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[BIRDS CHIRPING]
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Liberty's moving.
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The 10:15 has been moved
to the Indian Treaty Room.
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- Ten-fifteen is American Fisheries?
- They're giving you a 200-pound halibut.
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Janie, make a note. We need more events
where somebody gives me a really big fish.
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- Yes, sir.
- Janie, I'm kidding.
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- Of course, sir.
- Hey, Cooper.
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Morning, Mr. President.
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Mr. Rothschild asked to have a moment
with you this morning, sir.
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Is he upset about the speech last night?
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He seemed concerned.
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Well, it wouldn't be a Monday morning
unless Lewis was concerned...
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...about something I did Sunday night.
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- You skipped the paragraph.
- And Monday morning, it is.
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"Americans can no longer afford to pretend
they live in a great society."
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And then nothing.
You dumped the handguns paragraph.
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SHEPHERD:
This is a time for prudence, Lewis.
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LEWIS:
But, sir, that was the kick-ass section.
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Well, I thought,
what with being president and all...
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- I'm sorry, sir. I didn't mean to imply...
- I thought you'd be turning cartwheels.
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Sixty-three percent job approval.
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LEWIS: That is good news.
- Morning, Mr. President.
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- Charlie.
- Morning, Charlie.
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LEWIS: Sir, the press
is gonna need an explanation.
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SHEPHERD: For what?
- You dumped the whole kick-ass section.
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Now we've just got this thing
hanging out there.
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There's this "thing"?
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"Americans can't afford to pretend
they live in a great society"...
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No explanation, no context,
just this thing.
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- And it's hanging out there.
- Yes, sir.
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- Maria.
MARIA: Morning, sir.
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- Did they tell you I'll need the consumer...
- Overall consumer spending.
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- We'll have it in 15 minutes.
SHEPHERD: Thanks.
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- Mr. President, we need to focus on...
- Lewis, reduce your morning coffee by half.
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I don't drink coffee, sir.
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Hit yourself over the head
with a baseball bat, would you?
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LEWIS: Yes, sir.
- Happy birthday, Laura.
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- Laura, happy birthday.
- Thank you.
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- I should send her flowers.
- You did, sir.
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- Good.
CHAPIL: Good morning.
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- How are you today, Mrs. Chapil?
- Fine, thank you.
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Mr. Kodak left a detailed breakdown
of the approval poll for you.
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He seemed to indicate
that it was good news.
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Sixty-three percent of it, at any rate.
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Lucy called. You forgot to sign
her permission slip for her class.
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Uh, the museum trip. I'll get it.
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- What time's she getting home?
- Three-twenty.
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- How's my afternoon?
- Very crowded.
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Schedule some time at 3:45.
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[SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
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SHEPHERD:
Too Tall McCall. So how was Mexico?
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[IN ENGLISH]
I didn't truly appreciate it...
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...till I discovered
that America isn't a great society.
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- He dumped the whole section.
- There's this, uh, thing hanging out there.
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Not a great society, sir?
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With you away it wasn't.
Now that you're back we're great again.
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Well, the press is saying,
"What did he mean by that?"
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A.J., did you get one of these?
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Is that the letter from Solomon
at the GDC?
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It's from the environmental community.
These people are out of control.
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Well, they're frustrated.
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Are they blaming the president
for global warming?
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Well, they don't think he caused it.
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I'm on the phone with them twice a week.
I honestly don't know what they want.
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They want a 20 percent reduction
in fossil-fuel emissions.
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- Won't pass at 20 percent.
- Well, we haven't really tried.
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Lewis, McSorley, McCluskey and Shane
hold too many markers.
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If we try to push this through and lose...
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...there'll be a loud thud
when we hit the ground.
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That's not what you want
in an election year.
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Talk to GDC again, A.J.
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Tell them I resent the implication
I've turned my back on the environment.
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Tell them I'll send 455 to the floor...
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...but I'm gonna ask
for a 10 percent reduction.
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They wanna pull their support, fine.
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With a 63 percent job approval rating,
I don't need their help.
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- Good deal.
- All right, let's get going. Where's Leon?
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John, will you call Mr. Kodak
and tell him the president's waiting?
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JOHN:
Oh, sorry, my fault.
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Never mind, John.
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Excuse me.
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- Morning, Mr. President.
SHEPHERD: You all right?
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They keep moving that big ficus plant.
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[ALL CHUCKLE]
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We're all here, Mr. President.
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Okay, first of all,
I wanted to say congratulations.
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Three years ago we were elected
by one of the narrowest margins in history.
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And today Kodak, here, tells us...
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...63 percent of registered voters
think we're doing a good job.
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Wait. You wanted me to poll
registered voters?
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[ALL CHUCKLE]
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The poll also tells us
what we already know:
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If we don't get our crime bill
through Congress...
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...those numbers are gonna be memory.
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So, starting today,
we're shifting it into gear.
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- Can I tell the press that gun control...
A. J: Crime control, Robin.
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Gun control means we're wimps
and soft on crime.
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- Hang on.
- Lewis.
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We're not putting back
handgun restrictions?
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No. We're leaving them out.
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Mr. President,
we campaigned on this issue.
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We took them out in the low 40s,
but we could push it through now.
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After the elections, Lewis.
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We may never have
an opportunity like this again.
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Sir, let's take this 63 percent out for a spin.
Let's see what it could do.
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We can't take it for a spin.
We need it to get re-elected.
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For reasons passing understanding,
they don't relate guns to gun-related crime.
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Robin, you can brief the press
this afternoon. As of today...
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...the crime bill is priority one
on the president's domestic agenda.
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- Got it.
- Leon, you run the war room.
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We're gonna need detailed projections
for all the target districts.
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Oh, and, Leon, don't be the nice,
sweet guy from Brooklyn on this.
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Do what the NRA does.
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- Scare them?
A. J: Exactly.
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I can do that, heh.
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Lewis, you're legislative liaison.
You're gonna run the show on the hill.
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Can I just say that it might be easier
to fight a war on drugs...
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...if we weren't arming drug dealers?
- We gotta fight the fights we can win.
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Yes, sir.
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A. J:
We want to announce the crime bill...
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...at the State of the Union,
72 days from today.
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Last notice count put us 18 votes short.
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Eighteen votes in 72 days.
Thank you, everyone.
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ALL: Thank you.
- Janie, what's next?
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Security briefing, sir.
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[HORNS HONKING]
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[PHONE RINGS]
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WOMAN:
Morning, Global Defense Council.
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You wanted to see me?
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- I just got off the phone with A.J.
- The president read the letter?
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The president's pissed.
That letter was a stupid move.
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- We should stand by every word of it.
- This isn't the guy...
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...who needed our help four years ago.
He's incredibly popular.
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He's gonna win re-election.
He could give a shit what we stand by.
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If he passes the most important piece
of environmental legislation in history...
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...despite our negative endorsement,
our political weight in the future...
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...will rank somewhere below
the Save the Spotted Owl Society.
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I'm bringing in some help.
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Heh, we don't need another expert
to confirm what everyone already knows.
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Not an environmental expert.
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A professional political strategist.
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We are playing hardball with
Andrew Shepherd and we need a heavy bat.
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- Who?
- Sydney Ellen Wade.
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Gah, christ, she doesn't know the first
thing about the environmental lobby.
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She's a closer, Susan.
She gets the job done.
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SHEPHERD:
What if I lose this?
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LEWIS:
Then move this up here.
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Sasser from the Times called.
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Wanted to know what
a "great society" was.
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What'd you tell him?
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I can't speak for the president,
but for my money, Bermuda.
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Perfect.
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Your cousin Judith got the flu and
won't be able to join you Thursday night.
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I'm sorry to hear that.
Remind me to call her later.
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Yes, sir.
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- You're gonna go stag?
- Not a problem.
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No, we've never gone wrong parading
you around as the lonely widower.
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I can't believe I said that.
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That was a thoughtless remark.
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I wouldn't never dream of insulting you
or your wife's memory.
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That's okay. Forget it. What time is it?
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It's 3:30, sir.
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I'm gonna go up and say hi to Lucy.
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Ah, you have the attorney general at 4
and the trade rep at 4:30.
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And you promised NPR five minutes.
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- Mr. President...
- Robin...
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Don't worry about it.
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[TROMBONE HONKING]
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Well, don't stop. It sounds great.
What is it?
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Scales.
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Well, you're playing with gusto.
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- Are my lips swollen?
- Are they supposed to be?
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- Yeah.
- Yeah, well, you're doing just fine.
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- What you got behind your back?
- I have a little surprise for you.
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- Is it a dirt bike?
- No, ha, ha.
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Hmm.
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Is it a really old, seventh grade textbook
of yours...
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...that you want me to read and discuss
at dinner and drive me crazy with?
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Well, I'm not comfortable with the
"really old" part, but the rest was true.
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[LUCY GROANS]
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Understanding the Constitution.
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Your social studies teacher said you'll be
studying the Constitution this week.
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Wait, you talked to Mr. Linder?
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Yes, it's called a parent-teacher conference
and Mr. Linder and I were the key players.
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So why don't you like social studies,
Luce?
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I like it fine, Dad.
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Oh, come on, all your other teachers say
you're happy and enthusiastic.
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Mr. Linder says you never participate
unless he calls on you.
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Even then, it's a one-word answer.
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I don't know, Dad.
I guess I'm just not...
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I don't know.
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Luce...
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Take a look at this book.
This is exciting stuff.
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It's about who we are and what we want.
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Read what it says on the first page.
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"Property of Gilmore Junior High."
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The next page, Luce.
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"We, the people of the United States...
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...in order to form a perfect union"...
- It grabs you right away.
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This is a page-turner.
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I can't wait.
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Well, good. It's possible this subject
may come up at dinner.
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Do you see it as part of your job
to torture me?
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No, just one of the perks.
See you tonight.
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Yeah.
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[PLAYING "HAIL TO THE CHIEF"]
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The C-STAD hardware's
been in place for a month.
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We have 22 instructors
from the Army Air Defense School...
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...waiting to go and train the Israelis.
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How soon can you deploy them?
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We can airlift them by morning.
They'll have C-STAD operational in 20 days.
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Any security concerns?
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If anybody wanted to hit it,
they'd have hit it by now.
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Okay, let's move on it.
Thank you, gentlemen.
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[MEN CHATTERING]
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MAN: Good night, gentlemen.
- Thank you.
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- Good seeing you. Good night.
- You too. Good night.
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Have a good evening, Mrs. Chapil.
Janie, I'll see you tomorrow morning.
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- You will.
- Good night, Janie. Night, Mrs. Chapil.
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- Mr. President, sir.
- Thank you.
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[SHEPHERD SIGHS]
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Leo Solomon brought in
a hired gun at the GDC.
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- It's about time.
- She's a lawyer from Virginia.
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Her name is Sydney Ellen Wade.
I know her pretty well.
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She's had a lot of success
getting congressmen elected.
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- Maybe we should try to steal her, heh.
- Ha, ha.
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Ten percent. Don't let them
leave the room till they're clear about that.
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A. J:
Yes, sir.
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If you've got a free second,
stop in and say hello.
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It might smooth the way.
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SHEPHERD: Mention it to Janie tomorrow.
A. J: Good deal.
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SHEPHERD: Let's clear this off the table
and focus on the crime bill.
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I don't want to just win.
I want to win by a couple of touchdowns.
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We will, Mr. President.
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- A. J?
- Sir.
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Robin said something to me today...
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...and I know
she wouldn't have said it if, uh...
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I mean, she wasn't saying it to me,
I realize.
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- Forget it. I'll see you in the morning.
- Good night, Mr. President.
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- A. J?
- Yes, sir?
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When we're out of the office
and alone, you can call me Andy.
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I beg your pardon?
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You were the best man at my wedding,
for crying out loud. Call me Andy.
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Whatever you say, Mr. President.
Good night, sir.
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Good night, A.J.
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- Hi. I'm Sydney Ellen Wade.
- He needs your driver's license.
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- From Virginia.
- He doesn't care.
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- I'm meeting with Mr. Maclnerney.
- He doesn't need to know that.
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Oh, forgive me.
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This is my first time at the White House.
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- I'm trying to savor the Capra-esque quality.
- He doesn't know what that means.
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Yeah, I do. Frank Capra.
Great American director.
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It's a Wonderful Life,
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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Sydney Ellen Wade of Virginia,
knock them dead.
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Thanks.
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We'll start subsidizing private schools
the day we give up on public education.
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I know the proposal only scratches
the surface, but it's the least we can do.
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We'll let Harold look at it.
We'll revisit it next week.
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Jerry, say hello to Linda for me.
Have a good Thanksgiving.
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Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you.
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- How are we doing?
- You're four minutes ahead of schedule.
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- Ahead?
- Yes, sir.
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That's unprecedented.
I don't know what to do with myself.
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- Mr. Maclnerney asked me to remind you...
- Oh, the GDC meeting. Yeah.
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Rest assured your concerns
are not falling on deaf ears.
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The environmental lobby has known
no greater ally than President Shepherd.
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Hardly an impressive distinction, A.J.
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Sydney, we should leave Mr. Maclnerney
alone now. He's already...
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He doesn't want us to leave him alone...
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...because Mr. Maclnerney has not yet done
what he needs to do today.
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Sir, uh, Miss Wade's been thrown into
the deep end of the pool on her first day.
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She hasn't even had a chance to read
the report of the Quebec Conference.
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You're right. I haven't read it.
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If someone asked me yesterday,
I would've told them...
275
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...that it was made up
of six professional hockey teams.
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[ALL CHUCKLE]
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But what I do know is that it's time
for the president to run for president again.
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Kodak is as good as it gets
when it comes to electoral strategy.
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I'm sure he's told the president
what I'd tell him:
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Grab Michigan and California, where they
make cars, planes and burn fossil fuels.
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But if I'd read these 800 pages
I would've discovered...
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...that the burning of fossil fuels
is responsible for global warming...
283
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...and the 20 percent reduction
recommended by the GDC...
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...is a step toward arresting
the catastrophic greenhouse effect...
285
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...which has gone unchecked
by this administration.
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SUSAN: It's time to...
- The chief of staff won't let us leave...
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...until he's broken the bad news.
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I'm afraid Sydney's right, although
not about Michigan and California.
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The president asked me to convey to you
he's sending his energy bill to the floor...
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...with a call for a 10 percent reduction.
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The president is willing
to go it alone on this...
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...but he's asking... Frankly,
he's expecting the full support of the GDC.
293
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He is expecting our full support?
294
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- Yes, he is.
- The president's dreaming.
295
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The president has critically
misjudged reality.
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If he thinks
the environmental community...
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...is gonna whistle a happy tune
while rallying support...
298
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...around this lame mockery
of environmental leadership...
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...just because he's nice
and done better than his predecessors...
300
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...then your boss is the chief executive
of Fantasyland.
301
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Let's take him out back
and beat the shit out of him.
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00:17:33,808 --> 00:17:36,476
- Morning, Mr. President. How are you?
- Couldn't be better.
303
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My apologies for the interruption.
A.J. Suggested I come by and say hello.
304
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You wouldn't be Sydney Ellen Wade
by any chance, would you?
305
00:17:44,902 --> 00:17:47,612
Mr. President, I'm, um...
306
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I don't know what to say. I'm speechless.
307
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All evidence to the contrary.
308
00:17:53,369 --> 00:17:55,537
Mr. President, we haven't met.
I'm Susan Sloan.
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I used to work with Congressman Myers.
I hope this incident won't jeopardize...
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Sydney?
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- Yes, sir.
- You have a second?
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Uh, of course.
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I thought maybe we might talk in private,
someplace less intimidating.
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- Janie.
JANIE: Yes, sir.
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This is Janie Basdin, my personal aide.
Show Miss Wade to the rec room, please.
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This way.
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I'll be with you in a second.
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[CLOCK TICKING]
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Sorry to keep you waiting.
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- Mr. President...
- Is it all right if I call you Sydney?
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00:18:51,135 --> 00:18:52,844
Of course. Mr. President...
322
00:18:53,012 --> 00:18:54,512
Have you ever been in the Oval Office?
323
00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,182
Uh, I've just been on the regular tour.
It didn't include...
324
00:18:57,349 --> 00:18:59,142
I hear it's pretty good.
325
00:18:59,310 --> 00:19:02,353
Mr. President, what you saw in there
was vanity run amuck.
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I was showing off for a colleague
who doesn't think much of me.
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00:19:05,608 --> 00:19:09,986
It would be a real injustice to hold the GDC
accountable for my behavior today.
328
00:19:10,154 --> 00:19:15,158
On top of which, I am monumentally sorry
for having insulted you like that.
329
00:19:16,744 --> 00:19:18,828
Are you under the impression
I'm mad at you?
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00:19:18,996 --> 00:19:20,371
Well, I...
331
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Seldom does a day go by
when I'm not burned in effigy.
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Not by a professional political operative
standing 30 feet from the Oval Office.
333
00:19:27,546 --> 00:19:29,255
Now, I'll grant you that.
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00:19:29,423 --> 00:19:33,551
When the city planners sat down to design
Washington, D.C., their intention was...
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...to build a city that would intimidate
and humble foreign heads of state.
336
00:19:37,848 --> 00:19:40,141
- It's true.
- I didn't know that.
337
00:19:40,517 --> 00:19:44,729
The White House is the single greatest
home-court advantage in the modern world.
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I learned that one the hard way.
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00:19:47,650 --> 00:19:49,567
Sydney, this bill is important to me.
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00:19:49,735 --> 00:19:52,695
Yes, sir. I'll convey your message.
341
00:19:52,863 --> 00:19:54,239
But you don't believe me.
342
00:19:54,406 --> 00:19:56,991
The GDC is asking for 20 percent, sir.
343
00:19:57,159 --> 00:19:59,911
It's not gonna pass at 20 percent.
It's a long shot at 10.
344
00:20:00,079 --> 00:20:03,122
How do you know that,
until you put the White House behind it?
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00:20:03,290 --> 00:20:04,832
Sydney, at 20 percent...
346
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,711
...we're 34 votes shy in the house.
It can't be done.
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00:20:08,963 --> 00:20:10,880
But I'll tell you what.
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00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:13,091
I'll make you a deal.
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00:20:13,884 --> 00:20:18,096
If you can get 24 votes,
I'll get you the last 10.
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00:20:18,264 --> 00:20:19,389
Twenty-four votes?
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00:20:19,556 --> 00:20:22,225
If you can swing 24 votes
by the State of the Union...
352
00:20:22,393 --> 00:20:25,228
...I will promise you
full White House support.
353
00:20:25,396 --> 00:20:27,438
Do I have your word on that, sir?
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00:20:27,606 --> 00:20:29,357
Absolutely.
355
00:20:30,442 --> 00:20:32,193
Listen, um...
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00:20:32,361 --> 00:20:34,153
Are you hungry? I skipped breakfast.
357
00:20:34,321 --> 00:20:39,033
You wanna have a doughnut,
coffee or something?
358
00:20:42,204 --> 00:20:45,331
Sir, I'm a little intimidated
by my surroundings and yes...
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00:20:45,499 --> 00:20:48,126
...I have gotten off
to a rocky and stilted beginning...
360
00:20:48,294 --> 00:20:50,962
...but don't let that diminish
the weight of my message.
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00:20:51,130 --> 00:20:54,382
The GDC has been at every president
for the last decade and a half...
362
00:20:54,550 --> 00:20:56,384
...that global warming is a calamity...
363
00:20:56,552 --> 00:20:59,304
...the effects of which will be second
only to nuclear war.
364
00:20:59,471 --> 00:21:03,725
The best scientists have given you
every reason to take the GDC seriously...
365
00:21:03,892 --> 00:21:05,518
...but I'm gonna give you one more:
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If you don't live up to the deal
you made, come New Hampshire...
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00:21:08,814 --> 00:21:11,190
...we're gonna go shopping
for a new candidate.
368
00:21:11,608 --> 00:21:12,942
You can't do that, Sydney.
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00:21:13,110 --> 00:21:16,321
With all due respect, Mr. President,
who's going to stop me?
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00:21:16,488 --> 00:21:19,949
Well, if you go through that door,
the United States Secret Service.
371
00:21:20,117 --> 00:21:21,451
That's my private office.
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00:21:22,536 --> 00:21:27,665
- Ah.
- You have to go out that door over there.
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00:21:39,970 --> 00:21:40,970
[CHUCKLES]
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00:21:44,475 --> 00:21:47,602
McSorley, McCluskey and Shane know
we're moving on the crime bill.
375
00:21:47,770 --> 00:21:49,729
They're circling the wagons
on assault weapons.
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00:21:49,897 --> 00:21:51,022
Should I meet with them?
377
00:21:51,190 --> 00:21:53,566
- Let Lewis take a pass at them first.
- Fine.
378
00:21:53,734 --> 00:21:55,902
Two ball in the side.
379
00:21:58,822 --> 00:22:00,239
Nice shot, Mr. President.
380
00:22:00,407 --> 00:22:02,492
"Nice shot, Mr. President"?
381
00:22:02,659 --> 00:22:05,411
You won't even call me by my name
when we're playing pool?
382
00:22:05,579 --> 00:22:08,373
I will not do it playing pool,
I will not do it in a school.
383
00:22:08,540 --> 00:22:11,459
I do not like green eggs and ham,
I do not like them, Sam I am.
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00:22:11,627 --> 00:22:13,419
At ease, A.J. At ease.
385
00:22:15,255 --> 00:22:18,091
- Would you get away from the pocket?
- I beg your pardon, sir.
386
00:22:18,258 --> 00:22:20,718
Nine ball in the corner.
387
00:22:24,473 --> 00:22:28,142
Solomon phoned. He said he was thrilled
with the deal you made this morning.
388
00:22:28,477 --> 00:22:29,811
I forgot to tell you.
389
00:22:30,771 --> 00:22:32,814
- It's a waste of time.
- But it's not ours.
390
00:22:32,981 --> 00:22:35,983
GDC makes a big push to get the votes.
When they come up short...
391
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...we move in with a softer bill,
get it passed. We're everybody's hero.
392
00:22:39,988 --> 00:22:41,864
Three ball in the side.
393
00:22:42,032 --> 00:22:44,242
Also, Sydney Wade called.
394
00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:47,203
Sydney Wade?
395
00:22:47,371 --> 00:22:50,998
She wanted to apologize one more time
for her behavior.
396
00:22:51,458 --> 00:22:53,126
Excuse me, sir.
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00:22:53,293 --> 00:22:54,335
[A.J. CLEARS THROAT]
398
00:22:54,503 --> 00:22:56,337
Three in the side.
399
00:22:58,674 --> 00:23:00,591
Did she say anything about me?
400
00:23:00,759 --> 00:23:02,552
- Miss Wade?
- When she called.
401
00:23:02,719 --> 00:23:04,178
Did she say anything about you?
402
00:23:04,346 --> 00:23:08,683
We had a nice couple of minutes together.
She threatened me, I patronized her.
403
00:23:08,851 --> 00:23:11,811
We didn't have anything to eat, but,
uh, I thought there was a connection.
404
00:23:11,979 --> 00:23:14,105
- Hmm, excuse me, sir.
- Sure.
405
00:23:14,273 --> 00:23:16,107
Thirteen in the corner.
406
00:23:18,318 --> 00:23:20,153
She didn't say anything about me?
407
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,156
No, but I could pass her a note
before study hall.
408
00:23:26,326 --> 00:23:28,494
Well, tell me this. Hypothetically...
409
00:23:28,662 --> 00:23:30,079
I feel a nightmare coming on.
410
00:23:30,247 --> 00:23:32,665
What would happen
if I called Sydney Wade...
411
00:23:32,833 --> 00:23:36,377
...and asked her to be my date
at the state dinner on Thursday evening?
412
00:23:37,921 --> 00:23:40,673
- You're not serious.
- Don't I sound serious?
413
00:23:41,425 --> 00:23:45,761
- The president can't just go out on a date.
- Well, why not? Jefferson did. Wilson did.
414
00:23:45,929 --> 00:23:49,390
Wilson was widowed during his first term.
He met a woman, Edith Galt.
415
00:23:49,558 --> 00:23:51,684
He dated her, courted her, married her.
416
00:23:51,852 --> 00:23:54,562
And somewhere in there he managed
to form the League of Nations.
417
00:23:54,730 --> 00:23:57,815
Uh, Mr. President,
this is an election year.
418
00:23:57,983 --> 00:24:00,026
If you're looking
for female companionship...
419
00:24:00,194 --> 00:24:02,987
...we can make arrangements
that will ensure total privacy.
420
00:24:03,155 --> 00:24:05,698
I don't want you to get me a girl.
What is this, Vegas?
421
00:24:05,991 --> 00:24:07,533
No, sir. This is the White House.
422
00:24:07,701 --> 00:24:11,120
I'm talking about something
that is not a conflict with my oath of office.
423
00:24:11,288 --> 00:24:14,540
I'm a single adult. I met a woman
who I'd like to see again socially.
424
00:24:14,708 --> 00:24:16,709
How is that different
from what Wilson did?
425
00:24:16,877 --> 00:24:19,795
The difference is he didn't have to be
president on television.
426
00:24:19,963 --> 00:24:21,672
You said it yourself a million times:
427
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,800
If there had been a TV
in every living room 60 years ago...
428
00:24:24,968 --> 00:24:27,720
...this country does not elect a man
in a wheelchair.
429
00:24:28,555 --> 00:24:30,431
So what are you saying?
430
00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:33,267
- I'm saying we'll take a hit.
- How big?
431
00:24:33,727 --> 00:24:35,686
I don't know. Five points, maybe more.
432
00:24:36,188 --> 00:24:39,232
- We're talking here about five points?
- Could be more.
433
00:24:39,399 --> 00:24:42,485
I'd drop five points if Wisconsin
doesn't make it to the Rose Bowl.
434
00:24:42,653 --> 00:24:44,612
Five ball in the corner.
435
00:24:45,656 --> 00:24:48,741
Want me to have Kodak put together
some numbers so we know?
436
00:24:48,909 --> 00:24:50,076
Yeah. Yeah.
437
00:24:50,244 --> 00:24:53,204
No. I don't want a checkup polling sample
to see if it's okay...
438
00:24:53,372 --> 00:24:56,749
...like I'm asking permission
to stay out an hour past curfew.
439
00:24:56,917 --> 00:24:59,418
This is not the business
of the American people.
440
00:24:59,836 --> 00:25:01,170
With all due respect, sir...
441
00:25:01,338 --> 00:25:05,174
...Americans have a funny way of deciding
what is and what is not their business.
442
00:25:07,719 --> 00:25:09,554
I like her, A.J.
443
00:25:13,684 --> 00:25:16,727
Stop being my chief of staff
for one minute.
444
00:25:18,605 --> 00:25:19,814
Give her a call.
445
00:25:20,899 --> 00:25:22,149
Janie!
446
00:25:23,777 --> 00:25:25,570
She didn't say anything about me?
447
00:25:25,737 --> 00:25:29,156
Uh, she did say you were taller
than she thought you'd be.
448
00:25:29,575 --> 00:25:30,575
Well, that's something.
449
00:25:30,742 --> 00:25:32,618
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
450
00:25:32,786 --> 00:25:33,911
Yes, sir.
451
00:25:34,079 --> 00:25:36,747
Janie, I need you to track down
a phone number for me.
452
00:25:38,709 --> 00:25:41,002
SYDNEY:
Richard, Richard...
453
00:25:41,169 --> 00:25:42,712
It wasn't funny.
454
00:25:42,879 --> 00:25:45,673
I acted like a college freshman
at a protest rally.
455
00:25:45,841 --> 00:25:48,050
Tell him about
walking out the wrong door.
456
00:25:48,218 --> 00:25:50,720
Oh, God. I forgot about that.
457
00:25:50,887 --> 00:25:54,849
No, Richard, no. No, I don't want to hear
your Andrew Shepherd imitation.
458
00:25:55,017 --> 00:25:56,017
I want to hear it.
459
00:25:56,184 --> 00:25:57,768
I'm hanging up now, Richard.
460
00:25:57,936 --> 00:26:01,397
Uh, tonight I was gonna go to bed early
and wake up when there's a new president.
461
00:26:01,565 --> 00:26:03,232
[CHUCKLES]
462
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,277
Pssh, the president must think
I'm a third-rate jerk.
463
00:26:06,445 --> 00:26:09,447
If he thinks you're a jerk,
he thinks you're a first-rate jerk.
464
00:26:09,615 --> 00:26:12,241
I'll tell you one thing, boy. I regrouped.
465
00:26:12,409 --> 00:26:15,161
You gotta give me that.
I pulled it together at the end.
466
00:26:15,329 --> 00:26:18,956
I stood in the middle of the Oval Office
and made it clear that from now on...
467
00:26:19,124 --> 00:26:22,209
...he who doesn't take the GDC seriously,
does so at his peril.
468
00:26:22,377 --> 00:26:24,128
And then you walked out
the wrong door.
469
00:26:24,296 --> 00:26:26,672
You gonna throw that at me
the rest of my life?
470
00:26:26,965 --> 00:26:28,507
That's my current plan, yes.
471
00:26:28,675 --> 00:26:29,842
[PHONE RINGS]
472
00:26:30,010 --> 00:26:32,803
Oh, that's gonna be Leo Solomon.
He said he'd call at 9.
473
00:26:32,971 --> 00:26:34,513
- Hello?
SHEPHERD [OVER PHONE]: Yeah, hi.
474
00:26:34,681 --> 00:26:35,765
Is this Sydney?
475
00:26:35,932 --> 00:26:39,018
- Leo?
- No, this is Andrew Shepherd.
476
00:26:39,186 --> 00:26:40,811
Oh, it's Andrew Shepherd.
477
00:26:40,979 --> 00:26:44,690
Yeah, you're hilarious, Richard.
You're just a regular riot.
478
00:26:44,983 --> 00:26:47,943
No, this isn't Richard.
This is Andrew Shepherd.
479
00:26:48,111 --> 00:26:49,654
Ah, well, I'm so glad you called...
480
00:26:49,821 --> 00:26:53,199
...because I forgot to tell you today
what a nice ass you have.
481
00:26:53,367 --> 00:26:58,079
I'm also impressed that you got my number,
given the fact that I don't have a phone.
482
00:26:58,246 --> 00:27:00,289
- Good night, Richard.
- Uh, this isn't Rich...
483
00:27:00,457 --> 00:27:01,832
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
484
00:27:03,210 --> 00:27:05,836
This used to be easier.
485
00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:10,007
[PHONE RINGING]
486
00:27:10,175 --> 00:27:12,677
- I can't believe this.
- You want me to deal with him?
487
00:27:12,844 --> 00:27:17,556
No way. I may choke in front of Shepherd.
Richard Reynolds, I can handle. Hello?
488
00:27:18,308 --> 00:27:19,350
Sydney?
489
00:27:19,518 --> 00:27:20,768
Are you learning-impaired?
490
00:27:20,936 --> 00:27:23,521
Listen, do me a favor. Hang up the phone.
491
00:27:24,022 --> 00:27:25,064
What?
492
00:27:25,232 --> 00:27:29,568
Hang up the phone, then dial 456-1414.
493
00:27:29,736 --> 00:27:31,570
When you get
the White House operator...
494
00:27:31,738 --> 00:27:35,574
...give her your name and tell her
you want to speak to the president.
495
00:27:40,580 --> 00:27:42,206
Oh, my God.
496
00:27:42,374 --> 00:27:44,250
This isn't happening to me.
497
00:27:44,418 --> 00:27:45,501
What's going on?
498
00:27:45,877 --> 00:27:49,422
No, it's not possible
I did this twice in one day.
499
00:27:49,589 --> 00:27:51,173
[SIGHS]
500
00:27:56,012 --> 00:27:58,180
WOMAN [OVER PHONE]:
Good evening, the White House.
501
00:27:58,724 --> 00:28:00,015
- Hello?
- Hi.
502
00:28:00,183 --> 00:28:02,435
My name's Sydney Ellen Wade.
I'd like to...
503
00:28:02,602 --> 00:28:05,438
The president's expecting your call, ma'am.
I'll put you right through.
504
00:28:05,605 --> 00:28:08,899
[LINE BEEPS THEN RINGS]
505
00:28:09,067 --> 00:28:10,192
SHEPHERD [OVER PHONE]:
Hello?
506
00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,319
Mr. President, heh, um...
507
00:28:12,487 --> 00:28:16,615
Uh... Uh, I'm sure there's an appropriate
thing to say at this moment, uh...
508
00:28:16,783 --> 00:28:21,662
Probably some formal apology for
the "nice ass" remark would be in order.
509
00:28:21,913 --> 00:28:23,497
I don't quite know how to word it.
510
00:28:23,749 --> 00:28:26,083
It's my fault.
I shouldn't have called you at home.
511
00:28:26,251 --> 00:28:29,545
- Should I call you at the office tomorrow?
- No, no. Of course not.
512
00:28:29,755 --> 00:28:33,674
I mean, yes. You can call me
any time you want. This is fine, right now.
513
00:28:33,842 --> 00:28:36,218
When I said "of course not," I meant...
514
00:28:36,386 --> 00:28:39,263
Know what? The hell with it.
I'm moving to another country.
515
00:28:39,556 --> 00:28:42,183
What did you mean when you said
you didn't have a phone?
516
00:28:42,350 --> 00:28:45,936
Oh, I just moved here over the weekend
and my apartment isn't ready yet.
517
00:28:46,104 --> 00:28:50,149
This is my sister's apartment. Come to
think of it, how did you get this number?
518
00:28:50,317 --> 00:28:52,485
How did I get the number?
That's a good question.
519
00:28:52,652 --> 00:28:55,738
Um, I don't know. Probably the FBI.
520
00:28:55,906 --> 00:28:57,698
Oh, the FBI. Sure.
521
00:28:57,866 --> 00:29:01,869
Because if you want to find someone, and
you're the president, that's who you'd call.
522
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,454
You know who else is good at that?
523
00:29:03,622 --> 00:29:06,248
Uh, CIA?
524
00:29:06,416 --> 00:29:08,793
I was thinking
of the Internal Revenue Service.
525
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,087
They have these computer files
that, uh...
526
00:29:12,255 --> 00:29:14,465
Well, I, ahem, should stop stalling.
527
00:29:14,633 --> 00:29:19,720
Um, as you probably know, the French
have elected themselves a new president.
528
00:29:19,888 --> 00:29:23,390
We're having a formal state dinner
at the White House and I was wondering...
529
00:29:23,558 --> 00:29:27,061
...and, uh, you're under no obligation
of law, but I thought it might be fun.
530
00:29:27,229 --> 00:29:30,105
I was wondering
if maybe you wanted to go...
531
00:29:30,273 --> 00:29:32,733
...with me and, um...
532
00:29:32,901 --> 00:29:36,070
Well, that's it. That's why I was calling.
533
00:29:42,035 --> 00:29:43,536
Sydney?
534
00:29:44,621 --> 00:29:47,623
- Sydney, Congress doesn't take this long.
- Mr. President...
535
00:29:48,166 --> 00:29:49,959
[CHUCKLES]
536
00:29:50,126 --> 00:29:54,630
You have asked me to join you
in representing our country.
537
00:29:54,798 --> 00:29:59,385
I'm honored. I'm equal to the task.
I won't let you down, sir.
538
00:30:00,178 --> 00:30:03,973
This is just dinner. We're not going
to be doing espionage or anything.
539
00:30:04,140 --> 00:30:06,016
No, of course, ha, ha.
540
00:30:06,184 --> 00:30:09,103
I'm a little, um... Uh...
541
00:30:09,271 --> 00:30:11,438
What do I do? Ha-ha-ha!
542
00:30:11,606 --> 00:30:15,693
I mean, you know, where do I go?
I mean, will you meet me?
543
00:30:16,486 --> 00:30:19,905
I'm gonna have a very nice woman
named Marsha Bridgeport call you.
544
00:30:20,073 --> 00:30:21,991
She's the White House social secretary.
545
00:30:22,158 --> 00:30:24,618
She's gonna help you
with anything you want.
546
00:30:24,786 --> 00:30:28,247
Now, when she calls you and tells you
her name is Marsha Bridgeport...
547
00:30:28,415 --> 00:30:30,875
...it'll help if you give her
the benefit of the doubt.
548
00:30:31,042 --> 00:30:32,293
[CHUCKLES]
549
00:30:32,460 --> 00:30:35,796
- Of course.
- And I'll see you Thursday night.
550
00:30:36,089 --> 00:30:39,758
Mr. President,
thanks for asking me, really.
551
00:30:39,926 --> 00:30:43,429
- This is a first for me.
- Me too.
552
00:30:49,769 --> 00:30:53,355
Okay, who's on Indiana? New people?
I can't remember your names.
553
00:30:53,523 --> 00:30:57,568
Raise your hands if you're on Indiana.
Put your hands down. You're on Illinois.
554
00:30:57,736 --> 00:30:59,695
- We got Jarrett.
- What?
555
00:31:00,155 --> 00:31:02,740
George Jarrett. He's ours, solid "yes."
556
00:31:02,908 --> 00:31:05,117
I don't believe it. You, new guy...
557
00:31:05,285 --> 00:31:09,330
Jarrett, Democrat, Minnesota,
slide his name on over to "yes."
558
00:31:09,873 --> 00:31:13,667
He was undecided. How did you get
the fence pole out of his butt?
559
00:31:13,835 --> 00:31:17,504
Wish I could take credit. He says,
"Lewis, I support the president 100 percent.
560
00:31:17,672 --> 00:31:19,173
Not the bill, the president."
561
00:31:19,341 --> 00:31:22,426
We're gonna win this.
It's like a kissing booth at a carnival:
562
00:31:22,594 --> 00:31:25,179
Give us a vote, get a photo op
with number 63.
563
00:31:25,347 --> 00:31:28,641
- We should've gone after the handguns.
- One thing at a time.
564
00:31:28,850 --> 00:31:30,893
We don't have time
to do one thing at a time.
565
00:31:32,562 --> 00:31:35,022
DAVID: Yeah, hi.
It's David in Sydney Wade's office.
566
00:31:35,190 --> 00:31:36,815
Yeah, I'll hold.
567
00:31:37,734 --> 00:31:41,362
I'm from Sydney Wade's office. I wanna
confirm her lunch with the congressman.
568
00:31:41,529 --> 00:31:44,073
We can do with a little party leadership.
569
00:31:45,283 --> 00:31:48,327
I mean, is the Majority Whip
taking a break?
570
00:31:48,495 --> 00:31:51,413
Congress is in session, right?
I'm not wrong about that.
571
00:31:51,581 --> 00:31:53,374
I just got off with Luther Simons.
572
00:31:53,541 --> 00:31:55,626
- Brock's on board.
DAVID: Terrific.
573
00:31:55,794 --> 00:31:58,212
All right, well, have him get back to me.
574
00:32:00,757 --> 00:32:02,299
You okay, Syd?
575
00:32:03,176 --> 00:32:04,218
Sure, why?
576
00:32:04,386 --> 00:32:06,637
I don't know. You seem a little tense.
577
00:32:06,805 --> 00:32:08,597
What do you mean?
578
00:32:12,227 --> 00:32:15,354
What do you have, big date tonight?
579
00:32:29,119 --> 00:32:31,328
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
580
00:32:36,835 --> 00:32:40,129
Senator, Senator Rumson,
if I can have a moment with you, sir.
581
00:32:40,296 --> 00:32:41,296
Certainly.
582
00:32:41,464 --> 00:32:44,216
I'm standing here with
Senate Minority Leader Robert Rumson...
583
00:32:44,384 --> 00:32:47,553
...one of the many guests arriving at what,
for the next few hours...
584
00:32:47,721 --> 00:32:49,513
...will be a nonpartisan White House.
585
00:32:49,973 --> 00:32:53,267
Senator, the latest public-opinion surveys
show the president...
586
00:32:53,435 --> 00:32:57,354
...with approval ratings that would make him
all but unbeatable come next November.
587
00:32:57,522 --> 00:33:00,190
Is there a Republican who can mount
a serious challenge...
588
00:33:00,358 --> 00:33:01,775
...and are you that candidate?
589
00:33:01,943 --> 00:33:06,280
It's a long time till November. Right now
I'm looking forward to a pleasant evening.
590
00:33:06,448 --> 00:33:07,489
Thank you, senator.
591
00:33:09,409 --> 00:33:11,410
That's a little tight, Luce.
592
00:33:11,578 --> 00:33:14,788
It's supposed to be.
It's supposed to make you look regal.
593
00:33:14,956 --> 00:33:17,875
Is it supposed to cut off
the blood flow to my face?
594
00:33:19,919 --> 00:33:21,295
All done.
595
00:33:25,675 --> 00:33:28,844
Well, that's not bad.
Where'd you learn how to do that?
596
00:33:29,012 --> 00:33:30,137
Social studies.
597
00:33:30,305 --> 00:33:32,681
Very funny. No, really,
where'd you learn that?
598
00:33:33,266 --> 00:33:36,185
I don't know. I just...
Guess I picked it up somewhere.
599
00:33:37,437 --> 00:33:40,022
Sweetie, did Mom teach you
how to do that?
600
00:33:40,857 --> 00:33:42,357
Yeah.
601
00:33:44,903 --> 00:33:49,198
Lucy, is this okay,
my having dinner with a lady?
602
00:33:49,365 --> 00:33:50,532
Dad, it's totally okay.
603
00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:53,202
You sure? Because if there's anything
you want to talk about...
604
00:33:53,369 --> 00:33:56,872
Dad. It's cool. Just go for it.
605
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,499
Okay.
606
00:34:00,043 --> 00:34:01,043
[SIGHS]
607
00:34:01,211 --> 00:34:02,419
You know, I'm a little nervous.
608
00:34:02,587 --> 00:34:04,421
You'll be fine. Just be yourself.
609
00:34:04,964 --> 00:34:06,423
Be myself?
610
00:34:06,591 --> 00:34:09,551
Yeah, and, um, compliment her shoes.
611
00:34:10,095 --> 00:34:11,303
Her shoes?
612
00:34:11,805 --> 00:34:14,014
Yeah. Girls like that.
613
00:34:15,391 --> 00:34:17,935
Okay. Thanks.
614
00:34:28,822 --> 00:34:30,030
- Thank you.
- Miss Wade?
615
00:34:30,198 --> 00:34:31,323
- Oh, hi.
- Good evening.
616
00:34:31,491 --> 00:34:34,243
The president would like you
to join him in the residence.
617
00:34:34,410 --> 00:34:37,079
- May I show you the way?
- Of course.
618
00:34:38,373 --> 00:34:40,499
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
619
00:34:46,923 --> 00:34:49,758
[PEOPLE LAUGHING]
620
00:34:49,926 --> 00:34:52,469
Sydney, come on in. You look beautiful.
621
00:34:52,637 --> 00:34:54,721
Thanks.
I have no idea what I'm doing here.
622
00:34:54,889 --> 00:34:56,723
- I promise you, there's no hidden agenda.
- Heh.
623
00:34:56,891 --> 00:34:58,100
You know my wife, Esther.
624
00:34:58,268 --> 00:35:01,019
- Nice to see you again.
- Sydney.
625
00:35:01,646 --> 00:35:03,689
Andrew Shepherd.
We spoke on the phone.
626
00:35:03,857 --> 00:35:06,108
Yes, sir. I remember.
627
00:35:06,276 --> 00:35:07,818
- Excuse me one minute.
A. J: Ha, ha.
628
00:35:07,986 --> 00:35:12,156
The president told me how you two met,
Sydney. I think it's priceless.
629
00:35:12,323 --> 00:35:16,201
One minute I was calling him
a mockery of an environmental leader...
630
00:35:16,369 --> 00:35:18,078
...the next minute I had a date.
631
00:35:18,246 --> 00:35:21,623
Men like being insulted by women.
It makes them feel loved.
632
00:35:21,791 --> 00:35:22,916
Don't ask me why.
633
00:35:23,084 --> 00:35:26,044
Mr. President, allow me
to introduce to you Sydney Ellen Wade...
634
00:35:26,212 --> 00:35:27,880
...of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
635
00:35:28,256 --> 00:35:30,799
This is President René Jean D'Astier and...
636
00:35:30,967 --> 00:35:33,468
...his wife, Monique Danielle D'Astier,
of France.
637
00:35:33,636 --> 00:35:36,847
- It's a great pleasure to meet you.
- It's an honor to meet you both.
638
00:35:37,015 --> 00:35:38,599
I'm so pleased to meet you.
639
00:35:38,766 --> 00:35:42,561
Ahem, Mr. President, I'm sorry to interrupt.
The receiving line is in place.
640
00:35:42,729 --> 00:35:45,564
Sydney, I think our table's ready.
641
00:35:52,947 --> 00:35:56,575
I've got to do a thing at the bottom
of the stairs, but you'll be escorted...
642
00:35:56,743 --> 00:35:58,827
- They took me through it.
- Oh, good.
643
00:35:58,995 --> 00:36:01,413
Do you do this often, sir?
644
00:36:01,581 --> 00:36:03,957
This is actually
only our second state dinner.
645
00:36:04,125 --> 00:36:06,543
The first one was
for the Emperor of Japan...
646
00:36:06,711 --> 00:36:09,963
...who died shortly after,
so we stopped having them, just in case.
647
00:36:10,131 --> 00:36:12,758
I meant do you go out on, uh...
Do you often...
648
00:36:12,926 --> 00:36:14,343
- Do I date a lot?
- Yeah.
649
00:36:14,510 --> 00:36:15,928
No, how about you?
650
00:36:16,095 --> 00:36:20,098
Me? Well, lately I seem to be going out
on a lot of first dates.
651
00:36:20,266 --> 00:36:23,143
- You're experienced at this.
- You could ask me anything.
652
00:36:23,311 --> 00:36:24,561
How are we doing so far?
653
00:36:24,729 --> 00:36:29,316
It's hard to say at this point.
So far it's just your typical first-date stuff.
654
00:36:29,734 --> 00:36:32,027
Damn, I wanted to be different
from the others.
655
00:36:32,195 --> 00:36:35,489
MAN: Ladies and gentlemen,
the president of the United States.
656
00:36:35,657 --> 00:36:36,698
By the way...
657
00:36:36,866 --> 00:36:38,283
MAN: Accompanied by...
- Nice shoes.
658
00:36:38,451 --> 00:36:41,787
MAN: The president of France
and Madame D'Astier.
659
00:36:41,955 --> 00:36:45,624
[BAND PLAYING "HAIL TO THE CHIEF"]
660
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,049
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING INDISTINCTLY]
661
00:36:54,217 --> 00:36:57,678
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
662
00:37:02,809 --> 00:37:05,185
[ALL SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
663
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:18,573
- Mr. President?
- Yeah?
664
00:37:18,741 --> 00:37:21,285
The president and Mrs. D'Astier look bored.
665
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,204
They're not talking to anybody.
666
00:37:26,082 --> 00:37:27,791
- They're hammered.
- Ha, ha.
667
00:37:27,959 --> 00:37:30,585
- Esther, do you speak French?
- Latin.
668
00:37:30,753 --> 00:37:33,213
- I thought you spoke French.
- No, Latin.
669
00:37:33,381 --> 00:37:35,757
Great. Next time Julius Caesar
comes to town, you're our gal.
670
00:37:35,925 --> 00:37:37,551
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
671
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,261
Sydney, I don't suppose that...
672
00:37:39,429 --> 00:37:41,430
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
673
00:37:48,438 --> 00:37:49,604
That's my date.
674
00:37:49,772 --> 00:37:51,773
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
675
00:38:01,409 --> 00:38:02,409
[IN ENGLISH]
Really?
676
00:38:02,577 --> 00:38:04,244
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
677
00:38:04,412 --> 00:38:06,830
You didn't dissolve our trade agreements,
did you? Heh.
678
00:38:06,998 --> 00:38:10,000
Heh, no. I just said we're sitting
in this beautiful room...
679
00:38:10,168 --> 00:38:12,753
...listening to the music
of this wonderful orchestra...
680
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,921
...and I wondered
why nobody was dancing.
681
00:38:15,089 --> 00:38:17,132
[IN ENGLISH]
I told Miss Wade that, in my country...
682
00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:20,594
...a guest of the palace
of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette...
683
00:38:20,762 --> 00:38:22,929
...would soon find their head
in a guillotine...
684
00:38:23,097 --> 00:38:25,724
...if they made the impertinent gesture
of dancing...
685
00:38:25,892 --> 00:38:29,102
...without so much as a by-your-leave
from the king and the queen.
686
00:38:29,270 --> 00:38:30,729
[LAUGHS]
687
00:38:30,897 --> 00:38:32,856
I bet no one accused Louis
of being soft on crime.
688
00:38:33,024 --> 00:38:34,441
[ALL LAUGHING]
689
00:38:34,817 --> 00:38:38,403
- There's a lesson there, Mr. President.
- More beheadings at the White House.
690
00:38:38,571 --> 00:38:40,489
Bob Rumson would embrace it.
691
00:38:40,656 --> 00:38:42,824
Yes, I'm sure he would.
692
00:38:43,993 --> 00:38:45,827
I have a better idea.
693
00:38:49,999 --> 00:38:51,625
Would you like to dance?
694
00:38:52,335 --> 00:38:53,418
Ah.
695
00:38:53,586 --> 00:38:55,253
Yeah, I guess.
696
00:38:55,421 --> 00:38:57,631
I mean, yes, sir...
697
00:38:57,799 --> 00:38:59,508
...I'd love to.
698
00:39:16,109 --> 00:39:17,818
They're dancing.
699
00:39:33,334 --> 00:39:34,626
[SIGHS]
700
00:39:34,794 --> 00:39:37,212
[IN LOW VOICE]
I don't know how you do it.
701
00:39:37,672 --> 00:39:40,424
- It's Arthur Murray. Six lessons.
- Ha-ha-ha.
702
00:39:40,633 --> 00:39:42,384
That's not what I mean.
703
00:39:43,052 --> 00:39:47,764
Two hundred pairs of eyes are focused
on you right now with two questions:
704
00:39:47,932 --> 00:39:51,810
"Who's this girl?" and,
"Why is the president dancing with her?"
705
00:39:51,978 --> 00:39:56,440
Well, first of all, the 200 pairs of eyes
are not focused on me.
706
00:39:56,607 --> 00:39:58,900
They're focused on you.
707
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,320
And the answers are,
"Sydney Ellen Wade.
708
00:40:02,488 --> 00:40:04,865
Because she said 'yes."'
709
00:40:27,388 --> 00:40:29,264
[SIGHS]
710
00:40:37,607 --> 00:40:40,108
MAN 1: Does the setup here work?
MAN 2: How's it going?
711
00:40:45,198 --> 00:40:47,824
- Good morning, Mrs. Chapil.
CHAPIL: Morning, Mr. President.
712
00:40:47,992 --> 00:40:50,285
Mr. Rothschild and Miss McCall
are in the office.
713
00:40:50,828 --> 00:40:52,746
They said they need to speak with you.
714
00:40:52,914 --> 00:40:55,290
Janie, can you get me the number
of a local florist?
715
00:40:55,458 --> 00:40:57,042
Where do you want them sent?
716
00:40:57,210 --> 00:41:00,212
No, I want to do it myself.
I just need the number.
717
00:41:00,796 --> 00:41:01,838
I don't understand.
718
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,594
I want the phone number of a florist.
719
00:41:07,762 --> 00:41:09,679
You just want the phone number.
720
00:41:10,765 --> 00:41:12,015
Yeah.
721
00:41:12,725 --> 00:41:14,935
- Sir, is there a problem...
- I want to send some flowers.
722
00:41:15,102 --> 00:41:18,939
I want to do it myself. I don't want
to staff it out. No executive orders.
723
00:41:19,106 --> 00:41:20,857
I just want a phone number.
724
00:41:21,651 --> 00:41:24,277
I'll get it for you right away, sir.
725
00:41:25,029 --> 00:41:26,571
- Morning.
ROBIN: Good morning.
726
00:41:26,739 --> 00:41:28,240
We need five minutes of your time.
727
00:41:28,407 --> 00:41:30,033
SHEPHERD:
I'll be with you in two minutes.
728
00:41:30,201 --> 00:41:31,660
I just need to make a call.
729
00:41:31,911 --> 00:41:33,245
Thank you, Janie.
730
00:41:38,167 --> 00:41:39,459
Who are we calling, sir?
731
00:41:40,294 --> 00:41:44,047
The Organization of United Brotherhood
of It's None of Your Damn Business.
732
00:41:44,215 --> 00:41:46,716
- I'll be with you in a second.
- Yes, sir.
733
00:41:49,136 --> 00:41:50,971
[SIGHS]
734
00:41:52,807 --> 00:41:54,349
Yeah, hi, good morning.
735
00:41:54,517 --> 00:41:56,351
How do I get an outside line?
736
00:41:56,519 --> 00:41:57,602
[DIALTONE]
737
00:41:57,770 --> 00:41:59,771
Well, that was simple.
738
00:42:02,275 --> 00:42:04,442
- Janie?
- Yes.
739
00:42:04,610 --> 00:42:06,736
What's the president doing?
740
00:42:06,904 --> 00:42:10,615
I'm sorry, I'm really not at liberty to say.
741
00:42:11,117 --> 00:42:14,869
Yes, hi, good morning.
Is this Carmen's House of Flowers?
742
00:42:15,037 --> 00:42:18,164
Good. I'd like to order
some flowers, please.
743
00:42:19,584 --> 00:42:22,460
Well, tell me,
what is the state flower of Virginia?
744
00:42:22,962 --> 00:42:25,630
Does this have something to do
with Sydney Wade?
745
00:42:25,798 --> 00:42:28,592
I'm really not at liberty to say.
746
00:42:28,759 --> 00:42:31,469
Well, is there anybody there
who might know?
747
00:42:32,430 --> 00:42:35,390
No, I'm not trying to be difficult.
Uh...
748
00:42:35,558 --> 00:42:37,309
Hang on, please.
749
00:42:38,686 --> 00:42:41,146
Janie, what is the state flower
of Virginia?
750
00:42:41,314 --> 00:42:44,524
- Mrs. Chapil, state flower of Virginia?
- The dogwood.
751
00:42:45,234 --> 00:42:47,277
The dogwood, sir.
752
00:42:47,445 --> 00:42:48,862
Thank you.
753
00:42:50,072 --> 00:42:51,865
It's a dogwood.
754
00:42:52,992 --> 00:42:54,451
Really?
755
00:42:54,994 --> 00:42:57,537
Ah, hold on, please. Ahem.
756
00:42:57,705 --> 00:43:00,624
Janie, the dogwood's a tree,
it's not a flower.
757
00:43:00,791 --> 00:43:02,751
Actually, it's a tree and a flower.
758
00:43:02,918 --> 00:43:04,794
- Are you sure?
- Yes. What's going on?
759
00:43:05,254 --> 00:43:07,797
JANIE:
Sir, it's a tree and a flower.
760
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:13,845
The dogwood is a tree and a flower.
I'd like a dozen, please.
761
00:43:14,764 --> 00:43:16,514
Really, no dogwoods?
762
00:43:16,682 --> 00:43:17,682
[SIGHS]
763
00:43:17,850 --> 00:43:19,809
How about, uh, roses?
764
00:43:19,977 --> 00:43:22,437
Simple, classic. Two dozen?
765
00:43:22,605 --> 00:43:23,772
Janie...
766
00:43:23,939 --> 00:43:27,817
I'm the president's senior domestic
policy advisor. Now, it's important...
767
00:43:27,985 --> 00:43:30,779
SHEPHERD: Janie, do you know
where my credit cards are?
768
00:43:32,657 --> 00:43:34,949
They're in storage in Wisconsin
with the rest...
769
00:43:35,117 --> 00:43:37,952
...of your personal items.
- All right.
770
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:43,249
Perhaps it would be better if you bill me.
I'm sure it'll be all right with your boss.
771
00:43:44,210 --> 00:43:48,463
I don't know if you recognize my voice,
but, uh, this is the president.
772
00:43:49,298 --> 00:43:51,132
Of the United States.
773
00:43:52,677 --> 00:43:55,303
Hello?
774
00:43:56,472 --> 00:43:58,682
Leo, you wanted to see me?
775
00:43:58,849 --> 00:44:00,392
So there I was thinking:
776
00:44:00,559 --> 00:44:02,143
Maybe I should give Sydney a call.
777
00:44:02,311 --> 00:44:04,437
She's new in town,
doesn't know many people.
778
00:44:04,605 --> 00:44:05,897
Then I picked up the Times.
779
00:44:06,357 --> 00:44:09,567
Leo, it was crazy. He called me at home.
780
00:44:09,902 --> 00:44:11,820
- What's going on?
- Nothing.
781
00:44:11,987 --> 00:44:15,490
It was innocent.
His cousin got the flu at the last minute.
782
00:44:15,658 --> 00:44:17,742
- Did you sleep with him?
- Leo.
783
00:44:17,910 --> 00:44:20,870
- Did you sleep with him?
- That's none of your business, Leo.
784
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,541
- Yeah, it is, Sydney.
- You wanna tell me how my personal life...
785
00:44:24,709 --> 00:44:27,168
Because when it's the president,
it's not personal.
786
00:44:27,336 --> 00:44:31,172
I hired your reputation, Sydney.
I hired a pit bull, not a prom queen.
787
00:44:31,340 --> 00:44:35,135
- That's unfair.
- It's incredibly unfair.
788
00:44:35,302 --> 00:44:39,180
You spent time over the years telling me
the trouble with the environmental lobby...
789
00:44:39,348 --> 00:44:41,516
...is that we don't understand
the fundamental truth...
790
00:44:41,684 --> 00:44:43,351
...that politics is perception.
791
00:44:43,519 --> 00:44:45,353
This is a bad time to develop ignorance.
792
00:44:45,521 --> 00:44:47,772
- You're making way too much of this.
- Am I?
793
00:44:48,524 --> 00:44:52,485
This is your time, Sydney.
You're sitting at the grown-up's table.
794
00:44:52,653 --> 00:44:54,904
You have a chance to get
everything you want:
795
00:44:55,072 --> 00:44:59,117
Run a national campaign,
be a major player inside the party.
796
00:44:59,785 --> 00:45:01,745
This relationship
better go all the way...
797
00:45:01,912 --> 00:45:05,457
...because with the leader of the free world,
there's no halfway.
798
00:45:05,750 --> 00:45:07,584
Politics is perception...
799
00:45:07,752 --> 00:45:09,335
...and if this doesn't work out...
800
00:45:09,503 --> 00:45:12,005
...the time it'll take
to go from being a hired gun...
801
00:45:12,173 --> 00:45:14,674
...to a cocktail-party joke
can be clocked with an egg timer.
802
00:45:14,842 --> 00:45:19,012
Leo, there's no relationship.
It was one night. It's done.
803
00:45:19,221 --> 00:45:22,182
Mr. Solomon, this was just delivered
by a White House messenger.
804
00:45:22,349 --> 00:45:23,516
It's marked "perishable."
805
00:45:23,851 --> 00:45:25,894
The White House sent me
something perishable?
806
00:45:26,061 --> 00:45:27,479
It's for Miss Wade.
807
00:45:27,646 --> 00:45:31,524
- Here we go.
- Relax, Leo, I'm sure it's just a formality.
808
00:45:31,692 --> 00:45:33,777
- It's from him.
- Of course it's from him.
809
00:45:33,944 --> 00:45:36,696
So he had some staff flunky
send me a fruit basket.
810
00:45:36,864 --> 00:45:40,158
- Well, he wrote the note himself.
- I'm sure he didn't take the time...
811
00:45:40,326 --> 00:45:43,912
The messenger waited 10 minutes
while the president wrote the card.
812
00:45:44,246 --> 00:45:46,456
Okay, listen...
813
00:45:47,249 --> 00:45:51,836
- It took him 10 minutes to write the card?
- Apparently, he went through several drafts.
814
00:45:57,218 --> 00:45:59,177
[CHUCKLES]
815
00:46:06,227 --> 00:46:07,393
[LAUGHS]
816
00:46:07,561 --> 00:46:08,645
What is it?
817
00:46:09,146 --> 00:46:10,355
- A ham.
- A ham?
818
00:46:10,523 --> 00:46:11,606
[LAUGHS]
819
00:46:11,774 --> 00:46:14,526
He sent me a Virginia ham.
820
00:46:14,693 --> 00:46:17,445
Dig it, Miss Wade,
you're the president's girlfriend.
821
00:46:18,697 --> 00:46:21,407
There's never an egg timer around
when you need one.
822
00:46:25,913 --> 00:46:27,288
Thanks.
823
00:46:30,167 --> 00:46:31,501
ROBIN:
They'll be pressing today...
824
00:46:31,669 --> 00:46:34,963
...if we're prepared to soften
the assault weapons section of the bill.
825
00:46:35,130 --> 00:46:37,715
There's no need to entertain that
at this point.
826
00:46:40,135 --> 00:46:42,804
How do you want me to handle
the Sydney issue?
827
00:46:44,139 --> 00:46:46,099
"The Sydney issue"?
828
00:46:46,267 --> 00:46:49,352
We should have a consensus
on how the White House will handle it.
829
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:54,148
I certainly hope "the Sydney issue" refers
to a problem we're having with Australia.
830
00:46:54,316 --> 00:46:56,901
- If it's anything other than that...
JANIE: Ahem, Mr. President...
831
00:46:57,069 --> 00:46:58,945
Miss Wade is here to see you.
832
00:46:59,113 --> 00:47:01,906
Have her come in, please.
I am finished here.
833
00:47:02,074 --> 00:47:03,241
JANIE:
Yes, sir.
834
00:47:03,409 --> 00:47:05,201
There is no Sydney issue.
835
00:47:08,455 --> 00:47:11,332
LEWIS: Good morning.
- Oh, hi. Hi.
836
00:47:11,500 --> 00:47:14,002
Uh, thanks for seeing me
on such short notice.
837
00:47:14,169 --> 00:47:16,379
No problem.
Did you, uh, get the ham?
838
00:47:16,547 --> 00:47:18,214
Ha, ha, yes, I got the ham.
839
00:47:18,382 --> 00:47:22,510
I wanted to send you some flowers,
but there appear to be kinks in the system.
840
00:47:22,678 --> 00:47:26,347
I'm so glad you stopped by.
I had such a good time last night.
841
00:47:27,057 --> 00:47:30,226
- So did I. Um, it's just that I... Um...
JANIE: They're 45 seconds away.
842
00:47:30,394 --> 00:47:33,813
I have a luncheon speech
at the governors' conference. I'm sorry.
843
00:47:33,981 --> 00:47:36,649
- Are you free for dinner tomorrow evening?
- Dinner?
844
00:47:36,817 --> 00:47:37,859
Casual, in the residence...
845
00:47:38,027 --> 00:47:39,485
...without the United Nations.
- Heh.
846
00:47:39,653 --> 00:47:41,988
My daughter will be there,
so it may seem like it.
847
00:47:42,156 --> 00:47:45,408
- I'd love to meet Lucy...
- She'd love to meet you. Excuse me, Jeff...
848
00:47:45,576 --> 00:47:47,452
Actually, I have some concerns that I...
849
00:47:47,620 --> 00:47:48,912
JEFF: Yes, sir.
- I can't do this.
850
00:47:49,079 --> 00:47:51,289
- Robbins or Stackhouse?
- Either. I have to be in and out.
851
00:47:51,457 --> 00:47:54,626
Stackhouse needs 10 minutes.
I think it's about the assault weapons.
852
00:47:54,793 --> 00:47:57,545
He wants to talk about grazing rights.
Trust me.
853
00:47:57,713 --> 00:47:59,589
I'm sorry. You have concerns?
854
00:47:59,757 --> 00:48:02,508
Yes, uh, not many. A few.
855
00:48:02,676 --> 00:48:04,302
One. I have one concern.
856
00:48:04,470 --> 00:48:07,096
This wouldn't have to do
with the fact that one of us is president?
857
00:48:07,264 --> 00:48:09,599
Ha, ha,
you like to make jokes about this...
858
00:48:09,767 --> 00:48:12,352
I'm not mocking you.
I'm just a guy asking a girl over for a meal.
859
00:48:12,519 --> 00:48:13,811
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
860
00:48:13,979 --> 00:48:15,229
What's that?
861
00:48:15,648 --> 00:48:17,231
That's my ride.
862
00:48:17,608 --> 00:48:20,360
Oh, um...
863
00:48:20,527 --> 00:48:25,198
Leo Solomon has some serious concerns
about me exploring a social...
864
00:48:25,366 --> 00:48:27,367
...you know...
865
00:48:27,534 --> 00:48:30,328
...scenario with the president
of the United States.
866
00:48:30,496 --> 00:48:32,956
Put that way,
it doesn't sound good to me either.
867
00:48:33,123 --> 00:48:35,124
Have dinner with Lucy and me.
It's meat loaf night.
868
00:48:35,292 --> 00:48:37,335
- How presidential can that be?
- Uh...
869
00:48:37,503 --> 00:48:38,586
Seven-thirty?
870
00:48:39,797 --> 00:48:40,922
Mm.
871
00:48:41,090 --> 00:48:42,340
Mm-hm.
872
00:49:11,870 --> 00:49:14,455
- Hi. Are you Miss Wade?
- Hi. Uh, Sydney.
873
00:49:14,623 --> 00:49:17,917
- Hi. Lucy Shepherd. Nice to meet you.
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
874
00:49:18,085 --> 00:49:23,339
Um, my dad told me to tell you
that he's on the phone with his dentist...
875
00:49:23,507 --> 00:49:26,300
...and I should behave myself
and entertain you until he gets back.
876
00:49:26,468 --> 00:49:28,928
Ah. Your father's on the phone
with his dentist?
877
00:49:29,096 --> 00:49:32,348
No. He told me to tell you
that he's on the phone with his dentist.
878
00:49:32,516 --> 00:49:35,059
- He wants you to think he's a regular guy.
- Heh, all right.
879
00:49:35,227 --> 00:49:38,354
- Well, who's he on the phone with?
- The Prime Minister of Israel.
880
00:49:38,522 --> 00:49:41,607
- They're probably not discussing his teeth.
- I hope not.
881
00:49:41,775 --> 00:49:43,151
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
882
00:49:43,318 --> 00:49:46,070
They're discussing that abbreviation
I can never remember.
883
00:49:46,238 --> 00:49:49,365
- Mm, C-STAD?
- Yeah.
884
00:49:49,533 --> 00:49:53,077
- Capricorn Surface-to-Air Defense.
- Right.
885
00:49:53,662 --> 00:49:56,664
Okay. Let meat-loaf night begin. Hi.
886
00:49:56,832 --> 00:49:58,875
Hi. How's everything with your teeth?
887
00:49:59,043 --> 00:50:00,710
- My teeth?
- The dentist.
888
00:50:00,878 --> 00:50:01,961
Oh, right. Right, right.
889
00:50:02,129 --> 00:50:04,505
Yeah, I got a cavity
in my upper bicuspid region.
890
00:50:04,673 --> 00:50:07,633
You have a short-range weapons system
outside Tel Aviv.
891
00:50:07,801 --> 00:50:09,218
I think somebody told on me.
892
00:50:09,386 --> 00:50:10,887
[LUCY SHOUTING]
893
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,018
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON SPEAKERS]
894
00:50:17,186 --> 00:50:20,396
[ALL CHATTERING]
895
00:50:20,564 --> 00:50:22,523
A. J:
Congressman...
896
00:50:22,691 --> 00:50:23,941
You're over-thinking this.
897
00:50:24,109 --> 00:50:27,403
Voters aren't interested
in how to achieve economic growth.
898
00:50:27,571 --> 00:50:30,615
They don't want to hear our plans
to strengthen foreign policy.
899
00:50:30,783 --> 00:50:32,241
So it comes down to character.
900
00:50:32,409 --> 00:50:34,619
Press like him.
The networks, the newspapers...
901
00:50:34,787 --> 00:50:36,287
Reporters like him.
902
00:50:36,455 --> 00:50:40,083
Networks and newspapers
like ratings and circulation.
903
00:50:40,250 --> 00:50:43,795
For all the bitching we do
about liberal bias in the press...
904
00:50:43,962 --> 00:50:46,214
...when it comes to
a good character debate...
905
00:50:46,381 --> 00:50:48,508
The press is an unwitting accomplice.
906
00:50:48,675 --> 00:50:50,551
The character debate didn't work for us.
907
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:52,512
Because it couldn't.
908
00:50:52,679 --> 00:50:56,891
Our polling told us that attacking him
less than a year after he'd lost his wife...
909
00:50:57,059 --> 00:51:00,228
...was gonna be a turnoff,
was gonna make people feel sorry for him.
910
00:51:00,395 --> 00:51:03,731
We couldn't run the campaign we wanted
because the opponent was a widower.
911
00:51:04,024 --> 00:51:06,651
But he's still a widower, Bob.
Time's passed but...
912
00:51:06,819 --> 00:51:08,569
[ALL CHUCKLE]
913
00:51:08,737 --> 00:51:10,279
You'll have to forgive my friend.
914
00:51:10,447 --> 00:51:13,199
He was on a hunting trip.
He's been cut off from the world.
915
00:51:13,367 --> 00:51:14,784
Why? What's going on?
916
00:51:22,126 --> 00:51:24,669
The president's got a girlfriend.
917
00:51:27,256 --> 00:51:29,841
So you're studying
the Constitutional Convention.
918
00:51:30,008 --> 00:51:32,009
- She's not having any fun, though.
- Dad.
919
00:51:32,261 --> 00:51:33,719
You're not having any fun?
920
00:51:33,887 --> 00:51:36,472
This is a nightmare.
This is a social-studies nightmare.
921
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,015
They're doing a mock congress.
922
00:51:38,183 --> 00:51:41,811
Each kid plays one of the original delegates
and they debate the amendments.
923
00:51:41,979 --> 00:51:43,020
What's not fun?
924
00:51:43,188 --> 00:51:45,773
- Good night, Dad.
- Good night, sweetheart.
925
00:51:47,401 --> 00:51:50,444
- It was nice meeting you, Sydney.
- It was nice to meet you.
926
00:51:50,612 --> 00:51:53,781
- Sleep well, honey. I love you.
- Love you too, Dad.
927
00:51:54,741 --> 00:51:56,117
She's wonderful.
928
00:51:56,493 --> 00:51:57,994
She's her mother.
929
00:51:59,329 --> 00:52:00,621
She's you.
930
00:52:06,003 --> 00:52:08,045
Would you like the 25-cent tour?
931
00:52:09,131 --> 00:52:10,590
Okay.
932
00:52:13,677 --> 00:52:16,429
I thought C-STAD wouldn't be operational
until January.
933
00:52:16,597 --> 00:52:20,558
It was ready ahead of schedule.
We've just been waiting for the personnel.
934
00:52:20,726 --> 00:52:22,476
- The Israelis?
- No, our guys.
935
00:52:22,644 --> 00:52:26,939
We sent a team of army instructors
to train the Israelis. Good evening.
936
00:52:27,107 --> 00:52:29,192
I think, uh...
937
00:52:29,359 --> 00:52:31,861
Yeah, this is the Dish Room.
938
00:52:32,029 --> 00:52:33,154
[SYDNEY CHUCKLES]
939
00:52:33,322 --> 00:52:34,530
It's not the "Dish Room."
940
00:52:34,698 --> 00:52:36,866
Yes, it is. It's the room
with, uh, all the dishes.
941
00:52:37,034 --> 00:52:38,701
It's the China Room.
942
00:52:39,077 --> 00:52:41,287
Well, I'm more of a West Wing president.
943
00:52:41,455 --> 00:52:44,957
If you're curious about the mansion,
I'm sure there's a book you can get.
944
00:52:45,125 --> 00:52:49,170
There are about 7000.
Heh, I'll get one for you.
945
00:53:03,518 --> 00:53:05,061
Sydney.
946
00:53:07,564 --> 00:53:08,648
Mr. President...
947
00:53:08,815 --> 00:53:12,109
...have you ever noticed how similar
the Van Buren flatware is...
948
00:53:12,277 --> 00:53:14,654
...to the Buchanan flatware?
949
00:53:18,784 --> 00:53:21,160
Do you think there'll ever be a time...
950
00:53:21,328 --> 00:53:24,121
...when you can stand in a room
with me...
951
00:53:24,331 --> 00:53:26,791
...and not think of me as the president?
952
00:53:28,210 --> 00:53:30,211
This isn't a state of mind.
953
00:53:30,420 --> 00:53:32,463
You are the president.
954
00:53:33,215 --> 00:53:35,591
And when I'm in a room with you...
955
00:53:35,759 --> 00:53:38,052
...oval or any other shape...
956
00:53:38,220 --> 00:53:40,388
...I'm always going to be a lobbyist...
957
00:53:40,555 --> 00:53:43,140
...and you're always going
to be the president.
958
00:53:43,809 --> 00:53:46,519
I have news for you, Sydney.
959
00:53:46,687 --> 00:53:48,396
As a lobbyist...
960
00:53:48,563 --> 00:53:51,274
...you'd never be alone in a room...
961
00:53:51,441 --> 00:53:53,234
...with the president.
962
00:54:01,076 --> 00:54:03,202
Do you think this is a good idea?
963
00:54:06,248 --> 00:54:08,249
Probably not.
964
00:54:14,423 --> 00:54:16,132
MAN:
Mr. President.
965
00:54:19,886 --> 00:54:21,804
We have a secure call from the Sit Room.
966
00:54:24,683 --> 00:54:26,309
Excuse me.
967
00:54:31,940 --> 00:54:35,443
- I'm sorry, ma'am.
- Oh, no, of course.
968
00:54:41,366 --> 00:54:45,661
We're gonna have to cut our evening short.
The Libyans have just bombed C-STAD.
969
00:54:45,829 --> 00:54:49,665
I'll try to call you in the morning.
Would you please show Miss Wade out?
970
00:54:51,418 --> 00:54:53,586
MAN:
The response scenario's in place.
971
00:54:53,962 --> 00:54:57,381
The F-18s are fired up
on the Nimitz and the Kitty Hawk.
972
00:54:57,716 --> 00:55:00,384
They're just waiting for your attack order,
Mr. President.
973
00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:04,221
And we're gonna hit
Libyan Intelligence Headquarters?
974
00:55:04,556 --> 00:55:07,641
The NSA confirmed they're the ones
who planned the bombing.
975
00:55:07,809 --> 00:55:10,895
- And what's the estimate?
- We'll level the building.
976
00:55:11,980 --> 00:55:16,484
Libyan I.H.Q. Looks like it's in the center
of Tripoli. What else are we going to hit?
977
00:55:17,319 --> 00:55:19,403
Nothing, unless we miss.
978
00:55:19,654 --> 00:55:22,615
- Are we gonna miss?
- No, sir.
979
00:55:25,285 --> 00:55:28,120
- How many people work in the building?
- We went through this.
980
00:55:28,288 --> 00:55:30,581
How many people working
in the damn building?
981
00:55:30,874 --> 00:55:33,793
I have the numbers here, Mr. President.
There are three shifts.
982
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,421
The fewest. What shift has
the fewest people? The night shift?
983
00:55:37,798 --> 00:55:39,882
By far, sir. Mostly custodial staff...
984
00:55:40,050 --> 00:55:42,635
What time does the night shift start?
985
00:55:43,512 --> 00:55:45,054
They're on now, sir.
986
00:55:52,646 --> 00:55:53,896
A. J?
987
00:55:54,523 --> 00:55:55,898
Sir, it's immediate...
988
00:55:56,066 --> 00:55:58,317
...it's decisive, it's low-risk...
989
00:55:58,485 --> 00:56:00,403
...and it's a proportional response.
990
00:56:01,071 --> 00:56:03,322
Someday someone's
gonna have to explain to me...
991
00:56:03,490 --> 00:56:05,991
...the virtue of a proportional response.
992
00:56:08,620 --> 00:56:09,995
Mr. President?
993
00:56:10,539 --> 00:56:11,997
Attack.
994
00:56:12,165 --> 00:56:14,041
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
995
00:56:14,209 --> 00:56:17,420
A. J: Once our planes have cleared
Libyan airspace, you can call the press.
996
00:56:17,587 --> 00:56:19,922
But I don't know
when we'll have the full B.D.A.
997
00:56:20,090 --> 00:56:23,217
- General Rork says around 0800.
A. J: 0800?
998
00:56:23,802 --> 00:56:25,970
Sir, what do you think
about a national address?
999
00:56:26,888 --> 00:56:30,015
Last thing I want to do
is put the Libyans center stage.
1000
00:56:30,183 --> 00:56:31,809
LEON:
Well, I think it's a great idea.
1001
00:56:31,977 --> 00:56:35,563
You know Rumson is gonna be
talking about your lack of military service.
1002
00:56:35,730 --> 00:56:37,356
It's not about Rumson.
1003
00:56:37,524 --> 00:56:40,234
What I did tonight
was not about political gain.
1004
00:56:40,402 --> 00:56:42,111
Yes, but it can be, sir.
1005
00:56:42,279 --> 00:56:45,531
What you did tonight
was very presidential.
1006
00:56:46,658 --> 00:56:48,242
Leon...
1007
00:56:48,410 --> 00:56:50,161
Somewhere in Libya right now...
1008
00:56:50,328 --> 00:56:53,706
...a janitor's working a night shift
at Libyan Intelligence Headquarters.
1009
00:56:53,874 --> 00:56:56,375
He's going about doing his job...
1010
00:56:56,543 --> 00:57:02,298
...because he has no idea in about an hour
he's going to die in a massive explosion.
1011
00:57:05,177 --> 00:57:07,136
He's just going about his job...
1012
00:57:07,304 --> 00:57:10,431
...because he has no idea
that about an hour ago...
1013
00:57:10,599 --> 00:57:13,434
...I gave an order to have him killed.
1014
00:57:14,853 --> 00:57:18,439
You've just seen me do
the least presidential thing I do.
1015
00:57:20,066 --> 00:57:22,026
[REPORTERS CHATTERING]
1016
00:57:22,194 --> 00:57:23,194
Mary?
1017
00:57:23,361 --> 00:57:25,696
MARY: Is there anything
about the C-STAD system...
1018
00:57:25,864 --> 00:57:30,075
...that could have been mistaken
as offensive rather than defensive?
1019
00:57:30,327 --> 00:57:32,661
No. We did everything
but show them the blueprints.
1020
00:57:32,829 --> 00:57:36,457
The hardware had been sitting in an
airplane hangar for more than a month.
1021
00:57:36,625 --> 00:57:39,335
They didn't hit it
until the American personnel arrived.
1022
00:57:39,503 --> 00:57:42,671
Sir, there's an unconfirmed report
that you were with Sydney Wade...
1023
00:57:42,839 --> 00:57:44,590
...when you learned of the attack.
Comment?
1024
00:57:44,758 --> 00:57:46,634
- Yes, we had just finished dinner.
- Get him off.
1025
00:57:46,801 --> 00:57:48,135
Last question.
1026
00:57:48,303 --> 00:57:51,388
Sir, would you care to comment
on your relationship?
1027
00:57:51,556 --> 00:57:54,391
We don't have a relationship,
we just had dinner. Thank you.
1028
00:57:54,559 --> 00:57:56,519
Did she spend the night
at the White House?
1029
00:57:56,686 --> 00:58:00,189
Folks, a lot of people
were killed last night.
1030
00:58:00,357 --> 00:58:03,317
Let's try to keep our eye on the ball, okay?
Thank you.
1031
00:58:03,485 --> 00:58:05,819
[REPORTERS SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY]
1032
00:58:05,987 --> 00:58:07,780
That was my fault.
We should have prepped you.
1033
00:58:07,948 --> 00:58:09,949
There's nothing that needs prepping.
A. J?
1034
00:58:10,116 --> 00:58:13,160
Let's meet with the leadership
after we meet the Security Council.
1035
00:58:13,328 --> 00:58:15,704
Newsweek is begging
for 10 minutes today. Any 10.
1036
00:58:15,872 --> 00:58:17,706
Nobody gets 10 minutes today.
1037
00:58:18,250 --> 00:58:20,751
Tell the speaker to wait.
I want to talk to him.
1038
00:58:20,919 --> 00:58:23,254
No, I'll be right down.
1039
00:58:23,421 --> 00:58:25,965
RUMSON [ON TV]: Last night,
the cost of those liberal programs...
1040
00:58:26,132 --> 00:58:30,594
...was raised to include
the blood of 22 American soldiers.
1041
00:58:30,762 --> 00:58:32,263
Mr. Shepherd's read a lot of books...
1042
00:58:32,430 --> 00:58:36,559
...but it doesn't take a Harvard degree to
see this one coming a mile down the road.
1043
00:58:36,726 --> 00:58:39,103
I went to Stanford, you blowhole.
1044
00:58:39,271 --> 00:58:42,106
He has never served one day in uniform.
1045
00:58:43,692 --> 00:58:45,568
BETH:
This box just says "miscellaneous."
1046
00:58:45,735 --> 00:58:47,194
Is it bedroom miscellaneous...
1047
00:58:47,362 --> 00:58:49,530
...or kitchen miscellaneous?
1048
00:58:51,199 --> 00:58:55,077
- Sydney?
- Why did I have to kiss him?
1049
00:58:56,037 --> 00:58:58,706
- You kissed him?
- Yeah.
1050
00:59:00,041 --> 00:59:01,792
- You didn't tell me.
- I kissed him.
1051
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:04,003
- Where?
- On the mouth.
1052
00:59:04,170 --> 00:59:07,089
- Where in the White House?
- In the Dish Room.
1053
00:59:07,257 --> 00:59:10,384
- The "Dish Room"?
- The China Room.
1054
00:59:10,552 --> 00:59:12,553
And then what happened?
1055
00:59:12,721 --> 00:59:15,431
- He had to go and attack Libya.
- It's always something.
1056
00:59:15,599 --> 00:59:19,768
Yeah, I gotta nip this in the bud.
This has "catastrophe" written all over it.
1057
00:59:19,978 --> 00:59:21,478
In what language?
1058
00:59:21,646 --> 00:59:23,939
Sydney, the man is the leader
of the free world.
1059
00:59:24,107 --> 00:59:27,651
He's brilliant, he's funny, he's handsome,
he's an above-average dancer.
1060
00:59:27,819 --> 00:59:31,905
Isn't it possible
our standards are just a tad high?
1061
00:59:32,073 --> 00:59:35,075
[PHONE RINGING]
1062
00:59:38,413 --> 00:59:39,538
Answer the phone.
1063
00:59:39,706 --> 00:59:41,081
- It's him.
- Answer the phone.
1064
00:59:41,249 --> 00:59:42,583
He's gonna ask me come over.
1065
00:59:42,751 --> 00:59:44,209
- Answer.
- I don't want to go.
1066
00:59:44,377 --> 00:59:45,377
Answer the phone.
1067
00:59:45,545 --> 00:59:47,880
All right.
But I'm gonna end it on the phone.
1068
00:59:50,258 --> 00:59:53,093
Uh, I just came over to tell you
why I can't see you anymore.
1069
00:59:54,846 --> 00:59:57,306
Come on in. Thanks, Coop.
1070
01:00:00,602 --> 01:00:02,353
Uh, look, I know you've had a tough day.
1071
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:05,981
Not as tough as some. Want a drink?
Let me take your coat.
1072
01:00:06,149 --> 01:00:08,359
Mr. President, this isn't gonna work.
1073
01:00:08,526 --> 01:00:12,237
- Sure it will. Button the top button...
- That's not what I mean.
1074
01:00:12,405 --> 01:00:15,824
- I didn't think it was.
- I've really enjoyed our time together...
1075
01:00:15,992 --> 01:00:18,410
...this has "catastrophe"
written all over it.
1076
01:00:18,578 --> 01:00:22,414
Please, Mr. President, don't pursue me
outside the political arena.
1077
01:00:22,582 --> 01:00:25,334
I have no intentions of pursuing you
inside of it...
1078
01:00:25,502 --> 01:00:28,587
...and that leaves everything out
and that's unacceptable to me.
1079
01:00:28,755 --> 01:00:30,089
If I were on your staff...
1080
01:00:30,256 --> 01:00:33,967
...I'd tell you that the worst thing
you can do, coming into an election year...
1081
01:00:34,135 --> 01:00:37,513
...is open yourself to character attacks.
The quickest way to do that...
1082
01:00:37,681 --> 01:00:40,057
...is to prance around like the playboy
of the Western World.
1083
01:00:40,225 --> 01:00:44,478
Let's clear up a couple of things here.
Number one, I seldom prance.
1084
01:00:44,688 --> 01:00:47,731
Number two, I have no intention
of engaging in a character debate.
1085
01:00:47,899 --> 01:00:51,819
- Number three, you're not on my staff.
- But if you'll follow the immutable...
1086
01:00:51,986 --> 01:00:54,613
Why is that, by the way? Please.
1087
01:00:54,864 --> 01:00:57,825
- Why is what?
- Why aren't you on my staff?
1088
01:00:58,368 --> 01:01:00,744
- You can't afford me.
- How much do you make?
1089
01:01:00,912 --> 01:01:02,413
More than you do, Mr. President.
1090
01:01:02,580 --> 01:01:05,082
The name is Andy.
How much money do you make?
1091
01:01:05,250 --> 01:01:07,167
What does it matter how much I make?
1092
01:01:07,377 --> 01:01:09,169
You raise your voice to the president?
1093
01:01:09,337 --> 01:01:12,131
Ugh, I'm only thinking
about the health of your presidency.
1094
01:01:12,298 --> 01:01:15,342
You know this morning's press conference
won't be the end of this.
1095
01:01:15,510 --> 01:01:17,845
Bob Rumson's gotta be
drooling over this.
1096
01:01:18,012 --> 01:01:19,638
Are you attracted to me?
1097
01:01:20,807 --> 01:01:24,768
- I beg your pardon?
- I asked if you were attracted to me.
1098
01:01:24,936 --> 01:01:26,019
That's not the issue.
1099
01:01:26,187 --> 01:01:29,732
Tell you what. Let's make it the issue.
Let's try something new...
1100
01:01:29,899 --> 01:01:33,068
...because when most couples
first get together, they're inclined...
1101
01:01:33,236 --> 01:01:36,989
...to slam on the brakes because they're
concerned about Bob Rumson's drool.
1102
01:01:37,157 --> 01:01:39,783
- You're not most people.
- You know what your problem is?
1103
01:01:39,951 --> 01:01:40,993
What's my problem?
1104
01:01:41,870 --> 01:01:43,787
Sex and nervousness.
1105
01:01:44,539 --> 01:01:46,999
- Sex and nervousness is my problem?
- Yes.
1106
01:01:47,167 --> 01:01:50,627
Last night when we were looking
at those place settings in the Dish Room...
1107
01:01:50,795 --> 01:01:53,964
...I realized those place settings
were provided by the first ladies.
1108
01:01:54,132 --> 01:01:56,467
I'll bet none of those first ladies...
1109
01:01:56,634 --> 01:02:00,929
...were nervous about having sex
with their president husbands.
1110
01:02:01,097 --> 01:02:02,598
And you know why?
1111
01:02:03,391 --> 01:02:06,143
- No, but I'm sure you'll explain it to me.
- I will.
1112
01:02:06,728 --> 01:02:09,521
Because they weren't presidents
when they first met them.
1113
01:02:09,689 --> 01:02:11,690
That's not the case here.
1114
01:02:12,525 --> 01:02:14,401
- Ah.
- You see what I'm getting at?
1115
01:02:14,569 --> 01:02:16,195
Yes.
1116
01:02:16,738 --> 01:02:17,821
[SIGHS]
1117
01:02:17,989 --> 01:02:21,575
- May I use your bathroom for a moment?
- Right through there. Right behind you.
1118
01:02:22,076 --> 01:02:23,952
I just want to freshen up.
1119
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,997
As you pass through,
you'll see a large closet on the right.
1120
01:02:27,165 --> 01:02:29,166
If you want, hang up your coat.
1121
01:02:29,334 --> 01:02:30,918
Then I'll fix us a drink...
1122
01:02:31,085 --> 01:02:34,630
...we'll sit on the couch,
and I'll explain to you my plan.
1123
01:02:34,798 --> 01:02:37,466
SYDNEY: You got a plan?
Don't make me wait. You're on a roll.
1124
01:02:37,634 --> 01:02:39,927
Okay, you're attracted to me...
1125
01:02:40,303 --> 01:02:42,930
...but the idea of physical intimacy
is uncomfortable...
1126
01:02:43,097 --> 01:02:45,766
...because you only know me
as the president.
1127
01:02:45,934 --> 01:02:47,684
It's not always going to be that way.
1128
01:02:47,852 --> 01:02:51,230
The reason I know that is
there was a moment last night...
1129
01:02:51,397 --> 01:02:54,942
...when you were with me
and not the president.
1130
01:02:55,109 --> 01:02:58,487
And I know what a big step
that was for you.
1131
01:02:58,655 --> 01:03:01,406
So, Sydney, I'm in no rush.
1132
01:03:01,574 --> 01:03:04,451
Here's my plan.
We're gonna slow down...
1133
01:03:04,619 --> 01:03:07,996
...and when you're comfortable,
that's when it's gonna happen.
1134
01:03:18,508 --> 01:03:22,594
Perhaps I didn't properly explain
the fundamentals of the slowdown plan.
1135
01:03:23,012 --> 01:03:25,264
No, you explained it great.
1136
01:03:27,934 --> 01:03:29,393
Are you nervous?
1137
01:03:30,937 --> 01:03:33,564
- No.
- Good.
1138
01:03:33,731 --> 01:03:36,900
My nervousness exists on several levels.
1139
01:03:37,068 --> 01:03:40,487
Number one,
and this is in no particular order:
1140
01:03:40,655 --> 01:03:43,282
I haven't done this in a pretty long time.
1141
01:03:43,616 --> 01:03:45,492
Number two, uh:
1142
01:03:45,660 --> 01:03:51,123
Any expectations that you might have,
given the fact that I'm, you know...
1143
01:03:51,833 --> 01:03:54,543
- The most powerful man in the world.
- Exactly, thank you.
1144
01:03:54,711 --> 01:03:58,463
Remember that it's a political distinction
that comes with the office.
1145
01:03:58,631 --> 01:04:03,302
I mean, if, uh, Eisenhower were here
instead of me he'd be dead by now.
1146
01:04:03,469 --> 01:04:05,596
- And number three...
- Andy.
1147
01:04:06,848 --> 01:04:08,307
RUMSON:
Does New Hampshire want...
1148
01:04:08,474 --> 01:04:12,185
...traditional American values
back in the White House?
1149
01:04:12,353 --> 01:04:15,772
[ALL CHEERING]
1150
01:04:15,940 --> 01:04:18,901
Does New Hampshire
want the pride back?
1151
01:04:21,696 --> 01:04:25,908
My name is Bob Rumson,
and I'm running for president.
1152
01:04:31,247 --> 01:04:33,248
[PHONE RINGING]
1153
01:04:39,213 --> 01:04:40,589
Yeah. Ahem.
1154
01:04:43,301 --> 01:04:45,344
Put him through.
1155
01:04:45,511 --> 01:04:50,265
Lewis, it is 5 a.m.
You've got to get yourself a life, man.
1156
01:04:51,184 --> 01:04:52,434
Yeah.
1157
01:04:53,061 --> 01:04:54,770
All right.
1158
01:05:03,655 --> 01:05:06,323
- Sydney.
- Hi.
1159
01:05:06,658 --> 01:05:08,116
Uh, what are you doing?
1160
01:05:08,284 --> 01:05:12,454
Uh, I wanted to leave the building
before the press corps got here.
1161
01:05:13,081 --> 01:05:15,457
I have those same thoughts
every day of my life.
1162
01:05:15,625 --> 01:05:16,667
[SYDNEY CHUCKLES]
1163
01:05:16,834 --> 01:05:18,543
You know Lewis Rothschild, don't you?
1164
01:05:18,711 --> 01:05:22,005
Sure. Boy, Lewis would go nuts
if he knew I spent the night.
1165
01:05:22,173 --> 01:05:24,424
- Well, he's on his way up.
- What?
1166
01:05:24,592 --> 01:05:25,592
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
1167
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:26,802
Come on in, Lewis.
1168
01:05:26,970 --> 01:05:29,137
Morning, Mr. President. Hi, Sydney.
1169
01:05:29,305 --> 01:05:32,057
Hi, Lewis. Well, Mr. President...
1170
01:05:32,767 --> 01:05:36,853
Uh, thanks for taking the time
to go over those fossil-fuel numbers.
1171
01:05:37,021 --> 01:05:39,815
I'll just get my coat, be on my way.
1172
01:05:39,983 --> 01:05:42,609
- So, what's the situation?
- Camped out at every exit.
1173
01:05:42,777 --> 01:05:44,778
Who? Who's camped out?
1174
01:05:44,946 --> 01:05:47,114
- The press.
- The press is camped out?
1175
01:05:47,281 --> 01:05:48,407
You should have taken a cab.
1176
01:05:48,574 --> 01:05:49,616
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
1177
01:05:49,784 --> 01:05:51,493
- They know my car?
- Good morning, Sydney.
1178
01:05:51,661 --> 01:05:53,787
- I came as soon as Lewis called.
- Oh, thank God.
1179
01:05:53,955 --> 01:05:55,956
Let's not look like we're panicking.
1180
01:05:56,124 --> 01:05:59,334
See, the important thing is
actually not to be panicking.
1181
01:05:59,502 --> 01:06:00,544
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
1182
01:06:00,712 --> 01:06:02,421
- Morning, Mr. President.
- Morning.
1183
01:06:02,588 --> 01:06:03,922
- Morning, Miss Wade.
SYDNEY: Hello.
1184
01:06:04,090 --> 01:06:06,216
I see everyone's getting
an early start today.
1185
01:06:06,384 --> 01:06:09,720
How do we exit Sydney from the building
and, uh, what do we say to the press?
1186
01:06:09,887 --> 01:06:11,972
- We need a diversion.
- A diversion?
1187
01:06:12,140 --> 01:06:14,641
I'm not suggesting
that we burn the White House.
1188
01:06:14,809 --> 01:06:16,351
Oh, please, let's do.
1189
01:06:16,519 --> 01:06:19,187
I state clearly that I can't be party
to anything illegal.
1190
01:06:19,355 --> 01:06:20,564
Good for you.
1191
01:06:20,732 --> 01:06:23,483
It's always the guy in my job
who ends up doing 18 months...
1192
01:06:23,651 --> 01:06:25,444
...in a minimum security prison.
1193
01:06:25,611 --> 01:06:28,113
- Rest easy. We won't create a diversion.
- No diversion.
1194
01:06:28,281 --> 01:06:31,241
- Somebody will take you home.
A. J: Esther's over in my office.
1195
01:06:31,409 --> 01:06:35,037
- She has the station wagon standing by.
- Good. Now, press statement.
1196
01:06:35,204 --> 01:06:36,455
Sydney...
1197
01:06:36,622 --> 01:06:40,000
When you leave here, you're gonna run
into reporters and photographers.
1198
01:06:40,168 --> 01:06:44,337
They're gonna take your picture every day.
They're gonna ask you questions every day.
1199
01:06:44,505 --> 01:06:48,050
Answer them, don't answer them,
it's entirely up to you.
1200
01:06:48,509 --> 01:06:53,555
The White House has no official position
except to say, "No comment."
1201
01:06:53,723 --> 01:06:55,974
- No comment?
- The White House does not comment...
1202
01:06:56,142 --> 01:06:59,728
...on the president's personal life.
- We can't leave it at that.
1203
01:06:59,896 --> 01:07:02,022
I tell you what, Lewis. We just did.
1204
01:07:02,190 --> 01:07:03,899
- But, sir...
- Thank you, Mr. President.
1205
01:07:04,067 --> 01:07:05,942
Come, friends. Let us away.
1206
01:07:06,110 --> 01:07:08,528
- Thank you, Mr. President.
ROBIN: Thank you, Mr. President.
1207
01:07:08,696 --> 01:07:10,822
Sydney. Esther will be in my office.
1208
01:07:10,990 --> 01:07:13,325
- Take your time.
- Thanks, A.J.
1209
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,623
Heh, I'm sorry about this.
1210
01:07:20,750 --> 01:07:22,459
We'll do it better next time.
1211
01:07:22,627 --> 01:07:25,504
I'm no expert, but I thought we did it
pretty good this time.
1212
01:07:26,089 --> 01:07:27,547
- No, I didn't mean that.
- I know.
1213
01:07:27,715 --> 01:07:29,049
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
1214
01:07:29,550 --> 01:07:31,676
I had a good time.
1215
01:07:31,928 --> 01:07:34,596
Me too. I'll call you.
1216
01:07:34,764 --> 01:07:38,266
- I'll be in Panama, but I'll call you.
- I'd like that.
1217
01:07:38,434 --> 01:07:39,976
Great.
1218
01:07:41,145 --> 01:07:43,105
- Bye.
- Bye.
1219
01:07:52,532 --> 01:07:55,617
All right. Okay. This is good.
1220
01:07:57,578 --> 01:07:59,121
SYDNEY:
What about an incentive program?
1221
01:07:59,288 --> 01:08:01,623
REPORTER 1: Sydney Ellen Wade,
the political strategist...
1222
01:08:01,791 --> 01:08:05,001
...who accompanied President Shepherd
to last week's state dinner...
1223
01:08:05,169 --> 01:08:08,213
...spent the night at the White House
as a guest to the president.
1224
01:08:08,381 --> 01:08:10,841
REPORTER 2: The president returned
from Panama this evening...
1225
01:08:11,008 --> 01:08:13,593
...after a three-day tour
through Central America.
1226
01:08:13,761 --> 01:08:15,220
His first order of business:
1227
01:08:15,388 --> 01:08:19,391
An intimate dinner with Sydney Wade
at a romantic Georgetown bistro.
1228
01:08:19,559 --> 01:08:21,977
REPORTER 3: Conservative and religious
family organizations...
1229
01:08:22,145 --> 01:08:24,229
...are starting to smell blood
in the water...
1230
01:08:24,397 --> 01:08:26,982
...as the polling numbers
of the president are dropping.
1231
01:08:27,150 --> 01:08:28,650
MAN:
Can you tell us how they met?
1232
01:08:28,818 --> 01:08:32,154
REPORTER 4: Showbiz Weekly
was in Hollywood for the star-studded gala.
1233
01:08:32,321 --> 01:08:36,575
Also on tonight's program,
Day 15 of the Sydney Watch.
1234
01:08:36,742 --> 01:08:39,494
Is the world's most eligible bachelor
off the market?
1235
01:08:39,662 --> 01:08:41,913
MAN [ON RADIO]:
All right. Next caller, you're on the air.
1236
01:08:42,081 --> 01:08:43,748
WOMAN [ON RADIO]:
What about Lucy Shepherd?
1237
01:08:43,916 --> 01:08:46,126
Is anyone concerned about this little girl?
1238
01:08:46,294 --> 01:08:49,379
Can we now finally have a serious debate
about family values?
1239
01:08:49,547 --> 01:08:52,465
- Americans can no longer...
REPORTER 5: Political analyst, Ed Earl.
1240
01:08:52,633 --> 01:08:55,510
With the president's job approval
taking an eight-point dip...
1241
01:08:55,678 --> 01:08:58,513
...from his personal best
of 63 percent three weeks ago...
1242
01:08:58,681 --> 01:09:01,516
...should the White House be concerned
that the girlfriend...
1243
01:09:01,684 --> 01:09:04,186
...has left Shepherd vulnerable
to the questions...
1244
01:09:04,353 --> 01:09:06,062
...he was able to avoid three years ago?
1245
01:09:06,230 --> 01:09:07,814
EARL:
They sure ought to be concerned.
1246
01:09:07,982 --> 01:09:11,109
REPORTER 5: How much
will this new wrinkle affect his ability...
1247
01:09:11,277 --> 01:09:12,986
...to put together a win on his crime bill?
1248
01:09:13,154 --> 01:09:14,905
REPORTER 6:
We'll take a commercial break.
1249
01:09:15,072 --> 01:09:18,450
When we come back, we'll meet a junior
high-school classmate of Sydney...
1250
01:09:18,618 --> 01:09:20,535
...who has some intimate details
to share.
1251
01:09:21,662 --> 01:09:24,247
RUMSON:
I agree with you 110 percent, Mrs. Harper.
1252
01:09:24,415 --> 01:09:26,249
That's why I'm up here
in the dead of winter...
1253
01:09:26,417 --> 01:09:28,335
...talking about it with you folks.
Ha-ha-ha.
1254
01:09:28,502 --> 01:09:30,921
That's very generous of you.
And I'll be taking...
1255
01:09:31,088 --> 01:09:33,256
...that money off your hands right now.
1256
01:09:34,133 --> 01:09:35,508
What've you got?
1257
01:09:35,676 --> 01:09:38,178
Call me Santa Claus, senator.
She's got an FBI file.
1258
01:09:38,346 --> 01:09:42,015
- Oh, shit, Stu. My mother's got an FBI file.
- Yeah, but...
1259
01:09:42,183 --> 01:09:43,850
...I got art.
1260
01:09:45,811 --> 01:09:48,647
It's a demonstration outside
the Department of Commerce.
1261
01:09:48,814 --> 01:09:52,525
The picture's old and some of the faces
are obscured by the fire, but...
1262
01:09:52,860 --> 01:09:54,861
...that's a burning flag...
1263
01:09:55,029 --> 01:09:58,448
...and that's Sydney Ellen Wade
right there in front.
1264
01:09:58,824 --> 01:10:03,828
[SING-SONGY]
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
1265
01:10:04,455 --> 01:10:06,915
Harry. No...
1266
01:10:07,083 --> 01:10:10,252
Harry. Think like a father for a second.
1267
01:10:10,419 --> 01:10:14,047
Wouldn't you like your kids to be able
to take a deep breath when they're 30?
1268
01:10:15,883 --> 01:10:17,509
Thank you.
1269
01:10:18,094 --> 01:10:20,345
You're doing the right thing.
1270
01:10:21,472 --> 01:10:22,847
Tote board's heavy.
1271
01:10:23,015 --> 01:10:25,225
How's this?
1272
01:10:25,559 --> 01:10:27,227
[ALL CHEERING]
1273
01:10:27,395 --> 01:10:29,729
Terrell, North Carolina.
1274
01:10:29,981 --> 01:10:31,940
Hey, Syd. I, uh, saw on your schedule...
1275
01:10:32,108 --> 01:10:34,776
...you're meeting with McSorley,
McCluskey and Shane?
1276
01:10:35,278 --> 01:10:38,780
Yeah. The Motown Three said
they'd give me 30 minutes next week.
1277
01:10:38,990 --> 01:10:41,324
Sydney, these are people
who represent people...
1278
01:10:41,492 --> 01:10:43,118
...who make cars for a living.
1279
01:10:43,286 --> 01:10:45,245
- Yeah?
DAVID: Cars, you understand...
1280
01:10:45,413 --> 01:10:46,955
...run on gasoline.
1281
01:10:47,123 --> 01:10:49,291
Hey. I know it's a long shot.
1282
01:10:49,458 --> 01:10:52,752
But if I can get one of them,
it'll be a huge payoff in visibility.
1283
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:56,381
If we're gonna try, we should do
some prep work. Want to, uh, order in?
1284
01:10:56,549 --> 01:10:59,050
Uh, I can't. I'm having dinner
at the White House.
1285
01:10:59,218 --> 01:11:02,220
- Uh, so let's start early tomorrow. Say, 7:30?
DAVID: Okay.
1286
01:11:02,388 --> 01:11:05,223
I'm, uh, having lunch at the Kremlin,
so we'll have to...
1287
01:11:05,391 --> 01:11:07,642
...start even earlier than that.
- Good night.
1288
01:11:07,810 --> 01:11:09,853
DAVID: In order for me to catch
the plane to Moscow.
1289
01:11:10,021 --> 01:11:11,479
Good night, David.
1290
01:11:12,231 --> 01:11:13,940
[THUNDER CRASHES]
1291
01:11:14,442 --> 01:11:19,070
Douglas, does the NRA have videotapes
of you playing golf with Satan?
1292
01:11:19,238 --> 01:11:21,114
We've softened the assault weapons.
1293
01:11:21,282 --> 01:11:24,951
We're leaving the SKS, the Mini-14
and 250 other types on the street.
1294
01:11:25,119 --> 01:11:28,788
I mean, how much pull
can one lobby have?
1295
01:11:29,248 --> 01:11:31,416
Uh, we'll continue
this conversation tomorrow.
1296
01:11:31,584 --> 01:11:36,463
I'm late for the party fundraiser and,
Douglas, I'll put in a good word for you.
1297
01:11:36,630 --> 01:11:37,881
You're incredibly late.
1298
01:11:38,049 --> 01:11:41,134
Excuse me, I spoke
with the federal mediator in St. Louis.
1299
01:11:41,302 --> 01:11:43,678
Management walked off.
Baggage handlers, pilots...
1300
01:11:43,846 --> 01:11:46,848
...and flight attendants
are getting set to walk out in 48 hours.
1301
01:11:47,016 --> 01:11:50,769
I studied under a Nobel-Prize-winning
economist. You know what he taught me?
1302
01:11:50,936 --> 01:11:54,564
- Never have an airline strike at Christmas?
- I'm going to St. Louis.
1303
01:11:54,732 --> 01:11:57,484
- You can leave straight from the fundraiser.
- Thanks, A.J.
1304
01:11:57,943 --> 01:11:59,110
Good luck, Mr. President.
1305
01:12:00,321 --> 01:12:02,322
Liberty's moving.
1306
01:12:04,992 --> 01:12:07,786
- Mr. President. Can we have a moment?
JANIE: He's incredibly late.
1307
01:12:07,953 --> 01:12:10,080
Hop in, we'll talk in the car.
1308
01:12:11,791 --> 01:12:14,125
SHEPHERD: What is it?
LEWIS: We have a small problem.
1309
01:12:14,293 --> 01:12:16,586
ROBIN: It could've been small.
It's a medium nightmare.
1310
01:12:16,754 --> 01:12:19,923
LEWIS: It's an opportunity.
ROBIN: It could have been if we'd caught it.
1311
01:12:20,091 --> 01:12:21,549
- We caught it.
- At 5:45.
1312
01:12:21,717 --> 01:12:24,219
It doesn't do me any good.
Network news is in make-up.
1313
01:12:24,387 --> 01:12:28,765
- Twelve people work for you...
- Guys, do I have to be here for this?
1314
01:12:28,933 --> 01:12:32,519
Sorry, sir. Uh, it's on the evening news,
it's buried as the third story.
1315
01:12:32,686 --> 01:12:34,187
It's got a bullet.
1316
01:12:34,355 --> 01:12:37,482
Sydney was at a protest rally.
They burned a flag.
1317
01:12:37,650 --> 01:12:39,734
- Today?
LEWIS: About 13 years ago.
1318
01:12:39,902 --> 01:12:43,071
In front of the Department of Commerce.
Anti-apartheid.
1319
01:12:44,073 --> 01:12:45,990
Uh, let me see if I got this.
1320
01:12:46,158 --> 01:12:47,951
The third story on the news...
1321
01:12:48,119 --> 01:12:51,538
...was that someone I didn't know
13 years ago, when I wasn't president...
1322
01:12:51,705 --> 01:12:55,750
...went to a demonstration where no laws
were broken, in protest of something...
1323
01:12:55,918 --> 01:12:59,796
...that so many people were against,
doesn't exist anymore.
1324
01:12:59,964 --> 01:13:02,674
Just out of curiosity,
what was the fourth story?
1325
01:13:03,175 --> 01:13:05,635
Right. See, I think it's important
when we deal with it...
1326
01:13:05,803 --> 01:13:07,554
SHEPHERD:
Don't deal with it.
1327
01:13:07,721 --> 01:13:10,306
- Excuse me?
- Trying to get us to swing at the dirt.
1328
01:13:10,474 --> 01:13:12,559
Nobody wins these fights. It'll go away.
1329
01:13:15,813 --> 01:13:18,231
LEWIS: Sir, I'm not sure
that's the wisest course of action.
1330
01:13:18,399 --> 01:13:20,483
SHEPHERD: Hell.
ROBIN: It's already distracting you.
1331
01:13:21,402 --> 01:13:22,694
SHEPHERD:
No. You reminded me
1332
01:13:22,862 --> 01:13:24,904
I'm supposed to have dinner
with Sydney tonight.
1333
01:13:25,990 --> 01:13:28,867
Oh, it's terrific. Beth, I love it.
1334
01:13:29,034 --> 01:13:32,829
I can't believe I'm loaning you clothes.
I thought you owned everything.
1335
01:13:32,997 --> 01:13:34,122
Well, work clothes.
1336
01:13:34,290 --> 01:13:37,834
I always wear a suit at the White House.
I thought a dress would be nice.
1337
01:13:38,002 --> 01:13:40,879
Go ahead. Try it on.
I brought earrings too.
1338
01:13:41,046 --> 01:13:43,131
[PHONE RINGING]
1339
01:13:43,299 --> 01:13:45,133
- Hello.
SHEPHERD: Hi, what are you doing?
1340
01:13:45,301 --> 01:13:47,385
Uh, just trying on dresses.
1341
01:13:47,553 --> 01:13:50,388
I feel terrible,
but I'll have to cancel our date tonight.
1342
01:13:50,556 --> 01:13:52,265
SYDNEY: Another woman?
- Heh, no.
1343
01:13:52,433 --> 01:13:55,477
I've gotta go to St. Louis
to avert a massive airline strike.
1344
01:13:55,644 --> 01:13:57,937
If I had a nickel for every time
I heard that one.
1345
01:13:58,105 --> 01:13:59,939
Thanks for understanding.
I'll call you later.
1346
01:14:00,107 --> 01:14:01,733
Okay, bye.
1347
01:14:02,860 --> 01:14:05,111
Oh, I hate doing that.
She was trying on dresses.
1348
01:14:05,279 --> 01:14:07,238
LEWIS:
I tell any girl I'm going out with...
1349
01:14:07,406 --> 01:14:10,783
...to assume that all plans are soft
until she receives confirmation...
1350
01:14:10,951 --> 01:14:14,037
...30 minutes beforehand.
- And they find this romantic?
1351
01:14:14,205 --> 01:14:15,997
I say it with a great deal of charm.
1352
01:14:16,165 --> 01:14:19,083
Look! There it is!
Carmen's House of Flowers.
1353
01:14:19,251 --> 01:14:20,627
- Coop, we gotta stop.
LEWIS: What?
1354
01:14:20,794 --> 01:14:22,253
I gotta get her flowers.
1355
01:14:22,421 --> 01:14:23,505
- Here?
- Now?
1356
01:14:23,672 --> 01:14:25,548
That's what men do
when they break a date.
1357
01:14:25,716 --> 01:14:27,926
That's not what men do.
I don't know men who do that.
1358
01:14:28,093 --> 01:14:30,220
I'm gonna hop out at the flower shop.
1359
01:14:30,387 --> 01:14:32,347
- You'll "hop out," sir?
- He's not hopping.
1360
01:14:32,515 --> 01:14:33,890
No hopping, sir.
1361
01:14:34,183 --> 01:14:37,435
- Stay in the car. I'll get the flowers.
SHEPHERD: It's not gonna be personal.
1362
01:14:37,603 --> 01:14:40,855
LEWIS: Let them do a security sweep.
We don't know who's in there.
1363
01:14:41,023 --> 01:14:45,568
The florist is planning an assassination
on the off-chance I might stop by?
1364
01:14:45,736 --> 01:14:47,153
It's possible.
1365
01:14:47,696 --> 01:14:49,656
WOMAN:
No, no.
1366
01:14:49,823 --> 01:14:52,742
You're not hearing me.
Listen to what I'm saying.
1367
01:14:52,952 --> 01:14:55,578
It was at the basketball game.
1368
01:14:55,746 --> 01:14:56,829
Excuse me.
1369
01:14:56,997 --> 01:14:59,541
No, girl, at the game.
Kiki wasn't even there.
1370
01:14:59,708 --> 01:15:02,293
- Excuse me?
- Ha, ha. Ugh, hold on.
1371
01:15:02,670 --> 01:15:04,921
I will be right with you.
1372
01:15:05,089 --> 01:15:08,299
SHEPHERD: I don't know if you're the one
I talked to on the phone...
1373
01:15:08,467 --> 01:15:11,386
Virginia, dogwood, president...
1374
01:15:11,554 --> 01:15:14,597
Does any of this ring a bell?
1375
01:15:14,765 --> 01:15:16,808
Same girl, she remembered me.
1376
01:15:17,810 --> 01:15:20,812
RUMSON: I'm glad to see
that the president has a girlfriend.
1377
01:15:20,980 --> 01:15:22,438
Never mind...
1378
01:15:22,606 --> 01:15:27,694
...that she's the hired gun of an
ultra-liberal political action committee.
1379
01:15:29,446 --> 01:15:30,905
Never mind...
1380
01:15:31,073 --> 01:15:33,324
...that the president takes the 5th...
1381
01:15:33,492 --> 01:15:37,912
...any time a reporter has the temerity
to ask him a question about a woman...
1382
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:41,249
...in a position
to exert enormous influence...
1383
01:15:41,417 --> 01:15:44,961
...over a huge range of issues.
1384
01:15:46,297 --> 01:15:50,008
Never mind that this woman's idea of how
to unwind at the end of a tough day...
1385
01:15:50,175 --> 01:15:52,719
...is to get together with her ACLU pals...
1386
01:15:52,970 --> 01:15:55,263
...and to set American flags on fire.
1387
01:15:57,933 --> 01:16:00,893
No reaction from the White House.
1388
01:16:01,687 --> 01:16:04,105
SHEPHERD: It doesn't need to be dignified
with a response.
1389
01:16:04,273 --> 01:16:06,733
There's no upside. I'm leaving it alone.
1390
01:16:06,984 --> 01:16:08,651
SYDNEY:
What do Lewis and Robin think?
1391
01:16:08,819 --> 01:16:10,737
Brutus and Cassius, heh?
1392
01:16:10,904 --> 01:16:13,656
They want me to get into
a character debate and mix it up.
1393
01:16:13,824 --> 01:16:16,117
Lewis and Robin are very smart.
1394
01:16:16,285 --> 01:16:19,245
- Sydney says you guys are really stupid.
SYDNEY: I didn't say that.
1395
01:16:19,413 --> 01:16:22,707
- She's questioning your loyalty.
- I question it all the time.
1396
01:16:22,875 --> 01:16:25,627
Wait a minute.
Here comes my favorite part.
1397
01:16:25,794 --> 01:16:30,089
My name is Bob Rumson
and I'm running for president.
1398
01:16:30,257 --> 01:16:34,719
Glad he cleared that up because the crowd
was about to buy some Amway products.
1399
01:16:34,887 --> 01:16:36,763
His numbers are climbing.
1400
01:16:36,930 --> 01:16:39,057
Sydney, his numbers
have nowhere to go but up.
1401
01:16:39,224 --> 01:16:41,017
SYDNEY:
What about yours?
1402
01:16:41,185 --> 01:16:44,646
Ugh, we'll be back up in the 60s
once I get the votes for the crime bill.
1403
01:16:44,813 --> 01:16:46,230
So, what are you doing this weekend?
1404
01:16:46,398 --> 01:16:49,567
Uh, I've got work
I was going to bring home. Why?
1405
01:16:49,735 --> 01:16:51,527
Well, negotiations are going pretty well.
1406
01:16:51,695 --> 01:16:54,572
Looks like the nation's
going to keep on flying and, uh...
1407
01:16:54,740 --> 01:16:57,241
...Lucy's spending Saturday night
at a friend's house.
1408
01:16:57,409 --> 01:16:58,951
What do you have in mind?
1409
01:17:02,456 --> 01:17:04,040
You ever been to Camp David?
1410
01:17:04,208 --> 01:17:05,458
[CHUCKLES]
1411
01:17:05,626 --> 01:17:08,294
Camp David. Sure.
I used to go there all the time...
1412
01:17:08,462 --> 01:17:10,922
...but then they changed chefs and I...
1413
01:17:11,090 --> 01:17:14,133
It's sass, right? You're sassing me.
1414
01:17:14,301 --> 01:17:15,843
Ha, ha, yes.
1415
01:17:16,011 --> 01:17:18,763
I'm gonna have somebody pick you up
on Saturday morning.
1416
01:17:18,931 --> 01:17:21,140
Okay. Bye.
1417
01:17:21,308 --> 01:17:22,767
Bye.
1418
01:17:36,156 --> 01:17:39,492
SYDNEY: Mm, good God.
SHEPHERD: What?
1419
01:17:39,660 --> 01:17:43,162
SYDNEY: I'm looking at your college
transcripts. This isn't human.
1420
01:17:43,330 --> 01:17:47,291
Nobody gets this many A's.
You were like a Stepford student. Ha, ha.
1421
01:17:47,459 --> 01:17:49,460
Still reading that ridiculous biography?
1422
01:17:49,628 --> 01:17:52,171
No. I finished
Shepherd: Road to the White House.
1423
01:17:52,339 --> 01:17:54,799
Now I'm on to
Shepherd: The Early Years.
1424
01:17:54,967 --> 01:17:57,802
SHEPHERD: Seven trillion dollar
communication system at my disposal...
1425
01:17:57,970 --> 01:18:03,224
...and I can't find out if the Packers won.
- Oh, Andy. C-minus in Women's Studies.
1426
01:18:03,392 --> 01:18:04,434
That course wasn't about...
1427
01:18:04,601 --> 01:18:06,769
...what I thought it was going to be about.
- Ha-ha-ha.
1428
01:18:06,937 --> 01:18:09,272
MAN [ON TV]: President Shepherd
was in Maryland this week...
1429
01:18:09,440 --> 01:18:12,150
...for his routine physical exam.
1430
01:18:12,317 --> 01:18:16,863
Doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital
pronounced him in excellent health.
1431
01:18:17,030 --> 01:18:20,575
Who cares? Just give us the scores.
1432
01:18:21,118 --> 01:18:23,786
REPORTER [ON TV]: While the president
spent the day at Camp David...
1433
01:18:23,954 --> 01:18:25,329
...GOP presidential hopeful...
1434
01:18:25,497 --> 01:18:29,667
...Robert Rumson, continued his attacks
on President Shepherd's character.
1435
01:18:29,835 --> 01:18:33,921
During the Saturday news program,
Capitol Review with Kenneth Michaels...
1436
01:18:34,089 --> 01:18:35,965
...Senator Rumson suggested that...
1437
01:18:36,133 --> 01:18:38,551
...GDC political director,
Sydney Ellen Wade...
1438
01:18:38,719 --> 01:18:41,512
...whose close personal relationship
with the president...
1439
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:44,557
...has caused the White House headaches
for two months...
1440
01:18:44,725 --> 01:18:49,854
...may have traded sexual favors for key
votes in the Virginia State Legislature...
1441
01:18:50,022 --> 01:18:53,065
...while lobbying for
the Virginia Teachers Association.
1442
01:18:53,901 --> 01:18:57,153
- That's a heck of an accusation to make...
- I'm not saying...
1443
01:18:57,321 --> 01:19:00,156
Let me be very clear.
I'm not making an accusation.
1444
01:19:00,324 --> 01:19:03,451
I am saying, when you hear one thing,
you dismiss it.
1445
01:19:03,619 --> 01:19:04,952
You hear two, you dismiss it.
1446
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:09,999
But when several, several well-respected
members and former members...
1447
01:19:10,167 --> 01:19:13,127
...of the Virginia State Legislature...
MAN: Can you give us names?
1448
01:19:13,295 --> 01:19:16,839
- He's making this up as he goes along.
- I'm so sorry, Sydney.
1449
01:19:17,007 --> 01:19:19,509
I don't know what we call her.
The First Mistress?
1450
01:19:19,676 --> 01:19:22,470
Oh, man. My father heard that.
1451
01:19:22,638 --> 01:19:24,847
He's just gonna have to turn a deaf ear.
1452
01:19:25,015 --> 01:19:28,142
My father doesn't have a deaf ear.
He hears fine out of both.
1453
01:19:28,310 --> 01:19:31,187
So do I and so does my sister
and so does my friends.
1454
01:19:31,355 --> 01:19:32,605
You're the only one who...
1455
01:19:32,773 --> 01:19:36,150
I can't challenge a school bully to a fight
because he picks on my girlfriend.
1456
01:19:36,318 --> 01:19:41,113
I'm not asking you to. I can take care
of myself. It's not about me.
1457
01:19:41,281 --> 01:19:43,366
How can you keep quiet?
1458
01:19:43,534 --> 01:19:46,577
How do you have patience for people
who claim to love America...
1459
01:19:46,745 --> 01:19:48,996
...but clearly can't stand Americans?
1460
01:19:50,165 --> 01:19:54,919
I have one election left. I don't have
the luxury of losing my patience.
1461
01:19:57,714 --> 01:20:02,468
I, um... I want to say something to you
but I'm going to fumble it a little bit.
1462
01:20:02,719 --> 01:20:06,556
So, please, just wait till I'm done
before you respond.
1463
01:20:06,723 --> 01:20:07,974
[SIGHS]
1464
01:20:08,141 --> 01:20:11,561
I'm in love with you. I'm certain of it.
1465
01:20:11,728 --> 01:20:14,939
And I want to be with you
more than anything...
1466
01:20:15,107 --> 01:20:19,735
...but maybe things would be better for you
if I just disappeared for a while.
1467
01:20:21,405 --> 01:20:24,532
Things will be better
when I pass the crime bill.
1468
01:20:24,700 --> 01:20:26,868
And if you disappeared...
1469
01:20:27,035 --> 01:20:28,744
...I'd find you.
1470
01:20:29,538 --> 01:20:31,581
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
1471
01:20:37,379 --> 01:20:38,963
SHEPHERD: Hi, Gil.
GIL: Mr. President...
1472
01:20:39,131 --> 01:20:43,217
Um, Mr. President, militant women are out
to destroy college football in this country.
1473
01:20:43,385 --> 01:20:45,011
SHEPHERD: Is that a fact?
GIL: Yes, sir.
1474
01:20:45,178 --> 01:20:47,847
Have you been following
the situation down in Atlanta?
1475
01:20:48,015 --> 01:20:53,644
No. Uh, these women want parity
for girls' softball, volleyball, field hockey...
1476
01:20:53,812 --> 01:20:57,607
If I'm not mistaken, the courts
ruled on Title IX about 20 years ago.
1477
01:20:57,774 --> 01:21:01,485
Yes, sir, but what I'm saying now is
these women want that law enforced.
1478
01:21:01,653 --> 01:21:03,654
- It's a world gone mad.
- It is, sir.
1479
01:21:03,822 --> 01:21:05,573
- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas.
1480
01:21:05,741 --> 01:21:06,866
Come meet some people.
1481
01:21:07,868 --> 01:21:09,827
LEON:
You see, the country has mood swings.
1482
01:21:09,995 --> 01:21:11,203
LEWIS: Mood swings?
LEON: Yeah.
1483
01:21:11,371 --> 01:21:14,957
Nineteen postgraduate degrees
in math and your best explanation...
1484
01:21:15,125 --> 01:21:18,544
...for going from a 63 to 46 percent
approval rating in five weeks...
1485
01:21:18,712 --> 01:21:19,837
...is mood swings?
1486
01:21:20,005 --> 01:21:23,758
Well, I could explain it better,
but I'd need charts, graphs and an easel.
1487
01:21:23,926 --> 01:21:26,177
Fellas, we haven't slept in three years.
1488
01:21:26,345 --> 01:21:29,889
Can't we forget about work for one night
and enjoy each other as friends?
1489
01:21:30,057 --> 01:21:32,183
- It's Christmas.
- It's Christmas?
1490
01:21:32,351 --> 01:21:34,352
Yeah. You didn't get the memo?
1491
01:21:38,649 --> 01:21:41,817
ESTHER: Sydney. Merry Christmas.
- Hi, Esther, hi.
1492
01:21:41,985 --> 01:21:43,194
A. J:
Hello, Sydney.
1493
01:21:43,362 --> 01:21:44,528
Merry Christmas, A.J.
1494
01:21:44,696 --> 01:21:47,031
And a merry Christmas to you.
Where have you been?
1495
01:21:47,199 --> 01:21:48,658
I got stuck on Dupont Circle.
1496
01:21:48,825 --> 01:21:50,326
[ALL CHUCKLE]
1497
01:21:50,494 --> 01:21:54,038
I can never remember which lane
I'm supposed to take.
1498
01:21:54,206 --> 01:21:56,415
Then I got cut off by
this idiot cab driver...
1499
01:21:56,583 --> 01:21:58,501
...who starts screaming at me
that it's my fault.
1500
01:21:58,669 --> 01:21:59,961
Come on, it's Christmas.
1501
01:22:00,128 --> 01:22:02,713
Hi, Syd. Did you get stuck
on Dupont Circle again?
1502
01:22:02,881 --> 01:22:04,215
[ALL LAUGH]
1503
01:22:04,383 --> 01:22:06,008
It's not funny. I hate that place.
1504
01:22:06,218 --> 01:22:08,719
Can't you declare it
a federal disaster area?
1505
01:22:08,887 --> 01:22:11,681
- I'll look into it.
- What were you doing up on the hill?
1506
01:22:11,848 --> 01:22:14,183
Oh, I had a terrible meeting today.
1507
01:22:14,351 --> 01:22:16,769
I totally lost my cool
with McSorley, McCluskey and Shane.
1508
01:22:16,937 --> 01:22:19,689
Heh, you went up to see
the Motown Three?
1509
01:22:19,856 --> 01:22:20,940
I pitched them the bill.
1510
01:22:21,108 --> 01:22:23,693
- On its merits?
- The woman has no fear.
1511
01:22:23,860 --> 01:22:27,196
She'd lobby the Carolinas
for the American Lung Association.
1512
01:22:27,364 --> 01:22:29,490
- It was a disaster.
A. J: You're in good company.
1513
01:22:29,658 --> 01:22:32,994
I sat with them. They said there was
nothing on the domestic agenda...
1514
01:22:33,161 --> 01:22:36,122
...they were more committed to defeating
than the crime bill.
1515
01:22:36,289 --> 01:22:38,124
Well, congratulations, fellas.
1516
01:22:38,291 --> 01:22:41,335
Because McSorley told me
the only thing on the domestic agenda...
1517
01:22:41,503 --> 01:22:45,715
...that they were more committed to
defeating was the fossil-fuel package.
1518
01:22:46,133 --> 01:22:48,342
- You're kidding?
SYDNEY: No, I'm not kidding.
1519
01:22:48,510 --> 01:22:50,720
It's funny, that he used the same words.
1520
01:22:50,887 --> 01:22:53,097
Yeah, Pep Boys don't know
too many words.
1521
01:22:53,265 --> 01:22:56,934
I'm gonna get a drink and shake this off.
Then I'll have some Christmas spirit.
1522
01:22:57,102 --> 01:22:58,602
Okay.
1523
01:22:59,563 --> 01:23:01,022
Are you okay?
1524
01:23:01,189 --> 01:23:02,898
I'm fine, yeah. Heh, I'm fine.
1525
01:23:03,066 --> 01:23:05,860
- Come on, I'll lead the way.
- Thank you.
1526
01:23:06,028 --> 01:23:09,822
BOB: Merry Christmas, Mr. President.
- Happy holidays, Bob.
1527
01:23:10,032 --> 01:23:12,450
Did what I think just happened
just happen?
1528
01:23:12,617 --> 01:23:16,203
Did the GDC's political director tell
the president and the chief of staff...
1529
01:23:16,371 --> 01:23:19,123
...that three votes on the crime bill
can be bought...
1530
01:23:19,291 --> 01:23:21,292
...by sticking the fossil-fuel package
in a drawer?
1531
01:23:21,460 --> 01:23:24,211
No, GDC's political director
didn't tell us anything.
1532
01:23:24,379 --> 01:23:28,215
Sydney Wade told her boyfriend and
his best friend that she had a lousy day.
1533
01:23:28,383 --> 01:23:30,551
It doesn't change the facts,
Mr. President.
1534
01:23:30,719 --> 01:23:35,389
If Sydney gets her 24 votes and we're three
votes shy, there's maneuvering to be done.
1535
01:23:35,557 --> 01:23:37,183
- I made a promise.
- You made a deal.
1536
01:23:37,350 --> 01:23:39,351
- I made it with Sydney.
- With the GDC.
1537
01:23:39,519 --> 01:23:41,896
It's all academic.
We won't need those three votes.
1538
01:23:42,064 --> 01:23:48,027
Sir, if your approval rating continues
to drop, things are going to get tight.
1539
01:23:50,947 --> 01:23:53,824
I've been hearing rumors that your boss
is wavering on the crime bill.
1540
01:23:53,992 --> 01:23:56,786
Heh, I wouldn't listen to rumors.
You know this town.
1541
01:23:56,953 --> 01:23:58,621
That's what I wanted to hear.
1542
01:23:58,830 --> 01:24:02,249
I'll tell you, my boss is starting to waver
on the crime bill.
1543
01:24:02,417 --> 01:24:06,754
Sydney, everybody cares about
the environment during a phone survey.
1544
01:24:06,922 --> 01:24:11,675
On election day, nobody gives a damn.
That's, uh... That's why you have a job.
1545
01:24:11,843 --> 01:24:13,552
Congressman, on election day...
1546
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:16,764
...people give a damn about what I tell them
to give a damn about.
1547
01:24:16,932 --> 01:24:18,057
That's why I have a job.
1548
01:24:18,975 --> 01:24:20,601
She got Pennybaker.
1549
01:24:20,769 --> 01:24:23,062
[CHEERING]
1550
01:24:23,230 --> 01:24:25,606
LEWIS: It was our understanding
we had your support.
1551
01:24:25,774 --> 01:24:28,567
Look, I like you, boy. Always have.
1552
01:24:28,735 --> 01:24:31,654
But for God's sake,
does the woman have to spend the night?
1553
01:24:31,905 --> 01:24:34,824
We've got the full backing
of the White House, Katherine.
1554
01:24:34,991 --> 01:24:36,951
Yes, at 20 percent.
1555
01:24:37,119 --> 01:24:40,079
Three more votes.
The president sends it to the Hill.
1556
01:24:41,081 --> 01:24:42,790
Katey, Katey...
1557
01:24:42,958 --> 01:24:47,002
Ten years from now, any car with an internal
combustion engine will be a collectible.
1558
01:24:47,170 --> 01:24:49,630
Come onboard.
We'll make your Volvo a classic.
1559
01:24:49,798 --> 01:24:51,882
Congressman,
the assault weapons are gone.
1560
01:24:52,050 --> 01:24:53,467
The bill is priced to move.
1561
01:24:53,635 --> 01:24:56,470
The bill isn't the issue.
1562
01:24:56,638 --> 01:24:59,390
I'm facing a serious challenge
in November.
1563
01:24:59,558 --> 01:25:02,101
The president's coattails aren't
what they used to be.
1564
01:25:02,269 --> 01:25:05,771
The president's coattails will have room
for you. You just leave that to us.
1565
01:25:05,939 --> 01:25:08,816
We left that to you
and now the president's in a free fall.
1566
01:25:08,984 --> 01:25:11,360
LEON: I wouldn't say he's in a free fall...
- Fellas.
1567
01:25:12,028 --> 01:25:13,904
I just can't give you my vote.
1568
01:25:14,072 --> 01:25:18,117
A.J., the well is drying up. He's gotta make
a move or we'll die fast and quiet.
1569
01:25:18,285 --> 01:25:20,578
So, what if I do
a detailed, public-opinion poll?
1570
01:25:20,745 --> 01:25:23,038
- And we put Sydney in the new model.
- Right.
1571
01:25:24,416 --> 01:25:27,168
A.J., it's meaningless
unless we ask them about Sydney.
1572
01:25:29,796 --> 01:25:31,839
All right, fine. Let's do it.
1573
01:25:33,508 --> 01:25:37,303
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
1574
01:25:38,388 --> 01:25:40,347
[OPERA MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
1575
01:25:50,984 --> 01:25:53,569
Mm. Mm. Oh!
1576
01:25:53,737 --> 01:25:56,113
It's delicious. Thank you.
1577
01:25:56,698 --> 01:25:59,867
- Is there any more?
- Tons. I didn't think you liked it.
1578
01:26:00,035 --> 01:26:02,119
You kidding? Of course, I did.
1579
01:26:02,287 --> 01:26:06,207
It's not for me. The agent who checked
the food thought it was delicious too.
1580
01:26:06,374 --> 01:26:07,750
I told him I'd bring him some.
1581
01:26:07,918 --> 01:26:10,669
- So you didn't like it.
- No, I loved it.
1582
01:26:10,837 --> 01:26:12,379
- You're lying.
- No, I'm not.
1583
01:26:12,547 --> 01:26:16,091
I can tell when you're holding something
back. You do a thing with your face.
1584
01:26:16,259 --> 01:26:18,802
When have you ever seen me
do a thing with my face?
1585
01:26:18,970 --> 01:26:20,596
Two days before I met you.
1586
01:26:20,764 --> 01:26:25,017
You gave a speech for the Daughters
of the American Revolution. I was there.
1587
01:26:25,185 --> 01:26:27,144
- You were?
- You remember the speech?
1588
01:26:27,312 --> 01:26:28,354
Vaguely.
1589
01:26:28,521 --> 01:26:31,857
"Americans can no longer afford to pretend
they live in a great society."
1590
01:26:32,025 --> 01:26:33,067
Ah, yes.
1591
01:26:33,235 --> 01:26:36,737
- There was supposed to be something after.
- How did you know that?
1592
01:26:37,197 --> 01:26:39,406
I've told you, the face.
1593
01:26:43,620 --> 01:26:44,787
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
1594
01:26:48,333 --> 01:26:50,292
Ooh, wow! Mm.
1595
01:26:50,460 --> 01:26:51,919
What's the occasion?
1596
01:26:52,087 --> 01:26:55,214
You're looking at a lady
who's two votes shy of the promised land.
1597
01:26:55,382 --> 01:26:57,466
- Two votes?
- I got Pennybaker.
1598
01:26:57,717 --> 01:27:01,553
- That got me Cass and Zimmer.
- That's great. That's great work, Sydney.
1599
01:27:01,721 --> 01:27:02,930
Well, I'm not there, yet.
1600
01:27:03,098 --> 01:27:06,308
No matter what happens, you have
every reason to be proud of yourself.
1601
01:27:06,518 --> 01:27:08,978
No, I'll be proud
when I see you sign the bill.
1602
01:27:09,646 --> 01:27:11,313
Well, yeah.
1603
01:27:12,232 --> 01:27:13,482
Andy...
1604
01:27:13,984 --> 01:27:16,151
You're doing that thing with your face.
1605
01:27:20,323 --> 01:27:22,408
How are the numbers?
1606
01:27:22,575 --> 01:27:24,034
- Bad.
ROBIN: How bad?
1607
01:27:24,202 --> 01:27:26,120
Forty-one. Character, across the board.
1608
01:27:26,288 --> 01:27:28,289
Oh, come on, George, don't tell me that!
1609
01:27:28,456 --> 01:27:30,833
- Who is Lewis on with?
LEON: Jarrett.
1610
01:27:31,167 --> 01:27:32,668
Trying to keep his fingers in the dam.
1611
01:27:32,836 --> 01:27:35,796
You're supposed to be
a United States' Congressman.
1612
01:27:36,589 --> 01:27:40,884
But we're not gonna stay at 41.
The numbers are gonna go back up.
1613
01:27:41,052 --> 01:27:42,886
But they're gonna go back up.
1614
01:27:43,346 --> 01:27:45,764
All right, George... Congressman.
1615
01:27:46,141 --> 01:27:49,768
Congressman Jarrett...
Look, George, listen to me.
1616
01:27:49,936 --> 01:27:52,229
It's crunch time. It's personal.
1617
01:27:52,397 --> 01:27:55,357
This is one of those moments.
It's just you and the president.
1618
01:27:55,525 --> 01:27:57,651
Now, what's it going to be?
1619
01:28:00,530 --> 01:28:01,780
Yeah.
1620
01:28:03,491 --> 01:28:06,452
Yeah. Yeah, all right.
Can I tell you something?
1621
01:28:06,619 --> 01:28:09,496
We're gonna win this thing.
We'll get the votes and we'll win.
1622
01:28:09,664 --> 01:28:11,582
You know what I'm gonna do
that very night?
1623
01:28:11,750 --> 01:28:13,917
I'll go to Sam and Harry's
and order a big steak...
1624
01:28:14,085 --> 01:28:16,545
...and make a list of everybody
who tried to fuck us this week!
1625
01:28:16,713 --> 01:28:18,630
- Lewis!
- Yeah, well, just vote your conscience...
1626
01:28:18,798 --> 01:28:21,050
...you chicken-shit lame-ass!
1627
01:28:23,553 --> 01:28:24,845
We lost Jarrett.
1628
01:28:25,013 --> 01:28:29,767
I hope so. If that was an undecided,
then we need to work on our people skills.
1629
01:28:29,976 --> 01:28:31,310
Yeah, hi, Karen, it's Lewis.
1630
01:28:31,478 --> 01:28:34,355
I need you to find Congressman Quincy
for me right away.
1631
01:28:38,151 --> 01:28:39,902
We lost Quincy too.
1632
01:28:43,073 --> 01:28:44,656
Did he give a reason?
1633
01:28:44,991 --> 01:28:47,785
Yeah, he thinks your numbers
aren't likely to rebound.
1634
01:28:49,913 --> 01:28:52,414
LEON:
We're three votes down again, sir.
1635
01:28:54,250 --> 01:28:57,961
Mr. President, as of this morning,
Sydney only needed one more vote.
1636
01:28:58,129 --> 01:29:00,172
The Motown Three
have gotta be scared blind.
1637
01:29:00,340 --> 01:29:02,841
I don't think there will be
a better opportunity.
1638
01:29:03,009 --> 01:29:06,720
The press expects an announcement
on the crime bill by the State of the Union.
1639
01:29:06,888 --> 01:29:09,807
If you agree to stick 455 in the drawer
until after the elections...
1640
01:29:09,974 --> 01:29:13,560
...they'll give you the three votes.
ROBIN: And we declare victory, sir.
1641
01:29:15,271 --> 01:29:17,731
We said, "as a last resort."
1642
01:29:17,899 --> 01:29:20,692
We're there, sir.
State of the Union is 48 hours away.
1643
01:29:20,860 --> 01:29:23,404
- There must be three votes someplace.
LEON: There isn't.
1644
01:29:23,571 --> 01:29:25,864
- Bullshit! There's gotta be.
LEON: There isn't.
1645
01:29:26,032 --> 01:29:27,408
- Storch.
- Beg your pardon?
1646
01:29:27,575 --> 01:29:29,576
- What about Storch?
- No, Storch is a "no."
1647
01:29:29,744 --> 01:29:31,286
Mr. President...
1648
01:29:31,788 --> 01:29:33,288
- Wagner?
LEON: No.
1649
01:29:33,456 --> 01:29:35,332
- Sobel? Clark?
- No. No.
1650
01:29:35,500 --> 01:29:37,251
Not that Clark. The one from Indiana.
1651
01:29:37,419 --> 01:29:39,002
That one too, sir.
1652
01:29:39,379 --> 01:29:41,296
Mr. President.
I think we have to do this.
1653
01:29:41,464 --> 01:29:44,383
A.J., she is one vote away.
1654
01:29:44,551 --> 01:29:48,429
It's important legislation that
for the first time has a legitimate chance.
1655
01:29:48,596 --> 01:29:51,640
- She deserves every opportunity.
LEWIS: "She"?
1656
01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:54,226
You meant "it," didn't you, sir?
1657
01:29:54,769 --> 01:29:57,271
"The legislation" deserves
every opportunity.
1658
01:29:57,439 --> 01:30:00,274
- Lewis, shut up.
- You have something to say to me, Lewis?
1659
01:30:00,900 --> 01:30:02,818
Respectfully, sir...
1660
01:30:02,986 --> 01:30:05,571
We should examine the new poll
for something more...
1661
01:30:05,738 --> 01:30:09,533
- They don't like me going out with Sydney?
- It's not that simple.
1662
01:30:09,701 --> 01:30:12,870
I think this poll brings a murky problem
into specific relief.
1663
01:30:13,037 --> 01:30:15,914
Whose problem are we talking about,
Lewis? Yours?
1664
01:30:16,082 --> 01:30:17,916
You worried about losing your job?
1665
01:30:18,084 --> 01:30:20,711
Because this poll
isn't talking about my presidency.
1666
01:30:20,879 --> 01:30:23,380
This poll is talking about my life!
1667
01:30:24,174 --> 01:30:28,343
- Two hundred sixty-four million people...
- They don't give a damn about your life.
1668
01:30:28,511 --> 01:30:31,180
- They give a damn about their own!
- All right, that's enough.
1669
01:30:31,347 --> 01:30:32,389
[LEWIS SIGHS]
1670
01:30:32,557 --> 01:30:33,849
Mr. President...
1671
01:30:34,017 --> 01:30:35,893
You raised a daughter...
1672
01:30:36,352 --> 01:30:38,729
...almost entirely on your own...
1673
01:30:38,897 --> 01:30:40,397
...and she's terrific.
1674
01:30:41,065 --> 01:30:45,152
So, what does it say to you, that in the past
seven weeks, 59 percent of this country...
1675
01:30:45,320 --> 01:30:47,654
...has begun to question
your family values?
1676
01:30:47,822 --> 01:30:51,408
- The president doesn't answer to you.
- Oh, yes, he does. I'm a citizen.
1677
01:30:51,576 --> 01:30:53,160
This is my president.
1678
01:30:53,328 --> 01:30:57,831
In this country, it's not only permissible to
question our leaders, it's our responsibility.
1679
01:30:58,333 --> 01:31:01,251
But you already know that,
don't you, Mr. President?
1680
01:31:01,419 --> 01:31:05,380
Because you have a deeper love of this
country than any man I've ever known.
1681
01:31:05,715 --> 01:31:09,009
And I want to know what it says to you
that in the past seven weeks...
1682
01:31:09,177 --> 01:31:12,262
...59 percent of Americans
have begun to question your patriotism?
1683
01:31:12,430 --> 01:31:15,182
- If people want to listen...
LEWIS: They don't have a choice!
1684
01:31:15,350 --> 01:31:18,310
Bob Rumson is the only one
doing the talking.
1685
01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:21,897
People want leadership.
In the absence of genuine leadership...
1686
01:31:22,065 --> 01:31:24,816
...they'll listen to anyone
who steps up to the microphone.
1687
01:31:25,276 --> 01:31:27,528
They want leadership.
1688
01:31:27,695 --> 01:31:30,614
They're so thirsty for it,
they'll crawl through the desert...
1689
01:31:30,782 --> 01:31:33,659
...and if there's no water,
they'll drink the sand.
1690
01:31:35,828 --> 01:31:38,997
Lewis, we have had presidents
who were beloved...
1691
01:31:39,165 --> 01:31:43,627
...who couldn't find a coherent sentence
with two hands and a flashlight.
1692
01:31:44,879 --> 01:31:48,048
People don't drink the sand
because they're thirsty.
1693
01:31:48,216 --> 01:31:52,261
They drink the sand
because they don't know the difference.
1694
01:32:00,436 --> 01:32:01,937
Mr. President...
1695
01:32:02,188 --> 01:32:04,273
What do you want to do about 455?
1696
01:32:08,194 --> 01:32:09,653
Make the deal.
1697
01:32:09,821 --> 01:32:11,363
A. J:
Yes, sir.
1698
01:32:11,698 --> 01:32:13,615
[PEOPLE LAUGHING]
1699
01:32:14,284 --> 01:32:17,995
I just want to go on record and apologize
for my attitude towards you...
1700
01:32:18,162 --> 01:32:21,123
...since your arrival.
- I didn't notice. Was there an attitude?
1701
01:32:21,291 --> 01:32:25,419
Well, I think that, uh...
That I have a lot of pent-up hostility...
1702
01:32:25,587 --> 01:32:28,005
...and I'm wondering
who I should blame that on.
1703
01:32:28,172 --> 01:32:29,965
I'm not qualified to...
1704
01:32:30,133 --> 01:32:33,010
I've been blaming it on my mother
and my ex-husband...
1705
01:32:33,177 --> 01:32:37,556
...and, well, that doesn't seem to work.
- Syd. Leo needs to see you.
1706
01:32:37,724 --> 01:32:41,476
- Well, tell him to get in here. It's a party.
- He needs to see you in his office.
1707
01:32:41,978 --> 01:32:43,145
It can't wait?
1708
01:32:43,313 --> 01:32:47,065
He just got off the phone with Maclnerney.
There's been a development.
1709
01:32:52,322 --> 01:32:53,697
Good evening.
1710
01:32:53,865 --> 01:32:57,576
[LUCY PLAYING TROMBONE]
1711
01:33:06,919 --> 01:33:08,253
Sounds good.
1712
01:33:08,588 --> 01:33:10,714
- It's progressive.
SHEPHERD: I'll say.
1713
01:33:10,882 --> 01:33:13,342
Dad, what's wrong with Sydney?
Did you have a fight?
1714
01:33:13,509 --> 01:33:14,551
What do you mean?
1715
01:33:14,719 --> 01:33:16,928
LUCY: She seemed pretty mad.
- You saw her?
1716
01:33:17,388 --> 01:33:18,722
- Yeah, she's here.
SHEPHERD: Where?
1717
01:33:18,890 --> 01:33:21,433
In your room. Dad, why's she mad?
1718
01:33:21,601 --> 01:33:23,310
Don't worry about it, honey.
1719
01:33:23,478 --> 01:33:25,729
LUCY: Were you a dork?
- Practice your music.
1720
01:33:25,897 --> 01:33:29,024
If you were a dork,
you should say you're sorry.
1721
01:33:29,192 --> 01:33:30,651
Girls like that.
1722
01:33:31,861 --> 01:33:33,612
Syd?
1723
01:33:33,780 --> 01:33:35,572
SYDNEY:
Did you see a gray cable-knit sweater?
1724
01:33:35,740 --> 01:33:36,782
Gray sweater? No.
1725
01:33:36,949 --> 01:33:38,492
I called you at the office today.
1726
01:33:38,660 --> 01:33:41,703
It's Beth's. I wore it here one time.
I didn't wanna leave it.
1727
01:33:41,871 --> 01:33:44,956
- Where are you going?
- I'm going home. Then to Hartford.
1728
01:33:45,124 --> 01:33:47,876
- Connecticut?
- Yes. Did it go with your dry cleaning?
1729
01:33:48,044 --> 01:33:49,378
What's in Connecticut?
1730
01:33:49,587 --> 01:33:52,339
Uh, Richard Reynolds' campaign.
He may be able to get a job.
1731
01:33:52,507 --> 01:33:54,341
When did you decide to get a new job?
1732
01:33:54,509 --> 01:33:57,386
Not long after Solomon fired me
from my old one.
1733
01:33:57,637 --> 01:34:00,764
- Beth's gonna kill me.
- Why did he fire you?
1734
01:34:00,932 --> 01:34:04,685
Oh, total failure to achieve
any of the objectives for which I was hired.
1735
01:34:04,852 --> 01:34:06,645
I told him he was being unreasonable.
1736
01:34:06,813 --> 01:34:11,483
After all, I did dance with the president
and ride in Air Force 1 a couple of times...
1737
01:34:11,651 --> 01:34:14,695
...but those prickly environmentalists.
There's always something.
1738
01:34:14,862 --> 01:34:16,780
If it's not clean air, it's clean water.
1739
01:34:16,948 --> 01:34:19,783
Like it's not enough
that I'm on the cover of People Magazine.
1740
01:34:19,951 --> 01:34:21,410
I'll call him.
1741
01:34:21,577 --> 01:34:23,787
You'll call him? You'll call him yourself?
1742
01:34:23,955 --> 01:34:26,123
It will come from the president?
1743
01:34:26,290 --> 01:34:29,376
That's a great idea.
You should call Leo and make a deal.
1744
01:34:29,544 --> 01:34:31,753
He hires me back for 72 days.
1745
01:34:31,921 --> 01:34:33,797
I go around scaring Congress...
1746
01:34:33,965 --> 01:34:37,801
...making them think the president will
drive through a damaging and costly bill.
1747
01:34:37,969 --> 01:34:41,513
They'll believe me because
I'm the president's Friday-night girl.
1748
01:34:41,681 --> 01:34:45,726
I don't know if we can dip into
that well twice. I've lost all credibility.
1749
01:34:45,893 --> 01:34:49,020
But you never know.
I might be able to pull it off again.
1750
01:34:49,188 --> 01:34:51,314
I might give you the leverage you need...
1751
01:34:51,482 --> 01:34:54,192
...to pass some ground-breaking piece
of crime legislation.
1752
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:57,946
A mandatory three-day waiting period
before a 5-year-old can buy an Uzi.
1753
01:34:58,114 --> 01:35:01,408
Fuck the sweater. She'll have to learn
to live with disappointment.
1754
01:35:02,160 --> 01:35:04,369
What do you think went on here today?
1755
01:35:04,871 --> 01:35:08,290
I know exactly what went on here today.
I got screwed.
1756
01:35:08,458 --> 01:35:10,542
You saw the poll,
you needed the crime bill.
1757
01:35:10,710 --> 01:35:13,211
You couldn't get it on your own,
so I got screwed.
1758
01:35:13,379 --> 01:35:17,382
The environment got screwed, Sydney.
Nothing happened to you.
1759
01:35:17,550 --> 01:35:20,093
Governing is choosing.
Governing is prioritizing.
1760
01:35:20,261 --> 01:35:23,680
I made no secret of the fact
the crime bill was my top priority.
1761
01:35:23,848 --> 01:35:27,184
Well, then congratulations.
It's only taken you three years...
1762
01:35:27,351 --> 01:35:31,188
...to put together crime-prevention
legislation that won't prevent crime.
1763
01:35:31,355 --> 01:35:33,064
Syd, please.
1764
01:35:34,108 --> 01:35:36,234
I don't want to lose you over this.
1765
01:35:36,402 --> 01:35:40,697
Mr. President, you've got bigger problems
than losing me.
1766
01:35:41,616 --> 01:35:43,742
You just lost my vote.
1767
01:35:52,084 --> 01:35:53,210
What's in Hartford?
1768
01:35:53,377 --> 01:35:56,713
Richard Reynolds' district office.
She might run his campaign.
1769
01:35:56,881 --> 01:35:58,381
Twelve in the corner.
1770
01:35:58,549 --> 01:36:02,385
Hartford, the insurance capital
of the world.
1771
01:36:02,553 --> 01:36:05,096
Have a good time, Syd.
1772
01:36:05,890 --> 01:36:09,810
I'll have Janie clear your schedule for
the weekend. You need to get some rest.
1773
01:36:09,977 --> 01:36:12,354
- You handling me? Good.
- No, sir.
1774
01:36:12,522 --> 01:36:15,899
But I will if you don't start
taking your head out of your ass.
1775
01:36:17,068 --> 01:36:20,737
- Excuse me?
- Lewis is right. Go after this guy.
1776
01:36:22,782 --> 01:36:24,950
- Has he lied?
- What?
1777
01:36:25,117 --> 01:36:28,411
- Has Rumson lied in the past seven weeks?
- Has he lied?
1778
01:36:28,579 --> 01:36:31,748
Other than not knowing the difference
between Harvard and Stanford...
1779
01:36:31,916 --> 01:36:34,501
...has he said something
that isn't true?
1780
01:36:34,669 --> 01:36:37,754
Am I not a commander in chief
who's never served in the military?
1781
01:36:37,922 --> 01:36:42,175
Am I not opposed to a constitutional
amendment banning flag burning?
1782
01:36:42,343 --> 01:36:45,554
Am I not an unmarried father
sharing a bed with a liberal lobbyist...
1783
01:36:45,721 --> 01:36:48,807
...down the hall from his daughter?
- You think you're wrong?
1784
01:36:48,975 --> 01:36:52,102
You don't win by telling 59 percent of them
that they are.
1785
01:36:52,270 --> 01:36:56,147
"We fight the fights we can win"?
You fight the fights that need fighting!
1786
01:36:56,315 --> 01:36:59,234
Is the view pretty good
from the cheap seats, A. J?
1787
01:36:59,485 --> 01:37:00,735
I beg your pardon?
1788
01:37:00,903 --> 01:37:04,865
Because it occurs to me that in 25 years
I've never seen your name on a ballot.
1789
01:37:05,032 --> 01:37:08,285
Now, why is that?
Why are you always one step behind me?
1790
01:37:08,870 --> 01:37:11,705
If I wasn't, you'd be
the most popular history professor...
1791
01:37:11,873 --> 01:37:13,456
...at the University of Wisconsin.
1792
01:37:14,125 --> 01:37:15,750
Fuck you!
1793
01:37:20,590 --> 01:37:22,632
Have Lewis put the final draft...
1794
01:37:22,800 --> 01:37:26,011
...of the State of the Union
on my desk in the morning.
1795
01:37:26,470 --> 01:37:28,263
Yes, sir.
1796
01:37:38,024 --> 01:37:39,983
If Mary hadn't died...
1797
01:37:41,819 --> 01:37:44,529
...would we have won three years ago?
1798
01:37:46,282 --> 01:37:48,158
Would we have won?
1799
01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:52,913
If we had to go through a character debate
three years ago...
1800
01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:54,998
...would we have won?
1801
01:37:55,708 --> 01:37:57,584
I don't know.
1802
01:37:59,045 --> 01:38:01,880
But I would have liked that campaign.
1803
01:38:02,798 --> 01:38:04,799
If my friend, Andy Shepherd,
had shown up...
1804
01:38:04,967 --> 01:38:07,510
...I would have liked that campaign
very much.
1805
01:38:10,014 --> 01:38:11,681
Yeah.
1806
01:39:08,906 --> 01:39:13,243
ROBIN: Because the president feels there
is no value in this kind of character debate.
1807
01:39:13,452 --> 01:39:16,121
Will the president respond
to Senator Rumson's question...
1808
01:39:16,288 --> 01:39:18,790
...about being a member
of the American Civil Liberties Union?
1809
01:39:18,958 --> 01:39:22,377
Yes, he will. Good morning. It's all right.
Please keep your seats. Good morning.
1810
01:39:22,545 --> 01:39:25,213
[REPORTERS MURMURING]
1811
01:39:31,095 --> 01:39:33,972
For the last couple of months,
Senator Rumson has suggested...
1812
01:39:34,140 --> 01:39:38,476
...that being president of this country
was to a certain extent about character.
1813
01:39:39,061 --> 01:39:42,814
Although I have not been willing
to engage in his attacks on me...
1814
01:39:42,982 --> 01:39:46,735
...I've been here three years
and three days...
1815
01:39:46,986 --> 01:39:50,155
...and I can tell you without hesitation...
1816
01:39:50,322 --> 01:39:52,991
...being president of this country...
1817
01:39:53,159 --> 01:39:56,494
...is entirely about character.
1818
01:39:56,954 --> 01:39:58,413
For the record:
1819
01:39:58,581 --> 01:40:02,333
Yes, I am a card-carrying member
of the ACLU.
1820
01:40:02,501 --> 01:40:05,670
But the more important question is:
Why aren't you, Bob?
1821
01:40:05,838 --> 01:40:07,797
Now, this is an organization...
1822
01:40:08,049 --> 01:40:11,051
...whose sole purpose is to defend
the Bill of Rights.
1823
01:40:11,218 --> 01:40:14,179
So it naturally begs the question:
Why would a senator...
1824
01:40:14,346 --> 01:40:18,183
...his party's most powerful spokesman
and a candidate for president...
1825
01:40:18,350 --> 01:40:21,519
...choose to reject
upholding the Constitution?
1826
01:40:21,687 --> 01:40:25,523
Now, if you can answer that, folks,
then you're smarter than I am...
1827
01:40:25,691 --> 01:40:29,611
...because I didn't understand it
until a few hours ago.
1828
01:40:31,197 --> 01:40:33,364
America isn't easy.
1829
01:40:34,492 --> 01:40:38,536
America is advanced citizenship.
You've gotta want it bad...
1830
01:40:38,704 --> 01:40:40,914
...because it's gonna put up a fight.
1831
01:40:41,082 --> 01:40:43,583
It's gonna say, "You want free speech?
1832
01:40:43,751 --> 01:40:46,836
Let's see you acknowledge a man
whose words make your blood boil...
1833
01:40:47,004 --> 01:40:50,507
...who's standing center stage,
advocating at the top of his lungs...
1834
01:40:50,674 --> 01:40:54,344
...that which you would spend
a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.
1835
01:40:54,512 --> 01:40:56,971
You want to claim this land
as the land of the free?
1836
01:40:57,139 --> 01:41:00,517
Then the symbol of your country
cannot just be a flag.
1837
01:41:00,684 --> 01:41:02,393
The symbol also has to be...
1838
01:41:02,561 --> 01:41:07,524
...one of its citizens exercising his right
to burn that flag in protest.
1839
01:41:07,691 --> 01:41:11,486
Now, show me that, defend that,
celebrate that in your classrooms.
1840
01:41:11,654 --> 01:41:15,323
Then you can stand up
and sing about 'the land of the free."'
1841
01:41:15,658 --> 01:41:19,452
I've known Bob Rumson for years and
I've been operating under the assumption...
1842
01:41:19,620 --> 01:41:23,164
...that the reason Bob devotes
so much energy to shouting at the rain...
1843
01:41:23,332 --> 01:41:25,500
...was that he simply didn't get it.
1844
01:41:25,668 --> 01:41:28,920
Well, I was wrong.
Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't get it.
1845
01:41:29,088 --> 01:41:31,506
Bob's problem is that he can't sell it.
1846
01:41:33,092 --> 01:41:35,343
We have serious problems to solve...
1847
01:41:35,511 --> 01:41:38,179
...and we need serious people
to solve them.
1848
01:41:38,347 --> 01:41:41,850
And whatever your particular problem is,
I promise you...
1849
01:41:42,017 --> 01:41:46,146
...Bob Rumson is not the least bit
interested in solving it.
1850
01:41:46,313 --> 01:41:50,066
He is interested in two things
and two things only:
1851
01:41:50,234 --> 01:41:53,611
Making you afraid of it,
and telling you who's to blame for it.
1852
01:41:53,779 --> 01:41:56,489
That, ladies and gentlemen,
is how you win elections.
1853
01:41:57,116 --> 01:42:00,201
You gather a group of middle-aged,
middle-income voters...
1854
01:42:00,369 --> 01:42:03,413
...who remember with longing
an easier time. You talk to them...
1855
01:42:03,581 --> 01:42:06,749
...about family and American values
and character.
1856
01:42:06,917 --> 01:42:11,129
Then you wave an old photo of the
president's girlfriend, scream patriotism...
1857
01:42:11,297 --> 01:42:14,382
...tell them she's to blame
for their lot in life...
1858
01:42:14,550 --> 01:42:16,718
...and you go on television...
1859
01:42:16,886 --> 01:42:19,262
...and you call her a whore.
1860
01:42:20,222 --> 01:42:22,682
Sydney Ellen Wade
has done nothing to you, Bob.
1861
01:42:22,850 --> 01:42:26,186
She has done nothing
but put herself through school...
1862
01:42:26,395 --> 01:42:28,897
...represent the interest
of public-school teachers...
1863
01:42:29,064 --> 01:42:31,649
...and lobby for the safety
of our natural resources.
1864
01:42:31,817 --> 01:42:33,902
You want a character debate, Bob?
1865
01:42:34,069 --> 01:42:35,570
You better stick with me...
1866
01:42:35,738 --> 01:42:38,990
...because Sydney Ellen Wade
is way out of your league.
1867
01:42:46,498 --> 01:42:49,375
I've loved two women in my life.
1868
01:42:49,793 --> 01:42:52,128
I lost one to cancer...
1869
01:42:52,963 --> 01:42:56,257
...and I lost the other
because I was so busy keeping my job...
1870
01:42:56,425 --> 01:42:58,593
...I forgot to do my job.
1871
01:43:00,137 --> 01:43:01,971
Well, that ends right now.
1872
01:43:02,681 --> 01:43:03,932
Tomorrow morning...
1873
01:43:04,099 --> 01:43:08,102
...the White House is sending
a bill to Congress for its consideration.
1874
01:43:08,270 --> 01:43:10,813
It's White House Resolution 455...
1875
01:43:10,981 --> 01:43:14,359
...an energy bill,
requiring a 20 percent reduction...
1876
01:43:14,526 --> 01:43:17,946
...of the emission of fossil fuels
over the next 10 years.
1877
01:43:18,280 --> 01:43:22,116
It is by far the most aggressive stride
ever taken...
1878
01:43:22,409 --> 01:43:25,078
...in the fight to reverse
the effects of global warming.
1879
01:43:25,329 --> 01:43:28,665
The other piece of legislation
is the crime bill.
1880
01:43:29,833 --> 01:43:32,961
As of today, it no longer exists.
1881
01:43:33,128 --> 01:43:34,754
I'm throwing it out.
1882
01:43:34,922 --> 01:43:38,841
I'm throwing it out and writing a law
that makes sense.
1883
01:43:39,009 --> 01:43:41,302
You can't address crime prevention...
1884
01:43:41,470 --> 01:43:44,180
...without getting rid of assault weapons
and handguns.
1885
01:43:44,431 --> 01:43:47,517
I consider them a threat
to national security and I will go...
1886
01:43:47,685 --> 01:43:49,560
...door-to-door if I have to...
1887
01:43:49,728 --> 01:43:53,773
...but I'll convince Americans that I'm right
and I'm gonna get the guns.
1888
01:43:55,359 --> 01:43:59,404
We've got serious problems
and we need serious people.
1889
01:43:59,571 --> 01:44:01,906
If you want to talk about character,
Bob...
1890
01:44:02,074 --> 01:44:05,743
...you'd better come at me with more
than a burning flag and a membership card.
1891
01:44:05,911 --> 01:44:09,289
If you want to talk about character
and American values, fine.
1892
01:44:09,456 --> 01:44:12,292
Just tell me where and when
and I'll show up.
1893
01:44:12,459 --> 01:44:16,504
This is a time for serious people, Bob,
and your 15 minutes are up.
1894
01:44:16,672 --> 01:44:20,049
My name is Andrew Shepherd
and I am the president.
1895
01:44:21,802 --> 01:44:24,971
[ALL SHOUTING]
1896
01:44:29,184 --> 01:44:30,852
Well, you don't see that every day.
1897
01:44:31,020 --> 01:44:33,855
He's got the whole press corps asking
how to spell "erudite."
1898
01:44:34,023 --> 01:44:36,774
- Call the printer.
- We gotta rewrite the State of the Union.
1899
01:44:36,942 --> 01:44:39,402
A. J:
Every word. It's a whole new ball game.
1900
01:44:39,570 --> 01:44:41,237
You have exactly 35 minutes.
1901
01:44:41,405 --> 01:44:44,324
Oh, good.
I thought it was gonna be rushed.
1902
01:44:44,950 --> 01:44:47,327
I don't want a limousine,
I don't want an escort.
1903
01:44:47,494 --> 01:44:50,997
I want a plain ordinary,
non-bulletproof automobile.
1904
01:44:51,165 --> 01:44:54,125
Well, somebody around here
must have a Chevy I can borrow.
1905
01:44:54,293 --> 01:44:58,254
Well, find one and have it outside
the West Wing entrance in five minutes.
1906
01:44:58,422 --> 01:45:00,089
A. J:
Excuse me, sir, where are you going?
1907
01:45:00,257 --> 01:45:04,218
I'm going over to her house. I'm gonna
stand outside her door till she lets me in.
1908
01:45:04,386 --> 01:45:06,304
I'm not leaving until I get her back.
1909
01:45:06,472 --> 01:45:08,765
And how are you going to do that, sir?
1910
01:45:08,932 --> 01:45:12,226
I haven't worked that out yet.
But I'm sure groveling will be involved.
1911
01:45:12,519 --> 01:45:13,936
You're just gonna drive over?
1912
01:45:14,104 --> 01:45:17,065
I'm commander in chief
of the most powerful army in the world.
1913
01:45:17,232 --> 01:45:19,650
You don't think I can drive 10 blocks?
1914
01:45:20,277 --> 01:45:24,238
Just, uh, stay away from Dupont Circle.
I hear it's murder this time of day.
1915
01:45:30,329 --> 01:45:31,704
Hi, A.J.
1916
01:45:32,456 --> 01:45:34,415
Nice to see you, Miss Wade.
1917
01:45:41,006 --> 01:45:44,300
Well, if anyone needs me,
I'll be in the Roosevelt Room...
1918
01:45:44,510 --> 01:45:46,469
...giving Lewis oxygen.
1919
01:45:50,682 --> 01:45:51,974
I heard your speech.
1920
01:45:55,604 --> 01:45:58,022
I was in my car.
1921
01:45:59,483 --> 01:46:02,527
It just kind of steered its way over here.
1922
01:46:04,363 --> 01:46:05,696
I'm glad.
1923
01:46:14,123 --> 01:46:15,289
Sydney...
1924
01:46:15,999 --> 01:46:20,211
I didn't decide to send 455 to the floor
to get you back.
1925
01:46:21,004 --> 01:46:25,007
And I didn't come back
because you sent 455 to the floor.
1926
01:46:31,682 --> 01:46:34,058
Mr. President, you might want to...
1927
01:46:35,310 --> 01:46:36,352
Hi, Sydney.
1928
01:46:36,979 --> 01:46:38,771
Hi.
1929
01:46:40,274 --> 01:46:41,983
I moved Social Security up front.
1930
01:46:42,151 --> 01:46:45,611
Mr. Leventhal at Treasury wants
two minutes. Hello, Sydney.
1931
01:46:45,779 --> 01:46:50,199
Mr. President? Excuse me, Miss Wade.
Miss McCall is on her way over, sir.
1932
01:46:51,243 --> 01:46:53,202
Well, I got some...
1933
01:46:53,370 --> 01:46:54,871
...things to do.
1934
01:46:56,165 --> 01:46:57,665
Yes, you do.
1935
01:46:59,168 --> 01:47:02,170
REPORTER: We're only a moment away
from the arrival of President Shepherd...
1936
01:47:02,337 --> 01:47:03,838
...and his State of the Union address.
1937
01:47:04,006 --> 01:47:06,924
You've served on the staffs
of several past administrations.
1938
01:47:07,092 --> 01:47:11,304
What kind of last-minute activity
is the president engaged in right now?
1939
01:47:17,311 --> 01:47:20,480
There's something I've wanted to give you
since our first date.
1940
01:47:20,647 --> 01:47:24,275
I've tried to do it a number of times,
but somehow I've always managed...
1941
01:47:24,443 --> 01:47:26,277
...to trip over my job...
1942
01:47:26,570 --> 01:47:28,571
...but here...
1943
01:47:28,739 --> 01:47:30,031
...these are for you.
1944
01:47:30,199 --> 01:47:31,991
[CHUCKLES]
1945
01:47:33,452 --> 01:47:35,036
They're beautiful.
1946
01:47:38,582 --> 01:47:40,875
Ahem, Mr. President?
1947
01:47:41,043 --> 01:47:42,543
Well, I've gotta go.
1948
01:47:42,711 --> 01:47:44,712
Uh, should I stay here?
1949
01:47:46,131 --> 01:47:47,715
Walk with me.
1950
01:47:52,429 --> 01:47:53,763
SYDNEY:
How'd you finally do it?
1951
01:47:54,932 --> 01:47:56,224
Do what?
1952
01:47:56,391 --> 01:48:00,019
Manage to give a woman flowers
and be president at the same time?
1953
01:48:00,187 --> 01:48:03,523
Well, it turns out I've got a rose garden.
1954
01:48:06,026 --> 01:48:07,777
MAN: Mr. Speaker.
- Heh.
1955
01:48:07,945 --> 01:48:11,364
The president of the United States!
1956
01:48:11,823 --> 01:48:13,824
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
1957
01:53:33,937 --> 01:53:35,938
[English - US - SDH]
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