Good morning, everyone. Welcome back. I am beverly kirk. We are continuing our discussion this morning about strengthening democracy with a look at trust in institutions, in each other, and what the latest data have to say about all of this. To put it into perspective, i am joined by filmmaker ken burns and Pew Research Center president mike dimmick. Thank you for being here. Lets jump in with the first question. What is the overall state of american confidence in democracy. I understand you have some new numbers to share with us. Ken thank you. We dont want to get too gloomy but we do care about the facts and the facts are right now america is in kind of a gloomy place. Almost kind of surprisingly so. If you had told me two years ago we would be worried about an economy that was too hot, which wasnt even a phrase we were talking about, that we would be where we are with our covid rates, not necessarily done do ne but feeling better, addressing climate, global competitiveness, that we
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back. I am beverly kirk. We are continuing our discussion this morning about strengthening democracy with a look at trust in institutions, in each other, and what the latest data have to say about all of this. To put it into perspective, i am joined by filmmaker ken burns and Pew Research Center president mike dimmick. Thank you for being here. Lets jump in with the first question. What is the overall state of american confidence in democracy. I understand you have some new numbers to share with us. Ken thank you. We dont want to get too gloomy but we do care about the facts and the facts are right now america is in kind of a gloomy place. Almost kind of surprisingly so. If you had told me two years ago we would be worried about an economy that was too hot, which wasnt even a phrase we were talking about, that we would be where we are with our covid rates, not necessarily done do ne but feeling better, addressing climate, global competitiveness, that we
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back. I am beverly kirk. We are continuing our discussion this morning about strengthening democracy with a look at trust in institutions, in each other, and what the latest data have to say about all of this. To put it into perspective, i am joined by filmmaker ken burns and Pew Research Center president mike dimmick. Thank you for being here. Lets jump in with the first question. What is the overall state of american confidence in democracy. I understand you have some new numbers to share with us. Ken thank you. We dont want to get too gloomy but we do care about the facts and the facts are right now america is in kind of a gloomy place. Almost kind of surprisingly so. If you had told me two years ago we would be worried about an economy that was too hot, which wasnt even a phrase we were talking about, that we would be where we are with our covid rates, not necessarily done do ne but feeling better, addressing climate, global competitiveness, that we
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