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Previously on The West Wing:
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We offer a Cabinet position to a
Republican who can't possibly take it?
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- Barry thought it was a good idea.
- Barry is wrong.
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Okay to have sex in a hotel,
but not my apartment?
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It's a step. People get uncomfortable.
I assumed you'd be one.
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Uncomfortable with sex
in my apartment?
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Are you really gonna try to convince me
I'm the one who finds this all awkward?
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You're blowing any political capital we
might have by forcing us to fight a war.
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What's your exit strategy?
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I don't have one.
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This is your captain.
We've reached our flying altitude...
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... of 35,000 feet,
and we're expecting a smooth flight.
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So I've turned off the seatbelt sign
but ask that you please remain seated.
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Flight attendants will be around
to hand out headsets...
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Oh, sorry.
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- No problem.
- Thanks.
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Sorry.
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- There's room here if you want.
- No, no, no. Thanks. I'm fine.
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- A lot happening over there.
- It's my contribution to the chaos theory.
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I'll try to keep the experiment
from escaping the lab.
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Great Britain has always
been first among friends...
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...and I look forward to continuing
our nations' special relationship.
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I thank you for your call,
Madam Prime Minister.
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Who's next?
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Oh, that phone sheet's a mile long.
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The president-elect returns all calls from
G8 leaders. The Surinames of the world...
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...are handled
by the chief foreign policy adviser.
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- We better hire one.
- Yes, congressman.
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Mr...
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Sir.
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- Seen you on TV.
- Yeah?
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You look younger.
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Well, TV ages you. It's the lighting.
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I meant on TV you look younger.
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- Okay.
- I voted for the other guy.
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Yeah, a lot of people did.
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- Didn't want my taxes raised.
- We're not gonna raise your taxes.
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- Well, Vinick was gonna cut them.
- Not for you.
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For the guys you drive around.
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- Like you?
- You think I could afford to travel...
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...like this on my own?
- You just let the American public pay.
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We almost there?
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Thank you, chancellor.
The German-U.S. relationship...
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...couldn't be more important,
both within and independent of the EU.
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Oh, I very much look forward
to our working together, sir. Bye.
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- Next.
- Russian President Chigorin.
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- He's one of the G8s.
- He's also a leader of a nation...
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...we may find ourselves exchanging
hostile fire with any minute.
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Call him.
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It's a general partnership.
They're looking at a prolonged wind-up.
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They know they're liable for new
business until notice of dissolution...
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...has been given to all their creditors?
- No. I've only done this for 28 years.
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Look, Leiter is hell-bent on a disso...
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I'm sorry, can we help you?
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If you'll all excuse me for a moment.
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I thought you'd never call.
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You knew you'd hear from me.
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Gave me a chance to
hone my turndown.
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That's why I didn't
do it over the phone.
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Your showing up does have
a nice nostalgic symmetry.
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- Style points.
- If nothing else.
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Substance too.
This guy's the real deal.
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- You said that last time.
- Yeah, look how right I was.
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Tell me you don't miss it.
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I don't miss it.
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- Liar.
- Attorney.
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- Amazing thing, what you did.
- Well, that's the easy part.
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- It's what you do with it that counts.
- You know how much I'm making now?
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- It's gonna make me wanna puke.
- Not make you want to, you will puke.
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So you can afford to come back
and work for a government wage.
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I can afford to do good work here.
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It's amazing what I've got the
firm to do. You should work here.
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- Democratic House. We never had that.
- Republican Senate.
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- Moveable.
- Conceivably.
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I almost lost, though, you know?
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Makes you appreciate the shot.
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- I can't do it.
- It can't just be the money.
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- There's my love life.
- That's a moveable feast.
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- Not entirely. I'm getting married.
- I've heard it before.
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- Nice.
- Congratulations is what I mean.
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What about your life?
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- What was I thinking?
- I've been somewhat busy.
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- That explains the...
- The what?
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- Your general...
- What? The... It's the hairline, isn't it?
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- It's retreated.
- It's routed...
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...like Napoleon out of Moscow.
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- There's also a pallor issue.
- You live in melanoma central.
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"Healthy glow" turns out
to be oxymoronic.
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I'd be glad to help with
the inaugural speech.
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Great. But that's not what
I flew out here to ask.
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Deputy chief of staff.
You're me, to my Leo.
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Think about it.
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- Josh.
- At least give me that.
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- I did...
- Fly all the way out here?
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That's how much I want you.
I'm willing to channel my mother.
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- I'll think about it.
- Great.
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- You done?
- Josh.
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- What's to think about? Really?
- For one...
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...whether I wanna
end up looking like you.
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The numbers for the San Andreo
cleanup won't make you happy.
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Wait till the Santos folks get a
load of the figures for Kazakhstan.
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They'll demand a recount.
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Santos is coming by for an in-depth
Sit Room briefing on the intervention.
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Okay. I want you to be as helpful
as possible for the transition team.
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Transitions are bumpy at best, even
when the incoming and the outgoing...
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...administrations
are of the same party.
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And I don't wanna hear of any pranks,
cutting of cables to computers and such.
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- That turned out to be apocryphal.
- No apocrypha either.
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We're gonna leave with some class.
Yeah?
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- Sir, Marine One is waiting.
- It's not going anywhere without me.
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- Thank you, C.J.
- Thank you, Mr. President.
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- You just come out here for the day?
- Yeah.
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Expensive.
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- I got a frequent-flier thing. Hey, it's me.
- I got clients who come out...
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...for the day just to get their hair cut.
- I didn't get a haircut.
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No, l... l... I wasn't talking to you.
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They go shopping.
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You know what, I'm on the phone.
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- All right.
- Tell me this novel you sent me...
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...isn't really my call sheet.
- It's not. Two more pages came in since...
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...mostly congratulations.
- They're not congratulatory...
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...they're predatory.
They're sniffing around for a job.
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It's like I'll say, "Oh, yeah, Jim Blier.
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He'd make a good director of
intergovernmental affairs. "
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On that subject, any thoughts as to my
position in the Santos administration?
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Yeah, you're on the short list for V.P.
Set up a meeting...
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...with Lou for when I get back.
- Yeah.
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- They're all mansions.
- Fit for the incoming first family.
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Kitchen's bigger
than my childhood house.
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The bedrooms are lovely.
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I'm just not sure they're all
in the same time zones.
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Here's one. This looks smaller.
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- It's palatial.
- If you don't like these...
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...there are half a dozen more.
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Excuse me, ma'am.
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- Did you just "ma'am" me?
- I... I seem to have.
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- Don't do that again.
- Hello?
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- Hey.
- Hey.
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- How you doing?
- Okay. What did Sam say?
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- He's thinking.
- That's good.
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- Yeah, I guess.
- You didn't expect him to say yes...
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...just like that.
- Kind of.
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- He's got stuff to figure out.
- What? It's service to the president.
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- What stacks up against that?
- Not everyone's like you, so...
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- Dedicated?
- Monomaniacal.
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Was there something else?
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There must have been something...
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Oh, yeah, are you gonna be around?
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- When?
- You know, generally.
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Yes. Generally,
I'm gonna be around.
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- At some point, we should probably...
- Yeah.
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...talk.
- That would be good.
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About, you know, at some point.
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At some point would be good.
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Okay, then. Okay.
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- Have a good flight.
- Yeah, you too.
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I mean, not... Not you too.
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- Obviously...
- Bye.
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He's here now.
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- Mr. President-Elect.
- C.J., everyone.
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Secretary Hutchinson and
Dr. McNally will catch you up...
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...on the current situation
in Kazakhstan.
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We're approaching full deployment,
with 80,000 ground...
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...and 30,000 support personnel
taking position in...
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...a buffer zone around Astana, between
the Russian and the Chinese forces.
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The last of our troops are staging out
of Manas Air Base in Kyrghizstan.
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As well as the 172nd Stryker Brigade.
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C-130s are airlifting them
to our forward base in Ayagoz.
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M1 A2 Abrams tanks from
the 1st Armored Division in Germany...
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...are being flown directly into
Ayagoz by C-5 Galaxies.
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- Those only carry two tanks per sortie.
- Flying 15 to 20 sorties per day.
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- The no-fly zone?
- Three hundred miles wide...
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...twenty to 30 sorties per day.
- F-16s and F-15s forward deployed...
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...to Manas and Ayagoz.
F-22As out of Langley.
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- Air refueling, KC-135s?
- Out of Incirlik Air Base, Turkey.
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- Situation on the ground?
- Thus far, no incidents reported.
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Also, so far, no pullback of
Russian and Chinese forces.
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But they have stopped advancing.
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Then what?
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That's up to the Russians
and the Chinese.
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Well, I can't say I care
very much for that answer.
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Our guys are supposed to sit there
with targets on their backs and hope...
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...some trigger-happy Russian noncom
who's abused his vodka ration...
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...doesn't get reckless or bored
or just stir-crazy stupid...
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...and decide to start World War III?
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I have a problem with that. I have a
problem with this entire adventure...
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...as I've already expressed
to the president.
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Are the parties negotiating?
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Our deployment is intended
to drive them to the table.
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- But they're not, at present.
- Still posturing.
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Half a million troops
is a hell of a posture.
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- Third-party contact? Anything?
- Not at present.
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- We would know.
- We are paying...
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...somewhat careful attention.
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Thank you all for your time.
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The NSA picked up the president-elect's
phone call with the Russian president.
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- We're tapping his phone?
- In the current crisis...
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...the NSA is monitoring
all contact with the Russian...
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...and Chinese governments
as a matter of course.
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- And?
- The Santos call contained...
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...nothing improper.
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Hi.
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When I said we needed to talk,
I wasn't thinking about tonight.
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- I'm kind of fried.
- Who said anything about talking?
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Good morning, almost.
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On the education plan, do we hit
full on, or do we step it out?
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Start with teacher tenure.
Get some traction...
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...before we try extending
the school year.
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These conservatives,
they're already laying for us.
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They're comparing it to avoiding
the word Christmas...
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...which I don't begin to understand.
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- How long have you been up?
- Oh, you know...
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I don't, actually, why I asked.
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Couple of hours.
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So last night was nice.
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Nice. It was... It was really nice.
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On the nice scale, it was way up there
in terms of, you know, niceness.
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Be still and listen to me.
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I don't know what this is...
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...and you don't either, which is
perfectly fine and understandable.
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It's all happened amid absurdly
heightened emotional circumstances:
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The election, Leo's death,
there's been no moment...
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...to so much as take a breath,
much less figure any of this out.
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And now this roller coaster's
plunging into the transition...
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...with its time-pressure demands,
then the inauguration...
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...and it's hit the ground running,
and before you know it...
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...the midterms, the new Congress.
Then we're running again.
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Four years becomes eight,
and we've never had the talk.
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Lose that look of panic. We won't have
it now. We don't ever have to have it.
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But there's a window.
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I'd say four weeks. If we can't get
it together in that time to figure out...
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...what we want from each other,
then clearly it's not worth the trouble.
233
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Meanwhile, last night was lovely.
I already called a cab.
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You should put on some coffee,
and I'll see you at the office.
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Bye.
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Did you like any of the houses?
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Yeah, they're incredible.
Seeing some more today.
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I'm sure they'll be incredible too,
maybe even more incredible.
239
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The thing I find most incredible
is this notion that this is what...
240
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...the American people want
and expect of us.
241
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- What?
- To spend two and a half months...
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...in a rich muckamuck's loaner mansion.
A place he can make available because...
243
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...he has someplace just as or even
more swell to decamp to...
244
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...while he's bestowing
upon us this largess.
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- Not much of a populist message.
- Not notably.
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You're right. I'll have the staff
look into alternatives.
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"Staff"?
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If you prefer, my minions.
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This is gonna be weird.
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Come on. As congressman,
I had staff. As mayor.
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Very weird.
252
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Donna ma'amed me.
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- First lady.
- In waiting.
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It makes me sound like something
out of "The Lady of Shalott."
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You get all the cool names.
256
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- Mr. President. Commander in chief.
- That one, that's kind of hot.
257
00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,300
- Yeah?
- Got time for a little incursion?
258
00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,600
- No.
- Not even for a surgical strike.
259
00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:43,000
I had in mind more
of shock and awe.
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Oh, yeah? After 15 years of marriage,
I'd be shocked if you were awed.
261
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Did congressman find his glove?
262
00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,500
No. But the president-elect did.
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00:16:57,700 --> 00:17:00,100
- I did it again?
- You did it again.
264
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- Oh, God!
- What?
265
00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,000
I didn't even know you were here.
266
00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,500
What time did you get in?
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Six, 6: 15.
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- Traveling threw me. I was an hour off.
- Usually 7-ish?
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Five-ish.
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Get me a meeting with Graden.
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This doesn't reflect well
on your hopes for advancement.
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Congressman Graden.
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Ranking Democrat on Ways and Means,
takes chairmanship in the new Congress.
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Any time's good,
as long as it's 3:00 today.
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Goodwin's coming over at 9.
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Do you like Babish for A.G.?
277
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He just decamped to Brayton-Connelly.
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To be attorney general, I think
he'd come back. Thank you.
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He's smart and tough.
Could be a bumpy confirmation.
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What, the MS, Toby Ziegler leak?
281
00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:56,000
Were both handled by the book,
but if they wanna make noise...
282
00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,000
Yeah, and they will, just for practice.
283
00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,700
But he gets confirmed, right?
284
00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:04,500
Yeah, more of a problem
for Bartlet than for us.
285
00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,300
Last licks. It would be nice to have
an attorney general that didn't hate us.
286
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- How did you guys live with that?
- Good question.
287
00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:13,300
- Josh?
- Yeah?
288
00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,800
How's the White House
staffing going?
289
00:18:16,100 --> 00:18:18,800
Set Crandall to head DPC.
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00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,100
Courtesy call into Graden later to bless
Vukovich for legislative liaison.
291
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How was the Kazakhstan briefing?
292
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It's a mess, and they're
depositing it on our doorstep.
293
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We can't do anything about it
until we take office.
294
00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:35,500
Excuse me, sir.
Josh, your meeting with C.J.
295
00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:37,300
- Yeah.
- Thanks, Josh.
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Thank you, sir.
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- Ronna?
- Yes?
298
00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,500
- Get Goodwin for me.
- Yes, sir.
299
00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,400
There's one other international
call that I wanna return.
300
00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:47,200
- Of course, sir.
- President Lian.
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China's not one of the G8 countries.
302
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I'm aware.
303
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Right away, sir.
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00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,200
We put out a directive that
White House personnel...
305
00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:08,100
...be as helpful as possible
to the incoming Santos team.
306
00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:10,700
- No desk drawers glued shut?
- That was urban legend.
307
00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,500
First day, I needed a crowbar.
308
00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:14,100
Well, none of that.
309
00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,800
He would like to move
his family into Blair House.
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I'll have Margaret get right into it.
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00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:21,200
- I appreciate it.
- See how much fun this'll be?
312
00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:24,800
Most of it will be pretty easy. Not
like you don't know your way around.
313
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If any of your people wanna come
hang out with their counterparts...
314
00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:31,100
...I'm sure it can be worked
out on an individual basis.
315
00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:35,600
I'll have Margaret designate a point
person you can run requests through.
316
00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,900
You're rearranging the furniture
in your head?
317
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,800
No. You ever thought of putting
the desk over there?
318
00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,400
Come January 20th,
you can have it moved daily...
319
00:19:46,700 --> 00:19:49,600
...like alternate-side-of-the-street
parking. The inauguration?
320
00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,600
We need more VIP tickets
for the parade.
321
00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:53,800
The president has
lots of people to thank.
322
00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:56,000
New administration.
We need to curry favor.
323
00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:58,800
- The future trumps the past.
- We can give some of his...
324
00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:01,900
...allotment to the president-elect.
The key word being "some."
325
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,800
- Contingencies?
- In case of snow...
326
00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:06,800
...the military task force will have
plows, coats, hot beverages...
327
00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:09,500
- Toddies? Hot buttered rum?
- Coffee and cocoa.
328
00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,100
- Call that a party?
- Injuries, standard military...
329
00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,100
...paramedic procedure,
scoop and move.
330
00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,200
If one of the 389 horses should keel over,
there will be a team of veterinarians...
331
00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,100
...and a forklift.
- Forklift?
332
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,700
Which should be a lovely
sight for the children.
333
00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:25,900
The Supreme Court should wear
makeup in case they have to go in.
334
00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:29,300
A memo outlining everything will
be on your desk by this afternoon.
335
00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:32,000
And obviously, don't hesitate,
et cetera, et cetera.
336
00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:33,600
Thanks.
337
00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:35,500
So I'm trying to bring Sam back in.
338
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:37,900
Getting together the old band.
339
00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:41,100
Goes without saying,
any job you want.
340
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,800
- I'm dead serious.
- Very kind.
341
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,200
- Should we talk about this?
- I have no idea. No.
342
00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:53,600
- I'm not done asking.
- I'm done answering, for the moment.
343
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,900
I'll have someone call Margaret
about the Blair House thing.
344
00:20:57,300 --> 00:20:59,700
Has your boss said anything
to you about Kazakhstan?
345
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,200
He's not crazy about
what you guys are doing.
346
00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:05,600
I assume you know that the president
expects the president-elect...
347
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:10,300
...to keep his reservations about this
policy to himself during the transition.
348
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,800
Goes without saying.
349
00:21:16,100 --> 00:21:19,100
To comment on any V.P. Name would
be speculating about speculation.
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00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:21,800
I guess if you're gonna
get me to do that...
351
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,100
I promise to tell you just as soon
as we decide to tell you.
352
00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:28,500
Excuse me, I have someone else
to equally exasperate on the other line.
353
00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:30,800
Thanks. Hello?
354
00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:33,800
Yes, sir, of course.
355
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:39,900
Come in, Donna.
356
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,900
Mr. President-Elect.
357
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,900
- Josh seem all right to you?
- A little tired.
358
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,900
- Well, he looks like a zombie.
- He may be going through...
359
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,700
...an undead phase.
- You've seen him like this before?
360
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,800
Hard to say. He can get
pretty tunnel-visioned.
361
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,700
I think he needs
to power down a little.
362
00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:02,600
Is he seeing anybody?
Is he having any fun?
363
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,400
- Sir?
- It's weird to ask.
364
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,500
No, no. I have no idea.
365
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,000
- I'm just worried about him.
- It's just him, truly.
366
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,600
He's just amped up to
a particular peak of Josh-ness.
367
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,100
Thank you.
368
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:27,100
- Don't tell him I asked.
- Of course not, sir.
369
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,300
- Mr. President.
- Do you know...
370
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,400
...we have as many diplomats in
Germany, population 80 million...
371
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,600
...as we do in India,
population of over 1 billion?
372
00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:43,900
Does that sound like a sensible allocation
of diplomatic assets...
373
00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:46,100
...for the 21st century?
- It does not.
374
00:22:46,300 --> 00:22:47,900
Sir, we have a problem.
375
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,400
NSA monitors picked up
a phone conversation...
376
00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:53,600
...between President-Elect Santos
and Chinese president, Lian.
377
00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:57,300
- Yeah?
- Sir, you're not gonna like what he said.
378
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,200
Bartlet's NEC directors worked with a guy
who had a Nobel Prize in Economics...
379
00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:24,800
...so it's a bit of a challenge.
- So I've heard.
380
00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:28,200
The president-elect won't always
agree with what he's told...
381
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,500
...but it won't devolve
into a lecture...
382
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,900
...on the post-Keynesian, macroeconomic
reasons why you're wrong.
383
00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:36,000
Everyone says
the same thing starting out:
384
00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:37,900
"We're gonna play error-free ball."
385
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,700
But then the unforeseen happens.
It's unavoidable.
386
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,600
What matters then is
how good an audible you call.
387
00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:47,300
The difference between a successful
presidency and a historical footnote...
388
00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:50,100
...is how well you roll
with the punches...
389
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,600
...just to complete my tour
of sports metaphors.
390
00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:54,000
C.J. Cregg's on the line.
391
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,100
Thank you for coming in, Howard.
We'll let you know.
392
00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:03,700
You let them talk too, right?
393
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:05,900
Sassing your potential benefactor...
394
00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:09,500
...that's an unconventional
advancement technique.
395
00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:11,800
Line three.
396
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,900
- What's up?
- Could you come right over, please?
397
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,800
- I was just there.
- And now I'm asking you to come back.
398
00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:25,700
- Can I ask why?
- It's about my asking and you complying.
399
00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:28,600
Don't say you're busy.
I'll go phone sheet for phone sheet.
400
00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:30,800
In that case, can we do it
over the phone?
401
00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:33,500
It's five minutes, make it.
I'll time you.
402
00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:38,500
- Hey.
- Hey, yourself.
403
00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:41,500
C.J.'s got a bug up about something.
Can you wait?
404
00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:44,900
- Yeah, I'm okay to hang.
- Okay, shouldn't take long.
405
00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:49,600
- Donna. Thanks for coming over.
- Of course.
406
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,200
- Can I get you something?
- No, thank you, ma'am.
407
00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:54,100
I thought we talked about that.
408
00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:56,300
Due respect, you may have to
get used to it.
409
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,400
Comes with the territory.
410
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,800
So I understand that
I need a chief of staff.
411
00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:03,500
To do what? I am not sure.
412
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,800
Again, that gets into the kind of
first lady you intend to be.
413
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,100
Please, go on.
414
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:15,000
Well, there's the activist model, with
your own policy agenda and objectives...
415
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,400
...in concert with
the president's wishes...
416
00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:21,000
...but not dependent upon his staff
for pursuit or implementation.
417
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,400
- A separate power base, if you will.
- Or?
418
00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:26,200
A more traditional,
chiefly ceremonial presence.
419
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,500
Representing the country as
a hostess...
420
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,600
...goodwill ambassador,
without any particular policy focus.
421
00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:33,800
- And those are my choices?
- The extremes.
422
00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,600
Without presuming to speak for you,
I imagine you charting a middle course.
423
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,900
Well, I would like you to
help with that.
424
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,700
I'd be happy to be a sounding board,
of course, anytime.
425
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,600
- Well, I actually want you to help do it.
- Sorry?
426
00:25:46,900 --> 00:25:49,400
Well, I need someone,
and you know the terrain.
427
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,200
You're asking me?
428
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,000
Well, apparently, not very clearly.
429
00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:54,800
To be your chief of staff?
430
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,600
I think you are extremely capable.
I feel that we have a rapport.
431
00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:01,300
I'm flattered, of course...
432
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,100
...but I'm not sure I have
the requisite experience.
433
00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:07,500
I've watched you these past months.
My husband sings your praises.
434
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,100
- That's very nice.
- He's gonna be PO'ed, in fact...
435
00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:13,300
...that I'm stealing you,
just to sweeten the deal.
436
00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:16,200
Please, just think about it.
437
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:19,400
And just wanted to stake my claim,
I guess.
438
00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:21,500
Thank you for considering me.
439
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,100
Did we or did we not have a discussion
only hours ago...
440
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,200
...about how
to comport yourselves...
441
00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:33,400
...regarding the international security
situation in Kazakhstan?
442
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,600
I don't know what
you're talking about.
443
00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:37,800
The NSA reported
he placed a call to China...
444
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,300
...in which he made it clear
to President Lian...
445
00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:45,000
...he has qualms about this intervention.
- Back up. The NSA is bugging our calls?
446
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,200
Did you not
sing an aria this morning...
447
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,400
...about how the president wants
a hearts-and-flowers transition?
448
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,700
Wiretapping is an odd way of
showing love.
449
00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:56,700
Don't overdramatize. The NSA monitors all
communication with those governments.
450
00:26:57,100 --> 00:26:59,800
We're this far from being in
a state of war with them.
451
00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:02,900
You need to talk to the congressman
about mixed messages...
452
00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:05,500
...or the president will.
- It's not congressman.
453
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,000
- It's president-elect.
- Fine. Have him start behaving like it.
454
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,200
- Mr. Lyman for you.
- Thank you.
455
00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:18,000
Twenty-four whole hours.
Way to give me some space.
456
00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:20,300
It's been 28. A little credit.
457
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,400
You can 't count
the different time zones.
458
00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:25,100
Whatever, it's transition.
These are like dog hours.
459
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,200
A day is like
one of your human weeks.
460
00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:29,000
That's quite a selling point.
461
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,100
I've been thinking.
So you're engaged...
462
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,200
- ... people do this and have marriages.
- Yeah? Who?
463
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:37,700
You know, theoretically.
464
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000
- She's an attorney, right?
- Yeah.
465
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,100
Gee, I wonder if she'll be able to find
gainful employment...
466
00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:46,100
... in the lawyer capital
of the known universe.
467
00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:49,300
She'd have to take the bar again.
Would you?
468
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,000
I assume there are a number of things
she'd do for you that I'd balk at.
469
00:27:56,900 --> 00:28:00,100
- She doesn't hate the idea.
- I'll see you tomorrow.
470
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,100
- I need to think it over.
- Think it over on the plane...
471
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,900
...not that I'm begging.
- I don't think you're begging.
472
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:10,300
Would that work? I can do begging.
Humiliation is not beneath me.
473
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,700
Just get on a plane!
Nothing's irrevocable.
474
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,100
If you hate it, they have return flights.
Don 't make me wait.
475
00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:19,000
They'll find me in a fetal position,
sucking my thumb.
476
00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:20,800
I think we've moved into begging.
477
00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:23,000
I have no threshold
of embarrassment here.
478
00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:25,000
I will abase myself until you submit.
479
00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:27,900
- She passed the bar once, right?
- Goodbye.
480
00:28:32,300 --> 00:28:33,900
Sorry, one more.
481
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,100
Could you...?
482
00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:41,000
Sir, Josh to see you.
483
00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:43,900
Just to... Just to... You know.
484
00:28:57,100 --> 00:29:00,900
What did you say to the Chinese
about Kazakhstan?
485
00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:04,800
And more importantly,
why aren't you and I...
486
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,200
...discussing it first?
487
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,100
I need to say "Mother, may l"
before talking to leaders?
488
00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:14,300
If you undercut the sitting president
when we're practically in a state of war.
489
00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:18,200
I have serious objections
to this military action.
490
00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,100
It's ill-conceived and ill-defined.
491
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:23,200
This isn't the U.N.
Putting peacekeepers on the ground...
492
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,600
...to keep African tribesmen from
hacking each other with machetes.
493
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,500
It's placing U.S. Soldiers smack in
the middle of a no-man's land...
494
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,700
...between two modern armies,
hoping they both blink.
495
00:29:34,100 --> 00:29:36,100
Employing American fighting
men and women...
496
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:38,100
...as the equivalent
to a tethered goat.
497
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,000
You didn't say this to the Chinese.
498
00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:42,000
I made it clear I had concerns.
499
00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:44,100
What I wanted to say was that...
500
00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:47,100
...in addition to this making
no tactical military sense...
501
00:29:47,300 --> 00:29:50,000
...it is a complete strategic
blunder geopolitically.
502
00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:52,800
It's a potential reversion
to a state of hostility...
503
00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:55,500
...with the second largest
energy producer, Russia...
504
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,000
...and the risk of damage to relations
between the U.S. And China...
505
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,300
...a relationship that is going to
define the 21st century.
506
00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:04,400
- We're stuck with this.
- It's not about...
507
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:07,100
...opposing it philosophically.
It isn't working.
508
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,400
It's a high-stakes game of chicken...
509
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,200
...to bring both parties to the table.
It hasn't done it.
510
00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:14,600
You can deal with this
the day you take office.
511
00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:16,700
Which makes this
an impossible situation.
512
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,800
I'm going to be president
in two months.
513
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,700
Everybody in the world knows it.
514
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,800
And I'm supposed to
sit back and shrug...
515
00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:26,600
...while this administration commits
this country to a military situation...
516
00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:29,800
...it admits it has
no exit strategy for.
517
00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:34,200
- It's gonna be my problem.
- Our problem, yes, sir.
518
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,000
No, mine.
519
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,500
I'll be the guy whose presidency
never got off the ground...
520
00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:43,400
...because he inherited his predecessor's
11th hour misadventure in Central Asia.
521
00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:47,500
You can address that
at 12:01 p.m. On January 20th.
522
00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:51,300
- Well, that'll be too late.
- We have... You have no choice, sir.
523
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,600
Anything else will be spun as
lack of support for our troops.
524
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
And there goes all backing for
anything we want to accomplish...
525
00:30:58,300 --> 00:30:59,800
...Democratic House or not.
526
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:03,000
For now, we line up
behind the president, sir.
527
00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:08,300
How does anyone know
what I said to the Chinese anyway?
528
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,000
The NSA is eavesdropping on
all calls to Russia or China.
529
00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:14,700
I want to meet
with the president.
530
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,700
- Everybody's calls, sir, not just ours.
- I want that meeting.
531
00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:22,000
Set it up.
532
00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:30,200
Call C.J. Cregg's office.
533
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,700
See when the president might have
time for the president-elect. Sorry.
534
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,900
- Okay, I'm sorry about that.
- Rough day?
535
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,000
- Typical.
- You love it. You live for it.
536
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:42,000
You were born to do it.
I'm the same.
537
00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:44,200
Everybody tells me to
get a life. Why?
538
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:46,200
I find life to be terribly overrated.
539
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:48,300
It's boring
when it's not disappointing.
540
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,900
Say what you will about what we do,
boring it is not.
541
00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:54,100
You can parlay this Santos win
into a doubling of your fee.
542
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,700
- Tripling, if it figures into your memoirs.
- Nothing is gonna top this.
543
00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:01,200
- Everything else will be a letdown.
- Letdowns make me semi-rich...
544
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,000
...a tradeoff I'll endure.
- You don't care about money.
545
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,700
- Who doesn't?
- You.
546
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000
- Not as such.
- As what?
547
00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:12,000
Score-keeping. Quantitative evidence
that I'm smarter than you. Not you.
548
00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:14,000
- Who?
- Everybody else.
549
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,700
- Come on as communications director.
- Thank you, but no.
550
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,400
- Finish what you started.
- I'm not interested.
551
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,600
Campaigning's about promise.
Governing's about achievement.
552
00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:26,800
It's tougher and a lot less romantic,
but it's not boring.
553
00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:29,700
You're smarter than everyone.
I want you down the hall.
554
00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:35,000
- Come on, it's not like getting a life.
- That's true, look at you.
555
00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:38,600
We'd have to distill the democratic
message from what we ran on...
556
00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:41,400
...customize and prioritize it
for the first 100 days...
557
00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:44,800
...not allow the Republicans
to mischaracterize and demonize us...
558
00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:46,500
...as values-impaired...
559
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,000
- I may have forgotten about the hours.
- You're here.
560
00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:08,300
- It would seem.
- Outstanding.
561
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,200
There you go.
562
00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:11,700
Hey, stop.
563
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,700
Your sentimentality
is embarrassing us both.
564
00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:17,900
When was the last time
you took a vacation?
565
00:33:18,900 --> 00:33:21,200
Vacation? Time off from labor?
566
00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:24,200
Thought to be restorative,
salubrious for body and soul?
567
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:25,900
Not to mention,
mental health.
568
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:27,900
- I don't remember.
- If I'm your boss...
569
00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:30,000
...that's really the wrong answer.
570
00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:31,600
Neuroscientists have found...
571
00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:35,300
...that when politically committed people
listen to political statements...
572
00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:38,200
...they respond with the
emotional side of their brain.
573
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:41,000
The area of the cortex
where reasoning occurs is quiet.
574
00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:44,000
So those people screaming on cable
really can't help it?
575
00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:46,600
And guys like you and me
are quantifiably nuts...
576
00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:49,600
...and could benefit
from the occasional break.
577
00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:52,200
You people don't take office
for another 10 weeks.
578
00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:55,800
I think you could afford to spend one
of them lying on a beach somewhere.
579
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,800
Yeah? Yeah.
580
00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:00,500
I got a thing.
I've starred which are meetings...
581
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,500
...I've x'd out which are blowoffs.
582
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,400
- I haven't officially said I'm in.
- Yeah. No, absolutely.
583
00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:09,100
Ladies and gentlemen, Sam Seaborn,
our new deputy chief of staff.
584
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,300
Knock them dead, tiger.
585
00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:18,900
You look terrible.
586
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,700
You know,
I never get tired of hearing that.
587
00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:25,500
Mrs. Santos asked me
to be her chief of staff.
588
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,600
Wow, that's great.
589
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:30,300
I'm to think it over.
590
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,600
I wanted to talk to you.
I was thinking deputy press secretary.
591
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,900
Lou's gonna be
communications director...
592
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,000
...so it would be an extension
of what we had on the campaign.
593
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,900
One thing I know for sure is
I can't work for you.
594
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,600
If something's happening with us,
it won't work.
595
00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:48,200
And if something isn't, well,
that won't work so good either.
596
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,200
Yeah, about that...
597
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,700
Things are insane.
598
00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:56,200
There's no way I'll be able to get
a handle on what's going on with us...
599
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,200
...in the time frame you laid out.
600
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,200
Three weeks, six days to go.
We'll see.
601
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,300
I... I gotta...
602
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,000
Otto!
603
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,000
- There's an intercom.
- If I wanted to, I'd use it.
604
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:36,200
- I can't find my BlackBerry.
- I've got it.
605
00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:39,200
- What?
- I'm updating it.
606
00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:41,200
I've been looking for it
for an hour!
607
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:43,900
- I took it 10 minutes ago.
- Were you planning to tell me?
608
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,300
- You handed it to me.
- Why would you think it would be okay?
609
00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:51,700
- I figured you had your office e-mail.
- Don't figure. Don't use initiative.
610
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:54,700
It's an overrated quality
when it comes to assistant work.
611
00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:58,100
- I don't want to be an assistant.
- Know how to not be an assistant?
612
00:35:58,400 --> 00:35:59,500
By doing it great.
613
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,600
Not by leaving your boss electronically
stranded for what feels like an hour!
614
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,100
This isn't a campaign.
615
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,700
This isn't airplanes and hotels and,
"Guess where I am now, Ma?"
616
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:12,200
This is grind-it-out time!
617
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,300
It's three yards and a cloud of dust. If you
can't hack what I need from you now...
618
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,500
...you won't be asked
to do anything more.
619
00:36:18,700 --> 00:36:20,000
Get the BlackBerry now.
620
00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:21,700
Go.
621
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:39,500
I got it.
622
00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,400
Otto give you that? What,
you scared to face me, you little...
623
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:51,900
Josh.
624
00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:55,600
- I need that.
- In a minute.
625
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,700
I didn't come because
you're a silver-tongued recruiter...
626
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:07,700
...or because I got tired
of summer in January.
627
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,700
Santos may be the future
this country wants.
628
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,900
For all the partisan noises made,
we're a nation of centrists.
629
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,300
He may be the right man with
the right message at the right time...
630
00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:21,000
...and if he is...
631
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,000
...I wanna be a part of it.
632
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,400
But he can't do it without you.
633
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,700
Liberal Democrats
will try to force him left.
634
00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:31,600
Moderate Republicans will fence-sit
as long as they can.
635
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,400
It's you
who's gotta make this go...
636
00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:36,400
...who's gonna cut through
the demagoguery and timidity...
637
00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:40,000
...and make people do what they were
sent here to do, actually govern.
638
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,500
Serve the voter's interests...
639
00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:45,300
...instead of striking poses
and playing gotcha.
640
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,000
It's gonna be next to impossible
if you're at your best...
641
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,600
...and, what may only be news to you,
you are nowhere near your best.
642
00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:56,200
Take the vacation.
643
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,700
I haven't said I'm signing on,
but I can tell you this...
644
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:01,900
...I won't stay unless you go.
645
00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:05,900
One of us
is getting on a plane tonight.
646
00:38:06,100 --> 00:38:07,700
If it's you,
you're back in a week.
647
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,100
If it's me, I'm gone, adios, for good.
648
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:14,700
Your call.
649
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,100
Exciting time for you.
650
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:26,800
Very much so.
651
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,800
I always forget
how tall you are.
652
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,500
- Did you play sports at Annapolis?
- Football.
653
00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:36,200
- Till I messed up my knee.
- What position?
654
00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:39,700
Wideout. Not great speed,
but pretty good hands.
655
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,500
My sister thinks
that you are very attractive.
656
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,000
She doesn't have a sister.
Good morning, Matt. Come on in.
657
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,700
I understand you've been speaking
to the Chinese.
658
00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:56,600
- Yes, sir.
- How did you play it?
659
00:38:57,100 --> 00:38:59,700
You can probably just read
the transcript.
660
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,500
Yeah, sorry about that.
661
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,400
It may be advantageous,
all things considered.
662
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,500
Seriously, I need to know
exactly what you said.
663
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,600
I haven't seen the transcript.
I didn't want to seem overly interested.
664
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,100
I thanked President Lian
for his good wishes...
665
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,400
...then brought the talk
to Kazakhstan. I portrayed myself...
666
00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:22,900
...as being impatient
with our intervention...
667
00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:25,100
...mystified as to the endgame.
668
00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:28,300
I might have referred to you
as an incrementalist.
669
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,100
I've been called worse.
670
00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:37,600
You may have to call me worse
if this is gonna work.
671
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:44,400
It's a great idea to exploit the inherent
awkwardness of transition this way.
672
00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:49,200
Use it to play a little geopolitical
good cop, bad Cop.
673
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,300
But you'll have to make some
really loud saber rattling...
674
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:54,200
...if we're gonna pull this off.
675
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,400
Canadian prime minister
Dallaire's coming.
676
00:39:56,700 --> 00:40:00,900
I'll blow off some steam about
this reckless Kazakhstan intervention.
677
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,600
Lean on my military background.
Make it clear that...
678
00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:06,400
...while I wouldn't go in,
once troops are there...
679
00:40:06,700 --> 00:40:10,500
...I have no intention of just keeping
them in place, waiting to get shot at.
680
00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:14,500
I'll give them things to do, like roll
people back across their own borders.
681
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,600
I'll suggest the Russians
and Chinese...
682
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,000
...are going to look back on the
Bartlet plan as the good old days.
683
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,600
Which he might want to find a way
to artfully communicate to them both.
684
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,000
Sounds good.
685
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,400
You make that case
with seeming conviction.
686
00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:31,800
Yes, sir.
687
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,700
Let's hope you can scare
the hell out of them.
688
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,300
Sir, this is Sam Seaborn.
689
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,700
He'll be covering for me
this next week.
690
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,100
- Sorry?
- Goodwin's doing the transition.
691
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,300
I've set some senior staff.
Sam knows the players for the rest.
692
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,800
In any event,
candidates aren't going anywhere.
693
00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:57,100
It's not like they'll take director of
cabinet affairs jobs in Benelux countries.
694
00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:00,200
Lou will be honing our message plan.
695
00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:04,500
I yelled at Otto for no reason.
696
00:41:04,900 --> 00:41:08,700
I haven't had a vacation in, well,
basically, ever. I will be better able...
697
00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:11,400
...to serve you and your presidency
and the country...
698
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,700
...if I unfog my head. It's...
699
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,000
- Sam's getting married.
- Congratulations.
700
00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:19,800
- Thank you.
- Lou's right, I have no life.
701
00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:23,000
And l... I don't know if that's really
how I want it...
702
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:27,200
...or if it's just some borderline
or not so borderline...
703
00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:30,200
...pathetic, pathologic
avoidance thing.
704
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,500
If it's, you know, okay with you.
705
00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:39,900
If it didn't involve a motorcade,
I'd drive you to the airport myself.
706
00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:43,100
Thank you, sir.
707
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,600
- Nice to meet you.
- You too. Big fan.
708
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your captain.
709
00:41:58,300 --> 00:42:03,200
Federal air regulations require that all
carryon luggage be stowed prior to...
710
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,000
Personal belongings may be placed
in overhead compartments...
711
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,900
... or under the seat
in front of you.
712
00:42:09,100 --> 00:42:13,200
If you need any additional information or
assistance, contact your flight attendant.
713
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,900
Please refrain from operating
any portable electronic devices...
714
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,100
... till we are in flight
and the seat belt sign is turned off.
715
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,900
- Once again, thank you for flying.
- Hey.
716
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,800
May I just say,
a truly excellent notion?
717
00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:29,400
- Sam's.
- Of course.
718
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,500
The vacation.
719
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,700
Going with you part was all me.
720
00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:37,300
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