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MAN: The defeat and breakup
of the Soviet empire,
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culminating in the crumbling
of the Berlin Wall,
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is one of the great events
of world history.
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There were many heroes
in this battle,
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but to Charlie Wilson must
go this special recognition.
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Just 13 years ago, the Soviet
Army appeared to be invincible.
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But Charlie, undeterred,
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engineered
a lethal body blow
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that weakened
the Communist empire.
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Without Charlie,
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history would be hugely
and sadly different.
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And so,
for the first time,
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a civilian is being given
our highest recognition,
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that of Honored Colleague.
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Ladies and gentlemen
of the Clandestine Services,
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Congressman Charles Wilson.
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(SOUL MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)
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It'd be like Dallas.
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CRYSTAL: That's right.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like Dallas but set
in Washington.
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Yeah.
And you should say it just like that.
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When I pitch it.
You should say it just...
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"Oh, this is fucking great."
You should say it just like that.
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Dallas set
in Washington D.C.
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You know, with the
intrigue and the power plays
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and the overt
natural sex.
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The glamour,
the power.
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CRYSTAL: Do you know what I'm saying?
PAUL: It's fucking Dallas.
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CRYSTAL: Or,
or Falcon Crest.
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Yes.
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That's set in Washington.
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Say it to Charlie
like that.
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The resistance fighters
disguised us as one of them.
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Charlie.
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(CLEARS THROAT)
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It's like Dallas
but in Washington.
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With Crystal
in the starring role.
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Yeah.
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You tell me when to watch.
I'll make sure I'm home.
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You don't think
I can make it happen?
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I don't know anything
about how any of that works.
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I do.
You said that you would listen to him.
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That's why we're here.
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Do they routinely give starring
roles on network programs
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to people who haven't
acted professionally before?
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She was just on the fucking
cover of Playboy, Charlie.
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Well, I guess that's
just the same thing.
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Would you take
this seriously, please?
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I am taking it seriously, hon,
but can you all tell me something?
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What is...
What is Dan Rather wearing right now?
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What?
Dan Rather.
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What is he wearing?
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You're watching TV?
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Why hasn't he shaved?
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Well, who gives a damn?
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Excuse me! Hey! Excuse me,
could you turn that up?
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Could you just turn up
the volume on the TV?
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Oh, I'm completely high.
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Yeah. Okay.
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Still, could you just
grab the remote there
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and find
the volume button?
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Charlie, are we
gonna do business?
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Dan Rather is wearing a turban,
Paul. Don't you want to know why?
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He's doing a thing
from India.
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No, that's Afghanistan.
Got it.
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Appreciate it.
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WOMAN TRANSLATOR: We got it...
We captured it
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from the Afghan, the Afghan army.
Thank you.
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Does he have ammunition for this?
He has three.
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But does he have ammunition?
A lot of ammunition?
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Well, he's talking
about the mujahideen.
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WOMAN: No, we don't,
we didn't capture any.
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PAUL: Priests?
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No, mujahideen means,
like, holy warriors.
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Priests!
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How the hell am I
supposed to know?
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Paul.
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And he was... He is saying that,
you know, America seems to be asleep.
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It doesn't seem to realize
that if Afghanistan goes
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and the Russians
go over to the Gulf,
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that in a very short time,
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it's going to be the turn
of the United States as well.
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DAN: I'm sure he knows
that in Vietnam...
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Excuse me.
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We were just wondering
what you do for a living.
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I'm not a police officer,
if that's what you're asking.
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No. We just... We don't meet a lot
of guys here who both, you know,
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know about the world
and like to party.
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(CLEARS THROAT) No.
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I'm a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives.
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I'm sorry?
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I'm a Congressman.
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Are you kidding?
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No. No,
I'm absolutely serious.
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I'm Charlie Wilson. I represent
the Texas Second Congressional.
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Texas. And this
is Crystal Lee.
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This is Paul Brown.
What are your names?
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Stacey.
Stacey.
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Kelly.
Kelly. Well, it's nice to meet you both.
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If you are a Congressman should you
be in here with strippers and blow?
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Hey, I'm not a stripper.
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I am a stripper.
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I'm a stripper.
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Yes, see, they were
talking about themselves.
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You know, you do
have a point there.
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I really should get going.
A little pruney.
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Look, Charlie, I need
$29,000 to make it happen.
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And you know I can make it happen,
and you know you want in on this.
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Hey, who wants to take a
ride with me to the airport?
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Oh, me!
Paul?
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Okay.
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DAN ON TV: A holy war
against the Soviets.
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A war they say that,
if they get weapons,
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from us or anyone else in
the free world, they will win.
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(MAN SHOUTING ON SCREEN)
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PAUL: Yeah, I'm with Congressman
Charles Wilson and Crystal Lee.
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CHARLIE: I wish he wouldn't do that.
From Texas.
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Has there ever been a
show about Washington?
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I don't think there has.
Me, neither.
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Thank you. We got the suite
another night. Comped.
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DRIVER: Should I go back?
No.
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You can't stay another night?
No. No.
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Stay another night.
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I can't.
I have a vote.
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What, an important one?
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Yes.
What is it?
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Well, it's a
non-binding resolution
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expressing the sense
of the Congress
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that the Department of Defense should
continue to exercise its authority
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to support the Boy Scouts of America.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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Come on, Charlie,
call, raise or fold.
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I want to get an answer
on this thing
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that Crystal
and I want to do.
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First off,
I'd appreciate it
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if you didn't throw my name
around quite so much,
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'cause, from time to time, I use it
myself, and I need it in good condition.
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Second, I'm
from Lufkin, Texas.
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I'm the son of an accountant
for a timber company.
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I take home about 700 bucks
a week, and I pay alimony,
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so the idea that I got $29,000
in the bank is pretty hysterical.
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That said,
I love your idea.
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Crys, I'll call you this week.
Okay.
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All right.
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Stacey, Kelly, nice to meet you
both. Are you Nevada residents?
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BOTH: Yeah.
Well, don't forget to vote.
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Bye. We love you!
We love you!
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Oh, it helps not to know me.
Oh! That is for you.
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Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
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Bye!
Bye, Charlie.
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CHARLIE: I love Las Vegas!
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CHARLIE:
All right, what else?
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That Dairy Queen guy,
Larry Liddle,
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is sitting in your office.
Hey.
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Yeah, I told him
he could come in.
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He wants to talk
to you about a creche.
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What, a nativity scene
with baby Jesus?
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Yeah, it's on public property,
and the city's making him move it.
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Shit. I thought
he was just coming in
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to get his picture took, you know?
Congressman.
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Yeah?
You're exactly who I need to speak to.
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You have a moment?
Sure.
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Tip asked me to talk to you.
Okay.
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He wanted me to talk to you
about John Murtha.
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Go ahead.
The prosecutor's gonna go after him.
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Well, they ain't
gonna find anything.
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John Murtha's as clean
as my mother's kitchen floor.
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Yeah, but Tip would
like to put you
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on the Ethics Committee
just the same.
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You're kidding.
No.
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Well, Jesus, Donnelly,
everyone in town knows
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I'm on the other side
of that issue.
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Ethics?
Yeah!
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Well, the Speaker would like to
put you on the committee anyway.
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Okay. Well, if anyone asks what the
hell I'm doing on the Ethics Committee,
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we'll just tell them I like
chasing women and drinking whiskey
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and the Speaker felt
we were underrepresented.
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One man, one vote.
Exactly.
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Tip's gonna want
to return the favor.
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Tuesday, right?
That is Tuesday, yes.
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So if anything comes up
that you'd like me
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to speak with him
about, please...
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Yes.
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Yes!
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I'd like to be on the Board of
Directors of the Kennedy Center.
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Charlie.
I'm sorry?
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Turns out Congress appoints the Board
of Directors of the Kennedy Center.
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It's a great place to take a date,
and I can never afford the tickets.
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Consider it done.
Excellent.
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Go vote.
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Another few minutes.
Let's see what's on the wires.
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Why can't you wait for
newspapers like everybody else?
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'Cause I think it's productive
to know today's news today.
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And it makes me one day smarter
than you, which I enjoy as well.
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I know you do.
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You don't think
that's a little crazy?
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Pan Am and Eastern
are lowering their fares.
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'Cause of Braniff.
What's a little crazy?
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Joining the Board
of the Kennedy Center
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so you can get free tickets
to the Royal Ballet of...
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Hold on.
What?
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AP story out of Kabul.
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Uzbekistan?
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Afghanistan.
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Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
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Jordan, Israel, Egypt.
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Jim Van Wagenen's our
point man on black approps
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for the Defense
Subcommittee?
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Yeah.
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Have him come to my office
as soon as possible.
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How am I voting on this?
BONNIE: Yes.
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You sure?
Yes.
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The Boy Scouts?
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Jim Van Wagenen.
Get him and show him that wire story.
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Yes, sir.
You are the man I wanted to talk to.
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The Congressman will
be here in a moment.
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He's just coming up
from a vote.
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I'm sure it's
an important one.
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No. Not really.
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SUZANNE: So, Marla, can you fit
this into his schedule next week?
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(PHONE RINGING)
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RECEPTIONIST: Charlie Wilson's office.
Good morning.
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The third...
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It is? How are you?
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BONNIE: Suzanne, can you help me with this?
Okay.
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SUZANNE: I'll be right back.
RECEPTIONIST: I'll have him do it.
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Okay, bye-bye.
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LARRY: Miss?
Yes, sir?
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It seems to me, looking around, that
it's almost all women working here,
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and that they're
all very pretty.
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Is that common?
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(LAUGHS) Well,
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Congressman Wilson,
he has an expression.
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He says, "You can teach them to type,
but you can't teach them to grow tits."
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Well, that's charming.
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Larry!
Congressman!
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No, no, no. For $5,000 every two
years you get to call me Charlie.
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And for 10,000, you can call me Betty
Sue and I'll clean out your rain gutters.
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This is my daughter, Jane.
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Well, now I remember Jane.
Two-L at SMU.
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Charlie Wilson's office.
Good morning.
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Welcome to the
United States Congress.
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Hey, I'm gonna talk to your
daddy for a couple of seconds.
245
00:09:25,745 --> 00:09:27,906
Larry, can we
get you a drink?
246
00:09:27,981 --> 00:09:29,209
It's 10:00 in the morning.
247
00:09:29,282 --> 00:09:31,443
Well, fair enough,
I guess.
248
00:09:32,385 --> 00:09:33,784
Grab a seat.
249
00:09:34,521 --> 00:09:37,490
Now, this situation with the
creche, I want to know all about it.
250
00:09:37,557 --> 00:09:38,546
Well, sir,
251
00:09:38,625 --> 00:09:39,614
(CLEARS THROAT)
252
00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,152
Every single year
since the world was young,
253
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the firehouse in the Nacogdoches
Township has displayed a creche.
254
00:09:47,901 --> 00:09:51,337
Now, the ACLU has filed suit
against the township
255
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for displaying a religious
symbol on public property.
256
00:09:54,974 --> 00:09:57,135
It's Christmas time.
It's a creche.
257
00:09:57,210 --> 00:09:59,940
I could understand if we
were in gosh-darn Scarsdale,
258
00:10:00,013 --> 00:10:03,642
but this is east Texas, and I
want to know who we're offending.
259
00:10:03,717 --> 00:10:05,548
Except two lawyers
from the ACLU.
260
00:10:05,618 --> 00:10:09,054
That is a terribly interesting
and complicated question.
261
00:10:09,122 --> 00:10:10,953
Let me make
this suggestion, though.
262
00:10:11,024 --> 00:10:13,857
There's a church about
a block and a half
263
00:10:13,927 --> 00:10:16,862
from that firehouse, First
Baptist Church of Nacogdoches.
264
00:10:16,930 --> 00:10:19,626
They've got a beautiful
rolling lawn out there in front.
265
00:10:19,699 --> 00:10:21,496
No, no. This is a
Christian country, Charlie,
266
00:10:21,568 --> 00:10:23,536
founded on Christian values.
Sure.
267
00:10:23,603 --> 00:10:25,662
We welcome other faiths
to worship as they wish,
268
00:10:25,739 --> 00:10:28,105
but when you can't
put a nativity scene
269
00:10:28,174 --> 00:10:31,268
in front of a firehouse at Christmas
time in Nacogdoches Township,
270
00:10:31,344 --> 00:10:32,777
something's gone
terribly wrong.
271
00:10:32,846 --> 00:10:34,939
Well, that's not
really true, Larry.
272
00:10:35,014 --> 00:10:37,608
You could move that creche
over to that church
273
00:10:37,684 --> 00:10:38,673
and everything's just fine.
274
00:10:38,752 --> 00:10:39,946
That's not the point!
275
00:10:40,019 --> 00:10:43,147
Okay. Why don't we just
start back at the beginning?
276
00:10:43,223 --> 00:10:44,417
What can I do for you?
277
00:10:44,491 --> 00:10:46,652
You can intervene in the case
against the creche committee.
278
00:10:46,726 --> 00:10:47,920
Intervene? How?
279
00:10:47,994 --> 00:10:49,518
You appointed the judge.
280
00:10:49,596 --> 00:10:50,893
I don't appoint judges.
281
00:10:50,964 --> 00:10:52,829
I just made a recommendation
to the President.
282
00:10:52,899 --> 00:10:53,923
Uh-huh.
283
00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,297
I think you and I both know
what that means.
284
00:10:55,368 --> 00:10:56,392
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
285
00:10:56,469 --> 00:10:59,302
I cannot just call up a
judge and tell him what to do.
286
00:10:59,372 --> 00:11:01,272
Why?
Well, 'cause it's against a shitload
287
00:11:01,341 --> 00:11:03,605
of really good laws, Gary.
288
00:11:03,676 --> 00:11:05,439
Larry.
Larry.
289
00:11:05,512 --> 00:11:10,506
I got to go talk to this guy out
here for a second. Will you excuse me?
290
00:11:10,583 --> 00:11:11,777
By the way,
I love Jesus Christ
291
00:11:11,851 --> 00:11:13,478
and his mother Mary
as much as anybody.
292
00:11:13,553 --> 00:11:17,148
About 38 churches you could move
that creche to, everybody lives.
293
00:11:17,323 --> 00:11:18,381
Give me a call.
Okay.
294
00:11:18,458 --> 00:11:19,652
I love Chivas.
295
00:11:19,726 --> 00:11:21,489
Jane, how are you?
296
00:11:21,561 --> 00:11:23,188
You need a cup of coffee?
297
00:11:23,263 --> 00:11:25,629
Something to drink? Anything like that?
Okay. Mmm-mmm.
298
00:11:25,698 --> 00:11:27,495
Jim.
Congressman.
299
00:11:27,567 --> 00:11:29,467
You see Lederer's
AP story out of Kabul?
300
00:11:29,536 --> 00:11:31,003
Yeah.
We're reading this story every day now.
301
00:11:31,070 --> 00:11:32,094
You see Dan Rather
last night?
302
00:11:32,172 --> 00:11:33,662
Yeah. I did.
303
00:11:33,740 --> 00:11:36,038
Tell me something.
What is the Defense Subcommittee's budget
304
00:11:36,109 --> 00:11:38,236
for covert ops against the
Communists in Afghanistan?
305
00:11:38,311 --> 00:11:39,505
All in?
All in.
306
00:11:39,579 --> 00:11:41,171
It's 5 million.
307
00:11:42,782 --> 00:11:45,945
Well, they can't shoot down
helicopters for $5 million, Jim.
308
00:11:46,019 --> 00:11:49,420
Though they're trying to. Which
is more than I can say for us.
309
00:11:49,489 --> 00:11:51,252
Get everybody together
for me, would you?
310
00:11:51,458 --> 00:11:52,948
And double it.
311
00:11:53,026 --> 00:11:54,459
RECEPTIONIST:
Charlie Wilson's office.
312
00:11:54,527 --> 00:11:56,324
Okay, I'm sorry, sir?
313
00:11:56,596 --> 00:11:58,655
The covert ops budget.
Double it.
314
00:11:58,731 --> 00:11:59,993
(RECEPTIONIST CHATTERING)
315
00:12:00,967 --> 00:12:02,059
Okay.
316
00:12:02,135 --> 00:12:04,763
This ain't gonna
be much longer, okay?
317
00:12:05,939 --> 00:12:06,963
(PHONE RINGING)
318
00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,201
Here's what
I'm gonna do, Larry.
319
00:12:09,275 --> 00:12:11,243
RECEPTIONIST:
Charlie Wilson's office.
320
00:12:13,546 --> 00:12:17,448
Maybe in about 20 minutes.
He's just going into a meeting.
321
00:12:17,517 --> 00:12:18,609
Sure.
322
00:12:19,219 --> 00:12:21,813
My XO wrote in a report,
323
00:12:21,888 --> 00:12:26,291
I was the best officer
he ever served at sea with,
324
00:12:26,359 --> 00:12:30,489
and the worst officer
he ever served in port with.
325
00:12:30,563 --> 00:12:32,656
(LAUGHS)
You can look it up.
326
00:12:32,732 --> 00:12:35,326
I must've graduated
from Annapolis
327
00:12:35,401 --> 00:12:37,926
with the second most demerits
of any midshipman
328
00:12:38,004 --> 00:12:39,801
in the history
of the Naval Academy.
329
00:12:39,873 --> 00:12:42,364
JANE: Well, who had the most?
I want to sleep with him.
330
00:12:42,442 --> 00:12:43,875
(ANGEL OF THE MORNING
PLAYING ON STEREO)
331
00:12:43,943 --> 00:12:47,777
It's hotter here in D.C.
Than in Nacogdoches,
332
00:12:47,847 --> 00:12:51,408
so I hope you don't mind, I
took off a few of my clothes.
333
00:12:51,484 --> 00:12:54,647
Well, I'm just gonna have
to live with that, Jane.
334
00:12:54,787 --> 00:13:00,987
(SINGING) Just call me angel
of the morning, angel
335
00:13:01,060 --> 00:13:04,621
Just touch my cheek
before you leave me
336
00:13:04,697 --> 00:13:07,530
Come on over here. I'm gonna show
you the best view in the District.
337
00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:08,658
You want some of this?
338
00:13:08,735 --> 00:13:09,895
No, no, I got this.
339
00:13:09,969 --> 00:13:11,300
I like both.
340
00:13:11,371 --> 00:13:13,464
Well, it must be
great being me.
341
00:13:13,540 --> 00:13:15,167
I've heard it is.
342
00:13:16,242 --> 00:13:18,369
Iwo Jima Memorial.
343
00:13:18,444 --> 00:13:19,968
There's the Lincoln.
344
00:13:20,046 --> 00:13:22,571
Washington. Now follow it
around to the right.
345
00:13:22,649 --> 00:13:26,517
CHARLIE: The Jefferson Memorial.
The Arlington Bridge.
346
00:13:26,586 --> 00:13:29,521
And there's the Pentagon.
347
00:13:29,589 --> 00:13:30,988
Oh, that's the Pentagon.
348
00:13:31,057 --> 00:13:32,183
That's the Pentagon.
349
00:13:32,258 --> 00:13:36,160
How about I show you the second
best view in the District?
350
00:13:36,229 --> 00:13:38,288
Why, Jane, would you like...
351
00:13:38,364 --> 00:13:39,353
(PHONE RINGING)
352
00:13:40,166 --> 00:13:41,155
(SIGHS)
353
00:13:41,401 --> 00:13:42,595
Well, that was predictable.
354
00:13:44,103 --> 00:13:45,764
Just give me one second.
355
00:13:46,973 --> 00:13:48,907
Hello?
WOMAN: That was an extraordinary thing
356
00:13:48,975 --> 00:13:50,465
you did today.
357
00:13:50,910 --> 00:13:51,899
Who is this?
358
00:13:51,978 --> 00:13:53,036
It's Joanne.
359
00:13:53,413 --> 00:13:54,607
Joanne!
360
00:13:55,348 --> 00:13:57,543
Why, gosh, how nice
to hear from you.
361
00:13:57,617 --> 00:13:59,448
Could I call you back
in a little bit?
362
00:13:59,519 --> 00:14:01,646
Is Ronald Reagan in
your bedroom right now?
363
00:14:01,721 --> 00:14:03,780
No.
Then I'm considerably more important
364
00:14:03,856 --> 00:14:05,824
than whoever is.
Is anything wrong?
365
00:14:05,892 --> 00:14:08,622
This is gonna take
just a second or two.
366
00:14:08,995 --> 00:14:11,225
Okay, I'm all yours.
367
00:14:11,698 --> 00:14:15,566
What did I do that
was so extraordinary?
368
00:14:15,635 --> 00:14:16,795
"Double it."
369
00:14:16,869 --> 00:14:18,666
'Cause I was told you
didn't have a girlfriend.
370
00:14:18,738 --> 00:14:19,727
What?
371
00:14:19,806 --> 00:14:21,797
You told Jim Van Wagenen
to double it.
372
00:14:21,874 --> 00:14:25,173
Well, shit, Joanne, I don't
know what you're talking about,
373
00:14:25,244 --> 00:14:27,610
and if I did,
it'd be classified,
374
00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:29,347
and I'd wonder where
you got your information
375
00:14:29,415 --> 00:14:30,439
on the Subcommittee.
376
00:14:30,516 --> 00:14:31,813
Oh, what do you care, hon?
377
00:14:31,884 --> 00:14:35,615
It's a little matter of national
security and I can't help but think...
378
00:14:35,688 --> 00:14:37,747
Excuse me, I'm sorry.
379
00:14:37,824 --> 00:14:39,416
Hold on.
I am sorry,
380
00:14:39,492 --> 00:14:41,517
but I was told you
didn't have a girlfriend.
381
00:14:41,594 --> 00:14:43,027
I don't.
This isn't my girlfriend.
382
00:14:43,096 --> 00:14:45,587
It's the sixth
wealthiest woman in Texas.
383
00:14:45,665 --> 00:14:47,428
Which is still pretty good.
384
00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:48,728
Okay, so, hi.
385
00:14:48,801 --> 00:14:51,395
A friend of mine has made a
terrific movie about the need
386
00:14:51,471 --> 00:14:53,598
for American aid
to Afghanistan.
387
00:14:53,673 --> 00:14:55,231
He's made a movie?
Yes.
388
00:14:55,308 --> 00:14:59,142
I'm gonna run this movie Friday
night at my house at a fundraiser.
389
00:14:59,212 --> 00:15:01,442
You know, you've never
been to my house, Charlie.
390
00:15:01,514 --> 00:15:04,449
You want me to come to
Houston and see a movie?
391
00:15:04,517 --> 00:15:07,680
There'll be women and wealthy
donors. See you Friday.
392
00:15:07,754 --> 00:15:09,119
Yes, ma'am.
393
00:15:15,495 --> 00:15:16,519
Hey.
394
00:15:16,596 --> 00:15:17,585
Mmm-mmm.
395
00:15:17,664 --> 00:15:18,722
Hey.
Mmm-mmm.
396
00:15:25,271 --> 00:15:26,329
Thank you, Joanne.
397
00:15:27,940 --> 00:15:31,432
Okay. I know it was difficult for
you to come in here, hat in hand.
398
00:15:31,511 --> 00:15:35,504
That's not the kind of upbringing,
I guess, is the word I'm looking for.
399
00:15:35,581 --> 00:15:38,345
It's not the kind of man
you are. I understand that.
400
00:15:38,418 --> 00:15:41,615
I'm not looking to humiliate
you or exact a price in any way,
401
00:15:41,688 --> 00:15:43,588
so why don't you
just apologize?
402
00:15:43,656 --> 00:15:46,147
We'll call it water under the dam,
and we'll go about our business.
403
00:15:46,225 --> 00:15:48,216
Excuse me,
what the fuck?
404
00:15:49,162 --> 00:15:51,153
What? What the fuck
are you talking about?
405
00:15:51,230 --> 00:15:53,198
Clair George said you were
coming in here to apologize.
406
00:15:53,266 --> 00:15:55,791
No, I'm supposed to come in here
so you could apologize to me.
407
00:15:55,868 --> 00:15:57,631
According to whom?
Clair George.
408
00:15:57,704 --> 00:16:00,673
You told me to go fuck myself.
I'm supposed to apologize to you?
409
00:16:00,740 --> 00:16:03,834
Also, water goes over a dam and
under a bridge, you poncy schoolboy.
410
00:16:03,910 --> 00:16:07,209
Clearly there's been a miscommunication
between Clair George and somebody.
411
00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:08,474
Excuse me.
Yes?
412
00:16:08,548 --> 00:16:09,810
Does this look all right?
It's fine.
413
00:16:09,882 --> 00:16:10,974
Thank you.
I can sand it down a little.
414
00:16:11,050 --> 00:16:13,245
I, I don't know.
I have no fucking idea who this guy is.
415
00:16:13,319 --> 00:16:16,049
He is here to fix the glass that you
broke the last time you were here.
416
00:16:16,122 --> 00:16:18,613
Could you just excuse us for a second there?
Yes.
417
00:16:18,691 --> 00:16:19,715
You tell me to go
fuck myself
418
00:16:19,792 --> 00:16:21,350
and I'm supposed to
apologize? You break my window,
419
00:16:21,427 --> 00:16:23,327
I'm supposed to apologize?
The Helsinki job was mine!
420
00:16:23,396 --> 00:16:26,024
The Helsinki job was not yours. If
it was yours, you'd be in Helsinki.
421
00:16:26,099 --> 00:16:27,532
Alan Wolfe stood in this office!
Alan Wolfe
422
00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,124
is no longer the Director.
Yeah, it was on the books!
423
00:16:29,202 --> 00:16:32,000
Alan Wolfe is no longer the
Director of European Operations.
424
00:16:32,071 --> 00:16:33,436
He does not make
those appointments. I do.
425
00:16:33,506 --> 00:16:35,201
Promises were made.
Not by me.
426
00:16:35,274 --> 00:16:37,572
I've been with
the company for 24 years.
427
00:16:37,643 --> 00:16:39,577
I was posted
in Greece for 15.
428
00:16:39,645 --> 00:16:43,411
Papandreou wins that election if I
don't help the junta take him prisoner.
429
00:16:43,483 --> 00:16:45,383
I've advised and armed
the Hellenic army.
430
00:16:45,451 --> 00:16:47,385
I've neutralized
champions of Communism.
431
00:16:47,453 --> 00:16:50,752
I've spent the past three
years learning Finnish!
432
00:16:50,823 --> 00:16:52,791
Which should come in handy
here in Virginia!
433
00:16:52,859 --> 00:16:54,827
And I'm never,
ever, sick at sea.
434
00:16:54,894 --> 00:16:58,295
So I want to know why I'm not gonna
be your Helsinki station chief.
435
00:16:58,364 --> 00:17:00,161
You're coarse.
Excuse me?
436
00:17:00,266 --> 00:17:02,826
For Helsinki, I need someone
with diplomatic skills.
437
00:17:02,902 --> 00:17:04,130
You don't have them.
Is that right?
438
00:17:04,203 --> 00:17:06,228
That is right. And I don't know
why the hell I didn't fire you
439
00:17:06,305 --> 00:17:07,397
when you broke
my fucking window!
440
00:17:07,473 --> 00:17:09,338
Oh, yes, sure
you do, Cravely.
441
00:17:09,408 --> 00:17:11,467
Look, Gust...
Yeah, you're fucking Roger's fiancee
442
00:17:11,544 --> 00:17:12,841
and you know I know.
443
00:17:14,413 --> 00:17:16,643
I'm not... I'm not even gonna
dignify that with a response.
444
00:17:16,716 --> 00:17:18,650
Yeah, yeah, you're
dignifying her in the ass
445
00:17:18,718 --> 00:17:20,652
at the Jefferson Hotel,
room 1210.
446
00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,621
But let me ask you. The
3,000 agents Turner fired
447
00:17:23,689 --> 00:17:25,884
was that because they lacked
diplomatic skills as well?
448
00:17:25,958 --> 00:17:27,823
You're referring
to Admiral Stansfield Turner?
449
00:17:27,894 --> 00:17:28,952
Yeah, the 3,000 agents.
450
00:17:29,028 --> 00:17:31,963
Each and every goddamn one of them
first or second generation Americans.
451
00:17:32,031 --> 00:17:34,522
Is that because they lack
the proper diplomatic skills?
452
00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,068
Or did Turner not think it
was a good idea to have spies
453
00:17:37,136 --> 00:17:40,469
who could speak the same language as
the people they're fucking spying on?
454
00:17:40,540 --> 00:17:43,065
Well, I'm sorry, but you
can hardly blame the Director
455
00:17:43,142 --> 00:17:46,134
for questioning the loyalty to America
of people that are just barely Americans
456
00:17:46,212 --> 00:17:48,203
in the first place.
Yeah, well, I'd like to take a moment
457
00:17:48,281 --> 00:17:49,873
to review the several ways
in which you're a douchebag.
458
00:17:49,949 --> 00:17:52,008
Get the fuck out of my office!
Yes, sir.
459
00:17:52,084 --> 00:17:53,381
Before I end
your career, asshole.
460
00:17:53,452 --> 00:17:54,476
Yes, sir!
461
00:17:54,554 --> 00:17:57,682
Yeah, my friend, I'm gonna
need you for a second.
462
00:17:58,257 --> 00:17:59,246
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
463
00:17:59,592 --> 00:18:00,957
God damn it!
464
00:18:01,427 --> 00:18:02,792
My loyalty?
465
00:18:03,663 --> 00:18:06,291
For 24 years, people have
been trying to kill me.
466
00:18:06,365 --> 00:18:07,730
People who know how.
467
00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,792
Now, do you think that's because
my dad was a Greek soda pop maker
468
00:18:10,870 --> 00:18:13,270
or do you think that's
because I'm an American spy?
469
00:18:13,339 --> 00:18:15,864
Go fuck yourself,
you fucking child.
470
00:18:22,048 --> 00:18:23,413
How was I?
471
00:18:24,417 --> 00:18:25,509
Thank you.
472
00:18:26,485 --> 00:18:30,012
There's a woman in Aliquippa,
Pennsylvania, named Nitsa.
473
00:18:30,723 --> 00:18:32,281
And she thinks
she's a witch.
474
00:18:32,358 --> 00:18:34,758
Yeah, she offered to put
a curse on Cravely for me.
475
00:18:34,827 --> 00:18:35,919
Yeah?
476
00:18:36,095 --> 00:18:37,323
And she...
477
00:18:37,897 --> 00:18:41,731
She asked me do I want a
professional curse or a health curse.
478
00:18:42,201 --> 00:18:43,896
"If it's a health curse,
I can do it right away,
479
00:18:43,970 --> 00:18:46,666
"but a professional curse
takes longer."
480
00:18:46,739 --> 00:18:49,799
Well, I'm living proof
she's right about that.
481
00:18:50,476 --> 00:18:52,171
Did you get the brownie?
Oh, no, sir, I didn't.
482
00:18:52,245 --> 00:18:53,576
I got you.
483
00:18:55,648 --> 00:18:58,845
I'm reading transcripts
of phone conversations
484
00:18:58,918 --> 00:19:00,613
between French
and German generals
485
00:19:00,686 --> 00:19:04,053
arguing over office space
at NATO headquarters
486
00:19:04,123 --> 00:19:07,854
and analyzing wiretaps out
of Mercury Bay, New Zealand.
487
00:19:07,927 --> 00:19:11,556
You know, historically, a
hotbed of anti-American activity.
488
00:19:12,265 --> 00:19:15,428
Yeah, nobody will come
near me. I'm in the weeds.
489
00:19:16,469 --> 00:19:18,869
You know,
a typical case officer
490
00:19:19,238 --> 00:19:23,937
doesn't walk into his boss's office
and tell him to go fuck himself. Twice.
491
00:19:24,010 --> 00:19:26,672
I just told you, I paid a
witch in Pennsylvania $80
492
00:19:26,746 --> 00:19:29,442
to put a curse
on Henry Cravely for me.
493
00:19:30,049 --> 00:19:32,210
Do I sound like a typical case officer?
No.
494
00:19:32,285 --> 00:19:35,015
Well, then,
let's assume I'm not.
495
00:19:35,087 --> 00:19:37,248
Listen. If you're really
not doing anything,
496
00:19:37,323 --> 00:19:38,915
why don't you come upstairs
and work with us?
497
00:19:38,991 --> 00:19:40,117
What are you doing?
498
00:19:40,192 --> 00:19:41,625
Killing Russians.
499
00:19:42,995 --> 00:19:47,227
Our next slave girl is a Texas
rose named Ashley Rensler.
500
00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:48,324
(CROWD CHEERING)
501
00:19:48,401 --> 00:19:52,098
Ashley is prelaw at U. T.,
and her three sorority sisters
502
00:19:52,171 --> 00:19:55,231
from Delta Delta Delta
will wash your car or truck
503
00:19:55,308 --> 00:19:58,402
in special outfits they
have chosen for the occasion.
504
00:19:58,477 --> 00:20:02,971
So, who wants their wheels cleaned clean
as a whistle by a 19-year-old lawyer
505
00:20:03,049 --> 00:20:05,210
and her three friends
from Tri-Delt?
506
00:20:05,284 --> 00:20:06,273
(CROWD CHEERING)
507
00:20:06,352 --> 00:20:09,185
I have 10,000, who'll give
me 11? 11, 11, I got 11.
508
00:20:09,255 --> 00:20:11,155
I got 15 right here.
Thank you very much.
509
00:20:11,223 --> 00:20:13,487
Oh, my God,
she is a Minute Woman.
510
00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:15,356
No, she's a Tri-Delt.
511
00:20:16,295 --> 00:20:18,160
No, she is a
Minute Woman, Charlie.
512
00:20:18,230 --> 00:20:19,492
Oh. Joanne.
513
00:20:19,565 --> 00:20:23,399
Yeah, she's a direct descendant
of George Washington's sister.
514
00:20:23,569 --> 00:20:26,265
Says she had a great uncle
who was killed at the Alamo.
515
00:20:26,339 --> 00:20:29,433
Former Miss Cotton Bowl.
Had her own local television talk show.
516
00:20:29,508 --> 00:20:32,705
Look. Pakistan's Honorary
Consul to Houston, Texas.
517
00:20:32,778 --> 00:20:34,177
How's that
for a title, huh?
518
00:20:34,246 --> 00:20:37,409
This is an ultra-right wing
group of anti-Communist fanatics.
519
00:20:37,483 --> 00:20:38,950
They're not
ultra-right wing.
520
00:20:39,018 --> 00:20:40,781
What are they?
521
00:20:40,853 --> 00:20:42,616
Well, they're
ultra-right wing.
522
00:20:42,688 --> 00:20:45,088
What are you doing
hanging around this woman?
523
00:20:45,157 --> 00:20:48,820
Did you hear me say she was
a former Miss Cotton Bowl?
524
00:20:48,894 --> 00:20:50,088
You are unbelievable.
525
00:20:50,162 --> 00:20:51,322
Oh, come on.
You're gonna love her.
526
00:20:51,397 --> 00:20:53,331
And, you know, one of the things
she's trying to do over there
527
00:20:53,399 --> 00:20:54,923
is liberate the women.
528
00:20:55,001 --> 00:20:57,834
And what better way than
through a slave girl auction?
529
00:20:57,903 --> 00:20:59,131
JOANNE: Charlie.
530
00:21:01,841 --> 00:21:04,241
So sorry for keeping
you waiting.
531
00:21:04,310 --> 00:21:06,437
Oh, it's no problem,
Joanne.
532
00:21:07,013 --> 00:21:08,002
This is Bonnie Bach.
533
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:09,877
So nice to meet you.
534
00:21:13,085 --> 00:21:17,351
It's a pleasure meeting you, Mrs.
Herring. This is a wonderful party.
535
00:21:18,624 --> 00:21:21,184
Why don't you
give us a few moments?
536
00:21:22,294 --> 00:21:23,591
Yes, sir.
537
00:21:24,230 --> 00:21:28,963
Oh, Bobbie, if you could ask someone
for a Bombay martini up, very dry?
538
00:21:29,035 --> 00:21:31,128
Oh, I'm not a slave girl, actually.
539
00:21:31,203 --> 00:21:33,364
I'm the Congressman's
administrative assistant.
540
00:21:33,439 --> 00:21:34,770
Isn't that wonderful
for you.
541
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,068
Yes.
542
00:21:36,142 --> 00:21:39,009
Two olives, please. Tell them
it's for me, they'll know.
543
00:21:39,078 --> 00:21:40,409
Certainly.
544
00:21:42,415 --> 00:21:44,007
She doesn't like me.
545
00:21:44,083 --> 00:21:45,175
Everybody likes you.
546
00:21:45,251 --> 00:21:46,684
She's a liberal.
547
00:21:46,752 --> 00:21:48,515
Well, I'm a liberal.
548
00:21:48,988 --> 00:21:50,751
Not where it counts.
549
00:21:51,290 --> 00:21:52,587
Have you seen the house?
550
00:21:52,658 --> 00:21:55,752
Well, I've seen the
downstairs, what's upstairs?
551
00:21:55,828 --> 00:21:57,159
Fourteen bedrooms.
552
00:21:57,229 --> 00:21:58,662
I should have a look.
553
00:21:58,731 --> 00:21:59,755
What did you think
of the movie?
554
00:21:59,832 --> 00:22:01,527
What, that thing
we just saw?
555
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,659
The reason
for the party, yes.
556
00:22:03,736 --> 00:22:06,500
Well, I'm not an expert
in the field or anything,
557
00:22:06,572 --> 00:22:09,405
but the production quality
seemed amateurish to me.
558
00:22:09,475 --> 00:22:10,965
Yeah, I'm not
submitting the thing
559
00:22:11,043 --> 00:22:13,273
for a Golden Globe
nomination, Charlie.
560
00:22:13,345 --> 00:22:15,609
You know what
I'm talking about.
561
00:22:15,681 --> 00:22:18,309
Well, as a member
of the Defense Subcommittee,
562
00:22:18,384 --> 00:22:19,715
did you think
I wasn't aware
563
00:22:19,785 --> 00:22:21,980
that the Soviet Union's
invaded Afghanistan?
564
00:22:22,054 --> 00:22:23,988
Yes, I believe
my government is aware,
565
00:22:24,056 --> 00:22:26,547
but I was wondering if they were
thinking of doing anything about it
566
00:22:26,625 --> 00:22:29,822
other than boycotting the Olympics,
which I think you'll agree,
567
00:22:29,895 --> 00:22:31,453
was a fairly
impotent response
568
00:22:31,530 --> 00:22:33,725
to the greatest national
security threat we've faced
569
00:22:33,799 --> 00:22:35,198
since the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
570
00:22:35,267 --> 00:22:38,430
Well, I don't think making more
movies about it is gonna do the trick,
571
00:22:38,504 --> 00:22:40,096
if that's what
you're asking.
572
00:22:40,172 --> 00:22:41,434
It's not.
573
00:22:42,641 --> 00:22:45,439
Exactly how much power do you have
as a member of the Subcommittee?
574
00:22:45,511 --> 00:22:47,001
Which one? I'm on two.
575
00:22:47,079 --> 00:22:48,205
Foreign Ops.
576
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,408
Eight members and myself hand out
11 billion in foreign assistance.
577
00:22:51,484 --> 00:22:53,816
And what about
the Defense Subcommittee?
578
00:22:53,886 --> 00:22:54,875
Our budget is hidden.
579
00:22:54,954 --> 00:22:56,319
It is also unlimited.
580
00:22:56,388 --> 00:22:57,855
Yeah.
581
00:22:59,258 --> 00:23:01,488
Would you like
to see my room?
582
00:23:01,627 --> 00:23:02,719
Yeah.
583
00:23:02,795 --> 00:23:03,819
(WHIMPERING)
584
00:23:03,896 --> 00:23:07,855
So, unless I'm wrong, and
that would be unusual for me,
585
00:23:08,801 --> 00:23:10,826
you sit at the intersection
of the State Department,
586
00:23:10,903 --> 00:23:12,871
the Pentagon and the CIA.
587
00:23:13,339 --> 00:23:16,331
You meet in a soundproof room
underneath the Capitol,
588
00:23:16,408 --> 00:23:19,741
and you preside over a
secret and unlimited budget
589
00:23:19,812 --> 00:23:23,441
for the three agencies you would
need to conduct a covert war.
590
00:23:23,516 --> 00:23:25,143
Isn't that right?
591
00:23:25,217 --> 00:23:27,447
I also have seats
at the Kennedy Center.
592
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,887
Isn't that how you were able to
double the CIA budget for black approps
593
00:23:30,956 --> 00:23:33,390
in Afghanistan
just by saying so?
594
00:23:33,459 --> 00:23:37,088
Why are you only asking me questions
you already know the answers to?
595
00:23:37,163 --> 00:23:40,030
Why is Congress saying one
thing and doing nothing?
596
00:23:40,099 --> 00:23:41,999
Well, tradition mostly.
597
00:23:48,374 --> 00:23:49,705
Come here.
598
00:23:50,309 --> 00:23:51,401
Okay.
599
00:24:00,419 --> 00:24:04,617
I do not understand the
energy women have after sex.
600
00:24:04,690 --> 00:24:07,523
You're dancing around,
you're baking a pie.
601
00:24:07,593 --> 00:24:09,493
JOANNE: Charlie?
Yes, ma'am?
602
00:24:09,562 --> 00:24:12,690
Why is the CIA running
a fake war in Afghanistan?
603
00:24:12,765 --> 00:24:14,756
They're doing
everything they can.
604
00:24:14,833 --> 00:24:16,698
They're doing it badly.
605
00:24:16,902 --> 00:24:19,302
The CIA is arming
the mujahideen.
606
00:24:19,371 --> 00:24:20,565
Where do you think they're
getting their weapons?
607
00:24:20,639 --> 00:24:23,972
They're arming them with
12.7 millimeter Dishukas
608
00:24:24,043 --> 00:24:25,670
which would be good,
609
00:24:25,744 --> 00:24:28,907
except the Soviets have specifically
armor-plated their Hind helicopter
610
00:24:28,981 --> 00:24:31,882
to resist
a 12.7 millimeter shell.
611
00:24:32,251 --> 00:24:34,151
We sold Pakistan F-16s,
612
00:24:34,220 --> 00:24:37,917
but didn't give them the
look-downlshoot-down radar.
613
00:24:37,990 --> 00:24:39,048
If this were a real war,
614
00:24:39,124 --> 00:24:41,524
State would issue a white paper
outlining the Communist threat
615
00:24:41,594 --> 00:24:43,789
the way they did
in El Salvador.
616
00:24:43,862 --> 00:24:47,696
If this were a real war, there'd
be a National Bipartisan Commission
617
00:24:47,766 --> 00:24:52,396
on Afghanistan, headed by Henry Kissinger
the way they did in Central America.
618
00:24:52,471 --> 00:24:56,669
If this were a real war, Congress
would authorize $24 million
619
00:24:56,742 --> 00:25:00,007
for covert operations
the way you did in Nicaragua.
620
00:25:00,379 --> 00:25:02,404
If this were a real war...
621
00:25:02,681 --> 00:25:05,514
You may be
the sexiest woman ever.
622
00:25:05,584 --> 00:25:07,950
I'm not kidding.
You are Helen of Troy.
623
00:25:08,020 --> 00:25:09,282
Are you patronizing me?
624
00:25:09,355 --> 00:25:11,755
What do you want me
to do, Joanne?
625
00:25:11,924 --> 00:25:13,915
This is what
I want you to do.
626
00:25:13,993 --> 00:25:17,121
I want you to save Afghanistan
for the Afghans.
627
00:25:17,529 --> 00:25:19,588
I want you to deliver
such a crushing defeat
628
00:25:19,665 --> 00:25:21,394
to the Soviets
that Communism crumbles,
629
00:25:21,467 --> 00:25:23,833
and in so doing,
end the Cold War.
630
00:25:23,902 --> 00:25:24,994
I'll tell you,
I'd do it, too,
631
00:25:25,070 --> 00:25:27,561
but I got this Dairy Queen
problem in Nacogdoches.
632
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,633
Don't underestimate me, Charlie.
Believe everything you've heard.
633
00:25:32,411 --> 00:25:34,140
What exactly
do you want me to do?
634
00:25:34,213 --> 00:25:35,646
Go to Pakistan
and meet with Zia.
635
00:25:35,714 --> 00:25:36,908
CHARLIE: Zia?
636
00:25:37,383 --> 00:25:39,146
Mohammed Zia ul-Haq.
637
00:25:39,585 --> 00:25:41,246
He's the President
of Pakistan.
638
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:42,844
I've already arranged it.
639
00:25:42,921 --> 00:25:45,856
You've arranged a meeting between
me and the President of Pakistan?
640
00:25:45,924 --> 00:25:46,913
Yes.
641
00:25:46,992 --> 00:25:48,152
You're going
to Israel next week
642
00:25:48,227 --> 00:25:50,058
to meet with Zvi Rafiah
about the Lavi jets.
643
00:25:50,129 --> 00:25:53,064
I want you to tack Pakistan
on the end of your trip.
644
00:25:53,132 --> 00:25:54,326
And meet
with the President?
645
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,563
Let him convince you that
it's a Christian imperative
646
00:25:57,636 --> 00:26:00,833
to let the Afghans rid
their country of Communism.
647
00:26:01,607 --> 00:26:05,441
Okay. It's not likely the President
of Pakistan is a Christian,
648
00:26:05,511 --> 00:26:08,173
but I'm gonna do this
for you, Joanne,
649
00:26:08,247 --> 00:26:10,977
'cause you saved my ass
once with the pro-lifers
650
00:26:11,050 --> 00:26:15,282
and I owe you my seat in Congress
and because you look very good naked.
651
00:26:15,354 --> 00:26:19,381
But I have to tell you,
I'm elected by Jews.
652
00:26:19,458 --> 00:26:21,926
How many Jews do you have
in your district?
653
00:26:21,994 --> 00:26:23,018
Seven.
654
00:26:23,095 --> 00:26:25,154
But congressmen aren't
elected by voters,
655
00:26:25,230 --> 00:26:26,595
they're elected
by contributors,
656
00:26:26,665 --> 00:26:29,657
and mine are in, well, New
York, Florida, Hollywood,
657
00:26:29,735 --> 00:26:32,226
because I'm one of
Israel's guys on the Hill.
658
00:26:32,304 --> 00:26:33,532
And I don't know
how they're gonna feel
659
00:26:33,605 --> 00:26:36,073
about me taking up
the cause of Muslims.
660
00:26:36,141 --> 00:26:37,472
Well, that's
your problem.
661
00:26:37,543 --> 00:26:38,840
Yes, it is.
662
00:26:39,545 --> 00:26:41,069
Go fight this war
and win it, Charlie.
663
00:26:41,146 --> 00:26:44,582
Everything possible is on the
line, including your manhood.
664
00:26:44,650 --> 00:26:47,448
Oh, I was afraid you
were gonna say that.
665
00:26:47,686 --> 00:26:48,675
(WATER RUSHING)
666
00:26:50,089 --> 00:26:52,614
Well, I guess it ain't
gonna be twice tonight.
667
00:26:52,691 --> 00:26:55,216
Well, I guess
somebody can't count.
668
00:26:55,294 --> 00:26:57,819
Oh, darling,
I was talking about me.
669
00:28:00,492 --> 00:28:01,618
(SPEAKING URDU)
670
00:28:04,263 --> 00:28:05,252
(SPEAKING URDU)
671
00:28:06,165 --> 00:28:07,154
(OFFICER SHOUTING)
672
00:28:07,366 --> 00:28:08,833
Congressman Charlie Wilson.
673
00:28:08,901 --> 00:28:09,890
Mr. Congressman.
674
00:28:09,968 --> 00:28:11,629
(CHUCKLING)
Mr. President.
675
00:28:14,373 --> 00:28:15,499
Yeah.
676
00:28:16,108 --> 00:28:18,008
Joanne Herring speaks
very highly of you.
677
00:28:18,076 --> 00:28:20,567
Oh, well, thank you, sir.
Thank you.
678
00:28:20,646 --> 00:28:22,443
These are two
of my brightest advisors
679
00:28:22,514 --> 00:28:25,449
when it comes to the
problem of the Soviets.
680
00:28:26,084 --> 00:28:27,779
This is Brigadier Rashid.
681
00:28:28,787 --> 00:28:29,845
How do you do?
Pleased to meet you.
682
00:28:29,922 --> 00:28:31,287
Colonel Mahmood.
How do you do?
683
00:28:31,356 --> 00:28:32,846
Pleased to meet you.
684
00:28:32,925 --> 00:28:33,914
Please come.
685
00:28:33,992 --> 00:28:35,152
Thank you.
686
00:28:38,464 --> 00:28:40,432
You must be thirsty.
Can we get you a drink?
687
00:28:40,499 --> 00:28:44,299
Oh, actually I'd love a glass
of ice and any kind of whiskey.
688
00:28:44,470 --> 00:28:45,960
Rye, Canadian.
689
00:28:47,072 --> 00:28:48,061
Uh...
690
00:28:49,942 --> 00:28:52,069
I'm sorry, Congressman,
we don't have alcohol
691
00:28:52,144 --> 00:28:54,374
in the Presidential Residence.
692
00:28:54,980 --> 00:28:58,245
Of course, you don't.
I apologize.
693
00:29:00,285 --> 00:29:01,445
Fruit juice?
694
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:02,851
(SPEAKING URDU)
695
00:29:03,856 --> 00:29:05,414
Bet a lot of people
make that mistake.
696
00:29:05,491 --> 00:29:06,480
(LAUGHING)
697
00:29:06,892 --> 00:29:07,916
No.
698
00:29:08,594 --> 00:29:09,583
Okay.
699
00:29:09,661 --> 00:29:10,719
Brigadier?
700
00:29:11,430 --> 00:29:14,558
So you understand the
situation on our border?
701
00:29:15,234 --> 00:29:18,499
Yes, sir, I think I do.
And I think it's terrible.
702
00:29:19,071 --> 00:29:22,336
And I know I speak for all the people in
the Texas Second Congressional District
703
00:29:22,407 --> 00:29:24,932
when I say our thoughts and
our prayers are with you.
704
00:29:25,010 --> 00:29:27,501
All the people of the Texas
Second Congressional District,
705
00:29:27,579 --> 00:29:28,944
you say?
Yes, indeed, sir.
706
00:29:29,014 --> 00:29:33,041
Three million Afghan refugees are
living like poorly treated livestock.
707
00:29:33,118 --> 00:29:34,881
Another two million
have fled into Iran.
708
00:29:34,953 --> 00:29:36,420
And two million
more angry men
709
00:29:36,488 --> 00:29:38,513
is just what the doctors ordered
for Iran, don't you think?
710
00:29:38,590 --> 00:29:41,150
People are dying
by the tens of thousands.
711
00:29:41,226 --> 00:29:44,286
And the ones that aren't are
crossing into Pakistan every day.
712
00:29:44,363 --> 00:29:45,830
MAHMOOD: Would you like
to know how many?
713
00:29:45,898 --> 00:29:47,729
One fifth of Afghanistan
now lives
714
00:29:47,799 --> 00:29:50,393
in Pakistan's
North-West Frontier Province.
715
00:29:50,469 --> 00:29:52,437
ZIA: So, what I have
been wondering is
716
00:29:52,504 --> 00:29:55,667
why your State Department
would send someone here
717
00:29:55,741 --> 00:29:57,971
who thinks he understands the problem.
718
00:29:58,043 --> 00:30:01,535
'Cause I don't think the prayers of
the Texas Second Congressional District
719
00:30:01,613 --> 00:30:02,944
are going to turn
the trick.
720
00:30:03,015 --> 00:30:06,041
Well, now, I wasn't sent here by
the State Department, Mr. President.
721
00:30:06,118 --> 00:30:08,109
I was asked to come here
by our friend in Houston.
722
00:30:08,186 --> 00:30:10,381
So this is
a courtesy call.
723
00:30:10,455 --> 00:30:14,323
I don't need courtesy. I need
airplanes, guns and money.
724
00:30:14,393 --> 00:30:19,092
Well, we just doubled the
CIA budget for covert ops...
725
00:30:19,164 --> 00:30:20,597
From 5 million
to 10 million.
726
00:30:20,666 --> 00:30:22,657
That's right.
Is that a joke?
727
00:30:24,002 --> 00:30:26,095
No.
Is that meant to be a funny joke?
728
00:30:26,171 --> 00:30:27,160
No, sir.
729
00:30:27,239 --> 00:30:29,036
ZIA: Congressman,
what they're saying is
730
00:30:29,107 --> 00:30:32,770
$10 million from the U.S.
To fight the Russian Army
731
00:30:33,245 --> 00:30:36,476
is such a low figure that it
can be mistaken for a joke.
732
00:30:36,548 --> 00:30:40,279
I caught up to the sarcasm there, sir.
Let me be clear.
733
00:30:41,286 --> 00:30:43,447
The United States is
eager to assist you.
734
00:30:43,522 --> 00:30:44,580
No, you're not.
You're not.
735
00:30:44,656 --> 00:30:46,351
Absolutely not.
I went to Oxford
736
00:30:46,425 --> 00:30:47,722
and I know what
that word means.
737
00:30:47,793 --> 00:30:50,023
The U.S. Is not eager
to assist us.
738
00:30:50,095 --> 00:30:52,962
Well, now it's my understanding
that we offered to sell you F-16s.
739
00:30:53,031 --> 00:30:54,020
You didn't want them.
740
00:30:54,099 --> 00:30:55,760
Because you refused
to sell us the radar.
741
00:30:55,834 --> 00:30:57,096
RASHID: So to hell with that.
742
00:30:57,169 --> 00:31:00,502
ZIA: And this is emblematic
of American fence sitting
743
00:31:00,572 --> 00:31:02,062
when it comes
to fighting the Soviets.
744
00:31:02,140 --> 00:31:05,075
To hell with it!
You sell us the planes but not the radar.
745
00:31:05,143 --> 00:31:08,306
You offer Afghans rifles
from the First World War
746
00:31:08,714 --> 00:31:12,013
while Soviet helicopters are
killing everything they can find,
747
00:31:12,084 --> 00:31:14,712
people, animals, food supplies.
So to hell with it!
748
00:31:14,786 --> 00:31:17,050
Yeah.
You sell the Israelis the radar,
749
00:31:17,122 --> 00:31:19,113
so that's why he says,
"To hell with it."
750
00:31:19,191 --> 00:31:21,318
Again, I understood. Yeah.
751
00:31:21,526 --> 00:31:24,962
Also, the arms and funding
should flow through us.
752
00:31:27,032 --> 00:31:28,056
I'm sorry?
753
00:31:28,133 --> 00:31:29,862
That's been part
of the problem.
754
00:31:29,935 --> 00:31:32,460
The arms and the funding
should flow through us.
755
00:31:32,537 --> 00:31:35,165
We have experience
with warfare of this kind.
756
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,175
And your CIA has an
unimpressive track record.
757
00:31:38,243 --> 00:31:40,404
Oh. I wouldn't say that.
758
00:31:40,479 --> 00:31:44,381
They missed 130,000 Soviet
soldiers walking into Afghanistan.
759
00:31:45,417 --> 00:31:47,044
Okay, we blew that call.
760
00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:48,643
I would say so.
761
00:31:52,457 --> 00:31:58,692
Well, I don't want to use up
any more of your hospitality,
762
00:31:58,764 --> 00:32:03,633
so I will take your message
back to my committee chairman,
763
00:32:03,702 --> 00:32:06,500
and we will give it
our fullest attention.
764
00:32:06,705 --> 00:32:08,832
Let me walk you
to the door.
765
00:32:10,442 --> 00:32:11,431
(OFFICER SHOUTS COMMAND)
766
00:32:13,712 --> 00:32:16,306
I learned about you
before you came here.
767
00:32:16,381 --> 00:32:19,680
I learned that you're a man
of many character flaws.
768
00:32:19,885 --> 00:32:20,977
I am.
769
00:32:21,086 --> 00:32:23,179
But I also learned that
you never promise anything
770
00:32:23,255 --> 00:32:24,984
you cannot deliver.
771
00:32:25,190 --> 00:32:26,851
No, I don't,
Mr. President.
772
00:32:26,925 --> 00:32:28,415
Then promise me this.
773
00:32:28,493 --> 00:32:31,587
Go to Peshawar
and see the refugee camps.
774
00:32:31,930 --> 00:32:33,557
Right now. Today.
775
00:32:34,066 --> 00:32:36,864
Go to Peshawar and see
with your own eyes.
776
00:32:37,035 --> 00:32:39,765
I have a helicopter
waiting to take you.
777
00:32:40,672 --> 00:32:42,537
All right, I'll do it.
778
00:32:42,808 --> 00:32:44,332
Thank you,
Mr. Congressman.
779
00:32:44,409 --> 00:32:45,706
Mr. President.
780
00:32:51,316 --> 00:32:53,284
All right, you,
come on.
781
00:32:55,687 --> 00:32:56,813
How did it go?
782
00:32:56,888 --> 00:32:58,150
Well, there were
three of them.
783
00:32:58,223 --> 00:33:01,351
It was like getting slapped around
by a Pakistani vaudeville team.
784
00:33:01,426 --> 00:33:02,757
You know you've pretty
much hit rock bottom
785
00:33:02,828 --> 00:33:04,523
when you've been told you
have character flaws by a man
786
00:33:04,596 --> 00:33:07,588
who hanged his predecessor
in a military coup.
787
00:33:07,666 --> 00:33:08,655
Can we go home now?
788
00:33:08,734 --> 00:33:11,396
No. No, we have
to make one more stop.
789
00:34:10,929 --> 00:34:12,362
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
790
00:34:59,110 --> 00:35:00,907
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
791
00:35:07,319 --> 00:35:08,946
I've seen enough.
792
00:35:11,656 --> 00:35:16,116
About 350 people in three
small villages at Kandahar.
793
00:35:16,194 --> 00:35:19,186
But instead of doing
it all at once,
794
00:35:19,264 --> 00:35:21,698
the Russians would
make the parents watch
795
00:35:21,766 --> 00:35:24,257
as they slit the
throats of the children.
796
00:35:24,336 --> 00:35:26,463
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
797
00:35:27,839 --> 00:35:34,506
So, the Russians gathered all the
defectors and piled them like wood
798
00:35:34,579 --> 00:35:36,774
in the center
of the village.
799
00:35:37,349 --> 00:35:39,681
Then they ran over them
with their tanks.
800
00:35:39,751 --> 00:35:41,548
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
801
00:35:42,454 --> 00:35:46,185
WOMAN TRANSLATOR: I saw something shiny
on the ground. I thought it was a toy.
802
00:35:48,493 --> 00:35:51,951
When I reached down to grab
it, it exploded in my hand.
803
00:35:52,864 --> 00:35:54,263
I should have known.
804
00:35:54,332 --> 00:35:59,360
Because last year my little brother
tried to pick up a piece of candy.
805
00:36:01,039 --> 00:36:02,836
It split him in half.
806
00:36:03,541 --> 00:36:07,204
It takes more work to take care
of a wounded child than a dead one.
807
00:36:07,279 --> 00:36:10,112
So when the Russians
cover fields with toy mines,
808
00:36:10,181 --> 00:36:14,413
adults who might help with the war
effort have to take care of the children.
809
00:36:14,486 --> 00:36:16,647
BONNIE: You can see yourself.
810
00:36:17,689 --> 00:36:18,747
Like a bug.
811
00:36:18,823 --> 00:36:19,812
(BUZZING)
812
00:36:20,191 --> 00:36:21,522
(WOMAN TRANSLATING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
813
00:36:23,995 --> 00:36:25,656
They're beautiful.
814
00:36:26,531 --> 00:36:28,761
How many children
do you have?
815
00:36:31,002 --> 00:36:32,367
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
816
00:36:33,104 --> 00:36:34,503
She had six.
817
00:36:36,741 --> 00:36:39,642
So, what do you want to be
when you grow up?
818
00:36:48,053 --> 00:36:49,850
(SOBBING)
819
00:37:21,319 --> 00:37:25,949
Hi. I have Congressman Wilson here
to see the station chief, Harold Holt.
820
00:37:26,024 --> 00:37:28,720
Down the hall.
Second door on the left.
821
00:37:29,361 --> 00:37:30,953
I'll wait outside.
822
00:37:32,297 --> 00:37:34,197
Look, normally,
a congressional delegation,
823
00:37:34,265 --> 00:37:37,666
we'd give them a courtesy briefing
on the situation, but as you can see,
824
00:37:37,736 --> 00:37:41,103
it's getting pretty late, we don't
have a whole lot of time anyway, so...
825
00:37:41,172 --> 00:37:42,935
Well, make the time.
Huh?
826
00:37:43,808 --> 00:37:46,504
Fuck your time, Harold.
I'm on Defense Appropriations.
827
00:37:46,578 --> 00:37:49,445
I'm catching a plane back to
Washington in just a few minutes.
828
00:37:49,514 --> 00:37:52,677
Now, I need a full
classified briefing right now.
829
00:37:56,388 --> 00:37:58,253
Hundred and twenty thousand
Soviet troops in all.
830
00:37:58,323 --> 00:37:59,312
Hundred and twenty thousand?
831
00:37:59,391 --> 00:38:01,552
40th Army is garrisoned
in the cities
832
00:38:01,626 --> 00:38:02,786
and in the airports.
833
00:38:02,861 --> 00:38:05,523
Your seventh and eighth
infantry divisions are in Kabul.
834
00:38:05,597 --> 00:38:08,361
The 18th in Mazar-e Sharif,
the fourth armored...
835
00:38:08,433 --> 00:38:09,422
Anything inside?
836
00:38:09,501 --> 00:38:10,593
I'm sorry?
837
00:38:10,668 --> 00:38:12,329
They controlling
anything inside?
838
00:38:12,404 --> 00:38:13,996
Soviet advisors
have appropriated
839
00:38:14,072 --> 00:38:16,233
the Afghan intel service
and the ministries.
840
00:38:16,307 --> 00:38:17,740
Which ministries?
841
00:38:17,809 --> 00:38:19,208
All of them.
842
00:38:19,544 --> 00:38:23,810
Anyway, the fourth armored
covers Bagram Airbase.
843
00:38:23,882 --> 00:38:25,110
Seventh Armored is...
844
00:38:25,183 --> 00:38:27,981
Why ain't they shooting down
them helicopters?
845
00:38:28,053 --> 00:38:29,281
I'm sorry?
846
00:38:29,354 --> 00:38:30,981
The helicopters, Harold.
847
00:38:31,056 --> 00:38:34,492
Why ain't we giving them something
to shoot down them helicopters?
848
00:38:34,559 --> 00:38:38,051
The helicopters
are a problem.
849
00:38:39,964 --> 00:38:41,295
You think?
850
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:44,432
Congressman...
They're shooting at Soviet gunships
851
00:38:44,502 --> 00:38:48,199
with Enfield rifles. That's
basically what Davy Crockett used.
852
00:38:48,273 --> 00:38:51,106
The Soviet Hind gunship is especially
armor plated to resist bullets.
853
00:38:51,176 --> 00:38:55,135
Yeah, I know, I know.
So you tell me what you need to shoot them down.
854
00:38:55,213 --> 00:38:56,202
What do you mean?
855
00:38:56,281 --> 00:38:58,010
Tell me what you need.
856
00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:00,342
Do you understand
what I'm saying?
857
00:39:00,418 --> 00:39:04,286
You tell me what you need, and I
will go about getting it for you.
858
00:39:04,355 --> 00:39:06,687
Congressman, I appreciate
your generosity,
859
00:39:06,758 --> 00:39:11,627
but a sudden influx of money and
modern weaponry would draw attention.
860
00:39:12,530 --> 00:39:15,055
What?
A sudden influx of money and modern...
861
00:39:15,133 --> 00:39:17,158
Wait, it would
draw attention?
862
00:39:17,235 --> 00:39:18,259
Yeah.
863
00:39:19,204 --> 00:39:21,798
Why, I don't even know
what that means.
864
00:39:21,873 --> 00:39:23,636
This is the Cold War.
Everybody knows about it.
865
00:39:23,708 --> 00:39:24,766
Should I continue
with the briefing?
866
00:39:24,843 --> 00:39:28,939
Have you been to these refugee
camps? Have you heard these stories?
867
00:39:29,013 --> 00:39:32,210
Congressman, I am required
to give you a briefing.
868
00:39:32,584 --> 00:39:34,245
Should I continue?
869
00:39:34,552 --> 00:39:36,042
No. Thank you.
870
00:39:47,665 --> 00:39:49,462
(SIGHING)
871
00:39:49,734 --> 00:39:54,762
You know, I had a neighbor, growing
up, with a name right out of Dickens.
872
00:39:55,907 --> 00:39:58,068
Mr. Charles Hazard.
873
00:39:59,444 --> 00:40:02,607
And Mr. Hazard didn't like
the neighborhood dogs
874
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,773
messing up his flower beds.
875
00:40:05,316 --> 00:40:07,181
One day, I heard a bunch of
yelling from across the street,
876
00:40:07,252 --> 00:40:08,685
so I ran on over
to Mr. Hazard's,
877
00:40:08,753 --> 00:40:12,519
and there were about 15 grown-ups
standing around my dog, Teddy,
878
00:40:12,590 --> 00:40:16,492
who was writhing on the
ground in obvious agony.
879
00:40:17,028 --> 00:40:18,893
Blood was pouring
out of his mouth.
880
00:40:18,963 --> 00:40:21,295
Mr. Hazard had
ground up a glass bottle
881
00:40:21,366 --> 00:40:24,631
and put it in a bowl of
dog food and fed it to him.
882
00:40:26,337 --> 00:40:27,929
What did you do?
883
00:40:28,473 --> 00:40:31,567
Well, I got some gasoline and
burned down his flower beds.
884
00:40:31,643 --> 00:40:34,077
But that wasn't
satisfying enough.
885
00:40:35,213 --> 00:40:38,842
And then I remembered, Mr.
Hazard was an elected official.
886
00:40:38,917 --> 00:40:41,249
He was the head
of the town council.
887
00:40:41,319 --> 00:40:44,220
His reelection every two years
was a foregone conclusion.
888
00:40:44,289 --> 00:40:48,726
So come Election Day, I drove
over to the black section of town.
889
00:40:48,793 --> 00:40:52,092
Now, these people hadn't voted
in any of these elections, so...
890
00:40:52,163 --> 00:40:55,064
I was only 13,
but I had a farmer's license
891
00:40:56,601 --> 00:40:58,091
and I filled up my car
with black voters
892
00:40:58,169 --> 00:40:59,431
and drove them
to the polling place
893
00:40:59,504 --> 00:41:00,835
and then waited,
then drove them on home.
894
00:41:00,905 --> 00:41:03,840
But before they got out
of the car to vote
895
00:41:03,908 --> 00:41:09,039
I said, "I don't mean to influence
you, but I think you should know
896
00:41:09,113 --> 00:41:12,708
"Mr. Charles Hazard has
intentionally killed my dog."
897
00:41:15,119 --> 00:41:17,815
About 400 ballots were
cast in that election.
898
00:41:17,889 --> 00:41:20,483
I drove 96 of them
to the polls.
899
00:41:21,593 --> 00:41:23,686
Hazard lost by 16 votes.
900
00:41:27,265 --> 00:41:30,757
And that's the day I
fell in love with America.
901
00:41:34,305 --> 00:41:36,102
What time do we land?
902
00:41:36,741 --> 00:41:38,766
7:30 a.m. In D.C.
903
00:41:39,477 --> 00:41:42,071
I want the CIA in my office at 10:00.
904
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,405
Assistant Deputy Director
or higher.
905
00:41:45,817 --> 00:41:48,479
Tell them that if I don't
see someone at 10:00,
906
00:41:48,553 --> 00:41:53,490
I'm gonna start docking their allowance
at a rate of $1 million a minute.
907
00:41:53,691 --> 00:41:54,953
Yes, sir.
908
00:41:55,293 --> 00:41:56,726
And get me another
one of them, would you?
909
00:41:56,794 --> 00:41:57,783
(CLEARING THROAT)
910
00:41:58,763 --> 00:42:00,025
Yes, sir.
911
00:42:02,834 --> 00:42:04,802
AGENT PATRICK: The AKs,
RPG-7 grenade launchers
912
00:42:04,869 --> 00:42:07,929
and 82 millimeter mortars are
coming into Pakistan by air and sea,
913
00:42:08,172 --> 00:42:09,833
and then trucks take them
to the Afghan border.
914
00:42:09,907 --> 00:42:11,807
AGENT WELLS: Then we take them
across on mules,
915
00:42:11,876 --> 00:42:13,503
which are running a little
more than we thought.
916
00:42:13,578 --> 00:42:15,273
The mules?
They're 2,400 a piece,
917
00:42:15,346 --> 00:42:17,314
plus we got to get them checked out.
For what?
918
00:42:17,382 --> 00:42:20,647
Diseases. Foot and mouth. Plus they
have to have their ears cleaned.
919
00:42:20,718 --> 00:42:23,084
The mules are getting better
health care than the Afghans.
920
00:42:23,154 --> 00:42:26,453
AGENT WELLS: Plus, they're gonna cost a
little extra if we want them pre-trained.
921
00:42:26,524 --> 00:42:28,048
To do what?
Walk over a mountain
922
00:42:28,126 --> 00:42:29,252
with ammunition
on their back.
923
00:42:29,327 --> 00:42:30,658
Aren't they born
with that instinct?
924
00:42:30,728 --> 00:42:33,424
I mean, isn't that something
they want to do naturally?
925
00:42:33,498 --> 00:42:36,729
You think Afghanistan might, one day,
think about building some fucking roads?
926
00:42:36,801 --> 00:42:38,564
Gust.
Yeah?
927
00:42:38,636 --> 00:42:40,604
I got something for you.
928
00:42:41,572 --> 00:42:42,971
I need you
to be specific...
929
00:42:43,041 --> 00:42:45,509
MARLA: The whole thing has changed.
Get your diary. I'll show you.
930
00:42:45,576 --> 00:42:46,668
Okay.
931
00:42:47,912 --> 00:42:49,846
RECEPTIONIST: No problem.
Thank you.
932
00:42:51,382 --> 00:42:52,542
He should be here
any moment.
933
00:42:52,617 --> 00:42:55,279
Don't worry about me.
I'm fine.
934
00:42:56,788 --> 00:42:58,517
Good morning.
Good morning, Congressman.
935
00:42:58,589 --> 00:43:00,216
Welcome back.
Yeah. Marla.
936
00:43:00,291 --> 00:43:01,724
Welcome back.
Suzanne.
937
00:43:01,793 --> 00:43:03,260
Welcome back.
938
00:43:04,595 --> 00:43:05,619
Who are you?
939
00:43:05,697 --> 00:43:06,891
RECEPTIONIST:
This is Gust Avrakotos.
940
00:43:06,964 --> 00:43:08,727
He's come up from Langley
to bring you the information
941
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,791
that you wanted.
Bonnie!
942
00:43:11,302 --> 00:43:12,291
Yes, sir?
943
00:43:12,370 --> 00:43:13,962
I said Assistant Deputy
Director or higher.
944
00:43:14,038 --> 00:43:15,938
I know, sir. I called...
No, Assistant Deputies don't come
945
00:43:16,007 --> 00:43:17,099
to the Hill
without a subpoena.
946
00:43:17,175 --> 00:43:19,871
I'm the guy you want to talk to,
Congressman. I'm on the Afghan desk.
947
00:43:19,944 --> 00:43:21,844
You're on the Afghan desk?
Yeah.
948
00:43:21,913 --> 00:43:24,507
Well, I wouldn't be too proud of
that. I just got back from there.
949
00:43:24,582 --> 00:43:26,914
Oh, I know. And that's
a hell of a flight, too.
950
00:43:26,984 --> 00:43:28,815
That nine hours flying time
against the jet stream.
951
00:43:28,886 --> 00:43:31,013
Probably had to stop in Brussels,
plus the time difference.
952
00:43:31,089 --> 00:43:32,420
I'd be a little grumpy
myself.
953
00:43:32,490 --> 00:43:34,082
I ain't grumpy
because of the plane.
954
00:43:35,226 --> 00:43:38,354
We want to give you this 'cause
we know you like single malt.
955
00:43:38,429 --> 00:43:39,896
It's called Talisker,
956
00:43:39,964 --> 00:43:41,955
and it's mentioned in a
Robert Louis Stevenson poem,
957
00:43:42,033 --> 00:43:43,864
The Scotsman's Return
from Abroad.
958
00:43:43,935 --> 00:43:45,800
"The king o' drinks,
as I conceive it,
959
00:43:45,870 --> 00:43:48,361
"Talisker, Isla
or Glenlivet!"
960
00:43:48,439 --> 00:43:50,930
Who are you again?
Gust Avrakotos.
961
00:43:52,310 --> 00:43:53,743
Have Bonnie come
into this meeting.
962
00:43:53,811 --> 00:43:55,369
MARLA: Yes, sir.
963
00:43:56,180 --> 00:43:57,807
What's the gift for?
964
00:43:57,882 --> 00:44:00,749
It's from the Afghan desk for
doubling the budget for the mujahideen.
965
00:44:00,818 --> 00:44:03,548
Oh. Well, thank you.
966
00:44:04,188 --> 00:44:05,712
It was nothing.
967
00:44:05,990 --> 00:44:08,481
Well, it's a nice
bottle of Scotch.
968
00:44:09,293 --> 00:44:10,317
Must've been hard to get.
969
00:44:10,395 --> 00:44:12,158
No, doubling
the budget was nothing.
970
00:44:12,230 --> 00:44:15,256
I mean, $10 million for covert ops
against the Russian Army is meaningless.
971
00:44:15,333 --> 00:44:17,824
What are you, an infant?
Now, you hang on just one second.
972
00:44:17,902 --> 00:44:18,891
I don't remember your name.
973
00:44:18,970 --> 00:44:20,301
Gust Avrakotos.
974
00:44:20,371 --> 00:44:21,360
Gust Avrakotos.
975
00:44:21,439 --> 00:44:22,428
Yeah.
976
00:44:22,507 --> 00:44:24,202
Okay, you mind
if I call you Gus?
977
00:44:24,275 --> 00:44:26,709
Yeah, well, my name's Gust
with a "t," but I don't care.
978
00:44:26,778 --> 00:44:32,216
Fifteen hours ago, I offered Harold
Holt the keys to the safe, okay?
979
00:44:33,050 --> 00:44:37,282
I stood there in the office in Islamabad,
and I said, "How much do you need?"
980
00:44:37,355 --> 00:44:38,879
And I was apparently
annoying him.
981
00:44:38,956 --> 00:44:41,720
Well, Harold Holt's a massive tool,
Congressman. He's a cake-eater.
982
00:44:41,793 --> 00:44:43,488
He's a clown.
He's a bad station chief.
983
00:44:43,561 --> 00:44:46,621
And I don't mean to cast aspersions on
a guy, but he's gonna get us all killed.
984
00:44:46,697 --> 00:44:47,857
Really?
Yeah.
985
00:44:47,932 --> 00:44:50,833
Well, how does he expect to defeat
the Soviets in Afghanistan without...
986
00:44:50,902 --> 00:44:52,961
He said, "A sudden influx of money..."
Yeah, an influx of money
987
00:44:53,037 --> 00:44:54,402
and new weaponry
would draw attention.
988
00:44:54,472 --> 00:44:56,940
He's not trying to defeat
the Soviets, Congressman.
989
00:44:57,008 --> 00:44:58,100
What the hell
are you talking about?
990
00:44:58,176 --> 00:44:59,165
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
991
00:45:00,144 --> 00:45:01,475
Excuse me.
992
00:45:02,613 --> 00:45:04,308
I'm the Congressman's
aide, Bonnie Bach.
993
00:45:04,382 --> 00:45:05,576
Gust Avrakotos.
994
00:45:05,650 --> 00:45:07,311
Gus, I need the room
for a second.
995
00:45:07,385 --> 00:45:09,080
Sure.
Jailbait!
996
00:45:12,824 --> 00:45:15,418
Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey.
Whoa, all right.
997
00:45:15,493 --> 00:45:16,687
Just tell me
what's happening.
998
00:45:16,761 --> 00:45:18,991
A Justice Department task
force that was formed last year
999
00:45:19,063 --> 00:45:21,258
to investigate reports of sex
between members of the House
1000
00:45:21,332 --> 00:45:23,266
and their male interns
has recently widened
1001
00:45:23,334 --> 00:45:25,131
to include the use
of recreational drugs
1002
00:45:25,203 --> 00:45:27,137
by senators and congressmen.
1003
00:45:27,205 --> 00:45:28,467
Do you know a man
named Paul Brown?
1004
00:45:28,539 --> 00:45:29,733
BONNIE: He doesn't have
to answer that. Keep going.
1005
00:45:29,807 --> 00:45:30,796
Oh, shit.
1006
00:45:30,875 --> 00:45:34,606
Paul Brown, under investigation
by federal prosecutors for fraud.
1007
00:45:35,346 --> 00:45:38,281
He wanted me to invest
in some TV show for Crystal.
1008
00:45:38,349 --> 00:45:40,715
Well, he's saying he witnessed
you doing cocaine nine times
1009
00:45:40,785 --> 00:45:42,753
in a fantasy suite
in Las Vegas.
1010
00:45:42,820 --> 00:45:45,516
Brian Ross at NBC is
breaking the story.
1011
00:45:45,656 --> 00:45:49,615
All right, guys. I was in Las
Vegas with Crystal and Paul Brown,
1012
00:45:49,694 --> 00:45:51,992
because she wanted me to
talk to him about this thing.
1013
00:45:52,063 --> 00:45:53,724
There was cocaine?
1014
00:45:54,832 --> 00:45:56,891
I want you to go in the other
room and start on a statement.
1015
00:45:56,968 --> 00:45:58,492
Let's get Stu on the phone.
Okay, I'll call him.
1016
00:45:58,569 --> 00:45:59,627
BONNIE: Okay, Bait,
you just need to start...
1017
00:45:59,704 --> 00:46:00,693
CHARLIE: It's all right,
everybody.
1018
00:46:00,771 --> 00:46:02,295
It's gonna be all right.
I want to get back to...
1019
00:46:02,373 --> 00:46:03,431
Gus!
1020
00:46:05,276 --> 00:46:06,334
You having problems?
1021
00:46:06,410 --> 00:46:07,502
(CLEARS THROAT)
1022
00:46:07,578 --> 00:46:08,636
No.
1023
00:46:08,713 --> 00:46:11,307
What do you mean, he's not
trying to defeat the Soviets?
1024
00:46:11,382 --> 00:46:14,010
Well, he wants to bleed them.
Payback for Vietnam.
1025
00:46:14,085 --> 00:46:15,609
Make it so they just have
to keep sending troops in,
1026
00:46:15,686 --> 00:46:16,983
keep sending money,
and troops, and money
1027
00:46:17,054 --> 00:46:18,954
until they just go out of their
fucking minds the way we did.
1028
00:46:19,023 --> 00:46:21,685
You mean to tell me that the
U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
1029
00:46:21,759 --> 00:46:23,750
is to have the Afghans keep
walking into machine gun fire
1030
00:46:23,828 --> 00:46:24,988
till the Russians
run out of bullets?
1031
00:46:25,062 --> 00:46:26,154
That's Harold Holt's
strategy.
1032
00:46:26,230 --> 00:46:28,130
It's not U.S. Strategy.
What is U.S. Strategy?
1033
00:46:28,199 --> 00:46:29,632
Well, strictly speaking,
we don't have one.
1034
00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:30,792
But we're working
hard on that.
1035
00:46:30,868 --> 00:46:32,335
Who's we?
Me and three other guys.
1036
00:46:32,403 --> 00:46:33,392
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
1037
00:46:34,071 --> 00:46:35,834
Would you excuse me?
1038
00:46:35,907 --> 00:46:36,896
(CLEARS THROAT)
1039
00:46:40,611 --> 00:46:41,635
All right,
what do you have?
1040
00:46:41,712 --> 00:46:44,943
"Representative Charles Wilson has learned
he is joining several members of Congress
1041
00:46:45,016 --> 00:46:47,883
"who are under investigation by a
Justice Department task force that is..."
1042
00:46:47,952 --> 00:46:49,214
Don't say task force.
It makes it sound
1043
00:46:49,287 --> 00:46:50,549
like Eliot Ness is running the thing.
Okay.
1044
00:46:50,621 --> 00:46:53,215
Who is running the thing?
Who's the prosecutor?
1045
00:46:53,291 --> 00:46:55,020
Rudolph Giuliani,
New York, Southern District.
1046
00:46:55,092 --> 00:46:56,650
You know him?
No.
1047
00:46:56,727 --> 00:46:58,854
Well, it's been going on
forever. We should say that, too.
1048
00:46:58,930 --> 00:47:02,024
"Representative Charles Wilson has learned
he is joining several members of Congress
1049
00:47:02,099 --> 00:47:04,431
"who are under investigation
by the Justice Department
1050
00:47:04,502 --> 00:47:07,232
"in what is now an 18-month
long, wide-ranging examination
1051
00:47:07,305 --> 00:47:09,205
"that has resulted
in no convictions."
1052
00:47:09,273 --> 00:47:11,298
"Congressman Wilson has not
been charged with any crime,
1053
00:47:11,375 --> 00:47:13,275
"nor has he been questioned
by the authorities.
1054
00:47:13,344 --> 00:47:16,074
"He denies any allegation of
illegal or improper behavior
1055
00:47:16,147 --> 00:47:18,115
"and will fully cooperate with
the ongoing investigation."
1056
00:47:18,182 --> 00:47:19,240
Okay. Run it by Stu.
1057
00:47:19,317 --> 00:47:20,477
JAILBAIT: Yes, sir.
1058
00:47:22,219 --> 00:47:23,277
Gus!
1059
00:47:26,190 --> 00:47:28,715
You and three other guys?
Yeah.
1060
00:47:28,793 --> 00:47:32,593
Well, I'll tell you what I told
Harold Holt. I can get the money.
1061
00:47:32,663 --> 00:47:35,655
Now, the 10 million is a joke?
Fine. What do you need?
1062
00:47:35,733 --> 00:47:37,462
To do what?
To shoot down the helicopters.
1063
00:47:37,535 --> 00:47:38,661
To shoot down
the helicopters.
1064
00:47:38,736 --> 00:47:41,296
If we can help them shoot down
the goddamn helicopters,
1065
00:47:41,372 --> 00:47:42,737
everything's gonna
start going our way.
1066
00:47:42,807 --> 00:47:46,243
You know, there's a story about
a Zen master and a little boy.
1067
00:47:46,310 --> 00:47:48,210
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
All right, and... Yeah.
1068
00:47:51,449 --> 00:47:52,473
It's Stu.
1069
00:47:52,550 --> 00:47:54,040
You should be on this.
1070
00:47:56,020 --> 00:47:57,078
Stu?
1071
00:47:57,588 --> 00:47:59,488
No. No,
it's gonna be fine.
1072
00:47:59,557 --> 00:48:01,525
It was a party in Vegas.
1073
00:48:01,892 --> 00:48:03,792
Lot of drugs, lot of
people I don't know.
1074
00:48:03,861 --> 00:48:07,160
I was there with Crystal Lee
and this guy Paul Brown
1075
00:48:07,231 --> 00:48:10,394
who wanted me to invest
in a TV show for Crystal.
1076
00:48:10,868 --> 00:48:11,892
I don't know.
1077
00:48:11,969 --> 00:48:14,995
I don't know, it's gonna be
like a Dallas set in Washington.
1078
00:48:15,072 --> 00:48:17,233
What... Stu,
what does it matter?
1079
00:48:17,308 --> 00:48:18,400
Okay.
1080
00:48:19,043 --> 00:48:20,135
Okay.
1081
00:48:20,711 --> 00:48:22,941
Will Crystal back up your
story that you weren't using?
1082
00:48:23,014 --> 00:48:25,312
Just go put out
the statement.
1083
00:48:25,483 --> 00:48:26,973
You know what?
1084
00:48:27,284 --> 00:48:30,845
You never should have been
in the same room, Congressman.
1085
00:48:30,921 --> 00:48:31,910
(DOOR SLAMS)
1086
00:48:33,324 --> 00:48:34,382
Gus!
1087
00:48:35,693 --> 00:48:39,151
Yeah.
The Swiss make an antiaircraft gun
1088
00:48:39,230 --> 00:48:41,027
called the Oerlikon.
Listen, Charlie.
1089
00:48:41,098 --> 00:48:42,725
Twenty-millimeter cannon,
high rate of fire.
1090
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,392
I know the Oerlikon.
1091
00:48:44,468 --> 00:48:46,368
Don't forget
the limo driver.
1092
00:48:46,437 --> 00:48:47,495
What do you mean?
1093
00:48:47,571 --> 00:48:50,369
Well, you took a limo from
the casino to the airport.
1094
00:48:50,441 --> 00:48:53,137
Maybe it's easy enough to track down
a limo driver, hand him a subpoena,
1095
00:48:53,210 --> 00:48:54,837
ask him if anything was
going on in the back seat,
1096
00:48:54,912 --> 00:48:56,903
so, you know, in terms
of cleaning up this...
1097
00:48:56,981 --> 00:48:58,471
Were you listening
at the door?
1098
00:48:58,549 --> 00:49:00,380
I wasn't listening at the door.
Were you standing
1099
00:49:00,451 --> 00:49:02,578
at the goddamn door listening to me?
No.
1100
00:49:02,653 --> 00:49:05,087
How could you even...
That's a thick door!
1101
00:49:05,156 --> 00:49:06,953
You stood there
and you listened to me?
1102
00:49:07,024 --> 00:49:08,355
I wasn't standing at the door.
Don't be an idiot.
1103
00:49:08,426 --> 00:49:09,723
I bugged the Scotch bottle.
1104
00:49:09,794 --> 00:49:10,852
What?
1105
00:49:11,862 --> 00:49:12,988
Yeah, it's got a little
transmitter on it.
1106
00:49:13,064 --> 00:49:15,931
I got a little thing
in my ear. Get past it.
1107
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,333
I don't believe this. Who the
fuck... Who the fuck are you?
1108
00:49:19,403 --> 00:49:21,132
It's not in my ear right now.
Take it easy.
1109
00:49:21,205 --> 00:49:23,605
I was gonna tell you about it, but
I had to leave the room for a second
1110
00:49:23,674 --> 00:49:25,699
'cause you were getting indicted.
I ain't getting indicted.
1111
00:49:25,776 --> 00:49:28,176
Is there a camera in here?
No, that's a little paranoid.
1112
00:49:28,245 --> 00:49:29,405
That's right.
1113
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,540
Will you take the bug
off my Scotch bottle now?
1114
00:49:32,917 --> 00:49:34,009
Sure.
1115
00:49:36,721 --> 00:49:39,884
I saw two kids,
had their hands blown off
1116
00:49:40,291 --> 00:49:42,020
when they tried to pick
up something shiny.
1117
00:49:42,093 --> 00:49:45,085
Sometimes the kids think
those bombs are toys.
1118
00:49:45,196 --> 00:49:47,494
For children to pick up.
Yeah.
1119
00:49:48,065 --> 00:49:49,589
They're raping the women and...
Yeah.
1120
00:49:49,667 --> 00:49:52,864
...bayoneting the pregnant ones.
It's as bad as it can be.
1121
00:49:52,937 --> 00:49:56,031
But they still want to go out
and fight the Red Army.
1122
00:49:56,107 --> 00:49:58,166
Each and every one of them.
I've never seen anything like that.
1123
00:49:58,242 --> 00:49:59,834
No, me, neither.
1124
00:50:00,444 --> 00:50:03,106
Let's be clear. I want to kill
Russians as much as you do.
1125
00:50:03,180 --> 00:50:06,240
Is the Oerlikon the right gun?
Is that what they should have?
1126
00:50:06,317 --> 00:50:08,046
Now, you know what?
1127
00:50:08,285 --> 00:50:09,309
You've had a long flight.
1128
00:50:09,386 --> 00:50:11,081
You're under a lot of stress.
You're under arrest.
1129
00:50:11,155 --> 00:50:12,679
I ain't under arrest.
1130
00:50:12,757 --> 00:50:14,349
Do you drink?
Oh, God, yeah.
1131
00:50:14,425 --> 00:50:15,949
Well, should we try
this Scotch,
1132
00:50:16,026 --> 00:50:17,755
or is it gonna release
sarin gas when I open it?
1133
00:50:17,828 --> 00:50:20,763
Oh, I don't think so,
but open it over there.
1134
00:50:26,303 --> 00:50:28,794
How'd a guy like you get
into the Agency?
1135
00:50:28,873 --> 00:50:32,104
What, you mean a street guy?
You ain't James Bond.
1136
00:50:32,176 --> 00:50:35,612
And you ain't Thomas Jefferson,
so let's call it even.
1137
00:50:35,813 --> 00:50:36,905
Deal.
1138
00:50:38,616 --> 00:50:40,140
Since there's no other reason
I should be here,
1139
00:50:40,217 --> 00:50:43,277
let's assume it's 'cause
I'm very good at this.
1140
00:50:45,790 --> 00:50:48,258
They need to shoot down
the helicopters, Gus.
1141
00:50:48,325 --> 00:50:50,885
They need at least,
what, 50 Oerlikons.
1142
00:50:50,961 --> 00:50:52,929
Yeah, it's gonna cost
a lot more than $10 million.
1143
00:50:52,997 --> 00:50:54,897
And I say for the fourth time,
I can raise the money.
1144
00:50:54,965 --> 00:50:56,262
Yeah, how?
1145
00:50:56,333 --> 00:50:59,496
Is the Oerlikon the gun
I should be recommending?
1146
00:50:59,637 --> 00:51:01,070
I'm not sure.
1147
00:51:01,138 --> 00:51:03,663
Who is sure?
A weapons guy named Mike Vickers.
1148
00:51:03,741 --> 00:51:05,971
I'll call him.
Yeah. Let's call him right now.
1149
00:51:11,982 --> 00:51:13,973
All right, here's a test.
1150
00:51:14,552 --> 00:51:16,213
You see the nerdy-looking kid
in the white shirt
1151
00:51:16,287 --> 00:51:18,346
playing against
the four guys at once?
1152
00:51:18,422 --> 00:51:19,411
CHARLIE: Yeah.
1153
00:51:19,590 --> 00:51:22,115
Which one of the guys do you
think is a strategic weapons expert
1154
00:51:22,193 --> 00:51:24,320
with the CIA?
1155
00:51:24,862 --> 00:51:26,329
(SIGHING)
1156
00:51:26,730 --> 00:51:27,924
That was a trick question,
Charlie.
1157
00:51:27,998 --> 00:51:30,466
It's the nerdy-looking kid
in the white shirt.
1158
00:51:30,534 --> 00:51:32,161
All right, no reason this
can't be fun, you know.
1159
00:51:32,236 --> 00:51:34,830
Mike!
Yeah, just a second.
1160
00:51:35,306 --> 00:51:37,035
Need you now, Mike.
1161
00:51:41,145 --> 00:51:42,612
Keep playing.
1162
00:51:43,948 --> 00:51:46,109
Mike Vickers, this is
Congressman Charles Wilson
1163
00:51:46,183 --> 00:51:48,174
of the Defense Appropriations
Subcommittee.
1164
00:51:48,252 --> 00:51:50,743
How are you, sir?
Fine, thank you.
1165
00:51:51,689 --> 00:51:54,590
How old are you?
I'll be 30 next week.
1166
00:51:54,658 --> 00:51:57,058
This is the CIA's weapons
expert?
1167
00:51:57,161 --> 00:51:58,822
One of them.
But he's the most senior.
1168
00:51:58,896 --> 00:51:59,920
GUS: Look...
MAN: Mike!
1169
00:51:59,997 --> 00:52:02,295
Yeah, bishop to queen's
knight 7.
1170
00:52:02,366 --> 00:52:03,993
See? He's playing without
even looking at the board.
1171
00:52:04,068 --> 00:52:05,194
That's a useful skill
1172
00:52:05,269 --> 00:52:08,295
if Afghanistan's ever invaded
by Boris Spassky.
1173
00:52:08,372 --> 00:52:10,670
Did my office not make it clear
to Langley that I'm in no mood
1174
00:52:10,741 --> 00:52:11,765
to be fucked around with?
Charlie...
1175
00:52:11,842 --> 00:52:14,003
You answer to me or you answer
to Jim Baker. Which do you want?
1176
00:52:14,078 --> 00:52:16,945
All right, the guy's a fucking Green
Beret, Charlie. He trained with the SEALs.
1177
00:52:17,014 --> 00:52:19,539
No one's trying to fuck with you!
MAN: Mike?
1178
00:52:19,617 --> 00:52:22,552
Yeah, what was your move?
Knight to queen's bishop 5.
1179
00:52:22,620 --> 00:52:24,212
All right, queen to king's
rook 3.
1180
00:52:24,288 --> 00:52:27,314
Guy on the right, you don't
want to trade queens with me.
1181
00:52:27,391 --> 00:52:28,483
Shit.
1182
00:52:28,826 --> 00:52:31,317
All right, I apologize.
1183
00:52:31,395 --> 00:52:33,386
Okay.
Everybody friends?
1184
00:52:33,497 --> 00:52:36,830
As a former naval officer myself,
Mike, I should've known better.
1185
00:52:36,901 --> 00:52:38,926
As a former naval officer, I'd
have been surprised if you had.
1186
00:52:39,003 --> 00:52:40,027
Now, what the fuck?
Hey.
1187
00:52:40,104 --> 00:52:41,969
He said he was sorry.
Hey.
1188
00:52:42,039 --> 00:52:43,529
What can I do for you, sir?
1189
00:52:43,607 --> 00:52:46,440
All right, he wants to make a
recommendation to his Subcommittee.
1190
00:52:46,510 --> 00:52:49,502
Now, the Swiss made Oerlikon S.T.A.
Antiaircraft cannon, that's what you'd use
1191
00:52:49,580 --> 00:52:52,071
to shoot down the Ml-24 Hind
gunship in the mountains, right?
1192
00:52:52,149 --> 00:52:53,275
Well, the Oerlikon's
a good start,
1193
00:52:53,350 --> 00:52:55,614
but the Russians will just start
flying higher altitude missions.
1194
00:52:55,686 --> 00:52:56,710
So what else do they need?
1195
00:52:56,787 --> 00:52:59,551
Same thing you give us.
AK-47 s, AK-74s, AKMS.
1196
00:52:59,623 --> 00:53:01,682
The Soviets didn't come into
Afghanistan on a Eurail Pass.
1197
00:53:01,759 --> 00:53:03,249
They came in T-55 tanks.
1198
00:53:03,327 --> 00:53:06,057
The fighters need RPG-7
anti-tank grenade launchers,
1199
00:53:06,130 --> 00:53:10,533
Katyusha 107 mm rockets, wire mines,
plastic mines, bicycle bombs, sniper rifles,
1200
00:53:10,601 --> 00:53:12,034
ammunition for
all the above
1201
00:53:12,102 --> 00:53:13,865
and frequency-hopping radios
and burst transmitters
1202
00:53:13,938 --> 00:53:16,566
so these guys aren't
so fucking easy to find.
1203
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,608
Well, I've written it all
in a report you can read.
1204
00:53:18,676 --> 00:53:20,974
You'd be the first
one who did.
1205
00:53:22,146 --> 00:53:24,444
Send a copy of it to me
by secure courier right away.
1206
00:53:24,515 --> 00:53:26,745
I will. All right.
All right.
1207
00:53:29,153 --> 00:53:30,552
There was a report?
1208
00:53:30,621 --> 00:53:31,883
It's not that simple.
1209
00:53:32,556 --> 00:53:35,354
Why not?
Well, for one thing it's covert.
1210
00:53:35,426 --> 00:53:37,053
When an Afghan freedom fighter
gets captured,
1211
00:53:37,127 --> 00:53:38,560
it can't be with an
American-made weapon on him.
1212
00:53:38,629 --> 00:53:40,529
That's how a cold war turns
into an actual war,
1213
00:53:40,597 --> 00:53:42,531
and that's something you
want to keep a good eye on.
1214
00:53:42,599 --> 00:53:44,590
So anything we give them
has to look like
1215
00:53:44,668 --> 00:53:47,569
it could have plausibly been
captured from the Soviets.
1216
00:53:47,638 --> 00:53:49,333
Yeah, that's right.
You know who's good at that?
1217
00:53:49,406 --> 00:53:51,738
Israel and Egypt.
That's right.
1218
00:53:53,344 --> 00:53:54,777
You know what Vickers
just described back there
1219
00:53:54,845 --> 00:53:57,279
could cost as much
as $40 million.
1220
00:53:57,548 --> 00:54:00,176
I can get the appropriation.
But how?
1221
00:54:01,151 --> 00:54:03,210
I want to know how are you gonna
get the approval of Congress
1222
00:54:03,287 --> 00:54:04,982
when they're saying no
to the Contras for nothing,
1223
00:54:05,055 --> 00:54:07,717
for $5 million, a request
made by the President?
1224
00:54:07,791 --> 00:54:09,850
When a black approp makes it
through this Subcommittee,
1225
00:54:09,927 --> 00:54:12,157
the full body has
to vote on it blind.
1226
00:54:12,229 --> 00:54:14,390
They know the dollar amount, but
they don't know what it's for.
1227
00:54:14,465 --> 00:54:18,492
So, theoretically, your $10
million can become 40 million
1228
00:54:18,569 --> 00:54:20,594
without anyone ever noticing
but the Russian Army.
1229
00:54:20,671 --> 00:54:22,536
Because Congress wouldn't
know what it was voting on.
1230
00:54:22,606 --> 00:54:23,664
That's the beauty of it!
1231
00:54:23,741 --> 00:54:25,504
All you need are the nine
other Subcommittee members.
1232
00:54:25,576 --> 00:54:27,100
All I really need is
the Committee Chairman.
1233
00:54:27,177 --> 00:54:28,940
Doc Long.
Doc Long.
1234
00:54:29,279 --> 00:54:32,373
And with Doc's backing, you'll get the
votes of the other Committee members.
1235
00:54:32,449 --> 00:54:33,575
Yep.
I don't believe you.
1236
00:54:33,650 --> 00:54:34,674
I don't care.
1237
00:54:34,752 --> 00:54:36,014
And until the phone rang
this morning, Charlie,
1238
00:54:36,086 --> 00:54:38,350
I didn't know
I'd never heard of you.
1239
00:54:38,422 --> 00:54:40,049
Well, ask around.
1240
00:54:40,190 --> 00:54:42,317
I did.
And what'd you find out?
1241
00:54:42,393 --> 00:54:44,384
That your greatest legislative
achievement in six terms
1242
00:54:44,461 --> 00:54:45,928
was getting reelected
five times.
1243
00:54:45,996 --> 00:54:47,020
Anything else?
1244
00:54:47,097 --> 00:54:49,429
That you hold more IOUs
than any member of the House.
1245
00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:50,524
(LAUGHING)
1246
00:54:50,601 --> 00:54:52,125
How about that?
1247
00:54:52,302 --> 00:54:55,931
I represent the only district in
America that doesn't want anything.
1248
00:54:56,006 --> 00:54:58,941
They want their guns, they
want low taxes, that's it.
1249
00:54:59,009 --> 00:55:01,807
I can do favors.
I get to vote yes a lot.
1250
00:55:04,014 --> 00:55:07,211
Now, me and three other guys
are killing Russians.
1251
00:55:07,284 --> 00:55:08,546
I mean, is it possible
1252
00:55:08,619 --> 00:55:12,419
that I've met the only elected
official in town who can help?
1253
00:55:14,291 --> 00:55:16,623
Give me a week
to set things up.
1254
00:55:16,727 --> 00:55:20,424
Go pack a bag. I have a friend,
an arms dealer in Israel.
1255
00:55:20,898 --> 00:55:22,866
He's who we need for this,
God help us.
1256
00:55:22,933 --> 00:55:25,128
Should be interesting.
Yeah.
1257
00:55:26,036 --> 00:55:27,060
All right.
1258
00:55:28,372 --> 00:55:29,862
CHARLIE: We need you, Zvi.
1259
00:55:29,940 --> 00:55:32,408
You're gonna be our man
inside the Israeli Parliament.
1260
00:55:32,476 --> 00:55:34,239
ZVI: I'm not in the Israeli
Parliament.
1261
00:55:34,311 --> 00:55:36,302
That's what's gonna
make you so effective.
1262
00:55:36,380 --> 00:55:38,678
No one has your pull
with the 10th Knesset.
1263
00:55:38,749 --> 00:55:40,842
No one has your relationship
with the Speaker.
1264
00:55:40,918 --> 00:55:43,148
And we are gonna... We're gonna
need your arm around Menachem,
1265
00:55:43,220 --> 00:55:47,122
when he finds out that we're
working with Egypt and the Saudis.
1266
00:55:47,524 --> 00:55:50,425
Tell him.
Tell him why we need him.
1267
00:55:50,928 --> 00:55:53,488
GUS: I'm not saying anything.
Why not?
1268
00:55:53,831 --> 00:55:56,459
I don't know who the fuck
these two other guys are.
1269
00:55:56,533 --> 00:55:58,626
Well, ain't they bodyguards?
Not ours.
1270
00:55:58,735 --> 00:55:59,793
Zvi?
1271
00:56:03,974 --> 00:56:06,636
Now, just to sum this
up in a nutshell.
1272
00:56:07,211 --> 00:56:09,805
You want me
to move Israel
1273
00:56:10,414 --> 00:56:15,044
toward a partnership with
Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
1274
00:56:15,119 --> 00:56:16,746
And Saudi Arabia.
1275
00:56:18,422 --> 00:56:21,448
Well, just a couple of problems I
can foresee off the top of my head.
1276
00:56:21,525 --> 00:56:22,549
Look.
1277
00:56:22,626 --> 00:56:23,650
Charlie...
I know.
1278
00:56:23,727 --> 00:56:27,891
...Pakistan and Afghanistan don't
recognize our right to exist.
1279
00:56:27,965 --> 00:56:31,833
Calm down.
We just got done fighting a war with Egypt
1280
00:56:31,902 --> 00:56:35,235
and every person who has ever
tried to kill me and my family,
1281
00:56:35,305 --> 00:56:37,330
has been trained
in Saudi Arabia.
1282
00:56:37,407 --> 00:56:39,637
That's not entirely true, Zvi.
1283
00:56:39,943 --> 00:56:42,138
I mean, some of them
were trained by us.
1284
00:56:42,212 --> 00:56:43,679
CHARLIE: Gus, come on.
1285
00:56:44,748 --> 00:56:47,774
It's his sense of humor. It's
a bit of an acquired taste.
1286
00:56:47,851 --> 00:56:49,876
Now, Zvi, look at me.
1287
00:56:50,420 --> 00:56:53,287
This is the front
of the Cold War.
1288
00:56:53,357 --> 00:56:56,326
It's not in Berlin, it's not in
Cuba, it's not in Czechoslovakia.
1289
00:56:56,393 --> 00:56:58,953
It's in a pile of rocks
called Afghanistan.
1290
00:56:59,029 --> 00:57:01,623
These are the only people who are
actually shooting at the Russians.
1291
00:57:01,698 --> 00:57:04,462
Now, you and I know we have
to get Soviet-made weapons
1292
00:57:04,535 --> 00:57:05,900
into the hands
of the mujahideen.
1293
00:57:05,969 --> 00:57:07,698
And you and I know
where the largest stockpile
1294
00:57:07,771 --> 00:57:10,672
of Soviet weapons
outside the Soviet Union is.
1295
00:57:10,741 --> 00:57:12,333
I can't tell you offhand
how many
1296
00:57:12,409 --> 00:57:14,639
and what kind of weapons
we've confiscated.
1297
00:57:14,711 --> 00:57:19,045
I can. These are Keyhole-11
satellite photos.
1298
00:57:19,816 --> 00:57:22,910
They've been degraded
so I can show them to you.
1299
00:57:23,086 --> 00:57:24,781
All right, that's
a five-wheeled chassis tank.
1300
00:57:24,855 --> 00:57:27,415
That's not the Mk.1,
that's the T-55.
1301
00:57:27,491 --> 00:57:30,460
And it and four others are
about 12 miles from here.
1302
00:57:30,527 --> 00:57:32,791
What do you want tanks
in mountains for?
1303
00:57:32,863 --> 00:57:35,297
Oh, we don't. I just wanted
you to know I know you got them.
1304
00:57:35,365 --> 00:57:38,766
$35.5 million.
Which you'll be able to appropriate.
1305
00:57:38,969 --> 00:57:39,993
Yeah.
1306
00:57:40,070 --> 00:57:42,038
Without the press asking
questions about it.
1307
00:57:42,105 --> 00:57:43,129
GUS: You know,
there's good news there,
1308
00:57:43,207 --> 00:57:46,040
because the press is going to be
busy asking about a weekend in Vegas
1309
00:57:46,109 --> 00:57:48,475
and his pending arrest on
charges of narcotics possession.
1310
00:57:48,545 --> 00:57:51,571
Oh, Gus.
Shit, Charlie.
1311
00:57:51,648 --> 00:57:53,707
It's nothing.
Is this true?
1312
00:57:53,784 --> 00:57:55,877
No, for our purposes,
it doesn't really matter.
1313
00:57:55,953 --> 00:57:57,614
Thank you.
I was just explaining to him
1314
00:57:57,688 --> 00:57:59,815
that as long as the press sees
sex and drugs behind the left hand,
1315
00:57:59,890 --> 00:58:01,585
you can park a battle carrier
behind the right hand
1316
00:58:01,658 --> 00:58:02,920
and no one's gonna
fucking notice.
1317
00:58:02,993 --> 00:58:04,119
What the hell happened?
1318
00:58:04,194 --> 00:58:06,059
It's not germane.
It's not germane to these people
1319
00:58:06,129 --> 00:58:09,565
who are fighting and dying, and
being massacred in their homes.
1320
00:58:09,633 --> 00:58:12,659
Now, for the love of Christ,
will you help us help them
1321
00:58:12,736 --> 00:58:14,636
shoot down these fucking
helicopters?
1322
00:58:17,641 --> 00:58:19,404
I love you, Charlie,
1323
00:58:20,310 --> 00:58:22,210
but you are a grown man
1324
00:58:22,512 --> 00:58:27,347
who still hasn't learned to look both
ways before he crosses the fucking street!
1325
00:58:33,924 --> 00:58:35,323
Yes, I'm in.
1326
00:58:37,527 --> 00:58:40,690
But I don't like this guy.
I know how you feel.
1327
00:58:42,299 --> 00:58:45,234
ZVI: What happens now?
You come with us to Cairo.
1328
00:58:45,302 --> 00:58:47,600
This meeting's gonna be run professional?
Oh, absolutely.
1329
00:58:47,671 --> 00:58:49,696
We'll be talking
to the Deputy Defense Minister
1330
00:58:49,773 --> 00:58:53,072
while his boss gets a belly
dance from a friend of Charlie's.
1331
00:58:53,143 --> 00:58:55,202
What?
A good friend of mine back in Texas
1332
00:58:55,279 --> 00:58:56,473
is a well-known
belly dancer.
1333
00:58:56,546 --> 00:59:00,141
It's always been her dream to
perform in Egypt, so she's our way in.
1334
00:59:00,217 --> 00:59:04,119
While she's dancing for the Defense
Minster, we'll be talking to the Deputy.
1335
00:59:04,187 --> 00:59:06,519
Oh, my God.
No, she's supposed to be good.
1336
00:59:09,993 --> 00:59:13,326
(ARABIC MUSIC PLAYING)
1337
00:59:42,592 --> 00:59:45,390
That's an extraordinary woman.
Oh, yeah.
1338
00:59:49,733 --> 00:59:52,327
That's not any belly dance
I'm familiar with.
1339
00:59:52,402 --> 00:59:55,701
That's why I wanted the
Defense Minister to see her.
1340
00:59:55,939 --> 00:59:59,534
This is your girlfriend?
Carol's a friend. She's an old friend.
1341
00:59:59,609 --> 01:00:03,170
I understand her father didn't allow
dancing because of the religion?
1342
01:00:03,246 --> 01:00:05,908
Yeah, that's correct.
1343
01:00:05,982 --> 01:00:07,449
And what religion is that?
1344
01:00:07,517 --> 01:00:09,382
You know, she's a Baptist.
1345
01:00:11,221 --> 01:00:15,817
As I was saying, the Russians will
learn, I'm quite afraid the hard way,
1346
01:00:15,892 --> 01:00:18,383
to fear God's vengeance
upon those
1347
01:00:18,462 --> 01:00:22,159
who oppress his humble servants
who submit to him in Islam.
1348
01:00:22,466 --> 01:00:25,264
Their skulls will hang
from the treetops.
1349
01:00:25,335 --> 01:00:28,964
You can do whatever you like
with their skulls, I suppose.
1350
01:00:29,139 --> 01:00:35,044
What has Gus here concerned is a SA
surface-to-air missiles you all have.
1351
01:00:35,112 --> 01:00:36,841
For some reason, he thinks
they were stored poorly.
1352
01:00:36,913 --> 01:00:39,404
No, no, no, the SA-7 s
were stored properly.
1353
01:00:39,483 --> 01:00:43,180
Excuse me. What about
the oppression of my people?
1354
01:00:43,253 --> 01:00:44,914
Oh, Zvi.
I beg your pardon?
1355
01:00:44,988 --> 01:00:46,455
Fellows, we have
to do this now.
1356
01:00:46,523 --> 01:00:51,051
I am about to arrange
for $35 million worth of guns
1357
01:00:51,128 --> 01:00:52,720
to be put into the hands
of Muslims!
1358
01:00:52,796 --> 01:00:56,129
I meant no disrespect.
Oh, really?
1359
01:00:56,199 --> 01:00:58,759
CHARLIE: Well, anyway, that...
None of this is important.
1360
01:00:58,835 --> 01:01:01,804
You have Soviet-licensed factories
that can put out Kalashnikovs
1361
01:01:01,872 --> 01:01:03,806
at a rate of 25,000 a week?
1362
01:01:03,874 --> 01:01:06,968
That's correct.
What about city warfare devices?
1363
01:01:07,043 --> 01:01:09,102
What kind?
Bicycle bombs, limpet mines,
1364
01:01:09,179 --> 01:01:10,441
plastic, tripwire mines?
1365
01:01:10,514 --> 01:01:12,641
Yes, yes. Whatever you need.
1366
01:01:14,985 --> 01:01:16,748
CHARLIE: We can't improve
the price now,
1367
01:01:16,820 --> 01:01:20,278
but when we come back for
more, we'll make it up to you.
1368
01:01:20,390 --> 01:01:21,618
I agree.
1369
01:01:22,325 --> 01:01:23,656
All right.
1370
01:01:34,137 --> 01:01:37,698
Hey, you did good back there
ignoring the religious shit.
1371
01:01:38,608 --> 01:01:40,542
'Cause these people are
totally fucking unspooled,
1372
01:01:40,610 --> 01:01:43,511
and I'm not just talking
about the Muslims.
1373
01:01:43,980 --> 01:01:46,471
Zvi's all right.
Oh, I know he is.
1374
01:01:46,783 --> 01:01:47,943
He is Mossad, by the way.
1375
01:01:48,018 --> 01:01:51,181
What I'm talking about is
your friend in Houston.
1376
01:01:51,455 --> 01:01:55,516
Now, she's got to stop throwing fundraisers
and she's got to stop doing press.
1377
01:01:55,592 --> 01:01:58,152
Joanne is raising awareness.
1378
01:01:58,228 --> 01:01:59,593
(CHUCKLES)
1379
01:02:00,697 --> 01:02:05,361
She's using
a non-secular vocabulary
1380
01:02:05,702 --> 01:02:08,227
and framing this
as a religious war.
1381
01:02:09,339 --> 01:02:11,603
And America doesn't
fight religious wars.
1382
01:02:11,675 --> 01:02:12,767
(SIGHING)
1383
01:02:12,843 --> 01:02:15,311
Is that right?
Yeah, that's why I like living there.
1384
01:02:15,378 --> 01:02:18,176
FLIGHT CAPTAIN: Good morning, ladies
and gentlemen. This is your captain.
1385
01:02:18,281 --> 01:02:20,078
We will begin our initial
descent
1386
01:02:20,150 --> 01:02:23,517
into Washington Dulles Airport.
I got to go down to Houston, so...
1387
01:02:23,587 --> 01:02:25,612
... I would like to thank you
and hope...
1388
01:02:25,689 --> 01:02:28,590
Well, talk to her.
Yeah, I'll talk to her.
1389
01:02:32,095 --> 01:02:34,563
You want me to go into
business with the Israelis?
1390
01:02:34,631 --> 01:02:36,929
Just for this one purpose,
yes, Mr. President.
1391
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:41,528
The Israelis have the largest stockpile
of Soviet-made weapons in friendly hands.
1392
01:02:41,605 --> 01:02:43,004
I know that.
1393
01:02:43,740 --> 01:02:47,176
I need to trust that this
arrangement will remain secret.
1394
01:02:47,244 --> 01:02:51,544
Pakistan and Israel would have to
appear to be enemies in the public eye.
1395
01:02:51,615 --> 01:02:54,083
Yeah, I don't think
that's a tough sell.
1396
01:02:54,150 --> 01:02:55,879
You have authority
to do this?
1397
01:02:55,952 --> 01:02:59,046
None whatsoever. In fact, I'm pretty
close to violating the Logan Act.
1398
01:02:59,122 --> 01:03:00,987
Well, I don't know
what that is.
1399
01:03:01,057 --> 01:03:02,456
But, Charlie.
Yes, sir.
1400
01:03:02,526 --> 01:03:05,427
If I see one fucking
Star of David on a crate...
1401
01:03:05,495 --> 01:03:07,292
You won't. I promise.
1402
01:03:09,232 --> 01:03:10,290
Hey.
Excuse me.
1403
01:03:10,367 --> 01:03:13,131
You want me to take a look
at those remarks?
1404
01:03:13,203 --> 01:03:15,228
Why?
Just... Well, your introduction,
1405
01:03:15,305 --> 01:03:19,639
want me to look it over?
It's an introduction, Charlie. I'll be fine.
1406
01:03:27,450 --> 01:03:31,113
Today we honor President
Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan.
1407
01:03:31,655 --> 01:03:34,215
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1408
01:03:44,768 --> 01:03:48,499
Before we go any further, I
would like you all to know this,
1409
01:03:48,805 --> 01:03:51,239
President Zia did not
kill Bhutto.
1410
01:03:52,442 --> 01:03:54,137
In the time that
he's been President,
1411
01:03:54,210 --> 01:03:57,145
the fortunes of Pakistan
have changed radically.
1412
01:03:57,213 --> 01:03:58,441
I've asked you all here
today...
1413
01:03:59,883 --> 01:04:01,874
(CROWD CHATTERING)
1414
01:04:04,020 --> 01:04:06,284
(CUTLERY CLINKING)
1415
01:04:06,823 --> 01:04:08,916
You disappeared.
1416
01:04:09,125 --> 01:04:11,116
Well, they weren't
selling alcohol in there.
1417
01:04:11,194 --> 01:04:13,662
It's a traditional
Pakistani gathering.
1418
01:04:13,730 --> 01:04:15,527
You think they might be
a lot happier over there
1419
01:04:15,599 --> 01:04:18,966
if they could just get women and booze
in the same room at the same time?
1420
01:04:19,035 --> 01:04:20,832
I think they'd be a whole
lot happier over there
1421
01:04:20,904 --> 01:04:22,371
if the Communists got out.
1422
01:04:22,439 --> 01:04:24,999
"Zia did not kill Bhutto."
1423
01:04:25,475 --> 01:04:28,933
That's not something you usually
hear in introductory remarks.
1424
01:04:29,012 --> 01:04:32,470
He didn't, Charlie. Bhutto had
a trial and was found guilty.
1425
01:04:32,549 --> 01:04:34,176
Shocking verdict.
1426
01:04:35,018 --> 01:04:37,612
What did you need
to talk to me about?
1427
01:04:38,488 --> 01:04:42,185
Joanne, darling,
dial down the religion.
1428
01:04:42,525 --> 01:04:44,857
What?
It could alienate people
1429
01:04:44,928 --> 01:04:46,657
whose support we need.
1430
01:04:46,730 --> 01:04:49,426
It's luncheons like this that
are raising the money we need.
1431
01:04:49,499 --> 01:04:52,366
This thing is not gonna get
done by ballrooms full of people
1432
01:04:52,435 --> 01:04:53,663
in the Houstonian Hotel.
1433
01:04:53,737 --> 01:04:57,104
It's gonna get done by the
CIA, Israel, Egypt and Pakistan,
1434
01:04:57,173 --> 01:04:58,800
and it's gonna get
done quietly.
1435
01:04:58,875 --> 01:05:00,240
Now, you start making
people think
1436
01:05:00,310 --> 01:05:02,778
we're trying to convert
everybody to Christianity.
1437
01:05:02,846 --> 01:05:06,043
I was saved by Jesus Christ,
Charlie, and I am not ashamed of it.
1438
01:05:06,116 --> 01:05:09,347
My fervor is not about religion,
it's about freedom of religion,
1439
01:05:09,419 --> 01:05:10,477
which we have, they want,
1440
01:05:10,553 --> 01:05:12,817
and the Communists
are slaughtering them for.
1441
01:05:12,889 --> 01:05:16,188
And I get it.
Just tamp down the fervor.
1442
01:05:17,193 --> 01:05:20,094
Well, I can't modulate
God's will, sweetie.
1443
01:05:20,330 --> 01:05:21,729
You can try.
1444
01:05:22,632 --> 01:05:26,227
Now, I got to get back to D.C. They've
set up a briefing for me at Langley.
1445
01:05:26,302 --> 01:05:28,668
On what?
On getting the guns.
1446
01:05:31,608 --> 01:05:33,098
Afghanistan's barely
a country.
1447
01:05:33,176 --> 01:05:35,440
There's no phones or roads
outside the cities.
1448
01:05:35,512 --> 01:05:36,945
It's likely that a villager
would live his life
1449
01:05:37,013 --> 01:05:39,573
without having contact with another
village just three miles down the road
1450
01:05:39,649 --> 01:05:41,708
unless he was going
to war against them.
1451
01:05:41,785 --> 01:05:44,413
Now, my thinking is instead
of 400,000 sloppy guys,
1452
01:05:44,487 --> 01:05:48,184
we concentrate on several elite
forces totaling about 150,000.
1453
01:05:48,258 --> 01:05:49,748
Give these guys
real training,
1454
01:05:49,826 --> 01:05:52,761
20 different courses covering
irregular warfare disciplines.
1455
01:05:52,829 --> 01:05:54,353
GUS: And do you have anybody
in mind?
1456
01:05:54,431 --> 01:05:57,525
The most successful rebels
today are in the Panjshir Valley.
1457
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:00,091
They're called the United Front
of the Council of the North.
1458
01:06:00,203 --> 01:06:02,228
We've earmarked them
for 10 million in weapons
1459
01:06:02,305 --> 01:06:04,899
and 10 to 15 agency advisors
for training.
1460
01:06:04,974 --> 01:06:08,034
CHARLIE: Who's their leader?
Ahmed Shah Massoud.
1461
01:06:08,111 --> 01:06:11,569
He's Tajik, so he's not well
liked by the Pashtun.
1462
01:06:11,648 --> 01:06:14,811
CHARLIE: So the... What, the Tajiks
have a problem with the Pashtuns?
1463
01:06:14,884 --> 01:06:17,045
Well, they say when a Tajik
wants to make love to a woman,
1464
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:19,918
his first choice is always
a Pashtun man.
1465
01:06:21,357 --> 01:06:23,848
It's funnier in
the original Pashto.
1466
01:06:24,127 --> 01:06:27,858
All right, I've heard enough.
I'm going to go get our money.
1467
01:06:28,098 --> 01:06:30,430
All right, don't fuck
us up now.
1468
01:06:31,301 --> 01:06:32,427
Awesome pep talk.
1469
01:06:32,502 --> 01:06:36,768
Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan
and Saudi Arabia,
1470
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,638
these are all totalitarian
dictatorships.
1471
01:06:39,709 --> 01:06:44,146
And they'd like to blow the only democracy
in the region right into the Mediterranean.
1472
01:06:44,214 --> 01:06:47,274
Now, you heard me say that
Israel's gonna be on board.
1473
01:06:47,350 --> 01:06:50,046
Oh, well, Zvi Rafiah's
out of his mind.
1474
01:06:50,286 --> 01:06:54,382
These people are draconian thugs,
and in an evil and twisted derby
1475
01:06:54,457 --> 01:06:56,823
between the Communists
and the Fundamentalists,
1476
01:06:56,893 --> 01:06:58,451
it's 6-to-5 and pick them,
as far as I'm concerned.
1477
01:06:58,528 --> 01:07:00,928
No, you're wrong about that, Doc,
and you know you don't mean it.
1478
01:07:00,997 --> 01:07:04,797
In Pakistan, a blind girl gets
raped, but there's a witness.
1479
01:07:04,868 --> 01:07:07,359
Now, in Pakistan it takes
four witnesses.
1480
01:07:07,437 --> 01:07:09,871
So the rapist walks away
and the girl is in prison.
1481
01:07:09,939 --> 01:07:11,463
Can you tell me why?
1482
01:07:11,541 --> 01:07:14,271
Well, fornication.
That's right.
1483
01:07:14,344 --> 01:07:17,370
Mr. Chairman, President Zia is the
only one willing to shoulder the risk
1484
01:07:17,447 --> 01:07:20,610
of actively training
and funding the mujahideen
1485
01:07:20,683 --> 01:07:22,048
while Egypt
and Saudi Arabia...
1486
01:07:22,118 --> 01:07:24,848
Now, the Saudis are matching
any funding from Congress?
1487
01:07:24,921 --> 01:07:27,446
That's right.
So when you say 40 million to me,
1488
01:07:27,524 --> 01:07:28,752
you're really talking
about 80 million.
1489
01:07:28,825 --> 01:07:29,951
Only 40 from us.
1490
01:07:30,026 --> 01:07:32,119
You want to put $80 million
in the hands of these people?
1491
01:07:32,195 --> 01:07:34,322
No, see, Doc, now, if you took
a trip with me to the border,
1492
01:07:34,397 --> 01:07:36,092
you'd stop calling them
"these people."
1493
01:07:36,166 --> 01:07:39,658
They are farmers and children mostly,
and they are fighting our enemies for us.
1494
01:07:39,736 --> 01:07:41,226
I know. And that should
be impossible for America.
1495
01:07:41,304 --> 01:07:43,204
I know.
It should be impossible for America
1496
01:07:43,273 --> 01:07:46,834
to sit on the bench while little kids
and their mothers fight our enemies.
1497
01:07:46,910 --> 01:07:49,743
Now, all you have to do to
change that is to support me
1498
01:07:49,813 --> 01:07:51,280
in the Committee,
Mr. Chairman.
1499
01:07:51,347 --> 01:07:55,681
I'm sorry, Charlie, but doubling
from 5 to 10 million is one thing,
1500
01:07:55,752 --> 01:07:58,516
but, you know,
I just can't get behind this.
1501
01:07:58,588 --> 01:08:00,055
(PHONE RINGING)
1502
01:08:01,791 --> 01:08:04,521
TRISH: Joanne Herring's
residence. Who's speaking?
1503
01:08:04,594 --> 01:08:07,392
Miss Herring, Congressman
Wilson for you.
1504
01:08:09,933 --> 01:08:11,332
Hello.
CHARLIE: Hey.
1505
01:08:11,467 --> 01:08:12,559
Tell me what's happening.
1506
01:08:12,635 --> 01:08:15,763
Well, I need Doc Long,
and he's not getting on board.
1507
01:08:15,839 --> 01:08:18,865
Now, he's a church-going guy,
so I thought,
1508
01:08:18,942 --> 01:08:21,001
you know, maybe you could...
So now you need God.
1509
01:08:21,544 --> 01:08:23,842
Yeah. Let me give you
his private line.
1510
01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:25,679
I've got it.
1511
01:08:25,782 --> 01:08:27,340
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
1512
01:08:27,483 --> 01:08:28,711
Trish!
Yes, ma'am.
1513
01:08:29,252 --> 01:08:30,776
Boss?
Yeah.
1514
01:08:30,854 --> 01:08:33,982
Hey, that's a nice sweater.
Oh, thank you.
1515
01:08:34,057 --> 01:08:36,525
The Washington Times wants to
know if you've ever been in rehab.
1516
01:08:36,593 --> 01:08:38,584
Well, what are you gonna tell them?
That you won't go to rehab
1517
01:08:38,661 --> 01:08:39,923
'cause they don't serve
whiskey there.
1518
01:08:39,996 --> 01:08:42,157
Well, that's why you're
the press secretary, boo-boo.
1519
01:08:42,232 --> 01:08:45,395
I've got Stu on the line. Can you jump on?
Yeah.
1520
01:08:45,668 --> 01:08:47,329
Hey, Stu, it's me.
1521
01:08:47,570 --> 01:08:48,901
All right.
1522
01:08:49,138 --> 01:08:52,801
No, she's not a stripper, Stu.
She just posed for the cover...
1523
01:08:52,876 --> 01:08:54,673
Oh, what the hell
difference does it make?
1524
01:08:55,245 --> 01:08:56,735
They're talking
to Crystal today.
1525
01:08:56,813 --> 01:08:57,905
Yeah.
1526
01:08:58,081 --> 01:09:00,606
Giuliani subpoenaed
the limo driver.
1527
01:09:00,950 --> 01:09:02,611
Oh, that's what Gus
said he'd do.
1528
01:09:02,685 --> 01:09:04,778
Well, the limo driver said
he didn't see anything.
1529
01:09:04,854 --> 01:09:05,980
He didn't see anything.
1530
01:09:06,055 --> 01:09:08,182
So Giuliani subpoenaed
every limo driver
1531
01:09:08,258 --> 01:09:13,457
between Arlington and Silver Spring to see
if any of them can recall you using cocaine.
1532
01:09:13,830 --> 01:09:17,561
Joanne Herring's on the phone.
Hey, you.
1533
01:09:17,867 --> 01:09:19,164
We're all leaving
in the morning.
1534
01:09:19,235 --> 01:09:20,634
You're kidding?
No.
1535
01:09:21,337 --> 01:09:23,532
Well, what did you have
to promise him?
1536
01:09:23,606 --> 01:09:26,074
There's a blind girl in jail
'cause she was raped.
1537
01:09:26,142 --> 01:09:27,632
Yeah.
You're gonna get her out.
1538
01:09:27,911 --> 01:09:30,038
What, I got to bust somebody
out of jail?
1539
01:09:30,113 --> 01:09:32,308
Don't be stupid, Charlie.
You're gonna tell Zia to pardon her.
1540
01:09:32,382 --> 01:09:34,077
That's Doc's condition.
1541
01:09:34,150 --> 01:09:37,642
I'll fly in tonight. Buy me a drink?
Yes, ma'am.
1542
01:09:38,121 --> 01:09:40,248
We're almost there, Charlie.
1543
01:09:44,127 --> 01:09:47,995
I'm going back to Pakistan tomorrow!
GIRLS: Let's party!
1544
01:09:48,064 --> 01:09:49,395
(GIRLS WHOOPING)
1545
01:09:49,465 --> 01:09:51,399
(DISCO MUSIC PLAYING
ON STEREO)
1546
01:09:53,369 --> 01:09:54,529
Charlie!
Oh, that was... I'm gonna...
1547
01:09:54,604 --> 01:09:55,901
You want a refill here, darling?
Thanks.
1548
01:09:55,972 --> 01:09:57,633
Can we get another round?
1549
01:09:57,707 --> 01:09:58,867
Mario!
1550
01:09:59,409 --> 01:10:01,741
Oh, Charlie.
1551
01:10:07,350 --> 01:10:08,749
Hey, Joanne.
1552
01:10:10,386 --> 01:10:12,513
Can I call you Joanne?
Yes.
1553
01:10:14,257 --> 01:10:16,418
You'll want to dress
considerably more modestly
1554
01:10:16,492 --> 01:10:17,857
when we're at the border.
1555
01:10:17,927 --> 01:10:21,124
Well, thank you, but I have
been passionately involved
1556
01:10:21,197 --> 01:10:23,062
with the cause of the Afghans
for three years.
1557
01:10:23,132 --> 01:10:24,827
I've been there many times.
1558
01:10:24,901 --> 01:10:26,994
Okay, well, then I'll just
go fuck myself.
1559
01:10:27,070 --> 01:10:29,766
I am not easily shocked,
Mr. Avrakotos.
1560
01:10:30,573 --> 01:10:33,064
I knew you two were gonna
hit it off right away.
1561
01:10:33,142 --> 01:10:34,370
Charlie!
1562
01:10:34,544 --> 01:10:37,638
Sorry, Stu's on the phone.
You can take it at the bar.
1563
01:10:37,714 --> 01:10:40,615
Stu. This can't be good.
1564
01:10:43,286 --> 01:10:45,220
How'd you hook up
with Charlie?
1565
01:10:45,288 --> 01:10:48,257
Are you also passionately involved
with the cause of the Afghans?
1566
01:10:48,324 --> 01:10:51,225
No, I just wasn't really
doing anything else.
1567
01:10:51,294 --> 01:10:53,694
I mean, how did you
get into the CIA?
1568
01:10:53,763 --> 01:10:56,561
Oh, I didn't. I'm with
the Department of Agriculture.
1569
01:10:56,632 --> 01:10:59,760
Food and Plant Division.
Specifically apple imports.
1570
01:10:59,836 --> 01:11:02,999
Now, you don't seem like the apple type.
I know.
1571
01:11:04,707 --> 01:11:05,765
What's that mean?
1572
01:11:07,577 --> 01:11:10,171
Where are you from?
What do you care?
1573
01:11:10,246 --> 01:11:12,942
Are you a Catholic?
Greek Orthodox, Mrs. Herring.
1574
01:11:13,016 --> 01:11:15,917
That's still Christian.
Imagine my relief.
1575
01:11:16,719 --> 01:11:18,619
What's your problem with me?
1576
01:11:18,688 --> 01:11:20,622
You know, I've found,
in my business,
1577
01:11:20,690 --> 01:11:24,182
that when people with time on their
hands get involved in politics,
1578
01:11:24,260 --> 01:11:26,888
I start forgetting what I'm
supposed to be shooting at.
1579
01:11:26,963 --> 01:11:29,158
That would be in the apple
import business.
1580
01:11:29,232 --> 01:11:30,631
Yes, ma'am.
1581
01:11:30,700 --> 01:11:32,895
I'll have to remember that.
Please do.
1582
01:11:33,536 --> 01:11:34,867
(GIRLS SHRIEKING)
It's over!
1583
01:11:35,038 --> 01:11:37,029
(CHARLIE LAUGHING)
1584
01:11:37,106 --> 01:11:39,370
It's over! It is over!
1585
01:11:39,442 --> 01:11:42,605
That was Stu, and it is over.
Wait, wait, wait. Crystal didn't name you?
1586
01:11:42,678 --> 01:11:45,010
Well, she witnessed
me doing coke
1587
01:11:45,081 --> 01:11:46,912
in the Cayman Islands.
Oh, shit, Charlie.
1588
01:11:46,983 --> 01:11:50,214
No, it's all right. That's out of
the Justice Department's jurisdiction,
1589
01:11:50,286 --> 01:11:51,776
so it is over.
1590
01:11:52,255 --> 01:11:53,779
CHARLIE: I'm going home!
1591
01:11:55,124 --> 01:12:00,027
Gus, Joanne, the most important
trip of our lives is in the morning,
1592
01:12:00,096 --> 01:12:02,394
so let's get plenty of sleep.
I'm going home.
1593
01:12:02,465 --> 01:12:04,763
Jailbait, slap my hands!
Yeah!
1594
01:12:05,334 --> 01:12:07,029
(GIRLS LAUGHING)
Mario, this is all on me.
1595
01:12:07,103 --> 01:12:08,365
Yes, sir.
1596
01:12:08,971 --> 01:12:11,735
He may be in trouble with the
press, but he stayed out of jail.
1597
01:12:11,808 --> 01:12:13,537
You don't see
God's hand in this?
1598
01:12:13,609 --> 01:12:15,372
Well, reasonable people
can disagree,
1599
01:12:15,445 --> 01:12:18,278
but I don't see God anywhere
within miles of this.
1600
01:12:18,347 --> 01:12:20,076
On the other hand,
if you slept with me tonight,
1601
01:12:20,149 --> 01:12:22,674
I bet you I could change
my mind in a hurry.
1602
01:12:22,752 --> 01:12:24,549
Oh, you would.
Yeah.
1603
01:12:27,990 --> 01:12:30,015
I'll see you on the plane.
1604
01:12:34,163 --> 01:12:35,596
(GIRLS LAUGING)
1605
01:12:35,665 --> 01:12:37,292
(MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)
1606
01:12:37,366 --> 01:12:38,526
Sluts.
1607
01:12:41,938 --> 01:12:44,133
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
1608
01:12:44,607 --> 01:12:47,235
(CHARLIE CHATTERING)
1609
01:12:54,550 --> 01:12:55,676
(GASPS)
1610
01:12:55,918 --> 01:12:57,613
(CHILDREN CHANTING)
1611
01:13:03,826 --> 01:13:05,919
Doc's eating this up.
Yeah?
1612
01:13:05,995 --> 01:13:08,520
We're gonna get the money.
DOC: Charlie?
1613
01:13:10,099 --> 01:13:11,327
Charlie!
1614
01:13:11,834 --> 01:13:13,631
Guy's a little senile.
Don't be fooled.
1615
01:13:13,703 --> 01:13:15,227
He chairs a Subcommittee?
Mmm-hmm.
1616
01:13:15,304 --> 01:13:19,707
Charlie, Joanne, this has been an
absolutely eye-opening experience.
1617
01:13:19,775 --> 01:13:21,606
I mean, it's absolutely
stunning.
1618
01:13:21,677 --> 01:13:24,976
Tell them what we saw,
Mr. Papadropolous. Tell them.
1619
01:13:26,115 --> 01:13:28,140
They only want to go back
there and fight.
1620
01:13:28,217 --> 01:13:29,582
And you're their savior,
Mr. Chairman.
1621
01:13:29,652 --> 01:13:31,483
Oh, I wouldn't go that far, no.
Watch this.
1622
01:13:31,554 --> 01:13:32,987
She's gonna lock it right on up.
JOANNE: Mr. Chairman,
1623
01:13:33,055 --> 01:13:36,183
these people have been waiting for
you. They have been sitting here
1624
01:13:36,259 --> 01:13:39,319
and bleeding and waiting
and praying for you.
1625
01:13:39,629 --> 01:13:42,928
It's only gonna be a man
like you who can save them.
1626
01:13:43,299 --> 01:13:45,859
We know, don't we,
about our men,
1627
01:13:46,269 --> 01:13:48,931
what they can do when
they summon themselves.
1628
01:13:49,005 --> 01:13:51,235
Charlie, I think they want
you to make some remarks.
1629
01:13:51,307 --> 01:13:53,673
No, you should do it,
Mr. Chairman.
1630
01:13:53,743 --> 01:13:56,678
These people have been
waiting a long time for you.
1631
01:13:56,746 --> 01:13:58,771
Show Muriel what you can do.
Show your wife.
1632
01:13:58,848 --> 01:14:02,011
I'm a little bit emotional
about what I've seen here today.
1633
01:14:02,084 --> 01:14:03,346
Show her.
1634
01:14:05,354 --> 01:14:06,844
You can do it.
1635
01:14:08,391 --> 01:14:09,551
Go on.
1636
01:14:10,393 --> 01:14:11,724
All right.
1637
01:14:15,798 --> 01:14:18,995
Papadropolous.
Well, it's Greek. It's in the ballpark.
1638
01:14:19,068 --> 01:14:21,127
(MAN TRANSLATING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE) DOC: My friends,
1639
01:14:21,204 --> 01:14:24,230
my son served in Vietnam.
1640
01:14:24,307 --> 01:14:29,335
He was wounded fighting in battle
against the Soviet oppressors.
1641
01:14:29,412 --> 01:14:31,209
I didn't know that
about his son.
1642
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,612
So, you see,
I'm no stranger,
1643
01:14:33,683 --> 01:14:37,744
no stranger at all to the horrors
and atrocities of the Communists!
1644
01:14:37,820 --> 01:14:40,311
(TRANSLATING)
1645
01:14:40,523 --> 01:14:42,013
(CROWD CHEERING)
1646
01:14:42,091 --> 01:14:43,581
Thank you so much.
1647
01:14:44,961 --> 01:14:46,792
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
1648
01:14:46,862 --> 01:14:49,228
I talk about God for
one simple reason.
1649
01:14:49,298 --> 01:14:52,290
As God is my witness today...
We need him on our side.
1650
01:14:52,368 --> 01:14:56,395
... these Russian gunships,
every last one of them,
1651
01:14:56,472 --> 01:14:58,599
are gonna be blown right
out of the sky.
1652
01:14:58,674 --> 01:15:03,407
We're gonna see that you have guns and
we're gonna see that you have training!
1653
01:15:06,849 --> 01:15:08,214
Thank you.
1654
01:15:10,019 --> 01:15:11,919
Well, what I think's got
Gus worried
1655
01:15:11,988 --> 01:15:16,186
is that sooner or later
God is gonna be on both sides.
1656
01:15:17,126 --> 01:15:20,493
This is good against evil.
1657
01:15:20,563 --> 01:15:23,794
And I want you to know that
America's always going to be
1658
01:15:23,866 --> 01:15:26,130
on the side of the good.
1659
01:15:26,769 --> 01:15:30,170
And God will always punish
the wicked!
1660
01:15:32,475 --> 01:15:34,807
(CROWD CHANTING)
1661
01:15:39,482 --> 01:15:41,245
(EXCLAIMING)
1662
01:15:42,718 --> 01:15:44,185
God is great!
1663
01:15:45,221 --> 01:15:46,688
God is great!
1664
01:16:30,499 --> 01:16:33,127
NEWSCASTER: This has been a
year of setback and frustration.
1665
01:16:33,202 --> 01:16:35,670
And the Soviet Army, more than
at any time since the war began,
1666
01:16:35,738 --> 01:16:37,000
(COUGHING)
1667
01:16:37,073 --> 01:16:38,870
Now has the upper hand.
1668
01:16:38,941 --> 01:16:41,239
The mujahideen are
pinned down.
1669
01:16:41,610 --> 01:16:45,307
The Afghan resistance has been
sanctified by the United States,
1670
01:16:45,381 --> 01:16:49,784
but the support has not been
translated into military hardware.
1671
01:16:49,852 --> 01:16:52,753
The guerrillas still cling to the
Kalashnikov, but it's not enough.
1672
01:16:52,822 --> 01:16:54,221
(CONTINUES COUGHING)
1673
01:16:54,290 --> 01:16:56,952
They're waiting in vain
for bigger modern weapons
1674
01:16:57,026 --> 01:16:58,857
to turn on the Red Army.
1675
01:16:58,928 --> 01:17:01,226
The guerrillas survived
the raid.
1676
01:17:02,465 --> 01:17:06,265
The Soviets now are conducting some
of the heaviest bombing of the war.
1677
01:17:06,335 --> 01:17:09,793
The Soviets have put more
troops and equipment back in.
1678
01:17:10,639 --> 01:17:12,368
Communist bastards.
1679
01:17:12,441 --> 01:17:13,703
(COUGHS)
1680
01:17:21,117 --> 01:17:22,584
(MAN CHATTERING)
1681
01:17:23,219 --> 01:17:25,278
Don't send us rice
and bandages,
1682
01:17:25,354 --> 01:17:28,721
give us weapons so that we
can shoot down their gunships.
1683
01:17:32,194 --> 01:17:34,890
It's called the MILAN
anti-tank missile.
1684
01:17:34,964 --> 01:17:37,762
Can the Afghans win without it?
No.
1685
01:17:39,034 --> 01:17:40,262
End of discussion.
1686
01:17:40,336 --> 01:17:43,203
I would like to have the
previously approved sum increased
1687
01:17:43,272 --> 01:17:45,263
by an additional 30 million,
1688
01:17:45,341 --> 01:17:49,038
bringing the total
appropriation to 70 million.
1689
01:17:49,111 --> 01:17:52,080
I'd like to introduce
the MILAN anti-tank missile.
1690
01:17:52,615 --> 01:17:53,946
We've got 300 in the field.
1691
01:17:54,016 --> 01:17:55,381
ALL: Yeah!
Yep.
1692
01:17:56,352 --> 01:17:58,343
Let's kill some Russians!
1693
01:18:01,056 --> 01:18:02,990
(LOUD EXPLOSION)
1694
01:18:10,466 --> 01:18:13,560
Voting to pump up the money for
the freedom fighters is the only way
1695
01:18:13,636 --> 01:18:15,866
for the northeastern liberal
to prove that he's serious.
1696
01:18:15,938 --> 01:18:17,235
How much are you asking for?
1697
01:18:17,306 --> 01:18:19,274
I'd want to go from 70 million
to 100 million.
1698
01:18:19,341 --> 01:18:22,674
And if you vote for me, I can deliver
the Black Caucus for the farm subsidy.
1699
01:18:35,791 --> 01:18:37,725
(MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO)
1700
01:18:50,673 --> 01:18:52,937
(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)
1701
01:19:02,318 --> 01:19:03,751
(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)
1702
01:19:15,531 --> 01:19:17,556
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
1703
01:19:23,405 --> 01:19:24,599
(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)
1704
01:19:26,242 --> 01:19:27,709
(WHISTLING)
1705
01:19:28,744 --> 01:19:30,678
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
1706
01:19:36,452 --> 01:19:38,215
(BEEPING)
1707
01:19:40,723 --> 01:19:42,554
(SCREAMING)
1708
01:20:03,145 --> 01:20:05,636
(CONTINOUS BEEPING)
1709
01:20:11,854 --> 01:20:13,845
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
1710
01:20:20,462 --> 01:20:21,622
(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)
1711
01:20:35,911 --> 01:20:38,038
(SHOUTING)
1712
01:21:04,974 --> 01:21:06,942
MAN: And they asked him,
quite reasonably enough,
1713
01:21:07,009 --> 01:21:08,442
"How did you vote on that?"
1714
01:21:08,510 --> 01:21:11,775
And I swear to God, he
looks over at his staff guy.
1715
01:21:13,082 --> 01:21:16,540
He had to check with an aide
for an answer to that question.
1716
01:21:17,753 --> 01:21:19,914
I don't know how that guy
stays in office.
1717
01:21:19,989 --> 01:21:21,388
(LAUGHING)
1718
01:21:52,655 --> 01:21:54,714
It was the Bamian-led group.
They set an ambush here
1719
01:21:54,790 --> 01:21:56,451
at the Fuladi Bridge.
GUS: What'd they get?
1720
01:21:56,525 --> 01:21:59,426
Four supply trucks coming out
of Bagram Airbase.
1721
01:21:59,495 --> 01:22:02,589
They hit a Soviet motorized
rifle battalion on horseback?
1722
01:22:02,698 --> 01:22:05,326
You bet your ass.
Then these guys are pretty good.
1723
01:22:29,391 --> 01:22:31,484
We can't control this
thing anymore.
1724
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:34,688
The man stood in my office
in Islamabad, and I told him,
1725
01:22:34,763 --> 01:22:36,355
"A sudden influx of money
1726
01:22:36,432 --> 01:22:39,924
"and weaponry..."
Could you hand me that belt, please?
1727
01:22:40,903 --> 01:22:42,632
Thank you.
I mean, how is it possible
1728
01:22:42,705 --> 01:22:45,401
that this congressman
of no particular importance
1729
01:22:45,474 --> 01:22:46,998
is doing this by himself?
1730
01:22:47,076 --> 01:22:49,067
I will admit it's not
unimpressive.
1731
01:22:49,144 --> 01:22:51,977
Is this the war we want
to be fighting, Henry? Huh?
1732
01:22:52,047 --> 01:22:56,814
Harold, whatever he's doing,
believe me, it's working.
1733
01:22:56,919 --> 01:22:58,443
(MISSILE FIRING)
1734
01:23:08,430 --> 01:23:09,920
(GUN FIRING)
1735
01:23:14,837 --> 01:23:20,833
The CIA estimates that seven out of
every 10 times the muj fires a Stinger,
1736
01:23:21,977 --> 01:23:24,502
a Soviet chopper or a plane
falls out of the sky.
1737
01:23:24,580 --> 01:23:28,744
Now, Russian MiGs go for $20
million, Stingers go for 60-70,000.
1738
01:23:28,817 --> 01:23:30,250
What do you want to do?
1739
01:23:30,319 --> 01:23:32,082
Well, I'd like to double
to 250 million.
1740
01:23:32,154 --> 01:23:35,055
Remind me again,
where did this thing start?
1741
01:23:35,357 --> 01:23:36,824
5 million.
1742
01:23:36,892 --> 01:23:38,154
(MEN LAUGHING)
1743
01:23:44,900 --> 01:23:46,424
(PHONE RINGING)
1744
01:23:47,870 --> 01:23:51,169
Hello?
CHARLIE: Is this Mrs. Joanne King Herring Davis?
1745
01:23:52,241 --> 01:23:53,606
Where's it at, Charlie?
1746
01:23:55,043 --> 01:23:56,567
How's the honeymoon?
1747
01:23:57,112 --> 01:24:00,104
Am I ever gonna see you
naked again?
1748
01:24:00,849 --> 01:24:02,043
Where's it at, Charlie?
1749
01:24:03,552 --> 01:24:07,010
500 million.
Matched by the Saudis.
1750
01:24:07,689 --> 01:24:09,247
One billion dollars.
1751
01:24:09,324 --> 01:24:11,724
That's right.
Billion with a "b."
1752
01:24:13,061 --> 01:24:15,791
Where does this rank relative
to other covert wars?
1753
01:24:16,431 --> 01:24:18,592
There's never been anything
else like it.
1754
01:24:18,667 --> 01:24:20,032
Since when?
1755
01:24:21,570 --> 01:24:22,662
Ever.
1756
01:24:24,606 --> 01:24:26,335
I miss you, Charlie.
1757
01:24:26,708 --> 01:24:28,039
I, Joanne,
1758
01:24:30,012 --> 01:24:31,639
I always miss you.
1759
01:24:36,218 --> 01:24:37,617
I better go.
1760
01:24:45,594 --> 01:24:47,585
(DISCO MUSIC PLAYING)
1761
01:24:47,663 --> 01:24:49,688
CHARLIE: There's nothing
wrong with that!
1762
01:24:49,765 --> 01:24:52,461
And out in Polk, there's the polecat
who took us over the side there.
1763
01:24:52,534 --> 01:24:55,196
You know, that's the truth.
What do you got?
1764
01:24:55,270 --> 01:24:57,204
Is that Gus? You got it.
1765
01:24:57,272 --> 01:24:58,398
Hey, Gus!
1766
01:24:58,807 --> 01:25:01,071
Congratulations on your reelection.
Yeah, thank you.
1767
01:25:01,143 --> 01:25:04,271
Tell me what you know.
All right. Doc Long is gonna lose.
1768
01:25:04,346 --> 01:25:06,507
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We saw that coming.
1769
01:25:06,582 --> 01:25:09,210
Yeah, so who's gonna be
our wallet now?
1770
01:25:09,818 --> 01:25:11,945
John Murtha.
And is that good news?
1771
01:25:12,020 --> 01:25:13,351
Yep.
Why?
1772
01:25:14,523 --> 01:25:17,219
I was his vote on
the Ethics Committee.
1773
01:25:17,292 --> 01:25:19,260
(LAUGHING)
1774
01:25:19,328 --> 01:25:21,796
You know, you're a very, very
easy man to like, Congressman.
1775
01:25:22,097 --> 01:25:24,031
Call me tomorrow morning
at high noon.
1776
01:25:24,266 --> 01:25:26,359
(LAUGHING) I will. Bye-bye.
1777
01:25:27,936 --> 01:25:29,028
(HORSES NEIGHING)
1778
01:25:29,104 --> 01:25:30,594
(GUNS FIRING)
1779
01:25:35,577 --> 01:25:37,067
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
1780
01:25:37,145 --> 01:25:39,773
We present you with
this Stinger tube.
1781
01:25:40,082 --> 01:25:42,448
(MEN CHEERING)
1782
01:25:43,185 --> 01:25:44,709
(GUNS FIRING)
1783
01:25:45,654 --> 01:25:49,681
REPORTER: There was wild jubilation
inside the country of Afghanistan
1784
01:25:49,758 --> 01:25:53,159
as last weekend it became
the first country in history
1785
01:25:53,228 --> 01:25:55,696
to defeat the mighty
Soviet Union.
1786
01:25:55,764 --> 01:25:57,459
(CROWD CHATTERING)
1787
01:25:57,532 --> 01:26:01,263
The retreat of Soviet military
power from Afghanistan is complete.
1788
01:26:01,336 --> 01:26:04,863
The last of Russia's regular
army invasion force is out.
1789
01:26:05,207 --> 01:26:08,005
Fear and uncertainty
were mixed with joy today
1790
01:26:08,076 --> 01:26:09,839
as the commander
of Soviet troops
1791
01:26:09,912 --> 01:26:12,142
followed the last of his men
across the border.
1792
01:26:12,214 --> 01:26:15,843
CBS News Moscow correspondent,
Barry Petersen, begins our coverage.
1793
01:26:15,918 --> 01:26:19,354
BARRY: It was the last hurrah.
The final Soviet combat troops
1794
01:26:19,421 --> 01:26:21,389
crossing the Friendship Bridge
on the border
1795
01:26:21,456 --> 01:26:23,924
between Afghanistan
and the Soviet Union.
1796
01:26:23,992 --> 01:26:25,516
The Soviet commander,
Lieutenant...
1797
01:26:25,594 --> 01:26:27,687
Look what you did, Charlie.
1798
01:26:28,063 --> 01:26:30,429
Hey, it's... Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey!
1799
01:26:30,499 --> 01:26:34,128
It's traditional to make a
gesture towards the vanquished.
1800
01:26:34,636 --> 01:26:37,104
Gus, it's your honor.
GUS: Okay.
1801
01:26:37,172 --> 01:26:39,663
Reports that some Afghan
units have...
1802
01:26:39,741 --> 01:26:43,939
Well, here's to you,
you motherfuckers.
1803
01:26:44,012 --> 01:26:45,104
(CHEERING)
1804
01:26:45,180 --> 01:26:49,674
... determined to show the world that
the era of Soviet military intervention
1805
01:26:49,751 --> 01:26:52,618
in other countries
is now over.
1806
01:26:53,055 --> 01:26:55,523
(DISCO MUSIC PLAYING)
1807
01:26:55,590 --> 01:26:59,583
CHARLIE: Well, I told you.
GUS: Told me what?
1808
01:26:59,661 --> 01:27:02,755
All we had to do was
shoot down the helicopters.
1809
01:27:05,500 --> 01:27:08,333
Listen, not for nothing,
but do you know the story
1810
01:27:08,403 --> 01:27:10,064
about the Zen master
and the little boy?
1811
01:27:10,138 --> 01:27:11,730
Oh, is this something
from Nitsa,
1812
01:27:11,807 --> 01:27:14,605
the Greek witch of Aquilippa,
Pennsylvania?
1813
01:27:14,710 --> 01:27:17,076
Yeah, as a matter
of fact, it is.
1814
01:27:17,179 --> 01:27:18,874
(PEOPLE LAUGHING)
1815
01:27:18,947 --> 01:27:22,246
There was a little boy, and on
his 14th birthday he gets a horse.
1816
01:27:22,317 --> 01:27:25,286
And everybody in the village says,
"How wonderful! The boy got a horse."
1817
01:27:25,354 --> 01:27:27,948
And the Zen master says,
"We'll see."
1818
01:27:28,423 --> 01:27:30,584
Two years later, the boy falls
off the horse, breaks his leg.
1819
01:27:30,659 --> 01:27:32,684
And everybody in the village
says, "How terrible!"
1820
01:27:32,761 --> 01:27:35,355
And the Zen master says,
"We'll see."
1821
01:27:35,731 --> 01:27:37,028
Then a war breaks out,
1822
01:27:37,099 --> 01:27:38,589
and all the young men
have to go off and fight,
1823
01:27:38,667 --> 01:27:40,430
except the boy can't 'cause
his leg's all messed up.
1824
01:27:40,502 --> 01:27:42,129
And everybody in the village
says, "How wonderful!"
1825
01:27:42,204 --> 01:27:44,798
And the Zen master says,
"We'll see."
1826
01:27:45,507 --> 01:27:47,498
So you get it.
1827
01:27:47,576 --> 01:27:50,101
No. No, I don't
'cause I'm stupid.
1828
01:27:50,178 --> 01:27:52,669
You're not stupid.
You're just in Congress.
1829
01:27:52,748 --> 01:27:54,511
Send them money.
You can start with the roads.
1830
01:27:54,583 --> 01:27:56,778
Move on to the schools, factories.
Gus, now, it's a party.
1831
01:27:56,852 --> 01:27:58,217
Restock the sheep herds.
Hey.
1832
01:27:58,286 --> 01:28:00,049
Give them jobs, give them hope.
I'm trying. I'm trying.
1833
01:28:00,122 --> 01:28:02,090
Yeah, well, try harder.
I'm fighting for every dollar.
1834
01:28:02,157 --> 01:28:05,786
Yeah, yeah.
I took you from 5 million to a billion.
1835
01:28:06,261 --> 01:28:07,751
I broke the ice on the Stinger
and the MILAN.
1836
01:28:07,829 --> 01:28:10,821
I got a Democratic Congress in
lockstep behind a Republican President.
1837
01:28:10,899 --> 01:28:12,093
Well, that's not good enough
1838
01:28:12,167 --> 01:28:14,533
'cause I'm gonna hand you a code
word classified NIE right now,
1839
01:28:14,603 --> 01:28:16,434
and it's gonna tell you that
the crazies have started rolling
1840
01:28:16,505 --> 01:28:19,565
into Kandahar like it's
a fucking bathtub drain.
1841
01:28:20,675 --> 01:28:23,269
Jesus, Gus, you could depress
a bride on her wedding day.
1842
01:28:23,378 --> 01:28:24,436
Hey.
1843
01:28:27,916 --> 01:28:30,214
Listen to what
I'm telling you.
1844
01:28:47,736 --> 01:28:51,263
You did a hell of a job for
the son of a soda pop maker.
1845
01:28:51,873 --> 01:28:55,536
"We'll see,"
said the Zen master.
1846
01:29:10,892 --> 01:29:13,019
$1 million for school
reconstruction?
1847
01:29:13,095 --> 01:29:14,357
MAN 1: Oh, shit, Charlie.
1848
01:29:14,429 --> 01:29:17,159
Listen.
He's like the congressman from Kabul.
1849
01:29:17,232 --> 01:29:20,963
Did you hear me say it was a million,
not a billion, for school construction?
1850
01:29:21,036 --> 01:29:22,970
Yeah, we heard you.
Everybody heard you, buddy.
1851
01:29:23,038 --> 01:29:24,699
They heard you in Dover,
Delaware.
1852
01:29:24,773 --> 01:29:26,240
Well, I sure hope I'm not
annoying you, Bob,
1853
01:29:26,308 --> 01:29:28,173
'cause that's the last thing I want to do.
Look...
1854
01:29:28,243 --> 01:29:31,212
I was in the Roosevelt Room
with the President last week.
1855
01:29:31,279 --> 01:29:32,371
You know what he said?
1856
01:29:32,447 --> 01:29:34,642
He said, "Afghanistan?
Is that still going on?"
1857
01:29:34,716 --> 01:29:36,115
Well, it is.
1858
01:29:36,284 --> 01:29:37,751
Half the population
of that country
1859
01:29:37,819 --> 01:29:39,150
is under the age of 14.
Charlie.
1860
01:29:39,221 --> 01:29:42,816
Half the population is
under the age of 14.
1861
01:29:43,692 --> 01:29:45,182
Now, think how fucking
dangerous that is.
1862
01:29:45,260 --> 01:29:47,990
They're gonna come home and
find their families are dead,
1863
01:29:48,063 --> 01:29:49,587
their villages have
been napalmed.
1864
01:29:49,664 --> 01:29:52,428
And we helped kill the guys who did it.
Yeah, but they don't know that, Bob,
1865
01:29:52,501 --> 01:29:54,469
'cause they don't get home
delivery of The New York Times.
1866
01:29:54,536 --> 01:29:57,733
And even if they did,
it was covert, remember?
1867
01:29:58,473 --> 01:30:02,273
This is what we always do. We
always go in with our ideals
1868
01:30:02,344 --> 01:30:05,177
and we change the world
and then we leave.
1869
01:30:05,547 --> 01:30:07,139
We always leave.
1870
01:30:07,549 --> 01:30:10,347
But that ball, though,
it keeps on bouncing.
1871
01:30:10,418 --> 01:30:12,818
What?
The ball keeps on bouncing.
1872
01:30:13,021 --> 01:30:14,352
MAN 2: Yeah, we're
a little busy right now
1873
01:30:14,422 --> 01:30:16,356
reorganizing Eastern Europe,
don't you think?
1874
01:30:16,424 --> 01:30:18,187
We've spent billions.
1875
01:30:18,326 --> 01:30:22,057
Let's spend a million on
H.R.118 and rebuild a school.
1876
01:30:22,130 --> 01:30:25,657
Charlie, nobody gives a shit
about a school in Pakistan.
1877
01:30:26,268 --> 01:30:27,667
Afghanistan.
1878
01:30:49,057 --> 01:30:54,154
MAN: So, for the first time, a civilian
is being given our highest recognition,
1879
01:30:54,729 --> 01:30:56,754
that of Honored Colleague.
1880
01:30:56,965 --> 01:30:59,593
Ladies and gentlemen
of the Clandestine Services,
1881
01:30:59,668 --> 01:31:01,761
Congressman Charles Wilson.
1882
01:31:05,707 --> 01:31:07,231
MAN: Bravo, Charlie.
1883
01:31:08,076 --> 01:31:10,271
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1884
01:31:16,351 --> 01:31:18,012
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
1885
01:36:18,013 --> 01:36:19,013
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