The FRONTLINE Interviews:

President Biden

Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.

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.

Interviews

Margaret Aitken
Fmr. Biden Press Secretary

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Yamiche Alcindor
White House Correspondent, PBS Newshour

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Matt Bai
Author, All the Truth Is Out

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James Baker
Fmr. Mayor, Wilmington

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Peter Baker
White House Correspondent, The New York Times

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Dan Balz
Political Correspondent, The Washington Post

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Jill Biden
Wife of Joe Biden

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Antony Blinken
Biden Campaign Adviser

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Carol Moseley Braun
D-Illinois

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Jim Clyburn
D-South Carolina

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Jelani Cobb
Writer, The New Yorker

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Don Graves
Fmr. Biden Policy Director

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Christina Greer
Author, Black Ethnics

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Gary Hart
D-Colorado

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John Hendrickson
Senior Editor, The Atlantic

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Valerie Jarrett
Fmr. Obama Adviser

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Ted Kaufman
D-Delaware, Fmr. Biden Adviser

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Michael Kruse
Senior Writer, Politico

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Jeanne Marie Laskas
Correspondent, GQ

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Mark Leibovich
National Correspondent, The New York Times Magazine

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Wesley Lowery
Author, They Can't Kill Us All

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Peggy Noonan
Political Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

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Evan Osnos
Journalist, The New Yorker

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Valerie Biden Owens
Fmr. Biden Campaign Manager

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Bobby Scott
D-Virginia

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Fred Sears
Biden Friend

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Bakari Sellers
Political Analyst, CNN

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Richard 'Mouse' Smith
Biden Friend

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Curtis Wilkie
Journalist, The New Yorker

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Angela Wright
Clarence Thomas Accuser

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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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