Episode
Frontline: Cliffhanger
Overview
FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, the film shows how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the “fiscal cliff,” and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration.
Details
- Series
- Frontline
- Season
- Season 31
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2013-02-12
Episode context
Cliffhanger is Episode 4 in Season 31 of Frontline. It aired on 2013-02-12.
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