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Lobbying is about foresight.

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About anticipating your opponent's moves
and devising countermeasures.

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The winner plots one step ahead of the opposition,

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and plays her trump card
just after they play theirs.

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You better not be saying
that when you're in there.

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It's about making sure you surprise them,
and they don't surprise you.

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I'm gonna ask you again.

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Miss Sloane, could you please
describe the nature of your work?

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On the advice of counsel,

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I respectfully decline to answer your question,

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based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment
to the United States Constitution.

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Those words, when you're not
taking the oath or confirming details,

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those words, in that order,
are all you're gonna say.

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"On average, would you say
you bribed public officials

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"more or less than once a month?"

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Upon the advice of counsel...
Can I deviate slightly?

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"On the advice of counsel"? On the advice

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- "of my attorney"?
- You do not...

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Okay, okay, I understand that last
one's too adventurous for you.

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This would be a whole lot
easier if I could just shout "Fifth."

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They want you behind bars.

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You make one statement,
you correct one nefarious allegation,

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that's it.

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You waive your right to the Fifth
and you're compelled to answer everything.

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They're taking you to the woodshed
in front of the national press.

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They're gonna rile you so bad they'd
make Gandhi wanna cut their tongues out.

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"Did you arrange for benefits such
as travel, luxury accommodations,

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"and sports tickets to be furnished
to members of Congress

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"at the behest of your clients?"

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"Did you arrange for benefits such as travel,

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"luxury accommodations, and sports tickets to..."

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Daniel. When I take the stand,

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you'll see nothing but a granite wall.

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Good.

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Miss Sloane!

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Nothing to say, guys, thank you.

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Miss Sloane, Miss Sloane!

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This is tight.

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You'd think they would choose
a more appropriate venue.

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Well, turns out the Nationals had a home game.

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Good morning.

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I am Senator Ronald Sperling,

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Chair of this Hearing. Miss Sloane...

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Please raise your right hand.

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Do you solemnly swear
that you will tell the truth,

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the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,

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under pains and penalties of perjury?

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- I do.
- Please, sit.

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Will the witness please state her full name

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for the record?

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Madeline Elizabeth Sloane.

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Louder, please.

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Madeline Elizabeth Sloane.

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And could the witness please confirm

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that these details are accurate...

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Uh...

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Date of birth, July 26, 1976, address...

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Suite 504, Watergate South,

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700 New Hampshire Avenue
North West, Washington D.C.?

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Correct.

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You were employed by Cole,
Kravitz and Waterman LLP

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for a 10-year period between 2006 and 2016,

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before moving on earlier...

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Eleven year period.

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Excuse me?

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There are 11 years between 2006 and 2016.

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What was the nature of your work

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with Cole, Kravitz and Waterman LLP?

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Upon the advice of counsel,

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I must respectfully decline
to answer your question,

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based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment

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to the United States Constitution.

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Did you, October 12th of last year,

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accept as a client the government

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of the Asian Republic of Indonesia,

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for the purpose of campaigning against

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the levy of additional Federal duties

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on the importation of palm oil
into the United States?

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Upon the advice of counsel,

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I must respectfully decline
to answer your question,

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based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment

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to the United States Constitution.

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Today is a landmark day, you know why?

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Because I'm free.

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Name one thing you can do today
that you couldn't have done yesterday.

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Quit my job.

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You could've done that yesterday,
but it would've been stupid.

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- I can quit today and...
- It'd still be stupid.

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You clear your college debt and
celebrate by enrolling in post-grad?

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Academia's more my scene.

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You didn't follow me into the crapper
to gloat about freedom, Jane.

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Talk to me about the Nutella Tax.

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Uh, we're really calling it the "Nutella Tax"?

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Palm oil is a key ingredient in Nutella.

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If the Federal Government taxes it at 300%,

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it'll cost more for us to gorge ourselves on it.

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Isn't palm oil in pretty much everything?

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We could have called it the Soap Tax,

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but the public cares more about
Nutella than they do soap.

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Anyway, we get four more senators
to come out against the bill,

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we can lean on Jacobs to withdraw it.

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What are you gonna do?

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Tell the lndonesians they're
going to host Senator Jacobs

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on a field trip to one of their plantations.

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You never washed your hands.

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He'll take the wife and kids
on a tropical vacation.

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Come back hailing their conservation efforts.

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His bill dies a quiet death.

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If the Indonesian government pays for it,

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it's illegal.

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If they use a non-profit c3 to sponsor the travel,

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it's perfectly legal.

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As long as the trip is for educational purposes.

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But, the Indonesian government
is still paying for it.

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See, this is why I'm thinking about post-grad.

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Jane, we go to school to
prepare us for the real world.

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I'm not sure I like the real world.

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So you want to bury your head in Socrates?

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You know that Socrates
never actually wrote anything.

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That's beside the point.

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If you don't like it, you change it.

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- That's why you're here.
- Miss Sloane!

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They're ready for you in the conference room.

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Hey, Spencer, did you know
that Americans care more

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about Nutella than they do about soap?

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Uh, okay.

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See that?

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No reaction.

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Okay, guys, we gotta be quick this morning,

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I've got a meeting to get to.

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How many are they expecting at the IMF rally?

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Between 500 and 1,000.

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There's a margin of 100%?

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Does that technically mean
that nobody might show up?

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Five hundred's the minimum,
the rest depends on weather.

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Seems more people hate banks when the sun's out.

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- What's the weather forecast?
- Liz?

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Time we sold Jacobs on Indonesia.

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I know.

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- When Henry falls we've got...
- Critical mass, I'm aware.

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Get a non-profit to sponsor a vacation.

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They give him face and he'll pull it.

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Did you just come from the ladies' room?

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Uh, I have no idea what you're talking about.

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We're talking about numbers at the IMF rally.

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All right, Alex, put Metro Talent on notice,

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- we may need reinforcements.
- I'm on it.

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We're really gonna use movie extras?

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The guy shouting about corporate greed
becomes a lot less credible standing next

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to a hobo from central casting,

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with a banner that reads, "Abolish money."

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"Shit is fucked up

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"and bullshit."

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Best banner at Occupy.
Tell me that was one of ours.

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Oh, no, that was creative
way beyond my capabilities.

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- Franklin! Shmallow Cakes?
- Uh, yeah!

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Does sales tax apply to cakes and cookies,

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or only to one of those?

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I don't know.

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You don't know?

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All right, everybody, listen up!

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I'm going to tell you a story.

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Please, no.

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A priest is giving a young nun

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a lift home from church one day,

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and as he's shifting gears,

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he rests his hand on the nun's knee.

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This is offensive and inappropriate.

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The young nun looks up at the priest and says,

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"Father, remember Luke 14:10."

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The priest withdraws his hand, embarrassed.

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Next time they stop at a light,

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he places his hand a little
higher up on her thigh,

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again the nun says, "Remember Luke 14:10, Father."

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The priest apologizes.

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"The flesh is weak," he says.

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So he drops her off, and when he gets home,

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he reaches for his bible
and he flips to Luke 14:10.

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Anyone know what it says? Hmm?

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What does it say, Pat?

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"Friend, come up higher,
then shalt thou have glory!"

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Know your subject, people!

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Failure to do so may result

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in the loss of a golden opportunity.

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When I see you this afternoon,

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you'd better be ready to recite

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that tax code in Esperanto.

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I'm... I'm told I should offer her my hand, huh?

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How do you mean?

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Well, when we meet, I'm told that

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she doesn't care for all that kissy-kissy stuff

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that most women do these days.

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You two have never met?

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Well, we've been to several
of the same functions, yeah,

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but we've never been introduced.

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In a town this small, how does that happen?

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So, should I offer my hand?

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I wouldn't worry about it.

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- Liz?
- Good morning!

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Bill Sandford.

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I'm amazed it's taken this long.

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Well, you know, I wanted to introduce myself

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at the Free Enterprise Dinner,

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but you were the first one out the door.

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Minor crisis on the Hill.

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Well, a lesser commander

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would've left that to a soldier,

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which is the reason I'm here.

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Why exactly are you here?

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Killing bills like Heaton-Harris,

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that's food and drink to you guys.

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- So you've read it?
- No, but I know what it is.

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It's a bipartisan gun bill

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requiring universal background checks.

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On all sales of firearms.

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Now, come on.

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A father and his son, lifelong friends.

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It just means longer delays.

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It's some kind of Big Brother type criminal

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and mental health database.

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An unconstitutional fetter on the Second Amendment

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which, as you said,

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we will eat for breakfast.

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Mr. Sandford, I deal primarily in taxation

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and Federal Government interference

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in free enterprise. This...

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I'm aware, I am aware.

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But I'll tell you,

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the reputation you have garnered for yourself,

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we were just looking for an excuse to engage you.

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Okay. Let's have it.

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Women.

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Our polling data is telling us

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that we're not connecting with the female voter.

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So, we want to change the narrative.

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From mothers losing their kids to guns,

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to mothers protecting their kids with guns.

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From a battered wife threatened by a bullet,

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to fending off her violent husband with a.38.

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Guns as tools of female empowerment.

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What's the saying? God created humans...

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Samuel Colt made them equal.

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Now, Liz, imagine a new organization,

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pitched at women who are deterred

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by the strong rhetoric of the
Second Amendment groups,

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and by our association with the political right.

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But no links to us, no baggage.

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No overt position on guns.

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And you

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will build it up, you will drive its agenda,

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and slowly but surely,

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you will turn those members

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into paid-up guardians of the Second Amendment.

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So, what? Um...

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Mothers For A Safer America...

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Achieved by making sure

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every last citizen is armed to the teeth?

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Liz?

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Jesus, is this the reputation I've garnered?

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Gold medalist in ethical limbo?

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I see no ethical problem with reframing an issue.

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Trying to win the female vote
by taking the gun lobby

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and dressing it up in a frilly pink frock,

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it is so crude,

265
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it could only have originated
in a room full of old men.

266
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Well, it didn't!

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This is my own idea.

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Well, my advice is to kill it in utero.

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You'll need more than the trite wisdom

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that we value security

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to get us behind your views
on the Second Amendment.

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Well, the fact remains

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that when it comes to the female voter,

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our numbers need to be better.

275
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I see.

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Well, why don't I take a look at the numbers

277
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and then we'll proceed from there?

278
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Who the hell does she think she is?

279
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It can be spun.

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For the purpose of gaining trust,

281
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it may've been the right tactical move.

282
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And do you believe, for one nanosecond,

283
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that was at the forefront of her mind

284
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when she told him to take his business

285
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and shove it up his gun barrel?

286
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Candice!

287
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I want Sloane in my office now!

288
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She's good, isn't she?

289
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You'll look at the numbers?

290
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I'm sure the president

291
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of one of the most powerful groups on the Hill

292
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will be honored that Her Majesty

293
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has agreed to look at the fucking numbers!

294
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What's going on with you?

295
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The current system is so porous, it floats.

296
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I don't remember you caring, ever,

297
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one way or another about guns!

298
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My position solidified somewhere

299
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between Columbine and Charleston.

300
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Come on, George, any head-case,

301
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felon or terrorist can buy an assault rifle

302
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from a gun show, the Internet,

303
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or his buddy at the Bowl-O-Rama

304
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without so much as an ID.

305
00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:27,796
Heaton-Harris puts a stop to that.

306
00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:29,792
Christ, Liz, this is the gun lobby.

307
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Do you have any idea

308
00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:32,679
how long I've been trying to reel them in?

309
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No.

310
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Something happened.

311
00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,720
Someone you know was the victim of a gun crime.

312
00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,156
Nonsense. I just formed an opinion.

313
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You're the champion of the free market.

314
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You abhor frivolous government intervention...

315
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I would hardly categorize

316
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responsible gun laws as frivolous...

317
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Indonesians!

318
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For Christ's sake, you rep Indonesians!

319
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To stop our government from looting

320
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one of their few sources of income.

321
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And what is wrong with Indonesia?

322
00:15:58,760 --> 00:15:59,750
We're about to secure Al Jacobs

323
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with a field trip there.

324
00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:02,714
Is that a promise or a threat?

325
00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:04,560
I can just picture the good Senator

326
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being boiled in a cauldron

327
00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,396
with all these natives dancing around him.

328
00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,480
Get back to your Fortune 500 clients.

329
00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,916
Your colorful interventions are the cause of

330
00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,754
a lot of industry backchat
this firm could do without.

331
00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,718
I work on behalf of causes I believe in.

332
00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,154
That's how I sleep at night.

333
00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:21,919
You don't sleep at night.

334
00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,390
You sit and obsess about winning,

335
00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,240
no matter the cause.

336
00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,674
Those little pills in your purse

337
00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,473
are not the kind that lull you to sleep.

338
00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:33,952
The only reason you

339
00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:38,239
and your team of gum-chewing ragamuffins are here

340
00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,037
is that your arrogant pranks
might generate enough buzz

341
00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,271
to attract clients like Bill Sandford.

342
00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,794
Meaning, if you don't dedicate
yourself to his cause,

343
00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,351
this firm won't have any use for you.

344
00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,512
Now go away, look into those numbers,

345
00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,273
and start getting women into guns.

346
00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,273
- Any dizziness? Nausea?
- No.

347
00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:12,000
That's what you always say.

348
00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:13,514
Doctor, I'm fine.

349
00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,034
If my insurance company weren't such sticklers,

350
00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:16,793
we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

351
00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:17,956
What time are you getting to sleep?

352
00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:19,630
I sleep a lot, it varies.

353
00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,798
What time did you get to sleep last night?

354
00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:24,269
Did you get any sleep at all?

355
00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:25,510
These are busy times.

356
00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,876
You don't need a doctor to tell you

357
00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,872
that you're working yourself into an early grave.

358
00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:31,555
The long hours...

359
00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:32,756
Okay, when you called me just now,

360
00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:34,069
what number did you dial?

361
00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,230
Your home number.

362
00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:36,795
Cell is off, cocoa is on the stove,

363
00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:38,075
book is at my bedside.

364
00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,680
I'll be asleep in under two hours.

365
00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,480
Thanks for calling, Doctor.

366
00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:42,755
In the Republican party,

367
00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:44,035
he can help you out in California...

368
00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:45,875
Okay!

369
00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,320
Good, welcome.

370
00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,073
Yes! Yeah.

371
00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:52,993
I want you to meet Senator Davidson.

372
00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,993
Yes. I appreciate you coming to every fundraiser.

373
00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:58,874
Yeah, I'll be right back.

374
00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,319
Hello! I expect to see you next time.

375
00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:30,754
Yes. That would be great.

376
00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,354
Yes, nice to see you.

377
00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:44,875
Early night?

378
00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,390
If you're looking for a quote,
you're wasting your time.

379
00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:50,440
I've just watched you extricate yourself

380
00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:51,670
from three conversations

381
00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:53,717
to use the ladies' room
in the space of 30 minutes.

382
00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,554
You busted me. I'm incontinent. Write it up.

383
00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,036
I hope I'm wrong,

384
00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:00,634
but one might think you're sick of this town.

385
00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,030
You from the Post? How did you get in?

386
00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:04,674
I'd just like five minutes of your time.

387
00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:05,750
Fine.

388
00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,116
Walk to my car is three, get to the point.

389
00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,554
The word on the Hill is that the gun lobby

390
00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:11,994
approached you over Heaton-Harris

391
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,230
and you refused.

392
00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,952
I don't comment on "word on the Hill."

393
00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,520
I know the only way you'd do that

394
00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,319
is if you support the bill.

395
00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:20,720
That's quite a story.

396
00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:22,679
Turning down a prized client because

397
00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,353
you can't accept what they stand for.

398
00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,316
Elizabeth Sloane, the
conviction lobbyist. Who knew?

399
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,039
I said, get to the point.

400
00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:32,316
Will you admit the present system is broken?

401
00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,272
I remain committed to the Second Amendment.

402
00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,752
Dildos are illegal in Texas,

403
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,797
but Joe Public can walk into a sports store

404
00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,155
and walk out with a shotgun.

405
00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:41,794
That would explain the low rate

406
00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,439
of dildo-related murders in Texas.

407
00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:46,873
Okay, it wasn't that funny.

408
00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:48,994
What do you want?

409
00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:50,309
Your quote.

410
00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,272
Fine. A conviction lobbyist

411
00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,955
need only believe in their ability to win.

412
00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:00,396
That's a keeper.

413
00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,113
One more thing, off the record.

414
00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,429
- Mmm-hmm.
- What do you know about

415
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,193
- the gun lobby's opponents?
- The Brady Campaign?

416
00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,192
I know they're going to lose
because their total budget

417
00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:09,430
is less than what the gun lobby pays

418
00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:10,550
to get their shoes shined.

419
00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:12,959
What about their lobbyists, Peterson Wyatt?

420
00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,476
They're a boutique bipartisan
Government Affairs agency.

421
00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,957
"Boutique" is a euphemism for "little fish."

422
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,316
"Bipartisan" denotes a bunch of hippies in suits.

423
00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,314
Do you know anything about their CEO?

424
00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:25,556
Guy named Schmidt?

425
00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:26,960
No, never heard of him.

426
00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:29,555
But if the firm is built in his image,

427
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:30,790
I'm sure he's a simpering wuss

428
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,479
with a Ph.D in style-over-substance.

429
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:33,590
Got it.

430
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,632
I never introduced myself, by the way.

431
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:38,835
My name's Rodolfo Schmidt,

432
00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:40,990
CEO of Peterson Wyatt.

433
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,150
What's the matter?

434
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:46,310
Am I not simpering hard enough?

435
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,229
Your firm's 12 years old,

436
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:49,913
I'd think your name would be Peterson or...

437
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,400
What...

438
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,274
What is this about?

439
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,434
You're pro-Heaton-Harris.

440
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,510
It's an open secret

441
00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,920
you're at war with your firm's leadership.

442
00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,354
The Brady Campaign wants you

443
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:00,840
to lead the fight to pass the bill.

444
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,833
You'd run defense out of our office.

445
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:04,280
When it's over,

446
00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:06,192
you can choose from any of the D.C. behemoths

447
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:07,669
lining up for your signature.

448
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,230
This is Peterson Wyatt's quote for your services.

449
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,678
I don't know if I should be flattered

450
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:22,870
or insulted, Mr. Schmidt,

451
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,276
but you clearly have the wrong opinion of me.

452
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,154
I think my opinion of you is right on.

453
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,792
Don't tell me you don't want
to take a swing at this.

454
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,150
Goodbye, Mr. Schmidt.

455
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:33,556
Where's your car?

456
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,757
Should be at the valet by now. I don't drive.

457
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:12,560
Hi, Jane?

458
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,070
Yeah, I know what time it is.

459
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,035
Listen...

460
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,513
If, uh, Socrates never wrote anything,

461
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,232
how is it anyone's ever heard of him?

462
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:24,955
Look, we need a meeting.

463
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:28,670
Where are they putting Senator Jacobs?

464
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:29,750
The Lombok Lodge?

465
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:30,910
Yes.

466
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,440
- It's on the beach?
- Yes.

467
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:33,795
Good.

468
00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:35,190
This goes off to the Senate Ethics Committee.

469
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:36,830
Once they authorize the travel,

470
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:38,036
Jacobs is on a plane.

471
00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:40,032
- Is that okay?
- It's fine.

472
00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,271
- Technically, I mean?
- Don't worry about it.

473
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,278
It's just... As lobbyists, we can't be involved

474
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,517
in arranging overseas travel
for members of Congress.

475
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,192
I read ethics regs when I want to look busy.

476
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,034
If you weren't just pretending to be busy,

477
00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:52,110
you'd know that the workaround

478
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,276
is to get this to the non-profit,

479
00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:55,556
have them sign and file with the Ethics Committee.

480
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,359
Do I seem unduly concerned?

481
00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:58,950
Okay.

482
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,555
George told me what happened with Sandford.

483
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:02,994
- Mmm.
- Are you retarded?

484
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,397
Why are you eating a chocolate cake for breakfast?

485
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,199
- Have you no shame?
- It's a muffin.

486
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,553
You never had a muffin for breakfast?

487
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:10,869
A muffin, let's see.

488
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,634
Eggs, milk, flour, sugar, cocoa powder, chocolate.

489
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,677
That sounds exactly like a cake, but of course,

490
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:17,719
no civilized person would ever eat

491
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,314
a chocolate cake for breakfast.

492
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:20,910
You've lost your mind.

493
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,559
Franklin, are you getting this?

494
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:23,790
'Cause I'm really talking to you.

495
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:24,996
Huh?

496
00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:26,395
Shmallow Cakes aren't really cakes.

497
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,153
They're marshmallow paste sandwiched

498
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,760
between two cookies covered in chocolate.

499
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:31,240
And while our tax code deems cakes

500
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,831
luxury items and hits them harder,

501
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,470
cookies are obviously necessities,

502
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:37,790
and therefore exempt.

503
00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:39,395
- Are you getting this?
- What?

504
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,512
Have Shmallow Cakes re-designated as cookies,

505
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,916
argue cake in the name is merely marketing puff.

506
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,514
You'll need evidence in court,

507
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,074
but get a team of scientists to opine

508
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:52,633
that they are in fact 80%
cookie and zero percent cake.

509
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:54,350
That's how you win.

510
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:55,995
You knew that all along?

511
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:57,833
You would have got there eventually.

512
00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,036
Then why are you telling me this?

513
00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:00,520
In case you're not coming with me.

514
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,113
What's going on?

515
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:07,350
All right, everyone.

516
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:08,430
I called you here to announce that,

517
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:09,510
effective immediately,

518
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,711
I am leaving Cole Kravitz

519
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,354
and starting work as lead consultant

520
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,551
for the Brady Campaign at Peterson Wyatt.

521
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,395
I've secured positions for everyone in this room

522
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,552
without change to your current compensation.

523
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,115
So, who's with me on this?

524
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,876
I just spent the last hour wiping your shit

525
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,429
off Bill Sandford's shoes,

526
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,233
assuring him that you're the right lady

527
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:32,720
to broaden his membership!

528
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,557
We're inches from a green fucking light!

529
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,598
So, you're saying I should
put you down as a maybe?

530
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,471
You can't possibly win this!

531
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:44,794
Who's with me?

532
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:53,116
I'm with you.

533
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,836
Whoa, whoa, Ross, hey, come on, I need you.

534
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,070
She needs me more.

535
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:58,595
Alex?

536
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,670
Lauren?

537
00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:05,556
The fuck is this? Jerry Maguire?

538
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,036
You've seen Jerry Maguire?

539
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:09,755
Guns frighten me.

540
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,274
So, Sloane and Co. versus Connors and who else?

541
00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:21,671
Mmm. O'Hara, Wickman, Moore, the God Squad.

542
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,156
Ramirez,

543
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:26,953
how many Tec-9s do you own again?

544
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:28,190
Enough to defend my property.

545
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,434
Plus two more to piss off the lefties.

546
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:32,790
All right, Jane,

547
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,354
contact Rodolfo Schmidt at Peterson Wyatt,

548
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,318
and tell him there's a total of six coming over.

549
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:39,835
I count five.

550
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,280
Mathematician you are not.

551
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,190
Who said I was coming?

552
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,475
I did. Call Rodolfo.

553
00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:47,270
What if I'm staying?

554
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,713
Jesus, now is not the time to develop

555
00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:51,520
a sense of humor, Jane.

556
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,592
That's good, 'cause I'm not.

557
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,039
Seriously, kid, go.

558
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:00,710
I could care less.

559
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:04,595
You were right before.

560
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,559
About post-grad. Maybe it is a cop-out.

561
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,438
I'm at one of the best firms in the city.

562
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,677
Your reputation might survive a move

563
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,629
to some third-tier outfit
to fight a losing battle.

564
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,154
Mine won't.

565
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,276
No shit.

566
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,320
I take it back.

567
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,993
I've learned a lot from you
these last couple years, Liz.

568
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,160
I'll miss you.

569
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,833
The 3:00 a.m. wake-up calls?

570
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,674
Not so much.

571
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,152
You've obviously learned more than you let on.

572
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,677
You've shown more ambition in the last 60 seconds

573
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,991
than I've seen in the prior two years,

574
00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:42,315
but you are delusional

575
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,037
if you think you can survive without me.

576
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,520
If we butt heads on this,

577
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,796
don't think I'll show you any compassion.

578
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:52,749
And with that in mind,

579
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,554
I will give you a final opportunity to reconsider.

580
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,199
All right. I'm off to say my goodbye
to the money-man.

581
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,791
When this town guts you like a trout

582
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,951
and chokes you with your own entrails,

583
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,111
don't come sniveling to me.

584
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,394
We'll come back

585
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,597
to the Asian Republic of Indonesia later,

586
00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:27,556
but, you see, what troubles me

587
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,712
is the amount of influence you had.

588
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:32,918
We've seen communications

589
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,714
from senior figures in Washington

590
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,756
who feared that you, a lobbyist,

591
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,074
could destroy their careers
with a snap of your fingers.

592
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:46,833
Is this reputation something

593
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,274
you've cultivated, Miss Sloane?

594
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,469
Upon the advice of counsel,

595
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:52,880
I must respectfully decline
to answer your question,

596
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,433
based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment

597
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,352
to the United States Constitution.

598
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,273
You see, it's bad enough one person

599
00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:01,192
having that much influence,

600
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,435
but if they're out of control,
if she has a problem,

601
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,831
an addiction, well,

602
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,316
it would be like the ship of American politics

603
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,120
is being steered by a drunk.

604
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,798
Do you, or have you ever had,

605
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,112
any problems with substance abuse?

606
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,120
Upon the advice of counsel,

607
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,635
I must respectfully decline
to answer your question,

608
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,433
based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment

609
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:29,590
to the United States Constitution.

610
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,920
I understand you have difficulty sleeping?

611
00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:39,113
We subpoenaed medical records.

612
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,639
You're a long-time sufferer from chronic insomnia.

613
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,472
You regularly work over 16 hours a day.

614
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,593
But you can't get off to sleep. Is this accurate?

615
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,310
Upon the advice of counsel, I respectfully...

616
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,631
I must respectfully decline
to answer your question,

617
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,638
based on my rights under

618
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,313
the Fifth Amendment of the United States...

619
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:02,635
To the Constitution.

620
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,075
Whatever.

621
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,670
You were prescribed

622
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,313
multiple courses of benzodiazepines,

623
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:11,996
but according to the deposition

624
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,395
of one of our witnesses,

625
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,592
you've been procuring, off-prescription,

626
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,751
a course of psycho-stimulants,

627
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,598
with the aim of keeping you awake a little longer.

628
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:25,794
Is this true?

629
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,200
Miss Sloane?

630
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:31,516
Upon the advice of counsel,

631
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,353
I must respectfully decline
to answer your question,

632
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:34,840
based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment

633
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,673
to the United States Constitution.

634
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,671
Okay. Getting back to this business

635
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,353
of the Asian Republic of Indonesia...

636
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:43,960
I am not a drug addict,

637
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,191
and this line of questioning has no revel...

638
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:47,794
Relevance in this case.

639
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,519
My medication doesn't affect my judgment

640
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,279
any more than a double espresso.

641
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,556
And speaking of intoxication,

642
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,114
I can recite from memory

643
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,635
a list of upstanding, elected Senators

644
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,031
who voted on legislation
while severely inebriated.

645
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,556
And just so you know, I think, by now,

646
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,030
we are fully aware,

647
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,311
and in no danger of forgetting,

648
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,631
that Indonesia is a republic,

649
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,555
which happens to be situated
on the continent of Asia.

650
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:16,870
Miss Sloane.

651
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,074
Welcome to the party.

652
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:27,914
Five years.

653
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:31,875
Was it really worth it?

654
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,398
- Five years minimum.
- What's five years?

655
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,758
All for some puerile quip
about Indonesia being in Asia.

656
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,511
Can't you see that whole
construct was designed to...

657
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:43,590
And it worked.

658
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,073
Are you gonna tell me what five years is?

659
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:47,356
You fell for it.

660
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,679
The smartest operative on the Hill

661
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,353
just got played by Grampa Simpson!

662
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:52,430
Is it how long this conversation's

663
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:53,596
gonna feel like?

664
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,593
It's the going rate for perjury before Congress.

665
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:57,830
Now you've thrown out the Fifth,

666
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,360
anyone who wants you in the ground,

667
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,875
and that's a lot of people, they're hard at work

668
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,191
dedicating their creative and intellectual efforts

669
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,600
to catching you in a lie.

670
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,110
Well, what if I just stay silent?

671
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,113
Well, that's a great idea.

672
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,793
Shit, why didn't your lawyer think of that?

673
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,030
If I refuse to answer...

674
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,190
They'll throw you in jail

675
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,714
- for contempt of Congress!
- Shh!

676
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,352
You've just blown this thing wide open!

677
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,550
Calm down, Daniel.

678
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,110
You're starting to look like you care.

679
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:22,630
No.

680
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:23,716
I don't care about you

681
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:24,790
any further than I can throw you.

682
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,235
I work for the one ethical
lobbying practice on the Hill,

683
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,551
and I wind up defending the poster child

684
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,040
for the most morally bankrupt

685
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:33,310
profession since faith healing.

686
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,233
Your car's downstairs.

687
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,996
Go home, stare at the ceiling,
get ready to be crucified.

688
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,159
I know I don't have the most stellar record

689
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,310
in heeding your advice...

690
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,999
Don't perjure yourself!

691
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,117
Too bad things didn't pan out with Elizabeth.

692
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,159
Oh, we have other options.

693
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,832
What the hell is "Amish chicken"?

694
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,519
A marketing exercise?

695
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,400
No, we'll just try and find
ourselves another lobbyist.

696
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,276
I was talking about the Amish chicken.

697
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:13,830
Oh.

698
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,600
She's your enemy now.

699
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,592
I invited you here because nobody

700
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,831
is better placed to neutralize her than us.

701
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,036
We worked together for years.

702
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,519
We know exactly how she operates.

703
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:29,874
Oh, that is just a regular bird

704
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,280
raised in Amish country, by the way.

705
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:32,350
Ah.

706
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,879
It tastes better because it can't use Google, huh?

707
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,109
Look, there's over five million of us.

708
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,350
And we're armed.

709
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,117
We've beaten this kind of bill before,

710
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:45,680
we'll beat it again.

711
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:47,953
They'll make a lot of noise,

712
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,192
they'll wave their banners, but in the end

713
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:52,515
it's so predictable.

714
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,559
She's not predictable.

715
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,232
She aims to surprise.

716
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:02,235
She'll share things with her team,

717
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,476
but she won't share everything.

718
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,639
She'll have a plan for certain people,

719
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,473
but they won't know until they're dropped

720
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:08,676
right into the middle of it.

721
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,838
There's always something else going on with her.

722
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:12,070
It's just how she works.

723
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,197
We have a good idea which Senators she'll go for

724
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,389
and we can get in first.

725
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,753
And they're vulnerable on other members

726
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:19,830
they're already counting on.

727
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,036
Badgley, Michigan.

728
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,877
He can bring maybe six votes.

729
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,232
We get to him, it's a quick win.

730
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:32,910
All right.

731
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,080
Show me some tradecraft.

732
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,116
- Filet mignon, rare.
- Same, well done.

733
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:39,955
Well done too.

734
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:41,356
The Arctic char.

735
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,239
Amish chicken salad, please.

736
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,240
Excuse me.

737
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,115
That kind of insight is exactly why you're here.

738
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,910
I'm sorry, who closed him again?

739
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:17,754
Who the hell are you?

740
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,675
Evening, ma'am.

741
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,799
What happened to the usual guy? Mark.

742
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,719
If that's his real name.

743
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:29,719
Mark's moved on.

744
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:31,475
Call me Forde.

745
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:33,955
Is that your real name?

746
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:35,550
Is to you.

747
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:38,833
- How about you, gorgeous?
- Oh, God.

748
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,152
You a politico, or one of these corporate-types?

749
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,551
What brings a fine lady like you to room 904?

750
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,469
Not the conversation. How much you had to drink?

751
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,075
Well, a free minibar, I'd say not nearly enough.

752
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,833
You're not allowed to smoke in here.

753
00:34:54,240 --> 00:34:55,674
You're not allowed to buy company in here,

754
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,274
yet here you are.

755
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,680
Smoke is detectable.

756
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,832
It could draw attention. It is unprofessional.

757
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,189
Okay.

758
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,037
Corporate-type. Lawyer, maybe.

759
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,349
If we're going to proceed,

760
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,039
I require a certain standard of...

761
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,315
Agency rules, lady.

762
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,035
Payment in cash, I'm the only one

763
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,520
to know this little party here ever happened.

764
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,117
And that's with half a minibar down my gullet.

765
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,359
I understand if you were
looking for something else.

766
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,234
You'll do fine.

767
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:28,990
Let's get to the point.

768
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:33,629
All right.

769
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,558
Hey, I hope you guys don't
feel like you're slumming.

770
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:44,554
I thought it'd be weirder.

771
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,632
Bean bags, couple swings, maybe.

772
00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:48,234
At least tell me you guys have shower rooms.

773
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,999
Cole Kravitz had shower rooms?

774
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,070
Clients felt like they needed one

775
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:52,316
after 30 minutes with him.

776
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,631
We had all the facilities,
and no time to use them.

777
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:55,710
This'll do fine.

778
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,599
The vending machine downstairs is weird.

779
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:58,990
Wouldn't give me my beverage

780
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,560
until I told it my gender and age range.

781
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,160
The vending machine company sells

782
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:03,390
our personal details to Big Advertising.

783
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,312
I already posted a complaint.

784
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:06,595
It's okay, I just lied.

785
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,234
You told it you were an adult male?

786
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:09,919
Why are you so horrible to him?

787
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,753
Jacobs just pulled the Nutella Tax.

788
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,439
- When did that happen?
- I just got it.

789
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,517
The tax on palm oil?
You're the ones who killed it?

790
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:16,670
Dead with the dodo.

791
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:17,910
Along with how many other unique species

792
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:19,156
in the Indonesian rainforest?

793
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,600
Not your greatest analogy there.

794
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:22,435
I guess it should be up to them,

795
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,193
I mean, it is, after all, their country.

796
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,192
Do you know how much pollution
their slashing and burning

797
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,430
pumps into the atmosphere?

798
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,354
Less than 0.2% of global greenhouse emissions.

799
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,591
- So, are the rumors true?
- Yes.

800
00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:34,279
Ross is really a woman.

801
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,036
Is Sloane the personification of an ice cube?

802
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,520
She pees standing up.

803
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,557
And, like... I don't even do that.

804
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,200
Do you think before you speak?

805
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:43,794
- Good morning.
- Good morning.

806
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:44,956
- Morning.
- Morning.

807
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,640
I was thinking, perhaps, we go around the table,

808
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:48,955
introduce ourselves.

809
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,633
Let's spare ourselves the tedium.

810
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,030
If you want to break the ice, do it with insight.

811
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,713
We're all here to ensure safe passage

812
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,951
of the Heaton-Harris Bill into Federal law.

813
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:58,795
How do we do it?

814
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:01,920
Realistically, we don't.

815
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,474
We fight as hard as we can,

816
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,159
build a strong base of support,

817
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:07,390
so we have a better chance

818
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,960
when they introduce next year's Heaton-Harris,

819
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,150
or the one after that.

820
00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:11,469
I didn't just move across town

821
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,159
with the aim of losing as slowly as possible.

822
00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:14,560
Name and seniority?

823
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,317
Esme Manucharian, nine years.

824
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,238
Manucharian, I've heard that name.

825
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,632
Esme's our authority on gun control.

826
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,316
When it comes to facts and figures,

827
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:24,476
she has no equal.

828
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,000
You led the fight to preserve

829
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,679
the concealed carry ban in Illinois.

830
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:29,914
Ultimately unsuccessfully, but, yes.

831
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,560
Okay, Esme. Why are we going to lose?

832
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,910
For every dollar Brady spends
on campaign contributions,

833
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,275
you know how much the gun lobby spends?

834
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:38,436
- Thirty-eight.
- Thirty-eight.

835
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,751
So, politicians bow to money. But, why?

836
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,911
It's not going into their
pocket, that'd be bribery.

837
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,071
Like what the Indonesians
just did to Senator Jacobs?

838
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:47,190
That was legal bribery

839
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:48,994
for educational purposes. But, yes.

840
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,635
A senator's priority
isn't representing the people,

841
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,160
it's keeping his ass in office.

842
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,430
That is so cynical.

843
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,113
"Cynical" is a word used by Pollyannas

844
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,032
to denote an absence of the naivety

845
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,992
they so keenly exhibit.

846
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,476
Wow. You settle in fast.

847
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,110
If senators only care about
protecting their position,

848
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,870
wouldn't that make them slaves to public opinion?

849
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,117
Polling data puts a majority of Americans

850
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,429
in favor of Heaton-Harris.

851
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,677
And that's exactly why you keep losing.

852
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,719
Well, this is actually our first crack at guns,

853
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:17,876
but I take your point.

854
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,195
What point?

855
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:20,959
Public opinion is overrated.

856
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,953
Midterm re-election rates for senators was 82%.

857
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:25,793
Voter turnout was 36.

858
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:26,870
And I'll bet most of them were

859
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,320
paid-up members of the gun lobby.

860
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,470
Thank you.

861
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,313
Our opposition has created a base of voters,

862
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,880
vast and fanatical,

863
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:34,235
who go out and vote exclusively

864
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,396
on the issue of guns.

865
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,550
How do we compete with that?

866
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,239
We build our own base of supporters,

867
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:39,390
who demonstrate a willingness

868
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,314
to get their asses into booths
and vote against guns.

869
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,153
What's the best indicator of voter intention?

870
00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:45,310
- Money!
- Finance!

871
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,754
That's our first prong.

872
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,240
Grassroots action

873
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:49,674
aimed squarely at soliciting donations.

874
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,869
Not names on a petition, not clicks in cyberspace.

875
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,110
Will they know how much we're raising?

876
00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:56,232
Non-profits have to report on their finances.

877
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,000
And every Congressional staffer

878
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,230
watches filing day like a hawk.

879
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:00,595
While you're out there hustling,

880
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,154
I'll be working influential senators

881
00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:03,913
who can deliver their colleagues' votes.

882
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,514
That's our second prong.

883
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,159
Our third is to identify

884
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,272
who holds sway in target states.

885
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,278
Employers, workers' groups.

886
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,750
Don't just waltz into a senator's office

887
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,115
and make your case.

888
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:16,793
Find out who they trust,

889
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,509
who they can't afford to piss off.

890
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,479
Convince that person to make your case.

891
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,399
That is how we win.

892
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:34,279
Not a driver?

893
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:35,910
I can, but I don't.

894
00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:39,360
Well, you got further than me,
I don't even have a license.

895
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,278
My bank account and liberal conscience

896
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:42,714
won't justify my own car.

897
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,076
What's your excuse?

898
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,118
To be honest, I suck at it.

899
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,233
I took my test when I was 16.

900
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:50,879
Only exam I ever failed.

901
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,396
My instructor told me I was reckless,

902
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,312
I lacked due care and attention.

903
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,871
Knew then and there I had a career in politics.

904
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,319
You weren't messing around in there.

905
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:04,790
Did you know someone?

906
00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:07,560
Someone who was a victim of gun violence.

907
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,154
No, why does everyone assume that?

908
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,160
Strong opinions, maybe?

909
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:12,999
As if I can only see the merits of an argument

910
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:14,992
when I feel the effects personally.

911
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,234
There was a Congressman,
I don't remember his name,

912
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,630
his whole career he was against gay rights,

913
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,674
only to do a complete U-turn
when his brother came out.

914
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,360
What a well-reasoned basis for an opinion.

915
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,478
Give him a gavel, put him in a courthouse.

916
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,030
Are you hungry?

917
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,837
You eat here every night?

918
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,718
Pretty much. Place never closes.

919
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,360
How do you not get bored of it?

920
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:49,876
It's a necessity.

921
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,440
It's like asking if I get
bored of going to the toilet.

922
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,637
Okay, this is going to sound alien to you,

923
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:58,792
but food takes up an inordinate
amount of space in my head.

924
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,555
How about guns?

925
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:05,839
In doing my due diligence, your résumé stood out.

926
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,592
I noticed a lot of your work pertains to firearms.

927
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,478
I'm guessing that was a conscious decision

928
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,279
to steer things in that direction.

929
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,276
It's an issue I feel strongly about.

930
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:21,830
It's none of my business,

931
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,240
but there was a gap in your profile.

932
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:25,632
Before Berkeley, you attended high school

933
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:27,393
in Bloomington, Indiana, in the late '90s.

934
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,917
The name of the school isn't listed.

935
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,000
Who else knows about this?

936
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,517
Rodolfo. That's all.

937
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:46,350
You can imagine what I'm thinking.

938
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,872
I'm sorry, Elizabeth, but I earned my reputation.

939
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:53,270
It didn't come from something

940
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:54,396
that happened when I was in high school.

941
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,672
Even if my views did.

942
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,319
Going public could even weaken my standing.

943
00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:59,880
They'll say I'm too emotional.

944
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,760
Anyway, the shooters didn't even buy their guns.

945
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,240
Heaton-Harris wouldn't have made

946
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:07,436
a shred of difference that day.

947
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,156
You fear a weakened standing
will damage your ability to effect change.

948
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,472
But if acknowledging it was the difference

949
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,119
between winning and losing?

950
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,638
I'd appreciate it if you just treated me

951
00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:22,949
as one of the team.

952
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,516
A highly competent one, I can tell.

953
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,350
We're lucky to have you.

954
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,030
Sixty is the magic number.

955
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,032
Sixty votes breaks a filibuster.

956
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,759
So, the gun lobby wins with 41?

957
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,354
They could win with fewer.

958
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,160
We need to hit 60. Anything less doesn't cut it.

959
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:45,595
Fifty-nine doesn't cut it.

960
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,237
We need 60 senators to show up and vote.

961
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,393
We don't get that, they win, period.

962
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:52,515
As I was saying...

963
00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:56,518
That by my reckoning, the gun lobby

964
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,274
has 34 votes pretty much locked.

965
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:00,875
And that's this side.

966
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,835
I'd say we have 44 locked over here on this side.

967
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,880
That leaves 22 that are still in play.

968
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,510
These fine ladies and gentlemen in the middle.

969
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,069
Heaton-Harris, provisionally,

970
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,152
makes it to the floor in 84 days.

971
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,149
The good news is,

972
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,317
if we can lock 16, we're over the line.

973
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:18,835
I'm sorry, that's the good news?

974
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,679
We need 16 out of 22 votes?

975
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,833
That's like sitting an exam
where the passing grade is...

976
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:23,990
72%.

977
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:25,634
And the bad news is that the gun lobby

978
00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:27,234
is rich beyond our wildest dreams?

979
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,310
There is that.

980
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,073
Or that it's not a whole lot of time

981
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,038
to steal 16 votes from the
most powerful group in D.C.?

982
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:33,430
That, too.

983
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,876
What Ross is fumbling for is, we need 16.

984
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,554
They only need seven.

985
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:39,436
Shit.

986
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,710
...and the man who did this

987
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:48,192
robbed us of their smiles, of their laughter.

988
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,392
And I just can't accept
that we allowed it to happen.

989
00:43:55,760 --> 00:44:00,516
Our beautiful girls, and we could have stopped it.

990
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:01,829
We could have taken the gun

991
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,149
out of his hand and my babies...

992
00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:04,799
Jesus Christ.

993
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:05,870
We get the idea.

994
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,117
Brenda and Joel Patterson.

995
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:10,714
The shooting sparked a new wave

996
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,439
of anti-gun sentiment in Wisconsin.

997
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,113
And that was more than a month ago.

998
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:15,236
It's not dying down.

999
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,152
Brenda's become a prominent figure

1000
00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:18,435
in the Mothers Demand Action movement.

1001
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,759
Public outrage after a gun attack

1002
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,560
lasts maybe a week per casualty.

1003
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,195
This whole Pattinson story
should be in the ground by now.

1004
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,317
- Patterson.
- Huh?

1005
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,471
Their name. The Patterson family.

1006
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,358
I don't give a shit if they're
the fucking Partridge Family.

1007
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,229
This is her.

1008
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,350
Sandford needs to know.

1009
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:38,956
Our delivery must be tailored for maximum impact.

1010
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,033
Support for gun control is up
8% in the last two weeks.

1011
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:43,952
Both Wisconsin senators are vulnerable.

1012
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,759
If they don't declare for Heaton-Harris,

1013
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,320
Kirkpatrick won't make it through the fall,

1014
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:48,596
and Wallace is toast in two years...

1015
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,114
Who's going to that medical thing?

1016
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,270
Senator Wallace.

1017
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:54,999
He can deliver two other moderates.

1018
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,914
And sure as she was born screaming,

1019
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,640
she'll see that as her chance to box them in.

1020
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,479
No, Carlos, that's unacceptable.

1021
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,553
The media has to be there, that's the whole point.

1022
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,149
It has to be digitally stored
and ready to be trotted out

1023
00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:10,675
should he even think about backing down.

1024
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,513
I'm gonna send you a photo of Clara Thomson.

1025
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,000
She'll be front-left, wearing a...

1026
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,070
Clara, what are you wearing?

1027
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:16,196
One-shoulder black crepe dress.

1028
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,112
A one-shoulder black crepe dress.

1029
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,112
If we're lucky, it'll be the only one in the room.

1030
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:21,395
Thanks, Carlos.

1031
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,870
Hey, Alex, tell me it's feasible that a doctor

1032
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,031
wouldn't have time for all
this social media bullshit.

1033
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,431
Yeah, if you're pulling 15-hour shifts, I guess.

1034
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:29,636
Great.

1035
00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:30,710
But he'd be on Doximity probably.

1036
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:32,914
The Medical version of Linkedln.

1037
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,838
Could you not have just
stopped when I said "great"?

1038
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,360
Good morning.

1039
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:37,750
Light reading?

1040
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,671
Do you even know what pulmonology is?

1041
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:41,916
Yes, I do.

1042
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:43,920
It's the study of pulmon.

1043
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,558
Lungs are asymmetrical.
Right has three lobes, left two.

1044
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:47,636
You know why?

1045
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:48,756
Your heart needs the real estate?

1046
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,070
Bravo.

1047
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:51,674
All right, everybody, listen up!

1048
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:52,910
Not a problem for you, I should imagine.

1049
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,679
What have they got? Come on!
Arguments and rebuttals.

1050
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:58,160
Let's have it, wake up!

1051
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:02,199
It's the first step toward a
national register of firearms.

1052
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:03,636
Scare mongering.

1053
00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:04,915
No one's even come close to proposing that.

1054
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:06,480
And if they did,

1055
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,392
it would have its own day in Congress. Next.

1056
00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:11,436
And it's two steps away from confiscation.

1057
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,678
The gun lobby's rhetoric is based on the falsehood

1058
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,753
that we want to take something
away from people. We don't.

1059
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,160
We want to make it more difficult

1060
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:21,074
for dangerous people to buy firearms.

1061
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:22,514
If we can't burst this fallacy,

1062
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,000
we may as well go home.

1063
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:25,639
Esme, get me a bio on Wendy Furniss, please?

1064
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,195
- Sure.
- Harwood Norton's CEO?

1065
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:29,953
Mmm-hmm. Second largest employer in Virginia.

1066
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:31,315
Both senators are teetering,

1067
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,119
but if I can get her to reach out to them...

1068
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:34,350
You don't see the irony

1069
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,113
in asking the CEO of a defense contractor

1070
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:37,270
to advocate for a ban on guns?

1071
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:38,830
We're not banning anything!

1072
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:39,956
Jesus, you sound like one of them.

1073
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,156
I'm in character.

1074
00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:42,356
Next!

1075
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:43,556
Uh, the new rules will increase

1076
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,195
wait times by two weeks.

1077
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,436
Welcome to America,

1078
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,314
where you'll wait six months for an X-ray,

1079
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,073
but, hey, you can buy an AR-15

1080
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:51,873
in five minutes flat.

1081
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:53,550
You going to be that flippant in public?

1082
00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:55,799
Pussyfooting isn't memorable. Sound bites are.

1083
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,111
And the appropriate one goes like this,

1084
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,193
anyone that desperate to get their hands on a gun

1085
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:03,670
shouldn't be allowed anywhere near one.

1086
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,355
The total number of MRI machines in Wisconsin...

1087
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,591
If the good Senator ever finishes this speech,

1088
00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:09,995
he will open it to the floor.

1089
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:11,116
You'll be question number three.

1090
00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:13,279
You think he'll go for it?

1091
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:14,670
He knows the media is here,

1092
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,752
won't risk being heckled at his own fundraiser.

1093
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,116
Back him into a corner, and he'll have no choice.

1094
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,032
...of an additional $2 million

1095
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,794
for the purchase of four brand-new machines

1096
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,395
within the first year of my next term.

1097
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,233
Thank you.

1098
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,358
Thank you very much. Thank you.

1099
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,194
All right, a few more questions

1100
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,760
for the Senator, then we'll wrap up.

1101
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:36,395
Uh, yes, the lady in white.

1102
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,678
Mr. Senator, I'm Chair of the Westfield Center...

1103
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,716
He was supposed to go to me third,
what's he doing?

1104
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,719
Following orders.

1105
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,113
Three tables behind you, two to the right.

1106
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,519
They've been tracking us through Wisconsin.

1107
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,273
They would have had everyone on that list vetted.

1108
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:52,914
You're blown.

1109
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,275
What do you mean?

1110
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,955
I mean that it's time for plan B.

1111
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:03,192
And our final question
goes to Dr. Raj Amarasekara.

1112
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:04,350
I hope I'm pronouncing that right.

1113
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:06,918
Of the Pulmonary Associates of America.

1114
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:08,275
Thank you.

1115
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:11,076
Raj Amarasekara is a working actor

1116
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:12,600
named Matthew Kantaria.

1117
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,558
They think he's about to ask a benign question

1118
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:15,676
about the clean air initiative.

1119
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,153
...it's a safe bet we'll see
three or four gunshot victims.

1120
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,400
Some are kids, teenagers.

1121
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,040
How do you intend to vote
on the Heaton-Harris Bill

1122
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,237
when it's put before Congress?

1123
00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:33,359
Well...

1124
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,080
As you have experienced, uh,

1125
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,311
gun violence is a real problem...

1126
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:40,960
You decoyed me?

1127
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,271
Raj Amarasekara has personally plagiarized

1128
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,558
seven research papers, all available online.

1129
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:47,994
He even has a Doximity account.

1130
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:50,549
...financial burden is the fact that

1131
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,200
some of the victims are the, um...

1132
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:54,716
Kids.

1133
00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:57,755
The young.

1134
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,514
So, I think it's, uh, first and foremost,

1135
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:05,391
to put our sympathies with
the families of these victims.

1136
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,591
But it's true, gun violence
puts an enormous strain

1137
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,151
on our healthcare system and its work force.

1138
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,758
Absolutely, yes.

1139
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,878
That's why I intend to give
my whole-hearted support

1140
00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:22,754
to the Heaton-Harris Bill.

1141
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:25,720
And that's a wrap.

1142
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,638
Thank you. Absolutely, thank you.

1143
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:40,396
Who else does he bring?

1144
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,519
Fascitelli and Garcia.

1145
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,240
Hey, Esme, I have a surprise for you on Wednesday.

1146
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,199
We're going to a new restaurant?

1147
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:50,716
How about a Second Amendment
debate at NYU Law School?

1148
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:53,554
Don't shout this from the rooftops,

1149
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:55,149
but I trust you to do a better job

1150
00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:56,469
than anyone else on the team.

1151
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:57,914
You can't make it?

1152
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,310
I'm including myself as part of the team.

1153
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:01,874
I wasn't cool enough to relate

1154
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:03,235
to college kids when I was a college kid.

1155
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:05,589
I'll forward you the details.

1156
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:11,236
You again.

1157
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,674
I called them and I specifically asked for Mark.

1158
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,079
And I specifically told you he skipped town.

1159
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,473
Well, what agency did he move to?

1160
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:22,320
How should I know?

1161
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:23,550
I ain't his parole officer.

1162
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:25,556
He's in trouble?

1163
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:27,710
I was kidding.

1164
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,393
Aww, we had so much fun the other night.

1165
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:37,673
Well, you know where the door is, lady.

1166
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:38,876
Go run to your Mark.

1167
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:21,554
I've got work to do tonight.

1168
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,160
Big case?

1169
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,198
Forde, human interaction is an exchange.

1170
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:29,954
My money for your...

1171
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:31,150
Dick?

1172
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,033
I was gonna say "skill set."

1173
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,990
But that's the only exchange I'm willing to make.

1174
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,119
Now you sound like a banker.

1175
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:40,760
I got to do prep anyways.

1176
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:41,910
For what?

1177
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,676
Another client, tomorrow night.

1178
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:47,914
You do prep?

1179
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,190
For functions.

1180
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:51,155
Believe it or not,

1181
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:55,151
not everyone hires me for my skill set.

1182
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,680
Half my clients just want me on their arm.

1183
00:51:58,160 --> 00:51:59,276
Some just want someone to talk to

1184
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:00,396
from a different neck of the woods,

1185
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,836
- who ain't gonna judge them.
- That is so pathetic.

1186
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:04,036
Functions are different.

1187
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:06,718
The agency gave me a list of covers.

1188
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,720
Insurance exec, marketing guy.

1189
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:12,270
Tomorrow is oil and gas.

1190
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:14,076
I'll be seeing you.

1191
00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:18,518
I think you owe me something more.

1192
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:19,875
No, it's all there. Count it.

1193
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:21,714
This covers my services.

1194
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:24,634
But I just gave you a whole lot of information

1195
00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:25,710
about my line of work.

1196
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:27,270
On your principles of exchange...

1197
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:28,350
Oh, my God!

1198
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,557
Okay, that was a voluntary donation on your part.

1199
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,554
I pay you so I can imagine a life I chose

1200
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,472
to forego in the pursuit of my career.

1201
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:38,990
So, why don't you go out and get it?

1202
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:40,150
It's not for me.

1203
00:52:40,240 --> 00:52:41,356
Not when I was in my early 20s,

1204
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:42,510
and sure as hell not now.

1205
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:44,355
So, "no house you call home,

1206
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:45,510
"no folks you call family,"

1207
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:46,915
- sort of thing, huh?
- Uh-uh.

1208
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,037
- You ever regret that?
- Not for a second.

1209
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:52,155
At least now we're peeling a layer.

1210
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,274
And that is all my principles
of exchange will allow.

1211
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:57,599
Goodbye, Forde.

1212
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:17,550
If you're a terrorist,

1213
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:19,711
or someone who shouldn't be allowed on that plane,

1214
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,320
which lane are you going to walk through?

1215
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:22,550
Yeah, well, obviously...

1216
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:23,960
Thursday morning.

1217
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,030
Okay, I'll hold.

1218
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,875
- Lauren! Boston, Thursday!
- Got it!

1219
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,754
I deleted every vestige of my online existence.

1220
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:32,956
You didn't replace it,

1221
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,190
leaving a Clara-sized hole in Google,

1222
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:35,999
which they flagged in due diligence.

1223
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:37,400
I did replace it.

1224
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:38,795
Esme!

1225
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,029
Clara Thomson just returned from a 2-year stint

1226
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,191
with Médecins Sans Frontières. It was solid.

1227
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:49,278
Why didn't you tell me about Raj...

1228
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:50,680
Just call him Matthew.

1229
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,194
I checked with Finance.

1230
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,400
Your actor wasn't paid from our account.

1231
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,153
You ran him out of your own pocket.

1232
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,393
It's good practice to keep your circle small.

1233
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:01,080
In this town, no matter where you are,

1234
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:02,753
you're never more than two feet away from a rat.

1235
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,431
Hey! I want you on the podium at the ARS dinner.

1236
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:10,600
Wait, that's a huge deal.

1237
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:11,670
You don't think we should share

1238
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:12,796
the public speaking a little?

1239
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,553
And blow all the goodwill you've racked up?

1240
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,950
I'm not sure I'm comfortable in the spotlight.

1241
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:18,030
Doing all the press.

1242
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:19,236
Get comfortable, that ship has sailed.

1243
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:22,992
Hey, yes. Thursday morning, I'll be there.

1244
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,000
Every day, 48 children or teens are shot.

1245
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:27,594
That's not across the world, folks,

1246
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,080
that's right here in America.

1247
00:54:29,240 --> 00:54:30,435
We are joined right now by a representative

1248
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:31,636
from the Brady Campaign,

1249
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,351
- Esme Manchurian.
- It's Manucharian.

1250
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,599
Knocking on doors, making house calls?

1251
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:41,674
How long did it take you
to even get to this place?

1252
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:43,035
Consider it a sign of how important

1253
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:44,760
it is that we get you on board.

1254
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:46,030
Why?

1255
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:47,759
In your long and distinguished career,

1256
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:49,911
you've done precisely jack-shit for feminism.

1257
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:51,800
Because gender doesn't interest me.

1258
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,197
The only thing you're missing is a dick.

1259
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,033
I think your presence in the room

1260
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:57,952
would be a great help

1261
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,271
as I make our case to Senator Hofland.

1262
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:01,629
God willing, we can help protect

1263
00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:04,554
our neighbors from the kind of tragedy
America has endured...

1264
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:08,395
Esme... Manchurian.

1265
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:09,869
Manucharian.

1266
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,715
In this country, nine women are shot

1267
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:15,519
and killed by their intimate partners every week.

1268
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,399
The risk of homicide goes up 500%...

1269
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:20,711
Don't hurl stats at me,
I'm not a fucking journalist.

1270
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,480
You think I don't know all this?

1271
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:24,596
Does your membership?

1272
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:26,637
Because now would be a great time to tell them.

1273
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,153
Larsson and Parr have donated

1274
00:55:29,240 --> 00:55:30,515
millions of their personal fortunes.

1275
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,512
- Yeah.
- I can't go hat-in-hand for more.

1276
00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:34,356
Hey, Manchurian!

1277
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,830
Mandel's on the brink,
I need conversational topics.

1278
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:38,639
- What do you mean?
- Small talk.

1279
00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:40,951
Idle nonsense of no import to anything.

1280
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:42,952
You outsource your social interactions?

1281
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,316
Yeah. Interests, hobbies... Kids!

1282
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:47,716
There's no better way to butter up a parent

1283
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:49,234
than to tell him how hot his kids are.

1284
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:50,356
On it.

1285
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:51,920
The last time we met, your youngest was

1286
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,957
knocking on the door of the Ivy League.

1287
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:55,269
- Yes.
- Logan, was it?

1288
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:57,113
Christ! I can't even remember that conversation.

1289
00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,073
Mandy Hamlyn from the American Nurses Association

1290
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:00,150
- on line three!
- Ah!

1291
00:56:00,240 --> 00:56:01,594
I think there are a great many on the Hill

1292
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:03,637
who have become so accustomed
to your generous support,

1293
00:56:03,720 --> 00:56:05,598
it wouldn't hurt to give them
a short, sharp shock.

1294
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,915
Your donors, don't ask for more. Ask for less.

1295
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:10,559
If you feel strongly about Heaton-Harris,

1296
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:11,835
you could do worse

1297
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:13,434
than to pledge to cut ties to any senator

1298
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:14,715
who doesn't come out in favor.

1299
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,757
So, what, we're turning the screw,

1300
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:18,638
and saving money at the same time?

1301
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:20,600
I don't want to live in a society where there

1302
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,512
is a new school shooting every week!

1303
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,439
That is why when put to vote,

1304
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,910
I will be supporting the Heaton-Harris Bill!

1305
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:34,396
It came in anonymously,

1306
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:35,675
but everyone's thinking Bloomberg.

1307
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,559
Five hundred grand? That's over 12% of our budget!

1308
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:39,676
If you were donating that much,

1309
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:40,830
why would you do it anonymously?

1310
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:41,956
Obvious reason.

1311
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,396
- What? Privacy?
- No.

1312
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:46,631
It makes you look noble
when you leak your identity.

1313
00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:49,076
Oh, my God. Were you born that cynical?

1314
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,117
That is just a word to denote the absence...

1315
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:55,353
Of the naivety I so keenly exhibit? Yeah, right.

1316
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,714
Back on in three, people.

1317
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:01,473
Since when were you camera-shy?

1318
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,032
What happened? You find a wrinkle?

1319
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,476
If it isn't Bill Sandford's poodle.

1320
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,479
Let me guess, on a tight leash,

1321
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:10,279
sniffing at his ass for business?

1322
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:12,069
If you weren't such a joke,

1323
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:13,389
we'd already have his business.

1324
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:15,599
So how about this?

1325
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,034
Give Mini-Me a day off,

1326
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,391
and I'll give you a shot at the title.

1327
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:21,870
Live TV debate, you and me.

1328
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:24,196
You must be desperate

1329
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:25,270
if you're willing to give me airtime.

1330
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:26,669
I kick your bony ass hard enough,

1331
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,114
Bill Sandford will realize

1332
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:29,316
why he came to us in the first place.

1333
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:31,872
Uh-uh. You need me strong to make him worried.

1334
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,675
You're not looking so strong
after a head-on with me.

1335
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,351
All right. I'll grant you a job interview

1336
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:40,794
on national television.

1337
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,475
You can show your master
what a big, tough dog you are.

1338
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:54,356
What we're about to discuss

1339
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:55,920
should only be referred to in code

1340
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:57,559
in the office and over e-mail.

1341
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:00,912
My ex-employers aren't beyond bugging and hacking.

1342
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:03,198
You think our conference room is wearing a wire?

1343
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:04,714
We're gonna target a senator from a state

1344
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:06,713
we have zero right to swing.

1345
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:08,270
Oh, please, God, don't say...

1346
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,477
Alberto Gomez, Republican, Florida.

1347
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:12,110
What?

1348
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:13,520
I thought you were gonna say Missouri.

1349
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:14,636
Florida's preposterous.

1350
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:16,030
I'm being optimistic.

1351
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:18,234
Public opinion runs against
Heaton-Harris in Florida.

1352
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:20,712
- Let's talk later.
- In the office?

1353
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:24,075
How do I register my dissent? By semaphore?

1354
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:25,350
Alex, you're in charge of ad banners,

1355
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:26,960
you have a 2:00 at JWT.

1356
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:28,759
I want two phone pitches.

1357
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:30,240
Clara, Brian, Lauren, you're one.

1358
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,670
Cynthia, Esme, Franklin, you're two.

1359
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:35,400
Ross, get stats to both. Come on, get to it.

1360
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:41,759
What the hell are you thinking?

1361
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:43,274
That you should let me do my job.

1362
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:44,714
This ain't Cole Kravitz, damn it.

1363
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:47,113
Our client's a non-profit,

1364
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:48,998
not some cashed-up conglomerate.

1365
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:51,836
I'm hiding in the bushes with my begging bowl,

1366
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:53,673
waiting to leap out at anyone
who looks like money,

1367
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:55,075
and you're getting ready to set fire

1368
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:57,391
to half a million dollars on some hare-brained...

1369
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,156
I mean this James Bond shit's endearingly wacky,

1370
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,273
but if you think you're seriously going to get

1371
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,192
any traction out of Florida, you're way out.

1372
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:09,114
Rodolfo, it was explicit
in your pitch to lure me here

1373
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:10,600
that you held a certain degree of trust

1374
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:12,273
in my ability to run this campaign.

1375
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:13,800
George, it's me.

1376
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:15,155
I know what I'm doing.

1377
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,272
We need to talk about Florida.

1378
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:19,079
And I don't do hare-brained.

1379
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:37,194
Fucking A right.

1380
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:39,836
From the way you been kicking my ass all morning,

1381
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:41,070
I'm starting to think

1382
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,311
you invited yourself here just to kick my ass.

1383
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,996
I'm personally in favor of Heaton-Harris.

1384
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,234
I've publicly declared, my voters are behind me.

1385
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:54,957
Did you want to meet just to kick my ass?

1386
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:57,757
Look, you're sitting on six votes.

1387
00:59:58,400 --> 00:59:59,595
Sandford's not a punk,

1388
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:01,717
he knows the opposition's counting on them.

1389
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:04,199
He also knows if they don't get them,

1390
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:05,794
their campaign will be over.

1391
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:08,674
So, what are you gonna do?

1392
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:10,116
Walk into my club,

1393
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:11,475
bend me over a green baize table,

1394
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:13,552
and give me the spiel about freedom?

1395
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:15,956
About how, if the liberals get their way,

1396
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:17,156
in a couple of hundred years,

1397
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:18,833
the Second Amendment will enshrine

1398
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:20,479
our rights to bear baseball bats?

1399
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:22,679
No, that's the argument you're gonna make

1400
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:24,399
to your friends in the Blue Dog Coalition

1401
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:26,312
when you tell them you're changing your position.

1402
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:32,751
Bill Sandford's thinking about
backing a new candidate.

1403
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,195
One of their own. A real up-and-comer. Hispanic.

1404
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,394
Got offers from eight Ivy League schools.

1405
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:41,069
Ivy League schools?

1406
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:43,433
Have you seen my approval ratings, Pat?

1407
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:45,239
No, he's not running against you.

1408
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:47,870
He's running against your son.

1409
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:57,072
The gun lobby wants your support, Hank.

1410
01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:01,354
They know your boy's running for Michigan.

1411
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:02,840
They'll handpick an opponent.

1412
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:04,914
Back him to the hilt.

1413
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:07,713
I tried to talk Sandford out of it, but...

1414
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:08,916
Bullshit, Connors, you probably

1415
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:10,354
put him up to it, you motherfucker.

1416
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:11,840
About those approval ratings.

1417
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:15,592
You can go either way.

1418
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:20,117
Quietly recant, protect your son.

1419
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:22,634
Sandford won't forget it.

1420
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,634
You disappoint him...

1421
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:29,754
He won't forget that, either.

1422
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:37,760
So, how was Pittsburgh?

1423
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,034
What are you, a Fed?

1424
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,269
The President of the Mid-Atlantic
Association of Women

1425
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,716
in Law Enforcement called to say thanks for lunch.

1426
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:48,839
I wasn't aware they were part of our plan.

1427
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:50,916
It wasn't expensed.

1428
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:52,275
It was a 30-minute lunch.

1429
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:53,714
They're not a part of our plan,

1430
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:55,996
which is why it wasn't expensed.

1431
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:57,679
Am I not allowed a social life?

1432
01:01:57,800 --> 01:01:58,950
I didn't know you had one.

1433
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:00,800
As someone who has her underlings

1434
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:02,314
root for conversational topics.

1435
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,392
I maintain a small circle of allies.

1436
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:06,199
Uh-huh. Cops and nurses?

1437
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:09,718
Well, I can provide a list if
you require full disclosure.

1438
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:13,598
So, grand unveiling.

1439
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:16,439
- You coming?
- We got a bigger problem.

1440
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:18,393
While you've been jetting
around the country for lunch,

1441
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:19,994
our opponents have been doing their job.

1442
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:22,357
Hank Badgley, Chairman of the Blue Dog,

1443
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:23,880
who controls the votes of...

1444
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,310
Six Senators, I know who
he is. He's in our pocket.

1445
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:27,993
Really? That what you think?

1446
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,680
He was on board, but he just did a 180.

1447
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:34,119
Says he wants to wait and see.

1448
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:37,673
"Wait and see" is more like a 90.

1449
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:39,912
We're chasing Senators who are in play.

1450
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,196
We can't afford to lose seven votes we had locked.

1451
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:43,589
We won't recover.

1452
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:45,758
We have him on camera pledging support?

1453
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:46,830
Absolutely.

1454
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,079
Then we'll have to make him feel it.

1455
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:58,080
Thank you.

1456
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,593
Alex, these banners are good.

1457
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:09,755
Could you say that again

1458
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:11,075
and sound a little less surprised?

1459
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:13,393
Hold on, this can't be right.

1460
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:15,951
- Senator Gomez...
- We're not going to Florida.

1461
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:18,150
What?

1462
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:20,550
Florida's out.

1463
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:22,990
But you said that we were going to Florida

1464
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:24,070
to swing Gomez...

1465
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,470
Everyone turn to Tab 9, please.

1466
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:33,513
I don't have anything at Tab 9.

1467
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:49,352
Security, lock down Cynthia Green's desk.

1468
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:51,079
Secure her files and her hard drives,

1469
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:52,389
and escort her off the premises.

1470
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:54,910
Your Blackberry, now.

1471
01:03:57,240 --> 01:03:58,640
Now!

1472
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:01,956
Let's go.

1473
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:03,760
He offered me partnership track.

1474
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:05,400
Good luck with that.

1475
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:07,274
Clear the office.

1476
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:09,760
Come on, come on, come on! Everybody out.

1477
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:16,509
I'll have the place swept for taps.

1478
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:19,639
Sounds like James Bond shit to me.

1479
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:21,474
We will talk about this later.

1480
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:25,918
Come on, everybody, clear the building!

1481
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:28,952
Let's go! Out! Come on!

1482
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:41,391
I can't believe the whole

1483
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:43,318
Gomez-Florida thing was a ruse.

1484
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:45,358
We're coming out of left field to take Colorado

1485
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,075
before they figure out which
hole they got screwed in.

1486
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:49,480
How could she do that?

1487
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:51,913
How does someone even think like that?

1488
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:53,275
Maybe in her naivety,

1489
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:54,840
she figured it'd be good for her career.

1490
01:04:57,400 --> 01:04:58,629
I wasn't talking about Cynthia.

1491
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:14,750
Morning.

1492
01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:19,635
Please take a seat.

1493
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:21,359
We're not saying it can't be done.

1494
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:22,876
But it's risky.

1495
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,117
- We only get one shot.
- Hey!

1496
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:28,556
Were you followed?

1497
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:29,716
Evidently.

1498
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:32,989
Let him in.

1499
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:34,350
Do you solemnly swear

1500
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:35,430
that you will tell the truth,

1501
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:37,318
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,

1502
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,073
upon pains and penalties of perjury?

1503
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:42,674
I do.

1504
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:48,439
State your full name, please.

1505
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:50,234
Well, look at this.

1506
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:52,758
Rodolfo Vittorio Schmidt.

1507
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:57,713
I'm guessing this gear
ain't for tuning my '69 Chevy?

1508
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:00,716
Rodolfo, my unofficial support team.

1509
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:03,110
Big Sam.

1510
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:04,629
Little Sam.

1511
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:07,754
During the time that you
worked alongside Miss Sloane,

1512
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:09,918
did you hold any discussions

1513
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:11,030
pertaining to the use

1514
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:12,918
of illegal surveillance techniques?

1515
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:17,754
So, how big is your organization?

1516
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:20,520
Well, there are six of us,
four are out on assignment.

1517
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:22,958
- And you're ex...
- NSA.

1518
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:25,355
Badgley is flip-flopping.

1519
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:26,999
But, quickest way to get him in line

1520
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:28,355
is to mine for sordid details,

1521
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:30,033
and then let him know we're in possession of them.

1522
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,552
Mr. Schmidt, did you?

1523
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:35,639
Yes, Senator, we did.

1524
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:37,797
And what means did they have at their disposal

1525
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:40,389
to carry out these surveillance practices?

1526
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,949
Standard 24-hour video and audio surveillance,

1527
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:44,639
cell phone and online account hacking,

1528
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:49,074
location tracking, and, with our latest tech,

1529
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:52,872
close-quarters audio, anytime, anyplace.

1530
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:56,753
You ever hear the expression "Fly on the wall"?

1531
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,397
Well, meet the cutting edge in eavesdropping.

1532
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:01,990
It's a cockroach.

1533
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:03,873
Which can be retro-fitted

1534
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:07,510
as a cybernetic robo-roach with this.

1535
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:11,396
We glue electrodes to its antennae,

1536
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:12,755
perforate the thorax,

1537
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:14,872
and we can control its movement remotely.

1538
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:16,633
Don't call PETA, Schmidt.

1539
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:18,234
These guys can crawl under doors,

1540
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:20,710
into crevices, bags, completely undetected.

1541
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:23,636
They can go weeks without food
and still be mobile.

1542
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,830
And how did you react to
the possibility of all this?

1543
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:30,873
I told her it was mind-boggling, ingenious,

1544
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,270
morally repugnant and completely unacceptable.

1545
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:35,035
Boo!

1546
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:36,793
You're talking about blackmailing

1547
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:38,519
a United States Senator.

1548
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,190
Have you any idea of the
damage if this ever came out?

1549
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:44,551
No more than the damage done
if we don't get Badgley back.

1550
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:47,233
Without prejudice to the undoubtedly

1551
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:48,754
stellar job that you guys do.

1552
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:51,234
Our firm has certain standards

1553
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:53,073
below which I'm not prepared to stoop.

1554
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:56,196
Let me out of here.

1555
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:58,230
Schmidt.

1556
01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:00,515
Find another way.

1557
01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:08,680
It was a rude awakening

1558
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:10,274
for Michigan Senator, Hank Badgley, today

1559
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:14,710
as he was tailed from his home
to his workplace by this...

1560
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:16,560
What the fuck is that?

1561
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:18,433
...organized by gun safety campaigners

1562
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:19,795
in response to what they perceive

1563
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:20,996
as a U-turn on his support...

1564
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:24,551
Can you believe... I do not fucking believe!

1565
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:29,038
...in the shadow of a giant rat.

1566
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,240
It's on all of the national news outlets.

1567
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:35,511
How the hell did she manage that?

1568
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:38,160
She didn't. They swing left all on their own.

1569
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:39,754
It has its own Twitter feed.

1570
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:41,190
Huh?

1571
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:44,840
The rat.

1572
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:47,800
Really, I think that this whole rat business

1573
01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:50,634
is little more than an
unfortunate misunderstanding.

1574
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:53,077
I was one of the first members of the senate

1575
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,396
to lend my support to Heaton-Harris.

1576
01:08:55,480 --> 01:08:56,800
I've always maintained that

1577
01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:58,439
the Bill is integral to public safety,

1578
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:01,075
and my support for it is unwavering.

1579
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:03,118
Now, I sincerely hope that

1580
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:04,879
we can get past all this silliness...

1581
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:06,235
Three more Blue Dog Senators

1582
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:08,471
have press conferences scheduled for next week.

1583
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:09,789
Keep hammering the point

1584
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:11,872
that we're not arguing for confiscation.

1585
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:13,354
Heaton-Harris is about stopping...

1586
01:09:13,440 --> 01:09:14,840
Criminals and psychopaths.

1587
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:16,360
Yeah, I'm a pro at this now, Liz.

1588
01:09:16,440 --> 01:09:18,238
I'll see you in there.

1589
01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:21,151
So you knew there was a leak from when?

1590
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:22,435
- Sorry?
- Cynthia.

1591
01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:24,836
When did you start to suspect there was a leak?

1592
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:26,718
Uh, after the UAPD fundraiser.

1593
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,553
And you had her followed by a Pl?

1594
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:30,279
How did you know it was her?

1595
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:31,720
Sorry?

1596
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:33,837
The leak, you had Cynthia watched.

1597
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:35,600
How did you know it was her?

1598
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:37,839
I didn't.

1599
01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:40,754
You had us all watched?

1600
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:43,080
Howdy.

1601
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:46,436
Cal Sneider, banking and actuarial.

1602
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:48,910
I'm sure we've been introduced,

1603
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:50,110
but your name escapes me.

1604
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:51,674
I'm sorry, you have the wrong person.

1605
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:53,150
I'm pretty sure I don't.

1606
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:54,794
Have a good memory for faces.

1607
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:56,509
This one I wouldn't readily forget.

1608
01:09:57,440 --> 01:09:59,113
Really, Mr. Sneider,

1609
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:01,318
I've no idea who you think I am.

1610
01:10:01,440 --> 01:10:02,840
Excuse me.

1611
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:13,039
Uh-huh. You know we're not really

1612
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:14,349
supposed to be having this conversation, right?

1613
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:16,359
Half of Oregon is protected Federal parkland.

1614
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:18,040
They can't develop it.

1615
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:19,793
So, state budgets come from logging revenues.

1616
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:20,870
- I got it...
- Liz?

1617
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:22,474
Whatever clearing your head
looks like, this isn't it.

1618
01:10:23,480 --> 01:10:25,278
So, loggers are a very influential group.

1619
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:26,636
Excuse me!

1620
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:28,473
Can someone have her makeup done, too, please?

1621
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:29,630
I'm not a part of this!

1622
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:31,200
You're a public figure in a room full of cameras.

1623
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:32,396
Is that her?

1624
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:35,270
Liz?

1625
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:37,951
Hey, we have to get Bryan on these loggers.

1626
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:39,190
We're on top of the goddamn loggers!

1627
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:40,236
Just clear your head!

1628
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:41,310
One moment.

1629
01:10:41,480 --> 01:10:42,994
Clear your head, like I told you.

1630
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:44,390
Hello?

1631
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:49,390
- Fine.
- Ms. Sloane, welcome.

1632
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,231
Pat. Please, take a seat.

1633
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:54,115
I know Friday's Filing Day

1634
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:55,270
and your campaign will be over,

1635
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:56,350
but if you're thinking I'm gonna go easy,

1636
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:57,510
I can't do that.

1637
01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:00,594
This is live TV, so no colorful language.

1638
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,512
Bullshit job offers to my staff,

1639
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:04,080
you've plumbed new depths.

1640
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:05,799
A giant inflatable rodent? Please.

1641
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:07,075
You ruined that girl's career.

1642
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:10,511
All right, shut up, the both of you. Let's go!

1643
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:17,837
Hello, America, I'm Jon O'Neill,

1644
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:20,873
welcome to a special edition
of This Week In Washington.

1645
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:23,829
Guns! More or Less?

1646
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:26,799
There were 372 mass shootings last year,

1647
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:28,394
64 school shootings,

1648
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:31,399
and there are over 300
million guns in our country...

1649
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:33,154
You used to work with Connors?

1650
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:34,435
Four years.

1651
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:39,271
Foul-mouthed, unexpected, and very effective.

1652
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:42,995
If background checks are to be of any use,

1653
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:45,754
they should apply to all gun sales, not just some.

1654
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:48,076
Isn't that what Heaton-Harris is proposing?

1655
01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:51,836
Precisely. The bill expands
the scope of gun regulation,

1656
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:53,240
and it's yet another affront

1657
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:55,073
to Americans' Constitutional rights.

1658
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:57,550
No, the bill closes an absurd loophole

1659
01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:00,030
which allows people on terrorist watch-lists

1660
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:02,316
to buy guns without any checks whatsoever.

1661
01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:04,357
It's an incursion into individual liberty

1662
01:12:04,440 --> 01:12:05,999
by an all-powerful government...

1663
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:08,549
- What, like drivers' licenses?
- Drivers' licenses?

1664
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:10,274
It's illegal to operate a car

1665
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:11,390
without going through rigorous

1666
01:12:11,480 --> 01:12:13,119
theoretical and practical assessments.

1667
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:15,471
- That's a clear constraint...
- Fugu chefs.

1668
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:17,432
...on the freedom of individuals to drive cars,

1669
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,035
- or pilots to fly planes.
- Come on. Fugu chefs.

1670
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,919
You know, in Japan, chefs train for seven years

1671
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,275
before they're allowed to serve

1672
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:25,430
a poisonous blowfish called fugu.

1673
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:26,796
Yes!

1674
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:27,910
What does any of this

1675
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:29,320
have to do with background checks?

1676
01:12:29,440 --> 01:12:30,920
Is a fair question.

1677
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:32,195
Does anyone in this room

1678
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:33,953
think the government should
abolish drivers' licenses?

1679
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:35,955
- That's absurd.
- Why?

1680
01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:38,271
They're a government incursion
into individual liberty.

1681
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:40,797
We accept them because they make sense.

1682
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:42,519
The more dangerous the machinery,

1683
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:44,319
the more rigorous the tests should be.

1684
01:12:44,440 --> 01:12:46,193
I think we can extend our definition

1685
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:49,000
of dangerous machinery to semi-automatic firearms.

1686
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:50,952
Except that the Second
Amendment to the Constitution

1687
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:53,430
doesn't guarantee the right to drive cars,

1688
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:57,116
or operate machinery or serve
blowfish for that matter.

1689
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:00,272
It guarantees the right to keep and bear arms.

1690
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:02,439
Perhaps you haven't read it lately.

1691
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:03,954
Nothing in the bill

1692
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:06,919
infringes the rights of the
people to keep and bear arms.

1693
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:08,434
The Second Amendment was signed in a time

1694
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:10,398
where the average life expectancy was 38,

1695
01:13:10,480 --> 01:13:13,040
and it was common practice
for our Founding Fathers

1696
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:16,591
to resolve their differences
at dawn in a gunfight.

1697
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:19,639
What may have been perfectly
sensible in those alien times

1698
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,236
is wholly inadequate to solve
the problems of the present.

1699
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:24,198
That's not the rebuttal, what's she doing?

1700
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:25,640
The United States Constitution

1701
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:27,279
has stood the test of time.

1702
01:13:27,360 --> 01:13:31,036
It's authored to confer unimpeachable rights,

1703
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:32,355
which don't change depending

1704
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:34,433
on which way the wind's blowing.

1705
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:36,399
It's so authored with the specific intent

1706
01:13:36,480 --> 01:13:37,675
of keeping at bay

1707
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:39,479
the Elizabeth Sloanes of this world,

1708
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:41,319
who wanna wipe their asses
with the Constitution...

1709
01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:42,670
Okay, let's...

1710
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:44,274
...and replace it with their own judgment,

1711
01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:45,874
because she knows better than

1712
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:47,673
the Founding Fathers of this great nation.

1713
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:51,789
Nothing is unimpeachable,
not even the Constitution.

1714
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:54,076
It's ironic that the very statement of rights

1715
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:55,680
you're so quick to invoke

1716
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:57,672
is in fact an Amendment.

1717
01:13:58,000 --> 01:13:59,593
I may not like it either, Elizabeth,

1718
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:01,680
but it's the Second Amendment.

1719
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:05,197
Comes right after freedom of
speech, religion, and press,

1720
01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:07,158
and somewhere before freedom from search

1721
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:09,079
and from having to testify against yourself.

1722
01:14:09,440 --> 01:14:10,669
They're all sort of bunched together.

1723
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:12,395
It's called the Bill of Rights.

1724
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:14,712
- How do you get around that?
- We don't need to.

1725
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:16,474
Supreme Court already made it clear

1726
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,119
that the right to own a gun

1727
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:19,839
is subject to lawful restriction.

1728
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:21,479
One of those is background checks.

1729
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:24,718
Universal background checks are an infringement.

1730
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:27,278
What part of "shall not be infringed"

1731
01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:28,595
don't you get?

1732
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,633
I get that that's the weakest,
most mind-numbing retort

1733
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:33,718
in your impoverished arsenal.

1734
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:35,394
Sort of a last refuge for those

1735
01:14:35,480 --> 01:14:36,596
with no real argument at all.

1736
01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:37,790
You're talking about

1737
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:38,916
the United States Constitution.

1738
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:41,676
If they could produce a rational winning argument,

1739
01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:43,797
I'd gladly migrate to their side,

1740
01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:46,759
but "because it says so in the Constitution,

1741
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:50,954
"the Bible, or my horoscope,"
it's not a winning argument!

1742
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:52,116
It's a ripcord.

1743
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:54,436
An intellectual equivalent of a yellow,

1744
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:57,473
pant-pissing wimp cowering behind mommy's skirt.

1745
01:14:57,560 --> 01:15:00,075
- Why don't we bring this back.
- No, no, no. Let's not!

1746
01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:02,038
Why don't we ask all the mothers out there

1747
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:04,840
who lost their children to an armed sociopath,

1748
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,230
if they believe in his unimpeachable

1749
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:09,676
Constitutional right to bear arms?

1750
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:11,399
Why not ask the terrified girl

1751
01:15:11,480 --> 01:15:13,517
who locked herself in a janitor's closet

1752
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:14,795
at Bloomington High,

1753
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:16,070
forced to listen

1754
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:18,356
as her peers were being massacred?

1755
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:20,599
Go ahead, ask her!

1756
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:22,956
Her name is Esme Manucharian.

1757
01:15:25,440 --> 01:15:26,430
She's standing right there!

1758
01:15:32,440 --> 01:15:34,033
Jesus Christ, Liz.

1759
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:36,554
Okay, time out!

1760
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:38,393
We're going to take a break,
and when we come back,

1761
01:15:39,440 --> 01:15:41,159
maybe these two will stop playing

1762
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:43,875
Patty Cake and the gloves'll really come off.

1763
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:45,553
Be right back!

1764
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:10,753
I won't insult your intelligence

1765
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:12,638
by claiming that came out
in the heat of the moment.

1766
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:19,194
How far back?

1767
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:23,391
Once I started getting used to all the media?

1768
01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:28,636
Okay. Day one.

1769
01:16:30,560 --> 01:16:31,596
Wow.

1770
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:38,639
At dinner that night...

1771
01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:42,639
You asked me if I'd go public

1772
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:45,189
if it was the difference
between victory and defeat.

1773
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:50,240
What if I'd said no?

1774
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:53,634
Would you still have done it?

1775
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:55,874
Probably.

1776
01:16:57,120 --> 01:16:58,474
I was hired to win,

1777
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:00,394
and I have a responsibility

1778
01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:02,159
to use whatever resource I have.

1779
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:04,440
The press we're going to get from this,

1780
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:06,398
it's practically a dereliction
of duty not to use it.

1781
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:08,273
That's it? I'm a "resource"?

1782
01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:09,714
Professionally, yes.

1783
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:15,159
I understand you have feelings, and a life,

1784
01:17:15,240 --> 01:17:16,879
but I have no duty to them.

1785
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:20,510
I have a duty to the cause,
and if the two conflict,

1786
01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:23,035
there will only ever be one winner.

1787
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:28,073
Well, hooray for straight talk.

1788
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:31,594
Okay.

1789
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:34,792
Get ready, Esme. Network wants a statement.

1790
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:38,072
Re-apply your makeup. We'll walk out arm-in-arm.

1791
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:39,992
We'll be brief. No questions.

1792
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,639
Tonight, we'll leave them wanting more.

1793
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:50,754
First of all,

1794
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,877
I want to make it clear
that I have dedicated my life

1795
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:56,749
to gun safety issues because
the current system is broken.

1796
01:17:57,160 --> 01:17:58,514
That's a rational judgment.

1797
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:00,240
Not an emotional one.

1798
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:06,320
I am a survivor

1799
01:18:07,440 --> 01:18:10,433
of the Bloomington High School massacre of 1998.

1800
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:15,238
For years, I sought to hide
the pain and the trauma,

1801
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:16,595
for fear of having to relive it.

1802
01:18:17,760 --> 01:18:19,274
But I've come to realize

1803
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:23,432
that the thousands of people
affected by gun violence

1804
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,955
need to stand up and be counted.

1805
01:18:27,440 --> 01:18:28,954
They need a representative

1806
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:31,996
who can speak out for what they have endured.

1807
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:33,869
Let's call Sandford.

1808
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:35,760
Someone who can relate their experience...

1809
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:37,160
There might be life in this yet.

1810
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:38,555
...to the public at large.

1811
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:15,799
You're a piece of work, Elizabeth.

1812
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:23,399
If you want to set yourself on fire

1813
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:27,516
to service your need to win,
I won't protest, but Esme?

1814
01:19:29,440 --> 01:19:30,430
The end is my concern.

1815
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:32,955
You liberal goody-goodies can fret over the means.

1816
01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:34,514
- You need me.
- The end?

1817
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:36,075
It disappeared over the Hill

1818
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:38,112
when you cocked your leg
and pissed all over the flag!

1819
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:41,159
Comparing the United States
Constitution to a horoscope?

1820
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:44,271
That's the kind of shit the gun lobby thrives on.

1821
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:47,280
Or have you realized by now
we're going to lose anyway?

1822
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:49,431
This is more important than my career,

1823
01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:51,352
or Esme's unease at fighting reporters

1824
01:19:51,440 --> 01:19:52,999
every time she has to take out the trash.

1825
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:55,356
- You're out of control.
- We're not gonna lose.

1826
01:19:58,080 --> 01:19:59,309
What if I told you

1827
01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:03,393
this whole strategy was a shell game?

1828
01:20:04,440 --> 01:20:08,229
For the benefit of the
Cynthia Greens of this firm.

1829
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:11,149
What are you talking about?

1830
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:13,800
Bill Sandford was right.

1831
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:17,873
Women are the gun lobby's blind spot.

1832
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:22,599
A massive power base that they don't speak to

1833
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:24,674
and they can't control.

1834
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:26,550
And?

1835
01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:30,272
Those strange excursions on my itinerary?

1836
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:35,631
Women's representative bodies, feminist groups,

1837
01:20:36,440 --> 01:20:37,794
female CEOs.

1838
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:40,320
I've talked as many as I could

1839
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:42,119
into brow-beating their membership

1840
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:43,515
to donate to my PAC.

1841
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:44,590
You have a PAC?

1842
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:48,079
Bill Sandford's getting a nasty surprise

1843
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:49,590
come filing day.

1844
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:51,430
How nasty are we talking?

1845
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:54,719
Fifteen million from over
three million donors-nasty.

1846
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:57,589
In one quarter?

1847
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:02,998
Actually, less.

1848
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:06,678
Unbelievable.

1849
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:10,990
Why are you telling me this now?

1850
01:21:12,480 --> 01:21:14,836
You kept this from me all along,
and you're telling me tonight?

1851
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:18,110
Oh, my God, I tell you we're back in
the game, and all you can say is that?

1852
01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:19,998
You knew you were gonna screw Esme tonight,

1853
01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:22,670
so you kept this from me to blindside me
before I had a chance to fire you.

1854
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:26,116
You have unusual insight
for a "boutique" lobbyist.

1855
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:28,359
You've been pulling all the strings, all along.

1856
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:31,720
Lobbying is about foresight.

1857
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:34,076
You anticipate your opponent's
moves, you devise...

1858
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:36,955
I am not your fucking opponent!

1859
01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:42,715
Were you ever normal?

1860
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:45,636
As a child?

1861
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:49,269
Or were the twisted thought processes in your mind

1862
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:50,476
hard-wired in the womb?

1863
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:52,559
Because I'm having a really hard time

1864
01:21:53,480 --> 01:21:55,358
understanding how somebody gets to this.

1865
01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:01,834
Guess I'm just a piece of work.

1866
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:11,400
I'll see you tomorrow.

1867
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:42,713
You're Madeline Elizabeth Sloane.

1868
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:45,916
You work in government affairs
at a communications company.

1869
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:47,714
Well googled.

1870
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:50,877
So what was that? At the fundraiser?

1871
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:53,109
You pretended like we're strangers.

1872
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:54,920
What did you expect?

1873
01:22:56,840 --> 01:22:58,035
You all right?

1874
01:22:58,600 --> 01:22:59,590
Mmm...

1875
01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:04,311
The only person to call me Madeline was my mother.

1876
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:08,836
Government affairs and communications

1877
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:10,758
are just fancy words for lobbying.

1878
01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:13,551
And lobbying's a fancy word for what, exactly?

1879
01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:15,273
Outside this room, we're strangers.

1880
01:23:16,440 --> 01:23:17,920
Those were the rules of this engagement.

1881
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:19,110
We were alone...

1882
01:23:19,240 --> 01:23:21,152
In a public place.

1883
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:23,393
I can't be associated with you there.

1884
01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:25,918
At least one other person knew who you were.

1885
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:28,070
Who was she, anyway?

1886
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:30,519
I never reveal my clients. Ever.

1887
01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:32,751
You just, uh, pry into their personal lives,

1888
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:34,075
google for the truth.

1889
01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:36,073
Yeah, I hear you lobbyists
ain't so good with the truth.

1890
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:37,754
Says the guy with four identities,

1891
01:23:37,880 --> 01:23:38,916
who sleeps with strangers for money?

1892
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:41,357
I'm just surprised by what
a natural bullshitter you are.

1893
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:43,512
I grew up lying, Forde.

1894
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:45,273
Didn't want to. I had to.

1895
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:47,280
That's why I excel at it.

1896
01:23:48,440 --> 01:23:50,159
It's a skill I would've happily traded

1897
01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:51,270
for a normal life.

1898
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:55,080
Normal's overrated.

1899
01:24:37,480 --> 01:24:38,470
I'm sorry.

1900
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:40,436
I'm sorry.

1901
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:44,680
But I can't.

1902
01:24:45,640 --> 01:24:46,835
What's wrong?

1903
01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:54,633
- I'm sorry.
- Forget about tonight.

1904
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:57,239
Why? I do somethin'?

1905
01:24:57,360 --> 01:24:59,033
No, it's, um...

1906
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:02,512
I'm not in the right frame of mind.

1907
01:25:04,240 --> 01:25:05,515
Here.

1908
01:25:06,320 --> 01:25:08,835
- Easiest money you ever made.
- I didn't do anything.

1909
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:12,593
Well, you showed up, I wasted your time, so, yeah.

1910
01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:14,879
You know, we could just sit and talk, and...

1911
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:16,354
Take the fucking money, Forde!

1912
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:24,195
Get out, please.

1913
01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:32,080
Suit yourself.

1914
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:49,755
Neumark.

1915
01:25:50,120 --> 01:25:51,759
- Milner.
- Two hands here, come on.

1916
01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:53,951
- Carlson...
- Wade Powell, Virginia.

1917
01:25:54,080 --> 01:25:55,070
Hackman's come over too.

1918
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,271
We've lost Milner, Neumark, Carlson, Hackman.

1919
01:25:57,400 --> 01:25:59,198
Adamou's chief of staff said
he's softening his position.

1920
01:25:59,280 --> 01:26:00,953
- Alex?
- I'll soften his fuckin'...

1921
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:02,434
Bill Sandford's on line 3.

1922
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:03,994
Closing Adamou right the fuck now.

1923
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:07,716
She takes my own idea

1924
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:08,950
and goes up against us with it.

1925
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:10,230
We did try to warn you, Bill.

1926
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:13,475
Fifteen million. From three million donors.

1927
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:14,750
In less than a quarter.

1928
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:17,111
You stop her, you stop Heaton-Harris.

1929
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:18,594
We have to make it personal now.

1930
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:19,836
She becomes the story.

1931
01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:22,117
We can use our media relationships, Bill,

1932
01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:23,430
put her on the defensive.

1933
01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:25,199
I don't just want her on the defensive.

1934
01:26:25,480 --> 01:26:27,676
I don't just want her off the campaign.

1935
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:30,794
I want her to be the reason
that people think twice

1936
01:26:30,920 --> 01:26:33,480
before taking on the guardians
of the Second Amendment.

1937
01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:36,072
I want her career.

1938
01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:40,438
Hey, Alex, it's me. I just landed.

1939
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:42,958
Philadelphia was as good as
what we could have hoped for.

1940
01:26:43,480 --> 01:26:45,711
- So how are we doing?
- That's four to go, people.

1941
01:26:47,440 --> 01:26:48,840
You're kidding me.

1942
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:52,713
Wow, that's amazing.

1943
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:53,790
All right.

1944
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:55,200
We're joined now by Esme Manucharian.

1945
01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:57,080
Esme, thanks for joining us.

1946
01:26:57,160 --> 01:26:58,958
Would you say that the gun debate is now

1947
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:00,230
largely become a women's issue?

1948
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:01,999
You need only look at the numbers

1949
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:03,759
to see that gun safety has become

1950
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:05,433
a deciding issue for American women.

1951
01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:08,033
If their representative isn't listening,

1952
01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:09,913
they'll go to the polls
and elect someone who will.

1953
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:22,115
What do you want?

1954
01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:24,069
I got 15 million to blow.

1955
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:27,159
Lauren was going through your letters.

1956
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:30,155
Between the death threats and
the hate mail, she found this.

1957
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:33,114
Pru Walsh of The Sentinel is doing

1958
01:27:33,200 --> 01:27:34,350
a feature on the lobbying industry.

1959
01:27:34,480 --> 01:27:35,550
That means you.

1960
01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:37,512
Well, if she wants to meet me,
why did she send a letter?

1961
01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:39,554
Because she doesn't really want to meet you.

1962
01:27:39,680 --> 01:27:40,909
She wants to say she reached out to you

1963
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:42,070
for an interview, but didn't hear back.

1964
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:43,990
It's a takedown.

1965
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:45,713
Well, the least we can do is disappoint her.

1966
01:27:47,360 --> 01:27:48,350
Set it up.

1967
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:50,800
I've canceled your 10:00 a.m.

1968
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:52,200
You're gonna see our in-house attorney.

1969
01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:54,429
I don't believe you two have met.

1970
01:27:56,400 --> 01:27:57,629
You know how I feel about this.

1971
01:27:57,720 --> 01:27:58,995
I was against you ever hiring her.

1972
01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:01,551
Because your job is not winning lobbying fights,

1973
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:03,599
your job is to stop us from getting...

1974
01:28:06,840 --> 01:28:08,957
Quite independently of her
being utterly contemptible.

1975
01:28:09,360 --> 01:28:10,794
What the hell were you thinking?

1976
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:12,234
You know, whatever it was,

1977
01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:14,158
I guess it seems pretty stupid now.

1978
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:17,157
Liz, meet your protection.

1979
01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:30,239
Daniel Posner, Head of Legal.

1980
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:32,272
Liz Sloane, contemptible liability.

1981
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:33,555
And amateur lip-reader.

1982
01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:37,112
Whose idea were the glass walls? Seriously?

1983
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:40,558
Two TV slots tomorrow,

1984
01:28:40,720 --> 01:28:44,077
then a radio thing, and
finally I'm done in Illinois.

1985
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:45,880
Where are you?

1986
01:28:45,960 --> 01:28:47,280
Gold Stone, waiting for them to hurry up

1987
01:28:47,360 --> 01:28:48,430
and invent the food pill.

1988
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:50,479
That may take a while.

1989
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:53,320
And plotting to ensnare our last four senators.

1990
01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:56,075
Fifty-six down, four to go.
We're actually doing... Oh!

1991
01:28:56,600 --> 01:28:58,831
- I'm sorry.
- I'm so sorry. My fault.

1992
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:04,273
- Thanks. Thank you.
- Here you go.

1993
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:06,030
Okay.

1994
01:29:08,440 --> 01:29:09,715
Sorry about that.

1995
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:11,917
Remember that first day when
I asked how do we win,

1996
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:13,759
and you said "Realistically, we don't"?

1997
01:29:14,640 --> 01:29:16,438
I stand by every word of that.

1998
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:17,830
Excuse me?

1999
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:19,799
So you're going to downplay the 15 million?

2000
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:20,910
Yeah, 'cause we can't sound like

2001
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:23,276
we're bragging about how much we're pulling in.

2002
01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:27,160
Senators link donations to voting intention,

2003
01:29:27,280 --> 01:29:28,873
we can't say anything that might stop...

2004
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:30,314
You wanna take this, bitch?

2005
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:32,950
Huh?

2006
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:35,310
Esme, you're still there?

2007
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:37,035
Come on.

2008
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:40,070
Take it.

2009
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:45,310
Esme? What the hell was that?

2010
01:29:46,120 --> 01:29:47,270
You been here before, right?

2011
01:29:48,080 --> 01:29:49,070
Esme?

2012
01:29:49,440 --> 01:29:50,715
Look at me!

2013
01:29:51,440 --> 01:29:52,590
Esme?

2014
01:29:53,120 --> 01:29:54,554
Except I'm gonna do it right this time.

2015
01:30:16,680 --> 01:30:19,229
I'm standing
at the scene of last night's shooting.

2016
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:20,800
We understand that the assailant

2017
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:23,954
was targeting a leading figure
in the gun control movement,

2018
01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:26,350
and was then shot dead by a civilian

2019
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:28,995
carrying a registered, concealed firearm.

2020
01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:32,400
The name of the vigilante
has yet to be revealed...

2021
01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:35,876
George?

2022
01:30:36,200 --> 01:30:37,520
You're watching the news?

2023
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:39,673
Yeah, whole bunch of Christmases

2024
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:41,234
just came early for Bill Sandford.

2025
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:45,158
I'm headed to the airport.
Get ready to spend some money.

2026
01:30:46,360 --> 01:30:48,272
Police have confirmed his
identity as Frank McGill.

2027
01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:52,511
McGill was a legal owner of a registered weapon.

2028
01:30:52,840 --> 01:30:54,877
Heaton-Harris wouldn't have touched him.

2029
01:30:55,480 --> 01:30:56,914
But it might have made it harder

2030
01:30:57,040 --> 01:30:58,360
for the other son of a bitch.

2031
01:30:58,480 --> 01:31:01,439
What do we know about him?
Where'd he get his piece?

2032
01:31:01,560 --> 01:31:03,597
Did he have an arsenal stashed in his basement...

2033
01:31:04,720 --> 01:31:05,870
For the Second Amendment,

2034
01:31:06,000 --> 01:31:08,196
which guaranteed her right to be protected

2035
01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:09,674
from a sick individual.

2036
01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:11,991
And most of all, for Frank McGill.

2037
01:31:12,080 --> 01:31:15,312
Model citizen, vigilant, responsible,

2038
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:16,914
and his aim is true.

2039
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:47,914
How are you doing?

2040
01:31:58,040 --> 01:31:59,269
You heading home?

2041
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:03,794
You make a round-trip from D.C.

2042
01:32:03,920 --> 01:32:05,274
to pin me in a departure lounge?

2043
01:32:06,920 --> 01:32:08,639
So you can check me off your list?

2044
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:14,590
I betrayed your confidence.
I set you down this path.

2045
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:17,600
"Don't worry, Liz, it's not your fault."

2046
01:32:17,760 --> 01:32:19,114
Is that what you wanna hear?

2047
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:21,879
"How could you possibly have known?"

2048
01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:25,000
You're not gonna get it.

2049
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:28,280
He wanted to kill me.

2050
01:32:36,480 --> 01:32:38,836
I didn't know where the line was, Esme.

2051
01:32:45,160 --> 01:32:47,959
I never, never know where the line is.

2052
01:32:57,320 --> 01:32:58,754
Obviously, take all the time you want.

2053
01:32:59,160 --> 01:33:00,196
And when you're ready,

2054
01:33:00,320 --> 01:33:01,595
we'd love to have you back on the campaign.

2055
01:33:02,880 --> 01:33:04,109
Your own terms.

2056
01:33:04,200 --> 01:33:05,429
No media, you can work behind the scenes.

2057
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:10,480
If you don't want to work with me,

2058
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:14,080
I'll resign from the campaign.

2059
01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:17,994
If that's what you want.

2060
01:33:18,720 --> 01:33:20,837
Is that your move to get me back at my desk?

2061
01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:23,760
You want me in front of a camera

2062
01:33:23,840 --> 01:33:25,160
to counter Frank McGill?

2063
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:34,356
It even crossed my mind that this was all you.

2064
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:37,229
You just didn't account

2065
01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:38,840
for an armed civilian right behind me.

2066
01:33:40,200 --> 01:33:41,156
Esme...

2067
01:33:41,240 --> 01:33:42,754
bhoie_t is a moron.

2068
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:45,354
Wherever I can make a difference.

2069
01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:50,233
But as far as possible away from you.

2070
01:33:54,360 --> 01:33:56,079
You crossed the line when you stopped

2071
01:33:56,200 --> 01:33:57,395
treating people with respect.

2072
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:00,109
You're smart enough to know that.

2073
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:03,030
You just don't care.

2074
01:34:08,880 --> 01:34:10,519
Thank you, thank you. Welcome back.

2075
01:34:11,080 --> 01:34:12,400
Our next guest this morning is

2076
01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:13,636
the kind of guy you'd want to have around

2077
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:15,552
when you're walking home from work one night

2078
01:34:15,760 --> 01:34:17,672
and some dude sticks a gun in your face.

2079
01:34:17,760 --> 01:34:18,910
After his military career,

2080
01:34:19,040 --> 01:34:20,633
McGill worked as a commercial pilot...

2081
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:22,518
Let's face it, folks, the streets ain't safe.

2082
01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:24,319
And if it wasn't for the courage, bravery,

2083
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:26,471
and damn fine aim of our next guest,

2084
01:34:27,720 --> 01:34:30,076
we'd be reflecting on yet another tragedy.

2085
01:34:30,440 --> 01:34:32,238
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome

2086
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:34,955
the man of the moment, Frank McGill.

2087
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:41,671
So, Frank McGill, all-American hero.

2088
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:43,513
Not at all. An ordinary guy

2089
01:34:43,600 --> 01:34:45,114
in the right place at the right time.

2090
01:34:45,280 --> 01:34:46,680
With a 9 milli. under his belt.

2091
01:34:47,440 --> 01:34:51,354
I'm curious. The person whose
life you saved once campaigned

2092
01:34:51,440 --> 01:34:53,671
for a ban on concealed carry.

2093
01:34:53,760 --> 01:34:55,274
How do you feel about that?

2094
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:57,437
I respectfully disagree with those views.

2095
01:34:57,560 --> 01:34:59,313
But the young lady is entitled to her opinion

2096
01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:01,313
and nobody should be attacking her for that,

2097
01:35:01,800 --> 01:35:03,154
much less holding her at gunpoint.

2098
01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:05,793
McGill's a gift from God.

2099
01:35:07,440 --> 01:35:08,954
But it won't last forever.

2100
01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:11,519
We're looking to parlay that

2101
01:35:11,640 --> 01:35:13,279
into a closer examination of Sloane.

2102
01:35:13,520 --> 01:35:15,477
I'm thinking of a Congressional hearing

2103
01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:19,071
into her unorthodox lobbying practices.

2104
01:35:20,440 --> 01:35:23,956
I'm sure we can find a senator
who may be open to the idea.

2105
01:35:24,480 --> 01:35:25,960
You want to talk trash about her in the press,

2106
01:35:26,080 --> 01:35:27,036
that's one thing.

2107
01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:28,873
A Congressional hearing requires

2108
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:31,600
a convincing allegation of impropriety.

2109
01:35:31,680 --> 01:35:34,195
I'd give my left nut to drag
her rep through the dirt,

2110
01:35:34,320 --> 01:35:35,595
but you're not gonna get it.

2111
01:35:35,680 --> 01:35:37,558
She's a CYA specialist.

2112
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:40,990
I've never met anyone so pedantic...

2113
01:35:41,120 --> 01:35:42,474
Start an inquisition.

2114
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:46,595
Let's see how well-covered her ass really is.

2115
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:50,676
Hi.

2116
01:35:52,200 --> 01:35:54,032
Pru Walsh. Thanks so much for coming over.

2117
01:35:54,280 --> 01:35:55,760
This is Mike Gordon from our legal department.

2118
01:35:56,520 --> 01:35:57,715
Daniel Posner from ours.

2119
01:35:58,040 --> 01:36:00,111
Miss Sloane, you're at the forefront

2120
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:02,396
of an industry with a terrible reputation.

2121
01:36:02,680 --> 01:36:03,830
Do you think that's deserved?

2122
01:36:05,800 --> 01:36:07,280
The only reason this bill
wasn't passed decades ago

2123
01:36:07,360 --> 01:36:08,794
is because of the power of special interests.

2124
01:36:09,240 --> 01:36:10,674
When a lobbyist raises finance...

2125
01:36:11,200 --> 01:36:12,475
We haven't heard from Esme Manucharian

2126
01:36:12,560 --> 01:36:14,916
since the attack. Are you in contact with her?

2127
01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:17,440
That's a private matter.

2128
01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:18,796
I think what's important to remember...

2129
01:36:19,160 --> 01:36:20,640
So have you talked to her at all?

2130
01:36:21,080 --> 01:36:23,356
What is important to remember
here is that Frank McGill

2131
01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:25,279
is exactly the kind of law-abiding,

2132
01:36:25,680 --> 01:36:27,080
responsible gun owner

2133
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:29,192
whose rights the Heaton-Harris Bill protects.

2134
01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:30,720
Do you feel any guilt about what happened?

2135
01:36:31,320 --> 01:36:32,515
Why would I feel guilt?

2136
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:34,917
You made Esme the face of your campaign.

2137
01:36:35,200 --> 01:36:36,600
You thrust her into the limelight

2138
01:36:36,680 --> 01:36:37,796
that night on the debate.

2139
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:39,394
- I'm not talking about this.
- You don't have to.

2140
01:36:39,560 --> 01:36:40,516
Did she know that you were going to

2141
01:36:40,600 --> 01:36:42,557
out her on national TV? Did she agree to that?

2142
01:36:42,840 --> 01:36:45,230
Why not report that the majority of gun owners

2143
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:47,119
favor more extensive background checks?

2144
01:36:47,200 --> 01:36:49,676
She probably went her entire career trying
to keep that a carefully guarded secret.

2145
01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:50,876
That the gun lobby's fear-mongering rhetoric

2146
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:52,599
is trying to paint Heaton-Harris
into something it's not.

2147
01:36:53,720 --> 01:36:57,273
Do you think that your little revelation
is what made her a target?

2148
01:36:57,400 --> 01:36:58,436
It's clear Miss Sloane

2149
01:36:58,560 --> 01:36:59,630
doesn't wish to discuss Ms. Manucharian.

2150
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:02,075
What's really clear is that
your article's already written.

2151
01:37:02,280 --> 01:37:03,316
Don't respond to that.

2152
01:37:03,400 --> 01:37:04,595
That's purely speculative on your part.

2153
01:37:05,080 --> 01:37:06,958
- Who's controlling you?
- Let's not do this.

2154
01:37:07,080 --> 01:37:10,115
Look, the fact is, you have no way of
knowing what Ms. Walsh intends to do...

2155
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:12,835
The fact is that you have no interest
in what Miss Sloane has to say.

2156
01:37:13,200 --> 01:37:15,157
- And how would you know that?
- Your Dictaphone's off.

2157
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:22,080
Takedown.

2158
01:37:22,440 --> 01:37:23,476
It could've been worse.

2159
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:25,991
I've got four factual errors so far.

2160
01:37:26,560 --> 01:37:27,789
This is not good, Liz.

2161
01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:29,400
Dump it in the recycling.

2162
01:37:29,480 --> 01:37:30,675
They'll make pencils out of it.

2163
01:37:31,240 --> 01:37:32,435
Maybe one will find its way into

2164
01:37:32,520 --> 01:37:34,273
the hands of a reporter with some integrity.

2165
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:35,750
It will go away.

2166
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:39,475
Okay, thank you.

2167
01:37:41,120 --> 01:37:42,110
Bye.

2168
01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:47,510
Funny how all these senators
are suddenly very busy.

2169
01:37:49,800 --> 01:37:51,439
We all know why that is.

2170
01:37:55,560 --> 01:37:57,074
Okay, so it's not great.

2171
01:37:58,160 --> 01:38:00,072
The 15 million helped us get this far,

2172
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:01,913
but it doesn't last long when you're fighting

2173
01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:03,229
the richest group on the Hill.

2174
01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:04,590
Let's get to the point.

2175
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:05,796
How does it shake out when it comes to the vote?

2176
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:08,994
We'd run them close. But by latest projections,

2177
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:11,791
we'll be between four to seven votes short.

2178
01:38:13,360 --> 01:38:14,840
There's nothing more we can do tonight.

2179
01:38:16,160 --> 01:38:17,389
Liz, we don't have to leave.

2180
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:19,154
The West Coast is still awake.

2181
01:38:19,480 --> 01:38:20,550
We can connect with Oregon.

2182
01:38:20,640 --> 01:38:21,994
If we close those goddamn loggers,

2183
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:23,315
we could get it to five votes tonight.

2184
01:38:23,520 --> 01:38:25,512
Go home and get some rest, guys.

2185
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:26,790
You've done enough for today.

2186
01:38:27,480 --> 01:38:29,073
I'll take to the streets and rip down those

2187
01:38:29,160 --> 01:38:31,720
fucking Frank McGill posters
one at a time if I have to.

2188
01:38:32,160 --> 01:38:33,992
Go home, sharpen your knives.

2189
01:38:34,440 --> 01:38:35,760
It'll still be on tomorrow.

2190
01:39:09,240 --> 01:39:10,640
So we keep on fighting.

2191
01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:12,874
That's all we can do.

2192
01:39:13,680 --> 01:39:15,160
As my ex-wife used to say.

2193
01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:21,400
I met you running from a fundraiser.

2194
01:39:23,200 --> 01:39:24,190
You could be done with all this.

2195
01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:27,195
Why don't you quit?

2196
01:39:31,760 --> 01:39:33,194
And do what?

2197
01:39:48,200 --> 01:39:49,520
Good night.

2198
01:40:25,120 --> 01:40:26,270
Hello?

2199
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:29,354
I'm surprised you picked up.

2200
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:33,474
I'm sorry, you have the wrong number.

2201
01:41:50,200 --> 01:41:52,760
She'd ply Congressmen with benefits,

2202
01:41:53,400 --> 01:41:56,677
free meals, tickets to events, golfing weekends.

2203
01:41:56,760 --> 01:41:59,195
All paid for by our clients, via the firm.

2204
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:00,760
Well, that right there's enough.

2205
01:42:00,840 --> 01:42:02,593
She'd make a point of invoicing them,

2206
01:42:02,720 --> 01:42:04,518
though they were never expected to pay.

2207
01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:06,838
The debt shows as an asset on our balance sheet.

2208
01:42:06,920 --> 01:42:08,798
We can call it in any time we want.

2209
01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:10,917
You were her right hand for two years.

2210
01:42:12,880 --> 01:42:15,031
There's got to be something.

2211
01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:18,954
Why's nobody on her files?

2212
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:21,316
There were a ton of us,
but the others got pulled out.

2213
01:42:21,400 --> 01:42:22,629
It's not like we're in danger of finding anything.

2214
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:24,355
Well, how far d'you get?

2215
01:42:24,440 --> 01:42:25,999
We worked backwards from her last deal

2216
01:42:26,080 --> 01:42:27,230
before she jumped ship.

2217
01:42:27,320 --> 01:42:28,470
They said it'd be better if we can

2218
01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:29,676
nail her on something recent.

2219
01:42:29,760 --> 01:42:31,956
- Which was?
- Shmallow Cakes.

2220
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:33,116
Some tax thing.

2221
01:42:33,200 --> 01:42:35,112
She left halfway through.

2222
01:42:35,200 --> 01:42:36,793
I thought it was the palm oil thing.

2223
01:42:36,920 --> 01:42:37,956
Palm oil?

2224
01:42:38,040 --> 01:42:39,269
Nutella Tax.

2225
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:41,830
Hold on.

2226
01:42:43,120 --> 01:42:44,839
The Indonesians?

2227
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:46,400
I don't remember seeing that.

2228
01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:55,395
What are you looking for?

2229
01:42:59,200 --> 01:43:00,429
Mr. Dupont,

2230
01:43:01,120 --> 01:43:02,759
she's in breach of Senate Ethics rules.

2231
01:43:03,480 --> 01:43:04,550
We can prove it.

2232
01:43:24,480 --> 01:43:27,120
Things not looking so good
for you this cycle, Ron.

2233
01:43:29,480 --> 01:43:32,439
You ask me, you're gonna need
a lot more paid media.

2234
01:43:32,960 --> 01:43:33,996
I didn't ask you.

2235
01:43:34,080 --> 01:43:38,950
Now, who might just be able to
fund those coveted TV spots?

2236
01:43:39,320 --> 01:43:41,039
I'm committed to Heaton-Harris,

2237
01:43:41,280 --> 01:43:42,999
I can't vote for it with one hand

2238
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:44,880
and choke it with the other.

2239
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:46,952
Under cover of impartiality, sure you can.

2240
01:43:47,520 --> 01:43:50,513
You've been a vocal critic
of lobbyists in the past.

2241
01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:53,554
You'll lead an inquiry into Sloane's affairs

2242
01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:55,916
in response to growing media pressure

2243
01:43:56,160 --> 01:43:58,311
regarding her litany of misdeeds.

2244
01:43:58,920 --> 01:44:03,312
The cost of hearings
is paid from the public purse.

2245
01:44:04,080 --> 01:44:06,390
Ron, our clients have identified you

2246
01:44:06,480 --> 01:44:08,597
as the man to pull this off.

2247
01:44:08,720 --> 01:44:09,756
If you decline,

2248
01:44:09,840 --> 01:44:11,274
I can't stop them from

2249
01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:13,716
blitzing you with negative finance.

2250
01:44:14,480 --> 01:44:17,632
They won't stop until they annihilate you.

2251
01:44:19,040 --> 01:44:21,600
You know the root of the word "annihilate"?

2252
01:44:22,680 --> 01:44:23,796
It's Latin.

2253
01:44:25,320 --> 01:44:27,471
It means, "reduce to nothing."

2254
01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:31,471
That's what they're going to do to you, Ron.

2255
01:44:31,560 --> 01:44:34,632
So, what? I'll be taking
a wedge from Bill Sandford

2256
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:36,749
and leading the attack

2257
01:44:36,840 --> 01:44:39,071
on Heaton-Harris' most visible advocate?

2258
01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:41,277
A 6th grader could connect the dots.

2259
01:44:41,360 --> 01:44:44,910
We can create a structure to obfuscate the source.

2260
01:44:45,400 --> 01:44:46,959
Your big wedge will arrive

2261
01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:50,078
courtesy of eight to 12 smaller entities

2262
01:44:50,160 --> 01:44:52,117
with no affiliation to guns.

2263
01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:57,000
How big a wedge we talking?

2264
01:44:59,880 --> 01:45:01,234
Big enough

2265
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:03,594
to be the difference between

2266
01:45:03,680 --> 01:45:05,399
the continuation of your duties

2267
01:45:05,480 --> 01:45:07,153
as a United States Senator

2268
01:45:07,840 --> 01:45:10,355
and the reduction of your career to nothing.

2269
01:45:26,280 --> 01:45:27,475
This is every hit since

2270
01:45:27,560 --> 01:45:29,916
the original Pru Walsh hack-job two weeks ago.

2271
01:45:30,880 --> 01:45:32,280
My personal favorite is the one

2272
01:45:32,360 --> 01:45:33,430
about how you toppled

2273
01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:34,840
the head of the High School Student Council

2274
01:45:34,920 --> 01:45:36,832
with a fabricated plagiarism scandal.

2275
01:45:37,640 --> 01:45:39,279
I'm assuming that's not libelous

2276
01:45:39,360 --> 01:45:40,794
'cause I can totally see it.

2277
01:45:41,160 --> 01:45:42,719
That witch was insufferable.

2278
01:45:43,760 --> 01:45:44,955
I'm taking you off the campaign.

2279
01:45:45,600 --> 01:45:46,590
What?

2280
01:45:47,680 --> 01:45:49,034
Not you, her.

2281
01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:51,236
I'll be outside.

2282
01:45:52,760 --> 01:45:54,194
What are you talking about?

2283
01:45:54,280 --> 01:45:55,475
Heaton-Harris gets colder

2284
01:45:55,560 --> 01:45:56,914
every day you're associated with it.

2285
01:45:57,960 --> 01:45:59,110
Sperling's got the hots for you.

2286
01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:01,479
I haven't even met him, this is a setup.

2287
01:46:02,000 --> 01:46:03,320
If they're orchestrating it,

2288
01:46:03,400 --> 01:46:05,073
it's because they want me off the campaign.

2289
01:46:07,280 --> 01:46:08,760
Right now, you're lawyering up for a hearing.

2290
01:46:13,720 --> 01:46:15,074
Regarding your representation

2291
01:46:15,160 --> 01:46:16,355
of the Indonesian government.

2292
01:46:16,440 --> 01:46:17,715
Dan, are you busy?

2293
01:46:17,800 --> 01:46:18,836
Senator Allen Jacobs,

2294
01:46:19,360 --> 01:46:22,637
the sponsor of the bill
you dubbed the Nutella Tax,

2295
01:46:24,920 --> 01:46:26,991
was flown to Indonesia
first-class with his family,

2296
01:46:27,200 --> 01:46:29,431
and put up at a 5-star hotel.

2297
01:46:30,160 --> 01:46:34,120
Our audit puts the cost
of this trip at over $30,000.

2298
01:46:34,480 --> 01:46:36,153
Shortly after his return,

2299
01:46:36,240 --> 01:46:38,914
the bill was pulled from consideration.

2300
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:42,797
Now, why do you suppose this happened?

2301
01:46:42,880 --> 01:46:45,679
I understand the trip was
for educational purposes.

2302
01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:48,355
I can surmise that he learned how his bill

2303
01:46:48,440 --> 01:46:49,954
would have strangled a key industry,

2304
01:46:50,040 --> 01:46:51,554
and confined thousands

2305
01:46:51,640 --> 01:46:54,280
of impoverished farmers to destitution.

2306
01:46:54,360 --> 01:46:56,079
From his private beach?

2307
01:46:57,160 --> 01:47:00,471
No. The truth is, your client funded this trip

2308
01:47:00,600 --> 01:47:03,798
as an inducement for the
senator to withdraw his bill.

2309
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:05,514
- Isn't that right?
- Not at all.

2310
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:07,319
My client was the Indonesian Government.

2311
01:47:07,440 --> 01:47:08,635
The trip was sponsored

2312
01:47:08,720 --> 01:47:10,393
by the Institute of Environmental Studies,

2313
01:47:10,480 --> 01:47:13,552
a 501 C-3 non-profit organization.

2314
01:47:13,640 --> 01:47:14,756
Travel was pre-approved

2315
01:47:14,840 --> 01:47:16,672
by the Senate Ethics Committee.

2316
01:47:16,760 --> 01:47:19,559
Has your client ever donated to this non-profit?

2317
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:21,229
I wouldn't know that.

2318
01:47:21,320 --> 01:47:22,959
I'm not privy to their list of donors.

2319
01:47:23,080 --> 01:47:26,073
Nor had I any role in arranging funding for this.

2320
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:28,314
- No role?
- Mmm.

2321
01:47:29,040 --> 01:47:31,350
Of course, you couldn't have any role

2322
01:47:31,920 --> 01:47:34,913
because the Senate Ethics rules prevent lobbyists

2323
01:47:35,240 --> 01:47:38,074
from arranging overseas travel
for members of Congress.

2324
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:39,389
Indeed.

2325
01:47:43,040 --> 01:47:44,269
Do you know what this is?

2326
01:47:46,400 --> 01:47:47,595
Perhaps we can get you a copy.

2327
01:47:55,560 --> 01:47:56,880
Are you familiar with that form?

2328
01:47:58,320 --> 01:48:00,198
Yes. It's a Private Sponsor Certification Form.

2329
01:48:00,280 --> 01:48:01,919
It's a copy of the same

2330
01:48:02,000 --> 01:48:03,719
Private Sponsor Certification Form

2331
01:48:03,800 --> 01:48:06,076
that was submitted to the Senate Ethics Committee

2332
01:48:06,160 --> 01:48:08,880
to pre-authorize Senator Jacobs' travel

2333
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:10,150
to Indonesia.

2334
01:48:10,680 --> 01:48:13,275
Look at the handwriting on that form, Miss Sloane.

2335
01:48:15,160 --> 01:48:16,879
Do you recognize that handwriting?

2336
01:48:17,720 --> 01:48:18,756
Yes, I do.

2337
01:48:18,840 --> 01:48:20,069
Is it your handwriting?

2338
01:48:23,120 --> 01:48:24,270
It is.

2339
01:48:26,440 --> 01:48:28,079
Well, it seems we have a problem.

2340
01:48:28,840 --> 01:48:30,957
Even though the form was signed

2341
01:48:31,040 --> 01:48:32,190
and filed by the non-profit,

2342
01:48:32,280 --> 01:48:33,999
you were the one who filled it out.

2343
01:48:34,560 --> 01:48:36,199
This is prima facie evidence

2344
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:38,312
that you were involved in arranging

2345
01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:40,392
overseas travel for a member of Congress.

2346
01:48:41,160 --> 01:48:44,995
Constituting a clear breach
of Senate Ethics rules.

2347
01:48:45,240 --> 01:48:46,640
Is that your trump card?

2348
01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:49,475
You drag me in here,

2349
01:48:49,560 --> 01:48:51,711
wedge an endoscope up my posterior,

2350
01:48:52,040 --> 01:48:54,555
and all this time, the only incriminating item

2351
01:48:54,640 --> 01:48:57,280
you have in your possession is a filing snafu?

2352
01:48:57,360 --> 01:48:59,238
How about surveillance, Miss Sloane?

2353
01:48:59,440 --> 01:49:02,558
Mr. Rodolfo Schmidt has stated in deposition

2354
01:49:03,040 --> 01:49:05,236
that you intended to use methods

2355
01:49:05,320 --> 01:49:07,039
such as bugging and tapping

2356
01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:10,352
to entrap Senator Hank Badgley. Is this true?

2357
01:49:10,480 --> 01:49:13,871
I did, for a brief moment,
intend to use such methods.

2358
01:49:13,960 --> 01:49:15,997
But that intention was never acted upon.

2359
01:49:16,080 --> 01:49:17,230
And why was that?

2360
01:49:17,360 --> 01:49:19,272
Mr. Schmidt expressly forbade it,

2361
01:49:19,360 --> 01:49:21,317
as he no doubt told you in his deposition.

2362
01:49:21,400 --> 01:49:22,470
But you were clearly comfortable

2363
01:49:22,560 --> 01:49:23,596
with these methods.

2364
01:49:24,040 --> 01:49:27,317
Did you employ the tactics of espionage

2365
01:49:27,400 --> 01:49:29,596
regularly throughout your lobbying career?

2366
01:49:29,680 --> 01:49:30,955
No, I did not.

2367
01:49:31,040 --> 01:49:32,076
Then let me ask you this.

2368
01:49:32,160 --> 01:49:34,072
Have you ever authorized, ordered,

2369
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:35,753
or otherwise brought about

2370
01:49:35,880 --> 01:49:38,918
any kind of unlawful surveillance on any person?

2371
01:49:39,960 --> 01:49:41,952
Let me remind you that perjury

2372
01:49:42,040 --> 01:49:43,759
before Congress is a felony, which...

2373
01:49:43,840 --> 01:49:44,876
The answer is no.

2374
01:49:46,400 --> 01:49:49,598
I have never authorized illegal surveillance.

2375
01:49:53,160 --> 01:49:55,152
This concludes my questioning of the witness.

2376
01:49:55,240 --> 01:49:56,560
Thank you, Miss Sloane.

2377
01:50:05,720 --> 01:50:07,200
We have one further witness.

2378
01:50:08,920 --> 01:50:10,752
Either you just perjured yourself,

2379
01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:12,672
or you're not so sleazy after all.

2380
01:50:13,440 --> 01:50:14,794
The Committee calls Mr. Robert Forde.

2381
01:50:16,120 --> 01:50:17,440
I wouldn't count on that.

2382
01:50:19,400 --> 01:50:20,629
Mr. Chairman, I don't recall

2383
01:50:20,720 --> 01:50:22,154
being notified of your intention to...

2384
01:50:22,240 --> 01:50:23,276
We were only recently

2385
01:50:23,360 --> 01:50:24,396
able to locate the witness, Mr. Posner.

2386
01:50:24,720 --> 01:50:25,756
Let it play.

2387
01:50:26,520 --> 01:50:28,193
A moment with my client, please?

2388
01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:30,872
What is this? Who's Robert Forde?

2389
01:50:32,160 --> 01:50:33,640
Look, I can make a public appeal...

2390
01:50:33,720 --> 01:50:34,756
Let it play, damn it.

2391
01:50:34,840 --> 01:50:36,194
They're going to get it
out there one way or another.

2392
01:50:50,440 --> 01:50:52,716
Mr. Forde, please raise your right hand.

2393
01:50:54,040 --> 01:50:56,077
Do you solemnly swear
that you will tell the truth,

2394
01:50:56,160 --> 01:50:58,072
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,

2395
01:50:58,440 --> 01:51:00,193
under pains and penalties of perjury?

2396
01:51:00,520 --> 01:51:02,079
- I swear.
- Please sit.

2397
01:51:07,880 --> 01:51:10,315
Mr. Forde, could you please describe

2398
01:51:10,400 --> 01:51:11,993
the nature of your work?

2399
01:51:14,480 --> 01:51:15,880
I got many jobs.

2400
01:51:18,040 --> 01:51:21,078
What would you say earns you
the most income at present?

2401
01:51:22,920 --> 01:51:23,910
I work as an escort in D.C.

2402
01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:31,433
You sleep with women for money?

2403
01:51:32,080 --> 01:51:33,480
I meet the clients' needs.

2404
01:51:34,480 --> 01:51:35,675
Whatever they may be.

2405
01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:39,360
Sometimes, the client don't
even know what they need.

2406
01:51:40,240 --> 01:51:42,072
Part of my job's to figure that out.

2407
01:51:42,160 --> 01:51:43,799
But, sometimes, your job entails

2408
01:51:44,440 --> 01:51:46,238
having intercourse for payment?

2409
01:51:47,920 --> 01:51:49,195
Yes, sir.

2410
01:51:49,920 --> 01:51:52,037
Have you ever met Elizabeth Sloane?

2411
01:51:52,120 --> 01:51:53,600
Mr. Chairman, the Senate has no business

2412
01:51:53,680 --> 01:51:55,558
prying into the personal affairs of Miss Sloane.

2413
01:51:55,640 --> 01:51:56,960
Solicitation is a criminal offense.

2414
01:51:57,040 --> 01:51:59,396
It's well within the remit of this hearing

2415
01:51:59,480 --> 01:52:00,800
to establish whether Miss Sloane

2416
01:52:00,880 --> 01:52:01,950
has broken any laws.

2417
01:52:02,800 --> 01:52:03,836
Mr. Forde.

2418
01:52:04,440 --> 01:52:06,716
Have you ever met Miss Sloane?

2419
01:52:08,360 --> 01:52:09,396
Yep.

2420
01:52:09,840 --> 01:52:11,399
Could you identify her, please?

2421
01:52:13,720 --> 01:52:14,870
Sittin' right there.

2422
01:52:15,640 --> 01:52:18,030
What was the nature of your relationship?

2423
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:23,151
I was attendin' a function with a client.

2424
01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:25,878
I tried to introduce myself,
but she bucked me off.

2425
01:52:28,480 --> 01:52:29,834
Mr. Forde, have you ever

2426
01:52:29,920 --> 01:52:31,115
entertained Miss Sloane as a client?

2427
01:52:36,440 --> 01:52:37,510
No, sir.

2428
01:52:39,280 --> 01:52:41,158
I can produce sworn statements

2429
01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:43,675
from two employees of the Carver Hotel,

2430
01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:46,673
to the effect that they saw
Miss Sloane in the lobby

2431
01:52:47,120 --> 01:52:48,918
on the same day that you, Mr. Forde,

2432
01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:50,514
held a reservation there.

2433
01:52:50,960 --> 01:52:52,030
I ask again.

2434
01:52:52,160 --> 01:52:56,074
Did you entertain Miss Sloane
in any capacity, for profit?

2435
01:52:56,280 --> 01:52:57,509
No, sir. I did not.

2436
01:53:01,080 --> 01:53:02,753
Thank you, Mr. Forde.

2437
01:53:03,560 --> 01:53:04,880
You're dismissed.

2438
01:53:10,480 --> 01:53:12,278
These proceedings will conclude tomorrow,

2439
01:53:13,280 --> 01:53:16,956
when Miss Sloane is referred
to the Senate Ethics Committee

2440
01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:18,440
for their judgment.

2441
01:53:29,040 --> 01:53:31,316
I can't believe those fuckers dragged that guy...

2442
01:53:31,400 --> 01:53:32,550
Ross?

2443
01:53:36,440 --> 01:53:37,760
How's our old friend Heaton-Harris?

2444
01:53:40,440 --> 01:53:42,830
Comatose. The whole issue's gone cold.

2445
01:53:44,800 --> 01:53:46,314
That is what they wanted.

2446
01:53:47,600 --> 01:53:49,353
We all know what it would take to revive it.

2447
01:53:50,760 --> 01:53:52,911
Seriously, an earthquake.

2448
01:53:55,400 --> 01:53:57,232
We got closer than we had any right to.

2449
01:54:06,120 --> 01:54:07,600
We'll all be there tomorrow.

2450
01:54:41,880 --> 01:54:43,280
Excuse me, Miss Sloane, over here.

2451
01:54:43,360 --> 01:54:44,476
May I have a comment?

2452
01:55:02,640 --> 01:55:03,710
Good morning.

2453
01:55:09,920 --> 01:55:12,310
Before referring the witness's testimony

2454
01:55:12,400 --> 01:55:14,437
to the Office of Congressional Ethics,

2455
01:55:14,520 --> 01:55:16,159
she is entitled to make a statement.

2456
01:55:19,160 --> 01:55:22,437
Miss Sloane, is there something you'd like to say?

2457
01:55:35,680 --> 01:55:37,876
Mr. Chairman, my client does
not wish to make a statement.

2458
01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:40,876
Very well.

2459
01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:42,474
I will now read the referral

2460
01:55:42,560 --> 01:55:44,313
to the office of Congressional Ethics...

2461
01:55:44,400 --> 01:55:46,198
There is something I'd like to say, Senator.

2462
01:56:15,720 --> 01:56:18,554
I have been censured by
the press and by this hearing

2463
01:56:19,400 --> 01:56:20,800
as a parasite

2464
01:56:21,760 --> 01:56:23,399
on American democracy.

2465
01:56:24,640 --> 01:56:27,200
It's insinuated that I led the fight

2466
01:56:28,240 --> 01:56:32,439
for increased gun regulation
in the interest of my career.

2467
01:56:35,080 --> 01:56:37,197
Sometimes we act, not for ourselves,

2468
01:56:39,600 --> 01:56:41,956
but because we believe plainly and simply

2469
01:56:42,080 --> 01:56:43,434
it is the right thing to do.

2470
01:56:43,600 --> 01:56:46,069
Miss Sloane, is this pertinent
to the discussions we...

2471
01:56:46,160 --> 01:56:49,278
I understand I have the right
to say what I wish, Senator.

2472
01:56:50,440 --> 01:56:51,430
Proceed.

2473
01:56:53,600 --> 01:56:55,193
I believe the Heaton-Harris Bill

2474
01:56:55,320 --> 01:56:56,595
is the right thing to do.

2475
01:56:59,600 --> 01:57:00,875
But I also recognize

2476
01:57:01,440 --> 01:57:05,480
that this wasn't what motivated me.

2477
01:57:08,160 --> 01:57:10,516
When I was offered a position on the campaign,

2478
01:57:10,600 --> 01:57:12,592
I was in thrall to the challenge.

2479
01:57:15,040 --> 01:57:19,831
My decision to accept
was based on my desire to win.

2480
01:57:23,640 --> 01:57:25,632
And to win bigger than I ever had before.

2481
01:57:29,880 --> 01:57:32,759
It's clear that my behavior has fallen well short

2482
01:57:34,320 --> 01:57:37,472
of acceptable ethical standards.

2483
01:57:39,320 --> 01:57:43,360
I've crossed lines with devastating consequences

2484
01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:46,392
in the service of my obsession.

2485
01:57:48,840 --> 01:57:50,911
I've betrayed the people closest to me.

2486
01:57:54,360 --> 01:57:55,874
I've endangered lives.

2487
01:57:58,920 --> 01:58:00,513
I deserve censure for this

2488
01:58:01,560 --> 01:58:04,678
far more than for any filing irregularity.

2489
01:58:07,720 --> 01:58:10,155
When they consider the Heaton-Harris Bill, I wish

2490
01:58:11,520 --> 01:58:13,193
that each member of Congress

2491
01:58:13,320 --> 01:58:15,596
would follow the example set, not by me,

2492
01:58:17,040 --> 01:58:19,874
but by the group of people that sit behind me.

2493
01:58:21,720 --> 01:58:24,076
Who have made great sacrifices

2494
01:58:24,680 --> 01:58:28,196
in the name of doing what they believe is right.

2495
01:58:29,680 --> 01:58:33,959
I wish that those members would use their votes,

2496
01:58:34,040 --> 01:58:37,954
not in the interest of
their political advancement,

2497
01:58:38,760 --> 01:58:43,198
but for what they believe
is right for their country.

2498
01:58:45,400 --> 01:58:46,959
But I know my wishes are wasted.

2499
01:58:48,440 --> 01:58:50,113
And that this will never happen.

2500
01:58:51,400 --> 01:58:54,871
Because our system is rotten.

2501
01:58:57,400 --> 01:58:59,676
It doesn't reward honest politicians,

2502
01:58:59,760 --> 01:59:01,035
who vote with their conscience.

2503
01:59:02,880 --> 01:59:04,234
It rewards

2504
01:59:05,320 --> 01:59:06,470
rats

2505
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:09,358
who are willing to sell out their country

2506
01:59:09,440 --> 01:59:10,715
to keep their noses in the trough.

2507
01:59:12,720 --> 01:59:14,279
Make no mistake.

2508
01:59:15,240 --> 01:59:18,358
These rats are the real parasites

2509
01:59:19,400 --> 01:59:20,993
on American democracy.

2510
01:59:34,240 --> 01:59:36,914
I anticipated if we had sufficient success

2511
01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:38,992
in lobbying for the Heaton-Harris Bill,

2512
01:59:39,080 --> 01:59:40,480
there may be

2513
01:59:41,680 --> 01:59:43,592
an assault against me personally,

2514
01:59:45,280 --> 01:59:49,513
to stall our momentum
and to damage our credibility.

2515
01:59:52,760 --> 01:59:54,274
Lobbying is about foresight.

2516
01:59:56,120 --> 01:59:58,112
About anticipating your opponent's moves

2517
02:00:00,280 --> 02:00:01,509
and devising counter-measures.

2518
02:00:02,320 --> 02:00:03,834
I'd like to discuss my future.

2519
02:00:04,800 --> 02:00:06,473
This is hardly the time, cookie.

2520
02:00:07,280 --> 02:00:10,637
The winner plots one step ahead of the opposition,

2521
02:00:12,120 --> 02:00:15,830
and plays a trump card
just after they play theirs.

2522
02:00:16,720 --> 02:00:18,074
Actually, it is the time.

2523
02:00:18,960 --> 02:00:20,155
It's about making sure

2524
02:00:20,280 --> 02:00:21,509
you surprise them.

2525
02:00:22,640 --> 02:00:24,040
The fuck is this?

2526
02:00:24,800 --> 02:00:26,200
And that they don't surprise you.

2527
02:00:27,000 --> 02:00:28,400
My resignation.

2528
02:00:28,960 --> 02:00:30,633
Academia's more my scene.

2529
02:00:35,640 --> 02:00:38,633
When I left Cole, Kravitz, and Waterman,

2530
02:00:39,840 --> 02:00:43,197
I retained an operative of mine in their ranks.

2531
02:00:44,880 --> 02:00:46,234
All right, Jane.

2532
02:00:46,320 --> 02:00:47,549
Contact Rodolfo Schmidt and tell him

2533
02:00:47,640 --> 02:00:48,960
there is a total of six coming over.

2534
02:00:49,040 --> 02:00:50,076
Who says I'm coming?

2535
02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:52,229
A plan was hatched to

2536
02:00:52,320 --> 02:00:53,470
bankroll a trumped-up hearing

2537
02:00:54,040 --> 02:00:55,838
at the behest of the gun lobby.

2538
02:00:55,920 --> 02:00:57,434
There's got to be something.

2539
02:00:59,360 --> 02:01:00,476
I'm surprised you picked up.

2540
02:01:00,600 --> 02:01:01,875
I'm sorry, you have the wrong number.

2541
02:01:03,760 --> 02:01:05,114
She's in breach of Senate Ethics rules.

2542
02:01:06,360 --> 02:01:07,510
We can prove it.

2543
02:01:08,200 --> 02:01:10,351
I placed George Dupont under surveillance

2544
02:01:11,560 --> 02:01:13,358
until he met with a member of Congress

2545
02:01:13,880 --> 02:01:15,951
who exhibited sufficient moral bankruptcy

2546
02:01:16,360 --> 02:01:18,716
to collude with such a plan.

2547
02:01:18,840 --> 02:01:20,035
And go.

2548
02:01:23,760 --> 02:01:25,558
That member was

2549
02:01:25,680 --> 02:01:28,036
Senator Ronald Michael Sperling.

2550
02:01:30,240 --> 02:01:31,276
Order.

2551
02:01:31,360 --> 02:01:33,352
This is not a platform you can use

2552
02:01:33,440 --> 02:01:35,159
to make malicious, defamatory accusations...

2553
02:01:35,240 --> 02:01:36,515
Input the following address into your browser.

2554
02:01:39,400 --> 02:01:42,871
193-dot-184

2555
02:01:43,640 --> 02:01:48,874
dot-216-dot-449.

2556
02:01:49,400 --> 02:01:52,757
Download a file named "Earthquake."

2557
02:01:54,560 --> 02:01:56,517
I can't vote for it with one hand

2558
02:01:56,600 --> 02:01:58,239
and choke it with the other...

2559
02:02:07,440 --> 02:02:08,635
Get the car.

2560
02:02:18,280 --> 02:02:20,749
In light of these allegations,
this hearing is adjourned.

2561
02:02:29,440 --> 02:02:30,840
Back up, please. Back up. Back up.

2562
02:04:07,880 --> 02:04:09,280
I'm surprised you showed.

2563
02:04:10,080 --> 02:04:11,116
I hear I'm not the only one

2564
02:04:11,200 --> 02:04:12,520
whose visits you've been refusing.

2565
02:04:15,360 --> 02:04:16,874
You look good.

2566
02:04:17,720 --> 02:04:19,712
Prison's not so bad if you don't have a penis.

2567
02:04:20,200 --> 02:04:22,510
We don't shank each other,
we form self-help groups.

2568
02:04:24,040 --> 02:04:25,235
There's a black market in lip gloss.

2569
02:04:25,720 --> 02:04:26,710
Hmm.

2570
02:04:27,960 --> 02:04:29,030
Why this time?

2571
02:04:31,440 --> 02:04:32,874
They told me it was business.

2572
02:04:33,440 --> 02:04:34,715
Yeah. Um...

2573
02:04:35,560 --> 02:04:36,755
Now that the Sperling and Dupont hearings

2574
02:04:36,880 --> 02:04:37,950
are on the schedule,

2575
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:39,520
I'm petitioning for an early release.

2576
02:04:40,280 --> 02:04:41,555
You look good, too, by the way.

2577
02:04:42,040 --> 02:04:43,394
Thank you.

2578
02:04:44,720 --> 02:04:48,236
I think we are looking at four, maybe six months.

2579
02:04:53,600 --> 02:04:55,114
You instigated the whole thing.

2580
02:04:58,280 --> 02:04:59,794
You weaponized yourself,

2581
02:05:01,120 --> 02:05:02,679
brought the roof of the US Capitol

2582
02:05:02,760 --> 02:05:04,080
crashing down on your head.

2583
02:05:05,000 --> 02:05:07,151
For what, a gun bill?

2584
02:05:09,160 --> 02:05:11,470
- Worked, didn't it?
- Well, congrats.

2585
02:05:12,440 --> 02:05:13,840
Criminals must now endure the hassle

2586
02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:15,673
of procuring their guns on the black market.

2587
02:05:17,520 --> 02:05:19,159
Was that really worth your career?

2588
02:05:21,680 --> 02:05:23,273
Career suicide is not so bad when you

2589
02:05:23,440 --> 02:05:26,000
consider the alternative is suicide by career.

2590
02:05:27,920 --> 02:05:29,115
My doctor would tell you

2591
02:05:29,640 --> 02:05:31,438
I've served my interest very well.

2592
02:05:34,200 --> 02:05:35,190
Hmm.

2593
02:05:38,160 --> 02:05:39,435
Thanks for coming, Daniel.

2594
02:05:42,160 --> 02:05:43,389
I'm curious.

2595
02:05:46,120 --> 02:05:47,554
Your little filing snafu?

2596
02:05:49,440 --> 02:05:50,794
You filled out that form deliberately.

2597
02:05:51,000 --> 02:05:52,275
That was you, throwing them a bone.

2598
02:05:53,680 --> 02:05:55,512
Without it, they would have
nothing to incite the hearing.

2599
02:05:57,160 --> 02:05:59,117
And you're under no obligation to answer that.

2600
02:06:05,360 --> 02:06:06,840
And you neglected to mention this

2601
02:06:06,960 --> 02:06:08,110
to any of your team because...

2602
02:06:08,200 --> 02:06:09,316
Five years minimum.

2603
02:06:16,240 --> 02:06:17,435
I'll be seeing you.