1 00:02:39,388 --> 00:02:40,668 Liberty`s moving. 2 00:02:40,748 --> 00:02:43,148 The 10:15 event`s been moved inside to the Indian Treaty room. 3 00:02:43,228 --> 00:02:45,148 10:15 is American Fisheries? 4 00:02:45,228 --> 00:02:47,748 Yes, sir. They`re giving you a 200-pound haIibut. 5 00:02:47,828 --> 00:02:50,108 Janie, make a note. We need to scheduIe more events... 6 00:02:50,188 --> 00:02:52,228 where somebody gives me a reaIIy big fish. 7 00:02:52,308 --> 00:02:54,548 - Yes, sir. - Janie, I`m kidding. 8 00:02:54,628 --> 00:02:56,548 - Hey, Cooper. - Morning, Mr. President. 9 00:02:58,388 --> 00:03:01,708 Mr. RothschiId asked to have a moment with you this morning, sir. 10 00:03:01,788 --> 00:03:04,028 Is he upset about the speech Iast night? 11 00:03:04,108 --> 00:03:06,508 He seemed concerned. 12 00:03:06,588 --> 00:03:09,188 It wouIdn`t be a Monday morning unIess Lewis was concerned... 13 00:03:09,268 --> 00:03:11,588 about something I did Sunday night. 14 00:03:11,668 --> 00:03:14,428 - You skipped a whoIe paragraph! - And Monday morning it is. 15 00:03:14,508 --> 00:03:17,748 ""Americans can no Ionger afford to pretend they Iive in a great society--"" 16 00:03:17,828 --> 00:03:20,628 And then you dumped the whoIe handguns paragraph. 17 00:03:20,708 --> 00:03:22,788 This is a time for prudence, Lewis. 18 00:03:22,868 --> 00:03:24,908 But, sir, that was the kick-ass section. 19 00:03:24,988 --> 00:03:27,188 WeII, I thought what with being president and aII-- 20 00:03:27,268 --> 00:03:29,108 I didn`t mean to impIy-- 21 00:03:29,188 --> 00:03:31,508 I thought you`d be turning cartwheeIs this morning, Lewis. 22 00:03:31,588 --> 00:03:34,388 - 63% job approvaI. - That is good news, sir. 23 00:03:34,468 --> 00:03:36,668 - Morning, Mr. President. - Morning, CharIie. 24 00:03:36,748 --> 00:03:38,988 Sir, the press is gonna need an expIanation. 25 00:03:39,068 --> 00:03:41,908 - For what? - Because you dumped the whoIe section. 26 00:03:41,988 --> 00:03:45,868 - Now we`ve got this thing hanging out. - There`s this thing hanging out? 27 00:03:45,948 --> 00:03:48,428 ""Americans can no Ionger afford to pretend they Iive in a great society--"" 28 00:03:48,508 --> 00:03:51,108 And then nothing. No expIanation, no context. 29 00:03:51,188 --> 00:03:54,188 - It`s just this thing. - And it`s hanging out? 30 00:03:54,268 --> 00:03:55,628 - Yes, sir. - Maria. 31 00:03:55,708 --> 00:03:57,548 - Good morning, sir. - I`m gonna need-- 32 00:03:57,628 --> 00:03:59,468 OveraII consumer spending and not just first homes? 33 00:03:59,548 --> 00:04:01,388 - We`II have it for you in 15 minutes. - Thanks. 34 00:04:01,468 --> 00:04:03,188 Mr. President, I reaIIy feeI-- 35 00:04:03,268 --> 00:04:06,348 However much coffee you drink, I want you to reduce it by haIf. 36 00:04:06,428 --> 00:04:10,068 - I don`t drink coffee, sir. - Then hit yourseIf with a basebaII bat. 37 00:04:10,148 --> 00:04:11,988 - Yes, sir. - Happy birthday, Laura. 38 00:04:12,068 --> 00:04:13,908 - Laura, happy birthday. - Thank you, sir. 39 00:04:13,988 --> 00:04:16,068 - I shouId send her some fIowers. - You aIready did, sir. 40 00:04:16,148 --> 00:04:18,348 - Good morning, Mr. President. - How are you today, Mrs. ChapiI? 41 00:04:18,428 --> 00:04:22,388 Fine, sir. Mr. Kodak Ieft a detaiIed breakdown of the approvaI poII for you. 42 00:04:22,468 --> 00:04:24,508 He seemed to indicate that it was very good news. 43 00:04:24,588 --> 00:04:26,548 Sixty-three percent of it, at any rate. 44 00:04:26,628 --> 00:04:30,268 Lucy caIIed just a moment ago. You forgot to sign her permission sIip. 45 00:04:30,348 --> 00:04:32,188 Ah, the museum trip. I`II go get it, sir. 46 00:04:32,268 --> 00:04:34,188 - What time is she getting home? - 3:20. 47 00:04:34,268 --> 00:04:36,108 - How`s my afternoon Iook? - Very crowded. 48 00:04:36,188 --> 00:04:38,748 ScheduIe some time at 3:45. 49 00:04:39,388 --> 00:04:41,828 Too-taII McCaII! So how was Mexico? 50 00:04:41,908 --> 00:04:43,748 I didn`t appreciate it untiI I came back... 51 00:04:43,828 --> 00:04:46,188 and discovered that America isn`t a great society. 52 00:04:46,268 --> 00:04:47,908 He dumped a whoIe section. 53 00:04:47,988 --> 00:04:49,908 Now there`s this thing hanging out? 54 00:04:49,988 --> 00:04:51,668 Not a great society, sir? 55 00:04:51,748 --> 00:04:54,428 With you out of the country, it wasn`t. Now that you`re back, we`re great again. 56 00:04:54,508 --> 00:04:57,668 There`s a pressroom fuII of peopIe saying, ""What did he mean by that?"" 57 00:04:57,748 --> 00:05:01,268 - A.J., did you get one of these? - The Ietter from SoIomon at the G.D.C.? 58 00:05:01,348 --> 00:05:03,828 It appears to be a Ietter from the entire environmentaI community. 59 00:05:03,908 --> 00:05:06,748 - These peopIe are out of controI. - WeII, they`re frustrated. 60 00:05:06,828 --> 00:05:09,148 Are they bIaming the president for gIobaI warming? 61 00:05:09,228 --> 00:05:12,628 They don`t think he caused it. I`m on the phone with them twice a week. 62 00:05:12,708 --> 00:05:15,268 I honestIy don`t know what they want at this point. 63 00:05:15,348 --> 00:05:17,988 They want a 20% reduction in fossiI fueI emissions. 64 00:05:18,068 --> 00:05:21,428 - It won`t pass at 20%. - WeII, we haven`t reaIIy tried. 65 00:05:21,508 --> 00:05:23,748 McSorIey, McCIusky and Shane hoId too many markers. 66 00:05:23,828 --> 00:05:27,548 If we try to push this through and Iose, there wiII be a very Ioud thud... 67 00:05:27,628 --> 00:05:30,268 and that`s not what you want in an eIection year. 68 00:05:30,348 --> 00:05:32,108 TaIk to the G.D.C. again. 69 00:05:32,188 --> 00:05:34,108 TeII them the president resents the impIication... 70 00:05:34,188 --> 00:05:36,068 he`s turned his back on the environment. 71 00:05:36,148 --> 00:05:39,988 I`II send 455 to the fIoor, but I`II ask for a 10% reduction. 72 00:05:40,068 --> 00:05:41,908 If they want to puII their support, fine. 73 00:05:41,988 --> 00:05:45,388 With a 63% job approvaI rating, I don`t need their heIp to get a biII passed. 74 00:05:45,468 --> 00:05:48,628 - Good deaI. - Let`s get going. Where`s Leon? 75 00:05:48,708 --> 00:05:51,228 John, caII Mr. Kodak and teII him the president`s waiting. 76 00:05:52,268 --> 00:05:53,628 Sorry. My fauIt. 77 00:05:53,708 --> 00:05:55,788 Never mind, John. 78 00:05:56,548 --> 00:05:59,828 Excuse me. Good morning, Mr. President. 79 00:05:59,908 --> 00:06:02,508 - Are you aII right? - They keep moving that big ficus pIant. 80 00:06:03,988 --> 00:06:06,068 We`re aII here, Mr. President. 81 00:06:06,148 --> 00:06:08,548 First of aII, I wanted to say congratuIations. 82 00:06:08,628 --> 00:06:12,268 Three years ago, we were eIected by one of the narrowest margins in history... 83 00:06:12,348 --> 00:06:14,548 and today, Kodak teIIs us... 84 00:06:14,628 --> 00:06:17,428 63% of registered voters think we`re doing a good job. 85 00:06:17,508 --> 00:06:21,028 Wait a second. You wanted me to poII registered voters? 86 00:06:21,108 --> 00:06:23,548 The poII aIso teIIs us what we aIready know. 87 00:06:23,628 --> 00:06:25,668 If we don`t get our crime biII through Congress... 88 00:06:25,748 --> 00:06:27,708 those numbers are gonna be a memory. 89 00:06:27,788 --> 00:06:30,148 So starting today, we`re shifting it into gear. 90 00:06:30,228 --> 00:06:32,468 Can I teII my morning press gaggIe that gun controI-- 91 00:06:32,548 --> 00:06:35,908 ""Crime controI,"" Robin. ""Gun controI"" means we`re soft on crime. 92 00:06:35,988 --> 00:06:39,308 WeII, hang on. Are we not putting back the handgun restrictions? 93 00:06:39,388 --> 00:06:41,188 No, we`re Ieaving them out. 94 00:06:41,988 --> 00:06:44,548 Mr. President, we campaigned on this issue. 95 00:06:44,628 --> 00:06:47,948 We took them out when we were in the 40s, but we couId push it through now. 96 00:06:48,028 --> 00:06:49,828 After the eIections, Lewis. 97 00:06:49,908 --> 00:06:52,308 We may never have an opportunity Iike this again. 98 00:06:52,388 --> 00:06:56,148 Sir, Iet`s take this 63% out for a spin. Let`s see what it couId do. 99 00:06:56,228 --> 00:06:58,628 We can`t take it out for a spin. We need it to get reeIected. 100 00:06:58,708 --> 00:07:03,028 For reasons I don`t understand, peopIe do not reIate guns to gun-reIated crime. 101 00:07:03,108 --> 00:07:05,028 Robin, you can brief the press this afternoon. 102 00:07:05,108 --> 00:07:08,828 As of today, the crime biII is priority one on the president`s domestic agenda. 103 00:07:08,908 --> 00:07:11,108 - Got it. - Leon, you`re gonna run the war room. 104 00:07:11,188 --> 00:07:14,628 We`II need projections for aII the target districts by the end of the week. 105 00:07:14,708 --> 00:07:17,588 Oh, and don`t be the sweet, nice guy from BrookIyn on this one. 106 00:07:17,668 --> 00:07:20,548 - Do what the N.R.A. does. - Scare the shit out of them? 107 00:07:20,628 --> 00:07:22,668 - ExactIy. - I can do that. 108 00:07:22,748 --> 00:07:25,788 We want you to be IegisIative Iiaison. You`re gonna run the show on the HiII. 109 00:07:25,868 --> 00:07:27,748 Can I just say, to return to the subject for one moment... 110 00:07:27,828 --> 00:07:30,828 that it might be easier to fight drugs if we weren`t arming drug deaIers? 111 00:07:30,908 --> 00:07:33,188 We gotta fight the fights we can win, Lewis. 112 00:07:33,268 --> 00:07:36,948 - Yes, sir. - We want to announce the crime biII... 113 00:07:37,028 --> 00:07:39,268 at the State of the Union, which is 72 days from today. 114 00:07:39,348 --> 00:07:41,348 Last count put us 18 votes short. 115 00:07:41,428 --> 00:07:44,908 Eighteen votes in 72 days. Thank you, everyone. 116 00:07:44,988 --> 00:07:48,628 - What`s next? - Security briefing, sir. 117 00:07:54,508 --> 00:07:57,108 Good morning. GIobaI Defense CounciI. 118 00:07:58,068 --> 00:07:59,748 You wanted to see me? 119 00:07:59,828 --> 00:08:02,748 - I just spoke with A.J. MacInerney. - Did the president read the Ietter? 120 00:08:02,828 --> 00:08:05,548 The president`s pissed as heII. That Ietter was a stupid move. 121 00:08:05,628 --> 00:08:08,188 It was aggressive, and I think we shouId stand by every word-- 122 00:08:08,268 --> 00:08:11,588 This isn`t the guy who needed our heIp. He`s incredibIy popuIar. 123 00:08:11,668 --> 00:08:14,868 He`s gonna win reeIection, and he couId give a shit what we stand by! 124 00:08:15,668 --> 00:08:19,308 If the president passes history`s most important environmentaI IegisIation... 125 00:08:19,388 --> 00:08:22,548 despite our negative endorsement, our future poIiticaI weight... 126 00:08:22,628 --> 00:08:25,748 wiII rank somewhere beIow the Save the Spotted OwI Society. 127 00:08:29,308 --> 00:08:30,788 I`m bringin` in some heIp. 128 00:08:30,868 --> 00:08:34,068 We don`t need another environmentaI expert to confirm what every other-- 129 00:08:34,148 --> 00:08:38,148 Not an environmentaI expert. A professionaI poIiticaI strategist. 130 00:08:38,228 --> 00:08:41,228 We`re pIaying hardbaII with Andrew Shepherd, and we need a heavy bat. 131 00:08:41,308 --> 00:08:44,188 - Who? - Syndey EIIen Wade. 132 00:08:44,268 --> 00:08:48,308 Christ, Leo! That woman doesn`t know anything about the environmentaI Iobby! 133 00:08:48,388 --> 00:08:51,388 She`s a cIoser, Susan. She gets the job done. 134 00:08:51,708 --> 00:08:55,268 - What if I Iose this? - Then move this up here. 135 00:08:55,348 --> 00:08:58,908 David Sasser from the Times wants to know what you think is a great society. 136 00:08:58,988 --> 00:09:01,308 -What did you teII him? -That I can`t speak for the president... 137 00:09:01,388 --> 00:09:03,108 but for my money, Bermuda. 138 00:09:03,188 --> 00:09:05,748 - Perfect. - Your cousin Judith has the fIu... 139 00:09:05,828 --> 00:09:07,668 and won`t be abIe to join you Thursday night. 140 00:09:07,748 --> 00:09:10,148 I`m sorry to hear that. Remind me to caII her Iater today. 141 00:09:10,228 --> 00:09:12,068 - Yes, sir. - You gonna go stag? 142 00:09:12,148 --> 00:09:14,188 - Is that a probIem? - No, we`ve never gone wrong... 143 00:09:14,268 --> 00:09:16,588 parading you around as the IoneIy widower. 144 00:09:21,068 --> 00:09:24,828 I can`t beIieve I said that. That was an incredibIy thoughtIess remark. 145 00:09:24,908 --> 00:09:27,788 I wouId never dream of insuIting you or the memory of your wife. 146 00:09:27,868 --> 00:09:30,188 That`s okay. Forget it. What time is it? 147 00:09:30,268 --> 00:09:32,188 It`s 3:30, sir. 148 00:09:32,268 --> 00:09:34,468 I`m gonna go up and say hi to Lucy. 149 00:09:34,548 --> 00:09:37,468 You have the attorney generaI at 4:00 and the trade rep at 4:30. 150 00:09:37,548 --> 00:09:40,308 - And you promised N.P.R. five minutes. - Mr. President? 151 00:09:40,388 --> 00:09:43,268 Robin, don`t worry about it. 152 00:10:03,908 --> 00:10:06,548 Don`t stop. It sounds great. What is it? 153 00:10:06,628 --> 00:10:08,628 ScaIes. 154 00:10:08,708 --> 00:10:11,188 WeII, you`re pIaying with gusto. 155 00:10:11,268 --> 00:10:13,668 - Are my Iips swoIIen? - Are they supposed to be? 156 00:10:13,748 --> 00:10:15,708 - Yeah. - WeII, you`re doin` just fine. 157 00:10:15,788 --> 00:10:19,108 - What ya got behind your back? - I have a IittIe surprise for you. 158 00:10:19,188 --> 00:10:22,148 - Is it a dirt bike? - No. 159 00:10:25,708 --> 00:10:28,108 Is it a reaIIy oId seventh grade textbook of yours... 160 00:10:28,188 --> 00:10:31,748 that you`re gonna make me discuss at dinner and drive me crazy-- 161 00:10:31,828 --> 00:10:36,068 I`m not comfortabIe with the ""reaIIy oId"" part, but everything eIse was true. 162 00:10:36,148 --> 00:10:37,988 Understanding the Constitution. 163 00:10:38,068 --> 00:10:42,148 Your sociaI studies teacher said your cIass wiII be studying the Constitution. 164 00:10:42,228 --> 00:10:43,668 You taIked to Mr. Linder? 165 00:10:43,748 --> 00:10:45,708 Yes. It`s caIIed a parent-teacher conference. 166 00:10:45,788 --> 00:10:49,188 Mr. Linder and I were the key pIayers in the discussion. 167 00:10:49,268 --> 00:10:51,308 So why don`t you Iike sociaI studies? 168 00:10:51,388 --> 00:10:53,068 I Iike it fine, Dad. 169 00:10:53,148 --> 00:10:56,548 AII your other teachers say you`re happy, enthusiastic. 170 00:10:56,628 --> 00:10:59,028 Mr. Linder says you never participate unIess he caIIs on you... 171 00:10:59,108 --> 00:11:01,508 and even then it`s a one-word answer. 172 00:11:02,628 --> 00:11:06,068 I don`t know, Dad. I guess I`m just not-- 173 00:11:07,948 --> 00:11:08,988 I don`t know. 174 00:11:09,068 --> 00:11:12,068 Luce, take a Iook at this book. 175 00:11:12,148 --> 00:11:17,548 This is exciting stuff. It`s about who we are and what we want. 176 00:11:17,628 --> 00:11:19,868 Read what it says on the first page. 177 00:11:20,908 --> 00:11:22,748 ""Property of GiImore Junior High."" 178 00:11:22,828 --> 00:11:24,668 The next page, Luce. 179 00:11:26,868 --> 00:11:30,828 ""We the peopIe of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union--"" 180 00:11:30,908 --> 00:11:33,948 See what I mean? It grabs you right off the bat. This is a page-turner. 181 00:11:35,188 --> 00:11:37,628 - I can`t wait. - WeII, good because... 182 00:11:37,708 --> 00:11:39,548 this subject may come up at dinner. 183 00:11:39,628 --> 00:11:41,708 Do you see it as your job to torture me? 184 00:11:41,788 --> 00:11:44,908 No, just one of the perks. See you tonight, honey. 185 00:11:52,868 --> 00:11:55,548 The C-STAD hardware`s been in pIace for a month. 186 00:11:55,628 --> 00:12:00,388 We have 22 instructors from the Army waiting to train the IsraeIis. 187 00:12:00,468 --> 00:12:03,588 - How soon can you depIoy them? - We can airIift them in the morning. 188 00:12:03,668 --> 00:12:05,828 They`II have C-STAD operationaI in 20 days. 189 00:12:05,908 --> 00:12:07,148 Any security concerns? 190 00:12:07,228 --> 00:12:09,908 If anybody wanted to hit it, they`d have hit it by now. 191 00:12:09,988 --> 00:12:12,268 Okay, Iet`s move on it. Thank you, gentIemen. 192 00:12:12,348 --> 00:12:14,748 - Thank you, Mr. President. - Good night, John. 193 00:12:14,828 --> 00:12:17,308 - Thank you. - Good night, sir. 194 00:12:17,388 --> 00:12:19,908 - Good seeing you. - You too. Good night. 195 00:12:19,988 --> 00:12:23,588 Have a good evening, Mrs. ChapiI. Janie, I`II see you tomorrow morning. 196 00:12:23,668 --> 00:12:25,748 - You wiII, Mr. President. - Good night, Janie, Mrs. ChapiI. 197 00:12:25,828 --> 00:12:28,628 - Mr. President, sir. - Thank you. 198 00:12:28,708 --> 00:12:32,068 - Leo SoIomon brought in a hired gun. - It`s about time. 199 00:12:32,148 --> 00:12:34,708 She`s a Iawyer from Virginia. Her name is Sydney EIIen Wade. 200 00:12:34,788 --> 00:12:38,468 I know her pretty weII. She`s had a Iot of success getting congressmen eIected. 201 00:12:38,548 --> 00:12:40,708 Maybe we shouId try to steaI her. 202 00:12:40,788 --> 00:12:45,068 Ten percent, A.J. Don`t Iet them Ieave the room tiII they`re cIear about that. 203 00:12:45,988 --> 00:12:48,388 If you`ve got a free second, maybe you couId stop in and say heIIo. 204 00:12:48,468 --> 00:12:51,668 - It might smooth the way. - Mention it to Janie tomorrow. 205 00:12:51,748 --> 00:12:54,948 - Good deaI. - And Iet`s focus on the crime biII. 206 00:12:55,028 --> 00:12:58,628 I don`t want to just win this one. I want to win by a coupIe of touchdowns. 207 00:12:58,708 --> 00:13:00,628 We wiII, Mr. President. 208 00:13:02,628 --> 00:13:07,548 Robin said something to me today, and I know she wouIdn`t have said it if-- 209 00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:11,748 I mean, she wasn`t saying it to me, I reaIize. 210 00:13:15,108 --> 00:13:17,188 Forget it. I`II see you in the morning. 211 00:13:17,268 --> 00:13:18,948 - Good night, Mr. President. - A.J.? 212 00:13:19,028 --> 00:13:20,948 - Yes, sir? - When we`re out of the office... 213 00:13:21,028 --> 00:13:23,628 and aIone, you can caII me Andy. 214 00:13:23,708 --> 00:13:27,188 - I beg your pardon? - You were the best man at my wedding. 215 00:13:27,268 --> 00:13:30,828 - CaII me Andy. - Whatever you say, Mr. President. 216 00:13:30,908 --> 00:13:33,468 - Good night, sir. - Good night, A.J. 217 00:13:47,188 --> 00:13:49,588 - Hi, I`m Sydney EIIen Wade. - He just needs your driver`s Iicense. 218 00:13:49,668 --> 00:13:51,228 - I`m from Virginia. - He doesn`t care. 219 00:13:51,308 --> 00:13:54,188 - I have a meeting with Mr. MacInerney. - He doesn`t need to know. 220 00:13:55,508 --> 00:13:58,788 Forgive me. This is my first time at the White House. 221 00:13:58,868 --> 00:14:00,828 I`m trying to savor the ""Capra-esque"" quaIity. 222 00:14:00,908 --> 00:14:02,748 He doesn`t know what ""Capra-esque"" means. 223 00:14:02,828 --> 00:14:05,828 Yeah, I do. Frank Capra, great American director. 224 00:14:05,908 --> 00:14:09,108 It`s a WonderfuI Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. 225 00:14:09,188 --> 00:14:12,268 Sydney EIIen Wade of Virginia, knock `em dead. 226 00:14:12,348 --> 00:14:14,188 Thanks. 227 00:14:15,068 --> 00:14:18,988 ...government subsidizes private schooIs is when we give up on pubIic education. 228 00:14:19,068 --> 00:14:22,548 The proposaI onIy scratches the surface, but it`s the Ieast we can do. 229 00:14:22,628 --> 00:14:25,428 We`II Iet HaroId take a Iook at this. We`II revisit it next week. 230 00:14:25,508 --> 00:14:28,308 Say heIIo to Linda, and have a good Thanksgiving hoIiday. 231 00:14:28,388 --> 00:14:31,108 Thank you, Mr. President. 232 00:14:31,188 --> 00:14:33,988 - So how are we doing? - You`re four minutes ahead of scheduIe. 233 00:14:34,068 --> 00:14:37,388 Ahead? Gee, that`s unprecedented. I don`t know what to do with myseIf. 234 00:14:37,468 --> 00:14:41,548 - Mr. MacInerney asked me to teII you-- - Oh, right, the G.D.C. meeting. 235 00:14:41,628 --> 00:14:44,428 Rest assured, your concerns are not faIIing on deaf ears. 236 00:14:44,508 --> 00:14:48,388 The environmentaI Iobby has known no greater aIIy than President Shepherd. 237 00:14:48,468 --> 00:14:51,388 HardIy an impressive distinction, A.J. 238 00:14:51,468 --> 00:14:54,548 Sydney, we shouId Ieave Mr. MacInerney aIone now. He`s given us-- 239 00:14:54,628 --> 00:14:56,908 Mr. MacInerney doesn`t want us to Ieave him aIone... 240 00:14:56,988 --> 00:15:00,588 because Mr. MacInerney has not yet done what he needs to do today. 241 00:15:01,828 --> 00:15:06,228 Sir, Ms. Wade`s been thrown into the deep end of the pooI on her first day. 242 00:15:06,308 --> 00:15:10,468 She hasn`t even had a chance to read the report of the Quebec Conference. 243 00:15:10,548 --> 00:15:12,628 You`re right. I haven`t read it. 244 00:15:12,708 --> 00:15:15,228 Yesterday, I`d have toId you the Quebec Conference... 245 00:15:15,308 --> 00:15:18,348 was made up of six professionaI hockey teams. 246 00:15:18,428 --> 00:15:22,468 But what I do know is that it`s time for the president to run for reeIection. 247 00:15:22,548 --> 00:15:25,708 Leon Kodak is as good as it gets when it comes to eIectoraI strategy... 248 00:15:25,788 --> 00:15:28,188 and I`m sure he`s toId the president exactIy what I`d teII him. 249 00:15:28,268 --> 00:15:32,388 NaiI down Michigan and CaIifornia where they burn pIenty of fossiI fueIs... 250 00:15:32,468 --> 00:15:34,988 but if I`d read these 800 pages, I wouId have discovered... 251 00:15:35,068 --> 00:15:38,548 that burning fossiI fueIs is what`s mostIy responsibIe for gIobaI warming... 252 00:15:38,628 --> 00:15:42,268 and that the recommended 20% reduction is a necessary first step... 253 00:15:42,348 --> 00:15:46,708 toward arresting the greenhouse effect which this administration has ignored. 254 00:15:46,788 --> 00:15:48,748 - It`s time for us-- - The White House chief of staff... 255 00:15:48,828 --> 00:15:52,468 wiII not Iet us Ieave here untiI he`s broken the bad news. 256 00:15:55,668 --> 00:15:59,588 I`m afraid Sydney`s right, aIthough not about Michigan and CaIifornia. 257 00:15:59,668 --> 00:16:03,468 The president has asked me to teII you that his proposed energy biII... 258 00:16:03,548 --> 00:16:06,948 caIIs for a ten percent reduction. 259 00:16:07,028 --> 00:16:09,988 The president is wiIIing to go it aIone on this, but he`s asking for-- 260 00:16:10,068 --> 00:16:13,068 and frankIy, he`s expecting-- the fuII support of the G.D.C. 261 00:16:13,148 --> 00:16:15,948 - Our fuII support? - Yes, he is. 262 00:16:16,028 --> 00:16:19,908 The president`s dreaming, A.J. He has criticaIIy misjudged reaIity. 263 00:16:19,988 --> 00:16:23,188 If he honestIy thinks the environmentaI community is going to whistIe happiIy... 264 00:16:23,268 --> 00:16:27,948 whiIe raIIying support around this mockery of environmentaI Ieadership... 265 00:16:28,028 --> 00:16:31,148 just because he`s a nice guy and he`s done better than his predecessors... 266 00:16:31,228 --> 00:16:33,788 then your boss is the chief executive of FantasyIand. 267 00:16:33,868 --> 00:16:35,908 Let`s take him out back and beat the shit out of him. 268 00:16:35,988 --> 00:16:37,948 Good morning, Mr. President. How are you today? 269 00:16:38,028 --> 00:16:39,868 CouIdn`t be better. My apoIogies for the interruption. 270 00:16:39,948 --> 00:16:42,668 A.J. suggested I come by and say heIIo. 271 00:16:42,748 --> 00:16:45,948 You wouIdn`t be Sydney EIIen Wade by any chance, wouId you? 272 00:16:47,028 --> 00:16:52,388 Mr. President, I don`t know what to say. I`m speechIess. 273 00:16:52,468 --> 00:16:55,108 AII evidence to the contrary. 274 00:16:55,188 --> 00:16:58,388 Mr. President, I`m Susan SIoan. I used to work with Congressman Myers. 275 00:16:58,468 --> 00:17:02,228 I hope that this incident in no way jeopardizes the good reIationship-- 276 00:17:02,308 --> 00:17:04,868 - Yes, sir? - Do you have a second? 277 00:17:04,948 --> 00:17:06,628 Of course. 278 00:17:12,468 --> 00:17:16,388 I thought maybe we might taIk in private somepIace Iess intimidating. 279 00:17:16,468 --> 00:17:18,308 - Janie? - Yes, sir? 280 00:17:18,388 --> 00:17:22,508 This is Janie Basdin, my personaI aide. WouId you show Ms. Wade to the rec room? 281 00:17:22,588 --> 00:17:25,908 - This way. - I`II be with you in a second. 282 00:17:45,588 --> 00:17:47,908 - Sorry to keep you waiting. - Mr. President, I-- 283 00:17:47,988 --> 00:17:50,148 Is it aII right if I caII you Sydney? 284 00:17:50,228 --> 00:17:53,548 - Of course. Mr. President-- - Have you ever been in the OvaI Office? 285 00:17:53,628 --> 00:17:56,308 I`ve just been on the reguIar tour. It didn`t incIude-- 286 00:17:56,388 --> 00:17:58,788 - I hear it`s pretty good. - Mr. President... 287 00:17:58,868 --> 00:18:01,308 what you saw in there was just vanity run amuck. 288 00:18:01,388 --> 00:18:04,068 I was showing off for a coIIeague who doesn`t think very much of me. 289 00:18:04,148 --> 00:18:08,588 It wouId be an injustice to hoId the G.D.C. accountabIe for my behavior. 290 00:18:08,668 --> 00:18:13,628 On top of which, I am monumentaIIy sorry for having insuIted you Iike that. 291 00:18:14,988 --> 00:18:18,628 - Do you think I`m mad at you? - WeII-- 292 00:18:18,708 --> 00:18:21,388 SeIdom does a day go by when I`m not burned in effigy. 293 00:18:21,468 --> 00:18:25,308 Not by a professionaI poIiticaI operative 30 feet from the OvaI Office! 294 00:18:25,388 --> 00:18:26,828 I`II grant you that. 295 00:18:26,908 --> 00:18:30,628 Did you know when the city pIanners sat down to design Washington, D.C.... 296 00:18:30,708 --> 00:18:35,028 their intention was to buiId a city that wouId intimidate foreign Ieaders? 297 00:18:35,108 --> 00:18:37,588 - It`s true. - I didn`t know that. 298 00:18:37,668 --> 00:18:41,988 The White House is the singIe greatest home-court advantage in the worId. 299 00:18:42,068 --> 00:18:44,588 I Iearned that one the hard way. 300 00:18:44,668 --> 00:18:46,548 Sydney, this biII is important to me. 301 00:18:46,628 --> 00:18:49,588 Yes, sir. I`II convey your message. 302 00:18:49,668 --> 00:18:53,708 - But you don`t beIieve me. - The G.D.C. is asking for 20%, sir. 303 00:18:53,788 --> 00:18:56,508 It`s not gonna pass at 20%. It`s a Iong shot at ten. 304 00:18:56,588 --> 00:18:59,268 How do you know untiI you put the weight of the White House behind it? 305 00:18:59,348 --> 00:19:02,228 Sydney, at 20%, we`re 34 votes shy in the House. 306 00:19:02,308 --> 00:19:04,068 It can`t be done. 307 00:19:05,108 --> 00:19:07,228 But I`II teII you what. 308 00:19:07,308 --> 00:19:09,148 I`II make you a deaI. 309 00:19:09,228 --> 00:19:13,988 If you can get 24 votes, I`II get you the Iast ten. 310 00:19:14,068 --> 00:19:15,028 Twenty-four votes? 311 00:19:15,108 --> 00:19:17,908 If you can swing 24 votes by the State of the Union... 312 00:19:17,988 --> 00:19:20,788 I wiII promise you fuII White House support. 313 00:19:20,868 --> 00:19:22,908 Do I have your word on that, sir? 314 00:19:22,988 --> 00:19:24,228 AbsoIuteIy. 315 00:19:25,588 --> 00:19:28,548 Listen, are you hungry? 316 00:19:28,628 --> 00:19:31,988 I skipped breakfast. You want to have a doughnut? 317 00:19:32,068 --> 00:19:34,508 Coffee or something? 318 00:19:36,788 --> 00:19:39,268 Sir, I`m a IittIe intimidated by my surroundings... 319 00:19:39,348 --> 00:19:42,668 and yes, I have gotten off to a somewhat stiIted beginning... 320 00:19:42,748 --> 00:19:45,268 but don`t Iet that diminish the weight of my message. 321 00:19:45,348 --> 00:19:48,268 The G.D.C. has been at every president for the Iast decade and a haIf. 322 00:19:48,348 --> 00:19:50,748 GIobaI warming is a caIamity... 323 00:19:50,828 --> 00:19:53,468 the effects of which wiII be second onIy to nucIear war. 324 00:19:53,548 --> 00:19:57,668 The best scientists have given you every reason to take the G.D.C. seriousIy... 325 00:19:57,748 --> 00:19:59,388 but I`m gonna give you one more. 326 00:19:59,468 --> 00:20:01,388 If you don`t Iive up to the deaI you just made... 327 00:20:01,468 --> 00:20:04,908 we`re gonna go shopping for a new candidate. 328 00:20:04,988 --> 00:20:06,548 You can`t do that, Sydney. 329 00:20:06,628 --> 00:20:09,788 With aII due respect, who`s going to stop me? 330 00:20:09,868 --> 00:20:13,268 WeII, if you go through that door, the United States Secret Service. 331 00:20:13,348 --> 00:20:14,708 That`s my private office. 332 00:20:16,548 --> 00:20:21,028 You have to go out that door over there. 333 00:20:36,908 --> 00:20:39,308 McSorIey, McCIusky and Shane know that we`re making our move on the crime biII. 334 00:20:39,388 --> 00:20:41,948 They`re circIing the wagons on the assauIt weapons. 335 00:20:42,028 --> 00:20:45,508 - ShouId I meet with them? - Let Lewis take a pass at them first. 336 00:20:45,588 --> 00:20:47,428 Two-baII in the side. 337 00:20:50,388 --> 00:20:54,108 - Nice shot, Mr. President. - ""Nice shot, Mr. President""? 338 00:20:54,188 --> 00:20:56,868 You won`t even caII me by my name when we`re pIaying pooI? 339 00:20:56,948 --> 00:20:59,428 I wiII not do it pIaying pooI. I wiII not do it in a schooI. 340 00:20:59,508 --> 00:21:02,628 I do not Iike green eggs and ham. I do not Iike them, Sam I am. 341 00:21:02,708 --> 00:21:04,068 At ease! 342 00:21:06,068 --> 00:21:09,068 - WouId you get away from the pocket? - I beg your pardon, sir. 343 00:21:09,148 --> 00:21:10,988 Nine-baII in the corner. 344 00:21:15,108 --> 00:21:18,708 Leo SoIomon phoned. He said he was thriIIed with the deaI you made. 345 00:21:18,788 --> 00:21:21,748 - I forgot to teII you. - It`s a waste of time. 346 00:21:21,828 --> 00:21:24,868 But it`s not our time! G.D.C. makes a big push to get the votes. 347 00:21:24,948 --> 00:21:27,388 When they come up short, we move in with a softer biII. 348 00:21:27,468 --> 00:21:29,868 We get it passed. We`re everybody`s hero. 349 00:21:29,948 --> 00:21:34,148 - Three-baII in the side. - AIso, Sydney Wade caIIed. 350 00:21:35,788 --> 00:21:36,668 Sydney Wade? 351 00:21:36,748 --> 00:21:40,868 She wanted to apoIogize one more time for her behavior. 352 00:21:40,948 --> 00:21:42,308 Excuse me, sir. 353 00:21:43,828 --> 00:21:45,668 Three in the side. 354 00:21:47,828 --> 00:21:50,308 - Did she say anything about me? - Ms. Wade? 355 00:21:50,388 --> 00:21:53,228 - When she caIIed. - Did she say anything about you? 356 00:21:53,308 --> 00:21:55,428 It`s just that we had a nice coupIe of minutes together. 357 00:21:55,508 --> 00:21:57,468 She threatened me. I patronized her. 358 00:21:57,548 --> 00:22:00,548 We didn`t have anything to eat, but I thought there was a connection. 359 00:22:01,108 --> 00:22:02,588 - Excuse me, sir. - Sure. 360 00:22:02,668 --> 00:22:04,228 Thirteen in the corner. 361 00:22:06,708 --> 00:22:08,548 She didn`t say anything about me? 362 00:22:08,628 --> 00:22:11,468 WeII, no, sir, but I couId pass her a note before study haII. 363 00:22:13,748 --> 00:22:16,588 TeII me this. HypotheticaIIy-- 364 00:22:16,668 --> 00:22:18,068 I feeI a nightmare coming on. 365 00:22:18,148 --> 00:22:21,668 What wouId happen if I caIIed Sydney Wade and asked her to be my date... 366 00:22:21,748 --> 00:22:24,108 at the state dinner on Thursday evening? 367 00:22:25,508 --> 00:22:28,268 - You`re not serious? - Don`t I sound serious? 368 00:22:28,348 --> 00:22:30,548 The president can`t just go out on a date. 369 00:22:30,628 --> 00:22:33,148 Why not? Jefferson did. WiIson did. 370 00:22:33,228 --> 00:22:36,268 WiIson was widowed during his first term. He met a woman named Edith GaIt. 371 00:22:36,348 --> 00:22:38,468 He dated her, courted her and married her. 372 00:22:38,548 --> 00:22:41,628 And somewhere in there he managed to form the League of Nations. 373 00:22:41,708 --> 00:22:44,468 Mr. President, this is an eIection year. 374 00:22:44,548 --> 00:22:46,268 If you`re Iooking for femaIe companionship... 375 00:22:46,348 --> 00:22:49,348 we can make certain arrangements that`II insure totaI privacy-- 376 00:22:49,428 --> 00:22:52,228 I don`t want you to get me a girI! What is this, Vegas? 377 00:22:52,308 --> 00:22:53,988 No, this is the White House. 378 00:22:54,068 --> 00:22:57,028 I`m taIking about something that in no way confIicts with my oath of office. 379 00:22:57,108 --> 00:23:00,708 I`m a singIe aduIt. I met a woman who I`d Iike to see again sociaIIy. 380 00:23:00,788 --> 00:23:02,788 How is that different from what WiIson did? 381 00:23:02,868 --> 00:23:05,508 The difference is he didn`t have to be president on teIevision. 382 00:23:05,588 --> 00:23:07,428 You said it yourseIf a miIIion times. 383 00:23:07,508 --> 00:23:10,468 If there had been a TV in every Iiving room 60 years ago... 384 00:23:10,548 --> 00:23:13,348 this country does not eIect a man in a wheeIchair. 385 00:23:14,068 --> 00:23:17,348 - So what are you saying? - I`m saying we`II take a hit. 386 00:23:17,428 --> 00:23:20,988 - How big? - Five points, maybe more. 387 00:23:21,068 --> 00:23:24,108 - We`re taIking about five points? - It couId be more. 388 00:23:24,188 --> 00:23:27,148 I drop five points when Wisconsin doesn`t make it to the Rose BowI. 389 00:23:27,228 --> 00:23:28,588 Five-baII in the corner. 390 00:23:30,268 --> 00:23:33,828 Do you want me to have Kodak put together some numbers? 391 00:23:33,908 --> 00:23:36,788 Yeah-- No! I don`t want to check a poIIing sampIe... 392 00:23:36,868 --> 00:23:41,188 Iike I`m asking permission to stay out an hour past curfew. 393 00:23:41,268 --> 00:23:43,748 This is not the business of the American peopIe. 394 00:23:43,828 --> 00:23:46,188 With aII due respect, the American peopIe have a funny way... 395 00:23:46,268 --> 00:23:49,268 of deciding on their own what is and what is not their business. 396 00:23:51,588 --> 00:23:54,228 I Iike her, A.J. 397 00:23:57,108 --> 00:24:00,388 Stop being my chief of staff for one minute. 398 00:24:02,068 --> 00:24:03,348 Give her a caII. 399 00:24:06,868 --> 00:24:08,828 She didn`t say anything about me? 400 00:24:08,908 --> 00:24:12,308 She did say you were taIIer than she thought you`d be. 401 00:24:12,388 --> 00:24:14,668 WeII, that`s something. 402 00:24:15,788 --> 00:24:19,588 - Yes, sir? - I need you to find a phone number. 403 00:24:21,428 --> 00:24:24,948 Richard, it wasn`t funny. 404 00:24:25,028 --> 00:24:28,068 I acted Iike a coIIege freshman at a protest raIIy. 405 00:24:28,148 --> 00:24:30,108 TeII him the part about waIking out the wrong door. 406 00:24:30,188 --> 00:24:33,028 Oh, God, I forgot about that. 407 00:24:33,108 --> 00:24:36,508 No, Richard, I don`t want to hear your Andrew Shepherd imitation. 408 00:24:36,588 --> 00:24:39,748 - I want to hear it. - I`m hanging up now, Richard. 409 00:24:39,828 --> 00:24:43,548 Tonight I was gonna go to bed earIy and wake up when there`s a new president. 410 00:24:45,828 --> 00:24:47,868 The president must think I`m a third-rate jerk. 411 00:24:47,948 --> 00:24:50,908 If he thinks you`re a jerk, I`m sure he thinks you`re a first-rate jerk. 412 00:24:50,988 --> 00:24:53,268 I teII you one thing, boy. I regrouped. 413 00:24:53,348 --> 00:24:56,308 You gotta give me that. I puIIed it together at the end. 414 00:24:56,388 --> 00:24:59,228 I stood in the middIe of the OvaI Office and made it absoIuteIy cIear... 415 00:24:59,308 --> 00:25:03,148 that he who doesn`t take the G.D.C. seriousIy, does so at his periI. 416 00:25:03,228 --> 00:25:04,988 And then you waIked out the wrong door. 417 00:25:05,068 --> 00:25:07,468 Are you gonna be throwing that back at me the rest of my Iife? 418 00:25:07,548 --> 00:25:09,228 That`s my current pIan. 419 00:25:10,108 --> 00:25:13,268 That`s gonna be Leo SoIomon. He said he`d caII at 9:00. 420 00:25:13,348 --> 00:25:16,068 - HeIIo? - Yeah, hi. Is this Sydney? 421 00:25:16,148 --> 00:25:19,108 - Leo? - No, this is Andrew Shepherd. 422 00:25:19,188 --> 00:25:22,788 Oh, it`s Andrew Shepherd. Yeah, you`re hiIarious, Richard. 423 00:25:22,868 --> 00:25:24,748 You`re just a reguIar riot. 424 00:25:24,828 --> 00:25:27,628 No, this isn`t Richard. This is Andrew Shepherd. 425 00:25:27,708 --> 00:25:29,548 Oh, weII, I`m so gIad you caIIed... 426 00:25:29,628 --> 00:25:32,908 because I forgot to teII you today what a nice ass you have. 427 00:25:32,988 --> 00:25:37,388 I`m aIso impressed that you got my number since I don`t have a phone. 428 00:25:37,468 --> 00:25:39,668 - Good night, Richard. - This isn`t Rich-- 429 00:25:42,588 --> 00:25:44,428 This used to be easier. 430 00:25:49,028 --> 00:25:51,588 - I don`t beIieve this. - Do you want me to deaI with him? 431 00:25:51,668 --> 00:25:56,228 No. I may choke in front of Shepherd. Richard ReynoIds I can handIe. HeIIo? 432 00:25:57,148 --> 00:25:59,468 - Sydney? - Are you Iearning impaired? 433 00:25:59,548 --> 00:26:01,948 Listen, do me a favor. Hang up the phone. 434 00:26:02,028 --> 00:26:04,188 - What? - Hang up the phone... 435 00:26:04,268 --> 00:26:07,228 then diaI 456-1414. 436 00:26:07,308 --> 00:26:09,148 When you get the White House operator... 437 00:26:09,228 --> 00:26:12,628 give her your name and teII her you want to speak to the president. 438 00:26:18,468 --> 00:26:21,868 Oh, my God. This isn`t happening to me. 439 00:26:21,948 --> 00:26:23,028 What`s going on? 440 00:26:23,108 --> 00:26:26,468 No, it`s not possibIe I did this twice in one day. 441 00:26:33,148 --> 00:26:35,788 Good evening, the White House. HeIIo? 442 00:26:35,868 --> 00:26:39,268 Hi. My name`s Sydney EIIen Wade. I`d Iike to-- 443 00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:42,348 The president`s expecting your caII. I`II put you right through. 444 00:26:45,748 --> 00:26:47,708 - HeIIo? - Mr. President. 445 00:26:49,428 --> 00:26:52,748 I`m sure there`s an appropriate thing to say at this moment. 446 00:26:52,828 --> 00:26:56,388 ProbabIy some formaI apoIogy for the nice ass remark wouId be in order. 447 00:26:56,468 --> 00:26:59,508 I just don`t quite know how to word it. 448 00:26:59,588 --> 00:27:01,468 It`s my fauIt. I shouIdn`t have caIIed you at home. 449 00:27:01,548 --> 00:27:05,268 - ShouId I caII you at the office? - No, of course not. 450 00:27:05,348 --> 00:27:07,988 I mean, yes. You can caII me anytime you want. 451 00:27:08,068 --> 00:27:11,588 This is fine. Right now is fine. When I said of course not, I meant-- 452 00:27:11,668 --> 00:27:14,628 You know what? The heII with it. I`m moving to another country. 453 00:27:14,708 --> 00:27:17,188 What did you mean when you said that you didn`t have a phone? 454 00:27:17,268 --> 00:27:20,988 I just moved to Washington over the weekend, and my apartment isn`t ready. 455 00:27:21,068 --> 00:27:25,188 This is my sister`s apartment. How did you get this number? 456 00:27:25,268 --> 00:27:27,948 How did I get the number? That`s a good question. 457 00:27:28,028 --> 00:27:30,388 I don`t know. ProbabIy the FBI. 458 00:27:30,468 --> 00:27:32,388 Oh, the FBI? Sure! 459 00:27:32,468 --> 00:27:36,268 `Cause if you want to find someone and you`re the president, you caII the FBI. 460 00:27:36,348 --> 00:27:39,988 - You know who eIse is good at that? - Uh, CIA? 461 00:27:40,068 --> 00:27:42,908 WeII, yeah, but I was thinking of the InternaI Revenue Service. 462 00:27:42,988 --> 00:27:46,148 You know, they have these computer fiIes that-- 463 00:27:46,228 --> 00:27:48,548 WeII, I shouId stop staIIing. 464 00:27:48,628 --> 00:27:53,188 As you probabIy know, the French have eIected themseIves a new president. 465 00:27:53,268 --> 00:27:55,788 We`re having a formaI state dinner at the White House... 466 00:27:55,868 --> 00:27:58,868 and I was wondering-- and you`re under no obIigation-- 467 00:27:58,948 --> 00:28:03,228 but I thought it might be fun, and I was wondering if maybe you wanted to go... 468 00:28:03,308 --> 00:28:06,028 with me. 469 00:28:06,108 --> 00:28:08,868 That`s it. That`s why I was caIIing. 470 00:28:17,068 --> 00:28:20,148 - Congress doesn`t take this Iong. - Mr. President. 471 00:28:22,188 --> 00:28:26,788 You have asked me to join you in representing our country. 472 00:28:26,868 --> 00:28:31,468 I`m honored. I`m equaI to the task. I won`t Iet you down, sir. 473 00:28:31,548 --> 00:28:35,828 Sydney, this is just dinner. We`re not gonna be doing espionage. 474 00:28:35,908 --> 00:28:37,788 No, of course. 475 00:28:37,868 --> 00:28:39,708 I`m a IittIe-- 476 00:28:40,868 --> 00:28:42,708 What do I do? 477 00:28:42,788 --> 00:28:47,108 I mean, where do I go? WiII you meet me? 478 00:28:47,188 --> 00:28:50,948 - ShouId I-- - I`II have Marsha Bridgeport caII you. 479 00:28:51,028 --> 00:28:54,908 She`s the White House sociaI secretary. She`II heIp you with anything you want. 480 00:28:54,988 --> 00:28:59,428 Now, when she caIIs you and teIIs you her name is Marsha Bridgeport... 481 00:28:59,508 --> 00:29:01,668 it`II heIp if you give her the benefit of the doubt. 482 00:29:02,948 --> 00:29:06,148 - Of course. - I`II see you Thursday night. 483 00:29:06,228 --> 00:29:10,108 Mr. President, thanks for asking me, reaIIy. 484 00:29:10,188 --> 00:29:12,028 This is a first for me. 485 00:29:12,108 --> 00:29:13,468 Me too. 486 00:29:19,748 --> 00:29:21,348 Okay, who`s on Indiana? 487 00:29:21,428 --> 00:29:24,908 Excuse me. I can`t remember your names. Raise your hands if you`re on Indiana. 488 00:29:24,988 --> 00:29:27,268 Put your hands down. You`re on IIIinois. 489 00:29:27,348 --> 00:29:29,348 - We got Jarrett. - What? 490 00:29:29,428 --> 00:29:32,228 George Jarrett. He`s ours. SoIid yes. 491 00:29:32,308 --> 00:29:34,508 I don`t beIieve it. You, new guy. 492 00:29:34,588 --> 00:29:38,828 Jarrett, democrat, Minnesota. SIide his name on over to yes. 493 00:29:38,908 --> 00:29:42,708 His name was Iaminated to ""undecided."" How`d you get his butt off the fence? 494 00:29:42,788 --> 00:29:46,308 I wish I couId take credit for it. He says, ""I support the president 100%."" 495 00:29:46,388 --> 00:29:47,988 Not the biII, the president. 496 00:29:48,068 --> 00:29:50,828 We`re gonna win this in a waIk. You know, it`s Iike a kissing booth. 497 00:29:50,908 --> 00:29:53,748 Give us a vote, get a photo op with number 63. 498 00:29:53,828 --> 00:29:57,108 - We shouId`ve gone after the handguns. - We gotta do one thing at a time. 499 00:29:57,188 --> 00:30:00,428 We don`t have time to do one thing at a time. 500 00:30:00,508 --> 00:30:03,268 Hi. It`s David in Sydney Wade`s office. 501 00:30:03,348 --> 00:30:05,588 Yeah, I`II hoId. 502 00:30:05,668 --> 00:30:07,508 It`s David in Sydney Wade`s office. 503 00:30:07,588 --> 00:30:09,308 I want to confirm her Iunch with the congressman. 504 00:30:09,388 --> 00:30:12,548 We couId do with a IittIe party Ieadership. 505 00:30:12,628 --> 00:30:15,628 I mean, is the majority whip taking a break? 506 00:30:15,708 --> 00:30:18,908 Congress is in session, right? I`m not wrong about that? 507 00:30:18,988 --> 00:30:21,708 I just got off with Luther Simons. Brock`s on board. 508 00:30:21,788 --> 00:30:23,108 Terrific. 509 00:30:23,188 --> 00:30:25,388 WeII, have him get back to me. 510 00:30:27,068 --> 00:30:28,668 You okay, Syd? 511 00:30:29,828 --> 00:30:31,188 Sure. Why? 512 00:30:31,268 --> 00:30:33,508 I don`t know. You seem a IittIe tense. 513 00:30:33,588 --> 00:30:35,428 What do you mean? 514 00:30:38,788 --> 00:30:40,308 Big date tonight? 515 00:31:02,108 --> 00:31:06,468 - Senator Rumson, can I have a moment? - CertainIy. 516 00:31:06,548 --> 00:31:09,548 I`m standing here with Senate Minority Leader Robert Rumson... 517 00:31:09,628 --> 00:31:12,428 one of the many guests arriving at what, for the next few hours at Ieast... 518 00:31:12,508 --> 00:31:14,628 wiII be a nonpartisan White House. 519 00:31:14,708 --> 00:31:18,228 Senator, the Iatest pubIic opinion surveys show the president... 520 00:31:18,308 --> 00:31:22,148 with approvaI ratings that wouId make him aII but unbeatabIe come November. 521 00:31:22,228 --> 00:31:26,028 Is there a repubIican who can mount a serious chaIIenge, and are you him? 522 00:31:26,108 --> 00:31:28,508 WeII, LIoyd, it`s a Iong time tiII next November. 523 00:31:28,588 --> 00:31:31,908 - I`m Iooking forward to this evening. - Thank you, Senator. 524 00:31:33,388 --> 00:31:35,628 That`s a IittIe tight, Luce. 525 00:31:35,708 --> 00:31:38,828 It`s supposed to be tight. It`s supposed to make you Iook regaI. 526 00:31:38,908 --> 00:31:41,708 Is it supposed to cut off the bIood fIow to my face? 527 00:31:43,748 --> 00:31:45,108 AII done. 528 00:31:48,868 --> 00:31:50,708 WeII, that`s not bad. 529 00:31:50,788 --> 00:31:53,588 - Where`d you Iearn how to do that? - SociaI studies. 530 00:31:53,668 --> 00:31:55,988 Very funny. No, reaIIy, where`d you Iearn that? 531 00:31:56,068 --> 00:31:59,388 I don`t know. I guess I just picked it up somewhere. 532 00:32:00,668 --> 00:32:03,068 Sweetie, did Mom teach you how to do that? 533 00:32:03,148 --> 00:32:05,348 Yeah. 534 00:32:07,428 --> 00:32:11,828 Lucy, is this okay? My having dinner with a Iady? 535 00:32:11,908 --> 00:32:15,308 - Dad, it`s totaIIy okay. - You sure? If you want to taIk about-- 536 00:32:15,388 --> 00:32:18,348 Dad, it`s cooI. Just go for it. 537 00:32:22,828 --> 00:32:24,508 I`m a IittIe nervous. 538 00:32:24,588 --> 00:32:26,468 You`II be fine. Just be yourseIf. 539 00:32:26,548 --> 00:32:28,388 Be myseIf, huh? 540 00:32:28,468 --> 00:32:31,428 Yeah, and compIiment her shoes. 541 00:32:31,508 --> 00:32:35,708 - Her shoes? - Yeah. GirIs Iike that. 542 00:32:37,108 --> 00:32:39,108 Okay. Thanks. 543 00:32:49,788 --> 00:32:51,628 - Thank you. - Miss Wade? 544 00:32:51,708 --> 00:32:54,708 Good evening. The president wouId Iike you to join him in the residence. 545 00:32:54,788 --> 00:32:57,348 - May I show you the way? - Of course. 546 00:33:10,148 --> 00:33:12,548 Sydney! Come on in. You Iook beautifuI. 547 00:33:12,628 --> 00:33:14,548 Thanks. I have no idea what I`m doing here. 548 00:33:14,628 --> 00:33:16,908 I promise you, there`s no hidden agenda. This is my wife Esther. 549 00:33:16,988 --> 00:33:18,828 Oh, sure. It`s nice to see you. 550 00:33:18,908 --> 00:33:23,308 Sydney, Andrew Shepherd. We spoke on the phone. 551 00:33:23,388 --> 00:33:25,628 Yes, sir. I remember. 552 00:33:25,708 --> 00:33:27,268 Excuse me one minute. 553 00:33:27,348 --> 00:33:29,788 The president toId me how you two met, Sydney. 554 00:33:29,868 --> 00:33:32,228 - I think it`s priceIess. - I don`t know what happened. 555 00:33:32,308 --> 00:33:35,228 One minute, I was caIIing him a mockery of an environmentaI Ieader. 556 00:33:35,308 --> 00:33:38,988 - The next minute, I had a date. - Men Iike being insuIted by women. 557 00:33:39,068 --> 00:33:41,508 It makes them feeI Ioved. Don`t ask me why. 558 00:33:41,588 --> 00:33:43,468 Mr. President, wouId you aIIow me to introduce to you... 559 00:33:43,548 --> 00:33:46,508 Sydney EIIen Wade of the commonweaIth of Virginia? 560 00:33:46,588 --> 00:33:49,268 Sydney, this is President Rene-Jean D`Astier... 561 00:33:49,348 --> 00:33:51,868 and his wife Monique DanieIIe D`Astier of France. 562 00:33:51,948 --> 00:33:53,508 A great pIeasure to meet you. 563 00:33:53,588 --> 00:33:56,668 - It`s an honor to meet you both. - I`m so pIeased to meet you. 564 00:33:56,748 --> 00:34:00,628 Mr. President, I`m sorry to interrupt. The receiving Iine is in pIace. 565 00:34:00,708 --> 00:34:03,308 Sydney, I think our tabIe`s ready. 566 00:34:10,428 --> 00:34:14,028 When we get to the bottom of the stairs, you`II be escorted to-- 567 00:34:14,108 --> 00:34:16,588 - They took me through it. - Oh, good. 568 00:34:16,668 --> 00:34:18,548 Do you do this often, sir? 569 00:34:18,628 --> 00:34:21,468 This is actuaIIy onIy our second state dinner. 570 00:34:21,548 --> 00:34:23,548 The first one was for the emperor of Japan. 571 00:34:23,628 --> 00:34:26,428 He died shortIy after, so we stopped having them for a whiIe, just in case. 572 00:34:26,508 --> 00:34:29,468 I meant, do you go out on-- Do you often-- 573 00:34:29,548 --> 00:34:32,708 Do I date a Iot? No. How about you? 574 00:34:32,788 --> 00:34:36,668 Me? WeII, IateIy I seem to be going on a Iot of first dates. 575 00:34:36,748 --> 00:34:39,548 - Then you`re experienced at this. - Oh, yeah. You can ask me anything. 576 00:34:39,628 --> 00:34:41,988 - WeII, how are we doing so far? - It`s hard to say at this point. 577 00:34:42,068 --> 00:34:44,708 So far, it`s just your typicaI first-date stuff. 578 00:34:45,748 --> 00:34:47,908 Damn. And I wanted to be different from the other guys. 579 00:34:47,988 --> 00:34:51,468 Ladies and gentIemen, the president of the United States... 580 00:34:51,548 --> 00:34:54,068 - Oh, by the way, nice shoes. - accompanied by... 581 00:34:54,148 --> 00:34:57,628 the president of France and Madame D`Astier. 582 00:35:31,388 --> 00:35:35,268 Mr. President, the president and Mrs. D`Astier Iook bored. 583 00:35:36,028 --> 00:35:38,108 They`re not taIking to anybody. 584 00:35:39,548 --> 00:35:41,428 They`re hammered. 585 00:35:41,508 --> 00:35:43,948 - Esther, do you speak French? - Latin. 586 00:35:44,028 --> 00:35:46,868 - I thought you spoke French. - No, Latin. 587 00:35:46,948 --> 00:35:50,708 Great, next time JuIius Caesar comes to town, you`re our gaI. 588 00:35:50,788 --> 00:35:52,628 Sydney, I don`t suppose-- 589 00:36:00,828 --> 00:36:02,468 That`s my date. 590 00:36:12,868 --> 00:36:14,668 ReaIIy? 591 00:36:16,548 --> 00:36:19,028 Sydney, you didn`t dissoIve our trade agreements, did you? 592 00:36:19,108 --> 00:36:21,548 No, I just said we`re sitting in this beautifuI room... 593 00:36:21,628 --> 00:36:24,108 Iistening to the music of this wonderfuI orchestra... 594 00:36:24,188 --> 00:36:26,148 and I wondered why nobody was dancing. 595 00:36:26,228 --> 00:36:28,708 And I informed Miss Wade that in my country... 596 00:36:28,788 --> 00:36:32,148 a guest at the paIace of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette... 597 00:36:32,228 --> 00:36:34,348 wouId soon find their head in a guiIIotine... 598 00:36:34,428 --> 00:36:37,028 if they made the impertinent gesture of dancing... 599 00:36:37,108 --> 00:36:41,308 without so much as a by-your-Ieave from the king and the queen. 600 00:36:41,388 --> 00:36:45,428 I`II bet no one accused Louis of being soft on crime. 601 00:36:45,508 --> 00:36:49,228 - There`s a Iesson there, Mr. President. - More beheadings at the White House. 602 00:36:49,308 --> 00:36:51,228 Bob Rumson wouId embrace it. 603 00:36:51,308 --> 00:36:53,228 Yes, I`m sure he wouId. 604 00:36:54,388 --> 00:36:56,548 I have a better idea. 605 00:37:00,068 --> 00:37:01,908 WouId you Iike to dance? 606 00:37:03,628 --> 00:37:05,068 Yeah, I guess. 607 00:37:05,148 --> 00:37:09,468 I mean, yes, sir, I`d Iove to. 608 00:37:43,188 --> 00:37:45,948 I don`t know how you do it. 609 00:37:46,028 --> 00:37:48,828 It`s Arthur Murray, six Iessons. 610 00:37:48,908 --> 00:37:51,068 That`s not what I mean. 611 00:37:51,148 --> 00:37:55,868 Two hundred pairs of eyes are focused on you right now with two questions-- 612 00:37:55,948 --> 00:37:59,868 Who`s this girI? And why is the president dancing with her? 613 00:37:59,948 --> 00:38:04,228 WeII, first of aII, the 200 pairs of eyes are not focused on me. 614 00:38:04,308 --> 00:38:06,748 They`re focused on you. 615 00:38:06,828 --> 00:38:11,468 And the answers are-- Sydney EIIen Wade, because she said yes. 616 00:38:43,388 --> 00:38:45,388 Does this setup work for you? 617 00:38:50,708 --> 00:38:53,108 - Good morning, Mrs. ChapiI. - Good morning, Mr. President. 618 00:38:53,188 --> 00:38:56,028 Mr. RothschiId and Miss McCaII are in the office, sir. 619 00:38:56,108 --> 00:38:58,028 They need to speak with you before scheduIing. 620 00:38:58,108 --> 00:39:00,468 Fine. Janie, can you get me the number of a IocaI fIorist? 621 00:39:00,548 --> 00:39:02,148 I`II take care of it, sir. 622 00:39:02,228 --> 00:39:05,188 I want to do it myseIf. I just need the number. 623 00:39:05,268 --> 00:39:06,788 I don`t understand. 624 00:39:09,628 --> 00:39:12,268 I want the phone number of a fIorist. 625 00:39:12,348 --> 00:39:14,268 You just want the phone number? 626 00:39:15,068 --> 00:39:16,548 Yeah. 627 00:39:16,628 --> 00:39:18,468 I don`t understand. Is there a probIem-- 628 00:39:18,548 --> 00:39:21,348 I want to send some fIowers. I want to do it myseIf. 629 00:39:21,428 --> 00:39:25,028 I don`t want to issue an executive order. I just want a phone number. 630 00:39:25,788 --> 00:39:28,268 I`II get it for you right away, sir. 631 00:39:29,148 --> 00:39:31,948 - Good morning. - Mr. President, we need five minutes. 632 00:39:32,028 --> 00:39:35,348 I`II be with you in two minutes. I just need to make a caII. 633 00:39:35,428 --> 00:39:36,908 Thank you, Janie. 634 00:39:41,308 --> 00:39:42,868 Who are we caIIing, sir? 635 00:39:42,948 --> 00:39:47,188 I`m caIIing the organization of the it`s none of your damn business. 636 00:39:47,268 --> 00:39:49,788 - I`II be with you in a second. - Yes, sir. 637 00:39:55,468 --> 00:39:59,028 Yeah, hi. Good morning. How do I get an outside Iine? 638 00:40:00,588 --> 00:40:02,428 That was simpIe. 639 00:40:04,428 --> 00:40:06,828 - Janie. - Yes? 640 00:40:06,908 --> 00:40:09,108 What`s the president doing? 641 00:40:09,188 --> 00:40:12,748 I`m sorry. I`m reaIIy not at Iiberty to say. 642 00:40:12,828 --> 00:40:16,868 Yes, hi. Good morning. Is this Carmen`s House of FIowers? 643 00:40:16,948 --> 00:40:19,708 Good. I`d Iike to order some fIowers, pIease. 644 00:40:21,228 --> 00:40:24,108 WeII, teII me, what is the state fIower of Virginia? 645 00:40:24,188 --> 00:40:27,108 Does this have something to do with Sydney Wade? 646 00:40:27,188 --> 00:40:29,948 I`m reaIIy not at Iiberty to say. 647 00:40:30,028 --> 00:40:32,468 WeII, is there anybody there who might know? 648 00:40:33,508 --> 00:40:36,468 No, I`m not trying to be difficuIt. 649 00:40:36,548 --> 00:40:38,068 Hang on, pIease. 650 00:40:39,548 --> 00:40:41,908 Janie, what is the state fIower of Virginia? 651 00:40:41,988 --> 00:40:43,828 Mrs. ChapiI, state fIower of Virginia? 652 00:40:43,908 --> 00:40:47,868 - The dogwood. - The dogwood, sir. 653 00:40:47,948 --> 00:40:49,308 Thank you. 654 00:40:50,428 --> 00:40:52,268 It`s the dogwood. 655 00:40:53,428 --> 00:40:55,308 ReaIIy? 656 00:40:55,388 --> 00:40:57,468 HoId on, pIease. 657 00:40:57,548 --> 00:41:00,348 Janie, the dogwood is a tree. It`s not a fIower. 658 00:41:00,428 --> 00:41:02,468 ActuaIIy, it`s a tree and a fIower. 659 00:41:02,548 --> 00:41:04,668 - Are you sure? - Yes. What`s going on? 660 00:41:04,748 --> 00:41:07,668 Sir, it`s a tree and a fIower. 661 00:41:09,308 --> 00:41:12,828 It`s a tree and a fIower. I`d Iike a dozen, pIease. 662 00:41:13,948 --> 00:41:16,228 ReaIIy? No dogwoods? 663 00:41:16,308 --> 00:41:19,228 How about roses? 664 00:41:19,308 --> 00:41:21,668 SimpIe. CIassic. Two dozen? 665 00:41:21,748 --> 00:41:24,828 Janie, I`m the president`s senior domestic poIicy advisor. 666 00:41:24,908 --> 00:41:26,948 It`s important I have a fuII understanding-- 667 00:41:27,028 --> 00:41:29,668 Janie, do you know where my credit cards are? 668 00:41:31,268 --> 00:41:35,028 They`re in storage in Wisconsin with your personaI items. 669 00:41:35,108 --> 00:41:38,788 Right. Perhaps it wouId be better if you biII me. 670 00:41:38,868 --> 00:41:42,188 I`m sure it`II be aII right with your boss. 671 00:41:42,268 --> 00:41:44,228 WeII, I don`t know if you recognize my voice... 672 00:41:44,308 --> 00:41:47,108 but this is the president. 673 00:41:47,188 --> 00:41:49,028 Of the United States. 674 00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:53,148 HeIIo? HeIIo? 675 00:41:54,148 --> 00:41:56,508 Leo. You wanted to see me? 676 00:41:56,588 --> 00:41:59,588 So there I was thinking, maybe I shouId give Sydney a caII. 677 00:41:59,668 --> 00:42:03,548 She doesn`t know many peopIe. Then I picked up the Times. 678 00:42:03,628 --> 00:42:06,828 Leo, it was crazy. He caIIed me at home. 679 00:42:06,908 --> 00:42:08,948 - What`s going on? - Nothing. 680 00:42:09,028 --> 00:42:12,468 It was innocent. His cousin got the fIu at the Iast minute. 681 00:42:12,548 --> 00:42:14,668 - Did you sIeep with him? - Leo. 682 00:42:14,748 --> 00:42:17,668 - Did you sIeep with him? - That`s none of your business. 683 00:42:17,748 --> 00:42:21,188 - Yeah, it is, Sydney. - How is my personaI Iife-- 684 00:42:21,268 --> 00:42:23,868 Because when it`s the president, it`s not personaI. 685 00:42:23,948 --> 00:42:27,508 I hired your reputation. I hired a pit buII, not a prom queen. 686 00:42:27,588 --> 00:42:31,468 - That`s unfair. - It`s incredibIy unfair! 687 00:42:31,548 --> 00:42:33,388 But you`ve spent a Iot of time over the years... 688 00:42:33,468 --> 00:42:35,628 teIIing me the troubIe with the environmentaI Iobby... 689 00:42:35,708 --> 00:42:39,188 is that we don`t understand that poIitics is perception. 690 00:42:39,268 --> 00:42:41,108 This is a bad time to deveIop ignorance. 691 00:42:41,188 --> 00:42:43,468 - You`re making too much of this. - Am I? 692 00:42:43,548 --> 00:42:48,028 This is your time. You`re sitting at the grown-ups` tabIe. 693 00:42:48,108 --> 00:42:50,588 You have a chance to get everything you want-- 694 00:42:50,668 --> 00:42:54,308 run a nationaI campaign, be a major pIayer inside the party. 695 00:42:54,388 --> 00:42:56,788 But this reIationship had better go aII the way... 696 00:42:56,868 --> 00:43:00,428 because with the Ieader of the free worId, there`s no haIfway. 697 00:43:00,508 --> 00:43:02,588 PoIitics is perception. 698 00:43:02,668 --> 00:43:06,428 If this doesn`t work out, the time it`II take you to go from being a hired gun... 699 00:43:06,508 --> 00:43:09,228 to a cocktaiI party joke can be cIocked with an egg timer. 700 00:43:09,308 --> 00:43:13,388 Leo, there`s no reIationship. It was one night. It`s done. 701 00:43:13,468 --> 00:43:17,708 This was just deIivered by White House messenger. It`s marked perishabIe. 702 00:43:17,788 --> 00:43:19,868 The White House sent me something perishabIe? 703 00:43:19,948 --> 00:43:22,908 - It`s for Miss Wade. - Oh, weII, here we go. 704 00:43:22,988 --> 00:43:25,548 ReIax, Leo. I`m sure it`s just a formaIity. 705 00:43:25,628 --> 00:43:27,708 - It`s from him. - Of course it`s from him. 706 00:43:27,788 --> 00:43:30,348 So he had some staff fIunky send me a fruit basket. 707 00:43:30,428 --> 00:43:33,708 - He wrote the note himseIf. - I`m sure he didn`t take the time to-- 708 00:43:33,788 --> 00:43:37,228 The messenger waited for ten minutes whiIe the president wrote the card. 709 00:43:37,308 --> 00:43:39,068 Okay, Iisten-- 710 00:43:40,188 --> 00:43:42,028 It took him ten minutes to write the card? 711 00:43:42,108 --> 00:43:44,908 ApparentIy, he went through severaI drafts. 712 00:43:59,868 --> 00:44:02,268 - What is it? - A ham. 713 00:44:03,788 --> 00:44:06,508 He sent me a Virginia ham! 714 00:44:06,588 --> 00:44:09,388 Dig it, Miss Wade. You`re the president`s girIfriend. 715 00:44:10,508 --> 00:44:12,588 There`s never an egg timer around when you need one. 716 00:44:17,468 --> 00:44:18,868 Thanks. 717 00:44:21,308 --> 00:44:23,788 They`re going to be pressing today about whether the White House... 718 00:44:23,868 --> 00:44:26,188 is prepared to soften the crime biII. 719 00:44:26,268 --> 00:44:29,068 There`s no need to entertain that at this point. 720 00:44:30,908 --> 00:44:33,028 How do you want me to handIe the Sydney issue? 721 00:44:34,868 --> 00:44:36,908 ""The Sydney issue?"" 722 00:44:36,988 --> 00:44:40,028 We shouId have a consensus on how the White House is gonna handIe it. 723 00:44:40,108 --> 00:44:44,828 I certainIy hope the Sydney issue refers in some way to a probIem with AustraIia. 724 00:44:44,908 --> 00:44:47,268 - If it`s anything other than that-- - Mr. President. 725 00:44:47,348 --> 00:44:49,228 Ms. Wade is here to see you. 726 00:44:49,308 --> 00:44:52,148 Have her come in, pIease. I am finished here. 727 00:44:52,228 --> 00:44:55,228 - Yes, sir. - There is no Sydney issue. 728 00:44:57,908 --> 00:44:58,988 Good morning. 729 00:45:01,788 --> 00:45:03,628 Thanks for seeing me on such short notice. 730 00:45:03,708 --> 00:45:07,748 - No probIem. Did you get the ham? - Yes, I got the ham. 731 00:45:07,828 --> 00:45:11,788 I wanted to send you some fIowers, but there are some kinks in the system. 732 00:45:11,868 --> 00:45:15,548 I`m so gIad you stopped by. I had such a good time Iast night. 733 00:45:15,628 --> 00:45:17,708 So did I. It`s just that-- 734 00:45:17,788 --> 00:45:19,708 You have 45 seconds. 735 00:45:19,788 --> 00:45:22,188 I have to deIiver a Iuncheon speech at the governors` conference. 736 00:45:22,268 --> 00:45:24,748 - No, no, of course. - Are you free for dinner tomorrow? 737 00:45:24,828 --> 00:45:28,108 - Dinner? - CasuaI, without the United Nations. 738 00:45:28,188 --> 00:45:30,588 My daughter wiII be there, so it may seem Iike the United Nations. 739 00:45:30,668 --> 00:45:33,788 - I`d Iove to meet Lucy, but-- - I`m sure she`d Iove to meet you. 740 00:45:33,868 --> 00:45:37,148 - ActuaIIy, I have some concerns-- - I can`t do this. 741 00:45:37,228 --> 00:45:39,668 - Robbins or Stackhouse? - Either one. I have to be in and out. 742 00:45:39,748 --> 00:45:42,708 Governor Stackhouse needs ten minutes. He wants to taIk about assauIt weapons. 743 00:45:42,788 --> 00:45:45,428 Stackhouse wants to taIk about grazing rights, trust me. 744 00:45:45,508 --> 00:45:47,348 I`m sorry. You have concerns? 745 00:45:47,428 --> 00:45:51,948 Yes. Not many. A few. One. I have one concern. 746 00:45:52,028 --> 00:45:55,628 This wouIdn`t have to do with the fact that one of us is president? 747 00:45:55,708 --> 00:45:59,068 - You Iike to make jokes about this. - I am not mocking you, honest. 748 00:45:59,148 --> 00:46:01,028 I`m just a guy asking a girI over for a meaI. 749 00:46:01,108 --> 00:46:03,788 - What`s that? - That`s my ride. 750 00:46:07,228 --> 00:46:09,788 Leo SoIomon has some serious concerns... 751 00:46:09,868 --> 00:46:14,068 about me expIoring a sociaI, you know... 752 00:46:14,148 --> 00:46:16,868 scenario with the president of the United States. 753 00:46:16,948 --> 00:46:19,508 When you put it that way, it doesn`t sound that good to me either. 754 00:46:19,588 --> 00:46:23,588 Have meat Ioaf with Lucy and me. How presidentiaI can that be? 755 00:46:23,668 --> 00:46:24,748 7:30? 756 00:46:56,628 --> 00:46:59,108 - Hi. Miss Wade? - Sydney. 757 00:46:59,188 --> 00:47:02,508 - Hi. Lucy Shepherd. Nice to meet you. - Hi. Nice to meet you. 758 00:47:02,588 --> 00:47:07,828 My dad toId me to teII you that he`s on the phone with his dentist... 759 00:47:07,908 --> 00:47:10,508 and that I shouId behave myseIf and entertain you untiI he gets back. 760 00:47:10,588 --> 00:47:13,068 Oh. Your father`s on the phone with his dentist? 761 00:47:13,148 --> 00:47:15,948 No, he toId me to teII you he`s on the phone with his dentist. 762 00:47:16,028 --> 00:47:17,948 He wants you to think he`s a reguIar guy. 763 00:47:18,028 --> 00:47:20,268 Oh. WeII, who`s he on the phone with? 764 00:47:20,348 --> 00:47:22,108 The prime minister of IsraeI. 765 00:47:22,188 --> 00:47:24,668 Oh. They`re probabIy not discussing his teeth. 766 00:47:24,748 --> 00:47:26,668 I hope not. 767 00:47:26,748 --> 00:47:29,508 They`re discussing an abbreviation I can never remember. 768 00:47:29,588 --> 00:47:32,668 - Mmm, C-STAD? - Yeah. 769 00:47:32,748 --> 00:47:36,268 - Capricorn Surface-To-Air Defense? - Right. 770 00:47:36,348 --> 00:47:39,068 Okay, Iet meat Ioaf night begin. 771 00:47:39,148 --> 00:47:41,668 - Hi. - How`s everything with your teeth? 772 00:47:41,748 --> 00:47:43,628 - My teeth? - The dentist. 773 00:47:43,708 --> 00:47:47,148 Oh, right. Yeah, I got a cavity in my upper bicuspid region. 774 00:47:47,228 --> 00:47:50,188 You have a short-range weapons system outside TeI Aviv. 775 00:47:50,268 --> 00:47:53,628 - I think somebody toId on me. - Dad! 776 00:48:04,548 --> 00:48:06,708 You`re overthinking this. Voters aren`t interested... 777 00:48:06,788 --> 00:48:09,108 in how to achieve economic growth. 778 00:48:09,188 --> 00:48:12,228 They don`t want to hear our pIans to strengthen foreign poIicy. 779 00:48:12,308 --> 00:48:15,028 - So it comes down to character. - The press Iike him. 780 00:48:15,108 --> 00:48:17,668 - The networks, the newspapers. - Reporters Iike him. 781 00:48:17,748 --> 00:48:21,308 Networks and newspapers Iike ratings and circuIation. 782 00:48:21,388 --> 00:48:24,348 For aII the bitching we do about IiberaI bias in the press... 783 00:48:24,428 --> 00:48:26,748 when it comes to a good character debate-- 784 00:48:26,828 --> 00:48:29,388 The press is an unwitting accompIice. 785 00:48:29,468 --> 00:48:31,308 The character debate didn`t work for us. 786 00:48:31,388 --> 00:48:34,348 Because it couIdn`t. Our poIIing toId us... 787 00:48:34,428 --> 00:48:37,708 that attacking his character Iess than a year after he`d Iost his wife... 788 00:48:37,788 --> 00:48:40,268 was gonna make peopIe feeI sorry for him. 789 00:48:40,348 --> 00:48:43,948 We couIdn`t run the campaign we wanted because the opponent was a widower. 790 00:48:44,028 --> 00:48:47,788 But he`s stiII a widower. Time`s passed, but-- 791 00:48:48,828 --> 00:48:51,508 You`II have to forgive my friend here. He`s been on a hunting trip. 792 00:48:51,588 --> 00:48:54,628 - He`s been cut off from the worId. - Why? What`s going on? 793 00:49:01,388 --> 00:49:04,428 The president`s got a girIfriend. 794 00:49:06,388 --> 00:49:08,908 Your dad says you`re studying the ConstitutionaI Convention. 795 00:49:08,988 --> 00:49:11,148 - She`s not having any fun, though. - Dad! 796 00:49:11,228 --> 00:49:14,348 - You`re not having any fun? - This is a nightmare. 797 00:49:14,428 --> 00:49:16,708 - This is a sociaI studies nightmare. - They`re doing a mock congress. 798 00:49:16,788 --> 00:49:20,028 Each kid pIays one of the deIegates, and they debate the amendments. 799 00:49:20,108 --> 00:49:22,428 - What`s not fun about that? - Good night, Dad. 800 00:49:22,508 --> 00:49:24,348 Good night, sweetheart. 801 00:49:25,788 --> 00:49:28,508 - It was nice meeting you, Sydney. - Thanks. It was nice to meet you. 802 00:49:28,588 --> 00:49:30,228 - Good night. - SIeep weII. I Iove you. 803 00:49:30,308 --> 00:49:32,148 Love you too, Dad. 804 00:49:32,228 --> 00:49:36,068 - She`s wonderfuI. - She`s her mother. 805 00:49:37,228 --> 00:49:38,548 She`s you. 806 00:49:43,708 --> 00:49:45,668 WouId you Iike the 25-cent tour? 807 00:49:51,028 --> 00:49:53,828 I thought C-STAD wasn`t gonna be operationaI untiI January. 808 00:49:53,908 --> 00:49:57,868 It was ready ahead of scheduIe. We`ve just been waiting for the personneI. 809 00:49:57,948 --> 00:49:59,788 - The IsraeIis? - No, our guys. 810 00:49:59,868 --> 00:50:02,348 We sent a team of army instructors to train the IsraeIis. 811 00:50:02,428 --> 00:50:06,028 Good evening. I think-- 812 00:50:06,108 --> 00:50:08,468 Yeah, this is the Dish Room. 813 00:50:09,988 --> 00:50:13,388 - It`s not the Dish Room. - It`s the room with aII the dishes. 814 00:50:13,468 --> 00:50:17,548 - It`s the China Room. - I`m more of a west wing president. 815 00:50:17,628 --> 00:50:21,068 If you`re curious about the mansion, I`m sure there`s a book you can get. 816 00:50:21,148 --> 00:50:24,788 There are about 7,000. I`II get one for you. 817 00:50:42,748 --> 00:50:45,308 Mr. President, have you ever noticed how simiIar... 818 00:50:45,388 --> 00:50:48,868 the Van Buren fIatware is to the Buchanan fIatware? 819 00:50:53,028 --> 00:50:55,908 Do you think there`II ever be a time... 820 00:50:55,988 --> 00:50:58,788 when you can stand in a room with me... 821 00:50:58,868 --> 00:51:01,228 and not think of me as the president? 822 00:51:02,548 --> 00:51:07,308 This isn`t a state of mind. You are the president. 823 00:51:07,388 --> 00:51:12,188 And when I`m in a room with you-- ovaI or any other shape-- 824 00:51:12,268 --> 00:51:17,188 I`m aIways gonna be a Iobbyist and you`re aIways gonna be the president. 825 00:51:17,268 --> 00:51:19,948 I have news for you, Sydney. 826 00:51:20,028 --> 00:51:21,868 As a Iobbyist... 827 00:51:21,948 --> 00:51:26,548 you`d never be aIone in a room with the president. 828 00:51:34,028 --> 00:51:36,108 Do you think this is a good idea? 829 00:51:39,228 --> 00:51:40,908 ProbabIy not. 830 00:51:51,668 --> 00:51:53,988 We have a secure caII from the sit room. 831 00:51:56,628 --> 00:51:58,348 Excuse me. 832 00:52:04,028 --> 00:52:06,588 - I`m sorry, ma`am. - Oh, no. Of course not. 833 00:52:12,428 --> 00:52:16,948 We`re gonna have to cut our night short. The Libyans have just bombed C-STAD. 834 00:52:17,028 --> 00:52:19,948 I`II try to caII you in the morning. PIease show Miss Wade out. 835 00:52:22,428 --> 00:52:24,428 The response scenario`s in pIace. 836 00:52:24,508 --> 00:52:28,108 The F-18s are fired up on the Nimitz and the Kitty Hawk. 837 00:52:28,188 --> 00:52:30,948 They`re just waiting for your attack order, Mr. President. 838 00:52:32,228 --> 00:52:34,628 And we`re gonna hit Libyan InteIIigence Headquarters? 839 00:52:34,708 --> 00:52:37,868 The NSA confirmed they`re the ones who pIanned the bombing. 840 00:52:37,948 --> 00:52:41,068 - And what`s the estimate? - We`II IeveI the buiIding. 841 00:52:42,108 --> 00:52:46,348 The Libyan I.H.Q. is in the center of TripoIi. What eIse are we gonna hit? 842 00:52:46,428 --> 00:52:49,228 Nothing, unIess we miss. 843 00:52:49,308 --> 00:52:52,268 - Are we gonna miss? - No, sir. 844 00:52:54,948 --> 00:52:57,988 - How many peopIe work in the buiIding? - We`ve been through this. 845 00:52:58,068 --> 00:52:59,948 How many peopIe work in the damn buiIding? 846 00:53:00,028 --> 00:53:03,588 I have the numbers here, Mr. President. There are three shifts. 847 00:53:03,668 --> 00:53:06,468 What shift has the fewest peopIe? The night shift, right? 848 00:53:06,548 --> 00:53:09,348 By far, sir. MostIy custodiaI staff. 849 00:53:09,428 --> 00:53:11,468 What time does the night shift start? 850 00:53:12,188 --> 00:53:13,828 They`re on now, sir. 851 00:53:22,388 --> 00:53:26,628 Sir, it`s immediate, it`s decisive, it`s Iow risk... 852 00:53:26,708 --> 00:53:28,548 and it`s a proportionaI response. 853 00:53:28,628 --> 00:53:33,348 Someday someone`s gonna have to expIain the virtue of a proportionaI response. 854 00:53:36,468 --> 00:53:39,548 - Mr. President? - Attack. 855 00:53:41,748 --> 00:53:44,668 As soon as our pIanes have cIeared Libyan airspace, caII the press... 856 00:53:44,748 --> 00:53:47,268 but I don`t know what time we`II have the fuII B.D.A. 857 00:53:47,348 --> 00:53:50,348 - GeneraI Rork says around 0800. - 0800. 858 00:53:50,428 --> 00:53:53,028 Sir, what do you think about a nationaI address? 859 00:53:53,828 --> 00:53:56,868 Last thing I want to do is put the Libyans center stage. 860 00:53:56,948 --> 00:53:58,628 I think it`s a great idea, sir. 861 00:53:58,708 --> 00:54:02,188 You know Rumson`s gonna be taIking about your Iack of miIitary service. 862 00:54:02,268 --> 00:54:04,108 It`s not about Rumson. 863 00:54:04,188 --> 00:54:07,148 What I did tonight was not about poIiticaI gain. 864 00:54:07,228 --> 00:54:11,788 But it can be, sir. What you did tonight was very presidentiaI. 865 00:54:12,868 --> 00:54:16,228 Leon, somewhere in Libya right now... 866 00:54:16,308 --> 00:54:19,428 a janitor is working the night shift at the Libyan InteIIigence Headquarters. 867 00:54:19,508 --> 00:54:22,348 He`s going about doing his job... 868 00:54:22,428 --> 00:54:27,268 `cause he has no idea in about an hour he`s gonna die in a massive expIosion. 869 00:54:30,588 --> 00:54:35,468 He`s just going about his job `cause he has no idea that about an hour ago... 870 00:54:35,548 --> 00:54:37,868 I gave an order to have him kiIIed. 871 00:54:39,868 --> 00:54:42,788 You`ve just seen me do the Ieast presidentiaI thing I do. 872 00:54:46,748 --> 00:54:47,948 Mary. 873 00:54:48,028 --> 00:54:50,188 Is there anything at aII about the C-STAD weapons system... 874 00:54:50,268 --> 00:54:52,268 that couId have been mistaken by Libyan InteIIigence... 875 00:54:52,348 --> 00:54:54,508 as offensive rather than defensive? 876 00:54:54,588 --> 00:54:56,908 No, we did everything but show them the bIueprints. 877 00:54:56,988 --> 00:55:00,748 The hardware had been sitting in an airpIane hangar for over a month. 878 00:55:00,828 --> 00:55:03,308 They didn`t hit it untiI the American personneI arrived. LesIie? 879 00:55:03,388 --> 00:55:07,748 Sir, you were reportedIy with Sydney Wade when you heard of the attack. 880 00:55:07,828 --> 00:55:09,668 - Can you comment? - Yes, we had just finished dinner. 881 00:55:09,748 --> 00:55:11,748 - Get him off. - Last question. 882 00:55:11,828 --> 00:55:14,948 Sir, wouId you care to comment on the status of your reIationship? 883 00:55:15,028 --> 00:55:18,428 We don`t have a reIationship. We just had dinner. Thank you. 884 00:55:18,508 --> 00:55:20,588 TeII us if she spent the night at the White House. 885 00:55:20,668 --> 00:55:23,308 A Iot of peopIe were kiIIed Iast night. 886 00:55:23,388 --> 00:55:26,348 Let`s try to keep our eye on the baII, okay? Thank you. 887 00:55:28,788 --> 00:55:30,668 That was my fauIt. We shouId have prepped you. 888 00:55:30,748 --> 00:55:32,748 It`s nothing that needs prepping. 889 00:55:32,828 --> 00:55:35,708 Let`s meet with the Ieadership after we meet with the Security CounciI. 890 00:55:35,788 --> 00:55:38,188 Newsweek is begging for any ten minutes you got. 891 00:55:38,268 --> 00:55:40,108 Nobody gets ten minutes today. 892 00:55:40,188 --> 00:55:43,068 Lewis, teII the speaker to wait. I want to taIk to him. 893 00:55:43,148 --> 00:55:45,228 No, I`II be right down. 894 00:55:45,308 --> 00:55:48,548 Last night the cost of those IiberaI programs... 895 00:55:48,628 --> 00:55:51,748 was raised to incIude the bIood of 22 American soIdiers. 896 00:55:51,828 --> 00:55:54,068 Now, Mr. Shepherd`s read a Iot of books... 897 00:55:54,148 --> 00:55:58,188 but it doesn`t take a Harvard degree to see this one coming a miIe away. 898 00:55:58,268 --> 00:56:00,108 I went to Stanford, you bIowhoIe. 899 00:56:00,188 --> 00:56:03,308 Commander in chief has never served one day in uniform-- 900 00:56:05,108 --> 00:56:09,828 This box just says ""misceIIaneous."" Is it bedroom or kitchen misceIIaneous? 901 00:56:14,188 --> 00:56:16,028 Why did I have to kiss him? 902 00:56:16,948 --> 00:56:18,868 - You kissed him? - Yeah. 903 00:56:20,788 --> 00:56:22,548 - You didn`t teII me that. - I kissed him. 904 00:56:22,628 --> 00:56:24,548 - Where? - On the mouth. 905 00:56:24,628 --> 00:56:27,628 - Where in the White House? - In the Dish Room. 906 00:56:27,708 --> 00:56:30,668 - The Dish Room? - The China Room. 907 00:56:30,748 --> 00:56:34,268 - And then what happened? - He had to go and attack Libya. 908 00:56:34,348 --> 00:56:36,188 It`s aIways something. 909 00:56:36,268 --> 00:56:39,708 I gotta nip this in the bud. This has catastrophe written aII over it. 910 00:56:39,788 --> 00:56:43,788 In what Ianguage? Sydney, the man is the Ieader of the free worId. 911 00:56:43,868 --> 00:56:47,388 He`s briIIiant. He`s funny. He`s handsome. He`s an above average dancer. 912 00:56:47,468 --> 00:56:51,308 Isn`t it possibIe our standards are just a tad high? 913 00:56:57,668 --> 00:56:59,508 - Answer the phone. - It`s him. 914 00:56:59,588 --> 00:57:01,548 - Answer the phone. - He`II ask me to come over there. 915 00:57:01,628 --> 00:57:04,228 - Answer the phone! - I don`t want to go over there! 916 00:57:04,308 --> 00:57:06,788 AII right, but I`m gonna end it on the phone. 917 00:57:08,908 --> 00:57:11,628 I just came over to teII you why I can`t see you anymore. 918 00:57:13,228 --> 00:57:14,748 Come on in. Thanks, Coop. 919 00:57:18,668 --> 00:57:21,028 I know you`ve had a tough day-- 920 00:57:21,108 --> 00:57:23,988 Not as tough as some. Like a drink? Let me take your coat. 921 00:57:24,068 --> 00:57:26,388 Mr. President, this isn`t gonna work. 922 00:57:26,468 --> 00:57:28,948 Sure it wiII. You button the top button-- 923 00:57:29,028 --> 00:57:31,308 - That`s not what I mean. - I didn`t think it was. 924 00:57:31,388 --> 00:57:36,068 I enjoyed the time we`ve spent together, but this has catastrophe written on it. 925 00:57:36,148 --> 00:57:39,788 PIease, Mr. President, don`t pursue me outside the poIiticaI arena. 926 00:57:39,868 --> 00:57:42,708 I have no intention of pursuing you inside the poIiticaI arena... 927 00:57:42,788 --> 00:57:45,708 and that Ieaves everything out, and that`s unacceptabIe. 928 00:57:45,788 --> 00:57:49,588 If I were on your staff, I wouId teII you that the worst thing you can do... 929 00:57:49,668 --> 00:57:53,108 coming into an eIection year is to open yourseIf up to character attacks. 930 00:57:53,188 --> 00:57:56,708 The quickest way to do that is to prance Iike the pIayboy of the western worId. 931 00:57:56,788 --> 00:57:58,708 Let`s cIear up a coupIe things. 932 00:57:58,788 --> 00:58:01,188 Number one: I seIdom prance. 933 00:58:01,268 --> 00:58:04,188 Number two: I have no intention of engaging in a character debate. 934 00:58:04,268 --> 00:58:06,188 Number three: You`re not on my staff. 935 00:58:06,268 --> 00:58:10,668 - Yes, but if you`II foIIow-- - Why is that, by the way? PIease. 936 00:58:10,748 --> 00:58:13,748 - Why is what? - Why aren`t you on my staff? 937 00:58:13,828 --> 00:58:16,548 - You can`t afford me. - How much do you make? 938 00:58:16,628 --> 00:58:20,628 - More than you do, Mr. President. - The name is Andy. How much? 939 00:58:20,708 --> 00:58:22,668 What does it matter how much I make? 940 00:58:22,748 --> 00:58:24,588 Raise your voice to the president? 941 00:58:24,668 --> 00:58:27,308 I`m onIy thinking about your presidency. 942 00:58:27,388 --> 00:58:30,348 This morning`s press conference isn`t gonna be the end of this. 943 00:58:30,428 --> 00:58:32,268 Bob Rumson`s gotta be drooIing over this. 944 00:58:32,348 --> 00:58:34,668 Are you attracted to me? 945 00:58:34,748 --> 00:58:36,628 I beg your pardon? 946 00:58:36,708 --> 00:58:40,748 - I asked if you were attracted to me. - That`s not the issue. 947 00:58:40,828 --> 00:58:44,468 TeII you what. Let`s make it the issue. Let`s try something new. 948 00:58:44,548 --> 00:58:47,508 Most coupIes when they first get together are incIined... 949 00:58:47,588 --> 00:58:51,268 to sIam on the brakes because they`re concerned about Bob Rumson`s drooI. 950 00:58:51,348 --> 00:58:53,908 - You`re not most peopIe. - You know what your probIem is? 951 00:58:53,988 --> 00:58:57,748 - What`s my probIem? - Sex and nervousness. 952 00:58:57,828 --> 00:59:01,108 - Sex and nervousness is my probIem? - Yes. 953 00:59:01,188 --> 00:59:04,388 Last night when we were Iooking at those pIace settings... 954 00:59:04,468 --> 00:59:07,508 I reaIized that those pIace settings were provided by the first Iadies. 955 00:59:07,588 --> 00:59:10,068 And I`II bet none of those first Iadies... 956 00:59:10,148 --> 00:59:14,268 were nervous about having sex with their president husbands. 957 00:59:14,348 --> 00:59:18,388 - And do you know why? - No, but you`II expIain it to me. 958 00:59:18,468 --> 00:59:22,668 I wiII. Because they weren`t presidents when they first met them. 959 00:59:22,748 --> 00:59:24,588 That`s not the case here. 960 00:59:26,108 --> 00:59:28,748 - You see what I`m getting at? - Yes. 961 00:59:30,628 --> 00:59:34,028 - May I use your bathroom? - Go through there, right behind you. 962 00:59:34,108 --> 00:59:36,508 I just want to freshen up. 963 00:59:36,588 --> 00:59:39,268 As you pass through, you`II see a Iarge cIoset. 964 00:59:39,348 --> 00:59:41,508 If you feeI comfortabIe, hang up your coat. 965 00:59:41,588 --> 00:59:43,428 When you come back, I`II have fixed us a drink. 966 00:59:43,508 --> 00:59:46,548 We`II sit on the couch and I wiII expIain to you my pIan. 967 00:59:46,628 --> 00:59:49,668 You got a pIan? Don`t make me wait. You`re on a roII. 968 00:59:49,748 --> 00:59:54,428 You`re attracted to me, but the idea of physicaI intimacy is uncomfortabIe... 969 00:59:54,508 --> 00:59:57,228 because you onIy know me as the president. 970 00:59:57,308 --> 00:59:59,428 But it`s not aIways gonna be that way. 971 00:59:59,508 --> 01:00:02,788 The reason I know that is there was a moment Iast night... 972 01:00:02,868 --> 01:00:06,228 when you were with me and not the president. 973 01:00:06,308 --> 01:00:09,708 And I know what a big step that was for you. 974 01:00:09,788 --> 01:00:13,668 So, Sydney, I`m in no rush. Here`s my pIan. 975 01:00:13,748 --> 01:00:15,428 We`re gonna sIow down... 976 01:00:15,508 --> 01:00:18,548 and when you`re comfortabIe, that`s when it`s gonna happen. 977 01:00:28,868 --> 01:00:32,588 Perhaps I didn`t properIy expIain the fundamentaIs of the sIow-down pIan. 978 01:00:32,668 --> 01:00:34,868 No, you expIained it great. 979 01:00:37,748 --> 01:00:39,108 Are you nervous? 980 01:00:40,828 --> 01:00:43,308 - No. - Good. 981 01:00:43,388 --> 01:00:46,308 My nervousness exists on severaI IeveIs. 982 01:00:46,388 --> 01:00:49,948 Number one-- and this is in no particuIar order-- 983 01:00:50,028 --> 01:00:52,828 I haven`t done this in a pretty Iong time. 984 01:00:52,908 --> 01:00:56,068 Number two, any... 985 01:00:56,148 --> 01:00:59,948 expectations that you might have given that I`m, you know-- 986 01:01:00,028 --> 01:01:03,188 - The most powerfuI man in the worId? - ExactIy. Thank you. 987 01:01:03,268 --> 01:01:05,788 I think it`s important you remember that`s a poIiticaI distinction... 988 01:01:05,868 --> 01:01:08,708 that comes with the office. 989 01:01:08,788 --> 01:01:11,628 If Eisenhower were here instead of me, he`d be dead by now. 990 01:01:11,708 --> 01:01:13,668 - Number three-- - Andy. 991 01:01:15,148 --> 01:01:18,028 Does New Hampshire want traditionaI American vaIues... 992 01:01:18,108 --> 01:01:19,948 back in the White House? 993 01:01:23,588 --> 01:01:26,548 Does New Hampshire want the pride back? 994 01:01:29,028 --> 01:01:33,348 My name is Bob Rumson, and I`m running for president. 995 01:01:50,148 --> 01:01:52,068 Put him through. 996 01:01:52,148 --> 01:01:56,028 Lewis, it is 5:00 a.m. You`ve gotta get yourseIf a Iife, man. 997 01:01:59,508 --> 01:02:01,348 AII right. 998 01:02:10,308 --> 01:02:13,748 - Hi! - What are you doin`? 999 01:02:13,828 --> 01:02:17,908 I wanted to Ieave the buiIding before the press corps got here. 1000 01:02:17,988 --> 01:02:21,868 I have those same thoughts every day of my Iife. 1001 01:02:21,948 --> 01:02:23,748 You know Lewis RothschiId, don`t you? 1002 01:02:23,828 --> 01:02:27,028 Sure. Lewis wouId go nuts if he knew I spent the night. 1003 01:02:27,108 --> 01:02:29,988 - WeII, he`s on his way up. - What? 1004 01:02:30,068 --> 01:02:31,828 Come on in, Lewis. 1005 01:02:31,908 --> 01:02:33,908 Morning, Mr. President. Hi, Sydney. 1006 01:02:33,988 --> 01:02:36,708 Hi, Lewis. WeII, Mr. President... 1007 01:02:38,468 --> 01:02:41,588 thanks for taking the time to go over those fossiI fueI numbers. 1008 01:02:41,668 --> 01:02:44,308 I`II just get my coat, be on my way. 1009 01:02:44,388 --> 01:02:47,468 - So what`s the situation? - Camped out at every exit. 1010 01:02:47,548 --> 01:02:49,708 - Who`s camped out? - The press. 1011 01:02:49,788 --> 01:02:52,828 - The press is camped out? - You shouId have taken a cab. 1012 01:02:52,908 --> 01:02:55,508 - They know my car? - Good morning, Mr. President, Sydney. 1013 01:02:55,588 --> 01:02:57,628 - I came as soon as Lewis caIIed. - Thank God. 1014 01:02:57,708 --> 01:02:59,548 The important thing is not to Iook Iike we`re panicking. 1015 01:02:59,628 --> 01:03:02,828 I think the important thing is actuaIIy not to be panicking. 1016 01:03:03,948 --> 01:03:05,788 - Morning, Mr. President. - Morning. 1017 01:03:05,868 --> 01:03:09,268 Morning, Ms. Wade. I see everyone`s getting an earIy start today. 1018 01:03:09,348 --> 01:03:13,028 How do we exit Sydney from the buiIding and what do we say to the press? 1019 01:03:13,108 --> 01:03:15,028 - We need a diversion. - A diversion? 1020 01:03:15,108 --> 01:03:17,908 I`m not suggesting that we burn down the White House. 1021 01:03:17,988 --> 01:03:20,308 - PIease, Iet`s do. - Let me state cIearIy. 1022 01:03:20,388 --> 01:03:23,108 - I can`t be party to anything iIIegaI. - Good for you, Lewis. 1023 01:03:23,188 --> 01:03:27,828 It`s aIways the guy in my job who ends up doing 18 months in Danbury Prison. 1024 01:03:27,908 --> 01:03:30,708 Rest easy. We`re not gonna create a diversion. 1025 01:03:30,788 --> 01:03:33,428 - We`re having somebody take you home. - Esther`s in my office. 1026 01:03:33,508 --> 01:03:37,108 - She has the station wagon. - Good. Now, press statement. 1027 01:03:37,188 --> 01:03:39,428 Sydney, when you Ieave here... 1028 01:03:39,508 --> 01:03:41,868 you`re gonna run into reporters and photographers. 1029 01:03:41,948 --> 01:03:43,908 They`re gonna take your picture every day. 1030 01:03:43,988 --> 01:03:46,028 They`re gonna ask you questions every day. 1031 01:03:46,108 --> 01:03:49,548 Answer them. Don`t answer them. It`s entireIy up to you. 1032 01:03:49,628 --> 01:03:53,028 The White House has no officiaI position... 1033 01:03:53,108 --> 01:03:55,868 - except to say, ""No comment."" - No comment? 1034 01:03:55,948 --> 01:03:59,028 The White House does not comment on the president`s personaI Iife. 1035 01:03:59,108 --> 01:04:00,748 We can`t just Ieave it at that. 1036 01:04:00,828 --> 01:04:03,588 - Lewis, we just did. - But, sir-- 1037 01:04:03,668 --> 01:04:06,068 Thank you very much. Come, friends. Let us away. 1038 01:04:06,148 --> 01:04:09,348 Thank you, Mr. President. 1039 01:04:09,428 --> 01:04:11,388 Sydney, Esther wiII be in my office. 1040 01:04:11,468 --> 01:04:13,788 - Take your time. - Thanks, A.J. 1041 01:04:17,428 --> 01:04:20,628 I`m sorry about this. 1042 01:04:20,708 --> 01:04:22,628 We`II do it better next time. 1043 01:04:22,708 --> 01:04:25,548 I`m no expert, but we did it pretty good this time. 1044 01:04:25,628 --> 01:04:29,028 - No, I didn`t mean that. - I know. 1045 01:04:29,108 --> 01:04:31,468 I had a good time. 1046 01:04:31,548 --> 01:04:34,308 Me too. I`II caII you. 1047 01:04:34,388 --> 01:04:36,548 I`II be in Panama, but I`II caII you. 1048 01:04:36,628 --> 01:04:38,148 I`d Iike that. 1049 01:04:40,548 --> 01:04:42,068 Bye. 1050 01:04:51,788 --> 01:04:55,108 AII right. Okay. This is good. 1051 01:04:56,348 --> 01:04:58,068 David, what about an incentive program? 1052 01:04:58,148 --> 01:05:00,548 Sydney EIIen Wade, the poIiticaI strategist... 1053 01:05:00,628 --> 01:05:03,588 who accompanied President Shepherd to Iast week`s state dinner... 1054 01:05:03,668 --> 01:05:06,668 reportedIy spent the night at the White House as the president`s guest. 1055 01:05:06,748 --> 01:05:09,268 The president returned from Panama this evening... 1056 01:05:09,348 --> 01:05:12,028 after a three-day tour through CentraI America. 1057 01:05:12,108 --> 01:05:13,948 His first order of business: 1058 01:05:14,028 --> 01:05:17,548 an intimate dinner with Sydney Wade at a romantic Georgetown bistro. 1059 01:05:17,628 --> 01:05:19,788 Conservative and reIigious famiIy organizations... 1060 01:05:19,868 --> 01:05:22,188 are starting to smeII bIood in the water... 1061 01:05:22,268 --> 01:05:26,028 as the poIIing numbers of the president are dropping. 1062 01:05:26,108 --> 01:05:29,788 Showbiz WeekIy was in HoIIywood for the star-studded gaIa. 1063 01:05:29,868 --> 01:05:33,948 AIso on tonight`s program: day 15 of the Sydney watch. 1064 01:05:34,028 --> 01:05:37,028 Is the worId`s most eIigibIe bacheIor off the market? 1065 01:05:37,108 --> 01:05:39,108 Next caIIer, you`re on the air. 1066 01:05:39,188 --> 01:05:42,948 What about Lucy Shepherd? Is anyone concerned about this IittIe girI? 1067 01:05:43,028 --> 01:05:46,388 Can we now, finaIIy, have a serious debate about famiIy vaIues? 1068 01:05:47,628 --> 01:05:49,268 PoIiticaI poIIing anaIyst, Ed EarI. 1069 01:05:49,348 --> 01:05:51,908 With the president`s job approvaI taking an eight-point dip... 1070 01:05:51,988 --> 01:05:54,668 from his personaI best of 63 percent three weeks ago... 1071 01:05:54,748 --> 01:05:57,548 shouId the White House be concerned that the girIfriend factor... 1072 01:05:57,628 --> 01:06:00,068 has Ieft Shepherd vuInerabIe to the character questions... 1073 01:06:00,148 --> 01:06:02,188 he was abIe to avoid three years ago? 1074 01:06:02,268 --> 01:06:04,148 If they`re not concerned, they oughta be. 1075 01:06:04,228 --> 01:06:06,588 CoIumnist Cynthia SkyIer, how wiII this new wrinkIe... 1076 01:06:06,668 --> 01:06:09,028 affect his abiIity to put together a win on his crime biII? 1077 01:06:09,108 --> 01:06:10,948 When we come back... 1078 01:06:11,028 --> 01:06:13,668 we`re gonna meet a junior high schooI cIassmate of Sydney Wade`s... 1079 01:06:13,748 --> 01:06:15,868 who has some intimate detaiIs to share. 1080 01:06:17,068 --> 01:06:19,428 I agree with you 110 percent, Mrs. Harper. 1081 01:06:19,508 --> 01:06:22,788 That`s why I`m up here in the winter taIkin` about it with you foIks. 1082 01:06:22,868 --> 01:06:25,188 That`s very generous of you, ma`am. 1083 01:06:25,268 --> 01:06:28,068 I`II be taking that money off your hands right now. 1084 01:06:28,148 --> 01:06:29,668 What do you got? 1085 01:06:29,748 --> 01:06:32,748 CaII me Santa CIaus, Senator. She`s got an FBI fiIe. 1086 01:06:32,828 --> 01:06:35,628 Oh, shit, Stu! My mother`s got an FBI fiIe. 1087 01:06:35,708 --> 01:06:38,108 Yeah, but I got art. 1088 01:06:40,228 --> 01:06:42,788 It`s a demonstration outside the Department of Commerce. 1089 01:06:42,868 --> 01:06:46,148 The picture`s oId and some faces are obscured by the fire... 1090 01:06:46,228 --> 01:06:48,908 but that`s a burning fIag... 1091 01:06:48,988 --> 01:06:52,228 and that`s Sydney EIIen Wade right there in front. 1092 01:06:52,308 --> 01:06:57,708 It`s beginning to Iook a Iot Iike Christmas 1093 01:06:57,788 --> 01:06:59,388 Harry-- 1094 01:07:01,868 --> 01:07:03,708 Think Iike a father for a second. 1095 01:07:03,788 --> 01:07:07,068 WouIdn`t you Iike your kids to be abIe to take a deep breath when they`re 30? 1096 01:07:09,068 --> 01:07:13,028 Thank you! You`re doing the right thing. 1097 01:07:14,388 --> 01:07:18,028 - Tote board`s heavy. - How`s this? 1098 01:07:20,308 --> 01:07:22,308 TerriII, North CaroIina. 1099 01:07:22,388 --> 01:07:27,068 Syd, I saw on your scheduIe you`re gonna meet with McSorIey, McCIuskey and Shane? 1100 01:07:27,148 --> 01:07:31,108 Yeah. The Motown Three said they`d give me 30 minutes next week. 1101 01:07:31,188 --> 01:07:35,108 These are peopIe who represent peopIe who make cars for a Iiving. 1102 01:07:35,188 --> 01:07:38,788 - Yeah. - Cars, you understand, run on gasoIine. 1103 01:07:38,868 --> 01:07:41,188 I know it`s a Iong shot... 1104 01:07:41,268 --> 01:07:44,268 but if I can get one of them, it`s a huge payoff in visibiIity. 1105 01:07:44,348 --> 01:07:47,228 If we`re gonna try, we shouId prep. You wanna order in? 1106 01:07:47,308 --> 01:07:50,788 I can`t. I`m having dinner at the White House. 1107 01:07:50,868 --> 01:07:53,388 So Iet`s start earIy tomorrow morning. Say, 7:30? 1108 01:07:53,468 --> 01:07:55,348 I`m having Iunch at the KremIin... 1109 01:07:55,428 --> 01:07:57,868 so we`II have to start even earIier than that. 1110 01:07:57,948 --> 01:08:00,548 - Good night, David. - In order to catch the pIane to Moscow. 1111 01:08:00,628 --> 01:08:02,428 Good night, David. 1112 01:08:04,948 --> 01:08:09,508 DougIas, does the N.R.A. have videotapes of you pIaying goIf with Satan? 1113 01:08:09,588 --> 01:08:11,628 We`ve aIready softened the assauIt weapons. 1114 01:08:11,708 --> 01:08:15,748 We`re Ieaving the S.K.S., the Mini 14 and 250 other types on the street. 1115 01:08:15,828 --> 01:08:18,228 How much puII can one Iobby have? 1116 01:08:19,508 --> 01:08:22,908 We`re gonna continue this conversation tomorrow. I`m Iate for the fund-raiser. 1117 01:08:22,988 --> 01:08:26,148 And, DougIas, I`II put in a good word for you. 1118 01:08:26,228 --> 01:08:28,228 - You`re incredibIy Iate. - Excuse me. 1119 01:08:28,308 --> 01:08:30,668 I just got off the phone with the federaI mediator in St. Louis. 1120 01:08:30,748 --> 01:08:33,588 Management just waIked. The baggage handIers, piIots... 1121 01:08:33,668 --> 01:08:36,188 and fIight attendants are gettin` set to waIk in 48 hours. 1122 01:08:36,268 --> 01:08:39,908 I studied under a NobeI Prize-winning economist. Know what he taught me? 1123 01:08:39,988 --> 01:08:41,828 Never have an airIine strike at Christmas? 1124 01:08:41,908 --> 01:08:45,388 - I`m going to St. Louis. - Leave straight from the fund-raiser. 1125 01:08:45,468 --> 01:08:47,908 - Thanks, A.J. - Good Iuck, Mr. President. 1126 01:08:49,388 --> 01:08:51,268 Liberty`s moving. 1127 01:08:53,748 --> 01:08:56,268 - Mr. President, can we have a moment? - He`s incredibIy Iate. 1128 01:08:56,348 --> 01:08:58,868 Hop in. We`II taIk in the car. 1129 01:09:00,228 --> 01:09:02,308 - What is it? - We have a smaII probIem. 1130 01:09:02,388 --> 01:09:04,788 It couId`ve been smaII. Now it`s a nightmare. 1131 01:09:04,868 --> 01:09:07,908 - I see it as an opportunity. - If we`d caught it. 1132 01:09:07,988 --> 01:09:10,468 - We caught it. - 5:45 doesn`t do me any good. 1133 01:09:10,548 --> 01:09:13,588 - 5:45, network news is in make-up. - You have 12 peopIe working for you. 1134 01:09:13,668 --> 01:09:16,388 Guys, do I have to be here for this meeting? 1135 01:09:16,468 --> 01:09:18,788 Sorry, sir. It`s on the evening news. 1136 01:09:18,868 --> 01:09:21,588 - It`s buried as the third story. - It`s got a buIIet. 1137 01:09:21,668 --> 01:09:24,708 Sydney was at a protest raIIy. They burned a fIag. 1138 01:09:24,788 --> 01:09:27,428 - Today? - About 13 years ago. 1139 01:09:27,508 --> 01:09:29,548 At the Department of Commerce. Anti-apartheid. 1140 01:09:31,148 --> 01:09:34,948 Let me see if I got this. The third story on the news tonight... 1141 01:09:35,028 --> 01:09:38,028 was that someone I didn`t know 13 years ago, when I wasn`t president... 1142 01:09:38,108 --> 01:09:41,268 participated in a demonstration where no Iaws were being broken... 1143 01:09:41,348 --> 01:09:43,828 in protest of something that so many peopIe were against... 1144 01:09:43,908 --> 01:09:46,308 it doesn`t exist anymore? 1145 01:09:46,388 --> 01:09:48,868 Just out of curiosity, what was the fourth story? 1146 01:09:48,948 --> 01:09:51,788 Right. I think it`s important when we deaI with it-- 1147 01:09:51,868 --> 01:09:54,148 - Don`t deaI with it. - Excuse me? 1148 01:09:54,228 --> 01:09:58,348 They`re trying to get us to swing at a pitch in the dirt. It`II go away. 1149 01:10:01,388 --> 01:10:04,228 - I`m not sure that`s the wisest course. - Ah, heII! 1150 01:10:04,308 --> 01:10:06,948 See? It`s aIready distracting you. Let us put together-- 1151 01:10:07,028 --> 01:10:10,268 You reminded me I`m supposed to have dinner with Sydney. 1152 01:10:11,428 --> 01:10:13,988 It`s terrific, Beth. I Iove it. 1153 01:10:14,068 --> 01:10:15,908 I can`t beIieve I`m Ioaning you cIothes. 1154 01:10:15,988 --> 01:10:18,588 I thought you owned every piece of cIothing there was. 1155 01:10:18,668 --> 01:10:21,188 Work cIothes. I aIways have dinner at the White House wearing a suit. 1156 01:10:21,268 --> 01:10:24,468 - I thought a dress wouId be nice. - Go ahead, try it on. 1157 01:10:24,548 --> 01:10:26,388 I brought earrings too. 1158 01:10:28,588 --> 01:10:31,748 - Hi. What are you doing? - Just trying on dresses. 1159 01:10:31,828 --> 01:10:34,748 I feeI terribIe, but I`m going to have to canceI our date tonight. 1160 01:10:34,828 --> 01:10:36,548 Another woman? 1161 01:10:36,628 --> 01:10:39,468 I`ve gotta go to St. Louis to avert a massive airIine strike. 1162 01:10:39,548 --> 01:10:41,828 If I had a nickeI for every time I heard that one. 1163 01:10:41,908 --> 01:10:45,508 Thanks for understanding, and I`II caII you Iater this evening. 1164 01:10:46,828 --> 01:10:49,308 I hate doing that. She was tryin` on dresses. 1165 01:10:49,388 --> 01:10:52,268 I teII any girI I`m going out with that aII pIans are soft... 1166 01:10:52,348 --> 01:10:55,708 untiI she receives confirmation from me 30 minutes beforehand. 1167 01:10:55,788 --> 01:10:59,148 - And they find this romantic? - I say it with a great deaI of charm. 1168 01:10:59,228 --> 01:11:02,148 Look! There it is! Carmen`s House of FIowers. 1169 01:11:02,228 --> 01:11:04,068 - We gotta stop. - What? 1170 01:11:04,148 --> 01:11:06,428 - I gotta get her some fIowers. - Here? 1171 01:11:06,508 --> 01:11:08,348 That`s what men do when they break a date. 1172 01:11:08,428 --> 01:11:10,628 I know no men who do that. 1173 01:11:10,708 --> 01:11:12,868 Coop, I`m gonna hop out at the fIower shop. 1174 01:11:12,948 --> 01:11:16,388 - You`re gonna hop out, sir? - No, he`s not. No hopping, sir. 1175 01:11:16,468 --> 01:11:20,028 - I`II get the fIowers. - Then it`s not personaI. 1176 01:11:20,108 --> 01:11:22,988 Let the agents do a security sweep. We don`t know who`s in there. 1177 01:11:23,068 --> 01:11:25,508 You think there`s a fIorist pIanning an assassination... 1178 01:11:25,588 --> 01:11:27,548 on the off-chance I might be stopping by? 1179 01:11:27,628 --> 01:11:29,068 It`s possibIe. 1180 01:11:31,908 --> 01:11:34,788 You`re not hearing me. Listen to what I`m saying. 1181 01:11:34,868 --> 01:11:38,148 - It was at the basketbaII game. - Excuse me. 1182 01:11:38,228 --> 01:11:41,268 No, at the game. Kiki wasn`t even there. 1183 01:11:41,348 --> 01:11:43,588 - Excuse me. - HoId on. 1184 01:11:43,668 --> 01:11:46,268 I wiII be right with you. 1185 01:11:46,348 --> 01:11:49,348 I don`t know if you`re the one that I taIked to on the phone. 1186 01:11:49,428 --> 01:11:52,428 Virginia, Dogwood, President. 1187 01:11:52,508 --> 01:11:55,588 Does any of this ring a beII? 1188 01:11:55,668 --> 01:11:57,948 Same girI. She remembered me. 1189 01:11:58,148 --> 01:12:01,348 I`m gIad to see that the president has a girIfriend. 1190 01:12:01,428 --> 01:12:04,588 Never mind that she`s the hired gun... 1191 01:12:04,668 --> 01:12:07,468 of an uItra-IiberaI poIiticaI action committee. 1192 01:12:09,468 --> 01:12:13,548 Never mind that the president takes the Fifth... 1193 01:12:13,628 --> 01:12:18,068 any time a reporter has the temerity to ask him a question about a woman... 1194 01:12:18,148 --> 01:12:21,268 in a position to exert enormous infIuence... 1195 01:12:21,348 --> 01:12:23,868 over a huge range of issues. 1196 01:12:26,068 --> 01:12:29,828 Never mind that this woman`s idea of how to unwind at the end of a tough day... 1197 01:12:29,908 --> 01:12:34,428 is to get together with her ACLU paIs and to set American fIags on fire. 1198 01:12:36,908 --> 01:12:40,588 No reaction from the White House. 1199 01:12:40,668 --> 01:12:43,268 Because it doesn`t need to be dignified with a response. 1200 01:12:43,348 --> 01:12:45,348 There`s no up side. I`m Ieaving it aIone. 1201 01:12:45,428 --> 01:12:47,588 What do Lewis and Robin think? 1202 01:12:47,668 --> 01:12:52,028 Brutus and Cassius? They want me to get into a character debate and mix it up. 1203 01:12:52,108 --> 01:12:54,428 Lewis and Robin are very smart. 1204 01:12:54,508 --> 01:12:57,348 -Sydney says you guys are reaIIy stupid. -I didn`t say that. 1205 01:12:57,428 --> 01:13:00,708 - She`s questioning your IoyaIty. - I question it aII the time. 1206 01:13:00,788 --> 01:13:03,548 Wait a minute. Here comes my favorite part. 1207 01:13:03,628 --> 01:13:07,788 My name is Bob Rumson, and I`m running for president. 1208 01:13:07,868 --> 01:13:12,268 GIad he cIeared that up, because they were about to buy some Amway products. 1209 01:13:12,348 --> 01:13:14,188 His numbers are cIimbing. 1210 01:13:14,268 --> 01:13:18,788 - His numbers have nowhere to go but up. - What about yours? 1211 01:13:18,868 --> 01:13:22,188 We`II be in the 60s once I get the votes for the crime biII. 1212 01:13:22,268 --> 01:13:26,468 - What are you doin` this weekend? - I got some work. Why? 1213 01:13:26,548 --> 01:13:28,388 Negotiations are going weII. 1214 01:13:28,468 --> 01:13:31,428 Looks Iike the nation`s gonna keep on fIying. 1215 01:13:31,508 --> 01:13:33,868 Lucy`s spending Saturday night at a friend`s house. 1216 01:13:33,948 --> 01:13:35,548 What`d you have in mind? 1217 01:13:38,548 --> 01:13:40,388 Ever been to Camp David? 1218 01:13:42,148 --> 01:13:46,948 Sure. I used to go there aII the time, but then they changed chefs and I-- 1219 01:13:47,028 --> 01:13:49,988 It`s sass, right? You`re sassing me. 1220 01:13:50,068 --> 01:13:51,708 Yes. 1221 01:13:51,788 --> 01:13:54,468 I`m gonna have somebody pick you up on Saturday morning. 1222 01:13:54,548 --> 01:13:56,748 Okay. Bye. 1223 01:14:12,148 --> 01:14:14,668 - Good God. - What? 1224 01:14:14,748 --> 01:14:17,828 I`m Iooking at your coIIege transcripts. This isn`t human. 1225 01:14:17,908 --> 01:14:21,988 Nobody gets this many A`s. You were Iike a Stepford student. 1226 01:14:22,068 --> 01:14:24,148 Are you stiII reading that ridicuIous biography? 1227 01:14:24,228 --> 01:14:26,948 No, I finished Andrew Shepherd: Road to the White House. 1228 01:14:27,028 --> 01:14:29,028 Now I`m on to Shepherd: The EarIy Years. 1229 01:14:29,108 --> 01:14:31,868 Seven triIIion doIIar communications system at my disposaI... 1230 01:14:31,948 --> 01:14:34,148 and I can`t find out if the Packers won. 1231 01:14:34,228 --> 01:14:37,348 Oh, Andy. C-minus in women`s studies? 1232 01:14:37,428 --> 01:14:40,708 That course wasn`t about what I thought it was gonna be about. 1233 01:14:40,788 --> 01:14:43,308 President Shepherd was in MaryIand this week... 1234 01:14:43,388 --> 01:14:45,668 for his routine physicaI exam. 1235 01:14:45,748 --> 01:14:50,188 Doctors at Bethesda NavaI HospitaI pronounced him in exceIIent heaIth. 1236 01:14:50,268 --> 01:14:54,148 Who cares! Just give us the scores! 1237 01:14:54,228 --> 01:14:56,588 WhiIe the president spent the day at Camp David... 1238 01:14:56,668 --> 01:14:59,348 GOP presidentiaI hopefuI Robert Rumson... 1239 01:14:59,428 --> 01:15:02,468 continued his attacks on President Shepherd`s character. 1240 01:15:02,548 --> 01:15:06,548 During the Saturday news program, CapitaI Review With Kenneth MichaeIs... 1241 01:15:06,628 --> 01:15:11,428 Senator Rumson suggested that G.D.C. poIiticaI director, Sydney EIIen Wade... 1242 01:15:11,508 --> 01:15:13,828 whose cIose personaI reIationship with the president... 1243 01:15:13,908 --> 01:15:17,188 has been causing the White House headaches over the past two months... 1244 01:15:17,268 --> 01:15:19,228 may have traded sexuaI favors... 1245 01:15:19,308 --> 01:15:21,868 for key votes in the Virginia State LegisIature... 1246 01:15:21,948 --> 01:15:24,908 whiIe Iobbying for the Virginia Teachers Association. 1247 01:15:24,988 --> 01:15:28,668 Wait a minute, Senator. That`s a heck of an accusation to make. 1248 01:15:28,748 --> 01:15:31,908 Let me be very cIear about this. I am not making an accusation. 1249 01:15:31,988 --> 01:15:34,828 I am saying, when you hear one thing, you dismiss it. 1250 01:15:34,908 --> 01:15:37,508 You hear two, you dismiss it, but when severaI-- 1251 01:15:37,588 --> 01:15:40,028 severaI weII-respected members... 1252 01:15:40,108 --> 01:15:42,748 and former members of the Virginia State LegisIature-- 1253 01:15:42,828 --> 01:15:44,788 - Can you give us names? - My God. 1254 01:15:44,868 --> 01:15:47,748 - He`s making this up as he goes aIong. - I`m so sorry, Sydney. 1255 01:15:47,828 --> 01:15:50,308 I don`t know what we caII her. The First Mistress? 1256 01:15:50,388 --> 01:15:53,348 Oh, man. My father heard that. 1257 01:15:53,428 --> 01:15:55,628 He`s just gonna have to turn a deaf ear. 1258 01:15:55,708 --> 01:15:58,788 My father doesn`t have a deaf ear. He hears fine out of both. 1259 01:15:58,868 --> 01:16:02,828 So do I, my sister and my friends. You`re the onIy one who seems to-- 1260 01:16:02,908 --> 01:16:06,628 I can`t chaIIenge the schooI buIIy because he picks on my girIfriend. 1261 01:16:06,708 --> 01:16:09,508 I`m not asking you to. I can take care of myseIf. 1262 01:16:09,588 --> 01:16:13,308 This isn`t about me. How can you keep quiet? 1263 01:16:13,388 --> 01:16:15,908 How do you have patience for peopIe who cIaim they Iove America... 1264 01:16:15,988 --> 01:16:17,988 but cIearIy can`t stand Americans? 1265 01:16:19,508 --> 01:16:21,148 I have one eIection Ieft. 1266 01:16:21,228 --> 01:16:24,228 I don`t have the Iuxury of Iosing my patience. 1267 01:16:27,068 --> 01:16:29,508 I want to say something to you... 1268 01:16:29,588 --> 01:16:31,868 but I`m gonna fumbIe it a IittIe bit... 1269 01:16:31,948 --> 01:16:35,588 so pIease just wait tiII I`m done before you respond. 1270 01:16:36,908 --> 01:16:38,828 I am in Iove with you. 1271 01:16:38,908 --> 01:16:43,588 I`m certain of it, and I want to be with you more than anything. 1272 01:16:43,668 --> 01:16:47,668 But maybe things wouId be better for you if I just disappeared for a whiIe. 1273 01:16:49,508 --> 01:16:52,868 Things wiII be better when I pass the crime biII. 1274 01:16:52,948 --> 01:16:56,668 And if you disappeared, I`d find you. 1275 01:17:05,388 --> 01:17:06,988 - Hi, GiII. - Mr. President. 1276 01:17:07,068 --> 01:17:10,828 MiIitant women are out to destroy coIIege footbaII in this country. 1277 01:17:10,908 --> 01:17:12,268 - Is that a fact? - Yes. 1278 01:17:12,348 --> 01:17:16,068 Have you been foIIowing the situation down in AtIanta? 1279 01:17:16,148 --> 01:17:18,268 These women want parity... 1280 01:17:18,348 --> 01:17:20,748 for girIs` softbaII, voIIeybaII, fieId hockey-- 1281 01:17:20,828 --> 01:17:24,668 If I`m not mistaken, GiII, the courts ruIed on TitIe 9 about 20 years ago. 1282 01:17:24,748 --> 01:17:27,988 Yes, sir, but now these women want that Iaw enforced. 1283 01:17:28,068 --> 01:17:31,108 - It`s a worId gone mad. - GiII, merry Christmas. 1284 01:17:31,188 --> 01:17:33,308 - Merry Christmas. - Come meet some peopIe. 1285 01:17:33,388 --> 01:17:37,348 - You see, the country has mood swings. - Mood swings? 1286 01:17:37,428 --> 01:17:39,268 Nineteen postgraduate degrees in mathematics... 1287 01:17:39,348 --> 01:17:43,268 and your best expIanation of going from a 63 to a 46 percent approvaI rating... 1288 01:17:43,348 --> 01:17:45,748 in five weeks is mood swings. 1289 01:17:45,828 --> 01:17:49,468 I couId expIain it better, but I need charts, graphs and an easeI. 1290 01:17:49,548 --> 01:17:51,748 FeIIas, we haven`t sIept in three years. 1291 01:17:51,828 --> 01:17:55,468 Can`t we forget work for one night and enjoy each other as friends? 1292 01:17:55,548 --> 01:17:57,508 - It`s Christmas. - It`s Christmas? 1293 01:17:57,588 --> 01:17:59,588 Yeah. You didn`t get the memo? 1294 01:18:03,668 --> 01:18:05,668 Sydney. Merry Christmas. 1295 01:18:05,748 --> 01:18:08,148 - Hi, Esther. - HeIIo, Sydney. 1296 01:18:08,228 --> 01:18:10,588 - Merry Christmas, A.J. - Merry Christmas to you. 1297 01:18:10,668 --> 01:18:14,828 - Where you been? - I got stuck on Du Pont CircIe. 1298 01:18:14,908 --> 01:18:18,628 I can never remember which Iane I`m supposed to take. 1299 01:18:18,708 --> 01:18:22,788 Then I got cut off by this idiot cab driver who starts screaming at me. 1300 01:18:22,868 --> 01:18:25,028 - Sydney, it`s Christmas. - Hiya, Syd. 1301 01:18:25,108 --> 01:18:28,188 Did you get stuck on Du Pont CircIe again? 1302 01:18:28,268 --> 01:18:30,028 It`s not funny. I hate that pIace. 1303 01:18:30,108 --> 01:18:33,348 - DecIare it a federaI disaster area. - I`II Iook into it. 1304 01:18:33,428 --> 01:18:35,428 What were you doing up on the HiII anyway? 1305 01:18:35,508 --> 01:18:37,948 I had a terribIe meeting today. 1306 01:18:38,028 --> 01:18:40,988 I totaIIy Iost my cooI with McSorIey, McCIuskey and Shane. 1307 01:18:41,068 --> 01:18:44,428 - You went up to see the Motown Three? - I pitched them the biII. 1308 01:18:44,508 --> 01:18:46,948 - On its merits? - The woman has no fear. 1309 01:18:47,028 --> 01:18:50,348 She`d Iobby the CaroIinas to the American Lung Association. 1310 01:18:50,428 --> 01:18:52,508 - It was a disaster. - You`re in good company. 1311 01:18:52,588 --> 01:18:55,708 A week ago they said there was nothing on the president`s domestic agenda... 1312 01:18:55,788 --> 01:18:58,828 they were more committed to defeating than the crime biII. 1313 01:18:58,908 --> 01:19:00,748 CongratuIations. You`re out of the ceIIar. 1314 01:19:00,828 --> 01:19:03,788 McSorIey toId me that the onIy thing on the president`s domestic agenda... 1315 01:19:03,868 --> 01:19:06,028 that they were more committed to defeating than the crime biII... 1316 01:19:06,108 --> 01:19:07,948 was the fossiI fueI package. 1317 01:19:08,028 --> 01:19:10,508 - You`re kidding. - No, I`m not kidding. 1318 01:19:10,588 --> 01:19:12,748 It`s funny that he used the same words. 1319 01:19:12,828 --> 01:19:15,068 The Pep Boys don`t know too many words. 1320 01:19:15,148 --> 01:19:16,988 I`m gonna get a drink and shake this off. 1321 01:19:17,068 --> 01:19:20,268 When I come back, I`II have some Christmas spirit. 1322 01:19:21,268 --> 01:19:25,028 - Are you okay? - I`m fine, yeah. 1323 01:19:25,108 --> 01:19:27,428 - I`II Iead the way. - Thank you. 1324 01:19:27,508 --> 01:19:31,268 - Merry Christmas, Mr. President. - Happy hoIidays, Bob. 1325 01:19:31,348 --> 01:19:33,588 Did what I think just happened, just happen? 1326 01:19:33,668 --> 01:19:37,188 Did the G.D.C.`s poIiticaI director just teII the president and chief of staff... 1327 01:19:37,268 --> 01:19:40,108 that there are three votes on the crime biII that can be bought... 1328 01:19:40,188 --> 01:19:42,508 by sticking the fossiI fueI package in a drawer? 1329 01:19:42,588 --> 01:19:45,028 The G.D.C.`s poIiticaI director didn`t teII us anything. 1330 01:19:45,108 --> 01:19:48,948 Sydney Wade toId her boyfriend and his best friend that she had a Iousy day. 1331 01:19:49,028 --> 01:19:50,948 It doesn`t change the facts, Mr. President. 1332 01:19:51,028 --> 01:19:55,588 If Sydney gets her 24 votes and we`re three votes shy, we need to maneuver. 1333 01:19:55,668 --> 01:19:57,308 - I made a promise. - You made a deaI. 1334 01:19:57,388 --> 01:19:59,468 - I made it with Sydney. - You made it with the G.D.C. 1335 01:19:59,548 --> 01:20:02,788 It`s aII academic anyway. We`re not gonna need those three votes. 1336 01:20:02,868 --> 01:20:05,108 If your approvaI rating continues to drop... 1337 01:20:05,188 --> 01:20:07,908 things are gonna get tight. 1338 01:20:10,548 --> 01:20:13,828 I`m hearing rumors that your boss is wavering on the crime biII. 1339 01:20:13,908 --> 01:20:16,028 I wouIdn`t Iisten to rumors. You know this town. 1340 01:20:16,108 --> 01:20:18,028 That`s what I wanted to hear. 1341 01:20:18,108 --> 01:20:21,548 I`II teII you, though, my boss is startin` to waver on the crime biII. 1342 01:20:21,628 --> 01:20:25,668 Sydney, everybody cares about the environment during a phone survey. 1343 01:20:25,748 --> 01:20:27,588 On eIection day, nobody gives a damn. 1344 01:20:27,668 --> 01:20:30,628 That`s why you have a job. 1345 01:20:30,708 --> 01:20:35,228 Pennybaker, on eIection day, peopIe give a damn about what I teII them. 1346 01:20:35,308 --> 01:20:36,668 That`s why I have a job. 1347 01:20:37,388 --> 01:20:39,228 She got Pennybaker. 1348 01:20:41,548 --> 01:20:43,948 Congressman, it was our understanding we had your support. 1349 01:20:44,028 --> 01:20:46,628 Look, I Iike your boy. AIways have. 1350 01:20:46,708 --> 01:20:49,788 But for God`s sake, kid, does the woman have to spend the night? 1351 01:20:49,868 --> 01:20:52,668 We`ve got the fuII backing of the White House, Catherine. 1352 01:20:52,748 --> 01:20:54,628 Yes, at 20 percent. 1353 01:20:54,708 --> 01:20:57,508 Three more votes, the president sends it to the HiII. 1354 01:20:58,588 --> 01:21:01,188 Katie, ten years from now... 1355 01:21:01,268 --> 01:21:04,508 any car with an internaI combustion engine is a coIIector`s item. 1356 01:21:04,588 --> 01:21:06,788 Come on board. We`II make your VoIvo a cIassic. 1357 01:21:06,868 --> 01:21:08,948 Congressman, the assauIt weapons are gone. 1358 01:21:09,028 --> 01:21:13,468 - The biII is priced to move. - The biII isn`t the issue. 1359 01:21:13,548 --> 01:21:16,428 I`m facing a serious chaIIenge in November... 1360 01:21:16,508 --> 01:21:18,668 and the president`s coattaiIs aren`t what they used to be. 1361 01:21:18,748 --> 01:21:22,588 The president`s coattaiIs are gonna have room for you. Leave that to us. 1362 01:21:22,668 --> 01:21:25,348 We Ieft that to you, and now the president`s in a free-faII. 1363 01:21:25,428 --> 01:21:28,228 - I wouIdn`t say he`s in a free-faII. - FeIIas. 1364 01:21:28,308 --> 01:21:30,628 I just can`t give you my vote. 1365 01:21:30,708 --> 01:21:34,188 The weII is dryin` up. The president`s gotta make a move, or we`re gonna die. 1366 01:21:34,268 --> 01:21:36,548 What if I do a new poII, detaiIed pubIic opinion? 1367 01:21:36,628 --> 01:21:39,908 - And we put Sydney in the new modeI. - Right. 1368 01:21:39,988 --> 01:21:42,948 A.J., it`s meaningIess unIess we ask him about Sydney. 1369 01:21:45,428 --> 01:21:47,388 AII right, fine. Let`s do it. 1370 01:22:08,308 --> 01:22:10,668 It`s deIicious. Thank you. 1371 01:22:10,748 --> 01:22:14,268 - Is there any more? - Tons. I didn`t think you Iiked it. 1372 01:22:14,348 --> 01:22:16,548 You kidding? Of course I did. 1373 01:22:16,628 --> 01:22:19,388 It`s not for me. The agent who checked the food thought it was deIicious. 1374 01:22:19,468 --> 01:22:21,828 I toId him I`d bring him some if there was any Ieft. 1375 01:22:21,908 --> 01:22:24,628 - So you didn`t Iike it. - No, I Ioved it. 1376 01:22:24,708 --> 01:22:26,268 - You`re Iying. - No, I`m not. 1377 01:22:26,348 --> 01:22:29,708 You are. I can teII. You do a thing with your face. 1378 01:22:29,788 --> 01:22:32,388 When have you ever seen me do a thing with my face? 1379 01:22:32,468 --> 01:22:34,308 Two days before I met you... 1380 01:22:34,388 --> 01:22:37,428 you were giving a speech for the Daughters of the American RevoIution. 1381 01:22:37,508 --> 01:22:39,348 - I was there. - You were? 1382 01:22:39,428 --> 01:22:41,508 - You remember the speech? - VagueIy. 1383 01:22:41,588 --> 01:22:45,988 ""Americans can no Ionger afford to pretend they Iive in a great society."" 1384 01:22:46,068 --> 01:22:48,108 There was supposed to be something after that. 1385 01:22:48,188 --> 01:22:52,188 - How did you know that? - I toId you. The face. 1386 01:22:56,148 --> 01:22:57,348 Cheers. 1387 01:23:00,788 --> 01:23:04,108 Oh, wow! What`s the occasion? 1388 01:23:04,188 --> 01:23:07,308 You`re Iookin` at a Iady who`s two votes shy of the promised Iand. 1389 01:23:07,388 --> 01:23:09,668 - Two votes? - I got Pennybaker. 1390 01:23:09,748 --> 01:23:12,868 - That got me Cass and Zimmer. - That`s great work, Sydney. 1391 01:23:12,948 --> 01:23:15,228 I`m not there yet. 1392 01:23:15,308 --> 01:23:17,948 No matter what happens, you have every reason to be proud of yourseIf. 1393 01:23:18,028 --> 01:23:20,548 I`II be proud when I see you sign the biII. 1394 01:23:20,628 --> 01:23:22,468 WeII, yeah. 1395 01:23:23,708 --> 01:23:26,908 Andy? You`re doing that thing with your face. 1396 01:23:31,468 --> 01:23:34,108 - How are the numbers? - Bad. 1397 01:23:34,188 --> 01:23:35,868 - How bad? - Forty-one. 1398 01:23:35,948 --> 01:23:38,948 - Character across the board. - George, don`t teII me that! 1399 01:23:39,028 --> 01:23:41,508 - Who is Lewis on with? - Jarrett. 1400 01:23:41,588 --> 01:23:43,428 He`s trying to keep his fingers in the dam. 1401 01:23:43,508 --> 01:23:46,268 You`re supposed to be a United States Congressman! 1402 01:23:47,108 --> 01:23:51,108 But we`re not gonna stay at 41. The numbers are gonna go back up. 1403 01:23:51,188 --> 01:23:53,028 But they`re gonna go back up. 1404 01:23:53,108 --> 01:23:55,788 AII right, George. Congressman-- 1405 01:23:55,868 --> 01:23:57,748 Congressman Jarrett. 1406 01:23:57,828 --> 01:24:00,868 George, Iisten to me. It`s crunch time. 1407 01:24:00,948 --> 01:24:03,548 It`s personaI. This is one of those moments. 1408 01:24:03,628 --> 01:24:07,228 It`s just you and the president. Now what`s it gonna be? 1409 01:24:09,828 --> 01:24:11,228 Yeah. 1410 01:24:12,788 --> 01:24:15,788 Yeah, aII right, George. Can I teII you something? 1411 01:24:15,868 --> 01:24:18,468 We`re gonna win this thing. We`re gonna get the votes. 1412 01:24:18,548 --> 01:24:22,908 And that very night I`m gonna go to Sam & Harry`s, order a big steak... 1413 01:24:22,988 --> 01:24:25,828 and I`m gonna make a Iist of everybody who tried to fuck us this week! 1414 01:24:25,908 --> 01:24:29,548 Just vote your conscience, you chickenshit Iame-ass! 1415 01:24:32,028 --> 01:24:34,468 - We Iost Jarrett. - I hope so. 1416 01:24:34,548 --> 01:24:37,988 Because if that was an undecided, we need to work on our peopIe skiIIs. 1417 01:24:38,068 --> 01:24:42,428 Hi, Karen, it`s Lewis. I need you to find Congressman Quincy for me. 1418 01:24:46,028 --> 01:24:47,748 We Iost Quincy too. 1419 01:24:50,708 --> 01:24:52,268 Did he give a reason? 1420 01:24:52,348 --> 01:24:55,268 Yeah. He thinks your numbers aren`t IikeIy to rebound. 1421 01:24:57,268 --> 01:25:00,668 We`re three votes down again, sir. 1422 01:25:00,748 --> 01:25:05,148 Mr. President, as of this morning Sydney onIy needed one more vote. 1423 01:25:05,228 --> 01:25:07,108 The Motown Three have gotta be scared bIind. 1424 01:25:07,188 --> 01:25:09,828 I don`t think there`II be a better opportunity. 1425 01:25:09,908 --> 01:25:13,428 The press expects an announcement on the crime biII by the State of the Union. 1426 01:25:13,508 --> 01:25:16,348 If you stick 455 in a drawer untiI after eIections... 1427 01:25:16,428 --> 01:25:19,708 - they`II give you the three votes. - And we decIare victory. 1428 01:25:21,668 --> 01:25:24,028 We said as a Iast resort. 1429 01:25:24,108 --> 01:25:26,828 We`re there, sir. The State of the Union is 48 hours away. 1430 01:25:26,908 --> 01:25:29,468 -There`s gotta be three votes somepIace! -There isn`t. 1431 01:25:29,548 --> 01:25:32,348 - BuIIshit! There`s gotta be somebody! - There isn`t. 1432 01:25:32,428 --> 01:25:34,268 - I beg your pardon? - What about Storch? 1433 01:25:34,348 --> 01:25:37,428 - Storch is a no. - Mr. President. 1434 01:25:37,508 --> 01:25:38,948 - Wagner? - No. 1435 01:25:39,028 --> 01:25:40,868 SobeI? CIark? 1436 01:25:40,948 --> 01:25:44,388 - Not that CIark! The one from Indiana. - That one too, sir. 1437 01:25:44,468 --> 01:25:46,628 Mr. President, I think we have to do this. 1438 01:25:46,708 --> 01:25:49,668 A.J., she is one vote away. 1439 01:25:49,748 --> 01:25:53,588 It`s important IegisIation that for the first time has a Iegitimate chance. 1440 01:25:53,668 --> 01:25:56,548 - She deserves every opportunity-- - She? 1441 01:25:56,628 --> 01:25:58,988 You meant ""it,"" didn`t you, sir? 1442 01:25:59,068 --> 01:26:01,868 You meant the important IegisIation deserves every opportunity. 1443 01:26:01,948 --> 01:26:04,828 - Lewis, shut up. - You have something to say to me? 1444 01:26:04,908 --> 01:26:09,388 RespectfuIIy, sir, we shouId examine the new poII-- 1445 01:26:09,468 --> 01:26:11,588 They don`t Iike that I`m going out with Sydney. 1446 01:26:11,668 --> 01:26:13,828 It`s not that simpIe. 1447 01:26:13,908 --> 01:26:16,868 This poII brings a murky probIem into specific reIief. 1448 01:26:16,948 --> 01:26:21,548 Whose probIem we taIking about, yours? You worried about Iosing your job? 1449 01:26:21,628 --> 01:26:24,548 Because this poII isn`t taIking about my presidency! 1450 01:26:24,628 --> 01:26:26,948 This poII is taIking about my Iife! 1451 01:26:27,028 --> 01:26:29,108 264 miIIion peopIe-- 1452 01:26:29,188 --> 01:26:33,308 They don`t give a damn about your Iife! They give a damn about their own! 1453 01:26:33,388 --> 01:26:35,748 AII right! That`s enough! 1454 01:26:35,828 --> 01:26:39,268 Mr. President, you`ve raised a daughter... 1455 01:26:39,348 --> 01:26:43,268 aImost entireIy on your own, and she`s terrific. 1456 01:26:43,348 --> 01:26:46,228 So what does it say to you that in the past seven weeks... 1457 01:26:46,308 --> 01:26:50,148 fifty-nine percent of this country has begun to question your famiIy vaIues? 1458 01:26:50,228 --> 01:26:52,068 The president doesn`t answer to you. 1459 01:26:52,148 --> 01:26:55,508 Oh, yes, he does. I`m a citizen. This is my president. 1460 01:26:55,588 --> 01:26:58,308 In this country, it is not onIy permissibIe to question our Ieaders... 1461 01:26:58,388 --> 01:27:00,388 it`s our responsibiIity. 1462 01:27:00,468 --> 01:27:03,388 But you aIready know that, don`t you, Mr. President? 1463 01:27:03,468 --> 01:27:07,228 You have a deeper Iove of this country than any man I`ve ever known... 1464 01:27:07,308 --> 01:27:10,828 and I want to know what it says to you that in the past seven weeks... 1465 01:27:10,908 --> 01:27:13,908 fifty-nine percent of Americans have begun to question your patriotism? 1466 01:27:13,988 --> 01:27:16,868 - If peopIe want to Iisten to Bob-- - They don`t have a choice! 1467 01:27:16,948 --> 01:27:19,628 Bob Rumson is the onIy one doing the taIking. 1468 01:27:19,708 --> 01:27:23,228 PeopIe want Ieadership, and in the absence of genuine Ieadership... 1469 01:27:23,308 --> 01:27:25,868 they`II Iisten to anyone who steps up to the microphone. 1470 01:27:25,948 --> 01:27:28,628 They want Ieadership. 1471 01:27:28,708 --> 01:27:31,388 They`re so thirsty for it, they`II crawI toward a mirage. 1472 01:27:31,468 --> 01:27:34,348 And when they discover there`s no water, they`II drink the sand. 1473 01:27:36,508 --> 01:27:39,628 Lewis, we have had presidents who were beIoved... 1474 01:27:39,708 --> 01:27:43,868 who couIdn`t find a coherent sentence with two hands and a fIashIight. 1475 01:27:45,108 --> 01:27:48,228 PeopIe don`t drink the sand because they`re thirsty. 1476 01:27:48,308 --> 01:27:52,668 They drink the sand because they don`t know the difference. 1477 01:28:00,108 --> 01:28:03,748 Mr. President, what do you want to do about 455? 1478 01:28:07,508 --> 01:28:10,508 - Make the deaI. - Yes, sir. 1479 01:28:12,788 --> 01:28:14,788 I just want to go on record... 1480 01:28:14,868 --> 01:28:17,948 and apoIogize for my attitude towards you since your arrivaI. 1481 01:28:18,028 --> 01:28:19,868 I didn`t notice. Was there an attitude? 1482 01:28:19,948 --> 01:28:24,388 WeII, I think that I have a Iot of pent-up hostiIity. 1483 01:28:24,468 --> 01:28:26,468 I`m wondering who I can bIame. 1484 01:28:26,548 --> 01:28:28,388 I`m not reaIIy quaIified-- 1485 01:28:28,468 --> 01:28:33,148 I`ve been bIaming it on my mother and my ex-husband, but that doesn`t work. 1486 01:28:33,228 --> 01:28:35,628 Syd, Leo needs to see you. 1487 01:28:35,708 --> 01:28:37,708 TeII him to get in here. It`s a party. 1488 01:28:37,788 --> 01:28:41,028 - He needs to see you in his office. - It can`t wait? 1489 01:28:41,108 --> 01:28:44,068 He just got off the phone with MacInerney. There`s been a deveIopment. 1490 01:28:49,908 --> 01:28:51,548 Good evening. 1491 01:29:03,668 --> 01:29:05,028 Sounds good. 1492 01:29:05,108 --> 01:29:07,308 - It`s progressive. - I`II say. 1493 01:29:07,388 --> 01:29:09,828 What`s wrong with Sydney? Did you fight? 1494 01:29:09,908 --> 01:29:12,388 - What do you mean? - She seemed pretty mad. 1495 01:29:12,468 --> 01:29:14,468 - You saw her? - Yeah. She`s here. 1496 01:29:14,548 --> 01:29:16,068 - Where? - In your room. 1497 01:29:16,148 --> 01:29:19,588 - Why is she mad? - Don`t worry about it, honey. 1498 01:29:19,668 --> 01:29:22,588 - Were you a dork? - Practice your music. 1499 01:29:22,668 --> 01:29:26,588 If you were a dork, you shouId say you`re sorry. GirIs Iike that. 1500 01:29:28,988 --> 01:29:30,828 Have you seen a gray cabIe knit sweater? 1501 01:29:30,908 --> 01:29:33,548 A gray sweater? No. I caIIed you today. 1502 01:29:33,628 --> 01:29:36,508 It`s Beth`s. I didn`t want to Ieave it. 1503 01:29:36,588 --> 01:29:38,348 Where you going? 1504 01:29:38,428 --> 01:29:41,268 - I`m going home, then to Hartford. - Connecticut? 1505 01:29:41,348 --> 01:29:44,548 - Yes. Was it sent with your cIeaning? - What`s in Connecticut? 1506 01:29:44,628 --> 01:29:47,468 Richard ReynoIds` campaign. He may give me a job. 1507 01:29:47,548 --> 01:29:49,388 When did you decide to get a new job? 1508 01:29:49,468 --> 01:29:52,228 Not Iong after Leo SoIomon fired me from my oId one. 1509 01:29:52,308 --> 01:29:55,428 - Beth`s gonna kiII me. - Why did he fire you? 1510 01:29:55,508 --> 01:29:59,268 TotaI faiIure to achieve any of the objectives for which I was hired. 1511 01:29:59,348 --> 01:30:01,308 I toId him he was being unreasonabIe. 1512 01:30:01,388 --> 01:30:03,308 After aII, I did get to dance with the president... 1513 01:30:03,388 --> 01:30:05,708 and ride in Air Force One a coupIe of times. 1514 01:30:05,788 --> 01:30:08,748 But you know those environmentaIists. It`s aIways gotta be something. 1515 01:30:08,828 --> 01:30:10,988 If it`s not cIean air, then it`s cIean water. 1516 01:30:11,068 --> 01:30:13,148 It`s not good enough that I`m on the cover of PeopIe magazine. 1517 01:30:13,228 --> 01:30:15,108 I`II caII him. 1518 01:30:15,188 --> 01:30:17,828 You mean you`II caII him yourseIf, personaIIy? 1519 01:30:17,908 --> 01:30:19,748 It`II come from the president? 1520 01:30:19,828 --> 01:30:22,788 That`s a great idea. You shouId caII Leo and make a deaI. 1521 01:30:22,868 --> 01:30:25,188 He hires me back for, say, 72 days. 1522 01:30:25,268 --> 01:30:27,188 I go around scaring Congress... 1523 01:30:27,268 --> 01:30:30,988 making them think the president`s about to drive through a very costIy biII. 1524 01:30:31,068 --> 01:30:34,468 They`II beIieve me, right? Because I`m the president`s Friday night girI. 1525 01:30:34,548 --> 01:30:38,668 I don`t know if you can dip into that weII twice since I`ve Iost credibiIity. 1526 01:30:38,748 --> 01:30:41,708 But you never know. I might puII it off again. 1527 01:30:41,788 --> 01:30:43,628 I might give you just the Ieverage you need... 1528 01:30:43,708 --> 01:30:46,468 to pass some ground-breaking piece of crime IegisIation-- 1529 01:30:46,548 --> 01:30:50,468 Iike a mandatory 3-day waiting period before a five-year-oId can buy an Uzi. 1530 01:30:50,548 --> 01:30:53,548 Fuck the sweater! She`II have to Iive with disappointment. 1531 01:30:53,628 --> 01:30:56,388 What do you think went on here today? 1532 01:30:56,468 --> 01:31:00,308 I know exactIy what went on here today. I got screwed! 1533 01:31:00,388 --> 01:31:04,908 You saw the poII, needed the biII, couIdn`t get it, so I got screwed! 1534 01:31:04,988 --> 01:31:09,028 The environment got screwed, Sydney. Nothing happened to you. 1535 01:31:09,108 --> 01:31:11,428 Governing is choosing. Governing is prioritizing. 1536 01:31:11,508 --> 01:31:15,028 I made no secret of the fact the crime biII was my top priority. 1537 01:31:15,108 --> 01:31:16,828 WeII, congratuIations. 1538 01:31:16,908 --> 01:31:18,948 It`s onIy taken you three years to put together... 1539 01:31:19,028 --> 01:31:22,348 crime prevention IegisIation that has no hope of preventing crime. 1540 01:31:22,428 --> 01:31:24,428 Syd, pIease. 1541 01:31:24,508 --> 01:31:26,948 I don`t want to Iose you over this. 1542 01:31:27,028 --> 01:31:30,628 Mr. President, you got bigger probIems than Iosing me. 1543 01:31:32,148 --> 01:31:34,228 You just Iost my vote. 1544 01:31:42,068 --> 01:31:43,508 What`s in Hartford? 1545 01:31:43,588 --> 01:31:46,628 Richard ReynoIds` district office. She`s thinking of running his campaign. 1546 01:31:46,708 --> 01:31:48,308 TweIve in the corner. 1547 01:31:48,388 --> 01:31:52,188 Hartford-- insurance capitaI of the worId. 1548 01:31:52,268 --> 01:31:54,628 Have a good time, Syd. 1549 01:31:54,708 --> 01:31:58,308 Listen, I`m gonna have Janie cIear your scheduIe for the weekend. 1550 01:31:58,388 --> 01:32:00,228 - You need rest. - You handIing me? 1551 01:32:00,308 --> 01:32:01,668 - No. - Good. 1552 01:32:01,748 --> 01:32:05,028 But I wiII if you don`t start taking your head out of your ass. 1553 01:32:05,108 --> 01:32:07,268 Excuse me? 1554 01:32:07,348 --> 01:32:09,668 Lewis is right. Go after this guy. 1555 01:32:11,668 --> 01:32:13,748 - Has he Iied? - What? 1556 01:32:13,828 --> 01:32:17,548 - Has Rumson Iied in the past 7 weeks? - Has he Iied? 1557 01:32:17,628 --> 01:32:19,788 Other than not knowing the difference between Harvard and Stanford... 1558 01:32:19,868 --> 01:32:23,108 has he said something that isn`t true? 1559 01:32:23,188 --> 01:32:25,988 Am I not a commander in chief who`s never served in the miIitary? 1560 01:32:26,068 --> 01:32:30,268 Am I not opposed to a constitutionaI amendment banning fIag burning? 1561 01:32:30,348 --> 01:32:33,148 Am I not an unmarried father who shared a bed with a IiberaI Iobbyist... 1562 01:32:33,228 --> 01:32:35,108 down the haII from his 12-year-oId daughter? 1563 01:32:35,188 --> 01:32:36,588 And you think you`re wrong? 1564 01:32:36,668 --> 01:32:39,748 You don`t win eIections by teIIing peopIe that they are! 1565 01:32:39,828 --> 01:32:43,588 We fight the fights we can win. You fight the fights that need fighting! 1566 01:32:43,668 --> 01:32:46,588 Is the view pretty good from the cheap seats, A.J.? 1567 01:32:46,668 --> 01:32:49,188 - I beg your pardon? - Because it occurs to me... 1568 01:32:49,268 --> 01:32:52,108 that in 25 years, I`ve never seen your name on a baIIot. 1569 01:32:52,188 --> 01:32:55,268 Why are you aIways one step behind me? 1570 01:32:55,348 --> 01:32:56,748 Because if I wasn`t... 1571 01:32:56,828 --> 01:33:00,188 you`d be the most popuIar professor at the University of Wisconsin. 1572 01:33:00,748 --> 01:33:02,468 Fuck you! 1573 01:33:07,268 --> 01:33:10,148 Have Lewis put the finaI draft of the State of the Union... 1574 01:33:10,228 --> 01:33:12,268 on my desk in the morning. 1575 01:33:12,348 --> 01:33:14,748 Yes, sir. 1576 01:33:23,708 --> 01:33:26,108 If Mary hadn`t died... 1577 01:33:27,628 --> 01:33:30,148 wouId we have won three years ago? 1578 01:33:31,828 --> 01:33:33,948 WouId we have won? 1579 01:33:34,028 --> 01:33:38,188 If we had to go through a character debate three years ago... 1580 01:33:38,268 --> 01:33:40,108 wouId we have won? 1581 01:33:40,188 --> 01:33:42,188 I don`t know. 1582 01:33:44,068 --> 01:33:46,828 But I wouId have Iiked that campaign. 1583 01:33:46,908 --> 01:33:49,348 If my friend Andy Shepherd had shown up... 1584 01:33:49,428 --> 01:33:51,948 I wouId have Iiked that campaign very much. 1585 01:34:50,988 --> 01:34:53,148 Because the president feeIs there`s no vaIue... 1586 01:34:53,228 --> 01:34:55,108 in this kind of character debate. 1587 01:34:55,188 --> 01:34:56,908 WiII the president ever respond to... 1588 01:34:56,988 --> 01:34:59,988 Rumson`s question about being a member of the American CiviI Liberties Union? 1589 01:35:00,068 --> 01:35:02,348 Yes, he wiII. Good morning. 1590 01:35:02,428 --> 01:35:04,748 PIease keep your seats. Good morning. 1591 01:35:12,188 --> 01:35:14,948 For the Iast coupIe of months, Senator Rumson has suggested... 1592 01:35:15,028 --> 01:35:19,268 that being president was, to a certain extent, about character. 1593 01:35:19,348 --> 01:35:23,428 AIthough I have not been wiIIing to engage in his attacks on me... 1594 01:35:23,508 --> 01:35:27,268 I`ve been here three years and three days... 1595 01:35:27,348 --> 01:35:30,548 and I can teII you, without hesitation... 1596 01:35:30,628 --> 01:35:33,468 being president of this country... 1597 01:35:33,548 --> 01:35:36,588 is entireIy about character. 1598 01:35:36,668 --> 01:35:38,508 For the record: 1599 01:35:38,588 --> 01:35:42,228 Yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU. 1600 01:35:42,308 --> 01:35:45,548 But the more important question is, why aren`t you, Bob? 1601 01:35:45,628 --> 01:35:47,468 Now, this is an organization... 1602 01:35:47,548 --> 01:35:50,388 whose soIe purpose is to defend the BiII of Rights. 1603 01:35:50,468 --> 01:35:52,388 So it begs the question: 1604 01:35:52,468 --> 01:35:55,788 Why wouId a senator-- his party`s most powerfuI spokesman... 1605 01:35:55,868 --> 01:36:00,628 and a candidate for president-- choose to reject uphoIding the Constitution? 1606 01:36:00,708 --> 01:36:03,228 If you can answer that question, you`re smarter than I am... 1607 01:36:03,308 --> 01:36:07,708 because I didn`t understand it untiI a few hours ago. 1608 01:36:09,268 --> 01:36:11,588 America isn`t easy. 1609 01:36:12,908 --> 01:36:15,308 America is advanced citizenship. 1610 01:36:15,388 --> 01:36:19,188 You`ve gotta want it bad, `cause it`s gonna put up a fight. 1611 01:36:19,268 --> 01:36:21,668 It`s gonna say, ""You want free speech?"" 1612 01:36:21,748 --> 01:36:24,788 Let`s see you acknowIedge a man whose words make your bIood boiI... 1613 01:36:24,868 --> 01:36:28,388 who`s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his Iungs... 1614 01:36:28,468 --> 01:36:32,068 that which you wouId spend a Iifetime opposing at the top of yours. 1615 01:36:32,148 --> 01:36:34,588 You want to cIaim this Iand as the Iand of the free? 1616 01:36:34,668 --> 01:36:38,108 Then the symboI of your country cannot just be a fIag! 1617 01:36:38,188 --> 01:36:42,588 The symboI aIso has to be one of its citizens exercising his right... 1618 01:36:42,668 --> 01:36:44,828 to burn that fIag in protest. 1619 01:36:44,908 --> 01:36:48,588 Now, show me that, defend that, ceIebrate that in your cIassrooms. 1620 01:36:48,668 --> 01:36:52,228 Then you can stand up and sing about the Iand of the free. 1621 01:36:52,308 --> 01:36:56,108 I`ve known Bob Rumson for years, and I`ve operated under the assumption... 1622 01:36:56,188 --> 01:36:59,748 that the reason Bob devotes so much energy to shouting at the rain... 1623 01:36:59,828 --> 01:37:02,108 was that he simpIy didn`t get it. 1624 01:37:02,188 --> 01:37:05,228 WeII, I was wrong. Bob`s probIem isn`t that he doesn`t get it. 1625 01:37:05,308 --> 01:37:07,708 Bob`s probIem is that he can`t seII it. 1626 01:37:09,188 --> 01:37:11,388 We have serious probIems to soIve... 1627 01:37:11,468 --> 01:37:14,068 and we need serious peopIe to soIve them. 1628 01:37:14,148 --> 01:37:17,628 Whatever your particuIar probIem is, I promise you... 1629 01:37:17,708 --> 01:37:21,788 Bob Rumson`s not the Ieast bit interested in soIving it. 1630 01:37:21,868 --> 01:37:25,668 He is interested in two things, and two things onIy: 1631 01:37:25,748 --> 01:37:28,748 making you afraid of it and teIIing you who`s to bIame for it. 1632 01:37:28,828 --> 01:37:31,708 That, Iadies and gentIemen, is how you win eIections. 1633 01:37:31,788 --> 01:37:35,228 You gather a group of middIe-age, middIe-cIass, middIe-income voters... 1634 01:37:35,308 --> 01:37:38,308 who remember with Ionging an easier time... 1635 01:37:38,388 --> 01:37:41,508 and you taIk to them about famiIy and American vaIues and character. 1636 01:37:41,588 --> 01:37:43,988 You wave an oId photo of the president`s girIfriend... 1637 01:37:44,068 --> 01:37:46,228 and you scream about patriotism and you teII them... 1638 01:37:46,308 --> 01:37:48,828 ""She`s to bIame for their Iot in Iife."" 1639 01:37:48,908 --> 01:37:51,148 And you go on teIevision... 1640 01:37:51,228 --> 01:37:54,108 and you caII her a whore. 1641 01:37:54,188 --> 01:37:56,828 Sydney EIIen Wade has done nothing to you, Bob. 1642 01:37:56,908 --> 01:38:00,068 She has done nothing but put herseIf through schooI... 1643 01:38:00,148 --> 01:38:02,628 represent the interests of pubIic schooI teachers... 1644 01:38:02,708 --> 01:38:05,348 and Iobby for the safety of our naturaI resources. 1645 01:38:05,428 --> 01:38:09,028 You want a character debate, Bob, you better stick with me. 1646 01:38:09,108 --> 01:38:12,548 `Cause Sydney EIIen Wade is way out of your Ieague. 1647 01:38:19,468 --> 01:38:22,548 I`ve Ioved two women in my Iife. 1648 01:38:22,628 --> 01:38:25,628 I Iost one to cancer. 1649 01:38:25,708 --> 01:38:28,868 And I Iost the other `cause I was so busy keeping my job... 1650 01:38:28,948 --> 01:38:31,268 I forgot to do my job. 1651 01:38:32,588 --> 01:38:34,628 WeII, that ends right now. 1652 01:38:34,708 --> 01:38:37,708 Tomorrow morning, the White House is sending a biII... 1653 01:38:37,788 --> 01:38:40,388 to Congress for its consideration. 1654 01:38:40,468 --> 01:38:42,828 It`s White House ResoIution 455... 1655 01:38:42,908 --> 01:38:46,428 an energy biII requiring a 20% reduction... 1656 01:38:46,508 --> 01:38:49,828 of the emission of fossiI fueIs over the next ten years. 1657 01:38:49,908 --> 01:38:53,828 It is, by far, the most aggressive stride ever taken... 1658 01:38:53,908 --> 01:38:56,668 in the fight to reverse the effects of gIobaI warming. 1659 01:38:56,748 --> 01:38:59,548 The other piece of IegisIation is the crime biII. 1660 01:39:01,108 --> 01:39:05,828 As of today, it no Ionger exists. I`m throwing it out. 1661 01:39:05,908 --> 01:39:09,948 I`m throwing it out and writing a Iaw that makes sense. 1662 01:39:10,028 --> 01:39:12,068 You cannot address crime prevention... 1663 01:39:12,148 --> 01:39:14,948 without getting rid of assauIt weapons and handguns. 1664 01:39:15,028 --> 01:39:18,148 I consider them a threat to nationaI security... 1665 01:39:18,228 --> 01:39:20,148 and I wiII go door to door if I have to... 1666 01:39:20,228 --> 01:39:24,108 but I`m gonna convince Americans that I`m right, and I`m gonna get the guns. 1667 01:39:25,468 --> 01:39:29,668 We`ve got serious probIems, and we need serious peopIe. 1668 01:39:29,748 --> 01:39:31,868 If you want to taIk about character, Bob... 1669 01:39:31,948 --> 01:39:35,268 you better come at me with more than a burning fIag and a membership card. 1670 01:39:35,348 --> 01:39:39,028 If you want to taIk about character and American vaIues, fine. 1671 01:39:39,108 --> 01:39:41,868 Just teII me where and when, and I`II show up. 1672 01:39:41,948 --> 01:39:45,988 This is a time for serious peopIe, Bob, and your 15 minutes are up. 1673 01:39:46,068 --> 01:39:49,108 My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I am the president. 1674 01:39:58,028 --> 01:39:59,628 You don`t see that every day. 1675 01:39:59,708 --> 01:40:02,628 He`s got the press corps asking how to speII ""erudite."" 1676 01:40:02,708 --> 01:40:05,348 - Better caII the printer. - Gotta rewrite the State of the Union. 1677 01:40:05,428 --> 01:40:09,748 Every word. It`s a whoIe new baII game. You have exactIy 35 minutes. 1678 01:40:09,828 --> 01:40:13,068 Oh, good. I thought I was gonna be rushed. 1679 01:40:13,148 --> 01:40:15,308 I don`t want a Iimousine. I don`t want an escort. 1680 01:40:15,388 --> 01:40:19,068 I want a pIain, ordinary, non-buIIetproof automobiIe. 1681 01:40:19,148 --> 01:40:22,108 Somebody around here must have a Chevy I can borrow. 1682 01:40:22,188 --> 01:40:25,868 Find one and have it outside the west wing entrance in five minutes. 1683 01:40:25,948 --> 01:40:27,788 Excuse me, sir. Where are you going? 1684 01:40:27,868 --> 01:40:31,628 I`m going over to her house, stand outside her door untiI she Iets me in. 1685 01:40:31,708 --> 01:40:35,468 - I`m not Ieaving untiI I get her back. - How are you gonna do that? 1686 01:40:35,548 --> 01:40:39,428 I haven`t worked that out, but I`m sure groveIing wiII be invoIved. 1687 01:40:39,508 --> 01:40:41,028 You`re just gonna drive over? 1688 01:40:41,108 --> 01:40:43,908 I`m commander in chief of the most powerfuI army in the worId. 1689 01:40:43,988 --> 01:40:46,508 You don`t think I can drive ten bIocks? 1690 01:40:46,588 --> 01:40:50,948 Just stay away from Du Pont CircIe. I hear it`s murder this time of day. 1691 01:40:56,628 --> 01:40:58,108 Hi, A.J. 1692 01:40:58,188 --> 01:41:01,028 Nice to see you, Ms. Wade. 1693 01:41:06,588 --> 01:41:10,268 WeII, if anyone needs me, I`II be in the RooseveIt Room... 1694 01:41:10,348 --> 01:41:13,068 giving Lewis oxygen. 1695 01:41:16,188 --> 01:41:18,468 I heard your speech. 1696 01:41:21,068 --> 01:41:23,148 I was in my car. 1697 01:41:24,668 --> 01:41:27,108 It just kind of steered its way over here. 1698 01:41:29,308 --> 01:41:30,908 I`m gIad. 1699 01:41:40,468 --> 01:41:44,668 I didn`t decide to send 455 to the fIoor to get you back. 1700 01:41:44,748 --> 01:41:49,028 And I didn`t come back because you sent 455 to the fIoor. 1701 01:41:55,188 --> 01:41:57,428 Mr. President, you might want to-- 1702 01:41:58,548 --> 01:42:00,028 Hi, Sydney. 1703 01:42:03,548 --> 01:42:05,388 I moved SociaI Security up front. 1704 01:42:05,468 --> 01:42:08,868 Mr. President, Mr. LeventhaI at the Treasury wants two minutes. Hi, Sydney. 1705 01:42:08,948 --> 01:42:13,348 Mr. President-- Excuse me, Ms. Wade. Miss McCaII is on her way over. 1706 01:42:14,788 --> 01:42:17,828 I got some things to do. 1707 01:42:18,988 --> 01:42:20,348 Yes, you do. 1708 01:42:22,108 --> 01:42:24,108 We`re onIy a moment away from the arrivaI... 1709 01:42:24,188 --> 01:42:26,468 of President Shepherd and his State of the Union address. 1710 01:42:26,548 --> 01:42:29,188 George, you`ve served on severaI past administrations. 1711 01:42:29,268 --> 01:42:33,548 What kind of Iast-minute activity is the president engaged in right now? 1712 01:42:39,188 --> 01:42:42,468 There`s something I wanted to give you since our first date. 1713 01:42:42,548 --> 01:42:44,708 I`ve tried to do it a number of times... 1714 01:42:44,788 --> 01:42:47,868 but somehow I`ve aIways managed to trip over my job. 1715 01:42:47,948 --> 01:42:50,268 But here. 1716 01:42:50,348 --> 01:42:52,188 These are for you. 1717 01:42:54,868 --> 01:42:56,708 They`re beautifuI. 1718 01:43:00,308 --> 01:43:03,468 - Mr. President? - WeII, I`ve gotta go. 1719 01:43:03,548 --> 01:43:05,628 ShouId I stay here? 1720 01:43:06,948 --> 01:43:08,788 WaIk with me. 1721 01:43:12,948 --> 01:43:16,548 - How`d you finaIIy do it? - Do what? 1722 01:43:16,628 --> 01:43:20,268 Manage to give a woman fIowers and be president at the same time. 1723 01:43:20,348 --> 01:43:23,428 WeII, it turns out I`ve got a rose garden. 1724 01:43:26,068 --> 01:43:27,708 Mr. Speaker... 1725 01:43:27,788 --> 01:43:30,668 the President of the United States!