The FRONTLINE Interviews

President Biden

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To produce President Biden, FRONTLINE drew on 30 interviews conducted with colleagues, friends, family members and journalists who have covered Joe Biden over his long career. Most of these interviews took place as part of reporting for The Choice 2020, which examined the biographies of Biden and Donald Trump (and explains why some of the interview subjects are also asked about President Trump). We have updated several interviews since the election. This archive is part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, which makes available to the public full-length interviews used in our journalism.

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President Biden

The story of how crisis and tragedy prepared Joe Biden to become America’s next president

Interviews for this film were conducted by Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Gabrielle Schonder, and Mike Wiser of the Kirk Documentary Group and edited for the web by Phil Bennett and Lauren Prestileo. The Transparency Project is produced by Phil Bennett and Lauren Prestileo.

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