All language subtitles for West Wing S02E03 The Midterms.DVDRip.HI.cc.en.WB

Previously on The West Wing:

PRESIDENT: You go out with Zoey,

you better get
your picture taken.

There's going to be
a lot of people not wild

about the sight of you and
the President's daughter.

Charlie, you've been
getting death threats.

Are they white supremacists?

I know what I'm
looking for in a crowd.

What happened?

It's a gunshot wound! No exit!

They didn't hit anything...
They're just going to look

around and make sure.
PRESIDENT: The guy

the Secret Service have in
custody is named Carl Leroy.

Josh, a bullet
collapsed your lung.

I'm putting in a
tube to re-expand it.

They tried to kill the President
because Zoey and I are together.

No.

Charlie, the President

wasn't the target.

JOSH: It's called The
Theory of Everything.

The Theory of Everything?

Yes.

Is it comprehensive?

C.J.!

That was a joke
there, pal of mine.

I want you to lead with it.

Carol, I'm missing the
OMB stats. They're coming.

C.J., I want you
to lead with it.

I'm not going to lead with it.

Yes, you are.

Okay. So you got it?

I mean, Sure.

You got what you're
supposed to say?

Carol, also the EPA.

The committee
won't be out till 3:00.

C. J., say it for me.

He's making me crazy.

You know, I heard that.

Yeah, I understand how
a speaker phone works.

Say it for me.

Joshua, I really have to get

to the briefing
room. Say it, please?

Psychics at Cal-Tech

and the Fermi
National Accelerator Lab

are close to announcing...

Physicists! Theoretical
physicists at Cal-Tech.

Not psychics?

No! I should jot that down.

Please. I'll tell you,

if it was psychics,
I'd lead with it.

C.J... Talk to you
later, mi amor.

The L&B stats. Thank
you. You can set 'em down.

I don't think you understand
how important this is...

And let Josh rant a little
before you hang up the phone.

Sure. TOBY: C.J.? Yes, ma'am?

The Bureau of Labor
Statistics is going to report

that the CPI jumped 0.7 percent.

Okay.

It's the biggest
one-month increase

since the bureau began
tracking prices in '52.

All right, let me say this:

The market basket used to
calculate the CPI is antiquated.

Say "outdated."

And doesn't include some
regular household items

like computers... Yes.

The prices are always dropping.

Yes. And it doesn't reflect

significant technical
improvements

like airbags in automobiles

which increase the price
of the car very slightly

but provide a much greater
value to the consumer.

You've got all that?

Let's find out.

Look, C.J... Leopold.

Mention the HUD secretary's
announcing changes

in the underwriting criteria for
the Federal Housing Administration.

Well, the network's
going to want to break in

with special coverage for that.

The adjustments are
in FHA-related lending.

Seriously, they're
going to need time

to put together a
logo and theme music.

You know, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics reported...

reported the CPI
jump by 0.7 percent.

Thank you.

SAM: C.J.?

Oh, Holy Interruptus, Batman!

Grant Samuels died.

Really? Yes.

He's really dead
this time? Yeah.

'Cause last time you told
me he was dead, he wasn't.

He's dead this time.

Somebody poked
him a little to see...

He died, C.J.!

Well, okay, then I
shouldn't have made a joke.

I'm almost certain he's dead.

Sam! I was making a joke, too.

What, you work alone?

Uh, he's survived by his
wife, Eileen, son Robert,

his two daughters, Priscilla and
Patty, and eight grandchildren.

I not gonna learn their names.

Uh, that's fine.

Eileen, Robert, Priscilla,
Patty, eight grandchildren.

I'm assuming it was
complications due to... Yeah.

You know anything
about theoretical physics?

Ah! The Grand Unified Theory.

You know anything about it?

No. Okay.

WOMAN ( over P.A.):
Folks, please take your seats.

The briefing will start now.

Good morning, everybody.

I have to start with a
sad announcement.

Congressman Grant
Samuels finally succumbed

to pneumonia last night.

His wife, Eileen, his
son, Robert, his daughters

Priscilla and Patty and
his eight grandchildren

are all in the President's
thoughts today.

I also want to talk this morning

about the Bureau
of Labor Statistics

and the Federal
Housing Administration.

And as a special treat
for our friend, Josh Lyman,

who is recovering
very nicely at GW

the President's science
advisor is telling us

that psychics at Cal-Tech

and the Fermi National
Accelerator Lab...

You know what?

I'm pretty sure that was
supposed to be physicists.

Captioning sponsored
by WARNER BROS.

TOBY: 81 percent.

SAM: Can you believe it?

C.J.: And all we had
to do was get shot at.

81%, Those numbers are soft.

C.J.: Do you think? You don't?

A week ago, the
job approval's at 51...

We get shot at, it's at 81?

Yeah, I think the
numbers are soft.

Still, 81%...

All: Good morning,
Mr. President.

Good morning, everybody.

Anybody know what

the word "acalculia" means?

It's an inability to perform
arithmetic functions.

I'm sorry, Mr. President.

You wanted to answer your
own question, didn't you?

Yeah, but I'll get over it.

Good for you, sir,
that's very mature.

Shut up.

Not over it yet, are you?

No. Okay.

Did we really poll at 81%?

Those aren't internals.
It's CNN/USA Today.

That's soft. No.

When asked, "Whose approach
on important national problems do

"you think is generally best,

President Bartlet or the
Republican leaders of Congress?"

Bartlet gets 61%.

Well, 19% of the country

has clearly made up
their minds about me.

20% just feel sorry for me.

This is what you want if you're
the leader of the free world.

Give us an overview.

Mr. President, we've got

an honest-to-God shot
at taking back the House.

Taking back the House
and possibly picking up

two seats net in the
Senate. As well as

two Governorships and maybe
a half-dozen state houses.

Where should we be
looking? Indiana, Sixth,

California Fourth and 14th.

Michigan 12th. Michigan
12th, Texas 12th.

Florida four, five, and nine.

They're not gonna
elect a Democrat

in the Florida Ninth.

I'm sorry. Florida Eighth.

LEO: They're not gonna elect

a Democrat there, either,

but let's put some time into it.

What else?

I can hold, or you
can call me back.

An inability to perform
arithmetic function.

Sure.

Apparently, there's
a specialized circuit

in the brain for numbers.

You know where it is?

I'm sorry?

It's in the left parietal lobe.

Thank you. Hey, Zoey.

Hey, Margaret. Where's
Mrs. Landingham?

A funeral. The President's
in the Roosevelt Room.

I wasn't here to see my father.

I was here to see him.

Do you know what
acalculia means?

Yes, because I
got it at breakfast.

Okay. Thank you.

Hey.

Hi.

Charlie,

Mrs. Landingham
asked me to ask you

to call Technical Support and
have them look at her computer.

Yeah.

You're supposed to ask for a man

named Andrew Mackintosh.

He's the only one she trusts.

Mackintosh?

Like the apple. Sure.

Thank you.

I called you at home last night.

I didn't get home till late.

Where were you? I was here.

I called here, too.

I'm not lying to you, Zoey.

I don't think you're
lying to me, Charlie.

I just think you
were either at home

or here, and you
didn't return my call.

I was here; I didn't
get the message.

I was home; I got the message.

I didn't return the
call 'cause it was late.

I don't mind being woken up.

Well, now I know that.

Now you know that? Excuse me.

We have been
dating for nine months.

I've got to go in there.

Cumberland, Monroe,
possibly Stanwyck.

Since you brought up
Cumberland and Monroe,

can I say a word
about the shooting?

It's been a week, and the
honeymoon's about to be over.

She's right.

We want to be sure it
doesn't look like we're

taking advantage
of the situation.

Why not?

Why not what?

The entire country was the
victim of domestic terrorism.

Why not use the soft
numbers before they disappear

and go after the guns and
go after the hate groups?

It doesn't look good.

It looks good to me.

Well, you work for
the White House, Toby.

I think we were counting
on your support either way.

Mr. President...

C.J., if you get questions
about the midterms,

say we haven't
thought that far ahead

due to recent events.

LEO: And when they ask

about the linkage

between the approval numbers

and the shooting,
the President's

deeply gratified by
the public support

but eager to focus
on the issues.

TOBY: Which will be?

I'll let you know.

Thank you very much, everyone.

All: Thank you, Mr. President.

Mr. President.

It's fine. Tell him around 3:00.

Yes, sir.

Was Zoey out there? Yes, sir.

Is she still here?

I don't know, sir. Okay.

Leo. Yes, sir?

Did you know Elliot
Roush is running

for the school board
in Manchester?

I didn't, sir, but
then I don't know

who Elliot Roush is, so...

Elliot Roush. Yes?

My Elliott Roush.

I'm sorry, sir,
but I'm still not...

I beat him in my first
Congressional campaign.

I can't believe I didn't commit

that piece of arcane
information to memory.

I want some polling
numbers on that race.

I don't want you
focusing your attention

on the school board
race in New Hampshire.

Yeah, 'cause looking at two
numbers on a piece of paper

really takes the life out me.

I know where this is going.

Get me the numbers,

and let me tell you
something, No...

I'm ready to go out there.

No. I don't need to
wait another week.

Sir,

let's play a game

of "Who Do You Think
I'm Going to Agree With?"

14 doctors say you
should wait another week

before assuming a
campaign schedule.

Who do you think I'm
going to agree with?

Get away from me.

Yes, sir.

Sam.

Is he here?

Want me to bring him back?

Uh, I'll go get him myself.

Tom.

Sam. Hello.

I hope you weren't
waiting too long.

No. I mean, I don't mind.

Sam, this is my wife, Sarah.

Hi. It's nice to meet you.

You got married.

Two years, with
a baby on the way.

Is it his?

Uh, yeah!

Okay. Follow me.

TOM: Okay.

Tom and I had a
contracts professor at Duke

who couldn't stand me.

"Those may be your
thoughts, Mr. Seaborn,

but that's not the law."

If he knew how many
times I wanted to tell him

to take the law
and shove it up his...

Hey, have you guys ever
been in the White House?

No.

We were looking
forward to a tour.

Ah. Well, that's my
office over there,

and the President works in
that round room over there,

and nobody else really matters.

Come on in.

This is the Mural Room.

Hmm. Can you tell
us anything about it?

It's called the Mural Room.

Have a seat.

You know why I
wanted to talk to you?

I really don't.

'Cause the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee asked me to.

Grant Samuels
died a few days ago.

Yeah, we saw on the news.

He wasn't going to be
running again anyway

'cause he was pretty sick,
and the man who was going

to be running in his
place... Seymour Worthen.

Right, isn't going to.

Sy Worthen's not running?

Tom, you are a phenomenally
attractive Democratic candidate

for that district.

There are 162 games in a
Major League baseball season,

and the players have a saying:

"Every team's going
to win 54 games

"every team's going to lose 54.

It's what you do with the
other 54 games that counts."

In your district,
you got Democrats

you got Republicans, and
the other 54 games are women.

Specifically, young mothers

among whom the
number-one issue is crime.

You are a graduate of
Oberlin and Duke Law School.

You passed up many
lucrative opportunities

to work in the DA's office.

You're a prosecutor with an
exceptional conviction record,

and certainly nobody can hang
"soft on crime" around your neck.

You are active
in local politics.

You are personable. You
are articulate and energetic.

You are married, and
you are having a baby.

I thought you didn't know that.

Sorry? When we were out

in the lobby, it seemed as if

you didn't know that
Tom was married

and that there was
a baby on the way.

Now it sounded like you
already had that information.

Sarah, there's very
little information

about your husband
that I don't have,

and tell your mom
"happy birthday" for me.

Sam... Tom,

you will have the full weight

of the Democratic
National Committee,

the Congressional
Campaign Committee

the minority leader,

whom we hope to
make the majority leader,

and the President
of the United States.

What do you say?

Do you want to run for Congress?

( sighs softly)

Well, there's a lot
to consider, Sam.

How much time do I
have to think about it?

Five minutes. I'll be outside.

You're pissed at me?

I'm saying I could have
used your support in there.

You get my support
the same way I get yours

when I agree with
what you're saying

or when I don't care
about what you're saying.

This time I disagreed.

You don't think we
should use this moment

to get aggressive about
guns and hate groups?

I think we were victims
of a violent crime,

and it's unseemly to
use this moment at all.

We didn't get the
country drunk, C.J.

We're not taking
advantage of anybody.

And even if we were, who cares?

Every Republican

spending the next 12 weeks

trying to keep
control of the House.

C.J... Toby, if you and the FBI

want to go after hate groups,

I'm not the one you
have to convince.

Go bag the President. I will.

I've gotten a lot of calls
about pieces people want to do

on how staffers are handling
the shooting in the aftermath.

Psychologically?

Yeah.

I don't think it's a
good idea, do you?

We're not the story.

That's what I'm saying.

Leave me alone.

( quietly): I got it.

I got it, I got it, I got it.

Bonnie, Ginger, I got it.

Excellent!

Way to go.

( sighs) Sam.

Do you know what? No.

Sam...

Sam?

Right here.

Oh, I thought you were in there.

I wasn't.

I got it.

Got what?

How to avoid the appearance

that we're randomly
and generically

going after extremist groups

in violation of
their civil liberties.

We can avoid that appearance

by not doing it, can't we?

Yes, or with this:

the shooting was
the action of not one

but at least three
card-carrying members

of West Virginia White Pride.

They have cards?

What?

They actually have
membership cards?

What the hell. No, Sam,
it's an expression. Okay.

The key phrase is "at least."

At least three members.

There might be
more. We don't know.

So therefore the FBI has
grounds to investigate?

Yes, to investigate
and curtail the activities

of all extremist organizations.

Under the cover of investigating

this one particular crime?

How do we know that whatever,

young Nazis of Delaware
weren't co-conspirators?

It's not an uncommon way

to get around the
Bill of Rights, Toby.

I'm surprised it took you
three weeks to come up with it.

Possibly because I had
no help from anyone else

who works in this building.

Toby...

I'm taking it to Leo.

Knock yourself out.

TOBY: Donna. Yes?

Are you going to see Josh?

I'm taking him his lunch.

Can I come? No.

Listen. No.

Donna... You know the rules.

The rules are dumb.

The rules are not dumb.

Donna, seriously.

I'm perfectly serious, Toby.

He's recovering from
an attempted murder,

he's supposed to be resting,

and I don't want
people going over there

getting him fuhtushed.

Fartoost. Don't
bring the Yiddish

unless you know
what you're doing.

You know what word
should be Yiddish but isn't?

Donna... "Spatula."

Thank you. Also "far-fetched."

I need to talk to him about...

The hate crimes and how to
best bring it to the President.

He's got the papers you wrote.

He's got the
materials you sent him.

You talk to him on the
phone 93 times a day.

And I'd like to go to his
apartment and talk to him.

No. Donna.

Maybe if you hadn't said
the rules were dumb...

Yeah. Yeah.

( knocking)

Hey, Leo.

Hey, kid.

I was just looking
for my father.

He's making campaign calls.

He's not in the office.

He's making them
from the residence.

Why?

Your father has a very

strict interpretation

of something called
the Pendleton Act

which prohibits
campaign donations

to be solicited on
government property.

It's a little impractical
for the President

to step across the street
to use a pay phone, isn't it?

Exactly.

Isn't the residence
government property, too?

Yes. Then why does...?

Because your father is a
demented, demented man.

I'm going over there.

Leo, these last few weeks,

do you feel like Charlie...?

Nope.

C.J.: Sir...

46 percent.

Yes, sir.

The guy is polling at 46%.

I didn't think they
had polling data

on people running for seats
on the Board of Education.

They don't.

I had to have our guys do it.

Sir, do you think

you're becoming
obsessed with this race?

He's polling at
46%. He's not a joke.

He's polling inside the margin.

In a race for the
Board of Education

in a school district
that has 43 kids.

It has 1,100 kids.

And you don't take
these people seriously

'cause they don't get
anywhere nationally,

but they don't have to.

All they have to
do is bit by little bit

get themselves on
the boards of education

and city councils

'cause that's where
all the governing

that really matters to
anybody really happens.

We do a little governing
here, Mr. President.

I'm on hold with a guy whose
name I've got on an index card.

How much governing do you
think is going on around here today?

And can you believe I'm on hold?

You're not, sir.
You finished the call.

I did? Yes, sir.

How'd it go?

Very well. ( knocking)

Good morning, Mr. President.

Elliot Roush is
now polling at 46%.

How do you know?

I had our... our people check.

I have three daughters

who grew up in
that school district.

Leave Elliot Roush alone.
You beat him already.

And he has come back,

like crabgrass
pulled from the lawn,

not by the root but
by the other thing.

I stopped by to see
how the calls are going.

They're going
fine. Then I'll leave.

Can't tell you how much
I'm going to miss you.

You wanted to talk to me?

Not if you're in this mood.

( sighs)

This is real.

And a man who makes
the Spanish Inquisition

look like a Barbara
Walters special

is now polling at 46%
in your school district

for which I have personally

baked things to raise money.

You can go, too.

You baked things?

You can go.

Thank you, Mr. President.

What do you want?

Dad...

The calls are going well.

Good.

Listen, Leo, we're
still getting asked

to participate in
aftermath stories.

Psychological effects?

Yeah, and I was
wondering... Don't do it.

No, I know that, but
I was wondering...

You were wondering what?

( pager buzzing)

This isn't going to be good.

You were wondering what?

Don't worry about it.

Okay.

Hey, it's C.J. Cregg.

Step 3: Public disclosure of
membership and contributor rolls

for all organizations

on the Attorney General's
list of hate groups.

This allows the American public

to know who these people are

and where their
funding is coming from.

Yes, and to do it
in blatant violation

of their right to
free association.

Sam... You know, laws like
this were passed in the South

during the Civil Rights
movement to root out members

of such terrorist
organizations as the NAACP.

I knew you were
going to say that.

Yes, you did, and by the way,

the Supreme Court struck down
those laws as unconstitutional.

That was an
ultra-activist Warren Court

that struck down those laws,

and I think they'd
see it differently today.

Toby, you're-you're
an ultra-activist.

And I was shot at,
and so I'm acting

right now!

Sam.

He wants everyone to
have to register affiliation

with the FBI.

Any problems with
the First Amendment?

I'll get around them.

I need to talk to you.

( sighs) What's up?

There's a problem
with your friend.

Which friend?

Tom Jordan, the guy
you've got running in...

What's the problem?

His prosecutorial record.

His prosecutorial
record is great.

Not during jury selection.

Preemptive challenges?

Your friend likes white
juries for his black defendants.

He's a prosecutor, C.J..

Not anymore.

Now he's a politician,
and this needs a save,

so get into it, would you?

Yeah.

PRESIDENT: Do we
know how Tokyo opened?

CHARLIE: I thought it was up
three-eighths against the yen,

but let me check with somebody.

Is that it for me?

No, sir. You've got four or
five phone calls still to make.

Wyman... Yes, sir.

Frank Gates and MacNamara?

Yes, sir. Mr. President...
Those are campaign calls.

Why don't you
stay in your office

and make the damn...?

Because I choose
not to, Charlie.

Because however an
empty gesture it may seem,

I would like to take some
Executive notice of the notion

that it's probably
not a good idea

for the most powerful and
influential person in the world

to be calling up the
people whose laws he signs

and asking them for money!

I'm going to do it

but not behind this
desk, not in this room.

What else?

I was asked to tell you
that an event was added

for Tuesday the 7th... A
reception for talk radio...

hosts, I guess they're
called... Talk radio.

It's three weeks away.

You don't need to
commit right now.

Yeah.

( rips paper)

I'll make these calls
from the residence.

Tell C.J. I want to see her

in an hour.

Yes, sir.

( door opens)

Hello.

Are you a Cabinet Secretary?

Can you tell me your name?

Jeffrey.

Jeffrey what?

Jeffrey Mackintosh.

Like the apple?

Yeah.

You're here with your dad?

Excuse me, I'm sorry.

Jeffrey, when I tell
you to sit and stay put,

you know what I need you to do?

That. I need you to do that.

Not some variation
on that, but that.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Okay, see, now
I've got to make you

rewire the house.

I'm Andrew Mackintosh.
I'm from Technical Support.

We're installing
some new software...

Yeah, I thought that
was a few weeks ago.

It was, but there
were some bugs.

Okay. I hope nobody minds.

They said it was okay
for me to bring my son.

My wife works some nights.

Sure.

Let's go, big man.

Take it easy, Jeffrey.

Take it easy.

Hey, man.

Hey.

Leo? ( tapping on door)

Oh, Sam, come
in, close the door.

What's going on?

Josh is on the speaker.

JOSH: Hey, Sam.

What's going on?

A guy who went to college

with Tom Jordan says he belonged

to an all-white fraternity.

The local papers are
going to carry it tomorrow.

Yeah, I checked
that out weeks ago.

Uh, it wasn't an
exclusive fraternity.

They just didn't happen
to have any black pledges.

Still... Leo,

it's not uncommon
on a college campus

to have black fraternities
and white fraternities.

Yeah, but you put

this together

with the preemptive
challenges in voir dire,

and serious leaders in the
African-American community

have a problem.

I'll talk to them. Nah.

Leo... No, it's over, Sam.

I'm-I'm gonna cancel... No. No!

The President's stop
and shut down the money.

You can't cut and run, Leo.

We don't have a choice, Sam.

Of course we have a choice.

We got a chance at the House.

We've only got three weeks left.

Leo's gotta put the
President and the money

where the President
and the money can win.

Tom Jordan is
running against a man...

Well, you don't have to tell me.

We're handing it to him.

Which will matter less

if we get back the House.

Jordan is down by seven,

and he's not going to
come back from this.

Not only that, we stand by
him, this is a national thing.

It could drag down black turnout

in districts where
we're competitive.

I told him...

Yeah.

I told him we
would stand by him.

I told him he would
have our full support.

I was the one who asked him
to run. I was asked to ask him.

I know.

We walk away now, that's it.

He's a racist.

The White House just said so.

We can't afford all the
things we want, Sam.

It's over.

Hey, Leo, you know,
there's, uh, something called

the Superstring Theory

which, at its most basic
level, says that the universe

consists of these
tiny loops of string

that vibrate at
different frequencies.

How did that
bullet not kill you?

Just lucky, I guess.

Yeah.

( clicks off phone)

( knocking)

Toby?

Yeah.

Any chance I could
see an advance copy

of the President's
remarks for Asia-Pacific?

Um, what?

Asia-Pacific?

I have a draft here.

I'm going to rewrite it.

I thought I was going to
have it by the end of the day.

Day's not over yet.

You know, Toby,

these pieces
everyone wants to do

on the psychological
aftermath of the shooting

for the White House staff?

They've had me thinking.

Do you think there might be

a psychological aftermath,

and we're not
paying attention to it?

C.J., I really don't have time
to have this conversation.

I'm saying I think
you should have

this conversation with somebody.

You think my problem
is psychological?

I think you're Director

of Communications,
and you've been

ignoring operational
responsibilities.

That's crap.

So you can behave

like the director of the FBI.

Oh, I'm waiting for the Director
of the FBI to behave that way.

Toby... I'm waiting for the Justice
Department to behave that way.

I'm waiting for Congress
to behave that way.

I'm waiting for the White
House to behave that way!

You want to lock up everybody
with a white sheet? Yes, I do.

Yes, I do. Who has
a problem with that?

Bring them to me
right now. Yes, I do!

( knocking softly)

He's ready for me?

In the residence.

Thank you.

I'll be here for a while,

so whenever you can
get me Asia-Pacific...

Give me an hour.

( knocking on door)

Come in.

Good evening, Mr. President.

Hi, C.J..

Charlie said you
wanted to see me.

Yeah.

Why has there been

no press mention of
the fact that Elliot Roush

was an opponent of
mine in New Hampshire?

Elliot Roush is the man...?

He's running for a seat

on the school board up in...

Yes, sir, I'm sure it's gotten

some local coverage.

I can have the News Office...

Why isn't it more than local?

It's a school board seat.

It's a human interest story.

Not a very interesting one.

I'm saying, if anyone
in the press room

wanted to do this story,

that I would comment
on the record.

Sir...

the President can't
publicly take sides

in a local school
board election.

Why can't he?

Because it's not done,

( scoffs) and it's not fair.

It's-it's personal, and
it's-it's irresponsible.

It will galvanize Republicans,

and the Democrats in Congress

will think you've
abandoned them,

that you don't care about
winning back the House.

I don't care about
winning back the House.

Mr. President... I don't care
about winning back the House!

Well, I don't
believe that's true,

so let's just keep that
between you and me.

C.J...

I've known men
of faith in my life.

Towering men.

Men of wisdom and compassion.

Men of all faiths, of
healing and peace.

Pro-choice, pro-life,

Republican, Democrat,
men and women of God.

Elliot Roush...

is polling at 53%.

He's polling at 53%.

He's the front-runner.

Then that's the way it is.

In a democracy,
oftentimes other people win.

Yeah.

It was just a thought.

But, I mean,
obviously, you're right.

Yes, sir.

Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. President.

( door softly opens and closes)

( thunder rolling)

SAM: Ginger?

They're still too close to call.

All twelve?

Yes.

Hey, get me somebody
in the Midwest, would you?

I want to see everybody
on telephones.

( conversations stop)

Okay, good, just like that.

( various conversations resume)

God... Tom, Sarah...

I'm sorry. I forgot I was...

I'm sorry I'm late. I'm
glad you could make it.

SARAH: It was no
problem coming, Sam.

It turns out there was
really no reason for us

to stay in our district
on Election Day.

Yeah.

You've seen the exits.

You're going to lose, Tom.

No kidding?

Probably 58-42.

Yeah.

42%'s a very respectable number.

The district's 49%
Democrat, Sam.

Well, we'll get 'em next time.

Shut up.

Sarah... There's not

gonna be a next
time, so shut up!

Not even a word
from the White House.

Not even a word.

That's how we do it.

Sam...

any time we have the opportunity

in the future to screw you...

count on getting screwed.

Good luck with the baby.

MAN: No, no, that was
K-TALK out of Minneapolis.

You're thinking of SLAM-100

serving the Great
Lakes region...

"The number one station
with the number one sound."

But then it was classic rock

or at least what
our program director

thought was classic rock,
Fleetwood Mac and whatnot.

Then they switched over
to news and information

back in '82?

'82, '83.

Yeah, we started
with drive time,

then went to the
four-hour format.

Say, is Howard showing up today?

Stern...

I heard he was going to show up

if Imus was coming.

Imus wasn't showing
up if Howard was coming.

By the way, I was
"Dave in the Morning"

before he was
"Imus in the morning,"

but that's, uh, water
under the bridge.

Isn't Don Imus in his seventies?

I believe so, yes.

( laughs)

How were you
"Dave in the Morning"

before he was "Imus
in the Morning"?

It's very painful.

I don't like to talk about it...

Okay...

Fellas, I'm sorry,
but it's Election Day,

and I need to check
in with the exit polls...

Sure. And

whatnot.

Good meeting you both.

Good talking to you, C.J.

Who's that?

Jenna Jacobs.

That's Jenna Jacobs?

CAROL: Yeah, she
changed her hair.

What's the latest?

Twelve races too close to call,

Thompson, Marinovich...

I'm going to go check in.

( thunder rolling)

Good evening, Mr. President.

Toby, I'm drinking
the most fantastic thing

I've ever tasted in my life...

Chocolate syrup,
cold milk, and seltzer.

I know it sounds terrible,

but trust me... I don't know
where this has been all my life.

It's called

an egg cream, Mr. President.

We invented it in Brooklyn.

In Brooklyn. Yes, sir.

Not New England?

There are

some good things in this
world not from New England, sir.

Toby, don't ever let me
hear you say that again.

Yes, sir. ( thunder rumbling)

What's on your mind?

Mr. President, I was thinking...

I was thinking it might...

You want to take a
leave of absence?

I was thinking I might
need some time off, yes, sir.

That's no problem, Toby.

Okay.

It's not a problem at all.

Thank you, sir.

Fifteen minutes.

It's time to get up
off the mat, Toby.

Sir, what's so wrong with having
the Attorney General designate

potentially dangerous
organizations... Toby...

that promote violent acts?

I-I understand it's problematic

that there'd be no judicial
review or legislative oversight,

or even, for that matter...

( chuckles)

legal finding of fact, but...

( sighs)

Okay, fine, fine.

( sighs)

Why does it feel like this?

I've seen shootings before.

It wasn't a shooting, Toby.

It was a lynching.

They tried to lynch Charlie
right in front of our eyes.

Can you believe that?

( thunder rumbling)

What's this? Keyhole satellite

photographs.

It's the Headquarters for
West Virginia White Pride.

Headquarters...

It's a diner outside Blacksburg.

Every night for
the last 12 weeks

I've picked up the phone

and called the Attorney General,

fully prepared to say
two words: "take 'em."

And then

I hang up the phone because
I know it'll be better tomorrow

and better the day after that.

We saw a lynching, Toby,
that's why it feels like this.

I'm not sure I'm going

to come out of the
other side of this thing.

I'm not sure I can, either.

But until we are sure,

I think we should keep
coming to work every day.

How's it going with
your school board guy?

Yeah, he's going to win.

When you ran against
him, how did you beat him?

I don't remember.

I've been thinking
about it for weeks,

but I honestly don't remember.

( knocking on door)

Excuse me, Mr. President,
good evening.

Hey, Sam.

I wasn't sure whether
you'd be stopping by

the talk radio reception.

I scratched out a
few remarks for you.

Let me look at 'em
while we walk. Toby?

Go with us to this radio thing.

Oh, God. Really, sir?

There'll be crab puffs.

New England crab
puffs, by the way,

made in New England.

Actually, it's Alaskan crab.

Sam...

There's Alaskan crab
in this White House?

He would've known
the difference?

Have you tried them?

I...

Yes, reluctantly.

I think it was clear in the
way that I ate the crab puffs

that it was a
gesture of protest.

( quietly): Were they good?

Extraordinarily good.
They're going very fast.

Let's get there.

( thunder rolling)

I call myself Gary with a "G."

How else would you spell Gary?

No other way, I'm saying

that's what I call myself:

"Gary with a "G," talking
to you on K.A.D.R. A.M."

Like Liza with a "Z."

Exactly.

Hokey?

Maybe so, but I have

900,000 listeners in the
Rocky Mountain region.

Would you excuse me? Mm.

Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the President of
the United States.

( applause)

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thanks a lot.

I wish I could spend more
than a few minutes with you,

but the polls don't close
in the east for another hour,

and there are plenty of
election results still left to falsify.

( laughter)

You know, with so
many people participating

in the political and social
debate through call-in shows,

it's a good idea to be
reminded every once in a while...

( clears throat)

It's a good idea to be reminded
of the awesome impact...

of the awesome

impact...

I'm sorry. Uh, you're
Dr. Jenna Jacobs, right?

Yes, sir.

It's good to have you here.

Thank you.

The awesome
impact of the airwaves

and how that translates
into the furthering of

our national discussions,

but obviously,
also, how it can...

( clears throat) how it can...

Forgive me, Dr. Jacobs.
Are you an M.D.?

A Ph.D.

A Ph.D.? Yes, sir.

In psychology?

No, sir.

Theology?

No.

Social work?

I have a Ph.D. in
English literature.

I'm asking 'cause

on your show, people
call in for advice,

and you go by the
name Dr. Jacobs

on your show, and...

I didn't know if maybe
your listeners were confused

by that and assumed
you had advanced

training in psychology

theology, or healthcare.

I don't believe they
are confused, no, sir.

Good.

I like your show.

I like how you call
homosexuality an abomination.

JACOBS: I don't say

homosexuality is an
abomination, Mr. President.

The Bible does.

Yes, it does. Leviticus.

18:22.

Chapter and verse.

I wanted to ask you

a couple of questions
while I had you here.

I'm interested in selling
my youngest daughter

into slavery as
sanctioned ( all chuckling)

in Exodus 21:7.

She's a Georgetown
sophomore, speaks fluent Italian,

always cleared the
table when it was her turn.

What would a good
price for her be?

While thinking about that,

can I ask another?

My Chief of Staff, Leo McGarry,

insists on working
on the Sabbath.

Exodus 35:2 clearly says
he should be put to death.

Am I morally obligated
to kill him myself,

or is it okay to
call the police?

Here's one that's
really important

'cause we've got a lot of
sports fans in this town.

Touching the skin of a
dead pig makes one unclean.

Leviticus 11:7.

If they promise to wear gloves,
can the Washington Redskins

still play football, can Notre
Dame, can West Point?

Does the whole town
really have to be together

to stone my brother, John,

for planting different
crops, side by side?

Can I burn my mother in
a small family gathering

for wearing garments

made from two different threads?

Think about those
questions, would you?

One last thing.

While you may be mistaking this

for your monthly meeting of
the ignorant, tight-ass club,

in this building, when
the President stands,

nobody sits.

( camera shutter clicks)

( camera shutter clicks)

Toby.

Yes, Mr. President.

That's how I beat him.

( thunder rumbling)

I'm just...

I'm just going to
take that crab puff.

( camera shutter clicks)

JEFFREY: Do you want
one of my animal crackers?

I have... elephants,
and I have lions.

( thunder rolling)

ANDREW: Are you bugging the man?

No, we're okay. Is there
a software problem again?

I think I got it.

Just want to run a
few programs, and then

I'll be out of here.

Pretty busy day
around here, huh?

Yeah.

My name's Charlie
Young, by the way.

Oh, you don't think I
know who you are...

Man who almost got
the President killed?

Yeah.

That's going to look
good on my resume.

( chuckles)

I'll just be a minute.

( thunder rolling)

( keyboard clacking)

My mother used
to work nights, too.

ANDREW: I'm sorry?

My mother used
to work nights, too.

Oh. Was she a nurse?

A police officer.

Is she gone?

She was shot and killed
in the line a year ago June.

Ironically, she wasn't
supposed to be on the shift.

She switched shifts that
day 'cause I asked her to.

Hey, Charlie, um...

you know what I think she'd
say if she was here right now?

What?

Same thing my father would say.

"If they're shooting at you,

you know you're
doing something right."

Yeah.

Yeah.

( thunder rolling)

Yeah.

Excuse me.

Aren't you Zoey Bartlet?

It's too much to happen
to someone your age...

Your father and your
mother... and this.

I don't know, I...

Charlie, I mean...

What do you do?

I was going to go vote.

I could come.

Yeah.

Hi.

Hi, Leo.

Uh, Charlie, I'm
looking for the President.

Is anything wrong?

No, no. I, um...

I think he may have
done a couple of numbers

at the talk-radio reception.

Okay. Zoey and I are going out.

I'll be on my pager.

You're going out?

Yeah. Charlie, you're
taking extra protection, right?

Hey, Leo, I...

Secret Service
protection, Charlie,

but thanks for loading
me up with that image.

Yeah, we'll have
extra protection.

Okay.

Something about
a dead pig's skin.

I need to find him.

Okay.

( distant siren wailing)

Everybody should have to
stay inside for three months

so that they truly
appreciate the outdoors.

I appreciate the outdoors now.

I'm an outdoorsman.

Josh? Yeah?

I said I'd let you outside

if you stopped talking
about being an outdoorsman

and if you stopped talking

about theoretical... physics.

Aha! You thought I'd
forget about it, didn't you?

Banner headline five days ago...

"Model for the Unified
Theory Solved."

Banner headline in
the New York Times.

You said

it wasn't going to be news.

Hey, you're wearing my pajamas.

Yes, I am. Take your
coat off. Let me see.

Those are too big.

Yes, they are.

All this time I've
been working with you,

did you also think I was playing

power forward for the
Cleveland Cavaliers?

I think they look good on you.

I think you're both freaks.

( beeps)

What do you have?

You're not going to believe it.

How'd they go?

12 races...

In none of them did
the incumbent win.

In none of them did the party

that previously
held the seat win.

You know how it went?

Seven/five.

You're kidding.

Seven Republicans,
five Democrats?

Yeah.

The House stayed the same?

After... four months
and $400 million,

everything stayed the same?

Yep.

Tell me democracy doesn't
have a sense of humor.

( chuckles dryly)

We sit here, we drink this
beer out here on this stoop

in violation of about...
47 city ordinances...

JOSH: I don't know,
Toby, it's election night.

What do you say
about a government

that goes out of its way

to protect even citizens
that try to destroy it?

God bless America.

God bless America.

God bless America.

DONNA: God bless America.

God bless America.

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