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He just didn�t know when that would be.
Sam was trying to wrap his head around the fact that Vice President Hoynes was one of the hostages in the embassy. He�d never really liked the guy, to be honest, but they had needed him on the Ticket to win the South and he was the Vice President so he had always kept his views more or less to himself. Josh, Toby, CJ, and Leo knew how he felt about the Vice President, just like Sam knew how they felt about the Texan as well. The truth was that no one on the President�s staff liked Hoynes all that much. And none of them trusted him at all.
However, neither the fact that Sam didn�t like Hoynes or that Sam didn�t trust Hoynes mattered at the moment because things like likeability and trust didn�t mean a thing when it came to matters of life and death, which was exactly the type of situation that Sam was dealing with at that exact moment. If anything his consistent dislike for the Vice President made the entire situation more difficult for Sam to deal with because it was not looking good. The intel they were getting was sketchy at best, and, while they knew there had been no explosions or gunfire heard inside the embassy, that didn�t mean that the hostages were still alive. The very lack of intelligence that was coming in was alarming, as was the fact that the terrorists hadn�t made any moves to indicate what their goal was�beyond the usual goal of terrorists which is to promote terror.
The pathology of terrorists was something that Sam had studied extensively and he knew more than anyone else on the Senior Staff on what they could expect to come at them, so he had been sent to talk to the Joint Chiefs and find out where the US stood as far as options went. Leo was trying to get more information and the President was on the phone with the Israeli Prime Minister trying to find out if he knew anything that could help. Toby was dealing with the Press Corps, a task he loathed, but he was the only one qualified and the only one without a specific skill set to use to contribute with things at the stage that they were currently at. The task of damage control and worst-case-scenario planning had fallen to Josh, which left Sam concerned for his friend.
Josh and Hoynes didn�t get along, that much Sam knew, but they had worked together for a long time and there was a sort of bond between the two men, one that hadn�t been broken by Josh abandoning Hoynes to work for the opposition, and Sam was afraid that Josh would make it personal. Some people were energized when things got personal. Sam was at his best when he was being attacked�at least, after the initial fury wore off and he was just pissed off but in full control of his faculties. CJ was amazing when her emotions took over as long as she didn�t reach a certain point, and if she did reach that point she was usually good at pulling herself back to where she was at her fighting best. Toby and Josh, however, tended to let other things slide when attacks became personal to them and the last thing they could allow was to let things slide at that moment.