Let justice be done.

@@jcbear1028 Justice has been served for Ahmaud

@@knivez786 Or to put it another way: The lynchers were pinched.

@@knivez786 Not just yet. When those three animals are rotting in a Georgia state prison, with daily sessions of having their pants around their ankles as the predominantly black general population turns them into sexual slaves.....then maybe, just maybe justice will be served.

@@viking956 I'm glad the idea of people being raped brings you joy

As a proud New England resident, born and raised, I endorse this sentiment.

I love how we go from humor to serious conversation in this show.

Although not quite on par with the West Wing as that is something truly special, have you watched The Newsroom? Also created by Aaron Sorkin and worth a look if you haven't :)

@@thatdrewrivers I've heard of that actually, haven't seen it yet.

@@thatdrewrivers I liked that show too and really don't know why it didn't last. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was good too and the same thing, it got cut.

@@liman42 At least unlike many-a-show, it had an ending. Too many times they'll cancel a show, leave you hanging and you're left with that feeling of... "Oi... I was watching that!!"

@ZATennisFan - Truth & sincerity has a power that us mere mortals have trouble to comprehend. Great info, thanks.

@@theolamp5312 There is an episode of NCIS where something similar happened and once again the Marines refused to allow actors to do the burial routine. To them that job is sacred. Find the KZfaq video on the Burial detail Marines. And watch a movie called “Taking Chance”. Both are about a sacred duty done right.

In Excelsis Deo. My favorite too. The Little Drummer Boy was perfect.

Shut up you Liberal traitor puke!

That episode at Arlington was titled "The Little Drummer Boy", I believe. Brought tears to my eyes. I was born in '62. I had friends who had brothers killed in Viet Nam. Bad memories. Never forgotten.

Because it reminds us to aspire. Always aspire.

I assume you've seen Sorkin's other series. HBO's "The Newsroom". That opening scene still floors me.

So many little things in this show resonated deep within me. So many things. I’m black, 73 and have been a viracious reader all my life. We lived in some old houses and I found so many old books. When I was a very young teen I would go to my uncles home to pick up at his yard on week ends. He had no kids. He had an awesome library in one room. After doing my Saturday clean up work, I would be given lunch, be paid nd be allowed to pick/borrow three books from his home library. I read a couple of histories of the gangs of Chicago, New York and Boston. Stuff they did’t teach is school. The lines about Murder Inc and Jewish Mob hit me hard. It gave me another facet of the American experience that was more important than I had realized up until that until them.

Because they don't want the job, or they get killed.

@@JnEricsonx I hear you, way back when Barack Obama nominated, my friend became part of his election team, I commented to them that they shouldn’t become too attached, because odds were he would be assassinated. My friend cynically said he wouldn’t be assassinated because Presidents no longer have any power, it’s the money that has the power.

@@anthonyburke5656 Money isn't always the problem. It's the mind and intent behind it. But usually the big spenders are the psychos.

Because candidates have to RUN for president. Good statesmen/women don't magically get nominated and elected. They have to go through the brutal election process to get the job. Furthermore, it may sound unfeeling, but I don't want a president who governs with his feelings. I want presidents who govern with cold, hard logic. Presidents who do things that will work, rather than doubling down on failed policies of the past because they're letting their feelings get in the way of doing what actually works.

There are many excellent leaders in our country but many of them are just too humble to step up and take the reigns.

Incredible writing by Aaron Sorkin and acting by Richard Schiff

It gives us something to aspire too

Right? Two years after a violent mob of right-wing lunatics attacked the US capitol, and the ringleaders are still at large. "Well I'm waiting for the director of the FBI to behave like the director of the FBI. I'm waiting for the justice dept, I'm waiting for Congress, I'm WAITING FOR THE WHITE HOUSE TO BEHAVE THAT WAY!" - Toby

I doubt Aaron Sorkin had anything to do with Alan Alda joining the cast because Sorkin was long gone from the show by the time they debuted Senator Vinick. If I remember correctly, Sorkin stated that apart from 1 or 2 episodes after the start of season 5, he didn't watch the show after he left.

During the debates between Vinick and Santos, Vinick is seen smiling when Santos refutes his points about liberals being the ones making improvements to America. Some people have speculated that Vinick is embarrassed that his arguments were being refuted, but some people have also speculated that it's because Alda genuinely agrees with those statements.

Well said, couldn't agree more... It's a shame there aren't more Republicans like another one of Aaron Sorkin's characters... Will McAvoy from the show Newsroom played by Jeff Daniels...amazing show, excellent writing and acting.

Season 2 episode 3

This was right after the assassination attempt at the end of season 1. Bartlett and Josh both got shot but the Secret Service found out Bartlett wasn't the target, Charlie was. The shooters were white supremacists angry that the president's daughter was dating a black man and tried to kill (lynch) him by shooting him. They missed but he was the target.

You might try your local library, if you still have a DVD player. I found the entire series there.

@@richarddarlington1139 Thank you

@@julieenslow5915 You are most welcome.

@@SanskarWagley Thank you.

I always heard it as Seltzer

@@bigbrowntau It is seltzer. I've never known why it's called an egg cream: there's no egg, and not even cream. Milk, yes, but SKIM milk. That's Brooklyn for you.

Your experience of your region is not universal. You don't speak for anyone but you.

Hell, I'd take Vinick if I had to take a Republican.

The president was shot in the season 1 finale by white supremacists. It was revealed in the beginning of the second season that their target was actually Charlie, whom they wanted to kill because he was dating the president's daughter.

@@mjspreacher That was my first thought, but I saw the President, here, was unharmed, so I was trying to think what else it could have been.

@@watsonsd1 Bartlet was wounded in shooting. The timeline in this episode was when shooting was a couple months in the past.

That’s Martin Sheen, Charlie’s father.

@@watsonsd1 Bartlet says that he has intended to call the Attorney General about it for 12 weeks so we can assume it has at least been 12 weeks since then. In the episode with the initial shooting, Bartlet isn't shot anywhere important. He likely would have been fine to work within a couple days after his surgery.

Doubtful to the ignorant. Read the FBI' groups list.

The series doesn't pretend to be realistic but idealistic.

Wow. That is some unself-aware posting there.

All dialogue is unrealistic. Realistic conversation is messy, meandering, poorly paced. It doesn't have rhythm or meter. Dialogue needs to have all of these things, and it needs to communicate the point of the scene in an efficient but entertaining way. The brilliance of Sorkin's writing is that he's able to make these qualities seem more natural than they really are.

That’s Martin Sheen, Charlie’s father.

That’s part of what broke him up. Having all that power and not being able to stop his friends from being hurt.

Survivor's guilt is real.

Wow, how shallow can you get.

What a stupid comment. Go back to watching reruns of Ow My Balls.

How to knuckle type you missed the whole fking point without knuckle typing you missed the whole fking point 🤡

Um...are you talking about 1/6/2021? First, we can do MUCH better than gatling guns. Second, what does that possibly have to do with this clip?

It wouldn't have mattered if there were Tanks and BFVs at the Capitol. Who was the Commander & Chief on that dreadful day? The very man who was desperate to stay in power at any cost, and who fomented the violent mob. The order to fire would not have been given.

Actually being from Connecticut, I can tell you that New York is NOT part of New England. Comprised of six states, New England consists of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. A common misconception that New York is part of New England!

@@dexualhealing From an Australian viewpoint, we are led to understand that New York City at least is its own nation state!

New York part of New England!? Are you kidding? Say that in New England you may not make it out.

What comes from Brooklyn doesn't necessarily come from everywhere else around it. Also, regardless of whether or not NY is a part of New England, New Hampshire and New York are two very unique places.

this is the most unhinged comment i've ever seen on youtube

Yes, but at least he HAD a heart....and soul.

Better that than a right-wing blowhard.