Sam negotiates the nitpicky details of an upcoming summit with the new Russian President -- and unwittingly becomes the conveyor of a secret communiqué. The President, who considers canceling the meeting when surveillance photos revealed a nuclear facility built with Russian technology, decides to go ahead with the meeting. When CJ learns of the preventable deaths of Saudi girls, she goes immediately into the pressroom and effortlessly works her own condemnation into the record without implicating the administration. As a result, she gets quite a bit of hate mail, including a death threat, which she tries to ignore. Donna, Josh, and President Bartlet won't allow it, and Bartlet assigns her Secret Service protection. Toby helps and then disses a Russian tabloid journalist, Charlie untangles the secret trail of an odd letter to the President, and Leo tries to convince the President not to help a high-level supporter whose company is about to fail.

Starring:

ROB LOWE as Sam Seaborn
STOCKARD CHANNING as First Lady Abigail Bartlet
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
JANEL MOLONEY as Donna Moss
RICHARD SCHIFF as Toby Ziegler
JOHN SPENCER as Leo McGarry
BRADLEY WHITFORD as Josh Lyman
and MARTIN SHEEN as President Josiah Bartlet