Claudia Jean Cregg

Interrupts the public moment by walking across the stage to quietly but urgently ask Donna where Josh and Toby are, prioritizing logistical reality over the rhetorical high point.

C.J. interrupts the applause and crosses the stage to Donna, asking pointedly about Josh and Toby while conveying schedule urgency and the motorcade's imminent departure.

C.J. interjects crucial breaking financial information—three firms tied to a fund filing for bankruptcy—delivered succinctly to the President, providing the political context that sharpens staff urgency and frames Bruno's push …

Provides concise, urgent information about market-moving bankruptcies to Bartlet, repeatedly refuses Bruno's pushes backstage, and functions as the managerial voice trying to keep messaging clean amid developing crises.

C.J. attempts to get Charlie's attention to brief the President, expressing urgency; her interruption is cut short when Charlie defers her, showing her professional concern for the President's exposure to …

C.J. leads the gaggle with brisk sarcasm, weaponizing a Ritchie quote, triaging the rolling‑pin photo by ordering follow‑up, and curtly telling the press pool why the President is unavailable.

C.J. hears Mark's report, reacts with immediate PR concern, questions the visual detail, and issues a concise directive to find out more while managing press expectations and the President's schedule.

C.J. sits on a desk, quietly pressing Charlie about filling Simon's mentoring role; she explains the legal stakes and negotiates compassionately while absorbing a staff update and immediately pivots when …

Delivers the key PR shoe: reports Abbey Bartlet's KCAL remark and reads hostile reactions (Flint Aldridge, Janet Ritchie), reframing a private interview into an imminent media crisis.

Delivers the PR blow: reports Abbey Bartlet's KCAL remark and reads hostile reactions (Flint Aldridge, Janet Ritchie), framing the First Lady's line as political ammunition and forcing the room to …

C.J. reacts sharply to Bruno's smear and the trivializing tone: she challenges the idea publicly, insists the issue isn't merely a 'woman's issue,' and demands Josh be brought into the …

Explodes at Bruno's tone, calls out the indignity of making the First Lady a joke, insists on involving Josh to shape a proper response, and reframes the tactical debate as …

C.J. is off-screen but becomes the immediate operational recipient of Toby's call; her presence is invoked as the campaign's communications hub and the person who will triage press and logistics …

C.J. is invoked as the operational linchpin to be contacted; she is not on-screen but is the intended recipient of Toby's call and the person who will coordinate responses and …

C.J. phones someone from her office and issues a concise instruction: locate Josh and send him to her office. Her tone is businesslike, economical, and designed to re-establish touchpoints amid …

C.J. is on the line off-screen, attempting to reach Josh and asking him to stop by her office; she asks clarifying questions, reacts with a flat 'Bummer,' and attempts to …

C.J. is on the phone off-screen; she asks clarifying questions, registers surprise at not being on the plane, responds with a flat 'Bummer,' and tries to humanize the moment with …

C.J. helps Sam off the floor, pushes the practical idea that Sam become a Big Brother for Anthony, offers blunt press-strategy judgments (relaying Bruno), and channels logistical focus by accepting …

C.J. helps Sam up, offers practical pushback about Sam's availability, proposes a measured communications posture about the First Lady controversy, and orchestrates phone transfer to Josh — a pragmatic steadying …

C.J. is mentioned as conducting a long press briefing that Abbey and Bartlet are watching indirectly; she is not present but her briefing functions as the public counterpart to the …

Referenced by both principals as the active public voice handling the media; her ongoing press briefing is the information they consult via the television, embodying the administration's public response mechanism.

C.J. opens with light banter and logistical scheduling, deflects a deficit question with confident pushback, exits, is whispered to by Carol, re-enters immediately and converts the briefing into an emergency …

C.J. opens with light banter, handles routine questions, steps offstage, is whispered to by Carol, re-enters and converts to crisis-mode: delivers casualty figures, inserts a hearing device, triages question order, …

C.J. appears on television delivering a tight, fact-bound press briefing: she cites incoming but unconfirmed reports of pipe bombs, names local sources, reports emergency squads treating injured, and answers reporter …

Appearing on the television feed, C.J. delivers a measured, fact-focused briefing about pipe bombs at Kennison State University, citing local sources and relaying witness reports while signaling uncertainty and the …

C.J. emerges from the motorcade as the agent opens the door for her; she moves purposefully into the White House, transitioning from travel mode into the center of operational responsibility …

C.J. returns apologetic and composed, relays the news of a bomb at a swimming meet, expresses personal grief about Simon, offers to find a mentor and to take Anthony home …

C.J. enters, offers condolences and practical help, attempts to locate mentoring resources for Anthony, is shouted down and left visibly frustrated and ineffective when Charlie takes over the intervention.

C.J. enters the Outer Oval Office, casually explains that the picture is from Deanna and that she framed it, and hands it to Charlie before saying good night—performing a small …

C.J. enters, explains in a gentle, almost offhand way that the picture came from Deanna and that she'd framed it and kept forgetting to give it to Charlie, then wishes …

Leads the airborne press briefing, deflects and controls journalist queries, refers investigative questions to the FBI, and re-enters the staff room to press Sam into the messaging debate. She balances …

C.J. exits the next room to call Sam in for further messaging work; her presence brackets the onboarding moment with the ongoing press-management task and reminds the group of competing …

Listens, teases Josh about appearance and stamina, asks him to weigh in on Ritchie and Title IX, and receives the tuition idea as a briefing nugget to shepherd through communications …

Teases Josh about travel and appearance, requests his input on Ritchie and Title IX, and maintains managerial pressure to keep messaging coherent while the bullpen spins up ideas.

Interrupts with a quip about Josh's appearance and asks for his view on Ritchie and Title IX; acknowledges Josh's memo, then listens as litigation concerns are raised—she is a steadying, …

C.J. reads the court decision aloud earlier, interjects about the memo and Title IX, and acts as the skeptical press/communications voice, checking tone and reminding staff of messaging consequences.

C.J. monitors the vetting exchange peripherally and promptly shifts the conversation to political optics: reports Ritchie's call to the Chancellor and presses for decisions about the memorial, signaling messaging risks …

C.J. reports political fallout: Ritchie's people called the Chancellor and may try to politicize the memorial; she advises on press exclusion and messaging to keep the event focused on victims.

C.J. reports political pressure: informs the President that Ritchie called the Chancellor, warns that the campaign wants a speaking slot, and argues for press exclusion—she plays messaging gatekeeper and political …

Interjects policy and political risk analysis after the personal exchange, warning about Ritchie's attacks and advising escalation to Leo; translates interpersonal trouble into an institutional threat.

Listens to Josh's report, immediately considers political optics (Ritchie accusing them of politicizing budget), counsels escalation to Leo and messaging discipline, showing operational focus after the personal rupture.

C.J. starts cautious — warning about politicizing the budget — but when faced with the human frame she accepts the moral clarity and moves decisively to escalate the idea to …

C.J. Cregg is named by Susan to underscore Amy's White House connections; she is not present but her association is used as evidence of divided loyalty.

C.J. Cregg is mentioned by Susan as part of Stackhouse's network; she is not present but invoked to highlight perceived White House alignment and conflicts of loyalty.

Commands the press podium with practiced ease: deflects direct questions with jokes and vagueness, offers a rhetorical '270 electoral votes' to close the loop, then physically exits to the hallway …

Leads a tightly controlled press exchange at the podium, uses humor to deflect substantive framing, then exits and meets Sam in the hallway where she defends an expectations-driven strategy before …

C.J. voices anxiety about managing debate expectations and press optics, worries publicly about losing the 'expectations game,' and then follows Toby to discuss practical debate strategy and messaging control.

C.J. joins the Oval conversation, then pulls Toby aside to argue about debate strategy — worried about the expectations game and desperate to set low public benchmarks so the President …

Argues urgently for managing expectations and optics: worries the debate 'expectations game' will decide public perception, presses Toby to prioritize containment over moral one-upmanship, and continues the argument into Toby's …

Named by Leo as someone who should be informed about the debate report; not in the room but implicitly responsible for press and optics related to the Commission's decision.

Referenced as a recipient of the report; C.J. is off-stage but evoked as the filter for news and public messaging who must be looped in after the fax arrives.

Sits across from Bartlet, translates his intellectual complaint into a pragmatic tactic: proposes writing (and possibly leaking) an urgent memo to lower expectations and trade debate quantity for a stronger …

Seated across from Bartlet, C.J. listens and pragmatically pivots the moral argument toward media tactics: proposes drafting an 'urgent memo' to lower expectations and advocates asking for a different debate …

Sitting opposite the President, C.J. pushes pragmatic tactics—proposes an urgent memo to lower expectations, argues for bargaining to change debate format, and engages in wry repartee; she remains focused on …

Sitting on a bench, C.J. absorbs Toby's frantic outburst, reframes it into a tactical solution, whispers to the President, and then moves to the press to clear space for questions.

C.J. sits on the bench, exchanges a terse tactical conversation with Toby, accepts Susan's request, whispers with the President in the sanctuary, then walks down to the steps and orders …

C.J. intervenes on the legitimacy of the question, argues against profiling, proposes nuanced wording, and defends the team's earlier support for Rooker while seeking a more complex public line.

Argues for a principled, empathetic framing against profiling and defends prior support for Rooker until the controversy; tries to complicate the simple answers Josh proposes before the crisis interrupts.

Walks in and provides a quick media/optics assessment, noting Rooker is a Democrat whose record the right won't complain about and reacting with surprise to Donna's presence at the White …

C.J. walks in, registers surprise that Donna is at the White House, and summarizes Rooker's appeal as a Democrat whose record satisfies conservatives—adding an optics observation to the room's discussion.

Walks into the room, registers surprise when told Donna is at the White House and displays a quick, envious curiosity about that privilege before returning focus to the nomination talk.

C.J. defends the President's emotional stake: she articulates New Hampshire's symbolic weight for Bartlet, frames losing it as an embarrassment, and argues against the cold reallocation of resources on personal …

C.J. physically moves to Josh, intervenes to stress the need to put Ritchie on the wrong side of values and volunteers press support, signaling pragmatic concern for optics.

C.J. quietly moves to the back, pulls Josh aside, and argues the answer must be recast to put the President 'on the right side' of voters; she then announces a …

C.J. rises from the back, crosses to Josh and quietly directs him to reframe Bartlet's answer to put the President on the 'right side' of family values; then notes she …

Alone in the dark Press Room, C.J. runs a meticulous mock briefing—reciting dates, the President's morning schedule, and a roll call—then endures Bill Stark's interruption and pleasant probing while managing …

C.J. stands at the podium rehearsing a briefing in an empty, dim Press Room, reciting reporters' names and rebuttals; she is interrupted, forced off-script, and responds defensively to Bill Stark's …

C.J. appears at the door, apologizes for intruding, and delivers the crucial discovery: a reporter connected to Rooker and a damaging transcript. She reads the quoted line, framing the comment …

C.J. bursts into the Oval with an apologetic urgency, delivers the provenance (reporter served on Miami city council) and reads the damaging transcript phrase aloud, converting a private moment into …

Offers a dry, sardonic comment about Toby's phrasing; acts as the wry, principled communications conscience in the room, signaling the absurdity of some lines.

C.J. interjects a quip about Toby and observes staff banter in Leo's office, providing tonal punctuation and underscoring the management of optics even as staff joke.

C.J. bursts into the office with urgent, clipped updates about a recent one-on-one she gave to Danny Concannon and the fallout: a resurfaced DUI in Rooker's past and an unfavorable …

C.J. enters Toby's office, appears anxious and apologetic, confesses she granted Danny Concannon a one-on-one on Rooker, and delivers the news that Danny has pursued damaging material about Cornell Rooker.

C.J. delivers the operational update succinctly—announcing the President's unavailability and Fitzwallace's arrival—then shakes her head and exits, signaling seriousness and removing herself to let the staff reconstitute into work mode.

C.J. breaks the heavy silence by revealing she was handed a '365 in Media' card, reads several names aloud and reframes the scandal as moral condemnation rather than ordinary political …

C.J. opens the scene with an uneasy observation, produces the '365 in Media' prayer card to deflect and make light of the mood, and attempts framing to blunt the blow …

C.J. receives Amy's line via Josh, immediately prepares to write and incorporate it into opening copy and debate messaging; she later performs the broadcast introduction, linking prep to live television …

C.J. receives Josh's hurried phone, listens and writes down Amy's phrasing, recognizes its broadcast value, and prepares to polish and package it for debate opening copy and on-air usage.

C.J. receives Amy's line via Josh, writes it down to shape the President's answer, reacts with exasperation when Josh's question forces an awkward personal moment, and maintains a professional stance …

In the anteroom and Oval, accepts the 'no notes' directive, reads cues during the drill, and helps provide the scripted prompts before and after the President's staged stumble.

C.J. is present in the Outer Oval and Oval, receives the 'no notes' instruction, trades small talk about the ten‑dollar bet, and remains professionally steady—part pragmatic press operator, part observer.

Reads sample questions, enforces the 'no notes' component of the drill when instructed, and watches closely for the President's tone and staff reactions; participates in the post‑reveal relief.

C.J. is running the press-room rollout, assigning surrogates and schedules, then is pulled aside by Toby; she masks panic with sharp focus, demands a Republican surrogate and negotiates logistics while …

C.J. runs the press-room rollout, absorbs Toby's news with sharp urgency, questions Toby about Albie Duncan's suitability, issues brisk directives, and briefly disengages with a flirtatious aside before letting Toby …

C.J. briskly coaches Albie on the mechanics and demands of the spin room, prescribes a simple winning line, delegates a fetch task to Carol, and then joins Toby and Josh …

C.J. initiates and directs a rapid coaching session with Albie, simplifies his talking points, assigns a logistics task to Carol, then confers privately with Josh and Toby about who might …

C.J. arrives, asks what happened, pushes camera tests and procedural readiness even as she helps hustle staff toward the stage and maintain composure.

C.J. bursts into the side door, asks what happened and highlights missed camera tests; she moves to the side of the stage to manage optics and ensures press and technical …

Maintains professional focus, calls for readiness ('Bring it, boss'), notes camera-test concerns, and hustles into the wing to manage optics as the tie drama unfolds.

Backstage in the spin room C.J. watches the feed, hushing Mark, audibly reacts to Bartlet's line ('Oh, my God!'), and immediately orients toward damage control and messaging implications.

C.J. is huddled at the television, physically shushing a reporter, reacting aloud to Bartlet's lines, exchanging an urgent aside with Toby and then giving a shocked exclamation as the room …

C.J. argues for more celebratory signage and visual messaging, then pulls Toby aside to disclose the Roll Call leak about Andy's pregnancy, urging proactive damage control and coordination.

C.J. intercepts Toby in the Roosevelt Room, escorts him into the hallway and his office, delivers the leak bluntly, frames the problem tactically, urges a proactive announcement, and then immediately …

C.J. is referenced as the person who informed Toby about the Roll Call leak; she is absent physically but functionally operates as the conduit for the political intelligence that precipitates …

Answers a timed phone call, deliberately leaves the bullpen to brief the President, and physically escorts the institutional judgment up the chain — trading the chaos of the bullpen for …

Takes a brief mysterious phone call, leaves the crowded Communications Office, meets with senior staff in the hallway and Oval, delivers a composed greeting to the President, presents him with …

Answers a phone, ends the call, leaves the Communications Office, walks the news into the hallway and the Oval, fixes a drink for the President, and delivers the measured declaration …

Interrupts the private exchange to offer another curtain call, performing the role of image manager by prompting another public appearance and receiving a kiss on the cheek from Bartlet.

C.J. interrupts the couple's private exchange with a professional prompt to take another curtain call, prioritizing the event's optics and quickly re-routing them back into a controlled public moment.

C.J. prompts Bartlet with press-style questions, manages tempo, and registers amusement; she orchestrates the public-facing moment even as the team pivots toward confidential diplomatic business.

C.J. walks with Carol, confirms the Map Room tea roster, receives Toby's appointment news, flags a likely legal problem for Andy, and immediately reassigns campaign questions to campaign press offices.

C.J. walks briskly with Carol, confirms the tea roster aloud, receives Toby's personnel news, then deliberately steers everyone into the press room and redirects questions about Sam to the campaign …

Enters, delivers the Reuters wire about the C‑130 and the Ayatollah's denunciation, assesses press suspicion, and steps out at Bartlet's request — the professional conduit between press and policy.

C.J. enters with the Reuters report, summarizes Tehran's denunciation and press suspicions, advises on optics, and explicitly aligns with the President's humanitarian impulse while warning about media narrative.

Standing outside the West Wing, C.J. greets the President and delivers a concise, urgent briefing about Lt. Cmdr. Vickie Hilton's arrest; she frames facts quickly and then walks off to …

C.J. meets the President at the motorcade, delivers the troubling personnel briefing crisply and without melodrama, then withdraws to let the senior staff take over. Her delivery is professional, tightly …

C.J. stands at the podium, delivers a controlled, diplomatic deflection on Shehab tests, quips about the President's APEC material and Showtime special, frames cabinet resignations as routine protocol, steps down, …

Leads a concise briefing about Shehab tests, APEC and cabinet resignations, then steps down from the podium and immediately defends a staging decision: she moved the news‑magazine seats to accommodate …

C.J. reports she has already amended the statement, raises concerns about the local AFL sign-off and candidate's need to do door-to-door outreach, and frames the labor optics tightly before moving …

Intercepted by Toby in the hallway; confirms she amended the statement and raises the labor-run issue and 'high school snapshots' as reminders. She is brisk and efficient, delivering factual checks …

C.J. stands at the podium, answers a probing policy question with a firm denial, redirects a military query to the Pentagon, and calmly but curtly rebukes a reporter about seating …

C.J. stands at the podium, answers policy questions, abruptly stops a reporter raising Commander Hilton, redirects the military question to the Pentagon, and forcefully rebuts Mitch's complaint about seating while …

C.J. stands at the podium, answers a challenge with controlled firmness, cites consultation with the Correspondents' Association, rebukes Mitch's tone, and curtly ends the exchange to reassert authority over the …

C.J. calmly defends moving the news magazines and adjusting camera positioning to protect on-camera optics, resists Bartlet's suggested public rebuke, and states her corrective action (moving a camera) to resolve …

C.J. defends her decision to shift news‑magazine seating and promises to reposition a camera; she stands firm against Bartlet's snark while losing the room to the incoming memo and call …

Defends moving empty press-room seats for television optics, resists presidential micromanagement, announces intention to reposition a camera, and stands her ground while the meeting shifts to substantive business.

C.J. enters the empty briefing room, initiates the apology, announces concrete concessions (restoring magazines, name placards, second C-SPAN camera authorization) and prescribes seat-filler protocol to avert future incidents.

Leads the late-night briefing from the podium with practiced wit, deflecting probing questions about her Dayton reunion and Josh's absence; then withdraws to the press area and hallway where she …

Leads the late-night briefing with practiced humor and deflection, answers probing questions about Dayton, leaves the podium, argues privately about flights and family language, and resists the explicit naming of …

C.J. is on her cellphone leading a rapid briefing while physically moving through the security lane: she removes her heels and beepers, reacts to the metal detector alarm, puts the …

C.J. climbs a deactivated escalator lugging a heavy bag while on the phone, her practiced control unraveling into breathless, clumsy speech; she blurts an awkward compliment, attempts to pivot to …

C.J. stands in the rain with luggage, attempts to brief Toby on an errant draft by phone, is cut off, puts the phone away, engages in unexpectedly easy, nostalgic banter …

Standing in the rain at Terminal A with travel-worn luggage, briefly on the phone about White House papers, she greets Marco, exchanges nostalgic banter, tenses when her father and stepmother …

C.J. arrives, moves between threshold, bathroom, kitchen and bedroom, moderates Tal's fumbling cooking, collects the copper pot and Marsala, steadies herself in the mirror, then sits beside Tal as the …

Arrives from the cab, climbs the front steps, engages Tal with practiced warmth, explores the house (bathroom to kitchen), helps find the copper pot and wine, tries to steady the …

C.J. is off-screen on the phone, instantly shifting from personal call to press-room triage; she instructs Toby on reporter selection, tones, and strategy, while slipping in concise personal updates about …

C.J. conducts the phone exchange from off-screen, converting domestic check-in into precise professional directives about how to run the briefing and pressing Toby to understand the mechanics of questioning.

C.J. arrives, greets Libby, follows Molly into the kitchen, listens briefly and then launches into a fierce confrontation accusing Molly of abandoning Tal and canceling her past kindness; she visibly …

C.J. arrives from Dayton, follows Molly into the kitchen, demands answers, levels verbal accusations about abandonment, references her public speech, and finally walks away—physically leaving the room to punctuate her …

Arrives with a fishing pole, fumbles a cast, listens to Tal's instructions, presses him about Molly and doctors, physically steadies him in the stream, names the practical need for care, …

Approaches with a fishing pole, struggles with the cast, listens to Tal's rambling, then confronts him directly — grabs his arm in the current, insists on arranging professional help, and …

C.J. sits on the office couch beside her father, interrupts humor, physically grabs Tal's hand to keep him seated, pushes Dr. Voight for concrete planning and listens with visible upset …

C.J. sits beside her father on the couch, abruptly moves to physically restrain him when he rises to leave, presses the doctor for blunt answers and concrete plans, and frames …

C.J. moves from easy banter to emergency control: she answers Toby on her cellphone, issues orders, forces Tal to pull over, exits and takes the driver's seat, and pivots the …

Sits in the passenger seat, answers her phone mid-drive, instantly shifts from conversational daughter to decisive driver: orders Tal to pull over, takes the wheel, moves to the driver's seat, …

C.J. is in her room dressing, listening across the adjoining space; she answers Tal, moderates his statements to Marco, and consents when Marco offers to inspect the watch. She is …

C.J. is in her room dressing while the living-room exchange unfolds; she interrupts Tal’s mistaken accusation about Marco being in prison to correct and shield Marco, signaling weary protectiveness and …

C.J. is present at the kitchen table, listens to Marco's technical explanation, offers small confirming lines, and when Tal cannot identify the photo she silently exits to the foyer—buttoning her …

C.J. sits at the kitchen table listening to Marco's technical explanation, absorbs Tal's confession that he 'can't remember anything,' then recoils when Tal fails to recognize the photograph; she walks …

Sitting in the parked car, C.J. scans classmates, name-checks old friends, reads her phone showing 'Toby WWing' and consciously refuses to answer, telling her companion she can't face the call …

C.J. is physically intimate with Marco, kisses him, glances at the bedside clock, instantly panics believing she is due on-air, verbally expresses anxiety, then relaxes and falls back onto Marco …

C.J. stands at the reunion podium delivering an impassioned, reflective speech about generational promise, notices Molly and her father in the back, and is abruptly interrupted when her cellphone rings; …

C.J. receives the call mid-reunion/speech moment, responds with stunned concern, quickly reorders priorities, accepts logistical instructions, and promises to call en route to the airport before hanging up.

Cuts short her reunion remarks, announces embassy bombing threats, declares she must get to the airport, physically grabs her father's hand, kisses him on the cheek, and departs in the …

C.J. abruptly stops her public remarks, announces an embassy-bombing crisis, rushes into the foyer, receives her father's watch, physically restrains him briefly with a hand-hold, kisses his cheek, and climbs …

C.J. engages in messaging debate, offers a playful, private kiss that re-centers the President, and delivers a brisk encouragement before stepping aside to let protocol resume.

Approaches Bartlet in the lobby, offers logistical counsel about ball order, provides a quick affectionate reassurance (kiss on the cheek), and remains a calm, steady presence while the leak news …

Opens the interaction in the lobby with small logistics about balls, offers a quick, intimate support (a kiss on the cheek), and contributes light, morale-boosting presence as the President faces …

C.J. stands off to the side of the podium, speaking in a measured, instructive tone; she outlines the Chief Justice's prompt and physically rehearses the hand placement instructions with the …

Plays foil and confidante: teases Bartlet, responds to teleprompter cues, listens to legal-metric banter, and receives Charlie's Bible logistics note, remaining professionally supportive.

Participates in banter, raises the possibility that the Chief Justice's meter is a code, and stands by as staff rehearse oath details while managing the intersection of optics and protocol.

Mocks Bartlet lightly at the start, listens to Toby's meter explanation, offers the sideways joke about coded messages, and remains poised as staff exit to leave Bartlet and Leo discussing …

Stages and closes a prickly press exchange with practiced levity, deflecting a ritual/oath question, exits to the hallway, walks with Carol, notices Danny behind them, escorts him into her office …

Finished a public briefing with levity, exits to the hallway, tolerates Carol's matchmaking, then pulls Danny into her office. She deliberately reframes any assistance as a personal favor, explicitly blocking …

C.J. runs the briefing from the podium, repeatedly deflects unconfirmed specifics ('We don't know'), attempts to control pronunciation and framing, and ultimately delivers an updated casualty figure—compressing chaos into an …

Running the press briefing: answers reporters, absorbs a grisly field report, translates 'Krawala', and reluctantly announces a sharp revision of deaths to 15,000 while maintaining institutional control.

Referenced indirectly: C.J.'s morning casualty report (15,000) is invoked by Will to convert rhetorical language into an urgent response; she is not present but her figures drive the moral claim.

C.J. is mentioned indirectly — her press briefing earlier set the Khundu body count at 15,000 — and her reporting provides the factual hook that Will uses to press moral …

C.J. moves from office to hallway, engages Danny in professional reconnaissance about the ramp signal agent, then shifts the encounter into private, sexualized territory: she asks to turn out the …

C.J. initiates and controls the encounter: she invites Danny into the copier room, turns off the lights, confesses long-standing longing, teases him with perfume and a loosened blouse, then stops …

C.J. receives a paper from an approaching man, reads an updated intelligence figure aloud, and releases the revised casualty estimate to the waiting press while remaining physically in the hallway, …

On the television conducting a briefing about Khundu; her brief on-air exchange with Reporter Mark frames the room's attention and raises the moral language question influencing the mood of the …

As White House Press Secretary, C.J. runs the late-night briefing with controlled, legalistic answers, then maneuvers Danny into the hallway and her office to receive his reporting while deflecting politically …

C.J. transitions from public briefings to private control: she deflects reporters, brusquely enforces boundaries in the hallway, then moves the exchange into her office, tests and confirms factual claims, and …

C.J. is invoked by Josh as the source of a stylistic suggestion (change 'mankind' to 'humankind'), shaping the small but significant rhetorical choices under discussion.

C.J. is referenced as having been able to truthfully deny a rescission to the press; she is not physically present but functions as the communications touchstone Leo invokes to prove …

C.J. sits at the table, orders a drink, and drives the moral argument forcefully — invoking the image of soldiers as 'somebody's kids' and labeling inaction complicity to press the …

C.J. sits at the table, orders a drink, and drives the moral argument by invoking an immediate, visceral image (a pregnant woman being beaten) to force colleagues to reckon with …

Bursts back into the conversation, puts on her coat, delivers the crisis line accusing a reporter and an internal staffer of creating a leak, then exits to return to the …

Bursts back to the table, puts on her coat, names the culprits — Danny and an internal staffer — and departs in a single sharp motion to return to the …

C.J. bursts through the entrance, aggressively confronts Danny, interrogates him about the anonymous quote, pins suspicion on Donna, follows the argument into her office, picks up the phone and watches …

C.J. interrupts the informal chatter to announce a leak, immediately places a call for new Cabinet talking points, and frames the doctrine's practical consequences—forecasting USTR, committee, and Arab World backlash …

Bursts in with urgent news, immediately moves to command mode—gets on her cellphone to task Carol for new talking points and enumerates the external actors who will react to the …

Delivers the factual account tying the published line to a researcher and then to Donna, communicates that Donna called to admit the remark, and frames the admission as credit-worthy while …

C.J. greets the President warmly, defends Political Affairs' position on ball order, points out the Marine Corps Band as a timing cue, looks at her watch and announces 'Five minutes,' …

C.J. approaches the President and entourage, deploys wry, rehearsed small talk to deflect tension, announces the band, jokes about the Chief Justice, then checks her watch and warns 'Five minutes.' …

Approaches the President, monitors ceremony timing, announces 'Five minutes' by checking her watch, calls attention to the Marine Band and watches Charlie return with the Bible, keeping tone measured while …

C.J. stands at the bar with a drink, pressing Leo with a professional warning about growing dissent and possible Pentagon leaks tied to Shareef; she asserts her role and readiness …

C.J. stands among staff, shares wry supportive remarks about promotions, and witnesses the pivot from celebration to crisis; she is both personally invested and professionally alert to messaging consequences.

C.J. stands among the group, applauds Will, shares the light banter about deputyship, and absorbs the Khundu order—immediately parsing its communications consequences even if not speaking policy at length.

Follows immediately behind the President, composed and professional; her posture contributes to the choreography of public unity and she reads the optics of the moment for communications purposes.

Leads the briefing with controlled authority: announces the ultimatum and operation name, fields rapid reporter questions with calm deferral to the Pentagon, then immediately pivots to hallway crisis management when …

Leads the briefing, exits into the hallway joking about writing a $1,300 check, then instantly pivots to alarm when Carol reports bookings; she interprets the lineup as a deliberate political …

C.J. appears briefly as a precipitating presence—she inventories media risk earlier, declares the critical first 24 hours, and then departs to pack; her urgency frames the need for rapid messaging.

Delivers the crucial intelligence that the chairs of House Ways and Means and Senate Finance are booked on Sunday shows, framing the timing problem; argues logistics and media implications and …

C.J. frames the media calculus: she names the Sunday-show threat, emphasizes the first 24 hours of the cycle, and argues that announcing without substance will leave the White House vulnerable—advocating …

C.J. reports the logistical failure — miscommunication between Advance/Airlift and CHP — and announces the Interstate 5 shutdown while casually grabbing a soda, blending operational briefing with an every-day composure.

C.J. strides in with a soda, reports a ground logistics failure (Advance/Airlift/CHP mix-up) that shut down I‑5, and answers Bartlet and Josh's questions with concise operational detail.

C.J. arrives just after Donna's exit, grabs a soda, and reports a logistics snafu (Advance and Airlift/CHP miscommunication) that has shut down I-5, adding to the operational pressure shaping Josh's …

Sits beside Toby in the limousine as a quiet observer; she does not speak in this exchange but her presence frames the conversation as official and consequential.

Steps out of the motorcade, apologizes to Sam for the late arrival and any damage to optics, offers reassurance to staff while projecting calm to the candidate and crowd, and …

C.J. sits at the table reading and adjudicating headlines, supplies perspective on bad photo and phrasing, and helps place the headline 'Democrats Idle On Tax Cut Debate' in front of …

Sits at the table scanning multiple newspapers, names the damaging items aloud, attempts to normalize and downplay the hits and physically pushes a paper toward Josh to force triage and …

C.J. sits with newspapers, reads out and assesses press angles, places the headline in front of Josh, and speaks practically about optics—helping execute the tactical pivot to defining the opposition.

C.J. stands in front of the press corps, tightly controlling the narrative: answers questions, supplies selective context, and delivers a rehearsed damage-control line about Donna and Ivan to neutralize the …

C.J. runs an informal briefing, delivering facts about Kuhndu, naming international phone contacts, pivoting to domestic policy and defusing a potentially damaging photo story about a staffer.

C.J. leads an informal press briefing, answers rapid-fire questions, reframes the Donna/Ivan photograph as politically innocuous, and deliberately redirects reporters to the President's policy and schedule.

Seated with Toby and others, C.J. presses the need for Josh and Toby to take over Sam's campaign, directing political triage and critiquing DNC choices—she steers the conversation from private …

C.J. pushes Toby (and by implication Josh) to take control of Sam's floundering campaign, focusing on urgency and optics; when the man confronts Andy she immediately rebukes him and tries …

C.J. sits at the table, pressing the campaign team to take over the race and then intervenes verbally during the harassing exchange by calling the man out for being out …

C.J. is the phone recipient of Toby's instructions (not heard speaking in the scene); she functions as the operational endpoint for his messaging orders, implied to be coordinating the President's …

C.J. is the off-screen recipient of Toby's instructions; she is being directed on acknowledgements, event logistics, and to keep Andy away, functioning as the operational endpoint of his phone commands.

Referenced by Josh as the person managing the arrest/press side; not on camera but implicitly tasked with crisis media control and damage mitigation.

C.J. is not physically present in the clip but is invoked by Josh as the staffer handling media and press fallout from the arrests and backstage scandal.

C.J. Cregg is referenced by the TV reporter as the Press Secretary relaying the President's movement — her name frames the White House’s public posture in the unfolding story.

C.J. is invoked as the staffer who should be informed that the First Lady will remain in California; she is not present but is the operational recipient of the instruction.

C.J. strolls up after Sam is speaking, offers teasing, visually appraises Sam's public persona, and pivots to ask Toby about White House developments — blending personal banter with professional curiosity.

C.J. approaches with casual banter, teases Toby and Sam about image, and directly asks for news from the White House—probing while keeping tone light and social.

C.J. is half playful, half manager: singing by the window in a gown, then pivoting to blunt campaign counsel—arguing that the First Lady's pivot to poverty at a black‑tie event …

C.J. stands in a gown, half-singing, half-scolding: she warns about optics (the First Lady in a couture dress discussing poverty), sits on the table, and presses Charlie to advise Mrs. …

C.J. arrives as the crisis is relayed through Josh and Will; she listens, helps translate the shifting priorities (disaster vs. media), and is positioned as the person Josh will prep …

C.J. arrives in the lobby, is quickly briefed by Josh and Will about both the Alaska emergency and a Boston Globe call concerning the First Lady's ancestry; she pivots to …

C.J. arrives amid the emergency briefing, receives Will's Globe tip, corrects 'pirate' to 'privateer' with practiced precision, and immediately decides she and Will should visit the First Lady to contain …

C.J. enters with Will, supplies a factual correction ('A privateer actually'), frames the DAR member's complaint as a media/optics problem, and conveys the immediate pressure the Boston Globe story creates …

C.J. enters with Will, supplies the clarifying line that the ancestor was a 'privateer' rather than a pirate, frames the DAR member's planned boycott, and conveys the Boston Globe's angle …

Spots Will and Charlie in the hallway, summons them to the Mural Room, introduces Marion and Mr. Thomas, and shepherds the social interaction while suppressing laughter; drives the transition from …

C.J. shepherds Amy into the meeting, performs introductions, repeatedly struggles to suppress nervous laughter, and provides the comic, human bridge that keeps the scene light while trying to manage optics.

C.J. is named by Josh as one of the senior staff whose perceived influence matters; she is not present in the office confrontation but is invoked to illustrate the collective …

C.J. stands with Will while Leo briefs them; she objects aloud to politicizing a tragedy, presses on the ethics of publicly scolding a scientist, and acts as the moral counterweight …

C.J. attempts to shepherd a sleepy press corps through a muddled time-zone conversation, using authority and humor to steady the room until the PA announcement forces her to stop banter …

C.J. moderates the press-cabin banter about time zones, asserting the Eastern time and attempting to quiet pedantic corrections while keeping the cabin light and under control before the PA interrupts.

C.J. receives the Oval briefing, immediately pivots to press control: exits to the hallway and press cabin, offers the maintenance-truck/fuel-spill cover line, assesses which staff to deploy, and physically picks …

C.J. has been running a cover story in the press cabin, then is pulled aside by Chris, receives double-confirmed casualty news, and immediately moves to escalate by paging Leo via …

Referenced by Donna and staff as the person C.J. who should handle the press aboard Air Force One; not present but operationally central to messaging plans.

Sitting beside staff with controlled urgency, C.J. runs the rapid-fire brainstorming: she asks for any lights, festivals or astronomical events to explain sightings, organizes Ed and Larry's search, and then …

C.J. sits with staff, leads a rapid brainstorming session to manufacture a plausible explanation for lights below, quizzes Ed and Will, and then moves with Charlie to the meeting room …

C.J. moves from preparatory coach to decisive crisis manager: she hesitates briefly, takes the wall phone in the kitchenette/press cabin, calls 'Signal', orders press-cabin phones cut, and then bluntly tells …

C.J. takes command inside the press cabin: she shuts down potential leaks with an embargo, threatens FAA-based confiscation of cellphones, reframes a technical midair refueling as a safety tactic, and …

Enters the hallway mid-exchange, supplies an operational fact about fuel levels, repeats Charlie's observation that Will is afraid of flying, and treats the personal revelation as both fact and manageable …

C.J. enters from the President's office hallway, confirms operational detail about fuel, reinforces Charlie's observation by teasing and normalizing Will's fear, and asks pointed questions that draw out Will's defensive …

Mentioned as needing briefing: C.J. will be answering press questions about maintenance procedures and must be prepared; she is not present but her role shapes immediate staff tasks.

C.J. is invoked as the press interface who will have to explain maintenance procedures to reporters; she is not present but is the focal point for briefing efforts.

Mentioned by Leo as the person to fetch — she is not present in the office but is immediately implicated as the staffer who must translate operational choices into public …

Referenced as the intended recipient of the Colombia briefing; implicitly charged with handling the press and briefings once Will delivers the material. C.J.'s role is invoked but she is not …

C.J. paces the aisle, fields rapid, hostile questions, uses sardonic deflection, reads the slipped note, and converts an anxious press corps into a controlled narrative by announcing the Andrews fly‑by.

C.J. paces the aisle, fields escalating questions, deflects and tries to contain speculation, reads the slipped note aloud and uses it to reframe the situation as a procedural fly-by.

C.J. is cited as the planned speaker who would deliver the White House statement from the podium; she is the transactional asset Toby offers in the negotiation.

C.J. is referenced as the promised public voice—her forthcoming podium statement is the bargaining chip Toby offers; she does not appear in the room.

C.J. stands swaying against the hallway wall, asking urgently about proximity to the tower, absorbs the news that the indicator lit, then impulsively grabs and kisses Ed before walking away …

C.J. stands swaying against the hallway wall, voice frayed as she asks about the tower. After the gear confirmation she physically seizes Ed and kisses him, then composes herself enough …