Joining me now is our friend Tom Hartman He's thhost of the syndicated radio show, The Tom Hartman Program, is the author of numerous books, including The Last American President, A Broken Man, A Corrupt Party and A World on the Brink. Tom, you're the perfect guest here because, A, you understand the labor movement in America and B, you understand history. So I want you to bring those two things together and overlay it with what's happening today in Minneapolis and across the country, and what's going to ha ...

Ken Burns, welcome back to Meet the Press. >> Thank you. Great to be here. >> It is so wonderful to have you here.We want to talk about your latest documentary, The American Revolution. You are an iconic documentarian filmmaker. You have made some of the most impactful documentaries in US history from the Civil War to the Roosevelts, Benjamin Franklin to baseball.Why was now the right moment to retell the story of the American Revolution. >> It's such a wonderful and fortuitous accident. The now started 10 ...

May 4th, 1970, Kent State University. Students have been protesting the Vietnam War for days. The Ohio National Guard is deployed to the campus at the request of the mayor of Kent, Ohio. The National Guard opens fire on a group of unarmed protesters.28 soldiers fire about 67 rounds in 13 seconds. Four students are killed, nine more are wounded. The country sees this photograph, a young woman kneeling over the body of Kent State student Jeffrey Miller, screaming into history.And then 17 days later, music ans ...

The challenge as we as I talked with the president about at the White House with respect to Venezuela is just uh the the damage that the the dictator that was recently removed and his predecessor did uh to to the economy and and to the industry. And the point that I was making at the White House is those are significant challenges that have to be addressed if uh we're going to achieve the priorities that the White House has. And those priorities, you know, start with one, stabilizing the country.Uh, second ...

With pro-democracy forces now wide awake and surging in terms of their numbers and courage dug in on one side and Donald Trump with his band of autocratic enablers on the other, the country in some ways feels like it's engaged in a game of chicken, waiting to see which side's going to blink first. A stare down, if you will, for the stakes are nothing less than the future of American democracy. Today, though, following the fatal shootings of two people in Minneapolis at the hands of federal immigration offic ...

So I think the the the situation in Minnesota is still on a lot of people's minds right now. I would like to hear what you thought of the events this weekend in Minneapolis, the death of Alex, Freddie and then what we're hearing today about a possible pullback by the Trump administration. Do you feel like that has created credibility.You got me on the credibility. But for me, you know, just to contextualize the way I. Process this this, you know, future happened here.First, in June of last year, we had 4000 ...

Political position that differ from that of a federal administration. We've seen this kind of conduct in other countries. We cannot see it right here in America.This is not a Democratic or Republican issue, never once have I made this partisan. This is a foundational principle of making sure that the endurance of our republic can continue on. It may seem like I'm talking too much on the macro level, or maybe this is a concerning thing to say, but I've gotta tell you, we're seeing it in our streets right now ...

The Trump administration may genuinely want a democratic Venezuela. But transforming such a large country—without troops—before it leaves office is unlikely https://t.co/5gtCBBLgxi ...

I remember a conversation um that I had with my daughter Sama. She was about 7 years old at the time. We were on a car journey, a long road trip, and she'd been silent for some time, which was quite unusual for her. And then suddenly she emerged from her reflections and declared, "I hope that when I die, it's because an asteroid hits the planet and that it kills everybody and none of you have to mourn me. " I looked back in the rearview mirror and saw her younger sister, Yaffa, sitting beside her and lookin ...

Hi, my name is Damian and I'm a politician. Politician, that sounds kind of shady, slightly corrupt, and maybe a bit dodgy. And that's why I personally never wanted to become a politician.I thought about more social work or more like a foundation work becoming a journalist or maybe if I wanted to get rich I would become a banker or consultant which by the way I actually did and did become a consultant. So what changed. I mean in uh 2016 I was in the US.I was in New York and I went to Hillary Clinton's campa ...