Inside Obama's White HouseApril 1, 2016

A month after his victory, Barack Obama discovered America was on the verge of a great depression. He puts his plans for change on hold to pass the largest stimulus in history. Obama promises to close Guantanamo within a year - and it is still open. His attorney general admits that evidence against many of the prisoners could not be used to prosecute because they had been tortured. And at the Copenhagen summit, the president crashed a meeting between three fellow heads of government in his desperation to do something about climate change. Less

Inside Obama's White House was broadcast on BBC2 at Sunday 4 November 2018, 23:30. This episode was initially placed on Tuesday 15 March 2016.