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Previously on The West Wing:

I don't know these people.

You will.

Which one is Toby? I am.

And which one are you?

I'm Josh.

My name's Charlie
Young, by the way.

I'm Donna Moss. Who are you?

I'm just guessing.
I'm pretty drunk.

Which one is Josh?

It's C.J. Cregg.

Toby Ziegler, C.J.
Cregg, Sam Seaborn...

Yeah.

You got to be a little impressed

I got those names
right just now.

Two minutes to air.

Hey, Sam.

Hey, Mark.

You done?

Yeah.

It's not going to be Wengland.

What happened?

He's stuck in Denver.

I wanted Wengland. Yeah.

Did you get Stackhouse?

Couldn't get Stackhouse

couldn't get Santana,
couldn't get Monroe.

Who'd you get?

A woman named Ainsley Hayes.

Aimsley?

Ainsley, with an "n."

I don't know her.

Me neither, but I got a new
producer. He brought her in.

Mark, tell me she's
not one of his...

She is.

I thought that was over.

No, no, it's not.

She's got blonde hair, long legs

and she's a
Republican, so she's...

She's in show business.

Yeah.

A young, blonde,
leggy Republican.

Yeah.

I thought it turned out
they didn't know anything.

They don't.

Sam. Yeah.

Ainsley? Yes.

Mark Godfried.

Ainsley Hayes.

So, we'll be starting
here in about a minute

I understand you've
never done TV before.

No, not as such, no.

Not as such... what
does that mean?

It means no, I haven't
done TV before.

Okay, well, can I give
you a little friendly advice?

Yes, I would appreciate it.

Don't overreach.

Don't overreach?

Don't try to do too much.

Don't try to know
more than you do.

My show's not the place
for you to become a star.

Okay. You'll be
opposite Sam Seaborn.

He's done the show
a couple dozen times.

The White House
wouldn't keep sending him

if he didn't keep
wiping the floor

with whoever's in your chair.

I've seen him.

Don't be scared.

I'll try.

I'll step in, I'll take

some of the punches for
you if it gets out of hand,

but if you don't get too
far from the talking points...

I'm sure that somebody
gave you the...

Yeah. Okay, You'll be fine.

30 seconds.

Are we starting with
the education package?

Yeah.

George, you owe me
20 bucks on the 'Skins.

In the Green Room, man.

I'm Sam Seaborn.

Ainsley Hayes.

20 seconds.

You bet with
George on the Skins?

Over, under. How's Josh?

He's good.

Ten seconds.

Here we go.
Remember what I said.

Yeah.

In five, four, three...

Capital Beat, with
Mark Godfried.

Tonight from the right

Republican political
analyst Ainsley Hayes.

And from the left, White House
Senior Advisor Sam Seaborn

with Chris Isan at the Pentagon
and Marjorie Clark in New York.

Good evening.

Before we get to
Chris and Marjorie

tonight on the Capital Beat,

the House is expected
to vote next week

on President Bartlet's $1.5
billion education package.

Sam Seaborn, why is this bill

better than its
Republican counterpart

that the President
vetoed last year?

Because it buys things that
teachers need, like textbooks.

In a fairly comprehensive
study that was done,

an alarmingly high
number of teachers...

40% of the teachers in
Kirkwood, Oregon, for instance...

And Kirkwood, Oregon,
being a fair model

for public school districts
across the country...

40% of the teachers
in Kirkwood, Oregon,

report not having sufficient

textbooks for their students.

The package offered by the
Republican-controlled Congress

offered a grand total

of zero dollars
for new textbooks.

Ainsley Hayes, is that true?

No, it's not.

Is Sam Seaborn lying?

"Lying" is an
awfully strong word.

Do you... Yes, he's lying.

And we should tell the truth

about education.

If you're... The bill
contained plenty

of money for new textbooks...

Also computer literacy,
school safety, physical plant.

The difference is we
wanted to give the money

directly to communities

and let them decide
how best to spend it

on the off-chance that the
needs of Lincoln High in Dayton

are different from the
needs of Crenshaw High

in South Central L.A.

Sam, why did the
President veto the bill?

Because it guaranteed by law

that 95% of the money go
directly into the classroom

and bypass the
pork barrel buffet,

which is troubling to
this president because

he doesn't work for the students

and he doesn't work for
the parents of the students.

He works for the
teachers' union.

Here comes the old...

The bill contained plenty of
money for textbooks, Mark,

and anyone who says
otherwise is flat-out lying.

And we should tell
the truth about this.

Textbooks are important,

if for no other reason

than they'd accurately
place the town of Kirkwood

in California, and not Oregon.

And we're in business.

We'll be back with more
Capital Beat after this.

We're out.

I'm sorry. Did I overreach?

Hey, Sam. Yeah.

This one might know something.

Yeah.

Please, oh, please, let
them not be watching.

Toby, come quick.

Sam's getting his
ass kicked by a girl.

Ginger, get the popcorn.

Captioning sponsored
by WARNER BROS.

There will be photo-op
in the Mural Room

in a half hour with President
Bartlet and President Nimbala

of the Republic of
Equatorial Kuhndu

who's representing
the African nations.

Uh, C.J., is it the
goal of the summit

to get the drug companies
to lower their prices

or is the goal to get
the African countries

to honor U.S. patents?

The goal of the summit
is to get a step closer

to solving 26 million
African AIDS victims.

We're counting on
the drug companies,

we're counting on
the African nations,

we're counting on the
global health community

and they're counting
on the White House

to help broker a solution.

Is the White House prepared

to declare war on
the drug companies?

Well, it sounds like
you already have,

so if we need a button
man, we'll call you.

Thank you, everybody.
Half hour in the mural room.

Carol, we're going to
need to be in three groups.

Yeah.

You know what you
might have mentioned?

It was a 14-minute briefing.

I'm really going to get reviews?

You might have mentioned
that the same drug

that cost $10.80 in Norway,
where nobody needs it,

costs $90.00 in Burundi,
where everybody needs it.

There's nothing keeping these
people here but goodwill, Toby.

They can charge what
they want for their products.

Sounded to me like we intended
to be soft on the drug companies.

Toby, I don't think anybody
expects this White House

to be anything but tough

on American companies
showing a profit.

Damn right.

Where was the '92 World
Copyright Conference?

Geneva. Thank you.

Sam, I've really got to admire

the way you came into work
this morning, head held high.

And I appreciate your
being the one person

who's managed to
abstain from heckling me.

No problem. There's a whole
bunch of women over there.

Why don't you ask
them whether Geneva's

in Switzerland or Oregon?

Go to my office. Okay.
Me and you, 20 Questions

short answer, general
knowledge test right now.

Go to my office.

I'll spot you two questions.
For how much money?

Go to my office.

I'm going to his office.

She's making the
chicken sound now.

Go to my office.

A drug they've
got to buy from us

for four dollars a unit,

they can get generic
from Pakistan for 40 cents.

That's not the only
bargain in Pakistan, Toby.

My girlfriends and I

go for the spring fashions.

It shows.

C.J.

See, he just made a
little dig about my clothes

and that's what's going to
be with me the rest of the day.

C.J., I wanted to
introduce myself.

I'm Bill Kelley from the
Cleveland Courier. Hi.

They're breaking me in
to cover for Tom Johnson.

I've been sitting in
the back. Welcome.

Can I ask you something?

That's what I'm here for.

Do you know anything about

Bonamo Energy selling
drilling equipment to Iraq?

I'm not going to
wave you off the story,

but I can't tell you
anything about it.

If they were selling the Iraqis

drilling equipment,
that would be in violation

of sanctions, wouldn't it?

Grand jury investigations
are secret, Bill.

I can't tell you
any more about it.

I understand. Nice meeting you.

Nice meeting you.

Bill.

Yeah?

Nothing, just...

nothing.

Okay.

Then you've got guys
like Mbeki who turn around

and say that AIDS
isn't linked to HIV

it's linked to poverty.

It is linked to poverty.

Would you to show you
the list of dead millionaires?

He was saying that prostitutes,
migrant laborers, the ill-educated

and victims of sexual
abuse are more likely...

Leo, AIDS is caused by HIV.

You just named a
group of people that have

a higher mortality
rate across the board.

Morning, Charlie. Good
morning, Mr. President.

Where are we?

We're all set, sir,
whenever you're ready.

Thank you.

With the health minister

trying to clear up his comments.

They have a health minister

who doesn't think AIDS
is connected to HIV.

He was clearing up the comments.

Hey, did you see Sam get
pureed last night on Capital Beat?

I didn't see it, but
I have heard tell.

He got diced and sliced by a
woman named Ainsley Hayes.

She's been writing some columns.

I know, I had Charlie
pull them for me.

Where's she been?

She was clerking for Dreifort.

We should hire her.

That'd be funny.

No, I mean it. Mean what?

We should hire her.

Well, you mean as a joke on Sam?

No, not as a joke, I mean
we should hire her as a reality.

We should hire her.

She's a Republican.

So are half the
people in this country.

Well, that half lost...

She's smart. She's
not just carping.

She feels a sense of something.

Of what? Mr. President.

Yeah... of duty, of civic duty.

How many pieces
by her did you read?

Three.

And you're certain of
her sense of civic duty?

I can sense civic
duty a mile away.

Good morning, Mr. President.

Good morning.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning, Mr. President.

Good morning, sir.

You can tell your
caption editors

that Bartlet's the
third guy from the right.

Thank you, sir.

Presidents Bartlet
and Nimbala will take

just a few questions.

President Bartlet. Katie.

This is a summit among leaders

of American pharmaceutical
companies and the AIDS-ravaged

African nations that President
Nimbala is representing here.

Is there a political upside

to only having President
Nimbala at this photo-op and not

the pharmaceutical companies?

Yes, Katie, I'm trying to
shore up the sub-Saharan vote.

Mr. President, are
you considering

asking Congress to
forgive existing debt?

It's an international
health crisis.

There's nothing
I'm not considering.

Arthur.

President Nimbala,

what's the best you could
hope to come away with

from this summit?
What's a home run?

A miracle.

There are people who
make miracles in the world.

One of them lives
right here in the U.S.

He realized that vital
elements could be harvested

from the stalk of the wheat.

In his hands, India, which
at the time had been ravaged

by drought and overpopulation,

in his hands, the wheat crop
increased from 11 million tons

to 60 million tons annually.

That's right; his name is
Norman Borlaug, by the way,

and he won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1970.

Thank you, Mr. President.

President Nimbala.
Thank you, everyone.

I think you're absolutely right

about the kind of
miracle we need.

I think we're going to
make a lot of progress

in the next couple of days.

I hope so, Mr. President.

My country is dying.

It was called dwarf wheat,
which produces heavy yields

without its stalk falling over
from the weight of the grain.

Was it a hybrid?

What am I, Farmer Bob?

It was wheat and there was
more than there used to be.

Okay. And hire that girl.

What girl?

Ainsley Hayes.

No.

Why?

'Cause this is
one of those things

you're excited
about after breakfast

that you forget you
told me to do by lunch.

Not one of those.

It is one of those.

Leo, hard as you might try,

the Republican Party
isn't going anywhere.

We don't know
that for sure, sir.

They could all end up
moving to Vancouver.

I don't think so.

Me neither, but being in power

means everybody else can
take a seat for four years.

Charlie, I want to hire a woman

whose voice I think would
fit in nicely around here.

She's a conservative Republican.

You think I should do it?

Absolutely, Mr. President,

'cause I'm told that theirs
is the party of inclusion.

See, Charlie just
made a joke to you

in the Oval Office.

That's how bad an idea it is.

Leo.

Seriously, Mr. President,

if you want to do this, it's
not an uninteresting notion.

Let's just do it in a
more high-profile place...

Put a Republican in the Cabinet.

We might do that, Leo.

A hundred million Republicans...

We might hire as
many as two of them.

But for now, hire this girl.

To do what?

I don't know. She's a lawyer.

Put her in the Counsel's office.

You really want me to do this?

Yes.

What if she doesn't
want to work here?

Appeal to her sense of duty.

Smooth it over with the staff.

Really, I don't want
to hear from them.

She can always have
my job, you know.

Yes, she can.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you.

And Charlie.

Yes, sir?

When they close the
book on me and you,

it will say that at this moment,
you were not there for me,

and for that, obviously,

there'll be some
kind of punishment.

Well, you could sing Puccini
for me again, Mr. President.

We'll call it even.

And anyone who says
otherwise is flat-out lying.

Here it comes.

Does anybody know...

Shh! Shh!

Textbooks are important

if for no other reason

than they'd accurately
place the town of Kirkwood

in California, and
not in Oregon.

Oh, I could watch
that a hundred times.

Does anybody know
how to work Caller I.D.?

Oh, how can you not know
how to use a telephone?

I've been paying
attention to other things.

Well, pay attention to that

because Bruce's friend
is going to call you.

The agent? Yep.

I don't need an agent.

I need a Caller I.D. tutorial.

You need an agent, Ainsley.
You're going to be a star.

Used to be you had
to sing and dance.

You are going to
get a lot of work

ripping these people to shreds
and looking good doing it.

That's an actual job now?

That's him.

Let's see. I push this button...

the phone number appears...

Ainsley?

"202-456-1414."

Is that the agent?

It's the White House.

Hey, Sam.

Excuse me?

What?

Did you say something to me?

I-I said, "Hey, Sam."

Really?

Yeah.

'Cause it sounded like maybe
you might have made a wisecrack

about Oregon and California.

Sorry. Out of luck.

Hey, C.J.

Hi, Donna.

Just getting here?

Yeah.

It's late for you.

I got lost.

Where?

On the way to work.

When? Now! This morning.

You got lost on
your way to work?

Good morning, Carol.

Morning, Carol.

Morning, Sam. It's 8:15.

We'll do messages in a minute.

You got lost on
your way to work?

Don't make fun of me.

I wouldn't worry about that.

I didn't sleep much last night.

How much did you
sleep? None. Not at all.

You slept none? Not at all?

Sam... I am today
particularly excited

about you being the
spokesperson for the President.

Let me ask you something.

I was talking yesterday

to a reporter who's
new in the room

and he asked me a
question, and-and my answer...

Let me ask you something.

C.J.?

Yeah?

You know you haven't
asked me anything yet, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, listen. Never mind.

C.J.?

Seriously, forget about it.

What was your question?

The two of you

come take a walk with me.

What's going on?

I wanted to tell you this
out where there were people,

so you wouldn't scream about it.

Scream about what?

The woman who was

on Capitol Beat with
Sam Sunday night.

What about her?

I'm offering her a job.

Where?

Here.

Are you kidding? No.

Are you kidding? No.

Are you kidding?!

No.

Well, what the
hell made you think

I wouldn't scream
where there are people?!

I took a shot.

Leo! Leo!

Shh! Outside.

I don't feel that I've
honed in on this.

Oh, a lot of people in Africa

with HIV.

Right.

American companies
hold the patents

on the medicines they need. Yes.

Most people in most
African countries

can't afford to buy the
drugs at these prices,

so they buy them
on the black market.

In violation of U.S. patents

and international treaties.

Yes. How prohibitively
priced are the drugs?

Costs about 150 bucks a week.

Well, that's not
totally off the charts.

A police officer in Kenya
makes $43 a month.

Do good in there.

This isn't about prof...

Sir...

This isn't about profit...

Sir, you have

interrupted me again.

My apologies, Mr. President.

How can you tell us

this isn't about
profit maximization?

Why do you sell Emperex

for half the price in Norway

than you do in my country?

I don't think that's the issue.

Let's make it the issue. Toby...

Let's make it the
issue for the moment.

You can't compare
prices worldwide, Toby.

Sir. Excuse me, sir?

Yes.

I was the one who asked you

the question, and
I'd appreciate it

if you directed
your answer to me.

President Nimbala...

when you sell to
small pharmacies,

as we do in Norway,
a different price is set.

Norway...

Norway, $10 per unit U.S.;
my country, $23 per unit U.S.

Retail markup, taxes,
pharmacy discounts...

These things vary widely.

Not to mention the
fact we don't even know

if the drugs are
getting to your citizens.

You're implying corruption
and incompetence.

We do have reports
of that, Mr. President.

You talk to me about corruption?

What are your annual
sales of Fluconazole alone?

A billion dollars.

I don't understand
your point, sir.

I think President
Nimbala's saying

there's more money
in giving a white guy

an erection than curing
a black guy of AIDS.

Sir, my company

has given away over
$120 million worth

of free drugs a year

including free
doses of Xyclacinth,

which is one of two
drugs in your country

curing eye infection right now.

They're not dying from
eye infections, Alan.

Well, they're not dying
'cause of me either, Toby,

and I'd like not to
be talked to this way.

Alan, if it was 26
million Europeans dying,

we'd have had a
solution yesterday.

How much would it cost
for you to provide free drugs

to the Sahelese Republic, Kenya,

and the Republic of
Equatorial Kuhndu?

I have no idea.

Why not? We're talking
about 130,000 patients,

200-milligram pills, three
times a day, every day.

What's the "x" factor?

We don't know
how long they'll live.

We're nowhere.

Let's take a break.

Leo, she's here. Yeah?

Good. Should I send her in?

Yeah.

Do you want me to stay here?

Why?

In case something should happen.

What would that be, exactly?

I'll bring her in.

Thank you.

Ainsley.

Mr. McGarry.

Leo's fine.

Yes, sir.

Were you offered coffee

or something to drink?

Yes, the woman
who works out there,

who I imagine is your secretary,

offered me coffee
or a soft drink.

Okay, so...

She was also kind
enough to ask for my coat.

Excellent, and...

She seems to be a
very good secretary.

Well, she'll be
happy to hear that.

She's standing right
outside the door.

Ow.

So, I have to tell you,

I've never seen Sam
Seaborn get beat

the way you beat him on Monday.

Yes, well, Mr. McGarry...

Leo.

Yes, sir, I've been
thinking about that

ever since your office
called me on Tuesday

and I have something
to say on my own behalf,

if you'll permit me
a moment to say it

and I understand if you won't,

but I would really
appreciate it if you did.

I didn't really follow
that, but whatever.

I think that it is wrong
for a man in your position

to summon someone
to the White House

to reprimand them
for voicing opposition.

I think that that is wrong

and it is inappropriate.

It's inappropriate, and
I'll tell you what else...

It's wrong? Yes.

That's fine, except you weren't
summoned here to be reprimanded.

Well, then if you'll permit
me, why was I summoned?

You have an interesting
conversational style,

you know that?

It's a nervous condition.

I used to have a
nervous condition.

How did yours manifest itself?

I drank a lot of scotch.

I get sick when
I drink too much.

I get drunk when
I drink too much.

Well, Mr. McGarry... Leo.

Yes, sir, I'll ask again.

For what purpose was
I brought here today?

So I could offer you a job.

I'm asking because I
do not think that it is fair

that I be expected to
play the role of the mouse

to the White House's
cat in the game of...

you know the game.
Cat and mouse?

Yes, and it's not like
I'm not, you know...

The fact that I may not look

like some of the
other Republicans

who have crossed your path

does not mean that I am
any less inclined toward...

Here it comes.

Did you say offer me a job?

Yes. Associate
White House Counsel.

You're to report to the
Deputy White House Counsel

who reports to the White House
Counsel, who reports to me.

I'm sorry. A job in
this White House?

You want a glass of scotch?

Yes, please.

C.J.?

Yeah.

C.J., see a sleep doctor,
take a pill, do something.

I rode the life-cycle this
morning for an hour and a half.

If it was a real cycle, I'd
have been in Belgium by now.

C.J., what did you want
to ask me the other day?

Sam, if I talked to you about
it, you could be subpoenaed.

Don't worry about it.

It could cost you, and...

Don't worry about it.

I do worry about it.

There's no problem.

I just need some sleep.

What can I bring into the room

about the conference?

The sessions are productive.

Progress is being made.

These kind of things take time.

All the parties are optimistic.

Are any of the
parties optimistic?

No.

C.J.?

Yeah.

Did you say something to me?

No.

'Cause... I thought you
might've said something to me.

I have always been a Republican.

My father

is a Republican.

His father was State Chairman

of the North Carolina
Republican Party.

Yes.

When I was young, I
was a Young Republican.

Ainsley, even if you hadn't
already told me all of this...

You know, many, many times...

I would know it anyway
'cause I have this FBI file.

You have my FBI file?

Yes.

I can't believe that.
You have my FBI file?

Yes.

I have an FBI file?

Ainsley.

Mr. McGarry, I loathe

almost everything
you believe in...

Where are you going?

I'm not going anywhere.
I'm standing up,

which is how one
speaks in opposition

in a civilized world.

Well, you go, girl.

I find this administration

smug and patronizing,
and under the impression

that those who
disagree with them

are less than they are,
and with colder hearts.

I don't think that's true.

How many people on your staff

assumed that I was
ambitious, mean and stupid?

None.

C.J. Cregg thinks
you kill your pets.

You don't do that, do you?

No, I don't kill my pets.

I don't have any pets.

I was thinking
about getting a pet...

but that doesn't matter.

The point is... Ainsley.

Yes, sir.

Don't you want to work
in the White House?

Oh, only since I was two.

Okay then.

It has to be this White House?

Ainsley... Mr. McGarry...

The President likes smart
people who disagree with him.

He wants to hear from you.

The President's
asking you to serve...

and everything else is crap.

Think about it overnight.

Come back here

at 6:00 tomorrow and
give me your answer.

Margaret!

How you doing?

Show Miss Hayes
out, would you, please?

This way.

No, you're listening to me,

but you're not understanding me.

No, I'm disagreeing with you.

That doesn't mean
I'm not listening to you

or understanding
what you're saying.

I'm doing all three
at the same time.

You've got to get
out of their face, Toby.

They can get up
any time they want.

We don't have
anything they need.

They need patent
treaties to be enforced.

And they are going
to be enforced.

The pharmaceutical companies

got half the House of
Representatives elected.

Congress is going to
get serious about this.

Pills cost them four
cents a unit to make.

You know that's not true.

The second pill
costs them four cents.

The first pill costs
them $400 million.

They also enjoy
unprecedented tax breaks,

foreign tax credits,

research and
experimentation exemptions

and expensing of
research expenditures,

to say nothing of the fact
that business is pretty good,

so they're going
to cover their bet.

Tell me about Nimbala.

They didn't have cheese.

What is it? It's boysenberry.

A boysenberry Danish?

It's new.

Tell me about Nimbala.

He's a good president, Josh.

He was a great soldier,
a brilliant commander.

He led his people for 28 years.

He can't get ahead of the curve.

He's cursed by geography.

You know what?

If the ground won't
grow anything,

you don't have an economy.

Still, he stands in a room

and he talks about
Norman Borlaug.

He came here himself, Josh.

He didn't send delegates.

I think it's 'cause
he doesn't have any.

I think he's holding his country
together with both hands.

Then let's make sure we
send him back with something,

is my point.

Fellas.

Yeah? They're ready.

Yeah.

Folks, please take your seats.

Good afternoon.

Guess what.

The audit figures
released yesterday

by the Senate Finance
Committee confirmed earlier reports

released by the
Congressional Budget Office

regarding the increased

budget surplus projections.

The CBS projection actually
increased the surplus amount

from two trillion over the
next ten years to 2.2 trillion.

This exceeds even the most

optimistic estimates
published last year

by the White House
Budget Office, of 300 billion

and the CBS projection
last quarter of 900 billion.

Needless to say,
these figures...

Are you new, too? Excuse me?

Are you new, too?

It's my fourth day.

Uh, no.

Maybe you can help me, then.

I'm trying to get somewhere
with drilling equipment

that might've been sold by
Bonamo Energy to the Iraqis

in violation of sanctions.

Now, I asked C.J. about it

and she said there's a
grand jury investigation

and she's not allowed to talk.

If you ask me, she was acting

a little bit... I don't know,

but I hear she hasn't
been able to sleep

and maybe that's because...

She told you there was a
grand jury investigation?

Yeah.

Miss Hayes.

Yeah. This way.

Responsible for a large portion

of the surplus-
to-debt reduction.

Is there an update
on the summit?

With regards to the
progress made here

at the White House summit
for African AIDS relief,

all parties are optimistic

that an agreement
will be reached soon.

I think there's

a more fundamental
problem than marginal cost.

We've been at this for four days

and I still think we
haven't talked about

the fundamental
misunderstanding in Africa

over the basic facts of AIDS.

I don't think there's
a misunderstanding.

A week ago, you people stood up

and said that AIDS

has only a casual
relationship to HIV.

I'm not certain

to whom you're referring
when you say "you people,"

but it was President Mbeki
of South Africa who said that

and not anyone in this room.

I think Mr. Damson

has brought up a hard
truth that should be faced.

What's that?

If tomorrow we made
AIDS medication free

to every patient in your country

as much as they needed

for as long as they needed it,

it would likely make
very little difference

in the spread of the epidemic.

Why?

Anti-HIV drugs
are a triple cocktail.

It's a complicated
regimen that requires

ten pills to be taken
every day at precise times.

Two protease inhibitors
every eight hours,

two combination RTI
pills every 12 hours.

What's the problem?

They don't own wristwatches.

They can't tell time.

We agree that
something must be done,

but we don't think
we're culprits,

and we don't think there is
an easy or obvious solution.

And we think you should be
aware of the dangers involved

in some of the proposals
made here today.

Mr. President, may we
speak with you alone, please?

Ainsley?

Could I... Could you give
me just a moment, please?

Sure.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

I was going to see Leo McGarry.

He asked me come back and
see him again at the end of the day.

I'm Ainsley Hayes.

It's good to meet you.

I'm not taking the job, C.J.

Well... okay.

I just wanted to...

Okay.

C.J., Rule 6 of the Federal
Rules of Criminal Procedure

says you can be prosecuted
for even confirming

a grand jury's been impaneled.

How did you know?

A reporter in your press
room who hasn't read

the Federal Rules of
Criminal Procedure.

Well, someone's going
to tell him eventually.

Who told you?

One of the witnesses
who was called.

What could happen?

18 months. Medium security.

C.J., I'm kidding.

You didn't break the law.

Attorneys and jurors
are under a gag order.

Witnesses are free to
say whatever they want.

And anyone is free

to repeat what they've said.

You know, I'm not
sure that laying low

and hoping nobody noticed
was the best strategy here.

Next time you should
really run it by someone

in the Counsel's Office.

Anyway, I should go see Leo.

Yeah.

President Nimbala.

I'm going to put a deal together

and I want you to agree to it.

What am I agreeing to?

I can get them to
lower their prices,

but you have to
commit your military

your Customs Bureau
and your Ministry of Health.

You have to commit
them to stopping

the influx of black
market HIV drugs

from Korea and Pakistan

and from wherever
else they're coming.

35.8% of our adult
population is infected.

60% of our hospital
beds are occupied

by people who are HIV-positive.

Our Institute of Policy Analysis
says in the coming decade,

50% of all households
in my country

will have at least one
member infected with HIV.

To think I would care
about international patent law

at a time like
this is unrealistic.

Mr. President,

the U.S. Department of Commerce

will put your country
on a watch list.

That's the first step
toward trade sanctions.

Our Congress could
end all aid to your country.

Or you can agree
to what we're saying,

in exchange for
which, we believe

we can get Congress
to forgive the debt

on all your past
development loans

and we believe the
Export-Import Bank

will offer a billion
dollars in loans

to finance the purchase of
American AIDS medication.

Congress won't approve the loan.

Congress won't have to, sir.

The Treasury and the State
Department will review it.

But if we spread the loans out

over several countries in your
region on a case-by-case basis

and if none of the loans
exceed a hundred million dollars,

we don't need
Congressional approval.

That law might change soon.

It's a terrible thing to
beg for your life, terrible.

My father...

Proud.

Proud.

My father was a proud man.

He built homes.

He wouldn't like

what I came here to do.

Yes, he would, Mr. President.

I swear to God he would.

Thank you, sir.

Go tell Leo.

Hi.

Hi.

You know, something
you forgot to mention

about the 95% of the money

going straight
into the classroom

past the pork barrel buffet

was that the school
only got the money

if they agreed not to
distribute condoms.

Well, that's a reason to veto it

because the thing
our public schools need

more than anything else
right now are free condoms.

I'd definitely

make that priority one. Hey.

Where's Leo? He's not here.

You look familiar to me.

You're Aimsley Hayes.

Ainsley, with an "n."

She works here now.

What?

Leo hired her.

What are you talking about?

Leo hired her. He
told me and C.J.

He was waiting to
tell you and Toby.

What was he waiting for?

How the hell do I know, Josh?

Waiting until he hired me,

which he hasn't done
'cause I'm not taking the job.

You're not taking the job?

No, but thank you for talking
to me instead of about me.

Hang on, I'm still back
on "he offered you the job,"

but you're not taking the job?

No, man, why
participate in the process

when you can get a
job commenting on it?

You think because I
don't want to work here

it's because I can get
a better gig on Geraldo?

Gosh, let's see if there could
possibly be any other reason

why I wouldn't want to work

in this White House.

This White House that feels

that government is better
for children than parents are.

That looks at 40 years

of degrading and humiliating
free lunches handed out

in a spectacularly failed effort

to level the playing field

and says, "Let's try 40 more."

This White House that says

of anyone that
points that out to them

that they are cold
and mean and racist

and then accuses Republicans
of using the politics of fear.

This White House that
loves the Bill of Rights

all of them, except
the second one.

This is the wrong place

to talk about guns right now.

I thought your
column was idiotic.

Imagine my surprise.

But for a brilliant
surgical team

and two centimeters
of a miracle,

this guy's dead right now...

from bullets fired from
a gun bought legally.

They bought guns,
they loaded them,

they drove from
Wheeling to Rosslyn

and until they
pulled the trigger,

they had yet to commit a crime.

I am so off the charts
tired of the gun lobby

tossing around words
like personal freedom

and nobody calling them on it.

It's not about personal freedom

and it certainly has nothing
to do with public safety.

It's just that some
people like guns.

Yes, they do.

But you know what's
more insidious than that?

Your gun control position

doesn't have anything
to do with public safety

and it's certainly not
about personal freedom.

It's about you don't like
people who do like guns.

You don't like the people.

Think about that the next time
you make a joke about the South.

Where's Leo?

What?

Where's Leo?

We don't know.

Charlie, you seen Leo?

600? Yes, sir.

Television and
radio? They've got 'em.

When do I see pictures and who's

going to tell me
what I'm looking for?

Ten minutes in
the situation room.

I want Fitzwallace and Nancy.

We're getting in the
early C.I.C. report...

Donna, tell C.J.
it's an open lid.

She knows. They're coming back.

Leo.

Excuse us.

Excuse me, everybody.

Could we have the
room a moment, please?

Sam.

Mr. President, three hours ago,

there was a coup
in your country.

The AFRC has taken the capital.

Where are my children?

We're finding out.

The information's
coming very quickly now

from our people in
Angola and Sudan.

Mr. President,

I think you should sit.

No, thank you.

I'll go now.

No, no, sir, my State Department

is offering you
asylum in the U.S.

Thank you, Mr. President,
but I have to go home.

You can't go home.
You can't go home.

I am the leader.

They have the capital.

They have the radio station.

They have the
television station.

Are there Americans
on the ground?

I'm evacuating the embassy.

Did they close the airport?

Yes.

They will want to arrest me.

They will want
to put me on trial.

You should trade my return

for the safe departure
of the Americans.

I don't need to trade you.

If they won't give
me the Americans,

we'll go and get them ourselves

and they know that

and they'll let them go.

I'd like to call my embassy.

Your embassy is in
exile, Mr. President.

They will shoot you

the moment you
step off the plane.

Thank you.

Please tell me what
is in that message.

We think your brother
and your two sons

are already dead.

We think your wife is
being hidden in Kenya.

You understand, don't you,

why I can't offer
military assistance?

Yes.

Ned, sit with me for a moment.

Sit down, sir.

And you know they just wanted

to hire her so they
could say they did.

Ugh. "Look at us. We
hired a Republican.

"Look at how bipartisan we are.

"We didn't even notice

that she looks
like a Gap dancer."

That's right!

Ainsley! Hey.

Bruce was just telling me.

I couldn't resist.

So they tried to hire you.

Tell me about the
look on McGarry's face.

What?

When you said no.

I, um... couldn't see him.

He had to...

He was called into...

What's wrong?

Nothing.

He had to...

Something happened...

Oh, damn, I wanted you

to say it to his face.

I wanted to see...

I hate these people.

Did you meet anyone there

who isn't worthless?

Don't say that.

Did you meet anyone there

who has any...?

I said, don't say that.

Say they're smug and superior.

Say their approach
to public policy

makes you want
to tear your hair out.

Say they like high taxes
and spending your money.

Say they want to take your
guns and open your borders.

But don't call them worthless.

At least don't do
it in front of me.

The people that I have met

have been
extraordinarily qualified.

Their intent is good.

Their commitment is true.

They are righteous,
and they are patriots.

And I'm their lawyer.

You ever read
Paul Erlich's book?

The Population Bomb?

Yeah. He wrote it in 1968.

Erlich said that
it was a fantasy

that India would
ever feed itself.

Then Norman Borlaug comes along.

See, the problem was
that wheat is top-heavy.

It was falling over on itself

and it took up too much space.

The dwarf wheat...

Guys, it was an
agricultural revolution

that was credited with saving

one billion lives.

Thanks.

It happened.

They executed him in
the airport parking lot.

Okay.

I'll see you Monday.

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