A damaging off‑the‑record quote surfaces in the press, producing a trust and reputation crisis inside the White House — confrontation, accusation, and ultimately accountability and reconciliation within the staff.
A damaging off‑the‑record quote surfaces in the press, producing a trust and reputation crisis inside the White House — confrontation, accusation, and ultimately accountability and reconciliation within the staff.
Events in This Arc
At Club Iota Josh and Toby trade a terse, morally fraught debate about a new humanitarian-intervention doctrine — Josh arguing for American responsibility, Toby cautioning about precedent and political cost. …
In the Outer Oval the leak crisis sharpens into a personal rupture. C.J. explains that Danny's story—built from a researcher's background interviews—included an off‑the‑record quote traced to Donna about Pentagon …
Josh leads a small, determined squad to Donna's apartment to force a reckoning over a damaging leak. After raucous snowballing brings her to the window, a public, emotional confrontation unfolds …