1. Previously on The West Wing:Copy !req
2. Toby keeps coming back
at me with this... .Copy !req
3. - He says I let the pitch go by.
- What pitch?Copy !req
4. I smooth myself out publicly.Copy !req
5. You're not just folks.
You're not plainspoken.Copy !req
6. Do not... Do not... Do not act like it.Copy !req
7. I don't wanna be killed.Copy !req
8. Then make this election
about smart and not.Copy !req
9. Qualified and not.Copy !req
10. Make it about a heavyweight.
You're a heavyweight.Copy !req
11. - Morning, Mr. President.
- Good to be talking to you.Copy !req
12. - You're in the Map Room this morning?
- The Mural Room.Copy !req
13. Welcome to Sunrise Cincinnati, sir.Copy !req
14. I know you only have a moment
and wanna talk...Copy !req
15. about Thursday's
prime-time press conference.Copy !req
16. Right, and Thursday night we're
gonna talk about energy dependence...Copy !req
17. versus independence
and cleaner-burning fuels...Copy !req
18. that get up to 80 miles per gallon
versus oil-based fuels...Copy !req
19. that pump billions of pounds
of pollution into our air...Copy !req
20. and, perhaps just as important, are
vulnerable to very volatile price spikes.Copy !req
21. We wanna talk about controlling
our destiny through innovation...Copy !req
22. instead of relying
so heavily on foreign oil.Copy !req
23. Okay, now, you mentioned foreign oil...Copy !req
24. Yeah. 65% of the world's oil reserves
are in the Mideast.Copy !req
25. 3% are here at home. I wouldn't mind
sending a little less of my money...Copy !req
26. over there, and the only alternative
is to use less oil.Copy !req
27. Last question, Mr. President.
Governor Robert Ritchie of Florida...Copy !req
28. likely Republican nominee
for the fall campaign...Copy !req
29. in his new book, A Promise to Lead,
he says we should be exploring...Copy !req
30. the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve
for new sources of energy.Copy !req
31. Will this be a hotly contested
campaign topic?Copy !req
32. I hope so, but there's plenty of time
for campaigning come fall.Copy !req
33. Thursday night
is about America's energy future.Copy !req
34. Thank you very much,
President Jed Bartlet.Copy !req
35. It's 12 past the hour. Don't go away,
we'll be back with traffic...Copy !req
36. - ... and weather updates.
- We're out.Copy !req
37. - Thank you very much, sir.
- Thank you, Kim.Copy !req
38. - Terry.
- Terry. I'm sorry.Copy !req
39. - That's all right.
- That was my ninth interview.Copy !req
40. Are you ready to run against Ritchie?Copy !req
41. I guess we'll be ready to run against
whoever we have to.Copy !req
42. What do you think of him?Copy !req
43. Rob Ritchie?
I don't know him very well.Copy !req
44. - Well, good luck.
- Thank you.Copy !req
45. - They wanna talk about Ritchie's book.
- We could talk about my book.Copy !req
46. Theory and Design of Macroeconomics
in Developing Nations?Copy !req
47. Okay, sir, we've got 2 minutes and 20
seconds, and it's WKZN in Philadelphia.Copy !req
48. - Thanks.
- They say'exploring," you say'drilling."Copy !req
49. There's a 12-point kick with ANWAR
between exploring and drilling.Copy !req
50. - What else?
- Saudi Arabia, bad.Copy !req
51. Got it.Copy !req
52. - How's it going?
- Good.Copy !req
53. - Do you have a minute?
- Well, that's all I've got.Copy !req
54. Could you do me a favor?
I got faxed a letter from Tabatha Fortis.Copy !req
55. She's not comfortable
with dinner next week...Copy !req
56. unless she can chastise
the administration...Copy !req
57. for backing off
on banning land mines.Copy !req
58. It's just a matter of handholding.
Would you ask Sam to talk to her?Copy !req
59. - I'll do it.
- Sam's more familiar with land mines.Copy !req
60. - I'll talk to her.
- Why?Copy !req
61. Because.Copy !req
62. What?Copy !req
63. Is it possible you've got a little touch
of the poet?Copy !req
64. Or would like a little touch of the poet?Copy !req
65. Yes.Copy !req
66. Okay, then learn something
about land mines.Copy !req
67. We don't wanna cancel. 300 of the
finest minds in the country are coming...Copy !req
68. plus some congressmen.
- I'll be fine.Copy !req
69. Knock them dead, de Bergerac.Copy !req
70. Okay.Copy !req
71. Okay, what?Copy !req
72. Nothing, I just meant,
you know, okay.Copy !req
73. We're back from commercial
in 20 seconds.Copy !req
74. - Drilling/exploring.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
75. - Saudi Arabia, bad.
- Saudi Arabia, very bad.Copy !req
76. - Okay.
- Okay.Copy !req
77. Why are you smiling?Copy !req
78. Happiness is my default position.Copy !req
79. Joining us now from the Mural Room
of the White House is President Bartlet.Copy !req
80. - Good morning.
- Morning, thanks for having me.Copy !req
81. You wanna talk
about Thursday's press conference.Copy !req
82. And to shill for my new energy plan...Copy !req
83. to raise fuel economy standards,
working with Detroit...Copy !req
84. to develop hybrid cars and using tax
incentives to promote alternative energy.Copy !req
85. Why is alternative energy important?Copy !req
86. After a decade of wars with Iraq
and the spread of religious extremism...Copy !req
87. in Saudi Arabia, we still rely on this
very dangerous, very uncertain region...Copy !req
88. for a quarter of our oil reserves.Copy !req
89. And l, for one, wouldn't mind not sending
quite so much of my money there.Copy !req
90. Wouldn't that suggest that Florida
Governor Robert Ritchie was correct...Copy !req
91. in his book, A Promise to Lead?
He says we should open up...Copy !req
92. the Arctic for exploration?Copy !req
93. Exploring is what Magellan did,
and Balboa and Jacques Cousteau.Copy !req
94. This is drilling, which is the only way
you know if there's oil there...Copy !req
95. and which will forever damage
natural treasures like ANWAR.Copy !req
96. What about clean coal?Copy !req
97. That's a term pollsters came up with
because it polls higher than regular coal.Copy !req
98. We want real cleaner-burning fuels, to
control our destiny through innovation.Copy !req
99. That's what we'll talk
about Thursday night.Copy !req
100. Mr. President, thank you
for being with us today.Copy !req
101. - My pleasure.
- It's 16 past the hour.Copy !req
102. We'll be back with traffic and weather
as Wake Up Philadelphia continues.Copy !req
103. - Okay.
- That was terrific.Copy !req
104. - Leslie, right?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
105. - Thanks a lot.
- I mentioned Governor Ritchie's book...Copy !req
106. because I hoped
you'd rise to the bait.Copy !req
107. There will be plenty of bait
in September, October.Copy !req
108. - Have you read it?
- I'll read it when he does.Copy !req
109. - What's your read on him?
- I don't know.Copy !req
110. I think we might be talking about a.22
caliber mind in a.357 Magnum world.Copy !req
111. - Okay.
- Okay, thanks again.Copy !req
112. Who's next?Copy !req
113. - You were hot.
- What?Copy !req
114. When you said that just now,
you were hot. They've got it on B-roll.Copy !req
115. - How did the tape get out already?
- We were discussing that.Copy !req
116. A local AP reporter
was at the station.Copy !req
117. - They didn't keep it exclusive?
- They want their call letters splashed...Copy !req
118. And the networks will carry it tonight.Copy !req
119. This is amateur crap, Sam.
How did it happen?Copy !req
120. - First of all, I wasn't there.
- Who was?Copy !req
121. My boss, the White House director
of communications.Copy !req
122. It wasn't his fault either. It was
8 seconds, it was his 10th interview.Copy !req
123. - He didn't see that the green light was...
- You're right. What's first?Copy !req
124. - I have the briefing room in 20 minutes.
- What are you gonna get?Copy !req
125. - Is he saying Governor Ritchie's stupid?
- Yes.Copy !req
126. - No.
- "Yes" is the only answer to that.Copy !req
127. Why not,"He has
the highest regard for Ritchie...Copy !req
128. believes he's a broad thinker
and a dedicated public servant"?Copy !req
129. It's the Press Briefing Room, not
the lmprov. She can't walk this back.Copy !req
130. She'll sound disingenuous at best,
naive at worst.Copy !req
131. My concern
is how the president sounds.Copy !req
132. I've got 80 people
who don't make the distinction.Copy !req
133. If I pretend Ritchie's
a nuclear physicist...Copy !req
134. Then don't answer. Our focus
is on energy independence this week.Copy !req
135. No, we're focusing on this
this week.Copy !req
136. I can try a non-apology apology.Copy !req
137. Try it.Copy !req
138. "The president didn't realize the camera
was hot, and he said something...Copy !req
139. he shouldn't have,
as we all do from time to time."Copy !req
140. - Nice.
- Yeah.Copy !req
141. - It's a head-fake towards contrition.
- And we hold our heads high.Copy !req
142. All right. Good.
We'll see how it goes.Copy !req
143. Why is this one so hard to spin?Copy !req
144. It's the classic Washington scandal.
We screwed up by telling the truth.Copy !req
145. All right. Let's try not to do that
that much.Copy !req
146. I know.Copy !req
147. - What's going on?
- Hi, sugar-lips.Copy !req
148. - I'm sorry?
- Donna struck gold.Copy !req
149. - What is it?
- Lemon-Lyman. Com.Copy !req
150. - What is it?
- Your fan site.Copy !req
151. - What?
- A website devoted to all things'Josh."Copy !req
152. - You're kidding me.
- No.Copy !req
153. - Lemon-Lyman. Com?
- You have fans, Josh.Copy !req
154. Not many of them,
but what they lack in numbers...Copy !req
155. they make up for in fervor.
- What do they talk about?Copy !req
156. You on Capital Beat, Meet the Press,
U.S. News and World Report.Copy !req
157. There's a section called
"Sightings About Town."Copy !req
158. This is reserved for actual
Josh encounters of the third kind.Copy !req
159. Most seem to take place
in restaurants...Copy !req
160. you've never been to,
unless you lead a double life.Copy !req
161. - And we know you're not that clever.
- Lemon-Lyman. Com?Copy !req
162. Right now we're viewing the section
devoted to the'Josh Fantasy Date."Copy !req
163. This, it should be painfully
self-explanatory, is where the women...Copy !req
164. and more than a few men, I must
say, discuss what they'd do with you if...Copy !req
165. All right, can everybody
who doesn't work here...Copy !req
166. please go work where they work.
- I wanna work here now.Copy !req
167. You can get this at your own desk.Copy !req
168. You better believe it.Copy !req
169. See you at lunch.Copy !req
170. You've got Senior Senior Staff
at the COS...Copy !req
171. then Senior Staff
at the Roosevelt Room.Copy !req
172. Meeting with the economic team
to pre-brief for fed chair...Copy !req
173. then Advance, State and NSC to go
over the next 6 months of foreign travel.Copy !req
174. Let me look at this thing.Copy !req
175. Right. Yes. Let me know
when C.J. 's briefing starts.Copy !req
176. - Sorry I'm late.
- Good morning, Mr. President.Copy !req
177. - We hearing from Michigan's delegation?
- We will.Copy !req
178. They'll want assurances, no mandates,
no timetables...Copy !req
179. make the whole thing voluntary
and industry-led.Copy !req
180. Polluters won't write environmental
laws. And the Energy Workers Union?Copy !req
181. They wanna know
it's Saudi jobs we're after.Copy !req
182. - It is.
- The money's in raising...Copy !req
183. CAFE standards to 40 miles per gallon,
that's the meeting.Copy !req
184. - What else?
- You're gonna be reprimanded...Copy !req
185. tomorrow night on the House floor.
- For what?Copy !req
186. It's not nice to call people dumb.Copy !req
187. Let me ask you something. You're
pretty dumb, did you take offense?Copy !req
188. - Look, I did it again.
- Mr. President?Copy !req
189. - Yeah.
- She's ready to start.Copy !req
190. Seriously, the GOP's lining up
a bunch of people for order speeches.Copy !req
191. - Calling me impolite?
- I guess.Copy !req
192. He's here, you can send her in.Copy !req
193. Anyway, the whip's got
about 150 Democrats ready to rebut.Copy !req
194. You have any
special preferences?Copy !req
195. I don't know,
I guess the biggest names.Copy !req
196. You know what we'd do if we
were smart? We wouldn't send anybody.Copy !req
197. We'd look so good by not showing up.
Let them whine by themselves.Copy !req
198. Morning, C.J.Copy !req
199. - Good morning.
- Was the president saying...Copy !req
200. Governor Ritchie
isn't up to the job of being president?Copy !req
201. He didn't realize the camera was hot
and said something he shouldn't have.Copy !req
202. - Something we all do from time to time.
- Nice.Copy !req
203. Isn 't it early in the season
to be going negative?Copy !req
204. He said something he wouldn't have...Copy !req
205. if he knew it was gonna be public.Copy !req
206. C.J., has he made the same
kind of remarks in private?Copy !req
207. There's a reason
they call it private, Stuart.Copy !req
208. All right, I'm going back to work.Copy !req
209. Is he saying
he's smarter than Governor Ritchie?Copy !req
210. The voters get to make
those kinds of judgments.Copy !req
211. - C.J.!
- Yes?Copy !req
212. Governor Ritchie asked
the president to apologize.Copy !req
213. Will he?Copy !req
214. As I said yesterday,
he didn't realize the camera was hot...Copy !req
215. and he said something
he shouldn't have.Copy !req
216. - Katie?
- The Ritchie camp is challenging...Copy !req
217. the president to sign a pledge,
a promise to run a positive campaign.Copy !req
218. While the governor is the presumptive
Republican nominee, it's presumptive.Copy !req
219. So is the president's renomination.Copy !req
220. But more important,
the president has been a candidate...Copy !req
221. in seven statewide and national
elections, and all have been...Copy !req
222. substantive, issue-based campaign,
one reason why voters elected him...Copy !req
223. every time his name
has appeared on a ballot. Phil?Copy !req
224. You're aware news
organizations are trying to obtain...Copy !req
225. Ritchie's transcripts
from the University of Florida?Copy !req
226. - You mean since yesterday?
- Yeah.Copy !req
227. - No, I wasn't.
- My question is...Copy !req
228. does he feel college transcripts
are an accurate barometer...Copy !req
229. of a person's fitness
to hold high public office?Copy !req
230. I've never asked him,
but my guess is...Copy !req
231. he feels a person's college transcript
is a reasonable barometer...Copy !req
232. for how a person did in college.
The president graduated...Copy !req
233. summa cum laude
from the University of Notre Dame...Copy !req
234. majored in American Studies
with a minor in theology...Copy !req
235. received a master's and doctorate
at London School of Economics...Copy !req
236. and an honorary doctorate in humane
letters at Dartmouth...Copy !req
237. where he was a tenured professor.Copy !req
238. I myself attended Cal Berkeley, go Bears.
Thank you very much, talk to you later.Copy !req
239. Thanks, C.J.Copy !req
240. - All right, so far not bad.
- What's next?Copy !req
241. - Bud Wachtel's in my office.
- Of course he is.Copy !req
242. - Don't give him what he wants.
- I seldom do.Copy !req
243. We can't hold a bipartisan summit
on bipartisanism. We'll look ridiculous.Copy !req
244. - We're used to that.
- Sam...Copy !req
245. - I won't give him what he wants.
- Is it me, or are Ritchie's people wrong?Copy !req
246. - It's not you.
- Why keep at it? They won't look good.Copy !req
247. "The president was mean to me"?
Let it go.Copy !req
248. By the way, my Princeton Tigers
could whip your Cal Bears anytime.Copy !req
249. - At what?
- Logarithms, possibly.Copy !req
250. - He's in your office.
- Thank you.Copy !req
251. - Congressman.
- It smells of partisanism in the air, Sam.Copy !req
252. Actually, you know,
they just sprayed for bugs.Copy !req
253. How did Ziegler let this happen?Copy !req
254. First of all, it wasn't Toby's fault,
it was mine.Copy !req
255. And it happened quickly
and we regret it.Copy !req
256. - How's reaction been so far?
- Our base is very happy...Copy !req
257. but when our base is happy
there's usually trouble someplace else.Copy !req
258. - Moderates talk of bolting the party.
- Nobody's bolting.Copy !req
259. It was an honest mistake.Copy !req
260. And by the way,
it had nothing to do with partisanism.Copy !req
261. - Something has to be done.
- Little can be done...Copy !req
262. from the Communications Office.Copy !req
263. - A summit.
- Congressman...Copy !req
264. - A summit on bipartisan cooperation.
- It'll get laughed out of the room.Copy !req
265. - Why?
- It's election year. We want partisanism.Copy !req
266. - We're trying to beat them.
- I've gotta tell...Copy !req
267. my moderate friends something.Copy !req
268. What about a Republican appointment
or a promotion?Copy !req
269. - We've got Ainsley Hayes.
- Name sounds familiar.Copy !req
270. She was associate White House
counsel, promoted to deputy counsel.Copy !req
271. She's slightly to the right
of the Kaiser.Copy !req
272. - I'd make her visible right now.
- Yes, sir, that's a good idea.Copy !req
273. And learn to tell the difference
between red and green.Copy !req
274. Yes, sir.Copy !req
275. Okay then.Copy !req
276. - Ginger, I need to see Ainsley.
- She's on vacation.Copy !req
277. - When's she coming back?
- Next week.Copy !req
278. Not so much, no.Copy !req
279. - Donna!
- Yeah.Copy !req
280. We're gonna post
a response on the site.Copy !req
281. - What site?
- Lemon-Lyman...Copy !req
282. - No.
- Yeah, we gotta post a response.Copy !req
283. - It's a bad idea.
- Why?Copy !req
284. - You don't know these people.
- Neither do you.Copy !req
285. - I do.
- What's wrong with them?Copy !req
286. - Nobody knows.
- These people...Copy !req
287. take an interest in government.
They should be applauded.Copy !req
288. - Applaud, but stay off the site.
- These are the people talking.Copy !req
289. - I'm not an elitist.
- You are.Copy !req
290. I am, but I have respect for people
who don't measure up.Copy !req
291. People on these sites tend
to be hysterical.Copy !req
292. - We gotta correct something.
- What?Copy !req
293. Irmatrude writes,"Three nights ago on
Nightline, Josh said we'll be asking...Copy !req
294. for a GAO study of Medicare drug
pricing. Apparently, no one's told Josh...Copy !req
295. that only Congress can ask the GAO
to do anything."Copy !req
296. How cool is it that they know
what the GAO can and can't do.Copy !req
297. - Oh, it's cool as all giddyup.
- Sit down.Copy !req
298. - Please don't do this.
- Sit down.Copy !req
299. Irmatrude...Copy !req
300. thanks for watching me
on Nightline.Copy !req
301. Yes, I do know that only Congress
can instruct the GAO.Copy !req
302. When I said,"we'll be asking," I meant
Democrats and not the White House.Copy !req
303. Thank you for your concern.
Josh'Lemon-Lyman."Copy !req
304. - You sure you wanna sign off like that?
- It's playful.Copy !req
305. Okay.Copy !req
306. You could get more
in the spirit of this.Copy !req
307. - The people?
- Yes.Copy !req
308. What Josh doesn't know
is that some of these people...Copy !req
309. haven't taken their medication.Copy !req
310. Let's watch what happens now.Copy !req
311. - Excuse me.
- Hey. You're done.Copy !req
312. Is this tie all right?Copy !req
313. - I'm sorry?
- This necktie, does it go with the jacket?Copy !req
314. God, I don't know, Toby.
The tie, is it red or is it green?Copy !req
315. Congratulations, you're the 100th
person to make that joke.Copy !req
316. - The tie's fine. Why?
- I'm meeting someone.Copy !req
317. When?Copy !req
318. Now.Copy !req
319. Excuse me.Copy !req
320. - Ms. Fortis?
- Yeah.Copy !req
321. I'm Toby Ziegler.Copy !req
322. I've been thinking a lot about it
since you called.Copy !req
323. Yeah?Copy !req
324. There's nothing that rhymes
with Ziegler.Copy !req
325. - It's why no one writes about me.
- They could write in blank verse.Copy !req
326. - Dylan could do it.
- Yeah, but he hasn't yet.Copy !req
327. Am I really weird right off the bat?Copy !req
328. Do you wanna be?Copy !req
329. - No.
- Then you're not.Copy !req
330. I think you're just being nice.Copy !req
331. I think if you ask around,
you'll discover that's unlikely.Copy !req
332. - You wanna come back to my office?
- Yeah.Copy !req
333. So you know what everybody's
talking about out there?Copy !req
334. The president's open-mike gaffe.Copy !req
335. - That's exactly what I was gonna say.
- Toby.Copy !req
336. Sam, say hello to the newly minted
U.S. poet laureate, Tabatha Fortis.Copy !req
337. - Hi.
- Yes, indeed.Copy !req
338. - Poetry, I must tell you...
- That's fine.Copy !req
339. - Nice meeting you.
- You too.Copy !req
340. - You guys poetry fans around here?
- Can't get enough of it.Copy !req
341. - Oh, yeah? Who's your favorite?
- You.Copy !req
342. - Nice.
- Come on in.Copy !req
343. - Nice office.
- Exactly 63 feet from the Oval Office.Copy !req
344. If you don't think we measure,
you're out of your mind.Copy !req
345. Okay. So... .Copy !req
346. - Hello.
- How you doing?Copy !req
347. We have a problem?Copy !req
348. Yes.Copy !req
349. We have arranged a dinner in your honor.
We've invited 300 important people.Copy !req
350. We've invited press,
we've shined our shoes.Copy !req
351. You gotta sign
the land mine treaty, Toby.Copy !req
352. What happened to the nuance
of diplomacy?Copy !req
353. - I'm sorry, the shoes are shined.
- No, we're there now.Copy !req
354. - You can't go back.
- Sorry.Copy !req
355. - Right.
- 142 countries have signed it.Copy !req
356. 84 have ratified,
12 destroyed their entire stock.Copy !req
357. - Yes.
- You know who hasn't signed it?Copy !req
358. - Us and Cuba.
- You know who initiated it? Us.Copy !req
359. And the nations of the world
rallied around it...Copy !req
360. in yet another impressive display
of American leadership.Copy !req
361. - And then?
- We bolted.Copy !req
362. - Right.
- The reason we did...Copy !req
363. is because we love anti-personnel
land mines. We love them.Copy !req
364. We think the government should be
selling them, like the post office.Copy !req
365. The post office is the venue
we're considering.Copy !req
366. - Toby, l...
- It's Korea, Tabatha.Copy !req
367. There are 900,000 North Korean soldiers
in the DMZ.Copy !req
368. The only thing stopping them
from walking into South Korea...Copy !req
369. are 37,000 U.S. troops and about
a million land mines along the border.Copy !req
370. We have said over and over that we
would be thrilled to sign this treaty...Copy !req
371. if we could have an exemption for
South Korea, and we have been rebuffed.Copy !req
372. Rebuffed, I say.Copy !req
373. Look, so we disagree on this.Copy !req
374. Clearly. What's the big deal?Copy !req
375. - It's not a big deal at all.
- Except?Copy !req
376. If you voice your disagreement
at a party in your honor...Copy !req
377. hosted by the president,
with the press in attendance...Copy !req
378. then it's a gigantic deal which travels
the 63 feet right to this office.Copy !req
379. All right then.Copy !req
380. I'm sorry we can't have the party.Copy !req
381. But I like talking to you.Copy !req
382. Yeah, you're cute...Copy !req
383. and I love the way you write.Copy !req
384. C.J., could you give it to us unvarnished?
Was the president calling...Copy !req
385. Governor Ritchie stupid?
- Oh, my God, day three.Copy !req
386. - Was he?
- I think this one may be unspinable.Copy !req
387. And that's saying something
coming from my office.Copy !req
388. Yeah, he was calling him stupid.Copy !req
389. How has his mood been
the last few days? Does he regret it?Copy !req
390. He hasn't been able to feed
or bathe himself.Copy !req
391. The governor's doing a 10-state tour.
His campaign indicates...Copy !req
392. they'll try to rally the nation
around his clean campaign pledge.Copy !req
393. A quote,"A different kind of politics
is sweeping the nation.Copy !req
394. Once the president understands
the American people...Copy !req
395. he'll have no choice
but to sign the pledge."Copy !req
396. Mark, I swear to God,
as soon as the president needs help...Copy !req
397. understanding
the American people...Copy !req
398. he'll call
Florida's Republican governor.Copy !req
399. But this week, we're focused
on the press conference...Copy !req
400. on our National Strategy
for Energy Independence.Copy !req
401. Speaking of which, we've been
dependent on foreign oil for far too long.Copy !req
402. 65% of our crude oil reserves come
from the Gulf, only 3% here at home.Copy !req
403. C.J., policy is the president's forte.Copy !req
404. Are you guys trying
to bait Governor Ritchie...Copy !req
405. into an argument on energy
because you'll win?Copy !req
406. We tried to convince the president
that talking about policy...Copy !req
407. was unsportsmanlike,
but we didn't get anywhere.Copy !req
408. Listen, I've had a lot of fun,
I know you have too. I'll see you later.Copy !req
409. Thank you, C.J.Copy !req
410. - C.J.
- Chuckles.Copy !req
411. The president wants another
pre-brief and run-through tonight.Copy !req
412. - Sure.
- Full-blown run-through.Copy !req
413. Maybe then you can explain...Copy !req
414. your problem
with drilling ANWAR for oil.Copy !req
415. If we wanna be energy-independent,
what's wrong with drilling in Alaska?Copy !req
416. It'll do huge and lasting damage
to the environment...Copy !req
417. and won't reap that much oil.
- It won't impact the environment.Copy !req
418. You won't know how much
is there until you explore.Copy !req
419. - Explore?
- Yes.Copy !req
420. - You mean drill?
- That's how you get where the oil is at.Copy !req
421. - You've been reading his book.
- Excuse me?Copy !req
422. - A Promise to Lead, Ritchie's book.
- Whoever ghosted it isn't bad.Copy !req
423. Carol, put together a page
on the impact of drilling...Copy !req
424. the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.Copy !req
425. Note exactly how many caribou
we've made unhappy.Copy !req
426. - Thank you.
- You bet.Copy !req
427. Come in.Copy !req
428. - Hey, welcome back.
- What?Copy !req
429. - How was the vacation?
- It was 40 hours long.Copy !req
430. - Where did you go?
- Hilton Head.Copy !req
431. What did you do?Copy !req
432. I unpacked and then I packed.Copy !req
433. By the way, congratulations.
Babish is promoting you to deputy.Copy !req
434. - When did this happen?
- Right after I told Bud Wachtel...Copy !req
435. that we already had.
- What the hell is going on?Copy !req
436. Well, Monday morning there was a little
incident during the satellite interviews.Copy !req
437. I read about it. How could you
let something like that happen?Copy !req
438. Okay, for everybody who works outside
the building, I'll fall on the sword.Copy !req
439. But for everybody who works inside,
I wasn't there!Copy !req
440. Okay.Copy !req
441. - Didn't get much of a tan.
- What do you need?Copy !req
442. Capital Beat, Capital Gang,
Inside Politics.Copy !req
443. - To say what?
- The president isn't an elitist.Copy !req
444. - He respects everyone.
- That's why he made...Copy !req
445. a Southern Republican
a deputy counsel.Copy !req
446. - Congratulations, again, by the way.
- He is an elitist.Copy !req
447. It's elitist, geocentric,
lvy League snobbery to think...Copy !req
448. if you haven't written
six journal articles...Copy !req
449. on monetary support mechanisms,
you're not fit to lead.Copy !req
450. We believe that if you're gonna set
policy, it'd be a bonus to understand it.Copy !req
451. At this point, we'd be astonished
to discover Ritchie had read...Copy !req
452. six journal articles on anything,
other than athletic support mechanisms.Copy !req
453. There's a difference
between intellect and instinct.Copy !req
454. 252 million people in the country,
you don't think we should elect...Copy !req
455. somebody who's got both?
- Presidents can have good advisors.Copy !req
456. And good advisors can better advise
informed and curious presidents.Copy !req
457. But what if the lvy League presidents
are surrounded by intellectual snobs?Copy !req
458. Let's clear up things.
That's the second time...Copy !req
459. you've invoked the Evil 8. First of
all, Notre Dame isn't lvy League.Copy !req
460. Their football is independent.
Basketball, in the Big East.Copy !req
461. Second, education is important
in this White House.Copy !req
462. What's wrong with the lvy League?
Should we discourage parents...Copy !req
463. from hoping their kids get
into Princeton and Yale?Copy !req
464. All I know is, we got into Vietnam
via the Beltway Chapter...Copy !req
465. of the Harvard Alumni Association.Copy !req
466. Yeah, except, that's not all you know,
because you're bright and curious...Copy !req
467. you worked hard and got into Smith,
and got your law degree where?Copy !req
468. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
You lose, I win, 'twas ever thus.Copy !req
469. I was on vacation.Copy !req
470. Life's tough
in the aluminum siding business.Copy !req
471. Check the press office
on your TV schedule.Copy !req
472. I will do the TV shows
because I serve the president.Copy !req
473. But I do not want a promotion
I didn't earn.Copy !req
474. - I'll talk to Babish.
- Let me check the pay differential first.Copy !req
475. You bet.Copy !req
476. - Toby.
- Yes.Copy !req
477. Four networks are carrying
the press conference instead of one.Copy !req
478. - Are you kidding?
- No.Copy !req
479. - I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
- No.Copy !req
480. - Where you going?
- Sightseeing.Copy !req
481. - Really?
- Tabatha's never been to Washington.Copy !req
482. You're gonna get that thing done,
or should I?Copy !req
483. - It's gonna be fine.
- You sure?Copy !req
484. She's a poet.
She's new to things like consequences.Copy !req
485. - Okay.
- All four networks?Copy !req
486. Listen, I have a crazy thought.
Is it possible...?Copy !req
487. What?Copy !req
488. Never mind. I'll see you later.Copy !req
489. Okay.Copy !req
490. - Donna!
- Yeah?Copy !req
491. - Something weird has happened here.
- What?Copy !req
492. - Lemon-Lyman...
- No.Copy !req
493. They didn't take
my response in the spirit...Copy !req
494. in which it was intended.
- Yeah.Copy !req
495. Seems to be a very unusual
social structure.Copy !req
496. For instance, there's a leader
who seems to pride herself...Copy !req
497. on her organizational skills
and discipline.Copy !req
498. - That's what's called a control freak.
- She does do an awful lot of scolding.Copy !req
499. "You posted it in the wrong place."
"Stay on topic."Copy !req
500. "No capital letters."
"I don't have time to tell you twice."Copy !req
501. Clearly, she does have time to tell
us twice. But that's not the problem.Copy !req
502. "Someone needs to deal
with Josh's planet-sized ego...Copy !req
503. by teaching him Government 101.Copy !req
504. Who made him overlord
of the Democratic Party?"Copy !req
505. And someone else writes,
"Is Josh delusional...Copy !req
506. or is he actively trying to destroy
the separation of powers?"Copy !req
507. - Well, are you?
- No!Copy !req
508. Then turn off the computer,
and go back to work.Copy !req
509. - I need to clarify my post.
- There's a press conference tomorrow...Copy !req
510. on a new energy policy
that you've spent months...Copy !req
511. shepherding down the field. And now...
- Sit down in the chair.Copy !req
512. - Has the pressure to get the energy pack...
- Sit down in the chair.Copy !req
513. I think you've gone 'round the bend.Copy !req
514. I'm dictating now.Copy !req
515. I don't think it falls under the category
of outrageous...Copy !req
516. to suggest that I might have friends
on the other end of the Avenue...Copy !req
517. who have the phone number
of the GAO.Copy !req
518. Let me put this more plainly. The
White House can get a GAO review...Copy !req
519. of anything it wants without posing
a threat to the separation of powers.Copy !req
520. And I believe I'll use capital,
lowercase or Sanskrit...Copy !req
521. right up until the moment the font
police cuff me and read me Miranda.Copy !req
522. - That'll show them.
- These are good people by and large...Copy !req
523. but they're under the thumb
of a dictatorial ruler.Copy !req
524. So as with a small,
Central American country...Copy !req
525. my role is to incite the people
to topple her.Copy !req
526. You're way 'round the bend.
Can I get you a damp towel?Copy !req
527. - No, but do we have Yoo-hoo?
- Yeah.Copy !req
528. - I'll take one.
- I'm on it.Copy !req
529. - What are you doing?
- Crossing off the FDR Memorial...Copy !req
530. the Atrium and the Folger Library.Copy !req
531. I like crossing off lists,
it's very satisfying.Copy !req
532. Do you like lists?Copy !req
533. - Yes.
- You like crossing things off?Copy !req
534. I'll let you know if it happens.Copy !req
535. Hey, how did you know
what hotel I was at?Copy !req
536. We have you watched
when you're in D.C.Copy !req
537. - Are you serious?
- No.Copy !req
538. Good.Copy !req
539. We always have you watched.Copy !req
540. So you know what I was thinking
might be fun?Copy !req
541. If I came to the White House dinner
and shut up?Copy !req
542. That's not what
I was gonna say at all.Copy !req
543. - What were you gonna say?
- If you came to the dinner...Copy !req
544. wore a beautiful dress
and shut the hell up.Copy !req
545. I got a list of nine former l-Corps
commanders who served in Korea...Copy !req
546. who say land mines aren't necessary
to protect our troops anywhere.Copy !req
547. - We're aware of all nine.
- And we have, do we not...Copy !req
548. other weapons that are more effective
and less deadly to our side...Copy !req
549. that are part of a U.S. response plan
to the North crossing the DMZ?Copy !req
550. I work in communications.Copy !req
551. And land mines
would actually slow a counterinvasion.Copy !req
552. You have an answer to any of this?Copy !req
553. The president of the United States
requests the honor of your presence...Copy !req
554. and I'm sorry, but you show up.Copy !req
555. And I'm sorry, but I tell the truth.Copy !req
556. Not every minute
of the damn day, Tabatha.Copy !req
557. I've seen what I've seen,
and I've been told what I've been told...Copy !req
558. and I have an audience with the person
who can do something about it.Copy !req
559. To smile for a photo-op and recite 64
couplets on the American experience...Copy !req
560. that's treasonous.
- Can we stop with the drama?Copy !req
561. - Toby...
- You don't know what you're doing.Copy !req
562. This isn't kid's stuff.
If you stand up in the president's face...Copy !req
563. that's the story and nobody will care
about what you care about.Copy !req
564. Nobody is going to care
about what you care about.Copy !req
565. And it'll be bad for you, for us,
for the land mines. Everybody.Copy !req
566. Can we just not talk for a minute?Copy !req
567. Yeah.Copy !req
568. Yeah. I gotta give a lecture
tomorrow night at Georgetown.Copy !req
569. I just need to...Copy !req
570. I need to not talk for a minute.Copy !req
571. Yeah.Copy !req
572. - Wait a second.
- "Sunny honeymoon"...Copy !req
573. is what you were looking for.
- No, wait a second.Copy !req
574. He's absolutely right. Hang on.Copy !req
575. Excuse me. Sorry for interrupting.
No, keep your seats.Copy !req
576. - Leo, you're absolutely right.
- About what?Copy !req
577. We shouldn't show up. Tell the whip
we wanna yield all our time.Copy !req
578. While they complain on camera
about me making fun of Ritchie...Copy !req
579. Democrats caucus on literacy
and tuition tax credits.Copy !req
580. - We wanna yield all our time.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
581. Thank you.Copy !req
582. The president begins
his press conference at 9...Copy !req
583. or more accurately, the walk down
the red carpet will happen at 9:01:30...Copy !req
584. per the network's request.Copy !req
585. He'll open with his
strategy for energy independence.Copy !req
586. That will last about 15 minutes,
then he'll take questions for 45 minutes.Copy !req
587. C.J., a senior official
in the communications office...Copy !req
588. of the Ritchie campaign said,
"If the president thinks his candidate...Copy !req
589. is stupid, he should just come
right out and say so."Copy !req
590. - Really?
- Really.Copy !req
591. Let's start a pool to guess how long
the senior communications official...Copy !req
592. is gonna keep his job if once a day he
suggests we call his candidate stupid.Copy !req
593. This has to stop.
We're the only ones scoring points...Copy !req
594. and we're not even playing.
Mark?Copy !req
595. She's got a point there.Copy !req
596. Does it concern you that the smartest
presidents have been the worst?Copy !req
597. - I don't grant your premise.
- John Quincy Adams was full of himself.Copy !req
598. He could hardly build a coalition
around having eggs for breakfast.Copy !req
599. Wilson's grand theories on international
relations were dead on arrival in Congress.Copy !req
600. - I don't care.
- Why?Copy !req
601. Before I look for anything,
I look for a mind at work.Copy !req
602. Nobody's saying a president needs
to have a tenured chair in semiotics.Copy !req
603. - But you have to have...
- What?Copy !req
604. - Gravitas.
- And how do you measure that?Copy !req
605. You don't,
but we know it when we see it.Copy !req
606. And Republicans tend
to mock it when they do.Copy !req
607. - You think I'm wrong?
- I do not.Copy !req
608. No, you don't. The way I know you
don't is I saw you say so on television.Copy !req
609. Hey, Toby.Copy !req
610. - Why are you here?
- The TV isn't working in my office.Copy !req
611. - You did good on TV.
- Thanks.Copy !req
612. I'll be in my office.Copy !req
613. - How's it going with the poet?
- I'm not sure.Copy !req
614. Does she have
a strong history of activism?Copy !req
615. She has no history of activism.Copy !req
616. She said something yesterday.
She was talking about land mines.Copy !req
617. She said,"From everything I've seen
and everything I've been told..."Copy !req
618. You think she's getting pressure?Copy !req
619. - Toby?
- Yeah?Copy !req
620. It's someone from Georgetown
University. I think there's a problem.Copy !req
621. - The Internet people have gone crazy.
- You're kidding!Copy !req
622. They're calling the GAO
"General Josh's Standing Army"...Copy !req
623. and saying I don't understand
its purpose.Copy !req
624. They say if I can get a review
of anything...Copy !req
625. I should start by reviewing the job of
deputy COS. One guy compares me...Copy !req
626. to a poor man's Clark Clifford
and a page and a half of posts...Copy !req
627. debating whether I was mocking
Egyptians with the Sanskrit reference.Copy !req
628. - I said they're hysterical.
- I thought you meant funny.Copy !req
629. - They're not.
- I know! It's Lord of the Flies!Copy !req
630. - Who invited you in the first place?
- It's got my name on it.Copy !req
631. Look, I don't wanna hear
about it anymore.Copy !req
632. - We've got an energy plan in 10 minutes.
- Oh, Josh!Copy !req
633. - Yeah.
- The Federal Page...Copy !req
634. of The Washington Post called to
confirm you're the one who stated...Copy !req
635. on a website that the White House
could order a GAO review of anything.Copy !req
636. Without threatening
the separation of powers.Copy !req
637. - You posted on a website?
- I was communicating with the people.Copy !req
638. Really?Copy !req
639. C.J., it's a crazy place.
It's got this dictatorial leader...Copy !req
640. who, surely, wears a muumuu
and chain-smokes Parliaments.Copy !req
641. - Why did you go there in the first place?
- It's called Lemon-Lyman. Com.Copy !req
642. Let me explain something to you, this
is my field. The people on these sites?Copy !req
643. They're the cast of
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.Copy !req
644. The muumuu-wearing Parliament smoker?
That's Nurse Ratched.Copy !req
645. When Nurse Ratched is unhappy,
the patients are too.Copy !req
646. You're McMurphy. You swoop in
with your card games and fishing trips...Copy !req
647. I didn't swoop.
I came in like everybody else did.Copy !req
648. Well, open the wardroom window
and climb out...Copy !req
649. before they give you
a prefrontal lobotomy...Copy !req
650. and I have
to smother you with a pillow.Copy !req
651. - You're Chief Bromden?
- Yes, at this moment.Copy !req
652. I'm assigning an intern
to that website.Copy !req
653. They'll check it.
If they discover you've been there...Copy !req
654. I'm gonna shove a motherboard
so far up your ass... What?Copy !req
655. - Well, technically, I outrank you.
- So far up your ass!Copy !req
656. - Okay.
- Okay?Copy !req
657. - How you doing?
- Are we ready?Copy !req
658. - We are.
- I believe we are. You wanna walk over?Copy !req
659. Donna, let's go. It's time.Copy !req
660. - Excuse me.
- Are you Mr. Ziegler?Copy !req
661. What happened?Copy !req
662. Well, she was giving her lecture,
and then towards the end, something...Copy !req
663. I don't know.
I think she's okay.Copy !req
664. But I asked her
if there was anyone I can call.Copy !req
665. - Where is she?
- She's sitting out on the steps.Copy !req
666. Okay, thanks.Copy !req
667. Was there any press there tonight?Copy !req
668. For a poetry lecture?Copy !req
669. Right.Copy !req
670. There was a man
in Banja Luka that I met.Copy !req
671. He took his son and I...Copy !req
672. to go fishing in the Sava River.Copy !req
673. And the little boy...Copy !req
674. hooked a piece of garbage...Copy !req
675. and when he tried to take it off
the line, it blew him up.Copy !req
676. Right in front of his father,
and right in front of me.Copy !req
677. What happened tonight?Copy !req
678. I decided to highlight poets
who were never chosen poet laureate...Copy !req
679. because they were too rebellious.Copy !req
680. Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton,
Allen Ginsberg.Copy !req
681. And I went into'Howl." I know'Howl"
like you know voting districts.Copy !req
682. I saw the best minds
Of my generation destroyed by madnessCopy !req
683. Starving hysterical nakedCopy !req
684. Dragging themselves through...Copy !req
685. And then... .Copy !req
686. What?Copy !req
687. I couldn't remember anymore.Copy !req
688. I couldn't... .Copy !req
689. You know,
I couldn't remember anymore.Copy !req
690. You think I think that an artist's job
is to speak the truth.Copy !req
691. An artist's job...Copy !req
692. is to captivate you for however long
we've asked for your attention.Copy !req
693. If we stumble into truth,
we got lucky.Copy !req
694. And I don't get to decide
what truth is.Copy !req
695. What you said about South Korea
makes sense.Copy !req
696. You know,
people know more than I do.Copy !req
697. I shouldn't be... .Copy !req
698. You know.Copy !req
699. I write poetry, Toby,
that's how I enter the world.Copy !req
700. I was thinking maybe, you know...Copy !req
701. I don't know
if you can do this...Copy !req
702. but I was thinking if I could get
a few minutes alone with the president...Copy !req
703. so that I can tell him
what I saw in Banja Luka.Copy !req
704. Then it wouldn't have to be a thing.
You know, the dinner.Copy !req
705. And there I could... .Copy !req
706. I have 64 couplets
on the American experience...Copy !req
707. that I think might be appropriate.Copy !req
708. Yeah, we can do that.Copy !req
709. What's that say?Copy !req
710. "Meet Tabatha Fortis."Copy !req
711. I have to be at a press conference.Copy !req
712. Right.Copy !req
713. So as a matter of cold fact, Chipper...Copy !req
714. you'll see it's the porcupine caribou
and ANWAR's their calving ground...Copy !req
715. and you can't put a price tag on that.
But that's hardly the point.Copy !req
716. 36 species of fish, 36 land mammals,
160 different bird species.Copy !req
717. - I admit, this is a lot of wildlife.
- Forget the wildlife.Copy !req
718. It hurts subsistence hunters in the area,
changes migratory patterns...Copy !req
719. in ways we don't know, increases
freezing depths of rivers and lakes...Copy !req
720. - And the emissions from drilling.
- Welcome home.Copy !req
721. It'll cause pollutant haze, acid rain.
All this in exchange for?Copy !req
722. - Not a lot of oil to begin with.
- Here we go. What time is it?Copy !req
723. 9:00, sir.Copy !req
724. - We'll see you inside.
- Thank you, everyone.Copy !req
725. Thank you, sir.Copy !req
726. C.J.Copy !req
727. - Yes.
- I've been meaning to tell you...Copy !req
728. you've done well
with the open-mike thing.Copy !req
729. - Thank you.
- Didn't turn out too bad.Copy !req
730. No, sir, it didn't turn out
too bad at all.Copy !req
731. The whole country's talking about if
Ritchie's smart enough to be president.Copy !req
732. You didn't take a hit
because it was an accident.Copy !req
733. It occurs to me even your choice
of language was interesting.Copy !req
734. "A.22 caliber mind
in a.357 Magnum world"...Copy !req
735. that's unusual for you,
a gun metaphor.Copy !req
736. Toby mentioned to me
that when each interview was over...Copy !req
737. the interviewers wanted
to talk to you about Ritchie...Copy !req
738. and you took a pass each time.Copy !req
739. Until Philadelphia.Copy !req
740. Mr. President, is it possible
you saw the green light was on?Copy !req
741. Ladies and gentlemen,
the president of the United States.Copy !req
742. That was old-school.Copy !req
743. Go knock them dead.Copy !req