The FRONTLINE Interviews:

Lies, Politics and Democracy

Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.

To produce Lies, Politics and Democracy, the FRONTLINE team conducted more than 40 hours of original interviews with current and former members of Congress and advisers who worked in the Trump administration, as well as journalists, legal scholars and political scientists. These interviews can be explored below in video or text. The collection is part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, which makes our source material available to the public.

Interviews

Tim Alberta
Author, American Carnage

Video
Jacqueline Alemany
Reporter, The Washington Post

Text
Peter Baker
White House Correspondent, The New York Times

Text
Dan Balz
Journalist, The Washington Post

Text
John Bolton
Former National Security Adviser

Video
Brendan Buck
Former Adviser to Paul Ryan

Text
Alexander Burns
Co-author, This Will Not Pass

Text
Mona Charen
Syndicated Columnist

Video
Jelani Cobb
Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Video
Robert Costa
Co-author, Peril

Video
Robert Draper
Author, Weapons of Mass Delusion

Text
Susan Glasser
Columnist, The New Yorker

Text
Alyssa Farah Griffin
Former White House Communications Director

Video
Josh Holmes
Former Chief of Staff for Mitch McConnell

Text
Jonathan Karl
Author, Betrayal

Text
Adam Kinzinger
U.S. Representative (R-Ill.)

Video
Michael Kranish
The Washington Post

Text
Bill Kristol
Founder, The Weekly Standard

Text
Mark Leibovich
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Text
Steven Levitsky
Co-author, How Democracies Die

Text
Frank Luntz
Conservative Pollster

Text
J. Michael Luttig
Former Federal Judge

Video
Jonathan Martin
Co-author, This Will Not Pass

Text
Amna Nawaz
PBS NewsHour

Text
Mark Sanford
Former U.S. Representative (R-S.C.)

Video
Darlene Superville
White House Correspondent, The Associated Press

Text
Charlie Sykes
Political Commentator

Text
Daniel Ziblatt
Co-author, How Democracies Die

Text

Interviews for this film Lies, Politics and Democracy were conducted by Vanessa Fica, Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser of the Kirk Documentary Group and edited for the web by Lauren Prestileo. The Transparency Project is produced by Lauren Prestileo.

Design and build for Lies, Politics and Democracy by Dan Nolan and Anthony DeLorenzo with assistance from Kimberly Patch. Video editing by Alex LaGore. Copy editing by Julie Wolf. Additional assistance from Olivia DelVecchio, Denise Emerson, Priyanka Boghani, Bruce Gil, Chantelle Lee, Aasma Mojiz, Patrice Taddonio, and Jennifer Wehunt.

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