Administration vs. press and gossip networks: C.J., Quincy and senior staff must triage multiple press threads, identify a single leak conduit, and strategically contain the crisis before it becomes uncontrollable.
Administration vs. press and gossip networks: C.J., Quincy and senior staff must triage multiple press threads, identify a single leak conduit, and strategically contain the crisis before it becomes uncontrollable.
Events in This Arc
At the 6 a.m. press gaggle C.J. uses practiced banter to flatten routine questions, but the mood shifts when Ralph Gish, the science editor, alleges a NASA commission report showing …
Quincy arrives in C.J.'s office and — after hedging — names Stu Winkle as the likely conduit for the damaging stories. While C.J. distracts him on the phone to confirm …
Claire Huddle delivers Hoynes's resignation letter to the Oval in a small, intimate beat that closes the episode. Bartlet's brief, paternal questions — 'Why did you take a cab?' — …