As President Biden travels to Brussels for an emergency NATO summit, The Circus examines Russia's threats of using nuclear weapons. Jennifer Palmieri speaks to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby about the U.S. response to Putin's nuclear saber-rattling; John Heilemann games out war simulations with one of the world's foremost experts on nuclear weapons, Zia Mian; and Alex Wagner assesses Putin's motives with former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev.
s07e01 - On The Brink
s07e02 - The Escalation Ladder
s07e03 - The Information War
s07e04 - The Nuclear Option
s07e05 - The Home Front
s07e06 - There Will Be Blood
s07e07 - Keystone Chaos
s07e08 - Tip of the Spear
s07e09 - Not in Kansas Anymore
s07e10 - Rule of Law
s07e11 - State of Denial
s07e12 - Buckeyes and Bulldogs
s07e13 - This Land Is Greene-Land
s07e14 - The Main Event
s07e15 - Here Comes The Flood
s07e16 - Rip Tides
This documentary series pulls back the curtain on the 2016 presidential race, revealing the intense, inspiring and infuriating stories behind the headlines. Key characters and events from the individual campaigns are presented in real time, as they are happening. Produced in cooperation with Bloomberg Politics, THE CIRCUS is a non-partisan, never-before-attempted take on what promises to be one of the most fascinating and consequential elections in modern history.