The FRONTLINE Interviews:
Democracy on Trial
Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.
To produce Democracy on Trial, the FRONTLINE team conducted more than 20 original interviews with journalists, lawyers, and current and former members of Congress who served on the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. The film also drew on an archive that includes interviews with conservative commentators as well as Trump administration staff. The interviews offer perspective and legal analysis on the four-count federal indictment against Donald Trump. The former president has pleaded not guilty to all four counts.
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
Temidayo Aganga-Williams
Text
Tim Alberta
Author, American Carnage
Video
Rusty Bowers
Video
Mona Charen
Syndicated Columnist
Video
Robert Costa
Co-author, Peril
Video
Soumya Dayananda
Video
Alyssa Farah Griffin
Former White House Communications Director
Video
Marc Harris
Text
Tim Heaphy
Text
Tom Joscelyn
Text
Quinta Jurecic
Text
Jonathan Karl
Author, Betrayal
Text
Adam Kinzinger
Video
Bill Kristol
Founder, The Weekly Standard
Text
J. Michael Luttig
Former Federal Judge
Video
Brad Raffensperger
Text
Robert Ray
Video
Gabriel Sterling
Video
Charlie Sykes
Political Commentator
Text
Byron Tau
Text
Bennie Thompson
Video
Olivia Troye
Former Adviser to Vice President Pence
Video
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