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Do you get that you have MS?
We're firming up strategy on the future
of this presidency, and we don't know
if this President is interested in the future.
What am I supposed to tell my news director?
That we need 30 minutes Wednesday night.
Order the Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor.
LEO: Well, how many are they estimating?
They've got two Bradleys with 120-millimeter cannons
and a couple of artillery tubes.
What do we have?
37 Marines with M-14s.
There was an accident at 18th and Potomac.
Mrs. Landingham was driving her car back here.
Is she all right?
No.
She's dead.
Most of us are just hearing the news now.
WADE: From a conference call.
LEO: Yes.
There hasn't been a lot of time to digest this.
but what we do know is it's the House Democrats
who are going to take it in the throat.
Yeah.
You might be able to get the voters
to accept MS in some of the suburban districts
but the whole House is up for reelection.
Yeah.
It's not a matter of accepting M...
There was a cover...
The point is
even if you can squeeze out an electoral...
Even if you can squeeze out a win
this is what the campaign's going to be about.
You're going to have Democrats
telling the President
"Don't come to my district, I got troubles enough"
and your campaign never gets out
of the Rose Garden.
Yes, and we're running without a standard-bearer.
At a time when we've got policy cases against the Republicans
on tax cuts, environment, education
and this is what the campaign's going to be about.
Now, Leo, most of us are just hearing the news
and I don't like being the first one
to say it, but I'm going to.
I think the President has got to strongly consider
not running for reelection.
You think you're the first one to say it?
Leo...
You are, at minimum
the 35th in the last two hours.
Well, we're the ones that are talking to you now
and we're the ones that are asking.
Is the President going to run for reelection?
Harry, Bill, there's going to be a press conference tonight.
I'd watch.
TOBY: He'll sit here
with the First Lady on his right.
LARRY: You don't want him in front of the fireplace?
The fireplace is too much.
He'll sit here, which means
they're going to have to light the room
from outside the window.
Do they know that?
We'll let them know.
Last time they didn't know.
The President taped an Easter message
that looked like it was lit by Ed Wood.
Toby...
A pitcher of water, but keep it offscreen.
They know.
They got to light from outside the window.
Look... I don't care.
Look, Toby, has anyone considered
whether or not he's up for this?
Up for this?
I mean, some stuff has happened since...
C.J. gave it to the network.
We're pretty much locked in, so...
When are we prepping with him?
After the service.
There's going to be time?
We'll have the afternoon.
I think we should consider taking...
There aren't any options left.
We're going on TV at 8:00!
GINGER: Toby?
Yeah.
I'm sorry, but I had to put Greg Summerhays
back on your schedule.
No, I took him off.
Leo's office had me put him back on.
Why?
They want you to keep the appointment.
We've got her funeral today.
We've got these...
I said 4:00.
Yeah, all right.
Carol?
Yeah?
AP, Reuters, Agence France.
Something about seating on Air Force One.
Seating arrangements?
Seating arrangements on Air Force One.
JOSH: C.J.?
Listen, I was thinking
since it's probably going to be a light day
I'd maybe blow off work, go shopping or something.
What do you need?
Uh, can I give you a quick brief?
Sure.
The Justice Department's run out of money in their suit
against the tobacco companies.
Justice Department's overmatched.
Yeah, by hundreds of millions of dollars.
They're asking for $30 million, and we think
they should have it.
Who disagrees with this?
Eight of the 15 members of the subcommittee
that controls the budgets for Justice and Commerce
including Kalmbach, who has significant ties to tobacco
and Warren and Rossitter
who do not.
We lost two Democrats?
They have ideological objections.
Yeah, it's just not a good time
to be losing Democrats.
You haven't been in my office
this morning.
We'll get them back.
Anyway, uh
Leo felt pretty strongly
that we should light a fire under it
so I wrote up a pretty strongly-worded release.
"The White House... For Immediate Release...
"Office of the Press...
"Today, the President calls on Congress...
"...deserve their day in court
"and this administration won't sit on the bench
"while well-fed members of the Appropriations Committee
"choke off funding for a lawsuit
"aimed at perpetrators of hundreds of thousands
"of negligent homicides
while filling their campaign war chests."
This is like the fire we used to throw
in the early primaries.
Let Bartlet be Bartlet.
You got to put it away for awhile.
You think?
I'm going in there now to tell them
a landing ship helicopter assault team
is steaming off Port-au-Prince, and after that
I'm bringing in AP, Reuters and Agence France.
Nobody's going to write about an appropriations bill.
Haiti is going to get bumped
to the Lifestyle Section.
Yeah, I suppose.
Listen...
...have you seen him today?
No. Have you?
No.
All right, listen, I got to...
Yeah. Thanks.
HANSON: Why are we assuming it's Hoynes?
PHILLIPS: Please.
No, why are we assuming it's got to be Hoynes?
You don't think Wedland's going to get into it?
Hutchinson? Seth Gillette?
Please.
Gillette's lucky if he carries his immediate family.
It's Hoynes, it's Hoynes.
Sam, you understand this conversation
isn't ruling out Bartlet as a candidate.
It's a just what-if.
We're party strategists. It's what we're paid for.
Yeah.
Hoynes is the only one
who put together the money this fast.
PHILLIPS: He's the most successful fund-raiser
the party's ever had.
Though obviously, it'd be easier
if Hoynes was running as an incumbent.
Sam...
Okay.
Thanks.
No, it was an inappropriate...
No, when I say okay, that's it.
Close your notebooks.
You don't talk like that here.
I don't give a damn whose nephew you are.
Tony, President Bartlet's not a candidate.
He's the President.
LEO: What are the conditions inside the embassy?
They've still got running water
but the power's been cut.
The emergency generator's got about 24 hours.
Any injuries?
There aren't any injuries
but the Deputy Chief's a diabetic
and he's running out of insulin.
The Red Cross can help us out there?
Yes, sir.
What's outside?
NANCY: About 1200 troops now with A-15s
positioned outside the gates.
They've got four 105mm howitzers...
Which are trained at...?
Our front door.
Mr. President
we want to send Fitzwallace down there.
Why?
There's a Haitian general named Francis St. Jacques.
He trained with Fitz at Annapolis and...
( bell chiming )
( murmuring )
MAN: Jed.
Jed!
Jed, Jed, your father's calling you.
Jed!
Didn't you hear me calling you?
No, sir, I didn't.
I was... I didn't.
Mr. Spence found this cigarette butt
on the floor in the aisle of the chapel.
People shouldn't put their cigarettes out
in the chapel, Mr. Spence.
Well, people shouldn't be smoking in the chapel
I think is my point, Jed.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Yes, sir.
Could you tell your friends, please?
Yeah.
Jed, hang on.
I want you to meet someone.
She's going to be taking over in my office
for Mrs. Tillinghouse.
Excuse me.
This is Delores Landingham.
Mrs. Landingham, this is my eldest son
Jed.
LEO: So, what happens?
NANCY: Basically we think
we can get St. Jacques
to fracture Bazan's army.
So if we invade...?
It becomes peacekeeping.
Okay, send Fitzwallace down.
Anything else?
No, sir.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, sir.
PRESIDENT: They've been in there 48 hours.
Yes, sir.
The guy's been President of his country for two days.
He's spent them both at gunpoint.
Yeah.
What do you know about this storm?
The one...?
It's moving from Florida
to South Carolina.
Yeah, it's supposed to be bad.
It's a tropical storm.
Yes, sir.
No, I mean, it's been designated a tropical storm.
That means it has a surface wind speed of something.
Yes, sir.
Isn't it strange to have a tropical storm in May?
I'm not certain.
I'm pretty sure there's a season
and this isn't it.
I can have someone find out for you, Mr. President.
I mean, it's not a big deal.
It's just that I'm pretty sure it's strange.
The motorcade will leave for the cathedral in an hour.
You ever been to National Cathedral?
Yes, sir.
You know, you can lay the Washington Monument
down on its side in that church.
I did, actually.
We should try it.
You only have two meetings between now and then.
Is there anything else you need, sir?
I need pallbearers.
Yes, sir.
Also in the combat radius will be six J-Socs out of McDill
and a Battalion Landing Team.
They'll cover that at the Pentagon briefing.
Does the fact that the OAS has passed a resolution
allowing you to explore military options
mean you've exhausted
the diplomatic ones?
Of course it doesn't
but it should underline the consequences for Bazan
should he decide to enter our embassy
and/or arrest the democratically elected President of Haiti.
That's all I have for now. Thank you.
C.J.!
Before you all go, C.J. needs to see
AP, Reuters and Agence France in the office.
She needs to discuss seating arrangements on Air Force One.
C.J.
Yeah?
We've got a problem.
That's pretty hard to believe.
We can't have the press conference in the East Room.
What are you talking about?
I just got off the phone with Brian Coburn
and we can't have it in the East Room.
Why not?
They've been pulling the wiring and they found asbestos
and they have to seal it off.
There's been asbestos in the East Room this whole time?
Yeah. So I'm going to make a list...
Put together, okay...
Yeah.
Put together a list of alternatives.
Come on in.
C.J., I don't have any problem with my seat on the plane.
Get inside.
Seriously, I complained that one time
'cause, I don't know, I was in a bad mood.
This isn't about seating arrangements.
Notebooks, no tape recorders
the story's embargoed for an hour
and you'll identify me as a senior White House official.
What about Chicago?
What about Tokyo?
That depends. When's it going to leak?
I'm sorry?
When are we leaking the story?
C.J.'s doing it right now.
Wall Street'll have it in an hour.
In two hours, sellers will outnumber buyers.
( door bangs )
Excuse me, keep going.
In what sectors?
In all sectors of the New York Stock Exchange...
Charlie.
Yes, sir?
Do you have any idea
why the door to the portico keeps swinging open?
It's a little annoying.
They're replacing the latch.
It's swinging open from the wind.
But the door opens out.
When the right sequence of doors are open in the building
there's a wind tunnel into the Oval Office.
No kidding.
LEO: What about Europe and Japan?
ADVISOR: Well, Japan's going to be up and trading
by the time we go on TV.
Charlie says there's a wind tunnel created by something.
They're fixing the latch.
Mr. President?
Yeah.
Is the motorcade ready?
Yes, sir.
Okay. Well, we've got to go.
I don't know what to say.
Leo's pretty rich.
Maybe he can buy some tech stocks
jack up the price.
Keep me posted on the bellwethers, okay?
Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President.
Is the First Lady meeting us in the car?
Yes. It's a nondenominational service.
What'd she say?
She said the First Lady's meeting us
in the car.
( typing )
It wasn't a nondenominational service.
MRS. LANDINGHAM: Of course it was.
It wouldn't have felt nondenominational
if you were Jewish.
It was a nondenominational Christian service.
Attendance at Chapel is required...
It was a nondenominational service.
"Our Father" is not nondenominational.
Everyone says "Our Father."
Catholics don't.
Catholics don't say
"For thine is the kingdom and the power
and the glory forever and ever."
You know, I'm just saying.
Why do you work here?
I'm sorry?
Why do you work here after classes?
I can't imagine anyone in your family's on work-study.
No, I get free tuition.
So, you know, I guess it's a good idea to give something back.
Why do you call your father "sir"?
Is this going to be a whole afternoon of questions?
Actually, you've been talking for quite some time.
I'm sorry. Am I boring you, Delores?
Mrs. Landingham, please.
My father's the Headmaster.
Yeah, but before he was your Headmaster
he was your father, right?
I don't want to make the other guys
feel uncomfortable.
So you call him "sir."
Yeah.
Oh.
( sirens )
You know they released the girl
from the hospital this morning.
The driver?
Yeah.
She fractured her wrist, some stitches over her eye
and the other two have some scrapes and bruises.
It looks like they're going to charge her
with vehicular manslaughter.
Frank Mitchel
Joanna, Bill Carney...
they told me they were in meetings the whole morning.
Yeah.
The consensus seems to be that if you step back
and put your support behind Hoynes
there's a decent chance
the Democrats can keep the White House.
The world'll rest easier.
( siren )
We're here.
( organ playing )
( organ continues )
( music stops )
MONOHAN: "I am the Resurrection and I am life," says the Lord.
"Whoever believes in me shall live even though he die."
God of Mercy, you are the hope of sinners, the joy of saints.
We pray for our sister Delores
whose body we honor with Christian burial.
Give her happiness with your saints, and raise up her body
with the saints at the last day to be in your presence forever.
As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives
and that at the last, he will stand upon the Earth.
After my awaking, he will raise me up...
DELORES: Jed.
MONOHAN: ...and in my body I shall see God...
DELORES: Jed!
MONOHAN: ...I myself shall see
and my eyes behold him who is my friend...
Jed.
Jed!
I'm trying to get through
an honest day's work, Mrs. Landingham.
You missed a spot.
I didn't miss it. I just haven't gotten to it yet.
Okay.
You have a habit of doing that, you know.
What's that?
Telling me I'm doing something wrong
before I've had a chance to do it at all.
Well, that must be a little annoying.
Yeah.
I got a project for you.
Really.
You can show the courage and the intellect
and the leadership skills everyone talks about.
I'm a little busy hosing down the boats.
You know the women who work at this school
are paid less money than the men?
Sorry?
The women are paid less money than the men.
No, I didn't know that.
You think your father does?
MONOHAN: First reading will be from Mr. Charles Young
from the Book of Wisdom, Chapter III.
I'd like an opportunity to make my case.
What are you doing here?
I'm raising an issue.
You've been raising this issue for a week now.
I can tell it's had quite an effect on you.
Don't you have a husband?
What does that have to do with anything?
I'm saying shouldn't you go home
when you're done with work?
Shouldn't you be minding your own business?
I just thought since you're minding everybody else's...
What is that supposed to mean?
In my family, we don't talk about money.
That's because you have money.
Numbers, Mrs. Landingham.
Excuse me?
If you want to convince me of something
show me numbers.
"But the souls of the virtuous are in the hands of God.
"No torment shall ever touch them.
"In the eyes of the unwise, they did appear to die
"but they are at peace.
"For though in the sight of others, they were punished
their hope is full of immortality."
( engine sputtering)
Car won't start.
JED: Yes.
What's wrong with it?
It's possibly the starter motor or the fan belt.
Do you know anything about cars?
No.
Then how do you know...?
'Cause those are the two things I've heard of.
You fix your car and pretend you're not listening.
I'm just going to stand here and talk to you
because I know you are.
What could you possibly want?
I've got numbers.
Something abnormal about you.
Florence Chadwick in the English Department's
been here 13 years.
She makes $5,900 a year.
Mr. Hopkins in the English Department's
been here four years fewer and makes $7,100.
Is this really the best time for this?
You don't seem to be going anywhere.
A female cook makes $3,200
compared to a male electrician who makes $3,900.
ALL: "...channel of your peace
"where there is hatred, let us sow love
"where there is injury, harmony
"and where there is doubt, let there be faith in you.
Amen."
( organ plays ) Mozart's "Requiem" )
( "Requiem" continues )
( "Requiem" continues )
DELORES: The Chaplain makes $4,100
the nurse makes $3,100.
Miss Mueller gets paid an additional $200 a year
to conduct the choir and band
while Mr. Ryan gets paid an additional $400 a year
to coach the rowing team.
Crew.
What?
It's not rowing, it's crew
and Florence Chadwick
is a married woman with no dependents
and Mr. Hopkins has a family of four to support.
If we paid people according
to how many children they had to support
then Malcolm Bundy the groundskeeper
would get triple what the Headmaster gets.
Mrs. Landingham...
You know I'm right.
You've known it since I brought it up.
Wh-What do you want me to do about it?
I want you to bring it up
with your father.
I'm not a woman and I don't work here.
The women who do, if they bring it up
they're afraid for their jobs.
What is it you're afraid of?
Why do you talk to me like this?
'Cause you never had a big sister
and you need one.
Look at you.
You're a boy king.
You're a foot smarter
than the smartest kids in the class.
You're blessed with inspiration.
You must know this by now.
You must have sensed it.
Look...
if you think we're wrong
if you think Mr. Hopkins
should honestly get paid more than Mrs. Chadwick
then I respect that.
But if you think we're right
and you won't speak up 'cause you can't be bothered
then God, Jed, I don't even want to know you.
Come inside.
I'll call Triple-A.
Miss Mueller gets half as much to teach music
as Mr. Ryan gets to coach crew?
You're going to do it.
Oh, I didn't say that.
Yes, you did.
When?
Just then.
You stuck your hands in your pockets
you looked away and smiled.
That means you made up your mind.
That doesn't mean anything.
Oh, yes, it does.
I-I stuck my hands in my pockets.
And looked away and smiled.
We're in.
It was a beautiful service, I thought.
I thought it was a beautiful service.
Yeah.
She was a real dame, old friend
a real broad.
Yeah.
We've got to go back to the office now, sir.
Yeah.
We've got some decisions to make now.
Leo, would you do me a favor?
Yeah.
Would you ask the agents
to seal the cathedral for a minute?
Yeah.
( doors close )
You're a son of a ***, you know that?
She bought her first new car
and you hit her with a drunk driver.
What?
Was that supposed to be funny?
"You can't conceive, nor can I
the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God"
says Graham Greene.
I don't know whose *** he was kissing there
'cause I think you're just vindictive.
What was Josh Lyman, a warning shot?
That was my son.
What did I ever do to yours but praise his glory
and praise his name?
There's a tropical storm that's gaining speed and power.
They say we haven't had a storm this bad
since you took out that tender ship of mine
in the North Atlantic last year.
68 crew.
You know what a tender ship does?
Fixes the other ships.
Doesn't even carry guns.
It just goes around, fixes the other ships
and delivers the mail.
That's all it can do.
Gratias tibi ago, domine.
Yes, I lied.
It was a sin. I've committed many sins.
Have I displeased you, you feckless thug?
3.8 million new jobs, that wasn't good?
Bailed out Mexico, increased foreign trade
30 million new acres of land for conservation
put Mendoza on the bench
we're not fighting a war, I've raised three children...
That's not enough to buy me out of the doghouse?
Haec credam a deo pio
a deo iusto, a deo scito.
Cruciatus in crucem.
Trus in terra servus, nuntuis fui, officum perfeci.
Cruciatus in crucem, eas in crucem.
You get Hoynes.
C.J.: We'll call them Answer "A" and Answer "B."
Yeah.
"Mr. President, does this mean
you won't be seeking a second term?"
Answer "A" is "You bet."
"I will absolutely be seeking a second term.
"I'm looking forward to the campaign.
There is great work that is yet to be done."
Yes.
Answer "B"...
"Are you out of your mind?
"I can't possibly win reelection.
"I lied about a degenerative illness
"I'm the target
"of a Grand Jury investigation
"and Congress is about
"to take me out to lunch.
"I'd sooner have my family take their clothes off
"and dance the tarantella on the Truman Balcony
"than go through a campaign
with this around my neck."
Think that's too on the nose?
I do.
I want to bring it up again.
Why?
'Cause I got shouted down the first three times
and I work here just like you do.
Can I help you?
Sorry.
I think we have to explore ways of calling this off.
Sam...
I think it might be a mistake
to send him on at a moment
when we're trying to demonstrate...
Listen...
We don't know what the hell
they're talking about in there, Toby!
We don't know whether he's running or not.
I think we have...
There are no ways.
The story's leaked
it's out there, we're doing this.
Don't worry. It's going to be fine.
They're lighting him
from outside the window.
Toby.
( sighs )
I have a meeting, believe it or not
with Greg Summerhays
for reasons passing understanding.
TOBY: Hello.
Toby.
It's good to see you.
How are you, Greg?
I was sorry about the President's secretary.
Thank you.
Did you know her well?
Yeah.
Let me get to why I'm here.
I want to...
You want to buy Atlantic Intermedia.
Yeah...
Greg, there's a reason the FCC...
I'm not here about the FCC.
Why are you here?
I'm launching a 24-hour cable news channel
and I'm building it to compete.
And I'd like you to be the news director.
Okay.
( exhales )
Thanks for coming in.
Excuse me.
It was a nice service, don't you think?
Yeah.
Yeah, it was.
I'm going to run across the street
to the OEOB for a minute.
The President's still after information on the storm.
I'm not sure why he's got it in his teeth.
Yeah.
Josh, can this really be how it works?
We have no idea if he's going to run again
he's in a room with Leo making a decision?
Two people, in a matter of minutes?
This is how it works?
( phone rings )
It's how it works today.
Josh Lyman.
It's Leo.
BONNIE: Hey, Toby.
Don't anybody talk to me right now.
Josh, Greg Summerhays
was here to offer me a job.
Leo got me a lifeboat.
I'm going to rip his arms off
and beat him with his own...
That was Leo.
He wants us over there.
It's Answer "B."
TV reporter: ...with the President
and First Lady having just concluded
the interview
President Bartlet is expected to be arriving
at the State Department for a press conference.
Typically, a press conference, particularly of this size
would be held in the East Room of the White House
but we're told there are some repairs going on there
and so the change of venue.
Chris Watson, can you tell us what we might expect to hear
from the President in a few minutes?
Wait. All right.
Our apologies.
We'll have Chris in a moment.
Let's go to...
Why don't you sit in here for a few minutes?
Yeah.
I'm going to get C.J.
You two do a last-minute review.
I'm fine.
I'm going to get C.J.
Yeah.
Sit here.
Close your eyes a few minutes.
Charlie will get you when we're ready.
Yeah.
PRESIDENT ( on TV ): Two years ago
I began experiencing blurred vision
and numbness in my legs.
Two years and many tests later
I was diagnosed with a course
of relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis.
MAN: That startling admission
made just moments ago from President Bartlet.
Toby.
Yeah?
Where's C.J.?
She ran back to her office.
They're going to run this clip forever.
No, we're about to give them clips to beat it.
Leo, you got me a lifeboat?
Greg Summerhays.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got you a lifeboat.
Did you imagine
that there were any circumstances
under which I would use it?
No.
Then why?
To show him that.
C.J.'s in her office.
You think he's going to change his mind, don't you?
Hmm?
You think he's going to run.
C.J.'s in her office.
Yeah.
( thunder rumbling )
( knock at door )
Yeah?
Mr. President, you wanted to see Donna Moss?
Yeah.
Good evening, sir.
How are you?
Fine, thank you, sir.
We all thought you did very well.
That was the easy part.
Didn't look that easy.
Talk about the weather.
( clearing throat softly )
A tropical storm is a cyclone
in which the maximum sustained surface speed of the wind
is 34 nautical miles per hour.
And there's a tropical storm season, right?
Yes, sir-- it's June 1 to November 30.
Okay, and how many times, say, in the last 100 years
has a tropical storm
come up the Atlantic seaboard
to Washington in the middle of May?
According to the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
it hasn't happened in the last century.
At all?
No, sir.
( knock at door )
Yeah?
C.J.: Excuse me, sir.
Yeah, thanks, Donna.
Thank you, Mr. President.
According to the NOAA, the storm is
a nonrecurring phenomenon, which is science's term
for "We don't know what in the world is going on
but we're stocking up on canned goods."
I just wanted to review a few things.
Is this stuff you don't think I can remember from an hour ago?
You'll want to take the first question from Lawrence Altman
the Times Chief Medical Correspondent.
Why? !
Because if you call on anyone else
the first question will be about reelection.
Call on Altman, it'll be a medical question
and he'll have two or three follow-ups.
It will allow you to feel comfortable
a little before you start with the political mess.
Altman will be in the front row, first seat on your right.
Okay.
Mr. President?
Yeah?
Where's Altman going to be?
C.J.
Mr. President, I'm going there right now.
This is the last time I'll see you
before you step up. Please.
Front row, first seat on the right.
Whose right?
My right.
Thank you, sir.
( knock at door )
DR. BARTLET: Come in.
"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you
and you will never learn."
Is this your quote?
Dad, I wanted to mention something to you
that maybe you weren't aware of
regarding salary equity.
Is this your quote?
"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you
and you'll never learn."
It's actually Ray Bradbury.
And you quoted Ray Bradbury.
Yes.
In an article
you and your friends wrote condemning Professor Loomis.
For banning certain books from the library, yeah.
He's a professor of literature.
He banned Henry Miller.
He banned D.H. Lawrence.
Giovanni's Room 'cause it's too homosexual.
Stop it right now.
You're a guest at this school.
I'm a student.
He banned Fahrenheit 451
which is about banning books.
Was that supposed to be funny?
That wordplay that you just did there--
was that meant to be funny?
That was supposed...
Was there anything else?
It's not a nondenominational service.
Don't start with this.
Catholics don't believe man is saved through faith alone.
Catholics believe that faith has to be joined
with good works.
You're the only one who seems to mind the service.
I'm the only one who's Catholic.
You're Catholic because your mother is
and you're at this school because I'm the headmaster.
How's that for clever with words?
Now, what was it you came in here
to talk to me about?
Nothing.
Please close the door behind you.
( door shuts )
( thunderclap )
Damn it!
Mrs. Landingham!
I really wish you wouldn't shout, Mr. President.
The door keeps blowing open.
Yes, but there's an intercom, and you could use it
to call me at my desk.
I was...
You don't know
how to use the intercom.
It's not that I don't know how to use it.
It's just that I
haven't learned yet.
I have MS, and I didn't tell anybody.
Yeah.
So, you're having a little bit of a day.
You're going to make jokes?
God doesn't make cars crash, and you know it.
Stop using me as an excuse.
The party's not going to want me to run.
The party'll come back.
You'll get them back.
I got a secret for you, Mrs. Landingham.
I've never been the most popular guy
in the Democratic Party.
I've got a secret for you, Mr. President.
Your father was a prick
who could never get over the fact
that he wasn't as smart as his brothers.
Are you in a tough spot? Yes.
Do I feel sorry for you?
I do not.
Why? Because there are people way worse off than you.
Give me numbers.
I don't know numbers.
You give them to me.
How about a child born this minute
has a one in five chance
of being born into poverty?
How many Americans don't have health insurance?
44 million.
What's the number one cause of death
for black men under 35?
Homicide.
How many Americans are behind bars?
Three million.
How many Americans are drug addicts?
Five million.
And one of five kids in poverty?
It's 13 million American children.
Three and a half million kids go to schools
that are literally falling apart.
We need $127 billion in school construction
and we need it today.
To say nothing
of 53 people trapped in an embassy.
Yes.
You know
if you don't want to run again
I respect that.
But if you don't run because you think
it's going to be too hard
or you think you're going to lose...
well, God, Jed, I don't even want to know you.
( door shuts )
( thunder crashing )
CHARLIE: Mr. President.
Mr. President, it's time.
( thunder crashing )
♪ These mist-covered mountains ♪
♪ Are home now for me ♪
♪ But my home is the lowlands ♪
♪ And always will be ♪
♪ Someday you'll return to ♪
♪ Your valleys and your farms ♪
♪ And you'll no longer burn to be brothers in arms... ♪
C.J.: And he'll be speaking to that
just as soon as he gets here.
( reporters clamoring )
Uh, Frank, then Leslie.
♪ Through these fields of destruction ♪
♪ Baptisms of fire ♪
♪ I've witnessed your suffering... ♪
Has there been any discussion of a Special Prosecutor?
C.J.: Tomorrow morning, the President will direct
the Attorney General to appoint a Special Prosecutor, yes.
I can't see. Joan.
♪ And though they did hurt me so bad ♪
♪ In the fear and alarm... ♪
C.J.: A list of three prosecutors
is given to a three-judge panel.
The prosecutors
as well as the judges were all appointed
by Republican presidents.
( all clamoring )
Please, I can only answer 14 or 15 questions at once. Hal.
♪ There's so many different worlds ♪
♪ So many different suns... ♪
( sirens blaring )
C.J.: I can't comment on
a witness list that doesn't exist
but I imagine subpoenas will be issued
to most senior White House staff
including myself.
( sirens blaring )
♪ Now, the sun's gone to hell ♪
♪ And the moon's riding high... ♪
C.J.: Again, I can't comment on what kind of hearings
Congress has in mind.
I'm sure there'll be one
but you'd have to talk to Congress.
Okay? Here, now, the President of the United States.
♪ But it's written in the starlight ♪
♪ And every line in your palm ♪
♪ We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms. ♪
( guitar refrain continues )
Yes, Sandy.
Mr. President, can you tell us
right now if you'll be seeking a second term?
I'm sorry, Sandy.
There was a bit of noise.
Could you repeat the question?
Can you tell us right now
if you'll be seeking a second term?
Watch this.
( thunder crashing )