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Previously, on The West Wing:

You can fill my office with bicycles,

you can cover the windows

with "Seaborn for Congress" posters,

you can bring in 101 Dalmatians.

I'm focused on what I'm doing.

Who are you?

You're Bill Bailey, right?

I'm working with Will BaiToby Ziegler on the...

Nance McNalley has Bill, I knowa new military aide What do you named Jack Reese,

and we've talked a few times

and I want you to ask him if he likes me.

What do you think it is I'm going to say?f's Gulfstream?

You know something there, HiGeneral Cho?amil Bari.

If you had a story you'd write it.

If you don't have one, shut up.

( crowd cheering )

( band playing march )

Good morning, Mr. President.

Why are they talking to me

about the order of the balls?

Political Affairs thinks it's important.

They'd like you to start with the Plains States,

followed by the Rust Belt Ball

then the one from the Pacific Northwest.

Aren't we abouts your president to demonstrate thate cou pretty clearly right now?

He could start with the New Hampshire Ball.

The President haslear he knows a driver's license.me from.

What if he starts with all the states

where jobs are in decline--

make it clear our message is the economy.

Well, that's only going to be clear

if we also hand out decoder rings.

Listen, it's an Inauguration Ball.

Let's enjoy ourselves.

Knock 'em dead, sir, Actually, it's eight Thanks, ladInauguration Balls.

You read it?

Every draft all night long.

You haven't weighed in.

I just did.

Anything else, sir?

No.

Eat 'em up, Chief.

Thank you, Claudia.

Josh.

It's leaked.

How much?

They know the committee chairmen haven't been consulted. a restatement of foreign Yeah.

Well, their curiosity They knowill be slaked in a lot ovabout 41 minutes.

Listen. Yes, sir?

the most massive shift in foreign policy since the Marshall Plan, a probl

and it's going to be wildly unpopular.

All right, two problems.

Yes, sir.

I don't have a Bible.

What do you mean?

I kept changing my mind all week

and then I finally settled on the George Washington Bible, I wanted to use,

but we ran into a problem

which we don't have time to get into.

Charlie's out hunting one down, but he's not back yet.

There's nothing that says you have to be sworn in on a Bible.

Is that true? You can be sworn in

on a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

You think that's a good idea?

No. You sure?

I'll find Charlie. Thanks.

We're right next to you, sir.

Knock 'em all down. Thank you.

Hey, Leo, can you Ntell me anything

about what happened to Jack Reese?

The President asked him to get a Force Depletion Report

under the radar.

On Kundu. Yeah.

And someone found out.

Hutchinson. It was my fault.

Which doesn't excuse... I don't excuse it.

Icould do that, I really don't.

I don't want to talk about it now,

but do you suppose her timing could have been any worse?

I told her all that in no uncertain terms.

I'll be telling it to her, too. She knows.

Good. She's not here.

I can't find her. I don't think she's coming.

I'll find out where Charlie is.

MAN: Leo.

I know you've been Yes,underground all night,

but there's a rumor that the President's

contemplating a new doctrine for the use of force.

The President's nothing if not contemplative, Senator.

The man makes the Prince of Denmark seem reactionary.

No, I mean that he's going to talk about it right now.

He's the Commander-in-Chief.

He's going to reserve the right to, you know, command.

Get yourself some punch.

Leo.

For a refreshingThe Hill's going change of pace.to go crazy.

I've assured a dozen members that the White House

wouldn't act without us.

Then you're all set.

There's cheese over there.

Hello.

You know, I saw the dressHi.

that Abbey's wearing tonight.

Yeah, I may need to get a room.

Do you know it's leaked?

In the last two minutes, three people have reminded me

what Jefferson said in his Inaugural.

"Peace, commerce, honest friendship with all nations

and entangling alliances with none."

that when he said it, your best chance of getting

entangled with an ally was by rowboat.

Yeah.

Charlie's here.

Sir.

Thank you.

Yes, sir.

Donnie's Motel?

Yes, sir. They didn't have one

This is the one from the House Library.brary.

Okay.

Mr. President.

Mr. Chief Justice.

will ask you to raise your right hand

and place your left hand on the Bible.

What do I do then?

and put your left handand on the Bible.

And will there be someone who'll tell me when it's time to do that?

You mock me?

I do. May I continue to?

Yes, sir.

Can we pull foreign policy up on the prompter?

144 on the prompter, please.

It's going to take a second.

( chuckles )

What's going on?

The Chief Justice--

wrote a dissenting opinion

in Sea Northern v. Arizona, saying that

an association between asbestos and a higher risk

of cancer in later life

was insufficient to merit relief.

So what?

He...

( chuckling )

I don't know how to say this.

He wrote it in a meter.

A meter?

He in what I'm almost certain a diis trochaic tetrameter.

Will?

It is.

What are you talking about?

He starts in the fourth graph.

"Fear of cancer from asbestos,

fuzzy science manifestos."

A guy just faxed this to Will.

Which one is Will?

He is.

It's a loud syllable followed by a soft syllable,

which is a trochaic foot, and there's four per comma,

which is tetrameter.

You think he's trying to tell us something through code?

144's on the prompter, sir.

"America cannot be the world's policeman.

"America cannot enforce its own values,

its own standards across the world.

Yet when it's in our clear and vital interests..."

We're being candid at least.

This is State Department language.

No kidding. Look, I understand

I present a uniform gap, but I want to mean what I say.

Will, you're going to meet with my counterpart,

the State Department Communications Director.

He likes to have input into foreign policy language.

Isn't he going to be insulted that he's meeting

with someone he's never heard of

who isn't a White House staffer?

I would really think so.

That's all. Thank you.

The Chief Justice wrote a poem.

He's trying to get the Court to adopt powdered wigs.

What do you mean?

Exactly what I said.

Powdered wigs?

I'm telling you,tish I think there might be a problem.

You think he stayed too long at the fair?

He's not a young man.

Neither am I.

This is what I'm talking about.

This foreign policy language is ridiculous.

What's going onet fixed in Kundu? Yeah.

I got a short security cable this morning about civil unrest

in the Republic of Equatorial Kundu,

and I had to reach for an atlas.

Near the Ivory Coast.

I know that now.

The government forces run by the Arkutu

have apparently killed as many as 200 Induye

on the streets of Bitanga,

which is the capital.

Two warring tribes?

Well, no, one tribe's warring,

But the point is,'s we've got about 500

American missionaries.

They're being evacuated?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Thank you.

Mr. President, I'm sorry to bother about this.

Mr. Holloman says if you want to use

the George Washington Bible,

they need some time to get it here.

The Freemasons have the Washington Bible. From where?

They do? Yes, sir.

And they need several days notice?

Yes, sir. Why?

Should I tell Are they not surMr. Holloman where it iI doyou're using it?

I'm going to be using the Bartlet Bible.

That's at the New Hampshire Historical Society.

Yes, sir.

Yes?

Sir, just to be clear...

you're hoping that there can be

a broader definition of "vital interests."

Hoping beyond hope.

Thank you, sir.

There's a... partnership, sir,

that can develop between someone and his speechwriter.

You get to know just where he likes his commas

and why he says self-government instead of government.

Why he doesn't like the word "implement"

but does like the word "obfuscate."

Like jazz musicians...

I can't remember your name,

but are you asking me out on a date?

No, sir. It happens over time.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Charlie, do you happen to know if the New Hampshire State House

has the Governor Bartlet's public statements?

Any chance you could help me get them?They do.

Yeah, it's not a problem.

And copies of his floor speeches from the House?

I can also send a couple people to the Library of Congress...

Everything he's ever said out loud in his life?

Yeah. Thank you.

( knocking )

The tickets came.Yeah.

For? The balls.

Could you hang on to mine for me till Sunday?

Yeah. Thanks.

You know what Jack will be wearing?

A saber.

that's not going to be the only thing he's wearing.

No, he'll be wearing his dress blues.

Warfare pin, Submarine Officer pin,

meritorious unit, Purple Heart, Bronze two Cross and a saber.

I'll be wearing a tuxedo from Gary's.

Who's been on the phone?

Confused people from the State Department.

the foreign policy language 20 minutes ago. chan

They wanted to know why their Public Affairs How do thDirectora

The President's asked Toby and Will to look at the language.

Okay.

I've asked Toby and Will to look at the language.

All right. Thanks.

13 buttons on the trousers.

I don't want to know how you know that.

MAN: Heavenly Father, assist with your spirit

of counsel and fortitude the President of the United States,

that his Administration may be conducted in righteousness,

and be eminently useful to your people

over whom he presides.

And we ask this morning for the safe evacuation

of the 500 American missionaries and their children

in the Republic of Equatorial Kundu

and for the people of Kundu,

where horrible violence has broken out.

We pray to you, who are Lord our God,

forever and ever. Amen.

ALL: Amen.

Patrick, you may pray all you wish,

but thousands upon thousands

of African children will die unless the U.S. intervenes.

Tens of thousands of Kundunese children

and their parents slaughtered.

Well, I don't control the armed forces, Zake.

No, he was talking to me, Your Eminence.

Your Excellency, I got a very sketchy

intelligence report on the violence

in the capital about an hour ago.

The violence isn't limited to Bitanga, sir.

It's spread

to the countryside.

I didn't know that.

May I ask you something, sir,

with all due respect, please?

If mass genocide had broken out in a small European country

would your intelligence briefing this morning

have been quite so sketchy?

No.

I join my colleagues in their prayers

for the safe evacuation of the Americans.

This is Assistant Secretary of State

for Public Affairs, Bryce Lilly.

Thank you.

Mr. Secretary.

Bailey?

Will Bailey, yes, sir.

You... are young.

Uh, thank you.

Have a seat, please.

Thank you.

How long have you been in Public Affairs at State?

Under the last three presidents.

You worked for both parties.

You know the difference?

Republicans want a huge military

but they don't want to send it anywhere.

The Democrats want a small military

and they want to send it everywhere.

Actually, when I heard the name Baileyve heard tha

in my occipital, a Pavlovian reaction

from when I used to have run-ins

with a General Tom Bailey at the home store in Brussels.

A little bit. Any relation?He's my father.

Really? Yes, sir.

How long have you been with the NSC?

I'm not.

How long have you been White House Senior Staff?

Oh, no, I'm not that either.

I'm on a three-week contract with the DNC

to work on the inauguration speech.

Son, I'm an Assistant Secretary.

For Public Affairs.

which makes you just the person I need to speak to.

The President is troubled by some of the language...

Then this should be taken up between myself and Toby Zigler.

I hope you don't mind.

Toby's asked me to speak to you.

What are the concerns?

"America stands alone

"as the indispensable nation-- a force for peace, freedom

and prosperity on all corners of the globe."

But that's almost exactly what we wrote.

No, that is exactly what you wrote.

I'm quoting the State Department text.

You memorized it? It was 1,200 words.

I'm pretty sure it was 1,123.

Well, I'm supposed What's hto begin with--

and this is neither here nor there--

but globes don't have corners.

If this is about style and not substance...

No, it's about substance.

We've been over this long before you got here,

and I imagine we'll keep on going over it

long after your three weeks are done.

This White House has to be careful

about the use of force.

Well, personally, It's aI'd have no problem

using force on Congress, but that's not my call.

This president can't write himself a blank check

when it comes to foreign policy.

Especially, this president.

Especially this president.

That's right.

Because of the clause in Article One

that says not every president gets the full powers

of Commander in Chief.

Are you rewriting the section?

Well, I like to think I have a certain flair. I meant significantly.

That's what the President is looking for, sir. In consultation with State?

That's entirely up to Toby. Thank you, sir.

Apparently,

I'm not done with the Baileys.

Apparently not...

you effete...

( banging )

What are you doing?

I throw a rubber ball against the window,

that means you come to me.

As my frustration level grows,

so does the velocity of the ball

against the window. I just told Bryce Lilly.

Good. What's in there?

Did you ask for transcripts

of public remarks from Manchester?

That's what they are. And the 14 other cartons Okayoutside.

So we're dumping State's language?

Which means we'll need some of our own.

Yes.

I'm talking to myself right now

so there's no reason for you to be answering.

Is there a reason for me to be standing here?

No.

Yeah? Sir?

Mr. Cravenly, the Director of Special Collections

at the New Hampshire Historical Society,

just phoned about the Bartlet Bible.

And? You can't use it.

It needs to be in a climate-controlled vault

or it warps.

Just as the disciples intended.

He suggested the Jefferson Bible.

The Jefferson Bible doesn't warp?

from New Hampshire, I the just didn't care.

Speaking of New Hampshire, don't I own the Bartlet Bible?

It was sold at auction.

I know. I bought it.

to the New Hampshire Historical Society.

And they won't loan it back to me

so that I can be inaugurated?

Mr. Cravenly felt bad about that.

Yeah. His name is really Mr. Cravenly?

You're not making that up?

No, sir. Bertram Cravenly.

Okay, would you tell him that I'd like very much

to use my family's Bible

which my family has bought at least twice now.

Yes, sir.

You know, a couple hundred people

got killed today in Kundu.

Yeah, I saw, Mr. President.

The Arkutu control the government

and they're killing...

Yeah, I saw.

The Americans got out?

I'm sorry?

We got the Americans out?

Yeah, mm-hmm.

Anything else, sir?

No.

Thank you, sir.

Yeah.

Ask Bob Slattery to come over here.

Yes, sir.

At that time, the Chief Justice

will ask the President to raise his right hand

and place his left hand on the Bible.

C.J.?And what will the President do then?

Okay. Katie?

be asked to swear an oathnt of any kind?

Well, I guess we'll find out six days from now,

but thank you to the Smothers Brothers.

Good night.

Thank you, C.J. Thank you, C.J.

C.J., Danny wanted to see you for a second.

No way. Well...

Stop trying to get us together, okay?

And he's still a jackassy, from the Foreign Ops vote

and many other things, so tell him I'm getting my hair done.

Your hair looks great.

There was no way you could tell me

he was right behind me?

You couldn't fit that in?

Sorry. In here.

My signal agent's missing, the cricket player.Yes?

How... I tried his house.

The airstrip won't The pgive me information,

neither will the landlord, except he just signed

a new two-year lease two weeks ago.

How do you know?

Because I do.

If I help you find the cricket player,

I would never think the White House is cThank you. with me.

Can I just ask?

What is it you'd do

exactly to have me?

Is there anything else?

No. Good.

( knocking ) Sir? Mr. Slattery.

Yeah.

Good evening, Mr. President.

Bobby, what's going on?

Intelligence is thin outside Bitanga.

In fact, the Archbishop's network of clerics

The Catholic Church has better intelligence as good than we do?as it gets

It's a very small embassy, maybe ten people.

And no Agency presence.

None? No, sir.

How many are dead right now?

We have no way of knowing.

Estimate.

Could be as many as 5,000.

Bobby, I don't want to make noise

but I want to see a force depletion report.

I want to know how many we'd lose

and I want to do it

without going three rounds in the newspaper

with Miles Hutchison.

Who do we have at the Pentagon

who could do this for us?

Jack Reese, Nancy's aid.

You trust him? I do.

Tell him I want to see force depletion

on a peacekeeping force in Kundo.

And tell him we'll do our best to keep it away

He won't need to hear frothe second part, sir.ice.

You just gave him an order.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President.

First things first.

We're going to have to learn how to pronounce it.

The Republic I leof Equatorial Kundu.o."

C.J.? There are reports that the Arkutu government's

issued identification tags.

I mean, stating whether a Kundunese is Arkutu or Induye.

Danny? Archbishop Kintaka, who coincidentally

was in the White House for a prayer breakfast yesterday,

said the government's using the radio to direct mobs.

Does the White House know anything about that?

Well, I don't. one of the bishops had provided refuge

to about 800 Induye in his church.

When the radio station in Bitanga heard about it,

They had machetes, they sent them they dto the church...

Did they... They hacked up all 800.

No, I didn't know that.

Apparently, every broadcast ends

with the word "Krawala."

It means "cleanse."

Yeah. So I guess my question is, is the President going

to send U.S. troops in and knock this off?

The White House is monitoring the situation very carefully.

I can tell.

Katie.

State Department estimates yesterday

put the dead at anywhere between 3,000 and 7,000.

Are there revised estimates today?

15,000.

Sheila?

Yep?

What's up?

I jWondering whether the" WhaNuclear Regulatory Commission

for a "morale improvement program."000

It's got to be a pretty critical lap dance.

I went down to Jack's office last night

and he was using the NSC lock on the door,

which he never has before.

Did you knock?

Yeah. And?

He let me in.

That's a good story.

and he said he couldn't 'cause it'll be morning

where he needs to talk to some people.

What's halfway around the world?Donna.

Most of the homes and offices

of the people who live on this planet.

He had a fax from the Commander of the Seventh Fleet

about forward units in the North Atlantic

and Mediterranean.

What's he doing showing you a fax

from the Commander of the Seventh Fleet?

Showing off for me.

Fantastic.

He wasn't showing me a classified signal intercept.

How do you know what he was showing?

I don't. He does.

Is a joint task force being assembled...

Are you serious with these questions?

He's been sealed off for almost 24 hours,

and everything strikes me as strange.

and please find outtrike what they mean by

"morale improvement program"

so I can get back to actual people.

Hey, I changed my mind about the Bible.

Yes, sir.

I don't know.

I never... it just seems parochial.

I hate saying that.

There's a Bible in Northampton, Massachusetts,

that Jonathan Edwards used.

Let's get that.

Yes, sir.

Good morning, Mr. President.

"Grace is but glory begun

and glory is but grace perfected."

I made my Bible selection.

Listen to this, please.

The Supreme Court is striking down

the use of prior offenses as a factor

in Stiles v. Rhode Island.

The Chief Justice writes a concurring opinion:

"Guilty or not guilty,

"past convictions frustrate the judge

who wonders should your fate abate."

It's awkwardly worded.

No, it's not. It's 22 syllables.

Oh, God.

Two, four, six, eight. Two.

And it's supposed to sound like this:

Guilty or not guilty,

past convictions frustrate

the judge who wonders should your fate... abate.

It's a cinquain.

A what?

A cinquain.

How do you know?

I know things.

And I'm worried about the Chief Justice.

about the White House making that suggestion.

He's writing in verse, plus the powdered wigs.

Wasn't that a rumor? Yes.

All right, listen.

I've asked for a force depletion report

on action in Kundu.

Who'd you ask?

Jack Reese.

The best scenario is that simply by engaging,t say

the Arkutu lay down their weapons

but that doesn't seem likely, so we'd lose people.

More if they go into the countryside.

What do you expect?

Yeah.

Toby's working on new policy language.

I say Toby's working on new foreign policy language.

Good.

Can I see the report?

You should.

WILL: He led an unsuccessful court case ou.

to block all federal death penalties

as violating the Equal Protection Clause.

Why?

Because federal law applies to almost nowhere but Indian reservations.

Hmm. This is the best.

Cbecause they're the onese who have to run in elections

so he proposed legislation that would

grandfather it in in 30 years. What are you doing?

Familiarizing myself with his tone.

You're not thinking about policy language?

I'm doing both.

Because we have five days.

and familiarizing himself tsimultaneously.ng

You really comfortable going through life

with a name like Elsie Snuffin?

but I'm not sure I'it's 'cause of my name.

Well, the idea isn't going to walk in here

and announce itself as being important

and take a place on the top of the pile.

I understand. Excuse me, Will?

This is from the Congressional Research Service.

It's an old Bartlet speech on foreign policy.

Why wasn't it in the original?

It was stricken from the Congressional Record

at the President's request.

Should I place it here on top of this pile?

No, I'll take that.

Yeah.

TOBY: Mr. Bailey...

but on our valuest across the world."

Define those values for me, please.

I don't have to.

The President of the United States already has.

"We are for freedom of speech everywhere.

Just out of curiosity, to learn how are you going to enforceld.

a universal global right to education?

The same way the U.S. enforced anything it wanted

in the middle part of the 20th century.

What exactly are you Somebodoing here, anyway?r.

The First Lady likes my jokes.

"It is our duty to give more than merely our support.

"We must give our strength, diplomatically, materially...

BOTH: And if need be, militarily."

I read it, I think 16 years ago.

It was about El Salvador

and he had it stricken from record

and there was a reason.

I don't know, but things have reasons.

Do they? Yes, they do.

Okay, but C.J. this morning

put the body count at 15,000.

You're talking about Kundu?

That's what the hell this is about?

We're talking about everything.

"And freedom from the tyranny of oppression,

economic slavery, religious fanaticism."

Tell me if any of these describe anyone we know.

This isn't what I meant by drafting new language.

Making the old language sound better.What did you mean?

You're asking the two of us

to create foreign policy by ourselves.

You've got your Pentagon, the NSC, and-- not what do you call it?--

You and Leo McGarry and Josh the are his senior counselors

and it's not like he doesn't already want to go there.

This language proposes a new doctrine for the use of force.

That we use force whenever we see an injustice

we want to correct.

with first-strike capability. Like Mother TeresaDamn right.

Oh, you've had too many dinners with daddy.

Please go back

to finding new language for the foreign section!

Yeah, I should.

I'm only working here another four days.

But what?

He'd do a radio address

proposing free liposuction to every child of woman born

if you wrote it for him.

And if he did, I'd be fired shortly thereafter.

Maybe, but ten pounds lighter.

You go back to doing whatever it is you do.

CHARLIE: We'll bring it to the Blue Room and let the President

look at it there.

Very well.

Hey, is this it?

from the Jonathan Edwards Historical Foundation.

Good to meet you. But we've met before.

Of course. And this, sir,

is the John Edwards Bible.

This?

Yes, sir.

Well, it ought to be. Actually, it can't be.

It's a pulpit folio, obviously from a time

when portability was not an issue

and illuminations add pages

Also, it's written in four languages.

The First Lady has to hold this in her hand.

This one's going to take the First Lady,

the Chief Justice, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and English.

Okay... Mr. Carlton?

Kent.

Sorry. Thanks. Charlie's going to take care of you.

Charlie, that Bible is the size of a Volkswagen.

Can we get the Washington Bible?

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

DIRECTOR: At 900 hours we're running the field test

Specifically, that's the newat Camp Red Cloud capabiland Uijongbu City.eda

INTEL's reporting Okay. Europe?potential

Basque terrorist plots in Spain.

State's going to issue an alert?

Yeah, and DCI's liaising with Guardia Civil.

And there's a border dispute between Lithuania and Belarus.

Okay, thanks.

Miles?

What's the general thinking in Kundu?

That we should support

all the international diplomatic efforts to...

You know the U.N.'s already made overtures to the Arkutu.

That's what's happening at the State Department.

I want to know what's happening at Central Command.

we're going to want to supply the bordering countries.

We're getting INTEL that isn't making it on to CNN,

but that's a matter of a couple of hours.

Truly horrible accounts of mass slaughtering

Leo... that should make us at least want to investigate

Lee lost 10,000 at Gettysburg,'s didn't make it genocide.nocid

Okay, so I'll go to the President with it.

closer to a thousand, which is pretty stupid.

Magnificently so when we realize

we're talking about a guy who's never led an army.

A) The guy is the President.

B) He's been leading one for three years,

How much more training would you like him to have?

And C) It's not a thousand.

We saw a force depletion report, it's 150.

You saw a force depletion report?

Yes.

How did he see a force depletion report?

Look, from time to time, just to expedite things,

Nancy will print...

Nancy's out of the country.

It was a raid.

The guy was following a direct order.

I have no doubt he was.

I don't give a damn what... That'sWhat?ro

I said I don't give a damn what your problem is, Miles.

The man wants to know

if he sends troops, how many are going to die.

And if he wants to see force depletion, he asks me.

He asks you

and three days manage to go by

before he sees it, Mr. Secretary.

Yet, miraculously, the Wall Street Journal,

on day two, the numbers inflated all to hell.

It's 150, not a thousand.

And that's acceptable to you in Kundu?

I don't know what you mean when you say "in Kundu."

Nah... yeah, I do.

Go to hell.

Okay.

( knocks on door )

Keep your pants on, Toby, I'm almost there.

Toby been taking his pants off again?

That's just something he does.

Good evening, Mr. President.

How's it going?

Fine, sir.

Good.

No, it's not.

What's hard is that foreign policy

has become a statement of what we won't do.

Yes, sir.

"A new doctrine for a new century,

"based not just on our interests,

but on our values across the world."

Well, that's pretty spicy stuff.

You wrote it, sir.

Yeah, I know.

Why is a Kundunese life worth less to me

than an American life?

I don't know, sir, but it is.

That was ballsy.

I won't be working here long.

You Tom Bailey's son?

Yes, sir.

Talk about the very model of a modern Major General.

Yes, sir.

Please take your seats, the briefing's about to begin.

C.J...

I found your ramp signal agent.

Me, too; he took a job at an airport

in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.

We don't send anyone anywherere who doesn't work for us,le

but I understand he's gotten a salary bump

and he's co-captain of a local cricket team.

but he doesn't rememberme. Ananything about an airstrip.

He does, but he doesn't remember anything

about not getting in. Mystery solved.

C.J.

Come here.

This is ridiculous.

ever since you came Would you mind Itif I turned off the lights?

No.

It's just easier this way.

For three years

I've been thinking about what might have been

if it weren't for the conflict. Yeah.

And I'm almost over it.

I mean, I am right there and you come back

with your scruffy face and your jokes

and your incredible talent

and your way of getting at...

getting at me.

And I was thinking if we could...

Be adult?

Do you like this perfume?

Yeah.

Do you like this blouse?

What's gotten into you?

Do you?

Yeah.

Come here.

Remember when you asked me

what exactly I'd do to have you?

Yeah.

I'd do that.

C.J.

Good evening.

I have revised estimates for Kundu.

We said 15,000 yesterday.

Intelligence reports are putting it closer to 25... 25,000.

( reporters shouting )

Is the White House being careful not to call this a genocide?

Hey.

He in?

In a minute.

He's got a security briefing.

What's that?

It's a seating chart for the Inauguration.

You're sitting with us in the staff section.

Yeah, I'm looking for someone else.

Would it be weird if I just walked around

with a military dress saber?

Mm-hmm.

He's in a security briefing?

I'll let him know you're here.

Navy dress uniform has 13 buttons on the pants.

I mean, tradition's tradition,

but I'd be concerned about the level of bladder discipline

that requires, wouldn't you?

What?

Nothing.

MAN: King Nawa of Bhutan died.

We'll send condolences. What's next?

The new king is Yeshey Pradhan Nawa.

Okay. He's 13 years old.

Well, if he's old enough to marry Jerry Lee Lewis

I guess he's old enough to be king of Bhutan.

A detained ship 12 miles off the Port of Miamihat's next?

Nigerian flag.

Coast Guard's got it? Yes, sir.

The joint training exercise

has been cleared for the Black Sea and the Caspian.

This is actually... What's happening?

I'm sorry, what's happening in the REK?

The General Assembly's

debating a proclamation.

Well, a proclamation ought to do the trick.

What's the CIA know that I should know?

Neighbors are... swapping family members.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, Mr. President.

You wanted Josh? Yeah.

Hey, I changed my mind. Not the Washington Bible.

I'm only asking Yeah'cause they need

some notice on the Washington Bible.

Yeah, I'm going to use my father's. Yes, sir.

( knocking )

Good evening, Mr. President.

Did you talk to Hutchinson? Yeah.

Tell Josh I'll just be a minute, okay?

Did he tell me to shut up and let him run the Pentagon?

In so many words.

How many? Not that many.

As a matter of fact, we didn't get that far.

I got Jack Reese in some trouble.

So Hutchinson knows I've seen force depletion.

Yeah.

He should be pissed at me, not Jack Reese.

The Secretary of Defense should be pissed at...

Don't worry about it.

Right?

Sure. No problem.

Don't worry about it.

Yes, sir.

Clark says neighbors are swapping family members

in Kundu.

Really?

Also, there's a new king of Bhutan.

And he's been bar mitzvahed and everything.

All right.

Hey, this guy you hired for the Inauguration speech

gave me a little back chat a few minutes ago.

Bailey?

Yeah, he was using a floor speech I gave

about El Salvador 98 years ago to demonstrate

that the U.S. should send troops to Kundu.

Rhetorically, I said, "Why is a Kundunese life

worth less to me than an American life?"

And he said, "I don't know, sir, but it is."

I'll try to get some better information.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Good evening, Mr. President. Hey, Josh.

There's intelligence that Kundunese neighbors

in the country are swapping family members.

I'm sorry, I don't understand.

For the night, they're swapping family members

you know, and sleeping in each other's houses.

Yes, sir.

You know what, nothing I can't deal with. State? goin

I did just get off the phone

with Jeffrey Tomlinson and Bob Bibbet.

Tell them... that the entire foreign policy section is being rewritten.

It's not. I know, they just... asked me

to emphasize that the current language has been vetted

with the ranking members of House Armed Services.

The language is being polished.

They just asked me to remind you Thathat their version

also reflects existing treaties

some of which... Some of which have my name on them.

So tell Jeff Tomlinson and baby Bob

to take a deep knee bend, would ya?

I'm just as big a cotton candy ass as they are.

Yes, sir. You're just going to let that hang in the air?

Of course not, sir. You're a much bigger

cotton candy ass than they are.

Damn right. Anything else?

No.

Thank you, Mr. President.

I don't know what's going on,What's going on?

but Jack's been reassigned.

To where?

Aviano.

Air Force Base? Yes.

Aviano Air Force Base.

When?

He got his orders.

What happened? I don't know.

He said he was asked to do something, he did it,

he got a slap on the wrist

and wouldn't tell me more than that.

The reality of the fast-track Navy guys

is they're going to bop around the globe a lot.

He was here less than three months,

plus he said something happened.

You can't begin to conceive

of the internal politics at the Pentagon.

Right now Hutchinson and his boys...

But he works here.

This is internal politics of the White House.

Well, no one's told me anything about it

and I'm not going to ask.

He said he was asked to do something for somebody.

It can only be Nancy, Leo or the President.

Three doors you definitely want to knock on to complain

about your boyfriend being transferred

Hey, I'm not Gidget, okay? to the ItaSomething...

Is he complaining?

He doesn't complain.

I ask you that because sometimes people request transfers.

Somebody asked him to do something and he did it.

I take him at his word, as should you,

there being no reason not to.

Is there anything you need?

No.

Thank you, sir.

Jack Reese got transferred.

Well, I've got my own Beach Boys song going.

If you tell me you got a crush on Reese...

John Pierre is sitting next to her

in the friends and family section.

Zoey's lover?

It's important that you call him that?

Isn't his name Jean Paul?

Are we gonna be together on this?

Yes. Okay.

Intelligence says neighbors in Kundu

are sleeping in each other's houses.

What does that mean?

It means they're making people in the same house

rape each other on the promise

their lives will be spared.

Okay.

Do you need anything? Nah.