C.J.'s professional truth‑revelation and learning arc: admission of inadequate knowledge about sampling followed by Sam tutoring her so the press office can credibly defend administration policy.
C.J.'s professional truth‑revelation and learning arc: admission of inadequate knowledge about sampling followed by Sam tutoring her so the press office can credibly defend administration policy.
Events in This Arc
After a brisk summit briefing, Toby catches C.J. in the hallway for failing to surface the moral outrage over grotesque drug‑price disparities — Norway vs. Burundi — forcing a clash …
Sam finds C.J. collapsed on her office couch from exhaustion. He pushes her to get medical help; she jokes and deflects, then briefly admits a buried legal worry—warning that talking …
Toby storms into the communications office, brusquely demanding “Article I, Section 2” and exposing his team’s lack of immediate constitutional grounding with a frustrated, almost comic tirade (Amazon, the National …
C.J. unexpectedly strips away her press‑secretary armor and asks Sam, humbly and awkwardly, to teach her the basics of the census. The moment shifts their dynamic from peers to teacher/student: …
In the briefing room Sam patiently tutors C.J. on why a straight head count fails the census, turning technical exposition into a moment of professional growth as C.J. insists she …