C.J. and Danny in “What Kind of Day Has It Been”

C.J.

Danny, I don't even want to hear it. I did exactly the right thing. Your nose is bent out of joint, and I don't give a damn.

Danny

You looked at me point-blank and told me you were looking at a diplomatic...

C.J.

Danny...

Danny

You looked at me and told me...

C.J.

What did you think I was going to do, Danny? Give you longitude and latitude? Did you think I was going to fork over the radio frequency that we're transmitting on?

Danny

You didn't have to answer the question.

C.J.

I did!

Danny

You could have said, "Danny, we're not ruling anything in or out, and I'm not going to let you take me down that path" and we would have been done with it.

C.J.

Danny, if by standing up and lying, I misdirected Iraqi intelligence for even half a beat, then it was absolutely worth it. That's a no-brainer. And if I didn't, it was certainly worth trying. There were only 50 people in the world who can't understand why I lied this morning, and they all work in the White House pressroom. I'm sleeping fine tonight.

Danny

You didn't have to call on me. Every hand shot up, everybody's hand shot up, everybody was going to ask the same question, you knew what your answer was going to be, and you called on me.

C.J.

Well, yes, I did.

Danny

And you wouldn't have rather done that to a journalist that's been less supportive of this administration than I have?

C.J.

No, I chose you.

Danny

C.J., I'm not staying in the penalty box forever. I have covered the White House for eight years and I've done it with the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, and the Dallas Morning News! And I'm telling you you can't mess me around like this!

C.J.

Danny, I just gotta tell you, that was - seriously - that was a turn-on when you said that, though I don't know why you decided to be your most haughty on the Dallas Morning News in that sentence.