mr. kirk, why make this documentary? >> joining us michael kirk filmmaker of the pbs frontline film a president biden airing tonight at 10:00 o'clock p.m. eastern on your local pbs station. why make this documentary? what was the goal? >> every four years we make a choice of the presidential candidates it's two hours right before the election in october. and essentially the idea is to get inside the life we don't interview the candidates but their friends and family and people who have known them all their life as close as we can get and we try to answer the t question the boy the father and the man if you learn to do everything you can about biden and this year trump and biden and weaver together it is a very interesting picture we've taken the best parts of the biden story and it helps people understand on the eve of the election who he is in the aspects of his life that may contribute to how he would be as president. >> what are those aspects? >> he has made a lot of mistakes. he is learn something important in life to

mr. kirk, why make w this documentary? what was the goal? >> while we make an annual film or every four years to make a film called the choice about the two presidential candidates. we weave it together is two hours and always airs right before the election andnd october. and essentially the idea is to get in side the method of the two different men. we do not interview the candidates we interview their friends, their family the people of known them allnt their lives as close as we can get. we try to really answer the question is the boy the father of the man? when you get down the begin to learn everything you can about this case trump and biden. and weave them altogether was a very interesting picture. we've taken the best parts of the biden story that i think will help people understand and the eep of an election who joe biden is. what are the aspects of his likeness that could contribute to how is going to be as president. >> what are those aspects? >> he is made a lot of mistakes. he has learned something important cross life which is t

daniel pearl 19 years ago a panel of 3 judges acquitted ahmed omar saeed shaykh of involvement in mr kirk pearl's kidnapping and beheading these 3 q.'s were acquitted last year. and one of germany's most closely watched trials for decades has ended with a guilty verdict and life imprisonment for a right wing extremist who murdered regional politician felton took 2 years ago was to look as a member of angular machall c.d.u. party and had spoken out in support of refugees stefan and shot him in the head at his home near the west german town of castle. it was a trial which brought the specter of far right violence in germany into sharp focus once again defendant was charged with murdering an elected politician valid to look there was a well liked local leader who defended angela merkel's policies on migration it turned him into a target for extremists stefan and recorded this video at a meeting where 5 to luka faced far right hecklers. you have to stand up for certain values is anyone who doesn't agree with these values is free to leave the country that's a freedom every german enjoys. so th

caller: hi, hi mr. kirk.y problem is how in the world president biden is going to fix all these things that donald trump, president trump is leaving him. every day it's more of a mess. these people getting paroled, he's like leaving him more and more mess for him to clean up and it seems as though everybody forgot about what obama and biden did. this country was in the toilet if they cleaned it up, so when they passed it off to donald trump, it was good. the day after trump got where he got, he professed that he would fix a manufacturing company and he didn't. all of these things were already done. when he got his job, everything was smooth and he just ran it down into the ground and took credit. everything he takes credit for, it's something good to. he never takes credit for anything bad. host: your thoughts? guest: there is a lot of bad leftover, what some people would certainly call bad. but primarily as i said, yes, you are right, caller. there are a lot of things that biden and the democrats would like

mr. kirk, why make this documentary? >> joining us michael kirk filmmaker of the pbs frontline film a president biden airing tonight at 10:00 o'clock p.m. eastern on your local pbs station. why make this documentary?

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