The Leadership Breakfast

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“The Leadership Breakfast”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 33
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Paul Redford (story)
Directed by	Scott Winant
Guest stars	Felicity Huffman Corbin Bernsen NiCole Robinson
Production no.	226211
Original airdate	January 10, 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

"The Leadership Breakfast" is the 33rd episode of The West Wing.

[edit] Plot

Toby wants real issues to be discussed at a breakfast to herald the start of the new legislative session, including minimum wage and health care coverage. He cuts a deal with the new chief of staff for the "most powerful Republican in the country" to discuss the issues in exchange for Congress doing a press conference from Capitol Hill instead of the White House, only for her to double cross him effectively announcing that her boss is to run for President. Toby is dismayed and the President's angry at him, but Leo tells Toby that they can form their own committee: to re-elect Jed Bartlet President.

In other events, an efficiency expert suggests freeing up space by moving the Press Room to the Old Executive Office Building across the street. Sam argues such a move would be beneficial and has the question inserted into a telephone poll to see if the public would object. By bad luck a reporter is polled.

Sam and Donna spend their time trying to curry favor with an influential reporter. Sam confuses two former Soviet Republics and Donna ends up leaving lingerie at a reception.

Also Sam and Josh attempted to start a fire in the fireplace as the heat isn't working. Inevitably this leads to fire alarms and both men looking like idiots, but the President did say he should only be woken up in case the building was on fire...