WATCH: Inside the Tumultuous Trump-Rosenstein Relationship (Frontline)
September 21, 2018 /
by Patrice Taddonio Assistant Director of Audience Development
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FRONTLINE’s upcoming season premiere, Trump’s Showdown, goes inside Comey’s firing, and in the excerpt below shows how the deputy attorney general was drawn into that critical event. It began with a meeting between Trump, Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions:
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Comey’s firing prompted shock, anger and chaos. When White House press officials hit the TV circuit to defend the firing, they pointed to Rosenstein, and the memo he’d written critiquing Comey at the president’s request.
Rosenstein wasn’t pleased to be receiving the blame:
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Trump’s Showdown goes on to detail how the fallout from the firing would ultimately lead to Rosenstein appointing Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel to lead the ongoing Russia investigation.
Watch the full story beginning Tuesday, October 2 at 9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST on PBS stations and online. From filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team, this two-hour special draws on more than 60 in-depth interviews with former heads of U.S. intelligence agencies, Trump insiders, attorneys, authors and journalists to reveal how an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has grown to threaten Donald Trump’s presidency.
Watch the trailer for Trump’s Showdown now.
film: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trumps-showdown/
Season 37: Episode 2
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.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trumps-showdown/
