Press, leaks and optics surrounding the humanitarian transfer: communications staff and the President race to prevent the mission being framed as bargaining leverage (which could inflame Iranian hardliners and undermine its humanitarian framing).
Press, leaks and optics surrounding the humanitarian transfer: communications staff and the President race to prevent the mission being framed as bargaining leverage (which could inflame Iranian hardliners and undermine its humanitarian framing).
Events in This Arc
Bartlet closes a light, affectionate staff meeting—trading jokes with Charlie and defusing tension with humor—before abruptly shifting to a crisis: reporters are carrying word that the Ayatollah's son is en …
After light Oval Office banter, a Reuters leak reveals the Ayatollah's teenage son is en route to the U.S. for a heart-and-lung transplant and Tehran publicly denounces the mission. Leo …
In the Oval late at night Bartlet gives Sam a terse, parent-to-protégé charge — acknowledges him as the de facto nominee, presses him to run toward his convictions, and delivers …