2:55 AM, Moscow time
Ok lots of questions no answers, planning on finishing this?
"I know he is at the Capitol by now. It is a matter of the gravest urgency I speak to him immediately. Even if you cannot secure the connection on your end, get him on a radio or something else."
He interrupts the reply on the other end. "There is no time for games, sir." And then tells him exactly why he is calling, and needs to speak to the President.
The voice on the other end tells him they will get him on the radio as quickly as they can.
Unfortunately, even at that very second, the bells of death were tolling...