State of Affairs

State of Affairs

All the President's men are nothing compared to her.

TV-14 2014 · 1 season · 13 eps · ★ 5.7 · Drama

Canceled

Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker - assembles the President's Daily Briefing. This list of the most vital security issues facing the nation brings with it moral and political judgment calls for Charleston and her trusted group of brilliant analysts at the agency. Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the President because she was once engaged to her son before a tragic terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and is now determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. Navigating a complex personal life and a pressure-cooker profession is, of course, a challenge, and Charlie sometimes engages in boundary-pushing behavior to avoid facing her grief. But when the clock strikes 2 a.m., she is all about her job - protecting her nation, serving her president and still trying to get to the bottom of her fiancé's murder that will reveal itself as a shocking mystery.

Created by Joe Carnahan

Network: NBC

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Katherine Heigl Charleston Tucker
Alfre Woodard President Constance Payton
Adam Kaufman Lucas Newsome
Sheila Vand Maureen James
Cliff Chamberlain Kurt Tannen
Tommy Savas Dashiell Greer
David Harbour David Patrick
Vera Miao Jill Becker
Farshad Farahat Omar Fatah
Gracie Dzienny Stacy Dover
Mark Tallman Aaron Payton
Ben Hernandez Bray Sal Gomez

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