02E07 - Family Ties

Tom is being hit on multiple sides, with Lyor, Emily, Seth and Aaron trying to mitigate the problem by trying to push whichever they deem the least harmful item to Tom and the administration to the top of the news cycle. Leading into a NATO summit in DC, they learn that Turkish president Fatih Turan, who Tom does not much like, wants to raise significantly the leases on strategic air fields in Turkey, they believing to build up a war chest for an upcoming election. If Tom doesn't agree, Turan may hand the leases over to the Russians which would give them the upper hand in the Middle East. At a joint press conference with Tom and Turan where the prepared scripts are exchanges of diplomatic niceties regarding the items to be discussed at the summit, Turan blindsides Tom by going off script, accusing Tom of harboring who Turan sees as his primary political opponent, Nuresh Sahin, who he wants extradited back to Turkey to face charges of treason for an unsuccessful coup. Tom, who has seen no concrete evidence to support Turan's claim and knows that Sahin will be immediately executed if he is sent back to Turkey, has to decide if Sahin, one man and a non-American at that, is expendable within the bigger picture, Sahin who is in the US as a visiting scholar. Secretary of State Moss is supposed to represent the US at one of the summit's more important meetings, however Hannah informs the administration that Moss is now a person of interest in the still unsolved Charlotte Thorn assassination. Moss not being forthright in that investigation led by Hannah and Damian may further tarnish the administration. At one of the protests outside the Turkish embassy, Leo, who is walking to a restaurant with his new girlfriend Sibyl, is approached by one of the protesters. Their resulting altercation has Leo pushing the man to the ground in an effort to protect Sibyl. That man, Peter Jan, presses assault charges against Leo. Eva, on Kendra's counsel, decides voluntarily to be questioned by Forstell in the hopes that he does not know about Eva running into Eric Little six months ago. Concurrently, Tiffany Gimble of the White House press corps, she representing one of the smaller but more determined media outlets, approaches Seth wanting an exclusive with the President regarding some information she has about the investigation of Eva, Seth and Tom not knowing what Tiffany does or does not know most specifically with regard to that issue with Eric Little six months ago. If Tom and his staff discover truths in any of these matters, they may find that some of the issues are interrelated and can be dealt with by exposing those connections.