it had appearances from ken burns and the fellow documentary producer. doughtry performing, he was amazing to honor knows who died defending the nation and those who served. a big thanks for those who participated. i was honored to be part of this. it was a lot of fun. the oldest living pearl harbor survivor was there to remember those who didn't come home and remember the day that lived in infamy. q mccray has the story. windows the memorial is busy on any given day of the year. you know that. but now it's busy for the memorial the crowd here earlier to meet the hero was immense. >> everyone wanted to shake his hand. he is the oldest living survivor on the attack of pearl harbor. >> i a emin good health for a young man like me. q: as the stories of the survival go, he has plenty. >> my life and millions of other americans that are still serving. >> he wasn't the only veteran taking pictures on the national mall. a special wreath laying ceremony at the world war ii memorial gave visitors the opportunity to gets up close and personal with the real life he

. >> >> dickerson: and we are back with film make fergus ken burns whose new documentary the vietnam war, in vietnam will air starting september 17 on pbs. ken is here to give us a preview on this weekend where we honor those who were lost in the service of their nation. and, ken, i want to do something we don't normally do is take a look at the trailer first and then talk about it. >> >> dickerson: it is so sweeping and powerful. i want to ask you about the journey you took in making this. did you go in thinking, oh it is this way and come out thinking, no, it is really this way? >> i think every film that we tack st. louis like that, where you have that conventional wisdom, the superficial sense of what took place, you know, you say the 19 twenties, you think flappers are gangsters and if you go into it, it is a little bit more complicated than that. for those of us who worked on this project and particularly ann nowak the codirector with me we go in confident that we know something, and i think the ten years we spent working on sit almost daily humiliation of what we didn't know, j

of the punk rock scene. - oh listen, being the punk rock ken burns is a brand, man. i love that. well, the part i love about this the best is it was the book was the audio version of the book was nominated for a grammy. - i know, who would have thunk it. - so it was your book, the elvis costello memoir, patti smith and you all lost at the grammys. - to carol burnett. - to carol burnett. (laughing) - you know. - you know. - kind of a punk rock icon of her own, right? - in a way, you know. - but how wonderful that it was appreciated for what it was, that it was this distinct. - yeah, there was a hell of a lot of other books that, even within our wheelhouse that chrissie hynde and kim gordon. - [evan] well, the chrissie hynde book's really good, that's right, yeah. - yeah, there's a lot that didn't make the cut. yeah, who'd have thunk that. - who would imagine. (chuckling) very quickly, the origin story for x. you and billy zoom were the people who started this band, exene was your girlfriend at the time? - no, just someone i-- - or a friend. - friend, yeah. i met her a

ken burns in the "new york times" on the vietnam war. tom is joining us from malibu, california. good morning. caller: good morning steve. i come from military family and over the years i seen patriotism just come apart. there was a picture of burning american flag. i got very upset about it. i like to read you something. it take about minute and a half to tribute to old glory. she's similar of our country. flag of our nation. she's held up right, and proud. her banner can never touch the ground. she's up in the morning and down in the evening at taps. she has a wonderful history. she cross the delaware with georgia washington. she went to tripoli, was bloodied in gettysburg. she was at the halls of montezuma. remained in havana harbor. she went to europe. she was blown off her stat from pearl harbor into the ground and went down york town midway. she was down but she came back and how hard she came back with a vengeance. she was on the ground with red ball express. she made it all the way back to solomon wall. she did her duty in korea. she went to the gulf when and came home wi

guest: i have tried to write about eight of these presidents and ken burns, the documentary filmmaker said to me, you have written books about 20% of our presidents. we are a young nation and so i have tried to think about what is the definition of the job of the president. the job of the president's is to figure out the next stage of good for a majority of people in the country and then it may be winning a war, fixing the economy, fixing healthcare, whatever, stopping terrorists and then the president needs to come up with a strategic plan how we will get there. you don't do it the week or in a month, you have to do it over a year or two in a president who really has strategic plan is a much-- has a much better chance than what had just crisis manages. look at ronald reagan, whether you like him or not he had a strategic plan. he's going to build up the fence. you squint to cut the size of government and he's going to cut taxes. well, he build build up defensive he did cut taxes. he did not cut the size of government, but he got to, for three nights pretty good. host: you said some r

ken burns, chuck hagel, thank you so much for being part of our conversation on this memorial day. >>>> thank you. >>> we're following a lot of news so let's get right to it. german chancellor angela

. >> ken burns the documentary filmmaker said to me, so you know you've written books about 20 percent of our presidents. we are a young nation. and so i tried to think about what's the definition of the job of president? the job of the president is to figure out the next stage of good for a majority of people in the country. >> and it maybe i'm winning the war, fixing the economy, fixing healthcare, whatever. stopping terrorists, and then the president needs to come up with a strategic plan, how we're going to get there don't do it in a week or month. you got to do it over a year or two. and a president who really has a strategic plan is a much better chance than one who is just crisis management. you look at ronald reagan whether you like him or not, he had a strategic plan. he built up the fence, he's going to cut the size of government and he's going to cut taxes. well, he did build up the fence and he did cut taxes. he did not cut the size of government but he got room for three and that's pretty good. >> some reporters not from the washington post are binge drinking the anti-trum

the local tributes around the region inn clueing a live interview with award winning film maker ken burnstown for the annual memorial day parade much looking forward to him. >> always enjoy talking to him much he's an impressive individual. >> absolutely. >> let's talk about this weather because if you have been waiting all weekend for a chance to spend the day by the water you might be in luck. this could be your best day yet. for details tucker out fox lot with a first check of our forecast. got friends behind to you. >> certainly do, maureen. let's start with the weather and just set the scene. in that live shot it didn't look too promising i think things thing will get better today. we should be partly sunny warm it up into the low to mid all right. there's a look a at a graphic showing you nothing. i don't know why that particular graphic is up. but that's my fault. so let me mention we still got low clouds and some fog across the area with temperatures right now in the mid 60s. so again it is a little gloomy out here early. good news the rain showers, the drizzle, that we had overni

ken burns is one of the keynote speakers. vietnam documentary debuts on pbs later this year. >>> confederate monuments in baltimore could be coming down soon. mayor katherine pew says the city is mulling over it after the city of new orleans took down four civil war era monuments there. they contend they honor supremacy. confederate buffs say this is part of their southern heritage. >>> now wusa9's first alert weather rated d. c.'s most accurate forecast. it felt like -- where is he? >> he left. her cute little dog is here. >> it felt like it was going to >> and then all of a sudden. >> some areas could see a sprinkle or shower. yesterday, i mean, the moisture was excuse me really kind of caught up with us for a good hour or so around the region. today we're waiting for that front to come through. could see a few stray showers off to the east. most areas are going to be dry. that's good. it's still kind of cloudy and foggy out there for now. we are going see things clear off. we're going to see the best looking day today, and

i watched a ken burns documentary on the civil war and got fascinated and started reading about the civilments in your basement you didn't understand, and were too embarrassed to ask anybody. and that set you off on this quest to understand finance, which is, in large part, your life now. it is. it is a part of my life. so yeah, i found these financial statements in my basement, and i was 30 years old, i was sober, i was — a millionaire. yes. and i didn't know what a stock or a bond was. i was too embarrassed to ask anybody else, really. and i didn't trust a lot of people in my industry. and i didn't have anybody to really go to. so i went to school. i went and got into this class at a community college in which it covered financial statements. i could take the information i got at class one night and take it straight home. i could be in class and say, "that's exactly what i'm looking for!" eventually i brought a financial statement, blacked out the numbers, and brought it to my professor and said, "i'm having a problem with this." he said, "they are misleading. these aren't classic finan

ken burns served as one of the grand marshalls for this year's parade. his upcoming film about the vietnam war comes out this fall. three new names are etched in history at the vietnam veteran's memorial. these addition bring the total number of names on that wall t 58,318. five previously missing service members who were accounted for in 2016 were officially welcomed home at a memorial day ceremony today. >>> let's turn to the weather now. doug cameron standing by. this easily the nicest day of this holiday weekend. more of this coming? >> a couple of days. let's look and show you what is happening out there right now. numbers sitting at 85 degrees. that was the high temperature earlier this afternoon, well above average across the region. notice the numbers out there right now. still sitting in the 85 degree mark at lorton. high in dulles around 82, in leesburg around 82 degrees. we'll continue to see nothing on the radar. storm team 4 radar all clear and we'll stay clear overnight for the next few hours. but tracking some moisture down to the south an

. >> rose: i think you and ken burns formed a group. >> yes, we did. they-- we were all saying pretty much the same thing, and it was concern for the country. i think that what disturbed all of us who did that, made that effort, the historians and biographers, is that a sense of history, an understanding of history is essential in leadership, leadership of all kinds. and that our most effective, most conscientious presidents-- not always the most talented or eloquent-- have been students of history. >> rose: including those who had not been university presidents -- >> harry truman. >> rose: harry truman being the one you know well. >> yes, who never went to college but who never stopped reading history. he said some wonderful things about it. he said, "the only new thing in the world is the history you esn't know much of anything in the way of history, and who has said so. >> rose: he says, ," i don't read biographies." >> he dismisses biographies, dismisses books, dismissing reading, dismisses history. on the mantelpiece of the state dining room in th

. -- ken burns. she said some credit for good and some were not. dr. cheney has authored 16 books.er most recent book about james madison is a masterful insight into one of the physically smallest of the founding fathers, but the one with the most towering intellect. surgically the one with the most fun wife. i asked her what she liked most --ut madison and she said he she is fascinated by people who work hard. mozart, bothhim to were geniuses with their gracious works changed forever how people think. she is currently working on a book about the virginian dynasty , washington, jefferson, micro and madison. that will be out in about two years. what fascinates her is the first 36 years of our republic with the exception of four short years of john adams the virginia dynasty was in power. written5 books she has five of them are history books for children and we have bucked him for all of our grandchildren. i have read them over and over with the grandchildren who love them. i will just mention a few because you may want to purchase them. -- a primerpurchase for our country. "a her of

the most successful series she funded while she was there was the civil war theory -- series by ken burns, which we all loved. she said some projects were good and some were not. ey has authored 15 books. the most recent, "james madison: ," is aboutnsidered one of the smallest first fathers but also one of the -- and he also had one of the most exciting wives. i asked mrs. cheney when she liked best and she said she -- she compared him to mozart. both were geniuses who with their gracias works changed forever the way people think. on as currently working book about the virginia dynasty, washington, jefferson, madison, and james monroe. that will be out in about two years. what fascinates her is that for the first 36 euros of our republic, with the exception of four short years of john adams, the virginia dynasty was in power. of the 15 books she has written, five of them are history books for children. we have bought them for all of our grandchildren. i have read them over and over with the grandchildren, who love them. i will mention a few because you might want to purchase them. "celebr

people lining constitution avenue this afternoon for annual memorial day parade in the district xtd ken burnsved apz honorary grand marshalls and created a film call the vietnam war airing on pbs in s the parade marched 100 anniversary of the united states eptsry into world war i and 75 anniversary of world war ii and 50th anniversary of vietnam and featured floats and of course being celebrities out there as well including miss america savvy shields. >> coming up memorial weekend mishap at water park. >> a 10-year-old boy goes flying off a water slide. look at that. we'll have the story and how he's doing coming up next. >> and untraditional fishing trip what happened with a nine foot shark jumped from water on to boat. surprise. hey there >> hey there, jim, nice to see sunshine one day this holiday weekend. started out cloudy. 83. warming up for pools and carry on with outdoor plans. drilling will the fine this evening and no showers expected here and more showers in the forecast tomorrow and even into wednesday. i'll have a look at the 7 day forecast for unofficial week of summer beginning

charlie: i think you and ken burns formed a group.avid: we were all pretty much saying the same thing. it was concern for the country. andern about values truth,r, belief in the belief intolerance, belief in kindness and empathy. charlie: all things you think should be presidential qualities. david: yes, i do. and i think that a certain confidence is essential, and that you don't base your attacks on your smearnts using fear and and unkind actions and words. disturbed allhat of us who did that, made that a sense ofthat history, and understanding of history, is essential in leadership of all kinds. and our most effective and most also notious, but always the most talented or eloquent, has been students of history. and those who had not been university presidents. harry truman, the one that you know well. david: he never went to college, but he never stopped reading history. he said the only new thing in the world is the history you don't know. and now, with our 45th president, we have a leader who doesn't know much of anything in the w

i am curious to see how can burn -- how ken burns deals with it in his vietnam war series. he was in a piece mode at the time. he was meeting with khrushchev privately and asking how we can get global peace. to do a one offer in vietnam he was trying to do this grand -- he had put forward not testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. susan: let's talk about russia. we referenced the cuban missile crisis which framed the early part of his presidency and here we are worried about the u.s.-russian relationship again. what can you say about the approach the kennedy administration took towards the russians? stephen: i think what is interesting about the speeches and history, what is interesting about kennedy as the presidency goes on he learns from his mistakes. he starts off as a fervent cold warrior. he comes to the edge of the nuclear abyss, potentially 50,000,000-100,000,000 people killed and he skillfully gets out of that situation by offering the russians an opportunity to back down without losing face. when he gives the american university speech, he says explicitly, and

charlie: i think you and ken burns formed a group. david: yes, we did.e were all saying pretty much the same thing. it was a concern for the country. values and about truvior, and belief in the th. charlie: right. david: belief in tolerance, believe in kindness and empathy and not -- charlie: these are all things you think should be presidential qualities? david: yes, i do. and i think that a certain confidence is essential, and you don't base your campaign or your attacks on your opponents unkindear and smear and actions and words. what disturbedt all of us who did that, made that effort, the historians and ofgraphers, is that a sense history and understanding of history is essential in leadership, leadership of all kinds. and that our most effective, most conscientious presidents, not always the most talented, or eloquent, have been students of history. charlie: including those who had not been university presidents. david: harry truman. charlie: harry truman, the one that you know well. david: he never went to college, but he never stopped reading his

. >> ken burns serving as one wfrt grand marshalls for this year's parade.of folks wanted to be outside today and a good reason tr thfor that, but a loty family, 6:02, gave birth to baby zoe. >> yay. >> who is that to you? >> my first cousin once removed. and her twin sister gave birth less than a week ago. more cubans out in the world. >> and you said all the nurses are watching news4, so thank you for all that you do and thanks for watching. weather wise, i'm sick of this rain. it comes and goes, comes and goes. you can never leave the umbrella at home. >> it took forever because we had the drought. then may comes and there's the rain all at once. the month of may, nearly 5 1/2 inches. for may. it's been very wet across the region. but not today. not much in the way of rain. take a look at the cloud cover. the clouds have moved in, mostly cloudy, some sunshine now across the area. temperature of 82 degrees. winds out of the northwest. temperatures above average. 78 we have seen some storms develop. nothing in the immediate area. they're all well to our sou

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ken burns, chuck hagel, thank you so much for being part of our conversation on this memorial day. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> we're following a lot of news so let's get right to it. german chancellor angela merkel says europe must be prepared to take its fate into its own hands. >> here in europe there are a lot of folks looking to hear things from him. >> reporter: trump again targeting journalists acuesing the fake news media of fabricating lies. >> if you tweet every day and complain about the media you're not going oget your deals down. >> jared kushner sought to develop a line of communications with the russians that could not be monitored. >> it's a good thing. >> there ought to be a review of his security clearance. >> i don't trust this story as far as i can throw it. >> what manner of ignorance, chaos would you have to have think of doing this with the russian ambassador was a good idea? >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> chris cuomo is off and david gregcy joins me this morning. in just hours president trump will lay a wreath at national arlin

or the other painter and it's hard -- i was watching on television a series called, the west, by ken burns disciples and it was very pro- indian american. there's a scene in which we see sitting bull, chief sitting bull , say, i was a great chief and i had these lands and i had these followers and now where are they all. i have to tell you that since "making it" was reissued, i feel like sitting bull. [applause] [laughter] i wrote a book in which i do name a lot of names and i did emit that as much as i have suffered from that world, i missed it. i miss the intensity, the fashion, it wasn't just about literature it was also about politics. not everybody in that world was on the left. the right was off the radar. it didn't exist. it was a question of where you a trotskyite or a stalinist or anti- stalinist or social democrat -- and so on. those were the factions and they were taken deadly seriously. was marx responsible for the wars of stalinist russia? >> however, i would like to quote from page 116 your initial entry into the world -- basically, in the offices of commentary for which you

i am personally curious to see how ken burns deals with it in his vietnam war series. i have a feeling it is going to be one of constant debate. the evidence of why he would not have gone into vietnam, he was in a real peace mode at the time. he was meeting with khrushchev privately and asking how we can be the generation that brings global peace. to do a one off in vietnam while he was trying to do this grand -- he had put forward not testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. that is sort of the mode he was in at the time of his death. we will never know. susan: let's talk about russia. we referenced the cuban missile crisis, which framed the early part of his presidency and here we are worried about the u.s.-russian relationship again. what can you say about the approach the kennedy administration took towards the russians? stephen: i think what is interesting about the speeches and history, what is interesting to me about kennedy as the presidency goes on he learns from his mistakes. he deepens as a person. he starts off as a fervent cold warrior. he comes to the e

it's hard -- i was watching on television the series called the west by ken burns a disciples which is very pro- indian and there's a scene in which chief sitting bull and he says, i was a great chief and i have these lands that i had these followers and now where are they all? i have to tell you that since it has been reissued, i feel like sitting bull, the chief of a tribe. i wrote a book. [inaudible] i do name a lot of names and i did admit that is much as i suffered in that world, i missed it i miss the intensity in the passion. it wasn't just about literature but politics. everybody in that world -- the right was off the radar. it didn't exist. it was a question of whether you are a stalinist or anti- stalinist or social democrat or. [inaudible] and so on. those were the factions and those were taken with deadly seriousness. these arguments over whether marx was responsible for the wars of stalinist russia. however,. >> the quote from page 116 and your initial entry into the world -- through the offices of commentary for which you had started to write in 1952 as a 22 -year-old and

it's hard, i was watching on television a series called the west by one of ken burns' disciples. it was very pro-indian, american indian. there's a scene in which we see sitting bill, chief sitting bull say i was a great chief, and i had these lands, and i had these followers, and i had these soldiers, and now where are they all? and i have to tell you that since "making it" was rish -- reissued, i've been feeling like the chief of a tribe -- [laughter] for better or worse. i wrote a book later, much more recently, called ex-friends in which i do name a lot of names, and i did admit that much as i suffered from that world, i missed it. i missed the intensity, the passion. and it wasn't just about literature, it was also about politics. now, you have to understand everybody in that world was on the left. it wasn't -- the right was off the radar. i mean, it didn't exist. so it was a question of were you a trotzkyite or a stalinist or anti-stalinist or social democrat. and so on. and those were the factions, and those were taken with deadly seriousness. these arguments over, you kno

. >> grand marshal parade this year film makers ken burns and linda ovic have a great news documentarycoming out. music performances from chris daughtry and five or fighting. some celebrity friends joe mon taken ya, miss america, shields. we mick the military and respect for the holiday with a little bit of fun as well. >> if i'm coming out i want to capture sites and sounds. can i bring my camera? a lawn chairs? what are the do's and don'ts of what i can and can't bring? >> absolutely. bring a camera. bring a lawn chair. grab a great seat along the route. parade starts at 2:00 runs until 4:00 from seven to 17th street along constitution avenue. afternoon. >> give us some perspective this all just kind of comes together, but we know that you spend months and moss planning. what's the timeline here? will you begin next year's parade preparations right after this one? >> tomorrow. [ laughter ] >> really. >> tomorrow much it's a year long process to pull everything together. i mean when you're dealing with hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of participants we have more than 200

burning trend improve. we have driven and roi. when they made their decisions on what we would spend today. our prices are down 60%. nejra: that is the bloomberg business flash. ken told bloomberg he would be really excited to see a breakup of big competitionrease and echoed comments of donald trump about bringing back a version of glass-steagall. griffin spoke from the annual milk in the institute -- milken institute conference in beverly hills. ken: it is way too early to tell. the move toeet remove regulation from the united state i applaud. this is the single biggest leverage they can pull to get our economy growing faster. i started my business in the and ioom at harvard, could launch a hedge fund in 1987. you cannot launch one today with dollars duemillion to compliance and regulatory matters. that has discouraged new business formation and asset image meant, the burden of regulation. the energy space, the transportation space, it is everywhere in america, the weight of regulation is reducing new business formation and that is a tragedy. the administration's focus on reducing the regulatory burden on an american that has a dream, i applaud that. >> the last

burn for about two months. the san francisco reporter that visited the hound of ken zwick compared the -- the town of ken zwick compared to the air being in your nose all the time. the sulfur would linger and began to drift out in widening circles around the area. sacrament of newspapers started to see complaints about it on local farms and orchard as early as 1837. the smelter in the mine had become so huge that people were loath to shut it down. so various farmers and orchardists filed lawsuits to shut it down, and they did not have a lot of luck. company was adept at deflecting suits. they got the incoming dean of agriculture for the university of california to testify on their behalf. for one day's worth of testimony he received payment equal to one month's salary. you see this sort of thing all over. ultimately what got the government interest in the town wick is the woods they was to roast the ore taken illegally. so they filed an injunction and began to prosecute it. he did not really have any effect until 1905 or 1906 and finally the mountain copper company decided to sell it. where continued to operat