We recorded more than 60 original interviews while reporting Trump’s Showdown. Explore dozens of the interviews — and how we used them in the film — through this interactive version of Trump’s Showdown. While viewing, you can see key quotes in context. You can also go deep into 34 transcripts of people we interviewed.

The interactive is part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, our effort to show where our reporting comes from and how we use that reporting to tell stories.

Interviews

Yamiche Alcindor
PBS NewsHour

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Bob Anderson
Former FBI Executive Asst. Director

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Matt Apuzzo
The New York Times

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Peter Baker
The New York Times

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Robert Bennett
Former lawyer for President Clinton

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John Brennan
CIA Director, 2013-17

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Marie Brenner
Vanity Fair

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Carol Bruce
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, D.C.

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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence, 2010-17

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Nelson Cunningham
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney

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Alan Dershowitz
Professor, Harvard Law School

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Karen DeYoung
The Washington Post

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Jack Goldsmith
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney

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Elyse Goldweber
Former Justice Dept. lawyer

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J.D. Gordon
Trump campaign adviser

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Sebastian Gorka
Deputy Assistant to the President, 2017

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Garrett Graff
Author, The Threat Matrix

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Michael Isikoff
Co-author, Russian Roulette

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Jeh Johnson
Secretary of Homeland Security, 2013-17

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Carol Leonnig
The Washington Post

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Jane Mayer
The New Yorker

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Mary McCord
Acting Assistant Attorney General, 2016-17

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Matthew Miller
Department of Justice, 2009-11

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Frank Montoya, Jr.
Former FBI Special Agent in Charge

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Robert Ray
Former Independent Counsel

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Philip Rucker
The Washington Post

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Tony Schwartz
Co-Author, Trump: The Art of the Deal

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Ben Shapiro
The Daily Wire

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Jeffrey H. Smith
Former CIA General Counsel

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Cameron Smith
Former Aide to Jeff Sessions

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Margaret Sullivan
The Washington Post

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Mark Warner
U.S. Senator, D-VA

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Interviews for this series were conducted by Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore and Gabrielle Schonder of the Kirk Documentary Group and edited for the web by Phil Bennett, Callie Wiser and Priyanka Boghani.

 

Design and build for "Trump's Showdown" by Ly Chheng and Dan Nolan with assistance from Kimberly Patch. Copy editing by Julie Wolf.

 

Additional assistance from Dale Cohen, Sarah Childress, Catherine Trautwein, Marcia Robiou, Miles Alvord, Jim Ferguson and Joey Mullin.

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