benjamin franklin is the subject at the latest ken burns documentary. powerful revolutionary two centuries ago is key to understanding our country and the turmoil we are seeing today. >> franklin was approached by one of the cities most prominent citizens, elizabeth willing powell, whose own rights have not been considered. she asked him, well doctor, what have we got? a republic or a monarchy? a republic, he answered, if you can keep it. a republic if you can keep it, this turns out to be maybe the most prophetic sense of all. everyone who cares about this country has to ask that question every day. >> we are so pleased to welcome award-winning filmmaker can burns. his two-part documentary, benjamin franklin, appears monday and tuesday on pbs. ken, i like everyone watching, love your work. you have done projects on everything, from baseball to the civil war, why ben franklin? >> i think he is the most interesting of our founding fathers. he is the one that offers us a portal to the moment of our founding, words and all. it permits us to see all the cha

the legendary ken burns with us in studio 1a for a chat about his new ben franklin documentary.s 8:36 with award winning film narrower and our pal ken burns. ready to captivate us yet again. he has a new project out >> a two part documentary that explores the life and work of one of american's founding fathers, benjamin franklin here is a sneak peak. >> franklin is by far the most approachable of our founders he's not somebody made of stone like a george washington franklin was pretty simple in his moral code he was driven by a desire to pour forth benefits for the common good. but there is a lot in benjamin franklin that makes you flinch and we see franklin not as a perfect person, but somebody evolving to see if he could become more perfect. >> like our union. ken burns, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> ben franklin, where do you even start the founding father. you can't make it. >> he's the most amazing american of the 18th century greatest american writer of the 18th century successful businessman, a printer a publisher, greatest diplomat in america. >> inventor. >>

you watching on ken burns. is this hemingway went to africa to go hunt hunter would invent. i'm going to africa with the submachine with three semi-automatic weapons and a he take this laura and then just draw it out to this whole other level. last quote from him was as for the lsd, i highly recommend it. we had a fine wild weekend and no trouble at all. that's hunter now here. here's a question, but about you about john kerry about george mcgovern about all these people. why are you supporting a guy that talks about a brick in the face of a cob or why are you supporting a guy that would shoot? a gun through a book for one of your students. it seems to me that he represents no matter how much you enjoy the satire. violence, you know, i mean, well it's respect to spare question. well the most popular comic strip of urine our age is doomsbury by trudeau that's based on hunter. there was a comedic comedic element to him. i mean he was he's considered tom wolfe. who's the conservative reagan american spectator guy tom wolfe called him the finest actress america produced of the 2

ali is going to be a ken burns. ken's not going to do evil knievel. but he's seen his too much of a off figure or whatever but knievel and his day was attracting massive sports audiences on abc and when i saw him he was born again christian living with his wife. it was younger than him very nice person. and you know, he was eating a lollipop like a morphine lollipop that looked like something you get as sugar candy or whatever, you know type of thing. and he broke i'm not exaggerating. he like broke every bone in his body had liver transplant. it was and yet the spirit was there and it was a very wolverine like old pioneer spirit that you don't see any more he came he was like that part of butte up there where the winters and the mining and the he was like you wanted to see what real western like gold rush in the uconn or something's like he he was a remnant. from all of that living now in florida, and i the one thing that i remember the most is at one point. he said i want to show you something. and he went over in his bedroom and he pulled open his

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ken burns with a reality check on the state of our democracy, as the 11th hour gets underway on thisn, i'm stephanie ruhle. vladimir putin's war on ukraine's entering day 36, and russian forces are bombarding areas around kyiv, just hours after pledging to scale back its attacks near the city. the pentagon now calling the kremlin's latest moves a repositioning, rather than withdrawal. >> we've seen them begin to reposition less than 20%, our assessment, and we think that

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attains it it's the drive to want to be be that good and why it has that sure tell him the next ken burns series is on muhammad ali so it's i didn't know that i watched hemingway with great. i thought it was all of ken stuff is good, but i'm really enjoyed the hemingway it had enough mixer of footage with the writing and the complications, but i was worried it was going to be more of a kind of takedown of hemingways machoism or something, but i thought they'll dealt with him as a person quite well in that and so muhammad ali is a gold standard because the footage you have of him and we'll be just spectacular back to your children ages 17. yeah, 15 13. yes. okay. what has been your approach because i know i've picked up over the years and we've talked to interview situations that they've traveled an enormous amount with you enormous. how many kind of places have you taken them and why they become my magic bus trips we go everywhere i take them to historic sites and in particular national parks on hope it rubs off they complain about it some depending on the circumstances, but i found ways

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