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<i>I know maybe a dozen reporters,
guys you know, too,</i>

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who tell me they've been
pitching you this story

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for almost a year with no luck.

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Yeah, I'm not crazy
about being interviewed in print.

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Print journalists play it fast
and loose with exclamation points.

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"I love the news" becomes "I love the news!"

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Suddenly I'm deranged.

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- So why now?
- Huh?

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Why are you agreeing to this piece now?

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- You don't happen to have a cigarette?
- No.

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- Why now?
- Ah! Right here.

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Why do you want this now?

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I want some sort of document
about what we've been trying to do here.

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Like the king at the end of <i>Camelot</i>

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telling the boy to run behind the lines
from village to village

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telling people about, you know...

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<i>- Camelot.</i>
- Yeah.

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I'm asking why you reached out to me.

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Because, your recent
complications notwithstanding,

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you cover the media better
than anyone out there.

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You haven't lost your touch

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for complimenting and
insulting someone at the same time.

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Thank you. I appreciate it.
But it wasn't meant as an insult, Brian.

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Your life's been in news magazines,

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- and news magazines aren't...
- I know.

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...as many pages long as they used to be.

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What kind of access are we talking about?

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Here's what I'll offer.
You spend a few days here,

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talk to whoever you want,
but it's all off the record.

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- Not even background.
- What good does that do me?

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If I like how it feels, then we go ahead.

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But I still get to tell you what can retroactively
go on the record from the tryout period.

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- You're asking me to audition?
- Yeah.

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Why would I do that?

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I can think of some reasons.

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Four years ago, you were on
the masthead at <i>Newsweek,</i>

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turning out 10 cover stories a year

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and spending Sunday mornings on TV.

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Today you have a blog.

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Your fucking disdain for the Internet...

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Is matched only by
your fucking disdain for the Internet.

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You took a buyout when
<i>Newsweek</i> was sold to IAC

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and rolled the money into a start-up,
thinking you'd be the next <i>Huffington Post.</i>

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How'd it work out?

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We filed for bankruptcy.

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<i>The Sunday Times Magazine, Vanity Fair,
GQ, The New Republic, The Atlantic,</i>

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everybody's offered the cover
and I get to pick the writer.

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I'm going with <i>New York Magazine</i> and you.

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So, you okay with the audition?

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Are you prepared to talk
about your Republicanism?

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You say that like I've got polio.

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Are you prepared to talk about having polio?

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I grew up in a town outside a town
outside Lincoln, Nebraska.

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My hometown was a road.

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I was a college freshman
before I met a Democrat.

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What about our history?

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Brian, your problem with me back in the day
was that I was a moderate, sane Republican

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who refused to take a position on anything
for fear I would lose viewers.

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Just as moderate,
sane Republicans on the Hill

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refuse to take a position
for fear they'll lose primary voters.

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I had a nightly rundown that went out
of its way to avoid reporting the news.

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And then MacKenzie McHale came along
and I'm attacking my own party

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for not standing up to its attackers.

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Isn't that what you wanted me to do
when you were calling me a coward?

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Yeah, but that's not
the history I'm talking about

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and you already knew that,
so please stop fucking around with me.

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One parenthetical sentence
in the second graph.

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"Full disclosure.
I've been a friend of MacKenzie McHale's

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- "since the late '90s."
- And you?

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An email went to 178,000 people
and was reported on our own morning show.

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That's all you know
and that's all you'll report.

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That's fine with me. But that's the last time
you'll tell me what I will or won't report.

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- I'm not your stenographer.
- Do we have a deal?

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Yeah, now why do you need someone
to run from village to village?

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Is something about to happen to Camelot?

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Maybe.

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First, you have to learn
what our whole philosophy is.

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Hang out, we'll talk later.
I have to go to a meeting with Reese Lansing.

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What's it about?

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Suspending our whole philosophy.

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Good to see you again, Brian.

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He should be here any minute.

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Sorry I'm late.

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All right, I'm not gonna tell you
what to put on the air.

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You're not allowed to tell us
what to put on the air.

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So I'm just gonna tell you the facts.

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You got mugged last week.
You got bludgeoned.

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- It's Casey Anthony.
- Hang on, wait. She may just be right.

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- We knew we'd take a small hit.
- There's nothing small.

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Let me just give you the facts and then
invite you to draw your own conclusion.

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Nancy Grace averages 283,000
viewers on HLN.

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Her time period competitor, <i>News Night,</i>
averages 960,000.

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One week ago, HLN begins coverage
of the Casey Anthony trial

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and Nancy's audience increases
to 1.5 million viewers,

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while <i>News Night's</i> audience
drops to 460,000,

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sending you from second to fifth place
in the course of five days.

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A feat I previously thought
was only accomplishable

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by the New York Mets.

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Whose idea was it to not cover
the Casey Anthony trial?

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It was mine.

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I think the three of you
should have a vaudeville act.

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I'm not kidding.
I'm gonna send you on a fucking tour.

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It was hers.

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MacKenzie, I've never seen a more
vivid picture of why viewers left,

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where they went to and why.

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You said why twice.

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You chose not to work for PBS.

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You chose not to work for NPR.
You have a ratings obligation.

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No, you have a ratings obligation.

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You're in business with the advertisers.

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I'm in business with the viewers.

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You just lost their business.

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That's all.

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Do what you want with the information.

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I'll not be taken down by this
psychotic cocktail waitress.

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That's right, we just keep playing our game,
wait it out and just...

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How long can the trial go on?

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I've seen the witness list.
It'll run around six weeks

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plus summations plus deliberation.

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- We'll never make it.
- That's right, so...

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Wait, when you said
we wouldn't be taken down

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by this psychotic cocktail waitress,

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did you mean we weren't
gonna cave or that we were?

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- You're gonna cover Casey Anthony.
- Bullshit we are.

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We have the three-day
weekend to gear up for it.

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Charlie.

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Starting Tuesday,
you'll lead with her in the A block.

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Give it 15 minutes and a five-minute reset
on the half hour.

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Seriously, I can't tell if you're joking or...

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- Did you just hear those numbers?
- Yes.

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Half our audience changed the channel
in one week.

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- I understand.
- Do you?

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- Do I understand math?
- Do you understand that it's unprecedented?

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I'm not gonna argue with you
when Will can do it for me.

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He's never gonna go for this. Tell him.

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Have marketing promo the living shit
out of Casey Anthony.

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Oh, my God.

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Rename the show <i>"Casey Anthony Night
with Casey Anthony."</i>

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- Will, hang on.
- Right here on the Casey Anthony Network.

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- Mac.
- 'Cause any second I'm going to wake up

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and be back in a room with Don Quixote
and the mission to civilize.

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- Listen to me.
- No.

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How many drinks were thrown in your face

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because you didn't think
people should watch

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<i>The Real Morons of South Beach</i>
or whatever the hell it's called?

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- It's not the same thing.
- It's exactly the same thing.

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It's just worse. A child is dead.

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A very troubled young mother
either did or didn't murder her.

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Her parents are waiting to find out if
she's going to get the needle,

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So thank God for TiVo,
otherwise we wouldn't be able to sit down...

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It's news.

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Yeah, say that three times
and click your heels.

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It's entertainment.

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And it's just, just this side of a snuff film.

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- Sit down, Mac.
- No, I don't want to sit.

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- Do it anyway, please.
- 15 at the top, that's a quarter of the show.

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- Mac.
- And five at the bottom for a reset?

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Please sit!

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- Think I like it?
- I know you don't.

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It makes me sick.
There isn't enough bourbon in Kentucky.

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Okay? We're in the same place on this.

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So, let's be in the same place on this.

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We've had ratings dips before.

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First of all, not like this. Nothing like this.

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Second, I want the debate.

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The three of us have talked
about a new debate format

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for months and
we're not going to be able to do it

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if they don't give us a debate.

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- I just really...
- They're not gonna give us a debate

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if we're in fifth place.
I want the debate.

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I want to fundamentally change the way

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we interview presidential
candidates for their job.

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If that means we have to be Jerry Springer
for a few weeks, I'm willing to pay that price.

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When the going gets tough,
the two of you really man up.

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Then go with your principles, Mac, but know
a ratings hit like this is all Leona needs

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to fire Will without having to explain why.

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- All right.
- You'll do it as classy as you can.

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I'll have Will wear a top hat and monocle

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while he's showing
pictures of the wet T-shirt contest.

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I'm sorry about the outburst in there.

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Yeah, I'm not sure it was
all about Casey Anthony.

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- How did it go?
- He's doing it.

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Then he has to disclose that we were...

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I told him one parenthetical
in the second graph.

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That's it.

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He needs to be seen
as a heavyweight again, Mac.

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He's not gonna write a tell-all. You're fine.

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Murrow did <i>Person to Person.</i>

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Celebrity interviews. It was a deal with Paley.

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One for them, one for him.

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He interviewed Liberace, Mac,
just so he could keep going after McCarthy.

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Those were puff pieces. This is poison.

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If we're gonna do this,
let's not pretend we're not doing this.

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- Jim Harper.
- Hey.

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- Brian Brenner.
- I know.

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I wasn't sure if you remembered.
It's been a few years.

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Sure. It's good to see you.

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Are you looking at BigGovernment.com?

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- Yeah.
- Don't make me write

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that you're using Andrew Breitbart
to research this show.

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No, we're gonna be doing a mock debate
at the end of next week.

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A mock debate?

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The RNC is looking at Will
to possibly host a debate,

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and Will and Mac
have an idea for a new debate format.

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We want to show them,
so we're each playing a candidate

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and we're gonna do a mock debate
on Michele Bachmann, so...

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- Andrew Breitbart.
- Yeah.

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Tell me about this new
debate format you guys want.

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You know, I'm not really sure
what I'm allowed to talk to you about yet.

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Do you mind if we wait
until I get some instructions?

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- Sure.
- Thanks.

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Hey.

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- Hey.
- I heard you were here.

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You're not getting out of town
for the weekend?

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- Nope. How about you?
- Yeah.

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I'm going to a think tank
conference outside Baltimore.

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The Institute For Capital
Studies and Economic Growth.

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- It's gonna be a raver.
- I think it's called a rager.

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- Are you sure?
- No.

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It's either a rave or a rager or a raver.

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Don't think the Institute For
Capital Studies and Economic Growth's

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gonna be any of them.

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So I stopped in to give you a heads up.

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I might need a couple extra
minutes Tuesday night.

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I don't think I can give it to you.

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The House is going to vote
up or down on increasing the debt ceiling.

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- It's a cosmetic vote, but...
- If it's a cosmetic vote, why...

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It's news because first of all,
it'll be the first time

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in history the House lets
the US default on its debt.

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But moreover, it'll be the first shot
in the beginning of a very reckless,

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extremely dangerous partisan fight
that could end in catastrophe.

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- Let me explain.
- I can't give you the time.

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00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,675
- If Congress doesn't raise...
- I can't give you the extra time.

234
00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,237
Starting Tuesday, I have
to cover Casey Anthony.

235
00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:00,949
- I really liked that we weren't doing that.
- I really liked it, too.

236
00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,276
By putting the debt ceiling
vote in the A block, we'd be sending...

237
00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,717
I can't, Sloan.
We lost half our audience last week.

238
00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,395
That's not hyperbole.
That's an actual number.

239
00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,995
- Half our audience went to HLN at 8:00.
- Half?

240
00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,675
If we don't bring them home this week,
we'll have lost most of them for good

241
00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:15,796
and we could lose the debate.

242
00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,071
Kenzie, I'm not just trying to get more airtime.

243
00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:21,480
This is an incredibly important...

244
00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,671
I had 42 and a half minutes to work with.

245
00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,194
I now have 22 and a half.

246
00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,073
Do you know how you're gonna
budget the 22 and a half?

247
00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:28,480
Do you know what Tuesday's news is?

248
00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,155
We want the debate. That's the prize.

249
00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,000
Those guys are studying
on a Friday night of a three-day weekend.

250
00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,640
- Okay, next question.
- Congresswoman Bachmann,

251
00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,629
you're a proponent of reforming
Social Security and Medicare.

252
00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,916
Can you give us some details of the reforms
you have in mind?

253
00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,152
I'd start by reducing benefits for all
but current recipients

254
00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,317
as part of an effort to
reduce the federal deficit.

255
00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,835
I'd like to add that President Obama
has already transferred

256
00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,152
over $500 billion out of
Medicare and into Obamacare,

257
00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,312
which I will repeal on my first day in office.

258
00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,199
Ms. Bachmann, are you aware that presidents
can't repeal laws?

259
00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,516
I, Jim, am aware of that, but...

260
00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:02,954
Where are you getting the quote?

261
00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,509
BigGovernment.com. It's right here.

262
00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:09,350
- Hmm.
- What?

263
00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,590
Anthony Weiner's Twitter account got hacked.

264
00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,552
Can I suggest a way to
turn lemons into lemonade?

265
00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:15,630
Sure.

266
00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,996
First you squeeze the juice from the lemons.
Then add sugar and water.

267
00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:19,070
And you're not really into this joke,

268
00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,112
so I'm just going to say
what I really wanted to say.

269
00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,351
The Casey Anthony story
actually gives us a chance to show

270
00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,750
how important the debt ceiling
story is if we lead

271
00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:27,638
with the debt ceiling
instead of Casey Anthony.

272
00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:28,949
When do you have to go to your raver?

273
00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,157
- I've got plenty of time.
- Tea, can I have another?

274
00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,192
- Yeah.
- Hey, how about Brian Brenner?

275
00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,476
I've been reading him for years
and didn't know what he looked like.

276
00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:36,710
- He's cute.
- Yeah.

277
00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:38,280
- Is he single?
- He is.

278
00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:39,794
- Are you interested?
- Nope.

279
00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:42,153
That's contempt prior to investigation.

280
00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,312
No, it's contempt after
thorough investigation.

281
00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,239
- You dated him?
- I did.

282
00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:49,994
- When?
- About six years ago.

283
00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:51,719
That's... Wait.

284
00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,439
- That's...
- Yeah.

285
00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,755
Six years ago, you were
with the guy you were with before Will.

286
00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,031
Yeah.

287
00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:04,079
- But that would...
- Oh, my God, Sloan.

288
00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:05,640
It's like the land where time stands still.

289
00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,189
Brian Brenner is the guy
I cheated on Will with.

290
00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,671
I'd been with Will for a year
and Brian started calling me again.

291
00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:16,469
- Wow.
- Yeah.

292
00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:17,960
- Why would he do the piece?
- Brian?

293
00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:19,315
- Yeah.
- He needs a cover story.

294
00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:20,800
And why would Will have Brian do the piece?

295
00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,594
That's a perfectly fair question
to which I have no answer.

296
00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,029
This is really messed up.

297
00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,034
Look, I'll do my best to find you
the time you need for the story.

298
00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,589
We just need to hope there's
no new piece of nonsense

299
00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:37,357
I have to jam into my 22 minutes
of Short Attention Span Theater.

300
00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,560
Anthony Weiner accidentally tweeted
a picture of his groin to 40,000 followers.

301
00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,634
<i>And I don't consider it
that big a federal offense,</i>

302
00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,155
<i>but people want to pay attention
to it and I guess I get it.</i>

303
00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,038
<i>When you're named Weiner,
it kind of goes with the territory.</i>

304
00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,152
<i>Have you ever taken a picture
like this of yourself?</i>

305
00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,471
<i>I can tell you this, that there are...</i>

306
00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,233
<i>I have photographs.</i>

307
00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,835
<i>I don't know what photographs
are out there in the world of me.</i>

308
00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,674
<i>I don't know what things have
been manipulated and doctored.</i>

309
00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,355
<i>And we're gonna try
to find out what happened.</i>

310
00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,956
<i>But the most important reason I want to
find out what happened is to make sure...</i>

311
00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,636
Weiner, McAvoy. Call me.
You're getting terrible advice.

312
00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,275
Well, the choices are
to do something or to do nothing.

313
00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,677
If we do nothing, then the audience turns
to the nearest guy doing something.

314
00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,638
What exactly would our report be?

315
00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,871
That he's not answering questions very well?

316
00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,111
- I don't know. Give me three minutes.
- To report what?

317
00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:30,356
I don't know.
But if I do nothing,

318
00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:31,874
it's gonna look like I'm protecting a liberal.

319
00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:33,076
Since when did we start
caring about

320
00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,634
what it looks like
instead of what it is?

321
00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,633
Reports on the Tea Party won't have
credibility if we're not balanced.

322
00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,633
Will, you're the one who said that balance

323
00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,155
for its own sake doesn't
have any place in reporting.

324
00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:47,110
One from column A
and one from column B is bullshit.

325
00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,035
And boorish behavior isn't the same
as taking the US Treasury hostage.

326
00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,431
When the RNC boys come here on Friday,
they won't see it the same way.

327
00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,115
And you'll explain to them
we don't care that he's sexting.

328
00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,874
- We care how he votes.
- And they'll understand, give us the debate,

329
00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:03,237
let us use the format we want,
and we'll all go out for chocolate milkshakes.

330
00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,797
Three minutes in the B block, please,
after Casey Anthony.

331
00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:08,712
Okay.

332
00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:10,952
I know it seems like a story that only affects

333
00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:14,317
300,000 people in Queens,
but since there's sex involved,

334
00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,359
we can't deny its national importance.

335
00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,717
Especially since we don't know all
or even any of the facts.

336
00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,392
Three minutes.
I assume you want the pictures.

337
00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:29,831
Good meeting.

338
00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,715
I'm pretty familiar with that tone of voice.

339
00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,917
- I guess you are, too?
- I am.

340
00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,597
No one's been hitting the Tea Party
as hard as you've been.

341
00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,831
- Certainly no Republican.
- That's not true.

342
00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,914
David Frum, Mark McKinnon, Alan Simpson,
Steve Schmidt, Andrew Sullivan.

343
00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,071
Okay, but none of them
work for Leona Lansing.

344
00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,112
I don't know.
I think everybody works for Leona Lansing.

345
00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,110
She can't be happy that you're beating
up people AWM needs on the Hill.

346
00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,795
I'm really not an expert on what
does or doesn't make Leona happy.

347
00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,190
Has she ever asked you to tone it down?

348
00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,078
I'm not doing your reporting for you, Brian.

349
00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,914
I'm doing my reporting myself.
I'm asking you a question.

350
00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,277
I'm not commenting on or off the record
about either Leona or Reese Lansing.

351
00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:17,478
- Does she want you fired?
- If she wanted me fired, I'd be fired.

352
00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:19,758
All she has to do is buy my contract,

353
00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:21,752
which she can do with the money
under her sofa cushions.

354
00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:23,638
But then she'd have to explain
why she was firing

355
00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:25,871
the second most watched anchor on cable

356
00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:27,792
and she can't do that.

357
00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,595
Is it a coincidence that
the tabloid stories about you

358
00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:31,955
started right after the election?

359
00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,114
I don't know.

360
00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,073
Do you think she's using
her own tabloid magazine

361
00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:38,953
to manufacture a reason to fire you?

362
00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,713
That would be a smart way to do it.

363
00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,031
And, of course, if you lost half your audience

364
00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,994
because your show was too highbrow
to cover Casey Anthony,

365
00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,958
she wouldn't even need
to work that hard to do it.

366
00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,632
Firing an anchor for losing half
his audience isn't unreasonable,

367
00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,074
if that's what you're asking.

368
00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,152
It wasn't and you know it.

369
00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,639
You're trying to get me to write
this story without your fingerprints on it.

370
00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,555
AWM has to do business with Congress
and you're making it much harder.

371
00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,519
Leona wants you fired,
but can't do it unless she can explain it.

372
00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:09,876
She's hoping the tabloid stories
build to a critical mass

373
00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,634
or that your ratings tank.

374
00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,156
Say something if I'm wrong,
say nothing if I'm right.

375
00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,352
For what it's worth, I'd cave, too.

376
00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,840
No serious journalist would ever agree
to the demands I made on Friday.

377
00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,196
So for what it's worth, you already did.

378
00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,318
Are you ready to answer
questions about the newsletter?

379
00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,517
- I haven't read it.
- The mock debate's Friday.

380
00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,353
No, I'm being Ron Paul right now.

381
00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,557
I didn't write it. I've never read it.
I've never heard of it.

382
00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:42,717
It's got my name on it,
I've made money from it.

383
00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,269
The newsletters would get
a standing ovation at a Klan rally,

384
00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:47,033
but you should stop asking me
questions about them.

385
00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:49,191
- You need a better answer.
- He needs a better answer.

386
00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,037
Tell you what question I'd start off with.

387
00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:53,833
- Congresswoman Bachmann.
- Yes?

388
00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,038
You've said that you were told
to run for president by God.

389
00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:58,992
- Please, I don't...
- You have, right?

390
00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,312
You've said on a number of occasions
that God told you to run for president.

391
00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,437
I have some clips here if you'd like me
to refresh your memory.

392
00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:06,193
- Nope, my memory is fresh.
- Here's my question.

393
00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:08,079
- Good.
- What does God's voice sound like?

394
00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,436
- I'm completely serious.

395
00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,275
She's saying that God spoke directly to her.

396
00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:15,317
How is this not the first
question asked in a debate?

397
00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,079
How is it not the only question?

398
00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,915
What does his voice sound like?

399
00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,994
What did he say exactly, word for word?

400
00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,596
Did he speak in Hebrew?
Acadian? Kiswahili-Bantu?

401
00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:30,031
And to put it in a medical context,
is this the first time you've heard voices?

402
00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,710
She's claiming to be a prophet.

403
00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,712
The whole world is sitting
on the edge of their seat.

404
00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:36,837
How is this not the first question Will asks?

405
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,277
First of all, can you stop pointing at me
and saying she and her?

406
00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:41,919
You're the one who wanted to play a woman.

407
00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:43,315
But tell me why that question is out of line.

408
00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,239
Because it's not the best way
to demonstrate seriousness of intent

409
00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,357
and it's not the best way to not insult people.

410
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,120
- Which people?
- Christians. 83% of the country.

411
00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,272
I'm one of them. And she's insulting me.

412
00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,517
Please, stop pointing at me when you are...

413
00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,434
Relax, J. Edgar. She's insulting me,

414
00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,274
she's insulting my family,
she's insulting my congregation,

415
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:02,959
and she's insulting my faith.

416
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,112
She's implying that Christians are imbeciles

417
00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,476
who will believe anything while reducing God

418
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,200
to a party hack who endorses
political candidates.

419
00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:13,671
Now, maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe this is the first time since Moses

420
00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,878
that God has given direct
instructions to someone other than his son.

421
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,872
But if so, I think it deserves a follow-up.

422
00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,600
We're not going to get the debate
if we're mocking their candidates.

423
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,674
The whole point of the new debate format
is to compel the candidates to tell the truth

424
00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:27,553
and make them responsible
for their own rhetoric

425
00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,394
by asking tougher questions
than a Match.com profile.

426
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,196
If she knows what God wants,
then I'm voting for her.

427
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:35,953
If she doesn't, she should stop saying so.

428
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,396
I'm not attacking Christians.
I'm defending them.

429
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,358
- All right.
- Just a moment, please.

430
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:41,430
What?

431
00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,159
I'm standing up for the
tens of millions of Christians

432
00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,551
who are tired of being represented
by having our identity...

433
00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,478
There's been an identity theft.

434
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,992
That's it. That's the one I want.

435
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:57,037
I think you already know that starting tonight,
we're leading with Casey Anthony.

436
00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,351
Does anyone have a problem with that?

437
00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,314
All right, well, we lost almost
half a million viewers

438
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:03,959
to Nancy Grace last week.

439
00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:06,192
Does anyone still have a problem with it?

440
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,872
We're gonna clear out
some of these stories to make room.

441
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,193
"Senate obstruction
becomes worst in US history."

442
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,590
That's a report by the Alliance For Justice.

443
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,434
The Senate's confirmed a smaller
percentage of Obama's judicial appointees

444
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,512
than any other Senate
and any other president.

445
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:22,950
No reason to care about that.

446
00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:26,478
"Job situation dire, new stimulus needed."

447
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,359
This Congress ran on jobs,
but they're focused on debt.

448
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,672
According to the payroll company ADP...

449
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,512
I just solved unemployment.

450
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,718
"AFL-CIO sours on Obama."

451
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,316
We've got an analyst lined up
to give a report card

452
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:42,470
on Obama's union relationships.

453
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,280
Will the AFL-CIO still
be sour on him tomorrow?

454
00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:47,477
- I don't know.
- Let's find out.

455
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,557
All right, to give us
a crash course in how best

456
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,791
to exploit this tragedy
and to erase all boundaries

457
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,758
of what should be used as entertainment,

458
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,359
I've enlisted the help
of a master of the dark arts.

459
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:00,920
I understand I'm needed.

460
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,119
- Thank you.
- Forget everything you know about the news.

461
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,078
Done. What's next?

462
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,396
I'm Charlie Skinner.

463
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:43,876
Good to meet you.

464
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,191
Should I just sit here?

465
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,431
Sure.

466
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,876
Should I call you Mr. Hancock?

467
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,080
It's Schneider.

468
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,879
- Schneider?
- Ezra Schneider.

469
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,270
How the hell many aliases do you have?

470
00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,150
I beg your pardon?

471
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:00,875
Are you Late for Dinner?

472
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,837
Mister, I have no idea
what you're talking about.

473
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,633
Charlie.

474
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:10,953
That has to have been strange for you.

475
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,879
That's going to be a story you'll tell later.

476
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,155
Late for Dinner?

477
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,153
- Solomon Hancock.
- Charlie Skinner.

478
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,077
I thought because of the carnation.

479
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,480
Did we say anything about a carnation?

480
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,839
No, but it's usually the international sign for...

481
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,229
Doesn't matter.

482
00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:33,431
I'm a busy guy
and if you're faffin' me around...

483
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,438
Would you mind taking the battery
out of your cell phone?

484
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,080
The walls in the New York Public Library
are three feet thick.

485
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,310
That's why we're meeting here,

486
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,437
but I'd like you to take the battery
out of your cell phone.

487
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,637
You have reason to believe
you're under surveillance?

488
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,996
Everyone's under surveillance.
If you've got a cell phone...

489
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,753
It's talk like that that makes me...

490
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,594
Did I or did I not establish
credibility on May 1st?

491
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,635
You correctly predicted that
we'd all be called to work, yes.

492
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,440
Sometimes at the NSA,
we download a rolling bug

493
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,797
onto smartphones to slave the microphone.

494
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,270
You ever get an unwanted text message?

495
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,192
All the time, but they're from my boss.

496
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,629
Here.

497
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,237
I'll never be able to put that back together.

498
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:14,431
They're coming out with
a better model in six months.

499
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,355
That's unusual for the tech industry.

500
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:19,800
Can you tell me a little about yourself?

501
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,434
I started out chasing around
a Soviet Pacific Fleet

502
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,200
doing signal intelligence
cryptology for the Navy.

503
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,920
But when the Berlin Wall
came down, my war was over.

504
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,953
So I went into the private sector
like everybody else in the '90s,

505
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,235
only not for a dot-com,

506
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,873
doing data compression for fiber optics.

507
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,395
Then 9/11 happened and I decided

508
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,314
it was a good time to get back into
public service hunting bad guys.

509
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:45,470
You're an IT guy.

510
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,155
My title is Assistant Deputy Director

511
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,790
of Technology and Systems Cryptology
and Mathematics at NSA.

512
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,000
I'm gonna have to...

513
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:02,633
I product-test software.

514
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,869
- NSA software?
- Yes, sir.

515
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,235
Can you tell me about the software?

516
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:10,440
It's data mining.

517
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,160
One of the ways the NSA
was tracking bin Laden,

518
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,033
or any terrorist for that matter,

519
00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:19,911
was to write code that would sift through
millions of electronic communications

520
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,311
looking for a needle in a giant haystack.

521
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,510
You know the machine that Batman
uses in <i>The Dark Knight</i>

522
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,956
to find the Joker, but when Morgan Freeman
finds out about it,

523
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,999
he says, "I'm quitting because no man
should have this much power"?

524
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,679
- No.
- "No" what?

525
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,632
I do not know that machine.

526
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,956
Well, it exists.

527
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,994
We gave the contract to
two defense contracting big boys

528
00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,635
and it was my job mostly
to make sure that they delivered

529
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:44,995
and that it worked.

530
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,999
The project title is GLOBALCLARITY

531
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:53,998
and it intercepts 1.7 billion phone calls,
emails, and texts every day.

532
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,914
- Legally?
- By what standard?

533
00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:57,793
- The law.
- No.

534
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:02,557
It involves a significant amount of illegal,
warrantless wiretapping of American citizens.

535
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:08,238
Just to be... When you say "warrantless,"
are you saying "unnecessary"?

536
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,516
"Without a warrant." Warrantless.

537
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,156
We could hunt for terrorists legally,

538
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,914
but due to our bosses'
devotion to GLOBALCLARITY,

539
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,277
the NSA has been happily
violating the Fourth Amendment,

540
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,477
USSID 18,

541
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,992
and about a dozen of the NSA's
own regulations about spying on Americans.

542
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,838
You've got guys listening in on ex-wives,
dropping in on calls from soldiers overseas,

543
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,276
checking out what movie stars are up to.

544
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:36,431
Am I the first person
you've talked to about this?

545
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,831
No, stop confusing me with
Donald Sutherland in <i>JFK.</i>

546
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,718
Well, a second ago,
you were Morgan Freeman.

547
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,280
I have testified in front of Congress

548
00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:46,194
and to the Pentagon Inspector General.
I got nowhere.

549
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,715
Nobody on the Hill wants
to admit it's fucked up

550
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,550
because nobody wants to
be seen as post-9/11 soft.

551
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,319
Where does AWM come in?

552
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,909
Atlantis World Media
owns Atlantis Cable News.

553
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,199
- Yeah.
- It also owns the tabloid <i>TMI!</i>

554
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,080
- Yeah.
- The shit that's happening

555
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,436
at Murdoch's <i>News of the World</i> in London,

556
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,711
<i>TMI!</i> has been doing the same thing for years.

557
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:11,916
- How high does it go?
- I don't know.

558
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,193
Does it go as high as Leona Lansing?

559
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,993
- No.
- Good.

560
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,549
It goes as high as her son.

561
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,633
<i>TMI!</i> is doing phone and computer hacking
and Reese Lansing knows?

562
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,317
Reese has been ordering it.

563
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,154
- I'm gonna give you...
- Hang on.

564
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,720
I need to digest that.

565
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:37,593
Reese Lansing is James Murdoch,
but Lansing's been ordering it.

566
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,160
Digested yet?

567
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,350
These classified?

568
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,830
Yeah, because I'm dying
to violate the Espionage Act.

569
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,431
These are just transcripts of my testimony

570
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,075
before the House subcommittee
and the Pentagon.

571
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,877
Vet me, vet the material.
Take all the time you need.

572
00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,834
Why are you whistle-blowing?

573
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,916
I fought the Soviets.

574
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,310
The way that government made
their people live their lives

575
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,199
was a very good reason to fight them.

576
00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:13,718
After 9/11,
we started doing the exact same thing.

577
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,035
I didn't spend my life fighting Communists
to have it come to this.

578
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,437
Report on GLOBALCLARITY.

579
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,716
And once I see that report,
I'll give you what you need

580
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,632
to protect yourself from Leona Lansing.

581
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,595
How do you know we need
protecting from Leona Lansing?

582
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,315
Have you been listening? 'Cause we have.

583
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,990
<i>This woman is the best I've ever seen.</i>

584
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,554
Center screen is Nancy.

585
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,751
These three corners are live feeds of
the guest experts.

586
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,395
- What are they experts in?
- Agreeing with everything Nancy says.

587
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,039
- But what keeps your attention...
- Excuse me.

588
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,271
This is Brian Brenner, everyone.

589
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,670
It's possible he's going to
be writing a feature on 2.0.

590
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,116
But we're in a tryout period right now.

591
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,270
Everything's off the record.

592
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,553
Go ahead. What keeps our attention?

593
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:15,994
Is the bottom right corner
where they're playing

594
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,072
a loop of little Caylee from a home video.

595
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,949
Hell. Do you think
it's as bad as everyone says it is?

596
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,040
<i>That was a tribute to Caylee.</i>

597
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,113
<i>But how will they explain the duct tape</i>

598
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,676
<i>around the child's mouth and nose?</i>

599
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,274
<i>And how will they explain</i>

600
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,398
<i>all the lies that Tot Mom told?</i>

601
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,119
Now they're not talking about the tattoo

602
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,237
on Casey's back, but they put it full screen.
Why?

603
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,033
Because Tess was just about
to look somewhere else,

604
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,351
so they changed the frame
to anything that might keep her attention.

605
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,432
He's right.
I was gonna google Mac's hell question.

606
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,159
Plus tattoo equals bad mom.

607
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,999
No one's ever gone broke
in America serving up

608
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,673
a woman who makes other
women feel superior.

609
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,831
<i>The series of lies</i>

610
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,355
<i>that finally came crashing down around her.</i>

611
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:56,955
<i>If she would lie about that,</i>

612
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,953
<i>why should I believe an accident is true?</i>

613
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,191
Don't spend time thinking
about her airtight syllogism.

614
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,630
Her EP's showing duct tape and a plastic bag,

615
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,514
so you know you're watching
the real <i>CSI: Miami.</i>

616
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,159
<i>...how to make weapons</i>

617
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,312
<i>out of home materials found in the home.</i>

618
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,074
<i>About breaking necks.</i>

619
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,799
<i>How can they explain that?</i>

620
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,475
<i>They can't explain it, Nancy.</i>

621
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,951
<i>The defense is doing
what the defense has to do.</i>

622
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,393
Now, Bill Sheaffer has done his job.

623
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,790
He agreed with Nancy.
We don't need to see his face anymore.

624
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,917
Look how cute Caylee is.

625
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,396
She deserved better than a mom with a tattoo.

626
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,159
She deserved...

627
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,158
- She deserved...
- Me.

628
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,913
- Me.
- Me.

629
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,469
Tess, how's that Google search coming?

630
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,876
It does look pretty bad. A lot of fire.

631
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,634
You'll notice little of her coverage
in this instance is about the law.

632
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,911
You know, come to think of it,
I did notice that.

633
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,275
It's all based on an emotional appeal.

634
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,120
The way she would with a jury
if there was no judge there to stop her.

635
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:54,833
Watch how she breaks down
courtroom footage.

636
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,560
<i>Liz, let's see the video of Tot Mom</i>

637
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,520
<i>and Jose Baez back at it in court again today.</i>

638
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:06,038
<i>Not a good look between
a death penalty defendant</i>

639
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,277
<i>and the lead defense attorney.</i>

640
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,874
Two seconds.

641
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,319
Two seconds of Casey Anthony
walking past her lawyer,

642
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,636
and she'll show it to you in slow motion

643
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,076
and from a different angle

644
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,675
and at regular speed
and from the original angle again.

645
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,956
- What does that remind you of?
- Instant replay in sports.

646
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,394
And she looks pretty pissed at her lawyer.

647
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,995
And that's exactly why she's showing it
to you so many times.

648
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,555
So you have a chance to draw
your own thoroughly uninformed opinion

649
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,319
about an utterly innocuous exchange.

650
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,319
She looks pissed.

651
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,596
"I wonder if she's sleeping with her lawyer.
I bet she is."

652
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,797
"I wonder if that's what she looked like when
she killed Caylee."

653
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,799
"This is the best TV ever. I've got to go
on my Casey Anthony Facebook page

654
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,190
"and see if my Casey Anthony
Facebook friends just saw Casey Anthony

655
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,198
"make a Casey Anthony face
at her Casey Anthony lawyer."

656
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,915
All right, enough.
Will's a criminal prosecutor.

657
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,151
Maybe he can talk about how
our justice system wasn't built

658
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,560
to lock up guilty people.

659
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,194
It was built to keep innocent people free,

660
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,590
which is something Americans
should be proud of and fiercely protect.

661
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:56,955
No.

662
00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,678
He can't ever imply that the viewer

663
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,717
doesn't already know everything
and that she might be innocent.

664
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,599
If we're gonna cover this,
we're gonna cover it our way.

665
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,319
What's the point of covering
it at all unless we do it

666
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:07,880
in a way that gets our audience back?

667
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,590
A modest proposal.
We could ourselves commit murder on our air.

668
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,797
In your face, Nancy Grace!

669
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,310
How do we get the best guests?

670
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,199
There's a guy you're gonna have to deal
with named Dylan Kagin.

671
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,960
He's like the Broadway Danny Rose
of tabloid suffering.

672
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,156
He's an agent?

673
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,993
You ever ask yourself
why of all the missing kids

674
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,594
and murdered coeds,
most of them go unnoticed

675
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,592
- and some become national scandals?
- Sex appeal.

676
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,838
Right, but someone's got to find
Lana Turner sitting at the drugstore counter.

677
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,192
Dylan Kagin gropes through the trailer park
of American jurisprudence

678
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,078
for what he calls "Oh, my God" stories.

679
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,834
Then he drops in on the victims,
the accused, the jurors, the cops,

680
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,912
whoever he can sell to the press,
the networks, and the studios.

681
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,400
He packages the missing white girl.

682
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,398
All right, that'll be the A block.

683
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:49,834
By 2:00, show me where we are.

684
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,195
The B block's gonna be Anthony Weiner,

685
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,039
so, Jim, start putting something together.

686
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,794
All we really have are the pictures
and Weiner not answering questions.

687
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,111
- I know that.
- You don't want to wait until we have...

688
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,516
Facts? No, that would be newsy and elitist.

689
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,719
Let's just call them the A and the B block.
Let's just think of them as a polished,

690
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,439
tightly produced abomination.

691
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,716
I've been sitting here
and I'm getting a little sick of this.

692
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,354
- You and me both.
- Jesus Christ.

693
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,239
For a few weeks, we're not gonna
ask the country to eat its vegetables.

694
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,551
Why? Because there's a debate we want to do

695
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,360
that trumps all of your Sarah Lawrence
ethical conundrums.

696
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,159
It shouldn't be too hard to understand.

697
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,351
So get it the fuck together.

698
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:26,560
He happens to be right.

699
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,797
"War on drugs a failure."

700
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,076
I know how it feels.

701
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,279
Show me where we are at 2:00.

702
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,920
- Mac, can I see you a second?
- Yeah.

703
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,995
- Do you mind if I sit in on...
- Yeah, sorry, no.

704
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,277
Not sure that's the best way
to get good press.

705
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,080
May 1st, the night we got bin Laden,
I got a call

706
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,550
from an anonymous source at 7:30

707
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,552
telling me the White House
would send an email blast

708
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,030
to all the news agencies in 90 minutes,

709
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,954
and obviously it turned out he was right.

710
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,840
He was demonstrating his credibility.

711
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,559
His name is Solomon Hancock.

712
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,633
He works in software engineering at the NSA

713
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,672
and he handed me a stack of documents,

714
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,753
transcripts of his testimony
describing illegal surveillance.

715
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,877
We have to start vetting
him and the documents.

716
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,037
It's gonna take at least a few days,
but that's part one.

717
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,270
What's part two?

718
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,829
If we air his story, he'll give us evidence

719
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,833
that <i>TMI!'s</i> been doing the same thing
as <i>News of the World.</i>

720
00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:38,594
- Hacking?
- Everything.

721
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:41,599
<i>- TMI!'s</i> been hacking?
- Hancock says he's got the proof.

722
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:43,991
Jesus Christ.
How high does he say it goes?

723
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:45,516
Reese.

724
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,077
- Let's get on with the vet.
- I'll have Jim run it.

725
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,913
- Is he up for this?
- He is, Will.

726
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,514
I taught him how to do the news.

727
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,035
I taught them all how to do the news.

728
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:57,429
Can you give us a second?

729
00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,430
I'm done.

730
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,232
Why did it have to be Brian?

731
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,760
Because I own him now.
He needs a cover story.

732
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,516
If he writes a negative one, he'll get slammed
with the whole soap opera of our history.

733
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,275
Are you lying right now?

734
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,238
- Anything else?
- Yeah.

735
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,516
Sloan says on Thursday, the House
is gonna vote to default on our loans,

736
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,280
leading to a global economic meltdown.

737
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,354
Should I put that before or after
Anthony Weiner in his underwear?

738
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,955
I'm sure you'll figure it out.

739
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:42,640
<i>That's all for us tonight.</i>

740
00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:44,552
Tomorrow we'll be bringing
you all the highlights

741
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,553
from day seven of the trial
and Detective Yuri Melich,

742
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,230
the first officer to interview
Casey Anthony in 2008.

743
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,960
<i>Terry Smith is coming up from Washington
with The Capital Report.</i>

744
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,230
<i>I'm Will McAvoy.</i>

745
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,119
<i>- Good night.</i>

746
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,151
<i>Will McAvoy,
your new choice for Casey Anthony coverage.</i>

747
00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:11,754
- They're coming home.
- Yeah?

748
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:13,440
We promoed the hell out of it.

749
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,432
We got 150,000 viewers back.

750
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,274
25-54, almost all women.

751
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,556
That's toasters, furniture, food, clothes,

752
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,677
kids' clothes, vacation plans.

753
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,320
Our heads are above water now,
so do not stop.

754
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:26,999
- We won't.
- How about this heat?

755
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,157
- Yeah.
- 9:00 in the morning, it's already 87.

756
00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:31,118
It's gonna hit 98.
That would beat the record for this day

757
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,034
- that was set in 1933.
- Yeah.

758
00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:35,720
- You're looking at me funny.
- Yeah?

759
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,269
- I know you hate this.
- I'm looking at you the regular way.

760
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,715
- If you say so.
- I do.

761
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,833
There are also tornado warnings.

762
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,674
- Reese.
- What?

763
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,077
- Nothing.
- All right, so it's gonna get up to 98.

764
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,437
That's a record. And there are tornado
warnings for New York City.

765
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,671
Well, you know, Aunt Bee,
tornadoes are just God's way

766
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,638
of destroying property and killing people.

767
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,160
People like hearing about extreme weather.

768
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,197
We're not doing a fucking
weather report, okay?

769
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,073
We're not coming up with
some "Tornado Watch" graphic.

770
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,640
We're a serious news organization.

771
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:05,918
Tonight we'll be reporting on the killer
cocktail waitress and the congressman...

772
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,236
- Is Mac bitching at you?
- Not nearly as much as she should be.

773
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,233
I came in here to tell you
you got back 150,000 viewers

774
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:12,800
you lost while you were trying to be above it.

775
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:14,634
We'll be sure not to try that again.

776
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,717
98 degrees is when we have power outages.

777
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,394
Wait a second. Wait a second.

778
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,358
I don't want to go all
conspiracy theory on you,

779
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,830
but I think the heat might
be related to power outages.

780
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,799
- Take it easy.
- Say hi to your mom.

781
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,832
Will do.

782
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,433
Visiting hours will be Tuesday and Friday.

783
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,712
Don't be nervous.

784
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,718
We got 150,000 viewers back last night.
Mostly women.

785
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,200
- I know.
- I was telling her.

786
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,040
You know, it's gonna get up to 98 degrees.

787
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:46,839
Next person who tells me
about the damn weather...

788
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,070
Do you know what you're doing here?

789
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,237
I've been asked to tell you about the weather.

790
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,358
Does it feel to you like anyone in this room
is in the mood for a joke?

791
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:55,316
It absolutely does not.

792
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,551
We want you to lead
the vetting of this source.

793
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,872
He's telling us about illegal
surveillance at the NSA.

794
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,000
He's also telling us that <i>TMI!</i> is in the
same game as <i>News of the World.</i>

795
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,236
Jesus.

796
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,152
We're looking at
a couple of scenarios, Jim.

797
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,755
One is that we're sitting on a scoop
that could shake up the NSA

798
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,837
and maybe have the country
take another look at the Patriot Act.

799
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,957
But the <i>TMI!</i> element, doesn't that...

800
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,396
Another is that someone's
trying to discredit us

801
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:19,994
by having Will get Dan Rather-ed.

802
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:25,120
You'll need to file a couple of hundred
Freedom of Information Act requests

803
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:27,550
and you'll need to get into
this guy's personal life

804
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,996
and you'll need to do it all

805
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,113
without raising any flags at the NSA.

806
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,074
Are you up for this?

807
00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:42,358
- Yeah.
- We don't need it fast, we need it right.

808
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,830
- But we need it fast.
- I'll start mapping it out.

809
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,559
Jim, since the day you started working here,

810
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,314
I never felt the need
to remind you about confidentiality

811
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,039
and I don't feel that need now.

812
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,477
Okay.

813
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:07,954
- Gotcha.
- Oh, God.

814
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,238
- You feel like being interviewed?
- You read my mind.

815
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:11,993
I can't think of anything
I'd rather do right now

816
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:13,998
than be interviewed by my ex-boyfriend,

817
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,349
except maybe eat my desk.

818
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,432
- It seems like a bad week to be here.
- It is.

819
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,752
I came here to write a story about how Will
and <i>News Night</i> changed overnight.

820
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,679
- And then you changed overnight.
- Look.

821
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,036
- The old Will all over again.
- These are extraordinary circumstances.

822
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,952
That's what everyone says
when they abandon their principles.

823
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,589
I'm no longer required
to live up to your standards.

824
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,116
- Fair enough.
- Thank you.

825
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:38,118
What's so special about this debate?

826
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:39,953
If we get what we want,
no one will ever go back.

827
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,554
We'll have changed the debates forever.

828
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,633
And your concern is that if your ratings
are low, you'll lose leverage?

829
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:47,110
- Yes.
- Is that your concern or Will's concern?

830
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,834
Will's concerns are my concerns.

831
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,953
'Cause another way of looking at it
is that he lost his invisible friends

832
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,390
to Nancy Grace
and he's using the debate as an excuse

833
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:55,630
to dumb the show down.

834
00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:58,440
That's a pretty bold statement from
a guy who's auditioning for a job.

835
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,796
He's gonna give me the job,
and it's not like I don't know why.

836
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,795
- Do you?
- I do because I'm not a fucking moron.

837
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,231
The email that was read
by everyone in the world,

838
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,518
"I cheated on Will."
You were talking about me, right?

839
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:14,030
Yes.

840
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,759
You were seeing Will while we were together?

841
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,832
If you count drunk dialing me
at midnight and saying,

842
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,834
"Just come on over and crawl into bed"
as being together, then yes.

843
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,520
- I count it.
- Then yes.

844
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:23,829
You cheated on me with Will?

845
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,594
Let's be as clear as anyone
has ever been about anything.

846
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,831
I cheated on Will with you.

847
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,150
And I'm paying the price.

848
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,357
I work 30 feet from the life I could have had

849
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:33,920
if I hadn't been so stupid.

850
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,957
And you're looking at
the life you could have had

851
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,998
if you hadn't been a douchebag.

852
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,078
How's the interview going so far?

853
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,037
Is douchebag one word or two?

854
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,112
- Come in.

855
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,432
- Sorry, I can come back.
- No, what do you need?

856
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,716
Well, there's a story I'd like to pitch.

857
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,794
Brian, this is Neal Sampat.
Neal writes Will's blog.

858
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,349
- Will doesn't write Will's blog?
- Will can't find Will's blog.

859
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,395
Neal wants to be a producer,
so from time to time,

860
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,836
he pitches stories. What do you got?

861
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,429
You know what a troll is, right?

862
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,838
A tiny creature that stands under a footbridge

863
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,230
and makes you answer a riddle
before you're allowed to pass.

864
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,198
- They're not real, man.
- I know that.

865
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:19,555
He means the other kind of troll.

866
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,791
You don't have the first clue what he means.

867
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,755
I mean the other kind of troll.

868
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,160
A little backup would have killed you?

869
00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:27,630
Sorry, Internet trolls.
It's a play on a fishing term.

870
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:28,830
People who go to message boards

871
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,991
and try to hijack the conversation
by being incendiary.

872
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,197
- What about them?
- Turns out they have their own websites.

873
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,749
Like an online clubhouse.
And to be accepted into the group,

874
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,957
you have to be able to point
to a successful incident of trolling,

875
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,078
a recent time when you made
a whole bunch of posters lose their minds,

876
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,880
or better yet, got the site
monitor to shut down the board.

877
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,795
Actually, I like it.
And it's not about bigfoot.

878
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,236
Write this down, <i>News Night</i>
is gonna break the story on bigfoot.

879
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,160
We're not. Don't write that down.
Will they talk to you?

880
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,432
They won't talk to a reporter,
but I thought maybe I'd try to get in there.

881
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,877
Undercover? Aren't you gonna
have to say you trolled something?

882
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,429
I'm not gonna have to say it,
I'm gonna actually have to do it.

883
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,034
To who?

884
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,472
Well, I don't want to ding on
an innocent person for a story,

885
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:07,596
so I'm gonna have to do it to one of us.

886
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:09,114
You'd have to be anonymous on our website.

887
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:10,515
No, I mean do it to us on another website.

888
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,160
- What would it be?
- I don't know yet.

889
00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:15,914
Come back when you know,
but you've made it past the first hurdle.

890
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,997
Thank you.

891
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,033
- Sloan.
- How's her mood in there?

892
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,352
It's not good, but let me ask you something.

893
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:27,960
For the sake of a story,

894
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,957
how would you feel about me going on
the Internet and saying vicious things

895
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,271
about you that might get an argument
started about misogyny?

896
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,034
- What kind of vicious things?
- I don't know.

897
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,430
- What would the general area be?
- I really don't know.

898
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,194
- Something about the way you look?
- Like what?

899
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,476
- I'd be making it up.
- What would you be making up?

900
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,598
It wouldn't be true. It'd be something like...

901
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:50,679
Something along the lines of,
"She screwed her way to the top

902
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,595
"and she's got a big ass."
Only it would have to be...

903
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:54,955
Listen to me, Sampat.

904
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,678
- Do I?
- Of course not.

905
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,120
Okay.

906
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,634
- I can do it?
- You cannot.

907
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,838
If you want, you can say that
I made it to the final round

908
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,037
of the K-through-six regionals
in the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee.

909
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,840
That's not gonna help me.

910
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,152
You know, a lot of guys like women with big...

911
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:18,913
- Do they really?

912
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,116
Never mind.

913
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:24,200
I don't know what you're talking about
and I have my own problems.

914
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:30,920
- Jim.
- Yeah?

915
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,559
I got a woman on the phone
who says she's got some tweets

916
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,154
from Anthony Weiner and wants to talk to us.

917
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,836
- What are you telling me for?
- Seniority?

918
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,152
Well, I'm handing her off to
the next most senior person.

919
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:41,799
Kendra, take the Weiner girl.

920
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,031
- Gary, take the Weiner girl.
- Tess.

921
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,398
- Tamara.
- We were hired as interns the same day.

922
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,319
I was hired in the morning. You were hired
after lunch. Take the Weiner girl.

923
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,113
Please, don't make me
take the Weiner girl.

924
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:53,714
Respect the seniority.

925
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,797
Who do I have seniority over?

926
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,000
Maggie.

927
00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:03,516
- Can people still see me?
- On five.

928
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:10,992
Hi, this is Margaret Jordan.

929
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,197
I'm an associate producer at <i>News Night.</i>

930
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,715
Okay, can you spell that for me?

931
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:18,957
Okay, wait.

932
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,030
Hang on.

933
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,396
No, you're gonna get a chance.

934
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,078
Well, you certainly seem to
want to share your story.

935
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,672
You really can't just drop in on a doctor.

936
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,991
- What if it's an emergency?
- You go to the emergency room.

937
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,072
They don't have
psychiatric emergency rooms.

938
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,311
They should. You're a good reason why.

939
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,475
- You want a piece of me?
- Seriously?

940
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,552
- No.
- Yeah.

941
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,240
Does he look over at the red light?

942
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:50,515
Does he look every few minutes?

943
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,559
If I was your therapist,
I'd definitely look every few minutes.

944
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,080
Hey, hey, you can't do that.

945
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,516
It's okay. He likes me.

946
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:00,916
- Will.
- I'm sorry.

947
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,480
- I'm with a patient.
- I really just need a second.

948
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,359
I'm glad to see you back here, but you
need to come during your appointment.

949
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:06,430
I could be dead by then.

950
00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:09,995
Are you having suicidal thoughts?

951
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:11,150
- No.
- Then why did you say that?

952
00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:13,880
- Just to get your attention.
- I'm going back to my patient.

953
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,395
Listen to me.
I've been paying 250 a session for four years

954
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:17,755
without showing up to a single session.

955
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,832
You owe me $100,000 worth of therapy.

956
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,674
I'll forgive the debt, we'll be totally square,
just give me one minute.

957
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:28,870
I'm sorry. I'll be just a minute.

958
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,272
You caved for the money.
I'm kind of disappointed.

959
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,313
I didn't cave for the money.
You're getting the sessions you paid for.

960
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,471
You seem like you're in pain.

961
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,395
- He is.
- He said "in pain," not "a pain."

962
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:41,834
Oh. Never mind, then.

963
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:44,236
What is it?

964
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,119
I'm doing all these things that are wrong
because of ratings,

965
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,351
and I'm making the staff do things
that they don't want to do,

966
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,110
I'm cursing them out, I'm ignoring incredibly
important news stories,

967
00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:55,038
and I'm betraying the trust
of people who respect me.

968
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,391
And I did it all in the blink of an eye.

969
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,551
- That can be traumatic.
- No, I'm fine with all of that.

970
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,831
Here's my thing<i>. New York Magazine</i>

971
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,276
is gonna do a story on my show
and I get to choose the writer.

972
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,956
And I could have chosen anybody
and I chose MacKenzie's ex-boyfriend.

973
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,160
Of course.

974
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,354
- The one she cheated on you with?
- Yeah.

975
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,273
- Why?
- That's what I came here to ask you.

976
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,556
You're holding your hand over the candle.

977
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:18,596
What do you mean?

978
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:22,720
You're holding your hand over the candle
because you think the trick is not minding.

979
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:25,556
Ahh.

980
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,758
So if I just get through this, I'll be fine.

981
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:30,917
- No.
- Why?

982
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,112
Because the trick isn't not minding.

983
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,079
The trick is forgiving MacKenzie.

984
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,038
It would be easier
to hold my hand over the candle.

985
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,839
I know.

986
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,877
Well, you've been no help at all, but thanks.
Sorry to barge in.

987
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,792
You know, while you're
working your way through this,

988
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,394
you're hurting MacKenzie.

989
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:49,790
I know that.

990
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,631
Show up for your appointment.

991
00:46:58,320 --> 00:46:59,720
I'm not doing it on purpose.

992
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:05,475
Maggie.

993
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,072
Yeah.

994
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:13,950
- Sandy?
- Yes.

995
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,236
- Margaret Jordan. We talked on the phone.
- Nice to meet you.

996
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:17,669
- You got here okay?
- Yes.

997
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,991
I have a receipt for the cab.
Who do I give that to?

998
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:21,753
I'll take it.

999
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,199
So, you got some tweets
from Congressman Weiner.

1000
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,516
And I've got copies of them right here.

1001
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,273
"'I like the cute new pics of you.

1002
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,079
"'Where'd you get those abs?'

1003
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,272
'Glad you like them.
When do I get to see your swimsuit shot?'

1004
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,759
'When are you coming to see me?
Or just coming?'

1005
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,873
'Make me an offer.'

1006
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,191
'My door's always open. Get it?'

1007
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,237
'What's your plan for us?'

1008
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,791
'To get us in the mood,
we watch <i>The Daily Show</i> and Colbert.

1009
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:54,678
"'Then when we're really hot,
we go to the bookstore

1010
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,399
"'and replace all the copies
of Glenn Beck books

1011
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,115
"'with <i>The Audacity of Hope.</i>
Or, if that's not your thing,

1012
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,510
"'we can just get drunk and fuck."'

1013
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:09,595
Why are you doing this?

1014
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,353
Because the world needs to know
what kind of guy he is.

1015
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,356
It sort of seems like you
were a willing participant.

1016
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:16,880
I didn't know about the other women.

1017
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:18,633
- Did you know he was married?
- Of course.

1018
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,476
I just didn't know about the other women.

1019
00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:25,430
I was fooled and I think the world needs
to know what kind of guy he is.

1020
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,992
By any chance, have you heard
of a guy named Dylan Kagin?

1021
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,000
He's gonna be my agent.

1022
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,838
Sandy... Can I call you Sandy?

1023
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:35,314
Sure.

1024
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,791
Sandy, the congressman is in a lot of trouble.

1025
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,155
He got himself into it

1026
00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:43,312
and he's probably not gonna
be able to get out of it.

1027
00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:48,358
Are you sure you want to pile on?

1028
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,755
I think people need to know
what kind of person he is.

1029
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,593
All right.

1030
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,116
Would you like to be on our show tonight?

1031
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,669
That's the thing.
I'm doing <i>Access Hollywood,</i> ET, and Fox.

1032
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,311
The big three. No problem.

1033
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,075
We can do a pre-tape in a few minutes.

1034
00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:08,152
You're a lifesaver.
I was hoping you'd say that.

1035
00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:10,197
No kidding? Stay here

1036
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,876
and I'll talk to my EP and we'll get this going.

1037
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:15,633
Could I possibly get a decaf latte?

1038
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,470
You cannot possibly get that,
but I'll have someone bring you a coffee.

1039
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,509
Well, I left it for you
on the left side of the desk.

1040
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,195
And, yes, I signed it. Here you go.

1041
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:32,995
I don't know anything about it.

1042
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,436
Leona!

1043
00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:36,995
A word?

1044
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,276
Okay, ask her to show it to me on the plane.

1045
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,911
Let's not stand in the street.

1046
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,359
Charlie, with that bow tie,
you look like a balloon salesman.

1047
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,671
No, I get in the car and get out a minute later,

1048
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,913
it looks like we're talking about a problem
or making a drug deal.

1049
00:49:54,120 --> 00:50:00,230
We're gonna stand here, smile and nod,
and do this and laugh.

1050
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,960
We know where the tabloid stories
are coming from.

1051
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:07,200
They're coming from reality.

1052
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,239
Only if you define reality as fantasy,

1053
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,551
and they're appearing
in a magazine you own.

1054
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,911
How would it look if I had
one of our news magazines

1055
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:16,633
go soft on our flagship anchor?

1056
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,355
We're calling <i>TMI!</i> a news magazine?

1057
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,955
People need to know if Taylor Swift is happy.

1058
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:23,918
I provide a public service
for hundreds of thousands.

1059
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:25,713
The public's grateful.

1060
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,440
What did I tell you
the day after election night?

1061
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,595
Friend to friend,
I'd stop coming after Will in the tabloids.

1062
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,590
I told you to get him to lighten up
on the Tea Party

1063
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,834
or a context would be created
whereby his firing would look reasonable.

1064
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,913
- You need to hear me.
- I don't think I do.

1065
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:45,719
The 112th Congress wasn't even seated

1066
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,111
and he took the Tea Party out for a walk
on the 9/11 Responders Bill.

1067
00:50:49,240 --> 00:50:52,517
Congress, Democrats and Republicans

1068
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,997
spent eight years using 9/11 as a justification

1069
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,715
for everything from tax cuts
to a foreign invasion.

1070
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,032
So Will questioned their change of heart

1071
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,470
when it came to the police
and firemen's unions.

1072
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:06,631
You made them look like hypocrites.

1073
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:08,269
By rolling tape.

1074
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:13,833
House Financial Services, insider trading,
Keystone XL, Joe Walsh, Allen West,

1075
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,395
Paul Ryan, and who am I forgetting?

1076
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,476
Oh, yes. Charles and David Koch.

1077
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:22,320
Keep smiling.

1078
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,835
We lost a couple of
awfully helpful tax loopholes

1079
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,798
that were tailored to assets overseas.

1080
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,191
And the FCC won't even let us bid
on the coming spectrum auction

1081
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,233
because they want a full report
on whether or not

1082
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,152
we're skirting antitrust.

1083
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,356
So what was your request again?

1084
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,557
You don't want to do this.

1085
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,431
I don't.

1086
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:44,920
I really don't.

1087
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,719
But I have to and I will.

1088
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,872
And friend to friend,

1089
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,114
you let him know that he is
one tabloid fuck-up

1090
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,511
and a ratings point away
from having his own podcast.

1091
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,031
I have to make my plane.

1092
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,353
Fly safe.

1093
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,037
- Unless there's a rally...
- I'm sorry, I've got to...

1094
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:26,230
- Listen.
- Sloan.

1095
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:27,953
Unless there's a rally in the next 90 minutes,

1096
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:33,030
the Dow's gonna close down about 2.5%,
S&P and NASDAQ will close down 2.3.

1097
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,077
- Let me tell you why.
- I don't own a lot of stock.

1098
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:36,355
- Let me tell you why.
- I really can't...

1099
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:37,954
Stop avoiding this!

1100
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,679
I just got off the phone with these guys.

1101
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,031
Listen to these quotes.
These aren't from liberals.

1102
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,954
These are hardcore Wall Street guys
who, whatever the world may think of them,

1103
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:46,992
know what they're talking about and so do I.

1104
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:49,394
Jamie Dimon at Chase says,

1105
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,513
"Voting against raising the debt ceiling
would be a moral disaster."

1106
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:56,196
The Barclays guys say,
"This debate is detached from reality."

1107
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:00,394
My Goldman source says, "If the
House Republicans continue this debate,

1108
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:05,430
"I hope they're willing to mark the end
of the dollar as a global reserve currency."

1109
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:06,835
Please notice that he didn't say

1110
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,594
"If the House Republicans
don't raise the debt ceiling."

1111
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:13,600
He said, "If the House Republicans
continue this debate."

1112
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,320
That's all it takes.
Just the uncertainty.

1113
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:22,599
That's why the Dow's gonna
close down 230 points today.

1114
00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:25,315
Because just the debate, just the doubt,

1115
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,915
just the possibility that the House Majority
might commit

1116
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,475
the most self-inflicted damage to the country

1117
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:35,078
since the secession of the South
has caused billions in value to disappear.

1118
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,231
Sloan, I understand. I swear to God I do.

1119
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,152
But you can't say the same
thing in the C block?

1120
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:40,879
You know that most
people watch 10 minutes of news,

1121
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:42,872
- the first 10 minutes.
- The vote isn't until tomorrow night.

1122
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:44,997
And it's only the first vote.
You said yourself it was cosmetic.

1123
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:46,315
Why do we have to feature it tonight?

1124
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:47,635
We should have been featuring it weeks ago.

1125
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:49,837
Why do we have to feature it tonight?

1126
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,156
To give time for the people
to call their congressmen

1127
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,160
and say, "If you fuck with the full faith
and credit of the US Treasury, you're fired."

1128
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,917
To give time for the people to jam
the phone lines of the district offices.

1129
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,231
To give the people time to say,

1130
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:03,955
"I'm a fiscal conservative

1131
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,511
"and you've got to put the pin back in
the grenade right now."

1132
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:09,999
That's why.

1133
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,152
I'm gonna do everything I can.

1134
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,432
Please do.

1135
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:24,800
Don't worry about it.

1136
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,031
She's just frustrated because
she can't get the word out

1137
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:29,510
that this is a global
emergency unless you let her.

1138
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,600
Appreciate your clearing that up.

1139
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:36,399
You know what, MacKenzie?

1140
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,437
I'm not the one who put me here.

1141
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,433
Say what you want about me,
but I wouldn't have done that.

1142
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,080
Does Will have the questions?

1143
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,038
Tess is giving him some cards now.

1144
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:05,711
- Is that lighting okay for you?
- Yeah.

1145
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,076
- How are we chyroning her?
- I was gonna ask you.

1146
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,158
Figure it out later.

1147
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,639
- Sandy.
<i>- Yes?</i>

1148
00:55:17,720 --> 00:55:20,440
My name's MacKenzie. I'm the executive...

1149
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:24,438
I'm the executive producer of <i>News Night.</i>

1150
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:26,313
<i>- Can you hear me okay?</i>
- Yes.

1151
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,234
Okay. Thanks for being patient with us.

1152
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:33,712
Will's just throwing on a jacket and tie
and we'll be able to do this.

1153
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,029
- Real easy.
<i>- You got it.</i>

1154
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:48,990
<i>Hi, I'm a big fan.</i>

1155
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:51,430
Hmm?

1156
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:52,556
<i>I'm Sandy.</i>

1157
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:54,757
<i>How do you do?</i>

1158
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:57,231
<i>- Are we ready for the pre-tape?</i>
- Yeah.

1159
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,113
<i>- Just count me down.</i>
- Will.

1160
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,317
<i>Yes, I'm sure I want to do this.</i>

1161
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,911
God, please give me a sign
I'm not doing a big thing badly.

1162
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:13,156
We just lost power.

1163
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:15,636
The whole building just lost power.

1164
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,236
I didn't know he had
that kind of comic timing.