I got to talk to donald as we were going to our seats, and he was in just such a great mood, and he was very jovial, and people were taking pictures. It was very exciting that donald was there. Donald, over here narrator trumps invitation to the exclusive gathering came after weeks of attacking president barack obama on television. You are not allowed to be a president if youre not born in this country. He may not have been born in this country. But theres something on that birth certificate, maybe religion, maybe it says hes a muslim, i dont know, maybe he doesnt want that, or he may not have one. But i will tell you this if he wasnt born in this country, its one of the great scams of all time. Absolutely. Narrator but that night, in front of washingtons journalists, politicians, and powerbrokers, obama would hit back. President obama takes the microphone. All right, everybody, please have a seat. Donald trump is here tonight and proceeds to filet donald publicly. No one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald. And thats because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like did we fake the moon landing . I was sitting 20 feet from him, and just the look of discomfort on his face. What really happened in roswell . And where are biggie and tupac . Donalds face was so incredibly serious. It was so incredibly just. He just put on a poker face. I was two tables away from trump. The conventional way in washington of absorbing a joke at the white house Correspondents Dinner is to keep your chin up and at least pretend to have a sense of humor about it, even if you go cry into your pillow that night. Trump was steaming. His face was all locked in, he was not having a good time. All kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. laughter for example. No, seriously, just recently, in an episode of celebrity apprentice, at the steakhouse, the Mens Cooking Team did not impress the judges from omaha steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didnt blame lil jon or meatloaf. You fired gary busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. And hes being treated like a pinata by the president of the United States. And i think he felt humiliated. applause well handled, sir. Well handled. But it just kept going and going, and he just kept hammering him. And i thought, oh, barack obama is starting something that i dont know if hell be able to finish. Say what you will about mr. Trump, he certainly would bring some change to the white house. Lets see what weve got up there. Donald dreads humiliation and he dreads shame. And this is why he often attempts to humiliate and shame other people. So in the case of the president ridiculing him, i think this was intolerable for donald trump. I think that is the night that he resolves to run for president. I think that he is kind of motivated by it. Maybe ill just run. Maybe ill show them all. Every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to President Trump. Its everyone whos ever doubted donald, who ever disagreed, who ever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe. God bless you, and may god bless the United States of america. Donald trumps fantasy is to be the guy who takes the key to the oval office from Barack Obamas hand in 2017. And its personal. This is a burning, personal need that he has to redeem himself from being humiliated by the first black president. Narrator Hillary Clinton had spent decades laying the groundwork for her candidacy. And so, my friends, it is with humility, determination, and boundless confidence in americas promise that i accept your nomination for president of the United States. cheers and applause narrator her entrance into politics had been difficult, marked by questions of just who she was. What kind of plans have you made to be first lady of arkansas . Well, weve spent a lot of time talking about the kinds of work that we want to do. Narrator in little rock, the new first lady, Hillary Rodham, was a curiosity. We havent made any final plans. Hillary, when she first got there, everybody makes such a big deal out of her hippie flowered pants and her big, you know, strange glasses, and her crazy hair. Could it be that you have political aspirations of your own . No, i just think its. I dont have any except for my husband, who i think is a terrific politician and a wonderful man. Arkansas has a new governor. They looked like they were having a ball. I mean, it was really a heady experience. These were young people. They were the governor and first lady. The youngest governor in the United States now, young governor clinton of the state of arkansas. Narrator but hillarys approach to her new role was seen as unconventional. She kept her maiden name and had her own career as a corporate lawyer. She didnt want women to be accessories to their husband, and that is usually what a political wife is, is an accessory to her husband, and it didnt fit well. The thought occurs to me that you really dont fit the image that we have created for the governors wife in arkansas. Youre not a native. Youve been educated in liberal, eastern universities. Youre less than 40. You dont have any children. You dont use your husbands name. You practice law. Does it concern you that maybe other people feel that you dont fit the image that we have created for the governors wife in arkansas . No, because each person should be assessed and judged on, you know, that persons own merits. The southerners just really rejected this, you know, uppity woman from, you know, the east coast, and she doesnt dress right, she doesnt talk right. Her hair isnt right, you know, shes just no credit. Shes not a southern governors wife. We now have a clarification, state of arkansas. Narrator the governors term was only two years, and before he knew it, bill clinton was out. Projected the winner over the incumbent Democrat Bill clinton. This political defeat has been a bitter pill to swallow for bill clinton. I regret that i will not have two more years to serve as governor because i have loved it. And here, bill clinton, defeated, and to be rendered a beaten pair at that age was pretty devastating. Thank you very much, and god bless you all. Narrator hillary, with their new daughter chelsea, took it hard. She understood that she was part of the reason for him losing the governors race, because she wouldnt take his name and just because of the way she was. Narrator hillary decided to fight. She took charge of her husbands political comeback. Hillary got very involved in the campaign. For all intents and purposes, she was the campaign manager. Narrator one of her first moves rebrand herself and become mrs. Clinton. It was symbolic. Im sure she had to swallow hard, but it was just not worth trying to keep her last name at the expense of everything they wanted to achieve together. In order to avoid any problem and just to put it to rest, i will forever be known as Hillary Rodham clinton. She completely forfeited her own identity, at least physically. Got rid of the glasses, got her hair dyed, started dressing at least modestly better, wore some makeup, cultivated a little bit of a drawl. The road to being somebody in this society starts with education. Narrator the transformation was a surprise to some of those who had known her the longest. When she had to begin to change her appearance, dye her hair, lose a lot of weight, get rid of her glasses, not speak up, not be as much who she was, that hurt all of us. We all felt bad about that. It was hard. It was hard on us, it was hard on her. Narrator she formed an alliance with a controversial political consultant from new york dick morris. She has a wonderful instinct for the jugular. She felt that he lost it because he wasnt tough enough, wasnt strong enough. And she reached out to me because she felt that i would be stronger and tougher. I think it only intensified and began a lot of the characteristics that you saw from then on that the ends justify the means, that well do what we have to do to win, turn to the dark arts of politics to survive. Narrator hillary helped engineer a comeback that returned her husband to the governorship and put her in the National Spotlight for the next 34 years. 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A municipallyoperated Electrical Railway system spreads through four of the five boroughs. Narrator . Donald trump grew up in a posh suburb called jamaica estates. Its perhaps typical of new yorks residential areas. The trump family had a huge house in queens that they used to refer to as tara. It had nine bedrooms, it had columns, it was quite beautiful, but it was in queens. Narrator the trump family would spend 50 years building memories here. Fred trump, a real estate developer, designed the house himself and raised donald and his brothers and sisters in luxury. Its not like he knew anything but comfort. When it rained and he had to deliver his papers, the chauffeur would take him around. Narrator but donalds father was tough and insisted everyone learn the family business. He was a guy who worked seven days a week. Its sunday why wouldnt you be working . And would, even on the weekends, pile the kids in the car and go to a building site, pick up old nails that werent used. Why would you waste a nail . Fred trump was a machine. I mean, he was a human machine. He was driven beyond whatever the description of driven could ever mean. And when you look at the picture of fred and you look at donald, you see the great resemblance between the two. And when you think about freds energy, you see how it is channeled through donald. Narrator fred was seen as passionate about the business, but not warm with his children. Cold he was not a warm person. I see his father at the beach, even, with a suit and a tie and a hat, a clipped very kind of military mustache, and simply being. Correct. Narrator fred had theories. He shared them with his kids. Donald especially liked one of them. This is a very deep part of the trump story. The family subscribes to a racehorse theory of human development. They believe that there are superior people, and that if you put together the genes of a superior woman and a superior man, you get a superior offspring. Narrator freds other theory life was a competition. There were winners and there were losers. He called the winners killers. The way the game got played in his household was if you did not win, you lost. And losing was you got crushed. Losing was you didnt matter. Losing was you were nothing. Narrator donald took the lessons to heart always tried to be the winner. But he was also a handful. His brother, robert, whos very discreet, told me that donald was always the kid in the family who would start throwing birthday cake at all the parties, that you would build up a tower of blocks, he would come knock your blocks down. This is the person hes been, i think, since he was five years old. Donald told me that he is essentially the person he was in first grade and that he hasnt really changed. His selfdefinition was built around the idea that he was one tough son of a bitch. That meant in classrooms, that meant with teachers, that meant with his father. Narrator by the seventh grade, even fred had had it with donalds mischief. He sent him up the hudson river just a few miles from west point to the toughest boarding school he could find the new York Military academy. drumline performing you have to think of this 13yearold kid whos lived a very comfortable life, but then all of a sudden, hes the one child of five to be banished to this austere life. Goodbye, luxury. Goodbye, mom and dad, brothers and sisters. Hello, drill sergeant. Narrator the new York Military academy was nononsense, heavy on the discipline; over the years, home to the children of gangster john gotti and cuban dictator fulgencio batista. It was an austere, very scary place. I was homesick. I was crying hysterically. In fact, i was crying so much the first couple of nights, they put me in the infirmary. We were in a culture of hazing at the military school. Everyone. I mean, thats just the way it was. You got hit, you may have gotten slammed against the wall, you got put artificially into fights. Narrator but the rough and tumble didnt seem to bother donald. He thrived. He liked it. Apparently he really liked it. He liked the accountability. He liked the kind of clarity of it. And he liked that there was a medal and a prize for everything. Narrator he was a star athlete. He claimed he could have played pro baseball. But his classmates agree he was proudest of winning the ultimate accolade in an allboys school. He was named ladies man in the school yearbook. Hugh hefner, the publisher of playwas a role model for many of the boys. Yeah, you know, he had a very hugh hefner, Playboy Magazine view of success. Narrator the young cadets learned a lot from Playboy Magazine and what they called barracks talk. In fact, our biggest advice in our lives came from Playboy Magazine. Thats how we learned. Thats what we learned about women. So that was all of my adolescence. And thats why getting out of military school was difficult. You had to realize that you couldnt just follow the playboy philosophy. Narrator they would graduate and grow up. But donalds classmates say in some ways, he hasnt changed at all. The things that we talked about at that time in 1964 really are very close to the kind of way he talks now. I hear these echoes of the barracks life that we had and that we grew out of. Narrator back when donald trump was growing up in queens, Hillary Rodham was living a short train commute from downtown chicago. Hugh and Dorothy Rodham moved from chicago, the tough city, into the allwhite, new suburb of 1950s america. And i remember men walking home from work from the train station with their cigarettes dangling and their chicago american evening newspaper under their arm. Narrator they called park ridge an idyllic american suburb. Hillary has said her life was straight out of the 1950s sitcom father knows best. The story of a man, his home and his family. Starring robert young. Narrator but the truth was much more complicated. Inside the rodham family, hillarys father hugh was a staunchly conservative and demanding presence. Hugh and hillary always had a relationship that had its difficulties. Hillary goes to school and makes straight as and he says, that must be a really easy school if you got straight as. I mean, gets no credit for her effort, no credit for her work. Narrator with hillarys mom dorothy, the treatment was worse. Her father was abusive verbally and dismissive. When her mother and father would have these tense, demeaning discussions, hillary would run to her room and put her hands over her ears and say, i cant stand listening to this. There was a lot of fighting in the rodham household. And i dont think she invited many friends home. Thats when her whole penchant for secrecy and privacy began. Narrator dorothy had had to overcome a difficult childhood of her own. I think the resilience of Dorothy Rodham, this little girl born to 16yearold parents who did not want her and did not love her they never showed her any affection, never hugged her, never kissed her and i think it would have defeated most people. Narrator dorothy was determined to give hillary a better life. I think that dorothy was frustrated, like many, many women of that era. She had far more abilities, talents, and intelligence than the world or her relationship with her husband allowed her to show, and i think that she poured a lot of that ambition into her daughter. Narrator outside the home, in room 224 at eugene field elementary school, they saw that ambition early on. Betsy ebeling became her best friend. I was the new girl in class, and somebody else in the classroom said to me, you know, youre very lucky. Youre sitting across from Hillary Rodham. And i said, yeah, she seems very nice. And she said, no, shes captain of the crossing guards. So see, i knew then that she was destined for great things. Captain of the crossing guards. Narrator but in the 1950s, her classmates believed a girl who was a star could only rise so high. I remember our class prophecy in the sixth grade that hillary would be married to a u. S. Senator. Nobody could wrap their mind around a woman having that kind of achievement, you know . Narrator but the world of hillary and her friends was changing. At the methodist church, a new minister arrived. A youth minister named don jones, then about 26 years old, arrives in a red chevy impala convertible and becomes really the most influential, certainly male figure, almost as a counterweight to hillarys father. Don jones was good looking. He was young. It was just contrary to everything that wed ever had in church any church, right . Narrator in the conservative Republican Community of park ridge, jones was controversial, introducing hillary and her youth group to progressive ideas. One sunday, he did just that when he took them into downtown chicago. And he took hillary and some of her friends to hear Martin Luther king speak. It was at the chicago sunday evening club