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>> Tonight...

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>> I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear...

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>><i> As Donald Trump begins  his presidency...</i>

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>> We had won the election that no one thought we could win.

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>><i> The inside story of how  he got there.</i>

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>> Once I understood that he was willing to double down and be

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a fighter for what he believes  in, I'm all in.

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>> They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks.

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>> It felt like a box of matches even before he took the stage,

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and they were just waiting for Donald Trump to come

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and light it.

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>><i> From his closest advisors...</i>

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>> I had said to Mr. Trump one day, "Are you ready to win?"

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>><i> And his rivals.</i>

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>> Director Comey's letter...

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>> Just got smacked by a two-by-four.

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And it came out of nowhere.

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>><i> The provocative campaign...</i>

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>> Nobody knows the system better than me.

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>><i> ...to the presidency.</i>

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>> Which is why I alone can fix it.

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>><i> Tonight on</i> Frontline...

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>> So help me God...

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>><i> "Trump's Road  to the White House."</i>

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>> Tonight's program contains graphic language.

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Viewer discretion is advised.

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>> Today is finally the day.

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The presidential nominees have made their final...

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>> Today is decision day in America and we are taking a look

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at the presidential race...

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>> After a long, contentious presidential race...

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>> NARRATOR: On Election Day,

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Donald Trump and his senior campaign team were huddled

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at Trump Tower.

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>> They went into election night

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believing that they were going to lose.

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>> ...as the polls close across the country...

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>> NARRATOR: At 5:00 they received the first exit polls.

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>> We're counting down to the first poll closings right now...

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>> When we got those early returns, the exit polls,

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and I actually got it about 5:01, we all had

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a little bit of a gut punch.

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>> If Trump wants to win,

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he's got to hold onto Florida and North Carolina...

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>> In state after state he was so far behind that I knew

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that he was going to lose,

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because the exit polls don't get it wrong.

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>> We were getting crushed in like Michigan, Pennsylvania.

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I mean just... and so, from like 6:00 on, you know,

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we're all like, "Oh, my God."

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>> And look at all these wins we're projecting

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for Hillary Clinton right now.

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Take a look at the electoral map now...

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>> NARRATOR: It seemed to confirm what the media

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and political establishment had been saying for months:

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Donald Trump never had a chance.

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>> Every senior Republican that I talked to,

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with only one exception, thought that Trump was going to lose.

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>> NARRATOR: But as the votes were counted in Florida,

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a surprise.

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>> And CNN projects Donald Trump will carry the state

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of Florida.

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With its 29 electoral votes, Donald...

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>> NARRATOR: Florida was just the beginning.

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>> There's a big ole call to make right now.

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Donald Trump has won the state of Wisconsin

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and there goes her blue wall.

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>> Late on election night

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one of his senior campaign officials emailed me

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and just said, "Can you type President Trump?"

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>> Fox News has called Pennsylvania for Donald Trump.

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>> Our communications director, Jason Miller, held up and said,

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"A.P. just called."

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will be the 45th president of the United States.

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The most unreal, surreal election we have ever seen.

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"Kellyanne, your phone is ringing."

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And she said, "Secretary Clinton would like to speak

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with Mr. Trump."

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And I said, "Right now?"

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And she said, "If he's available."

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And I said, "Sir, Secretary Clinton."

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>> NARRATOR: She had been first lady, a senator,

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She conceded to an entrepreneur, reality TV star,

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and novice politician.

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The call lasted about a minute.

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>> In an electoral college

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victory that virtually no one saw coming a year ago,

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that no one thought we could win.

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to the music from Harrison Ford's movie<i> Air Force One,</i>

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the president-elect arrived at his victory celebration.

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>> Even for him, it was an overwhelming feeling

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to see yourself be elected president of the United States.

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>> You're never going to see anybody like this again.

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He is somebody that defied every political rule that existed

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in a way that nobody has ever done before.

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>> It's my honor.

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It's an amazing evening.

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It's been an amazing two-year period.

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>> NARRATOR: It was an unprecedented outcome.

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Over 17 months, Donald Trump had broken nearly every rule

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would be the way he would govern.

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>> Trump is going to be Trump.

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what the people voted for.

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That's the way they want him to be.

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He will either succeed or fail being Donald Trump.

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>> The sheer unpredictability of a President Donald Trump...

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>> ...how unpredictable the new terrain here in Washington is...

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>> It's the creation of a new reality.

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>> Donald Trump has broken the rules of what it means

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to be president-elect.

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>> What Trump are we going to see, do you think?

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>> We're going to constantly have rules that are broken,

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>> A President Trump is very much a wild card...

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>> We'll call it a political earthquake, an unraveling

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of the system, or even a revolution...

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embedded in his path to power.

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He redefined what it meant

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to be a serious presidential candidate,

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We got $18 trillion in debt.

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>> When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.

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everybody was convinced, "That's it.

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was as unconventional as his announcement.

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>> Donald Trump's campaign was lean and small and, in a sense,

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run out of Donald Trump's, you know, instincts.

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>> In my very first meeting with Mr. Trump

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It had once housed the set   where<i> The Apprentice</i> was shot.

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Jared Kushner.

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that he would turn to.

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>> NARRATOR: The campaign had a fundamental rule:

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"Let Trump be Trump."

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>> I used to liken my role to being a jockey

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on a great racehorse-- let's say American Pharoah.

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a little bit and put some blinders on,

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but you got to let it run.

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>> Donald Trump is back on the road campaigning at...

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>> NARRATOR: He caused controversy from the very start.

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>> Trump trying to secure the evangelical vote

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with three campaign events in Iowa today.

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>> NARRATOR: In Iowa, as he was interviewed

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by Republican pollster Frank Luntz...

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>> And he and I get into an exchange over John McCain,

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because he is taking shots at McCain and I thought

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they were gratuitous.

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>> He's not a war hero.

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>> He's a war hero. >> He's a war hero...

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>> Do you agree with that?

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>> He's a war hero because he was captured.

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>> I couldn't believe he said that.

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I was completely stunned.

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Everyone in that room thought, "This is it, it's over."

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>> Folks, I want to make America great again.

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We want to get down to brass tacks.

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politically correct and everything has...

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we have a lot of work to do.

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>> You know, I asked Mr. Trump after he came off the stage

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to have a private conversation with him, and I said,

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"I think we need to fix this."

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And when I said "Fix it," I meant an apology.

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And Donald Trump understood things that I didn't understand

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about the American people,

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said, "No, no, you don't understand."

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>> NARRATOR: Trump refused to apologize.

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>> And once I understood that he was willing to double down

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on his comments, and be a fighter for what he believes in,

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I'm all in.

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And I'm there with you, to support you.

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>> Don Voyage, Trump is toast after insult...

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>> Everything erupted after this because social media exploded...

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>> This clip is played on every newscast for the next 48 hours.

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>> So far Trump's political campaign operates

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with a no guts, no glory approach.

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>> And he survived it.

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He survived walls and Mexicans and everything.

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That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger,

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and if you ever needed any evidence,

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just look at Donald Trump.

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>> The biggest event to date in campaign 2016...

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>> Top ten candidates taking the stage...

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>> Donald Trump gearing up for the crucial...

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>> NARRATOR: Two and a half weeks later in Cleveland,

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the first Republican debate.

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>> Businessman Donald Trump.

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>> NARRATOR: He was facing off against a group of candidates

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Republican leaders touted as the best in a generation.

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>> It is 9:00 p.m. on the East Coast.

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And the moment of truth has arrived.

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>> Among the other candidates

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there was this sort of smug confidence

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that we know what we're doing.

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This guy is from show business,

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a little bit Hollywood, lot of razzle-dazzle.

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>> NARRATOR: Early in the debate, he faced

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a crucial test-- whether his tabloid past

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and outrageous statements would sink his campaign.

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>> You've called women you don't like "fat pigs," "dogs,"

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"slobs," and "disgusting animals."

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Your Twitter account...

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>> Only Rosie O'Donnell.

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(laughter)

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>> No, it wasn't.

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>> Trump doesn't deny it.

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He simply says, "I only said that about Rosie O'Donnell."

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And in a way that is pure Trump.

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>> What I say is what I say.

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And honestly, Megyn, if you don't like it, I'm sorry.

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I've been very nice to you,

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although I could probably maybe not be based on the way

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you have treated me, but I wouldn't do that.

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>> He's doing something that is both repellent

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and completely authentic, all at once.

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And he's acknowledging that he said these horrid things.

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He's not shirking it.

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I think there were voters out there that said, "You go, man.

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"You said exactly what you think,

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and you're not backing down."

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>> NARRATOR: And Trump wasn't done.

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After the debate, the candidates appeared

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in what is known as spin alley.

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Trump kept the controversy going.

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>> Donald Trump shows up, as if he needed this hit of adrenaline

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before he went home to New York.

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>> You guys okay?

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Don't hurt yourselves.

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>> It was like mosquitos to a lantern on a summer night.

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I mean the entire national press corps descended.

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>> People were being trampled and camera equipment was flying

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all over the place and I'd never seen a scene like this.

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I mean, I've seen many media stampedes but nothing like that.

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>> What's your history with Megyn?

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>> I think, I think Megyn behaved very badly, personally.

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>> The question about women.

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You didn't like that?

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>> I thought it was an unfair question.

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>> Trump can't help himself

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because he considers anybody questioning his bona fides

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as someone who he needs to decapitate, essentially.

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>> NARRATOR: It was just the beginning.

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At 3:40 in the morning, he lit up Twitter.

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>> Wow, @megynkelly really bombed tonight.

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People are going wild on Twitter!

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Funny to watch.

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>> NARRATOR: On the phone with CNN, he pushed harder.

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>> What is it with you and Megyn Kelly?

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>> She starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions.

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And, you know, you could see there was blood

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coming out of her eyes.

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Uh, blood coming out of her wherever.

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>> Donald Trump attacks her and suggests she only asked

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a tough question because she was menstruating.

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I mean, um...

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and his numbers went up.

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>> She's a lightweight, I couldn't care less about her.

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>> At every stage in the campaign, Donald Trump was

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perfectly happy to have the elites be aghast at him.

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The kind of non-politically correct, decisive, tough,

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battling kind of personality

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that he was putting forward in that debate

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and in the confrontations with Megyn Kelly

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and others that he sought out.

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>> NARRATOR: While the media controversy swirled,

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Trump was out in the country building his base.

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His personal plane rolled up to hangars

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filled with curious onlookers, eager to see

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the reality TV star in person.

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>> There were a lot of people

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who were there who were pure curiosity seekers.

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They were there to see a celebrity.

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They were there to see the guy they know from<i> The Apprentice.</i>

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>> Trump is a producer at heart.

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And when he did these rallies,

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he made sure that the staging was perfect.

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So we see the same elements that Trump applied

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in his hit TV show<i>  The Apprentice.</i>

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We saw that in the early rallies.

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>> ♪ We're not gonna take it. ♪

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♪ No, we ain't gonna take it. ♪

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>> And right at the moment of the first chord,

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Trump hits the stage.

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And I felt this wave go through me and that was the moment

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that I realized, "Holy (bleep), this is real."

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It was like Pavlov's dog.

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He hits the stage, they erupt.

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I had never seen this before.

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>> Trump just had them in the palm of his hand.

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He... I mean, they were responding to him.

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He was responding to them.

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(cheering)

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>> Those crowds at those rallies, they were

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tremendously energizing to him.

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I mean, it was a... it was a symbiotic relationship.

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They fed off of each other.

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The crowd fed off of him, he fed off of the crowd.

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>> For Donald, confidence is a huge part of the game.

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This was the whole point of all those rallies.

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It wasn't just to fire up people to vote for him.

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It was to fire up Donald Trump.

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He feeds off of audiences in a way that I think

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very few politicians do and needed to be energized

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by the affirmation.

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And it worked.

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>> And you know we're in...

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look at all those live television feeds,

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it's always tough, every time I speak they put me

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on live television, so I have to make different speeches.

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These guys go around,

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they make the same speech hundreds and hundreds

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and hundreds of times, nobody cares.

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It's true.

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>> He was looking out at the camera bank.

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And he could see the red light on the camera.

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And that meant that he was live on CNN.

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>> You got CNN live, you've got them all, and...

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>> Or Fox or one of the other networks.

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And he said that what he tried to do in those rallies was say

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whatever it took to keep the red light on.

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>> Now if you like the media,

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give them a big hand, and if you don't, give them a big boo.

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(booing)

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>> NARRATOR: Rather than rely primarily on polls...

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>> I had a feeling...

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>> NARRATOR: Trump watched to see how the crowd reacted.

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>> Early on, they were kind of these rally speeches

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were a bit rambling and all over the place.

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As he went on, he started to really hone his message

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and he started to remember what lines worked.

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>> We're going to have such a strong military that nobody,

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nobody is going to mess with us.

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>> NARRATOR: And what the crowds wanted: Donald Trump.

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>> We are led by very stupid people.

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>> NARRATOR: Unfiltered...

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>> We are going to start winning big league.

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>> NARRATOR: Angry...

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>> We can't beat ISIS.

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Give me a break.

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>> And it was every location.

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It was the same messages:

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"We're tired of Washington lying to us."

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>> We're going to drive the cars over the illegals.

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Build a wall!

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>> Build a wall!

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>> The American people are angry,

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and they have a right to be.

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And what they see in Donald Trump is someone who's willing

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to fight for them for a change.

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>> NARRATOR: He called them "the forgotten"

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and spoke directly to their fears and anger--

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at Washington, at trade deals, at immigration.

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>> People in this country are afraid of illegal immigrants.

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People in this country have become afraid

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of random violence.

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They're afraid of jobs being shipped overseas.

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There is so much that scares Americans.

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And Donald Trump is the only politician who talked

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to those concerns and those fears.

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To his critics it's fear mongering,

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to his supporters it's truth telling.

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>> Donald Trump is the projected winner

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of the New Hampshire primary.

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>> He gains his front-runner status in a crowded field.

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>> He's pulling ahead

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in virtually every Super Tuesday state.

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>> NARRATOR: In one state after another...

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>> We love Nevada.

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We love Nevada, thank you.

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>> NARRATOR: ...Trump proved that he could use his base

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of working class voters to win.

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>> It's mostly white, they don't like political correctness,

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they feel like they can't speak their mind at home or at work,

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so they want something else.

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Trump strolls in, he says exactly what they want to hear.

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>> We are going to make...

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>> This makes back-to-back victories for...

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>> Donald Trump dominating his third consecutive...

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>> Donald Trump is

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a professional political wrecking ball...

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>> NARRATOR: Finally his opponents had

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to take him seriously.

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>> At that point the establishment suddenly wakes up

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and says, "We've got to do something.

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"We've got to go after him.

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We can't ignore him anymore."

468
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>> He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.

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And you know how you make America great again?

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Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.

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>> The establishment feared him for a lot of reasons.

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One, he was not of them.

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Two, he didn't play by their rules.

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And three, they genuinely thought he was a threat,

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certainly to the Republican Party, to conservatism,

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and if he got that far, to the nation.

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>> Guys, we have a con artist as the frontrunner

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in the Republican Party.

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A guy who has made a career out of telling people lies.

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>> He was a shock to the Republican establishment

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and they did everything they could, for the most part,

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to prevent him.

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>> Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.

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His promises are as worthless

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as a degree from Trump University.

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He's playing the members of the American public for suckers.

487
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>> Every time the establishment attacked Trump,

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it played into the narrative that they wanted

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to put out there, which was that he was so anti-establishment,

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they were going to do anything

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that they could to take him down.

492
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>> This man is a pathological liar.

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He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth.

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>> Tonight, live from the Peace Center

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in Greenville, South Carolina...

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>> NARRATOR: On the debate stage, Trump hit back.

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>> You are the single biggest liar,

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you probably are worse than Jeb Bush.

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You are the single biggest liar.

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>> One by one, each rival comes at him.

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He throws them away.

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>> This guy lies.

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Two days ago he said he would take his pants off

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and moon everybody.

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>> Tosses a barb in their direction,

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diminishes them personally.

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>> And then he tells me, "Oh, my language

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was a little bit rough."

509
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>> Destroys their record.

510
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>> This little guy has lied so much about my record.

511
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>> Donald Trump had the ability to just grab the microphone,

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just trample over people.

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That was entertaining.

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It was different.

515
00:21:55,713 --> 00:21:56,647
>> He hit my hands.

516
00:21:56,681 --> 00:21:57,649
Nobody has ever hit my hands.

517
00:21:57,682 --> 00:21:58,783
I've never heard of this...

518
00:21:58,817 --> 00:21:59,851
Look at those hands.

519
00:21:59,884 --> 00:22:01,920
Are they small hands?

520
00:22:01,952 --> 00:22:05,155
And he referred to my hands, if they're small,

521
00:22:05,189 --> 00:22:08,026
something else must be small.

522
00:22:08,058 --> 00:22:09,961
I guarantee you there's no problem.

523
00:22:09,994 --> 00:22:11,529
I guarantee it.

524
00:22:11,563 --> 00:22:15,466
>> It was ruthless political performance by Donald Trump.

525
00:22:15,499 --> 00:22:19,237
He had nothing to lose and he owed nothing

526
00:22:19,269 --> 00:22:20,872
to the Republican Party.

527
00:22:20,904 --> 00:22:23,474
So instead of standing there as a member of a party

528
00:22:23,508 --> 00:22:26,845
trying to get the nomination, he was there for Trump.

529
00:22:26,877 --> 00:22:28,746
That changed everything.

530
00:22:28,779 --> 00:22:30,647
>> Scott Walker is quitting the presidential race...

531
00:22:30,682 --> 00:22:32,216
>> NARRATOR: One by one...

532
00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:34,317
>> Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie have suspended

533
00:22:34,352 --> 00:22:35,519
their campaigns.

534
00:22:35,553 --> 00:22:37,755
>> NARRATOR: Trump's competitors began to fall off.

535
00:22:37,788 --> 00:22:40,023
>> Neurosurgeon Ben Carson dropping out of the 2016...

536
00:22:40,057 --> 00:22:42,125
>> NARRATOR: But on the campaign trail, at some rallies,

537
00:22:42,159 --> 00:22:44,830
things were increasingly ugly.

538
00:22:50,335 --> 00:22:53,138
>> The anger only increased as it got farther along.

539
00:23:01,679 --> 00:23:04,216
>> It became completely acceptable.

540
00:23:04,249 --> 00:23:06,418
It became okay to come to a Trump rally and wear a shirt

541
00:23:06,451 --> 00:23:10,520
that says Hillary Clinton is a C-(bleep)-(bleep)-T.

542
00:23:10,554 --> 00:23:11,756
>> Lock her up! Lock her up...

543
00:23:11,788 --> 00:23:13,325
>> NARRATOR: And there were some in the crowds

544
00:23:13,357 --> 00:23:15,525
with a darker agenda.

545
00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:19,029
>> The campaign is continually dogged by a small

546
00:23:19,063 --> 00:23:22,266
and vocal number of white supremacists,

547
00:23:22,299 --> 00:23:26,203
Klansmen, neo-Nazis.

548
00:23:27,638 --> 00:23:30,375
>> Some would come in wearing Confederate flags

549
00:23:30,407 --> 00:23:31,609
on their t-shirts.

550
00:23:31,643 --> 00:23:33,845
>> This isn't a very large group of people,

551
00:23:33,877 --> 00:23:35,445
but they are very vocal.

552
00:23:35,479 --> 00:23:38,182
And they attach themselves to Trump.

553
00:23:38,215 --> 00:23:40,951
>> Trump, whenever there was a moment to draw a line

554
00:23:40,984 --> 00:23:43,353
between himself and these extreme parts

555
00:23:43,386 --> 00:23:45,755
of the voting bloc, he refused.

556
00:23:45,789 --> 00:23:48,626
I think without question, the only way you can interpret that

557
00:23:48,660 --> 00:23:52,230
is that he was going to use these groups to try to build

558
00:23:52,263 --> 00:23:54,164
this coalition.

559
00:23:54,198 --> 00:23:57,269
>> NARRATOR: It wasn't long before anti-Trump protestors

560
00:23:57,301 --> 00:23:59,570
began to show up inside the rallies.

561
00:23:59,604 --> 00:24:00,805
>> There's a guy,

562
00:24:00,838 --> 00:24:02,906
totally disruptive, throwing punches.

563
00:24:02,941 --> 00:24:03,975
I love the old days.

564
00:24:04,009 --> 00:24:05,742
Do you know what they used to do to guys like that

565
00:24:05,776 --> 00:24:07,345
when they were in a place like this?

566
00:24:07,378 --> 00:24:09,647
They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks.

567
00:24:09,681 --> 00:24:11,783
I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you.

568
00:24:13,151 --> 00:24:15,954
>> You start seeing these really ugly moments

569
00:24:15,987 --> 00:24:19,790
at the rallies, um, with protesters,

570
00:24:19,824 --> 00:24:21,893
some of whom are nonwhite protestors, getting treated

571
00:24:21,925 --> 00:24:25,896
very violently by his supporters.

572
00:24:27,798 --> 00:24:31,302
Trump himself seemed to incite his supporters

573
00:24:31,336 --> 00:24:32,836
to go after protestors.

574
00:24:32,869 --> 00:24:34,972
>> Knock the crap out of him, would you?

575
00:24:35,006 --> 00:24:36,207
Just knock the hell...

576
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,142
I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise.

577
00:24:38,175 --> 00:24:39,243
I promise.

578
00:24:39,277 --> 00:24:41,746
>> NARRATOR: Trump didn't just turn on protestors,

579
00:24:41,778 --> 00:24:43,914
he also directed the anger at the media.

580
00:24:43,948 --> 00:24:46,851
>> Absolute dishonest, absolute scum.

581
00:24:46,884 --> 00:24:47,852
Remember that.

582
00:24:47,884 --> 00:24:49,954
Scum. Scum.

583
00:24:49,988 --> 00:24:52,490
>> NARRATOR: NBC's Katy Tur became a frequent target

584
00:24:52,523 --> 00:24:53,423
after one of her reports.

585
00:24:53,458 --> 00:24:55,293
>> She's back there.

586
00:24:55,326 --> 00:24:56,560
Little Katy.

587
00:24:56,594 --> 00:24:57,795
She's back there.

588
00:24:57,827 --> 00:25:00,163
>> He calls me out at the rally,

589
00:25:00,198 --> 00:25:02,367
"Look back there, little Katy, she's back there."

590
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,567
And I was like, "What?"

591
00:25:03,601 --> 00:25:05,336
>> What a lie it was.

592
00:25:05,369 --> 00:25:07,337
(crowd booing)

593
00:25:07,372 --> 00:25:10,675
No, what a lie, Katie Tur.

594
00:25:10,709 --> 00:25:13,678
What a lie it was from NBC to have written that.

595
00:25:13,711 --> 00:25:15,246
It was a total lie.

596
00:25:15,278 --> 00:25:18,182
>> We are surrounded on all sides with people

597
00:25:18,215 --> 00:25:21,017
who are fired up and angry.

598
00:25:21,051 --> 00:25:23,353
>> Third-rate reporter, remember that, third rate.

599
00:25:23,386 --> 00:25:25,557
Third rate.

600
00:25:25,589 --> 00:25:27,759
>> And they're whipped up by Donald Trump.

601
00:25:27,791 --> 00:25:30,627
I described it as like, you know, an unchained beast

602
00:25:30,662 --> 00:25:31,930
roaring at you in a crowd.

603
00:25:31,962 --> 00:25:34,565
And the whole... the whole place turns at me, looks at me,

604
00:25:34,598 --> 00:25:36,166
and boos.

605
00:25:41,538 --> 00:25:45,375
(cheers)

606
00:25:45,409 --> 00:25:47,445
>> NARRATOR: By July, Donald Trump headed

607
00:25:47,479 --> 00:25:50,948
to the G.O.P. convention after soundly defeating

608
00:25:50,980 --> 00:25:53,050
the establishment candidates.

609
00:25:53,084 --> 00:25:55,887
>> Let's face it, he was larger than the Republican Party.

610
00:25:55,921 --> 00:25:58,890
In fact, his nomination was the hostile takeover

611
00:25:58,923 --> 00:26:00,924
of the Republican Party.

612
00:26:00,958 --> 00:26:03,795
In this case the Republican Party is just a vehicle to get

613
00:26:03,827 --> 00:26:05,162
his name on the ballot.

614
00:26:05,195 --> 00:26:08,599
But his reach was always greater

615
00:26:08,633 --> 00:26:10,134
than the Republican Party's reach.

616
00:26:11,301 --> 00:26:13,203
>> NARRATOR: He had won the nomination

617
00:26:13,237 --> 00:26:15,373
of a divided Republican Party.

618
00:26:15,405 --> 00:26:19,309
Now he would see if he could apply the same strategy

619
00:26:19,344 --> 00:26:22,278
to winning the presidency of a divided country.

620
00:26:22,313 --> 00:26:26,884
>> Our convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation.

621
00:26:26,916 --> 00:26:32,522
The attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities

622
00:26:32,556 --> 00:26:36,427
threaten our very way of life.

623
00:26:36,460 --> 00:26:40,698
>> But I think the essential message there was, you have been

624
00:26:40,730 --> 00:26:43,401
neglected and abused by the powers that be,

625
00:26:43,433 --> 00:26:45,002
whether they are politicians

626
00:26:45,036 --> 00:26:47,805
or the media or academia, or Hollywood.

627
00:26:47,838 --> 00:26:50,674
All of those folks are conspiring against you,

628
00:26:50,708 --> 00:26:53,077
the good, right-thinking middle Americans.

629
00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:56,181
>> I have joined the political arena

630
00:26:56,213 --> 00:26:59,849
so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people

631
00:26:59,883 --> 00:27:02,754
who cannot defend themselves.

632
00:27:02,787 --> 00:27:06,223
(cheers and applause)

633
00:27:11,895 --> 00:27:14,732
Nobody knows the system better than me.

634
00:27:16,933 --> 00:27:18,603
(laughter and applause)

635
00:27:24,708 --> 00:27:28,947
Which is why I alone can fix it.

636
00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:31,115
>> He just said, "Me.

637
00:27:31,147 --> 00:27:33,951
"I'm the only person that can do this.

638
00:27:33,984 --> 00:27:35,619
You have to support me."

639
00:27:35,653 --> 00:27:37,822
That's the language of a strongman.

640
00:27:37,855 --> 00:27:41,392
That's the language that you hear in autocratic societies.

641
00:27:41,425 --> 00:27:43,595
(cheering)

642
00:27:45,896 --> 00:27:48,398
>> I had at least five reporters approach me and say,

643
00:27:48,432 --> 00:27:52,036
"Didn't you think Trump's speech was too dark?"

644
00:27:52,068 --> 00:27:55,038
And I told them all, "No, I think the country

645
00:27:55,073 --> 00:27:56,040
"is in deep trouble.

646
00:27:56,074 --> 00:27:58,209
"We're in very dire times.

647
00:27:58,241 --> 00:28:01,211
"And to pussyfoot around that and claim things are great

648
00:28:01,246 --> 00:28:02,179
"is a mistake.

649
00:28:02,212 --> 00:28:04,249
And we need a strongman."

650
00:28:08,219 --> 00:28:09,420
>> Hillary!

651
00:28:09,452 --> 00:28:11,955
Hillary! Hillary!

652
00:28:11,989 --> 00:28:13,257
>> And so, my friends...

653
00:28:13,290 --> 00:28:15,492
>> NARRATOR: Just one week later,

654
00:28:15,526 --> 00:28:17,895
at the Democratic Convention, Hillary Clinton accepted

655
00:28:17,929 --> 00:28:19,764
her party's nomination.

656
00:28:19,797 --> 00:28:22,333
>> That I accept your nomination

657
00:28:22,365 --> 00:28:26,636
for president of the United States!

658
00:28:26,670 --> 00:28:27,906
>> NARRATOR: Clinton's strategy

659
00:28:27,939 --> 00:28:32,977
was to draw on Obama's legacy and bet big on diversity.

660
00:28:33,009 --> 00:28:34,912
>> This is a time of change for America and it's a time

661
00:28:34,944 --> 00:28:36,480
to take stock and reaffirm the values

662
00:28:36,513 --> 00:28:37,548
that we hold as Americans.

663
00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:42,986
And that meant embracing the diversity.

664
00:28:43,019 --> 00:28:44,855
>> Please welcome Khizr Khan.

665
00:28:44,888 --> 00:28:46,690
>> NARRATOR: One moment turned out to be the centerpiece

666
00:28:46,723 --> 00:28:47,791
of their efforts--

667
00:28:47,825 --> 00:28:51,295
a speech by the father of a Muslim American soldier

668
00:28:51,327 --> 00:28:54,398
killed in combat.

669
00:28:54,432 --> 00:28:58,603
>> If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been

670
00:28:58,635 --> 00:29:00,471
in America.

671
00:29:00,503 --> 00:29:05,142
Donald Trump consistently smears the character

672
00:29:05,175 --> 00:29:07,310
of Muslims.

673
00:29:07,344 --> 00:29:10,948
He disrespects other minorities,

674
00:29:10,980 --> 00:29:19,490
women, judges, even his own party leadership.

675
00:29:19,522 --> 00:29:22,058
>> I don't think anybody or very few people who were planning

676
00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:24,195
the convention thought simply that moment alone

677
00:29:24,228 --> 00:29:26,497
would be as powerful as it was.

678
00:29:26,530 --> 00:29:29,500
>> Donald Trump: Have you even read

679
00:29:29,532 --> 00:29:31,935
the United States Constitution?

680
00:29:31,969 --> 00:29:36,240
(cheers and applause)

681
00:29:36,272 --> 00:29:44,481
I will... I will gladly lend you my copy.

682
00:29:44,516 --> 00:29:47,819
>> NARRATOR: As he watched Khan's speech, Trump saw

683
00:29:47,852 --> 00:29:50,488
an opportunity to go on the attack.

684
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,623
>> I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan

685
00:29:52,655 --> 00:29:54,258
at the Democratic Convention.

686
00:29:54,291 --> 00:29:57,093
>> And his advisors thought this was not a good idea.

687
00:29:57,127 --> 00:29:58,395
He shouldn't have done it.

688
00:29:58,429 --> 00:30:00,531
But Donald Trump just can't help himself.

689
00:30:00,564 --> 00:30:03,267
>> Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me

690
00:30:03,299 --> 00:30:05,301
from the stage of the D.N.C.

691
00:30:05,336 --> 00:30:08,038
and is now all over TV doing the same.

692
00:30:08,071 --> 00:30:09,439
Nice!

693
00:30:09,472 --> 00:30:13,409
>> The Khan episode illustrates Donald's major flaw,

694
00:30:13,443 --> 00:30:20,183
is he can't let something go and he can't notice

695
00:30:20,218 --> 00:30:23,488
that he's losing a fight until he's really lost it.

696
00:30:24,821 --> 00:30:26,089
>> Now on "This Week"...

697
00:30:26,123 --> 00:30:27,424
>> He went after Khan's wife, Gazal.

698
00:30:27,458 --> 00:30:29,192
>> If you look at his wife, she was standing there.

699
00:30:29,226 --> 00:30:30,561
She had nothing to say.

700
00:30:30,595 --> 00:30:32,896
She probably... maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say.

701
00:30:32,930 --> 00:30:34,999
You tell me, but plenty of people have written that.

702
00:30:35,032 --> 00:30:37,934
>> Amid mounting backlash over Trump's comments,

703
00:30:37,969 --> 00:30:39,636
his campaign went into damage control mode.

704
00:30:39,670 --> 00:30:41,438
>> NARRATOR: Veterans groups were outraged.

705
00:30:41,471 --> 00:30:42,807
>> At least two new polls show Hillary Clinton

706
00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:44,140
with a widening lead over Trump.

707
00:30:44,174 --> 00:30:45,542
>> NARRATOR: As Trump's poll numbers collapsed...

708
00:30:45,576 --> 00:30:47,978
>> Republicans in particular have been quick to respond...

709
00:30:48,011 --> 00:30:50,615
>> NARRATOR: Republican leaders further distanced themselves.

710
00:30:50,647 --> 00:30:51,881
>> Republican Senator John McCain offered

711
00:30:51,915 --> 00:30:52,883
a scathing rebuke...

712
00:30:52,916 --> 00:30:54,417
>> And his advisors are horrified.

713
00:30:54,451 --> 00:30:57,354
I mean, this is like... this is political suicide.

714
00:30:57,387 --> 00:30:59,656
And, um, they say to Trump, you know,

715
00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:01,258
"You know you just attacked a Gold Star family."

716
00:31:01,291 --> 00:31:02,525
And he said, "Well, what's that?"

717
00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:06,129
Trump just sees it as a personal attack and it's within his right

718
00:31:06,163 --> 00:31:07,765
to go on the counterattack.

719
00:31:07,798 --> 00:31:08,900
>> Trump's ongoing battle

720
00:31:08,932 --> 00:31:11,234
with the family of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan...

721
00:31:11,268 --> 00:31:13,237
>> NARRATOR: Virtually all the professionals expected Trump

722
00:31:13,270 --> 00:31:16,673
to change his tactics, to pivot.

723
00:31:16,707 --> 00:31:18,809
>> Everybody always wanted to mold Mr. Trump

724
00:31:18,842 --> 00:31:21,711
into their own image of what a candidate should look like,

725
00:31:21,746 --> 00:31:23,648
what a president should look like.

726
00:31:23,681 --> 00:31:25,449
And if there's one thing that wasn't going to change

727
00:31:25,482 --> 00:31:27,784
about Mr. Trump was that he was going to stay true to himself,

728
00:31:27,817 --> 00:31:29,920
you know, whatever that means, and that...

729
00:31:29,953 --> 00:31:33,523
that if he was going to win this campaign, he was going to do it

730
00:31:33,557 --> 00:31:34,625
on his own terms.

731
00:31:34,659 --> 00:31:37,128
>> NARRATOR: With barely 80 days before the election,

732
00:31:37,161 --> 00:31:41,298
Trump shook up his campaign and brought in Steve Bannon,

733
00:31:41,332 --> 00:31:45,303
the chairman of the right-wing website Breitbart.

734
00:31:45,336 --> 00:31:47,570
>> Bannon is a bomb thrower.

735
00:31:47,605 --> 00:31:51,174
Bannon joins the campaign because Bannon has

736
00:31:51,208 --> 00:31:54,345
a superior knowledge of alternative media

737
00:31:54,377 --> 00:31:56,780
combined with the fact that he is kind of a swashbuckler

738
00:31:56,814 --> 00:32:01,552
and a revolutionary, a guy who can think outside the box.

739
00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:04,253
>> NARRATOR: It was a sign Trump was doubling down.

740
00:32:04,288 --> 00:32:06,524
>> Steve Bannon has made very clear

741
00:32:06,557 --> 00:32:09,093
all through his recent career, his goal is to blow up

742
00:32:09,125 --> 00:32:10,227
the establishment.

743
00:32:10,260 --> 00:32:12,462
It's to take down the government as we know it.

744
00:32:12,496 --> 00:32:15,566
It's to destroy the Republican Party as it was constituted.

745
00:32:15,598 --> 00:32:18,868
I mean, he is a disrupter in, you know,

746
00:32:18,903 --> 00:32:20,538
in almost every way.

747
00:32:20,570 --> 00:32:22,705
>> NARRATOR: As his new campaign manager,

748
00:32:22,739 --> 00:32:27,711
another unconventional pick: a pollster, Kellyanne Conway,

749
00:32:27,744 --> 00:32:29,846
who had bad news for Trump.

750
00:32:29,881 --> 00:32:34,886
>> On that day, I told him, I said, "What's going on?

751
00:32:34,919 --> 00:32:37,755
"Because you're running against the most joyless candidate

752
00:32:37,788 --> 00:32:39,388
"in presidential political history

753
00:32:39,423 --> 00:32:41,592
and this place is starting to seem like it."

754
00:32:41,625 --> 00:32:42,727
And he said, "No."

755
00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:44,828
And I said, "I've looked at the polls."

756
00:32:44,862 --> 00:32:45,997
He said, "the polls."

757
00:32:46,029 --> 00:32:47,330
And I said, "I've looked at the polls and we're losing.

758
00:32:47,365 --> 00:32:49,566
But we don't need to lose, you should be winning."

759
00:32:49,599 --> 00:32:51,801
>> Trump is hoping to finally put that controversy behind him.

760
00:32:51,836 --> 00:32:54,137
>> NARRATOR: They faced a formidable challenge.

761
00:32:54,171 --> 00:32:56,307
>> NARRATOR: The first presidential debate.

762
00:32:56,339 --> 00:32:59,644
>> As Trump and Clinton get ready to go head to head...

763
00:32:59,676 --> 00:33:02,746
>> What will likely be the most watched political showdown

764
00:33:02,779 --> 00:33:03,846
in American history...

765
00:33:03,881 --> 00:33:05,483
>> NARRATOR: As he had throughout his campaign,

766
00:33:05,516 --> 00:33:09,486
Trump was willing to gamble-- he'd rely on his instincts,

767
00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:11,355
not preparation.

768
00:33:11,387 --> 00:33:13,523
>> There's actually a point of pride

769
00:33:13,557 --> 00:33:15,259
that he doesn't have to prepare.

770
00:33:15,291 --> 00:33:19,295
He values raw ability over study.

771
00:33:19,328 --> 00:33:22,500
So he wanted to prove that he was right about that.

772
00:33:22,532 --> 00:33:24,533
>> NARRATOR: Trump mocked Clinton for spending

773
00:33:24,567 --> 00:33:26,836
so much of her time preparing for the debate.

774
00:33:26,869 --> 00:33:30,941
>> You know, you've seen me, I've been all over the place.

775
00:33:30,974 --> 00:33:33,443
You decided to stay home, and that's okay.

776
00:33:33,477 --> 00:33:35,979
>> Arguably he was the worst prepared candidate

777
00:33:36,012 --> 00:33:38,582
in the history of American politics

778
00:33:38,615 --> 00:33:40,617
when he stepped up against Hillary Clinton

779
00:33:40,651 --> 00:33:42,253
for that first debate, and it showed.

780
00:33:42,286 --> 00:33:45,889
>> I think Donald just criticized me

781
00:33:45,922 --> 00:33:47,557
for preparing for this debate.

782
00:33:47,592 --> 00:33:49,894
And, yes, I did.

783
00:33:49,926 --> 00:33:52,195
And you know what else I prepared for?

784
00:33:52,229 --> 00:33:53,430
I prepared to be president.

785
00:33:53,462 --> 00:33:55,266
And I think that's a good thing.

786
00:33:55,298 --> 00:33:56,867
>> She knew how to get under his skin.

787
00:33:56,901 --> 00:33:58,067
She had been practicing.

788
00:33:58,102 --> 00:33:59,937
She had been studying him.

789
00:33:59,971 --> 00:34:02,606
>> Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax

790
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:03,874
perpetrated by the Chinese.

791
00:34:03,906 --> 00:34:05,041
I think it's real.

792
00:34:05,075 --> 00:34:06,143
I think science is real.

793
00:34:06,175 --> 00:34:08,944
>> I do not... I did not... I do not say that.

794
00:34:08,978 --> 00:34:11,481
>> Her team knew what were his...

795
00:34:11,514 --> 00:34:12,750
knew what his buttons were.

796
00:34:12,782 --> 00:34:15,351
And she just started unleashing them one after the other.

797
00:34:15,385 --> 00:34:17,088
>> You call yourself the King of Debt.

798
00:34:17,121 --> 00:34:18,956
You talk about leverage.

799
00:34:18,989 --> 00:34:22,526
You even at one time suggested that you would try

800
00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:23,893
to negotiate down the...

801
00:34:23,927 --> 00:34:24,862
>> Wrong.

802
00:34:24,894 --> 00:34:26,996
>> ...national debt of the United States.

803
00:34:27,030 --> 00:34:28,065
>> Wrong.

804
00:34:28,099 --> 00:34:30,268
>> And he lost... he lost control of the debate.

805
00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:31,735
>> Let me say this...

806
00:34:31,768 --> 00:34:34,771
>> There's nothing crazy about not letting our companies

807
00:34:34,804 --> 00:34:36,940
bring their money back into their country.

808
00:34:36,974 --> 00:34:38,542
>> This is... this is Secretary Clinton's two minutes, please.

809
00:34:38,576 --> 00:34:39,809
>> I have a feeling that by the end of this evening

810
00:34:39,842 --> 00:34:42,846
I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened.

811
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:43,881
>> Why not?

812
00:34:43,914 --> 00:34:45,583
>> Why not, yeah.

813
00:34:45,615 --> 00:34:47,184
Why not?

814
00:34:47,217 --> 00:34:49,953
>> Hillary Clinton was very artful in getting

815
00:34:49,987 --> 00:34:51,655
under Mr. Trump's skin

816
00:34:51,688 --> 00:34:54,324
and bringing up the issues

817
00:34:54,358 --> 00:34:58,195
that were like putting, you know, gasoline on a fire.

818
00:34:58,228 --> 00:35:03,233
>> One of the worst things he said was about a woman

819
00:35:03,266 --> 00:35:04,801
in a beauty contest.

820
00:35:04,835 --> 00:35:09,438
And, he called this woman "Miss Piggy."

821
00:35:09,472 --> 00:35:12,043
Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping,"

822
00:35:12,076 --> 00:35:13,945
because she was Latina.

823
00:35:13,978 --> 00:35:15,278
Donald, she has a name.

824
00:35:15,311 --> 00:35:16,380
>> Where did you find this?

825
00:35:16,413 --> 00:35:17,447
Where did you find this?

826
00:35:17,481 --> 00:35:18,715
Where did you find it?

827
00:35:18,748 --> 00:35:20,150
>> Her name is Alicia Machado and she has become

828
00:35:20,184 --> 00:35:22,452
a U.S. citizen and you can bet she's going to vote

829
00:35:22,487 --> 00:35:23,320
this November.

830
00:35:23,353 --> 00:35:24,387
>> Oh really?

831
00:35:24,420 --> 00:35:25,388
Okay, okay, good.

832
00:35:25,422 --> 00:35:28,592
>> NARRATOR: Trump would insist he had won.

833
00:35:28,626 --> 00:35:29,760
>> ...our debate for this evening.

834
00:35:29,793 --> 00:35:31,528
>> He was crushed in the first debate.

835
00:35:31,561 --> 00:35:34,397
I don't care whatever pronouncements he wants to make.

836
00:35:34,431 --> 00:35:37,835
He was crushed by every possible...

837
00:35:37,867 --> 00:35:40,538
Our focus group thought he was awful.

838
00:35:42,373 --> 00:35:43,673
>> ...down in Palm Beach.

839
00:35:43,706 --> 00:35:44,674
I moved on her and I failed.

840
00:35:44,708 --> 00:35:46,277
I'll admit it.

841
00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:50,347
>> NARRATOR: It would get even worse for Trump.

842
00:35:55,485 --> 00:35:57,521
>> NARRATOR: Just two days before the second debate,

843
00:35:57,554 --> 00:36:01,192
an un-aired video from the TV show<i> Access Hollywood.</i>

844
00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:08,398
>> There was one account after another about Donald Trump

845
00:36:08,431 --> 00:36:12,835
attacking women, groping women, saying nasty things about women.

846
00:36:12,869 --> 00:36:16,274
But the moment that counts is the moment this is on video.

847
00:36:24,547 --> 00:36:26,783
>> Here's a guy who's making crude, disgusting jokes

848
00:36:26,817 --> 00:36:28,719
and the father in you,

849
00:36:28,751 --> 00:36:32,690
the brother in you comes out, and the husband in you.

850
00:36:32,722 --> 00:36:34,023
And you can't defend it.

851
00:36:34,057 --> 00:36:37,561
>> The Trump camp has swiftly launched into disaster mode...

852
00:36:37,594 --> 00:36:40,563
>> A big, big development in this campaign as it comes to...

853
00:36:40,597 --> 00:36:41,699
>> Right after that tape came out,

854
00:36:41,731 --> 00:36:45,235
suddenly everybody on the Trump team went radio silent.

855
00:36:45,268 --> 00:36:46,502
Everyone.

856
00:36:46,536 --> 00:36:48,538
>> This was the October surprise.

857
00:36:48,572 --> 00:36:50,374
Had the ability to take down a campaign.

858
00:36:50,407 --> 00:36:53,309
And the internal discussion amongst the campaign, some were,

859
00:36:53,342 --> 00:36:56,112
"You need to apologize immediately,"

860
00:36:56,146 --> 00:36:58,816
and some were "You need to double down."

861
00:36:58,849 --> 00:37:03,019
>> Donald Trump's campaign, its worst crisis ever.

862
00:37:03,052 --> 00:37:05,489
>> We keep being told, "He is going to come on TV.

863
00:37:05,521 --> 00:37:06,422
"He is going to say something.

864
00:37:06,456 --> 00:37:07,657
He is going to apologize."

865
00:37:07,690 --> 00:37:09,393
And it gets delayed and delayed.

866
00:37:09,427 --> 00:37:12,695
And finally he comes out there and it's an apology of sorts.

867
00:37:12,728 --> 00:37:14,731
>> I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended

868
00:37:14,764 --> 00:37:16,967
to be someone that I'm not.

869
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,103
I've said and done things I regret,

870
00:37:19,135 --> 00:37:20,503
and the words released today

871
00:37:20,536 --> 00:37:23,573
on this more than a decade-old video

872
00:37:23,608 --> 00:37:24,574
are one of them.

873
00:37:24,608 --> 00:37:27,010
>> And so he went on Facebook later that night

874
00:37:27,043 --> 00:37:31,280
and gave what was, by Trump's standards, a contrite apology.

875
00:37:31,313 --> 00:37:33,082
But then he went on the attack.

876
00:37:33,115 --> 00:37:35,619
>> Bill Clinton has actually abused women,

877
00:37:35,652 --> 00:37:38,489
and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed

878
00:37:38,521 --> 00:37:40,690
and intimidated his victims.

879
00:37:40,724 --> 00:37:41,992
>> I think Trump being Trump,

880
00:37:42,025 --> 00:37:43,827
his only instinct in those moments when his back

881
00:37:43,860 --> 00:37:47,230
is against the wall is to just go on the counter-attack.

882
00:37:47,264 --> 00:37:49,733
>> We will discuss this more in the coming days.

883
00:37:49,766 --> 00:37:52,201
See you at the debate on Saturday.

884
00:37:52,235 --> 00:37:54,104
>> I think with the exception of maybe one or two people,

885
00:37:54,137 --> 00:37:55,673
everyone thought that that was the end.

886
00:37:55,706 --> 00:37:56,907
How do you survive this?

887
00:37:56,940 --> 00:37:58,342
How do you survive this?

888
00:37:58,375 --> 00:38:01,411
As a Republican, how do you survive advocating or saying

889
00:38:01,445 --> 00:38:05,082
you're allowed to grab women in their private parts

890
00:38:05,114 --> 00:38:06,716
because you're a star?

891
00:38:06,750 --> 00:38:09,952
That is just not something that anybody can survive.

892
00:38:09,985 --> 00:38:11,521
>> I think the question now is,

893
00:38:11,554 --> 00:38:14,759
how do Republicans down the ballot break away from him?

894
00:38:14,791 --> 00:38:17,293
>> NARRATOR: The next day he appeared outside Trump Tower.

895
00:38:17,327 --> 00:38:22,699
To many it seemed like his candidacy was over.

896
00:38:22,733 --> 00:38:25,102
>> I called Trump the day after<i> Access Hollywood.</i>

897
00:38:25,135 --> 00:38:29,907
And I ask him point blank, "Are you going to quit the race?"

898
00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:32,342
That's what was on everyone's minds.

899
00:38:32,376 --> 00:38:35,913
And he says, "Costa, I've lived life.

900
00:38:35,945 --> 00:38:37,547
"I've seen so much in my life,

901
00:38:37,581 --> 00:38:41,084
"business, personal, this is nothing.

902
00:38:41,117 --> 00:38:43,153
"I've survived everything else.

903
00:38:43,186 --> 00:38:44,688
I'm going to survive this."

904
00:38:44,721 --> 00:38:46,856
And I kept asking him, "Are you going to quit the race?"

905
00:38:46,889 --> 00:38:49,225
"There's no chance I quit," he said.

906
00:38:49,260 --> 00:38:50,594
"Not one chance.

907
00:38:50,628 --> 00:38:52,528
I am in this to the end."

908
00:38:52,563 --> 00:38:55,432
(cheering)

909
00:38:58,436 --> 00:39:01,905
>> NARRATOR: Donald Trump, undaunted, then headed

910
00:39:01,938 --> 00:39:04,507
to the second presidential debate.

911
00:39:04,541 --> 00:39:06,710
>> He showed up, and he was impervious to the naysayers

912
00:39:06,742 --> 00:39:08,978
and critics who were all trying to push him out of the race.

913
00:39:10,213 --> 00:39:12,583
>> NARRATOR: Trump had a surprise of his own

914
00:39:12,615 --> 00:39:14,751
just before the debate was to begin.

915
00:39:14,784 --> 00:39:17,420
>> Next thing I know-- and no one in the press knew

916
00:39:17,454 --> 00:39:19,889
this was happening-- there was a press conference

917
00:39:19,922 --> 00:39:22,091
with all Bill Clinton's accusers right before the debate.

918
00:39:22,126 --> 00:39:27,698
>> These four very courageous women have asked to be here...

919
00:39:27,731 --> 00:39:31,601
>> NARRATOR: Trump had invited four women to the debate,

920
00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:35,739
women who had accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing.

921
00:39:35,771 --> 00:39:38,007
Charges the Clinton's had denied.

922
00:39:38,041 --> 00:39:39,843
>> There was widespread shock.

923
00:39:39,876 --> 00:39:41,211
Nobody had it beforehand.

924
00:39:41,244 --> 00:39:43,513
>> The genius part of Donald Trump was he didn't announce

925
00:39:43,547 --> 00:39:46,416
these women were coming.

926
00:39:46,449 --> 00:39:49,352
He just had them at a table and said,

927
00:39:49,385 --> 00:39:51,721
"The media's welcome to come in right before the debate."

928
00:39:51,755 --> 00:39:53,222
And the media was stunned.

929
00:39:53,257 --> 00:39:55,057
Because the media couldn't fathom

930
00:39:55,092 --> 00:39:56,626
doing something like this.

931
00:39:56,659 --> 00:39:59,129
>> NARRATOR: Standing in the back of the room,

932
00:39:59,163 --> 00:40:02,565
the man who had orchestrated the event: Steve Bannon.

933
00:40:02,599 --> 00:40:05,869
>> Mr. Trump may have said some bad words,

934
00:40:05,902 --> 00:40:13,009
but Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me.

935
00:40:13,043 --> 00:40:15,579
I don't think there's any comparison.

936
00:40:15,612 --> 00:40:20,451
>> It was to show America that he believed certain things

937
00:40:20,483 --> 00:40:24,020
about the Clintons that many Americans also believe.

938
00:40:24,054 --> 00:40:26,088
And that he was going to stand up for them

939
00:40:26,123 --> 00:40:28,492
against the Clintons

940
00:40:28,525 --> 00:40:34,431
in a way that was so tough and really so ruthless

941
00:40:34,465 --> 00:40:38,201
that it gave some satisfaction to people who hate the Clintons.

942
00:40:38,235 --> 00:40:40,204
>> Okay. Thank you all very much.

943
00:40:40,237 --> 00:40:41,137
We appreciate it.

944
00:40:54,851 --> 00:40:57,554
>> By bringing the accusers to the debate, he put that issue

945
00:40:57,586 --> 00:41:00,489
front and center and forced voters out there to remember,

946
00:41:00,523 --> 00:41:03,559
in a sense, what it is that they didn't like

947
00:41:03,592 --> 00:41:05,627
about Hillary Clinton.

948
00:41:05,661 --> 00:41:07,430
(applause)

949
00:41:07,463 --> 00:41:10,032
>> NARRATOR: This time on the debate stage, Trump stayed

950
00:41:10,065 --> 00:41:11,568
on the offensive.

951
00:41:11,601 --> 00:41:14,070
>> We have a divided nation, because people like her.

952
00:41:14,103 --> 00:41:17,440
And believe me, she has tremendous hate in her heart.

953
00:41:17,474 --> 00:41:21,378
She's got tremendous hatred and this country cannot take

954
00:41:21,411 --> 00:41:23,680
another four years of Barack Obama

955
00:41:23,713 --> 00:41:25,114
and that's what you're getting with her.

956
00:41:25,148 --> 00:41:26,483
>> I don't think there was any moment in the campaign

957
00:41:26,516 --> 00:41:29,752
in which there was a more divergent interpretation

958
00:41:29,786 --> 00:41:32,422
among political professionals and members

959
00:41:32,456 --> 00:41:35,392
of Trump's vast and growing army of supporters.

960
00:41:35,425 --> 00:41:37,361
>> When you talk about apology,

961
00:41:37,393 --> 00:41:40,829
I think the one that you should really be apologizing for

962
00:41:40,864 --> 00:41:43,166
and the thing that you should be apologizing for

963
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:47,002
are the 33,000 emails that you deleted,

964
00:41:47,036 --> 00:41:49,338
and that you acid washed.

965
00:41:49,371 --> 00:41:53,143
>> Hillary Clinton, who is clearly much more measured

966
00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:54,778
and programmed than Trump.

967
00:41:54,811 --> 00:41:58,515
On the other hand, he's so much more of a live wire,

968
00:41:58,548 --> 00:42:02,152
that by contrast she seems overly programmed.

969
00:42:02,184 --> 00:42:03,119
>> Allow her to respond, please.

970
00:42:03,152 --> 00:42:05,254
>> Personal emails, not official.

971
00:42:05,289 --> 00:42:06,290
>> 33,000?

972
00:42:06,322 --> 00:42:09,092
>> Well, we turned over 35,000, so...

973
00:42:09,126 --> 00:42:11,094
>> Oh yeah, what about the other 15,000?

974
00:42:11,126 --> 00:42:11,994
>> Please allow her to respond,

975
00:42:12,028 --> 00:42:14,197
she didn't talk while you talked.

976
00:42:14,230 --> 00:42:16,032
>> Yes, that's true, I didn't.

977
00:42:16,065 --> 00:42:17,800
>> Because you had nothing to say.

978
00:42:17,833 --> 00:42:19,135
>> I didn't in the first debate and I'm going to try not...

979
00:42:19,168 --> 00:42:21,270
>> He's mocked for this during and after the debate,

980
00:42:21,304 --> 00:42:24,074
kind of stalking around that debate, kind of stalking her.

981
00:42:24,106 --> 00:42:26,710
He's, you know, ridiculed for suggesting that he's going

982
00:42:26,744 --> 00:42:28,178
to put her in jail.

983
00:42:28,210 --> 00:42:32,215
>> If I win, I am going to  instruct my attorney general

984
00:42:32,248 --> 00:42:36,552
to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation,

985
00:42:36,586 --> 00:42:41,123
because there has never been so many lies, so much deception,

986
00:42:41,157 --> 00:42:43,260
there has never been anything like it.

987
00:42:43,293 --> 00:42:45,061
>> When he looked her straight in the eye and said that,

988
00:42:45,094 --> 00:42:49,632
"There should be a commission to study the crimes you've done."

989
00:42:49,666 --> 00:42:53,703
And to my surprise my focus group said, "Absolutely."

990
00:42:53,737 --> 00:42:56,440
Even those who supported Hillary Clinton want to see

991
00:42:56,472 --> 00:42:58,141
these candidates held accountable.

992
00:42:58,173 --> 00:42:59,909
>> We have to move on, Secretary Clinton you can respond,

993
00:42:59,943 --> 00:43:01,077
but we've got to move on.

994
00:43:01,110 --> 00:43:03,112
>> We want to give the audience a chance here.

995
00:43:03,146 --> 00:43:05,782
>> So, for what the media saw

996
00:43:05,815 --> 00:43:10,887
as Third World dictatorial politics, our voters saw

997
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,690
as one candidate holding the other candidate accountable.

998
00:43:14,724 --> 00:43:17,561
>> It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament

999
00:43:17,594 --> 00:43:21,597
of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.

1000
00:43:21,630 --> 00:43:23,365
>> Because you'd be in jail.

1001
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:28,706
(applause)

1002
00:43:28,739 --> 00:43:31,842
>> We want to remind the audience to please not talk

1003
00:43:31,875 --> 00:43:34,911
out loud, please do not applaud, you're just wasting time.

1004
00:43:34,943 --> 00:43:36,380
>> When I speak, I go out and speak,

1005
00:43:36,413 --> 00:43:38,914
the people of this country are furious...

1006
00:43:38,947 --> 00:43:41,250
>> He was speaking the language of the American people.

1007
00:43:41,284 --> 00:43:43,420
That he was holding Hillary Clinton accountable.

1008
00:43:43,454 --> 00:43:45,856
You wouldn't know that if you lived in New York

1009
00:43:45,889 --> 00:43:47,990
or Los Angeles, but you would know that

1010
00:43:48,025 --> 00:43:53,963
if you were doing focus groups in Columbus, Ohio,

1011
00:43:53,996 --> 00:43:58,534
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, or in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

1012
00:43:59,603 --> 00:44:04,041
>> NARRATOR: Back out on the campaign trail

1013
00:44:04,074 --> 00:44:07,210
Trump's anti-establishment message continued to resonate.

1014
00:44:07,244 --> 00:44:12,315
>> And we are going to drain the swamp.

1015
00:44:12,347 --> 00:44:17,153
We're going to drain the swamp.

1016
00:44:17,186 --> 00:44:19,556
We're going to drain the swamp, folks.

1017
00:44:19,590 --> 00:44:22,126
>> That was how Donald Trump started out the campaign.

1018
00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:24,294
>> We're going to drain that swamp.

1019
00:44:24,327 --> 00:44:25,662
>> By saying things that were anathema

1020
00:44:25,695 --> 00:44:29,331
to the establishment, but that had resonance

1021
00:44:29,364 --> 00:44:33,903
in the base of support that he was able to cobble together.

1022
00:44:33,936 --> 00:44:35,337
>> Build the wall!

1023
00:44:35,371 --> 00:44:38,041
Build the wall! Build the wall!

1024
00:44:38,074 --> 00:44:41,510
>> Yes, maybe he has offended me, and maybe he's offensive,

1025
00:44:41,545 --> 00:44:43,146
but I'm still out of work.

1026
00:44:43,179 --> 00:44:45,481
I'm still mad that people are pouring over the borders.

1027
00:44:45,514 --> 00:44:48,550
And I'm still mad that ISIS is still attacking people

1028
00:44:48,585 --> 00:44:49,920
all over the globe.

1029
00:44:49,952 --> 00:44:53,389
And you know what, I'm just going to stick with him.

1030
00:44:53,422 --> 00:44:55,991
>> NARRATOR: With time running out, Trump's chances of winning

1031
00:44:56,025 --> 00:44:58,228
still seemed slim.

1032
00:44:58,260 --> 00:45:01,764
But the race would be shaken up by an unlikely source:

1033
00:45:01,797 --> 00:45:02,565
Wikileaks.

1034
00:45:02,599 --> 00:45:03,734
>> Breaking news here.

1035
00:45:03,766 --> 00:45:06,769
Wikileaks is about to release "significant material"

1036
00:45:06,802 --> 00:45:07,936
tied to Hillary Clinton.

1037
00:45:07,971 --> 00:45:09,005
>> The campaign is doing damage control tonight

1038
00:45:09,038 --> 00:45:11,574
after Wikileaks releases more...

1039
00:45:11,608 --> 00:45:13,577
>> NARRATOR: Tens of thousands of private emails

1040
00:45:13,610 --> 00:45:16,813
from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta were released.

1041
00:45:16,846 --> 00:45:18,715
>> There are some embarrassing details...

1042
00:45:18,748 --> 00:45:20,048
>> This was a daily phenomenon.

1043
00:45:20,083 --> 00:45:21,851
>> Both at home and abroad in all of this...

1044
00:45:21,885 --> 00:45:28,057
>> It was a constant, uh, you know, pain to our campaign. 

1045
00:45:28,090 --> 00:45:30,159
>> ...flood of emails suggest that in private

1046
00:45:30,193 --> 00:45:32,729
her advisors like to tee off on everyone,

1047
00:45:32,762 --> 00:45:35,766
from Catholics to Latinos and Southerners...

1048
00:45:35,798 --> 00:45:38,335
>> NARRATOR: Day after day, the stories continued.

1049
00:45:38,367 --> 00:45:40,969
>> That she couldn't convey a clear message to voters...

1050
00:45:41,003 --> 00:45:42,573
>> It was incredibly damaging,

1051
00:45:42,606 --> 00:45:44,975
because every day there were bad stories coming out.

1052
00:45:45,007 --> 00:45:47,109
And they could be perfectly timed.

1053
00:45:47,143 --> 00:45:49,445
>> Robby Mook lashed out writing,

1054
00:45:49,478 --> 00:45:51,114
"Wow, what a terrorist."

1055
00:45:51,146 --> 00:45:52,382
>> It was anxiety provoking.

1056
00:45:52,414 --> 00:45:54,416
You just don't know what's going to come out on any day.

1057
00:45:54,451 --> 00:45:56,719
And that you're going to have to deal with that.

1058
00:45:56,753 --> 00:45:57,987
>> More than 2,000 emails...

1059
00:45:58,019 --> 00:45:59,722
They claim they came from her...

1060
00:45:59,755 --> 00:46:01,224
>> NARRATOR: The first emails began to trickle out

1061
00:46:01,257 --> 00:46:04,159
less than an hour after the Access Hollywood video.

1062
00:46:04,193 --> 00:46:08,031
>> The Access Hollywood tape was a big surge

1063
00:46:08,063 --> 00:46:11,701
but then, you know, after it had run 400 times

1064
00:46:11,735 --> 00:46:14,304
on television it fell off.

1065
00:46:14,336 --> 00:46:18,842
The Podesta emails kept getting dribbled out

1066
00:46:18,875 --> 00:46:20,943
news cycle after news cycle

1067
00:46:20,976 --> 00:46:24,080
after news cycle, and it lives forever.

1068
00:46:24,114 --> 00:46:25,447
>> NARRATOR: There were media reports

1069
00:46:25,481 --> 00:46:27,951
that intelligence agencies believed the leaks

1070
00:46:27,983 --> 00:46:29,119
were orchestrated by Russia.

1071
00:46:29,152 --> 00:46:31,355
But that didn't seem to bother Trump.

1072
00:46:31,387 --> 00:46:32,621
>> Wikileaks is amazing.

1073
00:46:32,655 --> 00:46:33,757
The stuff that's coming out.

1074
00:46:33,789 --> 00:46:35,858
It shows she's a real liar.

1075
00:46:35,891 --> 00:46:38,628
This Wikileaks stuff is unbelievable,

1076
00:46:38,661 --> 00:46:41,831
it tells you the inner heart, you got to read it.

1077
00:46:41,864 --> 00:46:44,366
Wikileaks, I love WikiLeaks.

1078
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:45,903
>> NARRATOR: After the election,

1079
00:46:45,936 --> 00:46:49,739
intelligence agencies would go further, concluding

1080
00:46:49,771 --> 00:46:52,141
that the leaks were part of a larger campaign

1081
00:46:52,175 --> 00:46:54,577
ordered by Russian president Vladimir Putin

1082
00:46:54,610 --> 00:46:57,713
to help elect Donald Trump.

1083
00:46:57,748 --> 00:47:01,251
>> It was cyber mixed with information warfare

1084
00:47:01,284 --> 00:47:04,854
and the press, the New York Times included,

1085
00:47:04,887 --> 00:47:08,458
became the handmaiden to the process,

1086
00:47:08,490 --> 00:47:11,027
because these emails couldn't be ignored as news.

1087
00:47:11,061 --> 00:47:12,863
They were newsy. They were out there.

1088
00:47:12,896 --> 00:47:16,733
It's not like you could ignore it and not write about it.

1089
00:47:16,766 --> 00:47:18,835
But in writing about it,

1090
00:47:18,869 --> 00:47:21,805
you're doing the work that Vladimir Putin had in mind.

1091
00:47:21,838 --> 00:47:25,375
>> NARRATOR: Then in the final days as Hillary Clinton

1092
00:47:25,409 --> 00:47:28,443
struggled to hold onto her lead, another crisis.

1093
00:47:28,478 --> 00:47:30,445
>> An L.A. Times reporter came up

1094
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,682
to our traveling press secretary, Nick Merrill,

1095
00:47:33,717 --> 00:47:37,688
and said, "Hey, have you heard anything about some reopening

1096
00:47:37,721 --> 00:47:39,856
of the investigation by the F.B.I.?"

1097
00:47:39,889 --> 00:47:42,692
>> I kept thinking this can't be, this has to be a mistake.

1098
00:47:42,726 --> 00:47:45,661
It's got to be referring to something else.

1099
00:47:45,695 --> 00:47:48,463
>> NARRATOR: The F.B.I. director, James Comey,

1100
00:47:48,498 --> 00:47:52,702
was resuming an investigation of Clinton's personal email server.

1101
00:47:52,735 --> 00:47:56,105
>> And I just remember this pit in my stomach

1102
00:47:56,139 --> 00:47:59,142
and really worrying

1103
00:47:59,175 --> 00:48:02,278
that this could change the game completely,

1104
00:48:02,311 --> 00:48:07,450
in a, you know, in a potentially lethal way.

1105
00:48:07,483 --> 00:48:10,353
>> NARRATOR: Mook and Palmieri briefed Clinton.

1106
00:48:10,385 --> 00:48:13,824
>> When I went to tell her, I said, "I've got some news."

1107
00:48:13,856 --> 00:48:15,858
And she said, "Okay, what's your news?"

1108
00:48:15,891 --> 00:48:18,060
And I said, "It's bad news."

1109
00:48:18,094 --> 00:48:21,998
So, um, she said, "Okay, what's the bad news?"

1110
00:48:22,030 --> 00:48:23,099
And so I told her.

1111
00:48:23,132 --> 00:48:25,768
And she said, "I knew we weren't going three weeks

1112
00:48:25,802 --> 00:48:28,271
without something else hitting us."

1113
00:48:28,304 --> 00:48:32,074
>> That pit in my stomach, you know, I'll never forget

1114
00:48:32,108 --> 00:48:38,280
that feeling, that, um, we just got smacked

1115
00:48:38,313 --> 00:48:42,051
by a two-by-four and it came out of nowhere.

1116
00:48:44,686 --> 00:48:48,157
>> NARRATOR: Donald Trump immediately seized on the news.

1117
00:48:48,190 --> 00:48:50,259
>> I need to open

1118
00:48:50,293 --> 00:48:54,563
with a very critical breaking news announcement.

1119
00:48:54,597 --> 00:49:01,170
(crowd cheering)

1120
00:49:01,204 --> 00:49:10,447
The F.B.I. has just sent a letter to Congress,

1121
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,016
informing them that they have discovered

1122
00:49:14,050 --> 00:49:22,924
new emails pertaining to the former secretary of state,

1123
00:49:22,958 --> 00:49:25,394
Hillary Clinton's, investigation.

1124
00:49:25,429 --> 00:49:30,767
(crowd cheering)

1125
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:32,467
>> Lock her up!

1126
00:49:32,501 --> 00:49:35,704
Lock her up! Lock her up!

1127
00:49:35,739 --> 00:49:40,677
(cheering continues)

1128
00:49:45,380 --> 00:49:50,052
>> And they are reopening the case into her criminal

1129
00:49:50,086 --> 00:49:53,556
and illegal conduct that threatens

1130
00:49:53,590 --> 00:49:57,059
the security of the United States of America.

1131
00:49:57,094 --> 00:50:00,028
(crowd shouting)

1132
00:50:00,063 --> 00:50:02,465
>> To win you need a few breaks.

1133
00:50:02,498 --> 00:50:04,900
The F.B.I. announcement was such a break,

1134
00:50:04,934 --> 00:50:07,336
certainly not controlled by the Trump campaign,

1135
00:50:07,369 --> 00:50:10,306
but it really did throw all the cards up in the air

1136
00:50:10,338 --> 00:50:11,907
at a pivotal time.

1137
00:50:11,942 --> 00:50:13,976
>> We are going to drain the swamp.

1138
00:50:14,010 --> 00:50:15,912
>> NARRATOR: For the next week and a half...

1139
00:50:15,945 --> 00:50:17,246
>> We are going to re-negotiate...

1140
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:18,981
>> NARRATOR: Trump traveled the country

1141
00:50:19,014 --> 00:50:20,083
building on that momentum.

1142
00:50:20,115 --> 00:50:23,519
>> And we will keep radical Islamic terrorists...

1143
00:50:23,552 --> 00:50:25,422
>> NARRATOR: Staying on message...

1144
00:50:25,454 --> 00:50:26,422
>> ...the hell out...

1145
00:50:26,456 --> 00:50:27,256
>> NARRATOR: Off Twitter...

1146
00:50:27,289 --> 00:50:29,091
>> We will build a great wall.

1147
00:50:29,125 --> 00:50:32,561
>> NARRATOR: Inside his campaign they hoped it would be enough.

1148
00:50:32,594 --> 00:50:36,765
>> And we will make America great again.

1149
00:50:36,798 --> 00:50:39,235
>> It was the first time that Mr. Trump was relatively

1150
00:50:39,268 --> 00:50:40,970
scandal-free at that point.

1151
00:50:41,003 --> 00:50:42,105
A lot of things had gone away.

1152
00:50:42,137 --> 00:50:44,706
Secretary Clinton was in the spotlight by herself.

1153
00:50:44,739 --> 00:50:47,109
And we saw a spike in numbers

1154
00:50:47,143 --> 00:50:50,079
that were just uncommon for anything that we've seen before.

1155
00:50:50,112 --> 00:50:53,182
That was really the catalyst for the roll, the snowball effect

1156
00:50:53,215 --> 00:50:55,617
that continued to happen till Election Day.

1157
00:50:55,652 --> 00:50:58,121
>> NARRATOR: In the final days of the campaign,

1158
00:50:58,153 --> 00:51:02,257
he solidified the Republican base and in rally after rally,

1159
00:51:02,291 --> 00:51:06,429
he tried to win over voters in the heart of the blue wall,

1160
00:51:06,463 --> 00:51:10,432
states a Republican hadn't won in a generation.

1161
00:51:10,465 --> 00:51:14,036
>> In all these steel towns that have carcasses of factories,

1162
00:51:14,070 --> 00:51:18,441
buildings where they used to have molten metal, no more.

1163
00:51:18,474 --> 00:51:21,177
But you know what was there?

1164
00:51:21,210 --> 00:51:23,512
Trump signs.

1165
00:51:23,545 --> 00:51:26,181
>> Today is decision day in America and we are taking a look

1166
00:51:26,215 --> 00:51:27,483
at the presidential race...

1167
00:51:27,516 --> 00:51:29,418
>> After a long, contentious presidential race

1168
00:51:29,452 --> 00:51:30,820
we are near the end...

1169
00:51:30,853 --> 00:51:32,989
>> Donald Trump will carry the state of Florida

1170
00:51:33,021 --> 00:51:34,155
with its 29 electoral...

1171
00:51:34,190 --> 00:51:36,592
>> Donald Trump has won the state of Wisconsin,

1172
00:51:36,625 --> 00:51:38,260
and there goes her blue wall.

1173
00:51:38,293 --> 00:51:43,065
>> This means that Donald Trump will be the 45th president

1174
00:51:43,099 --> 00:51:45,367
of the United States.

1175
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:49,371
>> NARRATOR: As a candidate, he had broken all the rules.

1176
00:51:49,405 --> 00:51:54,277
Now in the White House, he promises to do the same.

1177
00:51:54,309 --> 00:51:57,713
>> You guys need to get used to it that there is no pivot,

1178
00:51:57,746 --> 00:52:02,018
that there is no normal, and the fact that there is no normal

1179
00:52:02,050 --> 00:52:04,054
is the new normal.

1180
00:52:04,086 --> 00:52:05,855
The only thing that is predictable

1181
00:52:05,887 --> 00:52:08,891
is the unpredictability of Washington, D.C.,

1182
00:52:08,925 --> 00:52:10,260
from this point forward.

1183
00:52:10,293 --> 00:52:11,494
So get used to it.

1184
00:52:11,527 --> 00:52:14,731
Buckle your seat belts, sit back, because it is going to be

1185
00:52:14,764 --> 00:52:16,399
a wild ride.

1186
00:52:16,431 --> 00:52:22,571
>> From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.

1187
00:52:30,313 --> 00:52:33,215
<i> >> On the front line of Iraq's  fight against ISIS.</i>

1188
00:52:33,248 --> 00:52:37,353
>> The distance between war and civilian life

1189
00:52:37,387 --> 00:52:38,687
is almost nonexistent.

1190
00:52:38,721 --> 00:52:40,989
>><i> Correspondent Ghaith  Abdul-Ahad is inside</i>

1191
00:52:41,023 --> 00:52:42,892
<i> the besieged city of Mosul.</i>

1192
00:52:42,925 --> 00:52:45,193
>> This is the other entrance of the building.

1193
00:52:45,226 --> 00:52:48,364
>><i> Witnessing firsthand  the casualties</i>

1194
00:52:48,396 --> 00:52:52,034
<i> and the army's determination  to take the city back.</i>

1195
00:52:52,068 --> 00:52:53,403
<i> "Battle for Iraq."</i>

1196
00:52:59,342 --> 00:53:01,309
>><i> Go to pbs.org/frontline,</i>

1197
00:53:01,342 --> 00:53:03,645
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1198
00:53:03,679 --> 00:53:04,579
<i> with Kellyanne Conway...</i>

1199
00:53:04,612 --> 00:53:05,614
>> Which we don't need to lose.

1200
00:53:05,648 --> 00:53:06,782
You should be winning.

1201
00:53:06,815 --> 00:53:07,850
>><i> John Podesta...</i>

1202
00:53:07,884 --> 00:53:09,152
>> Pain to our campaign...

1203
00:53:09,184 --> 00:53:10,085
>><i> And others.</i>

1204
00:53:10,119 --> 00:53:11,186
>> ...incredibly damaging.

1205
00:53:11,221 --> 00:53:12,255
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1206
00:53:12,289 --> 00:53:14,324
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