- [Voiceover] Coming this Fall.
- [Donald Trump] She lacks the competence
to lead our country.
- [Hillary Clinton] This
isn't reality television,
this is actual reality.
(deep, dramatic music)
- [Voiceover] Before America votes
in this historic election.
A two-hour special report
that's less about what they say
and more about who they are.
- What was the one thing
that everybody in America
knew about Hillary Clinton?
That she's tough.
- This is a guy who says,
"That if you hit me,
I'm gonna hit you back
"10 times harder."
- [Voiceover] Frontline takes a hard,
side-by-side look at both candidates.
- [Voiceover] Life magazine profiles her.
Suddenly, she is emblematic
of her generation.
- [Hillary Clinton] To practice politics
is the art of making
what appears to be impossible, possible.
- [Voiceover] Two revealing stories.
- Think of this 13-year-old kid
who's going up in a mansion
with everything he could possibly want.
Then all of a sudden, goodbye
luxury, hello Drill Sergeant.
- [Voiceover] Two
controversial candidates.
- When I asked her,
"What was it about Bill Clinton
that made you fall in love?"
And she said, "He wasn't afraid of me."
- Articles of impeachment against
William Jefferson Clinton.
- [Voiceover] When he is
impeached, she's mad as hell,
and hurt beyond belief.
But it's Hillary who comes to the rescue.
- [Voiceover] Their lives.
- [Voiceover] His father introduced Donald
to how to get things done
inside the New York political process.
His lawyer, who was Joe
McCarthy's legal council
during the 1950s, taught Donald
how to come out punching,
how to use lawsuits like
machine gun bullets.
- [Voiceover] Their struggles.
- None of these emails
should have been on any
unclassified system.
- [Voiceover] This was the old Hillary.
Secrecy, denial,
"I'm not gonna let them know
"because they'll use it against me."
- "The Apprentice" was designed
to make him look like he
was a Fortune 500 CEO.
In the real world,
his own business was
blowing up around him.
- [Voiceover] And their comebacks.
- [Voiceover] There is an Old Money elite
that has never accepted Donald.
This is where his resentment
of the elite comes from.
- But he says to the bankers,
"I'm worth more to you alive than dead,
"so you have two choices.
"You can lose everything,
or you can work with me
"and we'll work our way out of this."
- The day that the Senate votes
to acquit Bill Clinton,
she is in the White House,
with maps of New York state
laid out in front of her.
- [Voiceover] And she told me,
"That was the first time in 53 years,
"that I spoke with my own voice,
"as my own political person."
- [Voiceover] From Frontline's
award-winning political team.
- I think in her heart of hearts,
she really believes
that she's all about
doing good for others.
And I think the facts bear her out.
But another leak takes place,
which means that
nothing I do in the
pursuit of helping others
can be bad, then.
- [Voiceover] The inside story
of who they really are.
- Donald Trump is running for president
because he truly believes that he can
help turn the nation around.
More importantly, every
critic, every detractor,
will have to bow down to President Trump.
- [Voiceover] No matter where you stand.
- [Voiceover] The voters are
distrustful of both parties,
whether it's Republicans or Democrats.
It's a choice between
politics as we've known it,
and politics as it might be becoming.
- [Voiceover] "The Choice 2016"
watch online or on-air
beginning September 27th.
