The Choice 2020: David Marcus (interview) | FRONTLINE

David Marcus is the cousin of Roy Cohn, the attorney who served as a mentor to Donald Trump. Marcus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for international reporting and the author of two books about the emotional lives of teenagers.
The following interview was conducted by FRONTLINE’s Gabrielle Schonder on June 29, 2020 during our reporting for the “The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden” - FRONTLINE’s critically acclaimed election series featuring the interwoven, investigative biographies of both presidential candidates. It has been edited for clarity and length.
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  • @carolinemaybe
    @carolinemaybe3 жыл бұрын

    Please PBS put the whole show on YT. People living overseas need to see it too.

  • @SOS-ct9mv

    @SOS-ct9mv

    3 жыл бұрын

    it is... The Choice 2020

  • @razmo21
    @razmo213 жыл бұрын

    What great insight and observation David Marcus has! And able to illustrate a very interesting narrative. Invaluable! Great interview of a very interesting man.

  • @zachcloutier3111
    @zachcloutier31113 жыл бұрын

    Like I would say all the time I'm really thankful and really proud of myself for supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016!! I really wish that she would be our current president right now with Tim Kaine!!! I definitely miss Barack Obama as president so much. He has been such an inspiration to me since 2008 when I was 12-13 years old!!! I miss reasonable, thoughtful and calming leadership!!! I'm really hoping that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win in November to abolish QANON, to dedicate the memory of RBG and to keep Barack Obama's legacy that he worked so hard at, I'm really hoping that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win in November officially!! Elizabeth Warren, Eric Swalwell, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker will make great cabinet members!!! Hillary Clinton will make a great US AG!!! Hopefully Barack Obama and Michelle Obama can be members of The Supreme Court!!! The systemic racism in this country needs to end as well!!

  • @sunnylilme

    @sunnylilme

    3 жыл бұрын

    I HATE that trump is president. I was proud to vote Hillary, obama. This is our first prez or candidate without integrity. I'd be happy with mccain, Romney any day over trump

  • @j.marchan6924

    @j.marchan6924

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here it’s unfortunate that Clinton isn’t our president

  • @ChristianThePagan
    @ChristianThePagan3 жыл бұрын

    It’s amazing that the US justice department is so easily intimidated.

  • @Tavieme

    @Tavieme

    3 жыл бұрын

    You clearly didn't listen... Trump lost and lied about it.

  • @ChristianThePagan

    @ChristianThePagan

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Tavieme ...and suffered no consequences. That's a victory for Trump. He has never suffered any consequences fro anything he has done. That's victory after victory for Trump.

  • @carolinemaybe

    @carolinemaybe

    3 жыл бұрын

    Money certainly helps either to “delay, delay, delay” or pay people off.

  • @judithnelson1581

    @judithnelson1581

    3 жыл бұрын

    US Justice Department did not back off. The Trump organization did get penalized in a settlement. Yet Donald lived it down and won a victory with public opinion. All thanks to Roy Cohn's advice. 7:48 - 10:43

  • @cynthiapikoulas487
    @cynthiapikoulas4873 жыл бұрын

    Choose COUNTRY over PARTY..the Gangsta' HAS TO GO ....

  • @davidgross316
    @davidgross3163 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting

  • @melissat8803
    @melissat88033 жыл бұрын

    Amazing how “Trump obsessed”the media is with Trump. Thanks to the media today Trump will be cemented into the history books and talked about for centuries to come. It would be so interesting to see how they write/talk about him 100 years from now.

  • @richardaurre4840

    @richardaurre4840

    3 жыл бұрын

    They created him, they deserve each other.

  • @Happily418

    @Happily418

    3 жыл бұрын

    What an insight. The behaviors of both clutches, are like opposing gears on a broken hydraulic system...its ready too collapse.✌⏳🤝

  • @richardaurre4840

    @richardaurre4840

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Happily418 Lets hope the collapse is peaceful like the USSR, USA needs to break into several pieces, with people sorting themselves out according to their own standards.

  • @Motherplantmusic

    @Motherplantmusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    M M , Very simple, Trump, his family and his traitorous cohorts, sycophants and stooges will be rightfully vilified and caricatured for the rest of time. Just not on FOX.

  • @thetawaves48

    @thetawaves48

    3 жыл бұрын

    He will look like the crook that he is. History will wonder what was wrong with the US for electing him.

  • @guillermomontoyo
    @guillermomontoyo3 жыл бұрын

    Umm...ya know...umm... giggle...kinda... little bit...umm... Wow, she's an incredible interviewer 👍

  • @nicholasschroeder3678
    @nicholasschroeder36783 жыл бұрын

    If you were in a grocery store, and Trump started talking to you, within a couple of minutes you'd know this guy is a slimeball and move to another line. He's always like that too. But people listen to his narcissistic hate drivel and love him. That's what disturbs me the most: millions are impressed. They're not fooled or tricked--they like it, and he knows it. He's the soul of a huge swath of America. And whether he's out or not, that won't change.

  • @tonycamacho7473
    @tonycamacho74733 жыл бұрын

    It’s strange to see that each segment that they provide here even though I am absolutely not pro Trump, they never seem to pick a part Biden.

  • @judithnelson1581

    @judithnelson1581

    3 жыл бұрын

    Watch the Peggy Noonan interview. She's a speechwriter for Republican presidents with decades of observing Joe Biden.

  • @thetawaves48

    @thetawaves48

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's lots of information about Joe Biden's life. All you need to do is google it.

  • @Liverpoolboy01

    @Liverpoolboy01

    Жыл бұрын

    You sound disappointed, Google I’m sure you will find some negativity, tony!

  • @Jo-jl5ys
    @Jo-jl5ys3 жыл бұрын

    Trump yearning for Roy Cohn...

  • @syncsummit
    @syncsummit3 жыл бұрын

    This woman is an AWFUL interviewer, but the subject is fascinating.

  • @jamesscully529

    @jamesscully529

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is heavily edited and meant to focus on the answers rather than the questions. I would rather hear answers from the subject than the one asking.

  • @bluest1524
    @bluest15243 жыл бұрын

    The topic is so putrid it's difficult to watch.

  • @DataSpook
    @DataSpook3 жыл бұрын

    Are there pro Trump interviews? Just to get an overall viewpoint.

  • @ChristianThePagan

    @ChristianThePagan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fox News, they have four years worth of fawning Trump flattery. That being said this interview is mostly about Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn, not Trump.

  • @dannychilders6183

    @dannychilders6183

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes they interview his 2016 campaign manager among others

  • @mikeappleget482

    @mikeappleget482

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cory Lewandowski. It’s like an hour long Gish Gallop.

  • @hojoinhisarcher

    @hojoinhisarcher

    3 жыл бұрын

    Rudy

  • @energyeternal

    @energyeternal

    3 жыл бұрын

    all of Trump's yesmen. The emperor has no clothes.

  • @horstebreedow8608
    @horstebreedow86083 жыл бұрын

    I'm starting to get the feeling this channel might not like TRUMP.

  • @jimferris9447

    @jimferris9447

    3 жыл бұрын

    😅

  • @aimeekreutzer-malkawi

    @aimeekreutzer-malkawi

    3 жыл бұрын

    Who can like the guy? I personally have him lots of chances but he is just 🤔😕

  • @horstebreedow8608

    @horstebreedow8608

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aimeekreutzer-malkawi I agree, there's the person and then there's the party. The problem is no matter what your party affiliation we Americans know something ain't right with either party. For many decades. Perhaps as early as the early 60s maybe perhaps around the time JFK was assassinated. Since then it would seem the country has been in gradual decline and that decline really became noticeable with the uptick in selling us out and allowing greedy corporations to give us the finger and go overseas and yet still want us to buy their products. At the same time these same entities realized a slave labor class was a great idea for them to make even more money. In essence it didn't really matter who you voted for both sides got the same payday for allowing this. At the same time the CIA and military industrial complex did it's thing , makes no sense that we have 750 bases and a trillion dollar budget when just one trip to the hospital can make you bankrupt, there's just no gain in this system unless you got an iron in the fire. Neo colonialism not for the gain of the average American but for the elites and please don't reply that this is just a Republican thing it's a 2 sided coin that needs both parties complicity. So now we get to post 2005 when the elites tried this amnesty crap for the corporations . The American people were fed up with behind the scenes lies. One gigantic lie after another. Sugar coated lies as they stabbed us in the back. That is how and why we got loud mouth TRUMP. Because Rome is falling. A clear sign that rome is falling. The Coronavirus is going to be the nail in the coffin. It's never goung away and it's man made. I'm done with my do nothing republican party and I sure as he'll ain't no COMMIE so my vote will never go to a dem. It's all a charade these things we bicker about now are just a distraction.It's collapsing. everything will indeed change soon and it ain't going to be a change for the better

  • @jimferris9447

    @jimferris9447

    3 жыл бұрын

    Michael V 😅

  • @Mrs.TJTaylor

    @Mrs.TJTaylor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ya think? I’m a democrat but this channel is NOT unbiased journalism. It’s the counterpart to Fox News.

  • @Mrs.TJTaylor
    @Mrs.TJTaylor3 жыл бұрын

    I’m interested in the subject, but this interviewer is so terribly biased. Terrible interviewer for PBS.

  • @carolinemaybe

    @carolinemaybe

    3 жыл бұрын

    She’s asking questions! That’s her job ffs.

  • @tonycamacho7473

    @tonycamacho7473

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’ve watched every segment I think so far. I am certainly not pro Trump in a lot of ways I’m kind of sick and by his behavior has a presidential figure but I don’t see them ever picking apart Biden. I hear that he had a stuttering problem in the eat he overcame the obstacle. Harrah! Pleeease give. Give me a break

  • @Mrs.TJTaylor

    @Mrs.TJTaylor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tony Camacho I miss the days of unbiased interviews and news reporting. We have brains and we can reach our own conclusions. We don’t need to be lead as though we’re a bunch or morons. I don’t respect “the press” anymore, not right, left or mainstream.

  • @jswhitcombvideos
    @jswhitcombvideos3 жыл бұрын

    We all need someone in our lives who pushes us relentlessly and someone who picks us up when we fall. Trump is clearly the former and I would prefer that in my President. Give me unvarnished, tough, transparent every day of the week. Do you think Halas, Ditka, Shula, Bryant, Saban, etc. were "nice guys"?

  • @thetawaves48

    @thetawaves48

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's why so many men hate their fathers.

  • @sejin0420
    @sejin04203 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting except for the terribly unprepared interviewer. She kept mumbling, going blank with so many "you know"s, laughing akwardly and asking same quetions over and over again