Welcome back to the West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina and I'm Rishikesh Urway.

Today we're talking about a poor Simuave. Nice. I think that's episode 16 of season 5.

It was written by Alexa Young, directed by Luelyn Wells, John's brother, and it first aired

on March 3rd 2004. I got another year before this gets hairy again. You don't have to say

February, but I have to say a poor Simuave. That's right, but you did it with great Ilan.

We'll see when we get our angry comments. I mean, nothing like how Martin said it, but I'm

giving you the win on that. Let's hear how the president said it. A poor Simuave.

Okay. President, Ms. Prenazze.

Here's the synopsis from NBC. The president explodes when a rival conservative congresswoman seeks to

torpedo funding for a controversial medical study by the NIH by exposing the fact that Bartlett's

daughter Ellie is working there as a scientist. That's not right. I'm flanks out. But continued,

meanwhile, as Toby searches for the internal White House leak that led to Ellie's press

scrutiny, Josh works to convince an old college friend to stay the course for his blocked

confirmation as a judge on the 6th Circuit Federal Court. Elsewhere, the first lady agrees to appear

on an episode of Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird despite some political concerns from CJ.

Again, that's not quite right. It was CJ's idea. That's true. Yeah. They're watching the show

less closely than I and that I find disturbing. Let me switch over to the Warner Brothers

and the synopsis. That's just for comparison. Sure. Here is just no respect for the office.

Bartlett becomes furious when a rival conservative congresswoman tries to end funding for a

controversial NIH medical study by exposing the fact that Bartlett's daughter Ellie is working at

the institute as a scientist. Again, that's not right. Not quite. As Toby searches for the

internal White House leak, blah blah blah blah. Josh, friend, contention, 6th Circuit Court

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