All language subtitles for The West Wing (1999) - S05E14 - An Khe (1080p AMZN WEB-DL x265 ImE)_track3_[eng]

Previously on The West Wing:

We just survived
a national crisis,

which, I guess,
you slept through,

so there's a lot
to do here.

Donna, can you explain
to this loser

why I can't go sailing.

Dude, Ryan's not onboard
'cause he's taking some boxes

over to the OEOB for me.

She's either gullible, an idiot,
or so completely out of the loop

she shouldn't be drawing
a salary.

I want to see where
he calls you a chicken.

LEO:
Me and Nancy and Fitz
are standing right next to you

when you get information.

You don't need to remember it.

And we're standing
right next to you

when you give orders.

You're not going
to hurt anybody.

Tango Outlaw 1-6, Raven One
approaching An Khe.

Roger one.

Operation is in heavy contact
at Bravo Romeo 945374.

They need FAC ASAP.

Fox Mike 45.8.

Coming up on your wing, lead.
You drawing targets?

Roger, two.

First drop's just beyond
the tree line.

I've got it.

Keep up your speed.
Don't stop.

( instrument beeping )

They've just salvoed!

Locked on target.

Raven Two locked on target.

We've been hit!

Fire light's on.

Can you see, Two?

Clean off the wing.

You've got two tanks
near the fire.

We've lost hydraulics...

( garbled yelling )

( audience laughing )

So, so he says,
"That's my Mulligan."

And I say, "But you've already
taken your Mulligan."

"Yeah," Kenny says,
"but we're playing Texas rules."

( laughter and applause )

Okay, okay, let's try
to forget for a moment

his success in the private
sector creating jobs

and generating enormous
tax revenues

the President and I get
to fool around with.

( laughter )

And let's talk about his
commitment to his community--

Chairman of the Board of
University Medical Center,

the Opera Society and Symphony,

although I suspect
the opera thing is more Sally.

CEO and chairman of
Mueller-Wright Aeronautics

and this year's Chicago Business
Conference

Humanitarian of The Year.

The finest man that I have ever
had the great privilege

to call my friend,
your own Kenneth Sean O'Neal.

( laughs )

O'NEAL:
Thanks for coming, Leo.

I wouldn't have missed it
for the world.

How are Beth and Sandy?

SALLY
Beth's expecting again,

and Sandy is Sandy.

How's Ramses coming along?

Oh, Armed Services
is holding it up again.

I'm going to talk
to them on Thursday.

You free for lunch?

If I'm not,
I'll make sure I will be.

You want me
to place a call?

To Hunt? No, thanks.

Congratulations, Kenny.

Listen, you're coming
to Hilton Head this summer.

No arguments,
no lame excuses

that you're saving
the world for democracy.

Saving it from democracy's
more what it feels like.

I'll see you Thursday.

Thursday.

ABBEY:
Stop being a baby about this.

I don't need
a portrait.

Of course you do.

What, me with
my Irish Wolfhound

gazing with portent
out over the Potomac?

You don't have
an Irish Wolfhound.

( phone rings )

My point exactly.

Yeah? Sure, send him in.
Charlie.

And when am
I supposed to
find time to sit

for some cut-rate Ruebens
while he angles me just so

to catch
the late afternoon light?

You do know
it's not a nude, right?

Excuse me, Mr. President,
Mrs. Bartlet.

Sorry to bother you.

Oh, no, come on in.

Bring your jammies.

We're about to start
the pillow fight.

The General's waiting outside.

Why not invite him in, too?

I'll pop some popcorn,
we'll watch Patton on cable.

Sorry to disturb
you, sir.

What's happened?

A Navy E-2 Hawkeye
providing command
and control

for the Carl Vinson Carrier
Battle Group went down

in the Sea of Japan.

Any survivors?

Yes, sir,
we believe so.

We're picking up signals

from four of their five
GPS locator beacons.

So we go get them.

They may be difficult
to retrieve

in their present location.

Where are they?

Somewhere north
of Kimch'ack..

300 kilometers northeast
of P'yongyang

in the Republic
of North Korea.

How was Chicago?

Quick. Where are we?

An E-2C Hawkeye
was being harassed

by two North Korean MiGs

over the Sea of Japan.

The MiGs had made
two non-firing passes,

one less than ten feet
off his wing.

The crew make it out?

We've located four
of the five crew members

and identified two large
pieces of wreckage

a mile off the coast.

Our people
are in the water?

They were,
but now their GPS beacons

indicate they're on land.

In North Korea?

What will the crew do?

Lay low,
stay out of sight,

wait for us
to come get them.

We can't go get them.

Sending a Special Forces
covert retrieval team

into North Korea

will be seen as an act of war.

We're still at war
with North Korea.

We never signed an armistice.

If they capture
our people,

they'll be held as POWs

Or worse, they'll deny
they even have them.

We can negotiate
for their safe return.

Can you guarantee
they'll negotiate?

Can you guarantee

you can go get them without
starting another war?

Do we have any way of confirming
that they're still alive?

They were in the water,
now they're on land.

We have any keyhole satellites
currently in position?

We're scrambling reconnaissance
out of Okinawa and Osan.

Should be over
the crash site
in three hours.

Call me when you know.

Thank you, sir.

Last night's summaries,
the daybook,

press guidance
from the NSC and
the policy shops,

State Department cables.

Legislative Affairs says
a new amendment is moving

through Ways and Means.

Congressman Wendt wants a tax
cut for stay-at-home moms.

Too late to slip in incentives
for stay-at-home Congressmen?

The President's flying
to Wendt's district

in South Carolina
on Saturday.

They want you to read the
guidance before the gaggle.

Think it might come up.

Really, you think?

So, tomorrow's
the big day.

What?
Mystery Ben.

What about him?

He's coming by
to say hello.

No, he isn't.

He's in town
and he called.

And you gave him
an appointment?

He seemed nice.

He is nice. Very nice.
Also very married.

Not anymore.
!
He and Katie split up?

Katie's living in Portland
with an orthodontist.

Really?

And Toby and Josh
are in your office.

What do they want?

To make fun of you,
I think.

And you let them in?

And got them coffee.

We've got a
problem with the
South Carolina trip.

Congressman Wendt,

who single-handedly
blocked our tax credit

to expand child care
for working families,

is attempting
to bind the feet
of your entire gender

with his paleo-chauvinist
stay-at-home-mom tax cut.

I'm going
to read the bill

and supporting
materials now.

What if you just kick
up a cloud of dust

about the revenue impact
and mention

that he's the Darth Vader
of child care.

What if I take a moment

to read the bills
supporting materials?

We're already rolling over
on the tax side.

The indexing provision...

Can I please
take a moment

to read the bill and
supporting materials?

Okay, what...?

We think you should go
on The Taylor Reid Show.

The chicken thing has legs.

With those
pointy little toes.

No.

The Washington Wire
has Tyson Foods

offering you
a lifetime supply
of wings and thighs

if you'll do a print ad
for whole fryers.

And the Reliable Source notes

that The Oval Room...
Your favorite
restaurant.

...has a new menu item--

an ungodly combination
of chicken,

avocado and poached eggs
called

"The C.J. Cregg Egg."

You're enjoying this,
aren't you?

Go on the show,

call his bluff,

show you have
a sense of humor.

You could wear
a chicken suit.

Take him even
semi-seriously,
he'll lay off

and find another
cluck to pluck.

A chicken suit.

Josh, Leo's looking for you.

Hey, you should read
the Wendt amendment.

I'm trying to read it now.

It's pretty narrowly
drawn, actually.

Not the worst thing.

She see it last night?

See what?
She doesn't know?

Know what?

Taylor Reid was talking

about your spin
on the decline

in manufacturing jobs
and he said...

"The tall lady's back
to telling tall tales."

The tall lady...?

The tall lady.

Carol, call The Taylor Reid Show
and book me

on the next open slot.

I'm gonna reach down and rip off
his puny little face.

You're already here.

LEO:
I came in straight
from Dulles.

At 2:00 in the morning?

I need a clean shirt.

What happened to the one
I brought in the other day?

It had a hole
in the sleeve,
so I took it home.

To do what with it?

Sew up the hole.

Now you're mending
my clothes?

You want
some breakfast?

I want a clean shirt.

You looking for me?

You still on good terms
with Hunt?

I don't think the
Senator's gonna invite me

down to his ranch
to lasso a bull
anytime soon,

but he returns my calls.

The LC-104 Ramses project.

They need you
in the Sit Room.

The chopper Mueller-Wright's
building for the Army?

Hunt's bottling it up
in committee.

Probably 'cause
it's being built

in 16 different states,

none of the
them named Arizona.

Find out what's going on

with the Ramses
thing, will you?

Wendt has stuck on
another one

of his "moving America

back to the Mamie Eisenhower
Era" amendments.

What is it this time?

Tax cuts
for stay-at-home moms.

The President's headed down
to his district on Saturday.

Yeah. I don't think
the timing's accidental.

Okay, pull together
a briefing,

and I'll get you
a few minutes with
the President.

Donna, can you see
if Senator Hunt's office

can find me a couple
of minutes this morning?

Is Jimmy Olson with us today?

Ryan!

You know who
Sam Wendt is?

Democrat from the Oregon Fifth?

Republican from
the South Carolina Second,

but you were close.

He introduced an amendment
to use the tax code

to subsidize
stay-at-home moms.

That's interesting.

No, not really.

He kills child care
proposals and tries

to get us to print
the Ten Commandments

on the back
of the two-dollar bill.

Be nice to have them
wallet-sized.

Read the different
drafts of the amendment.

Show how many more women
would have benefited

from the President's
child care tax credit

than from Wendt's
stay-at-home proposal.

Treasury, JTC scoring
and a year-by-year impact

on the deficit
for a Presidential
briefing tomorrow.

I'm going to brief
the President?

No, I'm gonna brief the
President and take credit

for all your hard work,
but you get to come.

Great. Sure, tomorrow.

Um, JCT is...?

Joint Tax Committee.

What? It's scut work.

Presidential scut work.

You want to spend the day

reading mind-numbing
spreadsheets?

Mind-numbing Presidential
spreadsheets.

Well, channel your Presidential
disappointment

into getting me five minutes
with Matt Hunt, okay?

Please?

There's no activity of any kind
in the crew's location.

No vehicles, no movement
of troops or equipment.

The Hook 112 receivers
indicate our people

are in this densely wooded area
here.

There is, however, extraordinary
activity out to sea

in the general vicinity
of the crash sight.

How long before they figure out
our guys made it to shore?

It's hard to say.

Right now, it looks
as if they're assuming
no one got out.

What's the plan, Admiral?

A four-man SEAL team
will HALO drop

over the crash sight
under cover of darkness.

HALO drop?

They parachute out
at 40,000 feet,

deploy their chutes
at 2,000 feet.

They'll gather the crew,
get them into a Zodiac

and head back out to sea
12 miles due east

where they'll be met by a Super
Sea Stallion rescue chopper.

The Sea Stallion will then fly
them east 200 miles

to the USS Cowpens.

So, your SEAL team,
they'll be armed?

Yes, sir.
And if they run
into resistance

from the North Koreans,
they'll start shooting?

You want them
to drop in unarmed?

Mr. President,
if the North Koreans discover

armed American soldiers
on Korean soil...

We go get 'em.

Mr. President,
there are other...

We don't leave our people
in harm's way, Mr. Barrow.

We bring 'em home.

Admiral, go get our boys.

The Senator will see you
now, Mr. Lyman.

Thank you
for seeing me, Senator.

You still getting in
a little handball

now and then, Josh?

As the years go by,

I like my sports with
a little more leverage,

like, say, a racquet.

Well, I'm down
at the club

most mornings,
6:00 a.m. sharp.

I don't know
if my ego could take

another shellacking
like last time.

So, what can I do for you?

The LC-104 Ramses Transport
Chopper program.

The DoD already
approved the purchase.

At six billion.

Now Mueller-Wright says
it's going to cost ten.

The Army changed the order.

The upgrades are all
subcontractor parts,

and the reactive armor was a
requirement in the initial RFP.

Well, the Army needs them,

and they need them sooner,
rather than later.

You going to lecture me
on military preparedness, Josh?

What branch of the service
did you serve in?

I've forgotten.

Why are you here?

Kenny O'Neal pick up
the phone and call Leo?

What's your real concern
here, Senator?

That none of the Ramses
project subcontractors
are from Arizona?

You tell Leo that the Armed
Services Committee

is going to exercise
its oversight prerogatives.

Mr. O'Neal is just going
to have to wait.

CAROL:
The Taylor Reid Show
can get you on tomorrow.

They're going to clear

a few scheduled guests
for you.

I'm gonna carve him
into McNuggets.

They want you there
by 11:45 for the
noon segment.

You're on air
for seven minutes,

Back by 1:00, just in time
to say hello to Ben.

Ask Media Affairs
to do a background

on Reid's questioning style
and a list of recurring topics.

Interior's transferring
Ben to DC.

He's looking for
advice on where to live.

Excuse me, I hope
I'm not interrupting.

Oh, no, ma'am.
Please come in.

Carol's just trying
to get me excited
about an old beau.

He's a Ranger.
Dashing.

Works with
at-risk kids, too.

Sold.

How are you, Mrs. Bartlet?

in case anyone mentions
it at press briefing.

I'm going to start volunteering.

Volunteering, ma'am?
At the Washington
Free Clinic.

You're going to start
practicing medicine again?

I'll just be
helping out a bit.

I won't be doing
any heart transplants.

I'm sorry ma'am.
Are you licensed
to practice medicine again?

I voluntarily chose to
stop practicing, C.J.

And now I'm choosing to give

a few underprivileged
toddlers vaccinations.

I never said I was hanging
up my stethoscope for good.

See if Leo's available,

and find out if
Senator Canton's around.

For a call
or face-to-face?

WILL:
It'll have to be a call.

Canton's in Seattle,
NAACP convention.

What do you need
Canton for?

Hunt's threatening
to bottle up the
Ramses thing.

I need a Democrat on Armed
Services to run interference.

I've been
thinking about

this Wendt amendment.

Maybe we should give it
a second look.

Tax credits
for stay-at-home moms?

Might not be
such a bad thing.

For the floor wax
industry, maybe.

Working families are struggling.
They need our help.

You already auditioning
one-liners for New Hampshire?

I've been reading
this Wendt stuff.

It might not be
such a bad thing.

See, what'd I tell you?

A-A major study
Wendt commissioned of...

1,364 children
showed a clear link

between parents dumping
their kids in daycare

and an increase
in hyperactivity,

lack of discipline
and violent behavior.

Can I see that?

You're saying Jeffrey Dahmer's

only problem was daycare?

We're always harping about

the root causes
of crime and violence.

I work for
the federal government.

I-I've never heard of Wendt's
so-called "major federal study."

Well, maybe that's because all
TV news programs are produced

by mothers who dump their kids
in daycare.

'Kay, I think we need
more women in the workforce,

specifically
to keep you two out.

The MC-130 is approaching
the drop zone at 48,000 feet.

They'll do a rapid descent
to 38,000 for the drop.

MC-130 PILOT:
Carolina to ODS.

Confirming traffic lights.

COWPENS:
Locations scattered
in angled formation east.

Mapped on the grid
in five.

MCGILL:
That's the pilot
confirming

the North Korean
lights below him.

MC-130 PILOT:
That's affirmative.
Same view from the top.

Operation Shore Leave
to commence

at zero-four-hundred-two.

They're waiting for
your go, sir.

That's affirmative.

COWPENS:
That's affirmative, Carolina.

MC-130 PILOT:
Roger, ODS.

Going dark.

God be with you.

Cong chi co thay gi khong?

Dang kia kia.

( distant voices )

( panting )

Shh!

Thoi di nga nay.

Lang nao gan nhat o day?

( panting )

I think it's broken.

( groans )

You gotta go. I'll be okay.

We bailed pretty close
to Rest Camp.

We'll head out that way.

It's a couple of miles.

You can't be dragging me
all over the jungle.

You won't make it with me along.

( groans )

You're not so heavy, old man.

JOSH:
Leo? You got
a minute?

Yeah, sure.

Hunt isn't going to back off.

What's his problem?

He implied you had me inquiring
on behalf of Ken O'Neal.

I'll call Hunt.

I tracked down
Dave Canton.

Asked him what had
the Chairman so riled up.

Canton says Mueller-Wright
circumvented DoD protocol

to get the
deal approved.

There are thousands
of procurement regs over at DoD.

If somebody at Mueller forgot
to do some due diligence,

they'll sort it out.

Canton said they
never did an AOA.

Hunt has an
investigation going.

He wants subpoenas, hearings.

Over an AOA?

Canton says Ken O'Neal
is going to be

the first witness
subpoenaed.

Margaret!

Call Matt Hunt's office.
Tell him I'm coming over, now.

You worked for
Mueller-Wright.

If they're involved in
procurement irregularities,

any attempt on your part

to impede a Senate...

I'm not going to
"impede" anything.

Thanks.

I'll take it from here.

Did you know
Senator Hunt
in the military?

No. He was later.
Cambodia and Laos.

It was a big war.

( distant rapid gunfire )

( weakly ):
Please.

You gotta go.

I'm not leaving
you, Leo.

So forget it.

Come on!

Let's go.

because, if you
haven't noticed,

the threat to our guys
has increased.

Are you questioning
my patriotism?

Cut out the crap Matt.

I've got old service ribbons

gathering dust in a drawer
somewhere, too.

We had companies
with lower bids.
Airbus?

Congress wasn't going
to let the Pentagon

award a ten billion dollar
defense contract to the French.

If Mueller-Wright

couldn't make the choppers
for the price,

then they shouldn't have bid.

So now you're going
to drag Ken O'Neal

in front of a network perp-walk
over a weapons system

we have to have
that no one else could build?

If Mr. O'Neal is subpoenaed
to appear before my committee,

it will be to answer
legitimate questions

about the manner in which

Mueller-Wright secured
these contracts.

You know damn
well the charge

screams louder than the verdict.

If you don't like the price,
tell the DoD to renegotiate it.

It's not about price
anymore, Leo.

It's about process
and patronage.

You're accusing me
of using my influence

to get them the contract?

Well, how many years

did you work for Mueller-Wright?
Was it ten, 12?

Don't try to embarrass me
and through me, the President,

by humiliating an outstanding
American patriot.

Well, now who's
waving the flag, Leo?

If you're drawing up partisan
subpoena lists, Matt,

put my name on top.

WOMAN:
When you're talking,

address Taylor,
not the camera.

If he points
to the Truth Meter...

The Truth Meter?
Am I on a game show?

If he points
to the Truth Meter,

keep looking at Taylor.

If he dunks me
in a river and I float,

does that mean I'm a witch?

MAN:
Back in ten.

God, it's great you
could join us.

I'm a huge fan.

Five, four,

three...

( clears throat )

As promised,

White House Press
Secretary C.J. Cregg

has finally agreed
to join us today.

Ms. Cregg, global warming,

that's a liberal
fantasy, isn't it?

No, it's not.

Voodoo environmentalism
without any scientific...

There are about
16 Nobel laureates,

57 World Bank economists

and 17
scientific studies...

The World Bank is
the UN for tree huggers.

They think companies that create
jobs and help...

That's ridiculous.

If it's ridiculous

you should stop
funding them.

Judicial nominees,

the United States
Senate

doesn't think it's
a good idea

to approve of Bartlet's
liberal judges

that treat the Constitution

like it's some kind
of beer coaster.

The President has nominated
dozens of highly qualified...

JOSH:
How's she doing?

We're not seeking
a right to gay marriage

I think
the Christians

did a little better
with the lions.

We have to take
a commercial break.

We'll be right back.

It's only
the first round,

she's still testing her jab.

She better go
to her hook soon.

I just got a call
from Hunt's office.

Apparently Leo has asked
to be subpoenaed

for the hearings
on the Ramses.

He asked to be subpoenaed?

Hunt's asking
for all e-mails

within the DoD
and Mueller-Wright.

He thinks the bid
process was rigged.

He threatened
to subpoena O'Neal.

Apparently Leo
rose to Ken's defense.

Leo can't testify in front of
the Armed Services Committee.

Did you talk to him?

I tried.

Does the President know?

Should he?

MAN:
Mr. President.

Mr. President.

We get them back?

We got single
confirmation bursts

from the SEAL team
CSELs.

They're now with
the downed crew
from the Hawkeye.

Are they in the water yet?

ALEXANDER:
No, sir, but
they've moved closer

to this beach area,
stopped in the woods.

Why?
The sun came up.

So now what?

They just wait around
till the sun goes down again?

Yes, sir.

Here's hoping
nobody decides

to go berry picking
in those woods today.

CAROL:
You sure you don't
want anything in it?

BEN:
No, black's great.

You know, maybe it'd
be better for me

to wait in the lobby?

No, please.
C.J. should be back soon.

We met in Principles
of Sociology.

It was the only
class at Berkeley

that the Land
Management kids

and the Poli Sci
students took together.

You studied
range management?

Yeah, grassland,
savanna,

shrubland ecology.

Thank God the Park
Service hired me.

I don't know what
else my education

would be good for.

Selling seed
catalogues maybe.

I don't know.

I've got a picture of us
together in college,

Would you like
to see it?

It's a, uh... there.

That's right after
we started living together.

God, she was something
in a bikini, huh?

She ever tell you
about getting arrested

for stealing
that donkey down in Cabo?

( theme song plays )

You're not giving me
a chance to answer.

If you just want to bloviate,

why don't I leave
a cardboard cut-out of myself

and you can talk all you want.

In five,
four, three...

You're doing great.

We are back with C.J. Cregg

who says she could've sent
a cardboard cut-out of herself

for all we're going
to get out of her today.

at a Southeast D.C.
clinic.

Isn't she breaking her promise
to the American people?

Didn't she say
she wasn't

going to practice medicine again
after lying

to keep her husband's condition
a secret

from the American voters?

The First Lady
is volunteering
in a free clinic

in one of the poorest
neighborhoods

in the nation, helping
to save children's lives.

Don't you think
the First Lady

should try to fix health
care in this country

as opposed to repairing
her own self-image?

She's an M.D.,
she can fix

whatever she
damn well pleases,

and if it were health care,
you'd try and block it.

That's not true, I'm
for sensible health care.

I'm just against
socialized medicine.

No, you're not.

Let's talk about
how the First Lady

lied to the American people.

No, let's talk about
your paid speeches

to the pharmaceutical lobby.

It's a free country.

And your
paid speeches

to the HMO
and insurance lobby,

and how every time health care
reform comes up on your show

you're miraculously
against it.

The First Lady's
rolling up her sleeves

and getting
something done

and you're not 'cause you're
depositing their checks,

and let's talk
about who's chicken.

Well, she won that round
on all cards.

How much longer
do you think?

I have no idea.

Leo knows he can't testify

on behalf of a major
defense contractor.

What's
he thinking?

He's not thinking.

How long did they
serve together?

Leo and O'Neal?

I don't know, a while
before they were shot down.

CHARLIE:
Leo was shot down?

Over Hanoi.

They hid out in the jungle
till they were rescued.

Can I get a ballpark

on how much longer
it's going to be?

An era, a Tchaikovsky Symphony,

a brief Ice Age
perhaps?

You have some food
stuck in your beard.

How long was
he there for?

Three days.

( knocking )

Excuse me, sir.

Um, Mr. Ziegler is being
rather insistent.

As he so often is.

Well, thank you, Mr. Thomas.
Let me think about it.

Mr. President.

So what's
so important?

Someone get the words
to "Yellow Submarine"

wrong again?

It's about Leo, sir.

LEO:
And we still
haven't heard from Ken?

MARGARET:
I left messages

at his office and with
his hotel in Chicago.

We were supposed
to have lunch.

Call his office back
and find out

what meetings
he had this morning.

( knocking )

Got a minute?

Yes, sir, of course.

No word yet on the SEAL team?

No, sir, not yet.

Toby and Josh
came to see me about this

Mueller-Wright thing.

I told Josh I'd handle it.

By going before
the Armed Services Committee?

Hunt's trying to use
my friendship with Ken O'Neal

to embarrass
this administration.

And testifying
in front

of a Congressional committee

is going to lessen
that embarrassment?

Hunt's bluffing.

He's upset Arizona manufacturers

didn't get
any of the contract.

Well, you were a senior
corporate officer

at Mueller-Wright for over
ten years, right, Leo?

You can't testify.

It's not
going to come to that.

It opens you up
to being called

in front of Congressional
committees on a whim.

I won't stand by
while Hunt slanders

a good man's name
for political purposes.

And Josh
seems to think that...

Josh doesn't
know

what the hell
he's talking about.

Have you asked Kenny
if there's any truth...

I've known Ken O'Neal
for 35 years.

I worked beside him,
served beside him...

He hasn't
done anything wrong.

You can't testify, Leo.

I won't
desert him, Mr. President.

Have you asked Kenny

if there's any
truth to the rumor...

I don't have to.

CHARLIE:
No, sir.

And Josh is waiting
to give you

a Ways and Means
briefing.

What Ways and Means
briefing?

FIDERER:
The South Carolina
trip, sir.

And then you have the INS
on border security

and at 4:00,

the National Medal of Arts
recipients are coming by.

You a Crosby,
Stills and Nash fan?

I've always been more

of a Crazy Horse kind
of gal, Mr. President.

Yeah, I could see
how that would be.

Although I did have
a tempestuous affair

with a rodeo cowboy
during the summer of love

that The Hollies played
a significant role in.

I'll call Josh in.

So what's this problem
I'm hearing about

with Saturday's trip
to South Carolina?

Wendt wants a tax cut
for stay-at-home moms.

Unless you're
a poor woman,

and then of course, he'd
argue you have to work

or you should be denied
welfare benefits.

Next, he'll try to slip
dishwasher subsidies

into the omnibus
reconciliation bill.

Our caucus has been
fighting for more daycare,

more after-school care,
transportation subsidies

to make it easier

for poor women
to get to good jobs.

They can't justify
spending, uh...

JTC scores it
at 11 billion over five years.

11 billion

to keep
Wilma Flintstone

in dinosaur-skin coats
while most women

are struggling to find someone
to take care of their child.

What's the tax benefit
for the typical family?

About a hundred
dollars a year.

Closer to $300.

But that's
not the point.

A typical family of four
making $68,000 can still

get $1200 in child
care tax credit

if the wife decides
to work,

but if she wants to stay
home with the kids,

we don't help.

Who's this?

Ryan Pierce.

He's interning in my office for
a few months, maybe less.

Senator Pierce's son?

He's my Uncle.

So which would
you chose, Ryan,

daycare tax cut or this?

Daycare,
but why should we

choose for
everybody else?

What would you suggest?

Tell Wendt you understand
that he didn't want

to support your expanding
child care tax credit

when there's no help
for stay-at-home moms,

so he should find
some loophole closers

we can agree on
to pay for both.

He's on Ways and Means,

that's where
the money is, right?

Right. Thank you.

C.J.:
That was fun.

You did great.

Sanctimonious little guttersnipe
sent a great big fat one,

up and over the plate.

"Health Care Reform"?

From a guy who's still
on the fence

about the application
of leeches?

He wants you back.

"Sensible health care"?

He means a gurney, a bedpan

and a check from the "Your
Claim's Been Rejected" lobby.

You missed Ben.

He hung around for a while,

but he had to get back
for a meeting at Interior.

How's he look?

If you don't want him,
can I have him?

He still have that
ruffled hair, Redford in

The Way We Were kind
of thing going on?

He left you a note
and a picture.

RYAN:
He asked a question.

And I was answering it.

Incorrectly.

You work for me,

you don't correct me
in front of the President.

Even when you're giving
him wrong information?

Yes.

Really?

Xerox this.

Front to back,
double sided and...

Collated?
Yeah, go wild.

Trouble in mind-numbing
Presidential briefing paradise?

Eve Harrington in
penny loafers here

just corrected me
in front of the President.

Were you wrong?

That's not the point.

What is the point?

I'm going into my office now.

Senator Hunt's in there.

Matt Hunt's in my office?

Senator, sorry
to keep you waiting.

That's okay.
You didn't know I was coming.

What can I do for you?

I, uh...

I lost my temper yesterday
with Leo McGarry.

He accused me
of some things,

I responded in kind.

I want you to keep him

from publicly supporting
Ken O'Neal.

Senator, Leo doesn't take
direction from me.

I can't keep him from making
a breakfast order.

I understand
loyalty.

There are men that I served with

that I would do anything for,
and they for me.

But you can't let Leo get
involved in this.

You know Mark Lofton?

No.

Until six weeks ago,

he was a DOD procurement
officer

making $80,000 a year.

He supervised the bid
process for the LC-104 Ramses.

Now he's a senior
vice-president

of a major defense
contractor

making over $300,000 a year.

Want to guess
who he works for?

ALEXANDER:
The Sea Stallion's heading
back to the Cowpens.

He should be breaking radio
silence any moment.

BARTLET:
Do we know if they've
encountered any resistance?

Reconnaissance didn't see
anything on their last flyover.

PILOT:
Tigertail 1-1 to ODS,
is this channel secure?

COWPENS:
Affirmative, Tigertail 1-1.

Call in. Over.

That's ODS on
the USS Cowpens.

PILOT:
Tigertail 1-1 en route.

Not to keep you in suspense ODS,

all five pieces
of cargo were recovered.

( applause )

Commander, this is
President Bartlet.

What is their condition?

Mr. President, this is
SEAL team leader.

Some bruised egos and a few
broken bones but all stable.

Captain Zeretsky, we're not
certain, but it looks like

hypoxia from the jump.

ALEXANDER:
Commander,
any unfriendly encounters?

SEAL:
Sir, no sir.

Heavy water traffic on
our way out from the beach,

but they were blind as bats.

Well done, Commander.
Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President.

General, can you get me a number
for Captain Zeretsky's family?

Where is he?

MARGARET:
Out of the building.

Where out of the building?

Ken O'Neal called,
Leo went to meet him.

I was worried about you.

Sorry about lunch.

I got held up with
our General Counsel.

I talked to Hunt.

I know a bit about
what's going on.

He's just trying to score
cheap political points

off of our friendship.

Get his face on the cover
of the Journal.

( cell phone rings )

Go ahead.

No, it's just Josh.

I'm sorry. I got you
into this mess.

He wouldn't be trying
to make rain out of it

if it weren't for me.
It's not your
fault, Leo.

I told him if he tried to drag
you in front of Armed Services

he'd have to haul me
up their first.
No.

All the times you've come in
under budget,

all the times you've delivered
projects on schedule
No.

under impossible deadlines...
You can't testify.

If it comes to that,
I can handle Hunt.

You can't testify.

I'm going to take the Fifth.

I got the subpoena
yesterday.

I spent the morning
with my attorneys.

I'm going to assert my
Fifth Amendment right

not to answer
any questions.

Why?

We didn't do the AOA.

I gave a procurement
officer at the DOD a job

and I got to a guy on
the Defense Policy Board.

Stop looking
at me like that.

Why not do the AOA?
The Army wants the choppers.

What, they were going
to buy them from the French?

No, we had to
have the contract.

I'm under a lot of
pressure from my board.

That Hollander merger
was a disaster

and the Navy left
us holding the bag

on the Warrior III
missile system.

This was about money?

I have a responsibility
to my employees

and to our stockholders.

And, yes, I pushed a little
harder than I should have,

and, yes,
I'm going to hang for it.

But it's not just me.

Who do you think
was pushing me?

My congressman
and my senator.

This is a jobs bill for them.

So I paid an advance
to a procurement officer

I was planning on hiring.

Do you think I'm the first?

It's a revolving door
between the Pentagon

and the private sector.

How much did you
make last year?

What?

How much, Kenny?

Mm... just over a million.

Nah... how much
with bonuses?

$11 million.

* My country 'tis of thee *

* Sweet land of liberty

* Of thee I sing

* Land where my fathers died

* Land of
the pilgrim's pride... *

You okay?

* From every mountainside...

Kenny did it.

Josh told me.

We got the Hawkeye crew out.

All five of them,
in good shape.

We lost one
of the SEALs.

What's-what's this music?

Crosby, Stills
and Nash came by.

They're getting the National
Medal for the Arts.

Gave me this tape.

It's beautiful, huh?

We were out in the jungle
for three days.

Kenny carried me
on his back.

Hid me under piles of leaves
while he went to find us water.

I was delirious.
I lost a lot of blood.

He could have left me;
he should have left me.

* Sweet land of liberty
of thee I sing... *

( sniffling )

He never did.

We, uh,

found a clearing where we
could send up a flare

and a couple hours later
these two Hueys show up

taking all kind of AK fire.

Men died for us.

We had a responsibility to live
our lives with integrity

and honesty to honor
their sacrifice.

Corruptio optimi pessima.

"Corruption of the
best is the worst."

You've done more, much more,

all on your own to honor
their memory, Leo.

They'd be as proud
to know you as I am.

* Land of the Pilgrim's pride *

* From every mountain side

( helicopter whirring )

* Let freedom ring

* Let freedom ring.
( helicopter whirring )

Leo?

Leo, come on.

They're here.

We're going home.