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Clips from Madam Secretary - Gift Horse (S03E03)

"- Her, and I already signed for her. - Well, un-sign."
Madam Secretary
"Make it clear that"
Madam Secretary
"we are respectfully declining"
Madam Secretary
"the gift horse."
Madam Secretary
"(quietly): May I ask why?"
Madam Secretary
"I'm sure there's some government-owned"
Madam Secretary
"It's not about that."
Madam Secretary
"This is about the Mongolian referendum vote"
Madam Secretary
"to become an autonomous region of China."
Madam Secretary
"Minister Sendoo"
Madam Secretary
"favors remaining independent,"
Madam Secretary
"and by accepting the horse,"
Madam Secretary
"it will signal..."
Madam Secretary
"a tacit endorsement of that position."
Madam Secretary
"Because the horse,"
Madam Secretary
"symbol of national pride and unity."
Madam Secretary
"See?"
Madam Secretary
"Right, right."
Madam Secretary
"That'll make China mad."
Madam Secretary
"And many other Asian nations,"
Madam Secretary
"and quite a few Mongolians as well."
Madam Secretary
"Got it."
Madam Secretary
"I will explain the situation"
Madam Secretary
"She's really pretty, huh?"
Madam Secretary
"She's... she's kind of a cappuccino color,"
Madam Secretary
"with a chestnut stripe down her back..."
Madam Secretary
"Hanging up now."
Madam Secretary
"Yes, ma'am."
Madam Secretary
"(digital beeps)"
Madam Secretary
""Press the operational code into the keypad"
Madam Secretary
"Yeah, I did that."
Madam Secretary
"How's it going?"
Madam Secretary
"Uh, fine, sir."
Madam Secretary
"You can call maintenance if you're having trouble with that."
Madam Secretary
"I was just about to figure it out."
Madam Secretary
"Adele, will you call maintenance to program this damn thing?"
Madam Secretary
"Yes, sir."
Madam Secretary
"I, uh, I don't like interns."
Madam Secretary
"I never have, I can never find anything I trust them to do."
Madam Secretary
"I'm giving you a chance"
Madam Secretary
"- to change my mind. - I'm honored, Mr. Jackson."
Madam Secretary
"around here; you saved my life, I gave you a job."
Madam Secretary
"Poet Laureate Roland... somebody"
Madam Secretary
"is coming in from Connecticut this afternoon,"
Madam Secretary
"he'll be reading a poem at the inauguration tomorrow."
Madam Secretary
"You can thank JFK for this enduring legacy"
Madam Secretary
"I-I actually wrote a paper on him for my AP English class."
Madam Secretary
"Great. Tell him all about it."
Madam Secretary
"so he refused to let us pick him up in a limo."
Madam Secretary
"He was gonna take a cab from the airport,"
Madam Secretary
"but I can't take a chance on losing him,"
Madam Secretary
"so he finally agreed to let us send an intern."
Madam Secretary
"Adele has all the information."
Madam Secretary
"Awesome. That's just so exciting."
Madam Secretary
"Um, thank you. I won't let you down."
Madam Secretary
"Tick tock."
Madam Secretary
"Minister Sendoo, I am touched and honored"
Madam Secretary
"by your generous gift of a Mongol horse."
Madam Secretary
"Unfortunately,"
Madam Secretary
"I'm not allowed to keep diplomatic gifts,"
Madam Secretary
"I'm very sorry to hear that, Madam Secretary."
Madam Secretary
"Because we cannot risk exposing our horse population"
Madam Secretary
"to any foreign strains of disease."
Madam Secretary
"If a horse is returned to us"
Madam Secretary
"after having been abroad,"
Madam Secretary
"it must be euthanized."
Madam Secretary
"You're going to kill her?"
Madam Secretary
"Perhaps you would like to reconsider."
Madam Secretary
"- of education? - No."
Madam Secretary
"Then why is the president of Mongolia"
Madam Secretary
"calling me to complain about it?"
Madam Secretary
"I don't have enough going on, trying to stop Sam Evans"
Madam Secretary
"from making rubble out of the Constitution?"
Madam Secretary
"He's all the big dumb mammal I can handle right now."
Madam Secretary
"Send the horse back."
Madam Secretary
"The problem is, Russell,"
Madam Secretary
"Minister Sendoo says that they can't reintegrate the horse"
Madam Secretary
"now that it's left the country,"
Madam Secretary
"so if we return her,"
Madam Secretary
"they will..."
Madam Secretary
"(softly): terminate her."
Madam Secretary
"(laughing): What?"
Madam Secretary
"They're bluffing."
Madam Secretary
"It's a classic Mongolian squeeze play."
Madam Secretary
"Russell,"
Madam Secretary
"do you really want a YouTube video"
Madam Secretary
"of a dying horse flying around the first month"
Madam Secretary
"- of Dalton's second term? - (sighs)"
Madam Secretary
"Our staff is working diligently to find the horse a safe haven,"
Madam Secretary
"one that is both suitable"
Madam Secretary
"and will not offend anyone politically."
Madam Secretary
"(sighs) Well, hurry up."
Madam Secretary
"ELIZABETH: We're on it."
Madam Secretary
"And, Russell, you may want to pace yourself."
Madam Secretary
"I am pacing myself."
Madam Secretary
"4,782 paces, to be exact."
Madam Secretary
"Why do you think I walked all the way over here?"
Madam Secretary
"And stop coddling me."
Madam Secretary
"They vacuumed my heart end to end."
Madam Secretary
"My arteries are cleaner than yours."
Madam Secretary
"Make the horse thing go away."
Madam Secretary
"Hi, Mr. Hobbs, I'm Stephanie McCord."
Madam Secretary
"Um, I'm Russell Jackson's intern."
Madam Secretary
"He sent me to pick you up a-and take you to your hotel."
Madam Secretary
"What are you doing?"
Madam Secretary
"You should be ferry-hopping through the Greek isles"
Madam Secretary
"with nothing but a summer frock,"
Madam Secretary
"a wineskin and a battered copy of Rimbaud."
Madam Secretary
"Well, um, I'm doing this."
Madam Secretary
"By the way, Mr. Jackson's office sent me a copy of the poem"
Madam Secretary
"that you're planning on reading tomorrow and..."
Madam Secretary
"That insipid rant?"
Madam Secretary
"They were pressuring me to come up with something"
Madam Secretary
"so they could approve it."
Madam Secretary
"than I would evacuate my bowels"
Madam Secretary
"in public."
Madam Secretary
"Wow. Okay. Um,"
Madam Secretary
"so, I guess you probably want to get straight to the hotel"
Madam Secretary
"to work on your replacement poem."
Madam Secretary
"Um, they have you booked at the Vinton."
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