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>> narrator: this past july, donald trump acceptedthe republican nomination. >> i humbly and gratefullyaccept your nomination for the presidencyof the united states. (cheers and applause) >> narrator: it was a momentof vindication for a candidate who had climbed back froma bitter public humiliation. >> we're talkingabout the white house correspondents' dinner tonight.
>> donald trump has beeninvited. >> narrator: it happenedin april 2011, at one of washington, d.c.'smost glamorous nights. >> i got to talk to donaldas we were going to our seats, and he was in justsuch a great mood, and he was very jovial,and people were taking pictures. it was very excitingthat donald was there. >> donald, over here! >> narrator: trump's invitationto the exclusive gathering
came after weeks of attackingpresident barack obama on television. >> you are not allowedto be a president if you're not bornin this country. he may not have been bornin this country. but there's somethingon that birth certificate, maybe religion,maybe it says he's a muslim, i don't know,maybe he doesn't want that, or he may not have one.
but i will tell you this: if he wasn't bornin this country, it's one of the great scamsof all time. >> absolutely. >> narrator: but that night,in front of washington's journalists, politicians,and powerbrokers, obama would hit back. >> president obama takesthe microphone. >> all right, everybody,please have a seat.
donald trump is here tonight! >> and proceeds to filetdonald publicly. >> no one is happier,no one is prouder to put this birth certificatematter to rest than the donald. and that's becausehe can finally get back to focusing on the issuesthat matter, like did we fakethe moon landing? >> i was sitting 20 feetfrom him, and just the look of discomforton his face.
>> what really happenedin roswell? and where are biggie and tupac? >> donald's face was soincredibly serious. it was so incredibly just... he just put on a poker face. >> i was two tables awayfrom trump. the conventional wayin washington of absorbing a joke at the whitehouse correspondents' dinner is to keep your chin up
and at least pretend to havea sense of humor about it, even if you go cryinto your pillow that night. trump was steaming. his face was all locked in,he was not having a good time. >> all kidding aside, obviously, we all knowabout your credentials and breadth of experience. (laughter) for example...
no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of celebrity apprentice, at the steakhouse, the men's cooking teamdid not impress the judges from omaha steaks. and there was a lot of blameto go around. but you, mr. trump, recognizedthat the real problem was a lack of leadership. and so ultimately, you didn'tblame lil' jon or meatloaf. you fired gary busey.
and these are the kindof decisions that would keep me upat night. >> and he's being treatedlike a piã±ata by the presidentof the united states. and i think he felt humiliated. (applause) >> well handled, sir. well handled. >> but it just kept goingand going,
and he just kept hammering him. and i thought, "oh, barack obamais starting something that i don't know if he'llbe able to finish." >> say what you willabout mr. trump, he certainly would bringsome change to the white house. let's see what we've gotup there. >> donald dreads humiliationand he dreads shame. and this is whyhe often attempts to humiliate and shameother people.
so in the case of the presidentridiculing him, i think this was intolerablefor donald trump. >> i think that is the night that he resolves to runfor president. i think that he is kind ofmotivated by it. "maybe i'll just run. maybe i'll show them all." >> every critic, every detractor will have to bow downto president trump.
it's everyone who's ever doubteddonald, who ever disagreed, who ever challenged him. it is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful manin the universe. >> god bless you, and may god blessthe united states of america. >> donald trump's fantasyis to be the guy who takes the keyto the oval office from barack obama's handin 2017.
and it's personal. this is a burning,personal need that he has to redeem himselffrom being humiliated by the first black president. >> narrator: hillary clintonhad spent decades laying the groundworkfor her candidacy. >> and so, my friends, it iswith humility, determination, and boundless confidencein america's promise that i accept your nomination
for presidentof the united states. >> narrator: her entrance intopolitics had been difficult, marked by questionsof just who she was. >> what kind of planshave you made to be first lady of arkansas? >> well, we've spenta lot of time talking about the kinds of workthat we want to do. >> narrator: in little rock, the new first lady,hillary rodham, was a curiosity.
>> we haven't madeany final plans. >> hillary,when she first got there, everybody makes such a big dealout of her hippie flowered pants and her big, you know, strange glasses,and her crazy hair. >> could it be that you have political aspirationsof your own? >> no, i just think it's... i don't have anyexcept for my husband,
who i think is a terrificpolitician and a wonderful man. >> arkansas has a new governor. >> they looked likethey were having a ball. i mean, it was reallya heady experience. these were young people. they were the governorand first lady. >> the youngest governorin the united states now, young governor clintonof the state of arkansas. >> narrator: but hillary'sapproach to her new role
was seen as unconventional. she kept her maiden name and had her own careeras a corporate lawyer. >> she didn't want women to beaccessories to their husband, and that is usually whata political wife is, is an accessory to her husband,and it didn't fit well. >> the thought occurs to me thatyou really don't fit the image that we have created forthe governor's wife in arkansas. you're not a native.
you've been educated in liberal,eastern universities. you're less than 40. you don't have any children. you don't useyour husband's name. you practice law. does it concern youthat maybe other people feel that you don't fit the imagethat we have created for the governor's wifein arkansas? >> no, because each personshould be assessed and judged
on, you know,that person's own merits. >> the southerners just reallyrejected this, you know, uppity woman from, you know,the east coast, and she doesn't dress right,she doesn't talk right. her hair isn't right, you know,she's just no credit. she's nota southern governor's wife. >> we now have a clarification,state of arkansas... >> narrator: the governor's termwas only two years, and before he knew it,bill clinton was out.
>> projected the winner over theincumbent democrat bill clinton. >> this political defeat hasbeen a bitter pill to swallow for bill clinton. >> i regret that i will not havetwo more years to serve as governorbecause i have loved it. >> and here, bill clinton,defeated, and to be rendereda beaten pair at that age was pretty devastating. >> thank you very much,and god bless you all.
>> narrator: hillary,with their new daughter chelsea, took it hard. >> she understood that she waspart of the reason for him losing the governor's race, because she wouldn'ttake his name and just becauseof the way she was. >> narrator: hillary decidedto fight. she took charge of her husband'spolitical comeback. >> hillary got very involvedin the campaign.
for all intents and purposes,she was the campaign manager. >> narrator: one of herfirst moves-- rebrand herself and become"mrs. clinton." >> it was symbolic. i'm sure she hadto swallow hard, but it was just not worthtrying to keep her last name at the expense of everythingthey wanted to achieve together. >> in order to avoid any problemand just to put it to rest, i will forever be known ashillary rodham clinton.
>> she completely forfeitedher own identity, at least physically. got rid of the glasses,got her hair dyed, started dressingat least modestly better, wore some makeup, cultivateda little bit of a drawl. >> the road to being somebodyin this society starts with education... >> narrator: the transformationwas a surprise to some of those who hadknown her the longest.
>> when she had to beginto change her appearance, dye her hair,lose a lot of weight, get rid of her glasses,not speak up, not be as much who she was,that hurt all of us. we all felt bad about that. it was hard. it was hard on us,it was hard on her. >> narrator:she formed an alliance with a controversial politicalconsultant from new york--
dick morris. >> she has a wonderful instinctfor the jugular. she felt that he lost itbecause he wasn't tough enough, wasn't strong enough. and she reached out to me because she felt that i would bestronger and tougher. >> i think it only intensified and began a lotof the characteristics that you saw from then on--that the ends justify the means,
that we'll dowhat we have to do to win, turn to the dark artsof politics to survive. >> narrator: hillary helpedengineer a comeback that returned her husbandto the governorship and put her in the nationalspotlight for the next 34 years. >> this is new york,a miracle city, a city of tall buildings,narrow, dark streets, magnificent parks,broad avenues, homes and schools,stores and theaters,
and palatial hotels. >> narrator:back in the 1940s... >> the borough of queens,occupying part of long island... >> narrator: just acrossthe east river from manhattan... >> a municipally-operatedelectrical railway system spreads through fourof the five boroughs... >> narrator: ...donald trumpgrew up in a posh suburb called jamaica estates. >> it's perhaps typicalof new york's residential areas.
>> the trump family hada huge house in queens that they used to refer toas "tara." it had nine bedrooms,it had columns, it was quite beautiful,but it was in queens. >> narrator: the trump familywould spend 50 years building memories here. fred trump,a real estate developer, designed the house himselfand raised donald and his brothers and sistersin luxury.
>> it's not like he knewanything but comfort. when it rained and he hadto deliver his papers, the chauffeur wouldtake him around. >> narrator:but donald's father was tough and insisted everyone learnthe family business. >> he was a guy who workedseven days a week. it's sunday--why wouldn't you be working? and would, even on the weekends,pile the kids in the car and go to a building site,
pick up old nailsthat weren't used. why would you waste a nail? >> fred trump was a machine. i mean, he was a human machine. he was driven beyond whatever the descriptionof driven could ever mean. and when you look at the pictureof fred and you look at donald, you see the great resemblancebetween the two. and when you thinkabout fred's energy,
you see how it is channeledthrough donald. >> narrator: fred was seen aspassionate about the business, but not warm with his children. >> cold-- he was nota warm person. i see his fatherat the beach, even, with a suit and a tieand a hat, a clipped very kind of militarymustache, and simply being... correct. >> narrator: fred had theories.
he shared them with his kids. donald especially likedone of them. >> this is a very deep partof the trump story. the family subscribes to a racehorse theoryof human development. they believe that there aresuperior people, and that if you put togetherthe genes of a superior woman and a superior man,you get a superior offspring. >> narrator: fred's othertheory: life was a competition.
there were winnersand there were losers. he called the winners "killers." >> the way the game got playedin his household was: if you did not win, you lost. and losing was you got crushed. losing was you didn't matter. losing was you were nothing. >> narrator: donald tookthe lessons to heart-- always tried to be the winner.
but he was also a handful. >> his brother, robert,who's very discreet, told me that donald was alwaysthe kid in the family who would start throwingbirthday cake at all the parties, that you would build upa tower of blocks, he would comeknock your blocks down. >> this is the person he's been,i think, since he was five years old.
donald told me that he isessentially the person he was in first grade and thathe hasn't really changed. >> his self-definition was builtaround the idea that he was one tough son of a bitch. that meant in classrooms,that meant with teachers, that meant with his father. >> narrator:by the seventh grade, even fred had had itwith donald's mischief. he sent him up the hudson riverjust a few miles from west point
to the toughest boarding schoolhe could find-- the new york military academy. (drumline performing) >> you have to thinkof this 13-year-old kid who's lived a verycomfortable life, but then all of a sudden,he's the one child of five to be banishedto this austere life. goodbye, luxury. goodbye, mom and dad,brothers and sisters.
hello, drill sergeant. >> narrator: the new yorkmilitary academy was no-nonsense,heavy on the discipline; over the years,home to the children of gangster john gotti and cubandictator fulgencio batista. >> it was an austere,very scary place. i was homesick,i was crying hysterically. in fact, i was crying so muchthe first couple of nights, they put me in the infirmary.
>> we were in a culture ofhazing at the military school. everyone... i mean,that's just the way it was. >> you got hit, you may havegotten slammed against the wall, you got put artificiallyinto fights. >> narrator:but the rough and tumble didn't seem to bother donald. he thrived. >> he liked it. apparently he really liked it.
he liked the accountability. he liked the kind of clarityof it. and he liked that there wasa medal and a prize for everything. >> narrator:he was a star athlete. he claimed he could have playedpro baseball. but his classmates agreehe was proudest of winning the ultimate accoladein an all-boys school. he was named "ladies' man"in the school yearbook.
hugh hefner,the publisher of playboy, was a role modelfor many of the boys. >> yeah, you know,he had a very hugh hefner, playboy magazine viewof success. >> narrator: the young cadets learned a lotfrom playboy magazine and what they called"barracks talk." >> in fact, our biggest advicein our lives came from playboy magazine.
that's how we learnedabout women. so that was all of myadolescence. and that's why getting out ofmilitary school was difficult. you had to realize thatyou couldn't just follow the playboy philosophy. >> narrator: they would graduateand grow up. but donald's classmates sayin some ways, he hasn't changed at all. >> the things that we talkedabout at that time in 1964
really are very closeto the kind of way he talks now. i hear these echoesof the barracks life that we had and that we grew out of. >> narrator: back when donaldtrump was growing up in queens, hillary rodham was livinga short train commute from downtown chicago. >> hugh and dorothy rodham movedfrom chicago, the tough city, into the all-white, new suburbof 1950s america. >> and i remember menwalking home from work
from the train stationwith their cigarettes dangling and their chicago americanevening newspaper under their arm. >> narrator:they called park ridge "an idyllic american suburb." hillary has said her life was straight out of the 1950ssitcom father knows best. >> the story of a man,his home and his family. starring robert young.
>> narrator: but the truthwas much more complicated. inside the rodham family,hillary's father hugh was a staunchly conservativeand demanding presence. >> hugh and hillaryalways had a relationship that had its difficulties. hillary goes to school and makesstraight a's and he says, "that must be a really easyschool if you got straight a's." i mean, gets no credit for hereffort, no credit for her work. >> narrator:with hillary's mom dorothy,
the treatment was worse. >> her father was abusiveverbally and dismissive. when her mother and fatherwould have these tense, demeaning discussions,hillary would run to her room and put her handsover her ears and say, "i can't stand listeningto this." >> there was a lot of fightingin the rodham household. and i don't think she invitedmany friends home. that's when her whole penchantfor secrecy and privacy began.
>> narrator: dorothy hadhad to overcome a difficult childhoodof her own. >> i think the resilienceof dorothy rodham, this little girl bornto 16-year-old parents who did not want herand did not love her-- they never showed herany affection, never hugged her,never kissed her-- and i think it would havedefeated most people. >> narrator: dorothy wasdetermined to give hillary
a better life. >> i think that dorothywas frustrated, like many, many womenof that era. she had far more abilities,talents, and intelligence than the world or herrelationship with her husband allowed her to show,and i think that she poured a lot of that ambitioninto her daughter. >> narrator: outside the home, in room 224 at eugene fieldelementary school,
they saw that ambition early on. betsy ebeling becameher best friend. >> i was the new girl in class, and somebody elsein the classroom said to me, "you know, you're very lucky. you're sitting acrossfrom hillary rodham." and i said, "yeah, she seemsvery nice." and she said, "no, she's captainof the crossing guards." so see, i knew then that she wasdestined for great things.
captain of the crossing guards. >> narrator: but in the 1950s,her classmates believed a girl who was a starcould only rise so high. >> i remember our class prophecyin the sixth grade that hillary would be marriedto a u.s. senator. nobody could wrap their mindaround a woman having that kind of achievement,you know? >> narrator: but the worldof hillary and her friends was changing.
at the methodist church,a new minister arrived. >> a youth ministernamed don jones, then about 26 years old, arrives in a red chevy impalaconvertible and becomes reallythe most influential, certainly male figure, almost as a counterweightto hillary's father. >> don jones was good looking. he was young.
it was just contraryto everything that we'd ever had in church--any church, right? >> narrator: in the conservativerepublican community of park ridge,jones was controversial, introducing hillaryand her youth group to progressive ideas. one sunday, he did just that when he took theminto downtown chicago. >> and he took hillaryand some of her friends
to hear martin luther kingspeak. >> it was at the chicagosunday evening club, you know, which was, and still is,at symphony hall in chicago. so you were dressed up,you wore white gloves, and oh yeah, you went down,it was a big event. >> indeed, a revolution istaking place in our world today. it is sweeping awayan old order. >> here is this black manfrom the south who's talking about segregation,
and she didn't even knowwhat segregation was. >> they came to realize thatslavery and segregation were strange paradoxesin a nation founded on the principle thatall men are created equal. >> narrator: betsy saysshe and hillary would never forget the moment. >> there was something very deepinside martin luther king that is not just moving,but life-altering. and the words that came outwere so profoundly affecting
that you left feelingmore fulfilled in many ways, and more empty in many ways,than you had before. >> the old orderis passing away, a new order is cominginto being. god grant that we will usethe moment. >> narrator: as a young man,donald trump grew up hearing the gospel of success at the marble collegiate churchin manhattan. >> the marble collegiate church,
with norman vincent pealeas the minister, he preached the gospelof success. success was not only okay; it was a really good ideaand you should actually do it. >> the god who made this worldwas a wise god. >> narrator:norman vincent peale had sold millions of copies of his book the power of positive thinking. >> he wants people who live lifeand like it, love it.
>> narrator: the church wasa place to be seen for leaders of business, socialites,politicians. >> donald's father made sureto expose him to norman vincent peale. it was consistentwith his father's ambition. >> how then can you facethe future with confidence? >> it elevates capitalism,honors wealth, wholly consistent with whodonald trump wanted to be and who he became.
>> by being 100% alive! >> donald trumplearned this notion that through the powerof positive thinking, you could focus your lifeon your business, and your achievementsin the business world would be the measureof your success. >> you are endowed withthe tremendous powers of god, and you may have troublewith it, but you can handle it! >> narrator: following peale'smethod, donald graduated
from wharton schoolof finance and commerce and joined the familyreal estate business as an apprentice to his father. it was a jobdonald's older brother-- they called him freddy--had once held and then lost. >> fred junior workedfor his dad, but he showed little aptitude and really not that muchinterest in the business. he, by all accounts, tried,but it wasn't him.
he wasn't hyper-aggressive,he wasn't hyper-competitive. >> narrator: unlike his father, freddy was friendlyand outgoing. but his dad thoughthe didn't measure up. >> maryanne, who was working forher father during the summers, told me that his fathernever praised freddy. he was always thought... he treated him like somebodywho was a loser. his father told the boysto be killers,
but freddy was never a killer. >> narrator: freddy had alwaysloved flying. he struck out on his ownto pursue his dream. he became an airline pilot. >> what donald told me at thetime was that he and his father had perhaps beenway too hard on him. they used to say to him,because he was an airline pilot, "what's the differencebetween what you do, freddy, and driving a bus?"
>> narrator: freddy startedto drink heavily. >> fred junior,his death at a young age-- he was in his 40s--was formative for donald. and i think it was shockingfor their family. he was a guy who struggledwith alcoholism for a long time. >> narrator: for donald, freddy's story was a lessonhe would never forget. he said, "freddy just wasn'ta killer." >> i think he saw his brother asbeing intimidated by his father.
so he set himself out to bethe very opposite of that with his fatherand with everybody else that he dealt withfor the rest of his life. (bells ringing) >> narrator: by the mid-1960s, hillary rodham was a studentat wellesley college. (choir singing) >> she is now living a life thatis not dictated by her parents but is affected by what'sgoing on in america at the time.
>> good evening. dr. martin luther king, the apostle of non-violencein the civil rights movement, has been shot to deathin memphis, tennessee. dr. king was standingon the balcony... >> that was a huge eventfor her. and she came into her dorm room, she threw her handbagagainst the wall, she said, "i can't stand it anymore!
they've killed him,they've killed him!" "who?""martin." >> my thanks to all of you,and now it's on to chicago... >> narrator: two months later, senator robert kennedy wasassassinated in los angeles. then, tensionsover the vietnam war erupted at the democratic conventionin downtown chicago. >> (chanting): stop the war! >> here's this conventiongoing on, right,
and hillary said,"we have to go see it." and she and i told our mothers that we were goingto the movies, and we drove my familystation wagon downtown, parked. i have no idea where we parked. i had never driven downtown. >> narrator:thousands of chicago police confronted anti-war protestors. (people shouting)
as betsy and hillarywaded into the crowd, they saw an oldhigh school friend. >> she was there volunteering,patching up heads, and said, "you've got to be aware of thisand everything that's going on." it was chaotic, it was mayhem,but it was also almost beautiful in its portrayal of, like,opened up this road and said, "this is where you're going,and this is why." >> they've just turned michiganand balbo into a warzone. >> she knew she was goingto go back to wellesley,
and she would find peopleof like thinking of, "this war has to end." >> the police are now pushingand shoving. now they're clubbingthis young man. >> she had becomemuch more political, as frankly had most of us. you couldn't really go throughthose years... >> one of the darkest hours... >> ...and all the tumultin america
and not be affected by it. >> narrator: one year later,her classmates selected hillary the first student at wellesleyto give a commencement address. the republican senatorfrom massachusetts, edward brooke, spoke first. >> at the commencement,he gives a speech that is really kind ofcondescending. >> senator brookebasically told us that the people who are protesting
are kind of likeelite ne'er-do-wells. so i can remember sittingin my seat just fuming! i mean, this is my collegegraduation and i am just fuming. and you know, we're just... allof us were just ready to pop. >> hillary was scribbling notesall through his speech. >> and all of a sudden,i looked up and hillary rodhamis rising from her seat and walking to the podium. >> and it is a great pleasureto present to this audience
miss hillary rodham. >> i find myselfin a familiar position: that of reacting,something that our generation has been doingfor quite a while now. >> and she beganwith a complete, utterly articulate rebuttal of everything senator brookehad said. she was going to saywhat we all wanted to say. >> for too long,
our leaders have viewed politicsas the art of the possible. and the challenge nowis to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossiblepossible. >> narrator: the speechturned hillary rodham into a national celebrity. she was called"a voice of her generation." >> life magazine picks it upand profiles her. and she likes the attention.
>> that was probablythe first time that hillary felt what it would be like to bea political leader. and she thought then,"well, maybe i can someday be a larger figureon this political stage." >> narrator: for hillary,that meant law school. she applied and was accepted by one the nation'stop law schools, yale. >> a lot of veryambitious people who wanted to change the courseof american history
were at yale law schoolin that period. >> narrator: among themher friend robert reich, clarence thomas,and bill clinton. they were allin professor thomas emerson's civil liberties class. >> i remember that every time professor emerson askeda question, hillary was the first handin the air, and when he called on her,
she always got the answerexactly right. i was about the secondor third hand in the air, and i half the timegot the answer right. bill clinton missed mostof the classes, as i remember. i think he was off doingpolitical work. and clarence thomasnever said a word. well, i would say it wassort of a kind of metaphor for where we were all heading and how we all prioritizedour lives.
>> narrator: for the groupat the law school, it seemed inevitable thatone day, bill clinton and hillary rodhamwould get together. >> when they meet, hillary'sthe one who's the celebrity. hillary is the one who's beenin life magazine. bill is dazzled. >> hillary from the beginning fell into the spellof bill clinton's charisma, and clinton saw in hillary
a woman who was his equalor better in terms of intelligenceand ambition. and i think very early onin their relationship, they saw that theycould get someplace together that they might not get toapart. >> narrator: but aftergraduating, a separation. bill headed back hometo arkansas. hillary took a jobin washington. >> ♪ ...i'm a woman's man,no time to talk ♪
♪ music loud and women warm... ♪ >> narrator: in the early '70s, donald trump headedout of queens into manhattan. >> from the very first timei met trump, i thought of saturday night fever and travolta. >> ♪ whether you're a brotheror whether you're a mother ♪ ♪ you're stayin' alive ♪ >> he was the kid who grew upas an outsider to where the real action was.
and he was acutely aware of it. he always had his eye on whathe thought was a glamorous, hollywood-ish life, and that wasthe life of manhattan. >> i think if you had to picksort of three stereotypes that are probably constantlytap-dancing in donald's mind and in his imaginationof himself, it's clint eastwood, james bond,and hugh hefner. >> he's really spreadinghis wings when he comes to manhattan.
well, i think he's havingthe time of his life. he's a bachelor--he's an eligible bachelor. >> narrator: donald frequentedthe city's hottest places. he met nikki haskell, the hostof an underground cable show about the party scene. >> when i saw donald,nobody knew who he was. he was just a young,very aggressive, smart boy. a hotshot, so to speak,someone that had big dreams, and that's what this townis built on.
>> what's going on? >> narrator: during the day, he worked hard to do somethinghis father never did-- break into manhattanreal estate. >> he's a kid who wantsto figure out how to make deals, to figure out how to establisha presence for himself in manhattan. and he's right to believe thatthat's not easy to do. >> narrator: he needed a mentor.
he found one in roy cohn,the notorious new york lawyer. >> well, he was savage. cohn had an incrediblereputation for being a tough, tough guy. >> the scene is washington and the senate investigatingsubcommittee. mr. cohn, his friend and aide,was present with senator mccarthyto answer accusations. >> narrator:cohn had become famous
during the mccarthy hearings,a witch hunt that accused americansof communist sympathies. >> he delighted in the factthat he had ruined so many lives in the mccarthy era. >> there is detailed testimonyof that in the record, mr. chairman,of levitsky's association, close personal associationwith julius rosenberg over a period of years. >> roy cohn humiliated people.
he made up things. he had no morals. you couldn't even say thathe had the morals of a snake. he had no moral center. >> everyone knowsthe most famous legal eagle, my pal and yours, roy cohn. >> good evening, nikki. how are you? >> roy was like a street guy.
you know, he was like, "punch. you punch me, i'll punch you." and i think he made donaldvery confrontational. and i think you had that sort of "tough guy, don't take any kindof bull(bleep) from anybody" kind of an attitude. and i think a lot of that, youknow, he instilled in donald. >> and in his drawer,he had a picture of roy, and it was a grainyblack-and-white picture,
and roy looked like the devil. and he would pull it out and hewould say, "this is my lawyer. "if we can't make an agreement, this is who you're going to bedealing with." >> narrator: in 1973,trump hired cohn to defend him and his father. they had been suedby the federal government for discriminatingagainst black renters looking for apartmentsin their buildings.
>> the lawsuit revealedthat trump agents allegedly were writing down "c"for colored or "number 9" to indicatea black prospective tenant, and those people were oftenturned away. >> and trump asked himfor advice: "what do i do? do i settle?" and roy cohn said,"never settle." roy cohn said,"you need to fight back harder than they ever hit you."
>> narrator: at a pressconference and in court filings, trump and cohn claimedthey were the victims. >> he comes right backwith a $100 million lawsuit, which was filed by roy cohn. and that was roy cohn'ssignature kind of thing. >> roy cohn taught donaldhow to come out punching, how to use lawsuitslike machine gun bullets, and take a no-prisonersapproach to city hall, to your business opponents,
to anyone else who might getin your way. and i think donald reveledin that. >> narrator:but with damning evidence of racial discrimination, the company was forcedto settle. nevertheless, donalddidn't admit any wrongdoing and even declared the outcomea victory. >> this is a classic exampleof where trump begins to demonstrate something hetalks about all the time today,
which is he's a counter-puncher. so somebody comes after himand says that he's done something nefariousand horrible, and he just goes back at themwith all guns blazing. you know, "boom, boom, boom!" and admits nothing. never admit anything. never say you made a mistake. just keep coming.
and if you lose,declare victory. and that's exactlywhat happened there. he lost as clearlyas you can lose, but he loudly proclaimedhis victory. >> narrator:fresh from yale law school, hillary rodham arrivedin washington... >> the committee will cometo order. >> narrator: ...a city grippedby political scandal. she was at the center of it,
an attorney on the watergatecommittee. >> what did the president know,and when did he know it? >> narrator: as the committeedug into allegations of presidential crimes, hillary and the other staffwere sworn to secrecy. >> hillary was workingon a committee where i thinkshe probably learned a lot about secrecyand how you really needed to preserve itin political life
more than anywhere else. >> it's clear thatwe're entering a very serious phaseof these hearings. >> narrator: hillary workedin a secure location and was taught how to operatein complete secrecy. >> we'd get together and hillary never said a wordabout anything. she said they were workingreally hard and they had lots of thingsto do.
it was remarkable-- they wereremarkably close-mouthed. president nixon reportedly willannounce his resignation... >> narrator: that summer, president richard nixonresigned. >> the president nowat the door. a final wave. >> narrator: as the committeeshut down, hillary had a number of high-powered opportunitiesin washington. but she had a secret of her own.
>> lo and behold, she failsthe d.c. bar exam and is devastated by it, hanging her head a bitat this terrible failure that she won't speak aboutand doesn't reveal. and she kept it a secretfor 30 years. >> narrator: hillary would writeabout her failure in her book living history. >> "when i learned thati had passed in arkansas but failed in d.c.,i thought that maybe
my test scoreswere telling me something." >> narrator: she saidshe believed it was a sign that she should move to arkansasto be with bill. she told her landlord and friendsara ehrman about her decision. >> she said,"i'm going to arkansas to be with my boyfriend." my reaction was very skeptical because she had a tremendousfuture ahead of her. she was a star.
i thought, "she's going downthere to arkansas? nobody goes to arkansas." i said, "you're not gonna godown there. "they don't have french bread,they don't have brie. what are you going to dodown there?" >> she could have done anythingwith her life. she could have been a powerhousein and of her own self in washington, d.c. and yet, she makesthis very interesting
and life-changing decision. she is going to be part of billclinton's political career. >> i said, "i'll drive you. get in the carand i'll drive you." we got to fayetteville, and it was the arkansas-texasfootball day. and the whole city was fullof arkansans wearing pig hats. apparently, the pig isthe mascot. and they were saying,"sooie, sooie, pig, pig, pig!"
and i began to cry. very sad. >> (man singing hymn) >> narrator: her friendsfrom yale law school couldn't believe this was wherehillary was going to end up. >> we go to this dinnerat a church hall, we're sitting there talkingand jabbering, and then bill gets upto leave the table, and he says, "well, we're goingto go talk politics."
so i get up and hillary says,"sit down." i said, "what?" she said, "the men goto talk politics." and i looked around and everyoneleft at the table were women, and i'm thinking, "oh. oh, this is really bad." i said, "hillary, this is not...this is not good." >> narrator: but hillary decidedto make arkansas home. and in 1975, she married bill.
>> i think she was head overheels for clinton, i really do. and i think she was alsocarrying in her heart an ambition that she and billand a lot of members of their generationcould transform america. it was...i think it was that large. >> narrator: in the mid-1970s, donald trump lived the lifeof a playboy and made the roundswith one particular model: ivana zelnãckovã¡.
>> it's about wantingto come into a room and command allof the attention. what better way to do thatthan to have a six-foot-tall, blonde supermodel on your arm? >> narrator: roy cohndrew up the pre-nup, norman vincent peale officiated, and donald and ivanawere married. trump also had his eyeon real estate. he had looked all over manhattanfor the perfect location.
>> and donaldcame upon this site, which had the bonwit tellerbuilding on it. it was kind of a landmarkbuilding. it was next door to tiffany's. he loved it. >> narrator: it was to be calledtrump tower-- 58 stories of high-end retailand high-priced condominiums. a chance for donald to finallysurpass his father. to oversee the project,
trump surprisedthe construction world-- he put a woman in charge. >> he said that i would behis representative and act sort of likea donna trump, he said, calling me a "killer." i would be in chargeof everything that would normally come to him. >> narrator: the men's worldof unions and subcontractors in new yorkhad never seen it before.
>> donald told me that he thought that men were betterthan women, especially in this field, but he said a good womanis better than ten good men. i think he believed that women had to prove themselves morethan men, so a good womanwould work harder. >> narrator: res keptthe contractors in line, and executive vice presidentlouise sunshine
handled the sales. >> he hired the right peopleto help him, myself being one of them. and we got the job done. >> look at my next guest. this is a reporteron wall street. this is what he has in mind... >> narrator: and trumppersonally took care of the marketing.
>> donald trump, as i say,is just 33 years old. he now has an apartment for salein a new trump building called the trump tower,one floor of it, $11 million all together. you're worth all this money. you say you didn't say that you want to be wortha billion dollars. >> no, i really am not looking to make tremendous amountsof money.
i'm looking to enjoy my life, and if that happens to gowith it, that's fabulous. >> narrator: and to help sellthe apartments, trump had a novel idea--he inflated the floor numbers. his 58-story building becamea 68-story building. >> how he got away with that,i'm not sure, but he did, and it made a lot of sensein his mind because if you're rentinga room, you'd rather be on the 14thfloor than on the sixth floor.
in his mind,having an apartment, the higher the apartment was,the better it would look. >> narrator:in his autobiography, written with authortony schwartz, trump would call it"truthful hyperbole." >> "people want to believe thatsomething is the biggest "and the greatestand the most spectacular. i call it truthful hyperbole." >> i came up with the phrase"truthful hyperbole,"
and of courseit's a ridiculous term because there is no such thingas truthful hyperbole, but it's kind ofa winning phrase. it really does capture a wayin which he sees the world. the truth doesn't mean muchto donald trump. >> in the time that i wasreporting on him, his lawyer said to me,"donald is a believer "that if you repeatsomething enough, people will startto believe it."
>> its opening party was oneto end them all. guests, thousands of them,mingled... >> narrator:and at its grand opening, the marketing, the publicity,paid off. >> ♪ whoo-hoo! ♪ ♪ this is your celebration. ♪ >> it's donald trump constructed out of marbleand brass. that's what trump tower is.
it's him. you know, it's bold, it's big,it's polished, and it's highly marketed. >> trump tower made him. it was a moment where glitztook over new york, and donald embodied that glitz. >> and that was oneof the first times he really got a tasteof real celebrity, and donald trump is a manwho thrives in the spotlight.
outside of the spotlight,i think he feels diminished. >> narrator: he had succeeded. trump tower was a reality. he had proof he was a winner,but not in everyone's eyes. >> there is an old money elitein manhattan that has never accepted donald. he was considered, i think,loud and obnoxious and too self-centeredand ill-mannered and not someone who fit in.
and so i think this is wheredonald's resentment of the elite comes from. >> narrator: as donald and ivanamoved into a penthouse on the top three floorsof trump tower, something was missing. >> he doesn't have a lotof friends, but how can somebodyin his position have friends? how do you trust anyone that,you know, isn't working for you? what do they want out of you?
it's very difficult,it's very lonely at the top, and he is the epitomeof loneliness at the top. >> as much as i careabout my work, my relationship with my wifehillary means even more to me. >> sometimes people ask me whatit's like being married to bill. he works so hardand keeps such long hours and becomes involvedin so many other people's lives and problems. i always tell them it's great.
we really cherish the timewe do have together and appreciate the facteach of us works hard. >> narrator: in arkansas,as bill clinton rose from attorney generalto governor, hillary rodham becamehis most powerful aide. she changed her appearanceand eventually her name. i will forever be known ashillary rodham clinton... >> narrator: she became skilledat policy and politics, a fighter willing to playhardball to win.
>> not only is she with himevery step of the way, but he's relying on hermore than ever. she was his main policy mavenduring that period as well as political advisor. >> it's a momentwe've been waiting for. we all know it. you can feel it. destiny is about to shake handswith history. >> narrator: and after a decadeas governor,
they believed they werefinally ready. they would make a runfor the white house. >> and that is why today,i proudly announce my candidacy for president of the unitedstates of america. >> ♪ don't stop thinkingabout tomorrow... ♪ >> and hillary was rightwith him, holding each other, waving to the crowds. and i remember looking at themand i said, "i just hope they knowwhat they're getting into."
>> i have no idea becausei've never done it before, i don't have any ideawhat's going to happen, but i'm ready for it. we'll see. >> narrator:hillary would find out whether she was readysoon enough. >> yes, i was bill clinton'slover for 12 years. >> narrator: bill's pastwas about to catch up with him and hillary.
>> the truth is i loved him. now he tells me to deny it. >> the problems of billand other women are centralto the arkansas years and the marriageof bill and hillary clinton. >> well, i'm sickof all of the deceit and i'm sick of all of the lies. >> the rumors about other womenthat are more than rumors; they're based on fact.
>> he is absolutely lying. >> every marriage is a puzzle,even to the people in it, and to have,on top of everything else, to have that laid out there... and did i knowthat he had almost... did i know he had beenunfaithful in his marriage? yes. he's a great flirt. we'll leave it at that.
>> narrator: in arkansas,there was even a name for it-- "bimbo eruptions." >> hillary certainly knows,she absolutely knows then. she doesn't know everything. she never wanted to knoweverything. hillary is the only personin the world who can completely answerthat question accurately, but from all of my reportingon that subject, she certainly knew.
>> narrator: hillary had avoidedspeaking publicly about it. >> she would never do that. she will never open the doorto the possibility of opening a conversationabout his peccadilloes. and i think that that goesto the core of a lot of the clenched qualitythat she portrays in public. >> narrator: as they campaignedin new hampshire, the press pounced. >> what's your relationshipwith gennifer flowers?
>> there really isn't one,obviously. >> the allegations werebeginning to take hold. they were beginning to undermine the credibilityof this candidacy. >> flowers' allegationsof a prolonged extramarital... >> he's trying to regainhis lead in the polls... >> narrator: in new hampshire,bill's candidacy seemed doomed. if they wanted to win,hillary would have to be willing to talk about billand other women on national tv.
>> clinton sat down with meto try to put the issue to rest. >> narrator: the interview wouldair just after the super bowl, with 40 million americanswatching. >> and i was there backstage,i was thinking to myself, "i can't believe the two of them going out under thesecircumstances." i mean, they must have nervesof steel to be able to do this. >> earlier today, governorclinton and his wife hillary sat down with me to try to putthe issue to rest.
>> and i remember i didn't wantto watch it with friends. i wanted to sort of face it. um... it was excruciating. >> who is gennifer flowers? how would you describeyour relationship? >> very limited, but until this,you know, friendly, but limited. >> she's alleginga 12-year affair with you. >> that allegation is false. >> narrator: everything she hadfought for was in peril.
now hillary would speak. >> you know,i'm not sitting here, some little woman standingby my man like tammy wynette. i'm sitting here becausei love him and i respect him and i honorwhat he's been through and what we've been throughtogether. and you know,if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him. >> again and again, she waswilling and able emotionally
to step into the breachand protect her husband. >> she's looking at the endsjustify the means, there's this huge politicalfight going on in the nation, they're on the right sideof that fight. and sort of taking it outof the personal and putting itinto this larger construct is really her armorfrom then on. >> maybe clinton has keptthe dogs off long enough that he'll go onto super tuesday.
>> has bill clinton won second? if so, is it a strong second? >> in new hampshire today, after months of campaigningin some cases, candidates... >> narrator: the 60 minutes appearance worked. they got the comebackthey were looking for. >> i think we know enough to saywith some certainty that new hampshire tonighthas made bill clinton the "comeback kid."
>> narrator: the truth wouldonly come out years later in this deposition. >> and i had to admitunder this definition that i'd actually had sexualrelations with gennifer flowers. now, i would rather have takena whipping than done that after all the trouble i'd beenthrough with gennifer flowers. ♪ ♪ >> it's another dazzling lifestyles of the rich and famous,
your password to the last word in money-no-object adventureand excitement! >> narrator: he had hit it bigwith trump tower. he was a celebrityin new york city. at 40, he claimedhe was a billionaire. >> welcome to the worldaccording to trump, the billionaire builderwith a big bang approach who dared to autographthe manhattan skyline. >> narrator: he was nowdetermined to make "trump"
a household nameall over america. he began with a legendarybuying spree. >> banks were lining upto give him money, and they would beat each otheron terms to provide money to him. he was spending moneylike a drunken sailor. he buys a giant yacht thathe doesn't really enjoy at all. >> narrator: there wasan airline. >> he bought the trump shuttlefrom bankrupt eastern airlines,
had no idea how to runan airline. >> narrator: then he builta gambling empire in atlantic city--two casinos and a hotel. (cheering) then, the iconic plaza hotelin new york city. >> it did seem out of controland possibly even pathological. casino after casino after casinoafter casino. hotels, yacht. everywhere he turned, anotherbig piece of real estate here,
another big pieceof real estate there. >> narrator: by the late 1980s, donald trump's ambition pushedhim into uncharted territory-- presidential politics. >> the signs of powerand opulence in place, donald trump'spersonal helicopter descended onto this smallairfield, greeted by a one-man"trump for president" bandwagon. >> i arranged for theportsmouth, new hampshire,
chamber of commerce to invitehim for a luncheon speech. and a local portsmouth city councilmannamed mike dunbar forms the first known drafttrump for president committee. >> narrator: trump's politicaladvisor roger stone was a longtime associateof roy cohn. >> in truth, i don't thinkhe was ever serious about running in 1988. i think he liked the publicity,he liked the notoriety.
it was great media. >> what i want isi want extreme competence. i want strengthand extreme competence, and you need a combinationof both, but i want strengthand extreme competence at the helm of this country. >> narrator: in one speechafter another, trump's political messagewas simple and direct. >> i am personally tired
of seeing this great countryof ours being ripped off and really decimatedand hurt badly by so many foreign nationsthat are supposedly our allies. >> "nato's ripping us off. "why are we paying for this? "why don't the japanese payfor themselves? "why don't all our allies,they're rich now, "why don't they payfor themselves? "trade, we're getting takento the cleaners
in these trade deals." so he's already formulatinghis views as early as '88. >> thank you, bye. so long, so long. >> narrator:he loved the attention, and he even beganto insert himself into controversial issuesin new york city. >> it is the ages of theaccused, 14 to 17 years old, and the horror of their allegedcrimes that has caused a furor.
a woman joggingin new york's central park last wednesday night rapedand nearly beaten to death. >> what happened in central parkwas a violation to him, and he felt it keenly and he hada deep emotional reaction to it, and so he lashed out. >> he took out a full-page ad after the central parkjogger case and said, "the kids who did thisshould be executed. "this is terrible.
they're beasts, animals." >> you better believe thati hate the people that took this girland raped her brutally. you better believe it. and it's more than anger,it's hatred. and i want society to hate them. >> the unstated textof this was, because they werefive minority kids who brutalized a white womanin central park
and everybody's outragedabout it. and they're different from us,and so we need to treat them with the severest methodspossible. >> narrator: the five young menspent years in prison, but were later exoneratedwhen the actual rapist admitted his guilt. >> but donald trumpnever apologized. he didn't want to admithe was wrong, and to this dayhe has not apologized
for the statements he madeat the time. >> narrator: but for trump,his television rage had worked. his celebritywas bigger than ever, and the talk of president trumphad begun. >> i don't believethat trump himself felt that he was runningfor president, but once the notiongot stirred up in him, it never went away. >> governor, are you readyto take the oath?
>> i am. i, william jefferson clinton,do solemnly swear... >> narrator: it had beennearly 20 years since hillary rodham clintonlived in washington. now she was back. >> ...the office of presidentof the united states, so help me god. >> congratulations. >> i think the hopeswere very high.
it just seemed like, you know,the sky is the limit. >> narrator: the questionin washington: what role would she play? >> i do remember the president-elect noting a couple of times that if another democrathad been elected president, hillary clinton might bethe attorney general pick. >> when i first interviewed him,i said, "so what's your goal for the next eightor ten years?" he said, "eight years of bill,eight years of hill."
>> i want to saygood afternoon... >> narrator: on the fifth dayof his presidency, bill clinton endedthe speculation about his wife. >> today, i am announcingthe formation of the president's task forceon national health reform. >> narrator: a first ladyhad never had an office in the west wing. she had one, and now she hadan official position. >> this task force will bechaired by the first lady,
hillary rodham clinton. >> she was considereda political asset to accomplishthe president's agenda. and health care reform was highon that agenda. >> narrator: hillary clintonsurprised washington by operatingin near total secrecy. for months, her task forceworked behind closed doors. >> the health care plan is beingdeveloped secretly. they're walled off.
i mean, it's like thedevelopment of the atom bomb. i mean, it's almostin a fortress. >> narrator: she believedthe secrecy was necessary, but it provoked a backlash. >> she's shutting down dissent. she is operating in secret. she's throwing her weight around in a way that peoplein the united states congress are absolutely appalled byand also are empowered by
and use it against herand the clinton white house. >> this is the social securityact passed in august of 1935, 38 pages in length, establishing social securityfor all americans. this is the health security act. excuse me if i have a littletrouble picking it up. and that is 1,342 pages. 38 pages versus 1,342. >> few first ladiesover the years
have earned as much attention. >> narrator: her health careplan was under fire. >> ...complained about secrecy surrounding her health caretask force. >> narrator:but that wasn't all. >> the most powerfuland public first lady ever. >> narrator: the criticismwas becoming personal. >> mrs. clinton is a playerin this administration. >> when you cometo the white house,
you are literally under attackevery moment of the day. >> hillary rodham clinton has forever changed the roleof first lady. >> the fleas come with the dogwith this job, and i'm sure that they knewall of this, but it is a real eye openerwhen you see how brutal it actually can be. >> quite capableof playing hard. >> narrator: there were reportsof marital strife,
allegations that she'dorchestrated the firing of white housetravel office employees, and questions about theirfinances and real estate deals. >> she cannot be fired,she cannot be disciplined. >> this was all happeningat once. and they'd gotten the prize, and the prize was turningto dust. the prize was becominga complete nightmare. >> the hearings are likelyto embarrass some people
very close to the president. >> no ordinary american... >> narrator: increasingly,the first lady believed she was at war. >> the whitewater politicalbattle continues... >> hillary clinton began to feelvery much a victim of, you know, as she described it,the vast right-wing conspiracy. >> a lot of hearings so far, and they haven't done muchfor the credibility
of a white housealready under siege. >> and builds up a setof resentments that i think she's carriedto this day. >> ...president's personallawyer subpoenaed the records... >> narrator:as the attacks mounted, she decided thatwhat she needed to do was to get out of washington. >> they are on the road again, a clinton campaign stylecaravan of buses...
>> narrator: she would tryto sell the health care plan directly to the american public. >> if we do not guarantee healthinsurance to every american, then we have failedall americans. >> narrator: but if anything, the reaction outsideof washington was even worse. >> since last september, when the president proposedhis health plan, the clintons have campaignedendlessly for it.
(crowd booing) >> narrator: there was angerin the crowds. it was about more than healthcare; it was about her. >> i remember as thoughit were yesterday was as her car was leaving, there were such angry facespushing as best they could in sort of a mob attackon the windshield and screaming at her for,you know, "what is it she's trying to do?"
>> narrator: hillary clintonbegan to realize that just as in arkansas, there was somethingabout who she was that some people didn't like. >> and she talkedabout how she was shocked, and she got a little emotionalabout this, by the reaction to herwhen she went on the road trying to sellthe health care plan. they spit on her.
they cursed her. >> she said, "i don't knowwhat i'm going to do." she said,"everything is my fault. "nothing i do works. "and white men hate me. no," she said, "it's not methey hate. "it's what i represent. "it's the changes i represent. "i'm the wifewho went back to college
"and got a better education and got a better jobthan my husband." she recognized that problemback then, and of course it remainsa problem for her today. >> one of the most extraordinaryoff-year elections... >> the democrats are finding ittough going tonight... >> just when you thoughtit couldn't get any uglier, it does. >> narrator: the health careplan died.
>> the republican revolutionof election '94... >> narrator: and that year, the democrats lostthe midterm election. >> the man of the hourclearly is newt gingrich, the republican firebrand... >> narrator: some of the blamefell on the first lady. >> she was viewed i thinkslightly radioactively by some people in the west wingand on the president's staff. people in the west wing
were pointing a lot of fingersat her. >> hillary did feel a senseof disappointment, a sense of responsibility, a feeling that certainlyhad contributed to the political landscape. >> a monumental problemfor president clinton and his political agenda. >> narrator: in desperation,again, hillary reached out to the controversial politicaloperative dick morris in secret.
>> we both decidedto keep it secret, and i came upwith the code name "charlie," and i used that, and from november '94until april '95, nobody knew i was therebut bill and hillary. >> narrator: among democrats, morris, now a republicanstrategist, had an unsavory reputation. >> dick morris was ghastly.
he was absolutely horrible. he was the most arrogant,narcissistic person i had ever met in washington,i mean, and there are a lot of arrogantnarcissists in washington, believe me. but he was beyond the pale. >> narrator: still,if morris could help, the clintons welcomed it. >> the thing about the clintons
is you can basically predictwhat they're going to do. the same patternsrepeat themselves over and over and over againin their lives. they got beat, just likethey got beat for governor, and they did what it tookto recover from that, and that was"bring in dick morris and we'll figure our way back." >> narrator: to win reelection,morris persuaded the president to champion more conservativepositions.
the first lady's longtimefriends were alarmed. >> i was naturally upset. i mean, here we had a takeoverof the white house in the form of dick morris, and he was pushing the presidentto the right. it was distressing,to say the least. >> narrator: morris alsoidentified one other problem that needed fixing: hillary. >> i recommended that hillarywithdraw entirely
from west wing activitiesin public in the white house--that is, public policy. that she no longer be seenas the key strategist, as the de facto chief of staffbecause i said it was giving billa reputation for weakness where he might not be ableto win reelection. >> narrator: with her husband'sreelection at stake, she agreed to withdraw. she stayed awayfrom the west wing
and transformed herselfonce again. >> hi, how are you all? well, welcome to the white house and the beginningof the christmas season here. >> the christmas scenewas a variation of staying homeand baking cookies. she was standing by her man anddoing what it took to do that. >> narrator: and it worked. with her help, bill clintonwas reelected in 1996.
>> narrator: by the early 1990s, donald trump's life was aboutto fall apart professionally and personally. >> the rumors began thathe had a girl and so forth, and i was being bombardedwith these stories. >> narrator: liz smith wasa well-known gossip columnist in newspapers and on television. smith kept a close eyeon donald and ivana. >> ivana was totally fixatedon donald.
i heard all these things:that she had tried to please him and gone awayand had her breasts augmented, and a face lift. >> narrator: but now there wasanother woman-- 26-year-old marla maples. ivana and donald had beenmarried 12 years. they had three children. >> she threw herself in my armssobbing and crying and saying, "donald doesn't want me anymore.
"he has told me he can't besexually attracted to a woman who's had children." >> the trumps are good copy, and the gossip columnistsare in for a field day. >> the unfolding saga of trumpversus trump. >> a high-octane mix of thestuff that sells newspapers. >> narrator: for months, the tabloids reportedon every detail of the affair, the breakup, and the divorce.
>> the model from georgiacast as the other woman. >> it was ugly,it was horribly ugly. the press was devastatingin my mind. >> linking trump to a bevyof beauties... >> but donalddidn't seem to think it was so devastating at all. he just rode with it, and he had his campand ivana had her camp. >> in manhattan, the storyis trump versus trump.
>> and he was totallycomfortable in that period under the tutelage of roy cohn and the idea that all publicityis good publicity. donald trump felt that his name,his image, his brand were enhancedby having this war go on in the tabloid newspapersof new york complete with sexual detailsof relationships. >> the worst publicityin the world can end up being good publicity.
meaning, "yeah, people saidterrible things about me, but they sure know who i am." and a month later,or three months later, they don't remember what it wasthey didn't like about you; they just rememberthey know your name. >> narrator: just then,donald took on the biggest deal of his lifetime--the taj mahal casino. >> if trump tower is one bookend of donald trump's careerin business
and represents everythingthat he did right, the taj mahal isthe other bookend that represents everythinghe did wrong. >> narrator: it was huge--1,250 rooms. the casino was the sizeof two football fields. $14 million worthof chandeliers. on wall street,some analysts were worried, and one of them spoketo the wall street journal. >> i saw a real problem.
i didn't think that the company could cover its interestexpenses on that debt. plus the payroll was enormous because of the scopeof the property. >> narrator: trump had spentmore than a billion dollars on the taj. >> "once the cold winds blowfrom october to february, "it won't make it. the market just isn't there."
>> narrator: donald trump sentmarvin roffman's boss this letter. >> "mr. roffman is consideredby those in the industry "to be a hair-triggerand, in my opinion, somewhat unstable in his toneand manner of criticism." >> donald trump sees the peoplewho have criticized him or have predictedthat he would do poorly, he sees them as traitors. and so his immediate instinctis to tear that person down.
>> "i am now planningto institute a major lawsuit "against your firmunless mr. roffman makes a major public apologyor is dismissed." >> narrator: roffman had workedat his brokerage firm for 16 years. he says they told himto back down. >> donald trump was tryingto send a message to other people on wall street: "you better not badmouth me,or your job may be in jeopardy."
>> narrator:roffman stood his ground. >> my firm, i mean, fired me,like, on the spot, and not just in a nice way. they actually escorted meout the building, and when the elevator got downto the lobby to exit, my boss made a comment to me. "marvin, you know,i like you as a person, but a little friendly advice:keep your mouth shut about this or you'll never workin the industry again."
>> narrator: burdened by debt,the taj would not turn a profit. by that winter,as roffman predicted, the casino wasin serious trouble. >> his business condition wasterrible, worse than terrible. we were in a deep recession and people weren't goingto atlantic city, so the revenue stream fromatlantic city, the taj mahal, and the other casinos was poor. >> narrator: trump's otherinvestments
had not fared much better. the plaza hotel--a financial disaster. the airline trump shuttlewas bleeding money. >> he sort of blamed the peoplearound him for what went wrong instead of himself. >> he started blaming people,he started firing people, he started yelling at people. he said, "i can be a screamer,"and he certainly was, according to various accounts.
>> narrator: trump had longcast himself as a winner. now he was looking like a loser. >> i think that the downtimefor him was really a shock, and he was not prepared for it. it caught him totally off guard. it was probably the biggestchallenge of his life. >> the donald is facingan incredible cash crisis. >> big troublesfor donald trump. >> narrator:trump and his companies owed
more than three billion dollars, much of it to the banks thathad fueled his spending spree. >> as quickly as the banksloved him, that's as quick as they saw himas a pariah. he was like,"ew, it's donald trump." they didn't want to haveanything to do with him. they wanted their money and they wanted to be ridof donald trump. >> narrator: the bankersdescended on trump tower.
>> bankers held giganticmeetings at trump tower with, like, 40 banksall sitting around in a room, donald very sober-looking, not quite penitent, perhaps,but serious. >> when you were talking to himin these meetings, he just didn't seem thathe had any idea how big the problem wasor how it would be resolved. but he, as far as being a ceoand understanding numbers and understandingthe ramifications,
doesn't seem like he tookeconomics or accounting in college. >> donald trump's assetsare on the line. citibank and trump'sother lenders are working on a bailout plan... >> narrator: the bankers faceda fundamental decision. >> the trump organizationconfirmed today... >> it was at a time when wewere all trying to figure out, is it better off this guybeing alive financially,
or is it better offhaving him dead financially? >> narrator: as they stared intothe trump organization's abyss, the banks came to believe thattrump's assets-- the buildings, the casinos-- were worth morewith his name on them than in foreclosure. >> if they were to take trumpout of it, they would no longer havethe name for the casinos, which was a tremendous partof their allure.
otherwise, basicallywhat could they do? liquidate and takea tremendous hit? >> the brand was worth nowso much that bankers were willingto take a haircut in order to hang onto the name. >> the trump princess is saidto have a price tag... >> narrator: they sold the yachtand the airline. >> trump may have to unloadthe trump shuttle, worth about $220 million.
>> narrator: and they put trumpon a $450,000 a month allowance. >> by next summer, he could become atlantic city'sbiggest loser ever. >> narrator: in exchange, he would continue to promotethe business. >> i think bankers look at trumpas a promoter, not as a ceo. at least that's the wayi looked at him, and if you talkedto other bankers, i think they share that opinion.
he's a wonderful promoter. you know, he's the p.t. barnumof the 21st century. >> donald trump may have pulledoff his biggest deal to date. >> narrator: donald trumphad survived. >> working on a bailout plan... >> narrator: he was too bigto fail. >> the bankers do not want trumpto file for bankruptcy. >> explosive new allegations that strike at the very heartof the presidency.
>> narrator: on the morningof january 21, 1998, hillary clinton's worldwas rocked once again. >> bill clinton woke her upone day and said, "i just have to tell you that "there's this weird thinggoing on and i don't want you to worryabout it." >> narrator: she tells the storyherself in her book. >> "he sat on the edgeof the bed and said, "'there's something in today'spapers you should know about.'
"'what are you talking about?'i asked. "he told me there were newsreports that he'd had an affair with a former white houseintern." >> it was at once probablya complete shock to her and no shock at all,if that's possible. that's the way i would view it. >> "i questioned billover and over about the story. "he continued to denyany improper behavior "but to acknowledgethat his attention
could have been misread." >> and hillary clintonbelieves that, and believes itand wants to believe it. >> these are dark daysat the white house. >> monica lewinsky's toldprosecutors all she knows. >> monica lewinsky saveda navy blue dress that had the president'ssemen stain on it, that she saved it asa kind of souvenir. >> narrator: as the pressuregrew, she decided to act.
>> live from studio 1-ain rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. >> narrator: she headedto new york for an appearance on the today show. her top aide melanne verveerwas with her. >> we'll hearin just a few minutes from the first ladyof the united states. >> the night before was almostsurreal because, you know, we just felt this personal painthat she was experiencing.
there wasn't a whole lotof conversation, and it wasn't clear exactlywhat she intended to say. >> i thinkthe important thing now is to stand as firmly as i canand say that, you know, the president has denied theseallegations on all counts, unequivocally. >> she had no choice. i mean, think about all thatshe had invested in this for so many decades, and this istheir most vulnerable point.
i don't think she... you know,with all of that investment, i don't think she had any choicebut to say what she did and to do what she did. >> has he described thatrelationship in detail to you? >> narrator: hillary fought backlike she had always done. >> the great story herefor anybody willing to find it and write about itand explain it is this vast right-wingconspiracy that has been conspiringagainst my husband
since the day he announcedfor president. >> those words, "the vastright-wing conspiracy," helped with thatlarger construct. this wasn't personal;this was political. and that's her armor. >> this is the last greatbattle. >> narrator:hillary rodham clinton had learned how to dealwith scandal. >> are you saying that thisdoesn't upset you anymore?
you're almost numb to it? >> it's not being numb so muchas just being very experienced in the unfortunate mean-spiritedgive and take of american politics right now. >> if an american presidenthad an adulterous liaison in the white houseand lied to cover it up, should the american peopleask for his resignation? >> well, they should certainlybe concerned about it. >> should they askfor his resignation?
>> well, i think thatif all that were proven true, i think that would bea very serious offense. that is not goingto be proven true. >> hillary becomesalmost the last person standing to believe that there wasno sexual event or relationship between monica lewinskyand bill clinton. (thunder rumbling) but her world was collapsingaround her. the presidency, her husband'spresidency is collapsing.
>> narrator: then after months,the truth. >> five seconds. >> look okay? indeed, i did havea relationship with miss lewinskythat was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> he'd not only madea fool of himself, but he had made a foolof her publicly. this is hillary clintonwe're talking about, you know,
a brilliant person, who wasplayed for a fool publicly. >> i misled people,including even my wife. i deeply regret that. >> hillary must have beenabsolutely beside herself. i mean, the president hadpersonally assured her that there had been nothing to this. i mean, here he is, thepresident of the united states, and he has an intern,i mean, a little girl, and he's riskinghis entire administration?
i mean, that seemed to meabsolutely impossible. >> she truly hates him. she thinks, you know,"how stupid. this woman is chelsea's age." that intensifies the... or almost, you know. that intensifies that hatred. >> narrator: the next day, hillary, bill, and chelseadeparted for vacation.
>> she's obviously furious, and she clearly is not goingto hold his hand. both of them are holdingthe two hands of chelsea. >> the entire countrywas waiting to see how she handled it-- not just the press, everybody,because gosh almighty, who had ever had to bein that position before? >> she's talked about itonly in guarded ways, but in ways that suggest thatshe went through a terrible,
terrible time as a resultof that, and lives with that today. >> narrator: the tripwould be the first step in a months-long reconciliation. >> the nation's most flamboyantand publicity-conscious... >> narrator: in the aftermath of donald trump'sfinancial collapse, the casinos were still deeplyin debt. he was looking for a way out.
he found one-- wall street. >> donald trump is gamblinginvestors want to bet on him. >> this is a very exciting day. this is just the right time, and it's the right timefor this industry. so we're really, uh... we're really happy, and this isa very exciting day. >> narrator: he was sellingshares in the casinos. with trump as the pitchman,
the stock djt hit a highof $35 a share. >> of course, it left donaldtrump as the steward of a publicly traded company,which is kind of like leaving a kid lockedin a candy store overnight. >> narrator: trump paid himself$44 million for services, and he'd been reimbursedmillions in expenses more for his plane, the helicopter,and other administrative costs. >> so he was making tensof millions of dollars a year personally while the stock pricewas sinking, almost collapsing.
>> narrator: the company filedfor bankruptcy three times. investors lost billions. >> he never earned a dimefor his shareholders, for pensionerswho had their retirement funds tied up in those casinos. never earned a dime until he just drovethe whole thing off the cliff. >> with all yourfinancial problems, do you think you will survive?
>> why do you saythere are problems? >> narrator:trump characteristically described his timein atlantic city as a success. >> everything financially okay? >> don't believe everythingyou read, i'll tell you. >> donald trump believes thathe came out ahead because, as he puts it, he waslooking out for donald trump. and all of the other peoplewho lost their shirts, it didn't work out for them.
that's the way things go, theyshould have done a better job of vetting their investment. >> narrator: and trumpwalked away with a key asset-- his name. >> it really dawned on trump that he could makea huge business empire out of putting his nameeverywhere. "god, i don't haveto kill myself "trying to buy up landand deal with zoning boards
"and, you know, go crazy, "and half the timeit doesn't work anyway. why don't i just sell my name?" >> narrator: dozens of trumpbuildings would go up around the world, but he wouldneither build them nor own them. >> "it has my name on it. "i get a fee. "i usually get the managementof the building as well, "which brings even moremoney in,
"and everybody thinksit's my building. it's trump tower manila,trump tower panama city." >> narrator: for trump, realestate was now a side business; marketing his own name,a full-time job. >> do you really thinkthis is the right thing for us to be doing, ivana? >> but it feels so right. >> then it's a deal. >> yes, we eat our pizzathe wrong way.
>> crust first. >> narrator:along with his ex-wife, trump turnedhis marital problems into a pizza commercial. >> may i have the last bite? >> actually, you're onlyentitled to half. >> he's seen thatit's a consumer country. we're all consumers. we're trained to be consumers.
we're used to being sold to. he's a really good salesman. he knows how to sell. >> it's amazing. a big n' tastyfor just a dollar? how do you do it? what's your secret? >> narrator: he used hiscelebrity to sell everything from computers to hamburgers.
>> got a buck? you're in luck! >> together, grimace,we could own this town. >> he realizes thatif you're on tv and you're considereda celebrity and you're considered a success, and that you can essentiallytrade on that for the rest of your life. >> what's going on over here?
>> narrator: he even took a turnas a professional wrestler. >> hey, look at this! donald trump! >> donald trump taking downvince mcmahon! the hostile takeover! >> he was seen for quite a longtime as a punchline to jokes about the excessesand the failures of the 1980s, and he's become, you know,a human shingle and a punchline. the apprentice turnedall of that on its head.
>> new york-- my city, where the wheels of the globaleconomy never stop turning. >> ♪ money, money,money, money... ♪ >> he became seen asa credible businessperson with a real track record, even though that was at oddswith reality. and the guy who became a realitytv star via the apprentice learned that he could becomea reality political star. >> who will succeedand who will fail?
and who will be the apprentice? >> narrator: for 14 seasons,millions of americans watched a carefully crafteddonald trump. >> he's perfectly made up. he's perfectly coiffed. he's perfectly lit. he's in the high-back chairmaking tough decisions. what does he look like? he looks like a president.
>> donald connectedwith the american public because they wantedto be like him. they aspired to bejust like him. they wanted to seeall this affluence, and he let them see it. he let them into every aspect of what it meant to besuccessful in america. >> good morning.>> good morning. >> everybody's sayingi should run for president.
let me ask you a question. meatloaf, should i runfor president? >> now you would definitelyvote for me? >> narrator:as the show took off, trump again began to discussa run for the white house. >> who would not vote for me? who would not vote for me? all right, good. >> a hot hint--don't raise your hand.
>> i would say anybodythat raised their hand would immediately be fired... >> he was very serious,there's no question about it. his popularity was never higherthan it was, you know, during this apprentice time,and he was literally... he could do no wrongat that stage. and i think that he realized, "wow, if i've hit the high,let's take it to the... "where can you go from there?
i want to be president." >> narrator: and for hispolitical guru roger stone, the tv audience could becometrump voters. >> which is the greatestsingle asset to his presidential campaign,because for 14 seasons, he is viewed by the voters,by the population, in a perfect light. now i understand the elites say,"oh, that's reality tv." voters don't see it that way.
television newsand television entertainment, it's all television. >> narrator:he was wealthy again. he had rehabilitated his image. the world knew him. donald trump believedhe was ready. >> one of the most critical daysof his presidency. >> senators, how say you? >> narrator: as the revelationsabout monica lewinsky
led to bill clinton'simpeachment trial, hillary would helprescue him again. >> she somehow managesto find it in herself not only to forgiveher husband enough that they can get back togetherand be a team, but she actually beginsto manage the defense of her husbandin the impeachment trial. i mean, it's utterlyextraordinary. >> there was, we think,
a national sense of reliefthat it was over. >> narrator: but on the dayhe was acquitted, bill clinton, without hillary by his side,addressed the press. >> i want to say againto the american people how profoundly sorry i amfor what i said and did to trigger these events. >> and the day that the senatevotes to acquit bill clinton, where is hillary clinton? she is in the studyoff of her bedroom
in the white housewith maps of new york state laid out in front of herand considering whether to run for the senateof the united states. >> and bill clinton comes by,wants to come in to chat. they don't even invite himin the room. and they plan and thinkand plot. and she told me afterwards, "that was the first timein 53 years "that i spoke with my own voiceand planned to use my own voice
as my own political person." >> she was whiskedinto the capitol like a visiting dignitary. >> the star of the day, the newjunior senator from new york. >> narrator: hillary clintonbecame the first senator who was also the first lady. >> the president's wife isstruggling to appear humble in her new world, where powercomes from seniority, not celebrity.
>> i think the surprising factorwas that yes, she would leave the white housebefore he left the white house and chart her own very singularpublic political career as his was coming to an end. i mean, when have we ever seenthat in american history before? >> narrator: unlike her failedeffort at heath care reform, as a senator,she worked the back rooms and the corridors of power. >> if she really wantedto develop a base of power
that was hers, she had to do itin her own way based on what she had learnedthe hard way as first lady. >> narrator: with presidentialambitions in mind, she kept her head downand focused on the practical. >> she is happier with the grindthan she is with the stardust. she loves delvingand drilling down. she loves public policy. >> narrator: and for six years, she courted the democratic partyestablishment and big donors,
laying the groundworkfor her next move. >> i'm running for president,and i'm in it to win it! >> she was the overwhelmingfavorite, yes, but she ran into competition the likes of whichshe hadn't anticipated. >> we can finally bring thechange we need to washington. we are readyto take this country in a fundamentallynew direction. >> they weren't readyfor barack obama.
she got blindsided completely. she thought it was her time. >> the american peopleare looking for change... >> her husband was supposedto be the first black president, and along comes a guywho can really be the first black president. >> fired up! ready to go! >> who's younger,who's just as smart,
just as cocky as her husband,has this magic to him. it just blew her out. >> give me a break. this whole thing is the biggestfairy tale i've ever seen. >> narrator: the clintons, now members of the washingtonestablishment, fought back. >> now, i could stand up hereand say, "let's just get everybodytogether, let's get unified, the sky will open..."
"...the light will come down,celestial choirs will be singing "and everyone will knowwe should do the right thing and the world will be perfect!" >> narrator: at wellesley,hillary rodham had ridiculed politics as"the art of the possible." but hillary clinton nowembodied it. >> it was understandable thatin 2008, she is saying to barack obama, "it's not going to be as easyas you think it is.
you know, i have the scarsto prove it." >> maybe i've just liveda little long, but i have no illusions abouthow hard this is going to be. you are not goingto wave a magic wand and have the special interestsdisappear! >> something very differentfrom what she was in 1992, when she and bill clintonwere the new guard. they were the boomers. they were the voice of change.
but to the american publicwho wants to elect a president who exudes hope and aspiration, hillary started to sound likethe old guard, the voice of caution,the establishment. >> it has been the honorand privilege of my life to compete for the presidency... >> narrator: by the end,hillary clinton's experience was not her strength;it was her undoing. >> i pledge my supportto the next president
of the united states,barack obama. >> (chanting):thank you, hillary! >> please welcome my frienddonald trump. >> narrator: with his imageas a leader burnished by the apprentice, donald trump now saw an issuehe could turn into headlines. >> why doesn't he showhis birth certificate? i think he probably...>> why should he have to? >> because i have to andeverybody else has to, whoopi.
why wouldn't he show...? excuse me. no, excuse me. i really believe there'sa birth certificate. why... look, she's smiling. why doesn't he showhis birth certificate? >> the birther thingis interesting because it harkens backto roy cohn and joe mccarthy. donald gets insightinto the fact that
you can sensationalizesomeone's personal history in a brutal and insensitive way. >> i've never heardany white president asked to be shownthe birth certificate! >> when he was becoming theleader of the birther movement, i think he understoodwho he was speaking to. it was the archie bunkers, who were uncomfortable withan african-american president. >> if you're going to be thepresident of the united states,
it says very profoundly that youhave to be born in this country. >> donald trump isa billionaire, he's famous, he's on tv, and he's sayinghe's uncomfortable too. and he's practicing roy cohn,roger stone innuendo. >> where's that coming from? >> excellent question. i assume the internet. i am not the progenitor of that,meaning i don't first bring it. i don't bring the phenomenato his attention.
but trump understandsamong republicans, there's a verysubstantial majority who have questionsabout obama's origins and how he just pops upout of nowhere to become a national figure and whether he was in facteligible to serve as president. >> another political storymaking news this morning: donald trump'sgrowing poll numbers on a list of possiblepresidential...
>> narrator: as the birtherissue raised his polls numbers, trump arrived in new hampshirefor what looked like the beginningof a presidential campaign. >> as promised,donald trump speaking now in portsmouth, new hampshire. let's listen. >> you ready? you get ready. whenever you're ready, i'm okay.
>> narrator: trump's speechwas carried live on national television. but president obamahad a surprise for trump. >> if you put a taxon chinese products... >> okay, we're goingto leave new hampshire and go to washingtonand the white house, where president obamais speaking. >> as many of youhave been briefed, we provided additionalinformation today
about the site of my birth. >> narrator: obama had releasedhis birth certificate and upstaged trump. >> yes, in fact, i was bornin hawaii, august 4, 1961, in kapiolani hospital. >> narrator: with the birthcertificate no longer an issue, washington expected donald trumpto recede into the background. they were certain he wasfinished. >> shortly after barack obamawas sworn in as president,
hillary was nominatedand quickly confirmed as his secretary of state. >> now mr. obamawants to make clinton the face of his foreign policy. >> narrator: to the surpriseof many in washington, hillary clinton agreedto become barack obama's secretary of state. >> the former presidentialcandidate constantly sparred over foreign policies...
(crowd cheering) >> she wanted to run again, and i think having a secretaryof state credential underneath her beltor on her rã©sumã© was something that wasvery important to her. >> we will havea secretary of state who has my full confidence. >> narrator:but from the very beginning, she learned that obama intendedto run foreign policy
from the oval office. >> what we find out is thatall decision-making is concentratedin the white house, that there is no decisionsthat are going to be made that don't get vettedand run through the white house, no matter how small. >> narrator: for two years,clinton tried to work her way into obama's inner circleand build a legacy. >> angry demonstrators marchedthrough the streets of tunisia.
>> it is a dark, dangerous,and violent night. >> narrator: and asthe arab spring erupted throughout the middle east, secretary clinton sawan opportunity. she went to the presidentwith a plan: to join an internationalcoalition to take out the libyan dictatormuammar gaddafi. >> in the decisive meetingthat we had, she was saying, "we have to do moreif we're going to shape this,
"and there's the abilityto have a broad coalition to do this." >> gaddafi's grip on the countryis weakening. >> narrator: the presidentagreed. >> helping to identify targetsfor the u.s.-led air assault. >> narrator: and as gaddafi'sforces crumbled, it looked like a success. secretary clinton wasin front of the cameras when she received news gaddafihimself had been captured.
>> it's unconfirmed. >> unconfirmed, yeah. unconfirmed reportsabout gaddafi being captured. >> she found out about this as she was doinga television interview. >> narrator: the momentsaround gaddafi's death were also caught on camera. >> her response was... >> we came, we saw, he died!
(laughing) >> it didn't have anything to dowith your visit? >> i'm sure it did. >> it was a moment of successand gratification for her. it tells you just how investedshe was in the libya mission and what she believed was goingto be a great success for herselfand for the united states. >> narrator: the successwas short-lived. libya descended into chaos.
in benghazi, four americansworking for the state department were killed, includingambassador christopher stevens. their deaths againput hillary clinton at the centerof a political storm. >> today on capitol hill,marathon testimony... >> directly confronting oneof the biggest controversies... >> narrator: there were eightcongressional investigations. she spent hours testifying. >> the embattled hillaryis the essence of hillary.
she's comfortable in battle. she has foughtfor two generations. and she's got a lot of scars. and who she is is a map of how she has traversedthat battlefield, going back to arkansas. >> narrator: and those oldquestions about secrecy again resurfacedin a controversy over a private email systemshe set up.
>> the clinton team saysthere is nothing nefarious here. >> this was the old hillary: secrecy, denial,keep it all very tight. it just goes back to,"i'm not going to let them know because they'll use itagainst me," and they would. >> secretary clintonor her colleagues were extremely careless. >> narrator: yet hillary clintonwas determined to try for the presidencyone last time.
>> (chanting): hell no, dnc! we won't vote for hillary! >> narrator: and again, she faced charges from the youngand the progressive that she embodiesthe establishment. as always, she fought on. >> thanks to you,we've reached a milestone: the first time... the first timein our nation's history
that a woman will bea major party's nominee... >> narrator: it had beena brutal path to this moment, and a lifetime in politicshad taught her more was to come. >> one of the thingsthat she had learned very early in that rodham householdwas you just, when things don't go right,you just get up every morning, you put one footin front of the other, you get through your day,you do the best you can, and you just keep moving forwarduntil it gets easier.
and she's done thatall her life. >> narrator: at trump tower, donald trump was readyfor yet another comeback. he believed he had a chanceto prove his critics wrong and get evenwith the establishment by running for president. >> he's got a great senseof theater. the orchestration of itrecognizes his showmanship. he's a showman above all.
>> he enters asthe royal presence. >> he understood the dramaof coming down the escalator. >> narrator: he was joinedby his third wife, melania, a supermodel from slovenia. >> he descended almostfrom heaven. >> he descendsdown the gold-plated escalator into the rosy marble lobbyof trump tower. >> that is some group of people. thousands!
>> got on the stage, said,"what a crowd-- thousands!" it was hundreds. >> it was like the next chapterof the apprentice, and it was the moment that he had actually beenbuilding toward for decades. >> great to be in a wonderfulcity, new york. >> he proceeded to launchinto an announcement-slash-rant of the type no one has seenin presidential politics before. >> when mexico sends its people,they're not sending their best.
>> and so in this moment,he says, "i'm just going to be myself." then he takesa seven-minute script and just goes offand goes on and on, and it's kind of streamof consciousness. >> they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. and some i assumeare good people.
>> it's totally his gut. we didn't know he was gonna talkabout crimes committed by illegal aliens...illegal immigrants, and that, you know, that peoplehad been murdered and raped. >> sadly, the american dreamis dead. >> bring it back! >> but if i get electedpresident, i will bring it back bigger and betterand stronger than ever before, and we will make americagreat again.
thank you,thank you very much. thank you very much. >> it's like a man workingwithout a net. you're going to tune into see what he's going to say because it could be anything. it's got a daredevil qualityto it. it's genuine, it's real. you're holding your breath. "what's he going to say next?"
>> narrator: at the time, some thought it was justanother publicity stunt. >> he made a lot of statements that immediately made peopledismiss him, that this guy must be a joke, but donald trump was somehowfinding a way to connect with the people who matteredat that moment for him. >> narrator: the manwhose father taught him there were winners and losers
proceeded to win the votesof millions of americans and the nominationof the republican party. >> his deepest hungerhas always been for attention, and he had exhausted the waysin which to get attention. he'd gone so far beyond what most human beingscan even imagine that he was, at the endof that road, still hungry. he wanted the attentionof the nation, he wanted the attentionof the world,
and he's gotten it. >> narrator: america facesa choice between two candidates who have spent decadesin the public eye. symbols of a bitterlydivided country. both have life storiesthat led them to this moment. now the nation will decidebetween them. >> narrator: comingto frontline, the inside story of the u.s. war on isis. >> we will degradeand ultimately destroy isil.
>> narrator: from the initialreluctance... >> i was very concernedabout losing credibility everywhere in the world. our adversarieswere watching this too. >> narrator:...to the hard reality. >> paris, san bernardino... what happens in the middle east does not stayin the middle east. >> narrator: a frontline investigation.
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