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Good morning everyone. We have a lot to cover today, so I'm going to quickly run through the President's schedule, and then we'll take some questions after that. At approximately 8: will be welcomed by one of his closest advisors who will tell him, Mr. president, a giant monster has entered Manhattan. And then at 8:45 am, after receiving a briefing on the situation, the president will meet with members of his ethnically diverse staff around a large circular table in a dimly lit room, where he then will have to decide whether to trust his militaristic defense secretary, or his brilliant, but troubled scientific... advisor, who will then claim that a traditional military assault will not work on the monster. The president will listen to both sides of the argument, of course. And then at 8:57 am, the president will push himself back from the table, pause for a moment and then in a tone, both wistful and strong, say, "send in the marines". At 9:45 am, the president and his advisors will huddle around a screen where they will actually follow the battle in real time. They will then listen in on a radio communication from a handsome young marine with a beautiful pregnant wife, who will inform them it's not working. This thing is like nothing we've ever seen before. It's getting stronger by the minute. Oh, no. It's coming toward us. The radio will then go dead and after a hushed silence the president will ask to be left alone. At 1 casting shadows across the president's face. And at 1 at several pictures of previous presidents on the wall, looking for answers that will never come. For the answers will have been inside him all along, which he will then find out at approximately 11:15 am. And at 1:15 pm the president will meet with his science advisor, that he had previously ignored. And once they burry the hatchet on a decade's old romantic rivalry, the science advisor will recommend an incredibly risky, far-fetched plan to kill the monster. The defense secretary will object. The president will silence him with a motion of his hand and then ask the secret service to escort the secretary out. The president will then turn to his science advisor and say: let's do it. At approximately 2: of Americans of every race, religion and age, come together to pray and comfort each other, the science advisor's plan will be put into action. And at first it will appear to have no affect on the monster, but at 2:1 that the monster is weakening, until it finally dies two minutes later, in a fireball at 2:12 pm. At 2:3 the science advisor will shake hands, in an emotionally charged moment. And the science advisor's estranged wife, who miraculously survived the attack in Manhattan will realize she never stopped loving him. And then two summers from now the president will repeat this schedule, but with better production values and shittier writing. Still Ahead Congress Welcomes Animal trainer Mike Chadwin