>> NARRATOR: This past July, Donald Trump accepted
the Republican nomination. >> I humbly and gratefully
accept your nomination for the presidency
of the United States. (cheers and applause) >> NARRATOR: It was a moment
of vindication for a candidate who had climbed back from
a bitter public humiliation. >> We're talking
about the White House Correspondents' Dinner tonight. >> Donald Trump has been
invited. >> NARRATOR: It happened
in April 2011, at one of Washington, D.C.'s
most glamorous nights. >> I got to talk to Donald
as we were going to our seats, and he was in just
such a great mood, and he was very jovial,
and people were taking pictures. It was very exciting
that Donald was there. >> Donald, over here! >> NARRATOR: Trump's invitation
to the exclusive gathering came after weeks of attacking
President Barack Obama on television. >> You are not allowed
to be a president if you're not born
in this country. He may not have been born
in this country. But there's something
on 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 born
in this country, it's one of the great scams
of all time. >> Absolutely. >> NARRATOR: But that night,
in front of Washington's journalists, politicians,
and powerbrokers, Obama would hit back. >> President Obama takes
the microphone. >> All right, everybody,
please have a seat. Donald Trump is here tonight! >> And proceeds to filet
Donald publicly. >> No one is happier,
no one is prouder to put this birth certificate
matter to rest than the Donald. And that's because
he can finally get back to focusing on the issues
that matter, like did we fake
the moon landing? >> I was sitting 20 feet
from him, and just the look of discomfort
on his face. >> What really happened
in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac? >> Donald's face was so
incredibly serious. It was so incredibly just... He just put on a poker face. >> I was two tables away
from Trump. The conventional way
in Washington of absorbing a joke at the White
House Correspondents' Dinner is to keep your chin up and at least pretend to have
a sense of humor about it, even if you go cry
into 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 know
about your credentials and breadth of experience. (laughter) For example... No, seriously, just recently, in an episode of<i> Celebrity
Apprentice,</i> at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team
did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame
to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized
that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn't
blame Lil' Jon or Meatloaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind
of decisions that would keep me up
at night. >> And he's being treated
like a piñata by the president
of the United States. And I think he felt humiliated. (applause) >> Well handled, sir. Well handled. >> But it just kept going
and going, and he just kept hammering him. And I thought, "Oh, Barack Obama
is starting something that I don't know if he'll
be able to finish." >> Say what you will
about Mr. Trump, he certainly would bring
some change to the White House. Let's see what we've got
up there. >> Donald dreads humiliation
and he dreads shame. And this is why
he often attempts to humiliate and shame
other people. So in the case of the president
ridiculing him, I think this was intolerable
for Donald Trump. >> I think that is the night that he resolves to run
for president. I think that he is kind of
motivated by it. "Maybe I'll just run. Maybe I'll show them all." >> Every critic, every detractor will have to bow down
to President Trump. It's everyone who's ever doubted
Donald, who ever disagreed, who ever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man
in the universe. >> God bless you, and may God bless
the United States of America. >> Donald Trump's fantasy
is to be the guy who takes the key
to the Oval Office from Barack Obama's hand
in 2017. And it's personal. This is a burning,
personal need that he has to redeem himself
from being humiliated by the first black president. >> NARRATOR: Hillary Clinton
had spent decades laying the groundwork
for her candidacy. >> And so, my friends, it is
with humility, determination, and boundless confidence
in America's promise that I accept your nomination for president
of the United States. (cheers and applause) >> NARRATOR: Her entrance into
politics had been difficult, marked by questions
of just who she was. >> What kind of plans
have you made to be first lady of Arkansas? >> Well, we've spent
a lot of time talking about the kinds of work
that we want to do. >> NARRATOR: In Little Rock, the new first lady,
Hillary Rodham, was a curiosity. >> We haven't made
any final plans. >> Hillary,
when she first got there, everybody makes such a big deal
out of her hippie flowered pants and her big, you know, strange glasses,
and her crazy hair. >> Could it be that you have political aspirations
of your own? >> No, I just think it's... I don't have any
except for my husband, who I think is a terrific
politician and a wonderful man. >> Arkansas has a new governor. >> They looked like
they were having a ball. I mean, it was really
a heady experience. These were young people. They were the governor
and first lady. >> The youngest governor
in the United States now, young Governor Clinton
of the state of Arkansas. >> NARRATOR: But Hillary's
approach to her new role was seen as unconventional. She kept her maiden name and had her own career
as a corporate lawyer. >> She didn't want women to be
accessories to their husband, and that is usually what
a political wife is, is an accessory to her husband,
and it didn't fit well. >> The thought occurs to me that
you really don't fit the image that we have created for
the 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 use
your husband's name. You practice law. Does it concern you
that maybe other people feel that you don't fit the image
that we have created for the governor's wife
in Arkansas? >> No, because each person
should be assessed and judged on, you know,
that person's own merits. >> The Southerners just really
rejected 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 not
a Southern governor's wife. >> We now have a clarification,
state of Arkansas... >> NARRATOR: The governor's term
was only two years, and before he knew it,
Bill Clinton was out. >> Projected the winner over the
incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton. >> This political defeat has
been a bitter pill to swallow for Bill Clinton. >> I regret that I will not have
two more years to serve as governor
because I have loved it. >> And here, Bill Clinton,
defeated, and to be rendered
a 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 was
part of the reason for him losing the governor's race, because she wouldn't
take his name and just because
of the way she was. >> NARRATOR: Hillary decided
to fight. She took charge of her husband's
political comeback. >> Hillary got very involved
in the campaign. For all intents and purposes,
she was the campaign manager. >> NARRATOR: One of her
first moves-- rebrand herself and become
"Mrs. Clinton." >> It was symbolic. I'm sure she had
to swallow hard, but it was just not worth
trying to keep her last name at the expense of everything
they wanted to achieve together. >> In order to avoid any problem
and just to put it to rest, I will forever be known as
Hillary Rodham Clinton. >> She completely forfeited
her own identity, at least physically. Got rid of the glasses,
got her hair dyed, started dressing
at least modestly better, wore some makeup, cultivated
a little bit of a drawl. >> The road to being somebody
in this society starts with education... >> NARRATOR: The transformation
was a surprise to some of those who had
known her the longest. >> When she had to begin
to 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 political
consultant from New York-- Dick Morris. >> She has a wonderful instinct
for the jugular. She felt that he lost it
because he wasn't tough enough, wasn't strong enough. And she reached out to me because she felt that I would be
stronger and tougher. >> I think it only intensified and began a lot
of the characteristics that you saw from then on--
that the ends justify the means, that we'll do
what we have to do to win, turn to the dark arts
of politics to survive. >> NARRATOR: Hillary helped
engineer a comeback that returned her husband
to the governorship and put her in the national
spotlight 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 across
the East River from Manhattan... >> A municipally-operated
electrical railway system spreads through four
of the five boroughs... >> NARRATOR: ...Donald Trump
grew up in a posh suburb called Jamaica Estates. >> It's perhaps typical
of New York's residential areas. >> The Trump family had
a huge house in Queens that they used to refer to
as "Tara." It had nine bedrooms,
it had columns, it was quite beautiful,
but it was in Queens. >> NARRATOR: The Trump family
would spend 50 years building memories here. Fred Trump,
a real estate developer, designed the house himself
and raised Donald and his brothers and sisters
in luxury. >> It's not like he knew
anything but comfort. When it rained and he had
to deliver his papers, the chauffeur would
take him around. >> NARRATOR:
But Donald's father was tough and insisted everyone learn
the family business. >> He was a guy who worked
seven 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 nails
that 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 description
of driven could ever mean. And when you look at the picture
of Fred and you look at Donald, you see the great resemblance
between the two. And when you think
about Fred's energy, you see how it is channeled
through Donald. >> NARRATOR: Fred was seen as
passionate about the business, but not warm with his children. >> Cold-- he was not
a warm person. I see his father
at the beach, even, with a suit and a tie
and a hat, a clipped very kind of military
mustache, and simply being... correct. >> NARRATOR: Fred had theories. He shared them with his kids. Donald especially liked
one of them. >> This is a very deep part
of the Trump story. The family subscribes to a racehorse theory
of human development. They believe that there are
superior people, and that if you put together
the genes of a superior woman and a superior man,
you get a superior offspring. >> NARRATOR: Fred's other
theory: life was a competition. There were winners
and there were losers. He called the winners "killers." >> The way the game got played
in 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 took
the 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 always
the kid in the family who would start throwing
birthday cake at all the parties, that you would build up
a tower of blocks, he would come
knock your blocks down. >> This is the person he's been,
I think, since he was five years old. Donald told me that he is
essentially the person he was in first grade and that
he hasn't really changed. >> His self-definition was built
around 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 it
with Donald's mischief. He sent him up the Hudson River
just a few miles from West Point to the toughest boarding school
he could find-- the New York Military Academy. (drumline performing) >> You have to think
of this 13-year-old kid who's lived a very
comfortable life, but then all of a sudden,
he's the one child of five to be banished
to this austere life. Goodbye, luxury. Goodbye, Mom and Dad,
brothers and sisters. Hello, drill sergeant. >> NARRATOR: The New York
Military Academy was no-nonsense,
heavy on the discipline; over the years,
home to the children of gangster John Gotti and Cuban
dictator Fulgencio Batista. >> It was an austere,
very scary place. I was homesick,
I was crying hysterically. In fact, I was crying so much
the first couple of nights, they put me in the infirmary. >> We were in a culture of
hazing at the military school. Everyone... I mean,
that's just the way it was. >> You got hit, you may have
gotten slammed against the wall, you got put artificially
into 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 clarity
of it. And he liked that there was
a medal and a prize for everything. >> NARRATOR:
He was a star athlete. He claimed he could have played
pro baseball. But his classmates agree
he was proudest of winning the ultimate accolade
in an all-boys school. He was named "ladies' man"
in the school yearbook. Hugh Hefner,
the publisher of<i> Playboy,</i> was a role model
for many of the boys. >> Yeah, you know,
he had a very Hugh Hefner, <i> Playboy</i> magazine view
of success. >> NARRATOR: The young cadets learned a lot
from<i> Playboy</i> magazine and what they called
"barracks talk." >> In fact, our biggest advice
in our lives came from<i> Playboy</i> magazine. That's how we learned
about women. So that was all of my
adolescence. And that's why getting out of
military school was difficult. You had to realize that
you couldn't just follow the<i> Playboy</i> philosophy. >> NARRATOR: They would graduate
and grow up. But Donald's classmates say
in some ways, he hasn't changed at all. >> The things that we talked
about at that time in 1964 really are very close
to the kind of way he talks now. I hear these echoes
of the barracks life that we had and that we grew out of. >> NARRATOR: Back when Donald
Trump was growing up in Queens, Hillary Rodham was living
a short train commute from downtown Chicago. >> Hugh and Dorothy Rodham moved
from Chicago, the tough city, into the all-white, new suburb
of 1950s America. >> And I remember men
walking home from work from the train station
with their cigarettes dangling and their Chicago American
evening newspaper under their arm. >> NARRATOR:
They called Park Ridge "an idyllic American suburb." Hillary has said her life was straight out of the 1950s
sitcom<i> Father Knows Best.</i> >> The story of a man,
his home and his family. Starring Robert Young. >> NARRATOR: But the truth
was much more complicated. Inside the Rodham family,
Hillary's father Hugh was a staunchly conservative
and demanding presence. >> Hugh and Hillary
always had a relationship that had its difficulties. Hillary goes to school and makes
straight A's and he says, "That must be a really easy
school if you got straight A's." I mean, gets no credit for her
effort, no credit for her work. >> NARRATOR:
With Hillary's mom Dorothy, the treatment was worse. >> Her father was abusive
verbally and dismissive. When her mother and father
would have these tense, demeaning discussions,
Hillary would run to her room and put her hands
over her ears and say, "I can't stand listening
to this." >> There was a lot of fighting
in the Rodham household. And I don't think she invited
many friends home. That's when her whole penchant
for secrecy and privacy began. >> NARRATOR: Dorothy had
had to overcome a difficult childhood
of her own. >> I think the resilience
of Dorothy Rodham, this little girl born
to 16-year-old parents who did not want her
and did not love her-- they never showed her
any affection, never hugged her,
never kissed her-- and I think it would have
defeated most people. >> NARRATOR: Dorothy was
determined to give Hillary a better life. >> I think that Dorothy
was frustrated, like many, many women
of that era. She had far more abilities,
talents, and intelligence than the world or her
relationship with her husband allowed her to show,
and I think that she poured a lot of that ambition
into her daughter. >> NARRATOR: Outside the home, in Room 224 at Eugene Field
Elementary School, they saw that ambition early on. Betsy Ebeling became
her best friend. >> I was the new girl in class, and somebody else
in the classroom said to me, "You know, you're very lucky. You're sitting across
from Hillary Rodham." And I said, "Yeah, she seems
very nice." And she said, "No, she's captain
of the crossing guards." So see, I knew then that she was
destined for great things. Captain of the crossing guards. >> NARRATOR: But in the 1950s,
her classmates believed a girl who was a star
could only rise so high. >> I remember our class prophecy
in the sixth grade that Hillary would be married
to a U.S. senator. Nobody could wrap their mind
around a woman having that kind of achievement,
you know? >> NARRATOR: But the world
of Hillary and her friends was changing. At the Methodist church,
a new minister arrived. >> A youth minister
named Don Jones, then about 26 years old, arrives in a red Chevy Impala
convertible and becomes really
the most influential, certainly male figure, almost as a counterweight
to Hillary's father. >> Don Jones was good looking. He was young. It was just contrary
to everything that we'd ever had in church--
any church, right? >> NARRATOR: In the conservative
Republican community of Park Ridge,
Jones was controversial, introducing Hillary
and her youth group to progressive ideas. One Sunday, he did just that when he took them
into downtown Chicago. >> And he took Hillary
and some of her friends to hear Martin Luther King
speak. >> It was at the Chicago
Sunday 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 is
taking place in our world today. It is sweeping away
an old order. >> Here is this black man
from the South who's talking about segregation, and she didn't even know
what segregation was. >> They came to realize that
slavery and segregation were strange paradoxes
in a nation founded on the principle that
all men are created equal. >> NARRATOR: Betsy says
she and Hillary would never forget the moment. >> There was something very deep
inside Martin Luther King that is not just moving,
but life-altering. And the words that came out
were so profoundly affecting that you left feeling
more fulfilled in many ways, and more empty in many ways,
than you had before. >> The old order
is passing away, a new order is coming
into being. God grant that we will use
the moment. >> NARRATOR: As a young man,
Donald Trump grew up hearing the gospel of success at the Marble Collegiate Church
in Manhattan. >> The Marble Collegiate Church, with Norman Vincent Peale
as the minister, he preached the gospel
of success. Success was not only okay; it was a really good idea
and you should actually do it. >> The God who made this world
was a wise God. >> NARRATOR:
Norman Vincent Peale had sold millions of copies of his book<i>
The Power of Positive Thinking.</i> >> He wants people who live life
and like it, love it. >> NARRATOR: The church was
a place to be seen for leaders of business, socialites,
politicians. >> Donald's father made sure
to expose him to Norman Vincent Peale. It was consistent
with his father's ambition. >> How then can you face
the future with confidence? >> It elevates capitalism,
honors wealth, wholly consistent with who
Donald Trump wanted to be and who he became. >> By being 100% alive! >> Donald Trump
learned this notion that through the power
of positive thinking, you could focus your life
on your business, and your achievements
in the business world would be the measure
of your success. >> You are endowed with
the tremendous powers of God, and you may have trouble
with it, but you can handle it! >> NARRATOR: Following Peale's
method, Donald graduated from Wharton School
of Finance and Commerce and joined the family
real estate business as an apprentice to his father. It was a job
Donald's older brother-- they called him Freddy--
had once held and then lost. >> Fred Junior worked
for his dad, but he showed little aptitude and really not that much
interest 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 friendly
and outgoing. But his dad thought
he didn't measure up. >> Maryanne, who was working for
her father during the summers, told me that his father
never praised Freddy. He was always thought... he treated him like somebody
who was a loser. His father told the boys
to be killers, but Freddy was never a killer. >> NARRATOR: Freddy had always
loved flying. He struck out on his own
to pursue his dream. He became an airline pilot. >> What Donald told me at the
time was that he and his father had perhaps been
way too hard on him. They used to say to him,
because he was an airline pilot, "What's the difference
between what you do, Freddy, and driving a bus?" >> NARRATOR: Freddy started
to drink heavily. >> Fred Junior,
his death at a young age-- he was in his 40s--
was formative for Donald. And I think it was shocking
for their family. He was a guy who struggled
with alcoholism for a long time. >> NARRATOR: For Donald, Freddy's story was a lesson
he would never forget. He said, "Freddy just wasn't
a killer." >> I think he saw his brother as
being intimidated by his father. So he set himself out to be
the very opposite of that with his father
and with everybody else that he dealt with
for the rest of his life. (bells ringing) >> NARRATOR: By the mid-1960s, Hillary Rodham was a student
at Wellesley College. (choir singing) >> She is now living a life that
is not dictated by her parents but is affected by what's
going on in America at the time. >> Good evening. Dr. Martin Luther King, the apostle of non-violence
in the Civil Rights Movement, has been shot to death
in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King was standing
on the balcony... >> That was a huge event
for her. And she came into her dorm room, she threw her handbag
against 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 was
assassinated in Los Angeles. Then, tensions
over the Vietnam War erupted at the Democratic Convention
in downtown Chicago. >> (chanting): Stop the war! >> Here's this convention
going on, right, and Hillary said,
"We have to go see it." And she and I told our mothers that we were going
to the movies, and we drove my family
station 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 Hillary
waded into the crowd, they saw an old
high school friend. >> She was there volunteering,
patching up heads, and said, "You've got to be aware of this
and 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 Michigan
and Balbo into a warzone. >> She knew she was going
to go back to Wellesley, and she would find people
of like thinking of, "This war has to end." >> The police are now pushing
and shoving. Now they're clubbing
this young man. >> She had become
much more political, as frankly had most of us. You couldn't really go through
those years... >> One of the darkest hours... >> ...and all the tumult
in America and not be affected by it. >> NARRATOR: One year later,
her classmates selected Hillary the first student at Wellesley
to give a commencement address. The Republican senator
from Massachusetts, Edward Brooke, spoke first. >> At the commencement,
he gives a speech that is really kind of
condescending. >> Senator Brooke
basically told us that the people who are protesting are kind of like
elite ne'er-do-wells. So I can remember sitting
in my seat just fuming! I mean, this is my college
graduation and I am just fuming. And you know, we're just... all
of us were just ready to pop. >> Hillary was scribbling notes
all through his speech. >> And all of a sudden,
I looked up and Hillary Rodham
is rising from her seat and walking to the podium. >> And it is a great pleasure
to present to this audience Miss Hillary Rodham. >> I find myself
in a familiar position: that of reacting,
something that our generation has been doing
for quite a while now. >> And she began
with a complete, utterly articulate rebuttal of everything Senator Brooke
had said. She was going to say
what we all wanted to say. >> For too long, our leaders have viewed politics
as the art of the possible. And the challenge now
is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible
possible. >> NARRATOR: The speech
turned Hillary Rodham into a national celebrity. She was called
"a voice of her generation." >><i> LIFE</i> magazine picks it up
and profiles her. And she likes the attention. >> That was probably
the first time that Hillary felt what it would be like to be
a political leader. And she thought then,
"Well, maybe I can someday be a larger figure
on this political stage." >> NARRATOR: For Hillary,
that meant law school. She applied and was accepted by one the nation's
top law schools, Yale. >> A lot of very
ambitious people who wanted to change the course
of American history were at Yale Law School
in that period. >> NARRATOR: Among them
her friend Robert Reich, Clarence Thomas,
and Bill Clinton. They were all
in professor Thomas Emerson's civil liberties class. >> I remember that every time Professor Emerson asked
a question, Hillary was the first hand
in the air, and when he called on her, she always got the answer
exactly right. I was about the second
or third hand in the air, and I half the time
got the answer right. Bill Clinton missed most
of the classes, as I remember. I think he was off doing
political work. And Clarence Thomas
never said a word. Well, I would say it was
sort of a kind of metaphor for where we were all heading and how we all prioritized
our lives. >> NARRATOR: For the group
at the law school, it seemed inevitable that
one day, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham
would get together. >> When they meet, Hillary's
the one who's the celebrity. Hillary is the one who's been
in<i> LIFE</i> magazine. Bill is dazzled. >> Hillary from the beginning fell into the spell
of Bill Clinton's charisma, and Clinton saw in Hillary a woman who was his equal
or better in terms of intelligence
and ambition. And I think very early on
in their relationship, they saw that they
could get someplace together that they might not get to
apart. >> NARRATOR: But after
graduating, a separation. Bill headed back home
to Arkansas. Hillary took a job
in Washington. >> ♪ ...I'm a woman's man,
no time to talk ♪ ♪ Music loud and women warm... ♪ >> NARRATOR: In the early '70s, Donald Trump headed
out of Queens into Manhattan. >> From the very first time
I met Trump, I thought of<i> Saturday Night
Fever</i> and Travolta. >> ♪ Whether you're a brother
or whether you're a mother ♪ ♪ You're stayin' alive ♪ >> He was the kid who grew up
as an outsider to where the real action was. And he was acutely aware of it. He always had his eye on what
he thought was a glamorous, Hollywood-ish life, and that was
the life of Manhattan. >> I think if you had to pick
sort of three stereotypes that are probably constantly
tap-dancing in Donald's mind and in his imagination
of himself, it's Clint Eastwood, James Bond,
and Hugh Hefner. >> He's really spreading
his wings when he comes to Manhattan. Well, I think he's having
the time of his life. He's a bachelor--
he's an eligible bachelor. >> NARRATOR: Donald frequented
the city's hottest places. He met Nikki Haskell, the host
of 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 town
is built on. >> What's going on? >> NARRATOR: During the day, he worked hard to do something
his father never did-- break into Manhattan
real estate. >> He's a kid who wants
to figure out how to make deals, to figure out how to establish
a presence for himself in Manhattan. And he's right to believe that
that'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 incredible
reputation for being a tough, tough guy. >> The scene is Washington and the Senate Investigating
Subcommittee. Mr. Cohn, his friend and aide,
was present with Senator McCarthy
to answer accusations. >> NARRATOR:
Cohn had become famous during the McCarthy hearings,
a witch hunt that accused Americans
of communist sympathies. >> He delighted in the fact
that he had ruined so many lives in the McCarthy era. >> There is detailed testimony
of that in the record, Mr. Chairman,
of Levitsky's association, close personal association
with Julius Rosenberg over a period of years. >> Roy Cohn humiliated people. He made up things. He had no morals. You couldn't even say that
he had the morals of a snake. He had no morals. He had no moral center. >> Everyone knows
the 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 Donald
very confrontational. And I think you had that sort of "tough guy, don't take any kind
of bull(bleep) from anybody" kind of an attitude. And I think a lot of that, you
know, he instilled in Donald. >> And in his drawer,
he had a picture of Roy, and it was a grainy
black-and-white picture, and Roy looked like the devil. And he would pull it out and he
would say, "This is my lawyer. "If we can't make an agreement, this is who you're going to be
dealing with." >> NARRATOR: In 1973,
Trump hired Cohn to defend him and his father. They had been sued
by the federal government for discriminating
against black renters looking for apartments
in their buildings. >> The lawsuit revealed
that Trump agents allegedly were writing down "C"
for colored or "Number 9" to indicate
a black prospective tenant, and those people were often
turned away. >> And Trump asked him
for 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 press
conference and in court filings, Trump and Cohn claimed
they were the victims. >> He comes right back
with a $100 million lawsuit, which was filed by Roy Cohn. And that was Roy Cohn's
signature kind of thing. >> Roy Cohn taught Donald
how to come out punching, how to use lawsuits
like machine gun bullets, and take a no-prisoners
approach to City Hall, to your business opponents, to anyone else who might get
in your way. And I think Donald reveled
in that. >> NARRATOR:
But with damning evidence of racial discrimination, the company was forced
to settle. Nevertheless, Donald
didn't admit any wrongdoing and even declared the outcome
a victory. >> This is a classic example
of where Trump begins to demonstrate something he
talks about all the time today, which is he's a counter-puncher. So somebody comes after him
and says that he's done something nefarious
and horrible, and he just goes back at them
with 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 exactly
what happened there. He lost as clearly
as you can lose, but he loudly proclaimed
his victory. >> NARRATOR:
Fresh from Yale Law School, Hillary Rodham arrived
in Washington... >> The committee will come
to order. >> NARRATOR: ...a city gripped
by political scandal. She was at the center of it, an attorney on the Watergate
Committee. >> What did the president know,
and when did he know it? >> NARRATOR: As the committee
dug into allegations of presidential crimes, Hillary and the other staff
were sworn to secrecy. >> Hillary was working
on a committee where I think
she probably learned a lot about secrecy
and how you really needed to preserve it
in political life more than anywhere else. >> It's clear that
we're entering a very serious phase
of these hearings. >> NARRATOR: Hillary worked
in a secure location and was taught how to operate
in complete secrecy. >> We'd get together and Hillary never said a word
about anything. She said they were working
really hard and they had lots of things
to do. It was remarkable-- they were
remarkably close-mouthed. >> Good evening. President Nixon reportedly will
announce his resignation... >> NARRATOR: That summer, President Richard Nixon
resigned. >> The president now
at the door. A final wave. >> NARRATOR: As the committee
shut down, Hillary had a number of high-powered opportunities
in Washington. But she had a secret of her own. >> Lo and behold, she fails
the D.C. bar exam and is devastated by it, hanging her head a bit
at this terrible failure that she won't speak about
and doesn't reveal. And she kept it a secret
for 30 years. >> NARRATOR: Hillary would write
about her failure in her book<i> Living History.</i> >> "When I learned that
I had passed in Arkansas but failed in D.C.,
I thought that maybe my test scores
were telling me something." >> NARRATOR: She said
she believed it was a sign that she should move to Arkansas
to be with Bill. She told her landlord and friend
Sara 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 tremendous
future ahead of her. She was a star. I thought, "She's going down
there to Arkansas? Nobody goes to Arkansas." I said, "You're not gonna go
down there. "They don't have French bread,
they don't have brie. What are you going to do
down there?" >> She could have done anything
with her life. She could have been a powerhouse
in and of her own self in Washington, D.C. And yet, she makes
this very interesting and life-changing decision. She is going to be part of Bill
Clinton's political career. >> I said, "I'll drive you. Get in the car
and I'll drive you." We got to Fayetteville, and it was the Arkansas-Texas
football day. And the whole city was full
of Arkansans wearing pig hats. Apparently, the pig is
the mascot. And they were saying,
"Sooie, sooie, pig, pig, pig!" And I began to cry. Very sad. >> (man singing hymn) >> NARRATOR: Her friends
from Yale Law School couldn't believe this was where
Hillary was going to end up. >> We go to this dinner
at a church hall, we're sitting there talking
and jabbering, and then Bill gets up
to leave the table, and he says, "Well, we're going
to go talk politics." So I get up and Hillary says,
"Sit down." I said, "What?" She said, "The men go
to talk politics." And I looked around and everyone
left 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." (applause) >> NARRATOR: But Hillary decided
to make Arkansas home. And in 1975, she married Bill. >> I think she was head over
heels for Clinton, I really do. And I think she was also
carrying in her heart an ambition that she and Bill
and a lot of members of their generation
could transform America. It was...
I think it was that large. >> NARRATOR: In the mid-1970s, Donald Trump lived the life
of a playboy and made the rounds
with one particular model: Ivana Zelnícková. >> It's about wanting
to come into a room and command all
of the attention. What better way to do that
than to have a six-foot-tall, blonde supermodel on your arm? >> NARRATOR: Roy Cohn
drew up the pre-nup, Norman Vincent Peale officiated, and Donald and Ivana
were married. Trump also had his eye
on real estate. He had looked all over Manhattan
for the perfect location. >> And Donald
came upon this site, which had the Bonwit Teller
building on it. It was kind of a landmark
building. It was next door to Tiffany's. He loved it. >> NARRATOR: It was to be called
Trump Tower-- 58 stories of high-end retail
and high-priced condominiums. A chance for Donald to finally
surpass his father. To oversee the project, Trump surprised
the construction world-- he put a woman in charge. >> He said that I would be
his representative and act sort of like
a Donna Trump, he said, calling me a "killer." I would be in charge
of everything that would normally come to him. >> NARRATOR: The men's world
of unions and subcontractors in New York
had never seen it before. >> Donald told me that he thought that men were better
than women, especially in this field, but he said a good woman
is better than ten good men. I think he believed that women had to prove themselves more
than men, so a good woman
would work harder. >> NARRATOR: Res kept
the contractors in line, and executive vice president
Louise Sunshine handled the sales. >> He hired the right people
to help him, myself being one of them. And we got the job done. >> Look at my next guest. This is a reporter
on Wall Street. This is what he has in mind... >> NARRATOR: And Trump
personally took care of the marketing. >> Donald Trump, as I say,
is just 33 years old. He now has an apartment for sale
in 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 worth
a billion dollars. >> No, I really am not looking to make tremendous amounts
of money. I'm looking to enjoy my life, and if that happens to go
with it, that's fabulous. >> NARRATOR: And to help sell
the apartments, Trump had a novel idea--
he inflated the floor numbers. His 58-story building became
a 68-story building. >> How he got away with that,
I'm not sure, but he did, and it made a lot of sense
in his mind because if you're renting
a room, you'd rather be on the 14th
floor 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 author
Tony Schwartz, Trump would call it
"truthful hyperbole." >> "People want to believe that
something is the biggest "and the greatest
and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole." >> I came up with the phrase
"truthful hyperbole," and of course
it's a ridiculous term because there is no such thing
as truthful hyperbole, but it's kind of
a winning phrase. It really does capture a way
in which he sees the world. The truth doesn't mean much
to Donald Trump. >> In the time that I was
reporting on him, his lawyer said to me,
"Donald is a believer "that if you repeat
something enough, people will start
to believe it." >> Its opening party was one
to 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 marble
and 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 glitz
took over New York, and Donald embodied that glitz. >> And that was one
of the first times he really got a taste
of real celebrity, and Donald Trump is a man
who 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 elite
in Manhattan that has never accepted Donald. He was considered, I think,
loud and obnoxious and too self-centered
and ill-mannered and not someone who fit in. And so I think this is where
Donald's resentment of the elite comes from. >> NARRATOR: As Donald and Ivana
moved into a penthouse on the top three floors
of Trump Tower, something was missing. >> He doesn't have a lot
of friends, but how can somebody
in 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 epitome
of loneliness at the top. >> As much as I care
about my work, my relationship with my wife
Hillary means even more to me. >> Sometimes people ask me what
it's like being married to Bill. He works so hard
and keeps such long hours and becomes involved
in so many other people's lives and problems. I always tell them it's great. We really cherish the time
we do have together and appreciate the fact
each of us works hard. >> NARRATOR: In Arkansas,
as Bill Clinton rose from attorney general
to governor, Hillary Rodham became
his most powerful aide. She changed her appearance
and eventually her name. >> In order to avoid any problem
and just to put it to rest, I will forever be known as
Hillary Rodham Clinton... >> NARRATOR: She became skilled
at policy and politics, a fighter willing to play
hardball to win. >> Not only is she with him
every step of the way, but he's relying on her
more than ever. She was his main policy maven
during that period as well as political advisor. >> It's a moment
we've been waiting for. We all know it. You can feel it. Destiny is about to shake hands
with history. >> NARRATOR: And after a decade
as governor, they believed they were
finally ready. They would make a run
for the White House. >> And that is why today,
I proudly announce my candidacy for president of the United
States of America. >> ♪ Don't stop thinking
about tomorrow... ♪ >> And Hillary was right
with him, holding each other, waving to the crowds. And I remember looking at them
and I said, "I just hope they know
what they're getting into." >> I have no idea because
I've never done it before, I don't have any idea
what's going to happen, but I'm ready for it. We'll see. >> NARRATOR:
Hillary would find out whether she was ready
soon enough. >> Yes, I was Bill Clinton's
lover for 12 years. >> NARRATOR: Bill's past
was about to catch up with him and Hillary. >> The truth is I loved him. Now he tells me to deny it. >> The problems of Bill
and other women are central
to the Arkansas years and the marriage
of Bill and Hillary Clinton. >> Well, I'm sick
of all of the deceit and I'm sick of all of the lies. >> The rumors about other women
that 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 know
that he had almost... did I know he had been
unfaithful 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 know
everything. Hillary is the only person
in the world who can completely answer
that question accurately, but from all of my reporting
on that subject, she certainly knew. >> NARRATOR: Hillary had avoided
speaking publicly about it. >> She would never do that. She will never open the door
to the possibility of opening a conversation
about his peccadilloes. And I think that that goes
to the core of a lot of the clenched quality
that she portrays in public. >> NARRATOR: As they campaigned
in New Hampshire, the press pounced. >> What's your relationship
with Gennifer Flowers? >> There really isn't one,
obviously. >> The allegations were
beginning to take hold. They were beginning to undermine the credibility
of this candidacy. >> Flowers' allegations
of a prolonged extramarital... >> He's trying to regain
his 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 Bill
and other women on national TV. >> Clinton sat down with me
to try to put the issue to rest. >> NARRATOR: The interview would
air just after the Super Bowl, with 40 million Americans
watching. >> And I was there backstage,
I was thinking to myself, "I can't believe the two of them going out under these
circumstances." I mean, they must have nerves
of steel to be able to do this. >> Earlier today, Governor
Clinton and his wife Hillary sat down with me to try to put
the issue to rest. >> And I remember I didn't want
to watch it with friends. I wanted to sort of face it. Um... it was excruciating. >> Who is Gennifer Flowers? How would you describe
your relationship? >> Very limited, but until this,
you know, friendly, but limited. >> She's alleging
a 12-year affair with you. >> That allegation is false. >> NARRATOR: Everything she had
fought for was in peril. Now Hillary would speak. >> You know,
I'm not sitting here, some little woman standing
by my man like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because
I love him and I respect him and I honor
what he's been through and what we've been through
together. And you know,
if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him. >> Again and again, she was
willing and able emotionally to step into the breach
and protect her husband. >> She's looking at the ends
justify the means, there's this huge political
fight going on in the nation, they're on the right side
of that fight. And sort of taking it out
of the personal and putting it
into this larger construct is really her armor
from then on. >> Maybe Clinton has kept
the dogs off long enough that he'll go on
to Super Tuesday. >> Has Bill Clinton won second? If so, is it a strong second? >> In New Hampshire today, after months of campaigning
in some cases, candidates... >> NARRATOR: The<i> 60 Minutes</i>
appearance worked. They got the comeback
they were looking for. >> I think we know enough to say
with some certainty that New Hampshire tonight
has made Bill Clinton the "Comeback Kid." (cheers and applause) >> NARRATOR: The truth would
only come out years later in this deposition. >> And I had to admit
under this definition that I'd actually had sexual
relations with Gennifer Flowers. Now, I would rather have taken
a whipping than done that after all the trouble I'd been
through with Gennifer Flowers. ♪ ♪ >> It's another dazzling <i> Lifestyles of the Rich
and Famous,</i> your password to the last word in money-no-object adventure
and excitement! >> NARRATOR: He had hit it big
with Trump Tower. He was a celebrity
in New York City. At 40, he claimed
he was a billionaire. >> Welcome to the world
according to Trump, the billionaire builder
with a big bang approach who dared to autograph
the Manhattan skyline. >> NARRATOR: He was now
determined to make "Trump" a household name
all over America. He began with a legendary
buying spree. >> Banks were lining up
to give him money, and they would beat each other
on terms to provide money to him. He was spending money
like a drunken sailor. He buys a giant yacht that
he doesn't really enjoy at all. >> NARRATOR: There was
an airline. >> He bought the Trump Shuttle
from bankrupt Eastern Airlines, had no idea how to run
an airline. >> NARRATOR: Then he built
a gambling empire in Atlantic City--
two casinos and a hotel. (cheering) Then, the iconic Plaza Hotel
in New York City. >> It did seem out of control
and possibly even pathological. Casino after casino after casino
after casino. Hotels, yacht. Everywhere he turned, another
big piece of real estate here, another big piece
of real estate there. >> NARRATOR: By the late 1980s, Donald Trump's ambition pushed
him into uncharted territory-- presidential politics. >> The signs of power
and opulence in place, Donald Trump's
personal helicopter descended onto this small
airfield, greeted by a one-man
"Trump for President" bandwagon. >> I arranged for the
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Chamber of Commerce to invite
him for a luncheon speech. And a local Portsmouth city councilman
named Mike Dunbar forms the first known Draft
Trump for President Committee. >> NARRATOR: Trump's political
advisor Roger Stone was a longtime associate
of Roy Cohn. >> In truth, I don't think
he was ever serious about running in 1988. I think he liked the publicity,
he liked the notoriety. It was great media. >> What I want is
I want extreme competence. I want strength
and extreme competence, and you need a combination
of both, but I want strength
and extreme competence at the helm of this country. >> NARRATOR: In one speech
after another, Trump's political message
was simple and direct. >> I am personally tired of seeing this great country
of ours being ripped off and really decimated
and hurt badly by so many foreign nations
that are supposedly our allies. >> "NATO's ripping us off. "Why are we paying for this? "Why don't the Japanese pay
for themselves? "Why don't all our allies,
they're rich now, "why don't they pay
for themselves? "Trade, we're getting taken
to the cleaners in these trade deals." So he's already formulating
his views as early as '88. >> Thank you, bye. So long, so long. >> NARRATOR:
He loved the attention, and he even began
to insert himself into controversial issues
in New York City. >> It is the ages of the
accused, 14 to 17 years old, and the horror of their alleged
crimes that has caused a furor. A woman jogging
in New York's Central Park last Wednesday night raped
and nearly beaten to death. >> What happened in Central Park
was a violation to him, and he felt it keenly and he had
a deep emotional reaction to it, and so he lashed out. >> He took out a full-page ad after the Central Park
jogger case and said, "The kids who did this
should be executed. "This is terrible. They're beasts, animals." >> You better believe that
I hate the people that took this girl
and 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 text
of this was, because they were
five minority kids who brutalized a white woman
in Central Park and everybody's outraged
about it. And they're different from us,
and so we need to treat them with the severest methods
possible. >> NARRATOR: The five young men
spent years in prison, but were later exonerated
when the actual rapist admitted his guilt. >> But Donald Trump
never apologized. He didn't want to admit
he was wrong, and to this day
he has not apologized for the statements he made
at the time. >> NARRATOR: But for Trump,
his television rage had worked. His celebrity
was bigger than ever, and the talk of President Trump
had begun. >> I don't believe
that Trump himself felt that he was running
for president, but once the notion
got stirred up in him, it never went away. >> Governor, are you ready
to take the oath? >> I am. I, William Jefferson Clinton,
do solemnly swear... >> NARRATOR: It had been
nearly 20 years since Hillary Rodham Clinton
lived in Washington. Now she was back. >> ...the office of President
of the United States, so help me God. >> Congratulations. (applause) >> I think the hopes
were very high. It just seemed like, you know,
the sky is the limit. >> NARRATOR: The question
in Washington: what role would she play? >> I do remember the president-
elect noting a couple of times that if another Democrat
had been elected president, Hillary Clinton might be
the attorney general pick. >> When I first interviewed him,
I said, "So what's your goal for the next eight
or ten years?" He said, "Eight years of Bill,
eight years of Hill." >> I want to say
good afternoon... >> NARRATOR: On the fifth day
of his presidency, Bill Clinton ended
the speculation about his wife. >> Today, I am announcing
the formation of the President's Task Force
on National Health Reform. >> NARRATOR: A first lady
had never had an office in the West Wing. She had one, and now she had
an official position. >> This task force will be
chaired by the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. >> She was considered
a political asset to accomplish
the president's agenda. And health care reform was high
on that agenda. >> NARRATOR: Hillary Clinton
surprised Washington by operating
in near total secrecy. For months, her task force
worked behind closed doors. >> The health care plan is being
developed secretly. They're walled off. I mean, it's like the
development of the atom bomb. I mean, it's almost
in a fortress. >> NARRATOR: She believed
the 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 people
in the United States Congress are absolutely appalled by
and also are empowered by and use it against her
and the Clinton White House. >> This is the Social Security
Act passed in August of 1935, 38 pages in length, establishing Social Security
for all Americans. This is the Health Security Act. Excuse me if I have a little
trouble picking it up. And that is 1,342 pages. 38 pages versus 1,342. >> Few first ladies
over the years have earned as much attention. >> NARRATOR: Her health care
plan was under fire. >> ...complained about secrecy surrounding her health care
task force. >> NARRATOR:
But that wasn't all. >> The most powerful
and public first lady ever. >> NARRATOR: The criticism
was becoming personal. >> Mrs. Clinton is a player
in this administration. >> When you come
to the White House, you are literally under attack
every moment of the day. >> Hillary Rodham Clinton has forever changed the role
of first lady. >> The fleas come with the dog
with this job, and I'm sure that they knew
all of this, but it is a real eye opener
when you see how brutal it actually can be. >> Quite capable
of playing hard. >> NARRATOR: There were reports
of marital strife, allegations that she'd
orchestrated the firing of White House
travel office employees, and questions about their
finances and real estate deals. >> She cannot be fired,
she cannot be disciplined. >> This was all happening
at once. And they'd gotten the prize, and the prize was turning
to dust. The prize was becoming
a complete nightmare. >> The hearings are likely
to embarrass some people very close to the president. >> No ordinary American... >> NARRATOR: Increasingly,
the first lady believed she was at war. >> The Whitewater political
battle continues... >> Hillary Clinton began to feel
very 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 much
for the credibility of a White House
already under siege. >> And builds up a set
of resentments that I think she's carried
to this day. >> ...president's personal
lawyer subpoenaed the records... >> NARRATOR:
As the attacks mounted, she decided that
what she needed to do was to get out of Washington. >> They are on the road again, a Clinton Campaign style
caravan of buses... >> NARRATOR: She would try
to sell the health care plan directly to the American public. >> If we do not guarantee health
insurance to every American, then we have failed
all Americans. >> NARRATOR: But if anything, the reaction outside
of Washington was even worse. >> Since last September, when the president proposed
his health plan, the Clintons have campaigned
endlessly for it. (crowd booing) >> NARRATOR: There was anger
in the crowds. It was about more than health
care; it was about her. >> I remember as though
it were yesterday was as her car was leaving, there were such angry faces
pushing as best they could in sort of a mob attack
on the windshield and screaming at her for,
you know, "What is it she's trying to do?" >> NARRATOR: Hillary Clinton
began to realize that just as in Arkansas, there was something
about who she was that some people didn't like. >> And she talked
about how she was shocked, and she got a little emotional
about this, by the reaction to her
when she went on the road trying to sell
the health care plan. They spit on her. They cursed her. >> She said, "I don't know
what 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 me
they hate. "It's what I represent. "It's the changes I represent. "I'm the wife
who went back to college "and got a better education and got a better job
than my husband." She recognized that problem
back then, and of course it remains
a problem for her today. >> One of the most extraordinary
off-year elections... >> The Democrats are finding it
tough going tonight... >> Just when you thought
it couldn't get any uglier, it does. >> NARRATOR: The health care
plan died. >> The Republican Revolution
of election '94... >> NARRATOR: And that year, the Democrats lost
the midterm election. >> The man of the hour
clearly is Newt Gingrich, the Republican firebrand... >> NARRATOR: Some of the blame
fell on the first lady. >> She was viewed I think
slightly radioactively by some people in the West Wing
and on the president's staff. People in the West Wing were pointing a lot of fingers
at her. >> Hillary did feel a sense
of disappointment, a sense of responsibility, a feeling that certainly
had contributed to the political landscape. >> A monumental problem
for President Clinton and his political agenda. >> NARRATOR: In desperation,
again, Hillary reached out to the controversial political
operative Dick Morris in secret. >> We both decided
to keep it secret, and I came up
with the code name "Charlie," and I used that, and from November '94
until April '95, nobody knew I was there
but Bill and Hillary. >> NARRATOR: Among Democrats, Morris, now a Republican
strategist, 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 arrogant
narcissists 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 predict
what they're going to do. The same patterns
repeat themselves over and over and over again
in their lives. They got beat, just like
they got beat for governor, and they did what it took
to 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 conservative
positions. The first lady's longtime
friends were alarmed. >> I was naturally upset. I mean, here we had a takeover
of the White House in the form of Dick Morris, and he was pushing the president
to the right. It was distressing,
to say the least. >> NARRATOR: Morris also
identified one other problem that needed fixing: Hillary. >> I recommended that Hillary
withdraw entirely from West Wing activities
in public in the White House--
that is, public policy. That she no longer be seen
as the key strategist, as the de facto chief of staff
because I said it was giving Bill
a reputation for weakness where he might not be able
to win reelection. >> NARRATOR: With her husband's
reelection at stake, she agreed to withdraw. She stayed away
from the West Wing and transformed herself
once again. >> Hi, how are you all? Well, welcome to the White House and the beginning
of the Christmas season here. >> The Christmas scene
was a variation of staying home
and baking cookies. She was standing by her man and
doing what it took to do that. >> NARRATOR: And it worked. With her help, Bill Clinton
was reelected in 1996. >> NARRATOR: By the early 1990s, Donald Trump's life was about
to fall apart professionally and personally. >> The rumors began that
he had a girl and so forth, and I was being bombarded
with these stories. >> NARRATOR: Liz Smith was
a well-known gossip columnist in newspapers and on television. Smith kept a close eye
on Donald and Ivana. >> Ivana was totally fixated
on Donald. I heard all these things:
that she had tried to please him and gone away
and had her breasts augmented, and a face lift. >> NARRATOR: But now there was
another woman-- 26-year-old Marla Maples. Ivana and Donald had been
married 12 years. They had three children. >> She threw herself in my arms
sobbing and crying and saying, "Donald doesn't want me anymore. "He has told me he can't be
sexually attracted to a woman who's had children." >> The Trumps are good copy, and the gossip columnists
are in for a field day. >> The unfolding saga of Trump
versus Trump. >> A high-octane mix of the
stuff that sells newspapers. >> NARRATOR: For months, the tabloids reported
on every detail of the affair, the breakup, and the divorce. >> The model from Georgia
cast as the other woman. >> It was ugly,
it was horribly ugly. The press was devastating
in my mind. >> Linking Trump to a bevy
of beauties... >> But Donald
didn't seem to think it was so devastating at all. He just rode with it, and he had his camp
and Ivana had her camp. >> In Manhattan, the story
is Trump versus Trump. >> And he was totally
comfortable in that period under the tutelage of Roy Cohn and the idea that all publicity
is good publicity. Donald Trump felt that his name,
his image, his brand were enhanced
by having this war go on in the tabloid newspapers
of New York complete with sexual details
of relationships. >> The worst publicity
in the world can end up being good publicity. Meaning, "Yeah, people said
terrible things about me, but they sure know who I am." And a month later,
or three months later, they don't remember what it was
they didn't like about you; they just remember
they 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 career
in business and represents everything
that he did right, the Taj Mahal is
the other bookend that represents everything
he did wrong. >> NARRATOR: It was huge--
1,250 rooms. The casino was the size
of two football fields. $14 million worth
of chandeliers. On Wall Street,
some analysts were worried, and one of them spoke
to the<i> Wall Street Journal.</i> >> I saw a real problem. I didn't think that the company could cover its interest
expenses on that debt. Plus the payroll was enormous because of the scope
of the property. >> NARRATOR: Trump had spent
more than a billion dollars on the Taj. >> "Once the cold winds blow
from October to February, "it won't make it. The market just isn't there." >> NARRATOR: Donald Trump sent
Marvin Roffman's boss this letter. >> "Mr. Roffman is considered
by those in the industry "to be a hair-trigger
and, in my opinion, somewhat unstable in his tone
and manner of criticism." >> Donald Trump sees the people
who have criticized him or have predicted
that he would do poorly, he sees them as traitors. And so his immediate instinct
is to tear that person down. >> "I am now planning
to institute a major lawsuit "against your firm
unless Mr. Roffman makes a major public apology
or is dismissed." >> NARRATOR: Roffman had worked
at his brokerage firm for 16 years. He says they told him
to back down. >> Donald Trump was trying
to 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 me
out the building, and when the elevator got down
to 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 work
in the industry again." >> NARRATOR: Burdened by debt,
the Taj would not turn a profit. By that winter,
as Roffman predicted, the casino was
in serious trouble. >> His business condition was
terrible, worse than terrible. We were in a deep recession and people weren't going
to Atlantic City, so the revenue stream from
Atlantic City, the Taj Mahal, and the other casinos was poor. >> NARRATOR: Trump's other
investments had not fared much better. The Plaza Hotel--
a financial disaster. The airline Trump Shuttle
was bleeding money. >> He sort of blamed the people
around 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 long
cast himself as a winner. Now he was looking like a loser. >> I think that the downtime
for him was really a shock, and he was not prepared for it. It caught him totally off guard. It was probably the biggest
challenge of his life. >> The Donald is facing
an incredible cash crisis. >> Big troubles
for Donald Trump. >> NARRATOR:
Trump and his companies owed more than three billion dollars, much of it to the banks that
had fueled his spending spree. >> As quickly as the banks
loved him, that's as quick as they saw him
as a pariah. He was like,
"Ew, it's Donald Trump." They didn't want to have
anything to do with him. They wanted their money and they wanted to be rid
of Donald Trump. >> NARRATOR: The bankers
descended on Trump Tower. >> Bankers held gigantic
meetings at Trump Tower with, like, 40 banks
all sitting around in a room, Donald very sober-looking, not quite penitent, perhaps,
but serious. >> When you were talking to him
in these meetings, he just didn't seem that
he had any idea how big the problem was
or how it would be resolved. But he, as far as being a CEO
and understanding numbers and understanding
the ramifications, doesn't seem like he took
economics or accounting in college. >> Donald Trump's assets
are on the line. Citibank and Trump's
other lenders are working on a bailout plan... >> NARRATOR: The bankers faced
a fundamental decision. >> The Trump Organization
confirmed today... >> It was at a time when we
were all trying to figure out, is it better off this guy
being alive financially, or is it better off
having him dead financially? >> NARRATOR: As they stared into
the Trump Organization's abyss, the banks came to believe that
Trump's assets-- the buildings, the casinos-- were worth more
with his name on them than in foreclosure. >> If they were to take Trump
out of it, they would no longer have
the name for the casinos, which was a tremendous part
of their allure. Otherwise, basically
what could they do? Liquidate and take
a tremendous hit? >> The brand was worth now
so much that bankers were willing
to take a haircut in order to hang onto the name. >> The Trump Princess is said
to have a price tag... >> NARRATOR: They sold the yacht
and the airline. >> Trump may have to unload
the Trump Shuttle, worth about $220 million. >> NARRATOR: And they put Trump
on a $450,000 a month allowance. >> By next summer, he could become Atlantic City's
biggest loser ever. >> NARRATOR: In exchange, he would continue to promote
the business. >> I think bankers look at Trump
as a promoter, not as a CEO. At least that's the way
I looked at him, and if you talked
to other bankers, I think they share that opinion. He's a wonderful promoter. You know, he's the P.T. Barnum
of the 21st century. >> Donald Trump may have pulled
off his biggest deal to date. >> NARRATOR: Donald Trump
had survived. >> Working on a bailout plan... >> NARRATOR: He was too big
to fail. >> The bankers do not want Trump
to file for bankruptcy. >> Explosive new allegations that strike at the very heart
of the presidency. >> NARRATOR: On the morning
of January 21, 1998, Hillary Clinton's world
was rocked once again. >> Bill Clinton woke her up
one day and said, "I just have to tell you that "there's this weird thing
going on and I don't want you to worry
about it." >> NARRATOR: She tells the story
herself in her book. >> "He sat on the edge
of the bed and said, "'There's something in today's
papers you should know about.' "'What are you talking about?'
I asked. "He told me there were news
reports that he'd had an affair with a former White House
intern." >> It was at once probably
a complete shock to her and no shock at all,
if that's possible. That's the way I would view it. >> "I questioned Bill
over and over about the story. "He continued to deny
any improper behavior "but to acknowledge
that his attention could have been misread." >> And Hillary Clinton
believes that, and believes it
and wants to believe it. >> These are dark days
at the White House. >> Monica Lewinsky's told
prosecutors all she knows. >> Monica Lewinsky saved
a navy blue dress that had the president's
semen stain on it, that she saved it as
a kind of souvenir. >> NARRATOR: As the pressure
grew, she decided to act. >> Live from Studio 1-A
in Rockefeller Plaza. >> Good morning, and welcome to<i>
Today</i> on this Tuesday morning. >> NARRATOR: She headed
to New York for an appearance on<i> The Today Show.</i> Her top aide Melanne Verveer
was with her. >> We'll hear
in just a few minutes from the first lady
of the United States. >> The night before was almost
surreal because, you know, we just felt this personal pain
that she was experiencing. There wasn't a whole lot
of conversation, and it wasn't clear exactly
what she intended to say. >> I think
the important thing now is to stand as firmly as I can
and say that, you know, the president has denied these
allegations on all counts, unequivocally. >> She had no choice. I mean, think about all that
she had invested in this for so many decades, and this is
their most vulnerable point. I don't think she... you know,
with all of that investment, I don't think she had any choice
but to say what she did and to do what she did. >> Has he described that
relationship in detail to you? >> NARRATOR: Hillary fought back
like she had always done. >> The great story here
for anybody willing to find it and write about it
and explain it is this vast right-wing
conspiracy that has been conspiring
against my husband since the day he announced
for president. >> Those words, "the vast
right-wing conspiracy," helped with that
larger construct. This wasn't personal;
this was political. And that's her armor. >> This is the last great
battle. >> NARRATOR:
Hillary Rodham Clinton had learned how to deal
with scandal. >> Are you saying that this
doesn't upset you anymore? You're almost numb to it? >> It's not being numb so much
as just being very experienced in the unfortunate mean-spirited
give and take of American politics right now. >> If an American president
had an adulterous liaison in the White House
and lied to cover it up, should the American people
ask for his resignation? >> Well, they should certainly
be concerned about it. >> Should they ask
for his resignation? >> Well, I think that
if all that were proven true, I think that would be
a very serious offense. That is not going
to be proven true. >> Hillary becomes
almost the last person standing to believe that there was
no sexual event or relationship between Monica Lewinsky
and Bill Clinton. (thunder rumbling) But her world was collapsing
around her. The presidency, her husband's
presidency is collapsing. >> NARRATOR: Then after months,
the truth. >> Five seconds. >> Look okay? Indeed, I did have
a relationship with Miss Lewinsky
that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. >> He'd not only made
a fool of himself, but he had made a fool
of her publicly. This is Hillary Clinton
we're talking about, you know, a brilliant person, who was
played for a fool publicly. >> I misled people,
including even my wife. I deeply regret that. >> Hillary must have been
absolutely beside herself. I mean, the president had
personally assured her that there had been nothing to this. I mean, here he is, the
president of the United States, and he has an intern,
I mean, a little girl, and he's risking
his entire administration? I mean, that seemed to me
absolutely 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 Chelsea
departed for vacation. >> She's obviously furious, and she clearly is not going
to hold his hand. Both of them are holding
the two hands of Chelsea. >> The entire country
was waiting to see how she handled it-- not just the press, everybody,
because gosh almighty, who had ever had to be
in that position before? >> She's talked about it
only in guarded ways, but in ways that suggest that
she went through a terrible, terrible time as a result
of that, and lives with that today. >> NARRATOR: The trip
would be the first step in a months-long reconciliation. >> The nation's most flamboyant
and publicity-conscious... >> NARRATOR: In the aftermath of Donald Trump's
financial collapse, the casinos were still deeply
in debt. He was looking for a way out. He found one-- Wall Street. >> Donald Trump is gambling
investors want to bet on him. >> This is a very exciting day. This is just the right time, and it's the right time
for this industry. So we're really, uh... we're really happy, and this is
a very exciting day. >> NARRATOR: He was selling
shares in the casinos. With Trump as the pitchman, the stock DJT hit a high
of $35 a share. >> Of course, it left Donald
Trump as the steward of a publicly traded company,
which is kind of like leaving a kid locked
in a candy store overnight. >> NARRATOR: Trump paid himself
$44 million for services, and he'd been reimbursed
millions in expenses more for his plane, the helicopter,
and other administrative costs. >> So he was making tens
of millions of dollars a year personally while the stock price
was sinking, almost collapsing. >> NARRATOR: The company filed
for bankruptcy three times. Investors lost billions. >> He never earned a dime
for his shareholders, for pensioners
who had their retirement funds tied up in those casinos. Never earned a dime until he just drove
the whole thing off the cliff. >> With all your
financial problems, do you think you will survive? >> Why do you say
there are problems? >> NARRATOR:
Trump characteristically described his time
in Atlantic City as a success. >> Everything financially okay? >> Don't believe everything
you read, I'll tell you. >> Donald Trump believes that
he came out ahead because, as he puts it, he was
looking out for Donald Trump. And all of the other people
who lost their shirts, it didn't work out for them. That's the way things go, they
should have done a better job of vetting their investment. >> NARRATOR: And Trump
walked away with a key asset-- his name. >> It really dawned on Trump that he could make
a huge business empire out of putting his name
everywhere. "God, I don't have
to kill myself "trying to buy up land
and deal with zoning boards "and, you know, go crazy, "and half the time
it doesn't work anyway. Why don't I just sell my name?" >> NARRATOR: Dozens of Trump
buildings would go up around the world, but he would
neither build them nor own them. >> "It has my name on it. "I get a fee. "I usually get the management
of the building as well, "which brings even more
money in, "and everybody thinks
it's my building. It's Trump Tower Manila,
Trump Tower Panama City." >> NARRATOR: For Trump, real
estate was now a side business; marketing his own name,
a full-time job. >> Do you really think
this is the right thing for us to be doing, Ivana? >> But it feels so right. >> Then it's a deal. >> Yes, we eat our pizza
the wrong way. >> Crust first. >> NARRATOR:
Along with his ex-wife, Trump turned
his marital problems into a pizza commercial. >> May I have the last bite? >> Actually, you're only
entitled to half. >> He's seen that
it'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' Tasty
for just a dollar? How do you do it? What's your secret? >> NARRATOR: He used his
celebrity to sell everything from computers to hamburgers. >> Got a buck? You're in luck! >> Together, Grimace,
we could own this town. >> He realizes that
if you're on TV and you're considered
a celebrity and you're considered a success, and that you can essentially
trade on that for the rest of your life. >> What's going on over here? >> NARRATOR: He even took a turn
as a professional wrestler. >> Hey, look at this! Donald Trump! >> Donald Trump taking down
Vince McMahon! The hostile takeover! >> He was seen for quite a long
time as a punchline to jokes about the excesses
and the failures of the 1980s, and he's become, you know,
a human shingle and a punchline. <i> The Apprentice</i> turned
all of that on its head. >> New York-- my city, where the wheels of the global
economy never stop turning. >> ♪ Money, money,
money, money... ♪ >> He became seen as
a credible businessperson with a real track record, even though that was at odds
with reality. And the guy who became a reality
TV star via<i> The Apprentice</i> learned that he could become
a reality political star. >> Who will succeed
and who will fail? And who will be the apprentice? >> NARRATOR: For 14 seasons,
millions of Americans watched a carefully crafted
Donald Trump. >> He's perfectly made up. He's perfectly coiffed. He's perfectly lit. He's in the high-back chair
making tough decisions. What does he look like? He looks like a president. >> Donald connected
with the American public because they wanted
to be like him. They aspired to be
just like him. They wanted to see
all this affluence, and he let them see it. He let them into every aspect of what it meant to be
successful in America. >> Good morning.
>> Good morning. >> Everybody's saying
I should run for president. Let me ask you a question. Meatloaf, should I run
for president? >> Absolutely. >> Now you would definitely
vote for me? >> NARRATOR:
As the show took off, Trump again began to discuss
a 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 anybody
that raised their hand would immediately be fired... >> He was very serious,
there's no question about it. His popularity was never higher
than it was, you know, during this<i> Apprentice</i> time,
and he was literally... He could do no wrong
at 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 his
political guru Roger Stone, the TV audience could become
Trump voters. >> Which is the greatest
single 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 news
and television entertainment, it's all television. >> NARRATOR:
He was wealthy again. He had rehabilitated his image. The world knew him. Donald Trump believed
he was ready. >> One of the most critical days
of his presidency. >> Senators, how say you? >> NARRATOR: As the revelations
about Monica Lewinsky led to Bill Clinton's
impeachment trial, Hillary would help
rescue him again. >> She somehow manages
to find it in herself not only to forgive
her husband enough that they can get back together
and be a team, but she actually begins
to manage the defense of her husband
in the impeachment trial. I mean, it's utterly
extraordinary. >> There was, we think, a national sense of relief
that it was over. >> NARRATOR: But on the day
he was acquitted, Bill Clinton, without Hillary by his side,
addressed the press. >> I want to say again
to the American people how profoundly sorry I am
for what I said and did to trigger these events. >> And the day that the Senate
votes to acquit Bill Clinton, where is Hillary Clinton? She is in the study
off of her bedroom in the White House
with maps of New York State laid out in front of her
and considering whether to run for the Senate
of the United States. >> And Bill Clinton comes by,
wants to come in to chat. They don't even invite him
in the room. And they plan and think
and plot. And she told me afterwards, "That was the first time
in 53 years "that I spoke with my own voice
and planned to use my own voice as my own political person." >> She was whisked
into the Capitol like a visiting dignitary. >> The star of the day, the new
junior senator from New York. >> NARRATOR: Hillary Clinton
became the first senator who was also the first lady. >> The president's wife is
struggling to appear humble in her new world, where power
comes from seniority, not celebrity. >> I think the surprising factor
was that yes, she would leave the White House
before he left the White House and chart her own very singular
public political career as his was coming to an end. I mean, when have we ever seen
that in American history before? >> NARRATOR: Unlike her failed
effort at heath care reform, as a senator,
she worked the back rooms and the corridors of power. >> If she really wanted
to develop a base of power that was hers, she had to do it
in her own way based on what she had learned
the hard way as first lady. >> NARRATOR: With presidential
ambitions in mind, she kept her head down
and focused on the practical. >> She is happier with the grind
than she is with the stardust. She loves delving
and drilling down. She loves public policy. >> NARRATOR: And for six years, she courted the Democratic Party
establishment and big donors, laying the groundwork
for her next move. >> I'm running for president,
and I'm in it to win it! >> She was the overwhelming
favorite, yes, but she ran into competition the likes of which
she hadn't anticipated. >> We can finally bring the
change we need to Washington. We are ready
to take this country in a fundamentally
new direction. >> They weren't ready
for Barack Obama. She got blindsided completely. She thought it was her time. >> The American people
are looking for change... >> Her husband was supposed
to be the first black president, and along comes a guy
who 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 biggest
fairy tale I've ever seen. >> NARRATOR: The Clintons, now members of the Washington
establishment, fought back. >> Now, I could stand up here
and say, "Let's just get everybody
together, let's get unified, the sky will open..." (laughter) "...the light will come down,
celestial choirs will be singing "and everyone will know
we 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 now
embodied it. >> It was understandable that
in 2008, she is saying to Barack Obama, "It's not going to be as easy
as you think it is. You know, I have the scars
to prove it." >> Maybe I've just lived
a little long, but I have no illusions about
how hard this is going to be. You are not going
to wave a magic wand and have the special interests
disappear! >> Something very different
from what she was in 1992, when she and Bill Clinton
were the new guard. They were the boomers. They were the voice of change. But to the American public
who wants to elect a president who exudes hope and aspiration, Hillary started to sound like
the old guard, the voice of caution,
the establishment. >> It has been the honor
and 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 support
to the next president of the United States,
Barack Obama. (applause) >> (chanting):
Thank you, Hillary! >> Please welcome my friend
Donald Trump. >> NARRATOR: With his image
as a leader burnished by<i> The Apprentice,</i> Donald Trump now saw an issue
he could turn into headlines. >> Why doesn't he show
his birth certificate? I think he probably...
>> Why should he have to? >> Because I have to and
everybody else has to, Whoopi. Why wouldn't he show...? Excuse me. No, excuse me. I really believe there's
a birth certificate. Why... look, she's smiling. Why doesn't he show
his birth certificate? >> The birther thing
is interesting because it harkens back
to Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy. Donald gets insight
into the fact that you can sensationalize
someone's personal history in a brutal and insensitive way. >> I've never heard
any white president asked to be shown
the birth certificate! >> When he was becoming the
leader of the birther movement, I think he understood
who he was speaking to. It was the Archie Bunkers, who were uncomfortable with
an African-American president. >> If you're going to be the
president of the United States, it says very profoundly that you
have to be born in this country. >> Donald Trump is
a billionaire, he's famous, he's on TV, and he's saying
he'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 phenomena
to his attention. But Trump understands
among Republicans, there's a very
substantial majority who have questions
about Obama's origins and how he just pops up
out of nowhere to become a national figure and whether he was in fact
eligible to serve as president. >> Another political story
making news this morning: Donald Trump's
growing poll numbers on a list of possible
presidential... >> NARRATOR: As the birther
issue raised his polls numbers, Trump arrived in New Hampshire
for what looked like the beginning
of 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 speech
was carried live on national television. But President Obama
had a surprise for Trump. >> If you put a tax
on Chinese products... >> Okay, we're going
to leave New Hampshire and go to Washington
and the White House, where President Obama
is speaking. >> As many of you
have been briefed, we provided additional
information today about the site of my birth. >> NARRATOR: Obama had released
his birth certificate and upstaged Trump. >> Yes, in fact, I was born
in Hawaii, August 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital. >> NARRATOR: With the birth
certificate no longer an issue, Washington expected Donald Trump
to recede into the background. They were certain he was
finished. >> Shortly after Barack Obama
was sworn in as president, Hillary was nominated
and quickly confirmed as his secretary of state. >> Now Mr. Obama
wants to make Clinton the face of his foreign policy. >> NARRATOR: To the surprise
of many in Washington, Hillary Clinton agreed
to become Barack Obama's secretary of state. >> The former presidential
candidate constantly sparred over foreign policies... (crowd cheering) >> She wanted to run again, and I think having a secretary
of state credential underneath her belt
or on her résumé was something that was
very important to her. >> We will have
a secretary of state who has my full confidence. >> NARRATOR:
But from the very beginning, she learned that Obama intended
to run foreign policy from the Oval Office. >> What we find out is that
all decision-making is concentrated
in the White House, that there is no decisions
that are going to be made that don't get vetted
and run through the White House, no matter how small. >> NARRATOR: For two years,
Clinton tried to work her way into Obama's inner circle
and build a legacy. >> Angry demonstrators marched
through the streets of Tunisia. >> It is a dark, dangerous,
and violent night. >> NARRATOR: And as
the Arab Spring erupted throughout the Middle East, Secretary Clinton saw
an opportunity. She went to the president
with a plan: to join an international
coalition to take out the Libyan dictator
Muammar Gaddafi. >> In the decisive meeting
that we had, she was saying, "We have to do more
if we're going to shape this, "and there's the ability
to have a broad coalition to do this." >> Gaddafi's grip on the country
is weakening. >> NARRATOR: The president
agreed. >> Helping to identify targets
for the U.S.-led air assault. >> NARRATOR: And as Gaddafi's
forces crumbled, it looked like a success. Secretary Clinton was
in front of the cameras when she received news Gaddafi
himself had been captured. >> It's unconfirmed. >> Unconfirmed, yeah. Unconfirmed reports
about Gaddafi being captured. >> She found out about this as she was doing
a television interview. >> NARRATOR: The moments
around Gaddafi's death were also caught on camera. >> Her response was... >> We came, we saw, he died! (laughing) >> It didn't have anything to do
with your visit? >> I'm sure it did. >> It was a moment of success
and gratification for her. It tells you just how invested
she was in the Libya mission and what she believed was going
to be a great success for herself
and for the United States. >> NARRATOR: The success
was short-lived. Libya descended into chaos. In Benghazi, four Americans
working for the State Department were killed, including
Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Their deaths again
put Hillary Clinton at the center
of a political storm. >> Today on Capitol Hill,
marathon testimony... >> Directly confronting one
of the biggest controversies... >> NARRATOR: There were eight
congressional investigations. She spent hours testifying. >> The embattled Hillary
is the essence of Hillary. She's comfortable in battle. She has fought
for two generations. And she's got a lot of scars. And who she is is a map of how she has traversed
that battlefield, going back to Arkansas. >> NARRATOR: And those old
questions about secrecy again resurfaced
in a controversy over a private email system
she set up. >> The Clinton team says
there 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 it
against me," and they would. >> Secretary Clinton
or her colleagues were extremely careless. >> NARRATOR: Yet Hillary Clinton
was determined to try for the presidency
one last time. >> (chanting): Hell no, DNC! We won't vote for Hillary! >> NARRATOR: And again, she faced charges from the young
and the progressive that she embodies
the establishment. As always, she fought on. >> Thanks to you,
we've reached a milestone: the first time... (crowd cheering) The first time
in our nation's history that a woman will be
a major party's nominee... >> NARRATOR: It had been
a brutal path to this moment, and a lifetime in politics
had taught her more was to come. >> One of the things
that she had learned very early in that Rodham household
was you just, when things don't go right,
you just get up every morning, you put one foot
in front of the other, you get through your day,
you do the best you can, and you just keep moving forward
until it gets easier. And she's done that
all her life. >> NARRATOR: At Trump Tower, Donald Trump was ready
for yet another comeback. He believed he had a chance
to prove his critics wrong and get even
with the establishment by running for president. >> He's got a great sense
of theater. The orchestration of it
recognizes his showmanship. He's a showman above all. >> He enters as
the royal presence. >> He understood the drama
of coming down the escalator. >> NARRATOR: He was joined
by his third wife, Melania, a supermodel from Slovenia. >> He descended almost
from heaven. >> He descends
down the gold-plated escalator into the rosy marble lobby
of Trump Tower. (crowd cheering) >> That is some group of people. Thousands! >> Got on the stage, said,
"What a crowd-- thousands!" It was hundreds. >> It was like the next chapter
of<i> The Apprentice,</i> and it was the moment that he had actually been
building toward for decades. >> Great to be in a wonderful
city, New York. >> He proceeded to launch
into an announcement-slash-rant of the type no one has seen
in 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 takes
a seven-minute script and just goes off
and goes on and on, and it's kind of stream
of consciousness. >> They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some I assume
are good people. >> It's totally his gut. We didn't know he was gonna talk
about crimes committed by illegal aliens...
illegal immigrants, and that, you know, that people
had been murdered and raped. >> Sadly, the American dream
is dead. >> Bring it back! >> But if I get elected
president, I will bring it back bigger and better
and stronger than ever before, and we will make America
great again. Thank you,
thank you very much. Thank you very much. (crowd cheering) >> It's like a man working
without a net. You're going to tune in
to see what he's going to say because it could be anything. It's got a daredevil quality
to 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 just
another publicity stunt. >> He made a lot of statements that immediately made people
dismiss him, that this guy must be a joke, but Donald Trump was somehow
finding a way to connect with the people who mattered
at that moment for him. >> NARRATOR: The man
whose father taught him there were winners and losers proceeded to win the votes
of millions of Americans and the nomination
of the Republican Party. >> His deepest hunger
has always been for attention, and he had exhausted the ways
in which to get attention. He'd gone so far beyond what most human beings
can even imagine that he was, at the end
of that road, still hungry. He wanted the attention
of the nation, he wanted the attention
of the world, and he's gotten it. >> NARRATOR: America faces
a choice between two candidates who have spent decades
in the public eye. Symbols of a bitterly
divided country. Both have life stories
that led them to this moment. Now the nation will decide
between them. >> NARRATOR: Coming
to<i> Frontline,</i> the inside story of the U.S. war on ISIS. >> We will degrade
and ultimately destroy ISIL. >> NARRATOR: From the initial
reluctance... >> I was very concerned
about losing credibility everywhere in the world. Our adversaries
were watching this too. >> NARRATOR:
...to the hard reality. >> Paris, San Bernardino... What happens in the Middle East does not stay
in the Middle East. >> NARRATOR: A<i> Frontline</i>
investigation. "Confronting ISIS." >> Go to pbs.org/frontline
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absolutely impossible. >> Roger Stone... >> Television news
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A must watch!
Frontline is the best as usual.
I'm about an hour in and it is making me an even bigger fan of hillary and scared of trump. Seeing their origin story shows an amazing difference.
just spent two hours watching all of it and its made me much more defensive of her.
They don't talk about anything but how she has been prevented from achieving her ambitions but it is interesting in that they compare paths.