it will. You know
why? I'll tell you why.
Why is the president in China?
- Trade relations.
- You're goddamn right.
It's got nothing to do
with the B-3 bomber.
- There is no B-3 bomber.
- I just said that. There is no B-3 bomber.
I don't know why these
rumors get started.
All right. I need $20,000. I need a car.
All right. Get me a car and driver.
The southwest gate now, please.
What?
What is it?
Campaign commercial.
Should we look at it?
Yeah, yeah. Put it in.
This should be interesting.
What is it?
The rough cut. The other
side's new commercial.
The Neal commercial?
Yeah. We had somebody steal it.
This'll be on the air
the day after tomorrow.
In the final days of the campaign...
...has the president changed his tune?
/Thank heaven for little girls.
The presidency is about honor.
/Thank heaven for little girls.
It's about principles.
/Without them, what
/would little boys do?
And it's about integrity.
This tune has got to change.
On election day, vote
Neal for president.
Oh, boy.
All right. Who's gonna take
the press conference today?
Is there a press conference today?
What do you think?
We gonna have to use this
as a base of operations.
I'm gonna need one day, two days.
Whoever's leaking that stuff
to the Post lets it slip...
"I hope this won't screw
up the B-3 program."
"What B-3 program, and why
should it screw it up?"
"If the president decides
to deploy the B-3...
"...before it's fully tested..."
"Deploy the B-3 before
it's fully tested?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Why? The crisis."
- What crisis?
- I'm working on that.
At the same time get General Scott
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...and put them on a plane
to Seattle right away.
He's nervous to talk
to the Boeing people.
- But?
- But? But what?
But there isn't a B-3 bomber.
- Where'd you go to school? Wellesley?
- Dartmouth.
Show a little spunk.
There is no B-3 bomber.
General Scott, to the
best of your knowledge...
...is not in Seattle to talk to Boeing.
Connie, it won't prove out.
It doesn't have to prove out. We just gotta
distract them. We just gotta distract them.
Got less than two weeks
till the election.
What in the world would do that?
What in the world would do that?
I'm working on it. I'm working on it.
Winifred, Mr. Brean.
Thank you.
- What's this?
- $20,000.
I gotta go to L.A. and
see a Hollywood producer.
Meet me at National in an hour.
We'll go to Chicago and
connect there to L.A.
See you at National.
Tell me...Tell me... Tell me this again.
We landing?
Tell me again.
Don't worry about. It's nothing new.
During Reagan's administration,
240 Marines killed in Beirut.
24 hours later, we invade Grenada.
That was their M.O.
Change the story, change the lead.
It's not a new concept.
Wake me when we land. We'll talk more.
Wait. We can't afford a war.
We're not gonna have a war.
We're having the appearance of a war.
We cannot afford appearance of a war.
- What'll it cost?
- But they would find out.
Who's gonna find out?
The American people?
- Exactly.
- Who's gonna tell them?
What did they find out
about the Gulf War?
One video of one bomb falls down
a chimney. Blows up the building.
The building could have
been made out of Legos.
- You really want us to go to war?
- That's the general idea.
With who?
I'm working on it.
- Albania?
- Yeah.
Why?
Why not? What do you know about them?
- Nothing.
- Precisely.
They seem shifty, they seem standoffish.
I mean, who knows from Albania? What do you
know about Albania? Who trusts Albanians?
What did Albania ever do to us?
What did they do for us?
This is why we have to
mobilize the B-3 bomber.
You really want to go
to war with Albania?
We don't have a choice.
This is what you do.
Get your press office
right now to deny it.
It didn't happen.
"Deny. There is no report
of Albanian activity."
They have to deny it.
- It didn't happen.
- Deny. Deny. Deny.
...news from the president
on his