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Clips from Scandal - The Fish Rots from the Head (S05E05)

"What do you think, David?"
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"Sally: Lovers of Liberty, I bring you"
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"the Vice-President of the United States"
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"and Republican presidential hopeful,"
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"Susan Ross."
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"Glad to be here, Sally."
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"Let's just cut through the hay and talk horses."
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"Francisco Luis Vargas... doesn't that just roll off the tongue?"
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"Ma'am, if you could just"
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"take one step back from the monitor..."
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"I will literally murder you."
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"What say you?"
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"The Governor's education plan..."
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"is a dud."
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"The bottom line... It does more harm than good."
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"There's no way to cover free college education"
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"in this country without raising everyone's taxes by a lot."
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"Thank you for being here."
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"Up next, are your hard-earned tax dollars"
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"going to educate our youth in the ways of Satan?"
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"Woman: And we're clear."
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"[Indistinct talking]"
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"[Camera shutter clicking]"
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"[Both breathing heavily]"
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"[Laughs]"
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"Sorry."
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"What?"
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"Nothing."
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"It's just, one minute, I'm writing a fluff piece"
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"on the White House pastry chef, and the next, I'm..."
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"with the President of the United States."
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"Look, I should probably..."
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"Right."
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"Running the country."
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"Oh."
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"While I'm putting my journalist clothes back on,"
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"can I get you to comment on the rumors?"
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"What rumors?"
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"The ones about Olivia Pope"
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"secretly running your ex-wife's campaign."
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"Some courier reached out to my editor,"
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"said he picked up a copy of Mrs. Grant's memoir"
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"from Olivia Pope's apartment last month."
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"Saw them sitting in there like two old besties."
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"No comment?"
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"[Camera shutter clicking]"
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"It's Frankie's daughter."
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"What about his daughter?"
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"She's sick."
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"What do you mean sick?"
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"She has the flu? What kind of sick?"
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"She has cancer, Cyrus."
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"He doesn't want anyone to know while she's getting treatment."
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"He goes to the hospital as often as he can."
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"This man is not going to run for president."
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"His daughter's dying."
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"[Camera shutter clicking]"
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"I want to go back on Sally."
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"That's not a good idea."
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"You were encouraging me to do media."
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"I made a mistake."
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"You're better off staying at home,"
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"keeping your head down, doing what you can do"
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"at a local level, taking care of your family."
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"That's the life I think you want,"
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"and that's a noble life."
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"That's not the life you chose."
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"[Clears throat]"
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"It wasn't really my choice."
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"When I was 17..."
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"my little brother, Oliver, was hit by a drunk driver"
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"on his way home from school."
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"The car threw him 37 feet across the street,"
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"and he landed on his head."
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"The impact crushed his first and second vertebrae."
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"He stopped breathing for..."
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"[breathes deeply]..."
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"3 minutes and 47 seconds."
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"I knew this because I was standing next to him"
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"when he was hit."
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"He was paralyzed from the neck down."
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"I had recently been accepted at Harvard..."
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"First kid in my family to go to college..."
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"But I decided to enroll"
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"at Sauk Valley Community College instead,"
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"because I could live at home"
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"and help my mother take care of Oliver."
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"This was my family, and they came first."
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"When I went that Spring to register at Sauk Valley,"
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"they looked confused."
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"They told me that I had declined admission weeks ago"
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"and there was no space for me anymore."
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"And when I got home that afternoon,"
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"there was a package in the mail from Harvard..."
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"A welcome packet."
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"I knew it was Oliver."
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"He said that he couldn't let me stay there at home."
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"He said..."
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"that I had too much to offer, too much life to live."
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"He said that I could..."
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"be President one day."
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"I've tried to honor him in my life"
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"by choosing to believe that he was right,"
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"that sometimes, some of us have a calling"
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"to do something beyond ourselves, beyond our friends,"
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"even our families."
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"That's why I've... done this."
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"That's why I've given everything to this."
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"[Camera shutter clicking]"
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"[Gasps]"
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"What are you doing here?"
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"Giving you what you want."
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"Giving me what I want?"
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"Well, you've been following me, right?"
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"Keeping tabs on me?"
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"I'm the head of the NSA."
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"You don't get to keep tabs on me unless I allow you to."
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"I'm only gonna ask you this one more time"
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"before I call the cops... Why are you here?"
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"For the same reason you keep following me."
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