E6: America's Great Divide

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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

FRONTLINE begins its 2020 election year coverage with a two-part, four-hour documentary series investigating America’s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics. From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team, America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump draws on revelatory new interviews with key political and cultural figures, as well as an unparalleled archive of in-depth broadcast reporting across two presidential administrations, to offer crucial context for the current moment. Part One traces how Barack Obama’s promise of unity collapsed as increasing racial, cultural and political divisions laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump. Part Two examines how Trump’s campaign exploited the country’s divisions, how his presidency has unleashed anger on both sides of the divide, and what America’s polarization could mean for the country’s future.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the audio version of the front-line documentary,
0:03.5	America's Great Divide from Obama to Trump.
0:07.0	Here is episode six.
0:10.0	Using conflict and outrage, Donald Trump had galvanized an angry base,
0:16.0	and won over the reluctant Republican establishment.
0:19.0	But a tabloid crisis would test how much they would take
0:23.0	and how far he could go.
0:25.0	Former campaign CEO Steve Bannon.
0:28.0	That day, we're up on the 25th floor conference room,
0:31.0	and it's Friday afternoon about two o'clock,
0:34.0	and all of a sudden, Hope Hicks shows up on outside the glass thing,
0:36.0	and she's giving me the signal.
0:38.0	And so I step out, and I read this thing,
0:40.0	she got this transcript.
0:42.0	And she's like about the crimes she goes,
0:44.0	oh, this terrible.
0:45.0	BrightBarch Steve Bannon had signed on as the CEO of Trump's campaign.
0:50.0	I said, what are you so upset about?
0:52.0	What is this?
0:53.0	I said, I was watching Posting on Puppers of Story in an hour.
0:56.0	And she said, it's so bad about it.
0:57.0	And she goes, well, look at this.
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