It's Josh's first time out closing an international trade deal, and he's thrown when he realizes that the communications companies he's been working with have made internal business decisions to outsource 3.3 million American jobs over the next ten years. The deal is, as President Bartlet explains in a complicated, non-sound-byte, economics-professor-type way, good in the abstract. Josh's latent doubts rise to the surface, however, after the Speaker of the House eagerly endorses the deal -- and suggests Josh should run for the House as Republican. Not to pile on, but Will announces that the Vice President will distance himself from the deal, and Donna and Josh argue over her job responsibilities. Meanwhile, CJ is miffed to learn that her press room won't write about a scandalous new FCC regulation. So she takes seats out of the press room to get the story on the airwaves.

Starring:

STOCKARD CHANNING as First Lady Abigail Bartlet
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
JOSHUA MALINA as Will Bailey
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