00:00I often joke I'm the relationship that Trump can't get over,
00:03wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about me
00:05and how I'm living my best life.
00:09The relationship between the FBI director and the president
00:12has always been complicated.
00:14Sometimes they're in moments of deep collaboration.
00:18The FBI is fully engaged on the war on terror.
00:22At other times, the FBI is investigating the president.
00:26The honeymoon between Bill Clinton and Louis Freeh
00:29was over very quickly.
00:33You don't want an FBI to try to destroy a president,
00:36but you also don't want a president to destroy the FBI.
00:40It became this dance of favors and threats.
00:44Do we stay true to the mission, or do we bend to the moment?
00:52This is American history unfolding.
00:57No one is above the law in the FBI's eyes.
01:00Standoff, the FBI, Power and Paranoia
01:02premieres Sunday, March 22nd on CNN
01:05and next day on the CNN app.
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