I remember the first time I saw this scene. Right after 9/11 and I realized Sorkin wrote the speech to the First Responders. First time I ever saw the 4th wall broken in that way. I went back and rewatched Seasons 1-4 giving them my full and proper attention. I still tear each time I see this scene.
@andrewgundy3045
Жыл бұрын
I do too, it’s my favorite in the show. His delivery on the speech was incredible
@elizabetholiviaclark
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewgundy3045 Martín Sheen is a passionate man. This is his kind of speech.
@lbwlawyer
Жыл бұрын
And I love the little bit at the very very end. Bruno asking Sam about the last bit. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@Zanetamim7453
4 ай бұрын
@@elizabetholiviaclarkDo you think he can be convinced to run for president although I am not American I would vote for him 😅😅
@kcwatkins4377
9 күн бұрын
Well said. Peace to you and yours.
@IrishEyes1989
11 жыл бұрын
President Bartlet's speech always makes me cry, but especially after tragedies like the bombing today in Boston and the Newtown shootings last December. The West Wing was one of the most brilliant shows on television because it actually reflected reality, often painfully but always in ways that gave you hope. Aaron Sorkin and the cast of the show have left a lasting legacy.
@2headedtasman200
4 жыл бұрын
Goddamn. The Bombing really happened 7 years ago, didnt it? Time flies.
@lovethatdirtywater78
3 жыл бұрын
It's funny, I think it was either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert that echoed this speech quite closely afterwards about how people ran back into the fire of the Marathon bombings to help those in need.
@andrewgundy3045
2 жыл бұрын
It’s beautiful speech
@GaryM67-71
2 жыл бұрын
Boston was as fake as this shtick from Hollywood.
@jamesn151
Жыл бұрын
Thanks obama
@MikeHalsall
7 жыл бұрын
This is what I'd like my President to sound like. Not just capable of great oratory, but to also be the embodiment of the sentiment behind it.
@PantherU
6 жыл бұрын
Well...fuck.
@wynwilliams6977
6 жыл бұрын
trump would just shout Probably them muslims BUILD A WALL buuuurp
@LittleMacscorner
6 жыл бұрын
God, I look at American now and watch this...and I want to cry. Trump is the CALIGULA and COMMUDUS of our Country.
@lindab.716
4 жыл бұрын
I've made the mistake of watching KZitem's of prior presidents. (And West Wing) really highlights how horrible a speaker (and person) Trump is.
@colleen3107
4 жыл бұрын
@Mike Halsall ~ l was thinking the exact same thing. I don’t think Trump has A) the ability to give a speech WITHOUT reading from the TelePrompters the entire time. B) pronounce every word correctly. C) sound empathetic, sympathetic or inspirational. D) not talk about himself
@ninino86
3 жыл бұрын
Doesnt matter how many times I watch this scene. I always tear up. The writing, the performance, the meaning beyond the show.
@brrrrr12
9 жыл бұрын
After the events in Paris yesterday, I felt the need to come and watch this scene. Really does sum it all up perfectly. May all of those that died rest in peace.
@CoryFaist
9 жыл бұрын
I immediately watched this when I heard what was happening in Paris.
@EditorJoe
8 жыл бұрын
I came here after reading the news today. again about Paris.
@yeahbee8237
6 жыл бұрын
I think about the mall attack in Kenya, one british man an ex-soldier ran in 8 times and got wounded and children out
@heorap
14 жыл бұрын
"ran into the fire" always gets me. theres always one moment in almost every episode that chokes you up.
@sarnieken
10 жыл бұрын
This has to be one of the best bits of a truly awesome show. Despite the tragic nature of the storyline, I could watch this video over and over.
@andrewgalliers1875
4 жыл бұрын
This is what made the show great in the first 4 seasons, and why Sorkin is one of the great writers/producers. The words,combined with the actors the music the lighting all work together to make this amazing.
@ursyedis
4 жыл бұрын
I am not an American, I don't know much about American political system until I watched this show. But man, number of times I have watched this speech just surprises me and I will watch it again and again. The rhythm , the content the delivery, Aaron's best work in my opinion.
@ticklish1991
6 жыл бұрын
"If our job teaches us anything, it's that we don't know what the next President's gonna face. And if we choose someone with vision, someone with guts, someone with gravitas, who's connected to other people's lives, and cares about making them better - if we choose someone to inspire us, then we'll be able to face what comes our way and achieve things we can't imagine yet. Instead of telling people who's the most qualified, instead of telling people who's got the better ideas, let's make it obvious. It's going to be hard." "...Then we'll do what's hard."
@cryofpaine
4 жыл бұрын
I wish the American people had the courage to choose someone like that.
@kenle2
4 ай бұрын
Except some of those attributes are contradictory in the real world. People who look at a tough, smart, capable, empathetic leader whose philosophy they FUNDAMENTALLY DISAGRRE WITH are not going to see a savior. They are going to see a particularly deadly enemy. And they are right.
@pauljones8057
8 жыл бұрын
one of the best scenes from one of the best TV shows ever.
@cameronbird1468
7 жыл бұрын
Paul Jones
@ArnoutVI
7 жыл бұрын
We did not seek nor did we provoke an assault on our freedom and our way of life. We did not expect nor did we invite a confrontation with evil. Yet the true measure of a people's strength is how they rise to master that moment when it does arrive.For Manchester Today and all other cities and people that fell victime of terror attacks
@AnthonyJK1982
11 жыл бұрын
"The streets of heaven is too crowded with angels.". That line has been playing repeatedly in my head since yesterday's tragedy.
@boombox05
Жыл бұрын
And this week's...10 years later
@DwRockett
4 жыл бұрын
Possibly no other tv show captures the “feeling” of a national tragedy. The image of Toby, Josh, and Donna just looking at the tv is somehow almost as power as President Bartlett’s own speech. Almost
@nudist0885
15 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite episode ever. So many wonderful acting points by a number of people in a number of scenes. What a great show.
@JrocAA
14 жыл бұрын
This clip while being one of the best 3 minutes in The West Wing series, is a microcosm of just how amazing this show was. I think sometimes it was overshadowed by the Sopranos which pretty much aired side by side. It is, as so many people have said before me, THE BEST....written, acted, directed and especially casted show in network TV history. I’ve watched the series from start to finish 4 times now and it gets better every single time.
@Cornellianchris
7 жыл бұрын
Still get chills watching this. The American people should have this kind of administration.
@faceprecious
14 жыл бұрын
This just aired again here this morning on Bravo. This speech gets me everytime. Man is Martin Sheen good.
@Xandra1076
Жыл бұрын
I have to smile when she says "Kennison Hawkeyes." I was a student at the University of Iowa at the time this episode aired, which of course are the Hawkeyes and a Big Ten school. Cedar Rapids is 30 minutes from Iowa City. Sorkin could have just written "Iowa Hawkeyes", no one would have mistaken this for a real story.
@victorjones3924
7 жыл бұрын
The most moving moment of all 7 seasons - sheer unadulterated dramatic brilliance - with a touch of wry humour at the end
@chriscarter5720
8 жыл бұрын
During the events in Paris I was struck by similarity to this episode when witnesses reported that one of the security guards, hearing the shooting, ran towards the sound. He was one of the dead and a truly brave man.
@Bastit3hman
8 жыл бұрын
There are always people who run into danger to help others, not thinking of themselves as heroic, but rather as everyday people doing what anyone would. In short there are always heroes, but oh so many of them die doing what little they can to help and it makes all the difference.
@eastwestcoastkid
4 жыл бұрын
This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars..May God bless their memory..God bless you..and may God Bless THE United States of America...thank you..
@BelfastBiker
8 жыл бұрын
Will The West Wing ever stop being horribly relevant???
@Elisheval
7 жыл бұрын
No one will elect a Hispanic president = Obama Pardons Toby accused of divulging classified info = that transgender army dude
@DaveTingwaldd
6 жыл бұрын
For better or for worse, no.
@PeterSedesse
6 жыл бұрын
I read your comment 2 years after you wrote it, and a few weeks after some kid shot up a school in Florida... the answer is no.
@janedunster5156
6 жыл бұрын
The world changes but the nature of man does not
@LittleMacscorner
6 жыл бұрын
God, I look at American now and watch this...and I want to cry. Trump is the CALIGULA and COMMUDUS of our Country.
@tonyrosensteel5436
3 жыл бұрын
That's when television programs were awesome
@0prayus
5 ай бұрын
I want my President to be 100% just like this. To not only say the right thing but to feel heart and soul and mind what he or she is saying. For this year's Presidential election, i vote we write in a fourth choice -- President Jeb Bartlett ❤
@evenstar6q
14 жыл бұрын
I coach the debate team at my old high school. I make them watch things like Bartlet's speech in this for inspiration. Still makes me want to cry. 'The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight'.
@Ovrkyl
14 жыл бұрын
"The streets of Heaven are too crowded with angels tonight." One of the best lines in the whole series. A true homage to any heroes. Bravo.
@Johnboydownunder
9 жыл бұрын
"The Streets of Heaven are too crowded with angels...." was actually used by Tom Hanks in his acceptance speech for the Acadamy Award in 1996.
@Ethmae
8 жыл бұрын
+Johnboydownunder Well, as Sam mentions later in the episode, "Good writers borrow from other writers; great writers steal from them outright.'
@Johnboydownunder
8 жыл бұрын
... and I think Sorkin is still one of the 'greatest' TV writers. (Assuming that he actually wrote that as I think there are about 5 staff writers)
@ticklish1991
8 жыл бұрын
+Cindy Tartt hanks ain't a republican. he's given big money to democrat campaigns, endorsed obama, and is outspoken on a number of issues - all of which he leans left on.
@Johnboydownunder
8 жыл бұрын
No doubt he did, and as pointed in the script "great writers steal lines..."
@chiarabookworm4482
7 жыл бұрын
Ethmae I was just thinking of that myself
@Adj4ni
3 жыл бұрын
20 hours in America is some of the best tv ever made.
@Frazzzld
15 жыл бұрын
I love the ending. Bruno: When did you write the last part? Sam: In the car. Bruno: Freak!
@wannamontana4130
8 жыл бұрын
Simply outstanding! From timeless message, to capturing a peoples' hopes, to poetic expression. Simply outstanding!
@shaunrobson4278
10 жыл бұрын
When did you write that last part ? In the car. Freak.
@Rhojin83
4 жыл бұрын
That line cracks me up every time.
@almostfm
4 жыл бұрын
@@Rhojin83 And the best part, of course, is that it's a compliment.
@sands7779
Жыл бұрын
02:48 "Everytime we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and are reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes, we will do what is hard..." The West Wing "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." President John F. Kennedy, Texas, September 12 1962
@eeevila
3 жыл бұрын
The writing in this show. Stunning
@michaelodonoghue7464
4 жыл бұрын
Im not an American and I'm not a Hero, but for 29 Years and 10 Months I was a Person who Walked into Danger whenever it occurred. Running into Danger only gets you killed, because the faster you move the narrower becomes your Field of Vision. For almost 30 Years I walked.
@edsweb7
12 жыл бұрын
What an unbelievably Great T.V. Show. I wish there was more...
@benlowe1701
2 жыл бұрын
The song is what gets me. Its a direct quote from the perpetrator of the Cleveland Elementary School shooting. The original is by the boomtown rats. It never made it big in the US, but it was number one in the UK for a month. Just the pain and the despair in the refrain. The kid who did it lived across the road from an elementary school, and fired upon the playground as people were arriving. Killing both the school principle and custodian. By some *miracle*, the 8 children she shot all survived their injuries. The girl in question was 16. Both she and her father slept on a single mattress on the living room floor in a house strewn with empty beer bottles. She'd tried to seek psychiatric help and been refused by her father. The summer before, she'd been arrested for shooting people out the window with a BB gun. Her probation officer for this offense said she needed psychiatric help and treatment for depression. Her father refused, and bought her a rifle for Christmas: She herself said she thought he wanted her to use it on herself. In 2001 she finally admitted her father had sexually abused her. She was charged as an adult, and sentenced to life in prison, the day she turned 18. After 25 years in prison, she was refused parol, on the grounds that she had committed selfharm four years earlier. The self harm consisted of carving the words "Unforgiven" and "Alone" into her skin. As its later said in this episode, nobody is born wanting to do this kind of thing. Nobody. It doesn't happen. Everytime I see a kid guilty of some appalling crime, my heart breaks because it means they were failed. They were failed by the people who should have helped t hem, long before they became capable of that. I can't imagine living that kind of life. I imagine those kids. I imagine the kids she tried to kill. The teachers she killed. Their families. And I think of how many opportunities there must have been throughout the years where some compassion, some mercy, some love might have been shown that could have averted some a calamity. Instead you have a broken, ruined person, and dozens of lives destroyed. And more than anything, I think, God. How is it possible that wasn't the moment that people said "okay, we need to change things." That that wasn't the year we look at the way that American society changed for good? There are so many people people out there, every single day. And we don't notice until they do something so appalling that we can punish them as adults and absolve ourselves and society of any possible responsibility or blame for not doing something sooner. Its just so... wrong. Its barbaric. The fact that its even possible for a child to do something like that, shows a complete breakdown of society. The fact that it happens time after time, again and again, reveals the soul of a society that is fine with punishing the guilty, but refuses to help the innocent. Its almost sacrilegious.
@richardjacques1731
Жыл бұрын
I thought you were mistaken about the name of the school, but there was a shooting at Cleveland Elementary in Stockton California almost exactly 10 years later.
@drmike329
4 ай бұрын
I can't express my depth of gratitude for those words. Thank you for taking the time to write such an eloquent reflection on the state of this tragic situation which every year worsens across the Nation. Your response is the most elegant and thoughtful I have ever heard in this national discussion.
@benlowe1701
4 ай бұрын
@@drmike329 I wrote this two years ago. You wouldn't have thought it would still be relevant. But it is astonishing to see history repeat itself again and again. But not long ago, we saw the first parents ever charged for their son's school shooting. A child who had desperately sought help before he hurt someone, and who was instead given a gun for Christmas. His parents clearly gave it to him, expecting - and hoping - he would use it on himself. We wait till they do something monstrous so we can take vengeance, after the fact. To soothe our own conscience, and make ourselves feel better. But we don't lift a finger until then.
@lancer525
4 жыл бұрын
I so fondly remember the days when a President could not only speak in complete, grammatically accurate sentences, but also go more than 2 minutes without using the word "I"...
@partyguy101ify
4 жыл бұрын
Bruno is probably the best guest character. You love him, but you also hate him. Over time, you realize that he has a soul after all.
@malissahyatt2425
Жыл бұрын
But we don't talk about him.😉
@shanechaffey9050
3 жыл бұрын
One of the best speeches I have ever heard and watched
@lakb45
Жыл бұрын
“The streets of Heaven are too crowded with Angels tonight.”
@danielbolton1575
2 жыл бұрын
It’s Bruno’s eye movement with a completely serious look that sells that last Freak comment. Perfect
@TsterMr63
2 ай бұрын
The "freak" is actually Aaron Sorkin. The first four seasons of WW with Sorkin and Schlamme are the best ever on TV.
@joshlyman9756
7 жыл бұрын
For most the best episode of TWW was Two Cathedrals, for me the best one (technically two) is 20 Hours In America It switches between the WH and real places in America, it's a perfect blend of TWW sense of humor (funniest moment in the series being the Timezones scene), dialogue, character relationships and emotions (with what is one of the greatest Bartlet speeches). Alll in all it delivers everything we love about the series, a perfect episode.
@SpydeyDan
6 жыл бұрын
It may be syndicated as a two-parter, but it originally aired as a single two-hour episode, which is why the ending of the first part and the cold open of the second part seem so awkward and oddly paced. They were originally just two scenes in the middle of the episode. I have no idea why they kept it as a two-parter on the DVD set and on streaming, now that they're not constrained by the limitations of a TV timing block.
@chiarabookworm4482
6 жыл бұрын
I totally agree with you. 20 hours in america part 2 is my all time favourite episode of west wing. My second favourite being the episode they did in the wake of 9/11. TWW is/was an amazing show and what started my interest in american politics, in fact politics in general. Aaron Sorkin is truly an amazing writer!
@franklinbowden2416
5 жыл бұрын
Bartlett, was channeling Kennedy in the speech.
@DaveTingwaldd
8 жыл бұрын
Such a chilling and haunting episode.
@JodyLynnF
2 жыл бұрын
What is so sad is that many people don't even stop to listen to information about things like this anymore.
@megarockman
14 жыл бұрын
Is Kennison State supposed to be a stand-in for the University of Iowa (Hawkeyes and Big Ten)?
@stevenmccarville4263
Жыл бұрын
Cedar Rapids Iowa is my hometown This always gets to me.
@frank3manuel
3 жыл бұрын
TIL, the song "I don't like Mondays" was based on a woman who shot a sniper rifle into an elementary school across the street, killing two adults and injuring many children. When asked why she did it, she said "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day."
@CharlieDanvers
6 жыл бұрын
Chills. Every time.
@jamesdesomma3639
3 жыл бұрын
It's sad that a fictional president has more compassion, and emotion for a fictional loss of life from a tragedy, then an actual real life president had.
@alisongardner5655
8 жыл бұрын
I agree. It captures the moment and feelings.
@shaneturner500
Жыл бұрын
Even though I’m an atheist, during times of mass tragedy such as school shootings or bombings, I’d much rather hear “the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight” than “thoughts and prayers.”
@wholeNwon
2 жыл бұрын
Why can't we have TV like that now? Why can't we be inspired by moving, well-crafted words that elevate our minds and remind us that we can all be patriots and perhaps even heroes?
@MrHikerToYou
Жыл бұрын
I miss the time in America when tragedies would actually cause everyday people to stop in the tracks. Now we just walk on by...
@karaoan
15 жыл бұрын
Originally by by the Boomtown Rats: I don't like Mondays. Here a cover version by Tori Amos...
@wred42
13 жыл бұрын
I love this speech so much.
@davidbennettracing538
7 жыл бұрын
"...I don't like Mondays..."
@philipwhiuk
Жыл бұрын
This is the best scene in the whole series.
@michael-m
3 жыл бұрын
Best show ever. Period
@theolamp5312
4 жыл бұрын
Aaron Sorkin knows how to turn a phrase. I think that he could have been a speech writer for any American President. But, he would have considered it beneath his dignity.
@lunes-1
3 жыл бұрын
⚽️Great🎞📽🎬 television series 👈
@faceprecious
12 жыл бұрын
I MISS THIS SHOW!!!
@r5t6y12
13 жыл бұрын
Actually, the funniest aspect of this situation is that though this type of thing happens outside of North America all the time I don't even remember HEARING about a situation like this happening ANYWHERE INSIDE NORTH AMERICA in the last 25 years.
@Wednesdaywoe1975
2 жыл бұрын
Where have you been?
@nudist1033
14 жыл бұрын
My FAVORITE episode.
@lolajt
2 жыл бұрын
i’m not american nor religious and i tear up every time i watch this god
@airdriver
Жыл бұрын
How is it that Aaron Sorkin wound up writing scripts in Hollywood instead of speeches in Washington DC. “The streets of heaven are crowded with angels.” Wow!
@Stonymypony
11 жыл бұрын
RIP to the victims of the April 15th 2013 Boston Marathon.
@jf2765
8 жыл бұрын
Brilliant episode
@LittleMacscorner
6 жыл бұрын
God, I look at American now and watch this...and I want to cry. Trump is the CALIGULA and COMMUDUS of our Country.
@jeromedavis1353
11 ай бұрын
Someone may have already mentioned this, but a part of that speech is “borrowed” from Lerner and Loewe’s CAMELOT. “This is the day of King Arthur, and we reach for the stars. This is the day of King Arthur, and violence is not strength and compassion is not weakness. We are civilized!” Aaron Sorkin was a musical theater major at Syracuse University, so he undoubtedly would have known this. Camelot would also play a major part in The Newsroom a few years later.
@DexterTan1
Ай бұрын
What's that line? Good writers borrow. Great writers steal.
@Matuse
2 жыл бұрын
"When did you write that?" "In the car" "Freak"
@magaretschaal8531
2 жыл бұрын
And the streets of heaven are too crowded with Ukranian angels these nights. RIP Lets reach for the stars...
@jackwmith8445
3 жыл бұрын
Inspiring, heroic, unifying and honest.
@stevemoravec2555
4 жыл бұрын
OMG, excellent...
@dec9164
2 жыл бұрын
Martin Sheen/Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet. 'Nuff said.
@sudburymagic
12 жыл бұрын
Who's chopping onions?
@varunhebli
4 жыл бұрын
My mom. She was doing it then, ans she's doing it again now!
@faceprecious
15 жыл бұрын
This speech always gets to me. Wasn't this episode season 3, right? I am wondering because of the speech if not shortly after 9/11.
@michaelvidal1971
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder what the hotel manager thought when a young blonde lady and two men come up and asks for a single room.
@tmoore4075
5 жыл бұрын
Why do I feel like this wouldn't have the same impact today?
@bassmaster867
4 жыл бұрын
Bartlett --》Trump, CJ --》Sarah Huckabee Sanders, insane how relevant this show is....
@tntfoussard1
7 жыл бұрын
Aaron Sorkin really can write
@kellymckenzie4865
2 жыл бұрын
Love this scene but it's another example of a miss with the background song for me
@emaayan
6 жыл бұрын
3:08 "we reached for the starts" - fast forward to "why isn't america the greatest country any more " :)
@r5t6y12
13 жыл бұрын
...outside of the Murrah federal building in Little Rock and the small thing at the Atlanta Olympics.
@dmc2311
5 жыл бұрын
r5t6y12 Oklahoma City not Little Rock buddy
@SUBENI
2 жыл бұрын
Freak! I love it
@barryschwarz
3 жыл бұрын
At @ - listen to the way he says "hard." The word is also part of a famous JFK speech about going to the moon. I wonder if Sheen paid respect here, just in brief, just quietly, to another great Democratic president. Not being from New Hampshire, I don't know if (and I don't think that) Sheen had a Boston accent in the series. But that word was very Boston to my ear, very JFK.
@chrissegee
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine a president that highlights the hero’s choices while denouncing an evil act just before sending a positive note about America as a whole
@punknhead23
6 жыл бұрын
Tori Amos.....sing it girl.
@MrAllad
13 жыл бұрын
such an awesome speech
@annemariealmond5992
3 жыл бұрын
Sorkin poetry and cadence at its best
@Ovrkyl
14 жыл бұрын
@faceprecious His speech makes me tear up every time.
@KorinaCamilleCue
4 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know the title of the song being played in the background? Thanks!
@urbanpoodle
4 жыл бұрын
I Don't Like Mondays, sung by Tori Amos. The original (better version, IMO) is by Boomtown Rats, written by Bob Geldof.
@dukethomas95
3 жыл бұрын
The current US President couldn't make a necessary speech like this if someone wrote it for him.
@drb2944
6 жыл бұрын
Sorkin at his best
@hermangre
3 жыл бұрын
Why the applause in this scene? My mother told me a long time ago, "you don't applaud in church".
@jimmygoodrich6528
3 жыл бұрын
They weren't in church they were at a political dinner
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