Ken Burns is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker of documentaries including the Civil War baseball and jazz he joins us today to discuss his latest work called the US and the Holocaust. The film looks at the links between German atrocities and in the American legal and social movements of the 1930s. Ken: I think that these are people who will literally do anything and it's definitely I think that that there is going to be something terrible such as January 6th that really chills me.
Roxane Gay joins Kara as guest co-host! They discuss the growing threats of violence following the FBI’s search of Mar-A-Lago and Salman Rushdie's recovery after his on-stage attack. Also, Amazon turns surveillance into reality TV, and Al Franken endorses Liz Cheney. Friend of Pivot Ken Burns discusses his latest work, “The U.S. and the Holocaust.”
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“The U.S. and the Holocaust” premieres September 18th on PBS.
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