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Previously on The West Wing:

I have a relapsing/remitting
course of MS.

I'm sorry, sir?

I have multiple sclerosis, Toby.

The Vice President's
authority was murky at best!

Are you pissed 'cause
I didn't say anything

or are you pissed

'cause there were 15 people
who knew before you did?

It's seven-and-a-half
months till the Iowa caucus

and no one's been told the
President might not be the nominee.

He's going to run. He
may not have that option.

You think he's going
to need to resign?

There's going to be
hearing upon hearing.

He hasn't broken a law.

Mr. President, at some
point in the near future

we're going to have to
speak to some lawyers.

WOMAN: Go home.

MAN: No.

You were up all night.

Do you know why?

Oliver...

Because my staff's work
on the analysis of HR 437

ignored the Fourth Amendment
implications and instead...

Yes.

Became fascinated with the
Third, Seventh and Eleventh.

Please.

Like you've got to
be a prime number

to get the attention of
the U.S. Supreme Court.

You can really go home
and get a few hours sleep

before you go to the airport.

That's why I was up all night.

Where am I going?

You're going on vacation.

Wait, it's coming back to me.

Oliver... Not a vacation.

It's not a vacation.
You'll have a...

It's a forced vacation.

In Borneo.

It's an international law summit

where I'm supposed
to show my support for...

I'm not certain...

So I have that in my
notes someplace?

WOMAN: Yes.

I need the amicus brief on
Sovereign Immunity... It's there.

Federal Land Use...
MAN: It's there.

Would you like us to
pack your big hammer?

Okay, you know what? Don't
make fun of the big hammer.

The big hammer
happens to be a gavel

given to my father's father
by Justice Louis Brandeis.

I need a Dictaphone.

You've got one on your desk.

It doesn't work.

What's wrong with
it? Doesn't work.

He's asking... It's
stuck on record.

It won't stop recording things,
so it's just what you want

lying around the White
House Counsel's Office

because there's never been
a problem with that before.

I'm putting mine in your bag.

We'll have that one fixed.

Okay, you know what else?

You're going to go home and
sleep until your plane leaves.

I'm fine sleeping
until well after that

but somebody call me
when my car's on the way.

Excuse me, Mr. Babish.

I'm going home.

That was Mr. McGarry's office.

He's on his way down
with the President.

You should fix your tie.

Yeah.

PRESIDENT: I couldn't
disagree more, Cal.

As long as these people

are funding their
public school districts

with property taxes, neither
the value of the schools

nor the value of their
property is going to go up.

It's a vicious circle.

It's terrible and it
has to be stopped.

So we're going to
do something about it.

I wouldn't go that
far. Anything else?

No, sir.

Thank you. Thank you.

Mr. President.

It's a vicious circle, Leo.

Yeah.

It never stops.

Sir... It just goes
round and round...

Look... and round and round.

Let's go see him.

Now?

He's waiting for us.

We really need to see him now?

What better time?

Well... later.

Let's go.

Five White House Counsels
in two-and-a-half years.

Cochran, Gates,
Solomon, Tribbey.

Why can't I keep a
head lawyer around here?

'Cause they all show up thinking

they're going to be a
counselor to the President

and you never let them in.

I don't like new people.

Oliver Babish
isn't a new person.

You know each other.

Your kids know each other.

You built hospitals together.

He was Midwest Finance
Chairman on the campaign.

Never played chess,
though, have we?

No. See?

You're scared of Babish.

Oh, like you're not.

No...

because we are
both men of Chicago.

What is it with
people from Chicago

that they're so happy
to have been born there?

I meet so many people who can't
wait to tell me they're from Chicago

and when I meet them, they're
living anywhere but Chicago.

You wouldn't understand.

He looks down his nose at
me 'cause I'm not a lawyer.

Yes.

I didn't go to law school.

I got a Ph.D. in
economics instead.

Your parents were very proud.

Yeah, and all that happened was

I won a Nobel Prize
and got elected President

so I guess that decision
didn't really pay off.

Yeah.

Should I run back and
get my Nobel Prize?

I think he knows you've got one.

Guy's been here three months

he's got a nicer
office than I do.

He's got a nicer
office than I do.

That matters less to me.

Good morning, Mr. President.

Hey, Oliver.

Come on in.

What are the bags for?

I was just heading
out on vacation.

Oh... oh, gosh.

Oliver, this... Sir...

this can keep. Mr. President...

The man's bags are
packed. Where are you going?

Sarawak.

Asia's best kept secret.

Sir, is there something
you'd like to, uh...?

It's really not even...

I don't want you to
worry that much about it.

Sir...

I'm easing in. Okay.

Well, Oliver, it really
boils down to this:

I'm going to tell you a story
and then I need you to tell me

whether or not I've
engaged 16 people

in a massive criminal conspiracy

to defraud the public in order
to win a presidential election.

Okay.

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JOSH: I'm on my way
to the meeting right now.

Finance, Foreign Relations,
Senate Banking, I guess.

Leo's in a meeting.

Someone's going to call
you every half-hour. Yeah.

Mexico collapsed?

Yeah, can you believe it?

Mexico collapsed
over the weekend.

No, actually, just this morning.

How does a country collapse
on a Monday morning?

By not slowly devaluing the
peso the way I told them to.

You told them to
devalue the peso?

The Treasury Secretary
did, but I was in the room.

Seriously...

Seriously, they're
in big trouble.

Three weeks ago, they fell
to 20 cents against the dollar.

Two weeks ago, the Bolsa Index

took its worst single day fall
in history, and this morning

the Mexican market opened
20% off the Friday close.

What's that in U.S. terms?

It'd be like a 2,000-
point drop in the Dow.

The immediate problem...

You saw this?

I saw it two hours ago,
Toby. Where you been?

I just got here.

We could be screwed on vouchers.

We are screwed on vouchers,
but I want to know who...

Talk to C.J.

Somebody's going
to eat this quote.

He's pretty pissed.

Yeah. I can't worry
about it right now.

So what's the immediate problem?

Mexico's got $30 billion worth
of foreign loans due this week

and they don't have $30 billion.

So what happens now?

♪ Oh-oh, the Wells Fargo wagon
is a-comin' down the street... ♪

Buenos dias, señores y señoras.

Let's find some money.

I've seen it, obviously.

I just haven't spoken
to the President about it.

C.J., can you give us any
kind of sense of what may have

turned the President
around on school vouchers?

The President
hasn't turned around.

Does the House leadership...?

I'm sorry, I have to follow up.

The quote from the senior
White House official says

the President would be willing
to compromise, agreeing to a...

It sounds like the senior
White House official

would be willing to compromise

but I haven't spoken
to the President yet

this morning.

If I could move off the
quote for a moment.

This is from the Coast
Guard Marine Safety

and Environmental
Protection Division.

About three hours
ago, a single-hull VLCC

carrying four million
gallons of crude oil

ran up on a shoal
three miles south

of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

( reporters shouting)

Whoa, whoa, I don't have much.

I'm going to give you
everything I've got.

The hull was punctured

and the tanker is leaking oil.

How many gallons
do you think...?

200,000 gallons so far.

The Coast Guard has set up a
command center with EPA workers

and the state emergency
response team.

The ship belongs
to Kensington Oil.

REPORTER: Does
the ship have a name?

C.J.: Yeah, it's the Indio.

I-N-D-I-O.

The Kensington Indio.

Operations are
already underway...

REPORTER: Containment booms?

C.J.: The Coast Guard has
deployed containment booms

around the vessel,
and they're siphoning oil.

Bonnie, what happened?

What do you mean?

The oil tanker.

I'm hearing it now.

Ginger, what do you
know about the oil tanker?

It hit Delaware.

I'm amazed it found Delaware.

C.J.: The Federal on-scene
Coordinator's scheduled

a press conference
for 2:00 this afternoon

from the Coast Guard
Incident Command Post.

We hope to have much
more information by then.

( all shouting)

Thank you, everybody.

What the hell, C.J.?

Anything good in the
paper this morning?

Who's the "senior
White House official"?

I don't know.

You're telling me
you can't control...

A reporter can just pick up
a phone and call anyone?

Yeah. Why?

'Cause we don't live in Tripoli.

The Republican leaders already
think... Shallick, Ann Stark...

They already think they can get
the votes on a compromise measure.

Look...

All they were
scared of was a veto.

They're going to build it now.

They're going to do it.

And our phones, all day
long, are going to be ringing

with Democrats who want us
dead. Seth Gillette's going to...

Let me tell you something...
this time he's going to be right!

Toby, I'll talk to Leo and Josh.

I'll talk to the President.

I'll get a clarification.

Beyond that, what
do you want me to do?

I want you find out who the
senior White House official was

and put his ass in my
office by the end of the day!

It wasn't me.

I imagine if it was anyone
within the sound of Toby's voice

they'd be looking for
a trapdoor right now.

Is there anything you can
tell me about the tanker?

Carol's going to give you the notes
from the Coast Guard. Do you know

whether it had something
to do with the navigation

or the steering?

All that's being investigated,
but I'm assuming

that when a ship runs into the
shore, it has something to do

with either the
navigation or the steering.

Yeah.

Hey, Sam...

you don't know

who it was, right?

No.

OLIVER: What can you
tell me about this disease

that I don't already know?

Not as much as a doctor.

You should talk to a doctor.

Well, I'm going to talk
to quite a few of them

but let me ask you this:

Is it possible...

for someone with relapsing/remitting
MS to experience an attack

that would include temporary
loss of proper brain function

but exclude any
physical symptoms?

Let me put it another way:

Is it possible that you
could be sitting in this room

have an attack,
and I don't know it?

I think what you're asking is,

is it possible I could be
sitting in the Situation Room

have an attack,
and nobody knows it.

Yes.

Yes.

My vision might get blurry...
You wouldn't know that...

My legs might get numb...

Okay, sir, uh... before
we go any further

there's something that I want
to make sure is absolutely clear.

What's that?

You and I don't enjoy
attorney/client privilege.

What's he talking about?

He's a government lawyer.

The privilege doesn't exist.

So you want to be very careful

about what you say in this
room right now, Mr. President,

because, if subpoenaed
to give a deposition,

I'm not going to lie under oath.

I don't want to be careful
about what I say in this room.

Well, then we should
end this meeting

and you should
retain private counsel.

I want you.

I meant I don't
need to be careful.

Okay.

I'd like to ask you
some questions now.

These are preliminary
and with no preparation

and in no particular order.

Yeah.

Have you ever been
party to a lawsuit?

Have I ever been
party to a lawsuit?

Yes, sir.

I was Governor of New
Hampshire. Anybody who...

I mean a lawsuit in which
you gave a deposition.

( heavy sigh)

A meter reader slipped on a
patch of black ice in my driveway

and I got dragged into some pain-in-the-ass
thing over my great-aunt's will.

And you gave a deposition
in both those cases?

Yeah.

Do you recall any time
in those depositions

when you were asked
about your health?

Oliver, why are we talking
about my great-aunt's will

and the meter reader?

Because if you were
asked about your health

and lied in a deposition,
that's the ball game.

We're all going home.

He never lied.

Leo, I'd like to hear
the President say that.

I never lied.

You never had to testify
under oath about your health?

No.

Never answered
any interrogatories

or depositions
about your health?

No.

Okay.

The First Lady and
your kids, that's four,

the six original doctors
and radiologists, that's ten

your brother, that's 11,

Fitzwallace, the Vice
President and Leo, that's 14...

And the anesthesiologist at GW.

Who's the last one? I'm sorry?

You said 16 people.
Who's the last one?

Toby Ziegler.

PRESIDENT: Yeah. You told him.

When?

LEO: This past Friday night.

How's he taking it?

Not well.

( sighs deeply)

I wouldn't think so.

Mr. President, I have
some more questions.

Is there time now?

Well, the Mexican
economy crashed

an oil tanker busted up
about 120 miles from here

and 13% of Americans
are living in poverty

so, yeah, I can
hang out with you

and answer insulting questions

for awhile.

Good.

JOSH: Treasury's getting it into
legislative language right now.

The Assistant Secretary
for Legislative Affairs...

Carol Villenuevo? Yes.
Says she'll have it for us

in an hour to review it.

That's when the
President's going to call you

and ask you to fast-track it.

He wants you to take it

straight to mark-up and vote.

Josh, my members
are going to need

at least a day
to read the thing.

We understand, but
we don't have a day.

What Josh means is the very
next story in the news cycle

( Toby yelling) has got to be that
the U.S. is guaranteeing the loans.

ED: The Treasury Secretary's
got to make that announcement

when the markets
open tomorrow morning.

We need a vote tonight.

Yeah, listen, uh,

the next story in the news cycle

has got to be that the U.S.
is guaranteeing the loans.

These guys just said that.

All right, you understand
we may not have

anything ready till 2:00,
3:00 in the morning.

The President doesn't mind
staying up late to sign his name.

You also understand

no one here has said yes yet.

I noticed that.

All right.

Uh... you mind if we
use the room to talk?

Not at all.

You mind talking fast?

I do it for a living.

Shout to somebody
if you need coffee.

How's it going in there?

The number of people
whose permission I need

before I can do
whatever the hell I want...

Let me tell you something...

There's really a lot
to be said for fascism.

Funny you should mention that.

Toby?

He wants me to find the leak.

You should.

No problem. Was it you?

No.

Okay. Well, then,
now I'm stumped.

C.J...

Josh, when there's
a leak, I do what I do.

Finding the person is usually
impossible under benign circumstances

but with Toby blasting
around the halls

whoever it was has
gone so far underground

we could start our
search in Beijing.

What about asking Cashin?

Cashin isn't going to
roll over on a source.

Then you've got to get a
swinging light bulb in there

and just do it.

Yeah, this from the guy who
had four kinds of aneurysms

when he had to interrogate
the staff on drug use.

That was a lot different.

'Cause it was you?

No, because that
was an investigation

into personal behavior.

This guy compromised
a policy initiative.

That's a fair point

and I'm not saying it's not bad,

I'm just saying I'm
not going to find him.

You're absolutely
not going to find him.

But I should spend
the day doing it anyway.

Yes. Because Toby's pissed.

Hey, you know what?

I've found that
if you accept that

as a good enough reason
for doing something,

life becomes easier.

Thanks for the
fortune cookie wisdom.

You bet.

Josh?

You just lurk there
in the shadows, like...

Whatever.

What are you doing?

I'm doing things,
things with paper.

Can you do them later?

Why?

So you're not doing them now?

I had a couple questions,
if you don't mind.

About what?

The Mexico bailout.

Can you ask them later?

Later it might be a done
deal, and before you send

$30 billion of my
money to Mexico

I'd like to ask a few questions.

Okay, it's going to be
one of these now, right?

Yeah.

You object to the bailout?

I do.

Because in the world
of Donnatella Moss,

we should love one another
just as long as it doesn't

cost you anything.

Well, yes, I suppose that's one
small-minded way of putting it.

Close the door.

Donna?

With me on the other side?

Thank you.

Hey.

CHARLIE: How are you doing?

Is he back yet?

No.

Hey, you decided yet?

Theology 201: Intro
to Biblical Literature.

Why?

So the President
will stop bugging me.

And English 201:
Texts and Contexts.

What happened to
molecular biology?

It's closed out for
the summer session.

How many AP credits do
you have from high school?

I have six in English

six in math and calculus

three in European history

and three in French.

You're telling me you've
never been to college

and after taking two
classes this summer

you're going to
be, like, a junior?

With a pretty decent GPA.

Charlie, just how smart are you?

I've got some game.

GINGER: Sam?

She's here? Yeah.

Thanks.

Excuse me.

Lieutenant?

Mr. Seaborn?

Sam.

Emily.

You look exactly the way
you sound on the phone.

You look exactly the
way you look on the news.

Thanks for coming by.

It's no problem.

I'm surprised to see
you in a dress uniform

on a day like you
must be having today.

We're required to wear the
Class-As for any business

on the Hill or in
the White House.

I never knew that.

You never noticed
that every soldier

sailor and Marine who's walked in
here has been in a dress uniform?

I'm less visually
observant than others

but I make up for it. How?

With cunning and guile.

Okay.

What happened to the ship?

It suffered some
kind of malfunction

causing a steering loss
about ten miles offshore.

The captain dropped
anchor to avoid a run-in

with other marine traffic.

If he dropped anchor ten
miles out, what's he doing here?

The anchor broke.

The anchor broke? Anchors break?

Yeah. I want you to try
and guess something.

A ship of a size and
gross tonnage of the Indio

steaming at 18 knots

how long do you think it takes
to come to a complete stop

from the moment the
bridge cuts the engines

and throws the
props into reverse?

I don't know.

A couple football
fields, probably.

Six miles.

Six miles?

There's no anchor that
stops that boat at 18 knots.

Okay, so the thing's drifting
out there... Which is when we got

a "dead in the water" mayday and
we sent out the Tallahassee to tow it in.

What happened
to the Tallahassee?

25-foot seas

wind out of the
north-northeast at 40.

So it made for port.

With every intention
of going back out there.

But the wind from
the northeast...

Yeah, and the tidal pull...

pushed the Indio into shore.

How bad is this
going to end up being?

Bad.

Everyone's in it...

Coast Guard, EPA,
NTSB, state, local...

But there are only so
many pairs of hands

and, you know,
getting oil out of water.

You try it sometime.

Yeah. Listen, thanks
again for coming by.

You want me to keep
you posted during the day?

I'd appreciate it.

Good luck.

Thanks.

Mr. President, do you
have life insurance?

No.

You have a wife and three
kids and no life insurance?

I have accidental
death insurance

as well as considerable
personal worth.

Were I to die, my family would
not miss my government salary.

What about health insurance?

I don't have any anymore.

Why not?

I'm the husband of a doctor

and as a Governor and President

the various governments
I've led generously...

Yeah, let me cut to
the end of the page, sir.

Have you ever
signed any document

for health insurance
or life insurance

or any document
which falls under

the pains and penalty of perjury

in which you are
asked about your health

and did not disclose
you have MS?

No.

( knocking)

Yeah.

You should probably

make the call.

Yeah.

Excuse me.

What do you think?

I am nowhere close

to being able to
answer that question.

C.J., you wanted to
see Jamie Hotchkiss?

No, but yes.

Jamie?

Hey, Jamie, how are you doing?

I'm a little pissed about
the quote this morning.

I know how you feel.

My team's been working
on this for nine months.

You can't get leverage
with a rubber crowbar.

They are going to jump on this.

Yes, and I-I'd like

to ask you some questions.

Sure.

There was a meeting
about vouchers

in the Roosevelt
Room last Thursday.

Were you part of it?

I've been in on
all those meetings

from the beginning.

Right, and have you
talked to Terry Cashin

of the Baltimore Sun
in the last four days?

What?

I was wondering, if
in the last four days...

You're asking
me if I'm the leak?

I was going to be a
little more circumspect.

I can tell. Jamie...

I've been working on
this for nine months.

And frankly... and I don't
say this to you enough...

Doing a very good job.

Thank you.

Do you happen to know

who the leak is?

Listen up: I'm not the leak.

I don't know who the leak is.

If I did, I wouldn't tell you.

Any other questions?

No, no. We
wrapped that up tight.

Thank you.

Carol?

Yeah?

How many more
of these do I have?

1,138.

Okay, after five of them,
I'm just going to confess.

Ready for the next one?

Sure.

They're not done meeting yet?

In the Roosevelt Room?

Yeah.

No. Okay.

You got a phone message.

From who?

Frank Kelly.

Who's he?

He's a textiles worker
in South Carolina

making $12.17 an hour
with no health insurance.

His two kids go
to public school.

The school's fine,
but they've had to cut

art and music for
budget reasons,

and Frank's ten-year-old is
just nuts about the trumpet,

so the mom does
telemarketing at night

after the kids have gone to bed

to pay for lessons
and rent an instrument.

Not that art and
music are important

or that any of us had any fun

or met friends doing it.

Frank obeys the
law and pays his bills.

He also pays his taxes,

and he called to thank you

for sending his money to Mexico.

Does he want me to call back?

Josh...

No, why don't you call him back.

Why don't you call him
back and remind him

that the Mexican consumers
who buy his textiles

can't afford to
buy them anymore.

Frank will be laid off,
which isn't a problem.

There are plenty
of jobs out there

for a 48-year-old
textiles worker

just as long as he's trained
in high-tech computers

and/or medical research.

Oh, like the $30 billion
is going to make it

into the pocket of
Mexican consumers.

Eventually it does

and we're not giving
them the money.

We're giving them our
credit card and paying the bill.

It's a loan.

We did the same
thing six years ago.

The loan was paid
back ahead of schedule.

And we did the same thing
four years before that, too, right?

Yes. And five years before that?

Yes. AA's definition

of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again

expecting a different result.

I'm not cheap, nor
am I xenophobic.

I just think it's time
for some tough love.

Well, not right here in
front of everybody, Donna

but if you want to run home
and get your equipment...

Go away from me.

The telemarketing
was a nice detail

but you should've
said, "scrubbed floors."

I thought it'd be too much.

Yeah, probably.

( knocking)

Come in.

( Bach playing on stereo)

Hey.

Hello, Sam.

You did some decorating.

Yeah.

A woman's touch.

It was a guy named Kirk.

Hang on. I know this
piece of music. I love it.

Isn't it great?

No, but there's
a reason I like it.

Well, it's beautiful.

But there's another
reason. Hang on.

It's called "Air on a G String."

Could that be...?

Yes.

Thank you.

What do you need?

A lawyer.

Well, you came
to the wrong place.

Seriously.

Are you in trouble?

No, I'm not.

I just want to ask
you some questions.

You've been covering

the Attorneys General

for Maryland and
Delaware this morning, right?

On the oil spill? Yeah.

They'll hold a joint
press conference

this afternoon to announce
that they're seeking damages.

How much?

Who can say at this
point, but if I had to guess

I'd say in the area
of $100 million

for cleanup costs

probably another $300
or $400 million punitive.

I know how you feel
about these things, trust me.

Kensington's going to
pay it through the nose.

No, they're not.

I think you're wrong.

Somebody's going to pay.
It's not going to be them.

You think their liability
shield is that strong?

I do. How do you know?

'Cause I'm the one who
bought them the boat.

I bought the Indio for them

when I was at Gage Whitney.

Wow.

Talk about your chickens
coming home to roost.

Yeah, but what I
was thinking was this.

I know this is going
to sound crazy

but I was thinking,
if I could be deposed

for the plaintiffs...

Why?

Because.

Look, I was very proud of myself
for making such a great deal

and it really sealed it
for me with the partners

and they were about
to make me one

and it really didn't bother
me that the boat was cheap

for a reason, but then

at the 11th hour, I
had a change of heart.

For whatever reason,
I had a change of heart

and I told them the
boat wasn't good enough

particularly with regards

to the steering and
navigation systems

which, of course,
they already knew

and I suggested they spend
more money, and they said...

Stop talking right now.

$11 million extra
dollars. Sam...

They laughed me out of the room.

Stop talking, or
I'm walking out.

You know better.

Neither you nor your clients

abdicated attorney/client
privilege when you left Gage.

If you gave that deposition,
you'd be disbarred

and even if you were willing to
be disbarred, there's no judge

in the country who'd
allow privileged testimony.

Ainsley, unless a
company like this

is forced to fork
over so much money

they don't want to go on living,
unless they're compelled to pay

$500 million,
there's no incentive

for them to pay
the extra $11 million

to make the boat safer.

Yes.

All right.

It was just an idea.

Hey, you never know.

With the liability shield?

Maybe you're not
as good as you think.

Yeah, I am.

You still filling
out forms, Charlie?

Well, I'm going to
be filling out forms

for quite some time.

It's basically going
to be my major.

What is going to be your major?

I really don't know.

You going to join the glee club?

I don't think so,
Mrs. Landingham.

Oh, glee club's important.

I'm only going to have time

for a couple of
classes at night.

I'm not going to be
able to be that gleeful.

How about fencing?

Fencing? MARGARET:
You're taking fencing?

I'm not taking fencing.

He's not taking
glee club, either.

Fencing's good

'cause you learn the
philosophy of self-defense.

Well, I usually don't
get a lot of people

pulling an epee on
me in my neighborhood

and my philosophy
of self-defense

has a lot to do with running
as fast as I possibly can.

These forms are really out
of control, you know that?

Look at this: six
forms for financial aid,

three forms for housing, and
I'm not using their housing,

a form for roommate preference,

and I'm not using their housing,

emergency contacts,

general activity information,

transfer of credits

and a 14-page form...

MARGARET: What?

MRS. LANDINGHAM: Charlie, what?

Hang on, please.

Margaret, I need
to speak to Leo.

He's in a meeting
with Oliver Babish.

CHARLIE: Yeah. I know.

I'm sorry, I need to speak
to him right now, please.

Tell him it's an old
friend from home.

You sure?

Yeah.

He's acting a little
pissy, wouldn't you say?

You're a little pissy
too, there, my friend.

Yeah, well, I'm pissed.

No kidding.

You weren't when you found out?

I was

but then I remembered.

What?

That I'm a drunk, and
he didn't give a damn.

You guys going to go public?

I don't know.

What do you think?

Not up to me.

Up to the policy advisors.

Well, I think you're
about to be one of them.

I don't know if I'm staying yet.

You're staying.

Why?

'Cause I'm running this
show, and I picked you.

I didn't bring you here

for amicus briefs.

Leo...

I mean, in the two
and a half hours

we've been sitting here

have you discovered one thing

that he's done wrong? No.

So, what's your problem?

That's my problem, Leo.

Are you out of your mind?

He did everything right.

He did everything
you do if your intent

is to perpetrate a fraud.

( knocking)

Come in.

Excuse me.

Mr. McGarry,
Margaret just called

to say that Charlie Young
needs to speak with you.

I can't right now.
It'll have to wait.

She said to mention something

about an old friend from home.

I'll be right back.

What is it?

Charlie, you can talk to me.

What is it?

Charlie...

When Zoey and Ellie

went to college...

when they went to college

they would've had to
fill out a health form.

What are you...?

On the form, they ask
for a number of things...

including a complete
family medical history.

God...

Charlie...

How did you know he was sick?

How did you know that
the President was sick?

Charlie...

Leo...

If you're under 18 when
you start as a freshman...

if you're under 18, you
need a parent's signature.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm sorry, I know...
No, it's okay.

I just thought it was...

You did... you absolutely
did the right thing.

Okay.

Okay.

Go back to work.

Margaret?

I need to see

all of Zoey Bartlet's admissions
paperwork for Georgetown.

I don't think they'll
release that to me.

No, you call Pat
Carr, the family lawyer

and you tell him I want it.

Can I tell him why?

Margaret, just get it
right now, would you?

C.J.: And Josh was in

the Roosevelt Room
meeting last Thursday, right?

Yes. And do you recall him

talking to you
about what went on?

I don't know. He might
have. I don't know.

It's important. I'll
try and remember.

'Cause somebody might've
overheard you talking to him.

Yeah, there's so
much to remember.

( heavy sigh)

Are you okay?

I'm just... I'll be fine.

And...

and you yourself didn't
talk to anybody, did you?

Donna?

C.J., I can't...

What?

I can't lie like this anymore.

Are you saying it was you?

I feel horrible. I should've
said something before

but I was afraid
of what you'd...

No, it's okay.

No, Let me get
this off my chest.

It was me. I called
Terry Cashin.

Why?

I don't know.

Why does anybody do anything?

What are you talking about?

I'm a madwoman, C.J.,

and it doesn't
stop with the leak.

What do you mean?
Call the authorities.

Send them to my
parents' house in Madison.

Why?

They'll find the Lindbergh baby

in the basement. Okay...

Also some post-its reminding
me where I put Jimmy Hoffa.

Get out!

I framed Roger Rabbit.

Get out.

I'm going to the place.

You want a salad?

Thanks.

Carol?

Did you confess?

She didn't let me get to Whittaker
Chambers and the secret pumpkin.

You got a phone call
while you were in there.

From who?

Europe in 1939.

Yeah?

Yeah, I jotted it down.

Apparently they're at war

but we've taken a firm
stand as an isolationist nation

and refuse to get involved.

Our resources are our own

and their problems are on
the other side of the world.

Though they do have problems.

It sounds to me from
what they said on the phone

that France, Austria and England

are getting absolutely
pounded by the Germans

and with no end in sight.

They say that by 1941

they're going to
desperately need our help

if they have any
chance of survival

but I think they're
just being hysterical.

This son of a customs agent

with the Charlie Chaplin
mustache ain't going anywhere

but there's no telling
that to Franklin Roosevelt

who's trying to
convince his country

they need to get involved.

That's why he came with this.

An 8th grade social
studies textbook?

Turn to the page I flagged.

The Lend-Lease Act.

Yeah. Simply put, a loan
of arms to Russia and Britain

with the understanding

that they'd pay us back
when the war was over

and he said this.

He said if your
neighbor's house is on fire

you don't haggle over the
price of your garden hose.

Frank Kelly in South
Carolina wouldn't.

There are too many things
in the world we can't do.

Mexico's on fire.

Why help them?

Because we can.

Did they agree to the money?

Yeah.

Okay.

ZACH: You shouldn't
feel bad about this.

Everyone hates me.

Nah, they'll get over it.

You think?

Sure. You're just
doing your job.

That's exactly right.

And this is really important.

You're the first one
who's understood that.

You mind if I give
you a suggestion

that may make this go faster?

Sure.

If you dunk the suspect

in a deep well of
water and they drown

it means they're not a witch.

All right. That's it.

I saw Lizzie Proctor
speaking with the devil!

Shut up.

720,000 gallons covering
close to 100 square miles.

10,000 blue and
horseshoe crabs are dead

so that's a $25 million industry

that can start looking for
jobs at the local Dairy Queen.

12,500 starfish,
flounder and bass.

$342 million estimated
loss to the tourism economy

based on beach communities.

You ever wonder why
you never hear anything

about a boatload of Honda Civics

spilling into the ocean?

What?

Were you listening?

Yeah.

No. I'm sorry, no.

Excuse me.

Sam, would you mind?

No.

It's me, okay?

I am Spartacus.

Look...

It was a leak. Leaks happen.

They've happened since
the beginning of time...

In this White House,
in every White House.

There's no malicious intent.

Things get out.

It's a company town.

Everybody talks to everybody

and junior staffers try
to impress reporters

by showing they're in the know.

There is no group of
people this large in the world

that can keep a secret.

I find it comforting.

It's how I know for sure

the government isn't covering
up aliens in New Mexico.

Toby, I've issued
a blanket e-mail

to 1,100 staffers
about the incident.

I've asked the President

to let me make a clarification
for tomorrow morning.

I've seen to it it'll
be on page one.

We're not going to lose

an inch of ground
in the negotiation.

No, we're not.

No, we're not

and you knew that
since this morning.

Yes, I did.

Yeah. So what's this about?

This is small potatoes.

I want to know

when the big potatoes
come, are we up for it?

Big potatoes?

Toby, we ran for election.

We lived through Leo and
booze, Sam and prostitutes

India and Pakistan

Colombia and a
failed rescue mission.

Are there bigger
potatoes someplace?

No.

Toby...

Yeah?

Why are you lying to me?

I'm not.

Thanks for doing
that stuff today.

It was...

Thanks.

Sit down. Don't be scared.

My youngest daughter's
got a big mouth.

No, she doesn't, sir.

She wanted me
to be on the lookout

for certain physical signs
so I could tell the First Lady.

( sighing)

We won't discuss this
anymore for the time being.

It'll be public soon enough,

and the more conversations
you have with me,

the more lawyers you're
going to have to talk to,

and they bill in an hour what
you take home in a week,

so we won't discuss
it except to say this...

You're going to be subpoenaed.

I'm confident in
your loyalty to me.

I'm confident in
your love for me.

If you lie to protect me,

if you lie just once,

if you lie just a little,

if you lie 'cause you can't
stand what's happening to me

and the people making it happen,

if you ever,

ever lie...

you're finished with
me, you understand?

Yes, sir.

Say you understand.

I understand, sir.

Go back to work.

Yes, sir.

Is there anything you need?

I need you to go to law school

and graduate as soon
as humanly possible.

Yes, sir.

Good evening, Mr. President.

Well, I've got good
news for you, Oliver.

Turns out I didn't do
everything right after all.

Zoey had to fill out a family
history form for Georgetown

and because she was
17, a parent had to sign it.

And she left off the MS?

Yeah.

And you signed it?

I'd give anything if I had.

It was Lady Macbeth.

There's a bad
moon rising, Oliver.

We both know it.

They're going to
take me out for a walk.

This isn't what
you signed up for.

Leo begged you to take this job.

This isn't what
you signed up for.

If you leave, I'd
appreciate it if you did it now

so it doesn't look like
my lawyer bailed on me

when the rain starts.

No one's going to
hold it against you.

Well, I appreciate
that, Mr. President.

If I stay, will you do
exactly what I tell you to do?

I guess it depends.

No, I'm afraid it
can't depend, sir.

What would my first step be?

First tell your staff.

Yeah.

Then, decide how to make
a public announcement.

Yeah.

Then order the Attorney General

to appoint a special prosecutor.

Not just any
special prosecutor...

The most blood-spitting

Bartlet-hating
Republican in the bar.

He's going to have
an unlimited budget

and a staff like an army.

The new slogan around here
is going to be "Bring it on."

He's going to have access

to every piece of
paper you ever touched.

If you invoke executive
privilege one time, I'm gone.

An assistant DA in Ducksworth

wants to take your deposition

you're on the next plane.

A freshman Congressman
wants your testimony

you'll sit in his kitchen.

They want to drag
you to the Hague

and charge you with war
crimes, what do we say?

Bring it on.

I'll be in my office for
a while if you need me.

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