Bartlet's Third State of the Union

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“Bartlet's Third State of the Union”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 35
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Allison Abner & Dee Dee Myers (story)
Directed by	Christopher Misiano
Guest stars	Stockard Channing Emily Procter Marlee Matlin Corbin Bernsen Tony Plana Richard Riehle Kathryn Joosten NiCole Robinson Ted McGinley Bill O'Brien Glenn Morshower Gregalan Williams Barbara Eve Harris
Production no.	226213
Original airdate	February 7, 2001
Season 2 episodes
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II The Midterms In this White House And It's Surely to Their Credit The Lame Duck Congress The Portland Trip Shibboleth Galileo Noël The Leadership Breakfast The Drop-In Bartlet's Third State of the Union The War at Home Ellie Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail The Stackhouse Filibuster 17 People Bad Moon Rising The Fall's Gonna Kill You 18th and Potomac Two Cathedrals
List of The West Wing episodes

"Bartlet's Third State of the Union" is the 35th episode of The West Wing.

[edit] Plot

The President addresses the nation for his Third State of the Union, and a group of DEA agents are taken hostage in Colombia. An invited guest to the speech has a questionable background, which C.J. tries to deal with. Capital Beat do a live extended show from the West Wing. Josh is stressed about polling numbers, but a power outage holds those numbers up for longer than expected, and Josh spends the time driving Joey and Donna nuts over it.