Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI

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Historic confrontations between the president and the FBI are told through interviews with current and former officials, including those who were present at the time, as well as interviews with journalists who broke the stories.
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A Cancer on the Presidency
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How the FBI, and the nation, came to realize that the president could be held accountable for his actions, using the long relationship between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Richard Nixon as a map.

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That's What Friends Are For
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President Ronald Reagan does whatever it takes to free U.S. hostages and fund the Contra anti-communists; as the FBI investigates, Reagan's team shreds documents, perjures themselves and conceals evidence.

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Witch Hunts
S1 E3

The same people who criticize the FBI and the Special Counsel looking into President Trump once pushed to investigate President Bill Clinton; examining the 1998 impeachment and reconsidering today's investigations.

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You're Fired
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President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey set in motion events that could lead to the biggest constitutional crisis in U.S. history; Special Counsel Robert Mueller must now carry the torch of justice.