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American Scandal

Encore: Interview with Filmmaker Alex Gibney | 5

American Scandal

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Exhibit C, History, Documentary, Lindsay Graham, True Crime, History Daily, American History Tellers, Society & Culture

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Host Lindsay Graham talks with Alex Gibney, director of “Client 9,” a documentary that examines the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer.


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0:00.0

Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American Scandal add-free on Amazon Music, download the app today.

0:19.0

I'm Lindsey Graham, and this is American Scandal.

0:30.0

Today, we wrap up our series on corruption in the state capital of Albany, New York.

0:40.0

We started the series with the rise and fall of former New York Attorney General and Governor, Elliott Spitzer.

0:45.0

His very public demise made national headlines and was also the subject several years later of the docking in New York.

0:50.0

Today, we wrap up our series on corruption in the state capital of Albany, New York.

0:55.0

The rise and fall of Elliott Spitzer was also the subject several years later of the documentary, Client 9, The Rise and Fall of Elliott Spitzer.

1:04.0

In 2018, I spoke about that film with its Oscar-winning director, Alex Gibney, and the course of making the film, Gibney interviewed Elliott Spitzer himself and many of his enemies, providing a much richer understanding of the scandal and of the corrosive effects of power, especially in Albany.

1:21.0

In addition to Gibney's multiple Emmys, a Grammy, several Peabody Awards and more, he is also won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007 for the film Taxi to the Dark Side, which he wrote and directed.

1:34.0

He's the president and founder of Jigsaw Productions and has been named by the New York Times and Esquire Magazine as the most important and prolific documentarian of our time.

1:44.0

Alex Gibney joins us from Jigsaw Studio in New York City.

1:51.0

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1:56.0

Every week on Red Handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

2:00.0

From the Idaho Student Killings, the Delphi Murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch Saga.

2:05.0

Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Short Hand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

2:13.0

We've covered the death of Princess Diana and unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction.

2:23.0

Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior.

2:28.0

Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? What drives a child to kill? And what's the psychology of a terrorist?

2:35.0

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2:46.0

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2:54.0

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3:02.0

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