1. Previously on The West Wing:Copy !req
2. - What did they offer? Censure?
- Yeah.Copy !req
3. - History forgets these things.
- Presidents don't.Copy !req
4. They never get over it.
This one won't.Copy !req
5. I don't think it's good to be casual
about the truth.Copy !req
6. Neither do I.Copy !req
7. Why can't you say,
"Would you like to go out?"Copy !req
8. No one in government takes
responsibility for anything anymore.Copy !req
9. I'm to blame. I was wrong.Copy !req
10. We stand at a critical point,
a time of choosing.Copy !req
11. If we take the hard course,
the right course...Copy !req
12. there is no limit
to what we can achieve.Copy !req
13. There is no limit
to what we will achieve.Copy !req
14. The dials go from zero to a hundred.Copy !req
15. They dial up if they like what he's
saying. They dial down if they don't.Copy !req
16. - The numbers lead to a central computer.
- Like the Nielsens.Copy !req
17. - Yeah.
- They're behind a screen somewhere.Copy !req
18. The people with the dials,
they're behind a screen somewhere?Copy !req
19. They're in Macon County,
they're in Portland...Copy !req
20. in Los Feliz, California.
Norman, Oklahoma.Copy !req
21. - Joey puts together a decent snapshot.
- Which one's Joey?Copy !req
22. Kenny, can we get Joey a second?Copy !req
23. And we will leave a safer,
cleaner planet for future generations.Copy !req
24. - When did you pick that up?
- I just said'thanks."Copy !req
25. - Could he go easy with the pictures?
- You said it'd be okay.Copy !req
26. - When did I say that?
- C.J. Cregg said it wouldn't be a problem.Copy !req
27. But I have the utmost confidence...Copy !req
28. Joey, this is Lisa Sherborne.
She's doing a piece for Vanity Fair.Copy !req
29. - I don't have a lot of time right now.
- What do the different lines mean?Copy !req
30. Reds for Republicans, blues for
Democrats, and greens for Independents.Copy !req
31. - When we say something liberal, like...
- "Death is bad."Copy !req
32. Right.Copy !req
33. Blues go up and reds go down.Copy !req
34. When we talk about values,
reds and greens go up.Copy !req
35. You're usually lucky to break 65.
I gotta get back now.Copy !req
36. I have abiding respect for the speaker
of the house and the majority leader.Copy !req
37. They are men of fundamental decency
and public servants of purpose.Copy !req
38. - How much of this did you write?
- We don't talk about that.Copy !req
39. Is there anything you're gonna talk about,
or is this gonna be an extraction?Copy !req
40. men and women of both chambers
who have labored to shed the weight...Copy !req
41. of partisanship
and don the cloak of progress.Copy !req
42. - The lines don't seem to be doing much.
- Hang on.Copy !req
43. It may be said that in the last half-century
America won the Cold War...Copy !req
44. and modeled freedom
for a waiting world.Copy !req
45. Breaking out the greatest hits, huh?Copy !req
46. Now, in a new century
when we meet and master...Copy !req
47. new forms of aggression
and hatred, ignorance and evil...Copy !req
48. our vigilance in the face
of oppression and global terror...Copy !req
49. will be unequaled
by any moment in human history.Copy !req
50. - Now you're cooking.
- And to the enemies of freedom...Copy !req
51. the enemies of democracy,
the enemies of America...Copy !req
52. the enemies of humanity itself,
we say here tonight with one voice...Copy !req
53. there is no corner of this Earth
so remote, no cave so dark...Copy !req
54. that you will not be found
and brought to light and ended.Copy !req
55. - That's a number spike.
- Hey, crank that up.Copy !req
56. He broke 65 on all the lines.Copy !req
57. We nearly had one almost as big.Copy !req
58. - What?
- I said, we nearly had one almost as big.Copy !req
59. - What was it?
- We almost cured cancer.Copy !req
60. Really?Copy !req
61. - This close.
- What happened?Copy !req
62. Just one of those things.Copy !req
63. - Can I help you, ma'am?
- A glass of chardonnay, please.Copy !req
64. Hey, Amy.Copy !req
65. - Are you talking to me?
- Yes.Copy !req
66. - What did I say?
- You said not to talk to you.Copy !req
67. - Yet you're doing it anyway.
- Yes.Copy !req
68. - You're doing it again. Still doing it.
- Amy...Copy !req
69. - I'm walking away now.
- Okay.Copy !req
70. Ice and vodka.Copy !req
71. Sam Seaborn!Copy !req
72. Thank you. Thank you.Copy !req
73. I am at Ha-Ha's in Cleveland
on the 16th, and tip your waitresses.Copy !req
74. Sam.Copy !req
75. - Congratulations.
- Hey, you too.Copy !req
76. - So far so good, huh?
- The dials were what we thought.Copy !req
77. - Lisa.
- Josh.Copy !req
78. Still trying to get waived
into Generation X?Copy !req
79. - Still a pompous jackass?
- Oh, you bet.Copy !req
80. See you later.Copy !req
81. Congratulations, Sam.Copy !req
82. - Tell me about the cancer thing.
- It got cut. Jack Daniels.Copy !req
83. You were gonna cure cancer.Copy !req
84. We were gonna say we'd cure cancer.
Curing it is someone else's department.Copy !req
85. - How does that work?
- How does what work?Copy !req
86. - Deciding what you're gonna say.
- You mean writing the State of the Union?Copy !req
87. Yeah.Copy !req
88. - It's a long story.
- I'm writing a long story.Copy !req
89. Do you ever do any kind of preparation
before...?Copy !req
90. - I prefer to...
- Hang out at Moomba?Copy !req
91. The process begins six weeks
beforehand with budget meetings.Copy !req
92. - Why budget meetings?
- If we introduce an idea...Copy !req
93. people wanna know how we pay for it.
Memos come from everywhere.Copy !req
94. Every agency, department,
senior advisor, outside notable.Copy !req
95. - What's an outside notable?
- Former presidents, Kissinger...Copy !req
96. Bill Gates, Jesse Jackson. Mr. Rogers
wants to write us a memo, we'll read it.Copy !req
97. We'll pass some to the president,
and he'll start making notes.Copy !req
98. Then we have the
"president's first thoughts" meeting.Copy !req
99. - That's when we all wanna kill ourselves.
- Why?Copy !req
100. That's when the president
tells us we're nowhere.Copy !req
101. - Why?
- Because we're nowhere.Copy !req
102. So we try to figure out
what people wanna hear.Copy !req
103. That's when anyone who didn't want to
die before has been converted to the cult.Copy !req
104. - Why is it so hard?
- It's a white piece of paper.Copy !req
105. - How high are the stakes?
- How high can you count?Copy !req
106. - So, what do you do?
- Whatever it takes to get started.Copy !req
107. And we read new memos,
and we try new themes...Copy !req
108. and we hear new slogans
and test new lines.Copy !req
109. After a few weeks of that...Copy !req
110. you still got a white paper.Copy !req
111. So it's hard.Copy !req
112. - It's hard.
- It's hard under the best circumstances.Copy !req
113. - It got a little harder two weeks ago.
- What happened two weeks ago?Copy !req
114. - Congress censured the president.
- Yes.Copy !req
115. - Good morning.
- Good morning.Copy !req
116. - What's going on?
- Late last night, early this morning...Copy !req
117. the president reached an agreement
to accept a congressional censure.Copy !req
118. How's he feeling?
How's he feeling?Copy !req
119. Fine. It's over.Copy !req
120. - A joint resolution?
- Yeah. A concurrent resolution, actually.Copy !req
121. It'll take a couple of days for the
lawyers to get together on the language.Copy !req
122. - We should leak it, soften up the ground.
- Yeah.Copy !req
123. He's all right?Copy !req
124. He's about to be censured,
deliver the State of the Union...Copy !req
125. and then he's gonna
run for reelection.Copy !req
126. My guess is that there are
some things on his mind.Copy !req
127. It's over.Copy !req
128. That's all.Copy !req
129. - Thank you.
- Thank you.Copy !req
130. This is like the Civil War.Copy !req
131. When's the last time
Congress rebuked a president?Copy !req
132. - The Civil War.
- And now, how do you...?Copy !req
133. Yeah.Copy !req
134. Should we postpone the State of
the Union? What are the rules on that?Copy !req
135. He's required to give Congress
information on the Union.Copy !req
136. If he buys Congress a Wall Street
Journal, he's fulfilled his constitutional...Copy !req
137. - Postponing's an admission of defeat.
- He's accepting a censure. That's defeat.Copy !req
138. You don't ask the bully to lunch
the day after he stole your lunch money.Copy !req
139. You don't go on a starvation diet either.
We can spin the censure as a bipartisan...Copy !req
140. You can't spin a formal denunciation
from the legislative branch.Copy !req
141. - I don't...
- It's our biggest press hit of the year.Copy !req
142. How do you make a report to Congress
when Congress just called you a liar?Copy !req
143. I say we strap a polygraph
onto the TelePrompTer.Copy !req
144. Humor to lighten the load.Copy !req
145. I recommended he take the censure.Copy !req
146. If any of you had been on the inside,
you'd have recommended it too.Copy !req
147. How does he deliver
the State of the Union?Copy !req
148. He's the president of the United States.
When he walks in, they're gonna stand.Copy !req
149. Anyone here not believe
this president can take it from there?Copy !req
150. I still got my lunch money.Copy !req
151. Toby, Sam, you gotta dig in.Copy !req
152. Anything else?Copy !req
153. All right.Copy !req
154. - Hey, Sam?
- Yes?Copy !req
155. - Well-argued.
- Yeah.Copy !req
156. - What do you want?
- What kind of attitude is that?Copy !req
157. Vanity Fair's pitching a story on you.Copy !req
158. - What's the angle?
- They wanna do a profile...Copy !req
159. starting the night
of the State of the Union.Copy !req
160. Why don't they just cover
the speech?Copy !req
161. This is their way of doing that.
The thing is, you know the writer.Copy !req
162. - Who?
- Lisa Sherborne.Copy !req
163. Funny, because I used to be engaged
to someone named Lisa Sherborne.Copy !req
164. - Funny?
- I'm not doing it.Copy !req
165. I'd like you to.Copy !req
166. What happened to rule
number one on staff profiles...Copy !req
167. being that we don't do staff profiles.Copy !req
168. - When did we have that rule?
- We should have it.Copy !req
169. People should think the president
writes the State of the Union.Copy !req
170. - People know about speechwriters.
- Then there's no more story to tell.Copy !req
171. In the past, you tell me,
did it help or hurt...Copy !req
172. that the campaign
had an energetic energy?Copy !req
173. - Not sure you can say'energetic energy."
- Did it help or hurt?Copy !req
174. Do we need help?
Do young women read Vanity Fair?Copy !req
175. - Let them cover the president.
- They want you...Copy !req
176. and I wanna give you to them.Copy !req
177. It's gotta be Lisa Sherborne?Copy !req
178. Is the reason you didn't get married...Copy !req
179. because her name would have been
Lisa Sherborne-Seaborn?Copy !req
180. Yeah, that's the reason.Copy !req
181. I could do this for a living.Copy !req
182. - Do you have anything?
- No.Copy !req
183. - I don't believe you.
- I don't have anything.Copy !req
184. If you didn't have anything
you wouldn't be at the party.Copy !req
185. - I like parties.
- What do you have?Copy !req
186. - I have the first 20 minutes.
- Okay.Copy !req
187. - You don't want the first 20 minutes.
- Why?Copy !req
188. - Sam... Hi.
- Hi.Copy !req
189. - I just need a minute, okay?
- I can wait.Copy !req
190. - I need you to wait over there.
- Okay.Copy !req
191. Why don't I want the first 20 minutes?Copy !req
192. - It's what we expected it would be.
- Tell me.Copy !req
193. - It was the censure. People saw it...
- Just tell me.Copy !req
194. Democrats, low to mid 50s.Copy !req
195. - Republicans, high 30s.
- Independents?Copy !req
196. - Low 40s.
- You're kidding me.Copy !req
197. - Sam...
- Low 40s?Copy !req
198. - We knew the first 20...
- You said 10 minutes, and not this bad.Copy !req
199. Wait for the rest of the dials.Copy !req
200. We did Internet commerce in the
first 20 minutes. We did child asthma.Copy !req
201. He wasn't the president
in the first 20 minutes.Copy !req
202. Wait for the rest of the dial groups.Copy !req
203. Top line, cross tabs, whatever you get,
and I got a bad feeling about tonight.Copy !req
204. - Were those polling numbers?
- No.Copy !req
205. What was that about?Copy !req
206. It was polling numbers,
but it was nothing.Copy !req
207. - How does it look?
- It's too early to tell.Copy !req
208. - Sam, congratulations.
- You too.Copy !req
209. Ed, Larry, this is Lisa Sherborne
from Vanity Fair.Copy !req
210. - Which one's Ed, which one's Larry?
- Doesn't matter.Copy !req
211. - Joey went back to the office.
- Thank you.Copy !req
212. You don't have to introduce me
as Lisa Sherborne from Vanity Fair.Copy !req
213. I like to let them know
they're talking to a reporter.Copy !req
214. You really are uncomfortable with me
being here? You're not just being you?Copy !req
215. I don't know what that means.Copy !req
216. How did cancer get cut
from the State of the Union?Copy !req
217. - A lot of things got cut.
- Curing cancer?Copy !req
218. We cut a section about making
government manuals easier to read.Copy !req
219. - Curing cancer can take a number.
- Why are you pissed at me?Copy !req
220. - I'm not pissed at you. I'm working.
- You're done working.Copy !req
221. I'm not done.
You're confused because you see...Copy !req
222. Absolut cosmopolitans
and famous people.Copy !req
223. A section on government manuals.Copy !req
224. - Donna?
- Yeah?Copy !req
225. Can you get me the most recent memo
on the Welfare-to-Work initiatives?Copy !req
226. Yeah.Copy !req
227. - I'm seeing Amy again tonight.
- Second date?Copy !req
228. First date, really. Last night
was more of a, you know...Copy !req
229. - Scheme.
- Yeah.Copy !req
230. Good. The second date is usually where
the wheels come off the wagon for you.Copy !req
231. - That is so false.
- What are you doing?Copy !req
232. - A late drink.
- Where are you going?Copy !req
233. Wilson's.Copy !req
234. - I like that place.
- I don't.Copy !req
235. - Why?
- Well, for one thing...Copy !req
236. the piano player
only knows one song.Copy !req
237. Which song?Copy !req
238. "Surrey With the Fringe on Top."Copy !req
239. Whatever. It's like I'm on a hayride.
What are you doing?Copy !req
240. Figuring out if you pay
for the ticket to Phoenix.Copy !req
241. - It was official.
- That doesn't make a difference.Copy !req
242. What does the rule say?Copy !req
243. "An employee may not use
contract airline passenger service...Copy !req
244. provided under the contract with
the General Services Administration.Copy !req
245. See part 301-15,
sub-part B of this chapter."Copy !req
246. - What's the problem?
- Set aside that there's no sub-part B.Copy !req
247. The rest of it uses a sentence structure
I'm not familiar with.Copy !req
248. - Just put it on my credit card.
- No, that's what this is designed to do.Copy !req
249. - It's designed to break a person's spirit.
- And damn it, that's my job.Copy !req
250. - We're getting beat by the system.
- We are the system.Copy !req
251. - We suck.
- Yes. I need the Welfare-to-Work memo.Copy !req
252. How many words
in the Gettysburg Address?Copy !req
253. Two hundred sixty-six.Copy !req
254. - The Ten Commandments?
- Hundred seventy-three.Copy !req
255. So you wouldn't think you'd need 6000
to discover how to reimburse a ticket.Copy !req
256. - No.
- No.Copy !req
257. - What's going on?
- Welfare-to-Work.Copy !req
258. I was happy when you said this morning
that you recommended the censure.Copy !req
259. - Your face didn't register much.
- Thinking about the speech.Copy !req
260. - Don't ask how it's going.
- I wouldn't.Copy !req
261. You can't rush these things.
It's not like putting a hammer to a nail.Copy !req
262. I need some pie.Copy !req
263. You should go get some.Copy !req
264. Come with me.Copy !req
265. Okay.Copy !req
266. - Don't ask me about the speech.
- I wouldn't do it.Copy !req
267. - How'd it go last night?
- With Amy Gardner?Copy !req
268. - Yeah.
- Very, very well.Copy !req
269. - Here's the memo.
- Thank you.Copy !req
270. - You know Amy's seeing somebody.
- I do know that.Copy !req
271. - You know who?
- No, and I don't wanna know.Copy !req
272. - Yes, now that you mention it. Who?
- John Tandy.Copy !req
273. - Really?
- Yeah.Copy !req
274. - Really?
- Yes.Copy !req
275. Interesting.Copy !req
276. - Yeah.
- Interesting, and I'll tell you why.Copy !req
277. Why?Copy !req
278. Because John Tandy is a... .Copy !req
279. - I'll tell you why, seriously.
- Why?Copy !req
280. Because they started seeing each other
shortly after Nan Lieberman...Copy !req
281. announced she was gonna make
a challenge in the 20th District.Copy !req
282. - Really?
- Yeah.Copy !req
283. I don't think he's courting Amy Gardner,
I think he's courting women.Copy !req
284. - I don't think you're right.
- Why?Copy !req
285. - Because that's ridiculous.
- Really?Copy !req
286. No, it's not ridiculous.
Of course you're right.Copy !req
287. Hey, who's the president
having dinner with tonight?Copy !req
288. - Friends of Abbey.
- Good.Copy !req
289. When you're in his kind of mood...Copy !req
290. dinner with your wife's friends
is what you hope for.Copy !req
291. - It's molecular pathology.
- STI.Copy !req
292. - That's'signal transduction inhibitor."
- I'm sorry?Copy !req
293. STI stands for
"signal transduction inhibitor."Copy !req
294. - Abbey just went to take a phone call.
- We've tested it on 12 patients.Copy !req
295. Is it the first drug to target
sphingosine kinase?Copy !req
296. - It is, yeah.
- Where are you with the FDA?Copy !req
297. - FDA ruled they can use higher doses.
- This they did.Copy !req
298. I'm telling you, we're 10 years,
$25 billion...Copy !req
299. and a good-luck charm
away from curing cancer.Copy !req
300. - More than $25 billion.
- Breakthroughs in molecular targeting...Copy !req
301. Which is what the
signal transduction inhibitor is all about.Copy !req
302. What'd you just say?Copy !req
303. Bobby, what'd you just say?Copy !req
304. We're talking about a new drug
which is a signal transduction inhibitor.Copy !req
305. Sphingosine kinase was identified
recently as the enzyme...Copy !req
306. believed to control all signal
pathways to cancer growth.Copy !req
307. This new drug can act
as a kind of guided missile.Copy !req
308. - Smart bomb.
- That destroys cancerous cells...Copy !req
309. without killing healthy ones.Copy !req
310. The part I understood was Bobby saying
we could cure cancer in 10 years.Copy !req
311. Not cure it, but make it chronic.Copy !req
312. In other words, make it so
that people could live with it?Copy !req
313. - Yeah.
- What is standing between us and that?Copy !req
314. - I don't know.
- Who at this table knows?Copy !req
315. - Nobody knows.
- How much money would it cost?Copy !req
316. Nobody knows that either.
It's cancer. Nobody knows anything.Copy !req
317. He just said 10 years. I wanna hear
about this from the beginning.Copy !req
318. Talk to me like I'm not an oncologist.Copy !req
319. I'm not messing around. This isn't
a barbecue. I'm the commander in chief.Copy !req
320. Put your asses in the chairs.Copy !req
321. I'm out of pie.Copy !req
322. We'll get some more.Copy !req
323. So how's it going on the...?
What are you doing?Copy !req
324. The economy. I'm getting somewhere.Copy !req
325. - I can look at it when you're ready.
- About another two hours.Copy !req
326. Lisa's gonna do a piece?Copy !req
327. - It wasn't my idea.
- I wouldn't think so.Copy !req
328. C.J. asked if the reason
we didn't get married...Copy !req
329. was because her name
would be Sherborne-Seaborn.Copy !req
330. That's funny.Copy !req
331. Yeah.Copy !req
332. So why didn't you get married?Copy !req
333. Why didn't you?Copy !req
334. She didn't like me very much.Copy !req
335. - Good evening, Mr. President.
- Evening.Copy !req
336. Call everybody in. I just had dinner with
Abbey's friends. They're all oncologists.Copy !req
337. In the State of the Union, I can
announce I'm directing our researchers...Copy !req
338. to have a cure for cancer
in 10 years. Call everyone in.Copy !req
339. This is about the censure.Copy !req
340. - What did you just say?
- I said it for your own good.Copy !req
341. - Did you?
- I did. I like you.Copy !req
342. I hate you.Copy !req
343. - Let's look at the facts.
- Okay.Copy !req
344. He was polling at 69% among Democrats.
And that's all Tandy's got in his district.Copy !req
345. Congressman Tandy.Copy !req
346. All right. He had a 69%
favorability rating with women.Copy !req
347. You'd need 93% favorability
among men to beat that...Copy !req
348. and Gandhi doesn't get that
in Florida.Copy !req
349. - Somebody's been studying.
- Nan Lieberman announces...Copy !req
350. that she might challenge him. His
favorability goes down to 52º%º. Why?Copy !req
351. - Because you're an idiot?
- Women started going over to Lieberman.Copy !req
352. - Look...
- Women's groups started saying...Copy !req
353. there aren't enough women
in Congress. Tandy needs women.Copy !req
354. - NOW hasn't endorsed him yet.
- It's January.Copy !req
355. Yes. Still, when did he start
going out with you?Copy !req
356. A week after Lieberman announced.Copy !req
357. - How do you know that?
- I know everything.Copy !req
358. And you are the door to women.Copy !req
359. WLC put $9 million in the hands
of pro-choice candidates.Copy !req
360. You narrowed the gap in the House
from 14 to 9 in one election.Copy !req
361. - You bring home the bacon.
- John's worried about losing women?Copy !req
362. He runs, and Emily's List
practically makes a wire transfer.Copy !req
363. He crushed his last opponent
in Lauderhill.Copy !req
364. I don't remember his name. He was
a moderate, pro-choice Republican.Copy !req
365. There was a 29% gender differential.Copy !req
366. You think he's with me
because he's afraid of Nan Lieberman.Copy !req
367. I do.Copy !req
368. Well, I've never been so flattered.Copy !req
369. I don't think I'm getting
enough credit for this.Copy !req
370. Don't talk to me.Copy !req
371. - Look...
- Don't talk to me.Copy !req
372. - We'll change the sub...
- You're talking to me.Copy !req
373. - Perhaps...
- Don't talk to me.Copy !req
374. - I should just sit here?
- Yes.Copy !req
375. - And?
- Not talk to me.Copy !req
376. Amy... .Copy !req
377. I have wit. I have charm. I have brains.Copy !req
378. I have legs that go all the way down
to the floor, my friend.Copy !req
379. - You don't have to...
- Don't talk to me.Copy !req
380. - Hello?
- Josh?Copy !req
381. - Yeah.
- You gotta come back.Copy !req
382. - Why?
- The president thinks he can cure cancer.Copy !req
383. - Well, that's some good news, I guess.
- Yeah, I'll see you in a few minutes.Copy !req
384. Did he find a cure for cancer?
Because if he found a cure for cancer...Copy !req
385. I think that would be interesting.
That's something we should share.Copy !req
386. - Yeah.
- But he didn't.Copy !req
387. He wants to find a cure for cancer
and say that in the State of the Union.Copy !req
388. You know what my response
would be? Me too.Copy !req
389. - Is this the first time he had that thought?
- Sign'union" again. That was cool.Copy !req
390. No, it must have been a different word.Copy !req
391. - Is he serious about this?
- Not my department.Copy !req
392. - I get you to the meeting.
- Right.Copy !req
393. - Joey?
- Yeah.Copy !req
394. How high are the stakes
for the speech?Copy !req
395. They're high, but a magic trick
isn't gonna help.Copy !req
396. - How high?
- High.Copy !req
397. - How high?
- Well, you don't win anything in January.Copy !req
398. You only lose.Copy !req
399. If he doesn't park the
State of the Union, and I mean deep...Copy !req
400. it'll be his last one.Copy !req
401. All right, you're in the Oval Office.Copy !req
402. - Hey, did I hear Toby right on the phone?
- It could be worse, you know.Copy !req
403. - How?
- He could have cancer.Copy !req
404. - Do you two go anywhere separately?
- It's weird, isn't it?Copy !req
405. It's a little weird, yeah.Copy !req
406. What's going on?
What was that phone call?Copy !req
407. We're gonna meet and talk.Copy !req
408. How'd it go?Copy !req
409. Not at all well.
You know whose fault that is?Copy !req
410. - John Tandy's.
- No.Copy !req
411. - Hers.
- Yours.Copy !req
412. Let's go.Copy !req
413. - Leo, is he serious about this?
- He's on his way down.Copy !req
414. Totally your fault.Copy !req
415. I'm just, you know...
I'm just the guy who does the thing.Copy !req
416. - What?
- They've run out of pie.Copy !req
417. - Evening. Thanks for being here so late.
- Good evening, Mr. President.Copy !req
418. A president stood up. He said,
"We will land a man on the moon...Copy !req
419. before the end of the decade."Copy !req
420. You know what we knew
when he said that?Copy !req
421. Nothing. We didn't know anything.Copy !req
422. We didn't know the lunar surface.
We didn't know how to land.Copy !req
423. All we'd ever done is crash it
into the ocean, and God knows...Copy !req
424. if we could land,
we didn't know how to blast off again.Copy !req
425. But a president said,
"We're gonna do it," and we did it.Copy !req
426. So I ask you, why shouldn't I stand up...Copy !req
427. and say,"We are going
to cure cancer in 10 years"?Copy !req
428. I'm really asking.Copy !req
429. How close are we
to being able to do this?Copy !req
430. Nobody knows. Toby?Copy !req
431. - It'll be seen as a political ploy.
- Why?Copy !req
432. It can be seen... Excuse me.Copy !req
433. - It can be seen as self-serving.
- How?Copy !req
434. Using cancer to deflect
attention from MS.Copy !req
435. You think people with cancer care
what my motives are? Their families?Copy !req
436. - I'm saying...
- Joey.Copy !req
437. I agree with everything
that's been said.Copy !req
438. Except I don't think they'll see it
as deflecting the MS.Copy !req
439. They'll see it
as deflecting the censure.Copy !req
440. - Once again, why would...?
- Everybody cares about motive.Copy !req
441. - I didn't...
- Everybody cares about motives.Copy !req
442. - Sam?
- Yes, sir?Copy !req
443. - Why shouldn't I do it?
- I think you should.Copy !req
444. I think ambition is good.
I think overreaching is good.Copy !req
445. Giving people a vision of government
that's more than Social Security checks...Copy !req
446. and debt reduction is good.
I think government should be optimistic.Copy !req
447. I know it's late, but I wanna start seeing
drafts of a section in the next few hours.Copy !req
448. C.J., I want a sense
of a media overview too.Copy !req
449. - Now.
- Thank you, sir.Copy !req
450. - Thank you, sir.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
451. I just wanna look at some drafts.Copy !req
452. - I don't have an hour to spend on this.
- I can do it.Copy !req
453. You don't have an hour
to spend on it either.Copy !req
454. - Why are you opposed to this?
- Stopping to write about curing cancer?Copy !req
455. - Yeah.
- Because it's never gonna be in.Copy !req
456. - How do you know?
- What resources do we have to devote?Copy !req
457. - I don't know.
- How much money is it gonna cost?Copy !req
458. - I don't know.
- That's how I know.Copy !req
459. The man's about to get a censure.
He's trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.Copy !req
460. - What are you doing humoring him?
- I'm not.Copy !req
461. I don't want you spending more
than an hour and a half.Copy !req
462. - You're a pollster.
- Yes.Copy !req
463. You don't think this would poll well.Copy !req
464. Do I think people are in favor
of curing cancer? Yes, I do.Copy !req
465. So?Copy !req
466. The federal government shouldn't be
directing scientific research.Copy !req
467. - Why?
- Because you stink at it.Copy !req
468. If it was up to the NIH, to cure polio
through a centrally-directed program...Copy !req
469. instead of an independent
investigator-driven discovery...Copy !req
470. you'd have the best iron lung
in the world, but not a polio vaccine.Copy !req
471. When did you get an MD?Copy !req
472. - I was just quoting Samuel Broder.
- Who's he?Copy !req
473. The former director
of the National Cancer Institute.Copy !req
474. The speech is gonna work fine.
Don't overreact to the censure.Copy !req
475. - There is no speech yet.
- There will be.Copy !req
476. I have to work now.
The president's asked me to try this.Copy !req
477. I'll be in my office.Copy !req
478. Listen.Copy !req
479. When the hell are we getting numbers?Copy !req
480. - You're a pleasure to work for.
- When are we getting numbers?Copy !req
481. When I say so.Copy !req
482. So many women, so little charm.Copy !req
483. What in God's name
could you possibly want right now?Copy !req
484. Let me tell you something. Making
government manuals easier to read...Copy !req
485. would have been a winner.Copy !req
486. Come with me.Copy !req
487. Excuse me.Copy !req
488. He happens to be more feminist
than the White House.Copy !req
489. I have no idea what you said.Copy !req
490. I said, he happens to be
more feminist than the White House.Copy !req
491. - Feminine?
- Feminist.Copy !req
492. He wrote the amendment making violence
near abortion clinics a federal crime...Copy !req
493. while you guys sought
legal commentary.Copy !req
494. Forgive us for talking to lawyers
about the law.Copy !req
495. He single-handedly beat back
three parental-consent bills...Copy !req
496. and ran his own whip operation
because they weren't leadership priority.Copy !req
497. The minority whip
doesn't work for us.Copy !req
498. He ties the Violence Against Women Act
to the crime bill...Copy !req
499. over White House objection.Copy !req
500. I'm not quarreling with his credentials as
a lover of women. He excels in that area.Copy !req
501. - Look who's talking.
- I'm just saying...Copy !req
502. - That he's using me.
- I was saying that.Copy !req
503. I was saying it two weeks ago.
Now I'm not saying anything.Copy !req
504. - Amy.
- Hey.Copy !req
505. - Congressman.
- Josh. Great night for us.Copy !req
506. We'll see.Copy !req
507. We're doing some pictures
with the president in the Mural Room.Copy !req
508. - You don't want to do them yourself?
- No, come on.Copy !req
509. Go ahead.Copy !req
510. Photo-op.Copy !req
511. - Amy?
- Yeah.Copy !req
512. Congratulations.Copy !req
513. Yeah, we'll see.Copy !req
514. Yeah. Come on in.Copy !req
515. Good evening, Mr. President.Copy !req
516. - You got it?
- Yeah.Copy !req
517. This is good.Copy !req
518. You know we can't do it.Copy !req
519. Yeah.Copy !req
520. We'd need to line up experts who can
face the press in just two weeks.Copy !req
521. - Yeah.
- Sloan-Kettering...Copy !req
522. Dana-Farber, Cleveland Clinic, UCLA.Copy !req
523. We'd want to include
the Society of Clinical Oncology.Copy !req
524. - And the NCI.
- The OMB would have to score it.Copy !req
525. We haven't identified
the offsets to pay for it.Copy !req
526. We can barely tell them
what the'it" is.Copy !req
527. Clinical trials under
Medicare and Medicaid...Copy !req
528. science and technology Democrats,
the pharmaceutical companies.Copy !req
529. It was a good idea though.Copy !req
530. We have other good ideas.Copy !req
531. So we don't get water from a rock.Copy !req
532. We just do our thing
and take our chances.Copy !req
533. We think so.Copy !req
534. We're gonna have to do it
awfully well this time.Copy !req
535. We've done that before.Copy !req
536. Anything else?Copy !req
537. Thank you, Mr. President.Copy !req
538. C.J.Copy !req
539. Would you excuse me?Copy !req
540. Well, something happened
at the half-hour mark.Copy !req
541. What?Copy !req
542. They remembered why
they liked him in the first place.Copy !req
543. The breakdowns
are being handed around...Copy !req
544. but the really good news
are the panel backs.Copy !req
545. Sixteen Democrats, 16 Republicans
and 12 Independents...Copy !req
546. were asked identical questions
two days ago and one hour ago.Copy !req
547. Two days ago, 48% said he was able
to handle his job effectively.Copy !req
548. Tonight that number's 59.Copy !req
549. 60%, up from 41.Copy !req
550. Give us the real one.Copy !req
551. Strong leader: 69º%º.Copy !req
552. We're back! Yes!Copy !req
553. Yes!Copy !req
554. Congratulations.Copy !req
555. Somebody get these guys some pie.Copy !req
556. Is there an extra copy
of the panel backs?Copy !req
557. I got one.Copy !req
558. Thanks.Copy !req
559. - C.J.?
- Hang on.Copy !req
560. - Dance with me.
- I'm just gonna toss this in my office.Copy !req
561. - Congratulations, boss.
- Nice job. Take the rest of the night off.Copy !req
562. - It's 1 in the morning.
- Well, you earned it.Copy !req
563. Sam, Sam, the sunshine man.Copy !req
564. Get on the couch.
I'm gonna do you right now.Copy !req
565. - Okay.
- Sorry, I was talking to Carol.Copy !req
566. - What is wrong with you?
- We really don't know.Copy !req
567. Lisa mentioned that it wasn't
going that well.Copy !req
568. - You still got a couple weeks with her.
- I wish we hadn't started tonight.Copy !req
569. - Why? It was a shining moment.
- It got the job done.Copy !req
570. But it's ironic that
a sort of a thing between us is...Copy !req
571. I'm supposed to know the difference
between flash and substance.Copy !req
572. Sometimes a little flash is
what's required. You said that to me.Copy !req
573. I say that when I don't have
anything to say.Copy !req
574. It wasn't a Vegas act, it was stirring.Copy !req
575. Don't hang your head
when you say it got the job done.Copy !req
576. There aren't 10 guys in the country
who could write that speech.Copy !req
577. I'll bet the cancer community
can't wait to buy me a beer.Copy !req
578. - Hey...
- I'm just... You know.Copy !req
579. Anyway, congratulations.Copy !req
580. If you're serious about
that thing with Carol...Copy !req
581. Get out.Copy !req
582. Sorry, I was just getting some numbers.Copy !req
583. - Can you tell me what they were?
- They're internal numbers.Copy !req
584. CNN/USA Today will have
something in a little while.Copy !req
585. Anyway, this is my office over here.Copy !req
586. I'm gonna give my notes
from tonight to someone else...Copy !req
587. and let them finish the reporting
over the next weeks.Copy !req
588. - You're obviously not comfortable.
- They're internal numbers. I can't...Copy !req
589. Yeah, whatever. I'm gonna give
my notes to someone else.Copy !req
590. Anyway.Copy !req
591. This is my office.Copy !req
592. It's nice.Copy !req
593. C.J. asked if the reason
we didn't get married...Copy !req
594. was because your name
would be Sherborne-Seaborn.Copy !req
595. That's exactly why
we didn't get married.Copy !req
596. - Why didn't we get married?
- Why do you think?Copy !req
597. Because I don't know what the cool
restaurant is and I don't care.Copy !req
598. When I get hungry I want to eat.Copy !req
599. I don't know where
the Tommy Hilfiger party is.Copy !req
600. - And I wouldn't know what to do there.
- You're full of crap.Copy !req
601. - I was never cool enough for you.
- You think too little of me.Copy !req
602. And I didn't leave you, you left me.
And you did it to do this.Copy !req
603. The reason you're pissy
is because I'm looking at you...Copy !req
604. and you're wondering
if I'm gonna think...Copy !req
605. you've been doing anything at all.Copy !req
606. It's not clear to me
whether or not I have.Copy !req
607. - You have.
- How would you know?Copy !req
608. I don't know.Copy !req
609. Here's something interesting.
In 1940, our armed forces...Copy !req
610. weren't among the 12
most formidable in the world...Copy !req
611. but, obviously, we were gonna
fight a big war.Copy !req
612. And Roosevelt said
the U.S. would produce...Copy !req
613. 50,000 planes in the next four years.
Everyone thought it was a joke.Copy !req
614. And it was, because it turned out
we produced 100,000 planes.Copy !req
615. Gave the Air Force an armada
that would block the sun.Copy !req
616. Do you still have
what you wrote that night?Copy !req
617. - About curing cancer?
- Yeah.Copy !req
618. Read it to me.Copy !req
619. "Over the past half-century,
we've split the atom...Copy !req
620. we've spliced the gene
and we've roamed Tranquility Base.Copy !req
621. We've reached for the stars and never
have we been closer to having them.Copy !req
622. New science, new technology
is making the difference...Copy !req
623. between life and death,
so we need a national commitment...Copy !req
624. equal to this unparalleled
moment of possibility.Copy !req
625. So I announce to you tonight
that I will bring the full resources...Copy !req
626. of the federal government and
the full reach of my office to this goal:Copy !req
627. We will cure cancer
by the end of this decade."Copy !req
628. That was nice.Copy !req
629. I'll pass the notes along.Copy !req