24 (TV Series)

Day 2: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. (2003)

Scott Paulin: Brian Jacobs

Quotes 

• President David Palmer : How'd you find out about me?

  Brian Jacobs : The Attorney General called me: he assumed you'd want me for your counsel

  President David Palmer : What've they told you?

  Brian Jacobs : That you've been removed from Office by the Cabinet, by the capacity clause of the twenty-fifth Amendment

  President David Palmer : Is what they did legal?

  Brian Jacobs : Technically, yes. The Constitution gives the Cabinet to declare the President incompetent. No further definition. No further clarification

  President David Palmer : That also gives me the right to appeal that decision

  Brian Jacobs : Yes, which I will do vigorously. Unfortunately, it's length process

  President David Palmer : We don't have time

  Brian Jacobs : I don't know how to make it faster, Sir

  President David Palmer : None of those legalities matter. This country is about to go to war based on evidence and now I am convinced is false

  Brian Jacobs : Except no one outside this room believes that

  President David Palmer : This evidence was manipulated by a man named Peter Kingsley. I need you to find out everything you can about him

  Brian Jacobs : You have to understand, Mike Novick is tying my hands

  President David Palmer : Well, get him to untie them. Whatever you have to do

• Mike Novick : How is he?

  Brian Jacobs : David's remained convinced that his decision to delay the bombing was the correct one and he'll vigorously appeal his removal from Office

  Mike Novick : The twenty-fifth Amendment gives him that right

  Brian Jacobs : Central to his appeal will be proving that we're being manipulated into this war and the Cypress recording was falsified. Plus, we know by now who

  Mike Novick : I'm listening

  Brian Jacobs : A man named Peter Kingsley: his got ties to oil interests here and abroad

  Mike Novick : Have you found anything that connects him to the recording or the bomb for that matter?

  Brian Jacobs : No, we won't be able to without access to the intelligence database

  Mike Novick : David's locked down until we've gone public with the military actions

  Brian Jacobs : By then it'll be too late

  Mike Novick : [while walking away]  I'm sorry

  Brian Jacobs : Wait, hold on a second. I remember when you signed up for David's first run at the Senate over twenty years ago. That's a lot of history just to throw out the window. Come on, I know you did what you thought was right but let him prove his case. You owe him that

  Mike Novick : I'll have a colleague set up a computer station for you. You won't be able to transfer out going messages

  Brian Jacobs : That's fair enough