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The FRONTLINE Interview: Jim Dowd
Jim Dowd was tapped to manage publicity for "The Apprentice" and its star, Donald Trump, before the show premiered in 2004. This introduction of Trump to the rest of America was "the beginning of [a] potential political career," he tells FRONTLINE. "Oddly enough, firing people on television each week made him likable."
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Carl Bernstein
Famed "Washington Post" reporter Carl Bernstein calls Hillary Clinton "the most famous woman in the world." In his biography of Clinton, "A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton," Bernstein examined her family, faith and record. In this interview with FRONTLINE, Bernstein discusses Clinton's relationship with her parents, the influence of a Methodist pastor who shaped her world view as a teenager, and a secret that Clinton kept for more than 30 years.
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Nikki Haskell
Nikki Haskell claims to be the first television producer to have interviewed Donald Trump, and has been friends with him ever since. Haskell helped Trump make connections in New York: "How else are you going to become an important person if you don’t hang around important people?" she remembers telling him in this interview with FRONTLINE.
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Jim Blair
As a lawyer in Fayetteville, Jim Blair met Hillary Clinton at University of Arkansas Law School. In this interview with FRONTLINE, Blair recalls the Hillary Clinton who first arrived in Arkansas, discusses how a commodities trading deal he advised her on become one of the early controversies of her public life, and what Clinton's reaction to his wife's cancer diagnosis and death reveals about the woman he has called a friend for more than 40 years.
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Omarosa Manigault
"Every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to President Trump," says Omarosa Manigault, one of the stars of the first season of "The Apprentice," in an interview with FRONTLINE.
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Betsy Ebeling
Betsy Ebeling has known Hillary Clinton since the two met in the sixth grade. In the 50+ years since then, she has been there for many of the most pivotal moments of Clinton's life. In this interview with FRONTLINE, she recalls episodes ranging from the time the two went as teenagers to see Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak, to her visit to the White House to be with Hillary Clinton as the details of the Monica Lewinsky scandal became public.
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Sandy McIntosh
There is something familiar about Donald Trump's rhetoric on the 2016 campaign trail, says Sandy McIntosh, a former classmate from the New York Military Academy. He calls it "echoes of the barracks life that we had and that we grew out of."
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Mack McLarty
A childhood friend of Bill Clinton's, Mack McLarty was the chairman of the Democratic Party in Arkansas when he met Hillary Rodham. The two worked together on Bill Clinton's Arkansas campaigns, and McLarty later became President Clinton's White House Chief of Staff. In this interview with FRONTLINE, he discusses the Clintons’ relationship, Hillary's involvement in Bill's political career and the difficulties she faced in Washington.
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Jack O'Donnell
Hired in 1987 as Vice President of Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City, Jack O'Donnell would become a critic of Donald Trump. He says he became particularly disillusioned with his boss after a helicopter crash in 1989 killed two casino executives. In this interview with FRONTLINE, O'Donnell says Trump began "blaming these problems on two people that had died while working for him."
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Lissa Muscatine
A former Washington Post journalist, Lissa Muscatine became a speechwriter for First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1993. In this interview with FRONTLINE, she describes the experience of working closely with Clinton and tells the story behind some of the speeches that have defined her to America and the world.
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Barbara Res
Barbara Res once ran Donald Trump's construction projects, including his trademark Trump Tower in Manhattan. "Donald told me that he thought that men were better than women at this, especially in this field," she says. "But he said a good woman is better than 10 good men."
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Robert Reich
Robert Reich never worried about Hillary Clinton mastering the details of public policy. Instead, he tells FRONTLINE, he worried about her surviving the "snipers" and "minefield" of Washington, D.C.
September 27, 2016