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Roger Stone has been indicted for lying to the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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'Apprentice' Star Omarosa Manigault Joins Trump Transition Team
Omarosa Manigault, a Trump loyalist and contestant on Season One of "The Apprentice," has joined the president-elect's transition team.
December 16, 2016
"Choice" Moments: Hillary's Political Education
In 1965, Hillary Rodham arrived at Wellesley College as a conservative Republican, a daughter of the Midwest, and a fan of the Motown group The Supremes. "Hillary was not in any way shape or form a radical," says friend Robert Reich. But in the tumult of the 1960s that swept across college campuses nationwide, Rodham underwent a political evolution.
October 20, 2016
"Choice" Moments: Trump's Alter Ego
In 1980, Donald Trump faced a media firestorm when he ordered the demolition of two valuable art deco sculptures that were delaying the construction of Trump Tower. Over the next few days, reporters tried to reach Trump for comment, but they instead heard from "John Barron," an alter ego that Trump would sometimes use when he spoke with journalists.
October 20, 2016
Watch: Inside the Bailout that Saved a Collapsing Trump Organization
In the wake of revelations about Donald Trump's 1995 tax return, take a close look at when bankers bailed out a collapsing Trump Organization in the early 1990s.
October 3, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interviews: "The Choice 2016"
In reporting The Choice 2016, FRONTLINE conducted dozens of interviews over hundreds of hours in order to better understand the people, moments and forces that have shaped Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. FRONTLINE is publishing 18 of these conversations. Taken together, this collection offers new insights into who the candidates are -- and how they might lead as president.
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Nancy Bekavac
Hillary Clinton and Nancy Bekavac were in a small cadre of women attending Yale Law School in the early 1970s. Visiting Clinton in Arkansas in 1974, Bekavac was taken aback by the role women played in public life -- while men talked politics, women stayed "at the table with the Jell-O," she says. In this interview with FRONTLINE, Bekavac discusses what it was like to be part of a trailblazing group of women at Yale Law School, her long friendship with Hillary and the price she says Clinton has paid for being a pioneer.
September 27, 2016
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