Ken Burns: To protect the liberties we care about, there's an obvious choice to make
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns and Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center join Morning Joe to discuss the center's plans to honor Burns with its Liberty Medal on Tuesday. Burns and Rosen also discuss what's at stake in the 2024 election.
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#Trump #KamalaHarris #Politics
I will never forget the Fridays in high school in the mid 90’s, during our study of the Civil War, when my beloved history teacher (and English teacher, and football coach and track coach), would sit us down and play an episode of Ken Burns ‘The Civil War’ documentary. I can still hear the haunting music and stories of American heroes and warriors. We must all remember them, and those of our forefathers who fought and died not just for our freedom and liberty, but for that of other nations’ people as well. No greater dishonor can be imposed upon those great men than for ignorance to allow anyone to vote for a fascist wannabe dictator and convict.
Who Kamala censoring speech and the intelligence officials saying the laptop is Russian disinformation??
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Preach it Ken Burns!!!!
Ken Burns is America's storyteller~HIStory AND HERstory
God bless Ken Burns. He is a patriot of the first order, who has told the story of Freedom and Liberty all his professional life.
Ken Burns has proven he is a genuine patriot by his works, for the values he brought to bear. He was right before. He is very right now in telling us we have no choice other than to reject Trump and to vote for Kamala Harries.
😂😂😂😂😂 wow you dont live in reality, do you? @buddyratliff
It's completely sad we got to this point. We need more procedures to prevent toxic people from corrupting our system. Like even creating a department that monitors our countries politicians would be helpful. No politicians should be allowed to say whatever they want. Just like other jobs, they need to be held accountable for their actions.
He was right before and could be wrong now. You had Harris for the last 4 years and want to blame someone else . Do the same and expect different results.
as we all know, ken burns is a propagandist
Life expectancy says everybody is Dying.
Wow. True genius used for our beautiful America. Thank you Ken Burns!
Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! KEN BURNS! I have admired and respected this historian for so long! So long! Thanks so much for bringing him in! Ken Burns does not just talk and accept invitations - this man carefully selects the shows he talks about and shares his opinions. Ken Burns, Congratulations on being the recipient of the well-deserved Liberty Medal.
This was terrific. Thanks.
Ken is a national treasure. His documentaries should be mandatory in our high school curriculums!
documentaries - good
politics - bad
“Now is the time to come to the aid of your country, not your party.”
Yes!!!
💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Try telling that to the brain dead republicans (not all) in congress. To them, their interest and party is more important than the country.
Great analogy..." We dont know how to point out to almost half of the population that the Emperor doesn't have clothes on". Sad indeed.
God, Ken Burns is a salve on my aching heart. His lips to our electorate's ears.
p.s. I can't imagine a single vote that would change with an endorsement from the second worse president in US history, GW Bush. Enough with this pablum.
Truth. Who gives a s*** what he thinks. The fact that he won't endorse anyone is a cowardice and total lack of integrity that should surprise no one
ken burns sucks
@@Frenchblue8 Anymore than anyone would give a s*** what you think, flinging out ridiculous statements about cowardice while supporting a five time draft dodger.
@@MichaeILiIliquist Said by an account that has existed for 6 days... yeah sure your not a foreign tr*ll.
@@MichaeILiIliquist😂😂😂😂 jealous much? His documentaries are fabulous. So sorry your know nothing attitude keeps you from enjoying them
Ken speaks clearly.
Ban opioids if they're that bad!
I have enjoyed and watched all of Ken Burns' films.....all of them, many times each. THANK YOU and CONGRATS, Mr. Burns!!!!
"We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil."
~ Helen Keller, "My Religion" (1927)
Old quotes don't relate any more .... time to make up some new ones.
Let Ken Burns speak more...thanks.😮😊
Right! Joe gotta go.
Joe doesn't get that part
Bravo to this man.
Dictator or freedom . Country or authoritarian. No abortion or abortion. And the list go on. Vote blue all the way through
Reproductive health care or no reproductive health care. Messaging is important on this one.
the blue is no lesser evil to the red & vice-versa...the obvs choice is jill stein...
@@libbychang413 Accidental comedy? Or troll? Because I've seen that movie, and the ending sucked.
@@libbychang413 Is Putin still funding Stein's campaign this time?
@@rosemarygress5159 do the same exact a different results. You must work for the state or government because our economy sucks.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled.
Absolutely, which is why many former members of cults had to be deprogrammed.
Ken Burns is essentially a mom with a goatee. Which is to say he's well-meaning, but perhaps not fully appreciative of the depth of cynicism and manipulation associated with the Democratic Party.
Most people do not understand or don’t want to understand that tariffs will increase prices on anything imported into the USA. I do not understand how naive people are. Surely people can see what these people will do. I firmly believe that the USA with Trump will need decades to recover if they can. They could be a country with the trump family at the helm, a dictatorship. Just look at what they are doing to women. When will people wake up. I pray it is not too late.
@@Cris-z9s that is what I tell everyone who votes for or supports Kamala
@NoBS1776 thanks for proving the above comments 😂 troll😂
I love Ken Burns Documentaries. All should watch them.
“ This is not your parents Republican party anymore “ Donald Trump Jr .He is 100% right , nothing close to Eisenhower or Reagan , I mean never thought I would say it , HE MAKES NIXON LOOK GOOD .
Nixon bowed out with grace.
@@TobeyTalksTech Commie Kamala makes Putin look good.
Personally, I think that the Republican Party died after Eisenhower left office. It’s never been the same since then.
Nixon was 10x the man trump is🙄
@@mike2clark489 👈🏻what a dum dum dum dum dum thing to say.
Thank you Ken Burns; appreciare you stepping out to listen to facts, including many of our historyl. "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Ken Burns is a treasure and Im not even american,
Then butt out and mind your business
Zit-f8i, if non-Americans need to butt out, maga needs to butt out.
@@Zach-f8i You tell @MrAlexoe2000 to butt out and mind his/her business but the policies you lay in your country as the self-acclaimed lead country of the free world affect his/her own nation whatever nation that is. Why should he/she mind his/her business when you don't mind yours?
@Zach-f8i
Everyone should study world history as well as their country's history. Perhaps you did not, which may be why you don't get it. Big part of today's problems is that many people neglect studying their own history as well as the rest of the world.
Thank you. We love hin, too. History buffs love him and he makes it interesting for young people who really need to know more than they get academically.
Congrats to Ken Burns. Now, I'd like to see Marc Elias awarded every medal in the book. He's an unsung hero, but a Superhero.
"Country before party", this is not the goal of the cult maga-gop! Vote Blue. 💙💙💙
*I've been extremely interested in American history and politics for my entire adult life too, and I can't remember any candidate, for any public office ( **_let alone the Presidency of The United States of America_** ) as wholly unfit as Donald J. Trump. Not a single one. Not even this Mark Robinson bloke in North Carolina, and he's **_unbelievably_** unfit!*
Ken Burns = National Treasure 💙🇺🇸💙
He’s Russian
Exactly! If people don’t realize what a national security threat Trump is, if they aren’t willing to do the research, to be an informed voter…then please just don’t vote. Leave the voting to the ones who do their homework.
Vote 💙💙💙💙💙blue for blue💙💙💙💙💙voting dudes in girls bathrooms.
@@kenc7120why are you obsessed with what's under people's clothes? Especially children 😮
Shame on you. Get help
The problem is they think conspiracy theories are research
@@BlairMitchellauthorlike the 51 FBI agents that said the laptop was Russia disinformation ?
@@kenc7120why are you obsessed with what's under children's clothes?
Ken you are a wonderful man
Thank You Ken Burns for all the History you have shared over the years.
Learn History and Know History so that History doesn't repeat itself.....
Thank you KEN BURNS…..❤
Not just a compliant congress. Also a compliant court system.
Vote 💙 Vote for freedom and common-sense, instead of idiocracy and hate
Yes the common sense of tampons in the boys room
@@robertbirch5676yes the obsession with nonsense among MAGAts is just sad
@@jaaksavat7916 Trump has never lied to me before he has earned the American people's trust 💯👍🙏
@@lindascott3973 after being lied to for 60 years I will never vote blue again these m************ are on the off the hook ♥️♥️♥️♥️ the truth is we had a booming economy a closed border and we could afford groceries and gas now our senior citizens are destitute after working their entire life they are now destitute under Kamala Harris think about that for a minute ♥️💯
and the idiots proved your point...
Very well said, Ken!!
America📢 Our country needs us. In my opinion, voting Harris-Walz and down ballot are imperative. We have to offset all the MAGA Reps in Congress. 🔴⚪️🔵
Light versus dark.
Easy choice.
Trump 2024.
I don't want Ken Burns' final documentary to be about how American democracy died because we were stupid enough to elect Donald Trump.
What election did Kamala win?
Walz Family for Trump 🇺🇸
Kamala admitted price increased almost 40% after Trump on record !
Trump 2024 🇺🇸
It's sad how he supports what harris is doing to the country.
Please, dear God, no.
@@americanpatriot6484Thank you for your engagement, which helps to promote this video and this channel.
Good job.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
Abraham Lincoln
If Lincoln is right, then Harris must have a fantastic memory.
@@mullhollandmace7271are you honestly going to accuse Harris of being a liar when Trump lies like he breathes? I'm from NY, he's been lying non stop about everything little and big since I was a teenager, and I'm 70.
No wonder the orange con man loves the uneducated 😂
George W. NEEDS to stand up!!!
Preaching to the choir here. I begin to wonder how many Americans actually listened during their high school civics class on the dangers of anti democratic forces. How did half of the country get here. Unbelievable.
Yes. Now is the time!!
Let's hope, pray, that those leaving Trumps rally's have grown a consciense and vote responsibly for the RIGHT candidate who works for the people, not for himself.
Doesn’t the “opioid” metaphor also apply to Trump’s instant gratification economic policies? The promise to cede federal land to foreign corporations is insane and his tariff promises will be bedlam to most American corporations and almost all Americans. At least criminal drug dealers don’t pretend what they’re selling is healthy, that would be a ridiculous evil - right?
Lifelong learning, Ken Burns has documented all of the learning points here
Ken knows more about our history then anyone in congress im glad hes for everyone's freedom
He spoke facts💙💙
Trump 2024 and his MAGA followers are like those who followed Jefferson Davis in 1860 .Been Studying American and Presidential history since 1966 , have maintained my level of studies because of Ken Burns . Would love to spend a day with him talking history. He is few yrs older and like myself as a kid absorbed the family encyclopedia. Lincoln is the GOAT , top of the mountain, Trump is not even at the bottom of the mountain ,he never as packed his hiking gear to scale the mountain . Lincoln was raised in poverty , gained inner strength to serve as he said " I did not fight war to be President for half a Nation , but to bring back the other back to the Union ." Jan 6 2020 made Lincoln turn in his grave " Ken Burns 9/22/24
You are like the Jim Jones of the 1970s. It was all you liberals that followed him to death. Willie Brown wrote a letter on Jim Jones behalf saying what a wonderful man he was and another dozen Democratic politicians signed it, Willie Brown is Kamala Harris mentor.. Shhhhhhhhhhhhh.. whatever you're learning is garbage because you leave out things. Typical liberal
Nikki Haley should have fought Trump through and through and endorse Harris and thought more of her country than party.
Why will George w. not speak up in the name of defending liberty?
Because he's as weaselly as his face. And probably his brain has rotted from all his years of heavy drinking.
@@ElaineZaks because he is not smart enough to understand what is going on. He is simply baffled and confused. He keeps quiet so that he doesn’t show his ignorance and confusion.
Ken can do no wrong with his docs but everyone here needs to watch The Roosevelts. It was an incredible profile of the family but also American politics in the early part of the 20th C. As always with his work, there’s a lot I didn’t know! And I was so fascinated with The Vietnam War that I have the blu-ray set - I watch the entire thing at least once a year just to learn more from it that I didn’t know and didn’t pick up the last time I watched it.
Thank you, Ken Burns, for sharing your valuable knowledge with America. And congratulations on getting this award!
Thank God for Ken Burns and all his efforts in the documentaries I definitely learn so much over the years💯💕☺️
I believe Trump is absolutely incapable of admitting defeat.
ElaineZaks
In other words, he sounds a lot like Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, and Al Gore.
Trump's fragile ego won't allow him to admit any of his faults. He's so full of self-loathing that all he has left is hate.
Two things to remember: Trump actually wrote in his book one should never admit defeat. Trump's first long time attorney Roy Cohn (an architect of the 1950's and '60s infamous McCarthism) once informed Donald Trump that if you repeat a lie long enough people will begin to believe it.
My ex-husband was like that till the day he died.
@TheNewsInASL False equivalency. Trump is the only president in our nation's history to try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and who sat at home pouting and stealing nuclear secrets instead of helping the incoming administration
Thank you Mr. Burns for all of your films! I love history and I can't imagine that there is any film of his that I have not seen. Thank you for the historical truth that you have shared! 💙💙
I would have voted for Biden one reason was because Kamala Harris had his back! Now that she is the top of the ticket we have a win win! Vote Blue all the way down the ticket and flush the toilet in Washington DC!
1930s Berlin. That is the comparison.
Wow, well said , Ken Burns is the goat. He makes history so even a common person can understand and I definitely appreciate that make it plain.💯☺️
The trolls are really abuzz like hornets trying to discredit Ken Burns.
Nasty stingers, but insects.
99.9999% of Americans have never heard of Ken Burns.
@@kenc7120 Obvious lies only make you look pathetic.
Good luck😮🎉
@@buddyratliff Well probably you with your less than 2 year old account and no content.
Congratulations! 🎊 👏 Thank you for your contribution to history and American culture. 🙏🏼 May God bless you and your work! 🕊
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
“ The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and heart stone all over this brand land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be , by the better angles of our nature “ Abraham Lincoln
❤Ken Burns!
Hear, Hear!
Vote Blue!! Harris-Walz 2024!!!
That is the first sentence that I used to learn how to type faster years ago: "Now is the time for all men (and women too) to come to the aid of their country".
The Egyptian empire lasted for 30,000 years. The Roman Empire lasted for 500 years. American democracy has lasted almost 350 years. Fortunately we have people like Ken Burns who expose the dangers to American democracy that exist in people like T. Rump! Keep up the good work Ken you just might save American democracy! This from a Canadian, who fears another T. Administration!
You have a factor of 10 for Egypt there, but yes.
"American democracy has lasted almost 350 years."
Sadly, I bet you can vote? What school did you go to?
Way off there
Your math is terrible
I would expect that kind of exaggeration from the orange clown! America will be 250 years old on 7/4/2026.
I used to complain abd criticize that Ken never stood up for what was right, he did his films and thought that would make everything OK. FINALLY, KEN -- FINALLY !!!
This man is so eloquent. Loved Greed and generosity come in the same kinds of quantities but at this level it's never been seen before. We have never had a man like him in the white house before so bereth of character or morals. The founders are rolling over in there graves.
I wish Scarborough could learn to ask a question without bloviating interminably.
Yes
SAVE OUR FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY VOTE BLUE 💙💙💙💙🔵🔵💙
I LOVE Ken Burns ❤😊🎉
Really good show today!! ✌🏻🤠
Thank you to ALL "Real Men" who love and support your wives, daughters, and women in your lives! Harris/Walz 2024! ✝️🇺🇲💙👠
Ephesians 5:28-33 "So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body."
Ex republican. People, when I zoom into my web of life, closeup , it was my splicing of solved and unsolved crossword puzzles created by my experiences, revealing my few mistakes that when corrected, revealed more mistakes that when corrected, pointed to more. So I zoomed out and zoomed into my definition of wisdom and it had completely changed and it was no longer an unachievable stretch of abstracts. It revealed that "no one can truly show anyone else the way", is truly why we say "people don't change". Self improvement is a personal journey and if you think you're helping someone to change, how could they by looking at your puzzle? Conservatism is now an agenda that is not aligned to its established definitions and now exist parasitically. At least, now we know we are infected. Wisdom. Thank you for reading
Bravo Ken!!
Great interview !
Living Legend.
Objectively? Objectively, Joe, there is no rational ground for equating the two candidates. Joe's ego again leads him to pretend that the statement Burns makes about the fallacy of pretending they are equally capable or morally equivalent doesn't apply to him. It does. Burns just made an objective statement, but Joe treated it as if he'd said "I just like her better".
That mmhm from Mika at the end is CAMP
Yes I agree that it’s the best as a immigrant myself
I cannot vote.
I'm Puerto Rican; living in Puerto Rico.
You who can, VOTE!
AND SAVE YOUR COUNTRY
Everytime I see Ken Burns, I always think of "Our Better Angels"....
Something revived and borrowed from Shakespeare, Dickens, and later Abraham Lincoln....
Thank You Ken Burns for reminding us of our "Better Angels".
Exactly, this time in our history
I follow you from the UK,and this evening my 7yr old grandson was telling me about a book their reading about ROSA PARKS,and it made me realise,you are MILES behind us in culture and more.NOBODY discusses ABORTION here either,Im 71 and have NEVER heard it talked about,especially from GOVERNMENT.Just thought Iwould say.
Not to be rude but lots of racist and anti immigration attitudes in fhe UK. Hence Brexit which has hurt your economy horribly.
@@lindascott3973 I did say we have our problems,especially with Trumps friend Farage,who lied about Brexit.
@@terryloftus3207I have family living in the UK, and love it there. We go every other year. Just wanted to point out that our racist populace isn't that much different than yours, both willing to vote against their own interests because someone is lying to them and casting blame on those they hate.
You do have a big advantage though, no Fox "News". And a much better social safety net.
Always keep it real 💯
Yep. Go red for the country!
@@americanpatriot6484 real, not red.
@@libbycollins9349Pat here is just trying to rack up more engagement for the channel, so that more people will see this video.
Focus and Vote 🌊💙🇺🇸💪💯for decency, integrity, intelligence and democracy. Full Stop🔵💙🇺🇸
Obvious in '16, more obvious in '20 and plain as the paint on a clowns face in '24
Joe loving the sound of his voice AU.
I don't know how people can be undecided voters evil or not are the two choices that face them how can they be undecided
Ignorance…
I'm looking forward to seeing Burns' American Revolution doc.
..perhaps the nearest actual comparison for a modern candidacy would be George Wallace in '68?
"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg 🥚 of the Phoenix."
~ Christine Baldwin, "One on One" (1977)
"We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing."
~ SImone Weil, "Gravity and Grace" (1947)
solid blue for love of country and our children's ability to vote someday
History is doomed to repeat itself!
Trump threatens everything with his sociopathic dystopian rage. Not only within America's borders but in the world as well. Harris is an extraordinarily gifted person and will make a great President. She will build a strong economy, she will build a strong society, she will restore women's rights, she will bring diverse citizens together. Vote Blue like your life depends on because it does.
President Reagan said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I’m here to help.'" This certainly holds true for the current administration and will hold true if Harris is elected president.
@@jimfoot-p7goh look more cut and paste trolling 😂😂
No one cares what nonsense Ronny Raygun spouted. He was a lousy president.
@@lindascott3973 so is Biden
Let’s imagine where we could be
I've always loved Ken Burns 👍
I like to see an analysis of Andrew Jackson as compared to Trumps dictates today and how they are very similar in charecter and the respect for constitutional law.
I will vote according to the most important issue right now: the rise of world authoritarianism. One candidate opposes it, the other condones it. I oppose it, and I will vote accordingly.