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Previously on The West Wing:
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Desperate times call
for desperate measures.
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-I made a call.
-To whom?
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What have you been doing
while I was gone?
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Staying through the holidays?
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Depends how long it takes your
government to get up and running.
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-Will's gonna work for the VP.
-I'm asking the president not to let him.
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He told Russell he could have him.
It's done.
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Bartlet's not gonna finish
the job he started.
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Someone must be ready
to take over.
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This isn't a line on the r�sum�.
You don't walk away.
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-What are you doing?
-I'm holding up my tree. Isn't it nice?
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What are you doing to it?
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-Holding it up. The stand isn't--
-Have anything smaller?
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Smaller than me is a shrub.
I wanted a real tree this year.
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This is fine.
I just cut some of the naked gloating.
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We restarted the government.
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There was a showdown at
the O.K. Corral and we won.
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-We're heroes.
-And yet self-effacing.
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-Excuse me.
-Can we get a bigger stand?
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Yeah. Waterville Crier
wants a comment.
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No comments for The Crier,
The Intelligencer or The Breeze.
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The DEA suspended a
Waterville doctor's drug license...
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...for giving a patient enough
narcotics to kill her.
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It's against the law.
It's what the DEA does.
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C.J., Waterville's in Oregon.
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All three of our daughters
in one place for Christmas.
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-You've never seen that, have you?
-No, I haven't.
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-She's never seen it.
-Maybe next year.
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What if she quits before then?
She's flighty.
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-They'll all be here tonight. Be grateful.
-I'm grateful.
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Debbie thinks one night
isn't a visit so much as a pit stop.
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-Mr. President, Liz is pulling up.
-Thank you.
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-Let's not dwell on it with the kids.
-I'm not dwelling. I think it's fine.
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I think we should all spend
Christmas at Liz's in-laws.
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-We're invited.
-Never again. I still have flashbacks.
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You didn't sit up all night with Jean
sewing ducklings on the stockings.
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-Good morning, sir. Mrs. Bartlet.
-Hello, Jim.
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-We're not doing photos now, are we?
-A couple candids.
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-Nothing serious till the tree lighting.
-Get a few before dinner of the family.
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-I'll be there.
-I know you will.
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I don't think you should crucify Ellie
for telling you she might be late.
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How hard could it be?
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When there's a fair to middling chance
you may not make it.
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-I'm just asking her to stay for one meal.
-British Embassy on the 15th.
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DNC Chair on the 22nd.
The Uphoffs on Christmas Eve.
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DNC's a maybe.
Uphoffs are a maybe.
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We shouldn't go with maybes
on Christmas parties this year...
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...because maybe means I R.S.V.P. "yes,"
you cancel 10 minutes before it starts...
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...and I have to call and say
the guest isn't coming.
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You remain lovable Leo McGarry.
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I'm the dope who couldn't accurately
assess the constraints of your schedule.
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Hostages? Did he just say "hostage"?
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And by New Year's, I'm a pariah. I got
people hexing my muffins in the mess.
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Leo McGarry for the Sudan desk, please.
Get Josh on this call now.
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I don't wanna sit next to Doug tonight.
I don't wanna hear about his kayak.
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Show up on time,
you can sit wherever you like.
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Tell Ellie if she's late,
she has to sit next to Doug.
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-Lizzie.
-Oh, there's my guy.
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-How are you, kid?
-Hi, Doug.
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-Doug.
-Hey, Jed.
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Was there a stowaway in the car?
A monster? I got him.
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-I got him. Come with me.
-Come inside.
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-Leo, we have a--
-I saw it. Hostages.
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-No. The DEA.
-What's their problem?
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-We have a hostage situation?
-We have a serious job to do tonight.
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-Mr. President.
-You want to see something?
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Great.
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Twelve relief workers
in Sudan got thrown in jail.
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Congressman's on CNN
calling them hostages.
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I have a quarter
with New Hampshire on it.
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-You sure do. You talk to State?
-I just heard myself. I was--
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-There's a problem at the DEA.
-Hang on.
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Five minutes ago, we were
having a quiet morning.
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I'll catch up with you
in a few minutes.
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We've got all sorts of
good stuff planned.
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It's okay.
We'll see him later.
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Sudanese authorities say some were
trying to convert locals to Christianity.
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-It's Islamic law in northern Sudan--
-So they threw the lot of them in jail.
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Sudan desk got a call from Congressman
Richter. Two are his constituents.
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-Sir, did you talk to the DEA yesterday?
-No.
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Did State tell you about
this Richter thing?
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This blew up good and fast,
didn't it?
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State's treating this like a foreign arrest.
A consular visit and a trial.
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Richter isn't satisfied.
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Sudanese jail, you hope
someone's making noise.
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-Were they proselytizing?
-Don't know.
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Richter says no. He spoke to
an officer at the Sudan desk...
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...thinks they don't care,
so he's bumping it up.
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Hostage is a big word.
Particularly at Christmas.
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Let's get him in here.
What about the DEA?
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DEA's coming down on a doctor
in Oregon for assisting a suicide.
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No federal jurisdiction.
I don't know what they're doing.
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They call it a violation of
the Controlled Substances Act.
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-The drug he used is federally controlled.
-So's a handgun.
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Doesn't turn a shooting
into a federal case.
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-He makes a point.
-We sure this wasn't an accident?
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-Pain management gone awry?
-The doctor admits it.
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Oregon says it's legal.
He was assisting a terminal patient...
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-...to hasten the end of suffering.
-It's a living.
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-Well, yes, in Oregon, it is.
-When's your next briefing?
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-An hour. I was gonna go--
-I don't think we comment. DOJ's mess.
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-We don't want it.
-We don't want a lot.
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For four years, "The president doesn't
support physician-assisted suicide...
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...but it's not a federal issue,
it's up to voters. "
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State by state. And not by the
Drug Enforcement Administration.
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We don't jump into a bar fight
and declare our intention not to act.
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Let the attorney general handle it.
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-I'll sit down with the A.G. .
-Thanks, everybody.
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-Thank you, sir.
-Thank you, Mr. President.
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-Debbie, where are they?
-Blue Room, sir.
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-Oh, good.
-Talk to Debbie.
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We need a sit-down for
Congressman Donald Richter today.
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-And get him on the phone.
-Doug Westin's in your office.
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He's not with his in-laws?
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President's introducing Gus to
the Three Tenors. "Hallelujah Chorus. "
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Why does a 5-year-old
wanna meet the Three Tenors?
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-He doesn't.
-Doug's your friend.
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-He's a perfectly nice guy.
-Speak slow. You don't wanna lose him.
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Check it out.
They're decking the halls.
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Five minutes, then I'll spring you.
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-Douglas.
-Josh.
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-Good to see you.
-I swiped your paper.
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It's government property.
I'll have to call the feds.
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I'd better dash. See you.
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Come on in.
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-You guys here for a couple days?
-No, just tonight and tomorrow.
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Going to my folks' for
Christmas this year.
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-Tree lighting's the least we could do.
-No Annie?
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Swim meet.
That and she pierced her eyebrow.
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Thought we'd keep her
off camera till it healed.
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-On purpose?
-Every day is a new set of challenges.
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Hey, you tracking Congressional
recruitment? That still your area?
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-I mean, yeah. What's--?
-New Hampshire. First District.
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-Ken Campbell.
-He's stepping out, end of this term.
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Got a valve thing. He doesn't
slow down, his heart's gonna...
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-...like a balloon.
-That's great.
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I mean, not the-- But we'll
have a good shot at the seat.
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I think so.
And I think I'm the man to do it.
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-To what?
-With a little help from you fine people...
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...I'll be elected to the United States
House of Representatives.
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The attorney general.
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Alan.
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How come I don't hear
your daughter's...
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...performing at the Kennedy Center
till two days after?
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Between us, she was under a wig,
behind Aida's second elephant.
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This cowboy over at the DEA.
You fire him yet?
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-No.
-Sooner is better.
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I think I've got to back up
the DEA on this one.
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The CSA is--
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The Controlled Substances Act
is about drug trafficking.
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It was never intended to supplant the
states as regulators of medical practice.
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He had a license to dispense narcotics
for legitimate medical purposes only.
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The voters of Oregon have declared
the termination of a life...
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...of pain and suffering to be
a legitimate medical purpose...
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...and whether they're right is none
of the DEA's business.
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-Assisted suicide should be--
-It's not assisted anything.
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It's murder.
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Okay.
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We're done.
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You'll be hearing from the president.
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The White House interfering
with a federal prosecution?
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-You really wanna walk that road?
-You're not a legislative body, Alan.
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There's only so many times you can
pull this before the president--
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What? Fires me?
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I don't wanna have this fight.
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But if we do, I win.
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Jed Bartlet's not gonna fire me
for standing on principle.
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Leo.
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-Have a good day, Margaret.
-Thank you, Mr. Fisk. You too.
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-Fire him.
-The attorney general?
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Fire him. We hired him.
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We fire him over assisted suicide...
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...it's 16 verses of "Grandma Got Run
Over by the Bartlets," now till Easter.
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"No comment's" not gonna play.
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-How about we let the VP be front man?
-Seriously?
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We're staring a State of the Union
in the face.
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This is what hijacks the agenda for
weeks at a time, what we talked about.
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-Do you need me to leave the room?
-Toby's taking first chair on...
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-...State of the Union, not just writing it.
-The agenda.
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-Great.
-lf I'm doing it, I'm doing it.
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-This is not on the agenda.
-Talk to Will.
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Thank you.
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-C.J.
-Lizzie B.
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Hey, listen. You're gonna get a call from
an organization called the Hunger Plan.
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They should be fundraising
for the World Food Program...
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...and instead they're developing
freeze-dried peanut butter.
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I got lassoed on the board for two years.
I just retired, and I recommended you.
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-You didn't.
-They get a small C-22 grant.
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It'd be a conflict. Tell them
you wish, you wish, but you can't.
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-It'll make them feel good.
-Thanks for the heads-up.
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-We're gonna talk about UNESCO.
-You going?
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We're gonna talk about a guy,
Chris Beck, I want you to meet.
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-He from UNESCO?
-Nope.
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Did she tell you about
the walk-through at 11 ?
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-Can you maybe handle that?
-She asked for you.
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I've got a meeting.
Could you tell her?
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-You can't say no to her, can you?
-Not really.
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I'll see you at 11.
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Any word from Ellie?
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She's running an experiment
on viral reproduction.
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She hopes it'll wrap up in time.
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It's a special dinner. It isn't optional.
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She's a Bartlet. It's been
special every day since '62.
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I spoke to a gal in Khartoum, then I got
a call from a flunky at the Sudan desk.
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Didn't inspire a great deal
of confidence.
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You start saying "hostages,"
things get a little out of hand.
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-Mr. President.
-Sit. Hi, Ted.
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-Mr. President.
-Proselytizing's punishable by death.
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-They're not gonna do that.
-Ted spoke with the families.
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We're waiting on a report
from the consular officer.
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-Let it go through channels.
-We barely have an embassy in Sudan.
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A consular officer from Cairo flies in
whenever we have a problem.
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-He's on a plane.
-Should call the prime minister.
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State deals with thousands
of these every year.
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Like it or not, Americans are subject to
the laws of the country they are in.
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-These aren't crack dealers.
-We don't arbitrate. Can't.
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Not in 193 countries,
with as many legal systems.
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They didn't break a law.
They were stocking a food warehouse.
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It was looted as soon
as they were arrested.
221
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These are young people who've
taken years out of their lives...
222
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...to bring food to a drought-stricken,
civil-war-riddled nation.
223
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Of course they're religious.
224
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Someone asks them what it means to
be Christian, they'll give an answer.
225
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That is not proselytizing.
226
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The secretary of state
needs to pick up the phone.
227
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As soon as they know it's a priority,
they'll hold us up for millions.
228
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I've got 22 days of Christmas
events ahead of me.
229
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I'm not sure how I explain that
Christians doing charitable works...
230
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...are in a Sudanese jail because
we're too cheap to bail them out.
231
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We're expecting
about 6000 people.
232
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Switch on the lights,
then performances...
233
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...by the United States Marine Band
and the Louisiana Bayou Gospel Choir.
234
00:13:33,482 --> 00:13:35,977
And there's gonna be a
troupe of dancing snowmen.
235
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Men, really, dressed as snowmen.
236
00:13:38,579 --> 00:13:40,658
Not as scary as it sounds.
237
00:13:40,835 --> 00:13:44,126
Though, probably deeply
humiliating for the men.
238
00:13:44,637 --> 00:13:47,429
No? Snowmen?
239
00:13:48,272 --> 00:13:50,434
Your mom's gonna be right back.
240
00:13:50,695 --> 00:13:54,450
And your grandpa will be rolling
in here any second now.
241
00:14:03,103 --> 00:14:05,681
So, what did you think
of the Three Tenors?
242
00:14:08,953 --> 00:14:11,245
-Is Dr. McNally in her office?
-I believe so.
243
00:14:11,418 --> 00:14:14,673
How about I send her in right
after the tree rehearsal?
244
00:14:14,844 --> 00:14:18,848
Liz is concerned Gus'll be overwhelmed
with the cameras and the crowd and all.
245
00:14:19,022 --> 00:14:21,018
-We're gonna practice.
-Flipping a switch?
246
00:14:21,194 --> 00:14:23,820
We're gonna show him the platform,
the tree and switch.
247
00:14:23,993 --> 00:14:27,451
He'll be fine. Ellie can show him.
She did it one year in New Hampshire.
248
00:14:27,628 --> 00:14:30,302
-Ellie's not here yet?
-Topic for another time.
249
00:14:30,469 --> 00:14:33,594
All right, push the rehearsal.
I need to stop at Nancy McNally's.
250
00:14:33,770 --> 00:14:36,942
-Is Ellie even coming?
-She's working on it.
251
00:14:37,321 --> 00:14:40,161
One would never know that the
leaders of powerful nations...
252
00:14:40,329 --> 00:14:42,372
...respond to my call on
a moment's notice.
253
00:14:42,544 --> 00:14:45,503
Not at first glance, sir, no.
254
00:14:53,281 --> 00:14:56,406
Russell speaking to the American
Nursing Association this week?
255
00:14:56,582 --> 00:14:58,542
We'd like him to do a speech insert.
256
00:14:58,712 --> 00:15:00,507
In his first big healthcare speech?
257
00:15:00,676 --> 00:15:04,133
It's gonna come up in q & a anyway.
Might as well nip it in the bud.
258
00:15:04,311 --> 00:15:08,779
By making his first speech to the medical
community about assisted suicide?
259
00:15:08,948 --> 00:15:11,444
Are you kidding?
Are you people trying to kill me?
260
00:15:11,622 --> 00:15:14,379
Trying to make sure you can
move to Oregon, kill yourself.
261
00:15:14,547 --> 00:15:17,803
He needs to be talking about the
insurance gap, prescription drugs--
262
00:15:17,973 --> 00:15:19,470
We need to place
some distance--
263
00:15:19,644 --> 00:15:22,650
You know how this thing polls?
Forty-eight percent consider it a right.
264
00:15:22,819 --> 00:15:25,576
Forty-six percent of Americans consider
it morally reprehensible.
265
00:15:25,744 --> 00:15:27,906
It is the definition of a lose-lose issue.
266
00:15:28,084 --> 00:15:30,210
The A.G.'s back-dooring this
on a technicality.
267
00:15:30,382 --> 00:15:32,461
We'll wait till the courts
knock it down.
268
00:15:32,638 --> 00:15:35,763
Meanwhile, he's usurping the policy
prerogative of the president.
269
00:15:35,938 --> 00:15:38,398
Remind the public it
wasn't our decision.
270
00:15:38,570 --> 00:15:41,529
You guys are asking me to groom
a backwater congressman.
271
00:15:41,704 --> 00:15:43,581
We didn't ask you to groom Russell...
272
00:15:43,751 --> 00:15:45,712
...for a presidential run.
He asked you.
273
00:15:45,882 --> 00:15:48,211
-He was chosen by the president.
-By Republicans!
274
00:15:48,389 --> 00:15:50,301
-I've got a budget to finalize.
-Sorry.
275
00:15:50,478 --> 00:15:52,973
I'm sure you'll pull a
great Eliza Doolittle here.
276
00:15:53,152 --> 00:15:56,360
-Your confidence is touching.
-lf the vice president would...
277
00:15:56,536 --> 00:16:02,002
...be so kind, in between campaign stops,
could he do the president this favor?
278
00:16:03,012 --> 00:16:04,592
I'll run it by him.
279
00:16:10,156 --> 00:16:13,531
It's important that you look at the
catalogs before the end of the day.
280
00:16:13,707 --> 00:16:15,834
-It's three weeks away.
-Hanukkah's two.
281
00:16:16,005 --> 00:16:18,583
-That's plenty of time.
-Who's in charge of shopping?
282
00:16:18,763 --> 00:16:21,139
-You are.
-There are pages with Post-its...
283
00:16:21,311 --> 00:16:23,307
...to tell you which relative they're for.
284
00:16:23,484 --> 00:16:25,480
If you're happy with it, initial at the X.
285
00:16:25,656 --> 00:16:28,496
If you're not happy, remember
this when you try it yourself.
286
00:16:28,664 --> 00:16:31,587
-I like the polar fleece stuff.
-Who's in charge of shopping?
287
00:16:31,756 --> 00:16:33,799
-You are. Hey.
-Hi.
288
00:16:33,970 --> 00:16:35,883
Zoey. Wow, you look fantastic.
289
00:16:36,059 --> 00:16:38,305
-Thanks.
-Gosh, it's great to see you back.
290
00:16:38,483 --> 00:16:40,812
-It's good to be back.
-She looks great.
291
00:16:40,989 --> 00:16:42,451
-Leo.
-Yeah.
292
00:16:42,619 --> 00:16:44,116
-You got a second?
-Yeah.
293
00:16:44,290 --> 00:16:48,247
Am I still on Congressional recruitment,
or is Angela gonna take that over?
294
00:16:48,426 --> 00:16:51,052
How about you two sit like grown-ups,
figure it out.
295
00:16:51,225 --> 00:16:53,186
I don't care.
It's just starting, so--
296
00:16:53,356 --> 00:16:55,685
-Getting calls already?
-A nice young guy from...
297
00:16:55,863 --> 00:17:00,367
...New Hampshire wants to run.
Married to the boss's daughter.
298
00:17:01,670 --> 00:17:05,045
From New Hampshire? The U.S.
Congress. Not the state legislature.
299
00:17:05,222 --> 00:17:06,552
And he wants an endorsement?
300
00:17:06,726 --> 00:17:09,981
I spoke to the county chair in the
DCCC. They have doubts.
301
00:17:10,152 --> 00:17:12,563
Did you know about the thing
with Lanthorp Biotech?
302
00:17:12,742 --> 00:17:15,154
They were in a nosedive,
he tried to pull them out.
303
00:17:15,332 --> 00:17:18,208
-He didn't.
-DNC wants to run Mitch Clark.
304
00:17:18,382 --> 00:17:20,425
He's been in the legislature
three terms.
305
00:17:20,597 --> 00:17:22,343
He's got ideas. He's a dealmaker.
306
00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:24,811
This has been a Republican
seat for a few terms.
307
00:17:24,984 --> 00:17:27,027
The party doesn't wanna risk it.
308
00:17:27,198 --> 00:17:29,776
Even with endorsement,
he may not make it to primary.
309
00:17:29,955 --> 00:17:32,285
Then everybody looks like an idiot.
310
00:17:32,462 --> 00:17:33,875
-I'll talk to him.
-I can talk--
311
00:17:34,050 --> 00:17:36,628
-No, I'll do it.
-Mr. President.
312
00:17:36,807 --> 00:17:39,385
He went to Josh.
Asked his opinion.
313
00:17:39,565 --> 00:17:41,311
You gotta respect that.
314
00:17:42,072 --> 00:17:44,781
Let Josh take care of it.
315
00:17:50,093 --> 00:17:54,514
I spoke to the vice president
about the assisted suicide thing.
316
00:17:54,689 --> 00:17:56,982
He's not comfortable getting into it.
317
00:17:59,619 --> 00:18:01,948
I asked you, what, 10 minutes ago?
318
00:18:02,126 --> 00:18:04,621
I'm a bigwig over there.
I don't need an appointment.
319
00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,887
You found him, brought it up, carefully
considered, decided I can go stuff it?
320
00:18:09,061 --> 00:18:13,018
He agreed with my analysis that
death plays poorly at Christmas.
321
00:18:13,197 --> 00:18:15,740
Did you take it to him?
Or walk around the block...
322
00:18:15,913 --> 00:18:18,539
-...and come back with your "no"?
-I made your case.
323
00:18:20,634 --> 00:18:24,009
-I should've sent a card.
-I'm not your man in the VP's office.
324
00:18:24,186 --> 00:18:26,895
-It can't work like that.
-I know who you are, the guy...
325
00:18:27,068 --> 00:18:31,156
...we pulled out of Botox Babylon,
and brought to work for the president.
326
00:18:31,330 --> 00:18:33,742
I work for somebody else now.
327
00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,677
I don't want this to be acrimonious.
328
00:18:36,845 --> 00:18:39,519
No, you certainly don't.
329
00:18:39,686 --> 00:18:42,776
The president will take it
to the vice president.
330
00:19:05,589 --> 00:19:07,882
Did you see the clips
Carol dropped off?
331
00:19:08,639 --> 00:19:10,101
Jackson Clarion-Ledger says...
332
00:19:10,269 --> 00:19:13,441
... "Attorney General Cracks Down
on Doc Peddling Death. "
333
00:19:13,611 --> 00:19:17,068
Only the Oregon locals have picked it
up, except Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
334
00:19:17,246 --> 00:19:19,408
-Jackson, Mississippi?
-Home of the mud pie...
335
00:19:19,586 --> 00:19:23,507
...and Attorney General Alan Fisk.
He's talked about running for governor.
336
00:19:23,805 --> 00:19:25,635
The A.G.?
337
00:19:28,401 --> 00:19:31,776
-Is the vice president gonna--?
-I'm working on it.
338
00:19:32,788 --> 00:19:35,747
I've been thinking maybe it's time
to get back into this.
339
00:19:35,922 --> 00:19:38,048
-We thought it through.
-Five years ago.
340
00:19:38,219 --> 00:19:40,382
And Oregon hasn't
worked out all the kinks.
341
00:19:40,559 --> 00:19:44,516
Number of suicides among the terminally
ill has gone down since they passed it.
342
00:19:44,695 --> 00:19:47,321
-A policy of non-intervention.
-Is lame when there's...
343
00:19:47,495 --> 00:19:49,657
...a 14th-Amendment violation.
344
00:19:49,834 --> 00:19:51,664
We have no constitutional
right to die.
345
00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:53,170
Refuse treatment, yeah--
346
00:19:53,344 --> 00:19:56,469
Framers never considered degenerative
death, an event which is...
347
00:19:56,644 --> 00:19:59,853
...the creation of modern medicine.
We have a right not to reach...
348
00:20:00,029 --> 00:20:02,868
-...the end of life in agony.
-We're not stopping anyone...
349
00:20:03,037 --> 00:20:05,746
...from squirreling away 50 Seconal
in the nightstand...
350
00:20:05,919 --> 00:20:07,582
...and washing it down with vodka.
351
00:20:07,758 --> 00:20:13,391
To down Seconal, you must have muscle
control in the hand and esophagus.
352
00:20:13,565 --> 00:20:16,107
This is an opportunity,
and we're dodging it.
353
00:20:23,676 --> 00:20:25,387
C.J., how's your dad?
354
00:20:30,152 --> 00:20:31,863
He's in the hospital.
355
00:20:32,241 --> 00:20:33,904
I don't know.
356
00:20:34,079 --> 00:20:35,790
I don't know...
357
00:20:36,419 --> 00:20:38,213
...if he knows the difference.
358
00:20:49,914 --> 00:20:53,039
Gus has a glove in here somewhere.
I know I packed it.
359
00:20:53,214 --> 00:20:55,044
-He's hitting already?
-Oh, like a pro.
360
00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:58,060
He can't catch to save his life,
but he can swing, boy.
361
00:20:58,228 --> 00:21:00,271
That's great.
362
00:21:00,943 --> 00:21:02,654
So, New Hampshire, First District.
363
00:21:02,824 --> 00:21:04,451
Yeah. What you got?
364
00:21:04,620 --> 00:21:06,782
You know a guy named Mitchell Clark?
365
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,956
Sure. Voted for him a couple,
three times.
366
00:21:09,132 --> 00:21:12,257
The DNC seems to think he's got
a chance for Campbell's seat.
367
00:21:12,433 --> 00:21:14,726
Anyone's got a chance.
It's a moderate district.
368
00:21:14,898 --> 00:21:16,941
-It's poachable.
-No question.
369
00:21:17,112 --> 00:21:19,952
We have a shot, but the party,
they're reticent.
370
00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:22,283
-It's the nepotism.
-That could be part of it.
371
00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:24,753
Look, it's gonna come up,
and it's gonna pass.
372
00:21:24,925 --> 00:21:28,264
If the worst they can say about
me is I'm Jed Bartlet's son-in-law--
373
00:21:28,435 --> 00:21:32,570
Once the public gets to know me as an
individual, it's an entirely different race.
374
00:21:34,367 --> 00:21:37,956
What about the state legislature?
It's a place to learn.
375
00:21:38,128 --> 00:21:39,624
The president started there.
376
00:21:39,799 --> 00:21:43,554
I run while Jed's in office,
I've got a leg up like no two terms...
377
00:21:43,726 --> 00:21:46,482
...six terms as a state legislator's
ever gonna give me.
378
00:21:46,651 --> 00:21:49,360
What fool is gonna let
a moment like that sail by?
379
00:21:49,533 --> 00:21:52,159
-I don't know.
-Here we go.
380
00:21:53,586 --> 00:21:55,713
Is that the greatest thing
you ever saw?
381
00:21:55,884 --> 00:21:59,425
Can't even get my thumb in there.
Look, I really appreciate your concern.
382
00:21:59,602 --> 00:22:01,682
I do. But it's gonna be fine.
383
00:22:01,858 --> 00:22:05,067
I'm a winner, buddy.
I'm gonna win this.
384
00:22:08,836 --> 00:22:11,462
-Hi, Toby.
-Hi. You back to stay?
385
00:22:11,635 --> 00:22:14,475
-No. I'm liking New Hampshire.
-You can go in.
386
00:22:14,643 --> 00:22:18,100
-You look great.
-Thanks.
387
00:22:18,278 --> 00:22:20,238
Good to see you, Toby.
388
00:22:21,411 --> 00:22:23,372
-People making a fuss?
-Yeah.
389
00:22:23,542 --> 00:22:25,123
You don't look that good.
390
00:22:26,341 --> 00:22:29,015
I was hoping you could speak
to the vice president.
391
00:22:29,182 --> 00:22:31,642
Ask him to do some talking
on the right-to-die--
392
00:22:31,815 --> 00:22:34,274
Yeah, he said Will brought it up.
393
00:22:34,447 --> 00:22:36,907
-You already discussed it?
-That's not gonna work.
394
00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:39,289
Leo hopes the attorney general
will back down.
395
00:22:39,460 --> 00:22:44,630
If not, C.J. puts it in a briefing, restates
our position, it's gone by Boxing Day.
396
00:22:44,808 --> 00:22:46,769
We just had a huge victory...
397
00:22:46,939 --> 00:22:49,315
...we're looking at a month
of Christmas carols...
398
00:22:49,487 --> 00:22:52,529
...and the official ornament from
the state of South Dakota.
399
00:22:52,705 --> 00:22:54,617
Press is itching for a story
with blood--
400
00:22:54,794 --> 00:22:56,588
The court'll stop him.
There's no way.
401
00:22:56,757 --> 00:23:01,261
One in five patients requesting
aid in dying has MS.
402
00:23:01,436 --> 00:23:02,850
One in five.
403
00:23:04,110 --> 00:23:06,273
Do you know what the questions
sound like?
404
00:23:06,826 --> 00:23:08,323
I've got a pretty good idea.
405
00:23:08,497 --> 00:23:12,418
"How long does the president think he
has before his MS becomes debilitating?"
406
00:23:12,592 --> 00:23:15,170
"Do his doctors anticipate
a speedy decline?"
407
00:23:15,349 --> 00:23:16,727
"Does he have a plan?"
408
00:23:16,895 --> 00:23:20,734
"Does the first lady have four glass
vials and a syringe in a locked box...
409
00:23:20,906 --> 00:23:23,235
...in the nightstand?"
410
00:23:24,791 --> 00:23:27,881
She may chicken out.
Maybe I'll call you.
411
00:23:29,847 --> 00:23:31,510
That's the conversation, sir.
412
00:23:32,479 --> 00:23:36,186
It won't be Controlled Substances Act,
or federal overreaching...
413
00:23:36,364 --> 00:23:37,992
...or anything else.
414
00:23:38,579 --> 00:23:42,630
I don't think we're ready to have that
conversation with the American public.
415
00:23:50,068 --> 00:23:52,611
Hey. Did you get a chance
to talk to Doug?
416
00:23:52,784 --> 00:23:55,244
-Yeah.
-He take it okay?
417
00:23:55,416 --> 00:23:58,172
He did, you know. He really did.
418
00:23:58,341 --> 00:24:00,003
Good.
419
00:24:06,112 --> 00:24:08,571
-You wanna carry my books?
-I'm not sure he got it.
420
00:24:08,744 --> 00:24:10,157
-Got what?
-The rejection.
421
00:24:10,331 --> 00:24:12,078
If he didn't take it personal--
422
00:24:12,253 --> 00:24:13,715
He thinks he's still running.
423
00:24:13,883 --> 00:24:17,304
-You didn't tell him?
-He took it more like a cautionary tale--
424
00:24:17,476 --> 00:24:19,139
Oh, for the love of God.
425
00:24:19,314 --> 00:24:21,809
He's resilient, not such
a bad thing in a candidate.
426
00:24:21,988 --> 00:24:24,910
He's gonna show up at dinner
popping champagne corks...
427
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,290
...and the president will
deliver the news...
428
00:24:27,461 --> 00:24:29,707
...in front of Doug's wife
and mother-in-law.
429
00:24:29,884 --> 00:24:31,797
You have to go back and tell him no.
430
00:24:31,973 --> 00:24:34,469
In no uncertain terms.
Draw a picture if you need.
431
00:24:34,647 --> 00:24:36,857
A ballot in a circle
with a line through it.
432
00:24:37,029 --> 00:24:40,237
Liz and Gus are running behind schedule.
Can we push this to 4?
433
00:24:40,413 --> 00:24:43,622
Do you wanna belly-dance for
the Joint Chiefs, or shall I?
434
00:24:43,797 --> 00:24:45,342
Go on in.
435
00:24:51,485 --> 00:24:52,898
Everything okay?
436
00:24:53,866 --> 00:24:57,371
I'm waiting for my daughter and her
son to arrive, so we can practice...
437
00:24:57,543 --> 00:25:00,252
-...the ceremonial flipping of a switch.
-Right.
438
00:25:00,425 --> 00:25:03,551
He had a Fisher-Price gizmo hooked
to the side of his crib...
439
00:25:03,726 --> 00:25:06,186
...with more cranks and
levers than a DC-10...
440
00:25:06,358 --> 00:25:08,568
...but we're gonna practice
with the switch.
441
00:25:08,740 --> 00:25:12,875
C.J. says the assisted-suicide story is
showing up in some Mississippi papers.
442
00:25:13,043 --> 00:25:15,717
You think Fisk is feeding it to them?
443
00:25:15,884 --> 00:25:18,843
I want him in here
first thing tomorrow.
444
00:25:19,017 --> 00:25:21,691
Consular report from Sudan.
445
00:25:22,527 --> 00:25:27,244
Holly Gilweit and Katherine Melo,
ages 20 and 23, respectively...
446
00:25:27,415 --> 00:25:30,089
...had a grand total
of 18 Bibles and a video...
447
00:25:30,256 --> 00:25:33,631
-...on the lives of the apostles.
-The NGO know about this?
448
00:25:33,808 --> 00:25:37,396
They never identified themselves as
evangelists, never mentioned religion.
449
00:25:37,568 --> 00:25:39,445
So they're undercover agents?
450
00:25:39,657 --> 00:25:41,153
Spies for Christ. Yeah.
451
00:25:41,746 --> 00:25:44,918
Eighteen. They couldn't have just
talked about loving kindness...
452
00:25:45,088 --> 00:25:47,630
...and goodwill towards men?
I just had Berryhill...
453
00:25:47,804 --> 00:25:51,261
...call the prime minister of Sudan
and issue a stern reprimand...
454
00:25:51,439 --> 00:25:55,229
...for behavior that I likened
to street gangs and petty thieves.
455
00:25:55,408 --> 00:25:57,534
-We need to issue an apology.
-We can't.
456
00:25:57,706 --> 00:26:00,628
Ten other relief workers who weren't
distributing anything...
457
00:26:00,797 --> 00:26:03,375
...other than wheat and sorghum
are in jail.
458
00:26:03,555 --> 00:26:05,800
-But they know what was going on.
-And we know.
459
00:26:05,978 --> 00:26:09,103
That's where the money comes in.
Nancy's waiting downstairs.
460
00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:14,530
-Debbie. Twenty and 23.
-Girls.
461
00:26:14,710 --> 00:26:17,550
Toby asked me today if I have
a plan for my death.
462
00:26:17,718 --> 00:26:19,714
Liz has never asked. Zoey.
463
00:26:19,891 --> 00:26:21,887
I understand Ellie asked
her mother once...
464
00:26:22,063 --> 00:26:25,022
...but I'm not supposed to
know about it. I get Toby.
465
00:26:25,991 --> 00:26:28,997
-Aren't we expecting Liz and Gus?
-They're running late.
466
00:26:29,166 --> 00:26:31,376
There's a disagreement about a bath.
467
00:26:31,547 --> 00:26:34,506
Nancy McNally is waiting,
and she's already had her bath.
468
00:26:34,681 --> 00:26:36,392
I'll tell Liz.
469
00:26:37,856 --> 00:26:39,401
Josh talk to Doug yet?
470
00:26:39,569 --> 00:26:42,243
They spoke.
He didn't seem to follow.
471
00:26:42,410 --> 00:26:44,490
-Josh is gonna try again.
-He didn't follow?
472
00:26:44,666 --> 00:26:47,458
-Josh wasn't clear.
-What's not to follow?
473
00:26:47,925 --> 00:26:51,430
It's hard to say.
Thank you, Mr. President.
474
00:26:52,980 --> 00:26:56,771
Three point two billion men in the world.
She picks him.
475
00:26:56,949 --> 00:26:59,195
I hear he had a great pitching arm.
476
00:26:59,373 --> 00:27:01,083
When he was 19, sure.
477
00:27:01,253 --> 00:27:04,842
She dumped a Rhodes scholar for
this guy. Zoey left Charlie for the frog.
478
00:27:05,013 --> 00:27:07,306
Ellie and the guitar player
with the purple van.
479
00:27:07,478 --> 00:27:09,521
My children choose morons,
every one.
480
00:27:09,692 --> 00:27:12,698
They say daughters look
for their fathers.
481
00:27:13,327 --> 00:27:15,656
You know, 15 years ago,
we took a trip to Egypt.
482
00:27:15,834 --> 00:27:17,165
All five of us.
483
00:27:17,338 --> 00:27:20,094
We saw the pyramids, Luxor,
then headed up into the Sinai.
484
00:27:20,263 --> 00:27:24,053
We had a guide, a Bedouin man,
who called me "Abu el Banat. "
485
00:27:24,232 --> 00:27:28,188
Whenever we'd meet another Bedouin,
he'd introduce me as Abu el Banat.
486
00:27:28,368 --> 00:27:30,863
The Bedouin would laugh,
and offer me a cup of tea.
487
00:27:31,042 --> 00:27:33,418
I'd go to pay for the tea,
they wouldn't let me.
488
00:27:33,590 --> 00:27:36,086
Abu el Banat means
"father of daughters. "
489
00:27:36,264 --> 00:27:40,435
They thought the tea was
the least they could do. Thanks.
490
00:27:48,798 --> 00:27:51,757
Does he know we've heard
"The 12 Days of Christmas" twice?
491
00:27:51,932 --> 00:27:54,058
-What'd Liz say?
-We should have rehearsed.
492
00:27:54,230 --> 00:27:56,772
-I should go up.
-7000 people standing in the cold.
493
00:27:56,945 --> 00:27:59,025
-You have to go.
-Any movement?
494
00:27:59,201 --> 00:28:01,363
A lot of noise.
Somebody's in timeout.
495
00:28:01,541 --> 00:28:03,668
-Gus or Doug?
-I'll go.
496
00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:05,965
-You and me.
-Len, this gonna be okay?
497
00:28:06,429 --> 00:28:08,556
-Yes.
-It's cold out there. You got a coat?
498
00:28:08,727 --> 00:28:10,140
Zoe.
499
00:28:12,195 --> 00:28:13,608
You're a prince.
500
00:28:13,782 --> 00:28:15,113
Here we go.
501
00:28:15,287 --> 00:28:17,698
Moving Eagle, Bookbag.
Replacing Eagle and Tonka...
502
00:28:17,877 --> 00:28:20,372
...with Eagle and Bookbag.
Units six and nine, assist exit.
503
00:28:20,551 --> 00:28:23,723
-Uniforms to front for a possible surge.
-She's good.
504
00:28:24,687 --> 00:28:28,477
As President Bartlet and daughter Zoeybegin to make their way to the podium...
505
00:28:28,656 --> 00:28:32,957
... the White House and nation prepareto officially celebrate the holiday season.
506
00:28:33,127 --> 00:28:36,798
With the lighting of the Christmas treeon the grounds of the White House...
507
00:28:36,970 --> 00:28:38,883
...a tradition is carried on that is--
508
00:28:39,059 --> 00:28:42,600
Boxes for all this. And that.
509
00:28:43,404 --> 00:28:46,327
-A dolly for the desk.
-Hi. What are you doing?
510
00:28:46,496 --> 00:28:49,122
We're moving you to your new
place across the street.
511
00:28:49,295 --> 00:28:53,514
-I don't have a new place.
-Will Bailey. OEOB.
512
00:29:07,302 --> 00:29:09,798
-Donna said you were looking for me.
-Yeah.
513
00:29:09,976 --> 00:29:12,353
-How'd it go with the tree?
-The lights are on.
514
00:29:12,525 --> 00:29:14,070
Let's leave it at that.
515
00:29:14,238 --> 00:29:17,197
Okay.
516
00:29:18,082 --> 00:29:20,659
The conversation we had earlier.
517
00:29:20,839 --> 00:29:22,217
I think I wasn't clear.
518
00:29:22,468 --> 00:29:24,381
This is awkward for you,
I know that.
519
00:29:24,557 --> 00:29:28,182
-But, I don't want you to feel like you--
-We're asking you not to run.
520
00:29:28,359 --> 00:29:30,819
-Who's we?
-The DNC.
521
00:29:30,992 --> 00:29:33,451
-The White House.
-The president?
522
00:29:33,665 --> 00:29:37,836
If you wanna go forward on your own,
the White House can't endorse you.
523
00:29:42,523 --> 00:29:44,852
The New Hampshire House
is a great place...
524
00:29:45,030 --> 00:29:47,073
...to get some experience,
build a network.
525
00:29:47,244 --> 00:29:49,156
I have a network.
Been working R & D...
526
00:29:49,333 --> 00:29:52,089
...in the New England tech
corridor for 15 years.
527
00:29:52,258 --> 00:29:55,466
I got the CEO of Diginet and
the CFO of Gansey-McGrath ready...
528
00:29:55,642 --> 00:29:59,432
...to join my finance committee. I got
the guy who ran your boss's primary...
529
00:29:59,611 --> 00:30:02,451
...finding me a campaign manager.
I just spent five hours...
530
00:30:02,619 --> 00:30:06,790
...last Sunday in a duck blind with the
editor of the Manchester Union Leader.
531
00:30:06,964 --> 00:30:08,425
I'm running for Congress.
532
00:30:08,593 --> 00:30:10,720
Hal Collins is--?
You met with Hal?
533
00:30:10,891 --> 00:30:14,812
The "nobody's good enough for the
president's daughter" stuff is fun...
534
00:30:14,986 --> 00:30:17,112
-...but I'm not actually an idiot.
-That's--
535
00:30:17,284 --> 00:30:18,614
I'm gonna have to dash.
536
00:30:18,788 --> 00:30:22,792
I'll be late for dinner. But I appreciate
your time, Josh. I really do.
537
00:30:24,929 --> 00:30:27,472
He shouldn't be upset.
He'll light the tree next year.
538
00:30:27,645 --> 00:30:30,105
-He's just wound up.
-He's not eating?
539
00:30:30,277 --> 00:30:33,402
It's 8:00.
He goes to sleep at 8. He eats at 5.
540
00:30:33,578 --> 00:30:35,075
Why didn't we eat earlier?
541
00:30:35,249 --> 00:30:38,124
-That's a stupid question.
-Where's Doug?
542
00:30:38,299 --> 00:30:40,045
I think he's making sure
Gus is down.
543
00:30:40,221 --> 00:30:43,560
-Isn't there some person--?
-A nanny is not a substitute for a parent.
544
00:30:43,730 --> 00:30:46,059
I thought that's exactly
what a nanny was.
545
00:30:46,237 --> 00:30:49,160
-She has a strange chin.
-No, she doesn't.
546
00:30:49,329 --> 00:30:52,288
-Well, she kind of has no chin.
-She's Swedish.
547
00:30:52,462 --> 00:30:54,958
-Most Swedes have chins.
-Would you call up?
548
00:30:55,136 --> 00:30:57,465
Tell him we're waiting,
leave the child...
549
00:30:57,643 --> 00:30:59,936
...in the competent care
of the chinless Swede?
550
00:31:00,108 --> 00:31:01,985
-We can give it 10 minutes.
-Is Ellie--?
551
00:31:02,155 --> 00:31:05,161
-Apparently not.
-Can we give it 10 more minutes?
552
00:31:07,628 --> 00:31:09,708
-There he is.
-I'm sorry. We eating already?
553
00:31:09,884 --> 00:31:11,595
-We're waiting.
-Is he...?
554
00:31:11,765 --> 00:31:13,178
He's fine, watching a video.
555
00:31:13,352 --> 00:31:15,099
-Well, I should--
-He's fine.
556
00:31:15,650 --> 00:31:18,145
-So, what's on the menu?
-The menu is absolutely--
557
00:31:18,324 --> 00:31:20,486
-Where's Ellie?
-We've yet to determine if...
558
00:31:20,664 --> 00:31:23,705
...medical science can spare
Ellie Bartlet for an evening.
559
00:31:23,881 --> 00:31:26,173
We're giving her a few more minutes.
560
00:31:26,763 --> 00:31:28,391
Did you...?
561
00:31:29,479 --> 00:31:31,689
I think I'm gonna grab a drink,
if that works.
562
00:31:31,861 --> 00:31:33,857
-Let me call the steward.
-No, I'll get it.
563
00:31:34,033 --> 00:31:39,749
They put ice in the Scotch, and I don't
really want ice in my Scotch today.
564
00:31:39,924 --> 00:31:42,253
Which one is the sitting room?
565
00:31:42,431 --> 00:31:44,724
Great.
566
00:31:53,753 --> 00:31:55,630
What was that?
567
00:31:58,015 --> 00:32:00,094
Good evening, everybody.
568
00:32:00,647 --> 00:32:03,059
I apologize. They said
they hadn't started serving.
569
00:32:03,237 --> 00:32:05,947
-It's all right.
-Did you wanna sit? We have room.
570
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,915
Thank you, no. We... .
571
00:32:08,084 --> 00:32:10,163
Excuse me.
572
00:32:14,392 --> 00:32:17,648
Two more physicians' licenses
were just suspended.
573
00:32:17,818 --> 00:32:20,528
The A.G.'s downstairs. I asked him
to come in tomorrow...
574
00:32:20,701 --> 00:32:22,198
...but he's getting on a plane.
575
00:32:22,372 --> 00:32:24,618
-When's his flight?
-Two hours.
576
00:32:25,882 --> 00:32:30,885
Five minutes. Ellie's still not here.
I'll beat her back.
577
00:32:34,447 --> 00:32:36,609
John?
578
00:32:37,037 --> 00:32:40,412
-Yes, ma'am.
-We seem to have lost our quorum.
579
00:32:43,764 --> 00:32:46,889
Two more doctors? You couldn't
wait a year to start campaigning?
580
00:32:47,064 --> 00:32:49,060
You don't run for governor
from my cabinet.
581
00:32:49,237 --> 00:32:52,196
You think a run to the right
on a couple pro-life standards...
582
00:32:52,370 --> 00:32:55,210
-...will win Mississippi?
-"Powers not delegated to the...
583
00:32:55,378 --> 00:32:58,504
...United States by the Constitution
are reserved to the states. "
584
00:32:58,679 --> 00:33:02,731
How long before there's a lawyer arguing
we can't limit this to terminal patients...
585
00:33:02,899 --> 00:33:06,024
...include the chronically ill?
When is it allowing children...
586
00:33:06,199 --> 00:33:08,410
-...to make the decision for the parents?
-Yes.
587
00:33:08,581 --> 00:33:11,956
When is it allowing the state to decide,
not families?
588
00:33:12,132 --> 00:33:15,388
We'll knock off the weak and indigent
along with the sick and dying.
589
00:33:15,558 --> 00:33:19,015
When does my administration completely
deteriorate into the Third Reich?
590
00:33:19,193 --> 00:33:22,033
-I'm not suggesting--
-Federal government has no place here.
591
00:33:22,201 --> 00:33:23,996
The question is moral and individual.
592
00:33:24,165 --> 00:33:26,874
A grappling with the nature of life
and purview of God...
593
00:33:27,048 --> 00:33:29,923
...which the federal govern--
Forget it. Do what you want.
594
00:33:30,098 --> 00:33:34,102
The courts are gonna nail you. You were
counting on my silence, you just lost it.
595
00:33:34,275 --> 00:33:37,567
-Sir, a public debate.
-I didn't wanna get on TV with Oprah...
596
00:33:37,743 --> 00:33:41,118
...and talk about who's gonna cut my
meat when the coordination goes.
597
00:33:41,294 --> 00:33:45,299
The lid's off. You pull this crap
one more time, you're fired.
598
00:33:45,472 --> 00:33:47,599
Tell Janet merry Christmas.
599
00:33:53,954 --> 00:33:56,330
-Good evening, Ellie.
-Good evening, John.
600
00:33:56,502 --> 00:33:59,045
-Is my...?
-They'll be right back.
601
00:33:59,803 --> 00:34:01,466
Okay.
602
00:34:06,655 --> 00:34:09,031
Can I get you something to drink?
603
00:34:09,454 --> 00:34:12,496
No. I'm fine. Thank you.
604
00:34:53,365 --> 00:34:56,324
There's a guy named Mitch Clark
DNC's been touting--
605
00:34:56,498 --> 00:34:59,670
Mitchell Clark single-handedly
disemboweled managed-care reform.
606
00:34:59,841 --> 00:35:02,966
Put together the committee,
took credit for rate stabilization...
607
00:35:03,141 --> 00:35:05,221
...then sold the whole thing
down the river.
608
00:35:05,397 --> 00:35:08,237
How do you think he's financing?
He's got board members...
609
00:35:08,405 --> 00:35:10,448
...from Barnstead Mutual
writing checks.
610
00:35:10,620 --> 00:35:13,376
The district's splitting right.
Much more than in my day.
611
00:35:13,544 --> 00:35:15,421
Josh mentioned something about that.
612
00:35:15,592 --> 00:35:18,383
-Apparently, he was very helpful.
-Elizabeth.
613
00:35:18,558 --> 00:35:20,851
You couldn't give him
the courtesy of five minutes?
614
00:35:21,023 --> 00:35:25,491
It's one thing to delegate my car loan, or
Ellie's MCATs to staff, but my husband?
615
00:35:25,660 --> 00:35:29,535
He went to Josh.
He didn't come to me.
616
00:35:29,713 --> 00:35:33,088
If he wanted my advice,
or if you did, for that matter... .
617
00:35:36,105 --> 00:35:38,648
Doug didn't call Hal Collins.
You did.
618
00:35:38,821 --> 00:35:40,698
You recruited the finance committee.
619
00:35:40,868 --> 00:35:43,660
Mom made a useful suggestion
or two in the early years.
620
00:35:43,835 --> 00:35:46,509
"The speaker can convince
most people of most things...
621
00:35:46,676 --> 00:35:49,302
...and himself of almost anything. "
622
00:35:50,561 --> 00:35:52,807
Doug came up with that?
623
00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:54,695
We're a good team.
624
00:35:54,865 --> 00:35:57,490
We have different strengths, skills.
625
00:35:57,664 --> 00:36:02,084
-He has skills you never even bothered--
-He's a great guy, and a fantastic father.
626
00:36:02,260 --> 00:36:04,934
You're the politician.
Why the hell don't you run?
627
00:36:05,393 --> 00:36:08,565
Because Annie pierced her face.
And this one can't catch.
628
00:36:08,777 --> 00:36:10,322
-Or bathe.
-You can handle it.
629
00:36:10,490 --> 00:36:14,827
You can't. Forgive me,
Ms. Steinem and Ms. Friedan.
630
00:36:15,713 --> 00:36:17,174
You cannot do it all.
631
00:36:17,342 --> 00:36:20,931
-Your mother did.
-No, Daddy, she didn't.
632
00:36:26,575 --> 00:36:30,330
There's no question we missed things.
We all made sacrifices.
633
00:36:30,503 --> 00:36:32,415
But, Elizabeth...
634
00:36:32,592 --> 00:36:35,134
...when Annie and Gus watch
you walk onto the floor...
635
00:36:35,307 --> 00:36:39,359
-...of the House of Representatives... .
-I don't want my son to be my entourage.
636
00:36:39,527 --> 00:36:42,403
A photo op is not his idea of--
637
00:36:45,167 --> 00:36:46,795
I don't want it.
638
00:36:47,591 --> 00:36:49,634
Then why would you let Doug?
639
00:36:50,432 --> 00:36:53,438
Because he's my husband,
and he asked me to.
640
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,169
You gonna come watch?
There's people singing in the lobby.
641
00:37:04,344 --> 00:37:07,885
-Spontaneously?
-The choir from the tree lighting.
642
00:37:10,570 --> 00:37:12,447
Who's that for?
643
00:37:14,539 --> 00:37:19,007
-You picked your own gift?
-I'm in charge of shopping.
644
00:37:19,970 --> 00:37:21,765
-I got your gift.
-No, you didn't.
645
00:37:21,934 --> 00:37:25,023
-Three weeks in advance?
-I saw it at Thanksgiving. I got it.
646
00:37:25,193 --> 00:37:27,569
-No, you didn't. What is it?
-I'm not telling you.
647
00:37:27,741 --> 00:37:30,367
-I wanna know.
-Really?
648
00:37:33,089 --> 00:37:35,169
It's a gift certificate.
649
00:37:35,470 --> 00:37:37,098
Tower Records.
650
00:37:37,267 --> 00:37:39,477
You're a fan of the music.
You go on a spree.
651
00:37:39,648 --> 00:37:41,229
That'll be fun.
652
00:37:41,403 --> 00:37:44,362
Sometime tomorrow,
I need to sit with Approps.
653
00:37:44,537 --> 00:37:46,866
And find some foreign-aid
money we can reprogram.
654
00:37:47,043 --> 00:37:49,800
-What should I tell them it's for?
-Bribing a dictator...
655
00:37:49,968 --> 00:37:52,428
...to get illegal missionaries
out of Sudan.
656
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,762
Something I can put on a memo.
657
00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:58,195
Reassigning funds from
extant authorizations...
658
00:37:58,366 --> 00:38:00,445
...based on new priorities in East Africa.
659
00:38:01,457 --> 00:38:04,249
Do you mind if I go
watch the carolers?
660
00:38:06,555 --> 00:38:07,932
Donna.
661
00:38:08,811 --> 00:38:10,807
It's not a gift certificate.
662
00:38:11,109 --> 00:38:12,605
-What is it?
-I'm not telling.
663
00:38:12,780 --> 00:38:14,491
-I wanna know.
-Socks.
664
00:38:14,660 --> 00:38:17,535
-Stop.
-I'm not telling you. Live with the pain.
665
00:38:22,138 --> 00:38:24,764
-You didn't wanna wait for dinner?
-I'm waiting.
666
00:38:24,938 --> 00:38:27,778
There's a fruit bowl.
Turns out the fruit's real.
667
00:38:27,946 --> 00:38:30,358
Ellie and Zoey went down
to watch the carolers.
668
00:38:30,536 --> 00:38:33,032
-We didn't know how long you'd be.
-Ellie's here?
669
00:38:33,210 --> 00:38:34,957
That's nice.
She enjoying her stay?
670
00:38:35,132 --> 00:38:36,843
-Talk to Liz?
-I'm not sure...
671
00:38:37,012 --> 00:38:38,675
...we're gonna see her for dinner.
672
00:38:38,850 --> 00:38:41,476
That's okay. Got a picture
in my wallet of the girls...
673
00:38:41,650 --> 00:38:44,276
-...together from Acadia in '96.
-It's Doug's fight.
674
00:38:44,449 --> 00:38:46,991
-Why does she get in the middle?
-It's bigger than Doug.
675
00:38:47,165 --> 00:38:49,494
Is it about those ice skates
we never bought her?
676
00:38:49,671 --> 00:38:52,463
-And the cauliflower incident.
-We didn't beat them.
677
00:38:52,638 --> 00:38:55,098
There's still time.
678
00:38:55,604 --> 00:38:58,943
-Shame about Gus and the tree.
-You didn't think he was gonna march--
679
00:38:59,114 --> 00:39:00,527
I did. He would've had fun.
680
00:39:00,701 --> 00:39:03,113
He thought he'd be with you.
He didn't know...
681
00:39:03,292 --> 00:39:06,797
-...what those people were doing there.
-Oh, yeah.
682
00:39:08,807 --> 00:39:13,061
Last Christmas, Ellie wasn't around.
The year before was Tennessee.
683
00:39:13,235 --> 00:39:16,027
And the calls to Belarus.
684
00:39:16,202 --> 00:39:18,697
I can't remember when it
was just the five of us...
685
00:39:18,875 --> 00:39:21,168
...and weather and everybody
in their slippers.
686
00:39:21,340 --> 00:39:23,384
-We don't do that.
-We did.
687
00:39:23,555 --> 00:39:26,727
I was on call three straight
Christmas Eves...
688
00:39:26,897 --> 00:39:31,366
...when Ellie was little.
We've never been Currier & lves.
689
00:39:38,888 --> 00:39:42,512
I'm putting together a panel
on assisted suicide.
690
00:39:42,690 --> 00:39:46,147
Have you got any names?
Medical ethicists.
691
00:39:46,868 --> 00:39:49,410
Your position has changed?
692
00:39:54,012 --> 00:39:58,729
No syringe in the nightstand.
It'll get ugly, and that's that.
693
00:40:02,995 --> 00:40:04,575
You gonna be there?
694
00:40:14,902 --> 00:40:16,315
Yeah.
695
00:40:18,746 --> 00:40:20,159
Abbey.
696
00:40:31,071 --> 00:40:33,745
Gus is still up.
Go say good night.
697
00:41:14,731 --> 00:41:17,191
He's not a fan of turkey.
698
00:41:17,363 --> 00:41:19,858
I was told he didn't eat any of it.
699
00:41:20,580 --> 00:41:23,290
Yes, Talmidge Cregg.
700
00:41:23,797 --> 00:41:25,924
The other night nurse.
701
00:41:27,432 --> 00:41:31,021
Right, we spoke the day
after Thanksgiving.
702
00:41:32,070 --> 00:41:35,195
It's fine. I just thought
maybe I could send a ham.
703
00:41:36,289 --> 00:41:38,250
No, I'm not asking the kitchen to do it.
704
00:41:38,420 --> 00:41:41,212
I'm saying it's three weeks away.
They vacuum-pack it.
705
00:41:41,386 --> 00:41:43,216
If I could just send it to you...
706
00:41:43,392 --> 00:41:46,398
...and you could see that they give
it to him instead of the--
707
00:41:48,071 --> 00:41:49,484
No.
708
00:41:49,659 --> 00:41:52,499
No, this is-- I'm--
709
00:41:52,667 --> 00:41:55,245
This is C.J. I'm his daughter.
710
00:42:18,863 --> 00:42:20,241
-Ready?
-Yeah.
711
00:42:20,409 --> 00:42:21,954
Go ahead.61368
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