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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.