On this historic day when President Trump was impeached for a second time he remains

hold up over at the White House unable to vent his reaction on Twitter or so many of the

other social media outposts but he has released a week before President Trump leaves office he

has earned the distinction of being the only president who has been impeached

twice. The impeachment story is splashed across newspapers front page. The heightened security ahead of president-elect The After a chaotic start to the new year from a violent siege of the capital to a second impeachment for Donald Trump, a new presidential administration is beginning.

Out of all the peril of this moment, I want you to know, I give my word, I see the promise, the promise as well.

We've seen clearly what we face now.

President-elect Joe Biden is assuming leadership of a divided America

that's also battling the deadliest part of the pandemic so far. Veteran frontline

filmmaker Michael Kirk joins me to talk about this fast moving moment in American history and to help make sense of it all.

Are people even more divided and even more in their corners than before, maybe than they've ever been.

That's what it feels like.

I'm Rainey Aronson and this is the frontline dispatch.

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Mike, thank you so much for joining us on the dispatch.

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