Trump's Showdown

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🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 120 minutes

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FRONTLINE goes inside President Trump’s fight against the investigation of his campaign and whether he obstructed justice. With the threat of impeachment growing, this two-hour documentary from filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team traces Trump’s unprecedented war against the special counsel, the FBI, and even his own attorney general.

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0:00.0	This is an audio cast of the Frontline program Trump's Showdown,
0:04.4	premiering October 2nd on PBS and Online.
0:08.0	The Russian investigation heating up on several fronts.
0:32.0	A White House at war.
0:38.0	With itself, claiming to be a senior official in the Justice Department.
0:46.0	If Democrats take control of the House, they are going to be a subpoena generating machine.
0:58.0	This White House is going to find itself playing permanent defense.
1:02.0	Trump has been waging a deliberate war on the whole idea that there is such a thing as independent justice.
1:10.0	What we hear about is the phoning Russia witchcraft.
1:16.0	President Trump is escalating his assault on the investigators who are investigating him.
1:22.0	He's attacking the very nature of the Department of Justice.
1:26.0	From Frontline's award-winning political team, Trump viewed the entire intelligence community and the FBI as enemies.
1:34.0	A two-hour special investigation.
1:36.0	And the team Mueller has assembled maybe the 18-mph prosecutor's firm entire generation.
1:42.0	You should be afraid. You should be very afraid.
1:44.0	Inside the turmoil.
1:46.0	President Trump, the cloud, as he calls it, hangs over his entire presidency.
1:52.0	That he doesn't really understand where it's going, for what's coming next, and if it's coming for him.
1:58.0	The politics.
1:59.0	No collusion. No nothing.
2:01.0	This President may feel empowered to move either fireball Mueller or fire Jeff Sessions or fire Rod Rosenstein or find some way to shut this investigation down.
2:11.0	On the showdown with the 45th President.
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