Meet Ainsley Hayes. a blonde leggy Republican lawyer, who in fact does know a thing or two. Sam is put up against her on a TV news talk show, and thinks he can awe her with his brilliance. He finds that she can see right through him and crushes him on-camera, with a zinger about misplacing an California city in Oregon. The president decides she would be an asset on the staff. She also offers CJ some helpful advice when the press secretary realizes that she may have let slip information that could send her to prison. Although her Republican friends are critical and dismissive of the staffers in the WH, Ainsley is impressed with them. A poigant story line in the episode are talks between drug companies and the president of an African nation that is devastated by AIDS. The leader - along with Toby and Josh - wonder why the drug companies can't provide the AIDS treatments for a low price and find out that the issue is much more complicated that any of them thought. Their respect for the African leader involved is a driving force, but when unrest in his nation begins, they realize they can't help.