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MAN: The defeat and breakup
of the Soviet empire,
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culminating in the crumbling
of the Berlin Wall,
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is one of the great events
of world history.
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There were many heroes
in this battle,
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but to Charlie Wilson must
go this special recognition.
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Just 13 years ago, the Soviet
Army appeared to be invincible.
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But Charlie, undeterred,
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engineered
a lethal body blow
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that weakened
the Communist empire.
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Without Charlie,
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history would be hugely
and sadly different.
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And so,
for the first time,
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a civilian is being given
our highest recognition,
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that of Honored Colleague.
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Ladies and gentlemen
of the Clandestine Services,
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Congressman Charles Wilson.
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(SOUL MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)
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It'd be like Dallas.
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CRYSTAL: That's right.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like Dallas but set
in Washington.
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Yeah.
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And you should say it just like that.
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When I pitch it.
You should say it just...
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"Oh, this is fucking great."
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You should say it just like that.
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Dallas set
in Washington D.C.
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You know, with the
intrigue and the power plays
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and the overt
natural sex.
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The glamour,
the power.
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CRYSTAL: Do you know
what I'm saying?
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PAUL: It's fucking Dallas.
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CRYSTAL: Or,
or Falcon Crest.
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Yes.
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That's set in Washington.
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Say it to Charlie
like that.
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The resistance fighters
disguised us as one of them.
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Charlie.
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(CLEARS THROAT)
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It's like Dallas
but in Washington.
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With Crystal
in the starring role.
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Yeah.
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You tell me when to watch.
I'll make sure I'm home.
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You don't think
I can make it happen?
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I don't know anything
about how any of that works.
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I do.
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You said that you would listen to him.
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That's why we're here.
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Do they routinely give starring
roles on network programs
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to people who haven't
acted professionally before?
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She was just on the fucking
cover of Playboy, Charlie.
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Well, I guess that's
just the same thing.
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Would you take
this seriously, please?
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I am taking it seriously, hon,
but can you all tell me something?
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What is... What is Dan
Rather wearing right now?
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What?
Dan Rather.
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What is he wearing?
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You're watching TV?
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Why hasn't he shaved?
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Well, who gives a damn?
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Excuse me! Hey! Excuse me,
could you turn that up?
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Could you just turn up
the volume on the TV?
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Oh, I'm completely high.
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Yeah. Okay.
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Still, could you just
grab the remote there
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and find
the volume button?
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Charlie, are we
gonna do business?
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Dan Rather is wearing a turban,
Paul. Don't you want to know why?
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He's doing a thing
from India.
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No, that's Afghanistan.
Got it.
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Appreciate it.
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WOMAN TRANSLATOR: We
got it... We captured it
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from the Afghan,
the Afghan army.
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Thank you.
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Does he have ammunition for this?
He has three.
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But does he have ammunition?
A lot of ammunition?
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Well, he's talking
about the mujahideen.
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WOMAN: No, we don't,
we didn't capture any.
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PAUL: Priests?
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No, mujahideen means,
like, holy warriors.
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Priests!
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How the hell am I
supposed to know?
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Paul.
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And he was... He is saying that,
you know, America seems to be asleep.
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It doesn't seem to realize
that if Afghanistan goes
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and the Russians
go over to the Gulf,
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that in a very short time,
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it's going to be the turn
of the United States as well.
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DAN: I'm sure he knows
that in Vietnam...
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Excuse me.
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We were just wondering
what you do for a living.
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I'm not a police officer,
if that's what you're asking.
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No. We just... We don't meet a lot
of guys here who both, you know,
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know about the world
and like to party.
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(CLEARS THROAT) No.
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I'm a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives.
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I'm sorry?
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I'm a Congressman.
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Are you kidding?
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No. No,
I'm absolutely serious.
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I'm Charlie Wilson.
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I represent the Texas
Second Congressional.
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Texas. And this
is Crystal Lee.
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This is Paul Brown.
What are your names?
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Stacey.
Stacey.
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Kelly.
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Kelly. Well, it's nice to meet you both.
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If you are a Congressman should you
be in here with strippers and blow?
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Hey, I'm not a stripper.
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I am a stripper.
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I'm a stripper.
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Yes, see, they were
talking about themselves.
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You know, you do
have a point there.
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I really should get going.
A little pruney.
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Look, Charlie, I need
$29,000 to make it happen.
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And you know I can make it happen,
and you know you want in on this.
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Hey, who wants to take a
ride with me to the airport?
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Oh, me!
Paul?
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Okay.
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DAN ON TV: A holy war
against the Soviets.
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A war they say that,
if they get weapons,
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from us or anyone else in
the free world, they will win.
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(MAN SHOUTING ON SCREEN)
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PAUL: Yeah, I'm with Congressman
Charles Wilson and Crystal Lee.
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CHARLIE: I wish he wouldn't
do that. From Texas.
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Has there ever been a
show about Washington?
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I don't think there has.
Me, neither.
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Thank you. We got the suite
another night. Comped.
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DRIVER: Should I go back?
No.
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You can't stay another night?
No. No.
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Stay another night.
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I can't.
I have a vote.
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What, an important one?
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Yes.
What is it?
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Well, it's a
non-binding resolution
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expressing the sense
of the Congress
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that the Department of Defense should
continue to exercise its authority
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to support the Boy Scouts of America.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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Come on, Charlie,
call, raise or fold.
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I want to get an answer
on this thing
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that Crystal
and I want to do.
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First off,
I'd appreciate it
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if you didn't throw my name
around quite so much,
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'cause, from time to time, I use it
myself, and I need it in good condition.
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Second, I'm
from Lufkin, Texas.
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I'm the son of an accountant
for a timber company.
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I take home about 700 bucks
a week, and I pay alimony,
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so the idea that I got $29,000
in the bank is pretty hysterical.
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That said,
I love your idea.
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Crys, I'll call you this week.
Okay.
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All right.
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Stacey, Kelly, nice to meet you both.
Are you Nevada residents?
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BOTH: Yeah.
Well, don't forget to vote.
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Bye. We love you!
We love you!
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Oh, it helps not to know me.
Oh! That is for you.
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Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
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Bye!
Bye, Charlie.
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CHARLIE: I love Las Vegas!
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CHARLIE:
All right, what else?
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That Dairy Queen guy,
Larry Liddle,
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is sitting in your office.
Hey.
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Yeah, I told him
he could come in.
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He wants to talk
to you about a creche.
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What, a nativity scene
with baby Jesus?
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Yeah, it's on public property,
and the city's making him move it.
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Shit. I thought
he was just coming in
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to get his picture took, you know?
Congressman.
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Yeah?
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You're exactly who I need to speak to.
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You have a moment?
Sure.
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Tip asked me to talk to you. Okay.
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He wanted me to talk to
you about John Murtha.
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Go ahead.
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The prosecutor's gonna go after him.
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Well, they ain't
gonna find anything.
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John Murtha's as clean
as my mother's kitchen floor.
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Yeah, but Tip would
like to put you
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on the Ethics Committee
just the same.
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You're kidding.
No.
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Well, Jesus, Donnelly,
everyone in town knows
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I'm on the other side
of that issue.
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Ethics?
Yeah!
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Well, the Speaker would like to
put you on the committee anyway.
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Okay. Well, if anyone asks what the
hell I'm doing on the Ethics Committee,
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we'll just tell them I like
chasing women and drinking whiskey
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and the Speaker felt
we were underrepresented.
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One man, one vote.
Exactly.
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Tip's gonna want
to return the favor.
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Tuesday, right?
That is Tuesday, yes.
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So if anything comes up
that you'd like me
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to speak with him
about, please...
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Yes.
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Yes!
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I'd like to be on the Board of
Directors of the Kennedy Center.
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Charlie.
I'm sorry?
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Turns out Congress appoints the Board
of Directors of the Kennedy Center.
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It's a great place to take a date,
and I can never afford the tickets.
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Consider it done.
Excellent.
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Go vote.
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Another few minutes.
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Let's see what's on the wires.
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Why can't you wait for
newspapers like everybody else?
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'Cause I think it's productive
to know today's news today.
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And it makes me one day smarter
than you, which I enjoy as well.
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I know you do.
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You don't think
that's a little crazy?
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Pan Am and Eastern
are lowering their fares.
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'Cause of Braniff.
What's a little crazy?
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Joining the Board
of the Kennedy Center
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so you can get free tickets
to the Royal Ballet of...
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Hold on.
What?
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AP story out of Kabul.
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Uzbekistan?
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Afghanistan.
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Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
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Jordan, Israel, Egypt.
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Jim Van Wagenen's our
point man on black approps
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for the Defense
Subcommittee?
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Yeah.
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Have him come to my office
as soon as possible.
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How am I voting on this?
BONNIE: Yes.
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You sure?
Yes.
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The Boy Scouts?
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Jim Van Wagenen.
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Get him and show him that wire story.
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Yes, sir.
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You are the man I wanted to talk to.
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The Congressman will
be here in a moment.
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He's just coming up
from a vote.
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I'm sure it's
an important one.
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No. Not really.
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SUZANNE: So, Marla, can you fit
this into his schedule next week?
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(PHONE RINGING)
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RECEPTIONIST: Charlie
Wilson's office. Good morning.
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The third...
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It is? How are you?
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BONNIE: Suzanne, can you
help me with this? Okay.
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SUZANNE: I'll be right back.
RECEPTIONIST: I'll have him do it.
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Okay, bye-bye.
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LARRY: Miss?
Yes, sir?
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It seems to me, looking around, that
it's almost all women working here,
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and that they're
all very pretty.
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Is that common?
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(LAUGHS) Well,
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Congressman Wilson,
he has an expression.
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He says, "You can teach them to type,
but you can't teach them to grow tits."
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Well, that's charming.
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00:10:55,340 --> 00:10:57,035
Larry!
Congressman!
250
00:10:57,109 --> 00:11:00,943
No, no, no. For $5,000 every two
years you get to call me Charlie.
251
00:11:01,013 --> 00:11:04,881
And for 10,000, you can call me Betty
Sue and I'll clean out your rain gutters.
252
00:11:04,950 --> 00:11:05,974
This is my daughter, Jane.
253
00:11:06,051 --> 00:11:07,313
Well, now I remember Jane.
Two-L at SMU.
254
00:11:07,386 --> 00:11:08,978
Charlie Wilson's office.
Good morning.
255
00:11:09,054 --> 00:11:10,681
Welcome to the
United States Congress.
256
00:11:10,756 --> 00:11:13,088
Hey, I'm gonna talk to your
daddy for a couple of seconds.
257
00:11:13,158 --> 00:11:15,319
Larry, can we
get you a drink?
258
00:11:15,394 --> 00:11:16,622
It's 10:00 in the morning.
259
00:11:16,695 --> 00:11:18,856
Well, fair enough,
I guess.
260
00:11:19,798 --> 00:11:21,197
Grab a seat.
261
00:11:21,934 --> 00:11:24,903
Now, this situation with the
creche, I want to know all about it.
262
00:11:24,970 --> 00:11:25,959
Well, sir,
263
00:11:26,038 --> 00:11:27,027
(CLEARS THROAT)
264
00:11:27,573 --> 00:11:30,565
Every single year
since the world was young,
265
00:11:31,376 --> 00:11:35,244
the firehouse in the Nacogdoches
Township has displayed a creche.
266
00:11:35,314 --> 00:11:38,750
Now, the ACLU has filed suit
against the township
267
00:11:38,817 --> 00:11:42,309
for displaying a religious
symbol on public property.
268
00:11:42,387 --> 00:11:44,548
It's Christmas time.
It's a creche.
269
00:11:44,623 --> 00:11:47,353
I could understand if we
were in gosh-darn Scarsdale,
270
00:11:47,426 --> 00:11:51,055
but this is east Texas, and I
want to know who we're offending.
271
00:11:51,130 --> 00:11:52,961
Except two lawyers
from the ACLU.
272
00:11:53,031 --> 00:11:56,467
That is a terribly interesting
and complicated question.
273
00:11:56,535 --> 00:11:58,366
Let me make
this suggestion, though.
274
00:11:58,437 --> 00:12:01,270
There's a church about
a block and a half
275
00:12:01,340 --> 00:12:04,275
from that firehouse, First
Baptist Church of Nacogdoches.
276
00:12:04,343 --> 00:12:07,039
They've got a beautiful
rolling lawn out there in front.
277
00:12:07,112 --> 00:12:08,909
No, no. This is a
Christian country, Charlie,
278
00:12:08,981 --> 00:12:10,949
founded on Christian values.
Sure.
279
00:12:11,016 --> 00:12:13,075
We welcome other faiths
to worship as they wish,
280
00:12:13,152 --> 00:12:15,518
but when you can't
put a nativity scene
281
00:12:15,587 --> 00:12:18,681
in front of a firehouse at Christmas
time in Nacogdoches Township,
282
00:12:18,757 --> 00:12:20,190
something's gone
terribly wrong.
283
00:12:20,259 --> 00:12:22,352
Well, that's not
really true, Larry.
284
00:12:22,427 --> 00:12:25,021
You could move that creche
over to that church
285
00:12:25,097 --> 00:12:26,086
and everything's just fine.
286
00:12:26,165 --> 00:12:27,359
That's not the point!
287
00:12:27,432 --> 00:12:30,560
Okay. Why don't we just
start back at the beginning?
288
00:12:30,636 --> 00:12:31,830
What can I do for you?
289
00:12:31,904 --> 00:12:34,065
You can intervene in the case
against the creche committee.
290
00:12:34,139 --> 00:12:35,333
Intervene? How?
291
00:12:35,407 --> 00:12:36,931
You appointed the judge.
292
00:12:37,009 --> 00:12:38,306
I don't appoint judges.
293
00:12:38,377 --> 00:12:40,242
I just made a recommendation
to the President.
294
00:12:40,312 --> 00:12:41,336
Uh-huh.
295
00:12:41,413 --> 00:12:42,710
I think you and I both know
what that means.
296
00:12:42,781 --> 00:12:43,805
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
297
00:12:43,882 --> 00:12:46,715
I cannot just call up a
judge and tell him what to do.
298
00:12:46,785 --> 00:12:46,962
Why?
299
00:12:46,963 --> 00:12:48,685
Well, 'cause it's against a shitload
300
00:12:48,754 --> 00:12:51,018
of really good laws, Gary.
301
00:12:51,089 --> 00:12:52,852
Larry.
Larry.
302
00:12:52,925 --> 00:12:57,919
I got to go talk to this guy out
here for a second. Will you excuse me?
303
00:12:57,996 --> 00:12:59,190
By the way,
I love Jesus Christ
304
00:12:59,264 --> 00:13:00,891
and his mother Mary
as much as anybody.
305
00:13:00,966 --> 00:13:04,561
About 38 churches you could move
that creche to, everybody lives.
306
00:13:04,736 --> 00:13:05,794
Give me a call.
Okay.
307
00:13:05,871 --> 00:13:07,065
I love Chivas.
308
00:13:07,139 --> 00:13:08,902
Jane, how are you?
309
00:13:08,974 --> 00:13:10,601
You need a cup of coffee?
310
00:13:10,676 --> 00:13:11,479
Something to drink?
311
00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,042
Anything like that? Okay. Mmm-mmm.
312
00:13:13,111 --> 00:13:14,908
Jim.
Congressman.
313
00:13:14,980 --> 00:13:16,880
You see Lederer's
AP story out of Kabul?
314
00:13:16,949 --> 00:13:17,105
Yeah.
315
00:13:17,106 --> 00:13:18,416
We're reading this story every day now.
316
00:13:18,483 --> 00:13:19,507
You see Dan Rather
last night?
317
00:13:19,585 --> 00:13:21,075
Yeah. I did.
318
00:13:21,153 --> 00:13:23,451
Tell me something. What is the
Defense Subcommittee's budget
319
00:13:23,522 --> 00:13:25,649
for covert ops against the
Communists in Afghanistan?
320
00:13:25,724 --> 00:13:26,918
All in?
All in.
321
00:13:26,992 --> 00:13:28,584
It's 5 million.
322
00:13:30,195 --> 00:13:33,358
Well, they can't shoot down
helicopters for $5 million, Jim.
323
00:13:33,432 --> 00:13:34,761
Though they're trying to.
324
00:13:34,762 --> 00:13:36,833
Which is more than I can say for us.
325
00:13:36,902 --> 00:13:38,665
Get everybody together
for me, would you?
326
00:13:38,871 --> 00:13:40,361
And double it.
327
00:13:40,439 --> 00:13:41,872
RECEPTIONIST:
Charlie Wilson's office.
328
00:13:41,940 --> 00:13:43,737
Okay, I'm sorry, sir?
329
00:13:44,009 --> 00:13:46,068
The covert ops budget.
Double it.
330
00:13:46,144 --> 00:13:47,406
(RECEPTIONIST CHATTERING)
331
00:13:48,380 --> 00:13:49,472
Okay.
332
00:13:49,548 --> 00:13:52,176
This ain't gonna
be much longer, okay?
333
00:13:53,352 --> 00:13:54,376
(PHONE RINGING)
334
00:13:54,453 --> 00:13:56,614
Here's what
I'm gonna do, Larry.
335
00:13:56,688 --> 00:13:58,656
RECEPTIONIST:
Charlie Wilson's office.
336
00:14:00,959 --> 00:14:02,650
Maybe in about 20 minutes.
337
00:14:02,651 --> 00:14:04,861
He's just going into a meeting.
338
00:14:04,930 --> 00:14:06,022
Sure.
339
00:14:06,632 --> 00:14:09,226
My XO wrote in a report,
340
00:14:09,301 --> 00:14:13,704
I was the best officer
he ever served at sea with,
341
00:14:13,772 --> 00:14:17,902
and the worst officer
he ever served in port with.
342
00:14:17,976 --> 00:14:20,069
(LAUGHS)
You can look it up.
343
00:14:20,145 --> 00:14:22,739
I must've graduated
from Annapolis
344
00:14:22,814 --> 00:14:25,339
with the second most demerits
of any midshipman
345
00:14:25,417 --> 00:14:27,214
in the history
of the Naval Academy.
346
00:14:27,286 --> 00:14:29,777
JANE: Well, who had the most?
I want to sleep with him.
347
00:14:29,855 --> 00:14:31,288
(ANGEL OF THE MORNING
PLAYING ON STEREO)
348
00:14:31,356 --> 00:14:35,190
It's hotter here in D.C.
Than in Nacogdoches,
349
00:14:35,260 --> 00:14:38,821
so I hope you don't mind, I
took off a few of my clothes.
350
00:14:38,897 --> 00:14:42,060
Well, I'm just gonna have
to live with that, Jane.
351
00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:48,400
(SINGING) Just call me angel
of the morning, angel
352
00:14:48,473 --> 00:14:52,034
Just touch my cheek
before you leave me
353
00:14:52,110 --> 00:14:54,943
Come on over here. I'm gonna show
you the best view in the District.
354
00:14:55,013 --> 00:14:56,071
You want some of this?
355
00:14:56,148 --> 00:14:57,308
No, no, I got this.
356
00:14:57,382 --> 00:14:58,713
I like both.
357
00:14:58,784 --> 00:15:00,877
Well, it must be
great being me.
358
00:15:00,953 --> 00:15:02,580
I've heard it is.
359
00:15:03,655 --> 00:15:05,782
Iwo Jima Memorial.
360
00:15:05,857 --> 00:15:07,381
There's the Lincoln.
361
00:15:07,459 --> 00:15:09,984
Washington. Now follow it
around to the right.
362
00:15:10,062 --> 00:15:13,930
CHARLIE: The Jefferson
Memorial. The Arlington Bridge.
363
00:15:13,999 --> 00:15:16,934
And there's the Pentagon.
364
00:15:17,002 --> 00:15:18,401
Oh, that's the Pentagon.
365
00:15:18,470 --> 00:15:19,596
That's the Pentagon.
366
00:15:19,671 --> 00:15:23,573
How about I show you the second
best view in the District?
367
00:15:23,642 --> 00:15:25,701
Why, Jane, would you like...
368
00:15:25,777 --> 00:15:26,766
(PHONE RINGING)
369
00:15:27,579 --> 00:15:28,568
(SIGHS)
370
00:15:28,814 --> 00:15:30,008
Well, that was predictable.
371
00:15:31,516 --> 00:15:33,177
Just give me one second.
372
00:15:34,386 --> 00:15:34,734
Hello?
373
00:15:34,735 --> 00:15:36,320
WOMAN: That was an extraordinary thing
374
00:15:36,388 --> 00:15:37,878
you did today.
375
00:15:38,323 --> 00:15:39,312
Who is this?
376
00:15:39,391 --> 00:15:40,449
It's Joanne.
377
00:15:40,826 --> 00:15:42,020
Joanne!
378
00:15:42,761 --> 00:15:44,956
Why, gosh, how nice
to hear from you.
379
00:15:45,030 --> 00:15:46,861
Could I call you back
in a little bit?
380
00:15:46,932 --> 00:15:49,059
Is Ronald Reagan in
your bedroom right now?
381
00:15:49,134 --> 00:15:49,409
No.
382
00:15:49,410 --> 00:15:51,193
Then I'm considerably more important
383
00:15:51,269 --> 00:15:53,237
than whoever is.
Is anything wrong?
384
00:15:53,305 --> 00:15:56,035
This is gonna take
just a second or two.
385
00:15:56,408 --> 00:15:58,638
Okay, I'm all yours.
386
00:15:59,111 --> 00:16:02,979
What did I do that
was so extraordinary?
387
00:16:03,048 --> 00:16:04,208
"Double it."
388
00:16:04,282 --> 00:16:06,079
'Cause I was told you
didn't have a girlfriend.
389
00:16:06,151 --> 00:16:07,140
What?
390
00:16:07,219 --> 00:16:09,210
You told Jim Van Wagenen
to double it.
391
00:16:09,287 --> 00:16:12,586
Well, shit, Joanne, I don't
know what you're talking about,
392
00:16:12,657 --> 00:16:15,023
and if I did,
it'd be classified,
393
00:16:15,293 --> 00:16:16,760
and I'd wonder where
you got your information
394
00:16:16,828 --> 00:16:17,852
on the Subcommittee.
395
00:16:17,929 --> 00:16:19,226
Oh, what do you care, hon?
396
00:16:19,297 --> 00:16:23,028
It's a little matter of national
security and I can't help but think...
397
00:16:23,101 --> 00:16:25,160
Excuse me, I'm sorry.
398
00:16:25,237 --> 00:16:26,829
Hold on.
I am sorry,
399
00:16:26,905 --> 00:16:28,930
but I was told you
didn't have a girlfriend.
400
00:16:29,007 --> 00:16:30,440
I don't.
This isn't my girlfriend.
401
00:16:30,509 --> 00:16:33,000
It's the sixth
wealthiest woman in Texas.
402
00:16:33,078 --> 00:16:34,841
Which is still pretty good.
403
00:16:34,913 --> 00:16:36,141
Okay, so, hi.
404
00:16:36,214 --> 00:16:38,808
A friend of mine has made a
terrific movie about the need
405
00:16:38,884 --> 00:16:41,011
for American aid
to Afghanistan.
406
00:16:41,086 --> 00:16:42,644
He's made a movie?
Yes.
407
00:16:42,721 --> 00:16:46,555
I'm gonna run this movie Friday
night at my house at a fundraiser.
408
00:16:46,625 --> 00:16:48,855
You know, you've never
been to my house, Charlie.
409
00:16:48,927 --> 00:16:51,862
You want me to come to
Houston and see a movie?
410
00:16:51,930 --> 00:16:53,511
There'll be women
and wealthy donors.
411
00:16:53,512 --> 00:16:55,093
See you Friday.
412
00:16:55,167 --> 00:16:56,532
Yes, ma'am.
413
00:17:02,908 --> 00:17:03,932
Hey.
414
00:17:04,009 --> 00:17:04,998
Mmm-mmm.
415
00:17:05,077 --> 00:17:06,135
Hey.
Mmm-mmm.
416
00:17:12,684 --> 00:17:13,742
Thank you, Joanne.
417
00:17:15,353 --> 00:17:18,845
Okay. I know it was difficult for
you to come in here, hat in hand.
418
00:17:18,924 --> 00:17:22,917
That's not the kind of upbringing,
I guess, is the word I'm looking for.
419
00:17:22,994 --> 00:17:25,758
It's not the kind of man
you are. I understand that.
420
00:17:25,831 --> 00:17:29,028
I'm not looking to humiliate
you or exact a price in any way,
421
00:17:29,101 --> 00:17:31,001
so why don't you
just apologize?
422
00:17:31,069 --> 00:17:33,560
We'll call it water under the dam,
and we'll go about our business.
423
00:17:33,638 --> 00:17:35,629
Excuse me,
what the fuck?
424
00:17:36,575 --> 00:17:36,801
What?
425
00:17:36,802 --> 00:17:38,566
What the fuck are you talking about?
426
00:17:38,643 --> 00:17:40,611
Clair George said you were
coming in here to apologize.
427
00:17:40,679 --> 00:17:43,204
No, I'm supposed to come in here
so you could apologize to me.
428
00:17:43,281 --> 00:17:45,044
According to whom?
Clair George.
429
00:17:45,117 --> 00:17:48,086
You told me to go fuck myself.
I'm supposed to apologize to you?
430
00:17:48,153 --> 00:17:51,247
Also, water goes over a dam and
under a bridge, you poncy schoolboy.
431
00:17:51,323 --> 00:17:54,622
Clearly there's been a miscommunication
between Clair George and somebody.
432
00:17:54,693 --> 00:17:55,887
Excuse me.
Yes?
433
00:17:55,961 --> 00:17:57,223
Does this look all right?
It's fine.
434
00:17:57,295 --> 00:17:57,561
Thank you.
435
00:17:57,562 --> 00:17:58,387
I can sand it down a little.
436
00:17:58,463 --> 00:17:59,069
I, I don't know.
437
00:17:59,070 --> 00:18:00,658
I have no fucking idea who this guy is.
438
00:18:00,732 --> 00:18:03,462
He is here to fix the glass that you
broke the last time you were here.
439
00:18:03,535 --> 00:18:04,780
Could you just excuse us
for a second there?
440
00:18:04,781 --> 00:18:06,026
Yes.
441
00:18:06,104 --> 00:18:07,128
You tell me to go
fuck myself
442
00:18:07,205 --> 00:18:08,763
and I'm supposed to
apologize? You break my window,
443
00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,740
I'm supposed to apologize?
The Helsinki job was mine!
444
00:18:10,809 --> 00:18:13,437
The Helsinki job was not yours. If
it was yours, you'd be in Helsinki.
445
00:18:13,512 --> 00:18:14,945
Alan Wolfe stood in
this office! Alan Wolfe
446
00:18:15,013 --> 00:18:16,537
is no longer the Director.
Yeah, it was on the books!
447
00:18:16,615 --> 00:18:19,413
Alan Wolfe is no longer the
Director of European Operations.
448
00:18:19,484 --> 00:18:20,849
He does not make
those appointments. I do.
449
00:18:20,919 --> 00:18:22,614
Promises were made.
Not by me.
450
00:18:22,687 --> 00:18:24,985
I've been with
the company for 24 years.
451
00:18:25,056 --> 00:18:26,990
I was posted
in Greece for 15.
452
00:18:27,058 --> 00:18:30,824
Papandreou wins that election if I
don't help the junta take him prisoner.
453
00:18:30,896 --> 00:18:32,796
I've advised and armed
the Hellenic army.
454
00:18:32,864 --> 00:18:34,798
I've neutralized
champions of Communism.
455
00:18:34,866 --> 00:18:38,165
I've spent the past three
years learning Finnish!
456
00:18:38,236 --> 00:18:40,204
Which should come in handy
here in Virginia!
457
00:18:40,272 --> 00:18:42,240
And I'm never,
ever, sick at sea.
458
00:18:42,307 --> 00:18:45,708
So I want to know why I'm not gonna
be your Helsinki station chief.
459
00:18:45,777 --> 00:18:47,574
You're coarse.
Excuse me?
460
00:18:47,679 --> 00:18:50,239
For Helsinki, I need someone
with diplomatic skills.
461
00:18:50,315 --> 00:18:51,543
You don't have them.
Is that right?
462
00:18:51,616 --> 00:18:53,641
That is right. And I don't know
why the hell I didn't fire you
463
00:18:53,718 --> 00:18:54,810
when you broke
my fucking window!
464
00:18:54,886 --> 00:18:56,751
Oh, yes, sure
you do, Cravely.
465
00:18:56,821 --> 00:18:58,880
Look, Gust... Yeah, you're
fucking Roger's fiancee
466
00:18:58,957 --> 00:19:00,254
and you know I know.
467
00:19:01,826 --> 00:19:04,056
I'm not... I'm not even gonna
dignify that with a response.
468
00:19:04,129 --> 00:19:06,063
Yeah, yeah, you're
dignifying her in the ass
469
00:19:06,131 --> 00:19:08,065
at the Jefferson Hotel,
room 1210.
470
00:19:08,133 --> 00:19:11,034
But let me ask you. The
3,000 agents Turner fired
471
00:19:11,102 --> 00:19:13,297
was that because they lacked
diplomatic skills as well?
472
00:19:13,371 --> 00:19:15,236
You're referring
to Admiral Stansfield Turner?
473
00:19:15,307 --> 00:19:16,365
Yeah, the 3,000 agents.
474
00:19:16,441 --> 00:19:19,376
Each and every goddamn one of them
first or second generation Americans.
475
00:19:19,444 --> 00:19:21,935
Is that because they lack
the proper diplomatic skills?
476
00:19:22,013 --> 00:19:24,481
Or did Turner not think it
was a good idea to have spies
477
00:19:24,549 --> 00:19:27,882
who could speak the same language as
the people they're fucking spying on?
478
00:19:27,953 --> 00:19:30,478
Well, I'm sorry, but you
can hardly blame the Director
479
00:19:30,555 --> 00:19:33,547
for questioning the loyalty to America
of people that are just barely Americans
480
00:19:33,625 --> 00:19:34,266
in the first place.
481
00:19:34,267 --> 00:19:35,616
Yeah, well, I'd like to take a moment
482
00:19:35,694 --> 00:19:37,286
to review the several ways
in which you're a douchebag.
483
00:19:37,362 --> 00:19:39,421
Get the fuck out of my office!
Yes, sir.
484
00:19:39,497 --> 00:19:40,794
Before I end
your career, asshole.
485
00:19:40,865 --> 00:19:41,889
Yes, sir!
486
00:19:41,967 --> 00:19:45,095
Yeah, my friend, I'm gonna
need you for a second.
487
00:19:45,670 --> 00:19:46,659
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
488
00:19:47,005 --> 00:19:48,370
God damn it!
489
00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:50,205
My loyalty?
490
00:19:51,076 --> 00:19:53,704
For 24 years, people have
been trying to kill me.
491
00:19:53,778 --> 00:19:55,143
People who know how.
492
00:19:55,213 --> 00:19:58,205
Now, do you think that's because
my dad was a Greek soda pop maker
493
00:19:58,283 --> 00:20:00,683
or do you think that's
because I'm an American spy?
494
00:20:00,752 --> 00:20:03,277
Go fuck yourself,
you fucking child.
495
00:20:09,461 --> 00:20:10,826
How was I?
496
00:20:11,830 --> 00:20:12,922
Thank you.
497
00:20:13,898 --> 00:20:17,425
There's a woman in Aliquippa,
Pennsylvania, named Nitsa.
498
00:20:18,136 --> 00:20:19,694
And she thinks
she's a witch.
499
00:20:19,771 --> 00:20:22,171
Yeah, she offered to put
a curse on Cravely for me.
500
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:23,332
Yeah?
501
00:20:23,508 --> 00:20:24,736
And she...
502
00:20:25,310 --> 00:20:29,144
She asked me do I want a
professional curse or a health curse.
503
00:20:29,614 --> 00:20:31,309
"If it's a health curse,
I can do it right away,
504
00:20:31,383 --> 00:20:34,079
"but a professional curse
takes longer."
505
00:20:34,152 --> 00:20:37,212
Well, I'm living proof
she's right about that.
506
00:20:37,889 --> 00:20:39,584
Did you get the brownie?
Oh, no, sir, I didn't.
507
00:20:39,658 --> 00:20:40,989
I got you.
508
00:20:43,061 --> 00:20:46,258
I'm reading transcripts
of phone conversations
509
00:20:46,331 --> 00:20:48,026
between French
and German generals
510
00:20:48,099 --> 00:20:51,466
arguing over office space
at NATO headquarters
511
00:20:51,536 --> 00:20:55,267
and analyzing wiretaps out
of Mercury Bay, New Zealand.
512
00:20:55,340 --> 00:20:58,969
You know, historically, a
hotbed of anti-American activity.
513
00:20:59,678 --> 00:21:02,841
Yeah, nobody will come
near me. I'm in the weeds.
514
00:21:03,882 --> 00:21:06,282
You know,
a typical case officer
515
00:21:06,651 --> 00:21:11,350
doesn't walk into his boss's office
and tell him to go fuck himself. Twice.
516
00:21:11,423 --> 00:21:14,085
I just told you, I paid a
witch in Pennsylvania $80
517
00:21:14,159 --> 00:21:16,855
to put a curse
on Henry Cravely for me.
518
00:21:17,462 --> 00:21:18,542
Do I sound like
a typical case officer?
519
00:21:18,543 --> 00:21:19,623
No.
520
00:21:19,698 --> 00:21:22,428
Well, then,
let's assume I'm not.
521
00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:24,661
Listen. If you're really
not doing anything,
522
00:21:24,736 --> 00:21:26,328
why don't you come upstairs
and work with us?
523
00:21:26,404 --> 00:21:27,530
What are you doing?
524
00:21:27,605 --> 00:21:29,038
Killing Russians.
525
00:21:30,408 --> 00:21:34,640
Our next slave girl is a Texas
rose named Ashley Rensler.
526
00:21:34,713 --> 00:21:35,737
(CROWD CHEERING)
527
00:21:35,814 --> 00:21:39,511
Ashley is prelaw at U. T.,
and her three sorority sisters
528
00:21:39,584 --> 00:21:42,644
from Delta Delta Delta
will wash your car or truck
529
00:21:42,721 --> 00:21:45,815
in special outfits they
have chosen for the occasion.
530
00:21:45,890 --> 00:21:50,384
So, who wants their wheels cleaned clean
as a whistle by a 19-year-old lawyer
531
00:21:50,462 --> 00:21:52,623
and her three friends
from Tri-Delt?
532
00:21:52,697 --> 00:21:53,686
(CROWD CHEERING)
533
00:21:53,765 --> 00:21:55,181
I have 10,000,
who'll give me 11?
534
00:21:55,182 --> 00:21:56,598
11, 11, I got 11.
535
00:21:56,668 --> 00:21:58,568
I got 15 right here.
Thank you very much.
536
00:21:58,636 --> 00:22:00,900
Oh, my God,
she is a Minute Woman.
537
00:22:00,972 --> 00:22:02,769
No, she's a Tri-Delt.
538
00:22:03,708 --> 00:22:05,573
No, she is a
Minute Woman, Charlie.
539
00:22:05,643 --> 00:22:06,905
Oh. Joanne.
540
00:22:06,978 --> 00:22:10,812
Yeah, she's
a direct descendant of
George Washington's sister.
541
00:22:10,982 --> 00:22:13,678
Says she had a great uncle
who was killed at the Alamo.
542
00:22:13,752 --> 00:22:16,846
Former Miss Cotton Bowl. Had her
own local television talk show.
543
00:22:16,921 --> 00:22:20,118
Look. Pakistan's Honorary
Consul to Houston, Texas.
544
00:22:20,191 --> 00:22:21,590
How's that
for a title, huh?
545
00:22:21,659 --> 00:22:24,822
This is an ultra-right wing
group of anti-Communist fanatics.
546
00:22:24,896 --> 00:22:26,363
They're not
ultra-right wing.
547
00:22:26,431 --> 00:22:28,194
What are they?
548
00:22:28,266 --> 00:22:30,029
Well, they're
ultra-right wing.
549
00:22:30,101 --> 00:22:32,501
What are you doing
hanging around this woman?
550
00:22:32,570 --> 00:22:36,233
Did you hear me say she was
a former Miss Cotton Bowl?
551
00:22:36,307 --> 00:22:37,501
You are unbelievable.
552
00:22:37,575 --> 00:22:38,735
Oh, come on.
You're gonna love her.
553
00:22:38,810 --> 00:22:40,744
And, you know, one of the things
she's trying to do over there
554
00:22:40,812 --> 00:22:42,336
is liberate the women.
555
00:22:42,414 --> 00:22:45,247
And what better way than
through a slave girl auction?
556
00:22:45,316 --> 00:22:46,544
JOANNE: Charlie.
557
00:22:49,254 --> 00:22:51,654
So sorry for keeping
you waiting.
558
00:22:51,723 --> 00:22:53,850
Oh, it's no problem,
Joanne.
559
00:22:54,426 --> 00:22:55,415
This is Bonnie Bach.
560
00:22:55,493 --> 00:22:57,290
So nice to meet you.
561
00:23:00,498 --> 00:23:04,764
It's a pleasure meeting you, Mrs.
Herring. This is a wonderful party.
562
00:23:06,037 --> 00:23:08,597
Why don't you
give us a few moments?
563
00:23:09,707 --> 00:23:11,004
Yes, sir.
564
00:23:11,643 --> 00:23:16,376
Oh, Bobbie, if you could ask someone
for a Bombay martini up, very dry?
565
00:23:16,448 --> 00:23:18,541
Oh, I'm not a slave girl, actually.
566
00:23:18,616 --> 00:23:20,777
I'm the Congressman's
administrative assistant.
567
00:23:20,852 --> 00:23:22,183
Isn't that wonderful
for you.
568
00:23:22,253 --> 00:23:23,481
Yes.
569
00:23:23,555 --> 00:23:26,422
Two olives, please. Tell them
it's for me, they'll know.
570
00:23:26,491 --> 00:23:27,822
Certainly.
571
00:23:29,828 --> 00:23:31,420
She doesn't like me.
572
00:23:31,496 --> 00:23:32,588
Everybody likes you.
573
00:23:32,664 --> 00:23:34,097
She's a liberal.
574
00:23:34,165 --> 00:23:35,928
Well, I'm a liberal.
575
00:23:36,401 --> 00:23:38,164
Not where it counts.
576
00:23:38,703 --> 00:23:40,000
Have you seen the house?
577
00:23:40,071 --> 00:23:43,165
Well, I've seen the
downstairs, what's upstairs?
578
00:23:43,241 --> 00:23:44,572
Fourteen bedrooms.
579
00:23:44,642 --> 00:23:46,075
I should have a look.
580
00:23:46,144 --> 00:23:47,168
What did you think
of the movie?
581
00:23:47,245 --> 00:23:48,940
What, that thing
we just saw?
582
00:23:49,013 --> 00:23:51,072
The reason
for the party, yes.
583
00:23:51,149 --> 00:23:53,913
Well, I'm not an expert
in the field or anything,
584
00:23:53,985 --> 00:23:56,818
but the production quality
seemed amateurish to me.
585
00:23:56,888 --> 00:23:58,378
Yeah, I'm not
submitting the thing
586
00:23:58,456 --> 00:24:00,686
for a Golden Globe
nomination, Charlie.
587
00:24:00,758 --> 00:24:03,022
You know what
I'm talking about.
588
00:24:03,094 --> 00:24:05,722
Well, as a member
of the Defense Subcommittee,
589
00:24:05,797 --> 00:24:07,128
did you think
I wasn't aware
590
00:24:07,198 --> 00:24:09,393
that the Soviet Union's
invaded Afghanistan?
591
00:24:09,467 --> 00:24:11,401
Yes, I believe
my government is aware,
592
00:24:11,469 --> 00:24:13,960
but I was wondering if they were
thinking of doing anything about it
593
00:24:14,038 --> 00:24:17,235
other than boycotting the Olympics,
which I think you'll agree,
594
00:24:17,308 --> 00:24:18,866
was a fairly
impotent response
595
00:24:18,943 --> 00:24:21,138
to the greatest national
security threat we've faced
596
00:24:21,212 --> 00:24:22,611
since the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
597
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,843
Well, I don't think making more
movies about it is gonna do the trick,
598
00:24:25,917 --> 00:24:27,509
if that's what
you're asking.
599
00:24:27,585 --> 00:24:28,847
It's not.
600
00:24:30,054 --> 00:24:32,852
Exactly how much power do you have
as a member of the Subcommittee?
601
00:24:32,924 --> 00:24:34,414
Which one? I'm on two.
602
00:24:34,492 --> 00:24:35,618
Foreign Ops.
603
00:24:35,693 --> 00:24:38,821
Eight members and myself hand out
11 billion in foreign assistance.
604
00:24:38,897 --> 00:24:41,229
And what about
the Defense Subcommittee?
605
00:24:41,299 --> 00:24:42,288
Our budget is hidden.
606
00:24:42,367 --> 00:24:43,732
It is also unlimited.
607
00:24:43,801 --> 00:24:45,268
Yeah.
608
00:24:46,671 --> 00:24:48,901
Would you like to see my room?
609
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,132
Yeah.
610
00:24:50,208 --> 00:24:51,232
(WHIMPERING)
611
00:24:51,309 --> 00:24:55,268
So, unless I'm wrong, and
that would be unusual for me,
612
00:24:56,214 --> 00:24:58,239
you sit at the intersection
of the State Department,
613
00:24:58,316 --> 00:25:00,284
the Pentagon and the CIA.
614
00:25:00,752 --> 00:25:03,744
You meet in a soundproof
room underneath the Capitol,
615
00:25:03,821 --> 00:25:07,154
and you preside over a
secret and unlimited budget
616
00:25:07,225 --> 00:25:10,854
for the three agencies you would
need to conduct a covert war.
617
00:25:10,929 --> 00:25:12,556
Isn't that right?
618
00:25:12,630 --> 00:25:14,860
I also have seats at the Kennedy Center.
619
00:25:14,933 --> 00:25:18,300
Isn't that how you were able to
double the CIA budget for black approps
620
00:25:18,369 --> 00:25:20,803
in Afghanistan just by saying so?
621
00:25:20,872 --> 00:25:24,501
Why are you only asking me questions
you already know the answers to?
622
00:25:24,576 --> 00:25:27,443
Why is Congress saying one
thing and doing nothing?
623
00:25:27,512 --> 00:25:29,412
Well, tradition mostly.
624
00:25:35,787 --> 00:25:37,118
Come here.
625
00:25:37,722 --> 00:25:38,814
Okay.
626
00:25:47,832 --> 00:25:52,030
I do not understand the
energy women have after sex.
627
00:25:52,103 --> 00:25:54,936
You're dancing around,
you're baking a pie.
628
00:25:55,006 --> 00:25:56,906
JOANNE: Charlie? Yes, ma'am?
629
00:25:56,975 --> 00:26:00,103
Why is the CIA running a
fake war in Afghanistan?
630
00:26:00,178 --> 00:26:02,169
They're doing everything they can.
631
00:26:02,246 --> 00:26:04,111
They're doing it badly.
632
00:26:04,315 --> 00:26:06,715
The CIA is arming the mujahideen.
633
00:26:06,784 --> 00:26:07,978
Where do you think they're
getting their weapons?
634
00:26:08,052 --> 00:26:11,385
They're arming them with
12.7 millimeter Dishukas
635
00:26:11,456 --> 00:26:13,083
which would be good,
636
00:26:13,157 --> 00:26:16,320
except the Soviets have specifically
armor-plated their Hind helicopter
637
00:26:16,394 --> 00:26:19,295
to resist a 12.7 millimeter shell.
638
00:26:19,664 --> 00:26:21,564
We sold Pakistan F-16s,
639
00:26:21,633 --> 00:26:25,330
but didn't give them the
look-downlshoot-down radar.
640
00:26:25,403 --> 00:26:26,461
If this were a real war,
641
00:26:26,537 --> 00:26:28,937
State would issue a white paper
outlining the Communist threat
642
00:26:29,007 --> 00:26:31,202
the way they did in El Salvador.
643
00:26:31,275 --> 00:26:35,109
If this were a real war, there'd
be a National Bipartisan Commission
644
00:26:35,179 --> 00:26:39,809
on Afghanistan, headed by Henry Kissinger
the way they did in Central America.
645
00:26:39,884 --> 00:26:44,082
If this were a real war, Congress
would authorize $24 million
646
00:26:44,155 --> 00:26:47,420
for covert operations the
way you did in Nicaragua.
647
00:26:47,792 --> 00:26:49,817
If this were a real war...
648
00:26:50,094 --> 00:26:52,927
You may be the sexiest woman ever.
649
00:26:52,997 --> 00:26:55,363
I'm not kidding. You are Helen of Troy.
650
00:26:55,433 --> 00:26:56,695
Are you patronizing me?
651
00:26:56,768 --> 00:26:59,168
What do you want me to do, Joanne?
652
00:26:59,337 --> 00:27:01,328
This is what I want you to do.
653
00:27:01,406 --> 00:27:04,534
I want you to save
Afghanistan for the Afghans.
654
00:27:04,942 --> 00:27:07,001
I want you to deliver
such a crushing defeat
655
00:27:07,078 --> 00:27:08,807
to the Soviets that Communism crumbles,
656
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,246
and in so doing, end the Cold War.
657
00:27:11,315 --> 00:27:12,407
I'll tell you, I'd do it, too,
658
00:27:12,483 --> 00:27:14,974
but I got this Dairy Queen
problem in Nacogdoches.
659
00:27:15,053 --> 00:27:19,046
Don't underestimate me, Charlie.
Believe everything you've heard.
660
00:27:19,824 --> 00:27:21,553
What exactly do you want me to do?
661
00:27:21,626 --> 00:27:23,059
Go to Pakistan and meet with Zia.
662
00:27:23,127 --> 00:27:24,321
CHARLIE: Zia?
663
00:27:24,796 --> 00:27:26,559
Mohammed Zia ul-Haq.
664
00:27:26,998 --> 00:27:28,659
He's the President of Pakistan.
665
00:27:28,733 --> 00:27:30,257
I've already arranged it.
666
00:27:30,334 --> 00:27:33,269
You've arranged a meeting between
me and the President of Pakistan?
667
00:27:33,337 --> 00:27:34,326
Yes.
668
00:27:34,405 --> 00:27:35,565
You're going to Israel next week
669
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,471
to meet with Zvi Rafiah
about the Lavi jets.
670
00:27:37,542 --> 00:27:40,477
I want you to tack Pakistan
on the end of your trip.
671
00:27:40,545 --> 00:27:41,739
And meet with the President?
672
00:27:41,813 --> 00:27:44,976
Let him convince you that
it's a Christian imperative
673
00:27:45,049 --> 00:27:48,246
to let the Afghans rid
their country of Communism.
674
00:27:49,020 --> 00:27:52,854
Okay. It's not likely the President
of Pakistan is a Christian,
675
00:27:52,924 --> 00:27:55,586
but I'm gonna do this for you, Joanne,
676
00:27:55,660 --> 00:27:58,390
'cause you saved my ass
once with the pro-lifers
677
00:27:58,463 --> 00:28:02,695
and I owe you my seat in Congress
and because you look very good naked.
678
00:28:02,767 --> 00:28:06,794
But I have to tell you,
I'm elected by Jews.
679
00:28:06,871 --> 00:28:09,339
How many Jews do you
have in your district?
680
00:28:09,407 --> 00:28:10,431
Seven.
681
00:28:10,508 --> 00:28:12,567
But congressmen aren't
elected by voters,
682
00:28:12,643 --> 00:28:14,008
they're elected by contributors,
683
00:28:14,078 --> 00:28:17,070
and mine are in, well, New
York, Florida, Hollywood,
684
00:28:17,148 --> 00:28:19,639
because I'm one of
Israel's guys on the Hill.
685
00:28:19,717 --> 00:28:20,945
And I don't know how they're gonna feel
686
00:28:21,018 --> 00:28:23,486
about me taking up the cause of Muslims.
687
00:28:23,554 --> 00:28:24,885
Well, that's your problem.
688
00:28:24,956 --> 00:28:26,253
Yes, it is.
689
00:28:26,958 --> 00:28:28,482
Go fight this war and win it, Charlie.
690
00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:31,995
Everything possible is on the
line, including your manhood.
691
00:28:32,063 --> 00:28:34,861
Oh, I was afraid you
were gonna say that.
692
00:28:35,099 --> 00:28:36,088
(WATER RUSHING)
693
00:28:37,502 --> 00:28:40,027
Well, I guess it ain't
gonna be twice tonight.
694
00:28:40,104 --> 00:28:42,629
Well, I guess somebody can't count.
695
00:28:42,707 --> 00:28:45,232
Oh, darling, I was talking about me.
696
00:29:47,905 --> 00:29:49,031
(SPEAKING URDU)
697
00:29:51,676 --> 00:29:52,665
(SPEAKING URDU)
698
00:29:53,578 --> 00:29:54,567
(OFFICER SHOUTING)
699
00:29:54,779 --> 00:29:56,246
Congressman Charlie Wilson.
700
00:29:56,314 --> 00:29:57,303
Mr. Congressman.
701
00:29:57,381 --> 00:29:59,042
(CHUCKLING) Mr. President.
702
00:30:01,786 --> 00:30:02,912
Yeah.
703
00:30:03,521 --> 00:30:05,421
Joanne Herring speaks
very highly of you.
704
00:30:05,489 --> 00:30:07,980
Oh, well, thank you, sir. Thank you.
705
00:30:08,059 --> 00:30:09,856
These are two of my brightest advisors
706
00:30:09,927 --> 00:30:12,862
when it comes to the
problem of the Soviets.
707
00:30:13,497 --> 00:30:15,192
This is Brigadier Rashid.
708
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:17,258
How do you do? Pleased to meet you.
709
00:30:17,335 --> 00:30:18,700
Colonel Mahmood. How do you do?
710
00:30:18,769 --> 00:30:20,259
Pleased to meet you.
711
00:30:20,338 --> 00:30:21,327
Please come.
712
00:30:21,405 --> 00:30:22,565
Thank you.
713
00:30:25,877 --> 00:30:27,845
You must be thirsty.
Can we get you a drink?
714
00:30:27,912 --> 00:30:31,712
Oh, actually I'd love a glass
of ice and any kind of whiskey.
715
00:30:31,883 --> 00:30:33,373
Rye, Canadian.
716
00:30:34,485 --> 00:30:35,474
Uh...
717
00:30:37,355 --> 00:30:39,482
I'm sorry, Congressman,
we don't have alcohol
718
00:30:39,557 --> 00:30:41,787
in the Presidential Residence.
719
00:30:42,393 --> 00:30:45,658
Of course, you don't. I apologize.
720
00:30:47,698 --> 00:30:48,858
Fruit juice?
721
00:30:48,933 --> 00:30:50,264
(SPEAKING URDU)
722
00:30:51,269 --> 00:30:52,827
Bet a lot of people make that mistake.
723
00:30:52,904 --> 00:30:53,893
(LAUGHING)
724
00:30:54,305 --> 00:30:55,329
No.
725
00:30:56,007 --> 00:30:56,996
Okay.
726
00:30:57,074 --> 00:30:58,132
Brigadier?
727
00:30:58,843 --> 00:31:01,971
So you understand the
situation on our border?
728
00:31:02,647 --> 00:31:05,912
Yes, sir, I think I do.
And I think it's terrible.
729
00:31:06,484 --> 00:31:09,749
And I know I speak for all the people in
the Texas Second Congressional District
730
00:31:09,820 --> 00:31:12,345
when I say our thoughts and
our prayers are with you.
731
00:31:12,423 --> 00:31:14,914
All the people of the Texas
Second Congressional District,
732
00:31:14,992 --> 00:31:16,357
you say? Yes, indeed, sir.
733
00:31:16,427 --> 00:31:20,454
Three million Afghan refugees are
living like poorly treated livestock.
734
00:31:20,531 --> 00:31:22,294
Another two million have fled into Iran.
735
00:31:22,366 --> 00:31:23,833
And two million more angry men
736
00:31:23,901 --> 00:31:25,926
is just what the doctors ordered
for Iran, don't you think?
737
00:31:26,003 --> 00:31:28,563
People are dying by
the tens of thousands.
738
00:31:28,639 --> 00:31:31,699
And the ones that aren't are
crossing into Pakistan every day.
739
00:31:31,776 --> 00:31:33,243
MAHMOOD: Would you
like to know how many?
740
00:31:33,311 --> 00:31:35,142
One fifth of Afghanistan now lives
741
00:31:35,212 --> 00:31:37,806
in Pakistan's North-West
Frontier Province.
742
00:31:37,882 --> 00:31:39,850
ZIA: So, what I have been wondering is
743
00:31:39,917 --> 00:31:43,080
why your State Department
would send someone here
744
00:31:43,154 --> 00:31:45,384
who thinks he understands the problem.
745
00:31:45,456 --> 00:31:48,948
'Cause I don't think the prayers of
the Texas Second Congressional District
746
00:31:49,026 --> 00:31:50,357
are going to turn the trick.
747
00:31:50,428 --> 00:31:53,454
Well, now, I wasn't sent here by
the State Department, Mr. President.
748
00:31:53,531 --> 00:31:55,522
I was asked to come here
by our friend in Houston.
749
00:31:55,599 --> 00:31:57,794
So this is a courtesy call.
750
00:31:57,868 --> 00:32:01,736
I don't need courtesy. I need
airplanes, guns and money.
751
00:32:01,806 --> 00:32:06,505
Well, we just doubled the
CIA budget for covert ops...
752
00:32:06,577 --> 00:32:08,010
From 5 million to 10 million.
753
00:32:08,079 --> 00:32:10,070
That's right. Is that a joke?
754
00:32:11,415 --> 00:32:13,508
No. Is that meant to be a funny joke?
755
00:32:13,584 --> 00:32:14,573
No, sir.
756
00:32:14,652 --> 00:32:16,449
ZIA: Congressman, what they're saying is
757
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,183
$10 million from the U.S.
To fight the Russian Army
758
00:32:20,658 --> 00:32:23,889
is such a low figure that it
can be mistaken for a joke.
759
00:32:23,961 --> 00:32:27,692
I caught up to the sarcasm
there, sir. Let me be clear.
760
00:32:28,699 --> 00:32:30,860
The United States is
eager to assist you.
761
00:32:30,935 --> 00:32:31,993
No, you're not. You're not.
762
00:32:32,069 --> 00:32:33,764
Absolutely not. I went to Oxford
763
00:32:33,838 --> 00:32:35,135
and I know what that word means.
764
00:32:35,206 --> 00:32:37,436
The U.S. Is not eager to assist us.
765
00:32:37,508 --> 00:32:40,375
Well, now it's my understanding
that we offered to sell you F-16s.
766
00:32:40,444 --> 00:32:41,433
You didn't want them.
767
00:32:41,512 --> 00:32:43,173
Because you refused
to sell us the radar.
768
00:32:43,247 --> 00:32:44,509
RASHID: So to hell with that.
769
00:32:44,582 --> 00:32:47,915
ZIA: And this is emblematic
of American fence sitting
770
00:32:47,985 --> 00:32:49,475
when it comes to fighting the Soviets.
771
00:32:49,553 --> 00:32:52,488
To hell with it! You sell us
the planes but not the radar.
772
00:32:52,556 --> 00:32:55,719
You offer Afghans rifles
from the First World War
773
00:32:56,127 --> 00:32:59,426
while Soviet helicopters are
killing everything they can find,
774
00:32:59,497 --> 00:33:02,125
people, animals, food
supplies. So to hell with it!
775
00:33:02,199 --> 00:33:04,463
Yeah. You sell the Israelis the radar,
776
00:33:04,535 --> 00:33:06,526
so that's why he says,
"To hell with it."
777
00:33:06,604 --> 00:33:08,731
Again, I understood. Yeah.
778
00:33:08,939 --> 00:33:12,375
Also, the arms and funding
should flow through us.
779
00:33:14,445 --> 00:33:15,469
I'm sorry?
780
00:33:15,546 --> 00:33:17,275
That's been part of the problem.
781
00:33:17,348 --> 00:33:19,873
The arms and the funding
should flow through us.
782
00:33:19,950 --> 00:33:22,578
We have experience with
warfare of this kind.
783
00:33:22,653 --> 00:33:25,588
And your CIA has an
unimpressive track record.
784
00:33:25,656 --> 00:33:27,817
Oh. I wouldn't say that.
785
00:33:27,892 --> 00:33:31,794
They missed 130,000 Soviet
soldiers walking into Afghanistan.
786
00:33:32,830 --> 00:33:34,457
Okay, we blew that call.
787
00:33:34,532 --> 00:33:36,056
I would say so.
788
00:33:39,870 --> 00:33:46,105
Well, I don't want to use up
any more of your hospitality,
789
00:33:46,177 --> 00:33:51,046
so I will take your message
back to my committee chairman,
790
00:33:51,115 --> 00:33:53,913
and we will give it
our fullest attention.
791
00:33:54,118 --> 00:33:56,245
Let me walk you to the door.
792
00:33:57,855 --> 00:33:58,844
(OFFICER SHOUTS COMMAND)
793
00:34:01,125 --> 00:34:03,719
I learned about you
before you came here.
794
00:34:03,794 --> 00:34:07,093
I learned that you're a
man of many character flaws.
795
00:34:07,298 --> 00:34:08,390
I am.
796
00:34:08,499 --> 00:34:10,592
But I also learned that
you never promise anything
797
00:34:10,668 --> 00:34:12,397
you cannot deliver.
798
00:34:12,603 --> 00:34:14,264
No, I don't, Mr. President.
799
00:34:14,338 --> 00:34:15,828
Then promise me this.
800
00:34:15,906 --> 00:34:19,000
Go to Peshawar and
see the refugee camps.
801
00:34:19,343 --> 00:34:20,970
Right now. Today.
802
00:34:21,479 --> 00:34:24,277
Go to Peshawar and
see with your own eyes.
803
00:34:24,448 --> 00:34:27,178
I have a helicopter waiting to take you.
804
00:34:28,085 --> 00:34:29,950
All right, I'll do it.
805
00:34:30,221 --> 00:34:31,745
Thank you, Mr. Congressman.
806
00:34:31,822 --> 00:34:33,119
Mr. President.
807
00:34:38,729 --> 00:34:40,697
All right, you, come on.
808
00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:44,226
How did it go?
809
00:34:44,301 --> 00:34:45,563
Well, there were three of them.
810
00:34:45,636 --> 00:34:48,764
It was like getting slapped around
by a Pakistani vaudeville team.
811
00:34:48,839 --> 00:34:50,170
You know you've pretty
much hit rock bottom
812
00:34:50,241 --> 00:34:51,936
when you've been told you
have character flaws by a man
813
00:34:52,009 --> 00:34:55,001
who hanged his predecessor
in a military coup.
814
00:34:55,079 --> 00:34:56,068
Can we go home now?
815
00:34:56,147 --> 00:34:58,809
No. No, we have to make one more stop.
816
00:35:58,342 --> 00:35:59,775
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
817
00:36:46,523 --> 00:36:48,320
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
818
00:36:54,732 --> 00:36:56,359
I've seen enough.
819
00:36:59,069 --> 00:37:03,529
About 350 people in three
small villages at Kandahar.
820
00:37:03,607 --> 00:37:06,599
But instead of doing it all at once,
821
00:37:06,677 --> 00:37:09,111
the Russians would
make the parents watch
822
00:37:09,179 --> 00:37:11,670
as they slit the
throats of the children.
823
00:37:11,749 --> 00:37:13,876
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
824
00:37:15,252 --> 00:37:21,919
So, the Russians gathered all the
defectors and piled them like wood
825
00:37:21,992 --> 00:37:24,187
in the center of the village.
826
00:37:24,762 --> 00:37:27,094
Then they ran over
them with their tanks.
827
00:37:27,164 --> 00:37:28,961
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
828
00:37:29,867 --> 00:37:33,598
WOMAN TRANSLATOR: I saw something shiny
on the ground. I thought it was a toy.
829
00:37:35,906 --> 00:37:39,364
When I reached down to grab
it, it exploded in my hand.
830
00:37:40,277 --> 00:37:41,676
I should have known.
831
00:37:41,745 --> 00:37:46,773
Because last year my little brother
tried to pick up a piece of candy.
832
00:37:48,452 --> 00:37:50,249
It split him in half.
833
00:37:50,954 --> 00:37:54,617
It takes more work to take care
of a wounded child than a dead one.
834
00:37:54,692 --> 00:37:57,525
So when the Russians cover
fields with toy mines,
835
00:37:57,594 --> 00:38:01,826
adults who might help with the war
effort have to take care of the children.
836
00:38:01,899 --> 00:38:04,060
BONNIE: You can see yourself.
837
00:38:05,102 --> 00:38:06,160
Like a bug.
838
00:38:06,236 --> 00:38:07,225
(BUZZING)
839
00:38:07,604 --> 00:38:08,935
(WOMAN TRANSLATING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
840
00:38:11,408 --> 00:38:13,069
They're beautiful.
841
00:38:13,944 --> 00:38:16,174
How many children do you have?
842
00:38:18,415 --> 00:38:19,780
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
843
00:38:20,517 --> 00:38:21,916
She had six.
844
00:38:24,154 --> 00:38:27,055
So, what do you want
to be when you grow up?
845
00:38:35,466 --> 00:38:37,263
(SOBBING)
846
00:39:08,732 --> 00:39:13,362
Hi. I have Congressman Wilson here
to see the station chief, Harold Holt.
847
00:39:13,437 --> 00:39:16,133
Down the hall. Second door on the left.
848
00:39:16,774 --> 00:39:18,366
I'll wait outside.
849
00:39:19,710 --> 00:39:21,610
Look, normally, a
congressional delegation,
850
00:39:21,678 --> 00:39:25,079
we'd give them a courtesy briefing
on the situation, but as you can see,
851
00:39:25,149 --> 00:39:28,516
it's getting pretty late, we don't
have a whole lot of time anyway, so...
852
00:39:28,585 --> 00:39:30,348
Well, make the time. Huh?
853
00:39:31,221 --> 00:39:33,917
Fuck your time, Harold. I'm
on Defense Appropriations.
854
00:39:33,991 --> 00:39:36,858
I'm catching a plane back to
Washington in just a few minutes.
855
00:39:36,927 --> 00:39:40,090
Now, I need a full
classified briefing right now.
856
00:39:43,801 --> 00:39:45,666
Hundred and twenty thousand
Soviet troops in all.
857
00:39:45,736 --> 00:39:46,725
Hundred and twenty thousand?
858
00:39:46,804 --> 00:39:48,965
40th Army is garrisoned in the cities
859
00:39:49,039 --> 00:39:50,199
and in the airports.
860
00:39:50,274 --> 00:39:52,936
Your seventh and eighth
infantry divisions are in Kabul.
861
00:39:53,010 --> 00:39:55,774
The 18th in Mazar-e Sharif,
the fourth armored...
862
00:39:55,846 --> 00:39:56,835
Anything inside?
863
00:39:56,914 --> 00:39:58,006
I'm sorry?
864
00:39:58,081 --> 00:39:59,742
They controlling anything inside?
865
00:39:59,817 --> 00:40:01,409
Soviet advisors have appropriated
866
00:40:01,485 --> 00:40:03,646
the Afghan intel service
and the ministries.
867
00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:05,153
Which ministries?
868
00:40:05,222 --> 00:40:06,621
All of them.
869
00:40:06,957 --> 00:40:11,223
Anyway, the fourth armored
covers Bagram Airbase.
870
00:40:11,295 --> 00:40:12,523
Seventh Armored is...
871
00:40:12,596 --> 00:40:15,394
Why ain't they shooting
down them helicopters?
872
00:40:15,466 --> 00:40:16,694
I'm sorry?
873
00:40:16,767 --> 00:40:18,394
The helicopters, Harold.
874
00:40:18,469 --> 00:40:21,905
Why ain't we giving them something
to shoot down them helicopters?
875
00:40:21,972 --> 00:40:25,464
The helicopters are a problem.
876
00:40:27,377 --> 00:40:28,708
You think?
877
00:40:29,513 --> 00:40:31,845
Congressman... They're
shooting at Soviet gunships
878
00:40:31,915 --> 00:40:35,612
with Enfield rifles. That's
basically what Davy Crockett used.
879
00:40:35,686 --> 00:40:38,519
The Soviet Hind gunship is especially
armor plated to resist bullets.
880
00:40:38,589 --> 00:40:42,548
Yeah, I know, I know. So you tell
me what you need to shoot them down.
881
00:40:42,626 --> 00:40:43,615
What do you mean?
882
00:40:43,694 --> 00:40:45,423
Tell me what you need.
883
00:40:46,663 --> 00:40:47,755
Do you understand what I'm saying?
884
00:40:47,831 --> 00:40:51,699
You tell me what you need, and I
will go about getting it for you.
885
00:40:51,768 --> 00:40:54,100
Congressman, I appreciate
your generosity,
886
00:40:54,171 --> 00:40:59,040
but a sudden influx of money and
modern weaponry would draw attention.
887
00:40:59,943 --> 00:41:02,468
What? A sudden influx
of money and modern...
888
00:41:02,546 --> 00:41:04,571
Wait, it would draw attention?
889
00:41:04,648 --> 00:41:05,672
Yeah.
890
00:41:06,617 --> 00:41:09,211
Why, I don't even know what that means.
891
00:41:09,286 --> 00:41:11,049
This is the Cold War.
Everybody knows about it.
892
00:41:11,121 --> 00:41:12,179
Should I continue with the briefing?
893
00:41:12,256 --> 00:41:16,352
Have you been to these refugee
camps? Have you heard these stories?
894
00:41:16,426 --> 00:41:19,623
Congressman, I am required
to give you a briefing.
895
00:41:19,997 --> 00:41:21,658
Should I continue?
896
00:41:21,965 --> 00:41:23,455
No. Thank you.
897
00:41:35,078 --> 00:41:36,875
(SIGHING)
898
00:41:37,147 --> 00:41:42,175
You know, I had a neighbor, growing
up, with a name right out of Dickens.
899
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,481
Mr. Charles Hazard.
900
00:41:46,857 --> 00:41:50,020
And Mr. Hazard didn't
like the neighborhood dogs
901
00:41:50,093 --> 00:41:52,186
messing up his flower beds.
902
00:41:52,729 --> 00:41:54,594
One day, I heard a bunch of
yelling from across the street,
903
00:41:54,665 --> 00:41:56,098
so I ran on over to Mr. Hazard's,
904
00:41:56,166 --> 00:41:59,932
and there were about 15 grown-ups
standing around my dog, Teddy,
905
00:42:00,003 --> 00:42:03,905
who was writhing on the
ground in obvious agony.
906
00:42:04,441 --> 00:42:06,306
Blood was pouring out of his mouth.
907
00:42:06,376 --> 00:42:08,708
Mr. Hazard had ground up a glass bottle
908
00:42:08,779 --> 00:42:12,044
and put it in a bowl of
dog food and fed it to him.
909
00:42:13,750 --> 00:42:15,342
What did you do?
910
00:42:15,886 --> 00:42:18,980
Well, I got some gasoline and
burned down his flower beds.
911
00:42:19,056 --> 00:42:21,490
But that wasn't satisfying enough.
912
00:42:22,626 --> 00:42:26,255
And then I remembered, Mr.
Hazard was an elected official.
913
00:42:26,330 --> 00:42:28,662
He was the head of the town council.
914
00:42:28,732 --> 00:42:31,633
His reelection every two years
was a foregone conclusion.
915
00:42:31,702 --> 00:42:36,139
So come Election Day, I drove
over to the black section of town.
916
00:42:36,206 --> 00:42:39,505
Now, these people hadn't voted
in any of these elections, so...
917
00:42:39,576 --> 00:42:42,477
I was only 13, but I
had a farmer's license
918
00:42:44,014 --> 00:42:45,504
and I filled up my car with black voters
919
00:42:45,582 --> 00:42:46,844
and drove them to the polling place
920
00:42:46,917 --> 00:42:48,248
and then waited, then
drove them on home.
921
00:42:48,318 --> 00:42:51,253
But before they got
out of the car to vote
922
00:42:51,321 --> 00:42:56,452
I said, "I don't mean to influence
you, but I think you should know
923
00:42:56,526 --> 00:43:00,121
"Mr. Charles Hazard has
intentionally killed my dog."
924
00:43:02,532 --> 00:43:05,228
About 400 ballots were
cast in that election.
925
00:43:05,302 --> 00:43:07,896
I drove 96 of them to the polls.
926
00:43:09,006 --> 00:43:11,099
Hazard lost by 16 votes.
927
00:43:14,678 --> 00:43:18,170
And that's the day I
fell in love with America.
928
00:43:21,718 --> 00:43:23,515
What time do we land?
929
00:43:24,154 --> 00:43:26,179
7:30 a.m. In D.C.
930
00:43:26,890 --> 00:43:29,484
I want the CIA in my office at 10:00.
931
00:43:30,293 --> 00:43:32,818
Assistant Deputy Director or higher.
932
00:43:33,230 --> 00:43:35,892
Tell them that if I don't
see someone at 10:00,
933
00:43:35,966 --> 00:43:40,903
I'm gonna start docking their allowance
at a rate of $1 million a minute.
934
00:43:41,104 --> 00:43:42,366
Yes, sir.
935
00:43:42,706 --> 00:43:44,139
And get me another
one of them, would you?
936
00:43:44,207 --> 00:43:45,196
(CLEARING THROAT)
937
00:43:46,176 --> 00:43:47,438
Yes, sir.
938
00:43:50,247 --> 00:43:52,215
AGENT PATRICK: The AKs,
RPG-7 grenade launchers
939
00:43:52,282 --> 00:43:55,342
and 82 millimeter mortars are
coming into Pakistan by air and sea,
940
00:43:55,585 --> 00:43:57,246
and then trucks take
them to the Afghan border.
941
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,220
AGENT WELLS: Then we
take them across on mules,
942
00:43:59,289 --> 00:44:00,916
which are running a little
more than we thought.
943
00:44:00,991 --> 00:44:02,686
The mules? They're 2,400 a piece,
944
00:44:02,759 --> 00:44:04,727
plus we got to get them
checked out. For what?
945
00:44:04,795 --> 00:44:08,060
Diseases. Foot and mouth. Plus they
have to have their ears cleaned.
946
00:44:08,131 --> 00:44:10,497
The mules are getting better
health care than the Afghans.
947
00:44:10,567 --> 00:44:13,866
AGENT WELLS: Plus, they're gonna cost a
little extra if we want them pre-trained.
948
00:44:13,937 --> 00:44:15,461
To do what? Walk over a mountain
949
00:44:15,539 --> 00:44:16,665
with ammunition on their back.
950
00:44:16,740 --> 00:44:18,071
Aren't they born with that instinct?
951
00:44:18,141 --> 00:44:20,837
I mean, isn't that something
they want to do naturally?
952
00:44:20,911 --> 00:44:24,142
You think Afghanistan might, one day,
think about building some fucking roads?
953
00:44:24,214 --> 00:44:25,977
Gust. Yeah?
954
00:44:26,049 --> 00:44:28,017
I got something for you.
955
00:44:28,985 --> 00:44:30,384
I need you to be specific...
956
00:44:30,454 --> 00:44:32,922
MARLA: The whole thing has changed.
Get your diary. I'll show you.
957
00:44:32,989 --> 00:44:34,081
Okay.
958
00:44:35,325 --> 00:44:37,259
RECEPTIONIST: No problem. Thank you.
959
00:44:38,795 --> 00:44:39,955
He should be here any moment.
960
00:44:40,030 --> 00:44:42,692
Don't worry about me. I'm fine.
961
00:44:44,201 --> 00:44:45,930
Good morning. Good morning, Congressman.
962
00:44:46,002 --> 00:44:47,629
Welcome back. Yeah. Marla.
963
00:44:47,704 --> 00:44:49,137
Welcome back. Suzanne.
964
00:44:49,206 --> 00:44:50,673
Welcome back.
965
00:44:52,008 --> 00:44:53,032
Who are you?
966
00:44:53,110 --> 00:44:54,304
RECEPTIONIST: This is Gust Avrakotos.
967
00:44:54,377 --> 00:44:56,140
He's come up from Langley
to bring you the information
968
00:44:56,213 --> 00:44:58,204
that you wanted. Bonnie!
969
00:44:58,715 --> 00:44:59,704
Yes, sir?
970
00:44:59,783 --> 00:45:01,375
I said Assistant Deputy
Director or higher.
971
00:45:01,451 --> 00:45:03,351
I know, sir. I called... No,
Assistant Deputies don't come
972
00:45:03,420 --> 00:45:04,512
to the Hill without a subpoena.
973
00:45:04,588 --> 00:45:07,284
I'm the guy you want to talk to,
Congressman. I'm on the Afghan desk.
974
00:45:07,357 --> 00:45:09,257
You're on the Afghan desk? Yeah.
975
00:45:09,326 --> 00:45:11,920
Well, I wouldn't be too proud of
that. I just got back from there.
976
00:45:11,995 --> 00:45:14,327
Oh, I know. And that's
a hell of a flight, too.
977
00:45:14,397 --> 00:45:16,228
That nine hours flying
time against the jet stream.
978
00:45:16,299 --> 00:45:18,426
Probably had to stop in Brussels,
plus the time difference.
979
00:45:18,502 --> 00:45:19,833
I'd be a little grumpy myself.
980
00:45:19,903 --> 00:45:21,495
I ain't grumpy because of the plane.
981
00:45:22,639 --> 00:45:25,767
We want to give you this 'cause
we know you like single malt.
982
00:45:25,842 --> 00:45:27,309
It's called Talisker,
983
00:45:27,377 --> 00:45:29,368
and it's mentioned in a
Robert Louis Stevenson poem,
984
00:45:29,446 --> 00:45:31,277
The Scotsman's Return from Abroad.
985
00:45:31,348 --> 00:45:33,213
"The king o' drinks, as I conceive it,
986
00:45:33,283 --> 00:45:35,774
"Talisker, Isla or Glenlivet!"
987
00:45:35,852 --> 00:45:38,343
Who are you again? Gust Avrakotos.
988
00:45:39,723 --> 00:45:41,156
Have Bonnie come into this meeting.
989
00:45:41,224 --> 00:45:42,782
MARLA: Yes, sir.
990
00:45:43,593 --> 00:45:45,220
What's the gift for?
991
00:45:45,295 --> 00:45:48,162
It's from the Afghan desk for
doubling the budget for the mujahideen.
992
00:45:48,231 --> 00:45:50,961
Oh. Well, thank you.
993
00:45:51,601 --> 00:45:53,125
It was nothing.
994
00:45:53,403 --> 00:45:55,894
Well, it's a nice bottle of Scotch.
995
00:45:56,706 --> 00:45:57,730
Must've been hard to get.
996
00:45:57,808 --> 00:45:59,571
No, doubling the budget was nothing.
997
00:45:59,643 --> 00:46:02,669
I mean, $10 million for covert ops
against the Russian Army is meaningless.
998
00:46:02,746 --> 00:46:05,237
What are you, an infant? Now,
you hang on just one second.
999
00:46:05,315 --> 00:46:06,304
I don't remember your name.
1000
00:46:06,383 --> 00:46:07,714
Gust Avrakotos.
1001
00:46:07,784 --> 00:46:08,773
Gust Avrakotos.
1002
00:46:08,852 --> 00:46:09,841
Yeah.
1003
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,615
Okay, you mind if I call you Gus?
1004
00:46:11,688 --> 00:46:14,122
Yeah, well, my name's Gust
with a "t," but I don't care.
1005
00:46:14,191 --> 00:46:19,629
Fifteen hours ago, I offered Harold
Holt the keys to the safe, okay?
1006
00:46:20,463 --> 00:46:24,695
I stood there in the office in Islamabad,
and I said, "How much do you need?"
1007
00:46:24,768 --> 00:46:26,292
And I was apparently annoying him.
1008
00:46:26,369 --> 00:46:29,133
Well, Harold Holt's a massive tool,
Congressman. He's a cake-eater.
1009
00:46:29,206 --> 00:46:30,901
He's a clown. He's a bad station chief.
1010
00:46:30,974 --> 00:46:34,034
And I don't mean to cast aspersions on
a guy, but he's gonna get us all killed.
1011
00:46:34,110 --> 00:46:35,270
Really? Yeah.
1012
00:46:35,345 --> 00:46:38,246
Well, how does he expect to defeat
the Soviets in Afghanistan without...
1013
00:46:38,315 --> 00:46:40,374
He said, "A sudden influx of
money..." Yeah, an influx of money
1014
00:46:40,450 --> 00:46:41,815
and new weaponry would draw attention.
1015
00:46:41,885 --> 00:46:44,353
He's not trying to defeat
the Soviets, Congressman.
1016
00:46:44,421 --> 00:46:45,513
What the hell are you talking about?
1017
00:46:45,589 --> 00:46:46,578
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
1018
00:46:47,557 --> 00:46:48,888
Excuse me.
1019
00:46:50,026 --> 00:46:51,721
I'm the Congressman's aide, Bonnie Bach.
1020
00:46:51,795 --> 00:46:52,989
Gust Avrakotos.
1021
00:46:53,063 --> 00:46:54,724
Gus, I need the room for a second.
1022
00:46:54,798 --> 00:46:56,493
Sure. Jailbait!
1023
00:47:00,237 --> 00:47:02,831
Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey. Whoa, all right.
1024
00:47:02,906 --> 00:47:04,100
Just tell me what's happening.
1025
00:47:04,174 --> 00:47:06,404
A Justice Department task
force that was formed last year
1026
00:47:06,476 --> 00:47:08,671
to investigate reports of sex
between members of the House
1027
00:47:08,745 --> 00:47:10,679
and their male interns
has recently widened
1028
00:47:10,747 --> 00:47:12,544
to include the use of recreational drugs
1029
00:47:12,616 --> 00:47:14,550
by senators and congressmen.
1030
00:47:14,618 --> 00:47:15,880
Do you know a man named Paul Brown?
1031
00:47:15,952 --> 00:47:17,146
BONNIE: He doesn't have
to answer that. Keep going.
1032
00:47:17,220 --> 00:47:18,209
Oh, shit.
1033
00:47:18,288 --> 00:47:22,019
Paul Brown, under investigation
by federal prosecutors for fraud.
1034
00:47:22,759 --> 00:47:25,694
He wanted me to invest in
some TV show for Crystal.
1035
00:47:25,762 --> 00:47:28,128
Well, he's saying he witnessed
you doing cocaine nine times
1036
00:47:28,198 --> 00:47:30,166
in a fantasy suite in Las Vegas.
1037
00:47:30,233 --> 00:47:32,929
Brian Ross at NBC is breaking the story.
1038
00:47:33,069 --> 00:47:37,028
All right, guys. I was in Las
Vegas with Crystal and Paul Brown,
1039
00:47:37,107 --> 00:47:39,405
because she wanted me to
talk to him about this thing.
1040
00:47:39,476 --> 00:47:41,137
There was cocaine?
1041
00:47:42,245 --> 00:47:44,304
I want you to go in the other
room and start on a statement.
1042
00:47:44,381 --> 00:47:45,905
Let's get Stu on the
phone. Okay, I'll call him.
1043
00:47:45,982 --> 00:47:47,040
BONNIE: Okay, Bait, you
just need to start...
1044
00:47:47,117 --> 00:47:48,106
CHARLIE: It's all right, everybody.
1045
00:47:48,184 --> 00:47:49,708
It's gonna be all right.
I want to get back to...
1046
00:47:49,786 --> 00:47:50,844
Gus!
1047
00:47:52,689 --> 00:47:53,747
You having problems?
1048
00:47:53,823 --> 00:47:54,915
(CLEARS THROAT)
1049
00:47:54,991 --> 00:47:56,049
No.
1050
00:47:56,126 --> 00:47:58,720
What do you mean, he's not
trying to defeat the Soviets?
1051
00:47:58,795 --> 00:48:01,423
Well, he wants to bleed
them. Payback for Vietnam.
1052
00:48:01,498 --> 00:48:03,022
Make it so they just have
to keep sending troops in,
1053
00:48:03,099 --> 00:48:04,396
keep sending money,
and troops, and money
1054
00:48:04,467 --> 00:48:06,367
until they just go out of their
fucking minds the way we did.
1055
00:48:06,436 --> 00:48:09,098
You mean to tell me that the
U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
1056
00:48:09,172 --> 00:48:11,163
is to have the Afghans keep
walking into machine gun fire
1057
00:48:11,241 --> 00:48:12,401
till the Russians run out of bullets?
1058
00:48:12,475 --> 00:48:13,567
That's Harold Holt's strategy.
1059
00:48:13,643 --> 00:48:15,543
It's not U.S. Strategy.
What is U.S. Strategy?
1060
00:48:15,612 --> 00:48:17,045
Well, strictly speaking,
we don't have one.
1061
00:48:17,113 --> 00:48:18,205
But we're working hard on that.
1062
00:48:18,281 --> 00:48:19,748
Who's we? Me and three other guys.
1063
00:48:19,816 --> 00:48:20,805
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
1064
00:48:21,484 --> 00:48:23,247
Would you excuse me?
1065
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:24,309
(CLEARS THROAT)
1066
00:48:28,024 --> 00:48:29,048
All right, what do you have?
1067
00:48:29,125 --> 00:48:32,356
"Representative Charles Wilson has learned
he is joining several members of Congress
1068
00:48:32,429 --> 00:48:35,296
"who are under investigation by a
Justice Department task force that is..."
1069
00:48:35,365 --> 00:48:36,627
Don't say task force. It makes it sound
1070
00:48:36,700 --> 00:48:37,962
like Eliot Ness is
running the thing. Okay.
1071
00:48:38,034 --> 00:48:40,628
Who is running the thing?
Who's the prosecutor?
1072
00:48:40,704 --> 00:48:42,433
Rudolph Giuliani, New
York, Southern District.
1073
00:48:42,505 --> 00:48:44,063
You know him? No.
1074
00:48:44,140 --> 00:48:46,267
Well, it's been going on
forever. We should say that, too.
1075
00:48:46,343 --> 00:48:49,437
"Representative Charles Wilson has learned
he is joining several members of Congress
1076
00:48:49,512 --> 00:48:51,844
"who are under investigation
by the Justice Department
1077
00:48:51,915 --> 00:48:54,645
"in what is now an 18-month
long, wide-ranging examination
1078
00:48:54,718 --> 00:48:56,618
"that has resulted in no convictions."
1079
00:48:56,686 --> 00:48:58,711
"Congressman Wilson has not
been charged with any crime,
1080
00:48:58,788 --> 00:49:00,688
"nor has he been questioned
by the authorities.
1081
00:49:00,757 --> 00:49:03,487
"He denies any allegation of
illegal or improper behavior
1082
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:05,528
"and will fully cooperate with
the ongoing investigation."
1083
00:49:05,595 --> 00:49:06,653
Okay. Run it by Stu.
1084
00:49:06,730 --> 00:49:07,890
JAILBAIT: Yes, sir.
1085
00:49:09,632 --> 00:49:10,690
Gus!
1086
00:49:13,603 --> 00:49:16,128
You and three other guys? Yeah.
1087
00:49:16,206 --> 00:49:20,006
Well, I'll tell you what I told
Harold Holt. I can get the money.
1088
00:49:20,076 --> 00:49:23,068
Now, the 10 million is a
joke? Fine. What do you need?
1089
00:49:23,146 --> 00:49:24,875
To do what? To shoot
down the helicopters.
1090
00:49:24,948 --> 00:49:26,074
To shoot down the helicopters.
1091
00:49:26,149 --> 00:49:28,709
If we can help them shoot
down the goddamn helicopters,
1092
00:49:28,785 --> 00:49:30,150
everything's gonna start going our way.
1093
00:49:30,220 --> 00:49:33,656
You know, there's a story about
a Zen master and a little boy.
1094
00:49:33,723 --> 00:49:35,623
(KNOCK ON DOOR) All right, and... Yeah.
1095
00:49:38,862 --> 00:49:39,886
It's Stu.
1096
00:49:39,963 --> 00:49:41,453
You should be on this.
1097
00:49:43,433 --> 00:49:44,491
Stu?
1098
00:49:45,001 --> 00:49:46,901
No. No, it's gonna be fine.
1099
00:49:46,970 --> 00:49:48,938
It was a party in Vegas.
1100
00:49:49,305 --> 00:49:51,205
Lot of drugs, lot of
people I don't know.
1101
00:49:51,274 --> 00:49:54,573
I was there with Crystal
Lee and this guy Paul Brown
1102
00:49:54,644 --> 00:49:57,807
who wanted me to invest
in a TV show for Crystal.
1103
00:49:58,281 --> 00:49:59,305
I don't know.
1104
00:49:59,382 --> 00:50:02,408
I don't know, it's gonna be
like a Dallas set in Washington.
1105
00:50:02,485 --> 00:50:04,646
What... Stu, what does it matter?
1106
00:50:04,721 --> 00:50:05,813
Okay.
1107
00:50:06,456 --> 00:50:07,548
Okay.
1108
00:50:08,124 --> 00:50:10,354
Will Crystal back up your
story that you weren't using?
1109
00:50:10,427 --> 00:50:12,725
Just go put out the statement.
1110
00:50:12,896 --> 00:50:14,386
You know what?
1111
00:50:14,697 --> 00:50:18,258
You never should have been
in the same room, Congressman.
1112
00:50:18,334 --> 00:50:19,323
(DOOR SLAMS)
1113
00:50:20,737 --> 00:50:21,795
Gus!
1114
00:50:23,106 --> 00:50:26,564
Yeah. The Swiss make an antiaircraft gun
1115
00:50:26,643 --> 00:50:28,440
called the Oerlikon. Listen, Charlie.
1116
00:50:28,511 --> 00:50:30,138
Twenty-millimeter
cannon, high rate of fire.
1117
00:50:30,213 --> 00:50:31,805
I know the Oerlikon.
1118
00:50:31,881 --> 00:50:33,781
Don't forget the limo driver.
1119
00:50:33,850 --> 00:50:34,908
What do you mean?
1120
00:50:34,984 --> 00:50:37,782
Well, you took a limo from
the casino to the airport.
1121
00:50:37,854 --> 00:50:40,550
Maybe it's easy enough to track down
a limo driver, hand him a subpoena,
1122
00:50:40,623 --> 00:50:42,250
ask him if anything was
going on in the back seat,
1123
00:50:42,325 --> 00:50:44,316
so, you know, in terms
of cleaning up this...
1124
00:50:44,394 --> 00:50:45,884
Were you listening at the door?
1125
00:50:45,962 --> 00:50:47,793
I wasn't listening at the
door. Were you standing
1126
00:50:47,864 --> 00:50:49,991
at the goddamn door listening to me? No.
1127
00:50:50,066 --> 00:50:52,500
How could you even...
That's a thick door!
1128
00:50:52,569 --> 00:50:54,366
You stood there and you listened to me?
1129
00:50:54,437 --> 00:50:55,768
I wasn't standing at the
door. Don't be an idiot.
1130
00:50:55,839 --> 00:50:57,136
I bugged the Scotch bottle.
1131
00:50:57,207 --> 00:50:58,265
What?
1132
00:50:59,275 --> 00:51:00,401
Yeah, it's got a little
transmitter on it.
1133
00:51:00,477 --> 00:51:03,344
I got a little thing
in my ear. Get past it.
1134
00:51:03,413 --> 00:51:06,746
I don't believe this. Who the
fuck... Who the fuck are you?
1135
00:51:06,816 --> 00:51:08,545
It's not in my ear
right now. Take it easy.
1136
00:51:08,618 --> 00:51:11,018
I was gonna tell you about it, but
I had to leave the room for a second
1137
00:51:11,087 --> 00:51:13,112
'cause you were getting indicted.
I ain't getting indicted.
1138
00:51:13,189 --> 00:51:15,589
Is there a camera in here?
No, that's a little paranoid.
1139
00:51:15,658 --> 00:51:16,818
That's right.
1140
00:51:16,893 --> 00:51:19,953
Will you take the bug
off my Scotch bottle now?
1141
00:51:20,330 --> 00:51:21,422
Sure.
1142
00:51:24,134 --> 00:51:27,297
I saw two kids, had
their hands blown off
1143
00:51:27,704 --> 00:51:29,433
when they tried to
pick up something shiny.
1144
00:51:29,506 --> 00:51:32,498
Sometimes the kids think
those bombs are toys.
1145
00:51:32,609 --> 00:51:34,907
For children to pick up. Yeah.
1146
00:51:35,478 --> 00:51:37,002
They're raping the women and... Yeah.
1147
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,277
...bayoneting the pregnant
ones. It's as bad as it can be.
1148
00:51:40,350 --> 00:51:43,444
But they still want to go
out and fight the Red Army.
1149
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,579
Each and every one of them. I've
never seen anything like that.
1150
00:51:45,655 --> 00:51:47,247
No, me, neither.
1151
00:51:47,857 --> 00:51:50,519
Let's be clear. I want to kill
Russians as much as you do.
1152
00:51:50,593 --> 00:51:53,653
Is the Oerlikon the right gun?
Is that what they should have?
1153
00:51:53,730 --> 00:51:55,459
Now, you know what?
1154
00:51:55,698 --> 00:51:56,722
You've had a long flight.
1155
00:51:56,799 --> 00:51:58,494
You're under a lot of
stress. You're under arrest.
1156
00:51:58,568 --> 00:52:00,092
I ain't under arrest.
1157
00:52:00,170 --> 00:52:01,762
Do you drink? Oh, God, yeah.
1158
00:52:01,838 --> 00:52:03,362
Well, should we try this Scotch,
1159
00:52:03,439 --> 00:52:05,168
or is it gonna release
sarin gas when I open it?
1160
00:52:05,241 --> 00:52:08,176
Oh, I don't think so,
but open it over there.
1161
00:52:13,716 --> 00:52:16,207
How'd a guy like you
get into the Agency?
1162
00:52:16,286 --> 00:52:19,517
What, you mean a street
guy? You ain't James Bond.
1163
00:52:19,589 --> 00:52:23,025
And you ain't Thomas Jefferson,
so let's call it even.
1164
00:52:23,226 --> 00:52:24,318
Deal.
1165
00:52:26,029 --> 00:52:27,553
Since there's no other
reason I should be here,
1166
00:52:27,630 --> 00:52:30,690
let's assume it's 'cause
I'm very good at this.
1167
00:52:33,203 --> 00:52:35,671
They need to shoot down
the helicopters, Gus.
1168
00:52:35,738 --> 00:52:38,298
They need at least, what, 50 Oerlikons.
1169
00:52:38,374 --> 00:52:40,342
Yeah, it's gonna cost a
lot more than $10 million.
1170
00:52:40,410 --> 00:52:42,310
And I say for the fourth
time, I can raise the money.
1171
00:52:42,378 --> 00:52:43,675
Yeah, how?
1172
00:52:43,746 --> 00:52:46,909
Is the Oerlikon the gun
I should be recommending?
1173
00:52:47,050 --> 00:52:48,483
I'm not sure.
1174
00:52:48,551 --> 00:52:51,076
Who is sure? A weapons
guy named Mike Vickers.
1175
00:52:51,154 --> 00:52:53,384
I'll call him. Yeah.
Let's call him right now.
1176
00:52:59,395 --> 00:53:01,386
All right, here's a test.
1177
00:53:01,965 --> 00:53:03,626
You see the nerdy-looking
kid in the white shirt
1178
00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:05,759
playing against the four guys at once?
1179
00:53:05,835 --> 00:53:06,824
CHARLIE: Yeah.
1180
00:53:07,003 --> 00:53:09,528
Which one of the guys do you
think is a strategic weapons expert
1181
00:53:09,606 --> 00:53:11,733
with the CIA?
1182
00:53:12,275 --> 00:53:13,742
(SIGHING)
1183
00:53:14,143 --> 00:53:15,337
That was a trick question, Charlie.
1184
00:53:15,411 --> 00:53:17,879
It's the nerdy-looking
kid in the white shirt.
1185
00:53:17,947 --> 00:53:19,574
All right, no reason this
can't be fun, you know.
1186
00:53:19,649 --> 00:53:22,243
Mike! Yeah, just a second.
1187
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:24,448
Need you now, Mike.
1188
00:53:28,558 --> 00:53:30,025
Keep playing.
1189
00:53:31,361 --> 00:53:33,522
Mike Vickers, this is
Congressman Charles Wilson
1190
00:53:33,596 --> 00:53:35,587
of the Defense
Appropriations Subcommittee.
1191
00:53:35,665 --> 00:53:38,156
How are you, sir? Fine, thank you.
1192
00:53:39,102 --> 00:53:42,003
How old are you? I'll be 30 next week.
1193
00:53:42,071 --> 00:53:44,471
This is the CIA's weapons expert?
1194
00:53:44,574 --> 00:53:46,235
One of them. But he's the most senior.
1195
00:53:46,309 --> 00:53:47,333
GUS: Look... MAN: Mike!
1196
00:53:47,410 --> 00:53:49,708
Yeah, bishop to queen's knight 7.
1197
00:53:49,779 --> 00:53:51,406
See? He's playing without
even looking at the board.
1198
00:53:51,481 --> 00:53:52,607
That's a useful skill
1199
00:53:52,682 --> 00:53:55,708
if Afghanistan's ever
invaded by Boris Spassky.
1200
00:53:55,785 --> 00:53:58,083
Did my office not make it clear
to Langley that I'm in no mood
1201
00:53:58,154 --> 00:53:59,178
to be fucked around with? Charlie...
1202
00:53:59,255 --> 00:54:01,416
You answer to me or you answer
to Jim Baker. Which do you want?
1203
00:54:01,491 --> 00:54:04,358
All right, the guy's a fucking Green
Beret, Charlie. He trained with the SEALs.
1204
00:54:04,427 --> 00:54:06,952
No one's trying to fuck
with you! MAN: Mike?
1205
00:54:07,030 --> 00:54:09,965
Yeah, what was your move?
Knight to queen's bishop 5.
1206
00:54:10,033 --> 00:54:11,625
All right, queen to king's rook 3.
1207
00:54:11,701 --> 00:54:14,727
Guy on the right, you don't
want to trade queens with me.
1208
00:54:14,804 --> 00:54:15,896
Shit.
1209
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,730
All right, I apologize.
1210
00:54:18,808 --> 00:54:20,799
Okay. Everybody friends?
1211
00:54:20,910 --> 00:54:24,243
As a former naval officer myself,
Mike, I should've known better.
1212
00:54:24,314 --> 00:54:26,339
As a former naval officer, I'd
have been surprised if you had.
1213
00:54:26,416 --> 00:54:27,440
Now, what the fuck? Hey.
1214
00:54:27,517 --> 00:54:29,382
He said he was sorry. Hey.
1215
00:54:29,452 --> 00:54:30,942
What can I do for you, sir?
1216
00:54:31,020 --> 00:54:33,853
All right, he wants to make a
recommendation to his Subcommittee.
1217
00:54:33,923 --> 00:54:36,915
Now, the Swiss made Oerlikon S.T.A.
Antiaircraft cannon, that's what you'd use
1218
00:54:36,993 --> 00:54:39,484
to shoot down the Ml-24 Hind
gunship in the mountains, right?
1219
00:54:39,562 --> 00:54:40,688
Well, the Oerlikon's a good start,
1220
00:54:40,763 --> 00:54:43,027
but the Russians will just start
flying higher altitude missions.
1221
00:54:43,099 --> 00:54:44,123
So what else do they need?
1222
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,964
Same thing you give us.
AK-47 s, AK-74s, AKMS.
1223
00:54:47,036 --> 00:54:49,095
The Soviets didn't come into
Afghanistan on a Eurail Pass.
1224
00:54:49,172 --> 00:54:50,662
They came in T-55 tanks.
1225
00:54:50,740 --> 00:54:53,470
The fighters need RPG-7
anti-tank grenade launchers,
1226
00:54:53,543 --> 00:54:57,946
Katyusha 107 mm rockets, wire mines,
plastic mines, bicycle bombs, sniper rifles,
1227
00:54:58,014 --> 00:54:59,447
ammunition for all the above
1228
00:54:59,515 --> 00:55:01,278
and frequency-hopping
radios and burst transmitters
1229
00:55:01,351 --> 00:55:03,979
so these guys aren't
so fucking easy to find.
1230
00:55:04,053 --> 00:55:06,021
Well, I've written it all
in a report you can read.
1231
00:55:06,089 --> 00:55:08,387
You'd be the first one who did.
1232
00:55:09,559 --> 00:55:11,857
Send a copy of it to me by
secure courier right away.
1233
00:55:11,928 --> 00:55:14,158
I will. All right. All right.
1234
00:55:16,566 --> 00:55:17,965
There was a report?
1235
00:55:18,034 --> 00:55:19,296
It's not that simple.
1236
00:55:19,969 --> 00:55:22,767
Why not? Well, for
one thing it's covert.
1237
00:55:22,839 --> 00:55:24,466
When an Afghan freedom
fighter gets captured,
1238
00:55:24,540 --> 00:55:25,973
it can't be with an
American-made weapon on him.
1239
00:55:26,042 --> 00:55:27,942
That's how a cold war
turns into an actual war,
1240
00:55:28,010 --> 00:55:29,944
and that's something you
want to keep a good eye on.
1241
00:55:30,012 --> 00:55:32,003
So anything we give
them has to look like
1242
00:55:32,081 --> 00:55:34,982
it could have plausibly been
captured from the Soviets.
1243
00:55:35,051 --> 00:55:36,746
Yeah, that's right. You
know who's good at that?
1244
00:55:36,819 --> 00:55:39,151
Israel and Egypt. That's right.
1245
00:55:40,757 --> 00:55:42,190
You know what Vickers
just described back there
1246
00:55:42,258 --> 00:55:44,692
could cost as much as $40 million.
1247
00:55:44,961 --> 00:55:47,589
I can get the appropriation. But how?
1248
00:55:48,564 --> 00:55:50,623
I want to know how are you gonna
get the approval of Congress
1249
00:55:50,700 --> 00:55:52,395
when they're saying no to
the Contras for nothing,
1250
00:55:52,468 --> 00:55:55,130
for $5 million, a request
made by the President?
1251
00:55:55,204 --> 00:55:57,263
When a black approp makes
it through this Subcommittee,
1252
00:55:57,340 --> 00:55:59,570
the full body has to vote on it blind.
1253
00:55:59,642 --> 00:56:01,803
They know the dollar amount, but
they don't know what it's for.
1254
00:56:01,878 --> 00:56:05,905
So, theoretically, your $10
million can become 40 million
1255
00:56:05,982 --> 00:56:08,007
without anyone ever noticing
but the Russian Army.
1256
00:56:08,084 --> 00:56:09,949
Because Congress wouldn't
know what it was voting on.
1257
00:56:10,019 --> 00:56:11,077
That's the beauty of it!
1258
00:56:11,154 --> 00:56:12,917
All you need are the nine
other Subcommittee members.
1259
00:56:12,989 --> 00:56:14,513
All I really need is
the Committee Chairman.
1260
00:56:14,590 --> 00:56:16,353
Doc Long. Doc Long.
1261
00:56:16,692 --> 00:56:19,786
And with Doc's backing, you'll get the
votes of the other Committee members.
1262
00:56:19,862 --> 00:56:20,988
Yep. I don't believe you.
1263
00:56:21,063 --> 00:56:22,087
I don't care.
1264
00:56:22,165 --> 00:56:23,427
And until the phone rang
this morning, Charlie,
1265
00:56:23,499 --> 00:56:25,763
I didn't know I'd never heard of you.
1266
00:56:25,835 --> 00:56:27,462
Well, ask around.
1267
00:56:27,603 --> 00:56:29,730
I did. And what'd you find out?
1268
00:56:29,806 --> 00:56:31,797
That your greatest legislative
achievement in six terms
1269
00:56:31,874 --> 00:56:33,341
was getting reelected five times.
1270
00:56:33,409 --> 00:56:34,433
Anything else?
1271
00:56:34,510 --> 00:56:36,842
That you hold more IOUs
than any member of the House.
1272
00:56:36,913 --> 00:56:37,937
(LAUGHING)
1273
00:56:38,014 --> 00:56:39,538
How about that?
1274
00:56:39,715 --> 00:56:43,344
I represent the only district in
America that doesn't want anything.
1275
00:56:43,419 --> 00:56:46,354
They want their guns, they
want low taxes, that's it.
1276
00:56:46,422 --> 00:56:49,220
I can do favors. I
get to vote yes a lot.
1277
00:56:51,427 --> 00:56:54,624
Now, me and three other
guys are killing Russians.
1278
00:56:54,697 --> 00:56:55,959
I mean, is it possible
1279
00:56:56,032 --> 00:56:59,832
that I've met the only elected
official in town who can help?
1280
00:57:01,704 --> 00:57:04,036
Give me a week to set things up.
1281
00:57:04,140 --> 00:57:07,837
Go pack a bag. I have a friend,
an arms dealer in Israel.
1282
00:57:08,311 --> 00:57:10,279
He's who we need for this, God help us.
1283
00:57:10,346 --> 00:57:12,541
Should be interesting. Yeah.
1284
00:57:13,449 --> 00:57:14,473
All right.
1285
00:57:15,785 --> 00:57:17,275
CHARLIE: We need you, Zvi.
1286
00:57:17,353 --> 00:57:19,821
You're gonna be our man
inside the Israeli Parliament.
1287
00:57:19,889 --> 00:57:21,652
ZVI: I'm not in the Israeli Parliament.
1288
00:57:21,724 --> 00:57:23,715
That's what's gonna
make you so effective.
1289
00:57:23,793 --> 00:57:26,091
No one has your pull
with the 10th Knesset.
1290
00:57:26,162 --> 00:57:28,255
No one has your relationship
with the Speaker.
1291
00:57:28,331 --> 00:57:30,561
And we are gonna... We're gonna
need your arm around Menachem,
1292
00:57:30,633 --> 00:57:34,535
when he finds out that we're
working with Egypt and the Saudis.
1293
00:57:34,937 --> 00:57:37,838
Tell him. Tell him why we need him.
1294
00:57:38,341 --> 00:57:40,901
GUS: I'm not saying anything. Why not?
1295
00:57:41,244 --> 00:57:43,872
I don't know who the fuck
these two other guys are.
1296
00:57:43,946 --> 00:57:46,039
Well, ain't they bodyguards? Not ours.
1297
00:57:46,148 --> 00:57:47,206
Zvi?
1298
00:57:51,387 --> 00:57:54,049
Now, just to sum this up in a nutshell.
1299
00:57:54,624 --> 00:57:57,218
You want me to move Israel
1300
00:57:57,827 --> 00:58:02,457
toward a partnership with
Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
1301
00:58:02,532 --> 00:58:04,159
And Saudi Arabia.
1302
00:58:05,835 --> 00:58:08,861
Well, just a couple of problems I
can foresee off the top of my head.
1303
00:58:08,938 --> 00:58:09,962
Look.
1304
00:58:10,039 --> 00:58:11,063
Charlie... I know.
1305
00:58:11,140 --> 00:58:15,304
...Pakistan and Afghanistan don't
recognize our right to exist.
1306
00:58:15,378 --> 00:58:19,246
Calm down. We just got done
fighting a war with Egypt
1307
00:58:19,315 --> 00:58:22,648
and every person who has ever
tried to kill me and my family,
1308
00:58:22,718 --> 00:58:24,743
has been trained in Saudi Arabia.
1309
00:58:24,820 --> 00:58:27,050
That's not entirely true, Zvi.
1310
00:58:27,356 --> 00:58:29,551
I mean, some of them were trained by us.
1311
00:58:29,625 --> 00:58:31,092
CHARLIE: Gus, come on.
1312
00:58:32,161 --> 00:58:35,187
It's his sense of humor. It's
a bit of an acquired taste.
1313
00:58:35,264 --> 00:58:37,289
Now, Zvi, look at me.
1314
00:58:37,833 --> 00:58:40,700
This is the front of the Cold War.
1315
00:58:40,770 --> 00:58:43,739
It's not in Berlin, it's not in
Cuba, it's not in Czechoslovakia.
1316
00:58:43,806 --> 00:58:46,366
It's in a pile of rocks
called Afghanistan.
1317
00:58:46,442 --> 00:58:49,036
These are the only people who are
actually shooting at the Russians.
1318
00:58:49,111 --> 00:58:51,875
Now, you and I know we have
to get Soviet-made weapons
1319
00:58:51,948 --> 00:58:53,313
into the hands of the mujahideen.
1320
00:58:53,382 --> 00:58:55,111
And you and I know where
the largest stockpile
1321
00:58:55,184 --> 00:58:58,085
of Soviet weapons outside
the Soviet Union is.
1322
00:58:58,154 --> 00:58:59,746
I can't tell you offhand how many
1323
00:58:59,822 --> 00:59:02,052
and what kind of weapons
we've confiscated.
1324
00:59:02,124 --> 00:59:06,458
I can. These are
Keyhole-11 satellite photos.
1325
00:59:07,229 --> 00:59:10,323
They've been degraded so
I can show them to you.
1326
00:59:10,499 --> 00:59:12,194
All right, that's a
five-wheeled chassis tank.
1327
00:59:12,268 --> 00:59:14,828
That's not the Mk.1, that's the T-55.
1328
00:59:14,904 --> 00:59:17,873
And it and four others are
about 12 miles from here.
1329
00:59:17,940 --> 00:59:20,204
What do you want tanks in mountains for?
1330
00:59:20,276 --> 00:59:22,710
Oh, we don't. I just wanted
you to know I know you got them.
1331
00:59:22,778 --> 00:59:26,179
$35.5 million. Which you'll
be able to appropriate.
1332
00:59:26,382 --> 00:59:27,406
Yeah.
1333
00:59:27,483 --> 00:59:29,451
Without the press asking
questions about it.
1334
00:59:29,518 --> 00:59:30,542
GUS: You know, there's good news there,
1335
00:59:30,620 --> 00:59:33,453
because the press is going to be
busy asking about a weekend in Vegas
1336
00:59:33,522 --> 00:59:35,888
and his pending arrest on
charges of narcotics possession.
1337
00:59:35,958 --> 00:59:38,984
Oh, Gus. Shit, Charlie.
1338
00:59:39,061 --> 00:59:41,120
It's nothing. Is this true?
1339
00:59:41,197 --> 00:59:43,290
No, for our purposes,
it doesn't really matter.
1340
00:59:43,366 --> 00:59:45,027
Thank you. I was just explaining to him
1341
00:59:45,101 --> 00:59:47,228
that as long as the press sees
sex and drugs behind the left hand,
1342
00:59:47,303 --> 00:59:48,998
you can park a battle
carrier behind the right hand
1343
00:59:49,071 --> 00:59:50,333
and no one's gonna fucking notice.
1344
00:59:50,406 --> 00:59:51,532
What the hell happened?
1345
00:59:51,607 --> 00:59:53,472
It's not germane. It's
not germane to these people
1346
00:59:53,542 --> 00:59:56,978
who are fighting and dying, and
being massacred in their homes.
1347
00:59:57,046 --> 01:00:00,072
Now, for the love of Christ,
will you help us help them
1348
01:00:00,149 --> 01:00:02,049
shoot down these fucking helicopters?
1349
01:00:05,054 --> 01:00:06,817
I love you, Charlie,
1350
01:00:07,723 --> 01:00:09,623
but you are a grown man
1351
01:00:09,925 --> 01:00:14,760
who still hasn't learned to look both
ways before he crosses the fucking street!
1352
01:00:21,337 --> 01:00:22,736
Yes, I'm in.
1353
01:00:24,940 --> 01:00:28,103
But I don't like this
guy. I know how you feel.
1354
01:00:29,712 --> 01:00:32,647
ZVI: What happens now?
You come with us to Cairo.
1355
01:00:32,715 --> 01:00:35,013
This meeting's gonna be run
professional? Oh, absolutely.
1356
01:00:35,084 --> 01:00:37,109
We'll be talking to the
Deputy Defense Minister
1357
01:00:37,186 --> 01:00:40,485
while his boss gets a belly
dance from a friend of Charlie's.
1358
01:00:40,556 --> 01:00:42,615
What? A good friend
of mine back in Texas
1359
01:00:42,692 --> 01:00:43,886
is a well-known belly dancer.
1360
01:00:43,959 --> 01:00:47,554
It's always been her dream to
perform in Egypt, so she's our way in.
1361
01:00:47,630 --> 01:00:51,532
While she's dancing for the Defense
Minster, we'll be talking to the Deputy.
1362
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:53,932
Oh, my God. No, she's
supposed to be good.
1363
01:00:57,406 --> 01:01:00,739
(ARABIC MUSIC PLAYING)
1364
01:01:30,005 --> 01:01:32,803
That's an extraordinary woman. Oh, yeah.
1365
01:01:37,146 --> 01:01:39,740
That's not any belly
dance I'm familiar with.
1366
01:01:39,815 --> 01:01:43,114
That's why I wanted the
Defense Minister to see her.
1367
01:01:43,352 --> 01:01:46,947
This is your girlfriend? Carol's
a friend. She's an old friend.
1368
01:01:47,022 --> 01:01:50,583
I understand her father didn't allow
dancing because of the religion?
1369
01:01:50,659 --> 01:01:53,321
Yeah, that's correct.
1370
01:01:53,395 --> 01:01:54,862
And what religion is that?
1371
01:01:54,930 --> 01:01:56,795
You know, she's a Baptist.
1372
01:01:58,634 --> 01:02:03,230
As I was saying, the Russians will
learn, I'm quite afraid the hard way,
1373
01:02:03,305 --> 01:02:05,796
to fear God's vengeance upon those
1374
01:02:05,875 --> 01:02:09,572
who oppress his humble servants
who submit to him in Islam.
1375
01:02:09,879 --> 01:02:12,677
Their skulls will
hang from the treetops.
1376
01:02:12,748 --> 01:02:16,377
You can do whatever you like
with their skulls, I suppose.
1377
01:02:16,552 --> 01:02:22,457
What has Gus here concerned is a SA
surface-to-air missiles you all have.
1378
01:02:22,525 --> 01:02:24,254
For some reason, he thinks
they were stored poorly.
1379
01:02:24,326 --> 01:02:26,817
No, no, no, the SA-7
s were stored properly.
1380
01:02:26,896 --> 01:02:30,593
Excuse me. What about the
oppression of my people?
1381
01:02:30,666 --> 01:02:32,327
Oh, Zvi. I beg your pardon?
1382
01:02:32,401 --> 01:02:33,868
Fellows, we have to do this now.
1383
01:02:33,936 --> 01:02:38,464
I am about to arrange for
$35 million worth of guns
1384
01:02:38,541 --> 01:02:40,133
to be put into the hands of Muslims!
1385
01:02:40,209 --> 01:02:43,542
I meant no disrespect. Oh, really?
1386
01:02:43,612 --> 01:02:46,172
CHARLIE: Well, anyway, that...
None of this is important.
1387
01:02:46,248 --> 01:02:49,217
You have Soviet-licensed factories
that can put out Kalashnikovs
1388
01:02:49,285 --> 01:02:51,219
at a rate of 25,000 a week?
1389
01:02:51,287 --> 01:02:54,381
That's correct. What
about city warfare devices?
1390
01:02:54,456 --> 01:02:56,515
What kind? Bicycle bombs, limpet mines,
1391
01:02:56,592 --> 01:02:57,854
plastic, tripwire mines?
1392
01:02:57,927 --> 01:03:00,054
Yes, yes. Whatever you need.
1393
01:03:02,398 --> 01:03:04,161
CHARLIE: We can't improve the price now,
1394
01:03:04,233 --> 01:03:07,691
but when we come back for
more, we'll make it up to you.
1395
01:03:07,803 --> 01:03:09,031
I agree.
1396
01:03:09,738 --> 01:03:11,069
All right.
1397
01:03:21,550 --> 01:03:25,111
Hey, you did good back there
ignoring the religious shit.
1398
01:03:26,021 --> 01:03:27,955
'Cause these people are
totally fucking unspooled,
1399
01:03:28,023 --> 01:03:30,924
and I'm not just talking
about the Muslims.
1400
01:03:31,393 --> 01:03:33,884
Zvi's all right. Oh, I know he is.
1401
01:03:34,196 --> 01:03:35,356
He is Mossad, by the way.
1402
01:03:35,431 --> 01:03:38,594
What I'm talking about
is your friend in Houston.
1403
01:03:38,868 --> 01:03:42,929
Now, she's got to stop throwing fundraisers
and she's got to stop doing press.
1404
01:03:43,005 --> 01:03:45,565
Joanne is raising awareness.
1405
01:03:45,641 --> 01:03:47,006
(CHUCKLES)
1406
01:03:48,110 --> 01:03:52,774
She's using a non-secular vocabulary
1407
01:03:53,115 --> 01:03:55,640
and framing this as a religious war.
1408
01:03:56,752 --> 01:03:59,016
And America doesn't
fight religious wars.
1409
01:03:59,088 --> 01:04:00,180
(SIGHING)
1410
01:04:00,256 --> 01:04:02,724
Is that right? Yeah, that's
why I like living there.
1411
01:04:02,791 --> 01:04:05,589
FLIGHT CAPTAIN: Good morning, ladies
and gentlemen. This is your captain.
1412
01:04:05,694 --> 01:04:07,491
We will begin our initial descent
1413
01:04:07,563 --> 01:04:10,930
into Washington Dulles Airport.
I got to go down to Houston, so...
1414
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:13,025
... I would like to
thank you and hope...
1415
01:04:13,102 --> 01:04:16,003
Well, talk to her.
Yeah, I'll talk to her.
1416
01:04:19,508 --> 01:04:21,976
You want me to go into
business with the Israelis?
1417
01:04:22,044 --> 01:04:24,342
Just for this one purpose,
yes, Mr. President.
1418
01:04:24,413 --> 01:04:28,941
The Israelis have the largest stockpile
of Soviet-made weapons in friendly hands.
1419
01:04:29,018 --> 01:04:30,417
I know that.
1420
01:04:31,153 --> 01:04:34,589
I need to trust that this
arrangement will remain secret.
1421
01:04:34,657 --> 01:04:38,957
Pakistan and Israel would have to
appear to be enemies in the public eye.
1422
01:04:39,028 --> 01:04:41,496
Yeah, I don't think that's a tough sell.
1423
01:04:41,563 --> 01:04:43,292
You have authority to do this?
1424
01:04:43,365 --> 01:04:46,459
None whatsoever. In fact, I'm pretty
close to violating the Logan Act.
1425
01:04:46,535 --> 01:04:48,400
Well, I don't know what that is.
1426
01:04:48,470 --> 01:04:49,869
But, Charlie. Yes, sir.
1427
01:04:49,939 --> 01:04:52,840
If I see one fucking Star
of David on a crate...
1428
01:04:52,908 --> 01:04:54,705
You won't. I promise.
1429
01:04:56,645 --> 01:04:57,703
Hey. Excuse me.
1430
01:04:57,780 --> 01:05:00,544
You want me to take a
look at those remarks?
1431
01:05:00,616 --> 01:05:02,641
Why? Just... Well, your introduction,
1432
01:05:02,718 --> 01:05:07,052
want me to look it over? It's an
introduction, Charlie. I'll be fine.
1433
01:05:14,863 --> 01:05:18,526
Today we honor President
Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan.
1434
01:05:19,068 --> 01:05:21,628
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1435
01:05:32,181 --> 01:05:35,912
Before we go any further, I
would like you all to know this,
1436
01:05:36,218 --> 01:05:38,652
President Zia did not kill Bhutto.
1437
01:05:39,855 --> 01:05:41,550
In the time that he's been President,
1438
01:05:41,623 --> 01:05:44,558
the fortunes of Pakistan
have changed radically.
1439
01:05:44,626 --> 01:05:45,854
I've asked you all here today...
1440
01:05:47,296 --> 01:05:49,287
(CROWD CHATTERING)
1441
01:05:51,433 --> 01:05:53,697
(CUTLERY CLINKING)
1442
01:05:54,236 --> 01:05:56,329
You disappeared.
1443
01:05:56,538 --> 01:05:58,529
Well, they weren't
selling alcohol in there.
1444
01:05:58,607 --> 01:06:01,075
It's a traditional Pakistani gathering.
1445
01:06:01,143 --> 01:06:02,940
You think they might be
a lot happier over there
1446
01:06:03,012 --> 01:06:06,379
if they could just get women and booze
in the same room at the same time?
1447
01:06:06,448 --> 01:06:08,245
I think they'd be a whole
lot happier over there
1448
01:06:08,317 --> 01:06:09,784
if the Communists got out.
1449
01:06:09,852 --> 01:06:12,412
"Zia did not kill Bhutto."
1450
01:06:12,888 --> 01:06:16,346
That's not something you usually
hear in introductory remarks.
1451
01:06:16,425 --> 01:06:19,883
He didn't, Charlie. Bhutto had
a trial and was found guilty.
1452
01:06:19,962 --> 01:06:21,589
Shocking verdict.
1453
01:06:22,431 --> 01:06:25,025
What did you need to talk to me about?
1454
01:06:25,901 --> 01:06:29,598
Joanne, darling, dial down the religion.
1455
01:06:29,938 --> 01:06:32,270
What? It could alienate people
1456
01:06:32,341 --> 01:06:34,070
whose support we need.
1457
01:06:34,143 --> 01:06:36,839
It's luncheons like this that
are raising the money we need.
1458
01:06:36,912 --> 01:06:39,779
This thing is not gonna get
done by ballrooms full of people
1459
01:06:39,848 --> 01:06:41,076
in the Houstonian Hotel.
1460
01:06:41,150 --> 01:06:44,517
It's gonna get done by the
CIA, Israel, Egypt and Pakistan,
1461
01:06:44,586 --> 01:06:46,213
and it's gonna get done quietly.
1462
01:06:46,288 --> 01:06:47,653
Now, you start making people think
1463
01:06:47,723 --> 01:06:50,191
we're trying to convert
everybody to Christianity.
1464
01:06:50,259 --> 01:06:53,456
I was saved by Jesus Christ,
Charlie, and I am not ashamed of it.
1465
01:06:53,529 --> 01:06:56,760
My fervor is not about religion,
it's about freedom of religion,
1466
01:06:56,832 --> 01:06:57,890
which we have, they want,
1467
01:06:57,966 --> 01:07:00,230
and the Communists are
slaughtering them for.
1468
01:07:00,302 --> 01:07:03,601
And I get it. Just tamp down the fervor.
1469
01:07:04,606 --> 01:07:07,507
Well, I can't modulate
God's will, sweetie.
1470
01:07:07,743 --> 01:07:09,142
You can try.
1471
01:07:10,045 --> 01:07:13,640
Now, I got to get back to D.C. They've
set up a briefing for me at Langley.
1472
01:07:13,715 --> 01:07:16,081
On what? On getting the guns.
1473
01:07:19,021 --> 01:07:20,511
Afghanistan's barely a country.
1474
01:07:20,589 --> 01:07:22,853
There's no phones or
roads outside the cities.
1475
01:07:22,925 --> 01:07:24,358
It's likely that a
villager would live his life
1476
01:07:24,426 --> 01:07:26,986
without having contact with another
village just three miles down the road
1477
01:07:27,062 --> 01:07:29,121
unless he was going to war against them.
1478
01:07:29,198 --> 01:07:31,826
Now, my thinking is instead
of 400,000 sloppy guys,
1479
01:07:31,900 --> 01:07:35,597
we concentrate on several elite
forces totaling about 150,000.
1480
01:07:35,671 --> 01:07:37,161
Give these guys real training,
1481
01:07:37,239 --> 01:07:40,174
20 different courses covering
irregular warfare disciplines.
1482
01:07:40,242 --> 01:07:41,766
GUS: And do you have anybody in mind?
1483
01:07:41,844 --> 01:07:44,938
The most successful rebels
today are in the Panjshir Valley.
1484
01:07:45,013 --> 01:07:47,504
They're called the United Front
of the Council of the North.
1485
01:07:47,616 --> 01:07:49,641
We've earmarked them
for 10 million in weapons
1486
01:07:49,718 --> 01:07:52,312
and 10 to 15 agency
advisors for training.
1487
01:07:52,387 --> 01:07:55,447
CHARLIE: Who's their
leader? Ahmed Shah Massoud.
1488
01:07:55,524 --> 01:07:58,982
He's Tajik, so he's not
well liked by the Pashtun.
1489
01:07:59,061 --> 01:08:02,224
CHARLIE: So the... What, the Tajiks
have a problem with the Pashtuns?
1490
01:08:02,297 --> 01:08:04,458
Well, they say when a Tajik
wants to make love to a woman,
1491
01:08:04,533 --> 01:08:07,331
his first choice is
always a Pashtun man.
1492
01:08:08,770 --> 01:08:11,261
It's funnier in the original Pashto.
1493
01:08:11,540 --> 01:08:15,271
All right, I've heard enough.
I'm going to go get our money.
1494
01:08:15,511 --> 01:08:17,843
All right, don't fuck us up now.
1495
01:08:18,714 --> 01:08:19,840
Awesome pep talk.
1496
01:08:19,915 --> 01:08:24,181
Afghanistan, Egypt,
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia,
1497
01:08:24,253 --> 01:08:27,051
these are all
totalitarian dictatorships.
1498
01:08:27,122 --> 01:08:31,559
And they'd like to blow the only democracy
in the region right into the Mediterranean.
1499
01:08:31,627 --> 01:08:34,687
Now, you heard me say that
Israel's gonna be on board.
1500
01:08:34,763 --> 01:08:37,459
Oh, well, Zvi Rafiah's out of his mind.
1501
01:08:37,699 --> 01:08:41,795
These people are draconian thugs,
and in an evil and twisted derby
1502
01:08:41,870 --> 01:08:44,236
between the Communists
and the Fundamentalists,
1503
01:08:44,306 --> 01:08:45,864
it's 6-to-5 and pick them,
as far as I'm concerned.
1504
01:08:45,941 --> 01:08:48,341
No, you're wrong about that, Doc,
and you know you don't mean it.
1505
01:08:48,410 --> 01:08:52,210
In Pakistan, a blind girl gets
raped, but there's a witness.
1506
01:08:52,281 --> 01:08:54,772
Now, in Pakistan it
takes four witnesses.
1507
01:08:54,850 --> 01:08:57,284
So the rapist walks away
and the girl is in prison.
1508
01:08:57,352 --> 01:08:58,876
Can you tell me why?
1509
01:08:58,954 --> 01:09:01,684
Well, fornication. That's right.
1510
01:09:01,757 --> 01:09:04,783
Mr. Chairman, President Zia is the
only one willing to shoulder the risk
1511
01:09:04,860 --> 01:09:08,023
of actively training and
funding the mujahideen
1512
01:09:08,096 --> 01:09:09,461
while Egypt and Saudi Arabia...
1513
01:09:09,531 --> 01:09:12,261
Now, the Saudis are matching
any funding from Congress?
1514
01:09:12,334 --> 01:09:14,859
That's right. So when
you say 40 million to me,
1515
01:09:14,937 --> 01:09:16,165
you're really talking about 80 million.
1516
01:09:16,238 --> 01:09:17,364
Only 40 from us.
1517
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:19,532
You want to put $80 million
in the hands of these people?
1518
01:09:19,608 --> 01:09:21,735
No, see, Doc, now, if you took
a trip with me to the border,
1519
01:09:21,810 --> 01:09:23,505
you'd stop calling them "these people."
1520
01:09:23,579 --> 01:09:27,071
They are farmers and children mostly,
and they are fighting our enemies for us.
1521
01:09:27,149 --> 01:09:28,639
I know. And that should
be impossible for America.
1522
01:09:28,717 --> 01:09:30,617
I know. It should be
impossible for America
1523
01:09:30,686 --> 01:09:34,247
to sit on the bench while little kids
and their mothers fight our enemies.
1524
01:09:34,323 --> 01:09:37,156
Now, all you have to do to
change that is to support me
1525
01:09:37,226 --> 01:09:38,693
in the Committee, Mr. Chairman.
1526
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:43,094
I'm sorry, Charlie, but doubling
from 5 to 10 million is one thing,
1527
01:09:43,165 --> 01:09:45,929
but, you know, I just
can't get behind this.
1528
01:09:46,001 --> 01:09:47,468
(PHONE RINGING)
1529
01:09:49,204 --> 01:09:51,934
TRISH: Joanne Herring's
residence. Who's speaking?
1530
01:09:52,007 --> 01:09:54,805
Miss Herring, Congressman
Wilson for you.
1531
01:09:57,346 --> 01:09:58,745
Hello. CHARLIE: Hey.
1532
01:09:58,880 --> 01:09:59,972
Tell me what's happening.
1533
01:10:00,048 --> 01:10:03,176
Well, I need Doc Long, and
he's not getting on board.
1534
01:10:03,252 --> 01:10:06,278
Now, he's a church-going
guy, so I thought,
1535
01:10:06,355 --> 01:10:08,414
you know, maybe you
could... So now you need God.
1536
01:10:08,957 --> 01:10:11,255
Yeah. Let me give you his private line.
1537
01:10:11,693 --> 01:10:13,092
I've got it.
1538
01:10:13,195 --> 01:10:14,753
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
1539
01:10:14,896 --> 01:10:16,124
Trish! Yes, ma'am.
1540
01:10:16,665 --> 01:10:18,189
Boss? Yeah.
1541
01:10:18,267 --> 01:10:21,395
Hey, that's a nice
sweater. Oh, thank you.
1542
01:10:21,470 --> 01:10:23,938
The Washington Times wants to
know if you've ever been in rehab.
1543
01:10:24,006 --> 01:10:25,997
Well, what are you gonna tell
them? That you won't go to rehab
1544
01:10:26,074 --> 01:10:27,336
'cause they don't serve whiskey there.
1545
01:10:27,409 --> 01:10:29,570
Well, that's why you're the
press secretary, boo-boo.
1546
01:10:29,645 --> 01:10:32,808
I've got Stu on the line.
Can you jump on? Yeah.
1547
01:10:33,081 --> 01:10:34,742
Hey, Stu, it's me.
1548
01:10:34,983 --> 01:10:36,314
All right.
1549
01:10:36,551 --> 01:10:40,214
No, she's not a stripper, Stu.
She just posed for the cover...
1550
01:10:40,289 --> 01:10:42,086
Oh, what the hell
difference does it make?
1551
01:10:42,658 --> 01:10:44,148
They're talking to Crystal today.
1552
01:10:44,226 --> 01:10:45,318
Yeah.
1553
01:10:45,494 --> 01:10:48,019
Giuliani subpoenaed the limo driver.
1554
01:10:48,363 --> 01:10:50,024
Oh, that's what Gus said he'd do.
1555
01:10:50,098 --> 01:10:52,191
Well, the limo driver said
he didn't see anything.
1556
01:10:52,267 --> 01:10:53,393
He didn't see anything.
1557
01:10:53,468 --> 01:10:55,595
So Giuliani subpoenaed every limo driver
1558
01:10:55,671 --> 01:11:00,870
between Arlington and Silver Spring to see
if any of them can recall you using cocaine.
1559
01:11:01,243 --> 01:11:04,974
Joanne Herring's on the phone. Hey, you.
1560
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:06,577
We're all leaving in the morning.
1561
01:11:06,648 --> 01:11:08,047
You're kidding? No.
1562
01:11:08,750 --> 01:11:10,945
Well, what did you have to promise him?
1563
01:11:11,019 --> 01:11:13,487
There's a blind girl in
jail 'cause she was raped.
1564
01:11:13,555 --> 01:11:15,045
Yeah. You're gonna get her out.
1565
01:11:15,324 --> 01:11:17,451
What, I got to bust
somebody out of jail?
1566
01:11:17,526 --> 01:11:19,721
Don't be stupid, Charlie. You're
gonna tell Zia to pardon her.
1567
01:11:19,795 --> 01:11:21,490
That's Doc's condition.
1568
01:11:21,563 --> 01:11:25,055
I'll fly in tonight. Buy
me a drink? Yes, ma'am.
1569
01:11:25,534 --> 01:11:27,661
We're almost there, Charlie.
1570
01:11:31,540 --> 01:11:35,408
I'm going back to Pakistan
tomorrow! GIRLS: Let's party!
1571
01:11:35,477 --> 01:11:36,808
(GIRLS WHOOPING)
1572
01:11:36,878 --> 01:11:38,812
(DISCO MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)
1573
01:11:40,782 --> 01:11:41,942
Charlie! Oh, that was... I'm gonna...
1574
01:11:42,017 --> 01:11:43,314
You want a refill here, darling? Thanks.
1575
01:11:43,385 --> 01:11:45,046
Can we get another round?
1576
01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:46,280
Mario!
1577
01:11:46,822 --> 01:11:49,154
Oh, Charlie.
1578
01:11:54,763 --> 01:11:56,162
Hey, Joanne.
1579
01:11:57,799 --> 01:11:59,926
Can I call you Joanne? Yes.
1580
01:12:01,670 --> 01:12:03,831
You'll want to dress
considerably more modestly
1581
01:12:03,905 --> 01:12:05,270
when we're at the border.
1582
01:12:05,340 --> 01:12:08,537
Well, thank you, but I have
been passionately involved
1583
01:12:08,610 --> 01:12:10,475
with the cause of the
Afghans for three years.
1584
01:12:10,545 --> 01:12:12,240
I've been there many times.
1585
01:12:12,314 --> 01:12:14,407
Okay, well, then I'll
just go fuck myself.
1586
01:12:14,483 --> 01:12:17,179
I am not easily shocked, Mr. Avrakotos.
1587
01:12:17,986 --> 01:12:20,477
I knew you two were gonna
hit it off right away.
1588
01:12:20,555 --> 01:12:21,783
Charlie!
1589
01:12:21,957 --> 01:12:25,051
Sorry, Stu's on the phone.
You can take it at the bar.
1590
01:12:25,127 --> 01:12:28,028
Stu. This can't be good.
1591
01:12:30,699 --> 01:12:32,633
How'd you hook up with Charlie?
1592
01:12:32,701 --> 01:12:35,670
Are you also passionately involved
with the cause of the Afghans?
1593
01:12:35,737 --> 01:12:38,638
No, I just wasn't really
doing anything else.
1594
01:12:38,707 --> 01:12:41,107
I mean, how did you get into the CIA?
1595
01:12:41,176 --> 01:12:43,974
Oh, I didn't. I'm with the
Department of Agriculture.
1596
01:12:44,045 --> 01:12:47,173
Food and Plant Division.
Specifically apple imports.
1597
01:12:47,249 --> 01:12:50,412
Now, you don't seem like
the apple type. I know.
1598
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:53,178
What's that mean?
1599
01:12:54,990 --> 01:12:57,584
Where are you from? What do you care?
1600
01:12:57,659 --> 01:13:00,355
Are you a Catholic? Greek
Orthodox, Mrs. Herring.
1601
01:13:00,429 --> 01:13:03,330
That's still Christian.
Imagine my relief.
1602
01:13:04,132 --> 01:13:06,032
What's your problem with me?
1603
01:13:06,101 --> 01:13:08,035
You know, I've found, in my business,
1604
01:13:08,103 --> 01:13:11,595
that when people with time on their
hands get involved in politics,
1605
01:13:11,673 --> 01:13:14,301
I start forgetting what I'm
supposed to be shooting at.
1606
01:13:14,376 --> 01:13:16,571
That would be in the
apple import business.
1607
01:13:16,645 --> 01:13:18,044
Yes, ma'am.
1608
01:13:18,113 --> 01:13:20,308
I'll have to remember that. Please do.
1609
01:13:20,949 --> 01:13:22,280
(GIRLS SHRIEKING) It's over!
1610
01:13:22,451 --> 01:13:24,442
(CHARLIE LAUGHING)
1611
01:13:24,519 --> 01:13:26,783
It's over! It is over!
1612
01:13:26,855 --> 01:13:30,018
That was Stu, and it is over. Wait,
wait, wait. Crystal didn't name you?
1613
01:13:30,091 --> 01:13:32,423
Well, she witnessed me doing coke
1614
01:13:32,494 --> 01:13:34,325
in the Cayman Islands.
Oh, shit, Charlie.
1615
01:13:34,396 --> 01:13:37,627
No, it's all right. That's out of
the Justice Department's jurisdiction,
1616
01:13:37,699 --> 01:13:39,189
so it is over.
1617
01:13:39,668 --> 01:13:41,192
CHARLIE: I'm going home!
1618
01:13:42,537 --> 01:13:47,440
Gus, Joanne, the most important
trip of our lives is in the morning,
1619
01:13:47,509 --> 01:13:49,807
so let's get plenty of
sleep. I'm going home.
1620
01:13:49,878 --> 01:13:52,176
Jailbait, slap my hands! Yeah!
1621
01:13:52,747 --> 01:13:54,442
(GIRLS LAUGHING) Mario,
this is all on me.
1622
01:13:54,516 --> 01:13:55,778
Yes, sir.
1623
01:13:56,384 --> 01:13:59,148
He may be in trouble with the
press, but he stayed out of jail.
1624
01:13:59,221 --> 01:14:00,950
You don't see God's hand in this?
1625
01:14:01,022 --> 01:14:02,785
Well, reasonable people can disagree,
1626
01:14:02,858 --> 01:14:05,691
but I don't see God anywhere
within miles of this.
1627
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:07,489
On the other hand, if
you slept with me tonight,
1628
01:14:07,562 --> 01:14:10,087
I bet you I could change
my mind in a hurry.
1629
01:14:10,165 --> 01:14:11,962
Oh, you would. Yeah.
1630
01:14:15,403 --> 01:14:17,428
I'll see you on the plane.
1631
01:14:21,576 --> 01:14:23,009
(GIRLS LAUGING)
1632
01:14:23,078 --> 01:14:24,705
(MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)
1633
01:14:24,779 --> 01:14:25,939
Sluts.
1634
01:14:29,351 --> 01:14:31,546
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
1635
01:14:32,020 --> 01:14:34,648
(CHARLIE CHATTERING)
1636
01:14:41,963 --> 01:14:43,089
(GASPS)
1637
01:14:43,331 --> 01:14:45,026
(CHILDREN CHANTING)
1638
01:14:51,239 --> 01:14:53,332
Doc's eating this up. Yeah?
1639
01:14:53,408 --> 01:14:55,933
We're gonna get the money. DOC: Charlie?
1640
01:14:57,512 --> 01:14:58,740
Charlie!
1641
01:14:59,247 --> 01:15:01,044
Guy's a little senile. Don't be fooled.
1642
01:15:01,116 --> 01:15:02,640
He chairs a Subcommittee? Mmm-hmm.
1643
01:15:02,717 --> 01:15:07,120
Charlie, Joanne, this has been an
absolutely eye-opening experience.
1644
01:15:07,188 --> 01:15:09,019
I mean, it's absolutely stunning.
1645
01:15:09,090 --> 01:15:12,389
Tell them what we saw, Mr.
Papadropolous. Tell them.
1646
01:15:13,528 --> 01:15:15,553
They only want to go
back there and fight.
1647
01:15:15,630 --> 01:15:16,995
And you're their savior, Mr. Chairman.
1648
01:15:17,065 --> 01:15:18,896
Oh, I wouldn't go that
far, no. Watch this.
1649
01:15:18,967 --> 01:15:20,400
She's gonna lock it right
on up. JOANNE: Mr. Chairman,
1650
01:15:20,468 --> 01:15:23,596
these people have been waiting for
you. They have been sitting here
1651
01:15:23,672 --> 01:15:26,732
and bleeding and waiting
and praying for you.
1652
01:15:27,042 --> 01:15:30,341
It's only gonna be a man
like you who can save them.
1653
01:15:30,712 --> 01:15:33,272
We know, don't we, about our men,
1654
01:15:33,682 --> 01:15:36,344
what they can do when
they summon themselves.
1655
01:15:36,418 --> 01:15:38,648
Charlie, I think they want
you to make some remarks.
1656
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:41,086
No, you should do it, Mr. Chairman.
1657
01:15:41,156 --> 01:15:44,091
These people have been
waiting a long time for you.
1658
01:15:44,159 --> 01:15:46,184
Show Muriel what you
can do. Show your wife.
1659
01:15:46,261 --> 01:15:49,424
I'm a little bit emotional
about what I've seen here today.
1660
01:15:49,497 --> 01:15:50,759
Show her.
1661
01:15:52,767 --> 01:15:54,257
You can do it.
1662
01:15:55,804 --> 01:15:56,964
Go on.
1663
01:15:57,806 --> 01:15:59,137
All right.
1664
01:16:03,211 --> 01:16:06,408
Papadropolous. Well, it's
Greek. It's in the ballpark.
1665
01:16:06,481 --> 01:16:08,540
(MAN TRANSLATING IN FOREIGN
LANGUAGE) DOC: My friends,
1666
01:16:08,617 --> 01:16:11,643
my son served in Vietnam.
1667
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:16,748
He was wounded fighting in battle
against the Soviet oppressors.
1668
01:16:16,825 --> 01:16:18,622
I didn't know that about his son.
1669
01:16:18,693 --> 01:16:21,025
So, you see, I'm no stranger,
1670
01:16:21,096 --> 01:16:25,157
no stranger at all to the horrors
and atrocities of the Communists!
1671
01:16:25,233 --> 01:16:27,724
(TRANSLATING)
1672
01:16:27,936 --> 01:16:29,426
(CROWD CHEERING)
1673
01:16:29,504 --> 01:16:30,994
Thank you so much.
1674
01:16:32,374 --> 01:16:34,205
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
1675
01:16:34,275 --> 01:16:36,641
I talk about God for one simple reason.
1676
01:16:36,711 --> 01:16:39,703
As God is my witness today...
We need him on our side.
1677
01:16:39,781 --> 01:16:43,808
... these Russian gunships,
every last one of them,
1678
01:16:43,885 --> 01:16:46,012
are gonna be blown right out of the sky.
1679
01:16:46,087 --> 01:16:50,820
We're gonna see that you have guns and
we're gonna see that you have training!
1680
01:16:54,262 --> 01:16:55,627
Thank you.
1681
01:16:57,432 --> 01:16:59,332
Well, what I think's got Gus worried
1682
01:16:59,401 --> 01:17:03,599
is that sooner or later God
is gonna be on both sides.
1683
01:17:04,539 --> 01:17:07,906
This is good against evil.
1684
01:17:07,976 --> 01:17:11,207
And I want you to know that
America's always going to be
1685
01:17:11,279 --> 01:17:13,543
on the side of the good.
1686
01:17:14,182 --> 01:17:17,583
And God will always punish the wicked!
1687
01:17:19,888 --> 01:17:22,220
(CROWD CHANTING)
1688
01:17:26,895 --> 01:17:28,658
(EXCLAIMING)
1689
01:17:30,131 --> 01:17:31,598
God is great!
1690
01:17:32,634 --> 01:17:34,101
God is great!
1691
01:18:17,912 --> 01:18:20,540
NEWSCASTER: This has been a
year of setback and frustration.
1692
01:18:20,615 --> 01:18:23,083
And the Soviet Army, more than
at any time since the war began,
1693
01:18:23,151 --> 01:18:24,413
(COUGHING)
1694
01:18:24,486 --> 01:18:26,283
Now has the upper hand.
1695
01:18:26,354 --> 01:18:28,652
The mujahideen are pinned down.
1696
01:18:29,023 --> 01:18:32,720
The Afghan resistance has been
sanctified by the United States,
1697
01:18:32,794 --> 01:18:37,197
but the support has not been
translated into military hardware.
1698
01:18:37,265 --> 01:18:40,166
The guerrillas still cling to the
Kalashnikov, but it's not enough.
1699
01:18:40,235 --> 01:18:41,634
(CONTINUES COUGHING)
1700
01:18:41,703 --> 01:18:44,365
They're waiting in vain
for bigger modern weapons
1701
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:46,270
to turn on the Red Army.
1702
01:18:46,341 --> 01:18:48,639
The guerrillas survived the raid.
1703
01:18:49,878 --> 01:18:53,678
The Soviets now are conducting some
of the heaviest bombing of the war.
1704
01:18:53,748 --> 01:18:57,206
The Soviets have put more
troops and equipment back in.
1705
01:18:58,052 --> 01:18:59,781
Communist bastards.
1706
01:18:59,854 --> 01:19:01,116
(COUGHS)
1707
01:19:08,530 --> 01:19:09,997
(MAN CHATTERING)
1708
01:19:10,632 --> 01:19:12,691
Don't send us rice and bandages,
1709
01:19:12,767 --> 01:19:16,134
give us weapons so that we
can shoot down their gunships.
1710
01:19:19,607 --> 01:19:22,303
It's called the MILAN
anti-tank missile.
1711
01:19:22,377 --> 01:19:25,175
Can the Afghans win without it? No.
1712
01:19:26,447 --> 01:19:27,675
End of discussion.
1713
01:19:27,749 --> 01:19:30,616
I would like to have the
previously approved sum increased
1714
01:19:30,685 --> 01:19:32,676
by an additional 30 million,
1715
01:19:32,754 --> 01:19:36,451
bringing the total
appropriation to 70 million.
1716
01:19:36,524 --> 01:19:39,493
I'd like to introduce the
MILAN anti-tank missile.
1717
01:19:40,028 --> 01:19:41,359
We've got 300 in the field.
1718
01:19:41,429 --> 01:19:42,794
ALL: Yeah! Yep.
1719
01:19:43,765 --> 01:19:45,756
Let's kill some Russians!
1720
01:19:48,469 --> 01:19:50,403
(LOUD EXPLOSION)
1721
01:19:57,879 --> 01:20:00,973
Voting to pump up the money for
the freedom fighters is the only way
1722
01:20:01,049 --> 01:20:03,279
for the northeastern liberal
to prove that he's serious.
1723
01:20:03,351 --> 01:20:04,648
How much are you asking for?
1724
01:20:04,719 --> 01:20:06,687
I'd want to go from 70
million to 100 million.
1725
01:20:06,754 --> 01:20:10,087
And if you vote for me, I can deliver
the Black Caucus for the farm subsidy.
1726
01:20:23,204 --> 01:20:25,138
(MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO)
1727
01:20:38,086 --> 01:20:40,350
(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)
1728
01:20:49,731 --> 01:20:51,164
(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)
1729
01:21:02,944 --> 01:21:04,969
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
1730
01:21:10,818 --> 01:21:12,012
(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)
1731
01:21:13,655 --> 01:21:15,122
(WHISTLING)
1732
01:21:16,157 --> 01:21:18,091
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
1733
01:21:23,865 --> 01:21:25,628
(BEEPING)
1734
01:21:28,136 --> 01:21:29,967
(SCREAMING)
1735
01:21:50,558 --> 01:21:53,049
(CONTINOUS BEEPING)
1736
01:21:59,267 --> 01:22:01,258
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
1737
01:22:07,875 --> 01:22:09,035
(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)
1738
01:22:23,324 --> 01:22:25,451
(SHOUTING)
1739
01:22:52,387 --> 01:22:54,355
MAN: And they asked him,
quite reasonably enough,
1740
01:22:54,422 --> 01:22:55,855
"How did you vote on that?"
1741
01:22:55,923 --> 01:22:59,188
And I swear to God, he
looks over at his staff guy.
1742
01:23:00,495 --> 01:23:03,953
He had to check with an aide
for an answer to that question.
1743
01:23:05,166 --> 01:23:07,327
I don't know how that
guy stays in office.
1744
01:23:07,402 --> 01:23:08,801
(LAUGHING)
1745
01:23:40,068 --> 01:23:42,127
It was the Bamian-led group.
They set an ambush here
1746
01:23:42,203 --> 01:23:43,864
at the Fuladi Bridge.
GUS: What'd they get?
1747
01:23:43,938 --> 01:23:46,839
Four supply trucks coming
out of Bagram Airbase.
1748
01:23:46,908 --> 01:23:50,002
They hit a Soviet motorized
rifle battalion on horseback?
1749
01:23:50,111 --> 01:23:52,739
You bet your ass. Then
these guys are pretty good.
1750
01:24:16,804 --> 01:24:18,897
We can't control this thing anymore.
1751
01:24:18,973 --> 01:24:22,101
The man stood in my office
in Islamabad, and I told him,
1752
01:24:22,176 --> 01:24:23,768
"A sudden influx of money
1753
01:24:23,845 --> 01:24:27,337
"and weaponry..." Could you
hand me that belt, please?
1754
01:24:28,316 --> 01:24:30,045
Thank you. I mean, how is it possible
1755
01:24:30,118 --> 01:24:32,814
that this congressman of
no particular importance
1756
01:24:32,887 --> 01:24:34,411
is doing this by himself?
1757
01:24:34,489 --> 01:24:36,480
I will admit it's not unimpressive.
1758
01:24:36,557 --> 01:24:39,390
Is this the war we want
to be fighting, Henry? Huh?
1759
01:24:39,460 --> 01:24:44,227
Harold, whatever he's doing,
believe me, it's working.
1760
01:24:44,332 --> 01:24:45,856
(MISSILE FIRING)
1761
01:24:55,843 --> 01:24:57,333
(GUN FIRING)
1762
01:25:02,250 --> 01:25:08,246
The CIA estimates that seven out of
every 10 times the muj fires a Stinger,
1763
01:25:09,390 --> 01:25:11,915
a Soviet chopper or a
plane falls out of the sky.
1764
01:25:11,993 --> 01:25:16,157
Now, Russian MiGs go for $20
million, Stingers go for 60-70,000.
1765
01:25:16,230 --> 01:25:17,663
What do you want to do?
1766
01:25:17,732 --> 01:25:19,495
Well, I'd like to double to 250 million.
1767
01:25:19,567 --> 01:25:22,468
Remind me again, where
did this thing start?
1768
01:25:22,770 --> 01:25:24,237
5 million.
1769
01:25:24,305 --> 01:25:25,567
(MEN LAUGHING)
1770
01:25:32,313 --> 01:25:33,837
(PHONE RINGING)
1771
01:25:35,283 --> 01:25:38,582
Hello? CHARLIE: Is this Mrs.
Joanne King Herring Davis?
1772
01:25:39,654 --> 01:25:41,019
Where's it at, Charlie?
1773
01:25:42,456 --> 01:25:43,980
How's the honeymoon?
1774
01:25:44,525 --> 01:25:47,517
Am I ever gonna see you naked again?
1775
01:25:48,262 --> 01:25:49,456
Where's it at, Charlie?
1776
01:25:50,965 --> 01:25:54,423
500 million. Matched by the Saudis.
1777
01:25:55,102 --> 01:25:56,660
One billion dollars.
1778
01:25:56,737 --> 01:25:59,137
That's right. Billion with a "b."
1779
01:26:00,474 --> 01:26:03,204
Where does this rank
relative to other covert wars?
1780
01:26:03,844 --> 01:26:06,005
There's never been
anything else like it.
1781
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:07,445
Since when?
1782
01:26:08,983 --> 01:26:10,075
Ever.
1783
01:26:12,019 --> 01:26:13,748
I miss you, Charlie.
1784
01:26:14,121 --> 01:26:15,452
I, Joanne,
1785
01:26:17,425 --> 01:26:19,052
I always miss you.
1786
01:26:23,631 --> 01:26:25,030
I better go.
1787
01:26:33,007 --> 01:26:34,998
(DISCO MUSIC PLAYING)
1788
01:26:35,076 --> 01:26:37,101
CHARLIE: There's
nothing wrong with that!
1789
01:26:37,178 --> 01:26:39,874
And out in Polk, there's the polecat
who took us over the side there.
1790
01:26:39,947 --> 01:26:42,609
You know, that's the
truth. What do you got?
1791
01:26:42,683 --> 01:26:44,617
Is that Gus? You got it.
1792
01:26:44,685 --> 01:26:45,811
Hey, Gus!
1793
01:26:46,220 --> 01:26:48,484
Congratulations on your
reelection. Yeah, thank you.
1794
01:26:48,556 --> 01:26:51,684
Tell me what you know. All
right. Doc Long is gonna lose.
1795
01:26:51,759 --> 01:26:53,920
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We saw that coming.
1796
01:26:53,995 --> 01:26:56,623
Yeah, so who's gonna be our wallet now?
1797
01:26:57,231 --> 01:26:59,358
John Murtha. And is that good news?
1798
01:26:59,433 --> 01:27:00,764
Yep. Why?
1799
01:27:01,936 --> 01:27:04,632
I was his vote on the Ethics Committee.
1800
01:27:04,705 --> 01:27:06,673
(LAUGHING)
1801
01:27:06,741 --> 01:27:09,209
You know, you're a very, very
easy man to like, Congressman.
1802
01:27:09,510 --> 01:27:11,444
Call me tomorrow morning at high noon.
1803
01:27:11,679 --> 01:27:13,772
(LAUGHING) I will. Bye-bye.
1804
01:27:15,349 --> 01:27:16,441
(HORSES NEIGHING)
1805
01:27:16,517 --> 01:27:18,007
(GUNS FIRING)
1806
01:27:22,990 --> 01:27:24,480
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
1807
01:27:24,558 --> 01:27:27,186
We present you with this Stinger tube.
1808
01:27:27,495 --> 01:27:29,861
(MEN CHEERING)
1809
01:27:30,598 --> 01:27:32,122
(GUNS FIRING)
1810
01:27:33,067 --> 01:27:37,094
REPORTER: There was wild jubilation
inside the country of Afghanistan
1811
01:27:37,171 --> 01:27:40,572
as last weekend it became
the first country in history
1812
01:27:40,641 --> 01:27:43,109
to defeat the mighty Soviet Union.
1813
01:27:43,177 --> 01:27:44,872
(CROWD CHATTERING)
1814
01:27:44,945 --> 01:27:48,676
The retreat of Soviet military
power from Afghanistan is complete.
1815
01:27:48,749 --> 01:27:52,276
The last of Russia's regular
army invasion force is out.
1816
01:27:52,620 --> 01:27:55,418
Fear and uncertainty
were mixed with joy today
1817
01:27:55,489 --> 01:27:57,252
as the commander of Soviet troops
1818
01:27:57,325 --> 01:27:59,555
followed the last of his
men across the border.
1819
01:27:59,627 --> 01:28:03,256
CBS News Moscow correspondent,
Barry Petersen, begins our coverage.
1820
01:28:03,331 --> 01:28:06,767
BARRY: It was the last hurrah.
The final Soviet combat troops
1821
01:28:06,834 --> 01:28:08,802
crossing the Friendship
Bridge on the border
1822
01:28:08,869 --> 01:28:11,337
between Afghanistan
and the Soviet Union.
1823
01:28:11,405 --> 01:28:12,929
The Soviet commander, Lieutenant...
1824
01:28:13,007 --> 01:28:15,100
Look what you did, Charlie.
1825
01:28:15,476 --> 01:28:17,842
Hey, it's... Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey!
1826
01:28:17,912 --> 01:28:21,541
It's traditional to make a
gesture towards the vanquished.
1827
01:28:22,049 --> 01:28:24,517
Gus, it's your honor. GUS: Okay.
1828
01:28:24,585 --> 01:28:27,076
Reports that some Afghan units have...
1829
01:28:27,154 --> 01:28:31,352
Well, here's to you, you motherfuckers.
1830
01:28:31,425 --> 01:28:32,517
(CHEERING)
1831
01:28:32,593 --> 01:28:37,087
... determined to show the world that
the era of Soviet military intervention
1832
01:28:37,164 --> 01:28:40,031
in other countries is now over.
1833
01:28:40,468 --> 01:28:42,936
(DISCO MUSIC PLAYING)
1834
01:28:43,003 --> 01:28:46,996
CHARLIE: Well, I told
you. GUS: Told me what?
1835
01:28:47,074 --> 01:28:50,168
All we had to do was
shoot down the helicopters.
1836
01:28:52,913 --> 01:28:55,746
Listen, not for nothing,
but do you know the story
1837
01:28:55,816 --> 01:28:57,477
about the Zen master and the little boy?
1838
01:28:57,551 --> 01:28:59,143
Oh, is this something from Nitsa,
1839
01:28:59,220 --> 01:29:02,018
the Greek witch of
Aquilippa, Pennsylvania?
1840
01:29:02,123 --> 01:29:04,489
Yeah, as a matter of fact, it is.
1841
01:29:04,592 --> 01:29:06,287
(PEOPLE LAUGHING)
1842
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:09,659
There was a little boy, and on
his 14th birthday he gets a horse.
1843
01:29:09,730 --> 01:29:12,699
And everybody in the village says,
"How wonderful! The boy got a horse."
1844
01:29:12,767 --> 01:29:15,361
And the Zen master says, "We'll see."
1845
01:29:15,836 --> 01:29:17,997
Two years later, the boy falls
off the horse, breaks his leg.
1846
01:29:18,072 --> 01:29:20,097
And everybody in the
village says, "How terrible!"
1847
01:29:20,174 --> 01:29:22,768
And the Zen master says, "We'll see."
1848
01:29:23,144 --> 01:29:24,441
Then a war breaks out,
1849
01:29:24,512 --> 01:29:26,002
and all the young men
have to go off and fight,
1850
01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:27,843
except the boy can't 'cause
his leg's all messed up.
1851
01:29:27,915 --> 01:29:29,542
And everybody in the village
says, "How wonderful!"
1852
01:29:29,617 --> 01:29:32,211
And the Zen master says, "We'll see."
1853
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:34,911
So you get it.
1854
01:29:34,989 --> 01:29:37,514
No. No, I don't 'cause I'm stupid.
1855
01:29:37,591 --> 01:29:40,082
You're not stupid.
You're just in Congress.
1856
01:29:40,161 --> 01:29:41,924
Send them money. You
can start with the roads.
1857
01:29:41,996 --> 01:29:44,191
Move on to the schools,
factories. Gus, now, it's a party.
1858
01:29:44,265 --> 01:29:45,630
Restock the sheep herds. Hey.
1859
01:29:45,699 --> 01:29:47,462
Give them jobs, give them
hope. I'm trying. I'm trying.
1860
01:29:47,535 --> 01:29:49,503
Yeah, well, try harder. I'm
fighting for every dollar.
1861
01:29:49,570 --> 01:29:53,199
Yeah, yeah. I took you
from 5 million to a billion.
1862
01:29:53,674 --> 01:29:55,164
I broke the ice on the
Stinger and the MILAN.
1863
01:29:55,242 --> 01:29:58,234
I got a Democratic Congress in
lockstep behind a Republican President.
1864
01:29:58,312 --> 01:29:59,506
Well, that's not good enough
1865
01:29:59,580 --> 01:30:01,946
'cause I'm gonna hand you a code
word classified NIE right now,
1866
01:30:02,016 --> 01:30:03,847
and it's gonna tell you that
the crazies have started rolling
1867
01:30:03,918 --> 01:30:06,978
into Kandahar like it's
a fucking bathtub drain.
1868
01:30:08,088 --> 01:30:10,682
Jesus, Gus, you could depress
a bride on her wedding day.
1869
01:30:10,791 --> 01:30:11,849
Hey.
1870
01:30:15,329 --> 01:30:17,627
Listen to what I'm telling you.
1871
01:30:35,149 --> 01:30:38,676
You did a hell of a job for
the son of a soda pop maker.
1872
01:30:39,286 --> 01:30:42,949
"We'll see," said the Zen master.
1873
01:30:58,305 --> 01:31:00,432
$1 million for school reconstruction?
1874
01:31:00,508 --> 01:31:01,770
MAN 1: Oh, shit, Charlie.
1875
01:31:01,842 --> 01:31:04,572
Listen. He's like the
congressman from Kabul.
1876
01:31:04,645 --> 01:31:08,376
Did you hear me say it was a million,
not a billion, for school construction?
1877
01:31:08,449 --> 01:31:10,383
Yeah, we heard you.
Everybody heard you, buddy.
1878
01:31:10,451 --> 01:31:12,112
They heard you in Dover, Delaware.
1879
01:31:12,186 --> 01:31:13,653
Well, I sure hope I'm
not annoying you, Bob,
1880
01:31:13,721 --> 01:31:15,586
'cause that's the last
thing I want to do. Look...
1881
01:31:15,656 --> 01:31:18,625
I was in the Roosevelt Room
with the President last week.
1882
01:31:18,692 --> 01:31:19,784
You know what he said?
1883
01:31:19,860 --> 01:31:22,055
He said, "Afghanistan?
Is that still going on?"
1884
01:31:22,129 --> 01:31:23,528
Well, it is.
1885
01:31:23,697 --> 01:31:25,164
Half the population of that country
1886
01:31:25,232 --> 01:31:26,563
is under the age of 14. Charlie.
1887
01:31:26,634 --> 01:31:30,229
Half the population
is under the age of 14.
1888
01:31:31,105 --> 01:31:32,595
Now, think how fucking
dangerous that is.
1889
01:31:32,673 --> 01:31:35,403
They're gonna come home and
find their families are dead,
1890
01:31:35,476 --> 01:31:37,000
their villages have been napalmed.
1891
01:31:37,077 --> 01:31:39,841
And we helped kill the guys who did
it. Yeah, but they don't know that, Bob,
1892
01:31:39,914 --> 01:31:41,882
'cause they don't get home
delivery of The New York Times.
1893
01:31:41,949 --> 01:31:45,146
And even if they did,
it was covert, remember?
1894
01:31:45,886 --> 01:31:49,686
This is what we always do. We
always go in with our ideals
1895
01:31:49,757 --> 01:31:52,590
and we change the
world and then we leave.
1896
01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:54,552
We always leave.
1897
01:31:54,962 --> 01:31:57,760
But that ball, though,
it keeps on bouncing.
1898
01:31:57,831 --> 01:32:00,231
What? The ball keeps on bouncing.
1899
01:32:00,434 --> 01:32:01,765
MAN 2: Yeah, we're a
little busy right now
1900
01:32:01,835 --> 01:32:03,769
reorganizing Eastern
Europe, don't you think?
1901
01:32:03,837 --> 01:32:05,600
We've spent billions.
1902
01:32:05,739 --> 01:32:09,470
Let's spend a million on
H.R.118 and rebuild a school.
1903
01:32:09,543 --> 01:32:13,070
Charlie, nobody gives a shit
about a school in Pakistan.
1904
01:32:13,681 --> 01:32:15,080
Afghanistan.
1905
01:32:36,470 --> 01:32:41,567
MAN: So, for the first time, a civilian
is being given our highest recognition,
1906
01:32:42,142 --> 01:32:44,167
that of Honored Colleague.
1907
01:32:44,378 --> 01:32:47,006
Ladies and gentlemen of
the Clandestine Services,
1908
01:32:47,081 --> 01:32:49,174
Congressman Charles Wilson.
1909
01:32:53,120 --> 01:32:54,644
MAN: Bravo, Charlie.