Associated Press

C.J. slams folders onto Carol's desk, prioritizing AP alongside Reuters and Agence France for coveted Air Force One seats, priming them as frontline recipients for scorching Haiti briefings amid Bartlet's shadowed grief and Haiti embassy sieges. Carol summons their reps into the fray post-press room chaos, thrusting this wire service titan into White House logistics vortex—relentless intel hounds devouring seating intel and crisis dispatches, fueling global wires with unfiltered administration thrusts while staff fractures under grief, MS secrets, and Port-au-Prince helos barreling in.