The FRONTLINE Interviews:
The Choice 2020
Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.
To produce The Choice 2020, FRONTLINE conducted 47 interviews totaling more than 100 hours with some of the people closest to Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We’re publishing this entire original archive, plus selected interviews from previous films, as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project. Now you can hear what we heard and see how we used it in the making of The Choice. You can also explore and share stories, subjects and voices that didn’t make it into the film. Read here about how we chose our interview subjects and, with the help of each of them, overcame challenges of conducting dozens of interviews during a pandemic.
Interviews
Margaret Aitken
Fmr. Biden Press Secretary
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Yamiche Alcindor
White House Correspondent, PBS Newshour
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Ken Auletta
Journalist, The New Yorker
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Matt Bai
Author, All the Truth is Out
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Peter Baker
White House Correspondent, The New York Times
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James Baker
Fmr. Mayor, Wilmington
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Dan Balz
Political Correspondent, The Washington Post
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Steve Bannon
First interview with the Former Trump adviser
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Andrea Bernstein
Author, American Oligarchs
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Jill Biden
Wife of Joe Biden
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Gwenda Blair
Author, The Trumps
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Antony Blinken
Biden Campaign Adviser
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John Bolton
Fmr. National Security Adviser
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Carol Moseley Braun
D-Illinois
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Jim Clyburn
D-South Carolina
Video
Jelani Cobb
Writer, The New Yorker
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Jim Dowd
Public Relations Director, The Apprentice
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Marc Fisher
Co-author, Trump Revealed
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Rudy Giuliani
Trump Attorney
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David A. Graham
Political Writer, The Atlantic
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Don Graves
Fmr. Biden Policy Director
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Christina Greer
Author, Black Ethnics
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Gary Hart
D-Colorado
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Nikki Haskell
Trump Friend
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John Hendrickson
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
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Valerie Jarrett
Fmr. Obama Adviser
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Jim Jordan
R-Ohio
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Ted Kaufman
D-Delaware, Fmr. Biden Adviser
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Michael Kruse
Senior Writer, Politico
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
Correspondent, GQ
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Mark Leibovich
National Correspondent, The New York Times Magazine
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Steven Levingston
Book Editor, The Washington Post
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Corey Lewandowski
Fmr. Trump Campaign Manager
Video
Wesley Lowery
Author, They Can't Kill Us All
Video
Omarosa Manigault
Contestant, The Apprentice
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David Marcus
Cousin of Roy Cohn
Video
Jane Mayer
Chief Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
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Sandy McIntosh
Trump Classmate
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Peggy Noonan
Political Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
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Jack O'Donnell
Author, Trumped!
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Evan Osnos
Journalist, The New Yorker
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Valerie Biden Owens
Fmr. Biden Campaign Manager
Video
James Poniewozik
Television Critic and Author
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Barbara Res
Fmr. VP, Trump Organization
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Chris Ruddy
Trump Friend and Adviser
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Yusef Salaam
Central Park Five Defendant
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Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr. White House Communications Director
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Tony Schwartz
Co-Author, Trump: The Art of the Deal
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Bobby Scott
D-Virginia
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Fred Sears
Biden Friend
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Bakari Sellers
Political Analyst, CNN
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Cliff Sims
Author, Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
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Richard 'Mouse' Smith
Biden Friend
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Roger Stone
Fmr. Trump Adviser
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Louise Sunshine
Fmr. Trump Adviser
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Mary Trump
Author, Too Much and Never Enough
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Curtis Wilkie
Journalist, The New Yorker
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Angela Wright
Clarence Thomas Accuser
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Surya Yalamanchili
Contestant, The Apprentice
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Jason Zengerle
Political Journalist, The New York Times Magazine
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