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Previously on The West Wing:
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- Power is a completely safe,
dependable energy source.
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- We should build more...
- Completely safe?
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More than a dozen states that had
been squarely in the Vinick column...
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... including his own state
of California...
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... all states with nuclear power plants,
are now within the margin of error.
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Cancel everything after the rally. Got to
get on the ground in the battle states.
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- Vinick has to head south.
- We need to curb Santos' momentum.
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Keep these folks undecided long enough
for this nuclear mess to fade.
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- You remember Jane Braun?
- It's time to talk about values.
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By which you mean what?
Gay marriage?
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I'm the senator from California.
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And I'm gonna make a statement
before I get on that plane.
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You have to wait.
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That is how we change the story.
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- Hey. Hi.
- We love you, senator.
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I need your help on election day,
all right? Need your vote.
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- Step past, thank you.
- All right. Hey. Thank you.
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- Senator.
- Thank you. Need your vote.
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Thank you. Thank you. Hey.
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Need your help on election day.
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Step back, okay.
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Okay. Good to see you.
I hope to get your vote.
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My question is, why has Senator Vinick
come out on this now?
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There's nothing new about this issue.
We've been very consistent about this.
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Senator Vinick has always
been opposed to gay marriage.
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- "Always opposed."
- Still sore?
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- Feels like it's gonna fall off.
- Five thousand more handshakes.
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How could I be "always opposed"?
I heard about it a couple years ago.
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- She is not helping.
- She's stabilized our numbers.
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Keeping us in a tie with two
weeks left is not helping.
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She stopped slippage
in the South.
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- She's scaring away Independents.
- We lost the Independents...
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...because a nuclear power plant
almost had a meltdown...
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...after I said nuclear power
is completely safe.
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That is water under the bridge. Now...
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If it's "water under the bridge,"
how come I'm ducking reporters?
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Our next event,
Small Business Association, Chicago.
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We gotta get out fast, because Santos
is scheduled to speak right after us.
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This is the way it always happens
the last couple of weeks in swing states.
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Chicago would like me a lot better...
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...if I let the Santos motorcade
create all the traffic jams.
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- Senator.
- Senator Vinick.
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All right, we don't have any time
for questions.
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We're running behind schedule.
Thank you very much.
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Senator. Senator, do you still feel
nuclear power is completely safe?
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Hello. Hi, nice to meet you. Hi.
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Let's hear it for one of the all-time great
Chicago Bears, Matt Willig.
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Thank you.
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You know, I've been in
some pretty hard-fought games...
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... but nothing as tough as what
these guys do to run a campaign.
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If you're still undecided, these guys are
going to help you make your mind today.
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We're lucky to have them.
Let's give a big Chicago welcome...
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...to the Republican candidate
for president of the United States...
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...Senator Arnold Vinick.
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Thank you.
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- Can you bend all the fingers?
- Yeah, a little bit.
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- Try to extend the fingers straight out.
- No.
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- Does it hurt when you do that?
- No.
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- It kills me when I do that.
- We need a set of x-rays.
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- No. No way.
- No, no, no.
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We got a busload of reporters
following us.
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We stop for an x-ray, the headline is:
"Handshake Breaks Vinick's Hand."
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I can't say without an x-ray, but I think
you got a metacarpal fracture.
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- And you're gonna need a cast.
- No cast.
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I can't look like an old man falling apart
on the campaign trail.
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And he's got a crowd waiting for him
in Pittsburgh right now.
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Well, I guess I can realign the bone...
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...and give him a cast that he can
take off when he's in public.
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Welcome to politics, doctor.
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Anyone asks you
what you were doing...
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...we were discussing
health care policies.
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Well, actually, I do have some
suggestions about Medicare.
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And now, it's my honor...
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...to introduce the Democratic candidate
for president of the United States...
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...Congressman Matthew Santos.
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Oh, hi. Hey, it's great to see you.
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- Hey, Chicago.
- Can't leave him in Ohio for two days.
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We got a full day in Cleveland
tomorrow, plus promises...
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I want him out of Ohio
by midnight tomorrow...
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...and on the set of
Good Morning, Miami at 7 a.m.
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- Guest list for the Cleveland event.
- Yeah, right there.
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- Here?
- No, on top...
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On top of the other pile.
Then after a full day in Florida, we...
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Someone named Bob for you.
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- Twice in one week?
- What are your numbers in California?
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You work for this campaign?
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You should have new numbers now.
Check.
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Do we have the new
California numbers?
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Yeah, we just got them.
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We're up by two, but that includes
all the leaners. So basically a tie.
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- You gotta get Santos out there.
- We got him in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
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- Ohio tomorrow, Florida the next day...
- California's the whole ball game.
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Yeah, we're pushing up the media buy
in California.
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We gotta keep him in the states
where he can shake enough hands.
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- Retail politics doesn't work in California.
- I'm not talking about retail politics.
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- TV is the way to reach those voters.
- Exactly, that's why...
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- I'm gonna cut my media buy in Ohio...
- Josh.
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...and try to get more California TV...
- Listen to me. Josh!
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You're getting three hours of sleep
a night...
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... you've got 300 calls to return.
You're not thinking straight in that place.
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Now take a deep breath and listen to me
for one second.
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Okay, I'm listening.
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You can win this thing if you get him
out to California right now.
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Thought you were gonna stay
at headquarters.
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Got tired of being ignored.
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You got that thing
the doctor gave me?
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You know, while you're out there
shaking your hand off...
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...Matt Santos is running
his new game plan. It's working.
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Crisscrossing the swing states,
talking nonstop about energy policy.
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Throws in a line
about the nuclear accident...
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We're gonna have Pittsburgh
all to ourselves...
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...but we're gonna cross paths
with Santos tonight in Philadelphia.
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He's speaking
at the Constitution Center.
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Tell Advance no rope lines
in Pittsburgh or Philly.
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No one shakes the senator's hand.
Not the police chief. No one.
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- How do they enforce that?
- Tell Advance to figure it out.
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- Two weeks out. We've lost our lead.
- We?
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You have lost your lead and we still
don't have a strategy to get it back.
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I thought the gay marriage nonsense
was the strategy.
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You're opposed.
Let your values voters know that.
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The federal government has nothing
to do with marriage law. Nothing.
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No one should care what I think
about gay marriage.
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No one should care how tall you are.
They do.
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I'm not gonna win on gay marriage.
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- Well, you don't know that.
- Gay marriage is a state issue.
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- It's not a feder...
- Spare me the political science lecture.
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Bruno's 50-state strategy was ridiculous
before the accident.
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- Republicans have won 49 states twice.
- I've heard that a thousand times on TV.
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Nothing's changed
in the Republican Party?
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Yeah. People like you have taken over.
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People like me think a win's a win.
Fifty-one percent is plenty.
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You wanna get into
the campaign hall of fame...
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No one is talking about a 50-state
strategy, not since the nuclear thing.
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If you hadn't wasted five months,
we wouldn't be behind in the South.
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We had a lead in every Southern state.
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You didn't have any goodwill.
You were the lesser of two evils.
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If they like you,
they wouldn't abandon you.
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They haven't abandoned us. No one
outside Texas has moved to Santos.
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Texas only has 34 electoral votes,
so why worry about them?
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We were never counting on
winning Santos' state.
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- You counting on winning Vinick's state?
- We'll bounce back in California.
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We're okay in California.
We're two points behind Santos.
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And that's after a nuclear accident...
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...that scared half the state
into trying to evacuate.
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The nuclear accident cost you that state.
You don't have time to win.
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I can't win California
by going to the right.
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For every voter you win me in Alabama,
I lose two in California.
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We should be in the South,
especially Florida.
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We followed your advice.
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We spent all last week in the South.
Where did it get us?
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It stopped the bleeding. If you were
in the South talking tax cuts...
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...national defense, tough on crime
in front of crowds...
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...I wouldn't have to be on TV
trying to talk to the Republican base.
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And I could shut up
about gay marriage.
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I'm saying we stay in the South
until we get a solid lead...
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...then we spend a week,
maybe 10 days...
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...closing the deal in Missouri,
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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You don't have to say anything to
Alabama to lose you California voters...
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...but you have to energize
the base of the party...
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...if we're gonna get the turnout
we need to get 51 percent.
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Senator, you can't pretend...
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- Yeah?
- Can I come in?
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Just you.
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Hand feel better in that thing?
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They say replacing Sheila
was a sign of weakness.
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Inside baseball. No one cares
except the press.
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I shouldn't have let Sheila quit.
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She thought it would send a message
that would...
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- Campaign had a fresh start.
- Sheila was right...
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I should have put Jane out
in front of the cameras...
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...let her energize the base,
and then ignore her.
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We are ignoring her.
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The press is doing Santos' work for him.
Santos could take a vacation...
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...and just let the press keep
hammering me on this nuclear thing...
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...and he wins.
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President sends troops
into Kazakhstan...
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...and that's still not enough to get this
nuclear-power quote out of the news.
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When is old news gonna be old news?
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Know what I really hate
about Jane?
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She's not always wrong.
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We need a new strategy
for the last two weeks.
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So, what do you got?
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I... I wish I could tell you
I had a better idea than Jane.
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Thank you, Philadelphia.
God bless you.
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God bless you all.
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- In California?
- Yeah.
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I thought you said we weren't going
to California, because it was too big for...
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- Yeah, that was then.
- That was yesterday.
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- I rethought the thing.
- You rethought?
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- Yeah, you know, I talked it over, and...
- Talked to who?
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Usual suspects. Party people,
experienced campaign types.
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And we agreed that...
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...because California media
is way more expensive than Ohio...
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Excuse me. I'm sorry.
Can we have the room please?
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It's gonna be a lot cheaper for us
to campaign in California...
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...and buy TV time
in Ohio and Florida.
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You'll get five minutes for free
on every local station...
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...instead of spending big bucks
on one commercial.
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If we push you up in California,
get your lead outside the margin...
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...press is gonna explode
about Vinick losing his state.
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It's gonna build momentum for us
everywhere else.
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Knock Vinick off his game.
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He's off his game.
Now we knock him out.
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California is key. You get a lead there,
Vinick's gonna give up on his state...
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...bet on a Southern strategy.
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Now, he didn't play well in the South
when he was riding high.
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He's sure as hell not gonna play
any better now that he's desperate.
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Okay, get me there tonight.
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But I want a full schedule
of California events tomorrow...
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...from breakfast till lights out.
- It'll be full.
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Do you think your numbers dropped
because of the nuclear accident?
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- Senator.
- Can you win without California?
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When do I go on?
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They're gonna start your intro
in a couple of minutes.
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- Hold on one second.
- Who's that?
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Congressman,
they're ready for you now.
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- Mr. Santos.
- I have time for a couple questions.
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Tell them I'm not going on
till he's out of the building.
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I don't want the cameras covering
his press when I'm doing my speech.
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- To talk to the people
of Pennsylvania...
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... about what this country
should be doing.
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- About energy policy, about education.
- I wanna hear what he has to say.
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About job security, pension security.
I don 't wanna get into a blame game...
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... about what happened
at the San Andreo power plant.
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- Sure.
- It was an accident.
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It was exactly the kind of accident
that I foresaw...
228
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... when I opposed the building
of nuclear power plants in Texas.
229
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Saint Santos.
230
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The governor of California and the
president responded and contained it.
231
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Do you support the president's decision
sending troops to Kazakhstan?
232
00:14:04,687 --> 00:14:08,566
We're not gonna figure out how to run
by watching the Santos campaign.
233
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Ignore the other guy
and sprint to the finish line.
234
00:14:11,407 --> 00:14:14,365
- You keep pushing your tax-cut message.
- Press won't let me.
235
00:14:14,527 --> 00:14:15,960
They're not gonna let up.
236
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- Forget about the press.
- That's not how I got this far.
237
00:14:19,127 --> 00:14:22,085
I don't duck the tough questions.
I say what I think.
238
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- That's how I get elected.
- Look.
239
00:14:24,047 --> 00:14:26,880
I love straight talk,
but it doesn't work in every situation.
240
00:14:27,047 --> 00:14:29,766
That isn't me out there
campaigning now. That's the problem.
241
00:14:29,927 --> 00:14:31,565
We're gonna get past the accident.
242
00:14:31,727 --> 00:14:33,843
No, we're not.
Not unless we deal with it.
243
00:14:34,007 --> 00:14:36,646
- If we open the nuclear-power can...
- It's already open.
244
00:14:36,807 --> 00:14:40,117
Wide open. I gotta close it.
I gotta start answering their questions.
245
00:14:40,287 --> 00:14:44,439
No one in the party thinks you
should be talking about nuclear power.
246
00:14:44,607 --> 00:14:48,122
We could insert an energy paragraph in
the speech, about safe energy sources.
247
00:14:48,287 --> 00:14:49,720
No, that's not gonna work.
248
00:14:49,887 --> 00:14:51,957
What are you gonna do?
Say you were wrong?
249
00:14:52,127 --> 00:14:55,756
- No, I still think we need nuclear power.
- This is the worst time to say that.
250
00:14:55,927 --> 00:14:59,476
I should do a till-they-drop press
conference on the nuclear accident.
251
00:14:59,647 --> 00:15:01,922
- It's a mistake.
- Explain my role the plant.
252
00:15:02,087 --> 00:15:04,442
Talk about where we go from here
on nuclear power.
253
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Answer every reporter's question.
254
00:15:06,327 --> 00:15:09,239
Stay at the microphone
until I bore them to death.
255
00:15:09,407 --> 00:15:10,726
That would look desperate.
256
00:15:10,887 --> 00:15:14,323
Worked for Andrews in that Senate race
for that problem with tax returns.
257
00:15:14,487 --> 00:15:16,125
We're going to California tomorrow.
258
00:15:16,287 --> 00:15:20,405
I'm gonna do a press conference in front
of the San Andreo nuclear power plant.
259
00:15:20,567 --> 00:15:23,081
Okay, my work's done here.
260
00:15:25,327 --> 00:15:27,887
- Are you quitting?
- It's been fun. Good luck.
261
00:15:28,047 --> 00:15:29,844
Jane. Jane, hold on, please.
262
00:15:30,007 --> 00:15:32,282
I can't afford to get blamed
for these mistakes.
263
00:15:32,447 --> 00:15:36,759
We can't afford to have another story
about trouble with the Vinick staff.
264
00:15:36,927 --> 00:15:39,236
It would look like
we're completely out of control.
265
00:15:40,807 --> 00:15:44,356
- I don't want you to quit.
- I have a reputation to protect.
266
00:15:44,527 --> 00:15:46,597
- Quitter?
- Better than loser.
267
00:15:46,767 --> 00:15:50,601
- Then don't lose.
- The press conference is a mistake.
268
00:15:50,767 --> 00:15:53,201
Campaigning in your home state
is a mistake.
269
00:15:53,367 --> 00:15:56,120
I let them ask me every nuclear question
they can think of.
270
00:15:56,287 --> 00:15:59,279
We get one more round of stories on this
and then it's behind us.
271
00:15:59,447 --> 00:16:01,756
- It's a sign of weakness.
- If I win the election...
272
00:16:01,927 --> 00:16:04,805
...you're gonna get the credit.
You came onto a sinking ship...
273
00:16:04,967 --> 00:16:06,639
...and you saved the day.
274
00:16:06,807 --> 00:16:08,559
If you lose?
275
00:16:08,727 --> 00:16:12,606
Then you came onto a sinking ship
and it sank. It's not your fault.
276
00:16:13,527 --> 00:16:15,677
How about we go with my strategy
tomorrow...
277
00:16:15,847 --> 00:16:18,281
...and then we go with yours
the rest of the campaign.
278
00:16:18,447 --> 00:16:21,484
- And if you disagree with my strategy?
- Then we'll fight about it.
279
00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:26,038
- And we'll end up doing it your way.
- You'll win some and you'll lose some.
280
00:16:26,207 --> 00:16:28,596
They're ready for you on-stage.
281
00:16:55,167 --> 00:16:58,682
Party's gonna flood California with
surrogate speakers after your free media.
282
00:16:59,392 --> 00:17:03,005
- Good. New speech for San Francisco.
- Can I get my briefcase?
283
00:17:04,007 --> 00:17:06,805
- It's not in here?
- No.
284
00:17:06,967 --> 00:17:09,242
Yeah, I'll get it.
285
00:17:09,407 --> 00:17:11,477
- Congressman needs his briefcase.
- You had it.
286
00:17:11,647 --> 00:17:14,241
No, I had it in Chicago.
You had it in Philadelphia.
287
00:17:14,407 --> 00:17:17,444
I had it in Pittsburgh, then I put it
in his cabin for the flight.
288
00:17:17,607 --> 00:17:20,758
- Well, it's not there now.
- Did we take it to the event?
289
00:17:20,927 --> 00:17:23,999
I had my arms full. I don't remember
the briefcase in Philadelphia.
290
00:17:24,167 --> 00:17:26,203
Did you notice the briefcase
in Philadelphia?
291
00:17:26,367 --> 00:17:29,245
- No. He wasn't carrying anything.
- Does he need it right now?
292
00:17:29,407 --> 00:17:31,921
- He asked for it.
- Well, we can't tell him we lost it.
293
00:17:32,087 --> 00:17:34,521
- You were the last one who had it.
- He asked you.
294
00:17:34,687 --> 00:17:38,202
We'll search the compartments. Worst
case, it slipped into checked baggage...
295
00:17:38,367 --> 00:17:41,086
...and we'll have it to him
by the time we get to the hotel.
296
00:18:01,687 --> 00:18:03,405
Get the L.A. Schedule to the press...
297
00:18:03,567 --> 00:18:06,001
...so they can schedule news trucks
to cover us live.
298
00:18:06,167 --> 00:18:09,125
- You get my briefcase?
- Not exactly.
299
00:18:09,287 --> 00:18:11,881
I thought Otto had it.
He'd thought it was in here.
300
00:18:12,047 --> 00:18:16,120
- We're searching under the seats now.
- You lost my briefcase?
301
00:18:16,287 --> 00:18:18,482
Worst case, it got slipped
into checked baggage.
302
00:18:18,647 --> 00:18:20,797
We'll have it by the time
you get to your room.
303
00:18:20,967 --> 00:18:22,241
Call Philadelphia.
304
00:18:22,407 --> 00:18:25,717
Check the cars we used,
check the rooms that we were in.
305
00:18:28,367 --> 00:18:29,800
I left my wallet in that thing.
306
00:18:29,967 --> 00:18:33,482
I hope you don't have any super-secret
strategy memos in that briefcase.
307
00:18:33,647 --> 00:18:36,480
- We have super-secret strategy memos?
- I wish we did.
308
00:18:36,647 --> 00:18:40,003
Did you schedule this trip because
Santos is pulling ahead in California?
309
00:18:40,167 --> 00:18:42,681
- That's not what our polls show.
- MSNBC right now.
310
00:18:42,847 --> 00:18:46,044
Did you change your schedule
after Santos decided to go to California?
311
00:18:46,207 --> 00:18:49,404
We didn't know about the trip
when Vinick decided to go to California.
312
00:18:49,567 --> 00:18:52,365
- She's a terrible liar, isn't she?
- Team Vinick's in a panic.
313
00:18:52,527 --> 00:18:54,279
Vinick is ahead
in the Southern states.
314
00:18:54,447 --> 00:18:56,756
He's confident that his home state
of California...
315
00:18:56,927 --> 00:18:59,919
... is gonna support him as it always has
in his Senate campaigns.
316
00:19:00,087 --> 00:19:01,839
They're trying to steal
our free media.
317
00:19:02,007 --> 00:19:04,237
Get the TV to abandon Santos
and cover Vinick.
318
00:19:04,407 --> 00:19:08,082
It won't work if you spin it as Vinick
trying to chase Santos out of California.
319
00:19:08,247 --> 00:19:11,557
Every Vinick story becomes a story
about the Santos surge in California.
320
00:19:11,727 --> 00:19:14,958
- That's right.
- I need Lou on the plane.
321
00:19:15,127 --> 00:19:17,322
Thank you. Yeah?
322
00:19:17,487 --> 00:19:20,160
It looks like Vinick is gonna follow you
to California.
323
00:19:20,327 --> 00:19:23,239
- How desperate is that?
- They're trying to steal our free media.
324
00:19:23,407 --> 00:19:25,841
You have to spin it
that Vinick is chasing Santos.
325
00:19:26,007 --> 00:19:28,965
Turn every... Every Vinick story
into a Santos story.
326
00:19:29,127 --> 00:19:31,322
Okay, I'll start working
the press cabin now.
327
00:19:31,487 --> 00:19:33,284
- Hey, Josh?
- Yeah?
328
00:19:33,447 --> 00:19:35,722
The congressman's briefcase,
what's inside there?
329
00:19:35,887 --> 00:19:39,800
Road stuff, toothbrush, electric razor,
sometimes a wallet. Why?
330
00:19:39,967 --> 00:19:42,003
We seem to have lost it
and he seems worried.
331
00:19:42,167 --> 00:19:45,204
The guy's in a tie for the presidency.
He's got two weeks left.
332
00:19:45,367 --> 00:19:48,564
- You can expect him to look worried.
- So there's nothing bad in there?
333
00:19:48,727 --> 00:19:51,241
- Like?
- I don't know, heroin, porn.
334
00:19:51,407 --> 00:19:54,797
- No, that's all mine.
- I'm gonna go now.
335
00:19:56,287 --> 00:19:57,561
Okay. Thanks.
336
00:19:57,727 --> 00:20:00,958
Press conference is set for 12 noon.
Networks are gonna cover it live.
337
00:20:01,127 --> 00:20:04,119
We got two choices for
the evening event, San Diego and L.A.
338
00:20:04,287 --> 00:20:07,085
Problem with the L.A. Thing
is that Santos is gonna be there.
339
00:20:07,247 --> 00:20:11,001
- Thought he was gonna be in Florida.
- They put out a press advisory.
340
00:20:11,167 --> 00:20:14,842
They're gonna do a California swing:
San Francisco, San Jose, Fresno, L.A.
341
00:20:15,007 --> 00:20:17,282
Thinks he can take my state
away from me in a day.
342
00:20:17,447 --> 00:20:21,156
The mayor's gonna introduce Santos at
the L.A. Event, so San Diego probably...
343
00:20:21,327 --> 00:20:24,319
No. No, L.A. I wanna get in his face.
344
00:20:24,487 --> 00:20:27,001
I want Santos to see,
if he wants to take California...
345
00:20:27,167 --> 00:20:29,237
...he's gonna have to rip it
out of my hands.
346
00:20:29,407 --> 00:20:31,523
Story is:
"Vinick Chases Santos to California."
347
00:20:31,687 --> 00:20:33,803
If he skips Florida,
that's where we should be.
348
00:20:33,967 --> 00:20:36,242
We announced the trip.
We can't change schedule.
349
00:20:36,407 --> 00:20:38,204
But we can get out
of California quick.
350
00:20:38,367 --> 00:20:40,642
- No.
- We could have Florida all to ourselves.
351
00:20:40,807 --> 00:20:43,002
- We could...
- Santos takes California, game over.
352
00:20:43,167 --> 00:20:45,761
A Republican can win the presidency
without California.
353
00:20:45,927 --> 00:20:49,681
And a Democrat can't. This isn't some
sentimental home-state thing.
354
00:20:49,847 --> 00:20:52,759
This is about winning. I don't have
a 50-state strategy anymore.
355
00:20:52,927 --> 00:20:54,201
I have a one-state strategy.
356
00:20:54,367 --> 00:20:56,164
The one state that has everything:
357
00:20:56,367 --> 00:20:59,359
Big cities, small towns,
mountains, deserts...
358
00:20:59,527 --> 00:21:01,165
...farms, factories, fishermen...
359
00:21:01,327 --> 00:21:05,639
...surfers, all races, all religions,
gay, straight...
360
00:21:05,807 --> 00:21:07,604
...everything this country has.
361
00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:11,316
There's more real America in California
than anywhere else.
362
00:21:11,487 --> 00:21:13,284
If I win California, I win the country.
363
00:21:13,447 --> 00:21:15,756
Nice speech, just don't say it
into microphones...
364
00:21:15,927 --> 00:21:19,203
...because everybody in other states
thinks California's a psycho ward.
365
00:21:19,367 --> 00:21:23,360
California hasn't been competitive
in a presidential race in 25 years.
366
00:21:23,527 --> 00:21:25,597
They don't know
how to campaign there. I do.
367
00:21:25,767 --> 00:21:27,200
Let's get there,
see how it goes.
368
00:21:27,367 --> 00:21:30,165
Okay, just please
forget about the power plant.
369
00:21:30,327 --> 00:21:32,636
Go home to Santa Paula,
remind the country...
370
00:21:32,807 --> 00:21:35,116
...the South, of your roots
in a farming community.
371
00:21:35,287 --> 00:21:38,120
I can't go to California without dealing
with the accident.
372
00:21:38,287 --> 00:21:41,006
Take questions about the nuclear thing,
in your hometown...
373
00:21:41,167 --> 00:21:42,964
...surrounded by friends...
374
00:21:43,127 --> 00:21:45,243
...instead of standing in
a radioactive zone...
375
00:21:45,407 --> 00:21:48,922
...where everyone's ready to vote
for anybody but Vinick.
376
00:21:49,087 --> 00:21:53,080
I've got to show them that we've
contained the leak, that it's safe...
377
00:21:53,807 --> 00:21:55,525
...that the cleanup is working.
378
00:21:55,687 --> 00:21:57,325
Standing in front of the plant says:
379
00:21:57,487 --> 00:22:01,002
- "The accident was my fault. Blame me."
- We'll talk about Florida tomorrow.
380
00:22:01,167 --> 00:22:04,637
If you're right, they'll be chasing me
out of California by then. Annie...
381
00:22:04,807 --> 00:22:08,482
...I want an updated briefing book
on the cleanup, tomorrow on the plane.
382
00:22:08,647 --> 00:22:10,160
Okay.
383
00:22:17,447 --> 00:22:18,721
Hand any better?
384
00:22:18,887 --> 00:22:20,764
Do I sound crazy to you?
385
00:22:20,927 --> 00:22:22,997
- It's been a tough couple of weeks.
- Tough?
386
00:22:23,167 --> 00:22:24,805
I've been in tough campaigns before.
387
00:22:24,967 --> 00:22:26,525
This is way beyond tough.
388
00:22:26,687 --> 00:22:28,245
This is a nightmare.
389
00:22:28,407 --> 00:22:31,479
Nuclear power plant works perfectly
for 24 years...
390
00:22:31,647 --> 00:22:33,922
Race was gonna tighten
even without that accident.
391
00:22:34,087 --> 00:22:35,440
Wasn't gonna get this tight.
392
00:22:35,607 --> 00:22:37,962
We were heading for at least
a five-point win...
393
00:22:38,127 --> 00:22:41,119
...and California was gonna give us
a big Electoral College win.
394
00:22:41,287 --> 00:22:42,720
We had this thing locked.
395
00:22:42,887 --> 00:22:44,878
Still do.
396
00:22:45,047 --> 00:22:46,446
Now you're sounding crazy.
397
00:22:49,207 --> 00:22:51,118
- That isn't mine.
- I know.
398
00:22:51,287 --> 00:22:53,642
- It belongs to Matt Santos.
- Yeah, very funny.
399
00:22:53,807 --> 00:22:55,638
I'm not kidding.
400
00:22:55,807 --> 00:22:59,117
- I don't know this joke.
- It's not a joke.
401
00:22:59,287 --> 00:23:01,323
- That's Matt Santos' briefcase?
- Yeah.
402
00:23:01,487 --> 00:23:03,398
How did you get it?
You won it in a raffle?
403
00:23:03,567 --> 00:23:05,523
I was the last one
out of the holding room.
404
00:23:05,687 --> 00:23:07,803
I saw it. I thought it was one of ours.
405
00:23:07,967 --> 00:23:09,798
There was no name on it.
I opened it up...
406
00:23:09,967 --> 00:23:12,435
- That's really Matt Santos' briefcase?
- Yeah.
407
00:23:12,607 --> 00:23:15,167
I don't wanna know anything
more about this.
408
00:23:15,687 --> 00:23:19,566
I wanna be able to say I had nothing
to do with this. I didn't know anything.
409
00:23:23,167 --> 00:23:26,682
- You stole Matt Santos' briefcase?
- I didn't steal it. I found it.
410
00:23:26,847 --> 00:23:28,644
But you didn't give it back.
411
00:23:28,807 --> 00:23:32,595
You could've got it back to him easily,
could have given it to the Secret Service.
412
00:23:32,767 --> 00:23:34,564
- Didn't think of it.
- Yes you did...
413
00:23:34,727 --> 00:23:36,638
...and you would have done it
in a second.
414
00:23:36,807 --> 00:23:40,766
Unless you found something in there,
something that would hurt Santos.
415
00:23:40,927 --> 00:23:43,964
You just told me you don't wanna know
anything more about it.
416
00:23:46,647 --> 00:23:49,798
- Who else knows about this?
- No one.
417
00:23:55,367 --> 00:23:57,403
It can make you president.
418
00:24:14,727 --> 00:24:17,764
I need to talk to a lawyer.
I need... I need to think this through.
419
00:24:17,927 --> 00:24:22,364
As soon as that information comes out,
the Santos campaign...
420
00:24:22,607 --> 00:24:23,881
It's over.
421
00:24:24,047 --> 00:24:27,039
So you do not have to go to
California tomorrow...
422
00:24:27,207 --> 00:24:29,118
...and do that painful press conference...
423
00:24:29,287 --> 00:24:32,279
...which is gonna play as if that
accident was your fault.
424
00:24:32,447 --> 00:24:36,838
And you do not have to draw attention
to the fact your polls are not good now.
425
00:24:37,007 --> 00:24:39,567
And you can keep campaigning
in the South and Midwest...
426
00:24:39,727 --> 00:24:43,276
...look like you're driving your own train
instead of jumping on Santos'.
427
00:24:44,207 --> 00:24:45,606
That briefcase can kill us.
428
00:24:45,767 --> 00:24:49,123
- It's got a sort of a journal in there...
- I said don't tell me.
429
00:24:49,287 --> 00:24:51,881
It's a day planner.
It has notes about meetings...
430
00:24:52,047 --> 00:24:54,322
...people, lots of stuff
that can be embarrassing.
431
00:24:54,487 --> 00:24:58,366
What he thinks about the vice president,
how bad a campaigner Leo McGarry is.
432
00:24:58,527 --> 00:25:00,677
And he also has a checkbook in there.
433
00:25:00,847 --> 00:25:04,556
It's a strange one. Just says
"M. Santos."
434
00:25:04,727 --> 00:25:07,799
Not a joint account with the wife.
No address on the checks.
435
00:25:07,967 --> 00:25:10,242
Just uses it for ATM withdrawals...
436
00:25:10,407 --> 00:25:12,238
...and one check each month.
437
00:25:12,407 --> 00:25:16,400
Same amount, made out
to someone named Anita Morales.
438
00:25:18,167 --> 00:25:21,637
There is an Anita Morales...
439
00:25:21,807 --> 00:25:25,720
...29 years old, never married,
one child, a 7-year-old girl.
440
00:25:25,887 --> 00:25:28,355
She's a clerk in Houston City Hall.
441
00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:33,442
Hired nine years ago by
Mayor Matt Santos.
442
00:25:34,447 --> 00:25:35,721
Come on.
443
00:25:35,887 --> 00:25:37,798
We've all heard rumors
about Matt Santos.
444
00:25:38,407 --> 00:25:41,285
- There are rumors about all of us.
- Have a checkbook like that?
445
00:25:41,447 --> 00:25:44,166
Child support payments
for a kid nobody knows about?
446
00:25:44,327 --> 00:25:46,795
- Hush money?
- You have to give back that briefcase.
447
00:25:46,967 --> 00:25:49,527
When this comes out,
he's gonna have to take a DNA test.
448
00:25:49,687 --> 00:25:52,201
Gonna have to prove he did not
have an affair with...
449
00:25:52,367 --> 00:25:53,925
...or a child with a woman...
450
00:25:54,087 --> 00:25:56,999
...he's been making monthly payments to,
for who knows how long.
451
00:25:57,167 --> 00:25:59,078
We can't do this.
452
00:25:59,807 --> 00:26:02,037
- I can't do it.
- I work for you.
453
00:26:02,207 --> 00:26:04,323
I am not gonna do anything
you don't want.
454
00:26:04,487 --> 00:26:06,842
Give this thing
to the Secret Service right now.
455
00:26:07,007 --> 00:26:10,636
And tell them... I don't know what
you tell them, but just give it to them.
456
00:26:10,807 --> 00:26:15,676
Just think about what other secrets
this guy might have.
457
00:26:16,847 --> 00:26:20,840
This may be the tip of the iceberg
of what we don't know about him.
458
00:26:23,607 --> 00:26:26,724
Look, how about
I keep the briefcase...
459
00:26:26,887 --> 00:26:29,560
...we sleep on it
and we'll talk about it tomorrow.
460
00:26:39,607 --> 00:26:41,916
Just tell me
what you want me to do, senator.
461
00:26:45,007 --> 00:26:46,281
Keep it.
462
00:26:55,967 --> 00:27:00,916
Guys, how you doing? Good to see you.
Hi. How's it going, boss? How are you?
463
00:27:01,167 --> 00:27:04,125
Hi. How are you? How you doing?
God bless you. Okay.
464
00:27:05,447 --> 00:27:08,280
Oh, yeah, we had a huge crowd
in San Francisco this morning...
465
00:27:08,447 --> 00:27:11,007
...the Silicon Valley event
was bigger than anticipated.
466
00:27:11,167 --> 00:27:14,000
Now Fresno's going nuts for him.
California loves our guy.
467
00:27:14,167 --> 00:27:16,203
The networks aren't giving
any live coverage.
468
00:27:16,367 --> 00:27:19,120
- Enough cameras out there?
- We got all the local stations.
469
00:27:19,287 --> 00:27:21,881
We are gonna rule the 6:00 news
all over the state.
470
00:27:22,047 --> 00:27:24,436
Hi, good to see you, what's happening?
How you doing?
471
00:27:24,607 --> 00:27:28,043
We want Matt
We want Matt
472
00:27:28,207 --> 00:27:30,675
Thanks for coming.
Don't forget to vote.
473
00:27:30,847 --> 00:27:33,645
Good afternoon,
this is Fresno 's 12:00 news.
474
00:27:33,807 --> 00:27:36,446
- Matt Santos is in town...
- No word on the briefcase?
475
00:27:36,607 --> 00:27:38,916
- Wasn't in the baggage.
- Tell the congressman yet?
476
00:27:39,087 --> 00:27:40,918
- Gonna wait till he asks.
- Very brave.
477
00:27:41,087 --> 00:27:43,123
If he's not worried about it,
why remind him?
478
00:27:43,287 --> 00:27:46,518
In a surprise move the Vinick Campaign
followed the Santos Campaign...
479
00:27:46,687 --> 00:27:49,599
... to California today.
And we're gonna go to live coverage...
480
00:27:49,767 --> 00:27:52,156
... from our sister station,
KRAC in San Andreo...
481
00:27:52,327 --> 00:27:54,124
... where Senator Arnold Vinick...
482
00:27:54,327 --> 00:27:56,716
- Call me from L.A.
- Bram's on line two. It's urgent.
483
00:27:56,887 --> 00:27:59,321
Hang on, Lou. Yeah, Bram?
484
00:28:00,087 --> 00:28:01,998
They cut to Vinick?
485
00:28:02,167 --> 00:28:06,160
Lou, Fresno TV is going live with Vinick.
Get Santos onto the stage right now...
486
00:28:06,327 --> 00:28:08,841
...tell the camera crews
they have to stay live...
487
00:28:09,007 --> 00:28:10,998
...with the guy
who actually came to Fresno.
488
00:28:11,167 --> 00:28:15,843
Good afternoon. I just finished a
complete inspection tour of the facility...
489
00:28:16,007 --> 00:28:18,760
...I'm here to report to the people...
- Maybe not.
490
00:28:18,927 --> 00:28:21,566
...that the cleanup
is ahead of schedule...
491
00:28:21,727 --> 00:28:25,117
...and radiation levels in and around
the plant are back to normal...
492
00:28:25,287 --> 00:28:27,642
Do you think it's safe
to live near this plant?
493
00:28:27,807 --> 00:28:29,081
Yes, I do.
494
00:28:29,247 --> 00:28:33,001
I just spent two hours inside the plant,
so I'm convinced it's safe.
495
00:28:33,167 --> 00:28:34,885
Completely safe?
496
00:28:35,647 --> 00:28:40,402
Obviously, I never should have said
that nuclear power is completely safe.
497
00:28:40,567 --> 00:28:43,718
I said that in the heat of a debate.
Nothing is completely safe.
498
00:28:43,887 --> 00:28:47,243
We're never gonna figure out how
to make driving a car completely safe...
499
00:28:47,407 --> 00:28:50,160
... but Californians
are still gonna do it every day.
500
00:28:50,327 --> 00:28:54,957
Living near a nuclear power plant
is a lot safer than driving a car.
501
00:28:55,127 --> 00:28:59,598
The top priority in every nuclear
power plant has to be safety.
502
00:28:59,767 --> 00:29:02,406
This is one area where I think
we need more regulation...
503
00:29:02,567 --> 00:29:04,842
...and more strictly enforced
safety standards.
504
00:29:05,007 --> 00:29:06,838
You blaming the
Bartlet Administration...?
505
00:29:07,007 --> 00:29:10,795
I'm not blaming anyone. President Bartlet
did everything within current law...
506
00:29:10,967 --> 00:29:12,958
...to maintain safety at these plants.
507
00:29:13,127 --> 00:29:16,437
When I'm president, I'm going to
strengthen those safety regulations.
508
00:29:16,607 --> 00:29:18,996
That wasn't your position
when this plant was built.
509
00:29:19,167 --> 00:29:22,159
You wrote several letters
to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
510
00:29:22,327 --> 00:29:25,364
...urging them to expedite
the approval of this plant.
511
00:29:25,527 --> 00:29:27,358
Yes, I did.
512
00:29:27,527 --> 00:29:30,963
You complained the project was delayed
because of "burdensome regulation."
513
00:29:31,127 --> 00:29:34,756
I was very eager to make sure
that California had an adequate supply...
514
00:29:34,927 --> 00:29:37,202
...of low-cost electricity.
515
00:29:37,367 --> 00:29:40,359
The governor and most
of the state's congressional delegation...
516
00:29:40,527 --> 00:29:43,724
...supported building the plant.
- No one pushed harder than you did.
517
00:29:44,887 --> 00:29:46,957
I don't do anything half-heartedly.
518
00:29:48,207 --> 00:29:52,200
So you no longer think regulation
of nuclear power plants is burdensome?
519
00:29:52,367 --> 00:29:54,323
- No.
- Do you regret saying it was?
520
00:29:54,487 --> 00:29:57,047
- I wouldn't write that letter today.
- Do you regret it?
521
00:29:57,207 --> 00:29:59,721
That was 25 years ago.
We've learned a lot since then.
522
00:29:59,887 --> 00:30:02,640
Do you regret
writing the letter, senator?
523
00:30:04,087 --> 00:30:06,396
Yes, next question.
524
00:30:06,567 --> 00:30:08,956
- What is he doing?
- Trying to get it behind him.
525
00:30:09,127 --> 00:30:12,358
If he does a till-they-drop
press conference, it just might work.
526
00:30:12,527 --> 00:30:14,961
If he does a "Don't Worry, Be Happy,"
he'll look nuts.
527
00:30:15,127 --> 00:30:16,401
You're not gonna get lucky.
528
00:30:16,567 --> 00:30:19,320
He's starting to sound like
straight-talking Arnie again.
529
00:30:19,487 --> 00:30:21,239
- If this works...
- Worked for Andrews.
530
00:30:21,407 --> 00:30:22,806
Got the tax thing behind him.
531
00:30:22,967 --> 00:30:26,846
And he's killing
your free media day in California.
532
00:30:27,007 --> 00:30:29,475
Yeah, who's bright idea was that?
I forget.
533
00:30:29,647 --> 00:30:31,000
Vinick's gotta wrap this up.
534
00:30:31,167 --> 00:30:32,964
- How long has he been on?
- Over an hour.
535
00:30:33,127 --> 00:30:36,358
- Doesn't look like he's quitting soon.
- He's cutting into our coverage.
536
00:30:36,527 --> 00:30:37,926
- Look.
- We'll do it now.
537
00:30:38,087 --> 00:30:40,806
No one has tried to start
building a nuclear power plant...
538
00:30:40,967 --> 00:30:44,118
Josh wants us to go back inside,
set up a quick press conference...
539
00:30:44,287 --> 00:30:47,802
...get some cameras turned on you.
- Dueling press conferences. No.
540
00:30:47,967 --> 00:30:50,686
Hey, I'd love to tell you
I had a better idea.
541
00:30:50,847 --> 00:30:52,883
Fresno!
542
00:30:53,607 --> 00:30:56,963
I love you guys. Thank you again
so much for coming out. Thank you all.
543
00:30:57,127 --> 00:30:59,243
Come on inside.
We're gonna talk some more.
544
00:30:59,407 --> 00:31:02,126
- Today, according to new
environmental impact regulations.
545
00:31:02,287 --> 00:31:05,962
But no one's saying we should
get rid of all those gas stations.
546
00:31:06,127 --> 00:31:09,403
- I think American people understand...
- Two hours and 48 minutes.
547
00:31:09,567 --> 00:31:11,683
He's just getting warmed up.
548
00:31:11,847 --> 00:31:15,203
Why didn't you fight him on this?
You know this is a bad idea.
549
00:31:15,847 --> 00:31:19,396
Think he may have a better feel
for California politics than we do?
550
00:31:19,567 --> 00:31:21,922
Are you drinking the Vinick Kool-Aid
this morning?
551
00:31:22,087 --> 00:31:24,555
Much longer, he's gonna turn this
into a miniseries.
552
00:31:24,727 --> 00:31:27,287
The people who are most worried
about global warming...
553
00:31:28,207 --> 00:31:30,402
There's no way
we're gonna be able to spin this.
554
00:31:30,567 --> 00:31:33,400
- Who are most opposed to
the use of nuclear power.
555
00:31:33,567 --> 00:31:38,243
Over a 26-year career in public service,
I'd do a lot of things differently...
556
00:31:38,407 --> 00:31:40,238
...if I could do them over again.
557
00:31:40,407 --> 00:31:45,845
My job is to make the best decision I can
with the information I have at the time.
558
00:31:46,007 --> 00:31:49,966
You know, if you do something for
26 years, you should keep getting better.
559
00:31:50,127 --> 00:31:54,962
I'm better because I have better
information, I have more experience...
560
00:31:55,127 --> 00:31:58,676
...making tough decisions,
and I have more mature judgment...
561
00:31:58,847 --> 00:32:01,645
...that's what I think
this country needs now more than ever.
562
00:32:01,807 --> 00:32:04,685
We have troops in Kazakhstan,
and we have more on the way.
563
00:32:04,847 --> 00:32:07,805
That's the tough choice
that President Bartlet made...
564
00:32:07,967 --> 00:32:10,879
...to try to keep Russia and China
from slipping into war there.
565
00:32:11,367 --> 00:32:15,121
Now, the next president is going
to have to take over that situation...
566
00:32:15,287 --> 00:32:18,085
...the first hour on the job.
567
00:32:18,527 --> 00:32:21,758
That's the most important issue
facing the country in this campaign...
568
00:32:21,927 --> 00:32:25,602
... not who said what
about nuclear power 25 years ago...
569
00:32:25,807 --> 00:32:28,685
... or did one of us
use too strong a word in a debate.
570
00:32:28,847 --> 00:32:32,476
The real decision the American people
are going to have to make...
571
00:32:32,647 --> 00:32:36,606
...is who do they want as their
next commander in chief.
572
00:32:37,967 --> 00:32:39,923
All right. Next question.
573
00:32:45,367 --> 00:32:46,880
Anyone?
574
00:32:49,087 --> 00:32:51,681
- Ellen?
- Nope.
575
00:32:53,567 --> 00:32:54,966
Thank you.
576
00:32:55,647 --> 00:32:57,558
Thank you very much.
577
00:32:57,727 --> 00:32:59,718
Damn, this guy is good.
578
00:33:00,527 --> 00:33:02,836
Son of a bitch.
579
00:33:06,807 --> 00:33:09,640
Jane, Speaker Haffley on line two.
580
00:33:10,327 --> 00:33:11,760
Yes, Mr. Speaker?
581
00:33:11,927 --> 00:33:13,758
Way to go, sir.
582
00:33:16,327 --> 00:33:17,999
What's the word on the street?
583
00:33:18,167 --> 00:33:20,442
Speaker thinks the press conference
was brilliant.
584
00:33:20,607 --> 00:33:22,723
I hope you took full credit.
585
00:33:22,887 --> 00:33:26,084
MSNBC wants someone
from the campaign to go live right now.
586
00:33:26,247 --> 00:33:27,805
I can do it.
587
00:33:30,887 --> 00:33:32,718
- Senator?
- How we doing on time?
588
00:33:32,887 --> 00:33:34,684
Not bad, 20 minutes late.
Better for us.
589
00:33:34,847 --> 00:33:36,963
Santos will be out
by the time we get there.
590
00:33:37,127 --> 00:33:38,685
- Bob?
- Yeah?
591
00:33:39,047 --> 00:33:42,562
Tell Secret Service I wanna get five
minutes with Santos before he leaves.
592
00:33:42,727 --> 00:33:44,001
Alone.
593
00:33:44,167 --> 00:33:47,603
- They'll wanna know what it's about.
- Yeah, well, just tell them...
594
00:33:48,647 --> 00:33:50,444
...it's personal.
595
00:33:51,207 --> 00:33:53,596
Yes, Larry, I think
he has put this issue behind him.
596
00:33:53,767 --> 00:33:56,281
He answered every question,
didn't duck the tough ones.
597
00:33:56,447 --> 00:33:58,403
- You saw what kind of president...
- Yeah?
598
00:33:58,567 --> 00:34:01,240
What's this about wanting a
meeting tonight with Santos?
599
00:34:01,407 --> 00:34:02,760
- Hi, Josh.
- What's this about?
600
00:34:02,927 --> 00:34:05,236
- First I've heard.
- Message is it's personal.
601
00:34:05,407 --> 00:34:07,284
- What's that mean?
- Maybe it's personal.
602
00:34:07,447 --> 00:34:09,836
Not sending my guy if
we don't know what it's about.
603
00:34:10,007 --> 00:34:11,520
- Good.
- What do you mean, "good"?
604
00:34:11,687 --> 00:34:13,279
I don't like my guy in a meeting...
605
00:34:13,447 --> 00:34:16,359
...I know nothing about.
If you can stop it, I owe you one.
606
00:34:17,247 --> 00:34:18,760
Yeah?
607
00:34:19,607 --> 00:34:21,040
Just got a call from Josh.
608
00:34:21,207 --> 00:34:23,038
Wanted to know what
the meeting is about.
609
00:34:23,207 --> 00:34:24,959
- What'd you tell him?
- The truth.
610
00:34:25,127 --> 00:34:26,480
It's the first I heard of it.
611
00:34:26,647 --> 00:34:28,285
You think Santos will show up?
612
00:34:28,447 --> 00:34:30,756
Not if Josh has anything
to say about it.
613
00:34:31,607 --> 00:34:33,245
I wanna give him back his briefcase.
614
00:34:33,407 --> 00:34:36,717
- I figured that.
- When in doubt, do the right thing.
615
00:34:36,887 --> 00:34:39,321
The rest of the time,
get away with whatever you can.
616
00:34:39,767 --> 00:34:41,997
Who said that? One of those
Louisiana governors.
617
00:34:42,167 --> 00:34:44,556
Yeah, probably from his jail cell.
618
00:34:45,287 --> 00:34:48,484
You know, Santos never got the vetting
a front-runner gets.
619
00:34:48,647 --> 00:34:50,638
He wasn't supposed to get
the nomination.
620
00:34:50,807 --> 00:34:53,002
The press gave him a free ride
in the primaries.
621
00:34:53,167 --> 00:34:55,886
Until now, he's been
running way behind you...
622
00:34:56,047 --> 00:34:59,119
...so the press still hasn't done
their digging, but they will now.
623
00:34:59,287 --> 00:35:02,438
So it really doesn't matter
what you do with that briefcase.
624
00:35:02,607 --> 00:35:03,881
It's gonna come out.
625
00:35:04,047 --> 00:35:06,800
If it comes out
when Santos is in the White House...
626
00:35:07,127 --> 00:35:09,846
...I don't know what happens.
All hell's gonna break loose.
627
00:35:10,007 --> 00:35:12,521
Wouldn't be first president
with an illegitimate child.
628
00:35:12,687 --> 00:35:14,996
- How far you think he's gonna get?
- You know what.
629
00:35:15,167 --> 00:35:17,476
If I agreed with a candidate
on the issues...
630
00:35:17,647 --> 00:35:20,844
...and was ready to vote for him,
and something like this came out...
631
00:35:21,007 --> 00:35:23,123
...I'd still vote for him.
- Good. That's you.
632
00:35:23,287 --> 00:35:25,005
And that's maybe most Santos voters.
633
00:35:25,167 --> 00:35:27,362
And it is every voter in France...
634
00:35:27,527 --> 00:35:30,246
...but it is not this country. Not yet.
635
00:35:30,407 --> 00:35:33,638
I don't want people wishing
they could change their votes after.
636
00:35:33,807 --> 00:35:36,640
Voters have a right to know about it
before their decision.
637
00:35:36,807 --> 00:35:38,559
Come on, this is me you're talking to.
638
00:35:38,727 --> 00:35:43,039
Please don't try to turn mudslinging
into a respect-the-voters spiel.
639
00:35:43,207 --> 00:35:45,402
Don't tell anyone,
but I do respect the voters.
640
00:35:45,567 --> 00:35:47,046
That's why I win.
641
00:35:47,207 --> 00:35:48,799
I find out what they care about.
642
00:35:48,967 --> 00:35:50,923
I don't tell them what to care about.
643
00:35:51,087 --> 00:35:54,682
- Not exactly my idea of leadership.
- Yeah, well, it's my idea of democracy.
644
00:35:54,847 --> 00:35:56,997
The voters set the terms
of elections, not us.
645
00:35:57,167 --> 00:35:59,601
They get to decide what's important,
not us.
646
00:35:59,767 --> 00:36:02,759
That's why I think voters have a right
to this information now...
647
00:36:02,927 --> 00:36:04,758
...instead of six months from now.
648
00:36:04,927 --> 00:36:07,600
They could be electing a president
drowning in scandal...
649
00:36:07,767 --> 00:36:10,964
...when he's supposed to stop
World War III in Kazakhstan.
650
00:36:11,127 --> 00:36:13,277
And that is not the kind of guy...
651
00:36:13,447 --> 00:36:16,564
...most of the country wants
to be the next commander in chief.
652
00:36:16,727 --> 00:36:18,365
Not now.
653
00:36:20,807 --> 00:36:22,445
Thank you.
654
00:36:23,727 --> 00:36:26,685
Thank you. Thank you very much.
655
00:36:44,967 --> 00:36:46,241
Well, what harm can it do?
656
00:36:46,407 --> 00:36:48,045
- It's the principle.
- Which is?
657
00:36:48,207 --> 00:36:51,165
We like to know what a meeting is about
before we agree to it.
658
00:36:52,047 --> 00:36:54,402
- Five minutes?
- That's what they said.
659
00:37:07,087 --> 00:37:09,078
Whose idea was the press conference?
660
00:37:09,527 --> 00:37:11,438
Couldn't let you
have California yourself.
661
00:37:11,927 --> 00:37:13,838
I should've known.
662
00:37:21,247 --> 00:37:22,600
Well...
663
00:37:24,247 --> 00:37:26,158
Got something for you.
664
00:37:32,687 --> 00:37:35,326
Bruno found it in the holding room
in Philadelphia.
665
00:37:38,927 --> 00:37:40,645
He look through it?
666
00:37:41,287 --> 00:37:45,041
- No name tag on it.
- Took 24 hours to get back to me?
667
00:37:48,127 --> 00:37:50,083
Find anything interesting in my notes?
668
00:37:50,247 --> 00:37:52,602
- Didn't read them.
- Bruno did.
669
00:37:53,407 --> 00:37:55,762
- You don't have to worry about that.
- I don't?
670
00:37:55,927 --> 00:37:58,157
- No one else knows.
- Bruno, you and me?
671
00:37:58,327 --> 00:38:01,160
That's it, and we're not
gonna tell anyone.
672
00:38:01,327 --> 00:38:04,080
Maybe I should tell the press
that Bruno stole my briefcase.
673
00:38:04,247 --> 00:38:07,205
He didn't steal it. Found it.
674
00:38:12,367 --> 00:38:15,200
It's not your notes
you should be worrying about.
675
00:38:17,727 --> 00:38:20,560
The checks you've been writing
are a much bigger problem.
676
00:38:23,927 --> 00:38:27,840
- You think so?
- We're not gonna tell anybody...
677
00:38:28,007 --> 00:38:29,281
...but you should.
678
00:38:29,447 --> 00:38:32,325
So that's what this meeting's
all about?
679
00:38:32,487 --> 00:38:34,398
Just wanted to give me a little advice?
680
00:38:35,167 --> 00:38:37,681
Obviously, it's up to you
how you handle this.
681
00:38:37,847 --> 00:38:39,678
That's right, it's up to me.
682
00:38:40,647 --> 00:38:42,205
We're not gonna use it.
683
00:38:44,247 --> 00:38:46,442
But it's gonna come out eventually.
684
00:38:47,767 --> 00:38:50,076
Press is gonna find out.
685
00:38:51,407 --> 00:38:54,046
They're gonna find Anita Morales.
686
00:38:54,567 --> 00:38:57,001
Camera crews are gonna
follow her daughter to school.
687
00:38:57,167 --> 00:38:59,158
Bruno really did his homework, huh?
688
00:38:59,327 --> 00:39:02,239
Think the people who work for you
wouldn't have done the same...
689
00:39:02,407 --> 00:39:04,637
...if they had found my briefcase?
690
00:39:06,527 --> 00:39:09,121
If the press finds out about this
next week...
691
00:39:09,287 --> 00:39:11,847
...then all that happens
is you lose an election.
692
00:39:13,047 --> 00:39:16,084
But if you win and the press finds out
next month or next year...
693
00:39:16,247 --> 00:39:19,284
...then I don't know what happens
to you or your presidency.
694
00:39:19,967 --> 00:39:23,243
That's what you have to think about.
Right now.
695
00:39:24,967 --> 00:39:27,242
You have a responsibility to the voters
to think...
696
00:39:27,407 --> 00:39:30,479
Don't lecture me about responsibilities.
697
00:39:31,087 --> 00:39:32,964
You really think you can handle this...
698
00:39:33,127 --> 00:39:36,563
...if it comes out while you're living
in the White House with your family?
699
00:39:36,727 --> 00:39:39,321
You really think you wanna put
the country through that?
700
00:39:39,487 --> 00:39:42,559
- Put your wife through that?
- My wife knows all about it.
701
00:39:49,847 --> 00:39:54,125
My brother's never been very good
about living up to his responsibilities.
702
00:39:54,527 --> 00:39:57,246
He went out with Anita for a while...
703
00:39:57,407 --> 00:40:01,559
...disappeared like he always does.
He's never been able to hold on to a job.
704
00:40:03,887 --> 00:40:07,243
When I found out about the baby,
I figured someone had to step up.
705
00:40:11,847 --> 00:40:15,522
It would have looked a lot better
if you'd given your brother the money...
706
00:40:15,687 --> 00:40:19,919
...and let him pay the child support.
- Well, I wish I could trust him to do that.
707
00:40:26,127 --> 00:40:27,480
You don't believe me.
708
00:40:28,487 --> 00:40:31,763
Doesn't matter what I believe.
You know the truth.
709
00:40:38,687 --> 00:40:40,757
This is a family thing.
710
00:40:41,167 --> 00:40:44,557
This has nothing to do
with what kind of president I would be.
711
00:41:46,687 --> 00:41:48,678
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