1. The defeat and breakup
of the Soviet empire,Copy !req
2. culminating in the crumbling
of the Berlin Wall,Copy !req
3. is one of the great events of world history.Copy !req
4. There were many heroes in this battle,Copy !req
5. but to Charlie Wilson must go
this special recognition.Copy !req
6. Just 13 years ago,
the Soviet Army appeared to be invincible.Copy !req
7. But Charlie, undeterred,Copy !req
8. engineered a Iethal body blow
that weakened the Communist empire.Copy !req
9. Without Charlie, history would be hugely
and sadly different.Copy !req
10. And so, for the first time,Copy !req
11. a civilian is being given
our highest recognition,Copy !req
12. that of Honored Colleague.Copy !req
13. Ladies and gentlemen
of the Clandestine Services,Copy !req
14. Congressman Charles Wilson.Copy !req
15. (SOUL MUSlC PLAYlNG ON STEREO)...Copy !req
16. It'd be like Dallas.
That's right.Copy !req
17. You know what I'm saying?
- Like Dallas but set in Washington.Copy !req
18. Yeah.
- And you should say it just like that.Copy !req
19. When I pitch it.
- You should say it just...Copy !req
20. 'Oh, this is fucking great.'
You should say it just like that.Copy !req
21. Dallas set in Washington D.C.Copy !req
22. You know, with the intrigue
and the power plays...Copy !req
23. and the overt natural sex.
- The glamour, the power.Copy !req
24. Do you know what I'm saying?
It's fucking Dallas.Copy !req
25. Or, or Falcon Crest.Copy !req
26. Yes.
- That's set in Washington.Copy !req
27. Say it to Charlie like that.Copy !req
28. The resistance fighters disguised us
as one of them.Copy !req
29. Charlie.Copy !req
30. (CLEARS THROAT)...Copy !req
31. It's like Dallas but in Washington.Copy !req
32. With Crystal in the starring role.
- Yeah.Copy !req
33. You tell me when to watch.
I'll make sure I'm home.Copy !req
34. You don't think I can make it happen?Copy !req
35. I don't know anything
about how any of that works.Copy !req
36. I do.
- You said that you would listen to him.Copy !req
37. That's why we're here.Copy !req
38. Do they routinely give starring roles
on network programs...Copy !req
39. to people who haven't acted
professionally before?Copy !req
40. She was just on the fucking cover
of Playboy, Charlie.Copy !req
41. Well, I guess that's just the same thing.Copy !req
42. Would you take this seriously, please?Copy !req
43. I am taking it seriously, hon,
but can you all tell me something?Copy !req
44. What is...
What is Dan Rather wearing right now?Copy !req
45. What?
- Dan Rather.Copy !req
46. What is he wearing?
- You're watching TV?Copy !req
47. Why hasn't he shaved?
- Well, who gives a damn?Copy !req
48. Excuse me. Hey.
Excuse me, could you turn that up?Copy !req
49. Could you just turn up
the volume on the TV?Copy !req
50. Oh, I'm completely high.Copy !req
51. Yeah. Okay.Copy !req
52. Still, could you just grab the remote there
and find the volume button?Copy !req
53. Charlie, are we gonna do business?Copy !req
54. Dan Rather is wearing a turban, Paul.
Don't you want to know why?Copy !req
55. He's doing a thing from lndia.Copy !req
56. No, that's Afghanistan.Copy !req
57. Got it.
- Appreciate it.Copy !req
58. We got it...
We captured it from the Afghan,Copy !req
59. the Afghan army.
- Thank you.Copy !req
60. Does he have ammunition for this?
He has three.Copy !req
61. But does he have ammunition?
A lot of ammunition?Copy !req
62. Well, he's talking about the mujahideen.Copy !req
63. No, we don't,
we didn't capture any.Copy !req
64. Priests?Copy !req
65. No, mujahideen means, like, holy warriors.Copy !req
66. Priests.
- How the hell am I supposed to know?Copy !req
67. Paul.Copy !req
68. And he was... He is saying that,
you know, America seems to be asleep.Copy !req
69. It doesn't seem to realize
that if Afghanistan goes...Copy !req
70. and the Russians go over to the Gulf,Copy !req
71. that in a very short time, it's going to be
the turn of the United States as well.Copy !req
72. I'm sure he knows that in Vietnam...Copy !req
73. Excuse me.Copy !req
74. We were just wondering
what you do for a living.Copy !req
75. I'm not a police officer,
if that's what you're asking.Copy !req
76. No. We just... We don't meet a lot of guys
here who both, you know,Copy !req
77. know about the world and like to party.
- (CLEARS THROAT) No.Copy !req
78. I'm a member
of the U.S. House of Representatives.Copy !req
79. I'm sorry?
- I'm a Congressman.Copy !req
80. Are you kidding?
- No. No, I'm absolutely serious.Copy !req
81. I'm Charlie Wilson. I represent
the Texas Second Congressional.Copy !req
82. Texas. And this is Crystal Lee.Copy !req
83. This is Paul Brown.
What are your names?Copy !req
84. Stacey.
- Stacey.Copy !req
85. Kelly.
- Kelly. Well, it's nice to meet you both.Copy !req
86. if you are a Congressman should you be
in here with strippers and blow?Copy !req
87. Hey, I'm not a stripper.Copy !req
88. I am a stripper.
- I'm a stripper.Copy !req
89. Yes, see, they were
talking about themselves.Copy !req
90. You know, you do have a point there.
I really should get going. A little pruney.Copy !req
91. Look, Charlie, I need $29,000
to make it happen.Copy !req
92. And you know I can make it happen,
and you know you want in on this.Copy !req
93. Hey, who wants to take a ride with me
to the airport?Copy !req
94. Oh, me.
- Paul?Copy !req
95. Okay.Copy !req
96. DAN ON TV:... a holy war
against the Soviets.Copy !req
97. A war they say that, if they get weapons,Copy !req
98. from us or anyone else in the free world,
they will win.Copy !req
99. Yeah, I'm with Congressman
Charles Wilson and Crystal Lee.Copy !req
100. I wish he wouldn't do that.
- From Texas.Copy !req
101. Has there ever been a show
about Washington?Copy !req
102. I don't think there has.
- Me, neither.Copy !req
103. Thank you.
We got the suite another night. Comped.Copy !req
104. Should I go back?
- No.Copy !req
105. You can't stay another night?
- No. No.Copy !req
106. Stay another night.
- I can't. I have a vote.Copy !req
107. What, an important one?Copy !req
108. Yes.
- What is it?Copy !req
109. Well, it's a non-binding resolution
expressing the sense of the Congress...Copy !req
110. that the Department of Defense
should continue to exercise its authority...Copy !req
111. to support the Boy Scouts ofAmerica.Copy !req
112. Are you fucking kidding me?Copy !req
113. Come on, Charlie, call, raise or fold.Copy !req
114. I want to get an answer on this thing...Copy !req
115. that Crystal and I want to do.
- First off, I'd appreciate it...Copy !req
116. if you didn't throw my name around
quite so much,Copy !req
117. 'cause, from time to time, I use it myself,
and I need it in good condition.Copy !req
118. Second, I'm from Lufkin, Texas.Copy !req
119. I'm the son of an accountant
for a timber company.Copy !req
120. I take home about 700 bucks a week,
and I pay alimony,Copy !req
121. so the idea that I got $29,000
in the bank is pretty hysterical.Copy !req
122. That said, I love your idea.Copy !req
123. Crys, I'll call you this week.
- Okay.Copy !req
124. All right.Copy !req
125. Stacey, Kelly, nice to meet you both.
Are you Nevada residents?Copy !req
126. Yeah.
- Well, don't forget to vote.Copy !req
127. Bye. We love you.
- We love you.Copy !req
128. Oh, it helps not to know me.
Oh. That is for you.Copy !req
129. Thank you, sir.
- Thank you.Copy !req
130. Bye.
- Bye, Charlie.Copy !req
131. I love Las Vegas.Copy !req
132. All right, what else?
- That Dairy Queen guy, Larry Liddle,Copy !req
133. is sitting in your office.
- Hey.Copy !req
134. Yeah, I told him he could come in.Copy !req
135. He wants to talk to you about a crèche.Copy !req
136. What, a nativity scene with baby Jesus?Copy !req
137. Yeah, it's on public property,
and the city's making him move it.Copy !req
138. Shit. I thought he was just coming in...Copy !req
139. to get his picture took, you know?
- Congressman.Copy !req
140. Yeah?
- You're exactly who I need to speak to.Copy !req
141. You have a moment?
- Sure.Copy !req
142. Tip asked me to talk to you.
- Okay.Copy !req
143. He wanted me to talk to you
about John Murtha.Copy !req
144. Go ahead.
- The prosecutor's gonna go after him.Copy !req
145. Well, they ain't gonna find anything.Copy !req
146. John Murtha's as clean
as my mother's kitchen floor.Copy !req
147. Yeah, but Tip would like to put you
on the Ethics Committee just the same.Copy !req
148. You're kidding.
- No.Copy !req
149. Well, Jesus, Donnelly,
everyone in town knows...Copy !req
150. I'm on the other side of that issue.Copy !req
151. Ethics?
- Yeah.Copy !req
152. Well, the Speaker would like to put you
on the committee anyway.Copy !req
153. Okay. Well, if anyone asks what the hell
I'm doing on the Ethics Committee,Copy !req
154. we'll just tell them I like chasing women
and drinking whiskey...Copy !req
155. and the Speaker felt
we were underrepresented.Copy !req
156. One man, one vote.
- Exactly.Copy !req
157. Tip's gonna want to return the favor.Copy !req
158. Tuesday, right?
- That is Tuesday, yes.Copy !req
159. So if anything comes up that you'd like me
to speak with him about, please...Copy !req
160. Yes.Copy !req
161. Yes.Copy !req
162. I'd like to be on the Board of Directors
of the Kennedy Center.Copy !req
163. Charlie.
- I'm sorry?Copy !req
164. Turns out Congress appoints the
Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center.Copy !req
165. It's a great place to take a date,
and I can never afford the tickets.Copy !req
166. Consider it done.
- Excellent.Copy !req
167. Go vote.Copy !req
168. Another few minutes.
Let's see what's on the wires.Copy !req
169. Why can't you wait for newspapers
like everybody else?Copy !req
170. 'Cause I think it's productive
to know today's news today.Copy !req
171. And it makes me one day smarter than you,
which I enjoy as well.Copy !req
172. I know you do.Copy !req
173. You don't think that's a little crazy?Copy !req
174. Pan Am and Eastern are
lowering their fares.Copy !req
175. 'Cause of Braniff.
- What's a little crazy?Copy !req
176. Joining the Board of the Kennedy Center...Copy !req
177. so you can get free tickets
to the Royal Ballet of...Copy !req
178. Hold on.
- What?Copy !req
179. AP story out of Kabul.Copy !req
180. Uzbekistan?Copy !req
181. Afghanistan.Copy !req
182. Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, lran, Iraq,
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,Copy !req
183. Jordan, lsrael, Egypt.Copy !req
184. Jim Van Wagenen's our point man
on black approps...Copy !req
185. for the Defense Subcommittee?Copy !req
186. Yeah.Copy !req
187. Have him come to my office
as soon as possible.Copy !req
188. How am I voting on this?
Yes.Copy !req
189. You sure?
- Yes.Copy !req
190. The Boy Scouts?Copy !req
191. Jim Van Wagenen.
Get him and show him that wire story.Copy !req
192. Yes, sir.
- You are the man I wanted to talk to.Copy !req
193. The Congressman will
be here in a moment.Copy !req
194. He's just coming up from a vote.Copy !req
195. I'm sure it's an important one.
- No. Not really.Copy !req
196. So, Marla, can you fit this
into his schedule next week?Copy !req
197. Charlie Wilson's office.
Good morning.Copy !req
198. The third...Copy !req
199. It is? How are you?Copy !req
200. Suzanne,
can you help me with this?Copy !req
201. Okay. I'll be right back.
I'll have him do it.Copy !req
202. Okay, bye-bye.Copy !req
203. Miss?
- Yes, sir?Copy !req
204. It seems to me, looking around,
that it's almost all women working here,Copy !req
205. and that they're all very pretty.Copy !req
206. Is that common?
- (LAUGHS) Well,Copy !req
207. Congressman Wilson,
he has an expression.Copy !req
208. He says, 'You can teach them to type,
but you can't teach them to grow tits.'Copy !req
209. Well, that's charming.Copy !req
210. Larry.
- Congressman.Copy !req
211. No, no, no. For $5,000 every two years
you get to call me Charlie.Copy !req
212. And for 10,000, you can call me Betty Sue
and I'll clean out your rain gutters.Copy !req
213. This is my daughter, Jane.Copy !req
214. Well, now I remember Jane. Two-L at SMU.
- Charlie Wilson's office. Good morning.Copy !req
215. Welcome to the United States Congress.Copy !req
216. Hey, I'm gonna talk to your daddy
for a couple of seconds.Copy !req
217. Larry, can we get you a drink?Copy !req
218. It's 10:00 in the morning.
- Well, fair enough, I guess.Copy !req
219. Grab a seat.Copy !req
220. Now, this situation with the crèche,
I want to know all about it.Copy !req
221. Well, sir,Copy !req
222. (CLEARS THROAT)...Copy !req
223. every single year
since the world was young,Copy !req
224. the firehouse in the
Nacogdoches Township...Copy !req
225. has displayed a crèche.Copy !req
226. Now, the ACLU has filed suit
against the township...Copy !req
227. for displaying a religious symbol
on public property.Copy !req
228. It's Christmas time. It's a crèche.Copy !req
229. I could understand
if we were in gosh-darn Scarsdale,Copy !req
230. but this is east Texas,
and I want to know who we're offending.Copy !req
231. Except two lawyers from the ACLU.Copy !req
232. That is a terribly interesting
and complicated question.Copy !req
233. Let me make this suggestion, though.Copy !req
234. There's a church about a block and a half...Copy !req
235. from that firehouse,
First Baptist Church of Nacogdoches.Copy !req
236. They've got a beautiful rolling lawn...Copy !req
237. out there in front.Copy !req
238. No, no. This is a Christian country, Charlie,Copy !req
239. founded on Christian values.
- Sure.Copy !req
240. We welcome other faiths to worship
as they wish,Copy !req
241. but when you can't put a nativity scene...Copy !req
242. in front of a firehouse at Christmas time
in Nacogdoches Township,Copy !req
243. something's gone terribly wrong.Copy !req
244. Well, that's not really true, Larry.Copy !req
245. You could move that crèche
over to that church...Copy !req
246. and everything's just fine.
- That's not the point.Copy !req
247. Okay. Why don't we just start back
at the beginning?Copy !req
248. What can I do for you?Copy !req
249. You can intervene in the case
against the crèche committee.Copy !req
250. lntervene? How?Copy !req
251. You appointed the judge.
- I don't appoint judges.Copy !req
252. I just made a recommendation
to the President.Copy !req
253. I think you and I both know
what that means.Copy !req
254. (KNOCK ON DOOR)...Copy !req
255. I cannot just call up a judge
and tell him what to do.Copy !req
256. Why?
- Well, 'cause it's against a shitload...Copy !req
257. of really good laws, Gary.Copy !req
258. Larry.
- Larry.Copy !req
259. I got to go talk to this guy out here
for a second. Will you excuse me?Copy !req
260. By the way, I love Jesus Christ
and his mother Mary as much as anybody.Copy !req
261. About 38 churches you could move
that crèche to, everybody lives.Copy !req
262. Give me a call.
- Okay.Copy !req
263. I love Chivas.Copy !req
264. Jane, how are you?Copy !req
265. You need a cup of coffee?Copy !req
266. Something to drink?
Anything like that? Okay.Copy !req
267. Jim.
- Congressman.Copy !req
268. You see Iederer's AP story out of Kabul?Copy !req
269. Yeah.
We're reading this story every day now.Copy !req
270. You see Dan Rather last night?
- Yeah. I did.Copy !req
271. Tell me something.Copy !req
272. What is the Defense
Subcommittee's budget...Copy !req
273. for covert ops against the Communists
in Afghanistan?Copy !req
274. All in?
- All in.Copy !req
275. It's 5 million.Copy !req
276. Well, they can't shoot down helicopters
for $5 million, Jim.Copy !req
277. Though they're trying to.
Which is more than I can say for us.Copy !req
278. Get everybody together for me, would you?
And double it.Copy !req
279. Charlie Wilson's office.Copy !req
280. Okay, I'm sorry, sir?Copy !req
281. The covert ops budget. Double it.Copy !req
282. Okay.Copy !req
283. This ain't gonna be much longer, okay?Copy !req
284. Here's what I'm gonna do, Larry.Copy !req
285. Charlie Wilson's office.Copy !req
286. Maybe in about 20 minutes.
He's just going into a meeting.Copy !req
287. Sure.Copy !req
288. My XO wrote in a report,Copy !req
289. I was the best officer
he ever served at sea with,Copy !req
290. and the worst officer
he ever served in port with.Copy !req
291. (LAUGHS) You can look it up.Copy !req
292. I must've graduated from Annapolis...Copy !req
293. with the second most demerits
of any midshipman...Copy !req
294. in the history of the Naval Academy.Copy !req
295. Well, who had the most?
I want to sleep with him.Copy !req
296. (ANGEL OF THE MORNlNG
PLAYlNG ON STEREO)...Copy !req
297. It's hotter here in
D.C. than in Nacogdoches,Copy !req
298. so I hope you don't mind,
I took off a few of my clothes.Copy !req
299. Well, I'm just gonna have
to live with that, Jane.Copy !req
300. Just call me angel of the morning, angelCopy !req
301. Just touch my cheek before you leave meCopy !req
302. Come on over here. I'm gonna show you
the best view in the District.Copy !req
303. You want some of this?
- No, no, I got this.Copy !req
304. I like both.
- Well, it must be great being me.Copy !req
305. I've heard it is.Copy !req
306. lwo Jima Memorial.Copy !req
307. There's the Lincoln.Copy !req
308. Washington.
Now follow it around to the right.Copy !req
309. The Jefferson Memorial.
The Arlington Bridge.Copy !req
310. And there's the Pentagon.Copy !req
311. Oh, that's the Pentagon.
- That's the Pentagon.Copy !req
312. How about I show you
the second best view...Copy !req
313. in the District?Copy !req
314. Why, Jane, would you like...Copy !req
315. (PHONE RlNGlNG)...Copy !req
316. (SlGHS)Copy !req
317. Well, that was predictable.Copy !req
318. Just give me one second.Copy !req
319. Hello?Copy !req
320. That was an extraordinary thing...Copy !req
321. you did today.Copy !req
322. Who is this?
- It's Joanne.Copy !req
323. Joanne.Copy !req
324. Why, gosh, how nice to hear from you.
Could I call you back in a little bit?Copy !req
325. Is Ronald Reagan
in your bedroom right now?Copy !req
326. No.
- Then I'm considerably more important...Copy !req
327. than whoever is.
- Is anything wrong?Copy !req
328. This is gonna take just a second or two.Copy !req
329. Okay, I'm all yours.Copy !req
330. What did I do that was so extraordinary?Copy !req
331. 'Double it.'Copy !req
332. 'Cause I was told
you didn't have a girlfriend.Copy !req
333. What?
- You told Jim Van Wagenen to double it.Copy !req
334. Well, shit, Joanne,
I don't know what you're talking about,Copy !req
335. and if I did, it'd be classified,Copy !req
336. and I'd wonder
where you got your information...Copy !req
337. on the Subcommittee.Copy !req
338. Oh, what do you care, hon?Copy !req
339. It's a little matter of national security
and I can't help but think...Copy !req
340. Excuse me, I'm sorry.Copy !req
341. Hold on.
- I am sorry,Copy !req
342. but I was told you didn't have a girlfriend.Copy !req
343. I don't. This isn't my girlfriend.
It's the sixth wealthiest woman in Texas.Copy !req
344. Which is still pretty good.Copy !req
345. Okay, so, hi.Copy !req
346. A friend of mine has made
a terrific movie about the need...Copy !req
347. for American aid to Afghanistan.Copy !req
348. He's made a movie?
- Yes.Copy !req
349. I'm gonna run this movie Friday night
at my house at a fundraiser.Copy !req
350. You know, you've never been
to my house, Charlie.Copy !req
351. You want me to come to Houston
and see a movie?Copy !req
352. There'll be women and wealthy donors.
See you Friday.Copy !req
353. Yes, ma'am.Copy !req
354. Hey.Copy !req
355. Thank you, Joanne.Copy !req
356. Okay. I know it was difficult for you
to come in here, hat in hand.Copy !req
357. That's not the kind of upbringing, I guess,
is the word I'm looking for.Copy !req
358. It's not the kind of man you are.
I understand that.Copy !req
359. I'm not looking to humiliate you
or exact a price in any way,Copy !req
360. so why don't you just apologize?Copy !req
361. We'll call it water under the dam,
and we'll go about our business.Copy !req
362. Excuse me, what the fuck?Copy !req
363. What?
- What the fuck are you talking about?Copy !req
364. Clair George said you were coming in here
to apologize.Copy !req
365. No, I'm supposed to come in here
so you could apologize to me.Copy !req
366. According to whom?
- Clair George.Copy !req
367. You told me to go fuck myself.
I'm supposed to apologize to you?Copy !req
368. Also, water goes over a dam
and under a bridge, you poncy schoolboy.Copy !req
369. Clearly there's been a miscommunication
between Clair George and somebody.Copy !req
370. Excuse me.
- Yes?Copy !req
371. Does this look all right?
- It's fine.Copy !req
372. Thank you.
- I can sand it down a little.Copy !req
373. l, I don't know.
I have no fucking idea who this guy is.Copy !req
374. He is here to fix the glass that you broke
the last time you were here.Copy !req
375. Could you just excuse us...Copy !req
376. for a second there?
- Yes.Copy !req
377. You tell me to go fuck myself...Copy !req
378. and I'm supposed to apologize?
You break my window,Copy !req
379. I'm supposed to apologize?
- The Helsinki job was mine.Copy !req
380. The Helsinki job was not yours.
if it was yours, you'd be in Helsinki.Copy !req
381. Alan Wolfe stood in this office.
- Alan Wolfe...Copy !req
382. is no longer the Director.
- Yeah, it was on the books.Copy !req
383. Alan Wolfe is no longer
the Director of European Operations.Copy !req
384. He does not make those
appointments. I do.Copy !req
385. Promises were made.
- Not by me.Copy !req
386. I've been with the company for 24 years.Copy !req
387. I was posted in Greece for 15.Copy !req
388. Papandreou wins that election
if I don't help the junta take him prisoner.Copy !req
389. I've advised and armed the Hellenic army.
I've neutralized champions of Communism.Copy !req
390. I've spent the past three years
learning Finnish.Copy !req
391. Which should come in handy
here in Virginia.Copy !req
392. And I'm never, ever, sick at sea.Copy !req
393. So I want to know why I'm not gonna be
your Helsinki station chief.Copy !req
394. You're coarse.
- Excuse me?Copy !req
395. For Helsinki, I need someone
with diplomatic skills.Copy !req
396. You don't have them.
- Is that right?Copy !req
397. That is right. And I don't know
why the hell I didn't fire you...Copy !req
398. when you broke my fucking window.
- Oh, yes, sure you do, Cravely.Copy !req
399. Look, Gust...
- Yeah, you're fucking Roger's fiancée...Copy !req
400. and you know I know.Copy !req
401. I'm not... I'm not even gonna dignify that
with a response.Copy !req
402. Yeah, yeah, you're
dignifying her in the ass...Copy !req
403. at the Jefferson Hotel, room 1210.Copy !req
404. But let me ask you.
The 3,000 agents Turner fired...Copy !req
405. was that because they lacked
diplomatic skills as well?Copy !req
406. You're referring
to Admiral Stansfield Turner?Copy !req
407. Yeah, the 3,000 agents.Copy !req
408. Each and every goddamn one of them
first or second generation Americans.Copy !req
409. Is that because they lack
the proper diplomatic skills?Copy !req
410. Or did Turner not think it was a good idea
to have spies...Copy !req
411. who could speak the same language
as the people they're fucking spying on?Copy !req
412. Well, I'm sorry,
but you can hardly blame the Director...Copy !req
413. for questioning the loyalty to America
of people that are just barely Americans...Copy !req
414. in the first place.
- Yeah, well, I'd like to take a moment...Copy !req
415. to review the several ways
in which you're a douchebag.Copy !req
416. Get the fuck out of my office.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
417. Before I end your career, asshole.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
418. Yeah, my friend,
I'm gonna need you for a second.Copy !req
419. God damn it.Copy !req
420. My loyalty?Copy !req
421. For 24 years,
people have been trying to kill me.Copy !req
422. People who know how.Copy !req
423. Now, do you think that's because
my dad was a Greek soda pop maker...Copy !req
424. or do you think that's
because I'm an American spy?Copy !req
425. Go fuck yourself, you fucking child.Copy !req
426. How was l?Copy !req
427. Thank you.Copy !req
428. There's a woman in Aliquippa,
Pennsylvania, named Nitsa.Copy !req
429. And she thinks she's a witch.Copy !req
430. Yeah, she offered to put a curse
on Cravely for me.Copy !req
431. Yeah?Copy !req
432. And she...Copy !req
433. She asked me do I want
a professional curse...Copy !req
434. or a health curse.Copy !req
435. 'if it's a health curse, I can do it right away,
but a professional curse takes longer.'Copy !req
436. Well, I'm living proof she's right about that.Copy !req
437. Did you get the brownie?
- Oh, no, sir, I didn't.Copy !req
438. I got you.Copy !req
439. I'm reading transcripts
of phone conversations...Copy !req
440. between French and German generals...Copy !req
441. arguing over office space
at NATO headquarters...Copy !req
442. and analyzing wiretaps
out of Mercury Bay, New Zealand.Copy !req
443. You know, historically, a hotbed
of anti-American activity.Copy !req
444. Yeah, nobody will come near me.
I'm in the weeds.Copy !req
445. You know, a typical case officer...Copy !req
446. doesn't walk into his boss's office
and tell him to go fuck himself. Twice.Copy !req
447. I just told you,
I paid a witch in Pennsylvania $80...Copy !req
448. to put a curse on Henry Cravely for me.Copy !req
449. Do I sound like a typical case officer?
- No.Copy !req
450. Well, then, let's assume I'm not.Copy !req
451. Listen. If you're really not doing anything,Copy !req
452. why don't you come upstairs
and work with us?Copy !req
453. What are you doing?
- Killing Russians.Copy !req
454. Our next slave girl
is a Texas rose named Ashley Rensler.Copy !req
455. Ashley is prelaw at U.T.,
and her three sorority sisters...Copy !req
456. from Delta Delta Delta
will wash your car or truck...Copy !req
457. in special outfits they have chosen
for the occasion.Copy !req
458. So, who wants their wheels cleaned clean
as a whistle by a 19-year-old Iawyer...Copy !req
459. and her three friends from Tri-Delt?Copy !req
460. I have 10,000, who'II give me 11?
11, 11, I got 11.Copy !req
461. I got 15 right here. Thank you very much.Copy !req
462. Oh, my God, she is a Minute Woman.Copy !req
463. No, she's a Tri-Delt.Copy !req
464. No, she is a Minute Woman, Charlie.
- Oh. Joanne.Copy !req
465. Yeah, she's a direct descendant
of George Washington's sister.Copy !req
466. Says she had a great uncle
who was killed at the Alamo.Copy !req
467. Former Miss Cotton Bowl.
Had her own local television talk show.Copy !req
468. Look. Pakistan's Honorary Consul
to Houston, Texas.Copy !req
469. How's that for a title, huh?Copy !req
470. This is an ultra-right wing group
of anti-Communist fanatics.Copy !req
471. They're not ultra-right wing.
- What are they?Copy !req
472. Well, they're ultra-right wing.Copy !req
473. What are you doing
hanging around this woman?Copy !req
474. Did you hear me say
she was a former Miss Cotton Bowl?Copy !req
475. You are unbelievable.
- Oh, come on. You're gonna love her.Copy !req
476. And, you know, one of the things
she's trying to do over there...Copy !req
477. is liberate the women.Copy !req
478. And what better way
than through a slave girl auction?Copy !req
479. Charlie.Copy !req
480. So sorry for keeping you waiting.Copy !req
481. Oh, it's no problem, Joanne.Copy !req
482. This is Bonnie Bach.
- So nice to meet you.Copy !req
483. It's a pleasure meeting you, Mrs. Herring.
This is a wonderful party.Copy !req
484. Why don't you give us a few moments?Copy !req
485. Yes, sir.Copy !req
486. Oh, Bobbie, if you could ask someone
for a Bombay martini up, very dry?Copy !req
487. Oh, I'm not a slave girl, actually.Copy !req
488. I'm the Congressman's
administrative assistant.Copy !req
489. isn't that wonderful for you.
- Yes.Copy !req
490. Two olives, please.
Tell them it's for me, they'll know.Copy !req
491. Certainly.Copy !req
492. She doesn't like me.Copy !req
493. Everybody likes you.
- She's a liberal.Copy !req
494. Well, I'm a liberal.Copy !req
495. Not where it counts.Copy !req
496. Have you seen the house?Copy !req
497. Well, I've seen the downstairs,
what's upstairs?Copy !req
498. Fourteen bedrooms.Copy !req
499. I should have a look.Copy !req
500. What did you think of the movie?
- What, that thing we just saw?Copy !req
501. The reason for the party, yes.Copy !req
502. Well, I'm not an expert
in the field or anything,Copy !req
503. but the production quality
seemed amateurish to me.Copy !req
504. Yeah, I'm not submitting the thing
for a Golden Globe nomination, Charlie.Copy !req
505. You know what I'm talking about.Copy !req
506. Well, as a member
of the Defense Subcommittee,Copy !req
507. did you think I wasn't aware...Copy !req
508. that the Soviet Union's
invaded Afghanistan?Copy !req
509. Yes, I believe my government is aware,Copy !req
510. but I was wondering if they were thinking
of doing anything about it...Copy !req
511. other than boycotting the Olympics,
which I think you'll agree,Copy !req
512. was a fairly impotent response...Copy !req
513. to the greatest national security threat
we've faced since the Cuban Missile Crisis.Copy !req
514. Well, I don't think making more movies
about it is gonna do the trick,Copy !req
515. if that's what you're asking.Copy !req
516. It's not.Copy !req
517. Exactly how much power do you have
as a member of the Subcommittee?Copy !req
518. Which one? I'm on two.
- Foreign Ops.Copy !req
519. Eight members and myself hand out
11 billion in foreign assistance.Copy !req
520. And what about the
Defense Subcommittee?Copy !req
521. Our budget is hidden.Copy !req
522. It is also unlimited.
- Yeah.Copy !req
523. Would you like to see my room?Copy !req
524. Yeah.Copy !req
525. So, unless I'm wrong,
and that would be unusual for me,Copy !req
526. you sit at the intersection
of the State Department,Copy !req
527. the Pentagon and the ClA.Copy !req
528. You meet in a soundproof room
underneath the Capitol,Copy !req
529. and you preside over a secret
and unlimited budget...Copy !req
530. for the three agencies you would need
to conduct a covert war.Copy !req
531. isn't that right?Copy !req
532. I also have seats at the Kennedy Center.Copy !req
533. isn't that how you were able...Copy !req
534. to double the ClA budget
for black approps...Copy !req
535. in Afghanistan just by saying so?Copy !req
536. Why are you only asking me questions
you already know the answers to?Copy !req
537. Why is Congress saying one thing
and doing nothing?Copy !req
538. Well, tradition mostly.Copy !req
539. Come here.Copy !req
540. Okay.Copy !req
541. I do not understand
the energy women have after sex.Copy !req
542. You're dancing around, you're baking a pie.Copy !req
543. Charlie?
- Yes, ma'am?Copy !req
544. Why is the ClA running a fake war
in Afghanistan?Copy !req
545. They're doing everything they can.Copy !req
546. They're doing it badly.Copy !req
547. The ClA is arming the mujahideen.Copy !req
548. Where do you think
they're getting their weapons?Copy !req
549. They're arming them
with 12.7 millimeter Dishukas...Copy !req
550. which would be good,Copy !req
551. except the Soviets have specifically
amour-plated their Hind helicopter...Copy !req
552. to resist a 12.7 millimeter shell.Copy !req
553. We sold Pakistan F-16s,Copy !req
554. but didn't give them
the look-down/shoot-down radar.Copy !req
555. if this were a real war,Copy !req
556. State would issue a white paper
outlining the Communist threat...Copy !req
557. the way they did in El Salvador.Copy !req
558. if this were a real war,Copy !req
559. there'd be a National
Bipartisan Commission...Copy !req
560. on Afghanistan, headed
by Henry Kissinger...Copy !req
561. the way they did in Central America.Copy !req
562. if this were a real war,
Congress would authorize $24 million...Copy !req
563. for covert operations
the way you did in Nicaragua.Copy !req
564. if this were a real war...Copy !req
565. You may be the sexiest woman ever.Copy !req
566. I'm not kidding. You are Helen of Troy.Copy !req
567. Are you patronizing me?
- What do you want me to do, Joanne?Copy !req
568. This is what I want you to do.Copy !req
569. I want you to save Afghanistan
for the Afghans.Copy !req
570. I want you to deliver such a crushing defeat
to the Soviets that Communism crumbles,Copy !req
571. and in so doing, end the Cold War.Copy !req
572. I'll tell you, I'd do it, too,Copy !req
573. but I got this Dairy Queen problem
in Nacogdoches.Copy !req
574. Don't underestimate me, Charlie.
Believe everything you've heard.Copy !req
575. What exactly do you want me to do?Copy !req
576. Go to Pakistan and meet with Zia.
Zia?Copy !req
577. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq.Copy !req
578. He's the President of Pakistan.Copy !req
579. I've already arranged it.Copy !req
580. You've arranged a meeting
between me and the President of Pakistan?Copy !req
581. Yes.Copy !req
582. You're going to lsrael next week
to meet with Zvi Rafiah about the Lavi jets.Copy !req
583. I want you to tack Pakistan
on the end of your trip.Copy !req
584. And meet with the President?Copy !req
585. Let him convince you
that it's a Christian imperative...Copy !req
586. to let the Afghans rid their country
of Communism.Copy !req
587. Okay. It's not likely
the President of Pakistan is a Christian,Copy !req
588. but I'm gonna do this for you, Joanne,Copy !req
589. 'cause you saved my ass once
with the pro-lifers...Copy !req
590. and I owe you my seat in Congress
and because you look very good naked.Copy !req
591. But I have to tell you, I'm elected by Jews.Copy !req
592. How many Jews do you have
in your district?Copy !req
593. Seven.Copy !req
594. But congressmen aren't elected by voters,
they're elected by contributors,Copy !req
595. and mine are in,
well, New York, Florida, Hollywood,Copy !req
596. because I'm one of lsrael's guys on the Hill.Copy !req
597. And I don't know how they're gonna feel
about me taking up the cause of Muslims.Copy !req
598. Well, that's your problem.
- Yes, it is.Copy !req
599. Go fight this war and win it, Charlie.Copy !req
600. Everything possible is on the line,
including your manhood.Copy !req
601. Oh, I was afraid you were gonna say that.Copy !req
602. Well, I guess it ain't gonna be twice tonight.Copy !req
603. Well, I guess somebody can't count.Copy !req
604. Oh, darling, I was talking about me.Copy !req
605. (STEWARD SPEAKlNG URDU)...Copy !req
606. (RASHlD SPEAKlNG URDU)...Copy !req
607. (OFFlCER SHOUTlNG)Copy !req
608. Congressman Charlie Wilson.Copy !req
609. Mr. Congressman.
- Mr. President.Copy !req
610. Come.Copy !req
611. Joanne Herring speaks very highly of you.
- Oh, well, thank you, sir. Thank you.Copy !req
612. These are two of my brightest advisors...Copy !req
613. when it comes to the problem
of the Soviets.Copy !req
614. This is Brigadier Rashid.Copy !req
615. How do you do?
- Pleased to meet you.Copy !req
616. Colonel Mahmood.
- How do you do?Copy !req
617. Pleased to meet you.Copy !req
618. Please come.
- Thank you.Copy !req
619. You must be thirsty.
Can we get you a drink?Copy !req
620. Oh, actually I'd love a glass of ice
and any kind of whiskey.Copy !req
621. Rye, Canadian.Copy !req
622. I'm sorry, Congressman,
we don't have alcohol...Copy !req
623. in the Presidential Residence.Copy !req
624. Of course, you don't. I apologize.Copy !req
625. Fruit juice?Copy !req
626. Bet a lot of people make that mistake.Copy !req
627. No.Copy !req
628. Okay.
- Brigadier?Copy !req
629. So you understand the situation
on our border?Copy !req
630. Yes, sir, I think I do. And I think it's terrible.Copy !req
631. And I know I speak for all the people...Copy !req
632. in the Texas Second
Congressional District...Copy !req
633. when I say our thoughts
and our prayers are with you.Copy !req
634. All the people
of the Texas Second Congressional District,Copy !req
635. you say?
- Yes, indeed, sir.Copy !req
636. Three million Afghan refugees
are living like poorly treated livestock.Copy !req
637. Another two million have fled into lran.Copy !req
638. And two million more angry men...Copy !req
639. is just what the doctors ordered for lran,
don't you think?Copy !req
640. People are dying by the tens of thousands.Copy !req
641. And the ones that aren't are crossing
into Pakistan every day.Copy !req
642. Would you
like to know how many?Copy !req
643. One fifth ofAfghanistan now lives
in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province.Copy !req
644. So, what I have been wondering is...Copy !req
645. why your State Department would
send someone here...Copy !req
646. who thinks he understands the problem.Copy !req
647. 'Cause I don't think the prayers...Copy !req
648. of the Texas Second
Congressional District...Copy !req
649. are going to turn the trick.Copy !req
650. Well, now, I wasn't sent here
by the State Department, Mr. President.Copy !req
651. I was asked to come here
by our friend in Houston.Copy !req
652. So this is a courtesy call.Copy !req
653. I don't need courtesy.
I need airplanes, guns and money.Copy !req
654. Well, we just doubled the ClA budget...Copy !req
655. for covert ops...
- From 5 million to 10 million.Copy !req
656. That's right.
- Is that a joke?Copy !req
657. No.
- Is that meant to be a funny joke?Copy !req
658. No, sir.Copy !req
659. Congressman, what they're saying is...Copy !req
660. $10 million from the U.S.
to fight the Russian Army...Copy !req
661. is such a low figure
that it can be mistaken for a joke.Copy !req
662. I caught up to the sarcasm there, sir.
Let me be clear.Copy !req
663. The United States is eager to assist you.Copy !req
664. No, you're not.
- You're not.Copy !req
665. Absolutely not.
- I went to Oxford...Copy !req
666. and I know what that word means.Copy !req
667. The U.S. is not eager to assist us.Copy !req
668. Well, now it's my understanding
that we offered to sell you F-16s.Copy !req
669. You didn't want them.
- Because you refused to sell us the radar.Copy !req
670. So to hell with that.Copy !req
671. And this is emblematic
ofAmerican fence sitting...Copy !req
672. when it comes to fighting the Soviets.Copy !req
673. To hell with it.
- You sell us the planes but not the radar.Copy !req
674. You offer Afghans rifles
from the First World War...Copy !req
675. while Soviet helicopters
are killing everything they can find,Copy !req
676. people, animals, food supplies.
- So to hell with it.Copy !req
677. Yeah.
- You sell the lsraelis the radar,Copy !req
678. so that's why he says, 'To hell with it.'Copy !req
679. Again, I understood. Yeah.Copy !req
680. Also, the arms and funding
should flow through us.Copy !req
681. I'm sorry?
- That's been part of the problem.Copy !req
682. The arms and the funding
should flow through us.Copy !req
683. We have experience with warfare
of this kind.Copy !req
684. And your ClA
has an unimpressive track record.Copy !req
685. Oh. I wouldn't say that.Copy !req
686. They missed 130,000 Soviet soldiers
walking into Afghanistan.Copy !req
687. Okay, we blew that call.Copy !req
688. I would say so.Copy !req
689. Well, I don't want to use up anymore
of your hospitality,Copy !req
690. so I will take your message back
to my committee chairman,Copy !req
691. and we will give it our fullest attention.Copy !req
692. Let me walk you to the door.Copy !req
693. (OFFlCER SHOUTS COMMAND)...Copy !req
694. I learned about you
before you came here.Copy !req
695. I learned that you're a man
of many character flaws.Copy !req
696. I am.Copy !req
697. But I also learned
that you never promise anything...Copy !req
698. you cannot deliver.Copy !req
699. No, I don't, Mr. President.Copy !req
700. Then promise me this.Copy !req
701. Go to Peshawar and
see the refugee camps.Copy !req
702. Right now. Today.Copy !req
703. Go to Peshawar
and see with your own eyes.Copy !req
704. I have a helicopter waiting to take you.Copy !req
705. All right, I'll do it.Copy !req
706. Thank you, Mr. Congressman.
- Mr. President.Copy !req
707. All right, you, come on.Copy !req
708. How did it go?
- Well, there were three of them.Copy !req
709. It was like getting slapped around
by a Pakistani vaudeville team.Copy !req
710. You know
you've pretty much hit rock bottom...Copy !req
711. when you've been told
you have character flaws by a man...Copy !req
712. who hanged his predecessor
in a military coup.Copy !req
713. Can we go home now?
- No. No, we have to make one more stop.Copy !req
714. (PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)...Copy !req
715. (PEOPLE SHOUTlNG)...Copy !req
716. I've seen enough.Copy !req
717. About 350 people
in three small villages at Kandahar.Copy !req
718. But instead of doing it all at once,Copy !req
719. the Russians would make
the parents watch...Copy !req
720. as they slit the throats of the children.Copy !req
721. So, the Russians gathered all the defectors
and piled them like wood...Copy !req
722. in the center of the village.Copy !req
723. Then they ran over them with their tanks.Copy !req
724. I saw something
shiny on the ground. I thought it was a toy.Copy !req
725. When I reached down to grab it,
it exploded in my hand.Copy !req
726. I should have known.Copy !req
727. Because last year my little brother tried
to pick up a piece of candy.Copy !req
728. It split him in half.Copy !req
729. It takes more work to take care
of a wounded child than a dead one.Copy !req
730. So when the Russians cover fields
with toy mines,Copy !req
731. adults who might help with the war effort
have to take care of the children.Copy !req
732. You can see yourself.Copy !req
733. Like a bug.Copy !req
734. (BUZZlNG)...Copy !req
735. (WOMAN TRANSLATlNG
IN FORElGN LANGUAGE)Copy !req
736. They're beautiful.Copy !req
737. How many children do you have?Copy !req
738. She had six.Copy !req
739. So, what do you want to be
when you grow up?Copy !req
740. Hi. I have Congressman Wilson here
to see the station chief, Harold Holt.Copy !req
741. Down the hall. Second door on the left.Copy !req
742. I'll wait outside.Copy !req
743. Look, normally, a congressional delegation,Copy !req
744. we'd give them a courtesy briefing
on the situation, but as you can see,Copy !req
745. it's getting pretty late, we don't have
a whole lot of time anyway, so...Copy !req
746. Well, make the time.Copy !req
747. Fuck your time, Harold.
I'm on Defense Appropriations.Copy !req
748. I'm catching a plane back to Washington
in just a few minutes.Copy !req
749. Now, I need a full classified briefing
right now.Copy !req
750. Hundred and twenty thousand
Soviet troops in all.Copy !req
751. Hundred and twenty thousand?
- 40th Army is garrisoned in the cities...Copy !req
752. and in the airports.Copy !req
753. Your seventh and eighth infantry divisions
are in Kabul.Copy !req
754. The 18th in Mazar-e Sharif,
the fourth armored...Copy !req
755. Anything inside?
- I'm sorry?Copy !req
756. They controlling anything inside?Copy !req
757. Soviet advisors have appropriated
the Afghan intel service and the ministries.Copy !req
758. Which ministries?Copy !req
759. All of them.Copy !req
760. Anyway, the fourth armored
covers Bagram Airbase.Copy !req
761. Seventh Armored is...Copy !req
762. Why ain't they shooting down
them helicopters?Copy !req
763. I'm sorry?
- The helicopters, Harold.Copy !req
764. Why ain't we giving them something
to shoot down them helicopters?Copy !req
765. The helicopters are a problem.Copy !req
766. You think?Copy !req
767. Congressman...
- They're shooting at Soviet gunships...Copy !req
768. with Enfield rifles.
That's basically what Davy Crockett used.Copy !req
769. The Soviet Hind gunship
is especially amour...Copy !req
770. plated to resist bullets.Copy !req
771. Yeah, I know, I know. So you tell me
what you need to shoot them down.Copy !req
772. What do you mean?
- Tell me what you need.Copy !req
773. Do you understand what I'm saying?Copy !req
774. You tell me what you need,
and I will go about getting it for you.Copy !req
775. Congressman, I appreciate your generosity,Copy !req
776. but a sudden influx of money...Copy !req
777. and modern weaponry
would draw attention.Copy !req
778. What?
- A sudden influx of money and modern...Copy !req
779. Wait, it would draw attention?
- Yeah.Copy !req
780. Why, I don't even know what that means.Copy !req
781. This is the Cold War.
Everybody knows about it.Copy !req
782. Should I continue with the briefing?Copy !req
783. Have you been to these refugee camps?
Have you heard these stories?Copy !req
784. Congressman, I am required
to give you a briefing.Copy !req
785. Should I continue?Copy !req
786. No. Thank you.Copy !req
787. You know, I had a neighbor, growing up,
with a name right out of Dickens.Copy !req
788. Mr. Charles Hazard.Copy !req
789. And Mr. Hazard didn't like
the neighborhood dogs...Copy !req
790. messing up his flower beds.Copy !req
791. One day, I heard a bunch of yelling
from across the street,Copy !req
792. so I ran on over to Mr. Hazard's,Copy !req
793. and there were about 15 grown-ups
standing around my dog, Teddy,Copy !req
794. who was writhing on the ground
in obvious agony.Copy !req
795. Blood was pouring out of his mouth.Copy !req
796. Mr. Hazard had ground up a glass bottle...Copy !req
797. and put it in a bowl of dog food
and fed it to him.Copy !req
798. What did you do?Copy !req
799. Well, I got some gasoline
and burned down his flower beds.Copy !req
800. But that wasn't satisfying enough.Copy !req
801. And then I remembered,
Mr. Hazard was an elected official.Copy !req
802. He was the head of the town council.Copy !req
803. His reelection every two years
was a foregone conclusion.Copy !req
804. So come Election Day,
I drove over to the black section of town.Copy !req
805. Now, these people hadn't voted
in any of these elections, so...Copy !req
806. I was only 13, but l
had a farmer's license...Copy !req
807. and I filled up my car with black voters
and drove them to the polling place...Copy !req
808. and then waited, then
drove them on home.Copy !req
809. But before they got out of the car to vote...Copy !req
810. I said, 'l don't mean to influence you,
but I think you should know...Copy !req
811. 'Mr. Charles Hazard
has intentionally killed my dog.'Copy !req
812. About 400 ballots were cast in that election.Copy !req
813. I drove 96 of them to the polls.Copy !req
814. Hazard lost by 16 votes.Copy !req
815. And that's the day I fell in love
with America.Copy !req
816. What time do we land?Copy !req
817. 7:30 a.m. in D.C.Copy !req
818. I want the ClA in my office at 10:00.Copy !req
819. Assistant Deputy Director or higher.Copy !req
820. Tell them that if I don't see
someone at 10:00,Copy !req
821. I'm gonna start docking their allowance
at a rate of $1 million a minute.Copy !req
822. Yes, sir.Copy !req
823. And get me another one of them,
would you?Copy !req
824. Yes, sir.Copy !req
825. The AKs,
RPG-7 grenade launchers...Copy !req
826. and 82 millimeter mortars are coming
into Pakistan by air and sea,Copy !req
827. and then trucks take them
to the Afghan border.Copy !req
828. Then we
take them across on mules,Copy !req
829. which are running a little more
than we thought.Copy !req
830. The mules?
- They're 2,400 a piece,Copy !req
831. plus we got to get them checked out.
- For what?Copy !req
832. Diseases. Foot and mouth.
Plus they have to have their ears cleaned.Copy !req
833. The mules are getting better health care
than the Afghans.Copy !req
834. Plus, they're gonna cost
a little extra if we want them pre-trained.Copy !req
835. To do what?
- Walk over a mountain...Copy !req
836. with ammunition on their back.Copy !req
837. Aren't they born with that instinct?Copy !req
838. I mean, isn't that something
they want to do naturally?Copy !req
839. You think Afghanistan might, one day,
think about building some fucking roads?Copy !req
840. Gust.
- Yeah?Copy !req
841. I got something for you.Copy !req
842. I need you to be specific...Copy !req
843. The whole thing has changed.
Get your diary. I'll show you.Copy !req
844. Okay.Copy !req
845. No problem. Thank you.Copy !req
846. He should be here any moment.
- Don't worry about me. I'm fine.Copy !req
847. Good morning.
- Good morning, Congressman.Copy !req
848. Welcome back.
- Yeah. Marla.Copy !req
849. Welcome back.
- Suzanne.Copy !req
850. Welcome back.Copy !req
851. Who are you?
This is Gust Avrakotos.Copy !req
852. He's come up from Langley
to bring you the information...Copy !req
853. that you wanted.
- Bonnie.Copy !req
854. Yes, sir?
- I said Assistant Deputy Director or higher.Copy !req
855. I know, sir. I called...
- No, Assistant Deputies don't come...Copy !req
856. to the Hill without a subpoena.Copy !req
857. I'm the guy you want to talk to,
Congressman. I'm on the Afghan desk.Copy !req
858. You're on the Afghan desk?
- Yeah.Copy !req
859. Well, I wouldn't be too proud of that.
I just got back from there.Copy !req
860. Oh, I know. And that's a hell of a flight, too.Copy !req
861. That nine hours flying time
against the jet stream.Copy !req
862. Probably had to stop in Brussels,
plus the time difference.Copy !req
863. I'd be a little grumpy myself.
- I ain't grumpy because of the plane.Copy !req
864. We want to give you this
'cause we know you like single malt.Copy !req
865. It's called Talisker,Copy !req
866. and it's mentioned
in a Robert Louis Stevenson poem,Copy !req
867. The Scotsman's Return from Abroad.Copy !req
868. 'The king o' drinks, as I conceive it,Copy !req
869. 'Talisker, lsla or Glenlivet.'Copy !req
870. Who are you again?
- Gust Avrakotos.Copy !req
871. Have Bonnie come into this meeting.
Yes, sir.Copy !req
872. What's the gift for?Copy !req
873. It's from the Afghan desk
for doubling the budget for the mujahideen.Copy !req
874. Oh. Well, thank you.Copy !req
875. It was nothing.Copy !req
876. Well, it's a nice bottle of Scotch.Copy !req
877. Must've been hard to get.
- No, doubling the budget was nothing.Copy !req
878. I mean, $10 million for covert ops
against the Russian Army is meaningless.Copy !req
879. What are you, an infant?
- Now, you hang on just one second.Copy !req
880. I don't remember your name.
- Gust Avrakotos.Copy !req
881. Gust Avrakotos.
- Yeah.Copy !req
882. Okay, you mind if I call you Gus?Copy !req
883. Yeah, well, my name's Gust with a 't,'
but I don't care.Copy !req
884. Fifteen hours ago, I offered Harold Holt
the keys to the safe, okay?Copy !req
885. I stood there in the office in lslamabad,
and I said, 'How much do you need?'Copy !req
886. And I was apparently annoying him.Copy !req
887. Well, Harold Holt's a massive tool,
Congressman. He's a cake-eater.Copy !req
888. He's a clown. He's a bad station chief.Copy !req
889. And I don't mean to cast aspersions
on a guy, but he's gonna get us all killed.Copy !req
890. Really?
- Yeah.Copy !req
891. Well, how does he expect to defeat
the Soviets in Afghanistan without...Copy !req
892. He said, 'A sudden influx of money...'
- Yeah, an influx of money...Copy !req
893. and new weaponry would draw attention.Copy !req
894. He's not trying to defeat
the Soviets, Congressman.Copy !req
895. What the hell are you talking about?Copy !req
896. Excuse me.Copy !req
897. I'm the Congressman's aide, Bonnie Bach.Copy !req
898. Gust Avrakotos.Copy !req
899. Gus, I need the room for a second.Copy !req
900. Sure.
- Jailbait.Copy !req
901. Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey. Whoa, all right.Copy !req
902. Just tell me what's happening.Copy !req
903. A Justice Department task force
that was formed last year...Copy !req
904. to investigate reports of sex
between members of the House...Copy !req
905. and their male interns
has recently widened...Copy !req
906. to include the use of recreational drugs...Copy !req
907. by senators and congressmen.Copy !req
908. Do you know a man named Paul Brown?Copy !req
909. He doesn't have
to answer that. Keep going.Copy !req
910. Oh, shit.Copy !req
911. Paul Brown, under investigation
by federal prosecutors for fraud.Copy !req
912. He wanted me to invest
in some TV show for Crystal.Copy !req
913. Well, he's saying he witnessed
you doing cocaine nine times...Copy !req
914. in a fantasy suite in Las Vegas.Copy !req
915. Brian Ross at NBC is breaking the story.Copy !req
916. All right, guys. I was in Las Vegas
with Crystal and Paul Brown,Copy !req
917. because she wanted me to talk to him
about this thing.Copy !req
918. There was cocaine?Copy !req
919. I want you to go in the other room
and start on a statement.Copy !req
920. Let's get Stu on the phone.
- Okay, I'll call him.Copy !req
921. Okay, Bait, you just need to start...
It's all right, everybody.Copy !req
922. It's gonna be all right.
I want to get back to...Copy !req
923. Gus.Copy !req
924. You having problems?Copy !req
925. No.Copy !req
926. What do you mean,
he's not trying to defeat the Soviets?Copy !req
927. Well, he wants to bleed them.
Payback for Vietnam.Copy !req
928. Make it so they just have
to keep sending troops in,Copy !req
929. keep sending money,
and troops, and money...Copy !req
930. until they just go out
of their fucking minds...Copy !req
931. the way we did.Copy !req
932. You mean to tell me
that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan...Copy !req
933. is to have the Afghans keep walking
into machine gun fire...Copy !req
934. till the Russians run out of bullets?
- That's Harold Holt's strategy.Copy !req
935. It's not U.S. strategy.
- What is U.S. strategy?Copy !req
936. Well, strictly speaking, we don't have one.
But we're working hard on that.Copy !req
937. Who's we?
- Me and three other guys.Copy !req
938. Would you excuse me?Copy !req
939. All right, what do you have?Copy !req
940. 'Representative Charles
Wilson has learned...Copy !req
941. he is joining several
members of Congress...Copy !req
942. 'who are under investigation
by a Justice Department task force that is...'Copy !req
943. Don't say task force. It makes it sound...Copy !req
944. like Eliot Ness is running the thing.
- Okay.Copy !req
945. Who is running the thing?
Who's the prosecutor?Copy !req
946. Rudolph Giuliani,
New York, Southern District.Copy !req
947. You know him?
- No.Copy !req
948. Well, it's been going on forever.
We should say that, too.Copy !req
949. 'Representative Charles
Wilson has learned...Copy !req
950. he is joining several
members of Congress...Copy !req
951. 'who are under investigation
by the Justice Department...Copy !req
952. 'in what is now an 18-month long,
wide-ranging examination...Copy !req
953. 'that has resulted in no convictions.'Copy !req
954. 'Congressman Wilson
has not been charged...Copy !req
955. with any crime,Copy !req
956. 'nor has he been questioned
by the authorities.Copy !req
957. 'He denies any allegation of illegal
or improper behavior...Copy !req
958. 'and will fully cooperate
with the ongoing investigation.'Copy !req
959. Okay. Run it by Stu.
- JAlLBAlT: Yes, sir.Copy !req
960. Gus.Copy !req
961. You and three other guys?
- Yeah.Copy !req
962. Well, I'll tell you what I told Harold Holt.
I can get the money.Copy !req
963. Now, the 10 million is a joke?
Fine. What do you need?Copy !req
964. To do what?
- To shoot down the helicopters.Copy !req
965. To shoot down the helicopters.Copy !req
966. if we can help them shoot down
the goddamn helicopters,Copy !req
967. everything's gonna start going our way.Copy !req
968. You know, there's a story
about a Zen master and a little boy.Copy !req
969. All right, and... Yeah.Copy !req
970. It's Stu.
- You should be on this.Copy !req
971. Stu?Copy !req
972. No. No, it's gonna be fine.Copy !req
973. It was a party in Vegas.Copy !req
974. Lot of drugs, lot of people I don't know.Copy !req
975. I was there with Crystal Lee
and this guy Paul Brown...Copy !req
976. who wanted me to invest
in a TV show for Crystal.Copy !req
977. I don't know.Copy !req
978. I don't know, it's gonna be
like a Dallas set in Washington.Copy !req
979. What... Stu, what does it matter?Copy !req
980. Okay.Copy !req
981. Will Crystal back up your story
that you weren't using?Copy !req
982. Just go put out the statement.Copy !req
983. You know what?Copy !req
984. You never should have been
in the same room, Congressman.Copy !req
985. Gus.Copy !req
986. Yeah.
- The Swiss make an antiaircraft gun...Copy !req
987. called the Oerlikon.
- Listen, Charlie.Copy !req
988. Twenty-millimeter cannon, high rate of fire.
- I know the Oerlikon.Copy !req
989. Don't forget the limo driver.
- What do you mean?Copy !req
990. Well, you took a limo from the casino
to the airport.Copy !req
991. Maybe it's easy enough to track down
a limo driver, hand him a subpoena,Copy !req
992. ask him if anything was going on
in the back seat,Copy !req
993. so, you know, in terms of cleaning up this...Copy !req
994. Were you listening at the door?Copy !req
995. I wasn't listening at the door.
- Were you standing...Copy !req
996. at the goddamn door listening to me?
- No.Copy !req
997. How could you even... That's a thick door.Copy !req
998. You stood there and you listened to me?Copy !req
999. I wasn't standing at the door.
Don't be an idiot.Copy !req
1000. I bugged the Scotch bottle.
- What?Copy !req
1001. Yeah, it's got a little transmitter on it.
I got a little thing in my ear. Get past it.Copy !req
1002. I don't believe this. Who the fuck...
Who the fuck are you?Copy !req
1003. It's not in my ear right now. Take it easy.Copy !req
1004. I was gonna tell you about it,
but I had to leave the room for a second...Copy !req
1005. 'cause you were getting indicted.
- I ain't getting indicted.Copy !req
1006. ls there a camera in here?
- No, that's a little paranoid.Copy !req
1007. That's right.Copy !req
1008. Will you take the bug
off my Scotch bottle now?Copy !req
1009. Sure.Copy !req
1010. I saw two kids, had their hands blown off...Copy !req
1011. when they tried to
pick up something shiny.Copy !req
1012. Sometimes the kids think
those bombs are toys.Copy !req
1013. For children to pick up.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1014. They're raping the women and...
- Yeah.Copy !req
1015. bayoneting the pregnant ones.
- It's as bad as it can be.Copy !req
1016. But they still want to go out
and fight the Red Army.Copy !req
1017. Each and every one of them.
I've never seen anything like that.Copy !req
1018. No, me, neither.Copy !req
1019. Let's be clear.
I want to kill Russians as much as you do.Copy !req
1020. ls the Oerlikon the right gun?
Is that what they should have?Copy !req
1021. Now, you know what?Copy !req
1022. You've had a long flight.Copy !req
1023. You're under a lot of stress.
You're under arrest.Copy !req
1024. I ain't under arrest.Copy !req
1025. Do you drink?
- Oh, God, yeah.Copy !req
1026. Well, should we try this Scotch,Copy !req
1027. or is it gonna release sarin gas
when I open it?Copy !req
1028. Oh, I don't think so, but open it over there.Copy !req
1029. How'd a guy like you get into the Agency?Copy !req
1030. What, you mean a street guy?
- You ain't James Bond.Copy !req
1031. And you ain't Thomas Jefferson,
so let's call it even.Copy !req
1032. Deal.Copy !req
1033. Since there's no other reason
I should be here,Copy !req
1034. let's assume it's 'cause
I'm very good at this.Copy !req
1035. They need to shoot down
the helicopters, Gus.Copy !req
1036. They need at least, what, 50 Oerlikons.Copy !req
1037. Yeah, it's gonna cost a lot more
than $10 million.Copy !req
1038. And I say for the fourth time,
I can raise the money.Copy !req
1039. Yeah, how?Copy !req
1040. ls the Oerlikon the gun
I should be recommending?Copy !req
1041. I'm not sure.Copy !req
1042. Who is sure?
- A weapons guy named Mike Vickers.Copy !req
1043. I'll call him.
- Yeah. Let's call him right now.Copy !req
1044. All right, here's a test.Copy !req
1045. You see the nerdy-looking kid
in the white shirt...Copy !req
1046. playing against the four guys at once?
Yeah.Copy !req
1047. Which one of the guys do you think
is a strategic weapons expert with the ClA?Copy !req
1048. That was a trick question, Charlie.
It's the nerdy-looking kid in the white shirt.Copy !req
1049. All right, no reason this can't be fun,
you know.Copy !req
1050. Mike.
- Yeah, just a second.Copy !req
1051. Need you now, Mike.Copy !req
1052. Keep playing.Copy !req
1053. Mike Vickers,
this is Congressman Charles Wilson...Copy !req
1054. of the Defense Appropriations
Subcommittee.Copy !req
1055. How are you, sir?
- Fine, thank you.Copy !req
1056. How old are you?
- I'll be 30 next week.Copy !req
1057. This is the ClA's weapons expert?Copy !req
1058. One of them.
- But he's the most senior.Copy !req
1059. Look...
Mike.Copy !req
1060. Yeah, bishop to queen's knight 7.Copy !req
1061. See? He's playing
without even looking at the board.Copy !req
1062. That's a useful skill...Copy !req
1063. ifAfghanistan's ever invaded
by Boris Spassky.Copy !req
1064. Did my office not make it clear to Langley
that I'm in no mood...Copy !req
1065. to be fucked around with?
- Charlie...Copy !req
1066. You answer to me or you answer
to Jim Baker. Which do you want?Copy !req
1067. All right, the guy's a fucking Green Beret,
Charlie. He trained with the SEAIs.Copy !req
1068. No one's trying to fuck with you.
Mike?Copy !req
1069. Yeah, what was your move?
- Knight to queen's bishop 5.Copy !req
1070. All right, queen to king's rook 3.Copy !req
1071. Guy on the right,
you don't want to trade queens with me.Copy !req
1072. Shit.Copy !req
1073. All right, I apologize.Copy !req
1074. Okay.
- Everybody friends?Copy !req
1075. As a former naval officer myself, Mike,
I should've known better.Copy !req
1076. As a former naval officer,
I'd have been surprised if you had.Copy !req
1077. Now, what the fuck?
- Hey.Copy !req
1078. He said he was sorry.
- Hey.Copy !req
1079. What can I do for you, sir?Copy !req
1080. All right, he wants to make
a recommendation to his Subcommittee.Copy !req
1081. Now, the Swiss made Oerlikon S.T.A.
antiaircraft cannon, that's what you'd use...Copy !req
1082. to shoot down the Ml-24 Hind gunship
in the mountains, right?Copy !req
1083. Well, the Oerlikon's a good start,Copy !req
1084. but the Russians will just start flying
higher altitude missions.Copy !req
1085. So what else do they need?Copy !req
1086. Same thing you give us.
AK-47s, AK-74s, AKMS.Copy !req
1087. The Soviets didn't come into Afghanistan
on a Eurail Pass.Copy !req
1088. They came in T-55 tanks.Copy !req
1089. The fighters need
RPG-7 anti-tank grenade launchers,Copy !req
1090. Katyusha 107mm rockets, wire mines,
plastic mines, bicycle bombs, sniper rifles,Copy !req
1091. ammunition for all the above...Copy !req
1092. and frequency-hopping radios
and burst transmitters...Copy !req
1093. so these guys aren't
so fucking easy to find.Copy !req
1094. Well, I've written it all in a report
you can read.Copy !req
1095. You'd be the first one who did.Copy !req
1096. Send a copy of it to me
by secure courier right away.Copy !req
1097. I will. All right.
- All right.Copy !req
1098. There was a report?
- It's not that simple.Copy !req
1099. Why not?
- Well, for one thing it's covert.Copy !req
1100. When an Afghan freedom fighter
gets captured,Copy !req
1101. it can't be with
an American-made weapon on him.Copy !req
1102. That's how a cold war turns
into an actual war,Copy !req
1103. and that's something
you want to keep a good eye on.Copy !req
1104. So anything we give them has to look like...Copy !req
1105. it could have plausibly been captured
from the Soviets.Copy !req
1106. Yeah, that's right.
- You know who's good at that?Copy !req
1107. lsrael and Egypt.
- That's right.Copy !req
1108. You know what Vickers
just described back there...Copy !req
1109. could cost as much as $40 million.Copy !req
1110. I can get the appropriation.
- But how?Copy !req
1111. I want to know how are you gonna get
the approval of Congress...Copy !req
1112. when they're saying no to the Contras
for nothing,Copy !req
1113. for $5 million,
a request made by the President?Copy !req
1114. When a black approp makes it
through this Subcommittee,Copy !req
1115. the full body has to vote on it blind.Copy !req
1116. They know the dollar amount,
but they don't know what it's for.Copy !req
1117. So, theoretically, your $10 million
can become 40 million...Copy !req
1118. without anyone ever noticing
but the Russian Army.Copy !req
1119. Because Congress wouldn't know
what it was voting on.Copy !req
1120. That's the beauty of it.Copy !req
1121. All you need are the nine other
Subcommittee members.Copy !req
1122. All I really need is the Committee Chairman.Copy !req
1123. Doc Long.
- Doc Long.Copy !req
1124. And with Doc's backing, you'll get the votes
of the other Committee members.Copy !req
1125. Yep.
- I don't believe you.Copy !req
1126. I don't care.Copy !req
1127. And until the phone rang this morning,Copy !req
1128. Charlie, I didn't know
I'd never heard of you.Copy !req
1129. Well, ask around.Copy !req
1130. I did.
- And what'd you find out?Copy !req
1131. That your greatest
legislative achievement...Copy !req
1132. in six terms was getting
reelected five times.Copy !req
1133. Anything else?Copy !req
1134. That you hold more lOUs
than any member of the House.Copy !req
1135. How about that?Copy !req
1136. I represent the only district in America
that doesn't want anything.Copy !req
1137. They want their guns,
they want low taxes, that's it.Copy !req
1138. I can do favors. I get to vote yes a lot.Copy !req
1139. Now, me and three other guys
are killing Russians.Copy !req
1140. I mean, is it possible...Copy !req
1141. that I've met the only
elected official in town...Copy !req
1142. who can help?Copy !req
1143. Give me a week to set things up.Copy !req
1144. Go pack a bag.
I have a friend, an arms dealer in lsrael.Copy !req
1145. He's who we need for this, God help us.Copy !req
1146. Should be interesting.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1147. All right.Copy !req
1148. We need you, Zvi.Copy !req
1149. You're gonna be our man
inside the lsraeli Parliament.Copy !req
1150. I'm not in the lsraeli Parliament.Copy !req
1151. That's what's gonna make you so effective.Copy !req
1152. No one has your pull
with the 10th Knesset.Copy !req
1153. No one has your relationship
with the Speaker.Copy !req
1154. And we are gonna... We're gonna need
your arm around Menachem,Copy !req
1155. when he finds out that we're working
with Egypt and the Saudis.Copy !req
1156. Tell him. Tell him why we need him.Copy !req
1157. I'm not saying anything.
- Why not?Copy !req
1158. I don't know
who the fuck these two other guys are.Copy !req
1159. Well, ain't they bodyguards?
- Not ours.Copy !req
1160. Zvi?Copy !req
1161. Now, just to sum this up in a nutshell.Copy !req
1162. You want me to move lsrael...Copy !req
1163. toward a partnership
with Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan.Copy !req
1164. And Saudi Arabia.Copy !req
1165. Well, just a couple of
problems I can foresee...Copy !req
1166. off the top of my head.Copy !req
1167. Look.Copy !req
1168. Charlie...
- I know.Copy !req
1169. Pakistan and Afghanistan don't recognize
our right to exist.Copy !req
1170. Calm down.Copy !req
1171. We just got done fighting
a war with Egypt...Copy !req
1172. and every person who has ever tried
to kill me and my family,Copy !req
1173. has been trained in Saudi Arabia.Copy !req
1174. That's not entirely true, Zvi.Copy !req
1175. I mean, some of them were trained by us.Copy !req
1176. Gus, come on.Copy !req
1177. It's his sense of humor.
It's a bit of an acquired taste.Copy !req
1178. Now, Zvi, look at me.Copy !req
1179. This is the front of the Cold War.Copy !req
1180. It's not in Berlin, it's not in Cuba,
it's not in Czechoslovakia.Copy !req
1181. It's in a pile of rocks called Afghanistan.Copy !req
1182. These are the only people
who are actually shooting at the Russians.Copy !req
1183. Now, you and I know
we have to get Soviet-made weapons...Copy !req
1184. into the hands of the mujahideen.Copy !req
1185. And you and I know
where the largest stockpile...Copy !req
1186. of Soviet weapons
outside the Soviet Union is.Copy !req
1187. I can't tell you offhand how many...Copy !req
1188. and what kind of weapons
we've confiscated.Copy !req
1189. I can. These are Keyhole-1
1 satellite photos.Copy !req
1190. They've been degraded
so I can show them to you.Copy !req
1191. All right, that's a five-wheeled chassis tank.
That's not the Mk.1, that's the T-55.Copy !req
1192. And it and four others are
about 12 miles from here.Copy !req
1193. What do you want tanks in mountains for?Copy !req
1194. Oh, we don't. I just wanted you to know
I know you got them.Copy !req
1195. $35.5 million.
- Which you'll be able to appropriate.Copy !req
1196. Yeah.Copy !req
1197. Without the press asking
questions about it.Copy !req
1198. You know, there's good news there,Copy !req
1199. because the press is going to be busy
asking about a weekend in Vegas...Copy !req
1200. and his pending arrest on charges
of narcotics possession.Copy !req
1201. Oh, Gus.
- Shit, Charlie.Copy !req
1202. It's nothing.
- Is this true?Copy !req
1203. No, for our purposes,
it doesn't really matter.Copy !req
1204. Thank you.
- I was just explaining to him...Copy !req
1205. that as long as the press sees
sex and drugs behind the left hand,Copy !req
1206. you can park a battle carrier
behind the right hand...Copy !req
1207. and no one's gonna fucking notice.Copy !req
1208. What the hell happened?Copy !req
1209. It's not germane.
It's not germane to these people...Copy !req
1210. who are fighting and dying,
and being massacred in their homes.Copy !req
1211. Now, for the love of Christ,
will you help us help them...Copy !req
1212. shoot down these fucking helicopters?Copy !req
1213. I love you, Charlie,Copy !req
1214. but you are a grown man...Copy !req
1215. who still hasn't learned to look both ways
before he crosses the fucking street.Copy !req
1216. Yes, I'm in.Copy !req
1217. But I don't like this guy.
- I know how you feel.Copy !req
1218. What happens now?
- You come with us to Cairo.Copy !req
1219. This meeting's gonna be run professional?
- Oh, absolutely.Copy !req
1220. We'll be talking
to the Deputy Defense Minister...Copy !req
1221. while his boss gets a belly dance
from a friend of Charlie's.Copy !req
1222. What?
- A good friend of mine back in Texas...Copy !req
1223. is a well-known belly dancer.Copy !req
1224. It's always been her dream to perform
in Egypt, so she's our way in.Copy !req
1225. While she's dancing for
the Defense Minister,Copy !req
1226. we'll be talking to the Deputy.Copy !req
1227. Oh, my God.
- No, she's supposed to be good.Copy !req
1228. (ARABlC MUSlC PLAYlNG)...Copy !req
1229. That's an extraordinary woman.
- Oh, yeah.Copy !req
1230. That's not any belly dance I'm familiar with.Copy !req
1231. That's why I wanted the Defense Minister
to see her.Copy !req
1232. This is your girlfriend?
- Carol's a friend. She's an old friend.Copy !req
1233. I understand her father didn't allow dancing
because of the religion?Copy !req
1234. Yeah, that's correct.Copy !req
1235. And what religion is that?
- You know, she's a Baptist.Copy !req
1236. As I was saying, the Russians will learn,
I'm quite afraid the hard way,Copy !req
1237. to fear God's vengeance upon those...Copy !req
1238. who oppress his humble servants
who submit to him in lslam.Copy !req
1239. Their skulls will hang from the treetops.Copy !req
1240. You can do whatever you like
with their skulls, I suppose.Copy !req
1241. What has Gus here concerned is
a SA surface-to-air missiles you all have.Copy !req
1242. For some reason,
he thinks they were stored poorly.Copy !req
1243. No, no, no, the SA-7s were stored properly.Copy !req
1244. Excuse me.
What about the oppression of my people?Copy !req
1245. Oh, Zvi.
- I beg your pardon?Copy !req
1246. Fellows, we have to do this now.Copy !req
1247. I am about to arrange
for $35 million worth of guns...Copy !req
1248. to be put into the hands of Muslims.Copy !req
1249. I meant no disrespect.
- Oh, really?Copy !req
1250. Well, anyway, that...
None of this is important.Copy !req
1251. You have Soviet-licensed factories
that can put out Kalashnikovs...Copy !req
1252. at a rate of 25,000 a week?Copy !req
1253. That's correct.
- What about city warfare devices?Copy !req
1254. What kind?
- Bicycle bombs, limpet mines,Copy !req
1255. plastic, tripwire mines?Copy !req
1256. Yes, yes. Whatever you need.Copy !req
1257. We can't improve the price now,Copy !req
1258. but when we come back for more,
we'll make it up to you.Copy !req
1259. I agree.Copy !req
1260. All right.Copy !req
1261. Hey, you did good back there
ignoring the religious shit.Copy !req
1262. 'Cause these people
are totally fucking unspooled,Copy !req
1263. and I'm not just talking about the Muslims.Copy !req
1264. Zvi's all right.
- Oh, I know he is.Copy !req
1265. He is Mossad, by the way.Copy !req
1266. What I'm talking about
is your friend in Houston.Copy !req
1267. Now, she's got to stop throwing fundraisers
and she's got to stop doing press.Copy !req
1268. Joanne is raising awareness.Copy !req
1269. She's using a non-secular vocabulary...Copy !req
1270. and framing this as a religious war.Copy !req
1271. And America doesn't fight religious wars.Copy !req
1272. (SlGHlNG)...Copy !req
1273. Is that right?
- Yeah, that's why I like living there.Copy !req
1274. FLlGHT CAPTAlN: Good morning,
Iadies and gentlemen. This is your captain.Copy !req
1275. We will begin our initial descent...Copy !req
1276. into Washington Dulles Airport.
- I got to go down to Houston, so...Copy !req
1277. I would like to thank you and hope...Copy !req
1278. Well, talk to her.
- Yeah, I'll talk to her.Copy !req
1279. You want me to go into business
with the lsraelis?Copy !req
1280. Just for this one purpose, yes,
Mr. President.Copy !req
1281. The lsraelis have the largest stockpile
of Soviet-made weapons in friendly hands.Copy !req
1282. I know that.Copy !req
1283. I need to trust
that this arrangement will remain secret.Copy !req
1284. Pakistan and lsrael would have to appear
to be enemies in the public eye.Copy !req
1285. Yeah, I don't think that's a tough sell.Copy !req
1286. You have authority to do this?Copy !req
1287. None whatsoever. In fact, I'm pretty close
to violating the Logan Act.Copy !req
1288. Well, I don't know what that is.Copy !req
1289. But, Charlie.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
1290. if I see one fucking Star of David
on a crate...Copy !req
1291. You won't. I promise.Copy !req
1292. Hey.
- Excuse me.Copy !req
1293. You want me to take a look
at those remarks?Copy !req
1294. Why?
- Just... Well, your introduction,Copy !req
1295. want me to look it over?
- It's an introduction, Charlie. I'll be fine.Copy !req
1296. Today we honor President Zia ul-Haq
of Pakistan.Copy !req
1297. Before we go any further,
I would like you all to know this,Copy !req
1298. President Zia did not kill Bhutto.Copy !req
1299. In the time that he's been President,Copy !req
1300. the fortunes of Pakistan
have changed radically.Copy !req
1301. I've asked you all here today...Copy !req
1302. (CROWD CHATTERlNG)...Copy !req
1303. (CUTLERY CLlNKlNG)...Copy !req
1304. You disappeared.
- Well, they weren't selling alcohol in there.Copy !req
1305. It's a traditional Pakistani gathering.Copy !req
1306. You think they might be
a lot happier over there...Copy !req
1307. if they could just get women and booze
in the same room at the same time?Copy !req
1308. I think they'd be a whole lot happier
over there...Copy !req
1309. if the Communists got out.Copy !req
1310. 'Zia did not kill Bhutto.'Copy !req
1311. That's not something you usually hear
in introductory remarks.Copy !req
1312. He didn't, Charlie.
Bhutto had a trial and was found guilty.Copy !req
1313. Shocking verdict.Copy !req
1314. What did you need to talk to me about?Copy !req
1315. Joanne, darling, dial down the religion.Copy !req
1316. What?
- It could alienate people...Copy !req
1317. whose support we need.Copy !req
1318. It's luncheons like this
that are raising the money we need.Copy !req
1319. This thing is not gonna get done
by ballrooms full of people...Copy !req
1320. in the Houstonian Hotel.Copy !req
1321. It's gonna get done by the ClA,
lsrael, Egypt and Pakistan,Copy !req
1322. and it's gonna get done quietly.Copy !req
1323. Now, you start making people think...Copy !req
1324. we're trying to convert everybody
to Christianity.Copy !req
1325. I was saved by Jesus Christ, Charlie,
and I am not ashamed of it.Copy !req
1326. My fervor is not about religion,
it's about freedom of religion,Copy !req
1327. which we have, they want,Copy !req
1328. and the Communists
are slaughtering them for.Copy !req
1329. And I get it. Just tamp down the fervor.Copy !req
1330. Well, I can't modulate God's will, sweetie.Copy !req
1331. You can try.Copy !req
1332. Now, I got to get back to D.C.
They've set up a briefing for me at Langley.Copy !req
1333. On what?
- On getting the guns.Copy !req
1334. Afghanistan's barely a country.Copy !req
1335. There's no phones or roads
outside the cities.Copy !req
1336. It's likely that a villager would live his life...Copy !req
1337. without having contact
with another village...Copy !req
1338. just three miles down the road...Copy !req
1339. unless he was going to war against them.Copy !req
1340. Now, my thinking is
instead of 400,000 sloppy guys,Copy !req
1341. we concentrate on several elite forces
totaling about 150,000.Copy !req
1342. Give these guys real training,Copy !req
1343. 20 different courses
covering irregular warfare disciplines.Copy !req
1344. And do you have anybody in mind?Copy !req
1345. The most successful rebels today
are in the Panjshir Valley.Copy !req
1346. They're called the United Front
of the Council of the North.Copy !req
1347. We've earmarked them
for 10 million in weapons...Copy !req
1348. and 10 to 15 agency
advisors for training.Copy !req
1349. Who's their leader?
- Ahmed Shah Massoud.Copy !req
1350. He's Tajik,
so he's not well liked by the Pashtun.Copy !req
1351. So the... What, the Tajiks
have a problem with the Pashtuns?Copy !req
1352. Well, they say when a Tajik wants
to make love to a woman,Copy !req
1353. his first choice is always a Pashtun man.Copy !req
1354. It's funnier in the original Pashto.Copy !req
1355. All right, I've heard enough.
I'm going to go get our money.Copy !req
1356. All right, don't fuck us up now.Copy !req
1357. Awesome pep talk.Copy !req
1358. Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan
and Saudi Arabia,Copy !req
1359. these are all totalitarian dictatorships.Copy !req
1360. And they'd like to blow the only democracy
in the region right into the Mediterranean.Copy !req
1361. Now, you heard me say
that lsrael's gonna be on board.Copy !req
1362. Oh, well, Zvi Rafiah's out of his mind.Copy !req
1363. These people are draconian thugs,
and in an evil and twisted derby...Copy !req
1364. between the Communists
and the Fundamentalists,Copy !req
1365. it's 6-to-5 and pick them,
as far as I'm concerned.Copy !req
1366. No, you're wrong about that, Doc,
and you know you don't mean it.Copy !req
1367. In Pakistan, a blind girl gets raped,
but there's a witness.Copy !req
1368. Now, in Pakistan it takes four witnesses.Copy !req
1369. So the rapist walks away
and the girl is in prison.Copy !req
1370. Can you tell me why?Copy !req
1371. Well, fornication.
- That's right.Copy !req
1372. Mr. Chairman, President Zia is the only one
willing to shoulder the risk...Copy !req
1373. of actively training
and funding the mujahideen...Copy !req
1374. while Egypt and Saudi Arabia...Copy !req
1375. Now, the Saudis are matching any funding
from Congress?Copy !req
1376. That's right.
- So when you say 40 million to me,Copy !req
1377. you're really talking about 80 million.Copy !req
1378. Only 40 from us.Copy !req
1379. You want to put $80 million
in the hands of these people?Copy !req
1380. No, see, Doc, now, if you
took a trip with me...Copy !req
1381. to the border,Copy !req
1382. you'd stop calling them 'these people.'Copy !req
1383. They are farmers and children mostly,
and they are fighting our enemies for us.Copy !req
1384. I know.Copy !req
1385. And that should be impossible for America.Copy !req
1386. I know.
- It should be impossible for America...Copy !req
1387. to sit on the bench while little kids
and their mothers fight our enemies.Copy !req
1388. Now, all you have to do to change that
is to support me...Copy !req
1389. in the Committee, Mr. Chairman.Copy !req
1390. I'm sorry, Charlie, but doubling
from 5 to 10 million is one thing,Copy !req
1391. but, you know, I just can't get behind this.Copy !req
1392. Joanne Herring's residence.
Who's speaking?Copy !req
1393. Miss Herring, Congressman Wilson for you.Copy !req
1394. Hello.
Hey.Copy !req
1395. Tell me what's happening.Copy !req
1396. Well, I need Doc Long,
and he's not getting on board.Copy !req
1397. Now, he's a church-going guy, so I thought,Copy !req
1398. you know, maybe you could...
- So now you need God.Copy !req
1399. Yeah. Let me give you his private line.Copy !req
1400. I've got it.Copy !req
1401. (BREATHlNG HEAVlLY)...Copy !req
1402. Trish.
- Yes, ma'am.Copy !req
1403. Boss?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1404. Hey, that's a nice sweater.
- Oh, thank you.Copy !req
1405. The Washington Times wants to know
if you've ever been in rehab.Copy !req
1406. Well, what are you gonna tell them?
- That you won't go to rehab...Copy !req
1407. 'cause they don't serve whiskey there.Copy !req
1408. Well, that's why you're
the press secretary, boo-boo.Copy !req
1409. I've got Stu on the line. Can you jump on?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1410. Hey, Stu, it's me.Copy !req
1411. All right.Copy !req
1412. No, she's not a stripper, Stu.
She just posed for the cover...Copy !req
1413. Oh, what the hell difference does it make?
They're talking to Crystal today.Copy !req
1414. Yeah.Copy !req
1415. Giuliani subpoenaed the limo driver.Copy !req
1416. Oh, that's what Gus said he'd do.Copy !req
1417. Well, the limo driver said
he didn't see anything.Copy !req
1418. He didn't see anything.Copy !req
1419. So Giuliani subpoenaed every limo driver...Copy !req
1420. between Arlington and
Silver Spring to see...Copy !req
1421. if any of them can
recall you using cocaine.Copy !req
1422. Joanne Herring's on the phone.
- Hey, you.Copy !req
1423. We're all leaving in the morning.Copy !req
1424. You're kidding?
- No.Copy !req
1425. Well, what did you have to promise him?Copy !req
1426. There's a blind girl in jail
'cause she was raped.Copy !req
1427. Yeah.
- You're gonna get her out.Copy !req
1428. What, I got to bust somebody out ofjail?Copy !req
1429. Don't be stupid, Charlie.
You're gonna tell Zia to pardon her.Copy !req
1430. That's Doc's condition.Copy !req
1431. I'll fly in tonight. Buy me a drink?
- Yes, ma'am.Copy !req
1432. We're almost there, Charlie.Copy !req
1433. I'm going back to Pakistan tomorrow.
- GlRLS: Let's party.Copy !req
1434. (GlRLS WHOOPlNG)...Copy !req
1435. (DlSCO MUSlC PLAYlNG ON STEREO)...Copy !req
1436. Charlie.
- Oh, that was... I'm gonna...Copy !req
1437. You want a refill here, darling?
- Thanks.Copy !req
1438. Can we get another round?Copy !req
1439. Mario.Copy !req
1440. Oh, Charlie.Copy !req
1441. Hey, Joanne.Copy !req
1442. Can I call you Joanne?
- Yes.Copy !req
1443. You'll want to dress
considerably more modestly...Copy !req
1444. when we're at the border.Copy !req
1445. Well, thank you,
but I have been passionately involved...Copy !req
1446. with the cause of the Afghans
for three years.Copy !req
1447. I've been there many times.Copy !req
1448. Okay, well, then I'll just go fuck myself.Copy !req
1449. I am not easily shocked, Mr. Avrakotos.Copy !req
1450. I knew you two were gonna hit it off
right away.Copy !req
1451. Charlie.Copy !req
1452. Sorry, Stu's on the phone.
You can take it at the bar.Copy !req
1453. Stu. This can't be good.Copy !req
1454. How'd you hook up with Charlie?Copy !req
1455. Are you also passionately involved
with the cause of the Afghans?Copy !req
1456. No, I just wasn't really doing anything else.Copy !req
1457. I mean, how did you get into the ClA?Copy !req
1458. Oh, I didn't.
I'm with the Department ofAgriculture.Copy !req
1459. Food and Plant Division.
- Specifically apple imports.Copy !req
1460. Now, you don't seem like the apple type.
- I know.Copy !req
1461. What's that mean?Copy !req
1462. Where are you from?
- What do you care?Copy !req
1463. Are you a Catholic?
- Greek Orthodox, Mrs. Herring.Copy !req
1464. That's still Christian.
- lmagine my relief.Copy !req
1465. What's your problem with me?Copy !req
1466. You know, I've found, in my business,Copy !req
1467. that when people with time on their hands
get involved in politics,Copy !req
1468. I start forgetting
what I'm supposed to be shooting at.Copy !req
1469. That would be in the
apple import business.Copy !req
1470. Yes, ma'am.Copy !req
1471. I'll have to remember that.
- Please do.Copy !req
1472. It's over.Copy !req
1473. (CHARLlE LAUGHlNG)...Copy !req
1474. It's over. It is over.Copy !req
1475. That was Stu, and it is over.
- Wait, wait, wait. Crystal didn't name you?Copy !req
1476. Well, she witnessed me doing coke...Copy !req
1477. in the Cayman lslands.
- Oh, shit, Charlie.Copy !req
1478. No, it's all right. That's out
of the Justice Department's jurisdiction,Copy !req
1479. so it is over.Copy !req
1480. I'm going home.Copy !req
1481. Gus, Joanne, the most important trip
of our lives is in the morning,Copy !req
1482. so let's get plenty of sleep. I'm going home.Copy !req
1483. Jailbait, slap my hands.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1484. Mario, this is all on me.Copy !req
1485. Yes, sir.Copy !req
1486. He may be in trouble with the press,
but he stayed out ofjail.Copy !req
1487. You don't see God's hand in this?Copy !req
1488. Well, reasonable people can disagree,Copy !req
1489. but I don't see God anywhere
within miles of this.Copy !req
1490. On the other hand,
if you slept with me tonight,Copy !req
1491. I bet you I could change
my mind in a hurry.Copy !req
1492. Oh, you would.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1493. I'll see you on the plane.Copy !req
1494. (GlRLS LAUGHlNG)...Copy !req
1495. (MUSlC CONTlNUES PLAYlNG)Copy !req
1496. Sluts.Copy !req
1497. (PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)...Copy !req
1498. (CHARLlE CHATTERlNG)...Copy !req
1499. (GASPS)...Copy !req
1500. (CHlLDREN CHANTlNG)...Copy !req
1501. Doc's eating this up.
- Yeah?Copy !req
1502. We're gonna get the money.
Charlie?Copy !req
1503. Charlie.Copy !req
1504. Guy's a little senile.
- Don't be fooled.Copy !req
1505. He chairs a Subcommittee?Copy !req
1506. Charlie, Joanne, this has been
an absolutely eye-opening experience.Copy !req
1507. I mean, it's absolutely stunning.Copy !req
1508. Tell them what we saw, Mr. Papadropolous.
Tell them.Copy !req
1509. They only want to go back there and fight.
- And you're their savior, Mr. Chairman.Copy !req
1510. Oh, I wouldn't go that far, no.
- Watch this.Copy !req
1511. She's gonna lock it right on up.
Mr. Chairman,Copy !req
1512. these people have been waiting for you.
They have been sitting here...Copy !req
1513. and bleeding and waiting
and praying for you.Copy !req
1514. It's only gonna be a man like you
who can save them.Copy !req
1515. We know, don't we, about our men,Copy !req
1516. what they can do
when they summon themselves.Copy !req
1517. Charlie, I think they want you
to make some remarks.Copy !req
1518. No, you should do it, Mr. Chairman.Copy !req
1519. These people have been waiting
a long time for you.Copy !req
1520. Show Muriel what you can do.
Show your wife.Copy !req
1521. I'm a little bit emotional
about what I've seen here today.Copy !req
1522. Show her.Copy !req
1523. You can do it.Copy !req
1524. Go on.Copy !req
1525. All right.Copy !req
1526. Papadropolous.
- Well, it's Greek. It's in the ballpark.Copy !req
1527. My friends,Copy !req
1528. (MAN TRANSLATlNG
IN FORElGN LANGUAGE)...Copy !req
1529. my son served in Vietnam.Copy !req
1530. He was wounded fighting in battle
against the Soviet oppressors.Copy !req
1531. I didn't know that about his son.Copy !req
1532. So, you see, I'm no stranger,Copy !req
1533. no stranger at all to the horrors
and atrocities of the Communists.Copy !req
1534. (TRANSLATlNG)...Copy !req
1535. (CROWD CHEERlNG)Copy !req
1536. Thank you so much.Copy !req
1537. I talk about God for one simple reason.Copy !req
1538. As God is my witness today...
- We need him on our side.Copy !req
1539. these Russian gunships,
every last one of them,Copy !req
1540. are gonna be blown right out of the sky.Copy !req
1541. We're gonna see that you have guns
and we're gonna see that you have training.Copy !req
1542. Thank you.Copy !req
1543. Well, what I think's got Gus worried...Copy !req
1544. is that sooner or later
God is gonna be on both sides.Copy !req
1545. This is good against evil.Copy !req
1546. And I want you to know
that America's always going to be...Copy !req
1547. on the side of the good.Copy !req
1548. And God will always punish the wicked.Copy !req
1549. (CROWD CHANTlNG)...Copy !req
1550. (EXCLAlMlNG)Copy !req
1551. God is great.Copy !req
1552. This has been
a year of setback and frustration.Copy !req
1553. And the Soviet Army,
more than at any time since the war began,Copy !req
1554. (COUGHlNG)...Copy !req
1555. now has the upper hand.Copy !req
1556. The mujahideen are pinned down.Copy !req
1557. The Afghan resistance has been sanctified
by the United States,Copy !req
1558. but the support has not been translated
into military hardware.Copy !req
1559. The guerrillas still cling to the Kalashnikov,
but it's not enough.Copy !req
1560. They're waiting in vain
for bigger modern weapons...Copy !req
1561. to turn on the Red Army.Copy !req
1562. The guerrillas survived the raid.Copy !req
1563. The Soviets now are conducting
some of the heaviest bombing of the war.Copy !req
1564. The Soviets have put more troops
and equipment back in.Copy !req
1565. Communist bastards.Copy !req
1566. (COUGHS)...Copy !req
1567. (MAN CHATTERlNG)Copy !req
1568. Don't send us rice and bandages,Copy !req
1569. give us weapons
so that we can shoot down their gunships.Copy !req
1570. It's called the MlLAN anti-tank missile.Copy !req
1571. Can the Afghans win without it?
- No.Copy !req
1572. End of discussion.Copy !req
1573. I would like to have
the previously approved sum increased...Copy !req
1574. by an additional 30 million,Copy !req
1575. bringing the total appropriation
to 70 million.Copy !req
1576. I'd like to introduce
the MlLAN anti-tank missile.Copy !req
1577. We've got 300 in the field.Copy !req
1578. Yeah.
- Yep.Copy !req
1579. Let's kill some Russians.Copy !req
1580. Voting to pump up the money
for the freedom fighters is the only way...Copy !req
1581. for the northeastern liberal
to prove that he's serious.Copy !req
1582. How much are you asking for?Copy !req
1583. I'd want to go from 70
million to 100 million.Copy !req
1584. And if you vote for me, I can deliver
the Black Caucus for the farm subsidy.Copy !req
1585. (MAN CHATTERlNG ON RADlO)...Copy !req
1586. (SPEAKlNG RUSSlAN)...Copy !req
1587. (HELlCOPTER WHlRRlNG)...Copy !req
1588. (SPEAKlNG RUSSlAN)...Copy !req
1589. (WHlSTLlNG)...Copy !req
1590. (SPEAKlNG FORElGN LANGUAGE)...Copy !req
1591. (SPEAKlNG RUSSlAN)...Copy !req
1592. (BEEPlNG)...Copy !req
1593. (SCREAMlNG)...Copy !req
1594. (SPEAKlNG RUSSlAN)...Copy !req
1595. (SPEAKlNG FORElGN LANGUAGE)...Copy !req
1596. (SPEAKlNG RUSSlAN)...Copy !req
1597. (SHOUTlNG)Copy !req
1598. And they asked him,
quite reasonably enough,Copy !req
1599. 'How did you vote on that?'Copy !req
1600. And I swear to God,
he looks over at his staff guy.Copy !req
1601. He had to check with an aide
for an answer to that question.Copy !req
1602. I don't know how that guy stays in office.Copy !req
1603. (LAUGHlNG)...Copy !req
1604. It was the Bamian-led group.
They set an ambush here...Copy !req
1605. at the Fuladi Bridge.
What'd they get?Copy !req
1606. Four supply trucks coming out
of Bagram Airbase.Copy !req
1607. They hit a Soviet motorized rifle battalion
on horseback?Copy !req
1608. You bet your ass.
- Then these guys are pretty good.Copy !req
1609. We can't control this thing anymore.Copy !req
1610. The man stood in my office in lslamabad,
and I told him, 'A sudden influx of money...Copy !req
1611. 'and weaponry...'
- Could you hand me that belt, please?Copy !req
1612. Thank you.
- I mean, how is it possible...Copy !req
1613. that this congressman
of no particular importance...Copy !req
1614. is doing this by himself?Copy !req
1615. I will admit it's not unimpressive.Copy !req
1616. Is this the war
we want to be fighting, Henry? Huh?Copy !req
1617. Harold, whatever he's doing,
believe me, it's working.Copy !req
1618. The ClA estimates that seven...Copy !req
1619. out of every 10 times
the muj fires a Stinger,Copy !req
1620. a Soviet chopper or a plane
falls out of the sky.Copy !req
1621. Now, Russian MiGs go for $20 million,
Stingers go for 60-70,000.Copy !req
1622. What do you want to do?Copy !req
1623. Well, I'd like to double to 250 million.Copy !req
1624. Remind me again,
where did this thing start?Copy !req
1625. 5 million.Copy !req
1626. (MEN LAUGHlNG)...Copy !req
1627. (PHONE RlNGlNG)Copy !req
1628. Hello?Copy !req
1629. Is this
Mrs. Joanne King Herring Davis?Copy !req
1630. Where's it at, Charlie?Copy !req
1631. How's the honeymoon?Copy !req
1632. Am I ever gonna see you naked again?Copy !req
1633. Where's it at, Charlie?Copy !req
1634. 500 million. Matched by the Saudis.Copy !req
1635. One billion dollars.Copy !req
1636. That's right. Billion with a 'b.'Copy !req
1637. Where does this rank relative
to other covert wars?Copy !req
1638. There's never been anything else like it.Copy !req
1639. Since when?Copy !req
1640. Ever.Copy !req
1641. I miss you, Charlie.Copy !req
1642. l, Joanne,Copy !req
1643. I always miss you.Copy !req
1644. I better go.Copy !req
1645. There's nothing wrong with that.Copy !req
1646. And out in Polk, there's the polecat
who took us over the side there.Copy !req
1647. You know, that's the truth.
What do you got?Copy !req
1648. Is that Gus? You got it.Copy !req
1649. Hey, Gus.Copy !req
1650. Congratulations on your reelection.
- Yeah, thank you.Copy !req
1651. Tell me what you know.
- All right. Doc Long is gonna lose.Copy !req
1652. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We saw that coming.Copy !req
1653. Yeah, so who's gonna be our wallet now?Copy !req
1654. John Murtha.
- And is that good news?Copy !req
1655. Yep.
- Why?Copy !req
1656. I was his vote on the Ethics Committee.Copy !req
1657. You know, you're a very,
very easy man to like, Congressman.Copy !req
1658. Call me tomorrow morning at high noon.Copy !req
1659. (LAUGHlNG) I will. Bye-bye.Copy !req
1660. (HORSES NElGHlNG)...Copy !req
1661. (SPEAKlNG FORElGN LANGUAGE)Copy !req
1662. We present you with this Stinger tube.Copy !req
1663. (MEN CHEERlNG)...Copy !req
1664. (GUNS FlRlNG)Copy !req
1665. There was wild jubilation
inside the country of Afghanistan...Copy !req
1666. as last weekend it
became the first country...Copy !req
1667. in history to defeat
the mighty Soviet Union.Copy !req
1668. The retreat of Soviet military power
from Afghanistan is complete.Copy !req
1669. The last of Russia's regular army
invasion force is out.Copy !req
1670. Fear and uncertainty were mixed
with joy today...Copy !req
1671. as the commander of Soviet troops...Copy !req
1672. followed the last of his men
across the border.Copy !req
1673. CBS News Moscow correspondent,
Barry Petersen, begins our coverage.Copy !req
1674. It was the last hurrah.
The final Soviet combat troops...Copy !req
1675. crossing the Friendship Bridge
on the border...Copy !req
1676. between Afghanistan
and the Soviet Union.Copy !req
1677. The Soviet commander, Lieutenant...Copy !req
1678. Look what you did, Charlie.Copy !req
1679. Hey, it's... Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey.Copy !req
1680. It's traditional to make a gesture
towards the vanquished.Copy !req
1681. Gus, it's your honor.
Okay.Copy !req
1682. Reports that some Afghan units have...Copy !req
1683. Well, here's to you, you motherfuckers.Copy !req
1684. (CHEERlNG)...Copy !req
1685. determined to show the world that
the era of Soviet military intervention...Copy !req
1686. in other countries is now over.Copy !req
1687. Well, I told you.
Told me what?Copy !req
1688. All we had to do
was shoot down the helicopters.Copy !req
1689. Listen, not for nothing,
but do you know the story...Copy !req
1690. about the Zen master and the little boy?Copy !req
1691. Oh, is this something from Nitsa,Copy !req
1692. the Greek witch ofAquilippa, Pennsylvania?Copy !req
1693. Yeah, as a matter of fact, it is.Copy !req
1694. There was a little boy,
and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse.Copy !req
1695. And everybody in the village says,
'How wonderful. The boy got a horse.'Copy !req
1696. And the Zen master says, 'We'll see.'Copy !req
1697. Two years later, the boy falls off the horse,
breaks his leg.Copy !req
1698. And everybody in the village says,
'How terrible.'Copy !req
1699. And the Zen master says, 'We'll see.'Copy !req
1700. Then a war breaks out,Copy !req
1701. and all the young men
have to go off and fight,Copy !req
1702. except the boy can't
'cause his leg's all messed up.Copy !req
1703. And everybody in the village says,
'How wonderful.'Copy !req
1704. And the Zen master says, 'We'll see.'Copy !req
1705. So you get it.
- No. No, I don't 'cause I'm stupid.Copy !req
1706. You're not stupid. You're just in Congress.Copy !req
1707. Send them money.
- You can start with the roads.Copy !req
1708. Move on to the schools, factories.
- Gus, now, it's a party.Copy !req
1709. Restock the sheep herds.
- Hey.Copy !req
1710. Give them jobs, give them hope.
- I'm trying. I'm trying.Copy !req
1711. Yeah, well, try harder.
- I'm fighting for every dollar.Copy !req
1712. Yeah, yeah.
- I took you from 5 million to a billion.Copy !req
1713. I broke the ice on the Stinger
and the MlLAN.Copy !req
1714. I got a Democratic Congress in lockstep
behind a Republican President.Copy !req
1715. Well, that's not good enough...Copy !req
1716. 'cause I'm gonna hand you
a code word classified NlE right now,Copy !req
1717. and it's gonna tell you
that the crazies have started rolling...Copy !req
1718. into Kandahar
like it's a fucking bathtub drain.Copy !req
1719. Jesus, Gus, you could depress a bride
on her wedding day.Copy !req
1720. Hey.Copy !req
1721. Listen to what I'm telling you.Copy !req
1722. You did a hell of a job
for the son of a soda pop maker.Copy !req
1723. 'We'll see,' said the Zen master.Copy !req
1724. $1 million for school reconstruction?Copy !req
1725. Oh, shit, Charlie.Copy !req
1726. Listen.
- He's like the congressman from Kabul.Copy !req
1727. Did you hear me say it was a million,
not a billion, for school construction?Copy !req
1728. Yeah, we heard you.
Everybody heard you, buddy.Copy !req
1729. They heard you in Dover, Delaware.Copy !req
1730. Well, I sure hope I'm
not annoying you, Bob,Copy !req
1731. 'cause that's the last thing I want to do.
- Look...Copy !req
1732. I was in the Roosevelt Room
with the President last week.Copy !req
1733. You know what he said?Copy !req
1734. He said,
'Afghanistan? Is that still going on?'Copy !req
1735. Well, it is.Copy !req
1736. Half the population of that country...Copy !req
1737. is under the age of 14.
- Charlie.Copy !req
1738. Half the population is under the age of 14.Copy !req
1739. Now, think how fucking dangerous that is.Copy !req
1740. They're gonna come home
and find their families are dead,Copy !req
1741. their villages have been napalmed.Copy !req
1742. And we helped kill the guys who did it.
- Yeah, but they don't know that, Bob,Copy !req
1743. 'cause they don't get home delivery
of The New York Times.Copy !req
1744. And even if they did,
it was covert, remember?Copy !req
1745. This is what we always do.
We always go in with our ideals...Copy !req
1746. and we change the
world and then we leave.Copy !req
1747. We always leave.Copy !req
1748. But that ball, though, it keeps on bouncing.Copy !req
1749. What?
- The ball keeps on bouncing.Copy !req
1750. Yeah, we're a little busy right now...Copy !req
1751. reorganizing Eastern Europe,
don't you think?Copy !req
1752. We've spent billions.Copy !req
1753. Let's spend a million on H.R.118
and rebuild a school.Copy !req
1754. Charlie, nobody gives a shit
about a school in Pakistan.Copy !req
1755. Afghanistan.Copy !req
1756. So, for the first time, a civilian
is being given our highest recognition,Copy !req
1757. that of Honored Colleague.Copy !req
1758. Ladies and gentlemen
of the Clandestine Services,Copy !req
1759. Congressman Charles Wilson.Copy !req
1760. Bravo, Charlie.Copy !req