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Meet the Press

Sunday Morning Political Interview and Accountability Broadcasting

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General Barrie seizes Meet the Press as his Sunday launchpad, unleashing broadsides against administration frailties in a blitz spanning Late Edition and Capitol Beat—Toby's hallway alarm rockets CJ into Pentagon pursuit, yanking the general incognito to West Wing reckoning. Bartlet storms in from radio triumph, overriding objections with raw reverence for Vietnam grit, unleashing Barrie unfiltered on the airwaves—crisis transmutes to tribute, spotlights military valor over political bleed in Oval's charged hush.

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S2E5
Toby Alerts CJ to Barrie's Media Blitz; She Summons Him for Showdown

In CJ's office, Toby urgently warns her of retiring General Ed Barrie's aggressive Sunday media tour—Meet the Press, Late Edition, Capitol Beat—poised to savage the …

S2E5
C.J. Exposes General Barrie's Stolen Valor

General Ed Barrie storms C.J.'s office, past her assistant, launching a bombastic tirade defending his public attacks on military readiness and threatening a Meet the …

S2E5
Bartlet Grants Barrie Meet the Press Freedom and Rushes to Abbey

Fresh from his triumphant radio address exalting overlooked women in history, President Bartlet shares flirtatious banter with Abbey, who urges him upstairs for intimacy. CJ …

S4E16
Sunday Lineup Alarm: The Tax-Plan Red Flag

Immediately after the 36-hour ultimatum briefing, an apparently small scheduling note in the hallway becomes a political emergency. C.J.'s assistant tells her Gretchen Olan was …