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* Kirkman shooting down Cochrane's insistent on launching an attack on Iran when the FBI could only provide a ''seventy-five percent'' certainty that they knew who the perpetrators were.
-->'''Kirkman:''' You think I don't want to strike back against the people who did this? I lost colleagues, friends, people I love. I want to find every single person involved in this attack from planning to execution and rip them limb from limb, which is why I need to know '''exactly''' who did this! Come back to me with more than 75%, and I'll launch the damn missiles myself. ''(Storms out)''
-->'''Cochrane:''' [[AskAStupidQuestion How much more?]]
-->'''Kirkman:''' [[ShutUpHannibal TWENTY-FIVE, DAMN IT!]]

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* Kirkman brings in two lawyers from the Attorney General's office to advise him on how to deal with Governor Royce. They proceed to give him a string of conflicting suggestions, leading him to ask if they ever agree on anything. They simultaneously say "Yes" and "Not really".

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* Kirkman brings in two lawyers from the Attorney General's office to advise him on how to deal with Governor Royce. They proceed to give him a string of conflicting suggestions, leading him to suggestions.
-->'''Kirkman:''' Guys, let me
ask if they ever you a question: ...Can you agree on anything. They simultaneously say "Yes" and "Not really".''anything''?\\
'''Lawyer 1:''' Yes.\\
'''Lawyer 2:''' (simultaneously) Not really.\\
'''Kirkman:''' ...[[FacePalm Great.]]
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** Made even funnier when they later decide on gold, which is basically yellow.
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!! #slipperyslope

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!! #privacyplease

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!! #makehistory
* Kirkman is briefed about a nationwide teachers strike...while doing a Rubix Cube on the john.

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!! #makehistory
!!#makehistory
* Kirkman is briefed about a nationwide teachers strike...strike ... while doing a Rubix Cube on the john.

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-->'''Lorraine''': The color of cowardaience and urine, don't think so.

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-->'''Lorraine''': The color of cowardaience cowardice and urine, don't think so.


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!! #makehistory
* Kirkman is briefed about a nationwide teachers strike...while doing a Rubix Cube on the john.
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!! #privacyplease
* Lorraine is asking what color the Kirkman camp should show for the electoral map.
-->'''Worker''': Yellow?
-->'''Lorraine''': The color of cowardaience and urine, don't think so.
* Kirkman complains over having his transgender sister-in-law "dragged into" a huge political story.
-->'''Seth''': Let's avoid the word "drag."
* In a LeaningOnTheFourthWall moment, a woman hears Lorraine use the f-bomb and asks "are we allowed to swear like that?"
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* Hannah's supervisor asks if she has a life outside of work.
-->'''Hannah''': I go to a dog park on the weekends.
-->'''Dianne''': Oh, you have a dog?
-->'''Hannah''': No.
* Hannah convinces her boss to let her go into operations because if she has to stay one more day in the office, she's going to kill her co-worker.

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** Emily and Harper suggest Kirkman not make a huge deal of this and concentrate on his infrastructure bill.
-->'''Seth''': "President welcomes pedophile to Oval Office" or "road construction." Which do you think the news is going to lead with?
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* While it leads to a dramatic plot, there's also something funny when Kirkman meets with a rich Arab donor, poses with him and a fourteen year old girl...and then learns the girl isn't the man's daughter but his ''wife.''
** Kirkman is also forced to admit they can't fire "the idiot who vetted him" as he made the exact same mistake Kirkman did of thinking they were father/daughter.
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* Aaron is placed on a list of "sexiest politicians' which includes some shots of him jogging shirtless. He tries to brush it off but when he comes back to his office, he discovers someone has plastered copies of the photos all over the walls.
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* The sheer BlackComedy of this scene is glorious...

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* The RunningGag of Seth geeking out over going on Air Force One.

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* The RunningGag Running Gag of Seth geeking out over going on Air Force One.



* The RunningGag of Seth's jokes being unfunny leading up to the White House Correspondent's Dinner.

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* The RunningGag Running Gag of Seth's jokes being unfunny leading up to the White House Correspondent's Dinner.



* Lyor gets involved with a White House employee assessing the damage of a broken vase. When the employee informs her that it was at least more than $1 million, Lyon informs her that he'll settle for dinner to negotiate and he happens to be gluten free.

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* Lyor gets involved with a White House employee assessing the damage of a broken vase. When the employee informs her him that it was at least more than $1 million, Lyon Lyor informs her that he'll settle for dinner to negotiate and he happens to be gluten free.
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!!In the Dark
* Lyor's "encounter" with the Japanese Finance Minister. Emily is the OnlySaneMan in the meeting.

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* Seth and Lyor are forced to share a room at Camp David. Seth is already annoyed when he sees Lyor putting on a massive mask for a breathing apparatus, a sleep mask and putting on yoga music with a booming narrator.

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* Seth and Lyor are forced to share a room at Camp David. Seth is already annoyed when he sees Lyor putting on a massive mask for a breathing apparatus, apparatus that lets out a groaning hum, a sleep mask and putting on yoga music with a booming narrator. narrator.
** And the next morning, Lyor complains about Seth talking in his sleep as "very annoying."
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!! Summit
* Seth and Lyor are forced to share a room at Camp David. Seth is already annoyed when he sees Lyor putting on a massive mask for a breathing apparatus, a sleep mask and putting on yoga music with a booming narrator.
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* One of the letters the president got is from a man asking for help on his bees dying, which leads to an intervention with the FAA. [[spoiler:It turns out the man's wife had been purposely killing his bees and then blaming it on an new airport radar system.]]

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* One of the letters the president got is from a man asking for help on his bees dying, which leads to an intervention with the FAA. [[spoiler:It turns out the man's wife had been purposely killing his bees and then blaming it on an new airport radar system.bees.]]
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* One of the letters the president got is from a man asking for help on his bees dying, which leads to an intervention with the FAA.

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* One of the letters the president got is from a man asking for help on his bees dying, which leads to an intervention with the FAA. [[spoiler:It turns out the man's wife had been purposely killing his bees and then blaming it on an new airport radar system.]]
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** [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Seth and Lyor decide to leave when the man and his wife argue about the death of his bees.]]
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!!Three-Letter Day
* One of the letters the president got is from a man asking for help on his bees dying, which leads to an intervention with the FAA.
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!!Family Ties
* Emily is having a problem dealing with Seth and Lyor, the former being scheduled to trial for taking a certain amount of medicine that is going near borderline illegal and the latter improperly declaring his taxes since he didn't live with his wife since they got married in a chapel in Vegas.
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* Wells tells Damien that she can call DHS to get him deported. She says that it's like Uber, except with the inclusion of handcuffs.

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* Wells tells Damien Damian that she can call DHS to get him deported. She says that it's like Uber, except with the inclusion of handcuffs.
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!!Suckers
* Wells tells Damien that she can call DHS to get him deported. She says that it's like Uber, except with the inclusion of handcuffs.
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!!Equilibrium
* Lyor gets involved with a White House employee assessing the damage of a broken vase. When the employee informs her that it was at least more than $1 million, Lyon informs her that he'll settle for dinner to negotiate and he happens to be gluten free.
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!!One Year Later
* The introduction of Lyor.

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