The FRONTLINE Interviews:

Biden's Decision

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In Biden’s Decision, FRONTLINE explores President Joe Biden’s early life, his decades in the Senate, and his term in the White House, leading to his decision in July 2024 to step out of the presidential election. To tell the story, director Michael Kirk and his team conducted dozens of interviews with close advisers to Biden, longtime friends, and journalists who have covered his political career for decades. The film also draws on interviews conducted previously by FRONTLINE with Biden’s colleagues and family members. All but a few of the interviews took place before Biden withdrew from the presidential race. The interviews can be explored below in video or text. The collection is part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, which makes our source material available to the public.

Interviews

Jill Biden
Wife of Joe Biden

Video
Tracey Quillen Carney
Biden Aide and Family Friend

Video
Tom Carper
U.S. Senator (D-Delaware)

Text
Vince D'Anna
Biden Campaign Aide

Text
Jen O'Malley Dillon
Biden Campaign Manager

Text
Franklin Foer
Author, The Last Politician

Video
John Hendrickson
Senior Editor, The Atlantic

Video
Ted Kaufman
Biden Adviser

Text
Ron Klain
White House Chief of Staff

Text
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Correspondent, GQ

Text
Wesley Lowery
Author, They Can't Kill Us All

Video
Peggy Noonan
Political Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Video
Victoria Nuland
Under Secretary of State

Video
Leo O'Donovan
Biden Family Priest

Text
Fintan O'Toole
The Irish Times

Video
Toluse Olorunnipa
White House Bureau Chief, The Washington Post

Video
Evan Osnos
Author, Joe Biden

Text
Valerie Biden Owens
Sister of Joe Biden

Video
Jen Psaki
White House Press Secretary

Video
Adela Raz
Last Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S.

Video
Julie Chávez Rodríguez
Biden Campaign Manager

Text
Curtis Wilkie
Journalist

Text
Angela Wright
Clarence Thomas Accuser

Video

Interviews for this film Biden's Decision were conducted by Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser of the Kirk Documentary Group and edited for the web by Lauren Prestileo and Phil Bennett. The Transparency Project is produced by Lauren Prestileo.

Design and build for Biden's Decision by Dan Nolan and Anthony DeLorenzo with assistance from Kimberly Patch. Video editing by O. Deborah Afolayan. Copy editing by Julie Wolf. Additional assistance from Kristina Abovyan, Priyanka Boghani, Ambika Kandasamy, Max Maldonado, Inci Sayki, and Patrice Taddonio.

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