Baker (DoD liaison)

Baker serves as a senior Department of Defense liaison who carries Pentagon authority into White House deliberations during acute national-security crises. Routinely dispatched to the Situation Room, he moves between military command and presidential staff, coordinating DoD briefings, conveying operational status, and ensuring defense options arrive promptly. In this episode Baker departs the Pentagon for an urgent in-person briefing alongside technical lead Lennox, reinforcing Baker's role as the visible, procedural conduit for the Pentagon in high-pressure executive decision-making.