President Donald Trump has claimed voter fraud, and those who have been counting the votes have something to say. Bill Whitaker reports. David Martin get an inside look at the government’s ambitious program to get a COVID-19 vaccine to 300 million Americans -- Operation Warp Speed. 'Ken Burns’ documentaries have ranged from the Civil War, to baseball, to Vietnam, and country music. Scott Pelley sits down with the filmmaker to talk about his 40+ years telling America’s story. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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The officials overseeing the count
in pennsylvania, another key states are all part of a corrupt democrat machine
thirty minutes, visited five different counties in pennsylvania this week, while vote,
we're being counted. We saw democrats and republicans who are working tirelessly despite
then trumps, baseless, accusation, cunning votes, cast,
before election day by eligible voters
is not. Corruption is not cheating, it is democracy.
Sixty minutes was invited into the command center for operation warp speed governor.
its plan, to distribute a covert vaccine to some three.
Red million americans,
you ll be able to ban you festival,
table and say what happened to that shipments
It was going to good samaritan hospital in baltimore, yes, and not only that I'll know after
gets there how faster administering the doses that they were given
That may be our shot. Him
he has made nearly forty films, fine.
The american paradox in the wars we fight against me boy, told people that baseball is the scene,
to the civil war, and I meant it. I meant it how we play games and then
nature of immigration and the exclusion of women and popular culture, and
advertising and heroes and villains in our imagination and race and race and race.
I'm leslie stall, I'm bill whittaker, I'm anderson cooper, I'm scant pelee
those stories and more tonight on sixty minutes.
the twenty twenty presidential election had record setting turn out with more than one hundred forty five million ballots cast. While president elect Joe Biden
acted more of those votes
and news organisations have projected him as the winner president trump has refused to concede. He has called for recounts and filed laws
foods, questioning the validity of many of those values.
see the ones cast by male all over the country as covered spiked. Again, though,
by male ballots, flooded, tabulation centres, other ballots, jam streets, I'd drop
sore, were hand delivered to registrars and city clerks. What could have been chaos instead?
it, came an exercise in democracy. We saw that first hand in five separate counties across the swing state of pennsylvania, with it's crucial twenty electoral votes. There we had some questions for the people responsible for counting the vote. President trump has said bad things happen in philadelphia are bad things happening in philadelphia in the birthplace of our republic. Counting votes is not a bad thing. Counting votes cast on or before election day by eligible voters is.
Not corruption. It is not cheating, it is democracy. L schmidt is one of three commissioners who run elections in philadelphia.
the loan republican. There really should not be a disagreement regardless of party affiliation. When we're talking about counting votes cast honour before election day
by eligible voters. It's not a very controversial thing, or at least it shouldn't be, but yet it is unfortunately yes and we've done
past. We first met commissioner schmidt back in september with the country in the grip of the pandemic. Schmidt was
expecting a flood of mail in ballots. When you have half
your voters, vote by mail and urging patience. You will not know the outcome on election
He couldn't have been more right. The flood became a deluge three.
sixty thousand mail in ballots poured in philadelphia.
It was more than all the mail in votes in the state in twenty sixteen
the ninety percent or from Democrats as those ballots were counted
convention centre in philadelphia this past week, president trumps
initial lead in pennsylvania slowly was chipped away on wednesday, with hundreds of sound
is vote stilled account president trump tweeted. He had won the state, his
and pain and party started filing lawsuits claiming voting irregularities and fraud, especially
philadelphia. We are going to file suit in pennsylvania. The prisoner
some air again Rudy giuliani, rush to philadelphia to assert with greece
urgency, but no evidence that democracy itself was under attack. This is absolute fraud. We have seen it in philadelphia before by the end of the week with former vice president,
oh Biden, inching ahead in the vote. Count the number of troops
campaign and geo P. Lawsuits hit double digits in pennsylvania, most aimed at this
during the count pennsylvania's living up to its reputation as a crucial battleground in presidential elections in twenty. Sixteen donald trump beat Hillary Clinton here by less than one percent of the vote. Each bow. It must be countered with a similar edge, overpriced,
and tromp news organisations on saturday projected former vice president Joe Biden had one pennsylvania and the presidency
spontaneous celebrations broke out in philadelphia and across the country. Still the trump campaign is going to court
to challenge the validity of the vote in pennsylvania and other battleground states. Obviously, that is not going to concede. The president's
in a low turn, he rudy giuliani, said he'll start filing lawsuits Monday. I dont know if there's enough evidence to set aside the entire election, certainly not around the country may be in
obeying the stakes, are high and passed
there were high all week, thursday
virginia men found with weapons and ammunition in their car, but no gun permit were arrested outside the convention centre inside republican commissioner schmidt.
his fellow election board members and about two hundred city employees are continuing to work. They will be counting provisional ballots for at least another week from the inside. Looking out, it feels all very deranged deranged. At the end of the day, we are counting eligible votes cast by voters. The controversy surrounding it is something I don't understand. It's people making accusations that we wouldn't count those votes or people are adding fraudulent votes or just coming up with just all sorts of crazy stuff. Accusations like you are cheating, yes, you are manipulating to vote yes or calls to our offices, reminding us that- and this is what the second amendment is for. People like us, you're getting
cause like that. Yes, that's! A not so veiled death read yes for counting votes in a democracy. The election here had been running smoothly. Sixty minutes dropped in on five pivotal counties. Northampton in the northeast voted twice for Barack Obama, then flipped to Donal
tromp and twenty sixteen. We saw long lines of voters there. Waiting patiently to cast ballots on election day
in neighbouring user county we saw orderly vote counting under the
watchful gaze of party poor watchers certified by the state. It was the same in the
affluent suburbs around philadelphia. You are allowed in there and had popper chair.
books, county geo p is a proud partisan, but when it comes to running clean elections, she told us she's by partisan. We may like different candidates, but we want the process to be.
And I think we're working very hard in our county and I'm very, very proud of our commissioners. Our board we're all working together to make sure the voters can vote democrat Sandra bullock. Absolutely
but that spirit of cooperation only go so far. The number of republican court case
keeps growing one of the fiercest concerns, pool watchers the trunk
pain is in pennsylvania, courts alleging their observers can't get close enough to see. What's going on, president trump rail
about that. In his speech, thursday night and in philadelphia, observers have been kept far away very far away so far that people using binoculars
to try and see and there's been tremendous problems caused. It is reckless and disappointing.
There are some on the outside who either don't know. What's going on we're dont care to know it's going.
Who were lying about what's happening here in pennsylvania democratically,
Shapiro is pennsylvania's attorney general.
One reelection this past week he's defending the state again
republican lawsuits, he calls frivolous. They were asking for two things: bill number one to stop the count and number
two, to allow their waters to get closer to wear the envelopes were being opened and scant on the first issue being able to stop the count they failed and the second thing an agreement was reached to move these pot watchers from roughly ten feet away to roughly six.
No way, no material change whatsoever. The president in and his campaign have said there are many,
irregularities here in pennsylvania. Let me break this down for you. Each campaign had observers in the room while the ballots were being counted. In addition to that, even if you're not a certified watcher, you can turn on the live stream and watch it on tv and keep an eye on the activity. If you'd, like you, heard the president's speech on thursday night, he was claiming that the elections being stolen from donald trump can say whatever he wants, but we just had an election, an election that was secure, an election where the votes are tallied and a proper winner will be certified based not on the words of president trump but the votes
if the american people, so am I staying on because it's on the wrong pennsylvania state representative, Malcolm kenyatta, spent election day urging voters to get to the polls. The Democrat represents a predominantly black district in north philadelphia. Think about the people who died, mean literally died and bled. So every single person could vote in this,
free the he says. The trauma campaigns attempt to stop. The count smacks of voters, suppression, they're, trying to steal an election by not having every vote.
count and in an election. If you think you're going to win, you don't try to stop the counting. You want every vote, counted we're going to count every single vote and all they can do is what they've done
to try to throw sand and the gears to try to make the process is slow as possible and then feel that time of delay with conspiracy theories and and in nonsense. So what it? What do you think of this now that the trump campaign is going to court complaining about these delays? This is what the President does. He wants to create confusion and chaos, and then say: oh, my god, there's so much confusion and chaos, and then I will pick up a mirror. Of course. This confusion, chaos, chaos, you created it. I've been doing this long time. This is the type of litigation strategy. Where are you.
the kitchen sink it the wall and see what sticks. Ben Ginsburg is a republican attorney who has spent almost four decades immersed in election law.
during the florida recount in two thousand. He helped spearhead the controversial legal strategy that won the presidency for george w bush
He says this is no florida, two thousand and calls president from strategy incoherent. What is this litigation design,
to do that. On the one hand, its lawyers reacting to a client who is disjointed and on handstand not terribly accepting of defeat and on the other extreme, this could be an instance of trying to slow down counts in individual states, in the hopes that those states don't complete their job of certifying election results in time for the electoral college to me, and then he would go back to something else he's talked about which is telling legists
tours to go and vote trump slates, even in states that were won by by Ginsburg a lifelong republican hopes. It doesn't come to that if you could get the ear of the president. What what would you say to him, sir? You need to take a step back. Look at the results. It is a democracy. It is a country, that's been very good to you and you need to respect the institutions and the greatest institution of all is our elections, the lead to the
for transfer of power and you cannot be destructive. Saturday night now, president elect Joe Biden told voters. The democratic process is working with one of the most votes ever crash on presidential ticket,
the nation. Seventy four, not far from independence hall, the counting of provision
Male in and military ballots continues for republican election.
Commissioner olle schmidt, each ballad is approved.
this reminder of. What's at stake, the real damage is not who wins and who loses or who gets elected or not. The real damage, I think, is how we will react to this process so that, at the end of the day, we all have confidence
at all, the voices are heard and win or lose. These are the people that we, the people have elected to represent us
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While the rest of the country has been counting votes
general named gus partner, has been counting. Doses of vaccine is ensured,
operation warp speed, the catchy title given to the crash programme
to a laid three hundred million americans against the corona virus by next spring,
for those of you longing to reclaim a semblance of your previous life it
seem all that speedy, but it is competitive,
five to ten years, it usually takes to field. A new vaccine once approve it
not be a silver bullet, just
with the annual flew shot, some of us will still get sick, but it should make
of people immune so that the virus runs out of places to go. That would give this country what it badly need right now, a shot in the arm. So with this
Distribution of vaccines doesn't go according to plan. Where does the buck? Stop me?
Conversations over its pretty easy me I hold myself
One hundred percent personally cannibal to that end,
A career as an army supply officer, general gush permanent was two months away from retirement when president tromp tapped him last may
to lead operation works, be sixty,
Its went into his operations centre where the plan to get the vaccine out of three hundred million americans is being orchestrated by military specialists brought in from across the country. We literally bill
team, this collaboration as we were going, there was no doubt
during there was no strategy. There were
no structure of people to this end born attracted progress in what he calls deep don.
With leaders from the military and the department of health and human services, and he does not want to hear happy too. It's not about
you know. Facade of everything is good. We need to understand what is not right and we need to get it right
He works out of a nondescript washington office with none of the trappings that usually go with four stars:
These are all the meetings that I'm doing today, I'm already
up. The number eight with you weren't describes himself.
The hard working be students on a steep learning curve to master the jargon, the pharmaceutical india.
Twelve uncover wanted a dirty little secretary, gotta teaching.
I dont over here. This is all that
enjoy. It is but started five notebooks of things
I listened every everyday to was being said, and then I spend a good part of my evening googling these words so that I can participate, preferably
at an international level,
at least in an understanding on
board is one possible scenario: the all important approval
if the food and drug administration of a vaccine developed by pfizer, followed by approval of another from modern law. What is d day the day that we deliver the first round of vaccine for pfizer? That's when it would start to get.
I gave you because, if approved, the pfizer vaccine will require patients to receive two separate shots. Twenty one days apart, we know it's a to those vaccine, so we want to ensure that we demand,
the delivery of the first those and ensure the delivery of the second. Those
while we simultaneously integrate new rounds of those is being delivered to the american people or job
The pfizer vaccine, which could be ready next month, has to be kept very cold until it is you
Basically modest eighty degrees celsius, which is ninety four degrees below zero fahrenheit miracle,
All our strategy is a west point graduate who retired
The army, this summer's I'd, say and became partners.
Billion deputy. We have to make sure that we send out particular vaccine to the right places at either had that capacity or the ability to do the dry ice that will need in order to keep it cold.
What in the more speed operations centre, marian wicker came from making tanks for the army?
notice. The go no go board for what parts of it
country are ready to handle an ultra cold vaccine virgin islands has already reported in that they don't have ultracold freezers
and that they don't have an ability to dry ice.
we do know is that we can very quickly move dry ice from Porto rico order,
The bigger this operation gets absolutely sure. It's not just the liver laxity. We wish it was that easy
This country did not do a good job of containing the buyers. Why should we expect.
You to do a good job of district.
Of action because we ve learned from the past and will hopefully going do a heck of a lot better job, this time,
Are you ready to go if a vaccine is approved tomorrow? Yes, we are
The first order are going to give the simple command of execute.
So once you say execute how fast does it get out there within twenty four hours? Do you have
Doses of vaccine already stockpile. Yes, we do maybe have stockpile
holding onto that number right now, because I wanted not-
We ate anxiety and we need to work through the details a month from now I'll have more operation.
Or feed is also stockpiling. Kids, the needle syringes and alcohol swabs needed to give the shop and medical distribution company mackay
it says it already has produced enough kids for eighty eight million shots. The idea is, the kit will marry up with the vaccine and they will go together as one package to provide that capability to an administration
because this is a once in a century pandemic vaccine.
Is already being manufactured in bio reactors inside sterile facilities like
one at emergent mile solutions and bottom, even
It has not yet been approved by the FDA. Vice presidential
colleagues says it can take up to six weeks,
to use a single back then
it's here and moves to another facility where it gets filled into the final vile presentation, you're used to seeing when you're getting a vaccination at the clinic emerging
shipping most that vaccines, what's known as a fill finish line, run by a company
catalan and its chief commercial officer, Karen your basically the bottling plan for vaccines? That's correct answer very
sophisticated operation. One of guidelines launch can bottle up to four hundred miles a minute with each one
containing five to ten doses? A situation that we are facing right now is just what we call the need for speed
How many ships are you running right now,
We are running twenty four seven seven days a week.
And you know really it's an all out effort to keep the lines running. Are you worried about the security of the stockpiles
We have taken extraordinary precaution in this area, not only for maybe
from the various effort, but also natural, hurricane tornado, etc, ray it's such a commodity to us, we're taking the first steps to make sure that the vaccine secure armed guard. Yes, I'm guards at sites where the vaccine is stockpile, yes, wants to start moving, whether on a truck or a plane is gonna, be undergo
Yes, it's farce and talk about it, though, because you don't want lay out all the plans, but the answer
yes most of the wiles will be.
Ship by the same companies that deliver packages to our homes, everyday were prepared to deliver to every zip code in this country, Richard smith,
runs fed ex express in the? U s.
It is already operating at peak volume to handle the surgeon online shopping caused by the pandemic. We ve got another peak coming because of christmas, and you ve got another peak on top of that, because that when we expect the vaccine correct to start being distributed, and yet I'm still sleeping at night, but you gotta
I have concerns. Well I'd be crazy. If I, if you know, if I didn't say that this was a herculean effort and didn't recognize how monumental
is and may yet be. Will you be?
able to track all
the moving parts. Yes, I feel a hundred percent confidence either
will you be able to ban you first on the tape,
and say what happened to that shipment that was going
The good samaritan hospital in baltimore. Yes- and I know that, although aft
it gets there, how faster they're administering the doses that they were given
his ability to do that depends on a software program called tiberius which is
to link databases from across the government and the shipping companies.
one unified picture that everyone can see
turn on where your hospitals are, where you're pharmacies, your nursing homes and we're all of your enrolled providers, are inside that inside that jurisdiction
when deacon, Maddox or newly retired army colonel reef.
on how ready siberia is for d day. Let's get didn't exist two months ago.
there are some things that we need to work through: deacon maddox,
that once the vaccine starch flowing the amount of data tiberius has to keep track of will multiply,
what we're doing right now to get ready for the first. Those is the easy part when you
get into the subsequent doses. That's when this gets really hard
I'm gonna gave a very quick briefing while
over one hundred fifty miles up by ninety five in a room paper with urgent to do list. You george
Health commissioner Judith pursue Kelly and her task force will be faced with this
reading the vaccine in the midst of a green
new wave of the virus. Today,
reporting, two thousand four hundred and seventy two new cases since the highest we have been since our march or April.
Urge, my biggest fear is reduced.
with a surge and our hospitals.
our emergency rooms at the same time that we're trying to vaccinate and the hospitals will to spend their time taking care of people.
In that will impact the staffing of vaccine sites within our hospitals, which we will
the new jersey alone, the goal is to vaccinate four point. Seven million people, beginning with healthcare, were
we have set a very aspirational goal of seventy percent of the adult population? Being vaccinated,
within six months
depending on how many vaccination sites we have we might be vaccinate
between sixty and eighty thousand individuals a day in new jersey has
morpheus. Given you any indication of how many
is a vaccine you're going to get the assumption,
is about a hundred thousand. If it's a tutor
regimen that will be separated into two doses, so would be fifty thousand
individuals and how many
Do you have in that high priority healthcare workers category? Five hundred thousand you not even close now
now pursue kelly is confident operation. Warp speed will eventually provide all the vaccine. New jersey needs.
but she worries whether enough people will show up to get vaccinate we serve
two thousand healthcare individual
Physicians and nurses, we know
over sixty percent of the physicians, said that they would get the vaccine.
We know that about forty percent of the nurses said that they would line up to get the vaccine so often.
Persons like us are sceptical.
What does that say about your general population?
it's a lot of
Taxing hesitancy
they spent so far
Today, I think I'm mad well
billion dollars, but I have projected that we could spend,
as much as twenty six billion dollars, but your worst nightmare. We get
exceeds the american people need all taken shape.
On us
hey I was already sick. I don't need it. Shame on us
I believe in vaccines. Shame on us just shame on us in it, and it does keep me up at night with such an acrimonious election. We turned tonight to a man who tells the story of america in all her divisions and struggle for unity. Ken burns documentaries range from the civil war to baseball vietnam and last year's country music. Burns calls himself an emotional archaeologist. He excavates lost love letters, forgotten photos and overlooked heroes
research, so deep viewers can feel like strangers. Discovering america for the first time his films ass, put. It means to be american, so we asked what does it mean to beacon birds? I have had the press
judge of spending, my entire life making films about the. U S, kapital you capital S, but I have also had the privilege of making films about us. The two letter- lowercase, plural pronoun- that has a kind of intimacy and warmth to it. In the country, music, film, moral haggard, says, country music is about those things we believe them, but can't see like dreams and song.
and souls is telling us that there is in front of us a kind of rational world in which one in one always equals too, but that the thing that compels
forward as human beings is it we live.
for one and one echoing three. We find that in our faith we find that in our art we find that in our love of each other- and I think one of the things I discovered working on country music is that when I understood this dynamic between the- u s and us lowercase upper case that I realize there's only us know them. The choice was easy because the americans
I struggled to forge union from diversity and has been KEN burns' obsession, since he was eleven years old. At the end of this lane in Ann arbor michigan in nineteen sixty five, his mother was dying of cancer at the same
time. The fight for equality was in critical condition before me
I'm died. I would watch and I would hear from the other room about the dogs and the fire hoses in summer, and it would make me as upset as upset in my good as
worry about my mom and it was almost as if I was transposing the cancer that was killing my family and the cancer that was killing my country. And if you look at my films, almost forty of them, you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of films that don't end up dealing with race. His early films included the statue of liberty and the congress, but it wasn't until his seventh that america returned ken burns affection.
The civil war was seen by thirty nine million viewers and alive
our epoch,
immortalized a love letter and the walls, the shokhin farewell the fiddle to the fiddle. To that you can
ever get out of your head. Archway idee died out at the lament seemed written as a score
for the letter union soldiers, Sullivan Bellew, wrote his wife a week before his death. I shall always be with you in the brightest day in the darkest night always always, and when the soft breeze pans your cheek, it shall be my breath or the cool air your throbbing
It shall be my spirit passing by. I think every man wishes. He could say those words,
so the woman he loves and every woman wishes.
at her man could say that
may be our shot. Burns. Films are a letter to the country he loves, but not out of blind devotion. His is the affection that indeed.
yours after confronting america's founding flaw we hold.
True to be self evident that all men are created equal. Yet he owned more than two hundred human beings and never saw fit to freedom.
Orange finds the american paradox in the wars we fight and the games we play at told people that baseball is
sequel to the civil war, and I meant it. I meant it how we play games and nature of emigrants
and the exclusion of women and popular culture and advertise
sing and heroes and villains in our imagination and race and race and race are who we are, and the first real progress in civil rights after the civil war takes place? When jack roosevelt robinson, the grandson of a slave makes his way to first base at abbots field, an april fifteen nineteen, forty seven, then there is no question
that the story, a baseball, is just gonna, take off from the assassination of abraham, lincoln and the failure of reconstruction and moved to that too. That moment can burns moment came in nineteen eighty one with his first subject: the brooklyn bridge, which no one thought was a good idea, what you had an inanimate objects and no one to interview
right great tv, yes, and I look twelve years old. So I was out trying to raise money and they'd say this. Child is trying to sell me. The brooklyn bridge no pbs bought the brooklyn bridge and burns struck
true to his style, animating images frozen in time and giving them voice. Here I was thirty, two years old, suddenly in charge of the most stupendous engineering structure of the age, famous voices volunteer just to be in a ken burns. Film mirror
Streep, as eleanor roosevelt courage is more exhilarating, then fear Tom hanks in the war you'd never realize now that he was one of those in this year, tortured souls who survived by some miracle the horror of that death march. At the time his films have the pace of patient revelation and time to think.
This is a beautiful part of the country, it's the rhythm of a director who lives not in new york or l a but on fifty acres of walpole new hampshire, where even his apples have history said these are cuttings that were taken from the trees at monticello. Of course they are. We met burns before the pandemic at sixty seven. He has four daughters from two marriages, but his longest relationship for decades
is with pbs unfortunate that pbs exists. I can go to morrow to a premium channel or or some place said streaming service and get
thirty million dollars to go to vietnam, but no one's gonna say you can take ten and a half years. This was the main bedroom. He couldn't take us time because he,
raises the money and runs his own company, florentine films, producers, writers, historians, editors and photographers craft, a half dozen films at once so burns can rely,
is about one year, even though a series like country music, takes eight years to finish country news,
The songwriter harlem howard said is three cords and the truth you listen to fifteen thousand, so
sifted through more than one hundred thousand still photos and did one hundred and one on camera interviews. Why so much one would think that making a film is an additive process here. Building this it's not
its subtractive. The best metaphor I know of is we make maple?
sirop here in this town and it takes forty
sounds of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup and that's what the process is. Burns has boiled down the history of mark twain, the national parks plus eighteen hours,
vietnam and nineteen hours of jazz kins films touch something at the heart of our mythology and who we have been
At our best, in it I worse and who we want to be composer, went in marseilles,
laboured on jobs and country, music, marseilles, artistic director of new york's jazz at lincoln centre and something of an expert on improvising within burns. He'll be vibrating and that'll, be in the fourth year of something and it'll, be one o clock in the morning. If you work since nine o clock anymore,
so now is one o'clock, so he still like nano right here we need to where we need to in the sea like a person with that type of energy and just one fire like that and as he's grown older, he has gotten worse
the wires governed by the fires, fires in just the enthusiasm fired. A patients can told us that you see him so.
What do you say you know for me. I always see like a kid if you can return
ned childish. What, ah, in wonderment in belief that you can change things.
If you can maintain their and that's what I see in him, and we found this little tiny place childish or in wonderment that
How survived his childhood? Would you say you had a happy childhood? I don't think I had a child it I mean I did, and I had happy moments
but my mother got cancer very early on, and that was the shadow cast across my brother and my childhood, and we also had a father who was not mentally healthy,
a functioning person, but he was an unhappy man, air
depression, maybe bipolar, never accurately. Diagnose burns was thirty nine when he realized he was trapped behind the wall he built to shield himself from his mother
death. The revelation came from his father in law, and he said
bet. You blew out your candles as a child. Has a boy wishing she come
I consider how you know, and it goes like what you do for a living you wake the debt
you make Abraham lincoln and Jackie robinson come alive. Who do you think you really want to wake up so called my brother and we wept, and we said we have to find mommy. They had to find her because she'd been buried in an unmarked poppers grave, with twenty eight souls
simply because burns father never retrieved her ashes from the funeral home. It's a long and complicated story like researching a story kin and his film maker brother rick tracked their history to the mass grave where they placed memorial to lie le burns, the ability tests say to the world. This is us. Wouldn t have been possible without
crucible of her sickness, her death and even that long wilderness of not dealing with it and
dealing with it, I think has made me a better filmmaker, a film maker working through the chapters of a single subject, because burns found as walt whitman wrote. These states are the ample most poem.
I am working on. Seven films are now I mean we got ernest hemingway. We have
mohammed ali. We have benjamin franklin, we have l b, J biographies, we're doing a history.
Eric revolution and a biography of the buffalo. They are together the story of a people's straining for union a theme kin burns has explored from his very first film, which was, after all, about a bridge connecting america to america. This is what story
do they do liberate us from the tyrannies of our limitations and our past and are foibles and so
This is what we human beings do tonight
see this all too short passage that we call life
I am so grateful that I live in the united states of america. I mean that I mean that
and that I get to tell stories about us, the: u s
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two hundred forty four years, the united
States has been torn apart by civil war. Devastated
by disasters and ever haunted by the sin of racism.
But americans find away, however, tenuous late to bounce back, it's fun
She to say this past week, selection brought us together that now we're ready to unite behind the president elections
divided us since jefferson defeated Ehrenberg.
Elections, we wounds, citizens bear grudges,
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