[See NewsBusters for more.] To promote his new Benjamin Franklin documentary on Wednesday, Ken Burns journeyed over to MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle where he told the show’s namesake host that he was worried about the future of democracy and then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and President Biden reversed those concerns. For her part, Ruhle dismissed the Founding Fathers as white male landowners.
Towards the end of a lengthy interview, Ruhle inquired, “as a person who has deeply studied almost all parts of American history and culture, what do you think about where we are and where we're headed?”