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>> it is notably quiet hour, perhaps the quietest period modern london has ever seen. there's a line of mourners stretching miles through the city, making its way to westminster hall, where britain's longest reigning monarch lies unrest. it's 2 am here in london, the
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line is long, and yet people are waiting. it's moving quickly. they're getting to see their queen. whether inside or outside the chambers, so many people we've spoken to here appointed out it's the silence, perhaps, that is so remarkable. silence in nearly every respect. even if you take away the buses in the taxes and general bustle that you find in any great global capital, london's bill is under the approach path to one of the world's busiest international airports, heathrow. airliners fly over the city every minute of every daylight hour every single day, except for this day, when the only sounds were the music of mourning chosen by the queen herself, and military cadence calls.
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party, slow. march. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> president biden in the first lady are expected to fly here saturday morning. -- first american president the king will know as monarch. his mother knew 14, and met 13 of them. -- more now from cnn's jeff zeleny on the remarkable span of history and presidential personalities her reign encompassed. >> our countries have a great deal in common. >> queen elizabeth is forever edged in american history to.
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>> your declaration of independence -- but it did not for long break our friendship. >> it was 1976, and a bicentennial celebration at the white house, when her majesty looked beyond any historic tensions to hail a special relationship with the united states. a moment she would laugh about on her next visit. >> with a gallant disregard for history, we shared wholeheartedly in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the founding of this great nation. >> for seven decades, the queen has been an enduring rock of the nation's partnership. forging a resilient alliance with the presidency, regardless of who occupied the office. from harry truman to joe biden, an unparalleled bookend of american history. it began on her first visit to washington in 1951, as a 23 -year-old princess. >> margaret tells me that whenever anyone becomes acquainted with you, the immediately fall in love with you. >> and so began a u.s. love affair as queen elizabeth went on to meet 12 more sitting presidents during her reign. >> queen elizabeth and prince
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philip were welcomed at the white house. >> she opened buckingham palace to the kennedys in a 1961 visit that captivated both sides of the atlantic. four years later, she paid respects to his memory. >> and memory of president john fitzgerald kennedy, who in-depth my people still mourn, and human life they loved and admired. >> the queen belt relationships with all presidents, democrats and republicans, who all were eager to be seen and her royal presence. she danced with president ford after a state dinner and rode horses with president reagan. their bond as contemporaries was notably strong, and on vivid display and reciprocal visits a very serious. >> the long-standing ambition on my part to visit california and the west coast. what a better time than when the president is a californian. >> the queen saw many parts of the country, including texas in 1991, when she visited ladybird johnson at the library of lbj.
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the only u.s. president she never met during her monarchy. at the white house, she was always greeted with pomp and pageantry. >> the united states represents an ideal, an emblem, and an example. >> but this moment was seen as a bit of a faux pas, with only her hat visible above the microphones. yet, if she minded, she never said so, always keeping any thoughts about presidents to herself. she once hosted the clintons aboard the royal yacht for brittania before delivering a poignant message on her last trip to the white house in 2007. >> talk, we will. listen, we have to. disagree from time to time, we may. but united, we must always remain. >> the final three presidents of her reign came to see her. with obama and trump paying
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multiple visits. and biden seen her just last year, at a meeting of g7 leaders and a private tea at windsor castle. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. >> a perspective now from someone with a front row seat to a slice of that history, simon lewis, who was elizabeth's press secretary in the late 90s. i spoke with him shortly before. >> thanks so much for being with us. she worked with 13 sitting american presidents. the 14 she didn't meet, i think which was -- >> lyndon johnson. >> lyndon johnson. but she met with 13 u.s. presidents. she worked with them. what was her role like with -- and her connections like with them? >> the time i was there, it was bill clinton's turn. there are for estate visits during her reign. i think it depends on the nature of the president. the queen's relationship with prime minister -- ronald reagan, they bonded over their love of horses. they were riding together. >> there are iconic images now of them writing.
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>> yes. and the iconic image of president ford leaving the queen at a dance at the white house. the obama visits. i think there was something about the relationship the queen had with the u.s. and her family, it was profound. i remember sitting next to the late queen mother talking about the king going to see the late president. i remember thinking, which president? and it occurred to me it was president roosevelt. so actually, the family goes back a long way. i think there was an affection, i think the person who, i think george bush the second -- almost like a sort of father mother relationship with her. but they all in a different way i think connected, and vice versa. that was the thing about the queen more generally. tremendous conductivity with international leaders. >> it is remarkable. over 70 years of her reign, just a sheer number of world leaders who she met with, and also just, i'm trying to think. is there any other person who has had exposure to world leaders over a 70 year period at the level that she had?
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a constantcy in her accumulated knowledge. >> and she had some favorites. >> she did. >> she did. >> who are they? >> nelson mandela. >> who spoke at parliament 1996. >> when i was being interviewed for my job working for the queen, it was a windsor castle, and i waited a long time. i thought this was unusual, because normally -- like clockwork. eventually, i hear her laughing from the top of the stairs. i looked, up and there was nelson mandela, who had run over by 30 minutes. his audience with the queen, apparently -- when he walked, and he said, ma'am, you look fantastic. and she said, you should see my mother. so, there was a special chemistry there. but, importantly, i think they both understood each other. because they both had been around a long time. they both seen ups and downs. and i think it was a hugely reassuring quality to the queen for world leaders. >> a lot of them, i must of been incredibly nerve-racking, somebody who's just come into power, to meet the queen.
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and yet, to know that she has known all your predecessors, and it's had relationships with all of them, wondering what your relationships gonna be like. >> and all the former prime ministers who spoke about their relationship with the queen have said the same thing. the she put them at their ease. and the thing about ali being a world leader is spending time with the queen, everything else is put to one side. you just got time with someone with this experience. it must of been a very special over relationship, whoever the world leader was. >> this images of her with the obamas multiple times. there was an incident here that made a lot of news when michelle obama put her arm around the queen, and the queen immediately put her arm around michelle obama. which is here, very unusual thing to do. >> and i think the queen had an instinctive understanding in those situations of what was the right thing to do. i think shrinking back would've been completely wrong. so i think the queen's ability to think in the moment. >> president biden was invited and without a delegation.
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why is a decision like that get made? >> their delay kit decisions. -- this is -- >> this consultation between the palace -- >> absolutely. let's another feature of the operation. working closely together. let's be frank. all these world leaders coming this weekend, there's gonna be a lot of discussion going on between those world leaders. many of those world leaders will see not just the purpose of being there to pay their respects to the late queen, but to spend time with their peers. but it's a very delicate process. and of course, the king will be hosting a big diplomatic reception on sunday night, which is also a very strong message to the international diplomatic community. >> just as someone who knew the queen, worked for the queen, how do you think today went? >> today was extraordinary. i've been out today and the crowds they're huge, but there is a quietude, a dignity. this is been long planned. but you can never predict what the days gonna be like. and i think the combination, the number of people, the
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respect, the incredible pomp and circumstance that worked so exquisitely. i think it's made an exceptional day. >> thank you for being on with us. >> pleasure. >> ahead, harry and meghan have been part of all these ceremonies after stepping away from royal life, what drove harry and meghan to leave the uk and where things stand now. plus, latest efforts to avert a nationwide rail strike in the united states that could cripple the u.s. economy. there are already cancellations from coast to coast. we'll have the latest on that.
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>> along with all the pageantry here with -- of prince harry and his wife, at least temporarily after they chose to step back as working members of the royal family. randi kaye right now traces their journey from one continent to the other. >> we went from zero to 60 in the first two months.
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>> that is prince harry talking about dating, then girlfriend, meghan markle. the couple met in london through friends in july of 2016, according to markle. soon, they were engaged. >> just an amazing surprise. it was so sweet, and natural, and very romantic. he got on one knee. >> they tied the knot in 2018. they welcomed their son, archie, the same month they celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary. from the outside looking in, it was a fairytale. california actress meets a prince, and they live happily ever after but the relentless spotlight, and brutal headlines soon took their toll. >> do i have any regrets? yeah. my biggest regret is not making more of a stance earlier on in my relationship with my wife, and calling out the racism when i did. >> prince harry, in an explosive apple plus docuseries, the me you can't see, describing the racism he says
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was pointed at his wife by the british press. >> within the first days of our relationship being made public, was when they said harry's girl, almost straight out of compton. and her exotic dna will be thickening the royal blood. >> the pressure, the hurtful words, all soon became unbearable according to the couple. and the relationship with the british media deteriorated. >> you add this on top of just trying to be a new mom, or a newlywed. it is, also thank you for asking, not many people have asked if i am okay. but it is a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes. >> the stress on the couple grew so much, harry says meghan considered suicide. >> meghan decided to share with me the suicidal thoughts, and the practicalities of how she was going to end her life. >> in 2020, the couple decided
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to step back as senior royals, become financially independent, and move to the u.s.. but it wasn't just the press the couple was having issues with, as they told oprah, it was the royal family who had allegedly made remarks over the color of their own unborn baby's skin. >> hold up right now. >> there were several conversations. >> there is a conversation with you? >> with harry. >> about? how dark your baby is going to be? >> potentially, and what that would mean, or look like. >> harry and meghan have now forged a new life. they reside in the enclave of montecito, california, and they have added to their family with the birth of their second child, daughter lily bet lily diana in june of 2021, name d after
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harry's grandmother, and mother. the couple have also worked to soften their image. they're funny and down to earth side. >> [inaudible] why not? [noise] [laughs] >> like it chipmunk. [laughs] >> megan has a new podcast, archetypes, and says she might join social media again. harry has joined a local polo club in santa barbara. but for the moment, they rejoin the ranks of the royal family as the world marks the solemn end of an era. randi kaye, cnn. >> joining me now is cnn royal correspondent max foster. look, these moments are difficult for any family to have at all publicly displayed like this and of course, they know that coming here and being part of this, it brings it all back. >> yeah. so, i think that they are
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following all the protocols, the couple. they are fitting in as we're expected, knowing the queen had set the plans out ahead of time. >> you are putting out earlier today that they were given a prominent place in the funeral procession, and all of that, it was thought out. >> what is interesting is if you remember prince philip's memorial day, were given the position, they were sitting in the congregation while william was at the front. what has changed is that the monarch is charles. and charles has two children, william and harry. he has gone up a level, if you see what i mean. he took a very prominent position today, particularly going into westminster hall, and he was there with the queen. and the prince of wales. and i think that that is a gesture as well from prince king charles. he did not have to do it like that. he has given him a very big position. he talked about them in his speech. i think this is a massive effort by the king in particular reaching out to harry and meghan. trying to make them part of the family. but these are public events as well. they are being brought into the
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monarchy as well. >> do you think this is sort of a reach out to harry and meghan for, however they want to respond? >> yes. because harry and meghan would not have any say in where they were placed in any of this. they were placed there by the king. and they could have chosen not to appear today. but this would not have been their decision to be in there. and i am told by people involved, they are following protocol, they are just doing what they have been asked to do. they have done it without any fuss or bother. they put all of the focus on the queen. which is, i think, particularly gone down well with the public. but i think it would have also gone down well with the family. >> what happens in the days ahead now? there is the viewing, and there are people lining up at this hour, it is 2:21 am. the lines are still very long. that is going to continue for days. the funeral is on monday, and then, that is it? >> i think that is the way it
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is designed for the funeral to happen. she would be laid to rest, and the family go, often have off and have their own time. i don't think that there is any desire by the family to continue this beyond that. this will of course be the coronation at some point this next year, which will be a massive event in london. there is a huge amount of arrangement going into that. but i think also, there was a period of time that people will feel, there will be times to move on afterwards. i think the prime minister has got a lot of issues. haven't heard anything about her policy agenda. she has been put on the backburner. politics will need to come back to the four. >> and the coronation is not on
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until next year. >> it is not completely clear. i think impression i got is that it will probably be next summer. there is a huge amount of work that needs to go into it. it is not like the death plan of london bridge, which is always updated every time, the idea where the coronation is that you have to start planning that after the death. so that is a long, big process. and the king will have very specific ideas about how he wants that to look. >> i appreciate it, thank you very much. as we continue to report from here on, i just want to remind you about the project i've been working on which is about loss and grief, and how it changes all of their lives, and how to bond. we have seen a lot of thought and the public appearing on the people coming together talking about their grief, talking about loss, you can see the qr code on your tv screen there. if you point your cellphone camera at it, it will link to the podcast. it is called all there is, it is also available where we get your podcasts, apple podcasts, you can see the link, the qr code there. as i said, it is on apple podcast. and elsewhere. i hope you like it. the first episode was released today. coming up next, the latest on what the biden administration is doing right now to prevent a rail worker strike that could have profound effects on the prices that you pay for just about anything that is shipped by rail in the united states. and later, a conversation with
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between union and railroad officials. collins is at the white house for us monitoring the developments. what do we know about the meeting that is still going on with labor secretary marty walsh and railroad carriers and union officials? >> it just hit the 12 hour mark. those union representatives showed about the labor department this morning just after 9 am. they are still meeting, i am told. it has gotten so prolonged that they even ordered dinner a few hours ago. they are still trying to hammer out this agreement. obviously officials are taking it as a good sign that both sides, these union representatives, and the railroad carriers themselves are still at the table having these discussions which we were told earlier in the evening are happening in good faith. but also it has been over 12 hours now and they have not yet announced an agreement. so, that of course, is what officials are watching very closely. it is significant that it got to this point. where the labor secretary felt like you have to get both sides in the labor department in the same building to top this issue through. president biden here of course have been personally involved in this. he placed calls to these unions, to these railroad carriers earlier this week himself to try to get them to hammer out an agreement.
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he is being briefed and updated on what is going on during these extensive talks at the labor department today. but, still no agreement yet. >> if there is nothing the labor department or the president can do to prevent it, how is the administration preparing for it? >> two things, they're preparing contingencies, because a big question for them is what is it going to look like if this actually happens? if this strike is not averted, and they do hit that deadline on friday night with no agreement? so they have been talking about contingency plans with people like transportation secretary pete buttigieg, the labor secretary, the agriculture secretary, who has a big stake in this game about what could they do potentially if they are not using freight, can they use trucks, can they use air freight, can they use these other kinds of shippers if i get the stuff that is so vital to the supply chain around. the other thing, anderson, that they have thrown around is maybe some executive action by president biden. it is not really clear the extent of what he can do because a lot of this is under
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the purview of a lot of these private companies. so that is a big question here. but it is something that they have kicked around because i think that they realize the seriousness of this, and also president biden himself has been a huge supporter of unions during his presidency. he talks about it all the time when he is on the road. he is navigating a very delicate balance here between obviously trying to avert this potential disaster, which they are worried could exacerbate inflation, which as you know has already been a major problem for them, but also still supporting the unions in the way that you have seen president biden talk about so much, anderson. >> yes, kaitlin collins, appreciate, it thank you. our political discussion takes actual look at how senator lindsey graham has proposed 15 -week national ban on abortion has exposed a rift in the republican party, and just ahead of the midterm elections, that is next. new astepro allergy. no allergy spray is faster. with the speed of astepro, almost nothing can slow you down. because astepro starts working in 30 minutes, while other allergy sprays take hours. and astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid free allergy spray.
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>> sources tell cnn that a closed-door debate by house republicans over senator lindsey graham's proposed 15 -week national ban on abortion got heated today, one member characterized to cnn as it quote, healthy discussion, with what he called quote, different viewpoints. it is the latest example of how
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graham's bill has put an uncomfortable spotlight on a major within the party over abortion less than two months before midterms. i will get some perspective now from cnn senior political analyst, kirsten powers, and the former clinton and ministry official. david, the senator graham's decision to propose a federal 15-week abortion ban after republicans vowed to leave the issue to states make any political sense to you? >> well, we should note lindsey graham is one of those republicans who said just this summer on cnn, it should be left to the state. i mean, it doesn't make necessarily smart political sense, but i think that what lindsey graham is doing here is trying to rally the base of the republican party. which has had, as a life force, as a through line for nearly 50 years, overturning roe v. wade. but that has been such a motivational cause. now the party is the dog that caught the car, anderson. what you have is, the party does not seem very prepared for
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the sort of, what then? so they achieve this 50 your quest of having roe overturned, and now they're scrambling to get to a place to sort of answer the what then. graham proposes this as an opportunity he things to try and rally the conservative pro-life republican base, but obviously democrats sees this as a political opening. >> yes, kirsten, democrats have been warning voters that this is exactly what many republicans wanted to do, regardless of talk about states rights, how big of a gift is senator graham just give to the democrats going to the midterms? >> i think in political terms, certainly, it is a big gift. but i think if you look at it substantively, or from many people in this country, it is a very frightening, of course. he is just saying the quiet part out loud, and that is what he is upset about?
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that he's just talking about what they want to do when they get into office? it wasn't a month ago that he was actually echoing this states rights argument that the states should be handling this and had no interest in any kind of national ban. and now here he is. so, i think the big fear for a lot of people, not just democrats, is that if the republicans get into office, that this is what they are going to do. what he has done is he has made that argument now front and center as a political matter, it makes no sense. i don't see how it could possibly help the republicans, and that is why you see republicans getting so upset and being unhappy that he has brought up something that does not work to their benefit. >> i mean, david, this is not the first time lindsey graham has said something which is completely the reverse of what he has previously said. he did that regarding nominations of supreme court justices. the level of hypocrisy about, you know, for years talking
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about state's rights and even as you said, as recently as a month ago, and now to be talking about a national ban, what does it tell you that congressional republicans seem to be all over the place in their response to his proposed ban? >> it tells me when you see a party, just two months out from the midterm election, not all singing from the same song sheet, they have encountered a political problem. and that is what i think mitch mcconnell just clearly laid to bear when he said, you know, he's not even sure he would push for this to come up for a vote. when you hear rick scott, the chairman of the committee charged with winning back the majority in the senate for republicans, the republican from florida, sort of saying that we really need to be talking about inflation and the economy and not this, you have such a discord in the party and it is a clear indication that they understand the position that lindsey graham is taking is not a position where the american people are broadly right now.
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and when you are 55, 54 days away from an election, that is not where you want to be. >> kirsten, when manu raju asked rick scott, rick scott said he is studying graham's proposal, you would think after years of debate, over roe v. wade, over abortion, peoples positions would be pretty thought out, the idea that of a national ban is something that is new to rick scott, and that it used to be studied seems unusual. >> it is unlikely. that he doesn't know what he thinks about that. i think it is true that republicans have gotten away with taking positions on abortion for a long time without any kind of consequence because of roe v. wade. so they could fall back on that. but now that roe has been overturned, it has changed. but certainly rick scott has had enough time since roe was
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overturned to know what he feels about that. and i think that like i said, lindsey graham is telling us all republicans would do if they were in control of congress. so i think that that is something that voters should take into consideration. because we have seen across the country, even in conservative states, even in red states, even with people who identify as pro life, finding a lot of these abortion bans to go too far. and it is worth pointing out that he has presented this as kind of a moderate alternative. it is actually not moderate at all. it is extreme. we don't have enough time to get into all of the different ways it is extreme, but even the so-called exceptions that are in it are almost impossible to even use the way that they would be set up. so, what he has put out is a very extremist position, which, i guess, seems to be where the republican party is right now on abortion. >> and david, given the spike in female voter registration, after roe v. wade was
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overturned, do you anticipate that this proposed ban could have a similar impact? >> i don't think it will have as big of an impact as roe v. wade being overturned, but i think that this is part of that narrative that we've seen now in five house special election since the dobbs decision came down, anderson, where the democrat has overperformed with what joe biden did in the district just two years ago in 2020. they didn't win all of those, but the democrat overperformed what biden is doing in each of those house special elections. as you noted, the registration surged, the huge turnout in kansas, it is clear the issue has shifted the landscape. i think the question here is, is it sufficient for democrats to save their majorities given the overwhelming concern about inflation and the economy that still exists in the electorate. >> yeah. and still a lot of time before midterms. david, kristen, thank you very much. coming up, more on the queen and her legacy, involving world war ii, plus m y discussion with
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comes at a time when europe, america, and the rest of the world confronting rise of antisemitism. earlier this year, british charity reported that in 2021 there are more acts of antisemitism in the united kingdom than at any point since it began recording the incidents in 1984. we should point out that the trust that -- called the queen a consistent supporter for those who survived, and for the education that continues. the horrors of the genocide are the focus of a new documentary from ken burns, and len novek called the u.s. on the holocaust, which traces america's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crisis of our times. why it was unwilling to open its doors to jewish immigrants. >> among the new arrivals from eastern europe, there were more than 2 million jews. most fleeing poverty, and many escaping antisemitic violence. some jews who have already been in america for generations were
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also wary of the newcomers. we are americans, and they are not, one rabbi said. they gnaw the bones of past centuries. by 1910, new york would be home to more than 1 million jews. more than a quarter of the city's population. far more than any other city on earth. >> the anxieties about urbanization, about unlettered, untutored, relatively an educated people's coming in large numbers, the sense that disease was a problem, all of these worries were amalgamated into a belief that immigrants cause these problems and thus, immigration should be held down. >> many white protestant americans came to fear that they were about to be outnumbered, and out bred by
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the newcomers, and their offspring. that they were being replaced. >> episode one of the documentary premieres sunday on pbs. i spoke to ken burns and lynn novak earlier about their new film. ken, this is such a beautiful film, such an important one, as well as infuriating at times. it is a very uncompromising look at the way america responded to what was happening in europe trying to lead up to the holocaust. a lot of those prejudices are already still present in society today. for you, what was your hope in making this documentary in this moment? >> you know, we began this seven years ago. america was a very different place in 2015. and we hoped to just tell the story. after doing this for a few decades you know that whatever
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subject you do it will rhyme in the present, that will be important. and are disciplined as filmmakers is not to yield those, not to put arrows pointing at them or neon signs, but to just tell the story and know full well that it will resonate. but as we worked on this, more and more as time caught up with us as we got closer to the air date, we began to realize how much it is rhyming in almost every sentence with today. we set the table of our film with the story of antisemitism in america, anti immigrant sentiment, nativism, are treatment of native americans and the african american slave trade and the racism that comes out of that. all of these things are still present in american society is. >> one of the narratives lynn the series follows and frank's family and their attempt to come to the united states. i think what a lot of people don't really know about, can you just talk about that, and could the story that we understand of anne frank, couldn't have ended differently? >> yes. this was a revelation to all of us working on the film. some documents came to light
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when we were getting started on our research that showed that anne frank's father, auto otto frank, had written to the american consulate and try to get a visa to come to the u.s. after they had fled nazi germany to amsterdam. before they went into hiding, he tried again. he tried over and over to get to the united states, and he had all the right paperwork, he had the connection, you have the resources, and yet they were turned away, essentially. and like thousands of other people who wanted to get out of nazi germany, america was not prepared to welcome more than a fraction, as we say, of the people who needed to get out. >> and i mean, fdr is such a fascinating character in the documentary because he was trying to keep america out of the war and recognizing that he needs the support england as the last best hope against hitler. >> yeah. i think sometimes fdr can be blamed.
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in a very simplistic reading of this story, that it is all his fault that america wasn't more engaged with saving refugees and addressing humanitarian crisis that was unleashed as hitler began his persecution of the jews. but he had a lot of problems on his plate to deal with. including preparing our country, as you said, to stay out of the war, or eventually to have to get into it. and public opinion was honestly against that. isolationism, america first, americans really did not want to get involved in another european war after world war i. >> it is also so important, that anne frank story, and those details, it is very easy to look back in history and say now, oh, well of course if i was alive and i would have supported anne frank's family coming, and other jews being able to come, and save them. but it is easy to do that looking back, it is less easy to look now at people wanting to come to the united states and do that in the same way. >> that is exactly right. i think that that is the thing. what kind of america do we think we are, what kind of americans do we wish to be? are we, as our film shows, the
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americans -- give us your tires -- or another poem that said, oh liberty, white goddess, is it well to keep the gates unguarded? meaning, close them, we do not want to be replaced by this influx of foreigners. and then we passed anti immigration laws in 1925 with very restrictive quotas from areas, countries that have particularly large populations of jews, and we end up creating this unnecessary bottleneck that is going to make it legally difficult to bring these people in. so while we brought 225,000 refugees from hitler's war on jews, more than any other sovereign nation, even if we had just filled the quotas, we could have brought in five times as many. >> also, in the documentary, you flash forward to the present to show how these battles are far from over. this is not just some look back at history. i just want to play another clip.
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>> this thing that people call white supremacy, that is not some marginal thing. you have to look back and say, how can we change so that we really can be a republic or really can be a democracy? if we are going to be a country in the future, then we have to have the view of our own history, which allows us to see what we were. and we can become something different. and then we have to become something different, if we are going to make it. >> obviously, the question ken, is how does that become something different? >> i think that what we do is not we need to study who we are. it is so interesting that the germans who perpetrated this horrific crime against all of us, and particularly the jews of europe, have really engaged themselves with decades of self reflection. we, on the other hand, presuming we are the greatest country on earth, and the most exceptional people have rarely had the opportunity, or the interest in delving into the
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darker aspects of ourselves. but only through the understanding that that is equally part of us, as well as the very good things that we do, do we come to terms and reconcile these divergent things, and perhaps have the opportunity to, as timothy snyder suggests so intelligently, to make a decision in favor of preserving our democracy and not yield to the authoritarian impulses that are always before us, to demonize the other, to erode the systems of fairness, of elections, of the peaceful transfer of power. this is all out of the playbooks of all authoritarian leaders, and we see, you know, i've talked to you about this. the great crisis of the civil war, the depression, and world war ii. now i think that we are in the fourth great one. this is the first one in which the very foundations of the republic are revealed to be quite fragile. >> yes. ken and lynn, thank you so much for making this film. i hope a lot of people see it and it is so important.
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thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> the first episode is on sunday on pbs. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ "shake your thang" by salt n pepa moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day, that's effective without topical steroids. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. plus, they felt fast itch relief some as early as 2 days. that's rinvoq relief. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb.
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let's hand things over to don lemon. standing right next to me how you're done >> what a fascinating day that this all unfolded. certain times, certain stories that you know that you are in the middle of history, and there's just one that came over here seeing the cues, as i say here, the lines of people still right now at 8 am in the morning here and the lions are still extremely long. , good to see you wish it was under better circumstances. >> there's a whole lot going here in london tonight and we're gonna talk about

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