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Previously on The West Wing:

I don't know these people.

You will.

Which one is Toby?

I am.

And which one are you?

I'm Josh.

My name's Charlie Young.

I'm Donna Moss.
Who are you?

I'm just guessing.
I'm pretty drunk.

Which one is Josh?

It's C.J. Cregg.

Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg,
Sam Seaborn...

You got to be a
little impressed

I got those names
right just now.

Two minutes to air.

Hey, Sam.

Hey, Mark.

You done?

Yeah.

It's not going
to be Wengland.

What happened?

He's stuck in Denver.

I wanted Wengland.

Did you get Stackhouse?

Couldn't get Stackhouse

couldn't get Santana,
couldn't get Monroe.

Who'd you get?

A woman named Ainsley Hayes.

Aimsley?

Ainsley, with an "n."

I don't know her.

I got a new producer.
He brought her in.

Tell me she's not
one of his...

She is.

I thought that was over.

No, no, it's not.

She's got blonde hair,
long legs

and she's a Republican.

She's in show business.

Yeah.

A young, blonde,
leggy Republican.

Yeah.

I thought it turned out
they didn't know anything.

They don't.

Sam.
!
Yeah.

Ainsley?
Yes.

Mark Godfried.

Ainsley Hayes.

So, we'll be starting
here in about a minute

I understand you've
never done TV before.

No, not as such, no.

Not as such-- what
does that mean?

It means no,
I haven't done TV before.

Okay, well, can I give you
a little friendly advice?

Yes, I would appreciate it.

Don't overreach.

Don't overreach?

Don't try to
do too much.

Don't try
to know more than you do.

My show's not the place
for you to become a star.

You'll be opposite
Sam Seaborn.

He's done the show
a couple dozen times.

The White House
wouldn't keep sending him

if he didn't keep
wiping the floor

with whoever's
in your chair.

I've seen him.

Don't be scared.

I'll try.

I'll take some
of the punches for you

if it gets out of hand

but if you don't get too far
from the talking points

I'm sure somebody
gave you that...

Yeah.
You'll be fine.

Man:
Thirty seconds.

Are we starting
with the education package?

Yeah.

You owe me 20 bucks
on the 'Skins.

Man:
In the Green Room, man.

I'm Sam Seaborn.

Ainsley Hayes.

20 seconds.

You bet with George
on the Skins?

Over, under. How's Josh?

He's good.

Ten seconds.

Here we go.
Remember what I said.

Yeah.

In five, four,
three...

Announcer:
Capital Beat,
with Mark Godfried.

Tonight from the right

Republican political analyst
Ainsley Hayes.

And from the left, White House
Senior Advisor Sam Seaborn

with Chris Isan at the Pentagon
and Marjorie Clark in New York.

Good evening.

Before we get
to Chris and Marjorie

tonight on the Capital Beat

the House is expected
to vote next week

on President Bartlet's
$1.5 billion education package.

Sam Seaborn, why is this bill

better than
its Republican counterpart

that the President
vetoed last year?

Because it buys things that
teachers need, like textbooks.

In a fairly comprehensive
study that was done

an alarmingly high
number of teachers--

40% of the teachers
in Kirkwood, Oregon,
for instance--

and Kirkwood, Oregon
being a fair model

for public school districts
across the country--

40% of the teachers
in Kirkwood, Oregon

report not having
sufficient

textbooks for their students.

The package offered by the
Republican-controlled Congress

offered a grand total

of zero dollars
for new textbooks.

Ainsley Hayes, is that true?

No, it's not.

Is Sam Seaborn lying?

"Lying" is
an awfully strong word.

Do you...
Yes, he's lying.

And we should tell
the truth

about education.

If you're...
The bill contained

money for new textbooks--

also computer literacy,
school safety, physical plant.

The difference is
we wanted to give the money

directly to communities

and let them decide
how best to spend it

on the off-chance that the needs
of Lincoln High in Dayton

are different
from the needs of Crenshaw High

in South Central L.A.

Sam, why did the President
veto the bill?

Because it guaranteed
by law

that 95% of the money
go directly into the classroom

and bypass
the pork barrel buffet

which is troubling
to this president because

he doesn't work for the students

and he doesn't work for
the parents of the students.

He works
for the teachers' union.

Here comes the old...

The bill contained plenty
of money for textbooks, Mark

and anyone who says otherwise
is flat-out lying.

I mean, we should tell the truth
about this.

Textbooks
are important

if for no other reason

than they'd accurately place
the town of Kirkwood

in California, and not Oregon.

Godfried:
And we're in business.

We'll be back with more
Capital Beat after this.

Man:
We're out.

I'm sorry.
Did I overreach?

( chuckles )

Hey, Sam.
!
Yeah.

This one
might know something.

Yeah.

Please, oh, please,
let them not be watching.

Toby, come quick.

Sam's getting his ass kicked
by a girl.

Ginger, get the popcorn.

C.J.:
There will be photo-op
in the Mural Room

in a half hour with President
Bartlet and President Nimbala

of the Republic
of Equatorial Kuhndu

who's representing
the African nations.

Uh, C.J., is it the goal
of the summit

to get the drug companies
to lower their prices

or is the goal to get
the African countries

to honor U.S. patents?

The goal of the summit
is to get a step closer

to solving 26 million
African AIDS victims.

We're counting
on the drug companies

we're counting
on the African nations

we're counting
on the global health community

and they're counting
on the White House

to help broker a solution.

Is the White House
prepared

to declare war
on the drug companies?

Well, it sounds like
you already have

so if we need a button man,
we'll call you.

Thank you, everybody.
Half hour in the mural room.

We're going to need
to be in three groups.

Yeah.

You know what you
might have mentioned?

It was a 14-minute
briefing.

I'm really going to get reviews?

You might have mentioned
that the same drug

that cost $10.80 in Norway,
where nobody needs it

costs $90.00 in Burundi,
where everybody needs it.

There's nothing keeping
these people here
but goodwill, Toby.

They can charge what they
want for their products.

Sounded to me like
we intended to be soft
on the drug companies.

Toby, I don't think anybody
expects this White House

to be anything but tough

on American companies
showing a profit.

Damn right.

Where was the '92 World
Copyright Conference?

Geneva.
Thank you.

C.J.:
Sam, I've really got to admire

the way you came into work
this morning, head held high.

And I appreciate your
being the one person

who's managed to abstain
from heckling me.

No problem. There's a whole
bunch of women over there.

Why don't you ask them
whether Geneva's

in Switzerland or Oregon?

Okay.
Go to my office.

Me and you,
20 Questions

short answer,
general knowledge test

right now--
I'll spot you
two questions.

For how much money?

Go to my office.

I'm going to his office.

( imitates chicken clucking )

She's making the
chicken sound now.

Go to my office.

A drug they've got
to buy from us

for four dollars a unit

they can get generic
from Pakistan for 40 cents.

That's not the only bargain
in Pakistan, Toby.

My girlfriends and I

go for the
spring fashions.

It shows.

C.J.

He just made
a little dig
about my clothes

and that's what's
going to be with me
the rest of the day.

C.J., I wanted
to introduce myself.

I'm Bill Kelley from
the Cleveland Courier.
Hi.

They're breaking me in
to cover for Tom Johnson.

I've been sitting
in the back.
Welcome.

Can I ask you
something?

That's what
I'm here for.

Do you know anything about

Bonamo Energy selling
drilling equipment to Iraq?

I'm not going to wave
you off the story

but I can't tell you
anything about it.

If they were selling
the Iraqis

drilling equipment,
that would be in violation

of sanctions,
wouldn't it?

Grand jury investigations
are secret, Bill.

I can't tell you
any more about it.

I understand.
Nice meeting you.

Nice meeting you.

Bill.

Yeah?

Nothing, just...

nothing.

Okay.

President:
Then you've got guys
like Mbeki who turn around

and say that AIDS
isn't linked to HIV

it's linked to poverty.

It is linked
to poverty.

Would you to show you
the list of dead millionaires?

He was saying that
prostitutes, migrant
laborers, the ill-educated

and victims of sexual
abuse are more likely...

Leo, AIDS is caused by HIV.

You just named a group
of people that have

a higher mortality
rate across the board.

Morning, Charlie.
Good morning,
Mr. President.

Where are we?

We're all set, sir,
whenever you're ready.

Thank you.

With the health minister

trying to clear up
his comments.

They have a health minister

who doesn't think AIDS
is connected to HIV.

He was clearing up
the comments.

Hey, did you see Sam get pureed
last night on Capital Beat?

I didn't see it,
but I have heard tell.

He got diced and sliced
by a woman named Ainsley Hayes.

She's been writing
some columns.

I know, I had Charlie
pull them for me.

Where's she been?

She was clerking for Dreifort.

We should hire her.

That'd be funny.

No, I mean it.
Mean what?

We should hire her.

Well, you mean as a joke on Sam?

No, not as a joke, I mean
we should hire her as a reality.

We should hire her.

She's a Republican.

So are half the people
in this country.

Well, that half lost...

She's smart.
She's not just carping.

She feels a sense of something.

Of what?
Mr. President.

Yeah... of duty,
of civic duty.

How many pieces by
her did you read?

Three.

And you're certain of
her sense of civic duty?

I can sense civic duty
a mile away.

Good morning.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning,
Mr. President.

Good morning, sir.

You can tell your
caption editors

that Bartlet's the third guy
from the right.

Thank you, sir.

Presidents Bartlet
and Nimbala will take

just a few questions.

President Bartlet.
Katie.

This is a summit among leaders

of American pharmaceutical
companies and the AIDS-ravaged

African nations that President
Nimbala is representing here.

Is there a political upside

to only having President Nimbala
at this photo-op and not

the pharmaceutical
companies?

Yes, Katie, I'm trying to
shore up the sub-Saharan vote.

Are you considering
asking Congress

to forgive
existing debt?

It's an international
health crisis.

There's nothing
I'm not considering.

Arthur.

President Nimbala,
what's the best you could hope

to come away with
from this summit?
What's a home run?

( interpreter speaking
foreign language )

A miracle.

( speaking foreign language )

( translating ):
There are people who make
miracles in the world.

One of them lives
right here in the U.S.

He realized that vital elements
could be harvested

from the stalk of the wheat.

In his hands, India, which
at the time had been ravaged

by drought and overpopulation.

In his hands, the wheat crop
increased from 11 million tons

to 60 million tons annually.

That's right; his name is
Norman Borlaug, by the way

and he won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1970.

C.J.:
Thank you, Mr. President

President Nimbala.
Thank you, everyone.

I think you're
absolutely right

about the kind
of miracle we need.

I think we're going
to make a lot of progress

in the next couple of days.

I hope so,
Mr. President.

My country is dying.

It was called dwarf wheat,
which produces heavy yields

without its stalk falling over
from the weight of the grain.

Was it a hybrid?

What am I, Farmer Bob?

It was wheat and it was more
than there used to be.

Okay.

And hire that girl.

What girl?

Ainsley Hayes.

No.

Why?

'Cause this is
one of those things

you're excited about
after breakfast

that you forget
you told me to do by lunch.

It's not one of those.

It is one of those.

Leo, hard as you might try

the Republican Party
isn't going anywhere.

We don't know that
for sure, sir.

They could all end up
moving to Vancouver.

I don't think so.

Me neither, but
being in power

means everybody else can
take a seat for four years.

Charlie, I want
to hire a woman

whose voice I think would
fit in nicely around here.

She's a conservative
Republican.

You think I should do it?

Absolutely, Mr. President

'cause I'm told that theirs
is the party of inclusion.

See, Charlie just made
a joke to you

in the Oval Office.

That's how bad
an idea it is.

Leo.

Seriously,
Mr. President

if you want to do this, it's not
an uninteresting notion.

Let's just do it
in a more high-profile place:

put a Republican in the Cabinet.

We might do that, Leo.

A hundred million Republicans--

we might hire as many
as two of them.

But for now, hire this girl.

To do what?

I don't know. She's a lawyer.

Put her in the Counsel's office.

You really want me to do this?

Yes.

What if she doesn't want
to work here?

Appeal to her sense of duty.

Smooth it over with the staff.

Really, I don't want
to hear from them.

She can always have my job,
you know.

Yes, she can.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you.

And Charlie.

Yes, sir?

When they close the book
on me and you

it will say that at this moment,
you were not there for me

and for that, obviously

there'll be some kind
of punishment.

Well, you could sing Puccini
again for me, Mr. President

and we could call it even.
( sighs )

Ainsley ( on TV ):
And anyone who says otherwise
is flat-out lying.

Bruce:
Here it comes.

Does anybody have...

Shh!
Shh!

Ainsley ( on TV ):
Textbooks are important

if for no other reason

than they'd accurately place
the town of Kirkwood

in California,
and not in Oregon.

Oh, I could watch that
a hundred times.

Does anybody know how
to work Caller I.D.?

Oh, how can you not know
how to use a telephone?

I've been paying attention
to other things.

Well, pay attention to that

because Bruce's friend
is going to call you.

The agent?
Yep.

I don't need an agent.

I need a Caller I.D. tutorial.

You need an agent.
You're going to be a star.

Used to be
you had to sing and dance.

You are going
to get a lot of work

ripping these people to shreds
and looking good doing it.

That's an actual job now?

( phone rings )

That's him.

Let's see. I push this button...

the phone number appears...

Harriet:
Ainsley?

"202-456-1414."

Harriet:
Is that
the agent?

It's the White House.

Hey, Sam.

Excuse me?

What?

Did you say something to me?

I-I said, "Hey, Sam."

Really?

Yeah.

'Cause it sounded like maybe
you might have made a wisecrack

about Oregon and California.

Sorry. Out of luck.

Hey, C.J.

Hi, Donna.

Just getting here?

Yeah.

It's late for you.

I got lost.

Where?

On the way to work.

When?
Now! This morning.

You got lost
on your way to work?

Good morning, Carol.

Morning, Carol.

It's 8:15.

We'll do messages in a minute.

You got lost on
your way to work?

Don't make fun of me.

I wouldn't worry
about that.

I didn't sleep much last night.

How much?
None. Not at all.

You slept none?
Not at all?

Sam...
I am today
particularly excited

about you being the spokesperson
for the President.

Let me ask you something.

I was talking yesterday

to a reporter
who's new in the room

and he asked me a question,
and-and my answer...

Let me ask you something.

C.J.?

Yeah?

You know you haven't asked me
anything yet, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, listen. Never mind.

C.J.?

Seriously, forget about it.

What was your
question?

Leo:
The two of you

come take a
walk with me.

What's going on?

I wanted to tell you this
out where there were people

so you wouldn't scream
about it.

Scream
about what?

The woman who was

on Capitol Beat
with Sam Sunday night.

What about her?

I'm offering her a job.

Where?

Here.

Are you kidding?
No.

Are you kidding?
No.

Are you kidding?!

No.

What made you think

I wouldn't scream
where they are people?!

I took a shot.

Leo!
Leo!

Shh! Outside.

I don't feel that
I've honed in on this.

Oh, a lot of
people in Africa

with HIV.

Right.

American companies
hold the patents

on the medicines
they need.

Most people
in most African countries

can't afford to buy the drugs
at these prices

so they buy them
on the black market.

In violation
of U.S. patents

and international
treaties.

Yes.
How prohibitively
priced are the drugs?

Costs about
150 bucks a week.

That's not totally
off the charts.

A police officer
in Kenya makes
$43 a month.

Do good in there.

( sighs )

Man:
This isn't
about prof...

Man 2:
Sir...

This isn't
about profit...

Sir, you have

interrupted me again.

My apologies, Mr. President.

( speaking foreign language )

( translating ):
How can you tell us

this isn't about
profit maximization?

( speaking foreign language )

Why do you
sell Emperex

for half the
price in Norway

than you do
in my country?

That's not the issue.

Let's make it
the issue.
Toby...

Let's make it the issue
for the moment.

You can't compare prices
worldwide, Toby.

Excuse me, sir?

Yes.

( speaking foreign language )

I was the one
who asked you

the question,
and I'd appreciate it

if you direct
your answer to me.

President Nimbala...

when you sell
to small pharmacies

as we do in Norway,
a different price is set.

Norway...

( speaking
foreign language )

Norway, $10 per unit U.S.;
my country, $23 per unit U.S.

Retail markup, taxes,
pharmacy discounts...

These things vary widely.

Not to mention
we don't even know

if the drugs are getting
to your citizens.

( speaking foreign language )

You're implying
corruption and
incompetence.

We do have reports of that,
Mr. President.

( speaking
foreign language )

You talk to me
about corruption?

( speaking
foreign language )

What are your annual sales
of Fluconazole alone?

A billion dollars.

I don't understand
your point, sir.

I think
President Nimbala's saying

there's more money
in giving a white guy

an erection than curing
a black guy of AIDS.

Sir, my company

has given away
over $120 million worth

of free drugs a year

including free doses
of Xyclacinth

which is one of two drugs
in your country

curing eye infections
right now.

They're not dying from
eye infections, Alan.

Well, they're not dying
'cause of me either, Toby

and I'd like
not to be talked to this way.

Alan, if it was
26 million Europeans dying

we'd have had
a solution yesterday.

( sighs )

( interpreter speaks softly )

How much would it cost
for you to provide free drugs

to the Sahelese Republic, Kenya

and the Republic
of Equatorial Kuhndu?

I have no idea.

Why not? We're talking
about 130,000 patients

200-milligram pills,
three times a day, every day.

What's the "x" factor?

We don't know
how long they'll live.

( speaks softly )

We're nowhere.

Let's take a break.

( speaks softly )

Leo, she's here.
Yeah?

Should I
send her in?

Yeah.

Do you want me
to stay here?

Why?

In case something
should happen.

What would that
be, exactly?

I'll bring her in.

Thank you.

Ainsley.

Mr. McGarry.

Leo's fine.

Yes, sir.

Were you offered coffee

or something
to drink?

Yes, the woman
who works out there

who I imagine
is your secretary

offered me coffee
or a soft drink.

Okay, so...

She was also kind enough
to ask for my coat.

Excellent, and...

She seems to be
a very good secretary.

Well, she'll be
happy to hear that.

She's standing right
outside the door.

Margaret:
Ow.

So, I have to tell you

I've never seen
Sam Seaborn get beat

the way you beat him
on Monday.

Yes, well, Mr. McGarry...

Leo.

Yes, sir, I've been
thinking about that

ever since your office
called me on Tuesday

and I have something
to say on my own behalf

if you'll permit me
a moment to say it

and I understand
if you won't

but I would really
appreciate it if you did.

I didn't really follow that,
but whatever.

I think that it is wrong
for a man in your position

to summon someone
to the White House

to reprimand them
for voicing opposition.

I think that that is wrong

and it is
inappropriate.

It's inappropriate, and
I'll tell you what else...

It's wrong?
Yes.

Except you weren't summoned here
to be reprimanded.

Then if you'll permit me,
why was I summoned?

You have an interesting
conversational style

you know that?

It's a nervous condition.

I used to have
a nervous condition.

How did yours manifest itself?

I drank a lot of scotch.

I get sick
when I drink too much.

I get drunk
when I drink too much.

Well, Mr. McGarry...
Leo.

Yes, sir, I'll ask again.

For what purpose
was I brought here today?

So I could offer you a job.

I'm asking because
I do not think that it is fair

that I be expected to play
the role of the mouse

to the White House's cat
in the game of...

you know the game.

Cat and mouse?

Yes, and it's not
like I'm not...

The fact that
I may not look

like some of the
other Republicans

who have crossed your path

does not mean that I am
any less inclined toward...

Here it comes.

Did you say offer me a job?

Yes.
Associate White House Counsel.

You're to report to the Deputy
White House Counsel

who reports to the White House
Counsel, who reports to me.

I'm sorry.
A job in this White House?

You want a glass of scotch?

Yes, please.

( groaning )

C.J.?

Yeah.

C.J., see a sleep doctor,
take a pill, do something.

I rode the life-cycle this
morning for an hour and a half.

If it was a real cycle,
I'd have been in Belgium by now.

C.J., what did you want
to ask me the other day?

Sam, if I talked
to you about it

you could be subpoenaed.

Don't worry
about it.

It could cost you, and...

Don't worry about it.

I do worry about it.

There's no problem.

I just need some sleep.

What can I bring into the room

about the conference?

The sessions are productive.

Progress is being made.

These kind of things take time.

All the parties are optimistic.

Are any of the parties
optimistic?

No.

Carol:
C.J.?

Yeah.

Did you say something to me?

No.

'Cause... I thought you
might've said something to me.

I have always been
a Republican.

My father

is a Republican.

His father was State Chairman

of the North Carolina
Republican Party.

Yes.

When I was young,
I was a Young Republican.

Ainsley, even if you hadn't
already told me all of this--

you know, many, many times--

I would know it anyway
because I have this FBI file.

You have my FBI file?

Yes.

You have my FBI file?
Yes.

I have an FBI file?

Ainsley.

Mr. McGarry, I loathe

almost everything
you believe in...

Where are you going?

I'm not going anywhere.
I'm standing up

which is how one speaks
in opposition

in a civilized world.

Well, you go, girl.

I find this
administration

smug and patronizing,
and under the impression

that those
who disagree with them

are less than they are,
and with colder hearts.

I don't think that's true.

How many people on your staff

assumed that I was ambitious,
mean, and stupid?

None.

C.J. Cregg thinks
you kill your pets.

You don't do that, do you?

No, I don't kill my pets.

I don't have any pets.

I was thinking
about getting a pet...

but that doesn't matter.

The point is...
Ainsley.

Don't you want to work
in the White House?

Oh, only since I was two.

Okay.

It has to be this White House?

Ainsley...
Mr. McGarry...

The President likes smart people
who disagree with him.

He wants to hear from you.

The President's asking you
to serve...

...and everything else is crap.

Think about it
overnight.

Come back here

at 6:00 tomorrow
and give me your answer.

Margaret!

How you doing?

Show Miss Hayes out,
would you, please?

This way.

No, you're listening to me

but you're not
understanding me.

No, I'm disagreeing
with you.

That doesn't mean
I'm not listening to you

or understanding
what you're saying.

I'm doing all three
at the same time.

You've got to get out
of their face, Toby.

They can get up
any time they want

and we don't have
anything they need.

They need patent treaties
to be enforced.

And they are going
to be enforced.

The pharmaceutical
companies

got half the House
of Representatives elected.

Congress is going
to get serious about this.

The pills cost them four
cents a unit to make.

You know that's not true.

The second pill
costs them four cents.

The first pill costs
them $400 million.

They also enjoy
unprecedented tax breaks

foreign tax credits

research and experimentation
exemptions

and expensing
of research expenditures

to say nothing of the fact
that business is pretty good

so they're going
to cover their bet.

Tell me about Nimbala.

They didn't have cheese.

What is it?
It's boysenberry.

A boysenberry Danish?

It's new.

Tell me about Nimbala.

He's a good president, Josh.

He was a great soldier,
a brilliant commander.

He led his people for 28 years.

He can't get ahead of the curve.

He's cursed by geography.

If the ground
won't grow anything

you don't have
an economy.

Still, he stands in a room

and he talks
about Norman Borlaug.

He came here
himself, Josh.

He didn't send
delegates.

Maybe it's because
he doesn't have any.

I think he's holding his country
together with both hands.

Then let's make sure

we send him back with something,
is my point.

Fellas.

They're ready.
Yeah?

Yeah.

Carol:
Folks, please take
your seats.

C.J.:
Good afternoon.

Guess what.

The audit figures
released yesterday

by the Senate Finance Committee
confirmed earlier reports

released by the Congressional
Budget Office

regarding the increased

budget surplus projections.

The CBS projection actually
increased the surplus amount

from two trillion over the next
ten years to 2.2 trillion.

This exceeds even the most

optimistic estimates
published last year

by the White House Budget
Office, of 300 billion

and the CBS projection
last quarter of 900 billion.

Needless to say,
these figures...

Are you new, too?
Excuse me?

Are you new, too?

It's my fourth day.

Uh, no.

Maybe you can
help me, then.

I'm trying to get somewhere
with drilling equipment

that might've been sold by
Bonamo Energy to the Iraqis
in violation of sanctions.

Now, I asked C.J. about it

and she said there's a
grand jury investigation

and she's not
allowed to talk.

If you ask me,
she was acting

a little bit...
I don't know

but I hear she hasn't
been able to sleep

and maybe that's because...

She told you there was
a grand jury investigation?

Yeah.

Miss Hayes.

Yeah.
This way.

...responsible for
a large portion

of the surplus-
to-debt reduction.

With regards to the progress
made here

at the White House summit
for African AIDS relief

all parties are optimistic

that an agreement
will be reached soon.

Damson:
I think there's

a more fundamental problem
than marginal cost.

We've been at this
for four days

and I still think
we haven't talked about

the fundamental misunderstanding
in Africa

over the basic facts of AIDS.

( translated ):
I don't think
there's a misunderstanding.

A week ago
you people stood up

and said that AIDS

has only a casual
relationship to HIV.

( speaking foreign language )

( translated ):
I'm not certain

to whom you refer
when you say "you people"

but it was President Mbeki
of South Africa who said that

and not anyone in this room.

I think Mr. Damson

has brought up a hard truth
that should be faced.

What's that?

If tomorrow we made
AIDS medication free

to every patient
in your country

as much
as they needed

for as long as they needed it

it would likely make
very little difference

in the spread of the epidemic.

Why?

Anti-HIV drugs
are a triple cocktail.

It's a complicated
regimen that requires

ten pills to be taken
every day at precise times.

Two protease inhibitors
every eight hours

two combination RTI pills
every 12 hours.

What's the problem?

They don't own wristwatches.

They can't tell time.

We agree something
must be done

but we don't think
we're culprits

and we don't think there is
an easy or obvious solution.

And we think you should be aware
of the dangers involved

in some of the proposals
made here today.

Mr. President, may we speak
with you alone, please?

Ainsley?

Could you give me
just a moment, please?

Sure.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

I was going to see
Leo McGarry.

He asked me come back and see
him again at the end of the day.

I'm Ainsley Hayes.

It's good to meet you.

I'm not taking the job, C.J.

Well, okay.

I just wanted to...

Okay.

C.J., Rule 6(e) of the Federal
Rules of Criminal Procedure

says you can be prosecuted
for even confirming

a grand jury's
been in panel.

How'd you know?

A reporter in your press room
who hasn't read

the Federal Rules
of Criminal Procedure.

Well, someone's going
to tell him eventually.

Who told you?

One of the witnesses
who was called.

What could happen?

18 months. Medium security.

C.J., I'm kidding.

You didn't break the law.

Attorneys and jurors
are under a gag order.

Witnesses are free to say
whatever they want.

And anyone is free

to repeat
what they've said.

You know, I'm not sure
that laying low

and hoping nobody noticed
was the best strategy here.

Next time you should really
run it by someone

in the Counsel's Office.

Anyway, I should go see Leo.

Yeah.

President Nimbala.

I'm going to put a deal together

and I want you to agree to it.

( speaking foreign language )

Translator:
What am I agreeing to?

I can get them
to lower their prices

but you have to commit
your military

your Customs Bureau
and your Ministry of Health.

You have to commit
them to stopping

the influx of
black market HIV drugs

from Korea and Pakistan

and from wherever else
they're coming.

( speaking foreign language )

Translator:
35.8% of our adult population
is infected.

60% of our hospital beds
are occupied

by people
who are HIV-positive.

( speaking foreign language )

Our Institute of Policy Analysis
says in the coming decade

50% of all households
in my country

will have at least one member
infected with HIV.

To think I would care about
international patent law

at a time like this
is unrealistic.

Mr. President

the U.S. Department of Commerce

will put your country
on a watch list.

That's the first step
toward trade sanctions.

Our Congress could end
all aid to your country.

If you can agree
to what we're saying

in exchange for
which, we believe

we can get Congress
to forgive the debt

on all your past
development loans

and we believe the
Export-Import Bank

will offer a billion
dollars in loans

to finance the purchase
of American AIDS medication.

Congress won't approve the loan.

Congress won't have to, sir.

The Treasury and the State
Department will review it.

But if we spread the loans out

over several countries in your
region on a case-by-case basis

and if none of the loans exceed
a hundred million dollars

we don't need
Congressional approval.

That law might change soon.

It's a terrible thing to beg
for your life, terrible.

My father...

( speaks foreign language )

Proud.

Proud.

My father was a proud man.

He built homes.

He wouldn't like

what I came here to do.

Yes, he would,
Mr. President.

I swear to God he would.

Thank you, sir.

Go tell Leo.

Hi.

Hi.

You know, something
you forgot to mention

about the 95%
of the money

going straight
into the classroom

past the pork barrel buffet

was that the school
only got the money

if they agreed
not to distribute condoms.

Well, that's a reason to veto it

because the thing
our public schools need

more than anything else
right now are free condoms.

I'd definitely
make that priority one.

He's not here.

You look
familiar to me.

You're Aimsley Hayes.

Ainsley, with an "n."

She works here now.

What?

Leo hired her.

What are you talking about?

Leo hired her.
He told me and C.J.

He was waiting
to tell you and Toby.

What was he waiting for?

How the hell
do I know, Josh?

Waiting until he hired me

which he hasn't done
'cause I'm not taking the job.

You're not taking the job?

No, but thank you for talking
to me instead of about me.

Hang on, I'm still back on
"he offered you the job"

but you're
not taking the job?

No, man, why participate
in the process

when you can get a job
commenting on it?

You think because I don't
want to work here

it's because I can get
a better gig on Geraldo?

I think...

Gosh, let's see if there could
possibly be any other reason

why I wouldn't want to work

in this White House.

This White House
that feels

that government is better
for children than parents are.

That looks at 40 years

of degrading and humiliating
free lunches handed out

in a spectacularly
failed effort

to level the playing field

and says,
"Let's try 40 more."

This White House that says

of anyone
that points that out to them

that they are cold
and mean and racist

and then accuses Republicans
of using the politics of fear.

This White House that loves
the Bill of Rights

all of them,
except the second one.

This is the wrong place

to talk about
guns right now.

I thought your
column was idiotic.

Imagine my surprise.

But for a brilliant
surgical team

and two centimeters
of a miracle

this guy's dead
right now...

from bullets fired from
a gun bought legally.

They bought guns,
they loaded them

they drove from
Wheeling to Rosslyn

and until they pulled
the trigger

they had yet to commit a crime.

I am so off the charts
tired of the gun lobby

tossing around words
like personal freedom

and nobody calling them on it.

It's not about personal freedom

and it certainly has nothing
to do with public safety.

It's just that
some people like guns.

Yes, they do.

But you know what's
more insidious than that?

Your gun control position

doesn't have anything to do
with public safety

and it's certainly not
about personal freedom.

It's about you don't like people
who do like guns.

You don't like the people.

Think about that the next time
you make a joke about the South.

Where's Leo?

What?

Where's Leo?

We don't know.

Charlie,
you seen Leo?

600?

Yes, sir.

Television and radio?

They've got 'em.

When do I see pictures

and who's going to tell me

what I'm
looking for?

Ten minutes
in the situation room.

I want Fitzwallace
and Nancy.

Donna, tell C.J.
it's an open lid.

She knows.

They're coming back.

Leo.

Excuse us.

Excuse me,
everybody.

Could we have the room
a moment, please?

Sam.

( closes door )

Mr. President,
three hours ago

there was a coup
in your country.

The AFRC has
taken the capital.

( speaking foreign language )

Where are my children?

We're finding out.

The information's
coming very quickly

from our people
in Angola and Sudan.

Mr. President

I think you should sit.

No, thank you.

I'll go now.

No, no, sir, my
State Department

is offering you
asylum in the U.S.

Thank you, Mr. President,
but I have to go home.

You can't go home.
You can't go home.

I am the leader.

They have
the capital.

They have the
radio station.

They have
the television station.

( speaking foreign language )

Are there Americans
on the ground?

I'm evacuating the embassy.

( speaking
foreign language )

Did they close
the airport?

Yes.

( speaking foreign language )

They will want
to arrest me.

They will want
to put me on trial

to trade my return

for the safe departure
of the Americans.

I don't need
to trade you.

If they won't give
me the Americans

we'll go and get
them ourselves

and they know that

and they'll let them go.

I'd like to call my embassy.

Your embassy is in exile,
Mr. President.

They will shoot you

the moment you
step off the plane.

Thank you.

( speaking foreign language )

Please tell me
what is in that message.

We think your brother
and your two sons

are already dead.

We think your
wife is being
hidden in Kenya.

You understand, don't you

why I can't offer
military assistance?

Yes.

President:
Ned, sit with me for a moment.

Sit down, sir.

Harriet:
...and you know
they just wanted

to hire her so they
could say they did.

Ugh. "Look at us.
We hired a Republican.

"Look at
how bipartisan we are.

"We didn't even notice

that she looks
like a Gap dancer."

( laughing ):
That's right!

Harriet:
Ainsley!
!
Hey.

Bruce was
just telling me.

I couldn't resist.

So they tried
to hire you.

Tell me about the look
on McGarry's face.

What?

When you said no.

I, um... couldn't see him.

He had to...

He was called into...

What's wrong?

Nothing.

He had to...

Something happened...

Oh, damn, I
wanted you

to say it
to his face.

I wanted
to see...

I hate these people.

Did you meet
anyone there

who isn't
worthless?

Don't say that.

Did you meet
anyone there

who has any...?

I said,
don't say that.

Say they're smug and superior.

Say their approach
to public policy

makes you want
to tear your hair out.

Say they'd like high taxes
and spending your money.

Say they want to take your guns
and open your borders.

But don't call them worthless.

At least don't do it
in front of me.

The people
that I have met

have been
extraordinarily qualified.

Their intent is good.

Their commitment is true.

They are righteous,
and they are patriots.

And I'm their lawyer.

President:
You ever read
Paul Erlich's book?

Toby:
The Population Bomb?

Yeah. He wrote
it in 1968.

Erlich said that
it was a fantasy

that India
would ever feed itself.

Then Norman Borlaug comes along.

See, the problem was
that wheat is top-heavy.

It was falling over
on itself

and it took up
too much space.

The dwarf wheat...

Guys, it was
an agricultural revolution

that was credited
with saving

one billion lives.

Thanks.

It happened.

They executed him
in the airport parking lot.

( sighs )

Okay.

I'll see you Monday.