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I bet you've been
gettin' a lot of, uh...
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Churchills, probably Mandela.
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Some de Gaulles.
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I'd have to go with, uh...
Anwar Sadat.
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Anwar Sadat?
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- The former Egyptian president.
- Right.
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No, no. Two years at the paper,
I never heard that one.
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I'd have to say Sadat.
Talk about standing up to
political and popular pressure.
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I'd like to think
that I had those kind of balls.
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There's a guy who did not die
in vain. He died for peace.
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Any ideas you'd die for,
Governor?
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Obviously I'd die
for this country.
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- I served, you know,
not in Vietnam but Desert Storm.
- Right. The Bronze Star.
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There wasn't a lot of shit
to get into there, but I was in it.
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What I meant was,
would you take a bullet...
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to advance abortion rights, flat taxes,
things you've been behind for years?
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I'd like to think
that I'd die for civil rights.
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Jesus!
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Jesus Christ! What the...
Governor! Governor!
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Governor Hathaway!
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Christ! What the...
Governor! Governor! Jesus!
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Yes! No... A car...
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I'm under a br...
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Somebody's obviously in the car.
The governor is in the water.
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Yes, Governor Hathaway
is in the water.
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You gotta send
somebody out...
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No, no, I want to see the car
come out of the water.
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- Back it up.
- Rewind!
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- You okay?
- I don't know about this, Fiona.
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Governor, excuse me.
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Bottom line. You put your ass on the
line out there. This guy from the Post...
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Paul Smith is his name.
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He's describing what you did as if
you should get the Medal of Honor.
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That isn't the reality, is it? She died.
In the end, that's the reality.
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There's one reality here,
Governor.
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The people have given you
Reagan-like approval numbers.
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- Last week were in the 50s,
today you were at 82.
- Look at it this way.
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That girl died.
That's a tragedy.
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But you did everything
you could possibly do to save her.
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They couldn't save the Alamo, either,
but everyone who died there's a hero.
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- We're at a commercial.
You're almost up, okay?
- Okay.
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Show your remorse,
but don't be broken.
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You're a national leader now.
Think that way.
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- Is Bert on our side?
- Absolutely.
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- Three, two, one.
- This is it.
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After this,
everything will be on our side.
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He has long been considered
at the top of President Evans's list...
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to fill the vacancy left by the death
of the vice president three weeks ago.
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But after the heroics that have become
the stuff of national legend...
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Governor Hathaway has become
the nation's choice...
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to take on the post of
the heir-apparent to the presidency.
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- Governor, thank you for joining us.
- Thank you, Bert.
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That's a nasty bit of business,
what happened on that river. Nasty.
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It's a damn shame you were
the unlucky bastard in that spot.
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Six and a half years in the White House,
press still hasn't gotten wind
of these bastards.
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Yeah, pretty, uh...
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pretty heroic,
what you tried.
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Just like everybody's
been saying, very, uh...
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- Pure Audie Murphy.
- Thank you, sir. I only wish...
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If it was me, I don't know if
I would've dove in there.
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Might have.
But honestly, I don't know.
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Well...
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At least for once, the press
is turning one of us into a hero.
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What was it like?
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It was...
It was cold.
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Oh, sure, this time of year. You were
risking your life saving that woman.
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- The cold alone could've
snapped you like a twig.
- It was dark under the water.
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The headlights were on.
So were the interior lights.
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I could see her face.
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She was very pretty. Young.
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- She was terrified.
- Wow.
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It was like
she was being buried alive.
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She looked at me.
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And then she had
this look of helplessness.
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I, I tried to pull
at the door, but, uh...
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I needed air, you know?
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I couldn't...
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No. By the time I got back down
to the car, she was dead.
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Her face was frozen in that look.
She carried that look of terror...
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right into her death.
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You did more
than most men would.
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I wonder.
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Look, Jack, it's just not gonna happen.
I can't nominate you.
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I can't put you up.
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We can't have
another Chappaquiddick.
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- I tried to save her.
Kennedy ran away, remember?
- You failed.
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Nobody's saying
it was your fault, but you failed.
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It's a bad beef, Jack.
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You're one of the leaders
of this party, a rising star...
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but you've got
a Republican-heavy Judiciary.
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They're not gonna give
a rat's ass about that.
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They're not gonna care
about your years of service
or what you've done for education.
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This would be it.
A girl died and...
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- This administration needs
a smooth confirmation.
- You let it happen.
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We had a rocky time
over the crime bill.
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Can't have any more obstacles
put in front of us.
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Well, I appreciate you
telling me personally, Mr. President.
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I'll, uh...
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I'll support
whoever you select, of course.
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I know that.
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You're the future
of the Democratic Party...
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and you always will be.
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Well, there's a boatload
of press out there.
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I don't think
you should avoid them.
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Take it easy, Jack.
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I don't understand this, Kermit.
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Six years ago I was the best man for
the job, and I'm still the right guy.
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- I have a great relationship
with Runyon...
- Listen to me.
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- Isn't there something
we can do about this?
- Believe me, I've tried.
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He's made up his mind. Filling this slot
may well be his swan song.
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Wants to be careful with it.
Let's not push it.
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Why not keep
in his good graces?
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You're a good man, Jack.
Want to see the governor out?
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- Jerry, you want to come in?
- Yes, sir.
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Mr. President,
Jerry's here.
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That was as rough as it comes.
Never seen anybody look so defeated.
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- Yeah, poor son of a bitch.
- Mr. President?
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Saw the governor out there. Looks like
he had the shit kicked out of him.
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If I have any more caffeine,
I'll be voting for the flat tax.
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I got this tea
from the Greek ambassador.
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Go on, sit. Never thought of Greece
as a tea-producing country...
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but, Jesus Christ,
if this isn't the tea to end all teas.
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Well, looks like Jack Hathaway's
had a shitty week.
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So Hathaway, he's out?
That's solid?
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That leaves us
with Malloy or Hanson.
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It's gotta be Hanson.
Malloy's out.
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- Now, Mr. President, I think you know...
- It's Hanson.
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You know how I feel. Hanson
may have turncoated our way,
but a turncoat's a turncoat.
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We've had a vacancy for three weeks. The
nation's moved from mourning to anxiety.
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I need a vice president. And I need a
person who's gonna reflect my politics.
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- Fill it with Frank Malloy.
- No, no. Malloy's got
an inflammation of ambition.
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He won't be doing his job.
He'll be preparing to do mine.
He's not even my second choice.
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If it doesn't work with Hanson,
we're gonna go back to Hathaway.
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- Do you think Hanson's a team player?
- Senator Hanson is gonna work.
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And it's the job of you two to make sure
that confirmation gets through.
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- I need to know I can count on you.
- Of course you can.
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The president and I discussed several
issues, including the vice presidency.
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- Did the president
offer you the position?
- I asked him to withdraw my name.
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Don't answer it, please.
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I gotta get it.
It's the red line.
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No, no, no, no.
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Hanson here.
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Yeah, of course I'll hold.
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Shh. Quiet.
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Hello, sir!
I'm great, sir, thank you. Yes.
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- As a matter of fact,
we're watching him on C-SPAN now.
- No names were discussed.
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Yes, she is.
One second, sir.
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It's the president.
He wants to talk to you.
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You wanna speak to him?
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Hello, sir.
This is Senator Hanson speaking.
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Oh, Christ.
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That's what the prick said to you?
"We can't have another Chappaquiddick."
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No, not Evans. Newman said
the thing about Chappaquiddick.
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What the fuck
is that supposed to mean?
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That doesn't even make
any sense, Jack.
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You weren't some drunk
who drove your car...
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off a bridge and abandoned the whore
you were fucking to die.
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That's what I told them.
Not in those words.
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This is the second time
they fucked us over.
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- Did he say who he was going with?
- No.
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- It's gonna be Malloy.
Fucking Frank Malloy.
- That's what I'm hearing.
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Jack, he isn't worthy of...
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- This isn't happening to me.
- You can go.
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You're gonna take it up the ass.
Want to bend over and make
their job a little easier?
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You understand
what's going on here?
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This is it.
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The whole fucking plan, Jack,
everything, was to get to this point.
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We have one shot at this,
and it's gone!
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And you're gonna mope around
like some 12-year-old girl
who can't get a date to the dance?
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"Frank Malloy,
that's what I'm hearing."
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- What would you like me to do?
- I'd like you to give a shit.
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I'd like you to call Shelly Runyon back
and get this fucking thing fixed!
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- Why not?
- You've already gone over it.
It's done, ancient history.
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I don't feel reconciled
about it yet.
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- I'll think about it.
- No, I think it's fine.
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Okay, I'm not convinced.
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Thanks.
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You sure you want
to have alcohol on your breath
the first time you meet the president?
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- No, you're right.
- No offense. Just wondering.
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I'm married
to the vice president, huh?
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Whoa, whoa.
I haven't been confirmed yet.
I haven't even been asked yet.
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You know what we gotta do pronto?
We gotta start working Runyon.
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- Runyon's gonna be a problem.
- Why is Runyon gonna be a problem?
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- 'Cause he's head of Judiciary.
- But the Senate takes care...
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Everything but the vice president.
Twenty-fifth amendment
doesn't specify...
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who runs the show
on that confirmation.
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Rumor has it that the House
has advise and consent on this one.
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- Runyon lobbied just hard enough
to get his committee the gig.
- Yeah, I think he did.
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I know his number-two guy, Ted Baker.
We went to college together.
I'll phone him.
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- I'll start pummeling him.
- No, no, no.
Don't say anything to him yet.
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- Why?
- Let's get it on our own merit for now.
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You know what?
I'm not gonna argue with you.
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Not only are you right,
but you're about to meet the president,
and you look great.
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- Doesn't she look great?
- Yeah, she looks great.
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What do you think, Stevenson?
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I'd go for the number six,
slightly right of center, sir.
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That's what I was thinking.
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00:14:05,864 --> 00:14:08,417
That's what I was thinking.
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How's your average?
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- One forty-five last time out, sir.
- That's not bad.
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No!
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That's what I get
for my leftist tendencies.
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- Senator Hanson
and her husband are here.
- Bring 'em in.
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Yes, sir.
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- I'm gonna need some time
with the senator.
- Yes, sir.
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- Senator!
- Mr. President.
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- You remember my husband.
- Will Hanson. The McMahon campaign.
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We tried to steal your husband away.
He runs a hell of a campaign.
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You gave me nightmare visions
of having to return to my law practice.
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- Hi. Jackson Evans.
- Lewis Hollis.
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- What was the first name?
- Hollis.
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- No, Lewis is my first name.
- Lewis. Welcome, Lewis.
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So, have you guys
been down here before?
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- No.
- Johnson, he, uh...
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built it in '65.
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Right now some terrorist camp in Libya
is being spared a bombing raid...
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because I'm obsessed
with beating my 150 average.
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00:15:16,645 --> 00:15:20,736
- You guys bowl?
- Once in a while.
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00:15:20,804 --> 00:15:22,658
What's your average?
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- Seventy.
- I don't have one.
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Hungry? You want some lunch
before we speak?
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No, thank you, sir.
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I saw this movie once
where the president...
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is just tickled that anything he wants
to eat he can get in a moment's notice.
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Here. Turns out, it's the perk
of the century.
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- Otto?
- Yes, Mr. President?
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Sorry for the late notice. For lunch,
could you arrange coq au vin...
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with a side of penne?
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- Spicy or mild?
- Spicy.
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And, uh... Oh...
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- hazelnut pudding for dessert.
- No problem, sir.
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One day I'll catch him napping.
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- Anyway, how much
did we win that one by?
- 61 to 33, sir.
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It's pretty easy
getting over things when you win.
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I guess Sudan is where the press
will make its first hay.
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I think if we announce,
the press might have
other things on its mind.
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But you know,
Sheldon Runyon and Jack Hathaway
have been friends for years.
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And Runyon is going to come after me
with all guns blazing.
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Senator, why do we have to worry
about Shelly Runyon's guns
when I control the atomic bomb?
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We'll introduce you
to the Cabinet in one hour.
I'll make the announcement then.
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- That's fine, Mr. President.
- That's the way Jerry Ford
did it with Rockefeller.
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I always thought it was pretty damn
classy. Have we notified the networks?
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Oh, yes. All the pundits
are in a guessing feeding frenzy.
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Box of Malomars says
they've already anointed Malloy.
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- You look great, by the way. Just great.
- Thank you, sir.
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Okay, guys, one hour,
the Cabinet Room.
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Off to the races!
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- Senator, is this
what you're gonna wear?
- She looks fine.
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- No, she does.
- You look beautiful, Senator.
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- Thank you.
- Very becoming.
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I think it works.
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Let me explain
how this is gonna work.
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In a minute, POTUS is gonna come in,
make an announcement...
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- introduce you
to the vice presidential designate.
- Jerry.
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We hear the president's decision
is Malloy. Can you confirm this?
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In ten seconds you're gonna have
your answer. So calm down.
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All right. Then after he's made...
Dave.
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I'm gonna give you guys
20 minutes for questions and answers.
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So keep them short
and, hopefully, sweet.
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And you can roll starting now.
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I'll introduce him
in five... thousand...
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four... thousand,
three... thousand, two.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
the president of the United States.
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Welcome. Good afternoon.
Please.
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- Thank you for coming here
on such short notice.
- Laine Hanson, from Ohio.
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As I embarked on the task
of selecting a vice president...
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I was driven by the emotion
of wanting to make a choice...
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that would've made Troy Ellard,
my friend, proud.
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Senator Laine Billings Hanson
of Ohio is that person.
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Sherri, you are first.
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Ms. Hanson, do you feel being
a woman played any type of role
in the president's decision?
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Well, I, uh...
First I would like to say...
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what an honor it is to be here
before you in this position.
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And I hope to serve up to the
standards which President Evans
set for me in that introduction.
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Thank you so much, sir.
To answer your question...
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- First rate, Mrs. Hanson.
- Thank you. I learned
a lot from Will.
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Ah, yes, Will.
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You, sir, are gonna have
to make yourself scarce.
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- No, of course.
I'll give you your privacy.
- No, I mean scarce.
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During the confirmation period,
I want you out of sight.
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- Pardon me?
- A wife there behind her husband...
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is perceived as supportive.
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A husband following around behind
his wife is perceived as a puppeteer.
284
00:19:00,410 --> 00:19:02,865
- But I think...
- No, honey. I think
Mr. Newman's right on.
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Let Hollis handle
the day-to-day...
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- and I'll be the man behind the curtain.
- Where do we go from here?
287
00:19:07,513 --> 00:19:11,474
The FBI's gonna have to do
an extensive background check.
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- Director Friend
will handle the investigation.
- Yes, we made sure of that.
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00:19:14,873 --> 00:19:18,036
Just about every aspect of your life
will be uncovered.
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Your bank accounts,
your medical reports.
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00:19:21,145 --> 00:19:24,276
- What am I forgetting?
- Correspondence to
government agencies, speeches...
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00:19:24,345 --> 00:19:28,600
When Nelson Rockefeller was confirmed,
they had over 300 agents working on him.
293
00:19:28,664 --> 00:19:31,795
They had a lot more life
and cash to investigate, huh?
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We'll do our own background
check in case anything falls
through the cracks, to be safe.
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At the same time,
the House will... Come in.
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The House will put together
its bipartisan subcommittee...
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of the Judiciary to interview you and
advise and consent to your nomination.
298
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Shelly Runyon's
running the show there.
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Cheyenne, Wyoming, you're on with
Vice President Designate Laine Hanson.
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- Larry, how are you?
- I'm fine. Thanks for calling.
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I just wanted to say
to the senator that...
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all of Cheyenne is with her.
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We think she's absolutely great for
the country and this administration.
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- Congratulations.
- What's the question, sir?
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00:20:06,999 --> 00:20:10,796
I wanted to ask the senator, if she
could pick one person from history...
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to serve as her model for how to behave
in office, who would that be?
307
00:20:14,423 --> 00:20:17,041
Good question, Senator.
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00:20:17,111 --> 00:20:20,885
Hey, guys.
Nice to see you.
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- Sorry to barge in on you.
- No, no, no, no.
I'm just watching your girl.
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- First female prime ministers?
- They were great leaders.
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Would you put Thatcher
in that category?
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No, I don't think so.
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00:20:33,749 --> 00:20:37,524
- You know what? I would
have to say Thomas Jefferson.
- A man?
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- She's something, isn't she?
- I don't really know her.
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00:20:40,437 --> 00:20:44,627
We served together
a few years ago, and, I guess...
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we just ended up
in different company.
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- Take a seat.
- Congressman, the president
asked us to come down here.
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He'd like to let you know
he'd appreciate your support
in the senator's confirmation.
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00:20:54,964 --> 00:21:00,015
- Really?
- He asked me directly, Shell.
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00:21:00,084 --> 00:21:02,801
But the president didn't consider it
important enough to ask me personally?
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00:21:02,868 --> 00:21:06,480
You know it's important.
It's the old man's swan song.
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00:21:06,548 --> 00:21:09,036
Putting a woman in office
means something to him.
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00:21:09,107 --> 00:21:11,758
Laine Hanson's
the absolute best choice.
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00:21:11,828 --> 00:21:16,585
You don't believe that.
Come on. You're too smart.
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00:21:16,660 --> 00:21:19,180
Look, I don't mind
she's a woman...
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00:21:19,252 --> 00:21:23,442
but I'm not confirming a woman
just because she's a woman.
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00:21:23,507 --> 00:21:26,376
Laine Hanson
has an extra burden.
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00:21:26,451 --> 00:21:29,517
She's has to come on the world stage
with perfect credentials.
329
00:21:29,587 --> 00:21:31,692
Margaret Thatcher didn't have perfect
credentials. The world respected her.
330
00:21:31,763 --> 00:21:36,018
The world accepted Margaret Thatcher
because they knew she had to answer
to Ronald Reagan.
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00:21:36,083 --> 00:21:40,425
A woman better be pretty damn qualified
to have nobody to answer to...
332
00:21:40,498 --> 00:21:44,808
and Laine Hanson
is not that.
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00:21:44,882 --> 00:21:47,533
Look me in the eyes
and tell me...
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that Laine Hanson is your first choice
for the vice presidency.
335
00:21:53,970 --> 00:21:57,353
Laine Hanson
is my absolute first choice.
336
00:21:59,889 --> 00:22:02,311
I'd so want you
in my poker game.
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00:22:07,057 --> 00:22:09,512
Country needs
a smooth confirmation.
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00:22:09,585 --> 00:22:11,439
The president needs
a smooth confirmation.
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00:22:11,505 --> 00:22:15,017
The country needs
a competent vice president.
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00:22:15,089 --> 00:22:17,358
Excuse me a minute.
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00:22:17,424 --> 00:22:21,254
There's only one person in the world
that has that phone number.
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00:22:21,329 --> 00:22:25,289
So who's the second choice?
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00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:27,913
We haven't really settled
on anybody yet.
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00:22:27,984 --> 00:22:31,846
Tell me, if Laine Hanson were
to be hit by a flying car...
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00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,407
who would the president
then select?
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00:22:38,096 --> 00:22:41,259
I think the president
still likes Jack Hathaway, Congressman.
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00:22:47,503 --> 00:22:49,064
You know...
348
00:22:49,136 --> 00:22:53,543
Jack Hathaway, there's a good man...
for a Democrat.
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00:22:53,615 --> 00:22:57,161
There's a man
I would say would have...
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00:22:57,231 --> 00:22:59,816
a smooth confirmation.
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00:22:59,887 --> 00:23:02,375
- Jack Hathaway?
- Smooth as a baby's ass.
352
00:23:02,447 --> 00:23:05,959
- He's already taken himself
out of it, so...
- Right.
353
00:23:06,030 --> 00:23:08,419
Right!
Well, who the hell knows?
354
00:23:08,494 --> 00:23:11,625
Perhaps Lainey
will shock the world...
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00:23:11,694 --> 00:23:13,833
by pulling out
her brilliance...
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00:23:13,902 --> 00:23:16,487
and erudition at the hearings
that none of us know she has.
357
00:23:16,558 --> 00:23:19,111
So, Shelly, can we ask
for basic fairness?
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00:23:19,182 --> 00:23:23,524
- Fifty-fifty, Democrat and
Republican at the hearings?
- Of course you can.
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00:23:34,061 --> 00:23:37,443
Congressman! Congressman!
Mr. Runyon.
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00:23:37,517 --> 00:23:40,517
Just wanted to steal you
for a second. I'm Reg Webster.
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00:23:40,589 --> 00:23:44,779
- Oh, you're one of Stoney's boys?
- Uh, no.
362
00:23:44,845 --> 00:23:46,885
You staff or intern?
363
00:23:46,956 --> 00:23:50,252
Actually I'm a representative.
Reginald Webster of Delaware.
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00:23:50,317 --> 00:23:53,633
Oh, fuck me. I'm sorry, Webster.
What can I do for you?
365
00:23:53,709 --> 00:23:57,800
- I'm running late.
- I was hoping I could grab
your attention for a second.
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00:23:57,868 --> 00:24:00,966
- What's the skinny?
- Well, uh...
367
00:24:01,036 --> 00:24:05,706
- I'm late, Mr. Webster.
- I understand a chair's
opened up in the committee...
368
00:24:05,772 --> 00:24:07,714
and I'd like
to put my name forward.
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00:24:07,788 --> 00:24:10,406
I believe you'll find me
industrious and hardworking.
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00:24:10,476 --> 00:24:13,705
The Judiciary�s
for senior members.
371
00:24:13,771 --> 00:24:17,087
Wheeling was in for five terms
before we let him in.
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00:24:17,163 --> 00:24:19,530
My hands are tied.
There's nothing I can do.
373
00:24:19,595 --> 00:24:22,050
Shelly, I've been trying
to reach you for five days.
374
00:24:22,123 --> 00:24:25,156
- I left you 32 messages.
- Well, leave me a 33rd.
375
00:24:25,227 --> 00:24:27,944
- Where you from?
- Delaware.
376
00:24:28,011 --> 00:24:32,135
Oh, yeah, you were...
You knocked Emory Bettis out.
377
00:24:32,203 --> 00:24:34,723
Emory used to be
in the Thursday night game.
378
00:24:34,794 --> 00:24:37,249
He was always good
for a few hundred bucks.
379
00:24:37,322 --> 00:24:39,743
I guess he ran his campaign
like he played poker.
380
00:24:39,818 --> 00:24:43,812
I take it you have
a predisposition.
381
00:24:43,882 --> 00:24:47,974
- About the confirmation, I mean.
- No. Actually, I'm 100% objective.
382
00:24:48,042 --> 00:24:51,108
- Mmm. Do you have
a dictionary, Mr. Webster?
- Yeah.
383
00:24:51,178 --> 00:24:54,625
Take a Magic Marker,
cross out the word "objectivity."
384
00:24:54,697 --> 00:24:59,399
Your constituents want you
for your opinions, your philosophy...
385
00:24:59,465 --> 00:25:02,018
for your subjectivity.
386
00:25:07,241 --> 00:25:09,990
Laver has to duck
out of the way of that one.
387
00:25:10,056 --> 00:25:13,766
One that Laver can't get.
He's still trying to recover.
388
00:25:16,105 --> 00:25:19,334
And he zings another
powerful forehand past Laver.
389
00:25:19,401 --> 00:25:21,670
See that, Tim-Tim?
Know what we call that?
390
00:25:21,736 --> 00:25:24,932
- We call that topspin.
You know how we get topspin?
- Uh-huh.
391
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,066
- Yeah? Tell me.
- 'Cause Baby Jesus made topspin.
392
00:25:28,136 --> 00:25:29,991
What?
393
00:25:30,056 --> 00:25:32,390
- Baby Jesus gave it topspin.
- Jesus?
394
00:25:32,456 --> 00:25:34,976
Ah! Why do you say that?
395
00:25:35,048 --> 00:25:39,488
- Because Baby Jesus made everything.
- Yeah? Who told you that?
396
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,927
Miss Moyer in kindergarten,
and Mommy says...
397
00:25:41,991 --> 00:25:45,373
- I have to listen Miss Moyer.
- Wow, this is news to me.
398
00:25:45,447 --> 00:25:49,670
I gave up my career
trying to strike that nonsense
out of the public school system.
399
00:25:49,735 --> 00:25:51,939
Maybe I ought to put him
in public school, then.
400
00:25:52,007 --> 00:25:53,861
Remember what I told you
about moving your grip down...
401
00:25:53,927 --> 00:25:56,382
- and to the left?
- Uh-huh.
402
00:25:56,455 --> 00:25:59,586
- Go see if Dad's found
his bathing suit yet.
- Gimme a hug.
403
00:26:01,766 --> 00:26:03,938
Yeah. Thanks, champ.
404
00:26:09,094 --> 00:26:12,672
- They are paid to teach, not...
- To preach.
405
00:26:12,742 --> 00:26:15,906
I know, but he's six years old, and he
also believes in the tooth fairy...
406
00:26:15,974 --> 00:26:20,382
- and that George Washington
never told a lie.
- Well, it drives me crazy.
407
00:26:20,453 --> 00:26:23,388
- Mary, wanna turn the ball machine off?
- Yes, Mr. Governor.
408
00:26:27,077 --> 00:26:28,932
Thanks for seeing me, Dad.
409
00:26:28,997 --> 00:26:31,331
- Why wouldn't I see you?
- Partisanship.
410
00:26:31,398 --> 00:26:34,845
I gotta love
at least one Democrat.
411
00:26:37,829 --> 00:26:43,196
You know, Dad, I'm getting some reports
that you might not be ready to back me.
412
00:26:43,269 --> 00:26:45,658
That you're opposed
to my confirmation...
413
00:26:45,733 --> 00:26:47,456
- You've heard quotes?
- No, I haven't heard.
414
00:26:47,524 --> 00:26:50,142
Just that we should expect
to be reading of your opposition.
415
00:26:50,212 --> 00:26:52,895
Pardon my Swahili, but you're being led
a line of pure bullshit.
416
00:26:52,964 --> 00:26:58,147
- I haven't said a word.
- Maybe it's just that.
Maybe you've been quiet.
417
00:26:58,212 --> 00:27:00,798
- I hate the press.
- I know, Dad.
418
00:27:00,868 --> 00:27:04,250
- When I left the mansion,
I swore I would never talk to them.
- I remember.
419
00:27:04,324 --> 00:27:09,277
- I suppose you're gonna force
my hand on this, huh?
- You wouldn't have to say much.
420
00:27:09,347 --> 00:27:11,256
- Just a little something.
- Okay, okay.
421
00:27:11,331 --> 00:27:14,560
I, uh...
422
00:27:14,627 --> 00:27:16,700
I'll call back
Joe Glynn at the Times.
423
00:27:16,771 --> 00:27:19,192
He's okay.
He'll write it up well.
424
00:27:19,267 --> 00:27:21,852
I once leaked him
some shit about Buchanan.
Damn near won him the Pulitzer.
425
00:27:21,922 --> 00:27:24,159
- Thanks, Dad.
- Sure.
426
00:27:24,227 --> 00:27:26,081
Thanks.
427
00:27:26,147 --> 00:27:29,627
What would you do,
or have done, in my case?
428
00:27:29,699 --> 00:27:33,822
Well, when your president
asks you to jump...
429
00:27:33,891 --> 00:27:36,279
it's hard not to jump,
that's for sure.
430
00:27:36,354 --> 00:27:38,940
But you remember what Ben Franklin
said about the vice presidency.
431
00:27:39,010 --> 00:27:41,660
What did he say?
I didn't talk to him this week.
432
00:27:41,729 --> 00:27:46,486
He said he ought to be addressed as
"Your Superfluous Excellency."
433
00:27:46,562 --> 00:27:49,758
In the past ten years,
I've enjoyed the kind of power
the vice presidency can't offer.
434
00:27:49,825 --> 00:27:52,280
Why would anybody want
to give that up? Am I crazy?
435
00:27:52,353 --> 00:27:55,702
Baby, power is
where power goes.
436
00:27:55,777 --> 00:27:58,941
- Think you can beat me?
- Uh, yeah. Okay.
437
00:27:59,009 --> 00:28:01,758
Hey, Tony!
438
00:28:01,825 --> 00:28:04,192
Foul!
439
00:28:04,257 --> 00:28:07,901
Can't trust
those fuckin' people.
440
00:28:07,969 --> 00:28:12,638
Speaking of which, Mr. Webster,
it turns out you're a Democrat.
441
00:28:12,704 --> 00:28:15,966
I, uh, wasn't keeping it
a secret.
442
00:28:16,033 --> 00:28:20,288
Sad to say, I don't think I can
bring you aboard the committee, son.
443
00:28:20,352 --> 00:28:23,964
Ray Spies makes all the decisions
regarding the other party.
444
00:28:24,032 --> 00:28:26,072
- It's a courtesy.
- But not a requirement.
445
00:28:26,143 --> 00:28:28,761
- It's not, that's true.
- If Ray Spies interviewed me...
446
00:28:28,831 --> 00:28:31,220
he'd refuse to put me
on the committee even for a minute...
447
00:28:31,295 --> 00:28:33,270
because he'd find out that
when it comes to Laine Hanson...
448
00:28:33,344 --> 00:28:35,732
I went to my dictionary
and crossed off the word "objectivity."
449
00:28:35,807 --> 00:28:40,314
Are you suggesting Mrs. Hanson may not
be your first choice for vice president?
450
00:28:40,384 --> 00:28:44,442
I'm suggesting that Laine Hanson
has stricken our party
with policies and attitudes...
451
00:28:44,511 --> 00:28:47,261
that are best served
across the aisle from where she came.
452
00:28:47,327 --> 00:28:50,709
I take it, like most
members of your party...
453
00:28:50,783 --> 00:28:53,849
your selection would be
Governor Hathaway.
454
00:28:53,919 --> 00:28:55,828
Governor Hathaway's a great man.
455
00:28:55,902 --> 00:28:59,447
He's a visionary,
a bona fide hero.
456
00:28:59,518 --> 00:29:03,675
- But he withdrew his name
from consideration.
- Minds can be changed.
457
00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:08,215
- How much discretion
can I count on from you?
- A hundred percent, sir.
458
00:29:08,286 --> 00:29:10,424
- Even from your own leadership?
- I said a hundred percent.
459
00:29:10,494 --> 00:29:15,033
Good. Good man.
Good man.
460
00:29:15,101 --> 00:29:18,679
I think if I make the rounds,
do the Sunday morning talk shows...
461
00:29:18,749 --> 00:29:21,946
raise the level of the game a bit,
outtalk her on the issues...
462
00:29:22,014 --> 00:29:26,585
Issues? What kind of fucking campaigns
are they running in Virginia?
463
00:29:26,653 --> 00:29:30,231
Not the kind I'm used to.
Jack, this whole thing
with the girl drowning...
464
00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:32,156
It's bullshit!
465
00:29:32,221 --> 00:29:35,254
- I was there, Shelly.
The president told me himself.
- It's an excuse.
466
00:29:35,325 --> 00:29:39,797
Jackson Evans has chosen to make
putting a woman in office his swan song.
467
00:29:39,868 --> 00:29:43,348
Laine Hanson is the only
reasonable choice in your party.
468
00:29:43,420 --> 00:29:46,835
He's not going with Boxer.
She's too liberal.
469
00:29:46,908 --> 00:29:49,690
He's not going with Jones
because she's older than he is.
470
00:29:49,755 --> 00:29:52,690
- There's Winslet.
- She's not coming off
the Supreme Court.
471
00:29:52,764 --> 00:29:56,408
Laine Hanson is attractive.
She's a looker.
472
00:29:56,475 --> 00:30:00,501
The mere fact that she was
a Republican means that she
can't be too far to the left.
473
00:30:00,571 --> 00:30:02,513
It's a perfect pedigree.
474
00:30:02,588 --> 00:30:06,843
We can't get you in by convincing him
you're the right man for the job.
475
00:30:06,907 --> 00:30:11,097
We have to convince him that
she's wrong. Once we do that, you're in.
476
00:30:11,163 --> 00:30:13,913
And Toliver,
he's as much as told me...
477
00:30:13,979 --> 00:30:16,051
I'm not going for a low blow.
It's not my way.
478
00:30:16,123 --> 00:30:18,010
You won't have to.
479
00:30:18,075 --> 00:30:20,922
We have to go after her. We have
to make her wade in her own blood.
480
00:30:20,986 --> 00:30:23,768
- Who did you say you were?
- I'm Makerowitz.
481
00:30:23,834 --> 00:30:26,485
- Makerowitz.
- I'm sorry. That doesn't
mean much to me.
482
00:30:26,554 --> 00:30:29,620
- Web got somebody...
- A friend of the Hathaway campaign.
483
00:30:29,690 --> 00:30:32,373
Who is footing the not-too-unimpressive
bill of Mr. Makerowitz.
484
00:30:32,442 --> 00:30:34,297
Private citizen wants to do
their own investigation...
485
00:30:34,362 --> 00:30:38,966
What exactly are you trying to find out?
Campaign irregularities, bribes?
486
00:30:39,034 --> 00:30:40,976
- Isn't that the FBI's responsibility?
- Yes, it is.
487
00:30:41,049 --> 00:30:43,984
But the FBI would not
find anything. All of her money
is tied up in blind trusts.
488
00:30:44,058 --> 00:30:48,530
The kind of improprieties
you're talking about,
I think that only helps her.
489
00:30:48,601 --> 00:30:52,463
Personally, I think the nation
would be relieved to know that
just because she's a woman...
490
00:30:52,537 --> 00:30:56,214
- it doesn't mean she can't be
as ruthless as the rest of us.
- Governor?
491
00:30:56,281 --> 00:30:59,412
You ever stabbed a man
in the navel? You?
492
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,033
Me? No, I haven't.
493
00:31:02,105 --> 00:31:04,244
Stab a man in the navel,
and that's all she wrote.
494
00:31:04,313 --> 00:31:07,215
Bleeding is so swift and severe,
it wouldn't matter if Jesus put
His healing hand on the wound...
495
00:31:07,288 --> 00:31:09,143
the bastard is dead.
496
00:31:09,208 --> 00:31:11,347
We have to gut the bitch
in the belly.
497
00:31:11,416 --> 00:31:13,685
We all have to understand,
we're going to obliterate her life...
498
00:31:13,752 --> 00:31:16,948
but it will get you
the vice presidency.
499
00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:35,148
- Hey, Dog!
- Lewis, how you doin'?
500
00:31:35,223 --> 00:31:38,736
Wow, that's a plate of food!
501
00:31:38,807 --> 00:31:41,108
You didn't have
to dress up for me.
502
00:31:41,175 --> 00:31:44,436
I had to accompany the senator
to the Gridiron Lunch.
503
00:31:44,502 --> 00:31:49,292
If John Q. Public could see
the money that the knuckleheads
that run this country...
504
00:31:49,366 --> 00:31:52,017
spend on these lunches,
there would be a second revolution.
505
00:31:52,086 --> 00:31:57,301
I'm telling you, there is some money
spent on these stupid lunches.
506
00:32:00,022 --> 00:32:02,607
- What is this?
- It's the reason you're here.
507
00:32:02,678 --> 00:32:05,395
You can't let anybody know
where you got this from.
508
00:32:05,462 --> 00:32:08,015
If Runyon found out
I gave this to you...
509
00:32:08,086 --> 00:32:11,021
he'd fire me,
and I don't want him as an enemy.
510
00:32:11,093 --> 00:32:14,639
That's Lainey Hanson
getting gang-banged.
511
00:32:14,709 --> 00:32:17,164
Looks like something
out of Hustler.
512
00:32:17,237 --> 00:32:19,855
That's her for sure.
513
00:32:23,637 --> 00:32:29,300
I know it's hard to tell with her...
her face in someone's crotch...
514
00:32:29,364 --> 00:32:32,331
but that's her, man.
515
00:32:32,404 --> 00:32:35,154
Why are you showing me this?
516
00:32:35,221 --> 00:32:37,839
I will not be party
to an ambush.
517
00:32:39,924 --> 00:32:42,258
Why are you
showing me this, Ted?
518
00:32:43,892 --> 00:32:46,478
Okay.
519
00:32:46,548 --> 00:32:51,086
I want out of Runyon's office.
And I thought maybe you could
get me on staff...
520
00:32:51,155 --> 00:32:54,003
This is the best you could
come up with? This shit?
521
00:32:54,067 --> 00:32:56,652
This is shit.
522
00:32:58,131 --> 00:33:01,197
Read the deposition
of the LaVamere lady.
523
00:33:02,867 --> 00:33:06,096
She was putting on a sex show.
524
00:33:06,163 --> 00:33:08,748
- How long did this go on for?
- It was hours.
525
00:33:08,819 --> 00:33:10,990
- How many hours?
- Three or four.
526
00:33:11,059 --> 00:33:13,393
Which one? Three or four?
527
00:33:13,459 --> 00:33:15,914
Three, I guess.
528
00:33:15,987 --> 00:33:19,216
In her defense,
she was drunk.
529
00:33:19,282 --> 00:33:22,216
To be honest, once she finished fucking
and sucking those two assholes...
530
00:33:22,290 --> 00:33:25,967
she was carried into another room, and
boys were going in and out of there...
531
00:33:26,034 --> 00:33:28,139
but I don't know
if she was fucking them.
532
00:33:28,210 --> 00:33:31,559
When she came out,
she was covered in cum. It was awful.
533
00:33:31,634 --> 00:33:35,376
Excuse me, Counselor.
I, um...
534
00:33:35,442 --> 00:33:37,351
- May I?
- Of course.
535
00:33:37,425 --> 00:33:43,054
Just to clarify, why exactly
was Mrs. Laine Hanson...
536
00:33:43,122 --> 00:33:47,245
Strike that.
Laine Billings involved in this, uh...
537
00:33:47,313 --> 00:33:49,452
appalling and disgusting behavior?
538
00:33:49,521 --> 00:33:51,430
- That's... That's what's important.
- Exactly.
539
00:33:51,505 --> 00:33:54,854
Thank you.
It's great to see you guys.
540
00:33:54,929 --> 00:33:57,133
There you go.
541
00:33:57,201 --> 00:33:59,884
Thank you so much
for your support. Thank you.
542
00:34:01,264 --> 00:34:03,119
Thank you.
543
00:34:09,232 --> 00:34:11,087
- Hey.
- Hey, Madam Senator.
544
00:34:11,152 --> 00:34:13,039
- How you doing?
- I'm okay.
545
00:34:13,104 --> 00:34:16,137
I wish you'd heard the speech.
That line you gave me about...
546
00:34:16,208 --> 00:34:19,142
"If we can put a man
on the moon, then why can't we
put all men on the moon?"
547
00:34:19,215 --> 00:34:21,103
It was perfect.
It really broke the ice.
548
00:34:21,168 --> 00:34:24,517
- Great audience for that, huh?
- Yeah, it was great.
549
00:34:25,999 --> 00:34:28,301
What's goin' on?
550
00:34:28,367 --> 00:34:30,472
Uh...
551
00:34:30,543 --> 00:34:33,161
well, it looks like Runyon
or somebody close to him...
552
00:34:33,231 --> 00:34:35,849
has been running
a little private investigation...
553
00:34:35,919 --> 00:34:39,181
looking for stuff that the Feds
wouldn't even touch.
554
00:34:39,247 --> 00:34:41,735
- It's, um...
- Yeah?
555
00:34:43,791 --> 00:34:45,929
What is it?
556
00:35:08,237 --> 00:35:10,626
What...
557
00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:33,540
- He doesn't know anything about it.
- You're asking me to step down?
558
00:35:33,612 --> 00:35:36,514
I'm asking you to do what's in
the best interest of the party...
559
00:35:36,588 --> 00:35:39,108
and this president.
560
00:35:39,179 --> 00:35:44,067
Well, I'm sorry.
I can't do it, not over this.
561
00:35:44,139 --> 00:35:45,994
He's not going to allow me
or himself...
562
00:35:46,059 --> 00:35:49,158
to get shot down over what would've
been a private sexual encounter.
563
00:35:49,228 --> 00:35:53,254
- Some swan song for the old man, huh?
- It's fuckin' awful.
564
00:35:53,324 --> 00:35:57,993
The senator got a little wild
when she was 19. What is the big deal?
565
00:35:58,059 --> 00:36:00,164
Let me explain
the big deal to you.
566
00:36:00,235 --> 00:36:03,268
The people of this nation
can stomach quite a bit.
567
00:36:03,338 --> 00:36:07,910
But one thing they can't stomach
is the image of a vice president
with a mouthful of cock.
568
00:36:07,978 --> 00:36:12,735
You don't have to use... Look.
Let's use the word "alleged."
569
00:36:12,810 --> 00:36:17,033
They got photos! They got witnesses!
They got the "alleged" slut...
570
00:36:17,098 --> 00:36:18,953
Hey! Let me tell you something.
571
00:36:19,018 --> 00:36:21,254
I'm her husband first.
I don't tolerate talk like that.
572
00:36:21,322 --> 00:36:24,933
- Will, calm down.
- You better get used to it, Will.
573
00:36:25,002 --> 00:36:28,963
Especially when not even your wife
will defend herself.
574
00:36:33,642 --> 00:36:38,082
Give me something, Laine.
Anything.
575
00:36:38,153 --> 00:36:41,928
Hell, just deny it.
Why don't you just deny it?
576
00:36:45,833 --> 00:36:48,647
It is simply
beneath my dignity.
577
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,946
Dignity! Right.
578
00:37:08,552 --> 00:37:13,287
We'll just have to make this all
not worthwhile for Mr. Runyon.
579
00:37:13,352 --> 00:37:15,970
What have you got on the
distinguished gentleman from Illinois?
580
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:18,559
Some pretty good stuff.
581
00:37:18,631 --> 00:37:21,413
- S.E.C. Investigation, 1985.
- You got stocks?
582
00:37:21,479 --> 00:37:23,868
I want something embarrassing!
583
00:37:23,943 --> 00:37:27,107
Something sexual!
584
00:37:27,175 --> 00:37:29,182
Little boys, midgets,
that sort of thing.
585
00:37:29,255 --> 00:37:32,124
- Cows! I don't give a goddamn!
- Come on, Kermit.
586
00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:34,141
If we do that,
we're no better than he is.
587
00:37:34,215 --> 00:37:37,182
We are no better than he is.
588
00:37:37,254 --> 00:37:40,570
There's nothing there.
He got married when he was 21.
589
00:37:40,646 --> 00:37:42,533
There's no evidence
he ever cheated on his wife.
590
00:37:42,598 --> 00:37:45,500
Too bad we're not running in France.
We could really nail him on that one.
591
00:37:47,942 --> 00:37:49,982
When do you have
your lunch with him?
592
00:37:50,054 --> 00:37:52,704
With Shelly Runyon?
I'm not having lunch with him.
593
00:37:52,773 --> 00:37:55,140
Friday, 1:00.
It's scheduled tomorrow.
594
00:37:55,205 --> 00:37:57,572
It's automatic.
He's committee chairman.
595
00:37:57,637 --> 00:38:00,223
It was set up. S.O.P.
596
00:38:20,068 --> 00:38:22,076
- Laine.
- Shelly.
597
00:38:23,588 --> 00:38:26,883
I'm sorry I started.
You were late.
598
00:38:26,948 --> 00:38:29,370
- I'm not too late, I hope.
- A minute or two.
599
00:38:29,444 --> 00:38:32,761
- Were you tied up with anything?
- No, sorry. I'm just late.
600
00:38:32,836 --> 00:38:35,650
- Hi, Clem. You too.
- Senator, nice to see you.
601
00:38:35,715 --> 00:38:38,585
- I ordered you the porterhouse.
- No, I don't eat meat.
602
00:38:38,659 --> 00:38:41,823
- I'll have the penne.
- You should really... Mmm.
603
00:38:41,891 --> 00:38:45,208
- Try the steak. Ask Hugo
to burn it on the outside.
- No, thank you.
604
00:38:45,283 --> 00:38:47,705
I really don't eat meat.
I'll just go ahead with the penne.
605
00:38:47,780 --> 00:38:50,235
- Spicy?
- Yes, please. Thanks.
606
00:38:53,027 --> 00:38:57,948
So, how are...
Will and the boy?
607
00:38:58,019 --> 00:38:59,993
Let's forego
the small talk today, Shelly.
608
00:39:00,066 --> 00:39:04,409
- It'll make me feel cheap.
- Let the big talk begin.
609
00:39:07,522 --> 00:39:09,944
Have you seen this?
610
00:39:10,018 --> 00:39:12,767
That's my... That's my file
on you, Senator.
611
00:39:12,834 --> 00:39:15,168
- Mm-hmm.
- How did you get it?
612
00:39:15,234 --> 00:39:18,267
Have you read it yet?
613
00:39:18,338 --> 00:39:20,247
How did you get it?
614
00:39:22,530 --> 00:39:25,693
Have you read it?
615
00:39:25,762 --> 00:39:29,656
- What do you have to say for yourself?
- With all due respect...
616
00:39:29,729 --> 00:39:31,616
um, Senator...
617
00:39:31,681 --> 00:39:34,496
- it doesn't matter what
I have to say for myself.
- Oh, it doesn't?
618
00:39:34,561 --> 00:39:39,962
It seems to me, Mr. Chairman,
all you can claim about me...
claim, is that I had sex...
619
00:39:40,032 --> 00:39:42,137
- Deviant sex.
- Who says it was deviant?
620
00:39:42,208 --> 00:39:44,063
I do.
621
00:39:44,128 --> 00:39:46,583
And what I say, the people will believe.
And you know why?
622
00:39:46,656 --> 00:39:50,485
Because I'll have a very big microphone
in front of me.
623
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,873
Wow, you must
really hate me, Shelly.
624
00:39:54,944 --> 00:39:58,806
I don't hate you.
It's not possible to hate you. You're...
625
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,141
What the hell was it that Reynolds
called you the other day?
626
00:40:02,207 --> 00:40:05,436
Groovy.
You're a groovy chick.
627
00:40:05,503 --> 00:40:09,115
No, what I, um, do detest
is your selfishness.
628
00:40:09,183 --> 00:40:12,445
I have served this nation
without regard for personal
income for over ten years.
629
00:40:12,512 --> 00:40:16,821
You are selfish because you want to take
on a job that positions you to assume...
630
00:40:16,895 --> 00:40:19,066
a mantle of gigantic
responsibility...
631
00:40:19,135 --> 00:40:21,469
and you do it full well
with the knowledge...
632
00:40:24,607 --> 00:40:26,778
Of what?
633
00:40:26,847 --> 00:40:28,701
What?
634
00:40:29,791 --> 00:40:33,020
Greatness is
the orphan of urgency, Laine.
635
00:40:33,086 --> 00:40:36,217
Greatness only emerges
when we need it most...
636
00:40:36,286 --> 00:40:40,181
in times of war
or calamity.
637
00:40:40,254 --> 00:40:43,549
I can't ask somebody
to be a Kennedy or a Lincoln.
638
00:40:43,614 --> 00:40:46,232
They were men
created by their times.
639
00:40:46,302 --> 00:40:50,295
What I can ask for
is the promise of greatness.
640
00:40:50,365 --> 00:40:53,464
And that, Madam Senator...
641
00:40:53,534 --> 00:40:55,476
you don't have.
642
00:40:59,005 --> 00:41:01,460
Well, then...
643
00:41:01,533 --> 00:41:04,532
I just wouldn't be using sex
as leverage...
644
00:41:04,604 --> 00:41:07,866
if I were you, Sheldon.
645
00:41:07,933 --> 00:41:10,486
Because there's one thing
you don't want.
646
00:41:10,557 --> 00:41:14,451
It's a woman with her finger
on the button who isn't getting laid.
647
00:41:14,524 --> 00:41:18,997
Will that be the argument the senator
offers up before the committee?
648
00:41:44,667 --> 00:41:48,464
Sir? Can I get you
something to drink?
649
00:41:48,539 --> 00:41:50,481
- Uh, no, I'm fine. Thank you.
- You sure?
650
00:41:50,555 --> 00:41:52,824
No, great.
Thanks a lot.
651
00:42:24,986 --> 00:42:27,255
- Ah, Mr. Webster.
- Mr. President.
652
00:42:27,321 --> 00:42:29,175
- Good to see you.
- It's an honor, sir.
653
00:42:29,241 --> 00:42:31,826
- I've been meaning to have you
up here for some time.
- Really?
654
00:42:31,897 --> 00:42:36,916
Excuse me. Willie?
Thank you, Willie.
655
00:42:36,985 --> 00:42:40,367
Yeah, you betcha. You unseated
that old bastard Bettis.
656
00:42:40,441 --> 00:42:42,830
He must've voted against me
70 percent of the time.
657
00:42:42,904 --> 00:42:46,450
You know what this is?
That's a shark steak sandwich.
658
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,691
Fucking shark steak.
659
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,826
- You want half?
- Uh, no, thank you.
660
00:42:51,896 --> 00:42:56,020
- Are you a vegan? Had lunch?
- No. Uh...
661
00:42:56,088 --> 00:43:00,844
So you choose not to break bread with
the president of the United States?
662
00:43:02,264 --> 00:43:04,653
Thank you.
663
00:43:04,727 --> 00:43:08,851
When I was in the Senate, Bettis
could always be counted to leave
half a grand at the poker table.
664
00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:12,116
Always stayed in, never folded.
Always wanted that miracle card.
665
00:43:12,183 --> 00:43:13,873
- That's good, isn't it?
- Mm-hmm.
666
00:43:13,943 --> 00:43:16,660
Now, Truman,
he was a poker player.
667
00:43:16,726 --> 00:43:19,661
Damn fine one,
as I understand it.
668
00:43:19,735 --> 00:43:22,102
Son, I understand you may be
making a mess of our plans...
669
00:43:22,167 --> 00:43:24,468
to put Laine Hanson
into the vice president mansion.
670
00:43:24,535 --> 00:43:27,950
Right now, sir, I cannot see
supporting Laine Hanson.
671
00:43:28,022 --> 00:43:31,121
- How old are you?
- Me, I'm 28.
672
00:43:31,190 --> 00:43:36,853
And at that age and experience,
you think you're the one
to sit and judge Mrs. Hanson?
673
00:43:36,918 --> 00:43:39,406
Well, that's the whole point,
isn't it?
674
00:43:39,478 --> 00:43:41,844
I am, sir.
675
00:43:43,702 --> 00:43:48,371
Mr. Webster,
I'm asking you to lay off...
676
00:43:48,438 --> 00:43:50,477
as a personal favor.
677
00:43:50,549 --> 00:43:53,419
It's one thing to break ranks
and vote against my candidate...
678
00:43:53,493 --> 00:43:56,046
but to actively attack her
from the bench, that's another.
679
00:43:56,117 --> 00:43:58,899
Mr. President, I just don't believe
in Laine Hanson...
680
00:43:58,964 --> 00:44:01,299
especially when we have
at our disposal Governor Hathaway.
681
00:44:01,365 --> 00:44:03,569
He's a party loyalist
and genuine hero.
682
00:44:03,637 --> 00:44:07,827
And I cannot and shall not vote for a
candidate simply because she's a woman.
683
00:44:07,893 --> 00:44:11,024
I am nothing if I do not
follow my heart, sir.
684
00:44:11,092 --> 00:44:13,481
I envy you.
685
00:44:13,557 --> 00:44:15,945
I do. You know why?
686
00:44:16,020 --> 00:44:20,755
Because someday, years from now, you're
gonna come in here with your family...
687
00:44:20,820 --> 00:44:23,951
and you're gonna look up
at my painting...
688
00:44:24,020 --> 00:44:26,889
and you'll be able to say to them,
your kids and grandkids...
689
00:44:26,963 --> 00:44:30,607
"Way back then
I defied my president.
690
00:44:30,676 --> 00:44:34,799
It cost me my reelection,
kept me out of politics forever.
691
00:44:34,867 --> 00:44:38,577
I was on the track
to maybe one day end up here...
692
00:44:38,643 --> 00:44:41,512
destined to make the kind of changes
in this country...
693
00:44:41,587 --> 00:44:44,402
that only great men, given the right
time and place, can make...
694
00:44:44,467 --> 00:44:48,744
and I have none of that now,
but that's okay...
695
00:44:48,819 --> 00:44:52,975
because I did
what was in my heart."
696
00:44:53,042 --> 00:44:57,352
The heart, it can never be wrong,
can it, Mr. Webster?
697
00:44:59,730 --> 00:45:04,203
Mmm. Delicious.
You got a little...
698
00:45:08,689 --> 00:45:10,893
Hi.
699
00:45:10,961 --> 00:45:13,100
I'm Jack Hathaway.
How are you?
700
00:45:13,170 --> 00:45:16,585
Hi, sir. Um...
701
00:45:16,658 --> 00:45:20,847
Ow. I'm Special Agent Willomina.
Sure is good of you to meet me.
702
00:45:20,913 --> 00:45:23,880
It's a pleasure.
How can I help you?
703
00:45:23,953 --> 00:45:29,070
I know you're busy, so this
will be as routine as it gets.
704
00:45:29,137 --> 00:45:33,031
- Did my girl offer you coffee
or something to drink?
- Oh, yes, she did.
705
00:45:33,104 --> 00:45:35,209
She was very nice, your girl.
706
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,255
Yes, she is.
She's very nice.
707
00:45:37,329 --> 00:45:41,485
So like I said, I just want to cross
a couple of T's, little stuff.
708
00:45:41,552 --> 00:45:45,381
It's all just part
of the process.
709
00:45:45,456 --> 00:45:48,587
By the way, sir, I was real impressed
with your graciousness...
710
00:45:48,655 --> 00:45:51,884
- on the whole Senator Hanson thing.
- Oh?
711
00:45:51,952 --> 00:45:54,155
You know, in supporting her.
Real gracious.
712
00:45:54,223 --> 00:45:58,446
Well, as you know, I withdrew my name
from consideration.
713
00:45:58,511 --> 00:46:00,104
Right. Right.
714
00:46:00,175 --> 00:46:03,884
And I think she's a real fine choice.
Anybody that knows her knows that.
715
00:46:03,951 --> 00:46:06,919
How long have you known her?
716
00:46:06,991 --> 00:46:10,984
- Oh, well, actually, I don't really...
- I'm sorry.
717
00:46:11,055 --> 00:46:13,160
When you said,
"Anybody that knows her"...
718
00:46:13,231 --> 00:46:16,264
- I know people who know her.
- Uh-huh.
719
00:46:16,335 --> 00:46:20,426
- I'm happy to give you
their names, if you'd like.
- Great.
720
00:46:20,494 --> 00:46:24,291
I don't really know her, but I've
seen her several times at functions...
721
00:46:24,367 --> 00:46:28,971
and, uh, I think
she'll do a real good job.
722
00:46:30,542 --> 00:46:32,876
Sir, can I just say that...
723
00:46:32,942 --> 00:46:35,691
I was really hoping
you'd go for the position...
724
00:46:35,758 --> 00:46:37,896
especially after what happened
on the Apachaway.
725
00:46:37,965 --> 00:46:39,907
I think people would think,
in the back of their minds...
726
00:46:39,982 --> 00:46:44,204
"This here's a guy who takes risks
when the right thing's at stake."
727
00:46:44,270 --> 00:46:47,750
- Lifesaver?
- No, thanks.
728
00:46:47,821 --> 00:46:51,749
Anyway, some real bad luck,
your being right there.
729
00:46:51,821 --> 00:46:54,122
Not if I'd been able
to save her.
730
00:46:54,188 --> 00:46:58,661
No, no, in the crabbing area.
731
00:46:58,732 --> 00:47:01,732
It's just that
you were fishing for bass, so...
732
00:47:01,805 --> 00:47:05,187
That probably explains why
we didn't catch anything.
733
00:47:05,260 --> 00:47:10,475
You fish in the Apachaway
a lot, so I thought that
you would know that, but...
734
00:47:10,540 --> 00:47:12,548
I don't fish a lot.
735
00:47:12,620 --> 00:47:16,515
- I thought your equipment
was pretty sophisticated, but...
- There's a difference...
736
00:47:16,588 --> 00:47:18,955
between wanting to fish
and having time to fish.
737
00:47:19,020 --> 00:47:20,481
Tell me about it.
738
00:47:20,555 --> 00:47:25,225
- And he freed the slaves
and won the Civil War.
- That's right!
739
00:47:25,292 --> 00:47:27,201
He was probably
our greatest president.
740
00:47:27,275 --> 00:47:30,820
- Even greater than George Washington?
- It's a running debate.
741
00:47:30,891 --> 00:47:33,990
- Laine Hanson.
- Oh, Mr. President.
742
00:47:34,059 --> 00:47:36,514
And you must be
one Timothy Hanson.
743
00:47:36,587 --> 00:47:40,165
Timothy Muskie Hanson.
744
00:47:40,235 --> 00:47:44,129
Well, Timothy Muskie Hanson, how would
you like a great big cookie? Any kind.
745
00:47:44,202 --> 00:47:46,657
- No, thank you.
- Any kind at all.
746
00:47:46,730 --> 00:47:48,290
Oatmeal, white chocolate...
747
00:47:48,362 --> 00:47:50,784
Actually, we just had dinner,
but thanks.
748
00:47:50,858 --> 00:47:54,371
In that case, shall we have
our picture taken, young man? Hmm?
749
00:47:54,442 --> 00:47:58,468
- How do I look?
- Your tie's a little crooked.
750
00:47:58,538 --> 00:48:01,887
Well, can't take a picture like that.
Will you straighten it for me?
751
00:48:06,537 --> 00:48:10,628
Your mommy tells me you know more about
the presidents than most grown-ups.
752
00:48:10,697 --> 00:48:13,599
- I like to study them.
- Mmm! Me too.
753
00:48:13,673 --> 00:48:16,258
I think we're ready
for business, Dennis.
754
00:48:16,329 --> 00:48:19,526
- Sir.
- You must be very proud of your mom.
755
00:48:19,593 --> 00:48:23,237
Yeah, being the vice president
is better than being the president.
756
00:48:23,304 --> 00:48:25,475
Oh, I'm sure you're right.
757
00:48:25,544 --> 00:48:28,893
'Cause nobody wants to shoot
the vice president.
758
00:48:30,408 --> 00:48:34,434
So, you must be feeling
pretty excited about now. Please sit.
759
00:48:34,504 --> 00:48:37,188
- Hmm?
- Well, I think I'm a little nervous.
760
00:48:37,256 --> 00:48:40,387
Well, good! Good.
Night before a confirmation hearing.
761
00:48:40,456 --> 00:48:43,074
Anything else,
I would've withdrawn your name.
762
00:48:43,144 --> 00:48:46,210
- What about this Webster, sir?
- Ah, one second. Anybody here hungry?
763
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:49,346
- No, thanks.
- No, sir, I'm not. Thanks.
764
00:48:49,416 --> 00:48:54,533
Otto, could you whip up some
Kung Pao chicken, but with walnuts?
765
00:48:54,599 --> 00:48:56,454
No problem, sir.
766
00:48:56,519 --> 00:49:00,480
Ah, the kid. Met him. You know
this young congressman, Webster?
767
00:49:00,551 --> 00:49:02,820
No, sir, I don't.
768
00:49:02,887 --> 00:49:07,643
No matter. He reminds me of me
when I was his age. That's bad.
769
00:49:09,446 --> 00:49:13,407
K, you need to put out word
that no matter what this kid does...
770
00:49:13,478 --> 00:49:15,649
nobody's to give him
a hard time.
771
00:49:15,718 --> 00:49:19,493
He's misguided, but he's got something.
And one day, who knows?
772
00:49:19,558 --> 00:49:23,900
All right, sir. I'm sure the senator
can handle Mr. Webster.
773
00:49:23,974 --> 00:49:25,884
There is one concern
we need to...
774
00:49:25,957 --> 00:49:29,372
Oh, right, concern. Laine?
775
00:49:29,445 --> 00:49:33,722
K told me about your little
sexual romp in college.
776
00:49:33,797 --> 00:49:36,896
Shit. Tomorrow is the 17th.
777
00:49:36,966 --> 00:49:40,032
- Glenda?
- Yes, sir?
778
00:49:40,101 --> 00:49:44,127
Tomorrow is Jacobson's birthday.
Have you got something
for the son of a bitch?
779
00:49:44,197 --> 00:49:46,531
Yes, sir. You got him
a leather-bound Don Quixote.
780
00:49:46,597 --> 00:49:49,346
Oh, good. Good gift.
Metaphorical gift.
781
00:49:49,413 --> 00:49:52,641
He'll be trying to figure out
why I got him that forever.
782
00:49:52,709 --> 00:49:54,847
Ah, were you married
at the time?
783
00:49:54,916 --> 00:49:58,232
Uh, I was a freshman in...
784
00:49:58,308 --> 00:50:01,439
You know, sir, I'm just not going
to comment on the whole thing.
785
00:50:01,508 --> 00:50:03,483
It's beneath me
and it's beneath the press.
786
00:50:03,556 --> 00:50:05,977
That's the way to go. Fuck the press.
Senator Hanson does not kiss and tell.
787
00:50:06,052 --> 00:50:10,721
- It's perfect.
- Maybe I was too rough
on Shelly in Hartford.
788
00:50:10,788 --> 00:50:15,457
Then this would all be moot,
'cause you wouldn't be president, sir.
789
00:50:15,523 --> 00:50:17,378
You know what?
790
00:50:17,443 --> 00:50:20,759
Married, unmarried, One guy, two guys,
the whole football team.
791
00:50:20,835 --> 00:50:22,974
Who the fuck cares?
792
00:50:23,044 --> 00:50:28,411
You just look those bastards
in the eye and tell them exactly that.
793
00:50:28,483 --> 00:50:30,392
These guys,
they're gonna confirm you.
794
00:50:30,467 --> 00:50:33,402
But they want to embarrass you
in the process.
795
00:50:33,475 --> 00:50:36,606
They want to send you into
this administration as a virus.
796
00:50:36,675 --> 00:50:38,529
So you have only one choice.
797
00:50:38,595 --> 00:50:43,002
- Yes, sir?
- Don't... be embarrassed.
798
00:50:46,754 --> 00:50:49,437
Two hours, gentlemen.
799
00:50:49,506 --> 00:50:54,045
It is now up to us
to light the spark...
800
00:50:54,114 --> 00:50:57,343
which will result in a moral uprising,
so that we may have...
801
00:50:57,409 --> 00:51:01,916
a new birth
of national honesty...
802
00:51:01,986 --> 00:51:04,091
and decency.
803
00:51:04,162 --> 00:51:07,063
And sometimes in this process...
804
00:51:07,137 --> 00:51:10,137
you will question
even yourselves.
805
00:51:10,209 --> 00:51:13,111
And that's good,
that's healthy.
806
00:51:13,185 --> 00:51:18,040
For what are we
if we are not what we believe?
807
00:51:18,113 --> 00:51:21,375
Laine Hanson...
is a cancer.
808
00:51:21,441 --> 00:51:24,572
A cancer of liberalism.
809
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,258
A cancer of disloyalty.
810
00:51:27,328 --> 00:51:31,518
Her nomination itself is the cancer
of affirmative action.
811
00:51:33,216 --> 00:51:37,340
What we will sing
with voices stentorian...
812
00:51:37,408 --> 00:51:42,493
is that she is the cancer
of virtuous decay.
813
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:47,742
Clausewitz said that war
is the natural extension of politics.
814
00:51:47,807 --> 00:51:52,629
But politics is also
the extension of war.
815
00:51:52,703 --> 00:51:55,670
They are one and the same.
816
00:51:55,743 --> 00:51:59,736
In this war,
there will be casualties.
817
00:51:59,806 --> 00:52:02,173
But so help me God...
818
00:52:02,238 --> 00:52:04,148
not among us.
819
00:52:13,918 --> 00:52:16,951
Senator, could we have a word?
820
00:52:28,638 --> 00:52:31,125
The president canceled
his golf game with me.
821
00:52:31,197 --> 00:52:35,452
- He always cancels his golf game.
Don't worry about it.
- Not with me.
822
00:52:35,518 --> 00:52:38,267
- Kermit, can I talk to you a second?
- We'll talk later.
823
00:52:38,333 --> 00:52:40,886
They're home,
they're watching, they're proud.
824
00:52:40,957 --> 00:52:44,218
Lewis, this is it. Thank you.
825
00:52:52,637 --> 00:52:56,346
Order. Order.
826
00:53:01,564 --> 00:53:06,779
Ladies and gentlemen,
my name is Sheldon B. Runyon
from the great state of Illinois.
827
00:53:06,844 --> 00:53:09,691
It is my privilege
and my honor...
828
00:53:09,756 --> 00:53:13,104
to serve as the chairman
of these special hearings.
829
00:53:13,179 --> 00:53:17,009
We are here today for only
the third time in our history...
830
00:53:17,083 --> 00:53:19,734
to ensure the proper implementation
of the 25th amendment...
831
00:53:19,803 --> 00:53:21,942
and for the first time...
832
00:53:22,011 --> 00:53:26,037
the House has taken on
that responsibility.
833
00:53:26,107 --> 00:53:30,067
Myself and my esteemed
colleagues are determined...
834
00:53:30,138 --> 00:53:35,473
to ensure that this very
important matter be handled with...
835
00:53:35,546 --> 00:53:37,618
expedition and dignity.
836
00:53:37,690 --> 00:53:41,073
We are proud to welcome
our friend and colleague, Laine Hanson.
837
00:53:41,146 --> 00:53:44,561
Madam Senator,
I welcome you.
838
00:53:44,634 --> 00:53:48,628
Thank you, Mr...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
839
00:53:48,698 --> 00:53:53,367
Will the "gentlelady" from Ohio
please rise and raise your right hand?
840
00:53:56,346 --> 00:53:58,801
Madam Senator,
do you swear to tell the truth...
841
00:53:58,874 --> 00:54:01,077
the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, so help you God?
842
00:54:01,145 --> 00:54:03,000
- I do.
- Please be seated.
843
00:54:03,065 --> 00:54:05,105
Mr. Chairman, point of order.
844
00:54:05,177 --> 00:54:08,024
The Chair recognizes
Mr. Webster of Delaware.
845
00:54:08,089 --> 00:54:11,088
Mr. Chairman, I direct
your attention to page 16...
846
00:54:11,161 --> 00:54:15,187
tab C-25 of the ledger,
a transcript of the Q-and-A session...
847
00:54:15,256 --> 00:54:17,678
between the nominee and several students
from Harvard University.
848
00:54:17,752 --> 00:54:21,942
- Page 16?
- Page 16 at the bottom of the page.
849
00:54:22,008 --> 00:54:24,463
You'll see the following remarks
in reference to a question...
850
00:54:24,536 --> 00:54:26,675
regarding the separation
of church and state.
851
00:54:26,744 --> 00:54:29,111
The nominee said, and I quote,
"The separation exists...
852
00:54:29,176 --> 00:54:31,729
because we cannot have a fairy tale
govern a nation."
853
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,418
What, sir, is the point?
854
00:54:34,488 --> 00:54:37,041
The senator just swore an oath
to an entity she does not believe in.
855
00:54:37,112 --> 00:54:40,788
Madam Senator,
you understand...
856
00:54:40,856 --> 00:54:43,823
that you have promised
to be truthful to this committee?
857
00:54:43,896 --> 00:54:48,467
- And that lying to this body
is perjury, punishable by law?
- Yes, I do understand that.
858
00:54:50,039 --> 00:54:52,886
Well, I think
we're all agreed...
859
00:54:52,950 --> 00:54:57,620
that even though the senator
has shown a disdain...
860
00:54:57,687 --> 00:55:00,142
for religion
and those practicing it...
861
00:55:00,215 --> 00:55:02,898
which is her constitutional right...
862
00:55:02,966 --> 00:55:05,519
that does not necessarily,
Mr. Webster, make her a liar.
863
00:55:05,590 --> 00:55:08,656
I'm confident we can proceed.
864
00:55:08,726 --> 00:55:10,831
- Madam?
- Yes?
865
00:55:10,902 --> 00:55:13,651
For the record, would you
state your name and address?
866
00:55:13,717 --> 00:55:15,244
Yes. My name is Laine Hanson.
867
00:55:15,318 --> 00:55:17,041
My address is...
868
00:55:18,454 --> 00:55:20,559
You can just do that,
pull phone records?
869
00:55:20,630 --> 00:55:22,702
I work
for a pretty powerful guy.
870
00:55:22,773 --> 00:55:27,028
Yeah, we're close,
we were close for a while.
871
00:55:27,094 --> 00:55:32,331
That's till recently, of course.
Our career paths sort of went
in different directions.
872
00:55:32,404 --> 00:55:36,365
At least you have your life.
There's nothing sinister going on here.
873
00:55:36,437 --> 00:55:38,292
At this point,
we just need...
874
00:55:38,357 --> 00:55:41,902
to look at every aspect of her life
and find everyone that knew her.
875
00:55:41,972 --> 00:55:43,947
You never know
what you're gonna find.
876
00:55:44,021 --> 00:55:46,803
- Did you find anything?
- No, no, not really.
877
00:55:46,868 --> 00:55:48,624
Not really?
You mean...
878
00:55:48,692 --> 00:55:50,547
A little bit, actually.
879
00:55:50,612 --> 00:55:53,427
I did speak to other classmates,
and they told me she was pretty wild.
880
00:55:53,492 --> 00:55:55,347
Wild? Yeah, she was wild.
881
00:55:55,412 --> 00:55:58,030
Wild enough you can be sure the tabloids
are gonna have a field day.
882
00:55:58,100 --> 00:55:59,888
Have you spoken to them?
883
00:55:59,955 --> 00:56:03,567
Um, me? No.
But somebody somewhere's gonna talk.
884
00:56:03,635 --> 00:56:07,410
- But not you.
- Uh-uh, no.
885
00:56:07,475 --> 00:56:10,923
- It's okay if you have.
We're not gonna lock you up.
- No, I haven't.
886
00:56:13,459 --> 00:56:17,136
So no one like,
maybe, the National Enquirer...
887
00:56:17,203 --> 00:56:19,952
or one of those
silly television programs...
888
00:56:20,019 --> 00:56:22,637
- that show, um... Access...
- Confidential?
889
00:56:22,707 --> 00:56:25,554
No, no, no.
I don't know anything.
890
00:56:25,618 --> 00:56:27,887
The last time I talked to her it
was just, "The kid this, the kid that."
891
00:56:27,954 --> 00:56:33,584
According to our records,
you spoke to her on the 15th.
892
00:56:33,650 --> 00:56:35,624
- Three weeks ago?
- Yeah.
893
00:56:35,698 --> 00:56:37,803
Yeah, that makes sense.
894
00:56:37,874 --> 00:56:40,427
I... She was going to Vegas.
895
00:56:40,498 --> 00:56:42,637
Oh, is that right? Vegas?
896
00:56:42,706 --> 00:56:45,488
She asked me to go along with her.
It was gonna be her treat.
897
00:56:45,554 --> 00:56:47,409
I couldn't go
because I had to work.
898
00:56:47,474 --> 00:56:51,565
We were gonna stay at one of those
ritzy new places. The, um, Bellage..?
899
00:56:51,633 --> 00:56:54,382
- The Bellagio? Right.
- Yeah.
900
00:56:54,450 --> 00:56:57,232
- With the contortionist.
- I've never been.
901
00:57:02,896 --> 00:57:05,449
You've been going through my desk.
902
00:57:12,752 --> 00:57:15,054
It never crossed my mind
when I was a younger woman...
903
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,705
that I'd be this age
and not have kids.
904
00:57:17,776 --> 00:57:20,493
Somehow in my mind, kids.
905
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,277
Raising them,
making them good people.
906
00:57:23,344 --> 00:57:25,449
That's what I wanted.
907
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,040
Then I met you,
and I realized that I'd be...
908
00:57:28,111 --> 00:57:32,137
trading my dreams
so that we could live yours.
909
00:57:32,207 --> 00:57:35,502
We sacrificed all of that
so we could do good.
910
00:57:35,567 --> 00:57:37,422
We have done good.
911
00:57:37,487 --> 00:57:41,644
I was never prouder
when you fought to make hate crimes
a capital and federal offense.
912
00:57:41,711 --> 00:57:45,769
You stood so tall,
defying the world, and you won.
913
00:57:45,838 --> 00:57:50,311
It was then that I realized that all
of our sacrifices were not in vain...
914
00:57:50,383 --> 00:57:53,318
that you were a good man.
915
00:57:53,390 --> 00:57:56,140
And now, everything you have
ever achieved will be eliminated...
916
00:57:56,206 --> 00:57:59,818
because, with this horrible filth...
917
00:57:59,886 --> 00:58:03,682
you'll go down
as a second-rate Joe McCarthy.
918
00:58:03,758 --> 00:58:07,981
Your problem, Shelly, is that
you have no sense of history.
919
00:58:08,046 --> 00:58:11,144
She's no good.
920
00:58:15,182 --> 00:58:18,727
Come on!
921
00:58:18,797 --> 00:58:20,936
Come on.
922
00:58:21,005 --> 00:58:23,939
See, Daphne? This is
how you get to the top.
923
00:58:25,101 --> 00:58:26,955
Lew?
924
00:58:27,021 --> 00:58:28,875
Lew?
925
00:58:34,092 --> 00:58:36,842
I have an issue to speak of,
and I'm most gravely concerned.
926
00:58:36,909 --> 00:58:40,072
If this body will indulge me,
I have before me...
927
00:58:40,141 --> 00:58:44,897
a perfect example of the need
for this institution...
928
00:58:44,972 --> 00:58:48,103
to pass the Internet Libel
Protection Act.
929
00:58:48,172 --> 00:58:51,041
In the Nichols Report piece...
930
00:58:51,115 --> 00:58:54,945
posted to 40 million
Internet subscribers...
931
00:58:55,019 --> 00:58:57,572
it is claimed that you,
Senator...
932
00:58:57,643 --> 00:59:00,610
were involved in a sexual imbroglio
while in college.
933
00:59:00,683 --> 00:59:02,538
That is...
934
00:59:02,603 --> 00:59:05,986
trading favors...
935
00:59:06,059 --> 00:59:09,704
with several partners in exchange
for entry into a sorority.
936
00:59:09,771 --> 00:59:12,934
Though I will not waste
the committee's time with such...
937
00:59:13,003 --> 00:59:15,523
nefarious and sleazy innuendoes...
938
00:59:15,595 --> 00:59:20,548
I will not deny the senator
her right to respond.
939
00:59:22,283 --> 00:59:24,617
Mr. Chairman,
I have nothing to...
940
00:59:24,682 --> 00:59:27,202
I will not respond
to this article.
941
00:59:27,274 --> 00:59:29,184
I say "Bravo" to you, Senator.
942
00:59:29,258 --> 00:59:31,779
Bravo to you.
943
00:59:31,850 --> 00:59:34,305
First let me state...
944
00:59:34,378 --> 00:59:37,956
that I encourage
every American...
945
00:59:38,026 --> 00:59:43,295
and every citizen
on this planet to boycott...
946
00:59:43,369 --> 00:59:45,224
the Nichols Report.
947
00:59:45,289 --> 00:59:49,795
This is the type of filth
and degenerate pornography...
948
00:59:49,865 --> 00:59:52,418
that should not see
the light of day.
949
00:59:52,489 --> 00:59:56,744
I can only assume, Senator,
that you will...
950
00:59:56,809 --> 01:00:01,281
not only bring suit
against the perpetrators of...
951
01:00:01,352 --> 01:00:05,411
www.nicholsreport.com...
952
01:00:05,481 --> 01:00:10,117
but also against
the remarkable look-alike
who appears in these disgusting photos.
953
01:00:10,185 --> 01:00:14,887
And when you do file suit, know that it
comes with my full support.
954
01:00:14,952 --> 01:00:20,134
Your refusal to deny this report
of sexual deviance...
955
01:00:20,199 --> 01:00:22,468
will not have an effect
on this committee...
956
01:00:22,536 --> 01:00:26,016
on whether or not it votes to advise
and consent to your nomination.
957
01:00:26,088 --> 01:00:29,830
Mr. President, do you have
a comment on the allegations
made on the Internet today?
958
01:00:29,895 --> 01:00:33,539
I'm not gonna discuss any allegations,
especially those on the Internet.
959
01:00:33,607 --> 01:00:38,047
But, sir, the sexual allegations
were made very public today
by Congressman Runyon.
960
01:00:38,119 --> 01:00:41,414
And I'm sure he quite regrets that.
961
01:00:41,479 --> 01:00:46,432
Sir, if you agree with the allegations,
or agree the allegations are accurate...
962
01:00:46,503 --> 01:00:51,172
do you think that Senator Hanson
is morally fit to take office?
963
01:00:51,238 --> 01:00:53,093
I'll tell you what.
964
01:00:53,158 --> 01:00:56,093
I'm sure that
President Mateo and I...
965
01:00:56,166 --> 01:00:58,337
would both welcome the votes
of only those people...
966
01:00:58,406 --> 01:01:00,740
with sexual indiscretions
in their past.
967
01:01:00,806 --> 01:01:02,661
We'd be landslide victors
every time.
968
01:01:05,254 --> 01:01:07,109
Hey, Sheila.
969
01:01:07,174 --> 01:01:10,403
- They've been waiting for you
for about ten minutes.
- Okay. Hey.
970
01:01:10,469 --> 01:01:13,251
- Henry, I gotta talk to you
in five minutes, okay?
- Okay.
971
01:01:18,949 --> 01:01:21,850
How about "Her involvement
in prostitution"?
972
01:01:21,925 --> 01:01:25,274
No, no. You gotta couch it
like it's something...
973
01:01:25,349 --> 01:01:28,829
for the FB...
the AG to investigate.
974
01:01:28,901 --> 01:01:31,322
- Hi, Reggie.
- Hi.
975
01:01:31,396 --> 01:01:35,226
Well, how about,
"How embarrassing it is...
976
01:01:35,300 --> 01:01:37,537
- that the..." No, no, no.
- Who...
977
01:01:37,604 --> 01:01:40,157
- What?
- Where's Gilmore?
978
01:01:40,228 --> 01:01:44,962
- Gilmore.
- Um, Idaho? Iowa?
979
01:01:45,027 --> 01:01:48,224
Can I interrupt for one second?
We're all set with America Live.
980
01:01:48,292 --> 01:01:50,147
What are you guys
talking about?
981
01:01:50,212 --> 01:01:54,172
We're just going over
our statement...
982
01:01:54,243 --> 01:01:56,316
in response to
The Washington Post story.
983
01:01:56,387 --> 01:02:00,664
- What story?
- The one that says the secret
investigation is ongoing...
984
01:02:00,739 --> 01:02:03,902
to determine whether
she accepted money...
985
01:02:03,971 --> 01:02:07,832
for her activities
in college.
986
01:02:07,906 --> 01:02:10,972
I didn't hear about this.
987
01:02:11,042 --> 01:02:14,817
Well, it's, uh...
It's, um...
988
01:02:14,882 --> 01:02:18,297
It'll be in...
tomorrow afternoon's edition.
989
01:02:18,370 --> 01:02:20,574
Just in time for the congressman
to make his statement...
990
01:02:20,642 --> 01:02:25,726
and just in time for it to stick in
the minds of Americans over the weekend.
991
01:02:25,793 --> 01:02:28,314
Wh... What's the source?
Where'd they get the story?
992
01:02:28,386 --> 01:02:32,608
- Unnamed sources
close to the investigation.
- I see.
993
01:02:36,353 --> 01:02:38,044
Al.
994
01:02:38,114 --> 01:02:39,968
- Al!
- Yes?
995
01:02:40,034 --> 01:02:44,987
We can, um... Let's...
996
01:02:45,057 --> 01:02:48,635
Let's dot the I's, cross the T's
on this one later.
997
01:02:48,705 --> 01:02:50,843
All right, thank you.
998
01:02:51,872 --> 01:02:53,727
I, uh...
999
01:02:53,792 --> 01:02:59,007
I think I have some self-righteous
indignation coming my way.
1000
01:02:59,073 --> 01:03:01,691
Well, is there any truth
whatsoever to the story?
1001
01:03:01,761 --> 01:03:05,623
- There will be an investigation.
- She's gonna have the truth on her side.
1002
01:03:05,696 --> 01:03:08,380
- She's gonna deny it and
make us all look like fools.
- Let her.
1003
01:03:08,448 --> 01:03:12,277
Let her deny just that part
of the story.
1004
01:03:12,352 --> 01:03:15,581
- Hold here.
- What? Oh.
1005
01:03:15,648 --> 01:03:18,517
That's all right.
I can do that myself. Yeah.
1006
01:03:18,591 --> 01:03:20,282
Thank you.
1007
01:03:20,352 --> 01:03:25,021
- America Live is not in
the circus business.
- Pete's always fair.
1008
01:03:25,087 --> 01:03:27,869
Should I hear anything in this?
1009
01:03:27,936 --> 01:03:29,691
You're gonna be vice president.
1010
01:03:29,759 --> 01:03:31,766
- You'll talk about
legitimate issues of concern.
- Right.
1011
01:03:31,839 --> 01:03:33,693
Where is the senator's monitor?
1012
01:03:33,759 --> 01:03:35,733
There is no monitor for her.
She'll hear Pete in the earpiece.
1013
01:03:35,807 --> 01:03:38,141
That is a piece of shit.
We talked about this, Ray.
1014
01:03:38,206 --> 01:03:41,403
If Peter's gonna be able to see her,
she has to be able to see him.
1015
01:03:41,471 --> 01:03:43,772
- He's got a sensory advantage over her.
- You wanna pull her?
1016
01:03:43,839 --> 01:03:46,489
I'm not talking about pulling her.
I'm just saying it's bullshit.
1017
01:03:46,558 --> 01:03:50,519
She was just great in the hearings
today. Cool and collected.
1018
01:03:50,590 --> 01:03:52,445
- Steve Poullet.
- Hi.
1019
01:03:55,966 --> 01:03:58,999
Should I hear anything?
Oh, I got it. Okay, great.
1020
01:03:59,069 --> 01:04:00,924
Oh, it's that one.
Yeah, I know.
1021
01:04:00,989 --> 01:04:03,989
Can't hear...
Yeah, right, got it.
1022
01:04:04,061 --> 01:04:06,908
Okay, I've got
the intro now.
1023
01:04:15,037 --> 01:04:17,426
Thank you for having me, Peter.
1024
01:04:18,653 --> 01:04:21,173
Sure, that'd be fine.
1025
01:04:23,260 --> 01:04:26,391
Well, it has been
a taxing experience...
1026
01:04:26,460 --> 01:04:29,973
but if we're forced to take
the voters out of the equation...
1027
01:04:30,044 --> 01:04:35,226
I think that the vetting system
by simple necessity must be arduous.
1028
01:04:39,100 --> 01:04:41,172
Mmm.
1029
01:04:41,244 --> 01:04:43,666
I have to plead motherhood
on that one, Pete...
1030
01:04:43,739 --> 01:04:45,594
but I not only served
on the Foreign Relations Committee...
1031
01:04:45,659 --> 01:04:50,132
I sponsored the Hanson-Fineman Bill
which readjusted the War Powers Act...
1032
01:04:50,203 --> 01:04:53,683
to allow the executive to respond
to state-sponsored terrorism...
1033
01:04:53,755 --> 01:04:57,104
like that of Iraq, Libya,
North Korea, for instance.
1034
01:04:57,179 --> 01:04:59,568
But rather than boring you
with my r�sum�...
1035
01:04:59,642 --> 01:05:03,952
I'd rather answer your questions
on specific issues of foreign policy.
1036
01:05:06,331 --> 01:05:10,192
I suppose I could ask you, Mr. Crenshaw,
how you'd feel in the same situation.
1037
01:05:13,850 --> 01:05:17,778
Why would I answer that for you?
Sorry. It's simply a privacy issue.
1038
01:05:21,690 --> 01:05:26,196
Look, I won't address issues
of sexuality in a hearing room...
1039
01:05:26,265 --> 01:05:28,502
or on national television
or anywhere else for that matter.
1040
01:05:30,457 --> 01:05:34,581
- Where's the control room
for America Live?
- Down the hall.
1041
01:05:34,650 --> 01:05:36,984
Excuse me.
The control room for America Live?
1042
01:05:37,049 --> 01:05:40,245
- Where is the fucking control room?
- Right down there.
1043
01:05:40,313 --> 01:05:42,418
Fuck!
1044
01:05:42,489 --> 01:05:44,660
Down here, down here, down here!
1045
01:05:48,121 --> 01:05:50,226
Don't tell me
we're gettin' sandbagged!
1046
01:05:50,297 --> 01:05:53,809
We're getting sandbagged! I knew
you couldn't trust this fucking guy!
1047
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:57,295
Senator Hanson,
do you recognize Mr. Poullet?
1048
01:05:57,368 --> 01:06:00,849
Un, no. I don't have a monitor,
so I can't see him.
1049
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:03,287
The truth is,
Lainey and I had that one incident.
1050
01:06:03,351 --> 01:06:05,937
I don't believe we ever
saw each other again after that.
1051
01:06:06,008 --> 01:06:09,008
To her credit, she was very drunk
when she had sex...
1052
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:10,902
with my friends,
uh, my brothers and I.
1053
01:06:10,968 --> 01:06:15,790
A sandbag is what it is.
He's fucking your friend.
1054
01:06:15,864 --> 01:06:18,995
He has obviously infiltrated
your show.
1055
01:06:19,063 --> 01:06:22,194
Mrs. Hanson, you still have not taken
a stand on the accuracy of this report.
1056
01:06:22,263 --> 01:06:25,940
It's very accurate,
and those photos are accurate too.
1057
01:06:26,007 --> 01:06:28,494
We had them on the frat house
bulletin board for months.
1058
01:06:28,566 --> 01:06:30,421
We called that
"Life in the Sex Laine."
1059
01:06:30,486 --> 01:06:34,829
- What are we gonna do now?
- We're gonna sue him.
1060
01:06:34,902 --> 01:06:38,699
I will not dignify those remarks
or your questions with a response.
1061
01:06:38,774 --> 01:06:40,661
Good evening.
1062
01:06:42,486 --> 01:06:46,414
The guy's a jerk. We're never gonna
put our people on that show again.
1063
01:06:46,486 --> 01:06:51,221
Some asshole called in
and made this idiot claim.
1064
01:06:51,286 --> 01:06:53,871
Hell, they've gotta investigate.
1065
01:06:53,941 --> 01:06:56,046
The whole situation's
a son of a bitch.
1066
01:06:56,117 --> 01:06:58,605
I would like to start
by saying...
1067
01:06:58,677 --> 01:07:01,906
that much has been made of the reports
in the press of an investigation...
1068
01:07:01,973 --> 01:07:05,202
into the possible...
possible, I say again...
1069
01:07:05,269 --> 01:07:08,815
criminal behavior
on the part of the nominee.
1070
01:07:08,885 --> 01:07:13,259
This committee will wait
for a report from the FBI...
1071
01:07:13,332 --> 01:07:16,332
before taking this matter up.
1072
01:07:16,405 --> 01:07:20,813
However, I'll once again afford
the nominee an opportunity to respond.
1073
01:07:20,884 --> 01:07:24,081
I, too, will wait for the FBI report
before responding.
1074
01:07:24,148 --> 01:07:27,082
Madam Senator.
1075
01:07:27,156 --> 01:07:30,637
Tell us a little bit about your family.
You have a son.
1076
01:07:30,707 --> 01:07:33,642
Mm-hmm. Yes, I have
one six-year-old boy, Timothy.
1077
01:07:33,716 --> 01:07:35,690
That's a very nice age.
1078
01:07:35,763 --> 01:07:39,058
Now, I see here
that when you...
1079
01:07:39,124 --> 01:07:42,190
had Timothy,
you were absent from your duty...
1080
01:07:42,260 --> 01:07:44,812
for a few months'
maternity leave.
1081
01:07:44,883 --> 01:07:49,934
- It's the right of every mother
to be able to take maternity...
- Paid maternity leave.
1082
01:07:50,003 --> 01:07:52,873
Yes. I don't believe we should penalize
our citizens for having children.
1083
01:07:52,947 --> 01:07:57,616
I think I'm on safe ground saying that
valuing motherhood is quite nonpartisan.
1084
01:07:57,683 --> 01:08:02,768
- Um, were you to get pregnant again...
1085
01:08:02,835 --> 01:08:05,453
do you plan
to take maternity leave?
1086
01:08:05,522 --> 01:08:09,264
Um, I've not given that
any consideration.
1087
01:08:09,330 --> 01:08:12,199
No? Are you still able
to bear children?
1088
01:08:12,274 --> 01:08:14,030
Yes, I am...
I believe, yes, I am.
1089
01:08:14,098 --> 01:08:16,553
Yet you have not given
this matter any consideration.
1090
01:08:16,626 --> 01:08:20,074
Perhaps that means...
No, strike that.
1091
01:08:23,473 --> 01:08:25,742
Madam Senator...
1092
01:08:25,810 --> 01:08:31,144
let us assume you ascended
to the presidency...
1093
01:08:31,217 --> 01:08:34,730
and you were to have a child
during your term.
1094
01:08:34,801 --> 01:08:37,289
Would you cede your duties
to your vice president and for how long?
1095
01:08:37,361 --> 01:08:40,328
Mr. Chairman, would the chair
expect to have the designate
assure this committee...
1096
01:08:40,401 --> 01:08:43,913
that she would have her tubes tied
before she assume office?
1097
01:08:43,984 --> 01:08:48,207
- Mr. Chairman, I humbly
request a point of order.
- You will be afforded one.
1098
01:08:48,272 --> 01:08:51,567
- With all due respect...
- You will be afforded one
when I am finished.
1099
01:08:51,632 --> 01:08:55,789
The truth is that while we have
not put a seal on the concept
of having another child...
1100
01:08:55,856 --> 01:08:57,928
my husband and I practice
birth control.
1101
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,717
Mm-hmm.
1102
01:09:05,264 --> 01:09:10,119
Okay, I would
now like to...
1103
01:09:10,191 --> 01:09:13,355
enter the arena of loyalty.
1104
01:09:13,423 --> 01:09:17,317
Loyalty is a revered quality
among vice presidents. Would you agree?
1105
01:09:17,391 --> 01:09:20,490
- Yes, very much so. Yes.
- Yet you chose to officially move...
1106
01:09:20,559 --> 01:09:25,479
from the Republican to the
Democratic party when you left
the House to run for the Senate.
1107
01:09:25,550 --> 01:09:29,194
I view switching parties as a testament
to my loyalty to my country.
1108
01:09:29,262 --> 01:09:34,630
I felt that the Republican party
had shifted from the ideals that
I cherished through my youth.
1109
01:09:34,702 --> 01:09:37,702
As a Republican,
did you ever...
1110
01:09:37,774 --> 01:09:40,708
vote along party lines
but against your own beliefs?
1111
01:09:40,782 --> 01:09:42,156
No, never.
1112
01:09:42,221 --> 01:09:44,076
- You still believe in
every vote you made?
- Yes.
1113
01:09:44,141 --> 01:09:47,207
- Including your vote
to impeach President Clinton?
- Yes, I do.
1114
01:09:47,277 --> 01:09:49,132
That was an issue of fairness.
1115
01:09:49,197 --> 01:09:53,059
The president,
as commander in chief, stood by...
1116
01:09:53,133 --> 01:09:57,802
while several military officers,
including candidates for the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
1117
01:09:57,869 --> 01:10:00,204
were prosecuted for adultery
or were not permitted...
1118
01:10:00,269 --> 01:10:02,123
to advance their careers.
1119
01:10:02,189 --> 01:10:07,524
I am opposed to making adultery,
or even lying about it,
a crime in our armed forces.
1120
01:10:07,596 --> 01:10:11,720
But while it is a law,
it should be enforced
without consideration of rank...
1121
01:10:11,788 --> 01:10:14,505
even if that rank
is commander in chief.
1122
01:10:14,572 --> 01:10:19,045
Perhaps the senator is unaware
that commander in chief
is not actually a military rank.
1123
01:10:19,116 --> 01:10:20,971
I am aware of that.
1124
01:10:21,036 --> 01:10:26,633
What I think we can say
of President Clinton is that he
was not guilty but responsible.
1125
01:10:31,628 --> 01:10:34,377
"Not guilty but responsible."
1126
01:10:34,444 --> 01:10:37,792
I am...
I like that.
1127
01:10:37,867 --> 01:10:41,380
I, uh, I-I may, uh... I may use that.
1128
01:10:41,451 --> 01:10:44,168
- If you wish, you can go ahead.
- Thank you.
1129
01:10:44,235 --> 01:10:48,708
When...
When considering you
for the vice presidency...
1130
01:10:48,779 --> 01:10:53,350
we must also consider your worthiness
as commander in chief.
1131
01:10:53,418 --> 01:10:54,880
- Would you agree?
- Yes, I do.
1132
01:10:54,955 --> 01:10:56,962
In that case, given your feelings
on the matter...
1133
01:10:57,035 --> 01:10:59,140
have you ever
committed adultery?
1134
01:10:59,211 --> 01:11:00,934
- No, I have not.
- No?
1135
01:11:01,002 --> 01:11:05,508
You're quite sure? Madam Senator, you
understand that, uh, you are under oath.
1136
01:11:05,578 --> 01:11:09,539
Yes, I understand that, between the two
of us, I'm the one that's under oath.
1137
01:11:09,610 --> 01:11:13,352
When you guys go before
the Antitrust Committee,
don't you want Hank on your side?
1138
01:11:13,417 --> 01:11:15,751
Sure, but not at any price.
1139
01:11:15,818 --> 01:11:17,792
Last time we spoke,
you were sitting where you are now.
1140
01:11:17,865 --> 01:11:21,029
Hank was sitting where Len is.
You started telling him
what a shame it would be...
1141
01:11:21,097 --> 01:11:24,228
if the refrigeration systems
on the trucks went out.
1142
01:11:24,297 --> 01:11:26,369
Hank's a hothead,
and he took that as a threat.
1143
01:11:26,441 --> 01:11:28,296
If we were threatening him,
he'd know it.
1144
01:11:28,361 --> 01:11:30,728
That's what I thought,
but now we have some massaging to do.
1145
01:11:30,793 --> 01:11:32,451
Hank's gotta be treated
with kid gloves.
1146
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:35,652
- Senator Hanson?
Congressman Webster's here to see you.
- Sorry. Yep?
1147
01:11:35,721 --> 01:11:37,990
- Guess we got our ten minutes.
- Okay, send him in.
1148
01:11:38,057 --> 01:11:41,886
No, I want to resolve this.
I do. Just give me a few minutes.
1149
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:45,091
If you want something to drink,
Jerry will take care of you.
1150
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:48,705
- We're gonna get back into this?
- We will. We will.
1151
01:11:52,008 --> 01:11:55,969
Senator, you want me to sit in?
Make sure the congressman's
clear on everything?
1152
01:11:56,040 --> 01:11:59,585
We'll be fine. Won't we, Mr. Webster?
We'll be all right. Thanks.
1153
01:12:01,448 --> 01:12:03,619
Proud of yourself?
1154
01:12:08,935 --> 01:12:11,870
So, what can I do for you,
Mr. Webster?
1155
01:12:11,943 --> 01:12:14,725
I'm sure you're wondering
why I'm here.
1156
01:12:14,791 --> 01:12:17,311
I think you're here because you want
to know why I'm not fighting back.
1157
01:12:17,382 --> 01:12:21,757
Because despite it all, you've got
some odd sense of fair play.
1158
01:12:21,830 --> 01:12:25,507
You're kicking my ass.
It's gone from feeling like
easy pickings to out-and-out bullying.
1159
01:12:25,574 --> 01:12:28,192
I feel like there should be
some back and forth between us,
you and the committee.
1160
01:12:28,262 --> 01:12:31,611
I'll give you back and forth on Social
Security, relations with Israel...
1161
01:12:31,686 --> 01:12:36,257
on the Dow Jones, the census,
almost everything, but not this.
1162
01:12:36,325 --> 01:12:40,220
No, not my personal life.
It's just nobody's business.
1163
01:12:40,294 --> 01:12:43,196
That's not what the people
will tell you; the people will
tell you it is their business...
1164
01:12:43,269 --> 01:12:45,986
that you're setting standards
of morality for their children.
1165
01:12:46,053 --> 01:12:48,192
Especially their girls.
1166
01:12:48,261 --> 01:12:50,148
Have you ever heard
of Isaac Lamm?
1167
01:12:50,214 --> 01:12:54,469
- Isaac Lamm? No.
- He was the first one
to come before HUAC...
1168
01:12:54,533 --> 01:12:56,638
the House Un-American
Activities Committee.
1169
01:12:56,709 --> 01:13:00,865
He was also the first one to name names,
first to cooperate with the government.
1170
01:13:00,932 --> 01:13:02,820
The dominoes fell from there.
1171
01:13:02,885 --> 01:13:05,405
Careers crushed,
families destroyed.
1172
01:13:05,476 --> 01:13:10,048
Just imagine, Mr. Webster,
if Mr. Lamm had just said,
"Fuck you," to the committee.
1173
01:13:10,117 --> 01:13:12,124
Imagine how much harder
he would've made it for them.
1174
01:13:12,196 --> 01:13:16,473
Are you accusing the committee
of sexual McCarthyism?
1175
01:13:16,548 --> 01:13:20,290
Well, it's not necessary
to make the accusation.
1176
01:13:20,356 --> 01:13:24,000
Oh, I just can't respond
to the committee's lightly
veiled accusations...
1177
01:13:24,068 --> 01:13:26,207
because it's not okay
for them to be made.
1178
01:13:26,276 --> 01:13:30,880
Or maybe you can't respond
because the answers you have
to give are too embarrassing.
1179
01:13:32,196 --> 01:13:34,083
You know what?
1180
01:13:34,147 --> 01:13:36,002
You're young.
1181
01:13:36,067 --> 01:13:37,954
That's okay. That's okay.
You're young.
1182
01:13:38,019 --> 01:13:43,004
I'm gonna choose to be amused
by your naivet�, give you
the benefit of the doubt.
1183
01:13:43,074 --> 01:13:45,496
I'm gonna spell it out
for you even more clearly.
1184
01:13:45,571 --> 01:13:47,578
If I were a man,
nobody would care...
1185
01:13:47,651 --> 01:13:49,952
how many sexual partners
I had in college.
1186
01:13:50,019 --> 01:13:54,328
And if it's not relevant for a man,
it's not relevant for a woman.
1187
01:13:56,066 --> 01:14:00,190
Jerry, send the folks back in, please.
I gotta finish this up.
1188
01:14:00,258 --> 01:14:03,160
He's not a bad man.
1189
01:14:03,234 --> 01:14:05,437
He believes in what he's doing.
1190
01:14:05,505 --> 01:14:07,840
There's an odd sort
of integrity there.
1191
01:14:07,906 --> 01:14:09,760
But in this business,
with so much at stake...
1192
01:14:09,826 --> 01:14:14,298
it's not enough to believe
in yourself, you have to be right.
1193
01:14:14,369 --> 01:14:19,191
This is an ideological rape
of all women.
1194
01:14:19,265 --> 01:14:22,232
- Timmy, that's a little too high.
- Okay, Mommy.
1195
01:14:22,305 --> 01:14:25,087
Thank you, sweetie.
1196
01:14:25,152 --> 01:14:29,178
Well, then I'll survive it
for all of us.
1197
01:14:29,248 --> 01:14:33,471
Tomorrow morning Congressman Marshall
is gonna ask you questions.
1198
01:14:33,537 --> 01:14:35,446
He's going to hit you
with abortion.
1199
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:39,000
I promise you that Shelly will find
some way to call you a baby killer.
1200
01:14:39,072 --> 01:14:43,033
We're ready for him.
Our position papers are first-rate.
1201
01:14:43,104 --> 01:14:45,689
- Every one of them.
- You let him finish.
1202
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:50,332
Then you look him in the eye
and you ask him...
1203
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:53,945
"Mr. Runyon, 20 years ago
your wife Maggie had an abortion.
1204
01:14:54,015 --> 01:14:56,022
Do you think her a murderer?"
1205
01:14:58,559 --> 01:15:00,926
He's a hypocrite.
1206
01:15:00,991 --> 01:15:04,220
No, he's not.
Shelly has no idea.
1207
01:15:06,655 --> 01:15:09,022
Are you saying you would appoint
a Supreme Court justice...
1208
01:15:09,087 --> 01:15:12,120
based on his being pro-choice?
1209
01:15:12,190 --> 01:15:16,380
Mr. Marshall, the vice president
does not appoint Supreme Court justices.
1210
01:15:16,446 --> 01:15:20,275
Should you succeed the president
or even advise the president?
1211
01:15:20,350 --> 01:15:23,220
I would be inclined,
though not without flexibility...
1212
01:15:23,294 --> 01:15:27,004
to disregard any man or woman who is
pro-life from serving on the High Court.
1213
01:15:27,070 --> 01:15:31,958
So you would allow a personal political
belief to enter into such a decision?
1214
01:15:32,030 --> 01:15:34,615
Abortion isn't
a constitutional issue.
1215
01:15:34,685 --> 01:15:37,052
The fine ladies and gentlemen
who serve on the Supreme Court...
1216
01:15:37,117 --> 01:15:38,972
which is now stacked
with right-wing appointees...
1217
01:15:39,037 --> 01:15:43,609
have no business deciding whether women
have to resort to back-alley abortions...
1218
01:15:43,677 --> 01:15:47,506
You mean they have no business
deciding whether women have
a license to commit murder.
1219
01:15:47,581 --> 01:15:49,785
Mr. Marshall, your time has expired.
1220
01:15:49,853 --> 01:15:54,937
Sir, if the distinguished "gentlelady"
from Ohio would answer the question...
1221
01:15:55,005 --> 01:15:57,492
I think the lady has made clear
her propensity for abortion.
1222
01:15:57,564 --> 01:16:02,801
- Come on, Mr. Runyon!
- Mr. Lewis, you do not
have speaking privileges.
1223
01:16:02,876 --> 01:16:05,843
Mr. Chairman, I find your term,
"propensity for abortion"...
1224
01:16:05,916 --> 01:16:07,803
misrepresentative of my position.
1225
01:16:07,868 --> 01:16:11,184
I have a propensity
for a woman's right to choose.
1226
01:16:11,260 --> 01:16:14,259
- To abort a child!
- A fetus.
1227
01:16:14,332 --> 01:16:18,587
To kill a baby
as it grows in the womb.
1228
01:16:20,540 --> 01:16:22,809
Personally, Senator...
1229
01:16:22,875 --> 01:16:27,828
I do not believe that it is
the right of our citizens...
1230
01:16:27,899 --> 01:16:32,634
to... to butcher
a defenseless human being simply...
1231
01:16:32,699 --> 01:16:36,147
simply as a matter of choice.
1232
01:16:36,218 --> 01:16:39,666
At the risk of my own future,
I tell you this:
1233
01:16:39,739 --> 01:16:41,811
If you support the right...
1234
01:16:41,882 --> 01:16:45,494
of a woman to choose,
you are supporting...
1235
01:16:45,562 --> 01:16:50,297
nothing less than
a-a-a holocaust of the unborn.
1236
01:16:50,362 --> 01:16:53,809
Mr. Chairman,
are you calling me...
1237
01:17:18,521 --> 01:17:21,139
I believe my position
on this issue is clear.
1238
01:17:22,681 --> 01:17:25,779
Yes, madam,
it most certainly is.
1239
01:17:29,561 --> 01:17:31,732
God, I love this game.
1240
01:17:34,136 --> 01:17:37,038
When she tries to tell me
how to do it, I do it my way.
1241
01:17:37,112 --> 01:17:41,040
Then she comes back and changes it
afterwards, and that way...
1242
01:17:41,112 --> 01:17:44,373
Jeez.
1243
01:17:46,551 --> 01:17:48,722
Good one, sir.
1244
01:17:48,791 --> 01:17:51,661
You're an all-weather golfer,
I see.
1245
01:17:51,736 --> 01:17:53,590
What kind of stick
you using there?
1246
01:17:53,656 --> 01:17:56,557
- It's a putting stick.
- Right, putting stick.
1247
01:17:56,631 --> 01:17:59,501
When I asked for you last week,
they said you were in Vegas.
1248
01:17:59,575 --> 01:18:02,259
- Business, sir.
- Vegas is business?
1249
01:18:02,327 --> 01:18:05,174
I did blow
a roll of quarters.
1250
01:18:05,238 --> 01:18:07,093
Will you excuse us?
1251
01:18:14,935 --> 01:18:18,196
- How's that cough doing?
- Aah.
1252
01:18:20,182 --> 01:18:23,052
That's her casino account balance.
1253
01:18:23,125 --> 01:18:27,403
She offered to take her sorority sister
to Vegas, her treat.
1254
01:18:30,422 --> 01:18:35,375
Do you swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing
but the truth so help you God?
1255
01:18:35,446 --> 01:18:37,333
I do.
1256
01:18:39,765 --> 01:18:42,732
Please state your name
for the record.
1257
01:18:42,805 --> 01:18:47,028
Cynthia C-H-A-R-L-T-O-N Lee.
1258
01:18:47,093 --> 01:18:50,354
Thank you.
Please be seated.
1259
01:18:51,861 --> 01:18:57,392
We will start the questioning
with Mr. Skakle.
1260
01:18:57,460 --> 01:19:00,657
Mr. Skakle, the five-minute rule
is in effect.
1261
01:19:00,724 --> 01:19:03,375
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
1262
01:19:03,444 --> 01:19:05,899
Miss Lee.
1263
01:19:05,972 --> 01:19:09,616
Miss Lee, hello. I'm over here.
Thank you for joining us.
1264
01:19:09,684 --> 01:19:13,229
Now, you are under subpoena,
is that correct?
1265
01:19:13,299 --> 01:19:15,274
Yes.
1266
01:19:15,348 --> 01:19:19,308
- Miss Lee, could you speak
directly into the mike?
- Yes.
1267
01:19:19,379 --> 01:19:22,543
I understand you're nervous, but believe
me when I tell you you're among friends.
1268
01:19:24,179 --> 01:19:26,383
Miss Lee, you are not married.
1269
01:19:26,451 --> 01:19:28,939
No... No.
1270
01:19:29,010 --> 01:19:31,596
- No, I'm not.
- But you once were.
1271
01:19:31,667 --> 01:19:34,220
I was married
to William Hanson.
1272
01:19:34,291 --> 01:19:37,422
- Who is now married to the nominee.
- Yes.
1273
01:19:37,491 --> 01:19:41,647
He married Laine after our divorce.
It was about seven years ago.
1274
01:19:41,714 --> 01:19:44,464
Divorce. Right.
I've read your divorce papers.
1275
01:19:44,530 --> 01:19:48,785
Ladies and gentlemen,
that by the way is tab 76.
1276
01:19:48,850 --> 01:19:51,567
They cite
irreconcilable differences.
1277
01:19:51,634 --> 01:19:55,857
Could you tell us, what were
those irreconcilable differences?
1278
01:19:55,922 --> 01:19:57,744
I can't really pinpoint them.
1279
01:19:57,809 --> 01:20:01,606
- Was your husband
physically violent to you?
- No.
1280
01:20:01,682 --> 01:20:05,773
Did you have financial
disagreements or disagreements
over how to raise your kids?
1281
01:20:05,841 --> 01:20:07,728
We didn't have children.
1282
01:20:07,793 --> 01:20:12,103
- Were there infidelities?
- Yes. There was one.
1283
01:20:12,177 --> 01:20:15,788
Is it safe to say that this infidelity
precipitated the divorce?
1284
01:20:18,961 --> 01:20:22,987
Miss Lee, please answer
the question verbally. Was that a yes?
1285
01:20:23,057 --> 01:20:26,056
Yes, it was.
It was a yes.
1286
01:20:26,128 --> 01:20:28,943
- Did you, ma'am, have the affair?
- No.
1287
01:20:29,008 --> 01:20:31,528
- It was your husband then?
- Yes.
1288
01:20:31,600 --> 01:20:34,764
Will...
Will was in charge...
1289
01:20:34,832 --> 01:20:39,305
of Laine Billings's
first senatorial campaign.
1290
01:20:39,376 --> 01:20:41,318
He was with her all the time.
1291
01:20:41,392 --> 01:20:44,970
Are you suggesting the senator,
the nominee, had an affair
with your husband?
1292
01:20:47,535 --> 01:20:50,055
- Once again, Miss Lee...
- I'm sorry. Yes. Yes, yes.
1293
01:20:50,127 --> 01:20:51,982
Thank you.
1294
01:20:52,047 --> 01:20:54,186
Did the nominee know
Mr. Hanson was married?
1295
01:20:55,951 --> 01:20:59,050
Laine was my friend.
My good, good friend.
1296
01:20:59,119 --> 01:21:02,053
Miss Lee, would you explain
to this committee as you
did in your deposition...
1297
01:21:02,126 --> 01:21:06,501
how you discovered
that the nominee was involved...
1298
01:21:06,574 --> 01:21:08,843
in an affair
with your husband?
1299
01:21:08,910 --> 01:21:12,041
Yes. Um...
1300
01:21:12,110 --> 01:21:15,405
On the night of the elections,
I was at home.
1301
01:21:15,470 --> 01:21:17,641
I had the flu.
1302
01:21:17,710 --> 01:21:22,532
I was watching TV, watching Laine
about to make her acceptance speech.
1303
01:21:24,909 --> 01:21:27,048
I was very sad
that I couldn't be there.
1304
01:21:27,118 --> 01:21:30,663
It was a triumph
for Laine and my husband.
1305
01:21:30,733 --> 01:21:34,508
She was up at the podium.
Will was by her side.
1306
01:21:34,573 --> 01:21:36,962
He was holding her hand
in victory.
1307
01:21:37,037 --> 01:21:39,524
On the other side
of Laine...
1308
01:21:39,597 --> 01:21:42,859
she was just sort of clasping
that person's hand.
1309
01:21:42,925 --> 01:21:46,220
But with Will...
1310
01:21:46,284 --> 01:21:48,837
their hands were interlaced.
1311
01:21:48,908 --> 01:21:52,072
It was odd
that I noticed it, but...
1312
01:21:52,140 --> 01:21:54,922
Um, my doorbell rang.
1313
01:21:54,988 --> 01:21:57,955
I answered the door,
and there was a gentleman there...
1314
01:21:58,028 --> 01:22:01,956
dressed very nicely,
he had a yellow tie on.
1315
01:22:02,028 --> 01:22:04,167
He had papers for me.
1316
01:22:04,236 --> 01:22:07,138
- Papers? I'm sorry.
- Separation papers.
1317
01:22:07,211 --> 01:22:11,718
Since the committee
chose to humiliate a private woman
in the most public possible setting...
1318
01:22:11,788 --> 01:22:14,471
I would like to apologize
to her alike...
1319
01:22:14,539 --> 01:22:18,117
and I will also do so privately
when she allows me to do so.
1320
01:22:18,187 --> 01:22:22,377
Um, what I did to Miss Lee
was wrong.
1321
01:22:22,443 --> 01:22:25,193
It was not done out of malice.
Indeed the opposite.
1322
01:22:25,259 --> 01:22:28,161
Um...
1323
01:22:28,235 --> 01:22:32,457
love is an involuntary reflex,
and I fell victim to it.
1324
01:22:32,522 --> 01:22:36,581
Um, I deeply regret
causing Cynthia pain...
1325
01:22:36,650 --> 01:22:40,446
and it is especially saddening
for me because...
1326
01:22:40,522 --> 01:22:43,838
of how close we once were.
1327
01:22:43,914 --> 01:22:47,842
And whether or not the affair
that Will and I had...
1328
01:22:47,914 --> 01:22:50,565
should have any bearing on my assuming
office is for the committee to decide.
1329
01:22:50,634 --> 01:22:55,368
I dare not assume that I have
the objective wisdom to make
that determination. Thank you.
1330
01:22:55,434 --> 01:22:58,782
- Senator,
are you suggesting the public...
- Okay, she's had a long day.
1331
01:22:58,857 --> 01:23:00,486
You know what she's going through.
Come on, come on.
1332
01:23:00,519 --> 01:23:02,114
You know what she's going through.
Come on, come on.
1333
01:23:02,185 --> 01:23:04,192
She was your best friend.
1334
01:23:04,265 --> 01:23:08,455
Runyon deposed Will's
ex-wife today, and, uh...
1335
01:23:08,521 --> 01:23:10,888
she stated that Will and I
had had an affair...
1336
01:23:10,953 --> 01:23:14,149
She saw her fucking holding hands,
interlocked fingers with this gal...
1337
01:23:14,216 --> 01:23:16,071
and she knew
that she'd been fucking him.
1338
01:23:16,136 --> 01:23:18,046
That's what she said.
1339
01:23:18,121 --> 01:23:20,487
- I'm sorry.
- It's a bad beat.
1340
01:23:20,553 --> 01:23:25,342
I'm not sure that I get
the point of all this.
1341
01:23:25,416 --> 01:23:29,092
- You said under oath
that you never committed adultery.
- That's right.
1342
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:32,476
- You perjured yourself.
- I didn't commit adultery.
1343
01:23:32,552 --> 01:23:34,242
- You were fucking Will
when he was married.
- All right.
1344
01:23:34,311 --> 01:23:38,239
Even the most loose definition
of committing adultery
would not include that.
1345
01:23:38,311 --> 01:23:40,678
Goddamn it, she's right.
You're right.
1346
01:23:40,743 --> 01:23:44,321
In order for it to be
committing adultery, she'd have
to be married at the time.
1347
01:23:44,391 --> 01:23:46,246
You're nitpicking
in reverse now.
1348
01:23:46,311 --> 01:23:48,416
Your husband may have been
an adulterer. You're not. Fine.
1349
01:23:48,487 --> 01:23:53,157
What you are is a sex-crazed,
home-wrecking machine.
The female Warren Beatty.
1350
01:23:53,223 --> 01:23:56,484
Runyon knows
that you're clean of the perjury...
1351
01:23:56,550 --> 01:24:00,380
but he's got the world thinking you're
something out of a bad soap opera.
1352
01:24:00,455 --> 01:24:05,211
You've goddamned crystallized
the difference between being
guilty and being responsible.
1353
01:24:05,286 --> 01:24:07,326
Are you asking me
to step down, sir?
1354
01:24:07,398 --> 01:24:11,675
No, it's not gonna be
that easy for you, and it's not
gonna be that easy for them.
1355
01:24:13,765 --> 01:24:17,311
They caught you being
a human being. That's all.
1356
01:24:19,429 --> 01:24:21,568
I'll die before Shelly Runyon
checkmates me.
1357
01:24:21,638 --> 01:24:25,249
I think the president's trying to say
the Sitting Bull routine isn't working.
1358
01:24:25,317 --> 01:24:28,613
- The Sitting Bull routine?
- No!
1359
01:24:32,613 --> 01:24:34,467
Fight back.
1360
01:24:34,532 --> 01:24:38,526
Show them Laine Hanson isn't gonna take
their shit. Take the fight out of 'em.
1361
01:24:38,597 --> 01:24:40,353
- What's the process?
- Confess.
1362
01:24:40,421 --> 01:24:43,071
- Confess?
- Yeah, confess.
- Confess.
1363
01:24:43,140 --> 01:24:45,628
Confess to the gang-bang.
Confess to all of it.
1364
01:24:45,700 --> 01:24:49,213
- Look what it did
for Clinton with Flowers.
- Play it any way you want.
1365
01:24:49,284 --> 01:24:51,072
It didn't hurt his numbers.
It improved his numbers.
1366
01:24:51,140 --> 01:24:54,435
Show indignation about how a man
would never have to go through
hell for having done this.
1367
01:24:54,500 --> 01:24:56,921
Confess and demonstrate
to the young women of America...
1368
01:24:56,996 --> 01:25:02,178
how such sexual impropriety
can ruin their lives.
1369
01:25:02,244 --> 01:25:07,033
Confess and preach about the dangers
that alcohol can bring to you.
1370
01:25:07,108 --> 01:25:09,180
For God's sakes, just confess!
1371
01:25:09,251 --> 01:25:13,048
I understand, Kermit, truly.
1372
01:25:14,563 --> 01:25:17,432
I understand, and you know what?
It's really nobody's business.
1373
01:25:17,507 --> 01:25:21,184
Well, it is
our fucking business!
1374
01:25:32,514 --> 01:25:34,369
Listen, Laine...
1375
01:25:35,394 --> 01:25:37,980
I don't care who you fucked...
1376
01:25:38,050 --> 01:25:41,246
and how many times
in how many positions...
1377
01:25:41,314 --> 01:25:44,413
as long as it doesn't threaten
the administration.
1378
01:25:46,945 --> 01:25:50,076
You can be cavalier
on your own dime.
1379
01:25:59,553 --> 01:26:01,408
Mr. President.
1380
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:12,830
I am fully prepared
to step down...
1381
01:26:12,896 --> 01:26:15,710
but my personal life...
1382
01:26:15,776 --> 01:26:19,420
and my past...
1383
01:26:20,608 --> 01:26:22,648
are just that.
1384
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:26,364
But I will do
whatever you say.
1385
01:26:30,016 --> 01:26:35,732
Show them why Laine Hanson is my nominee
with your closing statement.
1386
01:26:35,807 --> 01:26:37,946
Mr. Chairman...
1387
01:26:38,015 --> 01:26:41,211
ladies and gentlemen
of the committee:
1388
01:26:41,279 --> 01:26:45,719
Uh, remarkably enough, it seems
that I have some explaining to do.
1389
01:26:45,790 --> 01:26:49,500
So...
let me be absolutely clear.
1390
01:26:56,094 --> 01:26:59,771
I stand for a woman's right
to choose.
1391
01:26:59,838 --> 01:27:03,732
I stand for the elimination
of the death penalty.
1392
01:27:03,806 --> 01:27:06,708
I stand for a strong
and growing armed forces...
1393
01:27:06,782 --> 01:27:10,611
because we must stomp out genocide
on this planet...
1394
01:27:10,686 --> 01:27:14,199
and I believe that that
is a cause worth dying for.
1395
01:27:15,678 --> 01:27:20,118
I stand for seeing every gun
taken out of every home. Period.
1396
01:27:20,190 --> 01:27:25,011
I stand for making
the selling of cigarettes
to our youth a federal offense.
1397
01:27:25,085 --> 01:27:30,038
I stand for term limits
and campaign reform.
1398
01:27:30,108 --> 01:27:34,647
And, Mr. Chairman, I stand for
the separation of church and state...
1399
01:27:34,716 --> 01:27:39,386
and the reason that I stand
for that is the same reason that
I believe our forefathers did.
1400
01:27:39,452 --> 01:27:42,616
It is not there to protect religion
from the grasp of government...
1401
01:27:42,684 --> 01:27:46,874
but to protect our government
from the grasp of religious fanaticism.
1402
01:27:46,940 --> 01:27:49,427
I may be an atheist...
1403
01:27:49,499 --> 01:27:53,656
but that does not mean I do not
go to church; I do go to church.
1404
01:27:53,724 --> 01:27:57,106
The church I go to is the one
that emancipated the slaves...
1405
01:27:57,179 --> 01:27:59,546
that gave women
the right to vote.
1406
01:27:59,611 --> 01:28:04,629
It gave us every freedom
that we hold dear.
1407
01:28:04,700 --> 01:28:08,311
My church is this very chapel
of democracy that we sit in together...
1408
01:28:08,379 --> 01:28:11,412
and I do not need God to tell me
what are my moral absolutes.
1409
01:28:11,482 --> 01:28:13,686
I need my heart,
my brain and this church.
1410
01:28:19,866 --> 01:28:21,906
Get in there, get in there.
1411
01:28:23,418 --> 01:28:26,866
Oh, shoot!
Come on, come on, come on!
1412
01:28:26,938 --> 01:28:30,582
- Senator? Oh...
- Hello, Freshman.
1413
01:28:30,650 --> 01:28:32,854
Senator, I just wanted
to steal a couple of seconds.
1414
01:28:32,922 --> 01:28:35,955
What? See what whores do
on their time off?
1415
01:28:39,290 --> 01:28:42,551
Listen,
I know the things I've done.
1416
01:28:42,617 --> 01:28:45,617
They may not have been nice
or considered politically savvy...
1417
01:28:45,689 --> 01:28:49,617
but they have served the greater good
and they have been honest.
1418
01:28:49,689 --> 01:28:51,380
Okay.
1419
01:28:51,449 --> 01:28:53,969
Look, I know
you're not a whore.
1420
01:28:54,041 --> 01:28:56,212
- I'm not gonna talk about it.
- I know. You're not talking about it.
1421
01:28:58,553 --> 01:29:00,757
Somebody else
has come forward.
1422
01:29:00,825 --> 01:29:03,956
Somebody else from the night
of the incident sent me this letter.
1423
01:29:04,024 --> 01:29:05,879
They didn't send it to me.
They sent it to the committee.
1424
01:29:05,944 --> 01:29:08,365
I just happen to be in charge
of all the correspondence.
1425
01:29:08,440 --> 01:29:11,986
I don't think you can keep quiet
about what's in there.
1426
01:29:12,056 --> 01:29:16,278
Mr. Runyon has a copy,
and now so do you.
1427
01:29:16,344 --> 01:29:19,475
I beg you, Senator,
to deal with this.
1428
01:29:21,944 --> 01:29:24,497
- How long is this flight?
- About an hour and 40 minutes.
1429
01:29:24,568 --> 01:29:28,561
POTUS is scheduled to address
the American Legion on the third.
1430
01:29:28,631 --> 01:29:31,282
- American Legion? Who approved that?
- I don't know.
1431
01:29:31,351 --> 01:29:33,871
- I thought he had
the D.A.R. Dinner that night.
- We have a five-hour window.
1432
01:29:33,943 --> 01:29:35,633
- Hey, Chuck.
- Hey, Kermit.
1433
01:29:35,703 --> 01:29:37,557
Did you get the AP reports?
1434
01:29:37,622 --> 01:29:42,161
- What's that?
- POTUS's poll numbers are down 23%.
1435
01:29:42,230 --> 01:29:45,940
- And Hanson's in the low 30s.
- Get in there.
I'll talk to you in a minute.
1436
01:29:46,006 --> 01:29:48,788
- Are you Willomina?
- Yes, sir.
1437
01:29:50,486 --> 01:29:52,341
You asked to see me?
1438
01:29:52,406 --> 01:29:55,570
- Is this your handiwork?
- Yes, sir.
1439
01:29:55,638 --> 01:29:59,566
- How many people have seen this?
- I gave it only to the director.
1440
01:29:59,638 --> 01:30:03,216
- And who have you talked to about this?
- Nobody.
1441
01:30:03,285 --> 01:30:05,936
Not a husband? Boyfriend?
1442
01:30:06,006 --> 01:30:10,032
- Grandma in Kalamazoo?
- No, sir. Nobody.
1443
01:30:10,102 --> 01:30:13,418
- Keep it that way.
- Yes, sir.
1444
01:30:13,493 --> 01:30:16,210
You did a good job,
Special Agent.
1445
01:30:18,581 --> 01:30:24,211
Sir! Uh, sir, I just... I just wanted
to ask, ask you. Um, well...
1446
01:30:24,277 --> 01:30:26,895
Are you gonna dump her?
1447
01:30:26,965 --> 01:30:29,714
Sir, this may be really,
really inappropriate...
1448
01:30:29,780 --> 01:30:32,333
but if that's what you guys
are thinking...
1449
01:30:32,404 --> 01:30:35,884
Please, you can't do it.
She's hope.
1450
01:30:35,956 --> 01:30:39,502
Hope that the standards...
That there is no double standard.
1451
01:30:39,572 --> 01:30:42,059
Hope that the goals
can be the same.
1452
01:30:43,476 --> 01:30:46,258
You know what?
You're goddamn right.
1453
01:30:47,284 --> 01:30:50,448
That was absolutely inappropriate.
1454
01:30:50,516 --> 01:30:52,752
Robertson.
1455
01:31:05,395 --> 01:31:07,850
I wouldn't take it too hard.
1456
01:31:07,923 --> 01:31:09,930
It's not exactly fair
when six foxes and one chicken...
1457
01:31:10,003 --> 01:31:12,653
are voting on
what to have for dinner.
1458
01:31:12,722 --> 01:31:16,464
Well, that's not
playing fair. I'll give you that.
1459
01:31:16,531 --> 01:31:18,669
You want an oatmeal cookie?
1460
01:31:18,738 --> 01:31:20,331
- Trevor?
- I'm getting them, sir.
1461
01:31:20,402 --> 01:31:24,526
I find these giant raisins...
Well, you'll see.
1462
01:31:24,594 --> 01:31:26,601
Taste like grapes.
1463
01:31:32,786 --> 01:31:36,200
Shelly, you really made
a mess of things for me.
1464
01:31:36,273 --> 01:31:38,510
You sure did clobber me.
1465
01:31:41,713 --> 01:31:46,055
Isn't it possible, sir,
that I was... that I was acting...
1466
01:31:46,129 --> 01:31:48,365
- in the best interests
of the United States?
- No.
1467
01:31:48,433 --> 01:31:50,767
It's not possible.
1468
01:31:50,833 --> 01:31:54,094
That's what pisses me off. It's all
about retribution for Hartford.
1469
01:31:54,161 --> 01:31:56,549
Thank you, Trevor.
That'll be all.
1470
01:31:56,624 --> 01:32:00,552
- Go ahead. Try this. It's wonderful.
- No.
1471
01:32:00,624 --> 01:32:04,814
I may have taken the presidency
from you, but you one-upped me.
1472
01:32:04,880 --> 01:32:07,815
You took away my legacy.
1473
01:32:07,888 --> 01:32:11,084
I look at her and I see someone who
has proven the capacity for disloyalty.
1474
01:32:11,152 --> 01:32:13,061
Or the capacity
for seeing the light.
1475
01:32:15,055 --> 01:32:17,128
We're both sticking
to our guns.
1476
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:20,134
The difference is...
mine are loaded.
1477
01:32:20,207 --> 01:32:25,292
Look, it doesn't matter, does it?
She's not being confirmed.
1478
01:32:25,359 --> 01:32:29,319
We can talk for days
about greatness and leadership...
1479
01:32:29,391 --> 01:32:31,813
but Laine Hanson
will not be confirmed.
1480
01:32:31,887 --> 01:32:35,148
I have seven from your side
who are giving her the ax.
1481
01:32:35,214 --> 01:32:37,102
Oh, indeed, the ax?
1482
01:32:37,167 --> 01:32:39,022
We can go through
the process of a vote.
1483
01:32:39,087 --> 01:32:40,613
You can waste time...
1484
01:32:40,686 --> 01:32:45,258
and suffer the humiliation,
or... or we can just move on.
1485
01:32:45,326 --> 01:32:47,301
- There's a lot of good folk
to choose from.
- Who?
1486
01:32:47,374 --> 01:32:49,546
Who can I be certain
you'll confirm?
1487
01:32:49,614 --> 01:32:53,574
The man you wanted in the first place:
Jack Hathaway.
1488
01:32:55,694 --> 01:32:57,548
Shelly.
1489
01:32:59,086 --> 01:33:00,973
Good man.
1490
01:33:11,309 --> 01:33:14,244
Okay, Shelly...
1491
01:33:14,316 --> 01:33:19,138
I'll give you Governor Jack Hathaway,
but I wanna make damn sure...
1492
01:33:19,213 --> 01:33:22,442
- you'll give him a smooth ride.
- My word. There's a reason
they call me Honest Shell.
1493
01:33:22,508 --> 01:33:26,283
Irony, Shelly.
I want an insurance policy.
1494
01:33:26,348 --> 01:33:29,130
I want a piece of the rock.
I wanna make sure...
1495
01:33:29,196 --> 01:33:31,400
you're not gonna pull
some kind of baloney out of your hat...
1496
01:33:31,468 --> 01:33:33,639
and make a mockery
of my administration again.
1497
01:33:33,708 --> 01:33:36,097
Listen. This is
what I'm gonna do.
1498
01:33:38,380 --> 01:33:42,787
I'm gonna ask Mrs. Hanson and
Mr. Hathaway up to the Oval Office...
1499
01:33:42,859 --> 01:33:45,347
before the D.A.R. Banquet
tomorrow night.
1500
01:33:45,420 --> 01:33:47,525
I want you there as well,
but, Shelly...
1501
01:33:47,596 --> 01:33:51,457
before then, I need you
to marry yourself to this guy.
1502
01:33:51,531 --> 01:33:55,655
I need you to make a public statement
that makes his sinking your sinking.
1503
01:33:55,723 --> 01:33:58,178
- Otherwise...
- But I'm not sure I can...
1504
01:33:58,251 --> 01:34:01,480
Let's make this confirmation
fast and furious.
1505
01:34:01,547 --> 01:34:04,296
- Help me save face on this one.
- Okay.
1506
01:34:17,706 --> 01:34:21,568
Oh, man. Mr. Runyon,
prefer I take you around back?
1507
01:34:21,642 --> 01:34:25,416
- No, I'll be fine.
- Yes, sir.
1508
01:34:35,625 --> 01:34:40,611
How do you respond to the rumors
that Mrs. Hanson has withdrawn her name?
1509
01:34:40,681 --> 01:34:42,590
That is a rumor
I've not yet heard.
1510
01:34:42,665 --> 01:34:44,967
Have you heard about the possibility
of Governor Hathaway...
1511
01:34:45,033 --> 01:34:48,513
- returning to the list
of vice presidential...
- Governor Hathaway is a fine man.
1512
01:34:48,585 --> 01:34:50,821
Will he have a smoother ride
than Mrs. Hanson?
1513
01:34:50,888 --> 01:34:53,310
Let me go on record
as saying...
1514
01:34:53,385 --> 01:34:56,930
that in my opinion there is
no man alive... no Democrat alive...
1515
01:34:57,000 --> 01:34:59,717
who could bring...
1516
01:34:59,784 --> 01:35:03,428
more integrity
to the office of the vice presidency.
1517
01:35:03,495 --> 01:35:06,812
I would stake my career...
1518
01:35:06,887 --> 01:35:11,360
on Governor Hathaway's, uh,
smooth and efficient confirmation.
1519
01:35:11,431 --> 01:35:14,246
As for Laine Hanson...
1520
01:35:14,311 --> 01:35:17,758
- Got everybody, Glenda?
- Yes, sir. He says you can
go in whenever you're ready.
1521
01:35:17,831 --> 01:35:19,970
- Great. Hello, Jack.
- Kermit.
1522
01:35:20,039 --> 01:35:23,748
- Fiona, you're looking
particularly fetching this evening.
- Thank you, sir.
1523
01:35:23,815 --> 01:35:27,230
- I believe this is the first one
of these affairs for you, right?
- Yes.
1524
01:35:27,302 --> 01:35:29,855
- My 37th.
- You look great.
1525
01:35:29,926 --> 01:35:32,610
- Hello, Shelly.
- Newman.
1526
01:35:32,679 --> 01:35:37,217
Everybody would understand if you
wanted to delay for two weeks.
1527
01:35:37,287 --> 01:35:40,483
I'm not sure I could stomach
another two weeks.
1528
01:35:41,510 --> 01:35:44,444
Oh, Jack.
1529
01:35:44,518 --> 01:35:48,064
- Jerry. Good.
- How are you?
1530
01:35:48,134 --> 01:35:50,108
Mr. Hanson.
1531
01:35:51,301 --> 01:35:54,171
- Gentlemen. Jack.
- Mr. President.
1532
01:35:54,245 --> 01:35:56,285
There he is! Shelly!
1533
01:35:56,357 --> 01:35:58,462
Hello, Mr. President.
1534
01:35:58,533 --> 01:36:00,475
Uh, you know what?
1535
01:36:00,549 --> 01:36:03,037
Before we get started...
1536
01:36:03,109 --> 01:36:05,411
I can't stomach the idea...
1537
01:36:05,477 --> 01:36:08,347
of touching that chichi food we always
get served at these state dinners.
1538
01:36:08,420 --> 01:36:10,275
- Glenda?
- Yes, sir?
1539
01:36:10,340 --> 01:36:13,307
Could we put together a grilled
cheese sandwich? Muenster on rye.
1540
01:36:13,380 --> 01:36:15,355
Right away.
1541
01:36:15,429 --> 01:36:17,632
Oh, sorry. Where are my manners?
You guys want anything?
1542
01:36:17,701 --> 01:36:20,286
- No, thank you, sir.
- Shelly?
1543
01:36:20,356 --> 01:36:22,363
Jesus, uh, Shell,
those were some...
1544
01:36:22,436 --> 01:36:25,884
very nice things
you said about Jack.
1545
01:36:27,780 --> 01:36:31,708
Jack, there. I understand
that you two have never met.
1546
01:36:31,780 --> 01:36:34,398
- Laine Hanson, Jack Hathaway.
- It's a pleasure.
1547
01:36:34,468 --> 01:36:36,322
- I'm quite in awe of you.
- Thank you.
1548
01:36:38,308 --> 01:36:40,413
Mr. President?
1549
01:36:40,483 --> 01:36:44,826
- Yes, Glenda?
- Sir, the kitchen's
all out of Muenster.
1550
01:36:44,899 --> 01:36:48,925
Really? Wow.
Well, um, let's get on that.
1551
01:36:48,995 --> 01:36:52,256
We don't want the wheels
coming off the wagon.
1552
01:36:59,906 --> 01:37:03,451
This is, uh...
1553
01:37:03,522 --> 01:37:08,094
This is quite an event.
Here we are. Quite a sad event.
1554
01:37:08,162 --> 01:37:10,071
- Mr. President, if I may?
- Yes, please.
1555
01:37:10,146 --> 01:37:13,790
A short while ago,
you told me that you thought
I might be the future of the party.
1556
01:37:13,858 --> 01:37:16,825
I know that these
are tough times...
1557
01:37:16,898 --> 01:37:18,752
and the future is uncertain...
1558
01:37:18,817 --> 01:37:22,363
but I'm very pleased to think
that I might be able to help
make things a little smoother.
1559
01:37:24,257 --> 01:37:28,599
The future, yes.
Well, there is one thing...
1560
01:37:28,673 --> 01:37:32,285
quite certain
about the future.
1561
01:37:33,793 --> 01:37:36,476
- What's that?
- Sir?
1562
01:37:36,545 --> 01:37:38,846
- You have the right to remain silent...
- Fred.
1563
01:37:38,912 --> 01:37:43,135
- I have to read him his rights.
- Fred, the governor,
he knows his rights.
1564
01:37:43,201 --> 01:37:46,998
You know your rights, right, Jack?
You don't have to humiliate him.
1565
01:37:47,072 --> 01:37:49,439
You fucked up, buddy.
1566
01:37:49,504 --> 01:37:53,628
- The girl, do you know what she was?
- What girl?
1567
01:37:53,696 --> 01:37:56,631
- The girl in the river.
- She was a paralegal.
1568
01:37:56,704 --> 01:37:59,999
- Before that.
- She was military. Fourteen Golf.
1569
01:38:00,064 --> 01:38:04,341
We found the money that you put
in her account at the Bellagio.
1570
01:38:04,416 --> 01:38:07,449
- Two hundred thousand dollars.
- And that ad in...
1571
01:38:07,519 --> 01:38:09,853
- Soldier of Fortune.
- Yeah, Soldier of Fortune.
1572
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:12,254
I don't mind confessing,
I am at a total fucking loss.
1573
01:38:12,319 --> 01:38:16,410
Shelly, he paid her
to go off the fucking bridge.
1574
01:38:16,479 --> 01:38:19,708
He paid her to save her.
1575
01:38:19,775 --> 01:38:21,630
Jesus Christ.
1576
01:38:23,742 --> 01:38:26,557
- Shelly, maybe I...
- You shouldn't say anything.
1577
01:38:26,622 --> 01:38:31,227
- Jack, look, we respect...
- You're going to have
to come with me now.
1578
01:38:31,295 --> 01:38:33,466
Fred. We respect you.
1579
01:38:33,534 --> 01:38:36,403
We're trying to make this go
as smoothly as it possibly can.
1580
01:38:36,478 --> 01:38:38,617
I know you meant no harm.
1581
01:38:38,686 --> 01:38:41,882
- Hell, I don't even know...
What would the charge be?
- Negligent homicide.
1582
01:38:41,950 --> 01:38:46,205
Oh, negligent homicide.
1583
01:38:46,269 --> 01:38:48,179
Sir.
1584
01:38:49,630 --> 01:38:51,996
- Good luck, Mrs. Hanson.
- You too.
1585
01:38:52,062 --> 01:38:55,193
Who doesn't want
a shortcut to greatness?
1586
01:39:09,533 --> 01:39:12,948
Oh, it's a goddamn shame
about the Muenster.
1587
01:39:23,228 --> 01:39:25,083
Mr. President.
1588
01:39:25,148 --> 01:39:27,319
Yeah, Shelly?
1589
01:39:27,387 --> 01:39:29,460
You set me up.
1590
01:39:29,532 --> 01:39:31,386
Just this once.
1591
01:39:35,356 --> 01:39:37,625
For the record, sir...
1592
01:39:37,691 --> 01:39:41,782
I find what you did
to be manipulative...
1593
01:39:41,851 --> 01:39:44,884
Mr. Chairman, let's just say...
1594
01:39:44,955 --> 01:39:47,988
"I'm guilty
but not responsible," hmm?
1595
01:39:49,307 --> 01:39:53,911
Shelly, you needn't worry
about us exposing the fact...
1596
01:39:53,978 --> 01:39:56,400
that you leaked all that horrible
material about Laine on the Internet.
1597
01:39:56,475 --> 01:40:01,144
We know that you were
just following your heart.
1598
01:40:02,138 --> 01:40:04,178
Yeah, Hartford,
it was a tough one.
1599
01:40:04,250 --> 01:40:06,323
But... Well, it doesn't
make a difference.
1600
01:40:06,394 --> 01:40:10,070
- She still is who she is.
- Yes, she is.
1601
01:40:10,137 --> 01:40:12,504
And you are who you are.
1602
01:40:14,937 --> 01:40:16,912
You're still coming
to the banquet, aren't you?
1603
01:40:16,986 --> 01:40:19,702
Because I'd love to see you.
Is your wife in town?
1604
01:40:23,577 --> 01:40:26,544
May I introduce
tonight's honoree, Miss Barr?
1605
01:40:26,617 --> 01:40:29,366
- Congressman Webster.
- Honor, madam.
1606
01:40:29,432 --> 01:40:32,596
And, Congressman,
you know the senator, of course.
1607
01:40:32,664 --> 01:40:35,217
We go about two feet back.
1608
01:40:35,288 --> 01:40:38,321
I asked them to have you seated
at my table tonight.
1609
01:40:38,392 --> 01:40:42,287
- If you want to break bread with me.
- Absolutely.
1610
01:40:42,360 --> 01:40:44,978
- Don't eat all the hors d'oeuvres.
- Shark steak sandwiches?
1611
01:40:45,048 --> 01:40:47,120
Yeah. Save me some.
1612
01:40:50,168 --> 01:40:54,194
Last time I shared one of these,
it was with the president of Russia.
1613
01:40:54,264 --> 01:40:59,250
Or maybe it was the kid
who won Wimbledon for the second time.
1614
01:40:59,320 --> 01:41:01,262
I'm honored, sir.
1615
01:41:03,415 --> 01:41:06,383
You're not supposed to inhale.
1616
01:41:06,455 --> 01:41:09,587
Maybe that's the first thing
you should've told me.
1617
01:41:11,671 --> 01:41:14,289
Recognize this affidavit?
1618
01:41:14,359 --> 01:41:16,301
Where'd you get that, sir?
1619
01:41:16,374 --> 01:41:18,796
Where you got yours.
1620
01:41:18,871 --> 01:41:21,587
Where Shelly Runyon got his.
1621
01:41:21,655 --> 01:41:24,207
From Mr. Webster.
1622
01:41:25,430 --> 01:41:27,885
He may not know
his right from his left...
1623
01:41:27,958 --> 01:41:30,860
but apparently
he does know right from wrong.
1624
01:41:32,277 --> 01:41:34,546
I understand you
even less now, Senator.
1625
01:41:34,614 --> 01:41:37,842
- You are an enigma wrapped in a riddle.
- Wrapped in a riddle.
1626
01:41:37,910 --> 01:41:41,041
Watch your step, Senator.
1627
01:41:45,525 --> 01:41:49,267
What if I told you that I'm just
busting at the seams...
1628
01:41:49,333 --> 01:41:52,945
to know what exactly
happened that night...
1629
01:41:53,013 --> 01:41:56,493
to hear the truth
from your own lips?
1630
01:41:56,565 --> 01:41:59,664
Totally off the record.
1631
01:41:59,733 --> 01:42:05,002
Not between the president
and the senator, but between
the president and Laine.
1632
01:42:05,076 --> 01:42:08,654
Better than that.
Between Jackson and Laine.
1633
01:42:20,148 --> 01:42:24,425
Well, I had just turned 18
when I got to college...
1634
01:42:24,500 --> 01:42:27,467
and I had never been
away from home, not really.
1635
01:42:27,540 --> 01:42:32,941
And I was immediately...
I was immediately lonely.
1636
01:42:33,011 --> 01:42:36,524
And that's when
the sorority kicked in.
1637
01:42:36,594 --> 01:42:38,536
I wanted them,
they wanted me.
1638
01:42:38,611 --> 01:42:40,782
I was the daughter of the governor,
for chrissake.
1639
01:42:40,851 --> 01:42:44,014
- True blue catch.
- I guess so.
1640
01:42:44,082 --> 01:42:48,784
And like any other sorority,
they have an initiation, a rush.
1641
01:42:48,850 --> 01:42:53,901
And they have this girl, this woman
that Runyon deposed, Patty LaVamere.
1642
01:42:53,971 --> 01:42:56,174
She runs the sorority,
and she gives it to me straight:
1643
01:42:56,242 --> 01:43:01,905
If I wanna be in, I have to go to
their brother fraternity and have sex...
1644
01:43:01,970 --> 01:43:04,839
with two boys.
1645
01:43:04,914 --> 01:43:06,888
What a coup for them, huh?
1646
01:43:06,961 --> 01:43:10,474
Daughter of a big-time Republican
doing a frat house?
1647
01:43:10,546 --> 01:43:13,393
But I say,
"There's no chance."
1648
01:43:13,457 --> 01:43:16,239
- The whole thing was pretty hairy.
- I bet.
1649
01:43:16,306 --> 01:43:19,273
But six beers later,
I'm talking a different tune...
1650
01:43:19,345 --> 01:43:21,930
so off we go
to the frat house.
1651
01:43:22,001 --> 01:43:24,456
Half the girls were there,
about a zillion boys.
1652
01:43:24,529 --> 01:43:29,133
They're cheering my name.
"Laine! Laine! Laine!"
1653
01:43:29,200 --> 01:43:32,583
And I'm just stumbling around.
1654
01:43:34,672 --> 01:43:38,731
Eventually I just say,
"I'm gonna go for it."
1655
01:43:38,800 --> 01:43:43,142
If getting laid is a common initiation
for boys in the frat...
1656
01:43:43,216 --> 01:43:46,183
then why not for us, right?
1657
01:43:46,256 --> 01:43:50,217
- You're asking me?
- No, I'm not.
1658
01:43:50,288 --> 01:43:53,451
Oh, sorry.
Sorry. Go ahead.
1659
01:43:53,519 --> 01:43:55,691
That's okay.
1660
01:43:57,103 --> 01:43:59,558
So they send me
into this room.
1661
01:43:59,631 --> 01:44:02,827
It's dark and dim.
There are these two guys.
1662
01:44:02,895 --> 01:44:06,310
They both have towels
wrapped around their waists.
1663
01:44:06,382 --> 01:44:11,401
And the first guy,
he slips his towel off.
1664
01:44:11,471 --> 01:44:15,148
And I see his thing, and...
1665
01:44:15,215 --> 01:44:18,313
I take it in my hand...
1666
01:44:18,382 --> 01:44:21,284
and I say...
1667
01:44:22,894 --> 01:44:27,651
- It was the first thing
that came into my head.
- What did you say?
1668
01:44:27,726 --> 01:44:30,060
I said,
"I'm sorry, I don't smoke."
1669
01:44:33,134 --> 01:44:36,200
And then I just got
the hell out of there.
1670
01:44:38,061 --> 01:44:39,916
You okay, sir?
1671
01:44:39,981 --> 01:44:44,999
Oh, no, I'm just thinking what I'd pay
to be back in college again.
1672
01:44:47,821 --> 01:44:52,043
The next day, the campus
was rampant with word...
1673
01:44:52,108 --> 01:44:54,050
that I had been
the center of a gang-bang.
1674
01:44:54,124 --> 01:44:56,131
I mean, the governor's daughter.
1675
01:44:56,204 --> 01:44:59,335
Let me tell you.
That's one hell of a bell to un-ring.
1676
01:44:59,404 --> 01:45:02,055
- What about the photographs?
- Not me.
1677
01:45:02,124 --> 01:45:04,546
I never took my clothes off.
1678
01:45:04,620 --> 01:45:07,686
Even if I had, I've got
this big birthmark on my right thigh...
1679
01:45:07,756 --> 01:45:10,473
that the lady with the lovely physique
in the photo lacks.
1680
01:45:10,540 --> 01:45:14,697
- No witnesses?
- Pure urban legend.
1681
01:45:14,764 --> 01:45:17,797
A little bit of wishful thinking
thrown in, I think.
1682
01:45:18,604 --> 01:45:21,156
You know, Laine...
1683
01:45:21,227 --> 01:45:25,384
you could've looked those pricks
in the eye and told them the truth.
1684
01:45:25,451 --> 01:45:27,840
Under oath. Told them
they were full of shit.
1685
01:45:27,915 --> 01:45:32,072
And barring that,
you could've at least told me.
1686
01:45:32,139 --> 01:45:36,873
But see, it really wasn't any of your
business either, and it still isn't.
1687
01:45:36,939 --> 01:45:40,287
There's something about
almost puking on a Havana...
1688
01:45:40,362 --> 01:45:42,631
that just turns a girl...
to blush.
1689
01:45:42,698 --> 01:45:46,855
This letter from Jack Bennet...
1690
01:45:46,922 --> 01:45:51,940
and Larry Bellows, affidavit, I guess,
that you got from Webster.
1691
01:45:52,010 --> 01:45:55,044
It pretty much says
that nothing happened that night.
1692
01:45:55,114 --> 01:45:59,107
- They're ready
to come forward to be deposed.
- That's very good of them.
1693
01:45:59,178 --> 01:46:02,593
So, that's it. The end.
Good guys win.
1694
01:46:02,666 --> 01:46:05,829
I'm gonna call a press conference
tomorrow, read that letter...
1695
01:46:05,897 --> 01:46:10,370
and damn it if you don't have
the fastest confirmation on record.
1696
01:46:10,441 --> 01:46:12,296
No, sir.
1697
01:46:12,361 --> 01:46:14,849
"No, sir"?
What, "No, sir"?
1698
01:46:14,921 --> 01:46:19,427
I would prefer that we not
have the press conference, sir.
1699
01:46:19,497 --> 01:46:22,726
Laine, maybe you've been out
of law school too long.
1700
01:46:22,792 --> 01:46:25,825
- This is what they call
exculpatory evidence.
- Yes, I realize that.
1701
01:46:25,896 --> 01:46:29,638
- This is your ticket to wherever
history is gonna take you.
- Yes.
1702
01:46:29,705 --> 01:46:33,283
But principles only mean
something if you stick by them
when they're inconvenient.
1703
01:46:34,856 --> 01:46:37,606
If I ever did
answer the questions...
1704
01:46:37,672 --> 01:46:41,217
you know,
even to exonerate myself...
1705
01:46:41,287 --> 01:46:44,768
that would mean that it was
okay for them to have been
asked in the first place...
1706
01:46:44,839 --> 01:46:46,694
and it isn't.
1707
01:46:46,759 --> 01:46:49,377
- You would sacrifice your reputation?
- Yes, I would.
1708
01:46:49,447 --> 01:46:52,830
People have sacrificed
a lot more for a lot less.
1709
01:46:54,887 --> 01:46:58,945
- We've got him! We have Goliath.
- Sir, are you all right, sir?
1710
01:46:59,015 --> 01:47:02,332
- It's okay, guys. Busted.
- POTUS is secure.
1711
01:47:02,662 --> 01:47:05,826
Of course, the president addressing
a joint session of Congress...
1712
01:47:05,894 --> 01:47:08,228
is always unusual,
always an event.
1713
01:47:08,295 --> 01:47:11,077
This speech is scheduled
to begin momentarily.
1714
01:47:11,142 --> 01:47:14,403
We understand the president
has arrived at the U.S. Capitol.
1715
01:47:14,471 --> 01:47:17,819
I don't care if I never
see any of these guys again.
1716
01:47:17,894 --> 01:47:22,149
Sources in the White House
have told us that the president...
1717
01:47:22,213 --> 01:47:25,694
- It's gonna be okay.
- Does intend to withdraw the name
of Senator Laine B. Hanson...
1718
01:47:25,766 --> 01:47:30,468
I still have a year and a half on
my term. That's a long time to recover.
1719
01:47:30,534 --> 01:47:35,771
- Then there's always...
- Given the stunning charges
made against Governor Hathaway...
1720
01:47:35,846 --> 01:47:39,839
- Laine, honey, it's gonna be fine.
- Those on the inside are suggesting...
1721
01:47:39,909 --> 01:47:41,796
- It's gonna be okay.
- The president will designate...
1722
01:47:41,860 --> 01:47:44,992
- Ambassador Francis J. Malloy
as his number two.
- Yeah, thanks.
1723
01:47:46,341 --> 01:47:48,479
Pace me at five to ten, okay?
1724
01:47:51,588 --> 01:47:56,225
... after the greeting
of the president of the United States.
1725
01:47:56,292 --> 01:47:59,969
Mr. Speaker, the president
of the United States of America.
1726
01:49:12,289 --> 01:49:14,656
Thank you.
1727
01:49:16,960 --> 01:49:22,078
Napoleon once said,
when asked to explain the lack
of great statesmen in the world...
1728
01:49:22,145 --> 01:49:24,533
that, "to get power...
1729
01:49:24,608 --> 01:49:27,957
you need to display
absolute pettiness.
1730
01:49:28,032 --> 01:49:31,960
To exercise power,
you need to show true greatness."
1731
01:49:32,032 --> 01:49:36,407
Such pettiness and such greatness
are rarely found in one person.
1732
01:49:36,480 --> 01:49:39,775
I look upon the events
of the past weeks...
1733
01:49:39,839 --> 01:49:43,483
and I've never come so to grips
with that quotation.
1734
01:49:43,551 --> 01:49:45,788
So, ladies and gentlemen
of this Congress...
1735
01:49:45,855 --> 01:49:51,037
it pains my soul to tell you
that you have brought blood
and shame under this great dome.
1736
01:49:51,103 --> 01:49:55,380
Your leadership has raised
the stakes of hate to a level...
1737
01:49:55,454 --> 01:49:59,829
where we can no longer separate
the demagogue from the truly inspired.
1738
01:49:59,902 --> 01:50:05,019
And believe this,
there are traitors among us.
1739
01:50:05,087 --> 01:50:09,494
And I'm not talking about those of you
who sided against your party leadership.
1740
01:50:09,566 --> 01:50:13,363
I'm talking about those of you
who were patriots to your party...
1741
01:50:13,438 --> 01:50:16,918
but traitors
to the necessary end result:
1742
01:50:16,990 --> 01:50:20,088
That of righteousness,
the truth...
1743
01:50:20,157 --> 01:50:25,274
the concept of making
the American dream blind to gender.
1744
01:50:25,342 --> 01:50:29,564
And you know,
I am not free of blame.
1745
01:50:29,629 --> 01:50:31,931
Right from the start
I should've come down here...
1746
01:50:31,997 --> 01:50:35,096
pointed a finger your way...
1747
01:50:35,165 --> 01:50:37,172
pointed a finger your way...
1748
01:50:37,245 --> 01:50:40,627
and asked you,
"Have you no decency, sir?"
1749
01:50:42,396 --> 01:50:45,364
Yesterday...
1750
01:50:45,436 --> 01:50:47,673
I met...
1751
01:50:47,740 --> 01:50:50,423
Mr. Runyon...
1752
01:50:50,492 --> 01:50:53,459
you may walk out on me,
you may walk out on this body...
1753
01:50:53,532 --> 01:50:58,169
but you cannot walk out
on the will of the American people.
1754
01:50:58,236 --> 01:51:01,105
Americans are a good people,
they're a just people, Mr. Runyon...
1755
01:51:01,179 --> 01:51:04,791
and they will forgive you,
but they will not forget.
1756
01:51:04,860 --> 01:51:07,380
Hate and ego
have no place residing...
1757
01:51:07,451 --> 01:51:11,924
in what my good friend Laine Hanson
calls the chapel of democracy.
1758
01:51:11,995 --> 01:51:13,817
So, let me make one thing clear.
1759
01:51:13,883 --> 01:51:18,225
You come at us with whatever weapons
that you have in your arsenal...
1760
01:51:18,299 --> 01:51:20,950
but there is
no weapon as powerful...
1761
01:51:21,019 --> 01:51:24,434
as that of an idea
whose time has come.
1762
01:51:24,507 --> 01:51:28,435
A woman will serve in the highest level
of the Executive. Simple as that.
1763
01:51:28,507 --> 01:51:31,671
Yesterday...
1764
01:51:31,739 --> 01:51:35,154
I spoke with Laine Hanson.
1765
01:51:35,227 --> 01:51:38,423
I told her that she could decide
her own destiny.
1766
01:51:38,490 --> 01:51:41,337
If she wanted to continue
her fight for confirmation...
1767
01:51:41,402 --> 01:51:44,947
that I would stand beside her.
1768
01:51:45,018 --> 01:51:47,767
She has asked me
to allow her to step aside.
1769
01:51:47,834 --> 01:51:52,306
She told me that she wanted
my administration to end on a note...
1770
01:51:52,377 --> 01:51:55,923
of triumph
and not controversy.
1771
01:51:55,994 --> 01:52:01,296
Understand, those of you who worked
to bring Laine Hanson down...
1772
01:52:01,369 --> 01:52:04,849
that she asked to have her name
withdrawn from consideration...
1773
01:52:04,921 --> 01:52:08,630
not because she isn't great,
but because she isn't petty.
1774
01:52:08,696 --> 01:52:12,144
Because those two
conflicting leadership traits...
1775
01:52:12,216 --> 01:52:15,794
could not live as one
within her body or her soul.
1776
01:52:15,864 --> 01:52:19,180
Greatness.
It comes in many forms.
1777
01:52:19,256 --> 01:52:22,998
Sometimes it comes in the form
of sacrifice. That's the loneliest form.
1778
01:52:23,064 --> 01:52:27,287
Now, it turns out
that Laine Hanson is a woman...
1779
01:52:27,352 --> 01:52:30,701
an American
of devout principle...
1780
01:52:30,775 --> 01:52:33,677
and she has inspired me
to act alike...
1781
01:52:33,751 --> 01:52:38,770
and I cannot accept
Senator Hanson's withdrawal.
1782
01:52:38,840 --> 01:52:43,891
And I'm now calling for an immediate
vote of confirmation of Laine Hanson.
1783
01:52:43,959 --> 01:52:45,846
And, Mr. Speaker...
1784
01:52:45,911 --> 01:52:50,221
I would like to make this
a live roll call.
1785
01:52:50,295 --> 01:52:52,978
I want to see the faces
of those of you...
1786
01:52:53,046 --> 01:52:56,080
who would eliminate the possibility
of greatness in American leadership...
1787
01:52:56,151 --> 01:53:00,209
because of half-truths,
lies and innuendoes.
1788
01:53:00,278 --> 01:53:03,180
I will not be deterred
by partisanship.
1789
01:53:03,254 --> 01:53:05,109
I will not be deterred
by misogyny.
1790
01:53:05,174 --> 01:53:07,563
I will not be deterred
by hate.
1791
01:53:07,638 --> 01:53:10,672
You have now come face-to-face
with my will.
1792
01:53:11,702 --> 01:53:14,833
Confirm my nominee,
heal this nation...
1793
01:53:14,902 --> 01:53:18,862
and let the American people
explode into this new millennium...
1794
01:53:18,933 --> 01:53:23,919
with the exhilaration of being true
to the glory of this democracy.
1795
01:53:23,989 --> 01:53:25,680
Thank you.
1796
01:54:09,747 --> 01:54:12,616
How's that for a swan song?
1797
01:54:12,691 --> 01:54:14,993
You're back, Laine.
1798
01:54:15,059 --> 01:54:17,961
Yeah, I know.