The FRONTLINE Interviews:

America’s Great Divide

Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.

To produce America’s Great Divide, FRONTLINE drew on scores of interviews conducted by our filmmakers over the last decade, including two dozen new interviews conducted during the last year with Obama and Trump administration officials, journalists, authors and scholars. This unparalleled on-the-record archive includes exclusive eyewitness accounts, fresh insights and deep analysis of a tumultuous period in American history. Now you can explore these interviews as part of our ongoing Transparency Project. Use FRONTLINE's interactive features to find quotes from the film in their original context, to share highlights from the interviews and to discover content not included in the final cut of the film. (Note: Several of the interviews in this collection were previously published on the FRONTLINE website and will open in a new tab. To navigate back to this collection, simply close the new tab.)
About this project

Interviews

Yamiche Alcindor
White House Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

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David Axelrod
Political Strategist

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Matt Bai
Journalist and Author

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Peter Baker
Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times

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Molly Ball
National Political Correspondent, Time Magazine

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Dan Balz
Political Journalist, The Washington Post

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Steve Bannon
Second interview with the former Trump adviser

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Steve Bannon
First interview with the Former Trump adviser

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Kurt Bardella
Former Spokesperson, Breitbart News

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Jelani Cobb
Journalist and Author

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Kellyanne Conway
Counselor to President Trump

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Ann Coulter
Conservative Commentator

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Susan Davis
Congressional Correspondent, NPR

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Michael Eric Dyson
Author, The Black Presidency

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Jeff Flake
R-Ariz.

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Tim Geithner
Former Secretary of the Treasury

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Susan Glasser
Columnist, The New Yorker

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Joshua Green
Author, Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the National Uprising

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Victor Davis Hanson
Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution

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Valerie Jarrett
Obama Senior Advisor

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Jeh Johnson
Secretary of Homeland Security, 2013-17

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Megyn Kelly
Journalist and Former Fox News and NBC News Anchor

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Corey Lewandowski
Former Trump Campaign Manager

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Wesley Lowery
Political Correspondent, The Washington Post

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Frank Luntz
Republican Pollster

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Alex Marlow
Editor-in-Chief, Breitbart News

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Sam Nunberg
Former Trump Adviser

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James Poniewozik
Television Critic and Author

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Robert Reich
Professor and Author

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David Remnick
Editor, The New Yorker

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Ben Rhodes
Former Deputy National Security Advisor

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Anthony Scaramucci
Former White House Communications Director

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Steve Schmidt
Political Strategist

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Cliff Sims
Author, Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

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Sean Spicer
Fmr. Trump Press Secretary

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Roger Stone
Former Trump Adviser

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Charlie Sykes
Political Commentator

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Katy Tur
Journalist, NBC News

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Judy Woodruff
Anchor, PBS Newshour

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Interviews for this film were conducted by Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Mike Wiser, and Gabrielle Schonder of the Kirk Documentary Group and edited for the web by Phil Bennett and Lauren Prestileo.

Design and build for America's Great Divide by Dan Nolan with assistance from Kimberly Patch. Video editing by Rick Manoogian. Copy editing by Julie Wolf. Additional assistance from Dale Cohen, Miles Alvord, Anthony DeLorenzo, Sarah Childress, Olivia DelVecchio, Priyanka Boghani, Zoe Todd and Lucie Sullivan.

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