1 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:15,070 Alex and Ellie-Rose are serving salmon. 2 00:00:13,545 --> 00:00:16,505 So we could do, like, a pinot gris 3 00:00:16,545 --> 00:00:18,935 or maybe just, like, a light red, like a pinot noir, or... 4 00:00:18,985 --> 00:00:20,385 I don't know. We can go off the grid 5 00:00:20,415 --> 00:00:21,441 and do something effervescent. 6 00:00:21,465 --> 00:00:22,865 Yeah, just like you in the mornings. 7 00:00:24,890 --> 00:00:26,890 Please just weigh in so I don't have to decide. 8 00:00:26,940 --> 00:00:28,380 I will drink anything that pairs well 9 00:00:28,420 --> 00:00:29,580 with an inverted yield curve. 10 00:00:30,980 --> 00:00:33,250 Leaving finance was the smartest thing I ever did. 11 00:00:33,290 --> 00:00:35,420 - Well, second smartest. - Mm. Ah... 12 00:00:35,470 --> 00:00:36,790 - Coffee breath. Thank you. - Mmm. 13 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,380 - Did you use the elliptical? - Yeah. 14 00:00:41,430 --> 00:00:44,040 - Did you fix the elliptical? - No. 15 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:45,496 Which means 304 is about to give you an earful 16 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:46,960 for the unexpected wake-me-up. 17 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,586 Oh, this woman is a nightmare. Just back me up, please. 18 00:00:48,610 --> 00:00:50,920 Yeah. Right behind you. 19 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,050 - Yes. - Blake Moran? 20 00:00:53,090 --> 00:00:54,270 Yes. 21 00:00:54,310 --> 00:00:55,676 Special Agent Belstaff with the FBI. 22 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:58,010 We have a warrant for the search of your premises. 23 00:00:58,050 --> 00:01:00,490 - Please step back. - Uh... 24 00:01:00,530 --> 00:01:02,840 Hey, uh, this is a private residence, okay? I understand. 25 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,500 Trevor, don't say anything. Just let them do their thing. 26 00:01:08,630 --> 00:01:11,150 Russell, hi. 27 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,590 Yeah, we got a, um, little s-situation. 28 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,640 The FBI is part of the DOJ, and the DOJ 29 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,160 is run by the attorney general, who answers to POTUS, so... 30 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,006 Guys, I think... stop me if I'm missing something, 31 00:01:21,030 --> 00:01:23,860 but if A.G. Lambert was read in on a warrant 32 00:01:23,910 --> 00:01:25,520 to raid the residence 33 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,340 of the aide-de-camp of the president 34 00:01:27,390 --> 00:01:28,780 without so much as notifying her, 35 00:01:28,820 --> 00:01:30,406 - he should be shot into space. - What you're missing 36 00:01:30,430 --> 00:01:32,520 is her internal mandate to pursue 37 00:01:32,570 --> 00:01:34,366 the investigation wherever it leads. Guys, listen... 38 00:01:34,390 --> 00:01:36,960 - Hanson is setting a trap. - Huh. 39 00:01:37,010 --> 00:01:40,140 Referring this matter to Justice for a concurrent investigation 40 00:01:40,180 --> 00:01:42,180 was a brilliant overreach. 41 00:01:42,230 --> 00:01:44,670 Because he knows the A.G. has to carry water for him. 42 00:01:44,710 --> 00:01:46,320 The slightest opposition 43 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,540 from the administration will smack of obstruction. 44 00:01:48,580 --> 00:01:50,540 Which means under no circumstances 45 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:52,020 can we move to quash the warrant. 46 00:01:52,060 --> 00:01:54,200 Except the more rope we give Hanson, the easier it is 47 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:55,680 - to fashion a noose. - Guys! 48 00:01:57,070 --> 00:01:58,826 The only one being fit for a noose here is me. 49 00:01:58,850 --> 00:02:01,510 Okay? They-they took my phone, my laptop. 50 00:02:01,550 --> 00:02:03,470 Six years of-of unclassified documents... 51 00:02:03,510 --> 00:02:04,860 Six years? 52 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:06,860 What kind of demented pack rat are you? 53 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:08,650 Okay, look, I knew she was special 54 00:02:08,690 --> 00:02:10,316 from the minute I started working for her. 55 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:11,910 I-I had a front-row seat 56 00:02:11,950 --> 00:02:13,390 from day one. 57 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,480 I was going to write a book 58 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,530 about the secretary 59 00:02:19,570 --> 00:02:21,750 when she finished public service, which became a book 60 00:02:21,790 --> 00:02:23,750 about the first female president. 61 00:02:23,790 --> 00:02:27,270 Which i-is now a book about a starry-eyed kid from Newton 62 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:28,840 who follows his dreams to Sing Sing. 63 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,410 - You're not going to Sing Sing. - Right. 64 00:02:31,450 --> 00:02:32,816 That's a state facility. You'll be doing federal time. 65 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,930 Oh, God! 66 00:02:35,980 --> 00:02:38,720 Blake, look at me. 67 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,420 Have you ever broken the law during your government tenure? 68 00:02:42,460 --> 00:02:44,200 Absolutely not. 69 00:02:44,250 --> 00:02:45,380 Then you have no exposure. 70 00:02:45,420 --> 00:02:47,420 It's a fishing expedition. 71 00:02:47,470 --> 00:02:51,430 Nothing more. The question is, what is Hanson fishing for? 72 00:02:51,470 --> 00:02:53,560 He already grilled Blake for 12 hours. 73 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,610 I think Blake's role 74 00:02:55,650 --> 00:03:00,570 as the president's unofficial archivist may be an open secret, 75 00:03:00,610 --> 00:03:02,570 which is why the warrant's so broad. 76 00:03:02,610 --> 00:03:04,920 This search is a naked pretext to breathe life 77 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:06,596 into an investigation that was flatlining. 78 00:03:06,620 --> 00:03:10,530 And is suddenly metastasizing. 79 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:14,620 We walled off the president. 80 00:03:14,670 --> 00:03:18,060 But we may be past that stage now. 81 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:21,460 I'll read her in. 82 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:23,460 Thank you. 83 00:03:37,650 --> 00:03:39,210 Mia Costello. 84 00:03:39,260 --> 00:03:41,090 Yes? Jason McCord. 85 00:03:42,130 --> 00:03:43,480 I know. Hi. 86 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,480 I'm sorry to bother you, I'm just such a big fan. 87 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,740 Cambridge Rubric'sone of my favorite blogs. 88 00:03:47,790 --> 00:03:50,490 Thank you. You've... you got this great voice. 89 00:03:50,530 --> 00:03:53,490 You know? It's, uh, it's like Maureen Dowd meets Ronan Farrow. 90 00:03:53,530 --> 00:03:55,140 - Red eye. - That's nice of you to say. 91 00:03:55,190 --> 00:03:58,450 Are you okay with a little friendly criticism? 92 00:03:58,490 --> 00:04:00,450 Sure.'Cause it's-it's quibbling, really. 93 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:02,930 Um... What? 94 00:04:02,980 --> 00:04:05,150 Your last column. 95 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:10,590 You called my mom a "corrupt, unqualified crypto-fascist." 96 00:04:12,460 --> 00:04:14,600 - It was an opinion piece. - Yeah. 97 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,690 And the accompanying cartoon of her in fetish wear 98 00:04:16,730 --> 00:04:18,560 being whipped by Senator Hanson, that was... 99 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,430 - Satire. - Satire. Yeah. 100 00:04:22,650 --> 00:04:24,560 But, you know, it could be misconstrued by some 101 00:04:24,610 --> 00:04:25,780 as misogyny. 102 00:04:26,830 --> 00:04:28,570 Or even slander. 103 00:04:29,740 --> 00:04:31,830 You know, Jason, your mom is a public figure. 104 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,100 - Yeah. - And the Rubricis a nonpartisan student publication, 105 00:04:35,140 --> 00:04:37,620 yet no other politician comes in for this type of treatment. 106 00:04:37,660 --> 00:04:39,270 Well, no other politician is president. 107 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,890 The first female president. Hmm? 108 00:04:42,930 --> 00:04:44,710 Yeah, I think I get the drift. 109 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,720 There's no drift. 110 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:47,940 I mean, Elizabeth McCord's 111 00:04:47,980 --> 00:04:49,590 the most powerful person in the world. 112 00:04:49,630 --> 00:04:51,200 She can handle a little incoming, so... 113 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:52,640 Jason? 114 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,120 - Here you go, man. - I got to run. 115 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,990 Detail gets kind of... itchy 116 00:04:59,030 --> 00:05:01,040 when I stand around, so... 117 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:02,650 I'm looking forward to your next issue. 118 00:05:05,950 --> 00:05:07,870 - I-It's a nonstarter. - I'm not telling you 119 00:05:07,910 --> 00:05:10,016 not to go to the Correspondents' Dinner. You're telling me 120 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,790 to be pulled away five minutes after I arrive. 121 00:05:12,830 --> 00:05:14,570 Which means you were there. 122 00:05:14,610 --> 00:05:16,246 As our dutiful White House photographer will document. 123 00:05:16,270 --> 00:05:18,920 The dinner is a hallowed tradition. 124 00:05:18,970 --> 00:05:21,140 Presidents attend 125 00:05:21,190 --> 00:05:25,100 whether their political fortunes are rising or falling. 126 00:05:25,150 --> 00:05:26,360 Reagan bailed. 127 00:05:27,410 --> 00:05:28,670 Because he was shot. 128 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:29,956 Okay, you're nervous about telling jokes anyway, 129 00:05:29,980 --> 00:05:31,736 which you should be because you're not funny. 130 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,590 What? I... hmm. 131 00:05:34,630 --> 00:05:36,640 That is so not true. 132 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,640 I have chops. 133 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,810 Serious chops. 134 00:05:40,860 --> 00:05:42,056 And I've been working on my monologue. 135 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,030 And it's actually, it's pretty good. 136 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,120 Be that as it may, this dinner is not exactly ideal timing. 137 00:05:47,170 --> 00:05:49,390 You just locked up a reporter. 138 00:05:49,430 --> 00:05:50,950 Valerie Guillen, remember? 139 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,390 And pardoned her. 140 00:05:52,430 --> 00:05:54,570 Even if people aren't talking about your predilection 141 00:05:54,610 --> 00:05:57,310 for jailing reporters, they will be talking about 142 00:05:57,350 --> 00:05:58,586 the search warrant that was executed 143 00:05:58,610 --> 00:06:00,400 on your aide's private residence. 144 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,050 Look, I'm not gonna worry about a stunt that was engineered 145 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:06,800 to give a failed investigation oxygen. It won't play as a stunt. 146 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:08,646 The White House press corps is not exactly home team right now. 147 00:06:08,670 --> 00:06:11,060 It'll play as an escalation of a news cycle 148 00:06:11,110 --> 00:06:13,800 we've been trying to change for months. 149 00:06:13,850 --> 00:06:15,940 It'll juice impeachment talk, cast a shadow 150 00:06:15,980 --> 00:06:17,810 of a looming constitutional crisis. 151 00:06:17,850 --> 00:06:19,160 And then there's the bad stuff. 152 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,510 So it's the perfect time to inject some levity. 153 00:06:21,550 --> 00:06:23,290 But, Bess, you're not funny. 154 00:06:23,330 --> 00:06:24,550 Well... 155 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,640 Russell. Mike's right. Not your strong suit. 156 00:06:26,690 --> 00:06:28,820 Listen, I think we've caught a break. 157 00:06:28,860 --> 00:06:31,950 After a month and a half of intensive investigations 158 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,560 by our intelligence services, 159 00:06:33,610 --> 00:06:36,740 we've isolated the culprits of Iran's hack of our election. 160 00:06:36,780 --> 00:06:40,220 I'm just getting word that this morning, a federal grand jury 161 00:06:40,260 --> 00:06:42,790 has issued indictments of five Iranian nationals 162 00:06:42,830 --> 00:06:44,750 Ah... for election interference. 163 00:06:44,790 --> 00:06:46,530 Finally. Oh, uh, Blake. 164 00:06:46,580 --> 00:06:48,530 Alerting President Shiraz's office. 165 00:06:48,580 --> 00:06:50,100 Yeah. Also, can I get the, uh... 166 00:06:50,140 --> 00:06:51,726 The full background files on the Iranians? 167 00:06:51,750 --> 00:06:53,760 But I'm gonna need... Photos as well. 168 00:06:55,410 --> 00:06:56,630 How are you doing? 169 00:06:56,670 --> 00:06:59,630 Uh, nothing to brighten your morning 170 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,550 like a battalion of Feds rifling through your underwear. 171 00:07:03,590 --> 00:07:05,550 The worst is behind you. 172 00:07:05,590 --> 00:07:06,860 Yeah. Oh. 173 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:09,730 Underwear, behind. Nice. 174 00:07:09,770 --> 00:07:13,080 I am so gonna rock that ballroom. 175 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,170 You are seeking extradition 176 00:07:15,210 --> 00:07:18,390 of Reza Mousavi, our Quds Force commander. 177 00:07:18,430 --> 00:07:21,650 For his criminal role in masterminding 178 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:24,530 a cyber attack on my electoral opponent. 179 00:07:24,570 --> 00:07:25,880 Elizabeth, 180 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:27,960 I'm an ally, not a foe. 181 00:07:28,010 --> 00:07:31,050 We have done such important work together. 182 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:34,710 The rapprochement between our countries, the nuclear treaty. 183 00:07:34,750 --> 00:07:38,760 All of which you jeopardized by tampering with our election. 184 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,150 This alleged tampering... 185 00:07:40,190 --> 00:07:43,460 which we strenuously deny... was on your behalf. 186 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:45,820 It's perverse you would seek to punish us for your success. 187 00:07:45,850 --> 00:07:49,250 What's perverse is assuming that I'd endorse behavior 188 00:07:49,290 --> 00:07:51,250 merely because it benefited me. 189 00:07:51,290 --> 00:07:53,690 Interfering with our elections 190 00:07:53,730 --> 00:07:56,120 was the act of an enemy. 191 00:07:56,170 --> 00:07:58,260 That is reckless talk. 192 00:07:58,300 --> 00:08:00,210 Not as reckless as your breach of our democracy. 193 00:08:00,260 --> 00:08:04,700 You have 48 hours to extradite the people responsible, 194 00:08:04,740 --> 00:08:09,440 or the price that Iran pays will grow exponentially steeper. 195 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,230 Well, you cornered him. 196 00:08:16,270 --> 00:08:19,190 And cornered prey either rolls over or... 197 00:08:19,230 --> 00:08:21,800 Or lashes out. 198 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:23,800 We'll monitor developments. 199 00:08:24,850 --> 00:08:26,240 You're already dressed, 200 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,680 which means you're not coming back to bed. 201 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,940 I would love to, but I am, I'm pretty late as it is 202 00:08:33,990 --> 00:08:35,950 and I'm actually not done with this yet, so... 203 00:08:35,990 --> 00:08:37,730 - Yeah. Sorry I kept you. - No. 204 00:08:37,770 --> 00:08:39,300 I think we kept each other, right? 205 00:08:39,340 --> 00:08:41,300 Yeah, that's been happening a lot lately, huh? 206 00:08:41,340 --> 00:08:42,470 Oy... hey. 207 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:44,910 This is, this is important. 208 00:08:44,950 --> 00:08:46,910 - Hey. I have an idea. - Okay. 209 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:52,610 How about... we... go out this evening? 210 00:08:52,660 --> 00:08:57,180 Uh, yeah, if I don't have to work late again. 211 00:08:58,230 --> 00:09:00,190 Take a stand. 212 00:09:00,230 --> 00:09:02,280 Tell them that you're the president's daughter. 213 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,410 Are you upset? 214 00:09:04,450 --> 00:09:06,410 No, I'm... It's not you. 215 00:09:06,450 --> 00:09:10,150 It's just... we haven't left the bedroom in weeks. 216 00:09:11,810 --> 00:09:13,396 Are you seriously complaining that you're oversexed? 217 00:09:13,420 --> 00:09:14,550 No, of course not. 218 00:09:14,590 --> 00:09:16,290 I'm just beginning to feel like a kept man. 219 00:09:16,330 --> 00:09:17,250 Ah... Okay. Okay. 220 00:09:17,290 --> 00:09:18,680 Cabin fever. I get it. 221 00:09:18,730 --> 00:09:21,300 I will tell the office that I have a hard out. 222 00:09:21,340 --> 00:09:23,300 Good. Okay. 223 00:09:23,340 --> 00:09:25,080 All right, I've got another one for you. 224 00:09:25,130 --> 00:09:27,080 Odontalgia. 225 00:09:27,130 --> 00:09:28,910 Odontalgia. 226 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:34,260 O-D-O-N-T-A-L-G-I-A. 227 00:09:34,310 --> 00:09:36,610 Odontalgia. 228 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:38,230 Right again. 229 00:09:38,270 --> 00:09:39,840 Ladies and gentlemen, 230 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,580 your national spelling bee champion Oscar Rubis. 231 00:09:43,620 --> 00:09:45,580 Congratulations, sir. 232 00:09:45,620 --> 00:09:47,410 Very well done. 233 00:09:47,450 --> 00:09:50,410 The president and our champion will take a few questions. 234 00:09:50,450 --> 00:09:51,800 Madam President... Keira. 235 00:09:51,850 --> 00:09:55,070 President McCord, as a CIA operative in Baghdad, 236 00:09:55,110 --> 00:09:56,770 did you order the torture 237 00:09:56,810 --> 00:10:00,420 of Safeer Al-Jamil while he was in CIA custody? 238 00:10:00,460 --> 00:10:01,786 We're taking questions about the administration's educational... 239 00:10:01,810 --> 00:10:03,550 What's your response to the allegation 240 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,640 that you assaulted Philippine President Datu Andrada 241 00:10:05,690 --> 00:10:07,016 after he made an unwanted sexual advance? 242 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:08,316 That's all we have for you today. 243 00:10:08,340 --> 00:10:09,340 Thank you, everyone. 244 00:10:11,780 --> 00:10:14,040 Uh, Russell, do you have a second? 245 00:10:14,090 --> 00:10:16,000 Not now. I know where they, um, 246 00:10:16,050 --> 00:10:18,400 I think I know where they got their questions. 247 00:10:22,270 --> 00:10:24,270 Come with me. 248 00:10:37,020 --> 00:10:39,370 The oppo was on a flash drive given to me 249 00:10:39,420 --> 00:10:40,850 by Neal Shin from the Chronicle, 250 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:43,120 when he shadowed you three years ago. 251 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,640 In what universe is squirreling away material 252 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:49,600 whose only use could be to undermine the president 253 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:50,820 a good idea? 254 00:10:50,860 --> 00:10:52,056 Boswell here's writing a tell-all, 255 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:53,740 remember? Shin told me to keep it safe. 256 00:10:53,780 --> 00:10:56,560 That one day the secretary might need what's on the drive. 257 00:10:56,610 --> 00:10:58,570 He meant she needed it buried at sea, 258 00:10:58,610 --> 00:11:00,090 not enshrined in your museum. 259 00:11:00,130 --> 00:11:02,140 It was in a safe. 260 00:11:04,310 --> 00:11:06,180 Ma'am, I'm really sorry. 261 00:11:06,230 --> 00:11:08,100 It's all right, Blake. 262 00:11:08,140 --> 00:11:10,190 I mean, you couldn't have anticipated the warrant 263 00:11:10,230 --> 00:11:12,360 - or its scope. - Yeah, or that some ally 264 00:11:12,410 --> 00:11:14,360 of Hanson's in the FBI is obviously 265 00:11:14,410 --> 00:11:15,710 leaking to the press. 266 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,166 The timing's right out of Hanson's playbook. 267 00:11:17,190 --> 00:11:19,540 Releasing dirt just before the Correspondents' Dinner, 268 00:11:19,590 --> 00:11:21,240 he's chumming the waters. 269 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:22,240 Thank you, Blake. 270 00:11:22,290 --> 00:11:23,810 Yeah, thanks, Blake. 271 00:11:25,110 --> 00:11:26,330 Ma'am. 272 00:11:31,030 --> 00:11:34,650 Olivia, I want I.G. to investigate who at Justice 273 00:11:34,690 --> 00:11:35,950 was behind the leak. 274 00:11:35,990 --> 00:11:40,300 I mean... that is a dangerous partisan move 275 00:11:40,350 --> 00:11:42,870 for a department that is supposed to be apolitical. 276 00:11:42,910 --> 00:11:44,790 I'll take care of it. On the down low, please. 277 00:11:44,830 --> 00:11:46,196 Otherwise the president looks like the captain 278 00:11:46,220 --> 00:11:48,220 of the Good Ship Paranoid. 279 00:11:48,270 --> 00:11:50,140 We have a massive political problem. 280 00:11:50,180 --> 00:11:52,530 Daisy's resignation was blunting Hanson's momentum, 281 00:11:52,580 --> 00:11:54,620 but this raid jump-starts his investigation. 282 00:11:54,670 --> 00:11:56,230 And it's the first salvo 283 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,670 of a concurrent FBI inquiry that could drag on for months. 284 00:11:59,710 --> 00:12:02,110 So now we're fighting a two-fronted war. 285 00:12:02,150 --> 00:12:03,386 We should reach out to Hanson's camp, 286 00:12:03,410 --> 00:12:05,370 see what he wants for a truce. 287 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,640 Russell, put out a feeler, but let's keep in mind 288 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:13,900 that a truce is not surrender. 289 00:12:13,950 --> 00:12:17,170 Well, we have a foreign relations problem, too. 290 00:12:17,210 --> 00:12:18,520 Shiraz might be... 291 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:20,000 less likely to cave 292 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,300 if he thinks you're under siege at home. 293 00:12:26,390 --> 00:12:28,400 Make that will be less likely. 294 00:12:31,350 --> 00:12:33,570 Two hours ago, Hezbollah cells in Lebanon fired 295 00:12:33,620 --> 00:12:34,920 26 mobile-launched 296 00:12:34,970 --> 00:12:37,400 surface-to-air missiles into Northern Israel. 297 00:12:37,450 --> 00:12:38,880 Fatalities? 298 00:12:38,930 --> 00:12:41,280 Three dead in Nahariya. Millions of dollars in damage. 299 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,320 Israel has already responded by blowing up 300 00:12:44,370 --> 00:12:47,280 a Hezbollah radar installation 301 00:12:47,330 --> 00:12:50,720 and two suspected weapons manufacturing sites in Dahieh. 302 00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:52,330 Well, I guess we have Iran's response 303 00:12:52,380 --> 00:12:53,860 to your ultimatum, madam. 304 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:56,340 They're using their terrorist proxy to attack Israel, 305 00:12:56,380 --> 00:12:59,600 sending a message that they will drag the region into chaos 306 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,950 if we don't back off our extradition request. 307 00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:04,210 Did you reach out to Foreign Minister Tousi? 308 00:13:04,260 --> 00:13:05,910 My Iranian counterpart professes surprise. 309 00:13:05,950 --> 00:13:10,790 He claims Iran has no influence over renegade cells. 310 00:13:10,830 --> 00:13:13,480 Shiraz is squeezing you, Madam President, 311 00:13:13,530 --> 00:13:15,440 betting your domestic distractions will weaken 312 00:13:15,490 --> 00:13:17,530 your appetite for international conflict. 313 00:13:17,570 --> 00:13:19,660 Well, unfortunately for him, 314 00:13:19,710 --> 00:13:21,450 I can walk and chew gum at the same time. 315 00:13:21,490 --> 00:13:23,670 How's the rial doing, Susan? 316 00:13:23,710 --> 00:13:25,370 It's in free fall. The Iranian economy is 317 00:13:25,410 --> 00:13:26,370 teetering on the brink of collapse. 318 00:13:26,410 --> 00:13:28,320 Reach out to the G8 members. 319 00:13:28,370 --> 00:13:29,760 I want to turn the screws, 320 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,290 - step up multilateral sanctions. - Immediately. 321 00:13:32,330 --> 00:13:34,290 And add the head of the Revolutionary Guard 322 00:13:34,330 --> 00:13:36,510 and the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament 323 00:13:36,550 --> 00:13:38,940 to the SDN and Blocked Persons List. Yes, ma'am. 324 00:13:38,990 --> 00:13:41,030 Russell, you've got a personal relationship 325 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,430 with the Israeli prime minister. 326 00:13:43,470 --> 00:13:45,390 You tell him to keep his powder dry. 327 00:13:45,430 --> 00:13:47,910 Doron will do that for only so long. 328 00:13:47,950 --> 00:13:49,910 We're playing with fire here. 329 00:13:49,950 --> 00:13:52,040 I know. 330 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,050 Coffee this late? 331 00:13:57,090 --> 00:13:58,880 You're gonna be up all night. 332 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:00,620 - It's not coffee. - Oh. 333 00:14:00,660 --> 00:14:04,880 It's a perfectly alkaline chicory matcha superdrink 334 00:14:04,930 --> 00:14:08,320 with ayurvedic herbs that Chef Cindy whipped up for me. 335 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,060 Whoa. What does that taste like? 336 00:14:11,110 --> 00:14:14,330 Despair. 337 00:14:14,370 --> 00:14:15,680 It's good to see you. 338 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,290 - Hmm. Oh. - Yeah. 339 00:14:18,330 --> 00:14:19,420 Yum. 340 00:14:19,460 --> 00:14:21,810 Yeah, I'm sorry I've been a little scarce 341 00:14:21,860 --> 00:14:24,290 - the past few weeks. - Well, I was young once, too. 342 00:14:25,510 --> 00:14:27,820 So, how's Dmitri? 343 00:14:27,860 --> 00:14:30,560 He's good. Good. 344 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,350 He's great. 345 00:14:33,390 --> 00:14:37,050 Actually, can I ask you...? 346 00:14:37,090 --> 00:14:40,400 You know what, if you're too busy... 347 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,400 No, I... Dish away. 348 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,270 So... 349 00:14:45,310 --> 00:14:48,580 Dmitri wants to do, um, 350 00:14:48,620 --> 00:14:51,630 traditional couples stuff, like, in public. 351 00:14:51,670 --> 00:14:55,370 Swell. Yeah, except here's the thing. 352 00:14:55,410 --> 00:14:59,460 I, I was just with Griffin. I mean, God. 353 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:03,550 And our relationship was all over Instagram 354 00:15:03,590 --> 00:15:05,770 and-and tabloids, and, like, what, 355 00:15:05,810 --> 00:15:07,550 a few weeks later I'm coming out like, 356 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,446 - "Hey, here's my new..." - What's your concern? 357 00:15:09,470 --> 00:15:12,300 I mean, judgment. 358 00:15:12,340 --> 00:15:15,520 What's your real concern? 359 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:20,780 Stevie, you are the most private of my three kids. 360 00:15:20,830 --> 00:15:22,570 And you're also the one 361 00:15:22,610 --> 00:15:26,180 who cares the least about what other people think. 362 00:15:26,220 --> 00:15:27,570 Yeah. 363 00:15:27,620 --> 00:15:31,490 I guess it's more about what I think. 364 00:15:31,530 --> 00:15:33,540 Which is? 365 00:15:34,620 --> 00:15:37,800 That I was devastated when this didn't work before. 366 00:15:38,890 --> 00:15:44,200 And if I commit again and we fail... 367 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,380 - You'll take it even harder. - Yeah. 368 00:15:47,420 --> 00:15:50,550 Because this time, you know, 369 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,640 there's nobody to blame but me. 370 00:15:53,690 --> 00:15:56,340 Oh, sweetie. 371 00:15:56,390 --> 00:15:58,340 It's scary. 372 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,520 Try terrifying. 373 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,000 Love is all about... 374 00:16:08,570 --> 00:16:13,400 You have to risk everything... 375 00:16:13,450 --> 00:16:14,930 to gain everything. 376 00:16:14,970 --> 00:16:18,190 Do you think that we'll make it? 377 00:16:19,630 --> 00:16:23,980 Well, I think that... 378 00:16:24,020 --> 00:16:26,280 you should take it one step at a time. 379 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,550 Go to dinner, 380 00:16:30,590 --> 00:16:33,550 then come back and tell me what real food tastes like. 381 00:16:39,390 --> 00:16:41,600 I was just going to come to see you. I was crawling 382 00:16:41,650 --> 00:16:43,536 out of my skin. Just show me. Okay. This was posted... 383 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,260 Don't preface, just give it to me. on a website of a publication 384 00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:48,700 called the Rubric at 6:00... this morning. What-ooh, wait. 385 00:16:48,740 --> 00:16:52,090 Okay. "A dislike of a free press seems to run in the McCord family, 386 00:16:52,140 --> 00:16:53,936 "as first son Jason demonstrated by confronting 387 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,660 "the Rubric's editor over a description of his mother 388 00:16:56,710 --> 00:16:59,410 "he labeled misogynistic and slanderous, 389 00:16:59,450 --> 00:17:01,580 "then baldly suggesting the first female president 390 00:17:01,620 --> 00:17:03,580 deserved preferential treatment." Oh, come on. 391 00:17:03,630 --> 00:17:06,280 - You can take it from here. - What... um... 392 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,020 "When his charm offensive ran aground, 393 00:17:08,070 --> 00:17:09,526 "McCord resorted to ham-fisted threats, 394 00:17:09,550 --> 00:17:12,550 "alluding to his Secret Service detail and their... 395 00:17:12,590 --> 00:17:13,980 guns." Guns. 396 00:17:14,030 --> 00:17:15,616 "The implication being they might be deployed 397 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,600 "to muzzle yours truly. After all, Jason warned, 398 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:19,446 his mother was 'the most powerful person in the world.'" 399 00:17:19,470 --> 00:17:21,470 Nearly two million retweets. 400 00:17:21,510 --> 00:17:24,390 Picked up by the AP, foreign media, it's... 401 00:17:24,430 --> 00:17:26,480 Yeah. Because I'm not already 402 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,610 in Dutch enough with the press corps, 403 00:17:28,650 --> 00:17:31,000 who I will be schmoozing tomorrow night. 404 00:17:31,050 --> 00:17:32,220 Yep. 405 00:17:32,260 --> 00:17:34,270 He is going to issue an apology. 406 00:17:34,310 --> 00:17:35,440 Yes, agreed. 407 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:36,636 Then we are going to shave his head 408 00:17:36,660 --> 00:17:38,270 and ship him off to military school. 409 00:17:38,310 --> 00:17:40,580 Well, h-he's not 12, but that is a good thought. 410 00:17:40,620 --> 00:17:42,816 Madam President, you're needed in the Sit Room immediately. 411 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,036 Okay, listen, I will have him on the next train down here 412 00:17:45,060 --> 00:17:47,500 to give us time to give him a proper neck-wringing.Okay. 413 00:17:47,540 --> 00:17:50,020 - You just go save the world. - Okay, okay. Yep, yep, yep. 414 00:17:50,060 --> 00:17:52,590 At 9:00 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time, 415 00:17:52,630 --> 00:17:55,810 the G8 member nations notified Tehran 416 00:17:55,850 --> 00:17:59,600 that the sanctions on the Shiraz regime were being trebled. 417 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:00,770 Three hours later, 418 00:18:00,810 --> 00:18:02,470 the U.K.'s two largest banks 419 00:18:02,510 --> 00:18:05,170 reported data breaches on their cloud servers. 420 00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:07,430 And the London and Frankfurt stock exchanges 421 00:18:07,470 --> 00:18:10,690 just suspended trading after their own breaches. 422 00:18:10,740 --> 00:18:12,700 We confirm Iran was behind it? 423 00:18:12,740 --> 00:18:14,390 We know they are. 424 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,366 They have hacking mills now. People on the job 24/7. 425 00:18:16,390 --> 00:18:18,700 And Tehran's aggression isn't limited 426 00:18:18,750 --> 00:18:20,570 to financial markets. 427 00:18:20,620 --> 00:18:23,620 A French-flagged oil tanker 428 00:18:23,660 --> 00:18:26,320 in the Strait of Hormuz nearly capsized 429 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:27,880 after the automated ballast 430 00:18:27,930 --> 00:18:30,320 control system was remotely compromised. 431 00:18:30,370 --> 00:18:35,110 And British ships in the region are reporting problems with GPS. 432 00:18:35,150 --> 00:18:36,606 Meaning traffic through the most important 433 00:18:36,630 --> 00:18:38,940 oil-shipping route in the world 434 00:18:38,980 --> 00:18:41,460 has come to a complete standstill. All of which 435 00:18:41,510 --> 00:18:43,810 is a prelude to an inevitable spike in oil prices, 436 00:18:43,860 --> 00:18:45,470 which you will be blamed for. 437 00:18:45,510 --> 00:18:48,080 There is nothing subtle about this, ma'am. 438 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:50,390 Shiraz is under pressure by the hard-liners. 439 00:18:50,430 --> 00:18:53,170 He wants to stay in power, he has to appease them. 440 00:18:53,210 --> 00:18:57,740 So, unless we back off, this is just the beginning. 441 00:18:57,780 --> 00:19:01,180 Well, I'll personally reach out to our allies. 442 00:19:01,220 --> 00:19:02,790 Reinforce the coalition. 443 00:19:02,830 --> 00:19:05,620 Our allies aren't going to spend political capital 444 00:19:05,660 --> 00:19:07,180 on an embattled president. 445 00:19:07,230 --> 00:19:09,710 The undermining of democracy should concern 446 00:19:09,750 --> 00:19:12,020 all free nations. 447 00:19:12,060 --> 00:19:13,710 Well, our friends aren't as like-minded. 448 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:15,670 And we won't be able to exert enough pressure 449 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,550 on Shiraz independently to force him to cough up the hackers. 450 00:19:20,590 --> 00:19:23,850 Then we'll go it alone. 451 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:26,810 Ellen, have JSOC pull up scenarios for the extraction 452 00:19:26,860 --> 00:19:28,900 of the five Iranian nationals 453 00:19:28,950 --> 00:19:30,900 responsible for the attack on our elections. 454 00:19:30,950 --> 00:19:34,080 You are talking about breaching Iranian sovereignty. 455 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:36,520 Yes. 456 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:37,666 That is an extreme response. 457 00:19:37,690 --> 00:19:39,260 To an extreme provocation, 458 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:43,180 which we have tried to address diplomatically with Tehran. 459 00:19:43,220 --> 00:19:45,880 And through the use of sanctions. 460 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:47,286 Those measures have not only failed, 461 00:19:47,310 --> 00:19:49,710 but Iran has become emboldened. 462 00:19:49,750 --> 00:19:52,100 Ma'am, I'm duty bound to advise you 463 00:19:52,140 --> 00:19:53,930 that this could be seen as an act of war. 464 00:19:53,970 --> 00:19:56,890 One which puts U.S. citizens and service members 465 00:19:56,930 --> 00:19:59,850 overseas in the line of fire. 466 00:19:59,890 --> 00:20:01,890 Not to mention our allies. 467 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:08,330 Does anyone here doubt that interfering with our elections 468 00:20:08,380 --> 00:20:10,770 was an act of war? 469 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,300 What we do here... 470 00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:20,950 or don't do... will have consequences. 471 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Because America is the bellwether for freedom. 472 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:25,790 If we look away, 473 00:20:25,830 --> 00:20:29,140 then democracies everywhere are at risk. 474 00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:37,550 I expect a full range of options as soon as you gather them. 475 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:47,590 I'm not saying "Congressman Codeine." 476 00:20:47,630 --> 00:20:49,370 Why? He's out of rehab. 477 00:20:50,420 --> 00:20:52,070 Fine. Senator Lithium? 478 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:53,680 Oh, for God... 479 00:20:53,730 --> 00:20:55,550 - I... - Hey, Russell. 480 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:00,600 Welcome to the laugh-free zone, starring your headliner Mike B. 481 00:21:00,650 --> 00:21:02,170 Yeah, the gang at Cactus Norm's 482 00:21:02,210 --> 00:21:03,626 open mic night would beg to differ. Uhhuh. 483 00:21:03,650 --> 00:21:05,740 By the way, two-for-one margaritas on Sundays, 484 00:21:05,780 --> 00:21:07,390 but, uh, skip the tuna nachos. 485 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:08,870 I think you're gonna find 486 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:10,960 this update aggressively unfunny, too. 487 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,220 I back-channeled with Hanson's chief of staff. 488 00:21:14,270 --> 00:21:17,270 He named his price for shutting down the investigation. 489 00:21:17,310 --> 00:21:19,140 One kidney or two? 490 00:21:19,190 --> 00:21:21,190 Oh, the whole body, I'm afraid. 491 00:21:21,230 --> 00:21:23,970 He's demanding rollbacks on the ESI bill, 492 00:21:24,020 --> 00:21:26,850 approval rights on all judicial nominees. 493 00:21:26,890 --> 00:21:29,150 - Well, that's sort of funny. - Yeah, well, 494 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,760 I won't even mention the raft of anti-environment initiatives, 495 00:21:31,810 --> 00:21:34,940 corporate tax cuts, weakening 496 00:21:34,980 --> 00:21:37,510 gun control and health care legislation, 497 00:21:37,550 --> 00:21:41,300 all of which he is expecting you to cosign. 498 00:21:41,340 --> 00:21:44,040 If I don't? 499 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:45,560 Well, then he and his allies 500 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,220 will beat the impeachment drum for the rest of your term. 501 00:21:49,260 --> 00:21:51,676 I agree to his demands, I'll be functionally impeached anyway. 502 00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:52,870 It's still worth considering. 503 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,870 - On what basis? - Political winds 504 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,270 can shift, leverage can change. 505 00:21:58,310 --> 00:22:01,010 Deals can be unmade. 506 00:22:01,050 --> 00:22:02,580 I have no interest in this office 507 00:22:02,620 --> 00:22:05,060 if I can't do what the people put me here for. 508 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:08,760 I'd rather be on the farm in Virginia writing my memoirs. 509 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,020 With all due respect, ma'am, 510 00:22:10,060 --> 00:22:11,800 that might be sooner than you think. 511 00:22:14,850 --> 00:22:18,030 I'll find time to speak with Senator Hanson 512 00:22:18,070 --> 00:22:20,550 at the Correspondents' Dinner. 513 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,900 Maybe we'll find some common ground. 514 00:22:22,950 --> 00:22:24,820 I'll pass the word. 515 00:22:24,860 --> 00:22:26,640 Excuse me, ma'am. 516 00:22:26,690 --> 00:22:27,796 Uh, Jason is in the Residence. 517 00:22:27,820 --> 00:22:29,820 Would you like me to invite him down? 518 00:22:32,910 --> 00:22:34,520 No. 519 00:22:34,570 --> 00:22:36,920 Ask Henry to meet me there. 520 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:38,570 Yes, ma'am. 521 00:22:38,610 --> 00:22:41,050 First off, every word I said was taken out of context. 522 00:22:41,090 --> 00:22:42,530 Oh, a hit job, huh? 523 00:22:42,570 --> 00:22:45,010 Yeah, totally. And... 524 00:22:45,050 --> 00:22:47,010 Well, we happen to have the piece right here, 525 00:22:47,060 --> 00:22:49,840 so we can go over the inaccuracies. 526 00:22:49,890 --> 00:22:53,410 Okay, maybe I was a tiny bit clumsy. 527 00:22:53,450 --> 00:22:56,720 Breaking a vase is clumsy, Jason. 528 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,590 Accusing a female writer of misogyny 529 00:22:59,630 --> 00:23:01,086 while flagging the fact that your detail 530 00:23:01,110 --> 00:23:03,590 is packing heat... that's just dumb. 531 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,810 I was defending you. 532 00:23:05,860 --> 00:23:08,770 I know it came from a good place, 533 00:23:08,820 --> 00:23:12,470 but you don't help me by throwing your weight around. 534 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,480 And when you talk to journalists, 535 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,610 your words are going to be scrutinized. 536 00:23:16,650 --> 00:23:18,480 Real journalists 537 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,480 don't tote around Hello Kitty knapsacks. 538 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,220 No, no, the blog's a farce, okay? 539 00:23:22,270 --> 00:23:23,440 I'm the victim here. 540 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,880 Oh, boy. See, that's just not the way 541 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,240 - you want to play this, sport. - No, everyone attacks you. 542 00:23:29,270 --> 00:23:30,230 And you just turn the other cheek. 543 00:23:30,270 --> 00:23:31,840 Don't you get sick of that? 544 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,930 I don't have that luxury, 545 00:23:34,970 --> 00:23:36,930 and neither does my family. 546 00:23:36,980 --> 00:23:39,940 And I'm sorry, but that's the way it is. 547 00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:43,290 Okay. I... 548 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,290 Lesson learned. Are we done here? 549 00:23:47,330 --> 00:23:50,380 We are, but you're not. 550 00:23:50,420 --> 00:23:51,950 A full-throated apology 551 00:23:51,990 --> 00:23:53,910 posted online before the Correspondents' Dinner, 552 00:23:53,950 --> 00:23:56,950 uh, by, let's say, noon. 553 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,040 Tomorrow. 554 00:23:59,090 --> 00:24:01,870 Okay. Yeah. I can, I'll mock up a clarification. 555 00:24:01,910 --> 00:24:03,480 - Apology. - Okay, fine. 556 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:04,740 Isn't this nice? 557 00:24:04,790 --> 00:24:07,700 - Mm-hmm. - Beautiful evening. 558 00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:09,880 - You, me. - Mm-hmm. 559 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,230 Four people licensed to kill. 560 00:24:14,270 --> 00:24:18,060 Well, a table for six is my new normal. 561 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:21,320 I've never had a normal, except for you. 562 00:24:21,370 --> 00:24:23,200 Oh, it's the president's daughter. 563 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,980 Oh, okay. Uh, here, let's sit down. 564 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,730 You're nervous. 565 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:38,910 Yeah. About being seen with me? 566 00:24:38,950 --> 00:24:40,300 No. 567 00:24:40,340 --> 00:24:43,390 Um, it's just that, 568 00:24:43,430 --> 00:24:45,170 if we're a couple, 569 00:24:45,220 --> 00:24:48,960 then we are official, and if we're official, 570 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,360 don't know, my mind goes places. 571 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,010 I'll never hurt you again. 572 00:24:54,050 --> 00:24:56,190 You can't promise that. 573 00:24:56,230 --> 00:24:58,970 I'll never hurt you intentionally. Gee. 574 00:24:59,010 --> 00:25:01,840 You really know how to sweet-talk a gal. 575 00:25:02,930 --> 00:25:03,996 Look, it's the best I can do. 576 00:25:04,020 --> 00:25:07,410 Some things are out of our control. 577 00:25:07,460 --> 00:25:08,850 Yeah. 578 00:25:08,890 --> 00:25:10,850 I just can't do this again. 579 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:13,160 Like, go all in, and then 580 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,550 maybe one day I'll-I'll wake up and you'll be gone 581 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,210 because you have this secret life that you can't outrun. 582 00:25:20,250 --> 00:25:23,080 Look, there's no more secrets and there's no more running. 583 00:25:23,130 --> 00:25:25,950 All I can promise you is this: 584 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,040 I'm not leaving again, 585 00:25:28,090 --> 00:25:32,400 not unless I'm dragged away, kicking and screaming. 586 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,880 So we leave the rest up to fate? 587 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,050 No. 588 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:41,010 I don't trust fate. 589 00:25:41,060 --> 00:25:43,060 I trust you. 590 00:25:45,190 --> 00:25:47,540 Okay. 591 00:25:47,580 --> 00:25:49,150 So how go the jokes? 592 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,110 Six comedy writers, three speechwriters, 593 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,510 endless edits by Mike B., 594 00:25:55,550 --> 00:25:57,030 and it still needs a punch-up. 595 00:25:57,070 --> 00:25:58,900 You're gonna be great. 596 00:25:58,940 --> 00:26:01,900 What I need is a time machine, so I can 597 00:26:01,950 --> 00:26:03,560 go back and fix things. 598 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,130 These investigations aren't going anywhere. 599 00:26:06,170 --> 00:26:07,080 Nope. 600 00:26:07,130 --> 00:26:09,430 Maybe my presidency is. 601 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,390 - Babe, don't. - I'm just being realistic. 602 00:26:15,350 --> 00:26:19,660 Been thinking a lot about the fate of pioneers. 603 00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:21,230 Well, you're certainly one of them. 604 00:26:21,270 --> 00:26:24,010 Yeah. You know what pioneers get to accomplish? 605 00:26:24,060 --> 00:26:27,060 Being first. That's it. 606 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:28,020 Some accomplished more than that. 607 00:26:28,060 --> 00:26:29,450 Not the ones that matter. 608 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:32,190 Susan B. Anthony paved the way for women's suffrage 609 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,070 but died 15 years before women got to vote. 610 00:26:35,110 --> 00:26:37,900 And Martin Luther King fought for equality 611 00:26:37,940 --> 00:26:41,770 but didn't live to see many of his dreams fulfilled. 612 00:26:41,810 --> 00:26:44,420 People who provide the spark 613 00:26:44,470 --> 00:26:46,640 don't often get to sit by the fire. 614 00:26:46,690 --> 00:26:48,690 Maybe 615 00:26:48,730 --> 00:26:51,560 the country just wasn't ready 616 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,610 for the first female president. 617 00:26:55,650 --> 00:27:00,400 Or maybe all this is just inevitable tectonic shifts. 618 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,700 The earth realigning itself. 619 00:27:02,750 --> 00:27:05,450 Or opening up to swallow me whole. 620 00:27:05,490 --> 00:27:07,490 You're gonna get through this. 621 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,500 What if I don't? 622 00:27:12,540 --> 00:27:14,720 Well, then you'll have a burgeoning comedy career 623 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,150 to fall back on. 624 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,200 Maybe I'll just fall back on you. 625 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,250 Well, that works, too. 626 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,290 Iran's cyber force 627 00:27:28,340 --> 00:27:30,770 is a decentralized confederation of hackers, 628 00:27:30,820 --> 00:27:33,040 but our intel confirms 629 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,080 there's nothing random about the dispersion of our five targets. 630 00:27:36,130 --> 00:27:37,740 Tabriz, Mashhad, 631 00:27:37,780 --> 00:27:40,740 Zahedan, and Bushehr. 632 00:27:40,780 --> 00:27:43,140 The four corners of the country. And Reza Mousavi, 633 00:27:43,180 --> 00:27:45,090 the crown jewel, 634 00:27:45,140 --> 00:27:47,180 is in Tehran. 635 00:27:47,230 --> 00:27:48,416 Our range of options, unfortunately, 636 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,270 has boiled down to one. 637 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,230 We would have to have a full-scale invasion 638 00:27:52,270 --> 00:27:53,750 to extract all the targets. 639 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,410 Which sets the stage for a long and costly occupation. 640 00:27:57,450 --> 00:27:59,060 Another Iraq. Yes, ma'am. 641 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,110 Well, if we can't get into Iran, 642 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,640 maybe we can get the targets out, 643 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,250 at least Mousavi. 644 00:28:09,290 --> 00:28:11,470 - Ma'am? - Well, do we have any 645 00:28:11,510 --> 00:28:14,910 high-ranking assets left in Hezbollah? We do. 646 00:28:14,950 --> 00:28:18,870 Someone who could draw Mousavi out so he's a soft target? 647 00:28:18,910 --> 00:28:22,870 Our agent would have to dangle the promise of a package 648 00:28:22,910 --> 00:28:26,130 so sensitive, it could only be passed in person. 649 00:28:26,180 --> 00:28:29,090 And we'd have to burn him. 650 00:28:29,140 --> 00:28:30,750 But it can be done. 651 00:28:30,790 --> 00:28:32,750 Theoretically. 652 00:28:32,790 --> 00:28:34,116 But what about the other four suspects? 653 00:28:34,140 --> 00:28:36,750 Well, I'm willing to trade 654 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,710 the head of the snake for the rest of its body. 655 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:43,020 HUMINT says Mousavi's in line for a big promotion, 656 00:28:43,060 --> 00:28:45,500 maybe as soon as tomorrow. 657 00:28:45,550 --> 00:28:47,396 Shiraz keeps his inner circle a stone's throw away, 658 00:28:47,420 --> 00:28:50,160 - under heavy guard. - It'll be a high-risk op. 659 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:51,730 Well, then there's no time to waste. 660 00:28:51,770 --> 00:28:53,250 And if it fails, 661 00:28:53,290 --> 00:28:55,210 there will be American fatalities. 662 00:28:55,250 --> 00:28:56,560 And fallout. 663 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,820 Just ask Carter the cost 664 00:28:58,860 --> 00:29:00,340 of botched Iranian missions. 665 00:29:00,390 --> 00:29:02,170 And even if this goes off without a hitch, 666 00:29:02,210 --> 00:29:06,350 your political enemies will accuse you of wagging the dog. 667 00:29:06,390 --> 00:29:07,570 Even if you win, 668 00:29:07,610 --> 00:29:11,010 - you'll lose. - Yeah. 669 00:29:11,050 --> 00:29:14,270 Yup. I want Mousavi on American soil to face justice. 670 00:29:14,310 --> 00:29:15,376 I'll deal with the rest later. 671 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,270 - Set it up. - Yes, Madam President. 672 00:29:23,190 --> 00:29:25,630 Hey, Russell, Mousavi is happily ensconced 673 00:29:25,670 --> 00:29:30,200 at a baccarat table at the Casino de la Falaise. 674 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:34,590 It's some luxury seaside resort just south of Beirut. 675 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,160 There's a joint HRT/SEAL Team task force ready to grab him up. 676 00:29:38,210 --> 00:29:40,300 Okay. Bye. 677 00:29:40,340 --> 00:29:42,170 So, what's the pretext? 678 00:29:42,210 --> 00:29:44,130 A stolen workup on the vulnerabilities 679 00:29:44,170 --> 00:29:45,780 of our electrical grids. 680 00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:47,780 Have you read in President Bashar? No. 681 00:29:47,820 --> 00:29:50,740 His loyalties are divided. 682 00:29:50,780 --> 00:29:53,270 Besides, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission. 683 00:29:53,310 --> 00:29:56,180 Speaking of forgiveness, Madam President, Dr. McCord, 684 00:29:56,220 --> 00:29:58,490 Jason posted, 685 00:29:58,530 --> 00:30:00,400 uh, an apology on social media. 686 00:30:00,450 --> 00:30:02,230 Do we want to see it? 687 00:30:02,270 --> 00:30:03,410 Uh, in ten years. 688 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,930 Um, some of you 689 00:30:09,980 --> 00:30:13,240 may have seen a piece on me in The Cambridge Rubric 690 00:30:13,290 --> 00:30:15,850 discussing my interaction with a college journalist, 691 00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:17,250 and I would like 692 00:30:17,290 --> 00:30:18,590 to address the matter. 693 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,210 Um, I'm sorry for what happened. 694 00:30:21,250 --> 00:30:23,210 An auspicious enough start. 695 00:30:23,250 --> 00:30:24,430 I'm sorry I disrespected 696 00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:28,300 the serious field of college journalism. 697 00:30:28,340 --> 00:30:31,390 And I'm sorry I failed to recognize that the press 698 00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:34,180 should be free to vilify our leaders without consequence. 699 00:30:34,220 --> 00:30:36,830 Oh, less auspicious. 700 00:30:36,870 --> 00:30:38,350 And I was wrong to defend my mother 701 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,050 because she has been treated so fairly 702 00:30:40,090 --> 00:30:41,750 by journalists 703 00:30:41,790 --> 00:30:44,190 and by the Senate Intelligence Committee 704 00:30:44,230 --> 00:30:45,750 and by conservative critics who have 705 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,410 embraced her as the female president that they've 706 00:30:48,450 --> 00:30:51,280 - always been longing for. - No, no, no... 707 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,890 And I hope one day to display the ethics and decorum 708 00:30:53,930 --> 00:30:57,680 so regularly evidenced by our woke media 709 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,290 'cause it's what they deserve. Jason out. 710 00:31:01,330 --> 00:31:02,900 Yeah. 711 00:31:02,940 --> 00:31:06,290 Well, it was, technically, an apology. 712 00:31:06,340 --> 00:31:08,040 So how do you want to handle it? 713 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,340 I don't. 714 00:31:10,390 --> 00:31:13,040 You're both gonna get hammered. 715 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,560 Well, I'm used to it. 716 00:31:14,610 --> 00:31:17,650 Maybe he'll learn something about consequences 717 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:21,350 - and how to talk to people. - Speaking of which, 718 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,246 have you decided what you're gonna say to Hanson? 719 00:31:23,270 --> 00:31:25,230 Yeah. Am I sure 720 00:31:25,270 --> 00:31:27,450 it's the right thing to do? 721 00:31:27,490 --> 00:31:31,450 Well, that's a whole different animal. 722 00:31:31,490 --> 00:31:34,190 Why do they call these stupid things monkey suits? 723 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,850 No self-respecting simian would be caught dead in one of them. 724 00:31:36,890 --> 00:31:38,370 I thought you liked galas. 725 00:31:38,410 --> 00:31:40,020 Only when I'm trolling for business. 726 00:31:40,070 --> 00:31:42,370 This place is like a casting call for The Walking Dead. 727 00:31:42,420 --> 00:31:43,900 Where's the president? 728 00:31:43,940 --> 00:31:47,550 Uh, discussing free trade with, uh, Secretary Barnum. 729 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,030 - Tell her the senator's ready. - Will do. 730 00:31:52,730 --> 00:31:54,300 Cynthia. 731 00:31:54,340 --> 00:31:55,780 - Great to see you. - Hey, Paul. 732 00:31:55,820 --> 00:31:57,056 - Cynthia, how are you? - Henry. 733 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,870 - Oh, so good to see you. - Hey, Paul. 734 00:31:58,910 --> 00:32:01,780 And my dress is biodegradable, in honor of your ESI bill. Oh, come on. 735 00:32:01,830 --> 00:32:04,350 That's fantastic. You know what else is biodegradable? 736 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,620 French fries, truffles, mac and cheese. 737 00:32:07,660 --> 00:32:09,360 I'm actually just eating 738 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,010 for the environment tonight. 739 00:32:11,050 --> 00:32:13,540 Really good to see you both. Good to see you. Take care. 740 00:32:13,580 --> 00:32:16,360 - Hey, guys. Hi. - Hi. Mom, Dad. 741 00:32:16,410 --> 00:32:17,730 - Oh. Sorry. - Uh, this is Shasta. 742 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,930 - Yeah, hi, Shasta. - It is an honor to meet you, 743 00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:21,280 Mr. and Mrs. President. 744 00:32:21,330 --> 00:32:23,370 Yeah, that's not... that's not how that... 745 00:32:23,420 --> 00:32:25,330 My-my mom... This is huge. I... 746 00:32:25,370 --> 00:32:28,030 Just go and have fun. Just don't worry. 747 00:32:28,070 --> 00:32:29,160 We'll see you at the table. 748 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,380 Hi. Uh, Madam President? Yes? 749 00:32:30,420 --> 00:32:32,730 Uh, Senator Hanson is ready for you. 750 00:32:35,470 --> 00:32:37,390 Good luck. 751 00:32:51,010 --> 00:32:54,490 - Madam President. - Senator. 752 00:32:54,530 --> 00:32:56,450 I hope you're enjoying your evening. 753 00:32:56,490 --> 00:32:59,190 Well, so far, so good. 754 00:33:00,540 --> 00:33:02,500 Have you considered my offer? 755 00:33:02,540 --> 00:33:05,410 I have. At some length. 756 00:33:05,460 --> 00:33:07,370 Before I respond to it, 757 00:33:07,420 --> 00:33:11,460 I-I do want to acknowledge something. 758 00:33:11,510 --> 00:33:13,160 I have made mistakes. 759 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,510 I can be too single-minded 760 00:33:15,550 --> 00:33:18,250 in my pursuit of progress. 761 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:21,520 Not solicitous enough of opposing viewpoints. 762 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:22,950 And the charge 763 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,350 that I haven't always been quick to compromise... 764 00:33:26,390 --> 00:33:28,870 well, that hits the mark, too. 765 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,180 Well said. 766 00:33:30,220 --> 00:33:33,400 Compromise is the key to effective leadership. 767 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:38,320 - It is. - But here's the thing, Senator. 768 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,540 You don't want compromise. 769 00:33:41,580 --> 00:33:45,020 You want my complete and unconditional surrender 770 00:33:45,060 --> 00:33:47,890 to your demands. That's a bit over the top, 771 00:33:47,930 --> 00:33:50,500 - don't you think? - No. 772 00:33:50,550 --> 00:33:55,420 What's over the top is months of hearings engineered only 773 00:33:55,460 --> 00:33:57,600 to further your boundless ambition. 774 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,470 The relentless persecution of my staff, the most devoted 775 00:34:02,510 --> 00:34:05,870 and selfless public servants I have ever had the privilege 776 00:34:05,910 --> 00:34:08,260 of serving with. 777 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:10,040 You're a cheap shakedown artist, Senator. 778 00:34:10,090 --> 00:34:13,440 And I am not willing to sell out my agenda 779 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,570 to sit in the Oval and take orders 780 00:34:15,610 --> 00:34:19,180 from a partisan hack, who puts his own self-interest 781 00:34:19,230 --> 00:34:20,660 before the national good. 782 00:34:20,710 --> 00:34:24,970 I'm gonna continue serving the American people. 783 00:34:25,010 --> 00:34:28,370 You're just gonna have to try and stop me. 784 00:34:28,410 --> 00:34:31,590 When the end comes, and it will, soon, 785 00:34:31,630 --> 00:34:34,330 remember I gave you a chance, Elizabeth. 786 00:34:35,370 --> 00:34:39,330 It's Madam President. You remember that. 787 00:34:50,820 --> 00:34:52,780 Um, this is my date Shasta. Hi. Nice to meet you. 788 00:34:52,830 --> 00:34:55,520 ...drivers here this evening. Please feel free to drink up. 789 00:34:55,570 --> 00:34:58,270 Yep, the administration 790 00:34:58,310 --> 00:35:01,830 has graciously arranged for free rides home 791 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,450 care of the U.S. Marshals Service. 792 00:35:04,490 --> 00:35:06,010 So buckle up, guys! 793 00:35:06,060 --> 00:35:07,840 Here we go. 794 00:35:09,450 --> 00:35:11,670 Speaking of McCords who hate the media, 795 00:35:11,710 --> 00:35:13,450 there is the president's son Jason. 796 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:15,370 Hello, Jason, it's great to see you. 797 00:35:15,410 --> 00:35:17,550 Uh, Jason is now 798 00:35:17,590 --> 00:35:18,720 a college junior. 799 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,420 He is majoring in affluenza 800 00:35:20,460 --> 00:35:23,600 and minoring in celibacy. 801 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,550 Jason, uh, 802 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,446 does intend to follow in his mom's footsteps. Extraction team is in place. 803 00:35:27,470 --> 00:35:29,096 - It's awaiting your okay. - He hopes to enter 804 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,860 - the political arena... - They have it. 805 00:35:30,910 --> 00:35:31,990 ...as the subject 806 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,610 of simultaneous federal investigations. 807 00:35:34,650 --> 00:35:37,610 No, seriously, don't worry, Jason, in ten years 808 00:35:37,650 --> 00:35:40,830 no one will remember how you publicly humiliated yourself. 809 00:35:40,870 --> 00:35:43,830 I, I do think I speak for everyone here tonight 810 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,140 when I say, thank God for the Internet. 811 00:35:47,530 --> 00:35:49,100 Can we switch seats? 812 00:35:49,140 --> 00:35:50,490 Our president 813 00:35:50,540 --> 00:35:53,630 is a woman of conviction. 814 00:35:53,670 --> 00:35:55,060 Or soon will be. 815 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:56,450 Um... 816 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:58,460 But she is a good sport, 817 00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:02,460 and now I'm gonna give her the chance to take a few shots 818 00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:04,160 at all of us. 819 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,640 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome 820 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,600 President Elizabeth McCord! 821 00:36:16,430 --> 00:36:17,740 Thank you. 822 00:36:19,740 --> 00:36:21,440 Good evening. 823 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,350 Traditionally, 824 00:36:23,390 --> 00:36:25,920 this is a night for humor, 825 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:27,480 but some people in my administration 826 00:36:27,530 --> 00:36:29,840 have informed me that I am not funny. 827 00:36:31,490 --> 00:36:35,280 I will miss all of them dearly. 828 00:36:38,450 --> 00:36:39,580 Yet while it pains me 829 00:36:39,630 --> 00:36:42,630 to say this, these people were right. 830 00:36:42,670 --> 00:36:45,240 Truth is, I'm not that funny, 831 00:36:45,290 --> 00:36:47,460 and sometimes the truth hurts 832 00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,070 and it isn't what we want to hear. 833 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,250 But truth is the fabric 834 00:36:52,290 --> 00:36:54,560 that binds society together. 835 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,210 What makes our government work. 836 00:36:57,250 --> 00:36:59,910 What gives people trust in their leaders. 837 00:36:59,950 --> 00:37:01,560 And no one 838 00:37:01,610 --> 00:37:05,650 is a more important defender of the truth 839 00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:07,260 than the people in this room. 840 00:37:10,660 --> 00:37:11,830 What you do 841 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,660 is serious, 842 00:37:13,710 --> 00:37:17,140 and it is important and as critical 843 00:37:17,190 --> 00:37:19,890 to our liberty as the work of any branch of government. 844 00:37:19,930 --> 00:37:22,540 The people in this room have 845 00:37:22,580 --> 00:37:25,190 the unassailable right to document, 846 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:28,680 to editorialize, to criticize, and to do so 847 00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:31,240 without fear of reprisal. 848 00:37:31,290 --> 00:37:34,420 Yeah! 849 00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:38,340 Because without a free press, truth is not reported, 850 00:37:38,380 --> 00:37:40,780 power is not held accountable, 851 00:37:40,820 --> 00:37:43,300 and democracy cannot survive. 852 00:37:43,340 --> 00:37:45,650 The founders had the wisdom 853 00:37:45,690 --> 00:37:47,910 to understand this and to enshrine 854 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,310 this understanding in our holiest 855 00:37:50,350 --> 00:37:51,830 of civic documents. 856 00:37:52,830 --> 00:37:55,090 Congress shall make no law 857 00:37:55,140 --> 00:37:57,140 abridging the freedom of the press. 858 00:38:01,750 --> 00:38:04,540 So says the First Amendment, 859 00:38:04,580 --> 00:38:05,930 the elemental freedom 860 00:38:05,970 --> 00:38:09,670 without which all other freedoms are imperiled. 861 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:11,980 May we all cherish 862 00:38:12,020 --> 00:38:14,590 the freedom that we honor tonight 863 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,720 and protect it. 864 00:38:16,770 --> 00:38:19,640 - Thank you. - You're all under arrest. 865 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,310 Fellow members, it is my solemn duty 866 00:38:34,350 --> 00:38:37,010 to update you on the fruits of my committee's investigation. 867 00:38:37,050 --> 00:38:39,180 What began as a targeted inquiry... 868 00:38:39,230 --> 00:38:41,310 He's not wasting any time. 869 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,490 Hanson's addressing the full Senate. 870 00:38:43,530 --> 00:38:46,150 At least he's finally putting all of his cards on the table. 871 00:38:46,190 --> 00:38:48,190 Let's see what kind of hand he has. 872 00:38:48,230 --> 00:38:50,450 ...by President McCord's own FBI. 873 00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:51,860 And while the shameless obstruction 874 00:38:51,890 --> 00:38:53,540 of President McCord's staff 875 00:38:53,590 --> 00:38:56,630 means my committee's work is still ongoing, 876 00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,810 I can say with confidence that we have uncovered 877 00:38:58,850 --> 00:39:00,160 a pervasive pattern 878 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,730 of secrecy and corruption in the White House, 879 00:39:02,770 --> 00:39:04,860 contempt for truth and transparency 880 00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:07,040 coordinated by President McCord 881 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,780 that should trouble every American. 882 00:39:11,820 --> 00:39:13,910 The evidence is overwhelming 883 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,480 and irrefutable. 884 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:16,920 Her former press secretary 885 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,530 Daisy Grant fired for concealing her receipt 886 00:39:19,570 --> 00:39:20,750 of hacked election materials 887 00:39:20,790 --> 00:39:23,400 from Iranian asset Claudine Bernard. 888 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,750 Her closest aide Blake Moran caught in a scheme 889 00:39:26,790 --> 00:39:29,670 he and the president's own daughter executed to circumvent 890 00:39:29,710 --> 00:39:32,760 campaign finance disclosure requirements. 891 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,890 Her longtime fixer and bagman Mike Barnow 892 00:39:34,930 --> 00:39:37,280 implicated in covering up the suspicious death 893 00:39:37,330 --> 00:39:38,980 of a government official. 894 00:39:39,020 --> 00:39:42,070 In every instance President McCord's reward 895 00:39:42,110 --> 00:39:44,770 for these acts of malfeasance? 896 00:39:44,810 --> 00:39:48,770 A high-ranking job in the White House. 897 00:39:48,820 --> 00:39:52,820 It pains me to say this culture of corruption and self-dealing 898 00:39:52,860 --> 00:39:56,300 extends to the president's own family. 899 00:39:56,350 --> 00:39:58,780 To her husband, who has ironically been gifted 900 00:39:58,830 --> 00:40:01,310 the role of ethics czar in her administration. 901 00:40:01,350 --> 00:40:03,310 To her daughter, who was brazenly seen 902 00:40:03,350 --> 00:40:05,660 in the company of former spy Dmitri Petrov 903 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:07,076 at last night's Correspondents' Dinner. 904 00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:10,490 Mr. Petrov's presence was made possible 905 00:40:10,530 --> 00:40:13,150 because the administration negotiated an amnesty deal 906 00:40:13,190 --> 00:40:14,840 with Russia that greased his return, 907 00:40:14,890 --> 00:40:16,240 apparently so the president 908 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,280 could facilitate her daughter's... 909 00:40:19,890 --> 00:40:21,850 ...romantic yearnings. 910 00:40:21,890 --> 00:40:24,850 - And still there's more. - That son of a bitch. 911 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:25,980 The recent revelations 912 00:40:26,030 --> 00:40:27,770 that then Secretary of State McCord 913 00:40:27,810 --> 00:40:29,860 assaulted a foreign leader 914 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:31,340 and concealed it. 915 00:40:31,380 --> 00:40:34,470 That as a rogue agent, she authorized the torture... 916 00:40:34,510 --> 00:40:38,260 the torture... of a suspected terrorist. 917 00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:42,000 In the wake of this accumulation of damning evidence, 918 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,090 how does President McCord respond? 919 00:40:45,130 --> 00:40:47,140 By trying to distract the public 920 00:40:47,180 --> 00:40:49,920 with a sensational mission 921 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,320 to kidnap a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, 922 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,010 a desperate act of adventurism 923 00:40:55,060 --> 00:40:57,450 to convince us she is not in league 924 00:40:57,490 --> 00:41:00,710 with the country that facilitated her election. 925 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,890 Where does this lawlessness end? 926 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:07,240 With accountability. 927 00:41:07,290 --> 00:41:09,550 Which is why I have referred the work product 928 00:41:09,590 --> 00:41:11,810 of this investigation to Representative Canning 929 00:41:11,860 --> 00:41:14,900 of the House Judiciary Committee 930 00:41:14,950 --> 00:41:18,430 for proceedings consistent with their charter. 931 00:41:18,470 --> 00:41:20,950 "Consistent with their charter." Oh, my God. 932 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,560 - Impeachment. - It's beginning. 933 00:41:22,610 --> 00:41:24,780 All right, here we go. 934 00:41:24,830 --> 00:41:26,480 We need to war game this. 935 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,570 Let's, uh, let's grab Olivia. 936 00:41:28,610 --> 00:41:31,010 Hunker down with our allies. Start deploying them. 937 00:41:31,050 --> 00:41:33,920 A media onslaught. Print, broadcast, digital. 938 00:41:33,970 --> 00:41:35,920 Guys. 939 00:41:35,970 --> 00:41:38,400 Do you think you could give me a minute, please? 940 00:41:39,450 --> 00:41:41,800 Madam President. 941 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,840 Yes, ma'am. 942 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:03,910 Blake? 943 00:42:05,910 --> 00:42:09,740 When is my meeting with the Council of Economic Advisers? 944 00:42:09,780 --> 00:42:10,920 10:30. - Move it up. 945 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:15,090 I also need the OMB report on carbon reductions 946 00:42:15,140 --> 00:42:16,660 and the latest slate 947 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:18,970 on potential judicial nominees, all right? 948 00:42:19,010 --> 00:42:21,490 - Right away. - It's not your fault. 949 00:42:23,540 --> 00:42:25,060 Ma'am? 950 00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:28,850 The flash drive. The oppo file. 951 00:42:28,890 --> 00:42:31,980 You were with me here at the very beginning. 952 00:42:32,020 --> 00:42:34,590 You'll be here at the end. 953 00:42:34,630 --> 00:42:36,590 Whenever that day is. 954 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:39,990 Yes, ma'am. 955 00:42:41,030 --> 00:42:42,820 Let's get to work. 956 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:51,000 Captioning sponsored by CBS 957 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,200 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org