Ken Burns Discusses his New Series "The American Revolution"
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What political turmoil does Ben Meiselas describe before introducing Ken Burns?
Valvomme kun muut nukkuvat. Eläinsairaala Mevet päivystää Helsingin pitäjänmäessä vuoden jokaisena päivänä ja yönä. Tervetuloa Mevetiin. Evidensia.fi kautta Mevet. Mr. Prime Minister, shall we start now? Let's start, and let's start properly. What do you mean? Let's start everything. Can you be more careful? Let's start clothes, let's start equipment, let's start equipment. I mean, all outdoor sports and free time. Now I understand. Maybe you understand numbers better. Budgesport is now even below 60%. So... Exactly, Budgesport.fi.
What T-vitamins should I buy? There was some memorization there. R as in nutritional, H as in good, M as in... What was it now?
Well, that's just it. Devisol D-vitamins can be found in pharmacies. Orion Pharma. Building well-being.
the MAGA Republicans in Donald Trump's cabinet and in the House of Representatives and Senate losing their minds after the release of those 20,000 Epstein emails. And also they're now hiding the economic data. They're saying that the Bureau of Labor Statistics no longer has good data. They're blaming the shutdown and they may not provide data into the future. Then you have Trump's top economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, saying, well, maybe we're just going to have to concoct some information. Who knows? Maybe we'll concoct it. Here, play this clip.
And the household survey wasn't conducted in October. So we're going to get half the employment report. We'll get the jobs part, but we won't get the unemployment rate. And that'll just be for one month. But yeah, it is true that we probably will never, we'll maybe be able to concoct something, but we'll never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October.
What do you think? We'll never know. We'll just maybe concoct it. I mean, when it comes to important financial data, the word concoct isn't the word that you like to hear. Then they bring in the other economic advisor, Peter Navarro, who says he toggles between there's no inflation and then the inflation is all Biden's fault. And let's blame Biden for everything. Here, play this clip.
Explain really carefully about this Democrat con job. And let's be clear what it is. They want to blame Donald Trump for what is Biden legacy inflation. And we have to be very clear about two things. One, go category by category, housing, food, transportation, health care, exactly what we're doing. And we also have to remind people that everything the Democrats do pushes inflation up.
So let's take no responsibility for anything 10 months into this administration.
How does the conversation shift from MAGA conspiracies to the American Revolution?
And it's going to keep saying Biden's name 20 years from now. And they bring in MAGA Republican Congress member Pete Sessions, and he's asked a very basic question. What's your reaction to these empty emails that mention Trump's name? I'm sure you have to have some view, Sessions, right? I mean, you're on the Oversight Committee. Anything you want to share here? Here, play this clip. You say there are many questions.
You still have a question about whether Donald Trump knew about the sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein?
Well, I've not gone through all of the documents yet. As you said, there's 20,000 pages. Our staff is going through this.
I have been back home in Waco, Texas, for the last three weeks dealing with the shutdown there. I will get back to it. We will get this done. But what we're doing right now is taking the huge number of emails.
of data, of pages and going through it. And there and there will be on a bipartisan basis an agreement about how we're going to hold formal hearings, who we're going to ask. Now, I want to do something different here. Now, normally I'd show you a few more clips and I'll show you how, I think, insane and crazy and dangerous these MAGA Republicans are being and the gaslighting the lies. But what we talk about here on the network very frequently is these broader values about our democracy, our nation's founding. So I want to do something different and remind us of that. I want to bring in right now Ken Burns. Ken Burns, incredible filmmaker, documentarian, my favorite documentarian ever.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What political turmoil does Ben Meiselas describe before introducing Ken Burns?
0:01–2:51
2
How does the conversation shift from MAGA conspiracies to the American Revolution?
2:51–6:03
3
Why does Ben invite Ken Burns to discuss the new PBS series on the Revolution?
6:03–10:18
4
What does Ken Burns say about the purpose and timing of his new documentary?
10:18–16:05
5
How does Ken explain the “rhymes” between the 18th‑century revolution and today’s politics?
16:05–19:51
6
What stories and perspectives does the series highlight beyond the famous Founding Fathers?
19:51–24:13
7
When does the six‑part series premiere and how can listeners watch it?
24:13–26:35
8
What final thoughts do Ben and Ken share about democracy and the relevance of the Revolution?
26:35–27:10