MacKenzie Casey, a marine colonel, comes to know that Pendleton and Charles are making a plan to remove President Foster from office. He needs to stop this from happening before it is too late.
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00:01:30Top story is the unprecedented criticism of President Foster by the veteran chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lloyd, at the National Press Club yesterday.
00:01:49Well, let's just say that on this issue, President Foster and I have agreed to disagree.
00:01:56General Lloyd stated that the President's lack of support of the military would leave the country vulnerable and crippled at this time of high global uncertainty.
00:02:04The President wants to shrink the armed forces and draw this peace dividend into his domestic program.
00:02:11The General believes there is no peace dividend.
00:02:13So this program today?
00:02:15The world is a more dangerous place than ever.
00:02:16One would have polished the doorknobs, cut the grass, and watch Mom's car.
00:02:24Into your room?
00:02:25No TV.
00:02:27Now go change your clothes.
00:02:27Sir, is everything always in order?
00:02:39He knows what he did.
00:02:41Can't look at problems with you first.
00:02:43Jack is 13.
00:02:45He was born into this family.
00:02:47He didn't enlist.
00:02:47Tom, you handed yourself properly today.
00:02:54Watch the game together tomorrow.
00:02:55Orlando's gonna win it, four zip.
00:02:57No way.
00:02:59Nicks are gonna take it.
00:03:00Character.
00:03:02Okay.
00:03:04Okay.
00:03:05See you later.
00:03:06All right.
00:03:07I love you.
00:03:17Well, Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, we're not the only ones questioning the President's
00:03:31indecision.
00:03:31The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff publicly criticized the President for not signing
00:03:35the bill.
00:03:35As far as General Lloyd's remarks go, you in the media have taken his agreement to disagree
00:03:42with the President out of context.
00:03:44I love you.
00:04:14Good morning, Billy.
00:04:37Good morning, Colonel.
00:04:39Good morning, Colonel.
00:04:40Situation normal?
00:04:40Uh, we lost another one of Bolivia last night.
00:04:45Coke patrol.
00:04:47Any friendly casualties?
00:04:49Goodness, no.
00:04:50That wouldn't be nice.
00:04:51Here you go.
00:04:53Bolivia's fine.
00:04:54The Knicks got their back against the wall.
00:04:55They need me.
00:04:57Hey, who's the old man like?
00:04:59Not into it.
00:05:00Negative?
00:05:02He's into it big time.
00:05:03No.
00:05:04I'm sorry.
00:05:05When did you start?
00:05:06It was short on manpower.
00:05:07You know, I...
00:05:08All right, thank you.
00:05:11Let's see.
00:05:12Let me take your...
00:05:13We've been able to...
00:05:15Call on slam dunk, call bets in by 8 p.m. Saturday.
00:05:19He's got a betting pool on the finals.
00:05:21Thinks it'll go till then.
00:05:22He's been sending stuff out all week under his own personal code.
00:05:25Blue 6 code?
00:05:26You're caught plugging into the old man's code.
00:05:28You know what's gonna happen to you.
00:05:28I see who he's got sharing his action.
00:05:30Cross down at Tampa, Jacobs at Norad, Allen down at Fort Benning.
00:05:35Mucho brass.
00:05:36Looks like everybody's already in it.
00:05:37Has he said anything about it to you?
00:05:39To me?
00:05:41You can ask him about it, though.
00:05:42He wants to see it.
00:05:43What is here?
00:05:45On a Sunday?
00:05:46Yeah, Bookie's best day.
00:05:56You wanted to see me, sir?
00:05:58Sit down, Mac.
00:06:01There's days like this that I wish I'd never accepted this lousy job.
00:06:05The only problem is...
00:06:07I can't bear the thought of anyone else, have you?
00:06:10Intel is the president losing his job first.
00:06:12Is that the Intel?
00:06:14Well, we'll know next Tuesday my day on the carpet.
00:06:18You think?
00:06:20I've got to cut my big mouth shut.
00:06:22Spoke up.
00:06:22Straight, honest.
00:06:24It's time somebody did.
00:06:25We play?
00:06:26Commander-in-chief?
00:06:27I don't think it's perceived as an attack, sir.
00:06:30The president may be a good man, but he doesn't know shit about national defense.
00:06:35At least when his wife was alive, he had a reality barometer.
00:06:39The way things were going election day, nobody bothered to ask him about it.
00:06:42Here.
00:06:43You know, I used to know who my enemies were.
00:06:48Who would have guessed five years ago that Iran and Iraq would be allies?
00:06:51The next fight in the Middle East...
00:06:54It's going to make the Gulf War look like a family picnic.
00:06:57And when it comes, we won't be ready.
00:07:01Look at this.
00:07:02We're cops.
00:07:03We're builders.
00:07:04We're health care providers.
00:07:06And worst of all, we're politicians.
00:07:11Sucks.
00:07:13Hell, that's not mince words.
00:07:16It's what my son always says about everything.
00:07:18Hank, last couple of weeks, you've been kind of tense.
00:07:28You're not uptight about the alert this weekend, are you?
00:07:31No.
00:07:32It's Todd.
00:07:34He's 13.
00:07:36He's working at an appliance store, Kramers.
00:07:40He stole eight video recorders.
00:07:43Took him months.
00:07:44He doesn't know why he did it, and neither do I.
00:07:50But somehow, it all comes down to me being a bad father.
00:07:57He's a good kid.
00:08:00Good kids often lose their way.
00:08:04Don't be so hard on yourself.
00:08:06I've been trained that way.
00:08:07I'm a Marine, sir.
00:08:09It sucks.
00:08:10I like that.
00:08:12Can I watch the playoffs this weekend, sir?
00:08:14Playoffs, would you believe it?
00:08:15I don't even know who the hell's playing this year.
00:08:20All right, thank you.
00:08:32Mr. President, can you tell us what you thought of the latest CNN poll?
00:08:40My chief of staff, Ms. Corcoran, likes to say that a poll is what you hang a politician from.
00:08:45I don't pay any attention to them.
00:08:47It's a different number every day.
00:08:48Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President.
00:08:50Well, that's right from Helen.
00:08:51General Lloyd has publicly accused you of turning your back on the military.
00:08:56Would you care to comment?
00:08:58General Lloyd's remarks were taken out of context and blown way out of proportion.
00:09:01But make no mistake about it.
00:09:05The general was freelancing.
00:09:08But I am smart enough to know when I'm being shot at by a professional and I'm still in one piece.
00:09:15Thank you for asking.
00:09:16Well, Betsy, from one herd of jackals to the next.
00:09:25Cabinet, Mr. President, the 29% approval rating, you can't tell them what to do.
00:09:29If you don't build a consensus, you're going to pay a price.
00:09:32Here, I thought the Cabinet was supposed to be the President's team.
00:09:36I bet.
00:09:36Ladies and gentlemen, what do you go?
00:09:40Stephen, Harry.
00:09:44We have a lot of ground to cover in a short time, as usual, so I suggest we get started right away.
00:09:51Let's begin with something easy.
00:09:53Taxes.
00:09:56Well, as you all know, I have on my desk right now a bill that gives a huge budget increase to the military.
00:10:05Suppose I just don't sign it.
00:10:07Suppose some of that goes over to domestic, to farm subsidies and the rest of it, to policing our streets.
00:10:14Do you really think that's wise, sir?
00:10:17I don't know, Art. What do you think?
00:10:18If you do that, Mr. President, I'm told that our readiness and force structure will suffer severely.
00:10:25That sounds just like General Lloyd's position.
00:10:28If you veto that bill, Mr. President, you're going to get a huge public reaction.
00:10:32Then I'll take the heat, Tom.
00:10:36Look, I know most of you don't like this idea, and I'm not going to ask for a show of hands,
00:10:42but I will need the support of each and every person in this room.
00:10:46We're going to need to pull together on this.
00:10:48And let's be clear about what we will not do.
00:10:57We will not any longer defer our urgent domestic needs in order to satisfy the inflated demands of the military.
00:11:08We will not add $40 to $60 billion to the budget without having any idea where the money's coming from.
00:11:17I ran on a pledge to cut the deficit.
00:11:20That's why we're all here today.
00:11:25I'm going to do it.
00:11:27Or I'll die trying.
00:11:30Oh, let's not talk about death. Taxes is depressing enough.
00:11:35Why, Walter, I always thought that death was a vice presidential obsession.
00:11:39Where is it written that if your president's from the heartland, your vice president has to be a backroom boy from the east?
00:11:54It was a winning combination.
00:11:56But a terrible marriage.
00:11:58I should have gone with Charlie Potter.
00:11:59I guess things done.
00:12:00Are we pushing too hard?
00:12:04We don't have a choice.
00:12:06If things don't change remarkably, it won't be a second term.
00:12:13We've come a long way, Betsy.
00:12:16I couldn't have done it without you.
00:12:19Thank you, sir.
00:12:30General Command.
00:12:32Yeah.
00:12:33This is Colonel Casey from the Joint Staff.
00:12:35I need the Deputy Commander, please.
00:12:38O'Malley.
00:12:39Colonel O'Malley.
00:12:40Yeah.
00:12:41We noticed a little item up here preparing a readiness report for the alert this weekend.
00:12:46It's just a routine exercise, but it says here you guys ordered live ammo.
00:12:51Not exactly standard.
00:12:53Well, that's classified.
00:12:55Excuse me?
00:12:56I'm sorry, Colonel.
00:12:57No one but General Allen is authorized to discuss that operation.
00:13:00Maybe you can call back tomorrow?
00:13:02Sure.
00:13:03Tomorrow's fine.
00:13:08Hello.
00:13:09Walter.
00:13:10Yeah.
00:13:11Matt Casey.
00:13:12Hey, Matt.
00:13:13Yeah.
00:13:13The rising star.
00:13:14I got the dude.
00:13:15How's the Puzzle Palace?
00:13:16Look, Walt.
00:13:17I'm checking out this live ammo request.
00:13:21Jesus, Matt.
00:13:21I wish you guys would get it together.
00:13:23You added the live ammo for your slam dunk thing.
00:13:26Don't you remember?
00:13:27It's for slam dunk.
00:13:28Yeah.
00:13:29It's the damnedest thing.
00:13:31We're training more for seizure than defense here.
00:13:34Yeah.
00:13:39Matt.
00:13:40This will only take a moment.
00:13:43Yesterday, I ran across a little glitch in the printouts.
00:13:46There was live ammo.
00:13:48Ordered for some operation called slam dunk.
00:13:50I'm sorry you got left out, Mac.
00:13:54It was the president's idea to keep this one down to the short list.
00:13:59Slam dunk is a covert exercise we're running with the CIA.
00:14:04Extremely sensitive, Mac.
00:14:06Extremely sensitive.
00:14:09A team is practicing to go into a third world country to seize a nuclear weapon.
00:14:14I can show you the file if you're curious.
00:14:18I wouldn't mind taking a look.
00:14:18Thanks.
00:14:23Can I have it now, sir?
00:14:24I'll shoot it to your email.
00:14:26You'll have it tomorrow morning.
00:14:27Thank you, sir.
00:14:40Stand by.
00:14:4315 points down.
00:14:59Take a shot or give it up.
00:15:13So, what was your program today?
00:15:19I saw the therapist.
00:15:23Yeah.
00:15:27You like her?
00:15:31Well, she's okay.
00:15:34Do it like your knees.
00:15:43She asked you lots of pushers.
00:15:48Well, she asked if I felt a rush when I was stealing.
00:15:56And I told her I felt awful.
00:15:59And she says, why?
00:16:03And I say, because I knew I'd get caught.
00:16:10Take your hands out of your pocket.
00:16:12Take a shot.
00:16:13And she says, why didn't you do it?
00:16:20And you say, what?
00:16:24Because, because I, because I couldn't stop.
00:16:31And she asked how we get along.
00:16:40How do we get along?
00:16:41You're close to filing out.
00:16:52Try to stay in the game, Todd.
00:16:55Try to stay in the game.
00:16:56Take your shot or give it up.
00:17:01I don't think the son of a bitch can't shut up, even if he wants to.
00:17:20He's a born politician.
00:17:23I'm not a bad one at that.
00:17:25I need one successful general who isn't.
00:17:27Well, I have rapidly lost my appetite for the daily battle.
00:17:32Tell me what would happen to my poll numbers if I were to fire a living legend.
00:17:36You'd become nostalgic for the days when you had 29%.
00:17:39But look at the upside.
00:17:42Lloyd will be retiring soon.
00:17:44With full honors and you'll have one less problem.
00:17:47Though, of course, replacing him may be a problem since you've almost run out of women.
00:17:50Very good, Mr. Secretary.
00:17:53Where would I be without you, Charlie?
00:17:56I've been advised, General, to fire you.
00:18:02I frankly know of no reason why, sir.
00:18:07But you know I serve at your disposal, Mr. President.
00:18:10Yes, but you've gone and got yourself a pretty good constituency.
00:18:15I'm asking a lot of the American people already.
00:18:17I can't liquidate their Captain Marvel.
00:18:22The people want to know they're defended.
00:18:25They are, at a cost of $230 billion a year.
00:18:29May I remind you, Mr. President, that the sole purpose of our military is to wage and win wars
00:18:34and protect our shores from foreign aggressors.
00:18:37You are a compassionate man, sir, but you are withholding funds
00:18:41which will leave our military degraded.
00:18:45You are recklessly placing this nation in a position of weakness.
00:18:50And may I remind you, General, that I, with the help of Congress, will make policy.
00:18:55You will follow it.
00:18:57If you want my job, go out and win your party's nomination and get yourself elected.
00:19:01I have no interest in becoming president.
00:19:04My sole concern is there be a country left to defend.
00:19:08Now, the war is coming, sir, and when it does, we're going to have to call on Israel to defend us.
00:19:14Because our own forces will have become impotent in the interests of social experiments
00:19:19and global public relations.
00:19:22Keep your opinions to yourself, General, or confine them to this office.
00:19:30After midnight, I say quarter to one.
00:19:56I leave her there, part, right, in that driveway.
00:20:00It's a White House.
00:20:01It's late at night.
00:20:02You know, she's alone.
00:20:03And I come back and I show her this envelope.
00:20:05And I say, shit, we've got to rush this out to the CIA at Lange.
00:20:08And this gets you laid?
00:20:10I'm six for six on this.
00:20:12It's great.
00:20:12Trust me.
00:20:13Uh, yes, sir.
00:20:14Situation normal?
00:20:15Uh, yes, sir.
00:20:18How's the traffic on the old man's bedding pool?
00:20:21Uh, something came in this morning.
00:20:26Correct me if I'm wrong, but, uh, pre-agent Alpha One.
00:20:31That's an advanced chemical disabling weapon, right?
00:20:34Yeah, what's the point?
00:20:36It's been okayed for the alert.
00:20:39Don't ask me why.
00:20:40The National Command authorized.
00:20:43Punch up where General Lloyd is.
00:20:44Now.
00:20:45The National Command is.
00:21:15It's good to see you two playing ball together today.
00:21:38It's getting better.
00:21:39He's starting to realize what he did wrong.
00:21:48And I'm sorry.
00:21:50You know, to where I've been lately, she said she's got so much on my mind, you're just kidding.
00:21:58Is this, um, about seeing Todd's therapist tomorrow?
00:22:04Do we need this?
00:22:06I don't even know this woman.
00:22:08She doesn't know us.
00:22:09She knows Todd.
00:22:11He likes her.
00:22:13I said I'd be there.
00:22:15So I'll be there.
00:22:20Mac.
00:22:24Thanks.
00:22:25Good morning, Chief of Staff's office.
00:22:40May I help you?
00:22:41Chief of Staff, please.
00:22:44Who's calling, please?
00:22:47This is the Director of Current Operations at the Pentagon, Colonel Mac Casey.
00:22:52Could you tell her it's urgent?
00:22:54I'm proud of this.
00:22:55Betsy, Betsy, Betsy, Betsy, I need to talk to you.
00:23:09Betsy, no hello.
00:23:10How are you?
00:23:11Where are you, anyway?
00:23:12I'm sorry, this is really important.
00:23:15It's a matter of national security.
00:23:18Aren't you pretty far out of channels, Mac?
00:23:20You have a boss.
00:23:20Talk to him.
00:23:21I can't.
00:23:22Jesus, Mac, I'm catching javelins here.
00:23:24What the hell is going on?
00:23:26Can you give me some idea?
00:23:28Yeah, I need to talk to you in person.
00:23:30You and everyone else.
00:23:32Betsy, you've known me for a long time.
00:23:34I've been a Marine for 19 years.
00:23:37By me calling you, I may be throwing it all away.
00:23:39Hang on for a second, Mac.
00:23:41We'll wait for you.
00:23:45Betsy?
00:23:46Grant Memorial, 8 o'clock.
00:23:48Oh, okay.
00:23:52Can you make it 8.30?
00:23:53This is not a negotiation, Colonel.
00:23:59Okay.
00:24:01Grant Memorial, 8 o'clock.
00:24:03See that.
00:24:08Office of the Attorney General, please hold.
00:24:12Secretary Potter to see you.
00:24:13Good morning, Sarah.
00:24:14Good morning.
00:24:15How are you?
00:24:16I'm fine, thank you, Mr. Secretary.
00:24:17Good, good.
00:24:18Morning, Charlie.
00:24:18Come in, sit down.
00:24:19Thank you, Sarah.
00:24:20The General tells me that you have misgivings, Arthur.
00:24:33I have always had misgivings, Charlie.
00:24:40The Constitution is in my care.
00:24:43Others before us have tried to manipulate the Constitution, but Jesus, this thing makes them look like a Sunday picnic.
00:24:51I can't be a part of subverting the Constitution, Charlie, not as a means to an end, even if that end is saving the country itself.
00:25:05Oh, my.
00:25:07You should re-read the Constitution, Arthur.
00:25:11I have.
00:25:13You unleash this thing.
00:25:17How do you know what will ultimately happen?
00:25:21Because I control what happens.
00:25:24What if something goes wrong?
00:25:26Arthur, nothing is going to go wrong.
00:25:28You have a backup plan.
00:25:32I don't want to hear about that, including that exercise this Saturday, you hear?
00:25:36Very well.
00:25:39I understand you have misgivings, Arthur.
00:25:43What I need to know is what do you intend to do about them?
00:25:47Nothing.
00:25:50Do I have your word on that?
00:25:54Yes.
00:25:56Damn you.
00:25:58I respect that, Arthur.
00:26:19Afternoon, gentlemen.
00:26:20Good afternoon, gentlemen.
00:26:21Admiral, come on in.
00:26:22Good afternoon, gentlemen.
00:26:22Oh, Mac.
00:26:23You can sit this one out.
00:26:28Colonel, there appears to be a lot of pressure at home right now.
00:26:45Todd talks about you a great deal.
00:26:47Seems clear you've always had a strong relationship.
00:26:50He's my son, and I love him.
00:26:52But I don't see what that's got to do with this.
00:26:55Don't you?
00:26:55Look, doctor, I'm sure you're very good at what you do.
00:27:01But I don't think this is getting us anywhere.
00:27:05Todd made a mistake.
00:27:09He's got to deal with his punishment, learn from it, and move on.
00:27:14Right, Todd?
00:27:14You and your dad live by a pretty tough code of behavior, don't you, Todd?
00:27:20I guess so.
00:27:21Let me ask you something.
00:27:23Did you ever wonder what would happen if you failed to live up to that code?
00:27:26I'd get in life trouble.
00:27:29See, maybe it was possible if you were trying to test things.
00:27:32See if your dad still loved you just as much, even after you got caught.
00:27:37Todd.
00:27:37We watched the game together tonight.
00:27:44You're leaving?
00:27:45Now?
00:27:48I gotta go.
00:27:49I'm really sorry.
00:27:51How could you do this?
00:27:53I'll be there for tip-off.
00:27:55Save me a seat, huh?
00:27:58Sorry.
00:27:58Sorry.
00:28:07I was just getting ready to leave.
00:28:21If anybody but you, I'd be gone by now.
00:28:23It wasn't exactly convenient accommodating your schedule.
00:28:26You've got exactly six minutes.
00:28:29Make it good.
00:28:31Have you ever heard of a classified covert exercise involving the military and the CIA
00:28:36called Slam Dunk?
00:28:42Could the president have approved this exercise without you having known?
00:28:47The political answer?
00:28:48Sure.
00:28:48The truth?
00:28:49No.
00:28:50Last Sunday, I learned that General Lloyd was operating a betting pool over the NBA playoffs.
00:28:57Pentagon's always got betting pools.
00:28:58So what?
00:28:59The general told me he doesn't even know who's playing.
00:29:01I'd say that's not like him.
00:29:03He's never lied to me before.
00:29:06The same day, I noticed that live ammunition had been ordered for this weekend's alert.
00:29:13So I did some checking.
00:29:15And I found out two things.
00:29:18First, that they were training more for seizure, not for protection.
00:29:24Second, this live ammunition was ordered for this operation, Slam Dunk.
00:29:28I talked to the general, told him that there must have been a communications glitch because
00:29:36I was not informed of the situation.
00:29:38And?
00:29:40He said that the president wanted to keep the list short on this one.
00:29:44He said he'd send me the file, but he hasn't shown it to me yet.
00:29:48Go on.
00:29:48General Lloyd has been meeting privately with Secretary Potter, other members of the cabinet.
00:29:58It doesn't add up.
00:30:00You have absolutely nothing but your own conjecture.
00:30:02Standard exercise calls for 10,000 men.
00:30:05This weekend, we're deploying 100,000 troops into the 12 major cities of this country.
00:30:11And there's one more thing.
00:30:16What's that?
00:30:18The troops have been armed with chemical weapons.
00:30:21I need to talk to the president.
00:30:34How are you?
00:30:35Good to see you.
00:30:36And now, I was getting you.
00:30:39Arthur Dantle.
00:30:40I'm going to call you in the morning.
00:31:06I'm going to call you out.
00:31:29Mr. Daniel.
00:31:30Mr. Daniel?
00:31:31Sir! Sir!
00:31:57Oh, man!
00:32:01We're trying to avoid this new...
00:32:03...interrupt this program for a special report.
00:32:06Good evening, this is Iris Gitter in front of the Watergate Plaza in Washington, D.C.,
00:32:10where just moments ago U.S. Attorney General Arthur Daniels collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack.
00:32:15You can see that the police are closing off the area.
00:32:18People are still leaving the fundraising event that the Attorney General was attending.
00:32:22He had no previous record of a heart attack or heart problems.
00:32:25We'll keep you posted on what happened here.
00:32:27Now back to you in the studio.
00:32:29Thanks.
00:32:31Yes, sir?
00:32:32Our friend would like you to come for a visit.
00:32:34Eastgate, 40 minutes.
00:32:36Right, 40 minutes, I'll be there.
00:32:37Thanks, Frank.
00:32:38Defense!
00:32:39Defense!
00:32:40Defense!
00:32:41Defense!
00:32:42Defense!
00:32:43Defense!
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00:33:25I don't know.
00:33:56Ready?
00:34:04Mr. President, Colonel Matt Casey.
00:34:11Please sit down, Colonel.
00:34:13I prefer to stand. Thank you, sir.
00:34:16Tell me about the general.
00:34:19Sir, this is very uncomfortable for me.
00:34:22Because it concerns a superior officer that I admire and respect.
00:34:25Understood.
00:34:27The general believes that war is inevitable.
00:34:31And the next time we will lose because we have lost our ability to fight.
00:34:38I'd like to ask you a question, sir.
00:34:40Go ahead.
00:34:41Yesterday, I saw a private memo.
00:34:46An advanced chemical disabling weapon called Reagent Alpha One
00:34:49had been authorized for this weekend's alert.
00:34:54Only the National Command Authority can do that, sir.
00:34:58I didn't order it.
00:34:59The only other person with that authority is Secretary Potter.
00:35:05Yes, sir.
00:35:13Now, let me ask you a question.
00:35:14You believe General Lloyd is a hero?
00:35:21Yes, I do.
00:35:22Can a hero be a traitor?
00:35:26I'm afraid he could be.
00:35:27So you think there's a military plot to take over the government?
00:35:33Naked military takeover?
00:35:35Not in this country.
00:35:36The people would never stand for it.
00:35:39The men in arms are just regular American kids.
00:35:42They wouldn't stand for it either.
00:35:44There has to be something more.
00:35:46The military action has to be supporting something.
00:35:51Something within the law that the people could accept.
00:35:57The Attorney General.
00:35:59He died of a heart attack, sir.
00:36:03Mark Daniels just had his physical a week ago at Bethesda.
00:36:07We asked about it.
00:36:10He was in perfect health.
00:36:11The KGB used to use smoke and prussic acid.
00:36:19Death was instantaneous.
00:36:21Looked like a coronary.
00:36:23Our boys could have done the same thing.
00:36:26You believe Art Daniels was assassinated?
00:36:30What I do not believe in, sir, is coincidence.
00:36:35Maybe Daniels found out.
00:36:36Maybe he was even involved in it.
00:36:39Maybe he just had a heart attack.
00:36:42Maybe.
00:36:45Mac has a list of 22 names.
00:36:49They're the commanders of the exercise this weekend.
00:36:52He thinks they'll make a move during the alert.
00:36:54If it is true, all you can do is fire them.
00:36:57Now.
00:36:58What about the other generals?
00:37:00Do I trust them?
00:37:02Just because Colonel Casey hasn't found their names yet?
00:37:05If I fire my top 22 generals, claim they're traitors without proof...
00:37:14You could be impeached.
00:37:16It's a possibility, sir, and a chance we might just have to take.
00:37:24Sir, we don't know what they're planning.
00:37:26Or what they'd do to protect themselves if they suspected that we knew.
00:37:30They might move it up.
00:37:33They might go immediately.
00:37:35We tip our hands right now.
00:37:37We are giving up our tactical advantage to surprise them.
00:37:39Frankly, sir, that is the only advantage that we have.
00:37:42And what are we supposed to do with our tactical advantage?
00:37:45We're going to find out who they are, what they're planning, and how to stop them in 69 hours.
00:37:51You're a career military.
00:37:53You're General Lloyd's protege.
00:37:55Why didn't you join them?
00:37:57They didn't ask me.
00:37:58If they had.
00:37:58The military exists to support and defend the government.
00:38:05Not to be the government, sir.
00:38:08Should I worry about where your loyalties lie?
00:38:14I'm here.
00:38:18I'm the one who blew the whistle, sir.
00:38:28I'm the one who blew the whistle, sir.
00:38:58I'm the one who blew the whistle, sir.
00:39:28I'm the one who blew the whistle, sir.
00:39:38I'm the one who blew the whistle, sir.
00:40:23I'm sorry.
00:40:44What time did you get in last night?
00:40:47When?
00:40:48Mac, you've done classified work before.
00:40:50You've always told me something.
00:40:51It's different.
00:40:54How?
00:40:56There's something you should let me know.
00:40:59If I could, I would.
00:41:03I see.
00:41:04You run out on us twice in one night?
00:41:11You don't come back home until three in the morning?
00:41:15Honey.
00:41:16For 15 years?
00:41:17I mean, I haven't given you trouble like that.
00:41:22I never thought so.
00:41:25I'm no angel, Gene.
00:41:28I may be a lousy father.
00:41:30But I promise, I'll be there for him.
00:41:36I'm trying really hard to believe that.
00:41:39Good morning, Mr. President.
00:41:48Good morning, Mr. President.
00:41:49How does it look this morning?
00:41:51Did our colonel just have a bad dream?
00:41:53I'm afraid it's not going to go away.
00:41:56What amazes me is, if this thing hasn't leaked yet.
00:42:02I want you to scrub my meeting with Karen instead.
00:42:06Throw some smoke at the press, but I'm working on foreign affairs for a change.
00:42:11Tell me about Casey.
00:42:12Are you confident about him?
00:42:14I've known him for a long time.
00:42:17We're making a big bet on one man.
00:42:20So what do we do?
00:42:20We're going to have a national security advisor from Kiev?
00:42:23Oh, Charlie Potter would smell a rat right off.
00:42:25I thought Charlie was my friend.
00:42:29And if we get lucky, find a guy who's not a conspirator.
00:42:32How do we know?
00:42:33Leave and help us.
00:42:35FBI Secret Service?
00:42:37If Daniels could have been in on it.
00:42:39Why not the FBI?
00:42:41Why not anybody?
00:42:42You might get a hand from Daniels' private secretary, Sarah, or something.
00:42:47She's not too bright.
00:42:48I'll make up a story if you're not a call.
00:42:55You might have control.
00:43:01Yeah.
00:43:01Colonel Casey, please.
00:43:03Yeah, he's right here.
00:43:04Hang on.
00:43:05Max?
00:43:06Yeah.
00:43:09Lou.
00:43:09Please hold for the chief of staff.
00:43:11That's right.
00:43:12Yeah.
00:43:12The attorney general's secretary is a Sarah McCann.
00:43:16You'll be meeting her tonight at the Justice Department.
00:43:19Okay.
00:43:209th Street entrance, 7 o'clock.
00:43:22That'll give the building time to clear.
00:43:24Oh, your name is Wycliffe.
00:43:26Philip.
00:43:26I gotta go now.
00:43:27I gotta go.
00:43:30Hey, saw you checking out of the White House last night.
00:43:32What are you, special advisor to the president?
00:43:35It wasn't me, pal.
00:43:38Mac?
00:43:40Sir.
00:43:42Did you forget something to say?
00:43:43You've been working too hard.
00:43:47You take care of this briefing and then take a three-day pass and spend some time with the family.
00:43:51That's an order.
00:43:53Thank you, sir.
00:43:53Thank you, sir.
00:44:04Mr. Wycliffe.
00:44:16I'm Sarah McCann.
00:44:20Could you have had another appointment book?
00:44:23Private one, maybe.
00:44:24No, just that one, I think.
00:44:29Did General Lloyd come her off?
00:44:31Just that once.
00:44:34Can you remember anything about that?
00:44:36How the general looked when he went in, when he came out?
00:44:39The attorney general's mood after the meeting.
00:44:43Well, they fought.
00:44:44I heard both of their voices raised through the door, but I couldn't hear any words.
00:44:49And when they came out, they were smiling.
00:44:54Sarah?
00:44:57Could you sit down for a second?
00:45:04What did Miss Corcoran tell you about the situation?
00:45:09Miss Corcoran didn't call me.
00:45:11The president called me.
00:45:13Himself.
00:45:14He said I should give you anything you ask for.
00:45:17And to keep this a secret, because Mr. Daniels had some enemies.
00:45:21And that you were defending Mr. Daniels' good name.
00:45:23He wasn't a perfect man, but he was a good man.
00:45:31You see, the president said for you to give me whatever I ask.
00:45:36But what we're looking for, it's a secret.
00:45:40So I don't know what to ask.
00:45:41You know.
00:45:45You know.
00:45:45This wasn't anything like Watergate.
00:46:02This was just for his memoirs.
00:46:04And he wouldn't have written anything until after everyone had retired.
00:46:07And then he would have handled everything with integrity.
00:46:13I need the tapes, Sarah.
00:46:15Especially the ones from Tuesday.
00:46:17He didn't give them to me.
00:46:19They were at his house.
00:46:20I think.
00:46:22Is there anybody there?
00:46:24No.
00:46:24After the divorce, he lived by himself.
00:46:30I have a key.
00:46:30I have a key.
00:46:53I have a key.
00:47:23Oh, my God.
00:47:53Oh, my God.
00:48:23This thing does go deeper than the military.
00:48:25It proves it to us.
00:48:26It doesn't prove it to the country.
00:48:28Now we're down to 48 hours.
00:48:3245.
00:48:33I'll update the president.
00:48:35Okay.
00:48:36Okay.
00:48:36What's the matter?
00:49:06Are you tired?
00:49:07You run.
00:49:08You run home.
00:49:09Run home now.
00:49:09Let's go.
00:49:10Go.
00:49:10Go.
00:49:11I don't have time to explain.
00:49:12Now go.
00:49:13I don't have time to explain.
00:49:17I don't have time to explain.
00:49:17I don't have time to explain.
00:49:18I don't have time to explain.
00:49:19I don't have time to explain.
00:49:20I don't have time to explain.
00:49:20I don't have time to explain.
00:49:21I don't have time to explain.
00:49:22I don't have time to explain.
00:49:22I don't have time to explain.
00:49:23I don't have time to explain.
00:49:24I don't have time to explain.
00:49:24I don't have time to explain.
00:49:25Let's go.
00:49:55We just want to talk to you.
00:50:25Colonel Casey.
00:50:32Who are you?
00:50:38Call me Jake.
00:50:42Jake.
00:50:43Would you prefer Joe?
00:50:46No.
00:50:47Jake is fine.
00:50:47I didn't know you guys were still in business.
00:50:51Yes, we Russians have a great respect for our traditions.
00:50:55What am I doing here?
00:50:57You are Colonel Lyle MacArthur Casey.
00:51:03And you are tracking your own superior, General Lloyd, and reporting back to the White House.
00:51:09That is why I wish to speak with you.
00:51:13Colonel, we know that you are facing a conspiracy in your government, Colonel.
00:51:19We wish to help.
00:51:22President Foster is a humanitarian, sympathetic to the plight of my people.
00:51:29And a militarily controlled U.S. is not in our best interests.
00:51:39Fort Benning.
00:51:42Here is NORAD.
00:51:44Now Tampa, troop movements, all from this morning.
00:51:53How did you get these photographs?
00:51:55We accessed your high resolution satellites.
00:52:00Very simple.
00:52:00Next, Hunting Lodge.
00:52:06Blue Ridge Mountains.
00:52:08Four meetings in six weeks.
00:52:11Always these very same men.
00:52:19Now, Colonel, the Pentagon is the best news manager in the world.
00:52:25Your general has all he needs.
00:52:28The politicians, the military, public opinion, and the next president.
00:52:37Vice President Kelly.
00:52:45Walter Kelly.
00:52:47Why am I not surprised?
00:52:50And Jack Giddings.
00:52:51More money than God and the moral sense of an ant.
00:52:54Fire everybody in sight.
00:52:56The whole fucking cabinet.
00:52:58I can't fire the vice president.
00:53:00And I can't fire Jack Giddings.
00:53:02What's worse, I can't prove anything.
00:53:05What about these photographs?
00:53:06You want me to go on TV and say,
00:53:08I got these photos from the Russians of our bases,
00:53:11which incriminate the most popular hero in the United States.
00:53:15The vote to impeach would end gridlocker.
00:53:19It would be unanimous and bipartisan.
00:53:20And then Walter Kelly waltzes into the Oval Office through the front door.
00:53:26We still have some time, sir.
00:53:29Go back to your friends, Mac.
00:53:33There's got to be more.
00:53:34Get me some proof I can use.
00:53:36We're down to 35 hours.
00:53:37We have to do something.
00:53:39I know what I'm doing.
00:53:42Yes?
00:53:42Excuse me, sir.
00:53:44The president's on line one.
00:53:46Good afternoon, General.
00:53:48Good afternoon, Mr. President.
00:53:50General, I'll come straight to the point.
00:53:52I want to cancel the alert this weekend.
00:53:58If I may, sir,
00:54:00this exercise is vital to our readiness as we discussed.
00:54:05I agree, General.
00:54:06I'm not suggesting we cancel it indefinitely,
00:54:09but with everything that's happened,
00:54:12I want to postpone it.
00:54:13Of course, the final decision is up to you, sir,
00:54:16but I must say I cannot endorse your decision.
00:54:20I take that under consideration, General,
00:54:23but I'm afraid my decision is final.
00:54:26I want it canceled.
00:54:28Goodbye, General.
00:54:36Bye, Mr. President.
00:54:45Arthur Daniels had the same respect for life,
00:54:49family, and God
00:54:50as for the law he swore to uphold.
00:54:54He left us a legacy of decency,
00:54:57decency in every aspect of his life.
00:55:00For those of us who knew him,
00:55:02we learned to admire and respect him.
00:55:06We shall miss him greatly.
00:55:09Let us pray.
00:55:11Unto thee, O Lord,
00:55:13do I lift up my soul.
00:55:15O my God, I trust you.
00:55:18Let me not be ashamed.
00:55:20Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
00:55:23Let none that wait on thee be ashamed.
00:55:26Let them be ashamed
00:55:27which transgress without cause.
00:55:30Show me thy ways, O Lord.
00:55:32Teach me thy paths.
00:55:34Consider mine enemies,
00:55:35for they are many,
00:55:37and they hate me with cruel hatred.
00:55:40For keep my soul and deliver me.
00:55:42Let me not be ashamed,
00:55:44for I put my trust in thee.
00:55:46Brilliant.
00:55:47That you are off.
00:55:48Dear Lord,
00:55:48good to see you.
00:55:49Let your son, Arthur Daniels,
00:55:52be with you today.
00:55:53One,
00:55:54and
00:55:55try again.
00:56:00Aim,
00:56:00fire.
00:56:01Ready, aim,
00:56:04fire.
00:56:06Ready, aim,
00:56:09fire.
00:56:10Ready,
00:56:12aim,
00:56:13fire.
00:56:14Ready,
00:56:15aim,
00:56:17fire.
00:56:17Try again.
00:56:20Freeze, Ed.
00:56:22Ah!
00:56:26Order.
00:56:27Ah!
00:56:35It's unfortunate that this was necessary.
00:56:39We're going to get our hands dirty no matter how antiseptically we do this.
00:56:47We're shutting it down.
00:56:53Try it again.
00:56:54Look, I've already gone where no lieutenant's gone before.
00:56:58Try it again, lieutenant.
00:57:00Colonel, this ain't kosher.
00:57:01Dammit, Billy, you just...
00:57:02You go have a cup of coffee, okay?
00:57:17If I were in agreement, this thing is a go for tomorrow.
00:57:35Colonel.
00:57:52Lieutenant.
00:57:54Sir.
00:57:55Was that Colonel Casey?
00:57:57No, sir.
00:58:01He's on a three-day pass, sir.
00:58:04Thank you, lieutenant.
00:58:06Carry on.
00:58:09Sir.
00:58:09Sir.
00:58:09If I don't get some hard proof by 8 o'clock tomorrow night, there'll be no second chances.
00:58:21Now, we came forward to you.
00:58:23Why would I hold back hard proof?
00:58:26To compromise with some other interests of yours?
00:58:29Maybe an agent you have in place?
00:58:31Hypothetically speaking, if such an agent existed, I presume one could bargain.
00:58:43One can always bargain.
00:58:48Jordan Almonds.
00:58:50I'm addicted.
00:58:52I need a witness to testify, Jake.
00:58:53The agent in place has been a bit of a problem to us for reasons that I cannot say.
00:59:01Going to the other side, is he?
00:59:03Let's just say emotional problems.
00:59:05Let me think on this.
00:59:10The third baseman.
00:59:13You're out of here.
00:59:14My child.
00:59:15Get a strong will on you.
00:59:16I love this game.
00:59:21The Russians are hoping for a deal.
00:59:23Get me proof.
00:59:27And their agent goes home.
00:59:29Yes, sir.
00:59:30I'm going to be contacting on that.
00:59:31Let's pray it soon.
00:59:34Because with 20 hours to go, we've got nothing.
00:59:37The ultimate will be a confession.
00:59:39Someone inside the conspiracy.
00:59:41Why would anybody do that?
00:59:42Especially since they'd be confessing to treason.
00:59:45Maybe even murder.
00:59:50Keep thinking about Art Daniels.
00:59:53The one thing he would never do is go against the Constitution.
01:00:01We live in a highly evolved democracy.
01:00:05They're going to have to do something to give this thing the appearance, the illusion of legality.
01:00:12Amendment 25, ratified after Kennedy.
01:00:25Presidential Disability and Succession Act.
01:00:27Section 4.
01:00:28Whenever the vice president and majority of either the principal officers of the executive department,
01:00:34sound like the cabinet, sir.
01:00:37Keep reading.
01:00:38Or of such other body as Congress may by law provide,
01:00:41transmit to the president pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
01:00:45their written declaration that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,
01:00:51the vice president shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting president.
01:00:58Just by sending a letter.
01:00:59You can be removed from office.
01:01:00If I write a letter saying that I am not disabled, I don't automatically get my job back.
01:01:08The other side gets four days to say that I am disabled, which they will,
01:01:13and then the Congress gets 21 days to meet and vote on it.
01:01:16And through all that time, Walter Kelly, that backbiting, remains president.
01:01:24I'll be damned, that's it.
01:01:30That's what, sir?
01:01:31They want a new president they can control.
01:01:34The 25th Amendment makes it legal.
01:01:39That's their cover.
01:01:44This letter was delivered at 8 o'clock this evening.
01:01:47Accordingly, I speak to you now as your president.
01:01:50But we aren't going to try the issues of Will Foster's mental and emotional stability.
01:01:56Not tonight.
01:01:57These issues will be tried in the Congress as required by our Constitution.
01:02:01The system will work its will in this crisis as it has in others.
01:02:07Every man is imperfect by nature.
01:02:09And every nation throughout history has been ruled by men.
01:02:13Every nation but ours.
01:02:15I have therefore decided, in consultation with other government leaders,
01:02:19as a purely temporary measure,
01:02:21that for the next 72 hours there will be a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
01:02:26The writ of habeas corpus will be suspended during this time.
01:02:29Accordingly, I have placed in the hands of our Joint Chiefs of Staff...
01:02:32We may want to change that.
01:02:35It smells of a military hometown.
01:02:37When you say you place the power into their hands,
01:02:39there's a sense that you're giving up control.
01:02:41Wrong.
01:02:42You're the president.
01:02:43They're simply your traffic cops.
01:02:47So I've given an order to the...
01:02:48I've given orders to the...
01:02:49And just lighten up the tone a little through this section here.
01:02:53Let the words carry the power.
01:02:55It's a purely temporary measure.
01:02:57They don't like Will Foster any more than we do.
01:03:00But he is the elected president.
01:03:02You're simply letting them off the hook.
01:03:05They'll feel relieved.
01:03:07That's what they want to feel.
01:03:09Nurture that.
01:03:11Let's do it again.
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01:07:36What do you want to do?
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01:07:39lights Nathan?
01:07:40Let's go!
01:07:42Hello.
01:07:43Yes, sir.
01:07:44Dad is the name of the Oil.
01:07:46Okay, let's.
01:07:47We gotta go.
01:07:48I love your victory.
01:07:49Iama, you gotta go now.
01:07:50You gotta go now.
01:07:51Mom.
01:07:52Where are we going?
01:07:53Huh?
01:07:54You wanna talk to me?
01:07:55You talk to me in a public place.
01:07:57One hour, you pick him.
01:07:59Fine.
01:08:05Hey, don't worry.
01:08:27Anybody asks, all I saw was the inside of my empty desk.
01:08:31What do you mean?
01:08:32I've been transferred to Hawaii.
01:08:34Infective immediately.
01:08:36I put in for it a few years ago, but I never heard anything.
01:08:38Now suddenly...
01:08:43Take care, okay?
01:08:49You too.
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01:09:39If there'll be any left after you.
01:09:44What have you been doing, Mac?
01:09:46I've been watching your covert exercise.
01:09:48It was agreed that no one under the rank of general would know.
01:09:51That's why you were left out of the discussions.
01:09:54Potter is no general.
01:09:55Jack Giddings is no general.
01:09:58You've been managed.
01:10:00You're not going to get what you want
01:10:01unless Potter and Giddings get what they want.
01:10:03We all want the same thing,
01:10:04a country secure from foreign aggression.
01:10:06Well, we can have that
01:10:07as long as we have a country worth fighting for.
01:10:10But who is going to want to fight
01:10:11for Jack Giddings or Potter?
01:10:13Not me. You can count me out.
01:10:14You would stand by and watch everything
01:10:17that we fought and died for
01:10:19betrayed by a man who never wore a uniform.
01:10:24He is the elected president.
01:10:26It will be put to the people
01:10:28by way of referendum.
01:10:31It will still be a democracy.
01:10:32No.
01:10:33It will be a scare.
01:10:35Mac, you are a fine soldier
01:10:37and a good man.
01:10:39But I don't want to see you make the wrong choice.
01:10:42You've got to stop this thing, General.
01:10:43It's too late.
01:10:46Power will change hands
01:10:48by constitutional process.
01:10:53Don't get caught
01:10:54in the path
01:10:56of righteous change, son.
01:11:00You are a traitor.
01:11:01This conversation is academic.
01:11:11So, excuse me,
01:11:13it's my turn to go
01:11:14to the White House.
01:11:15you are a traitor.
01:16:29You are prepared to back up that charge.
01:16:32I cancelled this weekend's alert, General.
01:16:34You have disobeyed a direct order.
01:16:37In addition, you have used defense funds to plan a covert military operation.
01:16:42I'll be right back.
01:16:48I'll be right back.
01:16:49I'll be right back.
01:16:50But every detail for you, but every detail for slam dunk was authorized by your secretary of defense here, who is in the national chain of command.
01:16:57It seems to me, Mr. President, it seems to me, Mr. President, it seems to me, Mr. President, it seems to me, Mr. President, that I made a note in my diary the day you and I decided to go ahead with slam dunk.
01:17:04There is no other day, Mr. President, it seems to me, Mr. President, Mr. President, to me, Mr. Hunters, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President.
01:17:13I can't fire Walter, I'm sorry to say.
01:17:19But both of you and the rest of the cabinet are hereby terminated forthwith.
01:17:24You mean before we sign the letter?
01:17:30The letter's already been sent, Will.
01:17:33Walter's been president for over an hour.
01:17:37Your failures of judgment can no longer be indulged.
01:17:43I'll see you in hell first.
01:17:54That's a date.
01:17:55I didn't think you'd mind.
01:17:59What have you got, Mac?
01:18:00We don't have much time, Mr. President.
01:18:01Go ahead.
01:18:03You start calling.
01:18:05You order back the troops.
01:18:07You kill the letter and you cancel the telecast.
01:18:09And when you are done calling, this whole thing, it never happened.
01:18:14And if we don't, what are you going to do?
01:18:17I'm going to confess.
01:18:20I'm going to confess to my complicity in our plot.
01:18:26To the press.
01:18:27To the networks.
01:18:30A military plot to overthrow the government.
01:18:31Led by these gentlemen.
01:18:36I know all the details.
01:18:39I have a request.
01:18:42For live ammo for slam dunk.
01:18:44I will explain how Arthur Daniels was murdered.
01:18:47Causing his body to be exhumed.
01:18:50And I will confess.
01:18:52To the ordered murder.
01:18:54Of his secretary, Sarah, myself.
01:18:55The post will find.
01:19:00Memos.
01:19:01And General Lloyd's private code.
01:19:05Tucked away in some very interesting files.
01:19:08It's a memo from Lloyd to Daniels.
01:19:11Sets up most of the plot.
01:19:13Clear about my involvement.
01:19:15And of course, yours.
01:19:20Who's going to believe you?
01:19:22Nobody knows who you are.
01:19:24You're just another colonel.
01:19:26So was Oliver North.
01:19:28People are funny.
01:19:30They won't believe an accusation from the president.
01:19:33But they'll believe a confession.
01:19:35From just about anybody.
01:19:47You'd go all the way with this.
01:19:51Career, family.
01:19:52You'd lose it all.
01:19:54I'll lose it all anyway if you're in charge.
01:20:01Here's what we're going to do.
01:20:04We're going to stagger the resignations over the next year.
01:20:07I'm not going to fire you.
01:20:10Not yet.
01:20:12First, you're going to stand behind me while I announce the general's resignation, which I want now.
01:20:19Alert the networks.
01:20:20Get everything ready.
01:20:21Today I want to talk to the nation in ten minutes.
01:20:23I don't propose, general, that the country ever find out just how close you came to tearing it into pieces.
01:20:30Mac?
01:20:32Mac?
01:20:33Sir.
01:20:41Make sure the general carries out my order.
01:20:43Yes, sir.
01:20:48Let's go.
01:20:49You've got some phone calls to make.
01:20:51Do you know who Judas was, Colonel?
01:21:06Yes.
01:21:09I know who Judas was.
01:21:12He was a man I worked for and once respected until I disgraced the four stars of his uniform.
01:21:18My fellow Americans, tonight I must announce with deep regret that I have asked for and accepted the resignation of General R. Pendleton Lloyd as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
01:21:48I have the highest regard for the general.
01:21:52However, he recently conceded to Secretary Potter and to me that our differences are just too great to reconcile.
01:22:03That being the case, I had no choice but to accept his resignation.
01:22:08In recent months, there has been abroad and in this land a whisper that we have somehow lost our greatness.
01:22:19Well, it is not so.
01:22:21We must not allow ourselves to be persuaded to exchange our liberties for anyone else's order.
01:22:32We must not be dismayed if democracy, even in crisis, is an untidy form of government.
01:22:41We are united in remaining strong and proud, peaceful, and committed to laying down our lives for our way of life, if need be.
01:22:57Good night.
01:22:59And God bless you.
01:23:02And God bless the United States of America.
01:23:05God bless the United States of America.
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01:23:35God bless the United States of America.
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