1. Tell me what the problem is, Toby.Copy !req
2. I'm Sam, sir. I'm the
deputy communications director.Copy !req
3. I'm Leo McGarry,
White House chief of staff.Copy !req
4. - I'm personal aide to the president.
- I'm a speechwriter.Copy !req
5. I'm the deputy chief of staff.Copy !req
6. Which, I guess, makes me
deputy deputy chief of staff.Copy !req
7. I'm the press secretary.
It's an unavoidable conflict of interest.Copy !req
8. I'm Josiah Bartlet.
I'm president of the U.S.Copy !req
9. Whoever's on the printer, get off.
Now.Copy !req
10. - That's me.
- Get off!Copy !req
11. You wanna make it clear we're
pushing for Slovenia...Copy !req
12. and possibly the Baltic states:
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.Copy !req
13. - We're gonna leave Fredonia out?
- Point is, the zero option's off the table.Copy !req
14. Can we please?Copy !req
15. Aren't we pretty much admitting the
countries we formed NATO to fight?Copy !req
16. - Yes.
- Then why not dissolve it?Copy !req
17. - We like the bomber jackets.
- When you joke...Copy !req
18. - My jokes are funny.
- Fredonia was good.Copy !req
19. - Heard it.
- Give you $500 if you do...Copy !req
20. "Lydia the Tattooed Lady"
at the Gridiron.Copy !req
21. Can we talk about sugar subsidies?Copy !req
22. We're not done
talking about summit.Copy !req
23. - It's a two-day grip and grin.
- You of all people.Copy !req
24. The Russians finally elect
a reformer and you still...Copy !req
25. 20 years in the KGB? An election
that would make Tammany Hall...Copy !req
26. look like the League of Women Voters?
I'm not sure that qualifies as a... .Copy !req
27. - C.J.?
- There was a fire...Copy !req
28. at the King Fatah Middle School
in Medina.Copy !req
29. Seventeen girls died in the fire when
they were prevented from coming out...Copy !req
30. and rescue workers
were prevented from saving them.Copy !req
31. - What was preventing them?
- The muttawa.Copy !req
32. The girls weren't dressed properly.Copy !req
33. Don't comment.Copy !req
34. I haven't spoken to the president,
to Leo, to State, to anybody.Copy !req
35. You wanna muzzle me before I go in
there? Speak now or hold your peace.Copy !req
36. God knows it's not likely I'm gonna.Copy !req
37. Let's get a good spot.Copy !req
38. - Good morning.
- Good morning.Copy !req
39. I have some schedule details
on the summit.Copy !req
40. Air Force One will depart
Andrews at 7 p.m. Friday...Copy !req
41. arriving in Helsinki 4 a.m. Eastern time.
That's 11 a.m. Saturday, local.Copy !req
42. Presidents Bartlet and Chigorin will have
their meeting at 3:00 at Mantyniemi.Copy !req
43. That's a change. Photo op, stills only,
at the beginning of the meeting.Copy !req
44. - C.J.?
- What are the president's goals...Copy !req
45. of the summit?
- First, to meet the new Russian president.Copy !req
46. But they share the aspiration of building
a secure and undivided Europe.Copy !req
47. Are you aware of the fire that
happened at King Fatah Middle School?Copy !req
48. Yeah. That's a tragedy. Chris.Copy !req
49. Saudi news says rescuers
were prevented...Copy !req
50. from getting to several
female students by the religious police.Copy !req
51. - Yeah, I read that too. Steve?
- Can the White House comment?Copy !req
52. I literally got this
a minute and a half ago.Copy !req
53. I haven't spoken to the president
or chief of staff, State...Copy !req
54. or anyone in Communications.
This is just me.Copy !req
55. - Well, do you have a comment?
- I don't. No.Copy !req
56. I'm sorry, C.J.,
but you're not outraged by this?Copy !req
57. Outraged? I'm barely surprised.Copy !req
58. This is a country where women
aren't allowed to drive a car.Copy !req
59. They can't be in the company
of any man other than a close relative.Copy !req
60. Their dress code is so strict that
it'd make a nun look like Malibu Barbie.Copy !req
61. They beheaded 121 people last year
for robbery, rape and drug trafficking.Copy !req
62. They have no free press, no elected
government, no political parties...Copy !req
63. and the royal family allows the
religious police to travel in sixes...Copy !req
64. carrying nightsticks
and they freely and publicly beat women.Copy !req
65. But Brutus is an honorable man.Copy !req
66. Seventeen girls died because they
weren't wearing the proper clothing.Copy !req
67. Am I outraged?Copy !req
68. No, Steve. No, Chris. No, Mark.Copy !req
69. That is Saudi Arabia, our partners
in peace. Bonnie, then Scott.Copy !req
70. Sam, you know a guy named Farley
who worked here before I did?Copy !req
71. - Where did he work?
- For the president.Copy !req
72. - No. What's his first name?
- I don't know.Copy !req
73. A kid wrote to the president saying that
when he was campaigning...Copy !req
74. he met his assistant, Mr. Farley.Copy !req
75. Probably one of the guys from early on.
I didn't know them.Copy !req
76. It couldn't have been that early.Copy !req
77. The kid says they met
at a budget speech in Pittsburgh.Copy !req
78. - He means San Diego.
- He says Pittsburgh.Copy !req
79. We never did a budget speech
in Pittsburgh.Copy !req
80. - This is a little weird.
- How many weird letters come a day?Copy !req
81. Couple thousand, but this one has the
president's private mail code on it.Copy !req
82. How many confused people
does he befriend every day?Copy !req
83. But he doesn't
give them the private mail code.Copy !req
84. I don't know.
I'm on with the Russians.Copy !req
85. - Good morning, I'm Sam Seaborn.
- Nickolai lvanovich.Copy !req
86. - George Kowzlowski.
- Thanks for coming by.Copy !req
87. This should be quick.Copy !req
88. Let me say that President Bartlet looks
forward to meeting President Chigorin...Copy !req
89. and having a productive meeting.Copy !req
90. Mr. Seaborn, we understood
that the protocol arrangements...Copy !req
91. had been finalized
by the advance teams in Helsinki.Copy !req
92. That's right,
but there are points I'd like to revisit.Copy !req
93. My thinking being I could relay
my concerns to you at the embassy.Copy !req
94. You could send them to Moscow
and hopefully get an answer quickly...Copy !req
95. because we're
coming down to it now.Copy !req
96. I'm sorry, I... .Copy !req
97. It's coming up quickly.
The summit.Copy !req
98. - It's Saturday and this is Monday.
- Oh, yes, yes.Copy !req
99. We've agreed
to a consecutive translation?Copy !req
100. - Yes.
- I'd like a simultaneous translation.Copy !req
101. They prefer that the two leaders
pause while their remarks are rendered.Copy !req
102. Rendered into the particular language.Copy !req
103. President Bartlet has a rhythm to his
speaking that's best uninterrupted.Copy !req
104. - That's the reason I bring it up.
- We'll pass that over.Copy !req
105. - I'm sorry,"pass it on"?
- Yes.Copy !req
106. I'm sorry, it's just that one is good
and one is bad.Copy !req
107. We agreed on the Grand Salon
in Finlandia Hall for the 6:00 meeting...Copy !req
108. and I wanted to change that
to the Hall of Flags.Copy !req
109. Hall of Flags. Didn't we agree
3:00 for that meeting?Copy !req
110. - It's funny you should mention that.
- I'm sorry?Copy !req
111. It's funny...Copy !req
112. It's a coincidence that you happened
to mention the time of the meeting.Copy !req
113. See, President Chigorin
only has to fly through one time zone.Copy !req
114. President Bartlet
has to fly through seven.Copy !req
115. Don't get me wrong, this president
can do three shows a night.Copy !req
116. But there's no one who has a worse
reaction to jet lag than he does.Copy !req
117. Any trip eight hours or longer,
someone gets fired.Copy !req
118. - It's already been me three times, so...
- We'll pass it on.Copy !req
119. Everyone on the White House staff
would agree that's a deal breaker.Copy !req
120. All right, then.Copy !req
121. - Was there anything else?
- Yeah, we're just getting started.Copy !req
122. - You guys hungry?
- No.Copy !req
123. - You ready?
- Yeah, where are we going?Copy !req
124. The yogurt place.
Are those angry faxes?Copy !req
125. They're... Yeah.
They're very angry faxes.Copy !req
126. - From Saudis?
- Yeah.Copy !req
127. - What did you expect?
- Very angry faxes from Saudis.Copy !req
128. And angry e-mails. Look at these.Copy !req
129. I'm seeing some troubling spelling here.
"Godless" with two D's?Copy !req
130. - Let's go.
- Hang on.Copy !req
131. - C.J.?
- I saw it.Copy !req
132. - It's a death threat.
- It's not a big deal.Copy !req
133. - You sure?
- Yeah. Don't tell anybody, okay?Copy !req
134. I don't want a lot of production.Copy !req
135. - All right.
- Thanks.Copy !req
136. Josh? Can you come in here...Copy !req
137. and look at this, please?
- Donna.Copy !req
138. - Look at what?
- C.J. 's e-mail.Copy !req
139. Call Frank Tenney downstairs,
I wanna talk to him right away.Copy !req
140. Yeah.Copy !req
141. - You take this seriously?
- Yeah, it's a death threat, C.J.Copy !req
142. I take it seriously.Copy !req
143. I've had some experience with this.Copy !req
144. - Thank you all so much.
- Thank you.Copy !req
145. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.Copy !req
146. - They wanna show us a picture.
- Of what?Copy !req
147. I don't know.Copy !req
148. We've got a problem. Jake Kimball
came to see me this morning.Copy !req
149. - What's he doing here?
- Looking 100 years old.Copy !req
150. Anteras is gonna announce
a chip recall on Thursday.Copy !req
151. How big?Copy !req
152. Everything.Copy !req
153. What are you talking about?Copy !req
154. - They discovered a problem...
- That's gotta be 50 million chips.Copy !req
155. Eighty million.Copy !req
156. - Leo, how the hell...?
- I know.Copy !req
157. That's the end of Anteras.Copy !req
158. - Yeah.
- 98,000 workers...Copy !req
159. I think 75,000 in the U.S.
Plus the kidney punch at NASDAQ.Copy !req
160. I think Jake's gonna put a shotgun
in his mouth, I really do.Copy !req
161. Sir?Copy !req
162. Yeah.Copy !req
163. - Mr. President.
- Fitz! Fitz, you old polecat...Copy !req
164. you old so-and-so.Copy !req
165. - You trying to be one of the fellas, sir?
- Yeah.Copy !req
166. - Well, well done, sir.
- Thank you.Copy !req
167. This picture was taken by an SR-71
during a routine flyover in the Gulf.Copy !req
168. This is Bushehr. And this is what looks to
me like the early days of construction...Copy !req
169. on a light water reactor. Light water is
ordinary water, tap water. It's Perrier.Copy !req
170. Yeah.Copy !req
171. Light water is what's used
for nuclear reactors and the Iranians...Copy !req
172. contracted the Russians to build them
a light water reactor for that purpose.Copy !req
173. What's the problem?Copy !req
174. Four intelligence agencies tell me
I'm wrong. And I am.Copy !req
175. The Russians are building them
a heavy water reactor.Copy !req
176. What do you use heavy water for?Copy !req
177. Plutonium.Copy !req
178. - Morning, Janice.
- Morning, Mr. Ziegler.Copy !req
179. - Call me Toby.
- Okay.Copy !req
180. That's a nice uniform.Copy !req
181. - How long have you guys had it?
- About a thousand years.Copy !req
182. - Okay.
- Hey, Toby.Copy !req
183. Excuse me. I've gotta tell you
something. You ready?Copy !req
184. - What?
- I've got nothing to do.Copy !req
185. What do you mean?Copy !req
186. I got to the office at 6 and it turned out
everything I had to do got done by 7:30.Copy !req
187. Some strange fluke of the calendar.
So I'm just out here walking around.Copy !req
188. - You know, just being in the world.
- In the hallways.Copy !req
189. - Yeah. Well, you know.
- I'm gonna change all that.Copy !req
190. Meet with a Russian reporter
named Ludmilla Koss.Copy !req
191. She's the Washington correspondent
for the Novaya Gazeta.Copy !req
192. She wants a seat
on the press charter.Copy !req
193. - Why is she asking us?
- The Russians banned her.Copy !req
194. - Why?
- She supported the other guy.Copy !req
195. Time to teach these Stoli-drinking
Tchaikovskies a thing or two...Copy !req
196. about free press, American-style.Copy !req
197. You don't ban those who supported
your opponent...Copy !req
198. you make them wallow in their
loserdom by covering your victory.Copy !req
199. You sit them in the front row,
you give them a hat.Copy !req
200. I will save Ludmilla Koss,
for I am Toby...Copy !req
201. and in so doing...
Why am I going on like this?Copy !req
202. - I don't know.
- Set up the meeting.Copy !req
203. - Obviously I have a little time.
- Thank you.Copy !req
204. Ron?Copy !req
205. C.J., Frank Tenney spoke to me
this morning.Copy !req
206. Yeah, Josh made me
see him yesterday.Copy !req
207. He filed everything
he was supposed to file.Copy !req
208. Can I see the message?Copy !req
209. It's just... . You know, it's what it is.Copy !req
210. Could you type in your password?Copy !req
211. - You checked your e-mail yet today?
- I just got here.Copy !req
212. Okay, he sent another one
at 5:20 this morning.Copy !req
213. - Have you had cyber-threats before?
- Not explicitly.Copy !req
214. Agent Tenney says you don't recognize
the sender's address.Copy !req
215. No.Copy !req
216. Have you had a bad breakup
with a boyfriend lately?Copy !req
217. God, Ron, I haven't had a boyfriend in...
I get a lot of hate mail.Copy !req
218. After the president,
I'm the single most visible person...Copy !req
219. in the federal government.
Every day I'm on TV...Copy !req
220. and every day exactly half the people
are gonna disagree with you.Copy !req
221. Some will hate you.
And some will write letters.Copy !req
222. Yeah, this isn't hate mail,
this is a death threat.Copy !req
223. Could I use your computer
for a second?Copy !req
224. Sure.Copy !req
225. Okay. I'm gonna need to take
your hard drive.Copy !req
226. - Why?
- I just used trace-route tools.Copy !req
227. The server and the IP address
don't match.Copy !req
228. The address is disguising the origin.Copy !req
229. In my briefing yesterday I made remarks
about a situation in Saudi Arabia.Copy !req
230. I may have gone too far,
I was thinking of apologizing.Copy !req
231. Yeah, this doesn't have anything
to do with that.Copy !req
232. What do you mean?Copy !req
233. Muslim extremists don't get personal.
They don't know your name or care.Copy !req
234. They don't want one person,
they want hundreds.Copy !req
235. That's why they don't use bullets.Copy !req
236. Killing one person
is a waste of a bomb.Copy !req
237. He wants you,
why doesn't he want me?Copy !req
238. Someone will come
get your hard drive.Copy !req
239. We're intercepting all your e-mails
from the address. Thank you.Copy !req
240. The press conference
can be moved to 9:00.Copy !req
241. - Thank you.
- And... Excuse me.Copy !req
242. Thank you. And the venue
can be moved to Hall of Mirrors.Copy !req
243. - Flags.
- Yes.Copy !req
244. - But we need something from you.
- Okay.Copy !req
245. On his arrival and during
outdoor photograph opportunity...Copy !req
246. President Bartlet must wear overcoat.
- A coat?Copy !req
247. He must wear coat.
He must wear gloves.Copy !req
248. Scarves and earmuffs permissible,
but optional.Copy !req
249. Hang on. Yes, because President
Chigorin wants to wear a coat...Copy !req
250. and doesn't wanna look like a wimp.
- It is freezing to cold in Reykjavik.Copy !req
251. It is freezing to cold in Helsinki.Copy !req
252. It is freezing to cold in Staad.
Why must every American president...Copy !req
253. bound out of an automobile
like as at a yacht club, while in...Copy !req
254. - Excuse me. Compare...?
- Comparison.Copy !req
255. Compare. While in comparison
our leader looks like...Copy !req
256. - I don't even know what word is.
- Frumpy?Copy !req
257. I don't know what'frumpy" is,
but onomatopoetically, sounds right.Copy !req
258. It's hard not to like a guy who doesn't
know frumpy but knows onomatopoeia.Copy !req
259. I'll talk to the president
about the coat.Copy !req
260. Final meeting is tomorrow
on the last points and that's it.Copy !req
261. - Thank you, sir.
- Thank you.Copy !req
262. - What is onomatop...?
- Sounds like. Sounds like.Copy !req
263. - Well, you were right.
- About what?Copy !req
264. He never made a speech in Pittsburgh.
Kid's 9, so he would've been 5 or 6.Copy !req
265. Maybe he thought
everything was a budget speech.Copy !req
266. - Or maybe it's a crazy letter.
- It's not.Copy !req
267. - You sure?
- I read a lot of letters.Copy !req
268. I got one last year asking me to donate
my brain to a medical school in Granada.Copy !req
269. There are days when I think,
"Yeah, why not just get it over with?"Copy !req
270. He took a picture with the president.
The advance guys...Copy !req
271. get the name and address, we send a
copy. But there's no record of this one.Copy !req
272. - Plus, his father's in trouble.
- Why?Copy !req
273. He works at the Franklin Mill's furnaces.
The kid said they may fire him...Copy !req
274. because he's joining a union,
a group called...Copy !req
275. the Steel Workers Organizing
Committee. Ever heard of them?Copy !req
276. Yeah, except they have
a different name today.Copy !req
277. - What?
- The AFL-CIO.Copy !req
278. And furnace workers are all unionized.Copy !req
279. Charlie.Copy !req
280. - Hey, Charlie.
- Hey.Copy !req
281. - Ms. Koss?
- Yes.Copy !req
282. Toby Ziegler, come on in.Copy !req
283. - You write for the Novaya Gazeta.
- Yes.Copy !req
284. - Your circulation's gotten huge.
- Highest daily in Russia.Copy !req
285. It's hard to tell if it's because
of your reporting, your editorials...Copy !req
286. or the naked women on page three.Copy !req
287. We did not invent this thing. Nor did we
invent the comic strips or Lotto.Copy !req
288. Touché, madam.Copy !req
289. So, what did you do to piss off
President Chigorin?Copy !req
290. President Chigorin
does not like criticism.Copy !req
291. - Have you met someone who does?
- That is not the point.Copy !req
292. No, I'm just talking.Copy !req
293. Listen, you're already credentialed
to cover our president.Copy !req
294. It's just putting you on the plane.
Before I do that...Copy !req
295. I wanna check the
State Department to make sure...Copy !req
296. it's not a grotesquely insulting thing
to do to a new president...Copy !req
297. from whom the U.S.
is hoping for quite a bit.Copy !req
298. So your First Amendment
only extends as far as is polite?Copy !req
299. No, it extends farther than that,
but it only protects us.Copy !req
300. Believe me, if we were able to enforce
U.S. law around the world...Copy !req
301. I'd retire and go scuba diving.
- You like diving?Copy !req
302. I've never done it or anything else.
But I've seen pictures.Copy !req
303. It looks fun. I've seen pictures
of people out there in the world...Copy !req
304. and they all look like
they're glad they are.Copy !req
305. Granted, someone's usually trying
to sell something in these pictures...Copy !req
306. but I'll tell you what,
I'm 44 years old and I'm buying.Copy !req
307. I usually don't talk this much,
but I'm having an odd day.Copy !req
308. Wanna stay and look at pictures
of scuba divers?Copy !req
309. - No, thank you.
- Okay, then. We'll talk tomorrow.Copy !req
310. Thank you very much.Copy !req
311. Thanks so much. Thank you.Copy !req
312. Listen, before we go in there, let's
take a second to talk about Anteras.Copy !req
313. - Yeah.
- It's not like we can't help.Copy !req
314. - We can't help.
- I'm not saying Commerce or Treasury...Copy !req
315. calls the banks, but an emergency loan
guarantee, if we can get Congress to...Copy !req
316. - Good morning, sir.
- Good morning.Copy !req
317. Yeah, we can't do it.Copy !req
318. How did it go?Copy !req
319. They confronted the
Russian atomic energy minister.Copy !req
320. - And?
- He denies everything.Copy !req
321. - Good enough for me.
- He doesn't deny building a reactor.Copy !req
322. They've had contracts with Iran
since '76 and he says that...Copy !req
323. deuterium-based reactors have been
up and running in Canada for years.Copy !req
324. Yeah, well, Canada, Russia, roughly
the same relationship with the U.S.Copy !req
325. Fitz, you old horse thief,
you old muckety-muck.Copy !req
326. Well, good morning again, sir.Copy !req
327. Josh says the director of Minatom
says it's commercial power production.Copy !req
328. Yeah, except that there are no
power lines to and from the site.Copy !req
329. And there's no reprocessing facility.Copy !req
330. This one's 50 megawatts thermal,
which is identical to the reactor...Copy !req
331. Pakistan's got in Kushab.Copy !req
332. This isn't used to make the lights go,
it's used to make plutonium.Copy !req
333. Mr. President, I am not your
national security advisor...Copy !req
334. or your secretary of Defense
or State...Copy !req
335. but the Russians are giving Iran
the bomb.Copy !req
336. Well...Copy !req
337. that's what was said by my national
security advisor 20 minutes ago...Copy !req
338. right after it was said by
the secretaries of State and Defense.Copy !req
339. And for what it's worth,
the directors of the CIA, NSA, FBI...Copy !req
340. and Naval Intelligence agree.Copy !req
341. Leo, isn't Minatom in terrible shape?Copy !req
342. They lost some customers
after Chernobyl.Copy !req
343. Yeah, that's welcome to free markets
the hard way.Copy !req
344. But my point is, their light water reactor
contracts are behind schedule.Copy !req
345. - All kinds of technical failures.
- Did the Iranians force them to build...Copy !req
346. a heavy water reactor?
- To satisfy their contracts, maybe.Copy !req
347. Crap. And even if that were the case,
it doesn't make them Jean Valjean.Copy !req
348. They want a power broker
in the Middle East.Copy !req
349. Just what the doctor ordered
for the Middle East.Copy !req
350. All right, while avoiding
the biggest diplomacy disaster...Copy !req
351. since I don't know when...Copy !req
352. Josh, Leo, you guys have to figure out
a way to get me out of it.Copy !req
353. Get him out of what?Copy !req
354. He's not going to Helsinki.Copy !req
355. There's something really good
on television.Copy !req
356. - What?
- That's why he can't go.Copy !req
357. Something good is on TV
and he can't work a VCR.Copy !req
358. No, not that. They know he's got
a staff. They wouldn't buy it.Copy !req
359. - It's that he doesn't trust technology.
- Josh.Copy !req
360. - This is insane.
- News of the reactor's gonna break.Copy !req
361. You know it will, and it's gonna break
at the worst possible time.Copy !req
362. In fact, my money's on it breaking right
next to the picture of him with Chigorin.Copy !req
363. While wearing a coat
to protect his MS-riddled body...Copy !req
364. from the fierce climate in Finland.
- How can all of you guys...Copy !req
365. be so sure it's not Minatom
and the other Cold War holdouts...Copy !req
366. the ex-Soviets?
- I don't care who it is.Copy !req
367. There are other issues.
NATO expansion, the Caspian pipeline...Copy !req
368. You don't get to put a bomb in Iran!
There are no other issues right now.Copy !req
369. We're gonna have to fly over there
and blow this thing up...Copy !req
370. and given what they're manufacturing
there, I don't know if that's possible.Copy !req
371. We were all so smart.Copy !req
372. Russia's hobbled, the next conflict's
gonna be in the Middle East.Copy !req
373. Turns out it is in the Middle East.Copy !req
374. With the Russians.Copy !req
375. You didn't answer my question.Copy !req
376. - What question?
- Chigorin just took office...Copy !req
377. four months ago.Copy !req
378. How can you be sure
it's not a rogue thing?Copy !req
379. I don't want a leak, Josh.Copy !req
380. - Everyone's proceeding like we're going?
- Yes. How can you be sure?Copy !req
381. I can't.Copy !req
382. Toby.Copy !req
383. Thanks for coming down.Copy !req
384. Is there still a summit to go to?Copy !req
385. - I'm sorry, what did you say?
- Sorry, I asked because...Copy !req
386. Yeah.Copy !req
387. I wanted to talk to you
because I've been asked...Copy !req
388. to put a reporter from the
Novaya Gazeta on the press plane.Copy !req
389. That's a mistake.Copy !req
390. You understand I'm talking about...Copy !req
391. a pencil and a pad of paper,
from which no one has ever died.Copy !req
392. There isn't any publication in Russia
more critical of the Chigorin government.Copy !req
393. The editorial judgment aside,
what's the damage assessment?Copy !req
394. The point of the summit
is to build strong bilateral ties...Copy !req
395. with a new administration. So...Copy !req
396. - We make it clear it's not personal.
- How do we do that?Copy !req
397. I don't know.
What are the things they could do?Copy !req
398. We've got a half-dozen U.S. reporters in
Moscow whose credentials are pending.Copy !req
399. This is like if they credentialed
the Enquirer to cover the summit.Copy !req
400. If the Enquirer ever asked us,
we'd credential them.Copy !req
401. Making sure the Enquirer can write freely
is the only way I can be sure...Copy !req
402. that The New York Times
is writing whatever it wants.Copy !req
403. Well, you asked me what I thought,
I'm 100 percent against it.Copy !req
404. - Okay.
- Thanks.Copy !req
405. Good morning, Mr. President.Copy !req
406. You'll get Secret Service protection.
But I can't order it...Copy !req
407. unless you sign this piece of paper,
so sign this piece of paper.Copy !req
408. - Sir, can I ask why you feel...?
- Because Ron says it is.Copy !req
409. And around here,
we do whatever Ron says.Copy !req
410. - Well, I think it might be an overreaction.
- Good for you.Copy !req
411. With all your years of training
and experience in sniffing out crime...Copy !req
412. your opinion carries
a lot of weight with me.Copy !req
413. - I'll appear fragile.
- You kidding?Copy !req
414. - Sir...
- We're talking about one bodyguard.Copy !req
415. I have 12.
And that's before I leave the house.Copy !req
416. You ever count how many guns
come with me...Copy !req
417. when Abbey and I take in a play
at the Kennedy Center?Copy !req
418. - Do I seem fragile to you?
- No, sir.Copy !req
419. - Then...
- You're also not a woman in a man's job.Copy !req
420. You're required by law to be protected
by the Treasury Department.Copy !req
421. You don't have a choice. Frankly, sir,
you and I both know you've...Copy !req
422. scored points with the public and the
press by shrugging off Secret Service...Copy !req
423. and going to a bookstore.
- I don't care.Copy !req
424. - Sir...
- You're part of my family.Copy !req
425. This thing is happening and I simply
won't permit it. Sign the piece of paper.Copy !req
426. - Look...
- Let me tell you. The last time...Copy !req
427. a member of my staff got a death
threat, they missed him and hit me!Copy !req
428. Ron, is there any evidence?Copy !req
429. Any evidence at all that this guy...?
Look, I work in the White House...Copy !req
430. everybody knows that, but is there
any evidence to suggest that... .Copy !req
431. Where did you get these?Copy !req
432. Today's e-mail.Copy !req
433. That's me leaving my house
on Monday.Copy !req
434. This one's at a restaurant
where I had...Copy !req
435. dinner with my niece.Copy !req
436. This one's from this morning.Copy !req
437. It was taken
from about 20 feet away.Copy !req
438. Okay.Copy !req
439. - Let's go outside and talk.
- Okay.Copy !req
440. Thank you, Mr. President.Copy !req
441. - Toby.
- Yeah.Copy !req
442. - Good morning, sir.
- What's going on?Copy !req
443. I wanted to give you a heads up.
The Journal's running an editorial...Copy !req
444. with regard to broken promises
and fiscal spending.Copy !req
445. Oh, man, the greatest campaign speech
ever about money.Copy !req
446. FDR promises to tighten our belts.
What's he do when he gets here?Copy !req
447. Spends more than we knew
could be spent.Copy !req
448. It's because he discovered
it's better for long-term growth.Copy !req
449. The Journal probably wrote an editorial
about his broken promises too.Copy !req
450. I can reference that speech,
where did he give that?Copy !req
451. - It was in the industrial Northeast.
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Copy !req
452. Charlie, FDR gave a budget speech
in 1932 in Pittsburgh.Copy !req
453. Can you get your hands
on a copy?Copy !req
454. - I'm sorry, sir?
- I said, FDR gave a budget speech...Copy !req
455. Yeah.Copy !req
456. - Yes, sir.
- Okay.Copy !req
457. Thank you, Mr. President.Copy !req
458. - Good morning.
- How's it going?Copy !req
459. Is there a TV show
you really, really like?Copy !req
460. - No.
- Then don't worry about it...Copy !req
461. let's talk about something else.
- What?Copy !req
462. Helping out Anteras.Copy !req
463. What do you want from my life?Copy !req
464. The government can't be in the business
of cosigning loans.Copy !req
465. It wouldn't be handing them a bag
of unmarked bills...Copy !req
466. just backing the loans
to cover the recall.Copy !req
467. - It's a subsidy.
- It's a small one.Copy !req
468. - I'm an economist!
- Sir, this was not a failure of business.Copy !req
469. It was, I don't know,
it was a mistake...Copy !req
470. it was human error.
And Jake's been completely forthright...Copy !req
471. - The marketplace will take care of it.
- The marketplace will kill Anteras.Copy !req
472. - That's what's supposed to happen.
- This isn't unprecedented.Copy !req
473. - We helped out steel.
- That industry was hurt by unfair trade.Copy !req
474. Anteras was hurt
by their own carelessness.Copy !req
475. A loan guarantee
doesn't cost the taxpayers a nickel.Copy !req
476. Unless they go under. Either way,
we've said,"We're open for business."Copy !req
477. For a corporate icon that feeds into
tech companies, computers, aerospace.Copy !req
478. The ripple effects.
Workers losing jobs.Copy !req
479. It's a blue-chip stock
that's in every major...Copy !req
480. They were huge contributors!Copy !req
481. How the hell am I supposed...?
They were huge contributors!Copy !req
482. Carelessness doesn't have to exist
for a mistake to be made.Copy !req
483. - What?
- You said it was carelessness...Copy !req
484. and I don't believe carelessness
has to exist for a mistake to be made.Copy !req
485. Jake was a contributor and he's
never asked for a favor, not even now.Copy !req
486. He was a contributor because
he knows us and we know him...Copy !req
487. and we know if a mistake happened
in design or production at Anteras...Copy !req
488. it wasn't shoddy,
it wasn't on the cheap.Copy !req
489. You know how many chips
have acted up so far? One.Copy !req
490. Dollars to doughnuts he could've
gotten away with it. But...Copy !req
491. he wanted to warn people
they may have a problem before... .Copy !req
492. I don't even know what happens when
80 million computers stop working right.Copy !req
493. But tell me this isn't exactly how we
want American business to behave.Copy !req
494. I know it doesn't look good,
he's a friend of ours.Copy !req
495. But there is a reason
he's a friend of ours.Copy !req
496. They're announcing
end of business tomorrow?Copy !req
497. Yes, sir.Copy !req
498. I'm not saying anything, but grab people
and put together some numbers.Copy !req
499. - Yes, sir.
- I'm not saying anything.Copy !req
500. Thank you, Mr. President.Copy !req
501. The Baltic herring industry was subject
of recent trade agreement...Copy !req
502. between Russians and Finns.Copy !req
503. However, we'll take off menu.Copy !req
504. - Why?
- We were asked to.Copy !req
505. Mrs. Bartlet likes shrimp.Copy !req
506. That is the most ridiculous thing
I've ever heard.Copy !req
507. - Put whatever you want on the menu.
- Very well.Copy !req
508. And I'd like to request
that the press pool...Copy !req
509. be allowed to photograph
the Arctic Peoples' exhibit.Copy !req
510. Also very well.Copy !req
511. And that, my good friends, is that.Copy !req
512. It was a pleasure
doing business with you.Copy !req
513. - We have one more.
- Name it.Copy !req
514. On the issue of the language
in the joint statement.Copy !req
515. Well, I can't negotiate language
in the statement.Copy !req
516. It's just a suggestion.Copy !req
517. The language has been worked out by
State and Commerce and Defense.Copy !req
518. - It's way beyond...
- Just hear suggestion, Sam.Copy !req
519. Okay.Copy !req
520. "Both President Chigorin and myself
agree that we must enter 21 st century...Copy !req
521. as partners and friends,
not as adversaries.Copy !req
522. We must lead way in stemming tide
of nuclear proliferation...Copy !req
523. and we must start with ourselves.Copy !req
524. For why should two nations
still possess power...Copy !req
525. to destroy each other 10 times over?
Surely once is enough."Copy !req
526. - Whose idea was this?
- Mine.Copy !req
527. Who wrote it?Copy !req
528. I did.Copy !req
529. You will pass it up?Copy !req
530. - Yeah.
- That's good one, yes?Copy !req
531. Yes.Copy !req
532. Thank you.Copy !req
533. - Hello.
- Hello.Copy !req
534. Here are your credentials
for the plane.Copy !req
535. Here's your plane ticket. Here are your
credentials for the palace...Copy !req
536. the Saturday press conference,
the Arctic Peoples' exhibit...Copy !req
537. the Sunday press conference
and the Hall of Flags.Copy !req
538. - Thank you very much.
- By the way, I found out why Chigorin...Copy !req
539. and his people
have such a problem with you.Copy !req
540. - It's because I don't flatter them.
- No, it's because you stink.Copy !req
541. - I beg your pardon?
- You can beg all you want...Copy !req
542. you're not gonna get it.Copy !req
543. Last month you alleged
that the Chigorin government...Copy !req
544. bombed several apartments,
based on an unattributed source.Copy !req
545. It was refuted,
you never retracted it.Copy !req
546. The government's case
was all over TV.Copy !req
547. Last week you wrote a cover story
about Chigorin's mother-in-law...Copy !req
548. moving near the Kremlin. You printed
her home address, she had to relocate.Copy !req
549. Well, that's her decision.Copy !req
550. You reported the failing grades of the
defense minister's 12-year-old son.Copy !req
551. Does that count as journalism? Does
that do anything but bring ridicule...Copy !req
552. on a defenseless kid?Copy !req
553. We've got people like you here.Copy !req
554. On cable and on the Internet.Copy !req
555. And there's no one anywhere
on the ideological spectrum...Copy !req
556. who doesn't roll their eyes
when their names are spoken out loud.Copy !req
557. We've always had free press here,
we take it for granted.Copy !req
558. How can you treat it like this?Copy !req
559. You should give up your space
and put another naked woman in there.Copy !req
560. Anyway.Copy !req
561. There are your credentials.Copy !req
562. The majority leader
moves up HMO reform.Copy !req
563. - He'll do that?
- We've talked to him.Copy !req
564. He's moved up HMO reform,
nothing we can do about it...Copy !req
565. the welfare
of your people comes first.Copy !req
566. - He has a duma, he'll understand.
- Makes sense.Copy !req
567. We save face
and send a strong message.Copy !req
568. - Anybody?
- Sounds great.Copy !req
569. Sounds good to me.Copy !req
570. Can I use this to get out of
weddings and stuff?Copy !req
571. Sam, the majority leader's
gonna move up HMO reform.Copy !req
572. My duma's voting on it,
what do you think?Copy !req
573. Sorry, sir. Would you hear
what Sam has to say for a moment?Copy !req
574. What?Copy !req
575. Listen, I'd like to tell you about
something and if, when I'm done...Copy !req
576. you think I sounded like an idiot, just
know that I'll be feeling like one as well.Copy !req
577. Nickolai lvanovich, the senior member
of the logistical negotiating team...Copy !req
578. said he had language to add to the
joint statement. He wrote it himself.Copy !req
579. - What's he getting involved in that for?
- Yeah.Copy !req
580. And what he wanted added was:Copy !req
581. "Together, in partnership, we must stem
the tide of nuclear proliferation.Copy !req
582. For why should our two nations
still possess the power...Copy !req
583. to destroy themselves 10 times over?
Surely once is enough."Copy !req
584. Now, I have to tell you, sir,
that both these negotiators...Copy !req
585. had conversational English,
but they didn't have idioms.Copy !req
586. - I promise you.
- "Stem the tide" is an English idiom.Copy !req
587. Yeah, and they don't have
"Surely once is enough" either.Copy !req
588. Sir, Chigorin wrote that.Copy !req
589. I think he's trying to send you
a message, Mr. President.Copy !req
590. - He is trying to send me a message.
- That's what he's doing.Copy !req
591. We've been trying to get
nonproliferation on the agenda.Copy !req
592. We've been trying to put those
exact words in Chigorin's mouth.Copy !req
593. He's got a Soviet defense
establishment trying to do business.Copy !req
594. Wait a second, hang on.Copy !req
595. You're telling me that foreign policy
of this magnitude...Copy !req
596. is conducted through Sam?
And I'm still alive?Copy !req
597. We're pretty impressed ourselves.Copy !req
598. Why didn't he just have somebody
pick up the phone?Copy !req
599. It's the old diplomatic corps
and he can't trust them yet.Copy !req
600. Fitz?Copy !req
601. I think he's going out on a limb.Copy !req
602. I think you should meet him there.Copy !req
603. Let's go to Helsinki. But the reactor's
first thing on the agenda.Copy !req
604. Anybody?Copy !req
605. - Thank you, Mr. President.
- Thanks, everyone.Copy !req
606. - Thanks, sir.
- Thank you, sir.Copy !req
607. Thank you.Copy !req
608. - Thanks.
- I've got Jake Kimball in my office, sir.Copy !req
609. I'll be right in.Copy !req
610. Sam?Copy !req
611. Yes, sir.Copy !req
612. - Nice job.
- Thank you.Copy !req
613. Tell me again why I can't wear
whatever the hell I want.Copy !req
614. Well, that's not entirely true, sir,
the earmuffs are optional.Copy !req
615. Okay. I probably
won't be wearing them.Copy !req
616. Yes, sir.Copy !req
617. Whatever happened to Pong?
It was great.Copy !req
618. It was relaxing,
it had that very satisfying sound.Copy !req
619. - I don't know, sir.
- Yeah, me neither. Leo?Copy !req
620. No.Copy !req
621. Leo wanted to see
if we could guarantee a loan.Copy !req
622. I can't ask you for that.Copy !req
623. I appreciate that and I can't give it to
you. But I can do one better.Copy !req
624. - What?
- We'll stay his biggest customer.Copy !req
625. When you announce your recall,
say you're keeping...Copy !req
626. your government contracts.
Leo will work with Congress.Copy !req
627. That's very generous.
I appreciate your confidence.Copy !req
628. Talk to me about the 75,000 workers.Copy !req
629. I'll have no salary for two years
and my managers...Copy !req
630. will cut their salaries in half before
we even consider laying anyone off.Copy !req
631. All right.
Jakie, this is the White House.Copy !req
632. If we only screw up twice before
breakfast, it was a very good morning.Copy !req
633. - Yes, sir.
- One more thing.Copy !req
634. You can't make any more campaign
contributions to me or any Democrat.Copy !req
635. - You can vote, that's it.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
636. I knew I'd get screwed
by a computer one day.Copy !req
637. I have an important photo op.
Excuse me.Copy !req
638. Charlie?Copy !req
639. - Mr. Tatum?
- I'm Dr. Tatum.Copy !req
640. I'm the one you talked to on the phone.
This is my father.Copy !req
641. I'm Charlie Young.
I'm personal aide to the president.Copy !req
642. - Yes.
- You didn't tell him anything, right?Copy !req
643. - He thinks we're on Candid Camera.
- Or that this is a ruse of some kind.Copy !req
644. - What the hell...?
- It's not. It's not a ruse.Copy !req
645. When you were 9, you wrote
this letter to Franklin Roosevelt.Copy !req
646. You met him when he was governor of
New York and a candidate for president.Copy !req
647. Well, I'll be damned.Copy !req
648. You met his personal aide,
Tom Farley.Copy !req
649. That's me.
Mr. Tatum, by any chance...Copy !req
650. the apartment where you grew up in
Pittsburgh, was it 2345 Northern...Copy !req
651. - State Boulevard.
- Yeah.Copy !req
652. That's the only residential building
in Pittsburgh torn down recently.Copy !req
653. In fact, it was just two weeks ago.Copy !req
654. Somebody found your letter
and put the right postage on it.Copy !req
655. Well, would you look
at what people do?Copy !req
656. None of it would've happened,
except there's a five-digit code...Copy !req
657. that presidents give out
to close friends.Copy !req
658. And President Bartlet
copied his from FDR.Copy !req
659. - For the 100th time, it was an homage.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
660. - Alan Tatum?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
661. - The White House owes you one picture.
- Oh, my.Copy !req
662. - Let's go, Dad.
- Mr. President, this is my son, Ted.Copy !req
663. - Good to meet you.
- He's a doctor.Copy !req
664. - Dad.
- Oh, God, I'm sorry. I'm married to one.Copy !req
665. Oh, no, you meant that as a good thing.
Let's go.Copy !req
666. FDR was a fine president,
don't get me wrong.Copy !req
667. But if you want something done right,
damn it, call New Hampshire.Copy !req
668. Come in, please.Copy !req
669. Are you retired, Mr. Tatum?Copy !req
670. Yes, sir.
53 years on the Spirit of St. Louis.Copy !req
671. - New York to St. Louis.
- Your grandfather was a furnace worker.Copy !req
672. Your father was on the railroads.
You couldn't find honest work?Copy !req
673. I'd like my picture taken with that
young man, if you don't mind.Copy !req
674. Charlie.Copy !req
675. - Thank you.
- Thank you.Copy !req
676. You're welcome.Copy !req
677. Well, thank you very much, sir.Copy !req
678. This was a once-in-a-lifetime
experience for both of us.Copy !req
679. Where are you going?Copy !req
680. - You got pictures, what do I get?
- I don't know what...Copy !req
681. You were there at his speech.
You gotta tell me everything.Copy !req
682. Sit, we're gonna get some food.
You sit quietly over there...Copy !req
683. and try to resist the temptation
to bill me for something.Copy !req
684. - Hello.
- C.J. Cregg?Copy !req
685. - Yeah.
- Special Agent Simon Donovan.Copy !req
686. I'm with the Treasury Department.Copy !req
687. What branch of the Treasury,
Agent Donovan?Copy !req
688. U.S. Secret Service.Copy !req
689. I don't like flashing it,
gives some people the jumps.Copy !req
690. But Agent Butterfield
said you're a reluctant...Copy !req
691. How does this work?Copy !req
692. - What is it you'd like to know?
- From how far away can you do this?Copy !req
693. - I respect a certain perimeter of privacy.
- What does that mean?Copy !req
694. - I don't need to see you naked.
- Okay.Copy !req
695. Though'better safe than sorry" is a bit
of a motto for us over at Treasury.Copy !req
696. I don't know, you're the boss.Copy !req
697. I'll be leading four agents, each working
a third of a day, one day off a week.Copy !req
698. We've set up a command post in your
apartment building, set up surveillance.Copy !req
699. You can put your car in a garage,
you'll be using ours.Copy !req
700. - You can't come in the briefing room.
- Crowded room, anyone can get in.Copy !req
701. - You're up at the podium. I'll be there.
- This what you mean by'I'm the boss"?Copy !req
702. Yeah, I guess that's more
of an honorary thing.Copy !req
703. This guy isn't smalltime, Ms. Cregg.Copy !req
704. You're being hunted.Copy !req
705. I can't guarantee anything except to say
if you're dead, chances are I am too.Copy !req
706. I guess it's gonna have to be
the little things now.Copy !req
707. Yeah.Copy !req
708. I'm gonna go check in
with my command.Copy !req