:10:58,515 --> 00:11:01,013 I hold you responsible for my predicament. 215 00:11:01,038 --> 00:11:03,795 Let me explain, when I was in J school... 216 00:11:03,820 --> 00:11:05,663 I used to watch you on ABC and I'd say... 217 00:11:05,688 --> 00:11:08,420 "Look at that dignity and class." 218 00:11:08,445 --> 00:11:10,911 "Maybe you could be in news without being a cynical cog... 219 00:11:10,936 --> 00:11:13,380 in some son of a bitch corporate structure." 220 00:11:13,405 --> 00:11:16,500 Boy, was I conned. You suckered me in. 221 00:11:16,623 --> 00:11:19,303 - I'm going to get you for that. - Mel, you have many times. 222 00:11:19,328 --> 00:11:21,475 - Tony, it's Jim again. - "You want us to do what?" 223 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:23,100 "Just a minute. Jim, hold on." 224 00:11:24,182 --> 00:11:29,063 "We will not be silenced by some ridiculous need for primetime." 225 00:11:29,134 --> 00:11:31,030 Tony, grab yourself a barf bag... 226 00:11:31,055 --> 00:11:33,300 and put Miss First Amendment on the line. 227 00:11:33,380 --> 00:11:35,737 "It's Mel Burgess, our executive producer." 228 00:11:35,762 --> 00:11:37,543 "He wants to talk to you." 229 00:11:38,161 --> 00:11:39,635 "Hot wire to the..." 230 00:11:39,660 --> 00:11:42,435 Having quite a ride up there, aren't you, Miss Sims? 231 00:11:42,460 --> 00:11:46,146 Mr. Burgess, was is it that you want? 232 00:11:46,171 --> 00:11:49,700 Well, I just wanted you to know if you didn't land in Newfoundland... 233 00:11:49,780 --> 00:11:52,973 and arrived at JFK in the middle of morning primetime... 234 00:11:52,998 --> 00:11:55,848 "Yeah, well, what the hell do I care about primetime?" 235 00:11:55,873 --> 00:11:59,888 Miss Sims, let's face it right now you're a two-bit charity, okay? 236 00:11:59,913 --> 00:12:02,193 But if you land at JFK... 237 00:12:02,218 --> 00:12:05,195 smack in the middle of morning primetime... 238 00:12:05,220 --> 00:12:08,772 America sees these kids getting off the plane in their wretched state... 239 00:12:08,797 --> 00:12:11,475 you will be inundated with money, Miss Sims. 240 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:13,315 You'll be bigger than "Save the Children"! 241 00:12:13,340 --> 00:12:15,580 Well, that is the most ridiculous thing that I... 242 00:12:15,605 --> 00:12:20,330 Did he say, bigger than "Save the Children"? 243 00:12:20,355 --> 00:12:24,075 Everybody's got a magic button, our job, find it and push it. 244 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:25,426 Okay, Jim, you're it. 245 00:12:25,451 --> 00:12:27,613 Orphan patrol, get to JFK... 246 00:12:27,638 --> 00:12:30,435 keep them up there for a couple hours until prime time. 247 00:12:30,460 --> 00:12:32,300 "There is still no word from the White House... 248 00:12:32,380 --> 00:12:34,944 but unofficially, one aide has said that... 249 00:12:34,969 --> 00:12:38,580 and I quote, 'Strong action will be taken'." 250 00:12:39,712 --> 00:12:42,392 Governor Farley won't come to the telephone. 251 00:12:42,417 --> 00:12:43,493 Fuck. 252 00:12:43,940 --> 00:12:46,999 So, what now? 253 00:12:47,024 --> 00:12:48,874 Well, if that son of a bitch is... 254 00:12:48,899 --> 00:12:51,940 going to make the speech I think he's going to make... 255 00:12:52,274 --> 00:12:54,060 then he could wipe us out. 256 00:12:54,540 --> 00:12:57,466 I smell an Image Deficiency Syndrome on our hands. 257 00:12:57,491 --> 00:12:59,138 What the hell are we talking about... 258 00:12:59,163 --> 00:13:01,567 Image Deficiency Syndrome? 259 00:13:02,168 --> 00:13:03,668 If I may, sir. 260 00:13:04,137 --> 00:13:07,555 When I set up your election campaign I knew you'd be elected... 261 00:13:07,580 --> 00:13:10,350 like all other Presidents because of image. 262 00:13:10,375 --> 00:13:12,220 Now, no disrespect, sir... 263 00:13:12,476 --> 00:13:15,654 but the American people vote for the sizzle, not the steak... 264 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:17,355 its only afterwards that the poor bastards... 265 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:18,902 have to bite into that fat and gristle. 266 00:13:18,927 --> 00:13:22,300 - This is not about image! - I beg your pardon, Warren. 267 00:13:23,034 --> 00:13:26,580 Mr. President, we're dealing with something a hell of a lot more... 268 00:13:26,605 --> 00:13:29,460 than just "messy reality" here. 269 00:13:29,597 --> 00:13:32,377 See, at my shop we represent everyone... 270 00:13:32,402 --> 00:13:36,035 from the Apple Growers Association to the Government of Zimbodway. 271 00:13:36,060 --> 00:13:37,270 And I've got a dozen clients... 272 00:13:37,295 --> 00:13:39,675 who are going to load their collective pants... 273 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:43,180 if that son of a bitch looks like he's going to run circles around us. 274 00:13:43,335 --> 00:13:45,545 No one's going to run circles around us, Chuck. 275 00:13:45,570 --> 00:13:46,974 Exactly. 276 00:13:46,999 --> 00:13:50,687 Now, we've an election next year and unless you keep that in mind... 277 00:13:50,804 --> 00:13:52,202 when it's over this President... 278 00:13:52,249 --> 00:13:55,820 could be out building houses for the poor like Jimmy Carter. 279 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:58,140 I've never even fixed a faucet. 280 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:05,211 Jim's at JFK! Hang in there, Jim. 281 00:14:05,236 --> 00:14:07,900 Idaho's coming up! Farley's about to make his speech! 282 00:14:08,980 --> 00:14:11,715 Christina, stay with him all the way up to the podium, okay? 283 00:14:11,740 --> 00:14:13,203 You stay with him! 284 00:14:13,228 --> 00:14:16,035 Mel, he's not even here, he's still upstairs. 285 00:14:16,060 --> 00:14:18,660 It's going to be a feeding frenzy down here. 286 00:14:18,685 --> 00:14:20,140 But you see, Governor... 287 00:14:20,165 --> 00:14:22,969 you got to look at this as an opportunity, not a problem. 288 00:14:22,994 --> 00:14:25,832 I don't see this as much of an opportunity, Jimmy. 289 00:14:25,857 --> 00:14:28,900 Hell, she's talking about wanting to get transferred out of state! 290 00:14:29,380 --> 00:14:32,435 So, there you go now, you stand up there... 291 00:14:32,460 --> 00:14:33,955 you make that speech in a few minutes... 292 00:14:33,980 --> 00:14:37,380 she's going to be watching you like a hound in heat. 293 00:14:37,660 --> 00:14:39,540 - You really think so? - You're goddamn right. 294 00:14:39,779 --> 00:14:41,875 I mean, women love power. 295 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:44,198 They swarm around it like flies around shit. 296 00:14:44,223 --> 00:14:46,035 I mean, how could she do this to me? 297 00:14:46,060 --> 00:14:49,700 We made love just last Friday, right here in this office. 298 00:14:49,780 --> 00:14:51,980 On that damn couch you're sitting on right now. 299 00:14:55,180 --> 00:14:57,540 You know, counting for loyalty these days? 300 00:14:59,340 --> 00:15:02,460 - By the way your wife called. - Cover for me. 301 00:15:04,340 --> 00:15:06,660 Planeful of orphans, one hour out of JFK! 302 00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:08,860 So, Caroline, you want to be in the news business... 303 00:15:08,940 --> 00:15:12,100 start thinking train wrecks, electronic train wrecks... 304 00:15:12,580 --> 00:15:15,780 only the trains are people, like Farley and the White House... 305 00:15:15,860 --> 00:15:18,176 all we do is put them on the same track... 306 00:15:18,201 --> 00:15:20,014 and let them head towards each other. 307 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:30,300 You told me she was staying here, and I'm telling you she's gone. 308 00:15:30,380 --> 00:15:33,020 She's here. Let's just keep movin. 309 00:15:37,398 --> 00:15:40,220 Good morning. 310 00:15:40,375 --> 00:15:45,100 You all know that I've just ordered the borders of Idaho to be closed. 311 00:15:45,580 --> 00:15:49,660 Now, this action is being implemented to preserve our way of life. 312 00:15:49,740 --> 00:15:53,039 The American dream that has been falsely... 313 00:15:53,064 --> 00:15:55,650 and cynically held out to the entire rest of the world... 314 00:15:55,675 --> 00:15:58,875 which has grown by a billion people in merely the last ten years... 315 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:01,780 count them folks, one billion. 316 00:16:01,969 --> 00:16:04,809 Standing room only from Maine to California. 317 00:16:04,980 --> 00:16:08,940 And by, by allowing the stampede of... 318 00:16:09,020 --> 00:16:11,380 Whatever you want to call them, immigrants, refugees... 319 00:16:11,460 --> 00:16:14,780 illegals, legals, migrants, aliens, you name it... 320 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,300 we are being swamped. 321 00:16:17,325 --> 00:16:20,460 "And we are destroying our own way of life... 322 00:16:20,540 --> 00:16:22,912 at a time when the business community... 323 00:16:22,937 --> 00:16:25,260 has presided over the wholesale destruction of... 324 00:16:25,340 --> 00:16:28,579 our manufacturing capability, shift it overseas." 325 00:16:28,604 --> 00:16:30,196 - I don't know. - "In the name of efficiency..." 326 00:16:30,221 --> 00:16:32,700 I liked him better when he was a blonde. 327 00:16:32,780 --> 00:16:35,540 "We are told that we have to stand by... 328 00:16:35,694 --> 00:16:38,615 and let the rest of the world flood into America!" 329 00:16:38,748 --> 00:16:39,740 Steady with these kids. 330 00:16:39,820 --> 00:16:42,609 What? Hello? Come on. 331 00:16:42,634 --> 00:16:44,421 Where's the news crew? 332 00:16:44,446 --> 00:16:45,859 Excuse... I don't see... 333 00:16:45,884 --> 00:16:47,953 Is that? Hi, are you with the News Net? 334 00:16:47,978 --> 00:16:49,140 - Yes. - Amelia Sims. 335 00:16:49,220 --> 00:16:50,860 - Is this the camera? Yeah. - News Net control room. 336 00:16:50,940 --> 00:16:52,340 Tony's in pretty bad shape. 337 00:16:52,365 --> 00:16:54,220 - "That's why you're there, Jim." - That's good, honey. 338 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:57,220 Okay, this one, too. All of these are orphans... 339 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:01,715 - "Folks, America is no longer..." - The global village on primetime... 340 00:17:01,740 --> 00:17:03,595 Boys, if it ain't on the screen, it ain't happening. 341 00:17:03,620 --> 00:17:05,119 Lets go, bring it in. Come on! 342 00:17:05,144 --> 00:17:08,610 - Standby in Effects 2, this is... - Yes. Good. 343 00:17:08,635 --> 00:17:12,454 "This group of activists, who have decided on their own... 344 00:17:12,479 --> 00:17:14,875 to bring into Idaho thousands and thousands... 345 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:16,795 of these unfortunate Pakistan children... 346 00:17:16,820 --> 00:17:19,916 who've been orphaned by that terrible war..." 347 00:17:19,941 --> 00:17:22,080 Beautiful. 348 00:17:22,105 --> 00:17:25,870 "And the people of this state to mind our own business." 349 00:17:25,895 --> 00:17:32,260 Well, as it turns out, that is exactly what I tend to do. 350 00:17:32,910 --> 00:17:37,470 I mean, I was not elected by the people... 351 00:17:39,246 --> 00:17:41,220 Of Idaho... 352 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:45,020 to... 353 00:17:46,740 --> 00:17:49,980 "to..." 354 00:17:50,660 --> 00:17:56,635 "to preside over this solution" of our way of life. 355 00:17:57,610 --> 00:17:58,970 Therefore... 356 00:17:58,995 --> 00:18:03,197 I am taking control of all matters related to our own borders. 357 00:18:03,980 --> 00:18:07,320 And to immigration and citizenship. 358 00:18:07,345 --> 00:18:10,620 This is unconstitutional. You can't do this. 359 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:14,260 I just have. Thank you. 360 00:18:16,173 --> 00:18:18,653 "Come on, Christina, stay with the Governor!" 361 00:18:20,380 --> 00:18:23,060 Goddamnit. The Governor's the center of the whole thing! 362 00:18:23,140 --> 00:18:26,180 Go in closer. Closer. 363 00:18:26,260 --> 00:18:28,940 Any closer and I'd be going down on him. 364 00:18:30,285 --> 00:18:32,165 What was the question, Miss Fernandez? 365 00:18:37,460 --> 00:18:40,066 Christina, stay with the Governor. 366 00:18:40,091 --> 00:18:42,740 What the hell's going on with her, she's always right on top of him. 367 00:18:42,765 --> 00:18:44,221 I'm trying to tell you... 368 00:18:44,246 --> 00:18:45,360 Hey, Troy. 369 00:18:45,704 --> 00:18:47,952 Look, come on, sugar, I don't mean any harm. 370 00:18:47,977 --> 00:18:50,054 I just thought you might want a little quality time... 371 00:18:50,079 --> 00:18:52,540 to patch up this little lovers tiff that you and him have. 372 00:18:53,220 --> 00:18:57,134 Mr. Cannon, I don't need you to sort out my personal life. 373 00:18:57,159 --> 00:18:58,641 Come on, Darling. 374 00:18:58,666 --> 00:19:02,460 Hey, I'm just trying to be a friend here, okay? 375 00:19:03,140 --> 00:19:05,707 And he is crazy about you, you know that. 376 00:19:05,732 --> 00:19:07,220 Please. 377 00:19:07,245 --> 00:19:10,820 It was an affair, okay? Let's just keep it at that. 378 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:12,902 Right now, I just need to remember... 379 00:19:12,927 --> 00:19:15,769 that I'm a reporter and get on with my life. 380 00:19:15,794 --> 00:19:18,500 You know, I'm always amazed at how wrong I can be. 381 00:19:19,006 --> 00:19:21,700 You know, hell, I figured you really had a thing for him. 382 00:19:23,740 --> 00:19:27,950 Are you aware that I was born in Mexico? 383 00:19:27,975 --> 00:19:31,372 See, I came here when I was three years old. 384 00:19:31,397 --> 00:19:33,982 That makes me an immigrant. 385 00:19:34,007 --> 00:19:36,718 He wants to keep people like me out. 386 00:19:37,008 --> 00:19:39,100 So, I'm out. 387 00:19:39,180 --> 00:19:41,547 Aren't you taking this a little personally? 388 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:43,900 I hope so. 389 00:19:46,509 --> 00:19:48,618 He wants to marry you. 390 00:19:52,260 --> 00:19:53,900 He what? 391 00:19:53,980 --> 00:19:56,820 Look, the budget's all blown to hell. 392 00:19:57,300 --> 00:19:59,075 - Why can't we take at least a few... - Sorry, I'm late. 393 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:01,780 But those darned orphans didn't read the inter-office memo. 394 00:20:01,860 --> 00:20:05,820 "When I started out as a reporter, the world seemed more remote." 395 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:09,340 "News came at us slower, in ways we could absorb." 396 00:20:09,820 --> 00:20:11,420 "We never dreamed of satellite feeds... 397 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:13,980 or live reports from distant lands... 398 00:20:14,460 --> 00:20:18,900 but now, Idaho and Pakistan might as well be right next door." 399 00:20:18,980 --> 00:20:21,620 "The entire world is swarming into our video monitors... 400 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:23,940 as well as into the towns and cities of America... 401 00:20:24,020 --> 00:20:26,580 and it's changing us all." 402 00:20:27,060 --> 00:20:29,020 "And you tell yourself, you're a pro... 403 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:31,020 that you can handle the passions and tensions... 404 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:33,460 without letting your own feelings get in the way." 405 00:20:33,540 --> 00:20:35,020 "At least, that's what you tell yourself." 406 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:37,500 This network, isn't that worth a little bit of money? 407 00:20:37,580 --> 00:20:39,220 What do we got on the White House? 408 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:41,500 - Hi you, Sandy. - Still nothing, the scum buckets. 409 00:20:41,580 --> 00:20:43,795 - They're your people. - Bullshit, Alan! 410 00:20:43,820 --> 00:20:45,540 Alright, stop. What about the backgrounds? 411 00:20:45,620 --> 00:20:46,940 We got one running right now. 412 00:20:47,020 --> 00:20:49,860 Okay, I want backgrounders on everything, environment... 413 00:20:49,940 --> 00:20:52,540 immigration, refugees, the whole nine yards, okay? 414 00:20:53,020 --> 00:20:54,820 - Blitz it. - "The three freighters... 415 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:57,460 filled with Albanians fleeing the Russian conflict... 416 00:20:57,540 --> 00:21:00,475 have been refused entry at the already crowded port of... 417 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:02,555 - Charleston, South Carolina." - Yes, we should ignore the fact... 418 00:21:02,580 --> 00:21:05,555 the economic infrastructure of every American city is crumbling. 419 00:21:05,580 --> 00:21:08,251 It's not the fault of the refugees and the immigrants... 420 00:21:08,276 --> 00:21:09,275 For Christ sake, Alan... 421 00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:10,651 that's not even the goddamn issue right now. 422 00:21:10,676 --> 00:21:12,477 It's right in the middle of the fucking issue. 423 00:21:12,502 --> 00:21:15,300 "The crisis began when 3 million starving refugees fled... 424 00:21:15,380 --> 00:21:17,035 Figian Province." 425 00:21:17,060 --> 00:21:19,635 - "The pesticides that seeped..." - Human beings... 426 00:21:19,660 --> 00:21:22,455 let it get out of control, this is not some act of God. 427 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:23,675 They had their worst famine... 428 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:26,475 in the last hundred and fifty years, for Christ sake. 429 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:28,005 Could I have a glass of milk with this, please? 430 00:21:28,030 --> 00:21:30,260 "There's no way I'm going to let Idaho go... 431 00:21:30,340 --> 00:21:33,518 like other small population states like Rhode Island... 432 00:21:33,543 --> 00:21:35,875 which became almost totally Chinese in six years... 433 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:37,682 when it was swamped by refugees..." 434 00:21:37,707 --> 00:21:39,940 "Millions of Chinese settled in Rhode Island... 435 00:21:40,020 --> 00:21:42,155 in the same Presidential election year... 436 00:21:42,180 --> 00:21:45,459 when the controversial department of ethnic affairs was created." 437 00:21:45,484 --> 00:21:47,915 So, its our fault they cut down all their forests... 438 00:21:47,940 --> 00:21:50,470 or breed like rabbits and then want to come to America? 439 00:21:50,495 --> 00:21:52,335 Don't talk to me about breeding, I'm eating, here. 440 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:53,562 I'm not talking about breeding. 441 00:21:53,587 --> 00:21:56,003 I'm talking about the social situation on the planet. 442 00:21:56,028 --> 00:21:57,979 "Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol... 443 00:21:58,004 --> 00:22:00,534 have been unable to stem the unprecedented numbers of... 444 00:22:00,559 --> 00:22:04,940 - Salvadorians flooding into USA." - The Chinese item we'll let on... 445 00:22:05,020 --> 00:22:06,540 but drop any Latin stuff. 446 00:22:06,620 --> 00:22:09,004 We've got too many Hispanic advertisers. 447 00:22:09,029 --> 00:22:11,318 For christ sake, are we still a news organization... 448 00:22:11,343 --> 00:22:13,100 or are we the home shopping network now? 449 00:22:13,180 --> 00:22:15,575 Chris, don't bite the hand that feeds you... 450 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,223 which happens to include Hispanic advertisers. 451 00:22:18,248 --> 00:22:19,833 The country is, you know... 452 00:22:19,858 --> 00:22:23,013 "El Country-o es muy" fucked up... 453 00:22:23,038 --> 00:22:25,046 Can you network guys understand that? 454 00:22:25,220 --> 00:22:27,060 You got an attitude problem. 455 00:22:27,140 --> 00:22:31,900 I find this impassioned tone of yours very offensive. 456 00:22:32,180 --> 00:22:33,540 I'm offensive? Jesus... 457 00:22:33,775 --> 00:22:36,845 Africa's a mess. Use the last Rwanda massacre. 458 00:22:36,870 --> 00:22:39,057 - There are no Rwanda advertisers. - "Third time in recent years... 459 00:22:39,082 --> 00:22:42,573 the people of Rwanda are being massacred at an alarming rate." 460 00:22:42,598 --> 00:22:45,620 "Entire villages are being wiped out." 461 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:48,275 Heads up everyone, orphan alert! 462 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:49,435 JFK is coming in. 463 00:22:49,460 --> 00:22:52,555 Second batch of Pakistani orphans. Runway 23. 464 00:22:52,580 --> 00:22:54,780 And what have you done for Mel lately? 465 00:22:54,860 --> 00:22:58,700 "To Runway 23 at JFK International Airport." 466 00:22:58,991 --> 00:23:01,100 "News Nets Jim Kallas there." 467 00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:03,180 "This is Jim Kalla, the News Net... 468 00:23:03,260 --> 00:23:06,140 - I'm here with Amelia Sims of..." - "Thank you. Alright." 469 00:23:06,165 --> 00:23:08,350 "Let me just say that we are... 470 00:23:08,375 --> 00:23:11,155 bringing these children to our shelters in Idaho... 471 00:23:11,180 --> 00:23:14,340 come hell or high water, and it's our right." 472 00:23:14,493 --> 00:23:17,780 "And no Governor is going to stop it, let me also say that this is..." 473 00:23:17,860 --> 00:23:21,260 Standby Boise, as soon as we dump JFK, we'll be coming to you. 474 00:23:21,340 --> 00:23:24,060 I love the smell of burning ambition. 475 00:23:24,140 --> 00:23:27,060 "And we are going to deal with them and... 476 00:23:27,340 --> 00:23:29,340 let me just also say that the organization'll be open..." 477 00:23:29,620 --> 00:23:32,180 "Of course I care about those poor Pakistan orphans... 478 00:23:32,260 --> 00:23:35,012 but I don't live in Pakistan, I live here!" 479 00:23:35,037 --> 00:23:37,542 "This is where..." 480 00:23:37,567 --> 00:23:41,555 "This is what I'm all about, the American dream." 481 00:23:41,580 --> 00:23:43,797 How come every time I see that guy I think I'm going to barf? 482 00:23:43,822 --> 00:23:45,937 Alan, anything American makes you want to barf! 483 00:23:45,962 --> 00:23:48,515 Stop with the cause debates, we're news, alright. 484 00:23:48,540 --> 00:23:50,980 Emotions happen outside. 485 00:23:51,005 --> 00:23:52,654 "Governor Farley!" 486 00:23:56,980 --> 00:23:58,820 Folks, the Governor. 487 00:24:00,435 --> 00:24:01,835 Good morning. 488 00:24:04,388 --> 00:24:05,708 That's cute. 489 00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:18,260 Folks... 490 00:24:18,340 --> 00:24:19,980 I know you all want to let the Governor know... 491 00:24:20,060 --> 00:24:21,420 just how much you're supporting him... 492 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:24,180 but if you could just give us a few minutes... 493 00:24:24,260 --> 00:24:26,580 to discuss some important matters, I'd really appreciate it. 494 00:24:26,660 --> 00:24:28,835 Is there a room that we could use? 495 00:24:28,860 --> 00:24:31,475 Why sure, you could use our bedroom, right down the hall. 496 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:34,540 Turn left at the rocket launcher. 497 00:24:35,937 --> 00:24:37,697 Excuse us. Thank you. 498 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:43,340 - Hey, big fella. - You got to talk to these people. 499 00:24:43,420 --> 00:24:46,260 Hey. Jesus. 500 00:24:46,340 --> 00:24:48,180 I'm tellin you, this is getting to be too much. 501 00:24:48,260 --> 00:24:50,425 - What is? - Christina, she's... 502 00:24:50,450 --> 00:24:52,555 She's not out there. 503 00:24:52,980 --> 00:24:56,580 - Governor, I've got it wired... - Jesus Christ. 504 00:24:57,060 --> 00:24:58,860 Who keeps a bowl of grenades in their bedroom? 505 00:24:58,940 --> 00:25:01,100 Jesus, Howard, get away from there! 506 00:25:01,180 --> 00:25:03,700 Look, I got it wired. I've talked to News Net people... 507 00:25:03,780 --> 00:25:05,340 and told them that we'd give her an exclusive... 508 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:07,180 so they're on her to stay close. 509 00:25:07,460 --> 00:25:10,140 Now, let's just think about those people in the next room? 510 00:25:10,479 --> 00:25:13,599 I mean, these militia folks can come in real handy. 511 00:25:13,765 --> 00:25:15,140 What the hell is this? 512 00:25:16,740 --> 00:25:19,380 Bosoms and bazookas? 513 00:25:19,460 --> 00:25:22,980 Maybe Ladies Auxiliary? I don't know. 514 00:25:23,060 --> 00:25:24,740 Jesus Christ. 515 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:29,580 I don't know about all this. 516 00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:32,980 Governor, lets just not forget who voted for you? 517 00:25:33,260 --> 00:25:36,940 I mean, the whole goddamn state's one big militia now. 518 00:25:41,980 --> 00:25:44,220 "As Governor Farley avoided reporters questions... 519 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:47,020 on his links with militia groups..." 520 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:49,100 It doesn't make any sense. 521 00:25:49,180 --> 00:25:50,300 Just because we got a President... 522 00:25:50,380 --> 00:25:52,220 who's face belongs on the back of milk cartons... 523 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:55,940 doesn't mean that the whole goddamn White House got to be quiet. 524 00:25:56,020 --> 00:25:57,620 Its fishy. 525 00:25:59,180 --> 00:26:01,820 Steve, smoke them out. 526 00:26:01,900 --> 00:26:04,793 And what amazes most observers here... 527 00:26:04,818 --> 00:26:07,220 there still been no response from the President. 528 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:10,580 Well, you got the Chief of Staff, what more do you want? 529 00:26:10,660 --> 00:26:12,140 Same to you. 530 00:26:12,220 --> 00:26:14,700 The President's on his way, but before he arrives... 531 00:26:14,780 --> 00:26:17,060 - a few things I want to go over. - Mr. Buchan... 532 00:26:17,085 --> 00:26:19,755 since when does a lobbyist set the agenda for the White House? 533 00:26:19,780 --> 00:26:21,420 Mr. Secretary. 534 00:26:21,764 --> 00:26:24,980 I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that "L" word you just used. 535 00:26:25,260 --> 00:26:26,660 I'm a political facilitator. 536 00:26:26,740 --> 00:26:28,140 You can pretend what you want, Jack. 537 00:26:28,220 --> 00:26:30,420 But we're trying to handle a crisis here. 538 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:31,820 - Really Mike? - Yes. 539 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:33,460 Well, I think its time we started considering that... 540 00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:36,642 a Presidents first four year term is what he's got to put up with... 541 00:26:36,667 --> 00:26:38,115 in order to get himself elected again. 542 00:26:38,140 --> 00:26:39,580 Tell me something I don't know. 543 00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:43,776 "There is speculation that the White House's in some disarray... 544 00:26:43,801 --> 00:26:45,886 and that the President has become... 545 00:26:45,911 --> 00:26:47,573 politically immobilized... 546 00:26:47,598 --> 00:26:48,675 - by events that are..." - What did I tell you? 547 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:50,780 The bastards are trying to smoke us out. 548 00:26:51,060 --> 00:26:53,580 Now, look, people... 549 00:26:53,660 --> 00:26:57,860 This Presidents going to end up as confused as a goat on astro-turf. 550 00:26:58,196 --> 00:27:00,516 - Unless we're careful. - Careful about what? 551 00:27:00,740 --> 00:27:06,060 Every President has his foibles, this one just needs a role model. 552 00:27:06,340 --> 00:27:08,140 Now, I've been through this with him before... 553 00:27:08,220 --> 00:27:11,060 that last crisis, that Trade War thing. 554 00:27:11,357 --> 00:27:16,220 We got him all fired up over Harry Truman and it worked. 555 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:17,491 When it ended... 556 00:27:17,516 --> 00:27:20,940 I swear, I thought he was going to nuke the Japs all over again. 557 00:27:20,965 --> 00:27:22,900 And, on this one... 558 00:27:22,980 --> 00:27:25,060 we have to bring him up to something more... 559 00:27:25,340 --> 00:27:29,300 Statesman like, like Roosevelt. 560 00:27:29,380 --> 00:27:31,020 Excellent question. 561 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:34,540 What would Roosevelt have done if hed had this crisis? 562 00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:36,940 Especially when they're playing the "orphan card." 563 00:27:37,020 --> 00:27:39,260 Well, we should be playing our own orphan card. 564 00:27:39,340 --> 00:27:40,940 Exactly. 565 00:27:41,220 --> 00:27:46,940 Sir, what exactly is our "orphan card?" 566 00:27:52,460 --> 00:27:57,060 Mr. President, its a deadline. 567 00:27:57,340 --> 00:27:58,940 Precisely! It's a deadline... 568 00:27:59,220 --> 00:28:02,380 we're giving Idaho to get those damn orphans in there. 569 00:28:02,660 --> 00:28:05,300 Seventy-two hours, no ifs, ands, or buts. 570 00:28:05,380 --> 00:28:07,700 Teddy Roosevelt would've played the orphan card. 571 00:28:07,780 --> 00:28:08,780 No, Mr. President... 572 00:28:08,860 --> 00:28:12,100 I was referring to F.D.R. Franklin Roosevelt. 573 00:28:12,380 --> 00:28:15,340 Teddy Roosevelt. 574 00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:17,740 When he lead the rough riders over the hill... 575 00:28:18,020 --> 00:28:20,700 on that charge when he declared war on Spain... 576 00:28:20,980 --> 00:28:24,580 now that was an orphan card. 577 00:28:25,796 --> 00:28:27,356 Shit. 578 00:28:29,140 --> 00:28:31,300 I know something's going on, I could smell it a mile away. 579 00:28:31,580 --> 00:28:35,180 Somethins happening... Caroline! 580 00:28:35,460 --> 00:28:38,620 Did we fire that odd ball, Techy Godfrey from the last cutback? 581 00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:41,140 No, his office is down stairs. 582 00:28:41,420 --> 00:28:43,020 - What room? - Fifty-five. 583 00:28:43,300 --> 00:28:45,780 So, Tom comes up to me you know, Brocaugh, and he says... 584 00:28:45,860 --> 00:28:49,060 "Vincent, you belong on camera, on camera..." 585 00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:57,020 Godfrey, tell me you know something. What's going on? 586 00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:58,660 BTU's. 587 00:28:59,940 --> 00:29:03,020 This is something I've been doing calculations on for months... 588 00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:05,820 the Pentagon on a "normal night." 589 00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:09,540 Taken from the infrared satellite that I got us to buy time on. 590 00:29:09,820 --> 00:29:10,980 You remember how the twenty-second floor... 591 00:29:11,060 --> 00:29:12,060 didn't want to put money into it. 592 00:29:12,140 --> 00:29:14,260 How they said, infrared was dead, microwave maybe... 593 00:29:14,540 --> 00:29:17,700 I remember, Godfrey. I was thrilled for you, go ahead. 594 00:29:19,140 --> 00:29:20,220 On a normal night... 595 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:22,820 the Pentagon gives off a fairly constant amount of heat. 596 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:26,700 About 3.28 million BTUs, that's British Thermol Units... 597 00:29:26,780 --> 00:29:28,740 its a way of measuring how... 598 00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:32,460 Yeah. 599 00:29:32,740 --> 00:29:36,060 But here is how it looked ten minutes ago. 600 00:29:36,140 --> 00:29:38,380 You see this hot spot right here? 601 00:29:38,460 --> 00:29:40,460 All the lights and electrical equipment... 602 00:29:40,740 --> 00:29:43,460 it added an extra half million BTUs. 603 00:29:43,740 --> 00:29:45,980 - So? - Well, I... 604 00:29:46,060 --> 00:29:47,900 I don't have a spectrum analysis they wouldn't authorize... 605 00:29:47,980 --> 00:29:49,315 the system upgrade at the last budget meeting... 606 00:29:49,340 --> 00:29:51,500 Godfrey, forget about spectrum analysis... 607 00:29:51,580 --> 00:29:54,700 stay with the BTUs and how they relate to the orphans... 608 00:29:54,780 --> 00:29:56,340 that's why we're here. 609 00:29:56,820 --> 00:30:00,900 This is where they plan military operations. 610 00:30:02,660 --> 00:30:04,380 Holy shit. 611 00:30:04,460 --> 00:30:08,380 Look here, North Carolina half an our ago. 612 00:30:08,660 --> 00:30:12,820 You see this little area right here lit up like an infra-red blowtorch. 613 00:30:15,820 --> 00:30:17,260 What about it? 614 00:30:17,340 --> 00:30:21,580 That's Fort Brag, home of the 173rd Airborne. 615 00:30:21,860 --> 00:30:24,820 Jesus Christ. We're going to invade Idaho... 616 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:27,340 over a bunch of orphans. 617 00:30:27,420 --> 00:30:28,620 Get me to the White House. 618 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:30,260 I don't care if you have to use tear gas... 619 00:30:30,340 --> 00:30:31,860 get the President out of there. 620 00:30:32,140 --> 00:30:34,220 Who's at Fort Brag? 621 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:35,620 "News Net has just learned that... 622 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:38,547 two battalions from Fort Brag have been put on alert... 623 00:30:38,572 --> 00:30:41,070 and are preparing to be moved to Utah near the Idaho border." 624 00:30:41,095 --> 00:30:43,773 "You actually want me to believe they're sending in troops?" 625 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:46,420 "They may have a credibility gap in Washington... 626 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:48,340 but even the lobbyists that swarm all over that city..." 627 00:30:48,420 --> 00:30:49,420 "Are you're telling me that... 628 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:51,380 the White House is still denying reports that... 629 00:30:51,460 --> 00:30:54,155 Federal troops are being shipped to the Idaho boarder?" 630 00:30:54,180 --> 00:30:57,780 So, we're in the Eisenhower mode? Jack, I think Ike's a great idea. 631 00:30:58,060 --> 00:30:59,100 Well, thank you, Mr. President. 632 00:30:59,180 --> 00:31:01,340 Eisenhower had a calming influence. 633 00:31:01,620 --> 00:31:02,740 Yes, I thought you would like that, sir. 634 00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:07,420 And he gave fabulous deadlines. I saw the videos you gave me. 635 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:09,380 That's what I want to talk to you about, Sir. 636 00:31:09,660 --> 00:31:12,300 Seventy-two hours, three days, has a nice ring to it. 637 00:31:12,380 --> 00:31:15,020 - That's the problem, Sir. - What is? 638 00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:18,475 Well, the seventy-two hours, the end of seventy two hours... 639 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:20,326 Falls right in the middle of... 640 00:31:20,373 --> 00:31:21,860 "All My Children." 641 00:31:21,940 --> 00:31:23,820 What the hell is, "All My Children"? 642 00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:26,020 It's a soap opera. 643 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:29,420 Remember what happened last time we preempted those soap operas? 644 00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:33,180 Women all over the country went absolutely ape... 645 00:31:33,460 --> 00:31:34,860 went crazy. 646 00:31:34,940 --> 00:31:36,780 Jack, let's understand something. 647 00:31:36,860 --> 00:31:38,100 I wasn't elected President... 648 00:31:38,180 --> 00:31:40,980 to sit back and watch the United States disintegrate. 649 00:31:41,460 --> 00:31:42,740 Here. 650 00:31:42,765 --> 00:31:46,974 Sir, we lost the women's vote last time. 651 00:31:47,820 --> 00:31:49,700 Shouldn't have happened. 652 00:31:49,980 --> 00:31:52,220 It's Susan Luchis final episode. 653 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:55,740 - She's about to leave her husband. - Excuse me? 654 00:31:56,020 --> 00:31:57,980 Susan, the star of "All My Children." 655 00:31:58,260 --> 00:32:00,140 Shes about to leave her husband and run off with Antonio. 656 00:32:00,220 --> 00:32:02,020 - The gardener? - Yes. 657 00:32:02,148 --> 00:32:06,031 - Erica's running off with Antonio? - Exactly. 658 00:32:07,420 --> 00:32:10,500 Would it be possible that, for the sake of the country... 659 00:32:10,780 --> 00:32:13,780 Erica not run off with the gardener for a few days? 660 00:32:13,860 --> 00:32:15,660 Well, I checked with the network. 661 00:32:15,940 --> 00:32:18,595 The episodes already been taped, it airs in three days... 662 00:32:18,620 --> 00:32:21,700 right smack dab in the middle of our deadline. 663 00:32:24,540 --> 00:32:27,220 Eisenhower would've changed the deadline. 664 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,100 It's a soap opera, for Christ sakes. 665 00:32:29,380 --> 00:32:32,700 Since when does a soap opera control the future of the country? 666 00:32:32,980 --> 00:32:35,540 Why do you keep asking me if I love him? 667 00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:37,740 Hey, I'm just trying to help. 668 00:32:38,020 --> 00:32:40,700 I mean, I can see the pain you're in. 669 00:32:40,980 --> 00:32:42,884 The pain is from you trying to get me back... 670 00:32:42,909 --> 00:32:44,980 into something that made me crazy. 671 00:32:45,060 --> 00:32:47,820 Look, I only know what I see. 672 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:51,300 And I see you hurt more now than you ever did before. 673 00:32:51,380 --> 00:32:55,340 Tell me I'm wrong. But I know I'm not, Darling. 674 00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:02,300 Phone message, Jimmy. Code Blue. 675 00:33:02,380 --> 00:33:04,380 In a minute. 676 00:33:10,407 --> 00:33:13,820 Governor, Mrs. Fernandez is here to discuss the News Net interview. 677 00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:22,540 - Where's the last Code Blue? - Three. 678 00:33:24,380 --> 00:33:26,780 Hello, Mrs. Farley, how are you? 679 00:33:27,260 --> 00:33:28,420 Good. 680 00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:31,560 No, he's behind closed doors right now. 681 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:36,380 Well, its very important, its with a foreign dignitary. 682 00:33:36,860 --> 00:33:38,540 Right. 683 00:33:38,620 --> 00:33:41,020 No problem. I'll have the fella go shopping for you. 684 00:33:42,580 --> 00:33:46,478 Right. The Popov Vodka. Good. Bye. 685 00:33:50,692 --> 00:33:53,900 You're all aware of the proclamations coming from Idaho... 686 00:33:54,180 --> 00:33:56,820 where the Governor of the state has said it is his intention... 687 00:33:56,900 --> 00:34:01,338 to close the borders to a group of refugee children. 688 00:34:02,060 --> 00:34:04,420 This action is unconstitutional. 689 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:06,532 And it represents an illegal challenge... 690 00:34:06,557 --> 00:34:08,780 "to the authority of the Federal government." 691 00:34:09,060 --> 00:34:11,740 He's actually going to have to make a decision. 692 00:34:12,020 --> 00:34:14,500 Christina, I don't care what you have to do... 693 00:34:14,580 --> 00:34:16,767 to get access to Farley, do it. 694 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:19,700 Christina? 695 00:34:19,725 --> 00:34:21,852 - So much. - No. 696 00:34:21,877 --> 00:34:23,235 I don't believe you anymore... 697 00:34:23,260 --> 00:34:24,900 and I don't believe myself anymore either. 698 00:34:24,980 --> 00:34:26,755 I mean, what the hell am I doing with a married man? 699 00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:29,493 Eleanor and I have not lived as man and wife... 700 00:34:29,518 --> 00:34:30,715 For three years. 701 00:34:30,740 --> 00:34:32,980 And she doesn't understand you and the check is in the mail... 702 00:34:33,060 --> 00:34:34,740 and I'm really Irish. 703 00:34:34,820 --> 00:34:37,113 Television has just fucking gone crazy. 704 00:34:37,138 --> 00:34:38,700 I just... 705 00:34:38,980 --> 00:34:40,580 I just thought maybe we could go away... 706 00:34:40,660 --> 00:34:42,940 somewhere for a couple of days. 707 00:34:43,295 --> 00:34:45,220 Just get away from all this. 708 00:34:45,245 --> 00:34:49,100 "And I'm calling on Governor Farley, who I know is watching this... 709 00:34:49,380 --> 00:34:51,860 - to recognize the hour of peril..." - Christina, where are you? 710 00:34:51,940 --> 00:34:54,260 I need a reaction, please! 711 00:34:55,780 --> 00:34:57,233 "Christina?" 712 00:34:57,258 --> 00:34:59,872 Mel, I want a transfer. 713 00:34:59,897 --> 00:35:02,966 Christina, this is not the appropriate time. 714 00:35:02,991 --> 00:35:04,364 "I want to go somewhere..." 715 00:35:04,389 --> 00:35:07,240 and have babies and lead a normal sane life... 716 00:35:07,265 --> 00:35:08,780 and I want to get up in the morning... 717 00:35:08,860 --> 00:35:12,146 and drive kids to school and I want a husband I can trust. 718 00:35:12,171 --> 00:35:15,300 Please, no mommy-track crisis now. 719 00:35:15,580 --> 00:35:17,711 Christina, please! 720 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:32,380 "It was almost half a century ago... 721 00:35:32,860 --> 00:35:35,900 that another President, Dwight D. Eisenhower... 722 00:35:35,980 --> 00:35:38,940 found it necessary to use U.S. troops... 723 00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:42,740 to enforce the constitutional rights of the Federal government... 724 00:35:43,020 --> 00:35:48,340 when the state of Arkansas refused to obey a Supreme Court order." 725 00:35:48,620 --> 00:35:51,980 "If necessary, I will do the same." 726 00:35:52,147 --> 00:35:55,607 "I am therefore declaring a deadline of sixty-seven... 727 00:35:55,632 --> 00:35:57,620 and a half hours from now." 728 00:35:57,900 --> 00:35:59,500 - Sixty-seven and a... - "By which time... 729 00:35:59,580 --> 00:36:02,140 - the state of Idaho must comply..." - The fuck is that? 730 00:36:02,420 --> 00:36:05,260 "The constitutional prerogatives of the Federal government... 731 00:36:05,340 --> 00:36:08,180 of these United States of America." 732 00:36:08,460 --> 00:36:12,260 - "As they we're delineated by..." - What an asshole. 733 00:36:12,340 --> 00:36:14,024 That dumb son of a bitch. 734 00:36:14,049 --> 00:36:17,780 Up to his ass in lobbyists and deals to keep himself in power. 735 00:36:17,805 --> 00:36:20,580 Now he tries to be Eisenhower. 736 00:36:20,660 --> 00:36:24,100 Like a dwarf trying to be a high jumper. 737 00:36:24,380 --> 00:36:26,980 Goddamit. 738 00:36:27,260 --> 00:36:31,220 How the hell did we let it all get to this? 739 00:36:31,362 --> 00:36:34,180 Sixty-seven and a half hours? 740 00:36:37,660 --> 00:36:39,540 Okay, do it. 741 00:36:39,668 --> 00:36:44,035 Put up the road blocks, and I promised... 742 00:36:44,060 --> 00:36:46,307 you know that News Net lady an exclusive. 743 00:36:46,332 --> 00:36:47,820 Governor! 744 00:36:47,845 --> 00:36:50,097 You're supposed to brief Colonel McNally, Sir, right away. 745 00:36:50,122 --> 00:36:52,660 You know the one? Yeah. 746 00:36:52,940 --> 00:36:56,140 "I have today issued an executive order... 747 00:36:56,220 --> 00:36:57,900 directing the use of troops..." 748 00:36:58,180 --> 00:37:00,804 "There have been comparisons made between the President... 749 00:37:00,829 --> 00:37:03,340 and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower." 750 00:37:03,620 --> 00:37:06,940 "It was in 1958 that Eisenhower sent in troops... 751 00:37:07,020 --> 00:37:10,500 to forcibly integrate the public schools in Little Rock." 752 00:37:10,980 --> 00:37:13,420 "Observers say that the President's actions are..." 753 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:17,420 Okay, people, the whole country is tuned in! 754 00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:20,660 Meaning, it's primetime for the next three days... 755 00:37:20,940 --> 00:37:23,500 twenty-four hours a day, nobody goes home. 756 00:37:23,780 --> 00:37:26,580 The Feds are on their way, okay? Everybody on deck? 757 00:37:26,660 --> 00:37:30,580 Karachi, New York, the White House, Boise. 758 00:37:30,860 --> 00:37:32,580 Who's on the Idaho border? 759 00:37:32,660 --> 00:37:34,624 Vinnie. 760 00:37:34,649 --> 00:37:36,900 Vinnie? Vinnie Franco? 761 00:37:37,180 --> 00:37:38,860 Yeah. 762 00:37:50,140 --> 00:37:53,580 Man, that John Wayne was a hell of soldier? 763 00:37:53,860 --> 00:37:55,580 Hey, Vinnie, he was an actor. 764 00:37:55,860 --> 00:37:57,580 Bullshit, if they'd a put the Duke in charge of Vietnam... 765 00:37:57,660 --> 00:38:00,380 we would've been out of that war in a fucking week. 766 00:38:03,980 --> 00:38:05,020 Hey, what are you doing turning the sound up? 767 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:06,860 I told you, you're going to blow the fucking speakers on this thing. 768 00:38:06,940 --> 00:38:08,620 I didn't. 769 00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:12,500 Holy shit. 770 00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:25,900 Hello? Hey! 771 00:38:27,860 --> 00:38:29,620 Hey, who are you guys? 772 00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:33,700 Who are you? 773 00:38:33,875 --> 00:38:36,700 - Who are you? - I asked first. 774 00:38:36,780 --> 00:38:38,620 I ain't telling till you do. 775 00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:40,140 We're a News Net crew. 776 00:38:40,420 --> 00:38:42,940 - No kidding? - Yeah. 777 00:38:43,020 --> 00:38:46,798 Hey, Charlie, Sam, its News Net, we're going to be on TV. 778 00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:49,060 Goddamn. 779 00:38:49,140 --> 00:38:52,368 I'm Arnold Tooney, Jr., two "os" in Tooney. 780 00:38:52,393 --> 00:38:54,140 I own a drugstore in Boise. 781 00:38:54,420 --> 00:38:55,900 Really? 782 00:38:55,980 --> 00:38:58,900 Well, I might be slow, Arnold, but where I come from... 783 00:38:59,180 --> 00:39:00,860 guys who own drugstores don't drive around in tanks... 784 00:39:00,940 --> 00:39:03,060 - You know what I mean? - Bet some of them do. 785 00:39:03,340 --> 00:39:05,300 On weekends, at least. 786 00:39:05,380 --> 00:39:09,020 You're not the army, you're the National Guard. 787 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:10,980 Idaho National Guard. 788 00:39:11,060 --> 00:39:12,500 Fuck. 789 00:39:13,860 --> 00:39:17,620 Boys, looks like Idaho's going to war. 790 00:39:19,580 --> 00:39:21,020 God. 791 00:39:22,020 --> 00:39:23,940 "I smell another fucking Emmy, here." 792 00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:28,820 There are sixty-five hours left in the Presidents ultimatum. 793 00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:30,620 There now exists the possibility of... 794 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:33,580 American troops fighting against other American troops... 795 00:39:33,860 --> 00:39:36,380 for the first time since the Civil War. 796 00:39:36,460 --> 00:39:38,580 "Despite a complete press blackout established by... 797 00:39:38,660 --> 00:39:40,020 by the military on both sides... 798 00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:42,780 we're expecting exclusive coverage potentials..." 799 00:39:42,860 --> 00:39:44,380 Civil War? 800 00:39:46,262 --> 00:39:48,340 The Second Civil War. 801 00:39:50,100 --> 00:39:54,200 The Second Civil War. Get me graphics! 802 00:40:01,260 --> 00:40:02,700 Alright. 803 00:40:02,980 --> 00:40:06,140 Okay, we have... We have not sought... 804 00:40:06,319 --> 00:40:09,620 nor will we instigate any combat situation. 805 00:40:09,827 --> 00:40:13,380 But I am hereby serving notice on the Federal government... 806 00:40:13,460 --> 00:40:16,300 that should any armed hostilities break out... 807 00:40:16,461 --> 00:40:21,140 the State of Idaho will immediately secede from the United States. 808 00:40:22,980 --> 00:40:25,940 And with Governor Farleys dramatic declaration of secession... 809 00:40:26,220 --> 00:40:30,260 America appears just days away from a deepening crisis. 810 00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:32,900 Some observers fear the possibility of an armed attack... 811 00:40:32,980 --> 00:40:34,460 by Federal troops. 812 00:40:34,740 --> 00:40:38,140 An announcement from the White House is expected within the hour. 813 00:40:39,380 --> 00:40:41,380 Brendon. 814 00:40:41,542 --> 00:40:46,020 I'm going to need an Eisenhower kind of quote. 815 00:40:46,237 --> 00:40:49,140 Something with a ring of leadership to it. 816 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,520 An Eisenhower quote. I'll do me best, sir. 817 00:40:51,637 --> 00:40:53,860 I'm sure you will, Brendon. Thank you very much. 818 00:40:59,780 --> 00:41:04,220 Now, we're going to need another Eisenhower quote. 819 00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,580 So, let's dream one up lads. 820 00:41:07,660 --> 00:41:10,260 It's blackmail! No blackmail. 821 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,240 We'll not be party to such high-handed... 822 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,480 - tactics. - No. 823 00:41:13,660 --> 00:41:16,140 How about this, in my judgement... 824 00:41:16,420 --> 00:41:19,007 we got to call in the army because otherwise... 825 00:41:20,740 --> 00:41:24,580 The flower of democracy will not be trampled... 826 00:41:24,660 --> 00:41:26,660 under the foot of rebellion. 827 00:41:26,740 --> 00:41:28,500 That's closer, Vaclav. 828 00:41:28,580 --> 00:41:32,140 But still, I'm missing the poetry boys. 829 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,120 Raul, let's hear it, lad. 830 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:36,400 We must endure... 831 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,800 and we must prevail if the slender thread of truth... 832 00:41:39,980 --> 00:41:44,180 is to remain woven into the fabric of civilized life. 833 00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:47,300 Slender thread of truth. 834 00:41:47,619 --> 00:41:50,800 "And just as Eisenhower said years ago." 835 00:41:50,980 --> 00:41:56,020 "We must endure, we must prevail, if the slender thread of truth... 836 00:41:56,300 --> 00:42:01,300 is to remain woven into the fabric of civilized life." 837 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:02,783 "It was with that sentiment... 838 00:42:02,808 --> 00:42:04,815 that my predecessor of so many years ago..." 839 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,600 That Eisenhower had a way with words. 840 00:42:07,780 --> 00:42:10,540 "Washington continues to mobilize troops... 841 00:42:10,820 --> 00:42:14,300 with sixty-four hours left, two battalions from North Carolina." 842 00:42:14,580 --> 00:42:17,220 "An entire brigade from the 1st Infantry... 843 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:21,175 and several armored companies from Texas are being sent to Utah... 844 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,440 not far from the Idaho border. 845 00:42:23,820 --> 00:42:25,535 "Citizens from across that state... 846 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,400 are signing up as volunteers in the National Guard." 847 00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,320 "Others are rallying around the various private militias... 848 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,720 that support Governor Farley." 849 00:42:34,168 --> 00:42:38,080 Hi, folks. How's everybody doing? 850 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:45,489 Good. We're a News Net crew from New York city. 851 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:50,755 Well, near New York, it's practically New Jersey. 852 00:42:50,780 --> 00:42:55,035 We're here because we want to tell your side of the story. 853 00:42:55,060 --> 00:42:58,220 Now, I know you're probably pretty suspicious of the media... 854 00:42:58,300 --> 00:42:59,340 because of the way they've portrayed you in the past. 855 00:42:59,420 --> 00:43:01,203 Let's face the facts, why not? 856 00:43:01,228 --> 00:43:03,080 They're always portraying you as these... 857 00:43:03,260 --> 00:43:07,420 sort of stereo-typical, ultra-right-wing, gun crazed... 858 00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:10,860 union-busting, wackos. 859 00:43:10,940 --> 00:43:12,260 Good, Vinnie. 860 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,480 But, I'll tell you what... 861 00:43:14,660 --> 00:43:19,060 let's take this opportunity to jump right over those... 862 00:43:19,340 --> 00:43:22,986 left wing liberal East coast media-elite-types... 863 00:43:23,011 --> 00:43:26,500 and bring your story right to the American people. 864 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,360 "And that's why I'm supporting Governor Farley. 865 00:43:29,740 --> 00:43:33,180 "The foreigners are taking our jobs, and enough is enough." 866 00:43:33,260 --> 00:43:36,060 "Because I want my grandson to live in country... 867 00:43:36,140 --> 00:43:39,660 where we don't owe every cent to bankers from around the world." 868 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,200 "Well, I knew it was time for me and my brother Alan here... 869 00:43:43,380 --> 00:43:45,455 to start buying missiles to defend our farm... 870 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:46,560 from the Federal government... 871 00:43:46,585 --> 00:43:49,000 that was trying to take all our guns away." 872 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:50,955 "And once all the guns are gone... 873 00:43:50,980 --> 00:43:52,502 who's going to stand up to the people that are... 874 00:43:52,527 --> 00:43:54,060 trying to take your freedom away?" 875 00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:56,740 Goddamit, Christina, please don't do this. 876 00:43:56,765 --> 00:43:58,180 Come here. 877 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,160 I've already done it. I've asked for a transfer. 878 00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:03,860 - Why? - Because I'm Mexican. 879 00:44:03,940 --> 00:44:07,135 I should be reporting from Tijuana, not Boise, for Pete's sake... 880 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,229 - Please. - People are watching. 881 00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:12,300 Christina, don't let all this national issue stuff... 882 00:44:12,380 --> 00:44:14,500 screw things up between you and me. 883 00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,484 Just because you're Mexican is no reason to go crazy. 884 00:44:18,509 --> 00:44:20,375 And I'm not just keepin back Mexicans... 885 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,595 its everyone from Afgans to Zambians. 886 00:44:22,620 --> 00:44:24,580 Now just don't make this into a personal thing... 887 00:44:24,660 --> 00:44:26,915 between you and me. Now, come on. 888 00:44:26,940 --> 00:44:29,180 I feel sick. 889 00:44:29,260 --> 00:44:30,532 What's wrong with you? 890 00:44:30,557 --> 00:44:35,040 I've been sick for three days. 891 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,200 I have to go. 892 00:44:37,380 --> 00:44:39,020 Christina. 893 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:43,175 - Steve! Get an ambulance! - No. I'm okay. 894 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,051 - I'm okay. I just want to be alone. - You sure? 895 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:48,655 You know who fucked it up? 896 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,255 All your mink coat "do-gooders" who talk more about their rights... 897 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,475 than their duties throwing money at every problem they see. 898 00:44:53,500 --> 00:44:54,540 Fuck you, Chris, alright. 899 00:44:54,565 --> 00:44:57,100 Half the people I went to school with can't get jobs now. 900 00:44:57,180 --> 00:44:59,426 So, seal the borders, bring the jobs back. 901 00:44:59,451 --> 00:45:00,995 There's more to life than cheap sneakers. 902 00:45:01,020 --> 00:45:02,275 This is not a fraternity, alright. 903 00:45:02,300 --> 00:45:03,655 We're a news network, we got work to do... 904 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,215 Mel, Jim, I got this idea... 905 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:06,560 that hits exactly what you're talking about. 906 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:07,760 - What is it? - Anybody want coffee? 907 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:09,440 The orphans, right. 908 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,715 Okay, Rachel, bring up JFK. 909 00:45:11,740 --> 00:45:14,047 Okay, you remember those old rockin rollers from years ago... 910 00:45:14,072 --> 00:45:15,540 they sang "We Are The World." 911 00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:17,480 Well, how about we get a copy of the old video of them... 912 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,155 singing their hearts out, you know, noble, caring humanity... 913 00:45:20,180 --> 00:45:23,020 the world coming together, brighter day and all that shit. 914 00:45:23,300 --> 00:45:26,460 We intercut it with shots of these orphans. 915 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:27,936 I mean, these orphans are alive... 916 00:45:27,961 --> 00:45:29,440 but hell, we could get some dead ones. 917 00:45:29,620 --> 00:45:32,015 You know and you cut back and forth between these wonderful lyrics... 918 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:33,600 and maybe go instrumental like a... 919 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:35,560 like violins over the orphans, I mean... 920 00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,135 Christ, who in their right mind would ever tune that out... 921 00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,640 and go to the home shopping network, I ask you? 922 00:45:40,820 --> 00:45:42,620 Mel, the border just came alive. 923 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,080 It's a hell of an idea, Matthew, work on it. 924 00:45:45,260 --> 00:45:46,675 But also you could superimpose... 925 00:45:46,700 --> 00:45:49,460 a face of the rock musicians on the orphans to make them look like... 926 00:45:49,540 --> 00:45:50,940 they're playing the instruments. 927 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:52,275 Or you could take the... 928 00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:54,420 the orphans faces and put them on the rock musicians... 929 00:45:54,500 --> 00:45:57,340 and make them look like they're singing... 930 00:45:57,420 --> 00:46:00,620 Or you could take a hologram of one of the rock, musicians... 931 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,816 and put them amongst the orphans... 932 00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,880 Mary Anne? 933 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:10,958 Is anybody listening to me in Brownsville? 934 00:46:10,983 --> 00:46:12,436 Mary Anne? Hello? 935 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,200 Mel, I'm having trouble hearing you. 936 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,080 Theres huge numbers of Mexicans pouring over the border. 937 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,640 I'm ready. 938 00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:25,655 "And these people streaming across... 939 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,040 the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas... 940 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:29,535 are moving north for the same reason... 941 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,155 as those in California, Arizona and New Mexico." 942 00:46:33,180 --> 00:46:37,980 - "A fear that Governor..." - "Mel, why am I here in Boise?" 943 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,320 "My parents crossed the border, just like those people are now." 944 00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:44,460 "I should be on the border, not Mary Anne Wong." 945 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,600 Christina, I can't have Mexicans covering Mexicans. 946 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,399 and Arabs covering Arabs. 947 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,080 Mel, its L.A. 948 00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,480 Later, Christina. 949 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,080 Okay, people, teamwork! 950 00:47:00,105 --> 00:47:01,957 "Let's go now to Los Angeles where the mayor... 951 00:47:01,982 --> 00:47:03,678 Javier Clarke is speaking." 952 00:47:13,060 --> 00:47:15,180 Shit. Simul... 953 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,195 Where the hell's simultaneous translation? 954 00:47:17,220 --> 00:47:18,420 - What? - Where's Domingo? 955 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:20,380 - Domingo! - Domingo's wife is having a baby. 956 00:47:20,628 --> 00:47:24,798 Wait. Christina? 957 00:47:24,823 --> 00:47:29,460 - Christina, honey, I need you to... - Don't honey me. You cut me off. 958 00:47:29,740 --> 00:47:32,308 It was a snafoo, Darling, please, listen to me. 959 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,075 We're patching up a feed from L.A. 960 00:47:34,100 --> 00:47:37,060 Do me a favor and do the simultaneous translation. 961 00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:39,035 I'm a reporter, not a translator. 962 00:47:39,060 --> 00:47:41,900 Christina, I'm begging you, okay. 963 00:47:42,180 --> 00:47:44,100 For all that we've meant to each other? 964 00:47:44,380 --> 00:47:46,100 All we've meant to each other? 965 00:47:46,180 --> 00:47:50,860 Are you crazy? Never. 966 00:47:53,020 --> 00:47:56,193 And there is no question of the so-called border... 967 00:47:56,218 --> 00:47:59,035 being closed unless we agree. 968 00:47:59,060 --> 00:48:00,660 Just because Mr. Farley... 969 00:48:00,740 --> 00:48:03,871 and his anglos want to set the clock back... 970 00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,920 and keep us in our place for the next two centuries... 971 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,515 whatever the politicians up North want to do, that's there problem... 972 00:48:11,540 --> 00:48:13,860 but here its different. 973 00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:16,960 The border is no longer just a matter for Washington... 974 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,280 or the Senor Farleys of the world, no. 975 00:48:20,460 --> 00:48:23,020 We have as much to say over the border... 976 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:25,380 as any bureaucrat in Washington. 977 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,800 See, Los Angeles is not simply American territory anymore... 978 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,240 I mean, just listen to our name... 979 00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:34,957 - Los Angeles. - What is she doing? 980 00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,360 Letting us all know how much you've meant to each other. 981 00:48:39,940 --> 00:48:42,340 These are the names that our people gave them... 982 00:48:42,420 --> 00:48:44,940 before the lands were ripped them from their ancestors... 983 00:48:45,220 --> 00:48:47,260 and distributed them among the anglos! 984 00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:03,140 Well, who do we have there, anybody? 985 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,520 Mohammed Amin! 986 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,960 "Over there! The roof sniper!" 987 00:49:15,180 --> 00:49:17,500 "We are trying to establish contact with reporter... 988 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,200 Mohammad Amin." 989 00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,855 - "Mohammad?" - "Helena, you see them shooting!" 990 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:26,635 "It is still going on. I saw three. Maybe four snipers on the roof." 991 00:49:26,660 --> 00:49:29,557 "One was wearing the colors of one of the city's black gangs... 992 00:49:29,582 --> 00:49:32,080 and they said that they will stop the Latinos... 993 00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,480 from completely takin over Los Angeles." 994 00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:35,560 "The black gangs have said... 995 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,040 they will not recognize Mexican authority here!" 996 00:49:39,420 --> 00:49:41,514 "Does anybody here speak English?" 997 00:49:44,100 --> 00:49:45,334 "Anybody?" 998 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,560 "Arabic?" 999 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,360 That is why I'm closing the damn border. 1000 00:49:54,740 --> 00:49:57,460 Governor, Colonel McNally on the phone. 1001 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:05,773 Governor, we can see two bus loads of orphans... 1002 00:50:05,866 --> 00:50:08,920 being unloaded the other side of the border here. 1003 00:50:09,100 --> 00:50:11,780 "I just want to clarify our mission with... 1004 00:50:11,860 --> 00:50:13,980 respect to these children." 1005 00:50:14,260 --> 00:50:16,455 What do we do, if they march them up... 1006 00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,800 between us and the Federal troops? 1007 00:50:24,620 --> 00:50:26,340 "You could always tell when a crisis... 1008 00:50:26,420 --> 00:50:29,060 started really affecting us." 1009 00:50:29,340 --> 00:50:33,820 "When it gets too close to home, all the bad taste jokes cease." 1010 00:50:34,163 --> 00:50:36,920 "And when the orphans move up to the Idaho border... 1011 00:50:36,945 --> 00:50:41,680 people started looking harder at the images of those kids." 1012 00:50:41,860 --> 00:50:43,980 "Of the soldiers." 1013 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,120 "And the ordinary people, like themselves." 1014 00:50:49,100 --> 00:50:51,260 What the hell are they doing bringing orphans to a fucking war zone? 1015 00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,575 Vinnie, for Christ sake shut up, we're taping you, moron. 1016 00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:55,555 I'm going to give this woman a piece of my mind. 1017 00:50:55,580 --> 00:50:58,060 Vinnie, don't go down there. 1018 00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:00,800 "Come on, fellas!" 1019 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:03,760 Eddie, what's going on? 1020 00:51:03,940 --> 00:51:05,820 Show me a picture. What's happening there? 1021 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,320 "You cocksucker!" 1022 00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,160 "Hey, Mel." 1023 00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:17,160 "You know, we're just looking for my contact lens." 1024 00:51:17,540 --> 00:51:20,060 - "Here it is. It's right here." - "Great!" 1025 00:51:20,140 --> 00:51:21,604 "Alright, I guess we're ready then." 1026 00:51:21,820 --> 00:51:24,230 - "Yeah, got it." - "Alright, lets shoot." 1027 00:51:24,255 --> 00:51:26,355 Idiots. 1028 00:51:26,380 --> 00:51:28,740 And with no sign that the deadline will be... 1029 00:51:28,765 --> 00:51:32,540 extended by the President both sides are hardening their positions. 1030 00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:36,240 Federal troops are arriving at Hill Air Base in Northern Utah. 1031 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,800 "So far, more than 8,000 combat ready troops are there... 1032 00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,720 under the command of General Charles Buford." 1033 00:51:46,357 --> 00:51:49,680 "Buford was second-in-command of the army unit sent into Algeria... 1034 00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:51,600 to rescue the hundreds of American oil workers... 1035 00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:55,280 facing execution by Islamic fundamentalists." 1036 00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:27,500 What the hell is he doing? 1037 00:52:59,020 --> 00:53:02,340 I've been waiting twelve years for this candy-ass. 1038 00:53:02,420 --> 00:53:05,975 Hey, Chuck. Fuck you. 1039 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,560 No, you ain't. Not after what you did to us... 1040 00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,855 in the Persian Gulf, you... 1041 00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:15,080 Why you puffed up piece a shit if you hadn't been chasing headlines... 1042 00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,120 I was supposed to get into Kuwait city first. 1043 00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,086 It was mine, goddamit. 1044 00:53:20,111 --> 00:53:25,155 Who's fault was it that you stopped, for an interview with ABC news? 1045 00:53:25,180 --> 00:53:28,015 And you lied to me about your position, didn't you? 1046 00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:29,480 Of course I did, Chuck. 1047 00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:33,040 It was a race, and I got to Kuwait first! 1048 00:53:33,420 --> 00:53:35,020 Well, fuck you. 1049 00:53:35,500 --> 00:53:41,180 Well, you're kind of a sore loser, aren't you, shithead? 1050 00:53:41,205 --> 00:53:44,460 Theres an incredible dignity to something like this. 1051 00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,280 There is? 1052 00:53:46,305 --> 00:53:48,760 Two military commanders facing each other... 1053 00:53:48,785 --> 00:53:51,480 across a gulf of human passion. 1054 00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,800 Its like General Lee... 1055 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,360 and General Grant meeting after the Civil War. 1056 00:53:56,740 --> 00:53:58,140 And Lincoln would have been waiting for Grant... 1057 00:53:58,220 --> 00:53:59,820 to report back to him. 1058 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,400 Wouldn't Lincoln have been dead by the time Lee and Grant met? 1059 00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,320 Whatever. 1060 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:12,560 Theres something compelling, something eloquent about those two. 1061 00:54:12,940 --> 00:54:15,260 Blow it out your ass, you prick. 1062 00:54:15,540 --> 00:54:20,269 Fuck you, asshole. Go find your mama. 1063 00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:33,995 Intake, intake. C-Set 4. It better be recording this. 1064 00:54:34,020 --> 00:54:37,240 - Where's it coming from? - The Alamo, Trisha Lee. 1065 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:45,555 "The Alamo. They've blown up the Alamo." 1066 00:54:45,580 --> 00:54:48,380 "There are crowds of people all around..." 1067 00:54:48,405 --> 00:54:50,580 "It's like a celebration!" 1068 00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:07,960 Do you speak English? You speak English? 1069 00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:09,533 I don't understand you. 1070 00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:14,240 Alamo gone. 1071 00:55:14,420 --> 00:55:16,900 No need to speak English no more. 1072 00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,409 They trashed the Alamo. 1073 00:55:21,434 --> 00:55:25,520 Davy Crockett, he whipped the Mexicans there. 1074 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,720 What kind of book you been getting your information from, son? 1075 00:55:27,745 --> 00:55:30,040 Davie Crockett wasn't on the winning team. 1076 00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:31,960 Davie Crockett was a hero. 1077 00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:33,360 The only reason Davie Crocketts a hero... 1078 00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,880 is because Disney figured out how to make a buck off those hats. 1079 00:55:37,260 --> 00:55:40,180 Federal troops moving toward Idaho! 1080 00:55:51,884 --> 00:55:53,485 Governor? 1081 00:55:54,214 --> 00:55:55,462 Governor? 1082 00:55:57,060 --> 00:55:58,740 You spent the night here last night? 1083 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:00,235 Yeah. 1084 00:56:00,260 --> 00:56:01,915 I was thinking of that beautiful piece of land... 1085 00:56:01,940 --> 00:56:03,180 I wanted to buy, out by the lake... 1086 00:56:03,205 --> 00:56:05,495 the one with its own boat dock. Is that still available? 1087 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,360 Governor, I don't know, we got an escalation problem on our hands. 1088 00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,320 I should've bought it. 1089 00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,160 I'd love to go out there for a few days with Christina, just... 1090 00:56:12,393 --> 00:56:14,579 Governor, the Feds have stopped their troops... 1091 00:56:14,604 --> 00:56:16,720 less than a mile from our border, now, we got to get to the media... 1092 00:56:16,745 --> 00:56:18,320 and see some moral high ground on this one. 1093 00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:21,780 I'm getting damn tired of all this moral high ground. 1094 00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:23,920 I prefer rolling around in the mudd... 1095 00:56:24,100 --> 00:56:25,380 you meet more interesting people there. 1096 00:56:25,460 --> 00:56:28,358 - It's the media, you got... - I'm sick of the goddamn media. 1097 00:56:28,500 --> 00:56:31,100 That's how we got in this mess in the first place. 1098 00:56:31,180 --> 00:56:32,860 Now, if Moses... 1099 00:56:32,940 --> 00:56:35,815 had public opinion polls and TV cameras to contend with... 1100 00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,400 he never would've lead his people out of Egypt. 1101 00:56:37,580 --> 00:56:39,740 Look, Governor, we got no choice. 1102 00:56:39,820 --> 00:56:42,220 Now, all the troops in the world ain't worth a squirrels dick... 1103 00:56:42,245 --> 00:56:44,340 unless we got those media whores kissing our ass! 1104 00:56:44,420 --> 00:56:45,620 That's the problem. 1105 00:56:45,900 --> 00:56:47,933 People are terrified of being called racist... 1106 00:56:47,958 --> 00:56:52,220 for tryin to preserve their own culture. 1107 00:56:52,700 --> 00:56:54,860 Yeah? Hold on. 1108 00:56:54,940 --> 00:56:56,940 They want to know what you want for breakfast. 1109 00:56:57,020 --> 00:56:59,457 - The usual. - Fajitas. 1110 00:57:00,580 --> 00:57:03,700 And Matthew, Helena, these units from the 173rd Airborne... 1111 00:57:03,725 --> 00:57:05,722 suddenly began taking up positions here... 1112 00:57:05,747 --> 00:57:08,620 shortly after the news of the Alamo came through. 1113 00:57:09,100 --> 00:57:10,860 "I'm talking to you from just inside Utah... 1114 00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:12,880 very close to the border with Idaho." 1115 00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:13,960 "And just over here to my right... 1116 00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:16,240 is the encampment of Pakistani orphans where... 1117 00:57:16,420 --> 00:57:17,762 according to our information... 1118 00:57:17,787 --> 00:57:20,357 bus loads more are expected to arrive today." 1119 00:57:21,300 --> 00:57:23,564 General, I know you don't trust the media. 1120 00:57:23,589 --> 00:57:25,806 I'm with you a 100 percent on that, absolutely, but I think... 1121 00:57:25,831 --> 00:57:27,075 you're missing the opportunity here... 1122 00:57:27,100 --> 00:57:28,981 to counter attack what's being said about you... 1123 00:57:29,006 --> 00:57:30,695 by these militia nut jobs... 1124 00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:32,695 and these opportunistic politicians and... 1125 00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:38,240 Well, Mr. Franco, you and the rest of your ilk... 1126 00:57:38,420 --> 00:57:42,420 are a carbuncle on the ass of the military. 1127 00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:44,600 Carbuncle. 1128 00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,055 I'll try to put a good spin on that word, General... 1129 00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,195 because I'm sure you mean it as some kind of compliment, right? 1130 00:57:49,220 --> 00:57:51,460 I ordered the media out of this sector... 1131 00:57:51,485 --> 00:57:53,332 - and that includes you! - But what about all... 1132 00:57:53,357 --> 00:57:54,575 that great press I gave you during the Persian Gulf thing... 1133 00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:58,006 - doesn't that count? Okay. - Get out of here! 1134 00:58:00,577 --> 00:58:03,775 It's too bad, though, I was going to give you this present. 1135 00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,216 I guess I can give it to somebody else, it's a tape of... 1136 00:58:06,241 --> 00:58:08,880 you in that Panama whorehouse a couple years ago. 1137 00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:10,080 If you don't mind my saying so, General. 1138 00:58:10,105 --> 00:58:14,200 You didn't have any carbuncles on your ass that night. 1139 00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,000 Are there any more copies of that tape? 1140 00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:23,120 "Protests supporting both sides of the Idaho conflict... 1141 00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:24,880 are increasing all over the country... 1142 00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:26,960 in the wake of the bombing of the Alamo." 1143 00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,206 "As government officials fear more serious outbreaks of violence... 1144 00:58:30,231 --> 00:58:34,015 there is trouble from an unexpected source on the Idaho Utah border." 1145 00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:36,013 "Blaine Gorman has more." 1146 00:58:36,038 --> 00:58:38,950 "Matthew, Helena, the Sioux Indians on this reservation... 1147 00:58:38,975 --> 00:58:42,535 have issued a statement saying that this conflict is and I quote... 1148 00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,720 "Part of the white mans war that we will not be drawn into." 1149 00:58:45,900 --> 00:58:47,595 "And in fact, they too, like Governor Farley... 1150 00:58:47,620 --> 00:58:49,940 are closing the borders to their big reservations." 1151 00:58:50,020 --> 00:58:51,300 "The Indians are receiving support... 1152 00:58:51,380 --> 00:58:53,660 from dozens of other fans all across America..." 1153 00:58:54,700 --> 00:58:56,900 It's getting to be a tad ridiculous. 1154 00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,360 Mr. President, I mean, a bunch of Indians on the war path. 1155 00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:03,000 If I may be so blunt, who gives a shit? 1156 00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:04,400 We do. 1157 00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,198 That reservation is right smack... 1158 00:59:06,223 --> 00:59:08,840 between our troops and the Idaho border. 1159 00:59:09,020 --> 00:59:12,380 The Sioux, aren't they the ones who wiped out General Custer? 1160 00:59:12,460 --> 00:59:14,740 Yes, Sir. Not far from there. 1161 00:59:15,020 --> 00:59:18,940 Well, I'm not going to have another General Custer on my hands. 1162 00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:21,000 I intend to take the appropriate action... 1163 00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,760 to ensure this does not happen. 1164 00:59:26,100 --> 00:59:29,260 Can't we just let them have another casino or something? 1165 00:59:33,780 --> 00:59:36,660 "This is News Net." 1166 00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:39,760 "Good evening. I'm Matthew Langford." 1167 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,440 "And I'm Helena Newman." 1168 00:59:41,620 --> 00:59:43,975 "There are now less than forty-one hours left... 1169 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,760 in the countdown to the Idaho crisis." 1170 00:59:46,940 --> 00:59:49,175 "And the White House has announced the granting of... 1171 00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,880 gambling licenses to the Lacoda Sioux Indian tribe... 1172 00:59:52,905 --> 00:59:55,080 for a casino next to the little big horn... 1173 00:59:55,460 --> 00:59:57,740 where General Custer was killed when he lead his troops..." 1174 00:59:57,920 --> 00:59:59,240 There's nothing sacred. 1175 00:59:59,420 --> 01:00:02,380 Next they'll be paving Gettysburg, or worse, Disneyland... 1176 01:00:02,460 --> 01:00:04,380 Jim? Jim Kalla, I need you in Washington! 1177 01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,215 "More than anything else, what the Idaho crisis has done... 1178 01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:14,960 is to highlight all the fractions all the divisions in America." 1179 01:00:15,140 --> 01:00:16,700 "And no where are they closer to the surface... 1180 01:00:16,780 --> 01:00:19,180 than in the House of Representatives in Washington." 1181 01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:20,640 Time out here! 1182 01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:21,960 If you got a problem with something... 1183 01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:23,040 "It's become kind of... 1184 01:00:23,065 --> 01:00:26,800 a political bazaar built on the ruins of the melting pot." 1185 01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:29,603 Hey, translator! Come on over here. 1186 01:00:29,628 --> 01:00:31,235 What the hell's he saying? 1187 01:00:31,260 --> 01:00:33,700 We don't, we're aware of the deals that the other groups... 1188 01:00:33,725 --> 01:00:36,180 the nation has come against us Chinese. 1189 01:00:36,460 --> 01:00:37,735 Hey, man, this is Washington! 1190 01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:40,360 This is what we do here, make deals! You understand? 1191 01:00:40,385 --> 01:00:42,500 "The situation here changes hourly." 1192 01:00:42,780 --> 01:00:46,340 "What this crisis comes down to is wheeling and dealing." 1193 01:00:46,820 --> 01:00:50,380 "Most of it orchestrated by the White House and Kenya Nkomo... 1194 01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:53,080 the leader of the nation of Islam caucus... 1195 01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:54,880 before being elected to congress... 1196 01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,240 he made his name on the streets of Los Angeles... 1197 01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,520 as one of its most feared gang leaders." 1198 01:01:00,700 --> 01:01:02,940 "Every party's demanding concessions... 1199 01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,080 in exchange for their supporting the President." 1200 01:01:05,260 --> 01:01:07,860 "If he needs to use force against Idaho." 1201 01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:11,120 "Now, I'm standing here next to Congressmen Singh of Alabama." 1202 01:01:11,500 --> 01:01:12,812 "Congressman Singh." 1203 01:01:12,837 --> 01:01:14,740 "What concessions did you get from the White House?" 1204 01:01:14,820 --> 01:01:16,420 "A great deal for my people." 1205 01:01:16,700 --> 01:01:19,220 "I told Mr. Buchan, from the White House... 1206 01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,320 you all want our support against Idaho, fine." 1207 01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,935 "But you all have to give us three thousand acres in Alabama... 1208 01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:28,080 and the money to build our temples." 1209 01:01:28,260 --> 01:01:31,860 "And he said, "No problem." So, no problem!" 1210 01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:35,520 "No problem. Jim Kalla, News Net." 1211 01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:50,240 Can't make an omelet without busting some sacred eggs. 1212 01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:53,400 We're making history here. 1213 01:01:56,500 --> 01:01:58,820 And you ain't us, aren't you? 1214 01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:02,760 - No, I'm not. - You should be. 1215 01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:07,160 Why not? 1216 01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:12,680 Maybe because I'm a reporter, I ain't with anybody. 1217 01:02:12,860 --> 01:02:17,580 Maybe because too many sacred eggs are getting busted. 1218 01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:19,600 See, I road the buses back in the sixties... 1219 01:02:19,780 --> 01:02:26,220 to bring people together, pretty unfashionable now, isn't it? 1220 01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:36,920 Your wife, she's Jewish, ain't she? 1221 01:02:40,140 --> 01:02:43,740 You know, I've forgotten what she is. 1222 01:02:43,820 --> 01:02:47,940 All I remember is that we met on the back of a bus. 1223 01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:52,560 Hey! Is the Governor in the car? 1224 01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,120 Well, has anybody seen him? 1225 01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:58,120 I'll be dipped in dog shit. 1226 01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:00,800 Where the hell are you? 1227 01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:02,720 Son of a bitch. 1228 01:03:06,340 --> 01:03:10,460 Governor? Governor? 1229 01:03:10,740 --> 01:03:13,580 Jesus Christ, Governor, scooch over. 1230 01:03:16,140 --> 01:03:17,420 Jesus, I've been looking all over hell for you... 1231 01:03:17,500 --> 01:03:19,475 She always parks right over there. 1232 01:03:19,500 --> 01:03:22,717 You see that empty parking space, that's her. 1233 01:03:22,742 --> 01:03:25,555 Governor, we've got crisis after crisis going on in there... 1234 01:03:25,580 --> 01:03:27,076 You want to know about crisis, Jimmy? 1235 01:03:27,101 --> 01:03:28,715 She won't even look at me now. 1236 01:03:28,740 --> 01:03:30,500 Jesus. 1237 01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,640 There she is! 1238 01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:44,080 Governor! 1239 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:47,640 I knew she'd come back. 1240 01:03:58,380 --> 01:04:01,020 What the hell is she doing? 1241 01:04:05,420 --> 01:04:08,940 Christina, are you all right? 1242 01:04:09,220 --> 01:04:13,540 Christina? Are you all right? 1243 01:04:13,565 --> 01:04:15,935 No. Not really. 1244 01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:19,200 What we're you doing behind that tree? 1245 01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:24,440 I was barfing. I have to go. 1246 01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,200 What's going on? 1247 01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:37,120 She's pregnant. I'm going to be a father. 1248 01:04:37,500 --> 01:04:39,620 And if it's a boy... 1249 01:04:39,700 --> 01:04:42,900 we're going to call it Juan Pablo Farley. 1250 01:04:54,100 --> 01:04:58,140 I got you hooked up again. It was a faulty switch. 1251 01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:01,040 Hey, I owe you one. 1252 01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:05,640 No, you don't. How's Arla doing? 1253 01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:08,280 She has good days and bad days. 1254 01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:13,040 - What did the doctor say? - Nothing I want to hear. 1255 01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:15,960 - Say hello for me. - I will. 1256 01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:27,800 I came across another great line. 1257 01:05:27,980 --> 01:05:30,700 "The best lack all conviction while the worst... 1258 01:05:30,780 --> 01:05:33,260 are full of passionate intensity." 1259 01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,440 That is a good line. 1260 01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:42,200 The poets, nobody pays enough attention to the poets anymore. 1261 01:05:42,380 --> 01:05:44,900 Good night, Godfrey. 1262 01:05:51,540 --> 01:05:54,860 Hey, what the hell's going on? 1263 01:05:55,140 --> 01:05:57,620 They're movin them out. 1264 01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,325 Man. Jesus Christ. 1265 01:06:00,388 --> 01:06:04,920 Come on, enough is enough. 1266 01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:11,904 You know what? I had it with you. 1267 01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:14,223 All you do is use the wide angle lens... 1268 01:06:14,248 --> 01:06:16,366 so it looks like there's less orphans than there really is. 1269 01:06:16,554 --> 01:06:18,480 Lady, I don't have an orphan lens, okay? 1270 01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,474 - I use a normal everyday lens... - Yeah. 1271 01:06:20,499 --> 01:06:22,005 if we we're the "Save the Children" fund... 1272 01:06:22,030 --> 01:06:25,344 you wouldn't use a wide angle lens, you would use a telephoto lens. 1273 01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:28,000 - You're a big expert, right? - Yes, I am. 1274 01:06:28,109 --> 01:06:29,358 - Thank you. - The hell are you talking about? 1275 01:06:29,383 --> 01:06:33,100 I'm talking about media, asshole. Well, fuck reality, this is image! 1276 01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,624 Fuck the media, these kids shouldn't camp near the border! 1277 01:06:35,649 --> 01:06:38,085 You know what, if these kids we're not near the border... 1278 01:06:38,110 --> 01:06:39,273 you wouldn't have your story. 1279 01:06:39,298 --> 01:06:42,555 It is my constitutional right to do as I see fit. 1280 01:06:42,580 --> 01:06:44,755 Alright, you know what? You are a fascist. 1281 01:06:44,780 --> 01:06:45,780 Do you know that? 1282 01:06:45,805 --> 01:06:47,078 - How do yo feel about that? Yeah. - I'm a fascist? 1283 01:06:47,103 --> 01:06:48,580 That's what you call everybody... 1284 01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:50,320 Yeah, Blaine? 1285 01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,240 I want you to get that idiot a message. 1286 01:06:52,620 --> 01:06:56,460 You tell him that you never get in the middle of a story. 1287 01:06:56,540 --> 01:06:58,420 - "He's fired, as of now!" - Burgess is going crazy. 1288 01:06:58,500 --> 01:07:00,340 He says you're fired again. 1289 01:07:00,620 --> 01:07:04,460 Really? Fuck it. I'm done. I'm out! 1290 01:07:04,740 --> 01:07:06,700 Vinnie, will you do us all a favor and just shut up? 1291 01:07:06,780 --> 01:07:08,735 That's all we ever do around here, Blaine, is shut up. 1292 01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,240 Well, don't be an idiot, we're in the news business. 1293 01:07:10,265 --> 01:07:12,360 We're a wall of noise, Blaine! Wake the fuck up. 1294 01:07:12,385 --> 01:07:13,780 You know what, I quit. I'm done! 1295 01:07:13,860 --> 01:07:15,820 I'm going back to New York, I'm going to tie one on. 1296 01:07:15,900 --> 01:07:16,900 I'm going to finish that novel... 1297 01:07:16,980 --> 01:07:18,220 I started a couple years back, because you know what? 1298 01:07:18,300 --> 01:07:20,380 It's just about a big enough piece a shit to become a best seller! 1299 01:07:20,660 --> 01:07:22,300 And then I'm going to take the money, move down to the Bahamas... 1300 01:07:22,380 --> 01:07:23,460 the only time I'll see you fucking guys... 1301 01:07:23,540 --> 01:07:25,780 is when I'm channel surfing. I fucking quit. I've had it. 1302 01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:27,720 Fuck you, fuck him, everybody! 1303 01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:29,960 that's too bad, Vinnie, we could've used you. 1304 01:07:30,140 --> 01:07:31,420 I hear Mel's thinking of bringing in one of those... 1305 01:07:31,500 --> 01:07:33,180 young CNN producers, anyway. 1306 01:07:33,460 --> 01:07:37,900 - What? - Well, that's what I heard. 1307 01:07:38,180 --> 01:07:40,460 Really? 1308 01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:49,240 Fuck. 1309 01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:52,880 Come on, we got a lot of work to do. Let's go! 1310 01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:55,640 It is our understanding... 1311 01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:58,295 that General Buford has been ordered to march the orphans... 1312 01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:00,279 to the border and formerly demand that... 1313 01:08:00,304 --> 01:08:03,160 Governor Jim Farley allow them passage into Idaho. 1314 01:08:03,540 --> 01:08:05,740 Clearly, Governor Farley is going to be the man of the hour. 1315 01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:16,471 Governor? 1316 01:08:16,496 --> 01:08:18,400 Governor You really want to get down off that damn ledge there. 1317 01:08:18,480 --> 01:08:20,360 You don't want to be slipping or nothing. 1318 01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,840 I'm terrified of heights myself. 1319 01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:24,880 Shit. 1320 01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:28,640 Look at that commotion down there. News crews. 1321 01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:31,960 National Guard, crowds. 1322 01:08:32,140 --> 01:08:34,500 Yeah, I just realized something, I created that, 1323 01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:35,840 Well, you sure as hell did, Governor. 1324 01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:37,400 Now, why don't you just come down there off the edge... 1325 01:08:37,480 --> 01:08:39,395 - you know you could slip... - I love the edge. 1326 01:08:39,420 --> 01:08:41,180 That's where life is. 1327 01:08:41,460 --> 01:08:43,580 I know that about you, Governor. That's for sure. 1328 01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,400 And nothing ever happens in the middle, the edge. 1329 01:08:46,480 --> 01:08:47,920 That's where it all happens. 1330 01:08:48,100 --> 01:08:50,820 - You still fuck your wife? - What? 1331 01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:52,880 Yeah, after a few years. 1332 01:08:53,060 --> 01:08:56,220 It fades. The mating urge, I mean. 1333 01:08:56,400 --> 01:09:00,480 I haven't slept with Eleanor for three years. 1334 01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:02,320 We're all just animals, you know that, don't you? 1335 01:09:02,500 --> 01:09:04,900 Yeah, I know that Governor, but the White House... 1336 01:09:04,980 --> 01:09:07,195 - has Federal troops coming in... - Scratching for our... 1337 01:09:07,220 --> 01:09:08,780 little piece of turf. 1338 01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:10,845 Mating like animals for a few years... 1339 01:09:10,870 --> 01:09:14,440 all in the name of that thing they call romance and then it fades. 1340 01:09:15,740 --> 01:09:17,475 The males have to go looking somewhere else... 1341 01:09:17,500 --> 01:09:20,380 - to plant their seed. - Jesus. 1342 01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:23,920 Juan Pablo Farley! 1343 01:09:24,100 --> 01:09:26,740 John Paul in Spanish, named after the last Pope. 1344 01:09:27,220 --> 01:09:29,420 Governor, I don't think we want to get into that right now. 1345 01:09:29,500 --> 01:09:30,820 I mean, we got our National Guard... 1346 01:09:30,900 --> 01:09:33,220 keeping out about a million Juan Pablos right now. 1347 01:09:33,300 --> 01:09:35,460 Well, hell yes! That's because there is a million of them... 1348 01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:40,400 but one single Juan Pablo, one cute little kid. 1349 01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:43,975 One future leader that'll take our nation to greatness... 1350 01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:48,160 you're telling me we keep him out? My son? 1351 01:09:48,440 --> 01:09:51,360 No way! 1352 01:10:00,260 --> 01:10:01,780 - Jack? - Yes, Sir? 1353 01:10:01,860 --> 01:10:03,230 Who allowed the media in here? 1354 01:10:03,300 --> 01:10:05,635 Well, its better to have them on the inside of the tent pissing out... 1355 01:10:05,660 --> 01:10:08,460 than outside the tent pissing in. 1356 01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:14,280 All right, let's start at the beginning. 1357 01:10:14,460 --> 01:10:17,012 How the hell do we stop this thing? It's already gone too far. 1358 01:10:17,820 --> 01:10:20,340 We can order General Buford to withdraw his troops. 1359 01:10:20,620 --> 01:10:22,100 That's weakness. 1360 01:10:22,180 --> 01:10:26,500 Well, then we can wait for the deadline and attack. 1361 01:10:26,780 --> 01:10:29,580 - Madness. - Well, its one thing or the other. 1362 01:10:29,660 --> 01:10:32,100 I know which one I would choose. 1363 01:10:32,480 --> 01:10:36,720 Mr. President, the public hates weakness. 1364 01:10:36,900 --> 01:10:41,300 It shows up in all the polls. 1365 01:10:41,580 --> 01:10:42,961 Well, we've got another problem... 1366 01:10:42,986 --> 01:10:44,940 and you're not going to want to hear it. 1367 01:10:45,220 --> 01:10:46,715 When we set these deadlines... 1368 01:10:46,740 --> 01:10:49,820 we we're presuming that it wouldn't go this far. 1369 01:10:49,900 --> 01:10:52,020 If the shit hits the fan... 1370 01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:55,920 it's going to wind up spilling over into "All My Children." 1371 01:10:56,100 --> 01:10:58,100 For Christ sake! 1372 01:11:04,460 --> 01:11:06,860 Mel, I'm trying to find Vinnie. 1373 01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:10,640 He took the minicam and said he smelled a better story. 1374 01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,800 I got to go, they're movin out now. 1375 01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:28,160 Mel, you dimwitted schmuck, its me. Your favorite person in the world. 1376 01:11:28,440 --> 01:11:30,920 Vinnie! How are you doing, Vinnie? 1377 01:11:31,100 --> 01:11:34,700 Where are you? Palm Beach? Basking at Malibu? 1378 01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:36,160 I'm on the Idaho side of the border. 1379 01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:38,400 I'm about to send back the most important shots of the whole crisis. 1380 01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:39,261 "You know something, Vinnie... 1381 01:11:39,286 --> 01:11:41,440 I don't even know why I'm talking to you." 1382 01:11:41,620 --> 01:11:44,580 If I'm not mistaken, you we're fired. 1383 01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:46,440 Really? That's great. Because now that I'm a freelancer... 1384 01:11:46,465 --> 01:11:48,880 that means you have to pay me a whole lot of money for these shots. 1385 01:11:49,060 --> 01:11:51,220 Or hire me back with a raise. 1386 01:11:51,500 --> 01:11:54,700 Vinnie, there is zero probability of that. 1387 01:11:54,780 --> 01:11:57,580 Yeah? Take a look at this, my friend. 1388 01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,000 It's a cowboy boot. 1389 01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:04,760 What does that have to do with anything? 1390 01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:06,440 The gonzo has lost his mind. 1391 01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:09,240 Wait. Vinnie, it's Jim. 1392 01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:11,240 Move in on the shoulder patches. 1393 01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:13,560 "Excuse me, would you mind turning around?" 1394 01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:17,200 "Jim, you're on the verge of breaking the code, I can tell." 1395 01:12:17,580 --> 01:12:19,900 Since when have you ever seen cowboy boots on a guardsman... 1396 01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:21,720 except in that peace we had last year... 1397 01:12:21,900 --> 01:12:23,660 about that group that is in Montana? 1398 01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:25,960 Montana? What does that have to do with anything? 1399 01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:29,920 Look at the shoulder patches, Montana National Guard. 1400 01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:34,840 "Told you, now look here. Hey guys, how are things in Fargo?" 1401 01:12:35,220 --> 01:12:36,900 We're from Bismarck. 1402 01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:41,640 North Dakota. 1403 01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:44,040 Jesus Christ, if the Governors from the other states... 1404 01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:46,800 are sending in their National Guards... 1405 01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:48,080 "News Net has just learned that... 1406 01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:51,000 America is on the brink of a Civil War." 1407 01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:54,360 "It is no longer just Idaho against the Federal Government." 1408 01:12:54,740 --> 01:12:55,940 "Our Producer, Vince Franco... 1409 01:12:56,020 --> 01:12:59,860 has just sent these images of troops from Montana, North Dakota... 1410 01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:03,640 and possibly other states that are prepared to fight." 1411 01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:19,520 "Sometimes the choice between war and peace... 1412 01:13:19,900 --> 01:13:21,940 between survival and destruction... 1413 01:13:22,020 --> 01:13:25,780 can hang on a gesture, a word, and a reflection." 1414 01:13:26,060 --> 01:13:28,740 "After any major crisis, we could always look back... 1415 01:13:28,820 --> 01:13:30,940 and find out that one moment that'd change it all." 1416 01:13:31,020 --> 01:13:33,820 "That instant when a line is drawn in the sand... 1417 01:13:34,300 --> 01:13:36,420 and there's no turning back." 1418 01:13:46,540 --> 01:13:50,020 Well, you're actions are unconstitutional and illegal... 1419 01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:52,960 I'm ordering you to remove this road block. 1420 01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:57,720 You posing for the cameras again, Chuck? 1421 01:13:57,800 --> 01:13:59,640 My orders come from the President. 1422 01:13:59,920 --> 01:14:01,541 What I got to do is ensure... 1423 01:14:01,566 --> 01:14:04,295 that these children are admitted into the state of Idaho. 1424 01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:07,595 Well, I have orders from the Governor of Idaho... 1425 01:14:07,620 --> 01:14:11,500 to see that that does not happen. 1426 01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:14,315 Well, you know there won't be no second chance, don't you? 1427 01:14:14,340 --> 01:14:16,654 Wrong again. Chuck. 1428 01:14:16,679 --> 01:14:23,427 This is your second chance to be first, into Kuwait. 1429 01:14:26,500 --> 01:14:28,900 How dare you? 1430 01:14:33,660 --> 01:14:36,260 Turn the little rag heads around. 1431 01:14:38,540 --> 01:14:41,500 By the way, you still owe me a case of whiskey... 1432 01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:46,881 from that card game in Sarajevo, you cheap son of a bitch. 1433 01:14:53,420 --> 01:14:55,540 What's going on? 1434 01:14:55,620 --> 01:15:01,195 Retreating is not an option! Fuck this fascist shit! 1435 01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:05,080 No! 1436 01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:06,835 Twenty hours to go, people. 1437 01:15:06,860 --> 01:15:10,700 Eleven states supporting Farley, and counting. 1438 01:15:10,780 --> 01:15:12,994 Mel, the difference is, is that this one here... 1439 01:15:13,019 --> 01:15:15,035 it has these three little exclamation marks. 1440 01:15:15,060 --> 01:15:17,180 There are no exclamation marks. 1441 01:15:17,460 --> 01:15:19,615 Well, I could just sort of have them fade off then... 1442 01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:21,799 - just right after this thing... - The country is falling apart... 1443 01:15:21,824 --> 01:15:23,120 we don't need exclamation marks, okay? 1444 01:15:23,145 --> 01:15:24,535 Mel, I got an even better idea. 1445 01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:27,520 A telethon like Jerry Lewis thing only with orphans and all that stuff? 1446 01:15:27,700 --> 01:15:29,780 - Is this a work in progress? - Mel, just think for one second... 1447 01:15:29,860 --> 01:15:32,060 its your own rule, "The Three Ts of Great News... 1448 01:15:32,140 --> 01:15:33,620 tits, tots and tears." 1449 01:15:33,900 --> 01:15:35,762 Christ, we got two "T"s right off the bat. 1450 01:15:35,787 --> 01:15:39,340 Then we get Helena to dress up one of those pushup things... 1451 01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:42,760 - It's a classic idea, Matthew. - Then we got the three "T"s! 1452 01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:44,480 - Twenty hours left, Mel. - Okay. 1453 01:15:44,860 --> 01:15:45,915 What's with Christina? 1454 01:15:45,940 --> 01:15:47,459 Nobody's going home tonight, we're ordering in. 1455 01:15:47,484 --> 01:15:49,700 I could swear she's having an affair with Farley. 1456 01:15:49,725 --> 01:15:52,260 God, I hope so, we can get some milage out of it. 1457 01:15:52,285 --> 01:15:53,435 Don't be ridiculous... 1458 01:15:53,460 --> 01:15:56,055 this is a news outfit not a gossip column. 1459 01:15:56,140 --> 01:15:58,475 Don't get pious with me, Alan. 1460 01:15:58,500 --> 01:16:00,334 We're talking about what makes people tick... 1461 01:16:00,359 --> 01:16:03,075 If Christina is fucking the Governor of Idaho... 1462 01:16:03,100 --> 01:16:05,279 it is nobody's business but Christina's! 1463 01:16:05,304 --> 01:16:08,100 What, Alan, what'd you say? 1464 01:16:08,380 --> 01:16:10,860 Christina is what? 1465 01:16:11,140 --> 01:16:13,855 Christina is fucking the Governor of Idaho? 1466 01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:15,355 I know where you're going with this thing, Mel. 1467 01:16:15,380 --> 01:16:16,975 - I don't believe this! - Mel, you're not going to turn... 1468 01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,735 that raving lunatic into a human interest story! 1469 01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:20,920 - It's Christina. - Jesus Christ. 1470 01:16:24,060 --> 01:16:26,100 Hello, Christina? 1471 01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:29,560 Yeah, no, you look a little pale, something new? What's the matter? 1472 01:16:30,820 --> 01:16:33,580 No, Christina. I don't need you on the Mexican border. 1473 01:16:33,860 --> 01:16:36,820 I need you where you are in Idaho. 1474 01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:39,925 And by the way, I, I can't commend you enough... 1475 01:16:39,950 --> 01:16:44,140 on the job you're doing with the Governor. 1476 01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:47,920 Who are these guys, they were'nt here an hour ago. 1477 01:16:48,100 --> 01:16:50,180 I got a battalion of Chinese out here. 1478 01:16:51,480 --> 01:16:54,040 Hundreds of them. 1479 01:16:54,220 --> 01:16:55,540 What Chinese? 1480 01:16:55,820 --> 01:16:59,195 If that's Vinnie, I don't care if he's got the ghost of Chairman Mao... 1481 01:16:59,220 --> 01:17:01,100 no overtime. 1482 01:17:01,180 --> 01:17:03,500 Have a nice day, Sandy. 1483 01:17:04,860 --> 01:17:07,940 Excuse me, who are you? Where you from? 1484 01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,295 Rhode Island. 1485 01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:11,718 "The Colonel says to tell you... 1486 01:17:11,743 --> 01:17:13,800 that we are the Rhode Island National Guard." 1487 01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:15,240 "That we are American Citizens... 1488 01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:17,837 who will do our duty in this conflict..." 1489 01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:25,680 Yeah? 1490 01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:29,600 Sir? Sir? 1491 01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:31,200 The Governor of Rhode Islands on News Net. 1492 01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:32,480 - What? - The Governor of Rhode Islands... 1493 01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:34,560 on News Net. 1494 01:17:34,740 --> 01:17:38,380 "Our actions in support of Governor Farley have been taken... 1495 01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:42,760 because of boat loads and planes of refugees from Mainland China... 1496 01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:45,720 who continue to descend on Rhode Island... 1497 01:17:45,900 --> 01:17:50,020 it is becoming increasingly difficult to cope and to govern." 1498 01:17:50,300 --> 01:17:53,380 "We therefore are supporting the position taken by Idaho... 1499 01:17:53,460 --> 01:17:55,180 in closing its borders... 1500 01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:58,920 and declaring that we too have the right to close our borders... 1501 01:17:59,100 --> 01:18:00,700 as we see fit..." 1502 01:18:00,780 --> 01:18:04,740 - You know what they say, Jim? - No, what do they say, sir? 1503 01:18:05,020 --> 01:18:10,420 Character is destiny. We all have our destinys. 1504 01:18:10,700 --> 01:18:13,940 And I have mine. 1505 01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:17,400 How soon are we going to be on the plane? 1506 01:18:17,480 --> 01:18:19,560 Because we got to get there by tonight, okay? 1507 01:18:19,742 --> 01:18:21,942 - God. - Christina. 1508 01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:23,680 What are you doing here? 1509 01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:26,280 - I need to talk to you. - There is nothing to talk about. 1510 01:18:26,460 --> 01:18:27,966 - Yes, there is. - What? 1511 01:18:29,540 --> 01:18:33,100 I want to know what it would take to make you change your mind. 1512 01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:37,400 - You couldn't begin... - Try me. 1513 01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:42,480 Anything. Just name it. 1514 01:18:44,740 --> 01:18:47,460 I want the man I fell in love with. 1515 01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:51,240 Terrific, I do just as you advise. 1516 01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:55,360 Dot every ethnic "I" and cross every racial "T"... 1517 01:18:55,540 --> 01:18:58,020 and what do we get, the goddamn Chinese... 1518 01:18:58,300 --> 01:19:00,180 our goddamn Chinese, for Christ sake. 1519 01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,560 Side with that prick Farley and his red necks? 1520 01:19:02,740 --> 01:19:04,420 Is this what it's all about? 1521 01:19:04,500 --> 01:19:06,660 Sitting at the bottom of the goddamn melting pot... 1522 01:19:06,740 --> 01:19:10,940 when it's all boiled away and there's nothing left but lumps! 1523 01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:13,920 Well, you can always renege on that deal with Kenya Nkomo... 1524 01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:16,440 and that nation of Islam group. 1525 01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,240 How many Electoral College votes do they control? 1526 01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:23,520 Sixty, seventy on a good day. 1527 01:19:23,700 --> 01:19:28,820 - How about the Koreans? - Well, twenty-six? 1528 01:19:29,100 --> 01:19:30,220 There's your answer. 1529 01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:32,160 Well, no, not necessarily. 1530 01:19:32,240 --> 01:19:35,080 We could let in a million more Koreans. 1531 01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,895 Jack up the Electoral Votes to eighty and bingo... 1532 01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:41,490 you've got them eating chop suey right out of your hand. 1533 01:19:43,480 --> 01:19:44,920 - Mr. President? - What? 1534 01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:48,440 They've blown up the Statue of Liberty. 1535 01:19:48,620 --> 01:19:51,620 "At the height of the Reagan era, it was this... 1536 01:19:51,900 --> 01:19:53,895 a gala event that thrilled American... 1537 01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:57,360 when the refurbished Statue of Liberty was unveiled." 1538 01:19:57,540 --> 01:20:00,300 "And tonight, it is this." 1539 01:20:00,380 --> 01:20:03,220 "A shattered mass of steal and dreams." 1540 01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:04,875 "A group calling itself... 1541 01:20:04,900 --> 01:20:07,553 Patriots for Farley has claimed responsibility... 1542 01:20:07,578 --> 01:20:10,140 in a message phoned into News Net that reads... 1543 01:20:10,420 --> 01:20:13,660 We will no longer take in the huddled masses of the world..." 1544 01:20:13,740 --> 01:20:15,782 I need to know that I can trust you. 1545 01:20:22,620 --> 01:20:25,780 "Security around Americas most revered historic sights... 1546 01:20:25,860 --> 01:20:28,060 such as the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia... 1547 01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:30,600 has been heightened in the wage of the destruction of the Alamo..." 1548 01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:33,560 All right, turn that thing off. Everybody get back in their tents. 1549 01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:35,560 I don't think so, Major. 1550 01:20:35,740 --> 01:20:37,620 I don't think I heard you right. 1551 01:20:39,480 --> 01:20:42,120 "You heard me, Major. My sister lives in Idaho." 1552 01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:44,400 "I didn't get into this army to fight other Americans." 1553 01:20:44,580 --> 01:20:46,020 "Especially for this bullshit." 1554 01:20:46,100 --> 01:20:49,500 - "At ease, Sergeant." - "Fuck you, Sir!" 1555 01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:53,600 "No cameras! I said, no cameras!" 1556 01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:55,371 "Put it down, asshole!" 1557 01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:00,400 "He shot the Major! My God!" 1558 01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:05,000 "My God, they have shot the officer, killed the officer in charge." 1559 01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:07,320 - "They're shooting at others." - "Hey, get that camera!" 1560 01:21:07,345 --> 01:21:10,760 They killed them. They killed their own officer. 1561 01:21:11,340 --> 01:21:15,420 So, what do you expect, you can only push people so far. 1562 01:21:15,500 --> 01:21:16,955 What the fuck are you talk... 1563 01:21:16,980 --> 01:21:18,420 What, are you trying to justify murder here? 1564 01:21:18,445 --> 01:21:19,715 No. You know, fuck you, Manieski! 1565 01:21:19,740 --> 01:21:21,353 Push me, you motherfucker. 1566 01:21:22,620 --> 01:21:24,420 Mutiny? 1567 01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:28,320 But this is the army. The U.S. Army. 1568 01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:32,200 Shit. 1569 01:21:35,480 --> 01:21:38,040 You all obey orders now, you hear me? 1570 01:21:38,065 --> 01:21:40,040 Goddamn! 1571 01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:41,320 I think we should get out of here. 1572 01:21:41,345 --> 01:21:43,320 Not yet. 1573 01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:46,720 - Now? - Yeah. 1574 01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:58,520 What are you getting unravelled for now? 1575 01:21:58,700 --> 01:22:01,100 We're inside, not outside. 1576 01:22:01,280 --> 01:22:03,360 Mel, you just don't get it, do you? 1577 01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:07,240 Its all outside, now. Just get used to it. 1578 01:22:08,700 --> 01:22:10,660 There's desertions all over the place. 1579 01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:12,480 Well, tell Buford to get some movement... 1580 01:22:12,560 --> 01:22:13,920 anything to pull it all together. 1581 01:22:14,100 --> 01:22:15,780 Move some armored brigades out. 1582 01:22:16,060 --> 01:22:18,780 - We can't. - What do you mean, "We can't?" 1583 01:22:18,860 --> 01:22:21,820 Most of the tanks need spare parts for the turbine compressors. 1584 01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:23,635 So, what am I, a repair shop foreman? 1585 01:22:23,660 --> 01:22:25,540 Get the goddamn parts, fix them! 1586 01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:29,360 - We can't. - What are you telling me? 1587 01:22:29,740 --> 01:22:31,700 Hold on a minute. 1588 01:22:31,725 --> 01:22:32,900 Mr. President. 1589 01:22:32,925 --> 01:22:35,660 After the free-trade talks you signed with Taiwan... 1590 01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:40,000 we stopped making spare parts because they could make them cheaper. 1591 01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:44,240 And then you got into that argument, that dialogue with them... 1592 01:22:44,711 --> 01:22:48,151 and they stopped shipping us any military parts. 1593 01:22:48,340 --> 01:22:50,455 Let's look on the bright side, shall we? 1594 01:22:50,480 --> 01:22:54,520 I mean, after all the glass is really half full. 1595 01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:57,680 I mean, about those seventy Electoral College votes. 1596 01:22:57,860 --> 01:23:00,300 See, we don't really need the nation of Islam... 1597 01:23:00,380 --> 01:23:03,580 the Chinese, the Koreans, or hell, anybody. 1598 01:23:03,956 --> 01:23:07,540 What we do is take the Irish off birth control... 1599 01:23:07,620 --> 01:23:10,460 they will breed like rabbits. I know, they're my people. 1600 01:23:10,540 --> 01:23:12,135 They fuck like drunking minks... 1601 01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:17,500 we'll be up to eighty votes in no time at all, by God... 1602 01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:24,320 Line them up! 1603 01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:29,640 "And we're being ordered out of the area now." 1604 01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:31,400 "Military's ordered us away." 1605 01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:33,480 "They're setting up a firing squad right over here... 1606 01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:35,040 this is not happened before." 1607 01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:37,480 "They're going to execute three..." 1608 01:23:37,860 --> 01:23:40,020 - Hey, turn that camera off! - Hey, what are you doing? 1609 01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:41,240 Get the hell out of here! 1610 01:23:41,265 --> 01:23:42,680 What, you're not really going to shoot these guys, are you? 1611 01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:44,880 Who is this guy? Get this guy out of here! 1612 01:23:45,060 --> 01:23:46,715 Are you going to shoot these guys? 1613 01:23:46,740 --> 01:23:48,420 What, now you're going to shoot me? 1614 01:23:48,445 --> 01:23:50,300 You're not going to shoot me. You can't shoot me... 1615 01:23:50,325 --> 01:23:51,820 "we're on national television here, okay?" 1616 01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:53,743 "Come on, let these guys go..." 1617 01:23:56,460 --> 01:23:58,020 Get out of here! 1618 01:24:02,140 --> 01:24:05,180 "Go ahead! Kill your own! Kill America!" 1619 01:24:05,460 --> 01:24:07,220 "There's nothing left of it anyway!" 1620 01:24:07,500 --> 01:24:10,220 "Just a bunch a politicians and executives... 1621 01:24:10,300 --> 01:24:12,660 who hire people in places we don't live!" 1622 01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:14,200 "Are you going to kill for that?" 1623 01:24:14,480 --> 01:24:15,720 Squad ready! 1624 01:24:15,745 --> 01:24:17,355 Go ahead you bastards! 1625 01:24:17,380 --> 01:24:18,540 Aim. 1626 01:24:19,980 --> 01:24:21,180 "Fire!" 1627 01:24:22,700 --> 01:24:27,314 They shot them. Shit! What is this? 1628 01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:28,440 "Please, we're on the air." 1629 01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:29,906 "In other news... 1630 01:24:29,931 --> 01:24:32,120 - related to this..." - "Fuck this..." 1631 01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,674 - We're killing our own people! - Helena, we're on the air! 1632 01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:38,480 In other news, the White House has said... 1633 01:24:38,660 --> 01:24:40,140 that they will be making a statement... 1634 01:24:40,420 --> 01:24:42,925 Fuck you, Matthew, there is no other news! 1635 01:24:42,950 --> 01:24:45,100 About this, particular situation... 1636 01:24:45,180 --> 01:24:46,180 Get her off. 1637 01:24:46,260 --> 01:24:48,540 Our News Net correspondents are there. 1638 01:24:48,820 --> 01:24:52,761 We will bring you this when we hear it. 1639 01:24:52,786 --> 01:24:57,995 "And we have, I believe now, four correspondents..." 1640 01:24:58,220 --> 01:25:00,540 at the White House, as soon as... 1641 01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:04,320 - There is no other news! - As soon as we are able... 1642 01:25:04,500 --> 01:25:08,620 Shut up! Shut up, you little wanker! Shut up! 1643 01:25:08,900 --> 01:25:10,580 Don't you get it? There is no other news! 1644 01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:16,320 Shut up! 1645 01:25:55,520 --> 01:26:01,000 - This has to be your decision. - It was made a long time ago. 1646 01:26:01,380 --> 01:26:03,700 I just don't want you to feel like you have to... 1647 01:26:13,480 --> 01:26:15,595 Jimmy, I'm going to want to make a statement... 1648 01:26:15,620 --> 01:26:18,860 to the press in the morning, about an hour before the deadline. 1649 01:26:24,220 --> 01:26:28,340 Mr. Buchan. 1650 01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:31,440 I have some information that you might want to know about. 1651 01:26:39,160 --> 01:26:41,920 Mr. President. 1652 01:26:47,980 --> 01:26:50,100 Secession! 1653 01:26:50,280 --> 01:26:53,055 He's going to announce one hour before the deadline... 1654 01:26:53,080 --> 01:26:54,635 that Idaho's going to secede... 1655 01:26:54,660 --> 01:26:57,780 and start a whole new country like the South did in the Civil War? 1656 01:26:57,960 --> 01:26:59,840 Well, that's what this News Net guy said, yeah. 1657 01:26:59,987 --> 01:27:01,340 How the hell does he know? 1658 01:27:01,471 --> 01:27:03,120 Well, I'm not supposed to know this... 1659 01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:06,080 but it seems that one of their reporters is... 1660 01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:07,412 shacking up with Farley. 1661 01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:11,760 That son of a bitch. He's waging a public relations war! 1662 01:27:11,940 --> 01:27:13,140 You're damn right. 1663 01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:14,320 And if I know anything... 1664 01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:17,640 I know P.R. and that is what runs this country! 1665 01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:20,120 - Now, if Eisenhower we're... - Forget Eisenhower. 1666 01:27:20,300 --> 01:27:23,780 Yeah, but don't forget, you're on the line for those orphans. 1667 01:27:23,860 --> 01:27:27,260 Screw the orphans. 1668 01:27:27,540 --> 01:27:31,220 We went out on a limb for them, what did they get us in return? 1669 01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:36,360 Every damn ethnic group in the country crying the blues. 1670 01:27:36,640 --> 01:27:40,920 This isn't a time for Eisenhower. It's a time for Lincoln. 1671 01:27:41,100 --> 01:27:42,916 Lincoln took the bull by the horns... 1672 01:27:42,941 --> 01:27:45,620 when the South tried to secede gentlemen. 1673 01:27:45,900 --> 01:27:47,300 If Lincoln was here... 1674 01:27:47,380 --> 01:27:50,300 you think he'd let a bunch of orphans decide everything? 1675 01:27:50,715 --> 01:27:54,820 I've said it all along, action. 1676 01:28:24,780 --> 01:28:27,380 Jesus Christ, what now? 1677 01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:33,240 What the hell, nobody lives forever. 1678 01:28:33,620 --> 01:28:35,380 Let's get a story! 1679 01:28:36,820 --> 01:28:38,660 This one's for the Duke. 1680 01:28:46,300 --> 01:28:49,980 "This is Blaine Gorman reporting from just inside the Idaho border." 1681 01:28:51,100 --> 01:28:52,498 "The Federal troops have attacked!" 1682 01:28:52,780 --> 01:28:55,420 "There is war. The Second Civil War has just broken out... 1683 01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:57,160 two hours before the deadline." 1684 01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:00,040 "All around me are..." 1685 01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:03,440 "Blaine!" 1686 01:29:09,380 --> 01:29:11,740 "It's too late, Eddie. Come on." 1687 01:29:18,340 --> 01:29:22,660 I'm trying to remember the words to the pledge of allegiance. 1688 01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:29,200 I said it a million times when I was a kid. 1689 01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:32,880 Right now... 1690 01:29:39,420 --> 01:29:41,420 I can't seem to remember the words. 1691 01:29:45,540 --> 01:29:47,260 Jack? 1692 01:29:49,780 --> 01:29:52,260 What in God's name is this? 1693 01:29:52,640 --> 01:29:55,680 - Action. Not a reaction. - Why? Farley was going to quit! 1694 01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:00,828 What are you talking about? 1695 01:30:00,853 --> 01:30:02,867 You told me yourself and we had to take action... 1696 01:30:02,892 --> 01:30:05,033 before Farley made his secession speech. 1697 01:30:05,140 --> 01:30:10,815 I said succession, not secession. 1698 01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:14,320 He was going to step down. 1699 01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:15,755 He was going to announce... 1700 01:30:15,780 --> 01:30:17,228 that he was going to hold a convention... 1701 01:30:17,253 --> 01:30:21,460 to choose someone to succeed him, for Christ sake! 1702 01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:23,280 What are you yelling for? 1703 01:30:23,305 --> 01:30:26,240 He's going to marry Christina Fernandez... 1704 01:30:26,366 --> 01:30:28,380 and raise Mexican babies. 1705 01:30:33,660 --> 01:30:37,455 Well, the President's in his Lincoln mode right now... 1706 01:30:37,480 --> 01:30:39,920 and I think this would just confuse the shit out of him. 1707 01:30:40,200 --> 01:30:47,149 So, I think we had just better play this one out? 1708 01:31:43,860 --> 01:31:47,580 Alan, why isn't our logo on that shot, please? 1709 01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:59,360 I promised my wife. I'd be home to make breakfast. 1710 01:32:12,380 --> 01:32:14,500 "I read years ago that someone once said... 1711 01:32:14,580 --> 01:32:18,420 Those whom the gods destroy, they first make mad." 1712 01:32:18,700 --> 01:32:22,500 "Or maybe its just that we're an unfinished piece of art... 1713 01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:28,000 part tragedy, part comedy, part joy, part farce, a work in progress." 1714 01:32:28,180 --> 01:32:29,780 "But, for the moment... 1715 01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:32,760 we're still painting and writing in blood." 1716 01:32:32,940 --> 01:32:36,020 "And it always seems to come out of a lot of suffering." 1717 01:32:36,200 --> 01:32:41,080 "And someday, after it all dries, it will be magnificent." 1718 01:32:41,360 --> 01:32:46,400 "But until then, like all art, its messy as hell." 1719 01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:02,160 "Border has been restored throughout the country... 1720 01:33:02,740 --> 01:33:05,900 and within the secession of the military activities now a week old... 1721 01:33:06,180 --> 01:33:09,220 the former president appealed for calm." 1722 01:33:09,300 --> 01:33:11,420 "And in other news, the delayed broadcast... 1723 01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:14,960 last night of Susan Luci's final episode of "All My Children"... 1724 01:33:15,240 --> 01:33:17,840 in which Erica finally runs off with Antonio... 1725 01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:20,880 become the most watched television program in history..." 1726 01:33:21,260 --> 01:33:23,677 outdoing even the final episode of...