FRONTLINE

("Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Lorde playing) Welcome to your life (sirens blaring) There's no turning back (people shouting) Even while we sleep We will find you Acting on your best behavior Turn your back on Mother Nature Everybody wants to rule the world

NARRATOR

This season on "Frontline," documentaries that investigate power-- and the powerful.

MARTIN SMITH

Did the regime kill Jamal Khashoggi?

NARRATOR

Questioning who was behind a brutal murder...

WOMAN

The Saudi story kept changing, the inconsistencies were really clear.

LORDE

There's no turning back

SMITH

This is being investigated by the public prosecutor, but at the same time you have declared it a rogue operation. Of course, it's a rogue operation, nobody authorized this. How do we know until there is an investigation? It seems to me that you have made up your mind... No, you've made up your mind that it's a rogue operation.

LORDE

Everybody wants to rule the world

NARRATOR

Holding the richest man in the world accountable...

BEZOS

I'm Jeff Bezos.

MAN

What is your claim to fame? (laughing)

BEZOS

I'm the founder of Amazon.com.

MAN

Some people asking if Amazon is a monopoly...

WOMAN

...richest guy in the world... Jeff Bezos does set a high bar...

DONALD TRUMP

He bought the "Washington Post" to have political influence.

WOMAN

Is Amazon taking over the world a good thing?

FRED VOGELSTEIN

Facebook and Google and Amazon-- these are the companies that are actually deciding how the entire United States and global economy operates.

BEZOS

The internet is disrupting every media industry. People can complain, but complaining is not a strategy.

LORDE

Nothing ever lasts forever

NARRATOR

From powerful people to the war over powerful technology...

LORDE

Everybody wants to rule the world

MAN

The race to become an A.I. superpower is on.

NARRATOR

Revealing the politics of artificial intelligence... The world is going to split in two. And that there will be a Chinese tech sector and there will be an American tech sector.

MAN

The more data, the better the A.I. works. So in the age of A.I., where data is the new oil, China is the new Saudi Arabia. I believe about 50% of jobs will be somewhat or extremely threatened by A.I. in the next 15 years or so.

WOMAN

The U.S. and China are neck in neck in the race to dominate artificial intelligence patents.

NARRATOR

And coming in 2020, "Frontline" exposes the forces that are dividing us.

BAKER

We're now throwing out this idea that Washington should be about finding bipartisan compromises, and instead it should be about fighting for principle until the last breath. Now is the time to fight. It's despicable.

STEVE BANNON

This whole thing on division, it's the tap root of democracy. This should not be a partisan issue. This is the most unethical...

NARRATOR

In a two-part special series...

BANNON

You now have people that are engaged. It's part of their lifestyle. It's like you wear a certain brand of shirt, you have a certain brand of politics.

NARRATOR

What a decade of division means for the future of democracy-- and for all of us. (imitates explosion)

LORDE

When they do I'll be right behind you So glad we've almost made it So sad they had to fade it Everybody wants to rule... The world.