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'How America faced 'Peril' in final days of Trump presidency

How America faced 'Peril' in final days of Trump presidency

Aired 09/22/2021

PBS News Hour

'How America faced 'Peril' in final days of Trump presidency

Clip: 9/22/2021 | 8m 59sVideo has Closed Captions

How America faced 'Peril' in final days of Trump presidency

The first draft of history is being written about the final, chaotic days of Donald Trump's presidency and the earliest days of Joe Biden's. A new book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reveals the alarm and lengths that then-president Trump's top advisors went to in order to prevent him from acting on his worst impulses. Woodward and Costa join Judy Woodruff with more.

Aired 09/22/2021

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