As President Joe Biden, the January 6th Committee and a number of longtime conservatives sound the alarm over the threat to American democracy, the latest Frontline, debuting on Tuesday on PBS, exa…
’s influence and grip over the Republican party. The focus isn’t so much on the former president as it is the decisions that GOP leaders made that enabled his rise to power.
Among those interviewed for the film are J. Michael Luttig, the former federal judge who testified before the January 6th Committee, and Alyssa Farah, the former White House communications director and new regular onOther voices come from former senator Jeff Flake and former representative Mark Sanford, two Republicans who found themselves on the outs after they dared to criticize Trump, as well as January 6th Committee member Rep.
Deadline chatted with Kirk recently about how the project came together and what he sees as its potential impact.MICHAEL KIRKIt seemed like [the right time] with the midterms looming, and Trump’s hat almost in the ring for the 2024 presidential run, or at least he’s considering it, the January 6 Committee [preparing its findings]. So there were a lot of political reasons that were happening, and yet they all were affected dramatically by recent history starting, especially with January 6.
[the Frontline presidential candidate profiles] we never do that. We interviewed a lot of people who interviewed him. He let everybody come down to Mar-a-Lago and sit with him, including Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns from the New York Times. Jonathan Karl, whose book is wonderful and I think he’s wonderful in the film. All of them got their moments with Trump after January 6th, but basically he didn’t give anybody anything that was really usable.
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