The Newsroom, Season 1

Sloan:
Unless there's a rally-

Mac:
I'm sorry, I've gotta-

Sloan:
Listen.

Mac:
Sloan...

Sloan:
Unless there's a rally in the next 90 minutes, the Dow is gonna close down about 2.5%, S&P NASDAQ will close down 2.3. Let me tell you why.

Mac:
I don't own a lot of stock...

Sloan:
Let me tell you why.

Mac:
[upset] I really can't deal with this right now-

Sloan:
[raising her voice] Stop avoiding this! I just got off the phone with these guys. Listen to these quotes. These aren't from liberals. These are hardcore Wall Street guys who, whatever the world may think of them, know what they're talking about and so do I. Jamie Dimon at Chase says: "Voting against raising the debt ceiling would be a moral disaster." The Barclay's guys say "This debate is detached from reality." My Goldman source says: "If the House Republicans continue this debate, I hope they're willing to mark the end of the dollar as the Global Reserve Currency." Please notice that he didn't say: "If the House Republicans don't raise the debt ceiling." HE SAID: "If the House Republicans continue this debate." That's all it takes. Just the uncertainty. That's why the Dow is gonna close down 230 points today. Because just the debate. Just the doubt. Just the possibility that the House Majority might commit the greatest self-inflicted damage to [raising her voice] the country since the SECESSION OF THE SOUTH has caused billions in value to disappear."

Mac:
Sloan, I understand. I swear to God I do. But you can't say the same thing in the C-block?

Sloan:
Don't pretend that you don't know that most people watch 10 minutes of news. The first 10 minutes.

Mac:
The vote isn't until tomorrow night and it's only the first vote and you said yourself it was cosmetic. Why do we have to feature it tonight?

Sloan:
We should've been featuring it weeks ago. We should've been leading with it every night.

Mac:
Why do we have to feature it tonight?

Sloan:
To give time for the people to call their Congressman and say: "If you f*** with the full faith and credit of the US Treasury, you're fired!" To give time for the people to jam the phone lines of the District Offices, to give the people TIME to say: "I'm a fiscal conservative, and you've gotta put the pin back in the grenade right now." That's why.

Mac:
I'm gonna do everything I can.

Sloan:
[upset] Please do.