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Whoa, whoa, whoa.

The president has a mistress named Ellie,

and Rittenhouse pretends

that he's having the affair

and takes the fall and resigns,

and the president buys him a yacht?

Son of a b*tch.

Oh, sh*t.

Oh, sh*t.

Right! OK, OK!

Oh, God. Oh, God.

FBI. If you would, please, ma'am.

What do I do with my car?

We'll take care of your car.

Just step back to my car.

- Get her car here.

- Got it

Let's go.

Would you come this way please?

Morton Entrekin, Ms Lerner.

I'm expected back at MSNBC at 6:00.

I think I should be there.

People knew about the Manhattan

Project, you know,

and they kept it a secret.

That was just the creation

of the atom bomb.

Hmm.

Ms Lerner, Tom Beck.

I understand you've come

into some information.

Ms Lerner was just expressing

her lack of enthusiasm

for matters of national security where

journalistic competitiveness is at stake.

Mr President, I'm not interested

in using Ellie to further my career.

What do you know about E.L.E.?

I know you should have picked a

better cover story than a sick wife.

See?

What did I tell you?

We'd always thought

the deadline for going public

was the publication of the budget,

since we've spent more

money than we can hide.

The budget comes out in 2 weeks.

I don't suppose I could convince

you to sit on this for 2 weeks.

No such thing as 2 weeks

in the news business.

And I can't appeal to your sense

of what's in the nation's best interest?

I always thought the truth was

in the nation's best interest.

You want to hold her?

What if we go public in 48 hours?

Now that's doable, isn't it?

That would be very difficult, Mr President.

Morton, if she knows, how long can it be

before CNN or the Post breaks the story?

This was never gonna be a secret

as long as you wanted it to be.

Give us 2 days, Ms Lerner.

You'll get second row, centre, at

the White House press conference.

Now, from what I know of your

career, that's a promotion.

I want exclusivity.

Now, listen, young lady.

This is a presidential favor.

I'm letting you go because

I don't want another headache.

And I'm trusting you because I know

what this can do for your career.

It might seem that we have each other

over the same barrel, Ms Lerner,

but it just seems that way.

I want--

Want?

May l...

May I have the first question?

We'll see you Tuesday,

Ms Lerner.

Come on, come on.

E.L.E., E.L.E.

Paleontology?

Paleontology?

What's paleontology

have to do with anything?

Come on.

Hey.

Hey.

Look who's working late.

How's Rittenhouse going?

No sign of the wife yet.

Is she missing?

No. We're still working on it.

We'll get there.

I know, it's a dull story.

Next time we'll get you

something more exciting.

Great.

Are you OK?

- Yeah.

- Want to come to dinner with us?

- I can't. I can't. I got my plans.

- Well, OK. We'll see you tomorrow.

Thank you.

Ah, here she is.

Jenny.

Hello.

Hi, Chloe.

Would you like some champagne, miss?

Martini...big.

I missed you.

I mean we missed you yesterday.

I must say, I'm...

I'm disturbed that you didn't come

to our wedding.

Jason, you promised.

I know I promised,

but it was a beautiful event,

and I missed her.

You should have been there.

The twins, they were

running around like mad

and throwing flowers.

It was wonderful, especially Emma.

You know, the little one.

She loves you.

It was beautiful.

She missed you, too.

All right.

This is from us for you.

Are you not going to open it?

I knew she wouldn't...

You can exchange them

if you don't like them.

Jenny, I know this is hard.

I just want you to be happy.

Happy.

Well,

I would like to propose

a toast to happiness

and to--

Are we going to have an evening or not?

Jenny, I know that you hate me.

I know that you have terrible things

that you want to say to me.

You have to get over it.

Life goes on.

Life goes on? OK.

What's so funny?

Life...

We'll see.

What's so funny about "life goes on"?

Life going on?

I don't think it's funny that life goes on.

Dad, you need to get

back together with Mom.

She's all alone in the world,

and she needs you right now OK?

Jenny.

I just got married.

I know, I know, and I'm sorry.

Chloe, this has nothing to do with you.

Well, it has to do something

for me, for Christ's sake.

This is insane.

- I have to apologize for my daughter.

- That is not your fault.

I'm sorry. I have to go.

I know you think I'm a bad person.

I'm really not.

And I don't hate you.

I just--I gotta go.

'Cause for her, it doesn't--

Excuse me.

Jenny. Hey.

What are you doing here?

Uh, yeah.

Did Stuart send you here

without telling me?

No.

If Stuart thinks he can push

me out of the White House--

Ms Lerner. Hi, Beth.

Right this way.

I've got you right down here.

Excuse me, please.

OK.

He'll find you for the first question.

Then you're on your own.

Hey, how are you?

Ladies and gentlemen.

Ladies and gentlemen, please

The president will begin

by addressing the nation.

Please hold your questions

until he's finished his remarks.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the President of the United States.

Hello, everybody.

- Mr President.

- Hello.

Good evening.

A few minutes ago

the United States ambassadors

to every country in the world

told the leaders of those nations

what I am about to tell you.

It's a bit complicated,

so it will take some time,

so I hope

you will bear with me,

hear what I have to say.

A little over a year ago,

Marcus Wolfand Leo Biederman,

working on a mountain top in Arizona...

Nobody say anything.

saw something in the night sky

that caused them great concern.

A comet.

But the comet was, well...

There was a remote possibility

that the comet was on a path

that could bring it into

direct contact with the Earth.

Now...

we get hit all the time

by rocks and meteors,

some of them the size of cars,

some no bigger than your hand.

But the comet we discovered

is the size of New York City.

From the north side

of Central Park to the Battery.

About 7 miles long.

Put another way,

this comet is larger than Mount Everest.

It weighs 500 billion tons.

Now, chances are...

Astrophysicists, geologists

and climatologists.

Where the hell

is Science?

Check with Tokyo, Tel Aviv.

I want everybody.

The Hale-Bopp stand-ups.

Graphics! I need graphics!

Comets begin far out in space.

They're what's left over

from the creation

of the solar system

after the planets were formed

billions of years ago.

These chunks

of space debris

are in an elongated orbit

around our sun,

but every now and then

one of them gets bumped

Like a billiard ball

on a pool table

and is knocked

into a different orbit.

If this comet continues

on its path around the sun

and keeps its present course,

sometime on August 1 6,

roughly a year from now,

there's a chance

that we might have impact.

So for the past 8 months,

the United States and Russia

have been building the largest

spaceship ever constructed.

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