:43:03
I'm the President's senior domestic
policy advisor. Now it's important--
:43:07
Do you know where my credit cards are?
:43:11
They're in storage in Wisconsin
with the rest...
:43:14
- ...of your personal items.
- All right.
:43:17
Perhaps it would be better if you bill me.
I'm sure it'll be all right with your boss.
:43:23
I don't know if you recognize my voice,
but this is the President.
:43:28
Of the United States.
:43:31
Hello?
:43:33
Hello?
:43:35
Leo, you wanted to see me?
:43:37
There I was thinking:
:43:39
I should give Sydney a call. She's new
in town, doesn't know many people.
:43:43
Then I picked up the Times.
:43:46
It was crazy. He called me at home.
:43:49
- What's going on?
- Nothing.
:43:51
It was innocent.
His cousin got the flu at the last minute.
:43:54
Did you sleep with him?
:43:56
Leo.
:43:57
Did you sleep with him?
:43:58
That's none of your business.
:44:00
Yeah, it is.
:44:01
Tell me how my personal life--
:44:03
Because when it's the President,
it's not personal.
:44:06
I hired your reputation.
I hired a pit bull, not a prom queen.
:44:10
That's unfair.
:44:11
It's incredibly unfair.
:44:14
You've told me many times that...
:44:16
...the trouble with the environmental lobby
is that we don't understand...
:44:19
...the fundamental truth
that politics is perception.
:44:22
It's a bad time to develop ignorance.
:44:24
- You're making way too much of this.
- Am I?
:44:27
This is your time, Sydney.
You're sitting at the grown-up's table.
:44:31
You could get everything you want:
:44:34
Run a national campaign,
be a major player inside the party.
:44:38
But go all the way, because with the leader
of the free world, there's no halfway.
:44:44
Politics is perception...
:44:46
...and if this doesn't work out, the time
it'll take you to go from being a hired gun...
:44:50
...to a cocktail party joke
can be clocked with an egg timer.
:44:54
There's no relationship.
It was one night. It's done.
:44:58
This was just delivered by a White House
messenger. It's marked "perishable."