1 00:00:00,109 --> 00:00:01,632 This is a BNC news special report. 2 00:00:01,657 --> 00:00:03,425 What did we say about staying up all night? 3 00:00:03,450 --> 00:00:05,539 - Grant under fire, impeachment... - What did we say about keeping a schedule? 4 00:00:05,564 --> 00:00:07,665 - Momentarily we'll take you to the senate chambers... - Didn't we agree that we felt better 5 00:00:07,690 --> 00:00:09,523 - for a special announcement. - When we slept and... and took a shower? 6 00:00:09,548 --> 00:00:11,479 Shh, shh, shh. I want to hear. 7 00:00:13,226 --> 00:00:14,422 We talked about this. 8 00:00:14,447 --> 00:00:16,023 We talked about keeping it together, didn't we? 9 00:00:16,048 --> 00:00:19,494 We talked about the fact that the senate voted last night. 10 00:00:19,519 --> 00:00:21,536 We talked about the fact 11 00:00:21,561 --> 00:00:23,601 that this is a remarkable and uncommon day. 12 00:00:23,626 --> 00:00:25,086 That is what we did. 13 00:00:25,111 --> 00:00:28,124 So now I am not taking my eyes off that TV! 14 00:00:28,149 --> 00:00:29,500 Okay, it's a big day. 15 00:00:29,525 --> 00:00:31,626 It's your Super Bowl. I get it, but... 16 00:00:31,651 --> 00:00:34,076 Okay, Super Bowl... that happens every year. 17 00:00:34,101 --> 00:00:37,063 This is the moon landing. 18 00:00:37,088 --> 00:00:38,931 The Berlin wall is coming down. 19 00:00:38,956 --> 00:00:40,461 Hannibal's crossing the Alps. 20 00:00:40,486 --> 00:00:44,024 This is the day the Lord has made 21 00:00:44,049 --> 00:00:47,532 and he's made it for me. 22 00:00:48,250 --> 00:00:50,260 Do you understand? 23 00:00:50,572 --> 00:00:52,148 Please, you need to rest. 24 00:00:52,173 --> 00:00:53,049 You're starting to lose it here. 25 00:00:53,074 --> 00:00:54,322 You'll see! 26 00:00:59,062 --> 00:01:01,414 You will see. 27 00:01:03,604 --> 00:01:05,755 Last night, the senate judiciary committee voted 28 00:01:05,780 --> 00:01:08,609 to open an investigation into President Grant's relationship 29 00:01:08,634 --> 00:01:10,828 with former White House Communications Director 30 00:01:10,853 --> 00:01:11,603 Olivia Pope. 31 00:01:11,628 --> 00:01:13,047 Ms. Eakins. 32 00:01:13,072 --> 00:01:14,180 Aye. 33 00:01:14,205 --> 00:01:15,789 Mr. Gibson. 34 00:01:15,806 --> 00:01:16,806 Aye. 35 00:01:16,837 --> 00:01:18,254 Ms. Grant. 36 00:01:18,279 --> 00:01:20,030 Aye. 37 00:01:20,055 --> 00:01:21,438 The vote was unanimous. 38 00:01:21,463 --> 00:01:23,945 Senator Gibson and I have our political differences, 39 00:01:23,970 --> 00:01:26,695 but we are united, Democrat and Republican alike, 40 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,351 in our commitment to ensure 41 00:01:28,377 --> 00:01:30,484 that even the president of the United States 42 00:01:30,509 --> 00:01:32,342 abides by the rule of law. 43 00:01:32,367 --> 00:01:34,652 And we promise to fairly and thoroughly 44 00:01:34,677 --> 00:01:36,010 and relentlessly pursue 45 00:01:36,035 --> 00:01:38,084 any violation of the public trust in this affair. 46 00:01:38,109 --> 00:01:40,008 Will the president testify? 47 00:01:42,135 --> 00:01:43,320 He has been subpoenaed. 48 00:01:43,345 --> 00:01:44,680 We expect him to appear before the committee. 49 00:01:44,705 --> 00:01:45,844 Are you seeking impeachment? 50 00:01:45,869 --> 00:01:48,135 We are seeking the truth. 51 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,594 If the truth of this relationship 52 00:01:49,619 --> 00:01:51,687 is that the president committed impeachable offenses, 53 00:01:51,712 --> 00:01:52,758 we will pursue them. 54 00:01:54,945 --> 00:01:59,351 - Synced and corrected by martythecrazy - - www.addic7ed.com - 55 00:02:00,031 --> 00:02:01,248 Impeachable offenses? 56 00:02:01,282 --> 00:02:02,569 I knew they were gonna come after me, but... 57 00:02:02,594 --> 00:02:03,609 You need a lawyer, Mr. President. 58 00:02:03,634 --> 00:02:05,453 I have done nothing wrong, and I certainly haven't 59 00:02:05,478 --> 00:02:07,180 committed any impeachable offenses. 60 00:02:07,205 --> 00:02:09,273 Do you know what an impeachable offense is? 61 00:02:09,828 --> 00:02:11,750 You don't need to spend time thinking about that 62 00:02:11,775 --> 00:02:12,883 because the answer is you don't. 63 00:02:12,908 --> 00:02:14,742 And I don't mean that disrespectfully. 64 00:02:14,767 --> 00:02:15,843 No one does. 65 00:02:15,869 --> 00:02:18,165 Gerald Ford once said an impeachable offense 66 00:02:18,190 --> 00:02:20,541 is whatever a majority of congress considers it to be 67 00:02:20,566 --> 00:02:22,079 at a given moment in history. 68 00:02:22,179 --> 00:02:24,650 This isn't a normal trial, Mr. President. 69 00:02:24,675 --> 00:02:26,175 It's a political trial. 70 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,017 Congress is prosecutor and judge and jury. 71 00:02:28,042 --> 00:02:29,853 They decide what an impeachable offense is, 72 00:02:29,878 --> 00:02:31,746 and they decide if you've committed one. 73 00:02:31,771 --> 00:02:33,689 If you survive these hearings, you're still president. 74 00:02:33,714 --> 00:02:35,214 If you don't, you're not. 75 00:02:35,239 --> 00:02:38,002 You need to talk to a lawyer. Now. 76 00:02:38,026 --> 00:02:39,100 You're a lawyer. 77 00:02:39,132 --> 00:02:41,275 I'm not his lawyer. I'm the country's lawyer. 78 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:42,164 And I shouldn't even be here 79 00:02:42,189 --> 00:02:43,655 talking to him about any of this. 80 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,076 I'm just here to say you need a lawyer. 81 00:02:46,101 --> 00:02:47,110 Who should I get? 82 00:02:47,136 --> 00:02:48,521 You talk to anyone in this town, 83 00:02:48,546 --> 00:02:50,213 they'll tell you to get Raymond Williams. 84 00:02:50,238 --> 00:02:51,337 I'll contact his office. 85 00:02:51,362 --> 00:02:53,196 Who would you get? 86 00:02:54,085 --> 00:02:56,665 If it were me, I'd hire Patty Snell. 87 00:02:56,690 --> 00:02:58,728 She's a little bit different, 88 00:02:58,753 --> 00:03:01,634 but she's the best lawyer I've ever seen. 89 00:03:01,910 --> 00:03:03,411 Oh, and, Mr. President? 90 00:03:03,436 --> 00:03:05,132 Don't talk to Olivia. I know. 91 00:03:05,157 --> 00:03:06,847 Not one word about this case. 92 00:03:06,872 --> 00:03:10,056 Because obstruction of justice, perjury, witness tampering... 93 00:03:10,081 --> 00:03:11,776 these are offenses everyone understands, 94 00:03:11,801 --> 00:03:14,018 and they won't just cost you your presidency. 95 00:03:14,043 --> 00:03:15,476 They'll put you in jail. 96 00:03:46,725 --> 00:03:48,626 - Abby. - We shouldn't be talking. 97 00:03:48,651 --> 00:03:50,903 I can't talk to you about him, about the investigation. 98 00:03:50,928 --> 00:03:53,179 This isn't about him or the White House. 99 00:03:53,543 --> 00:03:55,726 I need a loan. 100 00:03:56,489 --> 00:03:58,769 Okay, what's the plan? Liv, who do we need to go after? 101 00:03:58,794 --> 00:04:00,009 We're not fighting dirty on this one. 102 00:04:00,034 --> 00:04:02,161 I'm bringing in someone from outside of O.P.A. 103 00:04:02,186 --> 00:04:03,081 Good. 104 00:04:03,106 --> 00:04:05,244 A man who's his own lawyer has a fool for a client. 105 00:04:05,269 --> 00:04:07,316 Liv. If I say anything to you about the case, 106 00:04:07,341 --> 00:04:08,828 it means you'll have to testify. 107 00:04:08,853 --> 00:04:10,029 This is huge. 108 00:04:10,054 --> 00:04:12,049 Quinn, I'm going before congress. 109 00:04:12,074 --> 00:04:14,450 I need legal counsel, but I also need a political insider, 110 00:04:14,475 --> 00:04:15,490 a P.R. magician... 111 00:04:15,515 --> 00:04:17,182 Someone who can limit the damage done by all these photos. 112 00:04:17,207 --> 00:04:18,521 A lawyer can't do all that. 113 00:04:18,546 --> 00:04:20,630 No, but I can. 114 00:04:20,655 --> 00:04:22,592 You hired Leo? 115 00:04:22,617 --> 00:04:25,459 Thing 1 and thing 2. 116 00:04:25,484 --> 00:04:28,193 And a new addition to the bestiary. 117 00:04:28,218 --> 00:04:29,666 Hold on. Familiar face. 118 00:04:29,691 --> 00:04:31,482 Recent headliner. Yes! 119 00:04:31,507 --> 00:04:32,640 The man who hid in the closet 120 00:04:32,665 --> 00:04:34,209 while the mayor's wife was being filleted, 121 00:04:34,234 --> 00:04:36,108 the coward of the county, Marcus Walker! 122 00:04:36,133 --> 00:04:37,834 If this bunch is your go-to, 123 00:04:37,859 --> 00:04:39,934 you obviously called me just in time. 124 00:04:39,959 --> 00:04:41,771 No. 125 00:04:41,872 --> 00:04:44,657 "Grant's groupie!!" "Sidepiece-in-chief!" 126 00:04:44,682 --> 00:04:45,826 "Olivia Poke!" 127 00:04:45,851 --> 00:04:47,092 "Here we ho again"? 128 00:04:47,117 --> 00:04:49,155 Mistress mania has taken the nation by storm, 129 00:04:49,179 --> 00:04:51,964 making you, Olivia, the delusional paramour, 130 00:04:51,989 --> 00:04:53,447 the wily home wrecker who snaked her way 131 00:04:53,472 --> 00:04:54,685 into the president's bedroom. 132 00:04:54,710 --> 00:04:57,333 You're his Monica, his Marilyn, his m-m-m-m-my Sharona, 133 00:04:57,358 --> 00:04:59,193 and the country does not approve. 134 00:04:59,218 --> 00:05:01,748 We get it. You have a plan to fix all that, right? 135 00:05:01,773 --> 00:05:04,108 Of course I have. Do I... yes! I... 136 00:05:05,804 --> 00:05:07,357 We're going to take what the public views 137 00:05:07,382 --> 00:05:08,904 as a cheap and tawdry affair 138 00:05:08,929 --> 00:05:11,248 between the president and his former communications director, 139 00:05:11,273 --> 00:05:12,673 and we are going to spin it 140 00:05:12,698 --> 00:05:15,487 into the greatest romance ever told... 141 00:05:15,512 --> 00:05:18,875 "Olivia and Fitz, a love like no other." 142 00:05:19,075 --> 00:05:20,373 See? My plan even has a name. 143 00:05:20,398 --> 00:05:21,419 No. 144 00:05:21,938 --> 00:05:23,388 What do you mean, "no"? 145 00:05:23,414 --> 00:05:24,233 I mean no. 146 00:05:24,257 --> 00:05:25,920 That's what will resonate with the country. 147 00:05:25,945 --> 00:05:27,746 That's what you'd be telling you if you were me. 148 00:05:27,757 --> 00:05:29,420 That's what you've sold to the American people 149 00:05:29,445 --> 00:05:30,764 time and time again! 150 00:05:30,789 --> 00:05:32,803 Everyone loves a love story. Everyone relates. 151 00:05:32,828 --> 00:05:34,991 That's not on the table. What else you got, Leo? 152 00:05:35,015 --> 00:05:37,162 You know how they say doctors make the worst patients? 153 00:05:37,187 --> 00:05:40,482 How about Olivia Pope... philanthropist, humanitarian? 154 00:05:40,507 --> 00:05:41,576 It worked for Angelina. 155 00:05:41,601 --> 00:05:42,568 And wake me when you're done. 156 00:05:42,593 --> 00:05:44,577 Olivia Pope... woman of the people. 157 00:05:44,602 --> 00:05:46,912 That I like. That's what we're doing. 158 00:05:49,368 --> 00:05:50,858 That's the thing about the great ones. 159 00:05:50,882 --> 00:05:53,457 They perform no matter what utter crap they are dealt. 160 00:05:53,482 --> 00:05:55,334 I can work with that. 161 00:05:55,850 --> 00:05:57,301 The country does not love you 162 00:05:57,326 --> 00:05:58,787 because the country does not know you. 163 00:05:58,812 --> 00:06:00,729 Unfortunately, if the country did know you, 164 00:06:00,754 --> 00:06:01,737 they wouldn't be able to love you 165 00:06:01,762 --> 00:06:03,678 because nobody loves an entitled, out of touch, 166 00:06:03,703 --> 00:06:06,521 card-carrying member of the 1%. 167 00:06:06,546 --> 00:06:08,092 I am none of those things. 168 00:06:08,117 --> 00:06:11,386 Really? Then how do you explain all of this? 169 00:06:11,411 --> 00:06:13,564 Everything in here is off-limits. 170 00:06:13,589 --> 00:06:15,818 From now on, if you cannot buy it at the mall, 171 00:06:15,843 --> 00:06:17,381 you cannot wear it out of the house. 172 00:06:17,406 --> 00:06:19,256 Get thee to the galleria. Go. 173 00:06:19,717 --> 00:06:21,885 Go! 174 00:06:21,910 --> 00:06:23,279 What else do I need to know 175 00:06:23,304 --> 00:06:24,662 about your relationship with the president? 176 00:06:24,687 --> 00:06:25,912 I'm not sure there's anything more to tell you. 177 00:06:25,937 --> 00:06:26,935 Did he shower you with gifts? 178 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:28,928 Is there a Bentley somewhere nobody knows about? 179 00:06:28,953 --> 00:06:31,271 - Did he pay your rent? - He never gave me anything. 180 00:06:34,070 --> 00:06:35,709 Where's all her food? 181 00:06:35,734 --> 00:06:37,256 You mean her wine and popcorn? 182 00:06:37,281 --> 00:06:38,459 Whatever. Where does she buy it? 183 00:06:38,484 --> 00:06:39,901 She uses a delivery service. 184 00:06:39,926 --> 00:06:41,279 I don't have time to go grocery shopping. 185 00:06:41,304 --> 00:06:42,170 Of course not. You're too busy 186 00:06:42,195 --> 00:06:44,123 getting your freak on with the pres. 187 00:06:44,148 --> 00:06:46,149 That's the country talking, not me. 188 00:06:49,217 --> 00:06:50,826 America's starting to see you as an everywoman, 189 00:06:50,851 --> 00:06:53,029 but to seal the deal, they need to be told by someone, 190 00:06:53,054 --> 00:06:56,122 someone they respect, that you are, in fact, human 191 00:06:56,147 --> 00:06:58,826 and not some man-eating, husband-stealing 192 00:06:58,851 --> 00:06:59,935 hunk of artificial intelligence, 193 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:02,007 and not by one of these mongrels 194 00:07:02,032 --> 00:07:03,800 or any of the other dirty deviants you represent, 195 00:07:03,825 --> 00:07:04,600 myself included. 196 00:07:04,625 --> 00:07:06,176 I'm talking about someone with gravitas. 197 00:07:06,201 --> 00:07:08,264 Someone respected, admired, beloved. 198 00:07:08,289 --> 00:07:09,881 Someone who actually knows you. 199 00:07:12,641 --> 00:07:14,014 - No. - He's perfect. 200 00:07:14,039 --> 00:07:15,764 National profile. Women love him for his 201 00:07:15,789 --> 00:07:16,872 passionate defense of planned parenthood. 202 00:07:16,897 --> 00:07:18,006 - No! - Who, who, who? 203 00:07:18,031 --> 00:07:20,967 - America loves him right now. - Weirdos! Focus! 204 00:07:20,992 --> 00:07:21,858 Who?! 205 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,528 - Edison. 206 00:07:28,553 --> 00:07:30,878 - Olivia. 207 00:07:33,779 --> 00:07:35,379 You look uncomfortable. 208 00:07:35,594 --> 00:07:37,561 Coming here wasn't easy. 209 00:07:37,596 --> 00:07:40,293 - Should I feel sorry for you? - That's not... 210 00:07:40,318 --> 00:07:43,379 you want me to go on national TV and speak to your character, 211 00:07:43,404 --> 00:07:46,754 help you out of this mess, the mess you created? 212 00:07:46,779 --> 00:07:47,537 Edison... 213 00:07:47,562 --> 00:07:49,514 A criminal, a whore, 214 00:07:49,548 --> 00:07:51,480 an idiot, and a liar. 215 00:07:52,759 --> 00:07:54,386 Excuse me? 216 00:07:54,411 --> 00:07:55,878 A criminal, a whore, 217 00:07:55,903 --> 00:07:57,298 an idiot, and a liar. 218 00:07:57,323 --> 00:07:59,164 That's what you said to me. 219 00:07:59,189 --> 00:08:02,374 You dressed me down and implied that I was clinically insane 220 00:08:02,399 --> 00:08:05,064 for suggesting that you were screwing the president. 221 00:08:06,839 --> 00:08:08,312 I should go. 222 00:08:08,337 --> 00:08:09,612 Sit down, Olivia. 223 00:08:10,116 --> 00:08:12,446 If you want me to help you, 224 00:08:12,471 --> 00:08:14,500 you're gonna be honest with me. 225 00:08:14,525 --> 00:08:15,665 You're gonna admit to my face 226 00:08:15,690 --> 00:08:16,945 that you were never in love with me, 227 00:08:16,970 --> 00:08:20,197 that you never had any intention of marrying me, 228 00:08:20,359 --> 00:08:22,445 that you tried to make a fool of me 229 00:08:22,470 --> 00:08:24,846 for seeing you as exactly what you are... 230 00:08:25,677 --> 00:08:28,879 a criminal, a whore, 231 00:08:28,904 --> 00:08:31,672 an idiot, and a liar. 232 00:08:31,697 --> 00:08:32,945 You want me to lie? 233 00:08:32,970 --> 00:08:35,281 You owe me the truth. 234 00:08:38,429 --> 00:08:40,564 It's difficult to see Olivia 235 00:08:40,589 --> 00:08:42,017 being put through this right now... 236 00:08:42,042 --> 00:08:46,024 the pain, the humiliation, racism, sexism, 237 00:08:46,049 --> 00:08:48,150 all by folks who have no idea who she is, 238 00:08:48,175 --> 00:08:49,787 what she's about. 239 00:08:49,812 --> 00:08:51,713 I pray for her. 240 00:08:51,738 --> 00:08:53,714 But more so, I pray for those who are 241 00:08:53,739 --> 00:08:56,091 blindly attacking her character. 242 00:08:56,116 --> 00:08:58,615 Olivia is honest, forthright, 243 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,702 a person of the highest moral conviction. 244 00:09:01,727 --> 00:09:04,129 I just wish the people hell-bent on tearing her down 245 00:09:04,154 --> 00:09:05,755 actually knew her. 246 00:09:05,780 --> 00:09:08,960 I wish they knew the warm, caring woman 247 00:09:08,985 --> 00:09:10,508 who slept on the floor 248 00:09:10,533 --> 00:09:12,751 of my hospital room every night... 249 00:09:12,775 --> 00:09:15,593 When I was recovering from my car wreck. 250 00:09:15,618 --> 00:09:18,821 After she put in a 20-hour work day, 251 00:09:18,846 --> 00:09:23,000 all because she didn't want me to be alone when I woke up. 252 00:09:23,025 --> 00:09:26,337 That's the Olivia Pope I wish you all could see. 253 00:09:28,571 --> 00:09:30,351 That can't have been easy, going to him. 254 00:09:30,376 --> 00:09:32,258 He called me a hypocrite. 255 00:09:32,283 --> 00:09:34,086 But he did what you asked. 256 00:09:34,145 --> 00:09:37,585 Even hypocrites get to call in their chits. 257 00:09:38,570 --> 00:09:39,820 It's good. 258 00:09:39,845 --> 00:09:42,367 It changes the conversation. 259 00:09:42,392 --> 00:09:46,021 Those chits might have just saved us both. 260 00:09:51,427 --> 00:09:53,086 - Patty Snell, Mr. President. - Thanks. 261 00:09:53,118 --> 00:09:54,859 - Mr. President. - Patty, nice to meet you. 262 00:09:54,884 --> 00:09:56,148 Already with the lies. 263 00:09:56,173 --> 00:09:58,005 I can see I've got my work cut out for me. 264 00:09:58,030 --> 00:09:59,035 What's she doing here? 265 00:09:59,060 --> 00:10:00,995 We wanted to brief you on our strategy. 266 00:10:01,667 --> 00:10:03,638 What I want is to glue your hands 267 00:10:03,663 --> 00:10:05,440 to the briefing room podium and hear you say 268 00:10:05,465 --> 00:10:07,340 that the president and his administration 269 00:10:07,365 --> 00:10:10,065 are cooperating fully with the committee and the investigation 270 00:10:10,090 --> 00:10:12,804 over and over, a thousand million times. 271 00:10:12,829 --> 00:10:15,714 Sing it, yell it, don't care. Just as long as that's it. 272 00:10:15,739 --> 00:10:17,323 We have executive privilege. 273 00:10:17,348 --> 00:10:18,882 We don't have to hand over anything, 274 00:10:18,908 --> 00:10:20,406 let alone have the president testify. 275 00:10:20,431 --> 00:10:22,734 Oh, funny. You're gonna be the funny one. 276 00:10:22,759 --> 00:10:24,234 Oh, I'm gonna laugh at you a lot. 277 00:10:24,259 --> 00:10:25,812 He absolutely does have to testify, 278 00:10:25,837 --> 00:10:28,164 and who said anything about cooperating fully? 279 00:10:28,189 --> 00:10:29,706 You did. Five seconds ago. 280 00:10:29,731 --> 00:10:31,727 What'd I say? Why are you still here? 281 00:10:31,751 --> 00:10:33,726 Briefing room. Now. Go. 282 00:10:37,501 --> 00:10:38,484 The president has ordered 283 00:10:38,509 --> 00:10:40,093 the administration to cooperate fully. 284 00:10:40,118 --> 00:10:41,961 So he's waiving executive privilege entirely? 285 00:10:41,986 --> 00:10:43,133 The president has nothing to hide 286 00:10:43,158 --> 00:10:44,860 and invites congress to examine his record 287 00:10:44,884 --> 00:10:46,593 - as fully as they desire. - So he'll testify? 288 00:10:46,618 --> 00:10:48,563 Whatever's asked of the president, the president will do. 289 00:10:48,588 --> 00:10:51,323 We can't just open ourselves up like this to the committee. 290 00:10:51,348 --> 00:10:52,492 We have executive... 291 00:10:52,517 --> 00:10:54,617 If I hear the words "executive privilege" 292 00:10:54,642 --> 00:10:56,148 come out of your mouth one more time... 293 00:10:56,357 --> 00:10:58,191 What? Did someone give you a list of buzzwords 294 00:10:58,216 --> 00:10:59,289 when you took this job? 295 00:10:59,314 --> 00:11:01,187 Things to say so that you sound like 296 00:11:01,212 --> 00:11:03,099 you knew how to help run a country? 297 00:11:03,131 --> 00:11:05,312 Stuff just spitting out randomly to people? 298 00:11:05,337 --> 00:11:07,054 Do you say these buzzwords to Putin? 299 00:11:07,079 --> 00:11:09,945 Uh, Mr. President, d-do you let this woman 300 00:11:09,970 --> 00:11:11,851 anywhere near the Prime Minister? 301 00:11:11,876 --> 00:11:14,310 Because I know David, and he would eat her for lunch. 302 00:11:14,335 --> 00:11:15,718 Patricia. 303 00:11:15,743 --> 00:11:18,531 You're testifying, sir. The president is testifying. 304 00:11:18,556 --> 00:11:20,340 I am not asking. I am telling. 305 00:11:20,365 --> 00:11:22,195 - End of story. - Okay. 306 00:11:22,220 --> 00:11:24,127 Sir, I just don't think we should 307 00:11:24,152 --> 00:11:25,972 bend over backwards to cooperate with... 308 00:11:25,997 --> 00:11:29,606 There is cooperating and then there's cooperating, 309 00:11:29,631 --> 00:11:31,977 which is why our forefathers invented discovery documents. 310 00:11:32,002 --> 00:11:34,011 I want to gather every stupid file 311 00:11:34,036 --> 00:11:36,909 out of every stupid file room and send them to the committee. 312 00:11:36,935 --> 00:11:37,949 All files. 313 00:11:37,974 --> 00:11:40,480 I want trucks full of files pulling out of the gates. 314 00:11:40,505 --> 00:11:41,688 What are you doing? 315 00:11:41,713 --> 00:11:43,459 These are just some menus from the fourth of July barbecue. 316 00:11:43,484 --> 00:11:45,168 Yes, I know that, but put them back in there. 317 00:11:45,193 --> 00:11:47,597 Ma'am? Stop thinking and keep stuffing. 318 00:11:50,356 --> 00:11:52,190 Let me guess. White House document dump. 319 00:11:52,215 --> 00:11:54,824 We asked for digital files, but instead we got these. 320 00:11:54,849 --> 00:11:56,417 And apparently there's still more to come. 321 00:11:56,442 --> 00:11:59,244 This is all just a cute attempt to stall our investigation. 322 00:11:59,269 --> 00:12:01,746 It also makes them look like they have something to hide. 323 00:12:01,770 --> 00:12:03,572 We should cart these over to the senate gallery, 324 00:12:03,597 --> 00:12:04,550 hold a press conference, 325 00:12:04,575 --> 00:12:06,558 and show the American people how scared and sneaky 326 00:12:06,583 --> 00:12:07,628 this White House is behaving. 327 00:12:07,653 --> 00:12:09,886 - I'm sorry. "We"? - Well, not just us. 328 00:12:09,911 --> 00:12:11,295 The whole committee, of course. 329 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,167 You do realize you have to recuse yourself 330 00:12:13,192 --> 00:12:14,492 from this investigation? 331 00:12:14,517 --> 00:12:15,761 Recuse myself? 332 00:12:15,786 --> 00:12:17,238 Yeah, and resign from the committee. 333 00:12:17,263 --> 00:12:18,660 Conflict of interest is as clear... 334 00:12:18,685 --> 00:12:20,819 This investigation is far bigger 335 00:12:20,844 --> 00:12:22,645 than my relationship with the president. 336 00:12:22,752 --> 00:12:24,268 I represent the people of Virginia. 337 00:12:24,293 --> 00:12:26,027 You can't expect me to step down from... 338 00:12:26,052 --> 00:12:27,184 Mellie, you're in the middle 339 00:12:27,209 --> 00:12:28,443 of divorcing the man we're investigating. 340 00:12:28,468 --> 00:12:29,949 Your presence on the committee would be highly... 341 00:12:29,974 --> 00:12:32,120 A distraction, a sideshow. 342 00:12:32,145 --> 00:12:33,808 It would taint an already salacious... 343 00:12:33,835 --> 00:12:36,272 I am not some scorned woman bitching about my ex. 344 00:12:36,297 --> 00:12:38,833 I am a senator and a member of the judiciary committee. 345 00:12:38,858 --> 00:12:40,308 As far as the American people are concerned, 346 00:12:40,333 --> 00:12:42,416 you are a scorned woman bitching about your ex. 347 00:12:42,441 --> 00:12:44,230 End of story. 348 00:12:44,255 --> 00:12:47,308 Listen, we'll get you a spot on defense, foreign relations. 349 00:12:47,333 --> 00:12:48,800 We'll take care of you. I promise. 350 00:12:48,825 --> 00:12:50,800 But you have to step aside. 351 00:12:57,809 --> 00:12:59,035 Wake her up! 352 00:12:59,060 --> 00:13:00,694 - What? - Olivia! Go upstairs, 353 00:13:00,719 --> 00:13:02,902 separate her from that presidential spoon, 354 00:13:02,926 --> 00:13:04,610 - and you drag her ass out of bed. - What's happening? 355 00:13:04,635 --> 00:13:06,118 Armageddon, Abby. Armageddon is happening. 356 00:13:06,143 --> 00:13:07,199 The presidential affair scandal 357 00:13:07,224 --> 00:13:08,229 that has gripped the nation. 358 00:13:08,254 --> 00:13:10,058 As it turns out, the president liked it, 359 00:13:10,083 --> 00:13:12,222 and he did, indeed, put a ring on it. 360 00:13:12,247 --> 00:13:14,205 Sources have revealed the president gave Ms. Pope 361 00:13:14,230 --> 00:13:15,175 a family heirloom, 362 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,589 a diamond ring apparently passed down from his grandmother. 363 00:13:17,614 --> 00:13:19,832 Well, the true significance of the gift is, of course, 364 00:13:19,857 --> 00:13:21,674 known only to the president and Ms. Pope, 365 00:13:21,699 --> 00:13:23,472 but a ring is certainly symbolic. 366 00:13:23,497 --> 00:13:25,714 What is the first rule? 367 00:13:25,739 --> 00:13:27,456 Your first rule? 368 00:13:29,338 --> 00:13:30,268 Do not lie. 369 00:13:30,293 --> 00:13:32,521 Do not lie! 370 00:13:32,546 --> 00:13:34,902 Olivia Pope, woman of the people... she is gone! 371 00:13:34,927 --> 00:13:36,864 She is history! 372 00:13:37,598 --> 00:13:40,927 It's time for Olivia Pope, lovestruck teenager. 373 00:13:40,952 --> 00:13:42,747 - I can't sell that. - You will sell that. 374 00:13:42,773 --> 00:13:45,287 You will sit down with an interviewer of my choice, 375 00:13:45,312 --> 00:13:47,591 and you will speak as if you were chatting with your bestie 376 00:13:47,616 --> 00:13:51,513 about your innocent and uncontrollably Doe-eyed love 377 00:13:51,538 --> 00:13:53,154 for the President of the United States. 378 00:13:53,179 --> 00:13:54,732 That is the plan. 379 00:13:54,757 --> 00:13:56,903 That is the only way to spin your way 380 00:13:56,928 --> 00:14:01,478 out of the diamond ring you neglected to tell me about! 381 00:14:04,763 --> 00:14:06,051 Does this mean that the president 382 00:14:06,076 --> 00:14:07,301 is both engaged and married? 383 00:14:07,326 --> 00:14:08,302 No one is certain, 384 00:14:08,327 --> 00:14:10,404 but there are a lot of questions here tonight, Mike. 385 00:14:10,429 --> 00:14:12,101 Back to you in the studio. 386 00:14:15,408 --> 00:14:17,643 This is amazing. 387 00:14:17,668 --> 00:14:20,168 Astounding. Amazing. 388 00:14:20,193 --> 00:14:22,606 I don't know how the hell they found out about that ring. 389 00:14:22,631 --> 00:14:26,340 But she's actually managed 390 00:14:26,365 --> 00:14:28,443 to go from being a slut to an everywoman 391 00:14:28,468 --> 00:14:30,700 to your sister-wife in under 48 hours. 392 00:14:30,725 --> 00:14:33,293 I didn't even know that was possible. 393 00:14:39,093 --> 00:14:42,290 They threw you off the judiciary committee. 394 00:14:42,315 --> 00:14:44,883 Me. 395 00:14:46,668 --> 00:14:49,636 That's how they found out about the ring. 396 00:14:50,499 --> 00:14:52,989 From me. 397 00:14:53,897 --> 00:14:56,762 That's a real big-girl move. 398 00:15:03,074 --> 00:15:05,689 I got sparkling wine. 399 00:15:05,714 --> 00:15:07,712 I got five different kinds of cheeses. 400 00:15:07,737 --> 00:15:09,512 Prosciutto, pâté. 401 00:15:10,077 --> 00:15:13,029 I'm gorging on brownies. 402 00:15:23,444 --> 00:15:25,412 Mr. Walker. 403 00:15:26,289 --> 00:15:28,712 Mind if we steal a minute? 404 00:15:30,352 --> 00:15:31,896 This is a joke, right? 405 00:15:31,930 --> 00:15:33,681 I've been working there for two days. 406 00:15:33,706 --> 00:15:35,537 If Olivia or her people did anything illegal, 407 00:15:35,562 --> 00:15:37,017 I don't know anything about it, so go ahead. 408 00:15:37,042 --> 00:15:39,426 Subpoena me. I can't be bullied. 409 00:15:39,451 --> 00:15:42,933 All due respect, you've never met bullies like us. 410 00:15:42,958 --> 00:15:44,415 You will help us get to the truth 411 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,251 or we will sift through every inch of your past 412 00:15:46,276 --> 00:15:49,651 until we find something, anything, to hang you with. 413 00:15:49,676 --> 00:15:51,226 And if for some reason you come up clean, 414 00:15:51,251 --> 00:15:54,258 we'll do the same to your brother, your cousins, friends, 415 00:15:54,283 --> 00:15:56,551 anyone you ever cared about. 416 00:15:56,576 --> 00:15:58,950 You think your career is in a shambles now? 417 00:15:59,141 --> 00:16:01,651 You want me to be a spy. 418 00:16:01,676 --> 00:16:03,509 I want you to be a good citizen. 419 00:16:03,534 --> 00:16:05,635 If Olivia Pope and her people are obstructing justice, 420 00:16:05,660 --> 00:16:06,925 we want to know about it. 421 00:16:06,950 --> 00:16:09,118 So, no, Mr. Walker. 422 00:16:09,143 --> 00:16:12,009 This is absolutely not a joke. 423 00:16:17,842 --> 00:16:19,001 Hi. 424 00:16:19,026 --> 00:16:20,493 What's up? 425 00:16:20,518 --> 00:16:21,900 You gonna let me in? 426 00:16:21,925 --> 00:16:24,196 - It's not the best time. - You need to let me in 427 00:16:24,221 --> 00:16:27,624 because my posse is up to 27 reporters, a dozen bloggers, 428 00:16:27,649 --> 00:16:29,266 40 relentless bearded men with cameras, 429 00:16:29,291 --> 00:16:32,290 and two dogs that are apparently world-famous on Instagram. 430 00:16:32,315 --> 00:16:35,313 They're probably two minutes from coming up those stairs, so... 431 00:16:39,297 --> 00:16:41,430 Come on in. 432 00:16:43,612 --> 00:16:44,767 Olivia Pope. 433 00:16:44,792 --> 00:16:45,970 - I know. - Oh. 434 00:16:45,995 --> 00:16:48,368 Jake has said so many wonderful things about you. 435 00:16:48,393 --> 00:16:51,454 But television does you no favors. 436 00:16:51,611 --> 00:16:54,245 Elise is an old friend from Paris. 437 00:16:54,270 --> 00:16:57,071 I bet you two have a lot to catch up on. 438 00:16:58,115 --> 00:17:00,071 Bye. 439 00:17:08,956 --> 00:17:11,297 Old friend? 440 00:17:11,322 --> 00:17:13,239 Old friend. 441 00:17:13,972 --> 00:17:15,822 You're the most hunted woman in the world, 442 00:17:15,847 --> 00:17:18,196 and you just decided to drop by? 443 00:17:20,109 --> 00:17:23,845 I have to go on TV and sell a love story, make a Valentine. 444 00:17:24,547 --> 00:17:27,565 Pretend I got struck by cupid's arrow 445 00:17:27,590 --> 00:17:29,050 and I've been staring at Fitz 446 00:17:29,075 --> 00:17:31,677 with hearts in my eyes ever since. 447 00:17:32,915 --> 00:17:34,083 Okay. 448 00:17:34,126 --> 00:17:35,317 Okay? 449 00:17:35,342 --> 00:17:36,592 Well, you're saying it like it's a problem. 450 00:17:36,617 --> 00:17:38,852 It is. It's not me. 451 00:17:40,241 --> 00:17:42,286 You love him, right? 452 00:17:42,722 --> 00:17:43,889 Yes. 453 00:17:43,914 --> 00:17:45,632 You threw yourself in front of a pack of reporters 454 00:17:45,657 --> 00:17:46,923 and publicly said that you were 455 00:17:46,948 --> 00:17:48,945 in a relationship with the president, right? 456 00:17:48,970 --> 00:17:49,908 I did. 457 00:17:49,932 --> 00:17:52,055 It's probably your only way out of this mess. 458 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,892 - Right? - Maybe. 459 00:17:53,917 --> 00:17:58,091 Yeah. Then I don't see the problem. 460 00:18:03,510 --> 00:18:06,278 Unless you're the problem. 461 00:18:06,303 --> 00:18:07,769 What? 462 00:18:07,794 --> 00:18:11,555 If you do this, if you sell this love story on national TV, 463 00:18:11,580 --> 00:18:14,481 all of your exits become walled off. 464 00:18:14,506 --> 00:18:17,158 You will be tied to the White House... and him... 465 00:18:17,183 --> 00:18:18,368 for the rest of your life, 466 00:18:18,393 --> 00:18:20,239 and that is absolutely terrifying to you. 467 00:18:20,264 --> 00:18:22,415 I don't blame you. 468 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,048 I'm gonna go. 469 00:18:24,073 --> 00:18:27,541 If it's not that, what is it? 470 00:18:35,771 --> 00:18:39,181 What if it is that? 471 00:18:40,675 --> 00:18:43,232 Then I see your problem. 472 00:18:44,666 --> 00:18:46,650 Just tell the truth, Olivia. 473 00:18:48,667 --> 00:18:50,831 Tell your story. Tell the world... 474 00:18:50,856 --> 00:18:53,248 How you really feel about him. 475 00:19:13,387 --> 00:19:15,605 There a password for this secret meeting? 476 00:19:17,993 --> 00:19:20,129 Close the door. 477 00:19:20,154 --> 00:19:22,776 Look, Leo's P.R. plan is too unreliable. 478 00:19:22,801 --> 00:19:24,612 - We need a backstop. - Assurances. 479 00:19:24,637 --> 00:19:26,327 Guaranteed support from the committee. 480 00:19:26,352 --> 00:19:27,302 Backroom dealing? 481 00:19:27,336 --> 00:19:28,787 More like planting evidence. 482 00:19:28,812 --> 00:19:30,713 Honey traps, extortion, coercive actions... 483 00:19:30,738 --> 00:19:32,873 whatever we can use to turn them to our side. 484 00:19:32,898 --> 00:19:34,656 You okay with that, Marcus? 485 00:19:35,686 --> 00:19:38,571 I thought a lot about what you guys said, and you're right. 486 00:19:38,596 --> 00:19:40,485 I want to be a good citizen. 487 00:19:40,510 --> 00:19:42,660 That's great to hear, Mr. Walker. 488 00:19:44,728 --> 00:19:47,932 And you need to smile when you say his name... Fitz. 489 00:19:48,197 --> 00:19:50,558 I'm not asking you to jump up and down on a couch. 490 00:19:50,593 --> 00:19:52,830 Just a little more smiling... Fitz. 491 00:19:52,855 --> 00:19:54,105 See? 492 00:19:54,130 --> 00:19:55,631 Please stop that. 493 00:19:56,030 --> 00:19:58,092 Much has been made of that ring, 494 00:19:58,117 --> 00:20:00,218 the one on your left forefinger there. 495 00:20:00,312 --> 00:20:01,579 Yes. 496 00:20:01,604 --> 00:20:03,377 It was a gift from the president. 497 00:20:03,402 --> 00:20:04,448 An engagement ring? 498 00:20:04,473 --> 00:20:05,490 No. 499 00:20:05,515 --> 00:20:06,635 Just a gift. 500 00:20:06,841 --> 00:20:09,944 It belonged to his great-grandmother, Annette. 501 00:20:10,377 --> 00:20:11,989 She was French. 502 00:20:12,014 --> 00:20:14,716 Her father bought it for her at an auction in Paris. 503 00:20:14,750 --> 00:20:17,283 She wore it to her debutante ball. 504 00:20:17,308 --> 00:20:20,793 She gave it to president Grant before she died, so... 505 00:20:20,818 --> 00:20:22,835 And then he gave it to you. 506 00:20:22,860 --> 00:20:25,678 Yes. He wanted me to have it. 507 00:20:25,911 --> 00:20:28,896 I was touched when he gave it to me. 508 00:20:28,931 --> 00:20:32,063 I teared up when he told me the story behind it. 509 00:20:32,088 --> 00:20:33,268 It was... 510 00:20:33,557 --> 00:20:37,577 One of those fairy-tale moments you see in the movies. 511 00:20:38,708 --> 00:20:41,709 And Mrs. Grant never noticed it? 512 00:20:41,743 --> 00:20:44,798 There are photos of you wearing it in her presence. 513 00:20:46,279 --> 00:20:48,213 I regret that. 514 00:20:48,238 --> 00:20:49,922 And what about getting involved with the president 515 00:20:49,947 --> 00:20:51,430 in the first place? 516 00:20:51,455 --> 00:20:53,023 Do you regret that? 517 00:21:05,031 --> 00:21:07,549 I wish I never laid eyes on him. 518 00:21:07,574 --> 00:21:08,712 On President Grant? 519 00:21:08,737 --> 00:21:10,156 I wish we never met. 520 00:21:10,181 --> 00:21:11,856 If we never... 521 00:21:18,930 --> 00:21:22,433 I can't tell you how hard it's been 522 00:21:22,467 --> 00:21:26,969 to watch my friends, my family, my acquaintances 523 00:21:26,994 --> 00:21:29,366 being dragged into the spotlight because of me, 524 00:21:29,391 --> 00:21:33,624 clients being investigated and harassed by the media 525 00:21:33,649 --> 00:21:35,477 because of me, 526 00:21:35,502 --> 00:21:38,687 loved ones potentially having to drain their savings 527 00:21:38,712 --> 00:21:41,831 to hire lawyers and face congressional committees 528 00:21:41,856 --> 00:21:43,080 because of me. 529 00:21:43,105 --> 00:21:46,164 I wish I'd never laid eyes on him because of them 530 00:21:46,189 --> 00:21:49,276 and what they are going through right now. 531 00:21:50,966 --> 00:21:54,375 But also because... 532 00:21:56,084 --> 00:21:59,753 I've worked very hard to build a business, 533 00:21:59,788 --> 00:22:02,389 a business whose only aim 534 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:07,528 is to help people become the best version of themselves, 535 00:22:07,562 --> 00:22:10,030 to stand in their truths 536 00:22:10,081 --> 00:22:12,299 and face the consequences of their actions 537 00:22:12,301 --> 00:22:15,602 so they can gain forgiveness and move past their mistakes. 538 00:22:15,637 --> 00:22:16,920 Building that business was hard work. 539 00:22:16,945 --> 00:22:19,743 I didn't do it alone, but I built that business. 540 00:22:19,768 --> 00:22:22,652 And it's something I'm proud of, something that... 541 00:22:23,205 --> 00:22:25,222 Could all go away 542 00:22:25,247 --> 00:22:27,452 because I laid eyes on that man, 543 00:22:27,551 --> 00:22:30,452 that married man. 544 00:22:31,679 --> 00:22:33,897 If I never laid eyes on him, 545 00:22:33,922 --> 00:22:35,989 then I wouldn't have fallen in love 546 00:22:36,024 --> 00:22:37,558 and he wouldn't have fallen in love. 547 00:22:37,583 --> 00:22:40,502 That may have made for two more lonely people in this world, 548 00:22:40,527 --> 00:22:42,734 but also a lot... 549 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:44,833 Less pain... 550 00:22:45,214 --> 00:22:50,234 And heartache for many, many others. 551 00:22:52,466 --> 00:22:57,133 Senator Grant and the Grant children, 552 00:22:58,316 --> 00:22:59,739 for the people I love, 553 00:22:59,764 --> 00:23:02,282 for this country that I love, 554 00:23:02,317 --> 00:23:06,155 a country that expects us in Washington to solve problems, 555 00:23:06,180 --> 00:23:07,149 not make them, 556 00:23:07,174 --> 00:23:09,849 is... is the love of two people worth... 557 00:23:10,045 --> 00:23:14,565 All this destruction, all this attention? 558 00:23:14,590 --> 00:23:16,000 I mean, if it were a choice, 559 00:23:16,025 --> 00:23:19,100 who would choose this kind of love? 560 00:23:19,125 --> 00:23:21,759 So I wish we never met. 561 00:23:21,992 --> 00:23:23,721 But we did. 562 00:23:25,971 --> 00:23:28,022 And I tried. 563 00:23:28,047 --> 00:23:34,302 I tried and failed and tried and... 564 00:23:34,327 --> 00:23:39,945 Failed again to hide, to stop loving him, 565 00:23:39,970 --> 00:23:41,788 but I couldn't. 566 00:23:41,813 --> 00:23:43,747 I was weak. 567 00:23:43,772 --> 00:23:45,250 I hated myself. 568 00:23:45,275 --> 00:23:49,701 I-I wore this ring to remind me of my weakness. 569 00:23:49,726 --> 00:23:53,188 And when our affair was exposed, 570 00:23:53,213 --> 00:23:56,195 I had to follow my own advice and stand in my truth, 571 00:23:56,220 --> 00:23:59,523 to own who I am, to accept my faults. 572 00:23:59,548 --> 00:24:01,181 And I won't ask for forgiveness. 573 00:24:01,206 --> 00:24:03,587 Just don't ask me to... 574 00:24:03,612 --> 00:24:05,196 Undo the past. 575 00:24:05,221 --> 00:24:07,556 Don't ask me to fall out of love with Fitzgerald Grant, 576 00:24:07,581 --> 00:24:11,087 because if I could, I would. 577 00:24:15,948 --> 00:24:18,630 Does that answer your question? 578 00:24:28,805 --> 00:24:29,822 This was a home run. 579 00:24:29,847 --> 00:24:31,483 The kind of TV moment that could 580 00:24:31,508 --> 00:24:33,796 go down in American political history. 581 00:24:33,821 --> 00:24:35,827 Pope did what she had to do, 582 00:24:35,860 --> 00:24:38,378 which was to make herself relatable to the American public. 583 00:24:38,403 --> 00:24:40,250 But historic? Look, I-I don't think so. 584 00:24:40,275 --> 00:24:42,066 No, come on. Ernie, this is no longer 585 00:24:42,091 --> 00:24:44,893 about some ambitious, home-wrecking bimbo. 586 00:24:44,918 --> 00:24:46,251 This is a story about co-workers 587 00:24:46,276 --> 00:24:47,914 who couldn't help but fall in love with each other. 588 00:24:47,939 --> 00:24:49,106 Be that as it may... 589 00:24:49,131 --> 00:24:53,575 Well, there's actually one thing Olivia and I agree on. 590 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,013 I wish they'd never met, too. 591 00:25:00,564 --> 00:25:02,932 I'm sorry. 592 00:25:03,239 --> 00:25:05,140 What for? 593 00:25:05,165 --> 00:25:07,086 I brought her on to the campaign. 594 00:25:09,770 --> 00:25:12,355 I think about that from time to time. 595 00:25:12,380 --> 00:25:15,187 I'm the reason why all this happened. 596 00:25:18,012 --> 00:25:21,505 They might never have met if not for me. 597 00:25:21,530 --> 00:25:23,871 And for that... 598 00:25:24,864 --> 00:25:27,690 I am deeply sorry. 599 00:25:34,025 --> 00:25:36,792 Thank you, Cyrus. 600 00:25:45,052 --> 00:25:47,680 We have a problem. 601 00:25:47,876 --> 00:25:50,157 What's going on? 602 00:25:52,674 --> 00:25:54,549 It's a photo of the committee's evidence log. 603 00:25:54,574 --> 00:25:56,074 I can see that. Where'd you get this? 604 00:25:56,099 --> 00:25:58,172 - Moskowitz's office. - Her office? 605 00:25:58,197 --> 00:26:00,611 She approached me, asked me to be her eyes and ears in here, 606 00:26:00,636 --> 00:26:01,836 threw a couple threats at me. 607 00:26:01,870 --> 00:26:03,171 I let her think I was cooperating, 608 00:26:03,196 --> 00:26:04,830 used that as a cover to collect a little Intel. 609 00:26:04,855 --> 00:26:06,656 It's all CIA documents, notes from a meeting 610 00:26:06,681 --> 00:26:08,565 with the president and the CIA director on the night... 611 00:26:08,590 --> 00:26:10,724 - forward that picture to me. - Where are you going? 612 00:26:10,749 --> 00:26:11,966 Liv! 613 00:26:14,842 --> 00:26:16,643 They committee has the tape, doesn't it? 614 00:26:16,668 --> 00:26:17,760 My kidnapping. 615 00:26:17,785 --> 00:26:19,367 I'm gonna pretend you didn't ask me that 616 00:26:19,392 --> 00:26:21,344 and allow you to turn around and walk out that door. 617 00:26:21,369 --> 00:26:22,792 David, if they have that tape, 618 00:26:22,817 --> 00:26:25,743 then we are all going down, you included. 619 00:26:25,768 --> 00:26:28,374 You signed that warrant for the raid of the warehouse. 620 00:26:28,399 --> 00:26:30,600 You provided favors to my mother, a terrorist, 621 00:26:30,625 --> 00:26:31,938 to gain access to the auction. 622 00:26:31,963 --> 00:26:33,478 You're in this, David. 623 00:26:33,503 --> 00:26:34,837 And if I'm being honest, 624 00:26:34,862 --> 00:26:38,148 you're probably the only one who doesn't deserve to be. 625 00:26:38,173 --> 00:26:42,008 Your voice is calm, measured. You're complimenting me. 626 00:26:42,033 --> 00:26:44,376 Is this some new genius way of putting the screws to me? 627 00:26:44,401 --> 00:26:45,719 David, I need to know if they have that tape 628 00:26:45,744 --> 00:26:47,861 so that I can protect us. 629 00:26:49,847 --> 00:26:52,258 Do they have the tape?! 630 00:26:56,988 --> 00:27:00,638 Some dogged aide picked through the pile of documents 631 00:27:00,663 --> 00:27:03,731 they got from the White House, found some e-mail exchange 632 00:27:03,782 --> 00:27:06,700 between the president and CIA Director Lowry 633 00:27:06,725 --> 00:27:10,494 about a meeting they'd had to discuss the "O. P. matter." 634 00:27:10,539 --> 00:27:12,473 Hoping that didn't stand for "orange peel," 635 00:27:12,507 --> 00:27:13,991 Moskowitz and Gibson subpoenaed 636 00:27:14,015 --> 00:27:16,153 all documentation related to that meeting 637 00:27:16,178 --> 00:27:19,537 and managed to unearth the mother of all smoking guns. 638 00:27:19,562 --> 00:27:22,029 The good news... it doesn't mean anything unless 639 00:27:22,054 --> 00:27:25,337 someone can corroborate that the president watched the video. 640 00:27:27,063 --> 00:27:28,716 He confided in someone? 641 00:27:28,741 --> 00:27:30,137 Who was it? 642 00:27:30,162 --> 00:27:31,637 Who'd he tell? 643 00:27:45,858 --> 00:27:47,642 Hi. 644 00:27:47,667 --> 00:27:49,601 Hi. 645 00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:51,501 We're listening to records? 646 00:27:51,526 --> 00:27:53,025 We are listening to records. 647 00:27:53,284 --> 00:27:55,192 Hopefully that's not all we're doing. 648 00:28:37,557 --> 00:28:39,090 They know about West Angola. 649 00:28:45,465 --> 00:28:47,815 The senators? 650 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:52,534 They have the tape of me from when I was taken. 651 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:53,651 That's impossible. 652 00:28:53,676 --> 00:28:55,508 They found something in the documents you gave them. 653 00:28:55,533 --> 00:28:56,783 It led them to the CIA. 654 00:28:56,808 --> 00:28:58,612 - How do you know all this? - It doesn't matter. 655 00:28:58,637 --> 00:29:00,111 I know. 656 00:29:03,649 --> 00:29:07,385 Going to war for your mistress is an impeachable offense. 657 00:29:07,410 --> 00:29:09,576 That tape is all the proof they need. 658 00:29:09,601 --> 00:29:13,428 So we find a way around it. 659 00:29:13,453 --> 00:29:15,436 We can say it's been doctored. 660 00:29:15,461 --> 00:29:17,584 And no one will buy it. 661 00:29:17,609 --> 00:29:18,980 Then I never saw it. 662 00:29:19,005 --> 00:29:19,670 What? 663 00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:24,522 I never saw the tape. I never knew you were taken. 664 00:29:24,547 --> 00:29:26,548 The war... 665 00:29:26,573 --> 00:29:28,207 Had nothing to do with you. 666 00:29:28,232 --> 00:29:30,194 That could work. 667 00:29:30,219 --> 00:29:31,553 It will work. 668 00:29:31,578 --> 00:29:33,404 As long as Cyrus doesn't say otherwise. 669 00:29:33,430 --> 00:29:36,536 Cyrus is the only person that connects you to that tape. 670 00:29:36,561 --> 00:29:37,692 He can say you saw it. 671 00:29:37,717 --> 00:29:38,499 He wouldn't. 672 00:29:40,266 --> 00:29:41,897 Okay, he would. 673 00:29:54,538 --> 00:29:57,090 We should have locked ourselves in a room 674 00:29:57,115 --> 00:29:58,966 and gotten drunk together years ago. 675 00:29:58,991 --> 00:30:00,364 I haven't had this much fun 676 00:30:00,389 --> 00:30:03,350 spending the night with a woman, hell, ever. 677 00:30:05,175 --> 00:30:07,251 Oh. 678 00:30:10,938 --> 00:30:12,700 You should come and work for me. 679 00:30:12,725 --> 00:30:13,928 A junior senator? 680 00:30:13,953 --> 00:30:15,763 Not for long, not if you come and work for me. 681 00:30:19,506 --> 00:30:20,521 Hello? 682 00:30:20,547 --> 00:30:21,480 Mr. Beene? 683 00:30:21,505 --> 00:30:23,006 Please hold for the president. 684 00:30:23,828 --> 00:30:25,295 Who is it? 685 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:26,386 Nobody. 686 00:30:26,411 --> 00:30:28,302 It's just a friend. 687 00:30:35,228 --> 00:30:37,594 I saw your interview. It was good. 688 00:30:37,619 --> 00:30:39,570 You were good. You were you. 689 00:30:42,326 --> 00:30:44,806 So, where's your old friend tonight? 690 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,225 She had a meeting. 691 00:30:46,250 --> 00:30:48,280 How do you know her? 692 00:30:48,305 --> 00:30:50,680 She's my wife. 693 00:30:54,497 --> 00:30:56,420 You never told me that. 694 00:30:56,445 --> 00:30:58,246 You never asked. 695 00:30:58,271 --> 00:30:59,680 Hmm. 696 00:31:01,225 --> 00:31:02,983 I'm asking now. 697 00:31:03,436 --> 00:31:04,952 About my wife? 698 00:31:04,977 --> 00:31:08,313 Yes, as ridiculous as that sounds. 699 00:31:08,338 --> 00:31:10,643 Uh, she's great. 700 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:14,986 That's good. 701 00:31:14,988 --> 00:31:15,920 Yeah. You'd like her. 702 00:31:15,954 --> 00:31:17,244 Okay. 703 00:31:17,269 --> 00:31:18,502 Is this the part where you say... 704 00:31:18,527 --> 00:31:20,244 She's a lot like you? 705 00:31:22,303 --> 00:31:23,837 Not sure how to respond to that. 706 00:31:23,862 --> 00:31:25,389 Guess that means you have a type. 707 00:31:25,414 --> 00:31:26,932 So do you. 708 00:31:27,082 --> 00:31:29,232 Married guys. 709 00:31:31,914 --> 00:31:34,289 Did you get extra... 710 00:31:36,168 --> 00:31:38,202 thanks. 711 00:31:41,217 --> 00:31:42,901 Cy. 712 00:31:42,926 --> 00:31:44,275 Mr. President. 713 00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:45,873 Have a seat. 714 00:31:48,213 --> 00:31:49,912 Why am I here? 715 00:31:50,856 --> 00:31:52,490 I want you back. 716 00:31:52,568 --> 00:31:53,807 Back? 717 00:31:53,832 --> 00:31:55,583 In the White House. 718 00:31:55,608 --> 00:31:57,893 Here. Working for me. 719 00:31:58,281 --> 00:32:00,139 You're offering me my job back? 720 00:32:00,164 --> 00:32:02,265 I have a chief of staff, but yes, something similar. 721 00:32:02,290 --> 00:32:04,357 High level. Senior adviser. 722 00:32:05,538 --> 00:32:06,846 Why? 723 00:32:06,871 --> 00:32:08,889 Because I could use you right now. 724 00:32:08,924 --> 00:32:10,874 The country could use you. 725 00:32:10,909 --> 00:32:13,436 We have unfinished business in this administration, 726 00:32:13,461 --> 00:32:15,281 and I want you to be a part of it. 727 00:32:15,624 --> 00:32:18,392 I know we've had some difficulties recently. 728 00:32:18,417 --> 00:32:21,061 I think we both acted emotionally and precipitously. 729 00:32:21,086 --> 00:32:23,264 I want to put that behind us for the good of the country. 730 00:32:23,289 --> 00:32:25,057 I want you on my team. 731 00:32:25,082 --> 00:32:26,348 Difficulties? 732 00:32:26,373 --> 00:32:28,225 - Yes. - Hmm. 733 00:32:30,354 --> 00:32:32,837 This is interesting. 734 00:32:35,692 --> 00:32:38,160 What do they have? 735 00:32:38,404 --> 00:32:40,304 What? 736 00:32:40,338 --> 00:32:41,842 The senate committee. They have something on you. 737 00:32:41,867 --> 00:32:42,850 That's why I'm here. 738 00:32:42,875 --> 00:32:43,967 I don't know what you're talking about. 739 00:32:43,992 --> 00:32:46,598 It's not the ring. She fixed that. 740 00:32:46,623 --> 00:32:48,639 It's bigger than that. What is it? 741 00:32:48,664 --> 00:32:51,366 - Cy... - Amanda Tanner, maybe? 742 00:32:51,391 --> 00:32:53,537 Remington? Do they know about Rowan? 743 00:32:53,562 --> 00:32:55,466 Defiance? 744 00:32:56,403 --> 00:32:57,795 Oh, no. 745 00:32:57,820 --> 00:32:59,521 It's the tape. 746 00:32:59,637 --> 00:33:01,571 West Angola. 747 00:33:01,596 --> 00:33:03,163 Oh, I see. 748 00:33:03,188 --> 00:33:05,555 That's really not good, is it? 749 00:33:05,580 --> 00:33:07,814 But this? This is good. 750 00:33:07,849 --> 00:33:09,750 This is her, not you. It's smart. 751 00:33:09,784 --> 00:33:11,342 I'm the only one who can say you saw it. 752 00:33:11,367 --> 00:33:13,096 Well, me and the vegetable Andrew, 753 00:33:13,121 --> 00:33:16,106 but he's just drooling now, so it's just me. 754 00:33:16,365 --> 00:33:20,140 You give me back my job... or some job... 755 00:33:20,495 --> 00:33:22,296 and I say I never saw the tape. 756 00:33:22,321 --> 00:33:23,600 That's the deal, right? 757 00:33:23,625 --> 00:33:25,193 Yes. 758 00:33:25,383 --> 00:33:27,317 What do you say? 759 00:33:33,442 --> 00:33:36,294 How many times did you mispronounce "Delano" 760 00:33:36,319 --> 00:33:37,586 in that governor's debate? 761 00:33:37,611 --> 00:33:39,280 - Excuse me? - Against Astley. 762 00:33:39,305 --> 00:33:41,417 You kept saying the city of "Dell-ano" 763 00:33:41,442 --> 00:33:42,571 instead of the city of "De-layno." 764 00:33:42,596 --> 00:33:43,930 Do you remember? 765 00:33:44,068 --> 00:33:46,303 No, I have no idea. That was 16 years ago in the primary... 766 00:33:46,337 --> 00:33:48,154 It was 17 years ago, and it wasn't the primary. 767 00:33:48,189 --> 00:33:50,290 It was the general, the second debate. 768 00:33:50,315 --> 00:33:51,415 You fumbled it three times... 769 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,041 twice in the first five minutes 770 00:33:53,066 --> 00:33:54,987 and once again about 45 minutes later. 771 00:33:55,012 --> 00:33:56,479 But you caught yourself that last time, 772 00:33:56,504 --> 00:33:57,863 and you never did it again. 773 00:33:57,888 --> 00:33:59,826 And you carried Kern county by 11 points. 774 00:33:59,851 --> 00:34:02,016 Did you know you carried Kern county by 11 points? 775 00:34:02,041 --> 00:34:03,443 Why are we talking about this, Cyrus? 776 00:34:03,468 --> 00:34:05,318 Because I want to. If you don't want to talk about it, 777 00:34:05,343 --> 00:34:09,036 I can leave and you can rehearse your resignation speech. 778 00:34:11,707 --> 00:34:13,165 Do you remember what you ate 779 00:34:13,190 --> 00:34:15,224 the morning after you become governor of California? 780 00:34:15,249 --> 00:34:15,900 No. 781 00:34:15,925 --> 00:34:17,191 I remember. 782 00:34:17,216 --> 00:34:19,356 You had a doughnut, a cinnamon doughnut, 783 00:34:19,381 --> 00:34:20,965 which was weird because you didn't eat doughnuts. 784 00:34:20,990 --> 00:34:23,606 You wanted yogurt and fruit that morning... a parfait... 785 00:34:23,631 --> 00:34:25,983 and you wanted to eat it at some snooty place in Santa Barbara, 786 00:34:26,008 --> 00:34:27,191 but I said no. 787 00:34:27,234 --> 00:34:28,317 Why did I say no? 788 00:34:28,342 --> 00:34:29,551 Because I was already looking ahead 789 00:34:29,576 --> 00:34:32,237 because governor of California wasn't the goal. 790 00:34:32,262 --> 00:34:35,114 So we drove over the hill into ranch country, 791 00:34:35,139 --> 00:34:38,398 into real-people country, to the Longhorn Café in Santa Ynez, 792 00:34:38,423 --> 00:34:41,644 where you would be seen eating a doughnut like a real person. 793 00:34:41,669 --> 00:34:43,836 I picked out your doughnut. 794 00:34:43,861 --> 00:34:45,279 It was cinnamon. 795 00:34:45,401 --> 00:34:47,473 But then I snuck into the kitchen and got you a bowl of fruit 796 00:34:47,498 --> 00:34:48,665 because I didn't want you to whine... 797 00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:50,450 some oranges and apples and berries. 798 00:34:50,475 --> 00:34:52,142 I removed the bananas, of course, 799 00:34:52,170 --> 00:34:54,243 because you don't like bananas. 800 00:34:54,268 --> 00:34:57,287 And you ate the fruit in the car on the ride home. 801 00:34:57,312 --> 00:34:59,740 Do you remember the ride home? 802 00:34:59,765 --> 00:35:00,932 No. 803 00:35:00,957 --> 00:35:03,509 I remember you had fruit, but you didn't finish it 804 00:35:03,534 --> 00:35:06,286 because you said it smelled like banana. 805 00:35:06,311 --> 00:35:11,649 This is what I know... About you. 806 00:35:11,674 --> 00:35:14,693 This is what I remember. This is what is in my head. 807 00:35:14,718 --> 00:35:16,287 You. 808 00:35:16,954 --> 00:35:19,533 Everywhere, everything, what you say, 809 00:35:19,558 --> 00:35:22,994 what you eat, what you wear, what you think. 810 00:35:23,019 --> 00:35:26,287 I dream your dreams and I sweat your nightmares. 811 00:35:26,571 --> 00:35:29,372 This is what you are to me. 812 00:35:29,406 --> 00:35:30,523 And what am I to you? 813 00:35:30,548 --> 00:35:33,183 I am the man to be thrown on the grenade 814 00:35:33,211 --> 00:35:34,943 and the guy you use and abuse and toss out 815 00:35:34,968 --> 00:35:37,521 and try desperately to reel back in to save you one more time. 816 00:35:37,546 --> 00:35:40,525 That is what I am to you. That is all you know about me. 817 00:35:41,030 --> 00:35:42,906 If I left this room, 818 00:35:42,931 --> 00:35:45,324 you wouldn't even remember I was here, 819 00:35:45,349 --> 00:35:48,166 but I could tell you everything you said, 820 00:35:48,191 --> 00:35:50,593 the color of your shirt, the part of your hair. 821 00:35:50,618 --> 00:35:51,662 I can look in your eyes 822 00:35:51,687 --> 00:35:54,864 and know how you slept the night before. 823 00:35:54,889 --> 00:35:57,324 I know exactly how many times 824 00:35:57,349 --> 00:36:00,076 you mispronounced a single word in a debate 17 years ago, 825 00:36:00,101 --> 00:36:02,048 and you couldn't tell me my mother's name. 826 00:36:02,266 --> 00:36:05,948 I know why we're sitting here... 827 00:36:05,973 --> 00:36:08,427 to fill in this Olivia Pope masterpiece. 828 00:36:08,531 --> 00:36:10,717 I get a job, some job. 829 00:36:10,742 --> 00:36:12,412 You get to keep yours. 830 00:36:12,437 --> 00:36:16,575 We all march forward into glory. 831 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,701 All is forgotten. 832 00:36:18,995 --> 00:36:22,731 That's the deal on the table, and I'm not going to take it. 833 00:36:25,550 --> 00:36:29,238 Because this band is never, ever getting back together. 834 00:36:31,875 --> 00:36:35,093 I do not need this. 835 00:36:37,997 --> 00:36:39,892 I do not need you. 836 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,603 Not anymore. 837 00:36:46,046 --> 00:36:48,606 We were on a bus 838 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,081 between King City and Salinas in my first run for governor, 839 00:36:52,106 --> 00:36:53,601 and you had a package from her. 840 00:36:54,344 --> 00:36:56,813 It was an Agatha Christie novel, 841 00:36:56,838 --> 00:36:59,305 and she'd written a little review on an index card 842 00:36:59,330 --> 00:37:01,656 and tucked it inside the front cover. 843 00:37:02,118 --> 00:37:04,589 "I think you're gonna really like this one, Cy, 844 00:37:04,614 --> 00:37:07,469 but I don't know how she killed him with a candelabra." 845 00:37:07,849 --> 00:37:09,870 You laughed. 846 00:37:10,422 --> 00:37:12,860 You said she sent you a package like that 847 00:37:12,885 --> 00:37:15,253 every week since you left home. 848 00:37:15,278 --> 00:37:17,391 Always a mystery, usually Agatha Christie, 849 00:37:17,416 --> 00:37:20,172 and always with a little index card that ruined the story. 850 00:37:20,197 --> 00:37:22,231 And you loved it. 851 00:37:23,259 --> 00:37:26,180 I used to see you open those packages, 852 00:37:26,487 --> 00:37:30,055 behind a campaign bus in Barstow, in your office, 853 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,204 backstage at a rally at San Marcos High School. 854 00:37:33,883 --> 00:37:37,441 Sometimes it was the only time I'd see you smile in a week. 855 00:37:38,138 --> 00:37:40,852 Sometimes in a morning briefing, 856 00:37:40,877 --> 00:37:44,641 I'd know you'd gotten one of the packages just by your mood. 857 00:37:45,872 --> 00:37:48,816 I know what she meant to you. 858 00:37:48,841 --> 00:37:51,405 I know that you loved her. 859 00:37:51,430 --> 00:37:54,081 Your mom's name... 860 00:37:54,221 --> 00:37:56,410 Was Helen. 861 00:37:59,446 --> 00:38:01,905 I am sorry. 862 00:38:02,636 --> 00:38:07,539 Truly, deeply sorry. 863 00:38:07,834 --> 00:38:09,760 I am sorry. 864 00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:13,223 I'm sorry for what happened to us. 865 00:38:13,248 --> 00:38:15,742 I'm sorry for what I did to us. 866 00:38:15,767 --> 00:38:17,834 We both made some mistakes along the way, 867 00:38:17,859 --> 00:38:19,360 but your mistakes... 868 00:38:19,385 --> 00:38:21,760 Were for me. 869 00:38:22,969 --> 00:38:25,959 My biggest mistake... 870 00:38:27,315 --> 00:38:30,368 Was forgetting that we were family. 871 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,282 Everything you did, you did for me. 872 00:38:36,049 --> 00:38:37,849 You are my guy. 873 00:38:40,317 --> 00:38:44,500 I can't do this, not like this, not alone. 874 00:38:46,755 --> 00:38:49,607 I want you back. 875 00:38:49,925 --> 00:38:53,005 That seat on the couch is yours if you want it. 876 00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:55,682 The job is yours if you want it. 877 00:38:57,529 --> 00:38:59,005 Please. 878 00:39:04,858 --> 00:39:08,605 The job is chief of staff. 879 00:39:08,749 --> 00:39:12,239 That's the job. 880 00:39:13,327 --> 00:39:17,147 Elizabeth North is terminated immediately. 881 00:39:17,190 --> 00:39:19,508 She doesn't transition... 882 00:39:19,533 --> 00:39:23,450 to another position in the administration. 883 00:39:23,475 --> 00:39:24,795 She's gone. 884 00:39:24,821 --> 00:39:28,817 I will keep Ethan and Red. 885 00:39:29,354 --> 00:39:32,926 I want new carpet in that office. 886 00:39:32,951 --> 00:39:36,854 You will issue a full presidential pardon to me 887 00:39:36,888 --> 00:39:38,505 for any and all crimes committed 888 00:39:38,530 --> 00:39:40,311 in the time of my service to you. 889 00:39:40,336 --> 00:39:41,770 It will be signed. It will be sealed. 890 00:39:41,795 --> 00:39:43,429 It will be nonrevocable. 891 00:39:46,458 --> 00:39:49,844 And I will keep it secret. 892 00:39:50,101 --> 00:39:53,470 That's the deal. 893 00:40:03,860 --> 00:40:08,466 The situation in West Angola was an urgent and growing threat 894 00:40:08,491 --> 00:40:11,556 to the national security of the United States. 895 00:40:11,581 --> 00:40:14,649 Your decision to go to war was based solely on 896 00:40:14,674 --> 00:40:18,509 a methodical and reasonable assessment of that threat 897 00:40:18,534 --> 00:40:21,019 and was supported by actionable intelligence. 898 00:40:21,044 --> 00:40:24,212 You never saw that tape of Olivia Pope. 899 00:40:24,237 --> 00:40:26,404 You did not know it existed. 900 00:40:26,429 --> 00:40:29,563 You were never aware she was even kidnapped. 901 00:40:44,846 --> 00:40:47,235 It's good to have you back, Cy. 902 00:40:48,868 --> 00:40:50,903 I serve at the pleasure of the president. 903 00:40:52,786 --> 00:40:53,899 The honor is all mine. 904 00:40:56,947 --> 00:40:58,852 Charlotte. 905 00:40:58,877 --> 00:41:01,407 Please ask Elizabeth North to come to my office.