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Rove: "You've got to do it. You're making us look really bad. Come on, Condi, be a team player. Remember all those conversations about the bold work we were doing and how important it was, and how we all have to make sacrifices."
Rice: "Fuck you, Karl. I'm not spending time in a federal penitentiary and you can't make me. This is your shitstorm; you handle it. If you can make the idiot promise in writing to pardon me, then maybe we'll have a ball game, but until then, forget it. I didn't work this hard and make all this money to go lie to congress for you."
Rove: "You're being extraordinarily selfish."
(voices raising)
Rice: "I won't play the sap for you! Forget the whole fucking idea! I don't care what you've got on me! I won't do it! Make Dick do it! He's the brains anyway!"
Rove (terrified): "Shhh! Condi, he'll HEAR you! NEVER talk about Mr. Cheney that way!"
Rice (also terrified; lowering her voice): "Sorry, sorry. But I'm not testifying, Karl. Forget the whole idea."
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