joining us codirectors ken burns and lynn novick. ken and lynn, there's been a lot done on the vietnam war but what is so interesting you've done tell the story of the north vietnamese as well. i want to play a compelling clip of american soldier and north vietnamese then talk to you about it after we watch it. >> every major contact i remember with the mva was initiated by them ambushing us. outnumbered us and we were fighting in their yard. they knew the ground, we didn't. they were just really good. >> the north vietnamese carried soviet-made seemingly indestructionible ak-47s. the marines had to fight with newly issued m16 rifles that had for a time a potentially fatal design flaw. they needed constant cleaning and often jammed in the middle of fire fights. their rifles worked, our didn't. the m16 was a piece of [ bleep ] you cantle your bullets at the enemy have them be effective. and that rifle malfunctioned on us repeatedly. >> my hatred for them was pure. i hated them so much. i was so scared. i was terrified of him. the scar

and lynn novick and i started working on this and we realized how little we knew. the first episode is called "deja vu" because of the hundreds of things that happened to the french that we could have taken as warning signals-- bridge out three miles, bridge out three miles, wait, and a cartoon in the middle and, "wait, how did we get here?" and that was vietnam at the beginning you. >> stephen: said a moment >> yes. >> stephen: for young people out here who don't know who may not even be registered for selective service even though it still continues to this day, can you explain what that meant to have a high draft number? >>ally on in the vietnam war there were deferments you could get for being a student, for being married. people didn't think that was fair. it fell unfairly on to expwhraks minorities and poor people and it was adjusted and we had a lottery system based on your birthday. they picked your birthday day out, and it was number one. and the hiring number you had, the leschance you had of being drafted and put into the service. >> stephen: the young m

lynn novick and ken burns. coming up, a feature of the daca program with pete aguilar. and later we talk with the republican congressman of louisiana who led restoration after hurricane katrina, he will talk about what faces the coastal communities. all this as "washington journal" continues. ♪

coming up tuesday morning, documentary filmmakers, ken burns and lynn novick will join us to discuss their latest film war". the "vietnam the future of the daca immigration program it also joining us, the louisiana republican, is meant on how coastal areas need to prepare for hurricanes rv -- hurricanes harvey and irma. join the discussion. ♪ >> the un security council voted 15 to zero to impose additional sanctions on north korea today. tuesday, the house foreign affairs committee holds a hearing on the use of sanctions and diplomacy for dealing with north korea or watch live at 10 clock a.m. eastern on c-span3. -- at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> updated reporters on response efforts to her can harvey and irma could he spoke at the opening of the white house briefing. this update is 20

and lynn novick and i started working on this and we realized how little we knew. the first episode is called "deja vu" because of the hundreds of things that happened to the french that we could have taken as warning signals-- bridge out three miles, bridge out three miles, wait, and a cartoon in the middle and, "wait, how did we get here?" and that was vietnam at the beginning you. >> stephen: said a moment ago you had a high draft number. >> yes. >> stephen: for young people out here who don't know who may not even be registered for selective service even though it still continues to this day, can you explain what that meant to have a high draft number? >>ally on in the vietnam war there were deferments you could get for being a student, for being married. people didn't think that was fair. it fell unfairly on to expwhraks minorities and poor people and it was adjusted and we had a lottery system based on your birthday. they picked your birthday day out, and it was number one. and the hiring number you had, the leschance you had of being drafted and put into the

tonight we talk to filmmakers ken burns and lynn novick. their new series "the vietnam war" is currently airing on pbs. >> we have stride over the last decade to take advantage of 40 years of new scholarship, new access to the country, and also the willingness of these veterans now, sometimes for the very first time across-the-board, north vietnamese, soldiers and civilians and south vietnamese soldiers and civilians, guerillas and a whole pan plea of americans to start asking that question, what happened? >> there's been a lot done about this subject, books, documentaries, feature films, novels. it's not like no one has ever tried. but it remain this kind of unfinished business in american history. in order to move on with the country at all, we have to really understand what happened. and we've never done that with vietnam. >> a good time now, the decades have passed. we have always felt that in any kind of historical presentation you have to have 25 or 30 years perspective, the kind of try angulation that can take place from that pass ag

along with his co—director lynn novick, they interviewed not just veterans and anti—war protesters, but former vietcong soldiers and north vietnamese citizens who lived through it. burns' focus on american history usually starts from the ground up. he's interested in how regular people reacted to the world changing events around them. their infinite patience, their loyalty to each other, their courage under fire, wasjust phenomenal. that's not to say he ignores how the president and those in power reacted too. he wants to give us both perspectives. president nixon claimed he was too busy watching football on television to pay attention, but he did suggest that army helicopters might be used to blow out the marchers' candles. he asks his audience to really question what they think they know, and says while making the documentary, the humiliation of realising how much he didn't know, turned to humility in relearning at all. ken burnsjoins me from new york. good evening. sometimes it feels that the legacy of the vietnam's war is bigger even than the war itself. did you come to understand t

coming up in an hour, documentary filmmakers ken burns and lynne novick on their pbs special about the vietnam war. california congressman pete daca.r a --guilar on garrett graves on how cultural regions of the u.s. prepare for storms like hurricane harvey and irma. ♪ host: the senate will work on a $692that would offer billion for defense programs. another republican house member has announced he will not run for reelection, he trod of michigan -- fors a "washington journal" september 12. many leaders have inserted themselves in the debates over climate change. add pope francis to the list. he condemned skeptics of climate change "all of mankind has a moral responsibility when it comes to changing climate." we will read more about his statements. we want to get your thoughts on his statements about climate change and the fact that the pope himself inserted himself. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents.or if you want to make your thoughts known on social media @cspanwj is how you do that and if you go to facebook, it is facebook.com/c-span. the bbc e

in the second part of our look at ken burns' and lynn novick's new documentary, how telling the whole story takes all perspectives. >> we as americans always assume we're at the center of this story of vietnam, that the vietnam war is about americans. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to talk hillary clinton's election tell-all, and president trump's deal with the democrats. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: british police launched a major manhunt after a homemade bomb exploded on a subway train in southwest london. the islamic state group claimed responsibili

novick documentary "the vietnam war." it's been 10 years in the making and judy woodruff met with the co-directors at the vietnam memorial recently to talk about why this topic, and its resonance now. >> thinking about every single name here as a story. >> woodruff: that's the tall older of the latest ken burns and lynn novick documentary: "vietnam." >> just tell a few of them. >> woodruff: the team culled hundreds of hours of footage into 18. it's a flashpoint in history that's been examined countless times, but they say, is still not fully-understood. >> there's one way to think about it that there's really only one name on the wall here, which is your name, your story, your brother, your uncle, your father. that's the important thing. >> woodruff: vincent okamoto is the most highly decorated surviving japanese american veteran of the vietnam war. >> the real heroes are the men that died. 19, 20-year-old high school dropouts. they didn't have escape routes that the elite and wealthy and the privileged had. and that was

in the second part of our look at ken burns' and lynn novick's new documentary, how telling the whole story takes all perspectives. >> we as americans always assume we're at the center hi

in the second part of our look at ken burns' and lynn novick's new documentary, how telling the whole story takes all perspectives. >> we as americans always assume we're at the center of this y

filmmakers ken burns and lynn novick discuss the project this morning on "face the nation" with john dickerson. >> what was it like to have the veat nam war in your head this length of time? >> none of us got a whole lot of sleep over the course of this. it was a 24/7 it was devastating and deeply inspiring. it was devastating to thif the lives lost, american, 58,000, vietnamese 3 million lives lives, 300,000 are still missing in vietnam. so to try to absorb the meaning of that was defer stating. every time we go to the wall, we cry, when we think of what happened in vietnam we cry. and yet we were also just deeply moved and sort of inspired by the courage of the people who shared their stories with us. people who lost a son, who lost a friend, people who were wounded horribly. just, they survived and here they are. and that is incredible. >> how did they do that? they are so calm in these descriptions. >> like what you want to do is try to go in and listen. there is nothing more satisfying professionally than to be witness to sort of express memory for the first time. and some of th

charlie: ken burns and lynn novick here to introduce their magnificent new pbs series about the vietnam war. more than 40 years after the war ended, americans are struggling to make sense of it. the war lasted more than a decade and cost the lives of 58,000 americans and even more -- even more vietnamese. the film looks back at the cataclysmic years. "the vietnam war" is a 10-part, 18 hour documentary. it took 10 years to make.

novick. it features americans who fought in the war, those who opposed it, and vietnamese soldiers and civilians. tomorrow on "the newshour," part two of judy woodruff's interview with hillary clinton. >> one of the biggest problems in wisconsin has been the well- executed effort to suppress voters-- african american voters in milwaukee, young voters particularly in madison and elsewhere. it proved to be very effective. >> thompson: that's it for this edition of "pbs newshour weekend." i'm megan thompson. thanks for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. the anderson family fund. rosalind p. walter, in memory of abby m. o'neill. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customi

charlie: joining me now are the and lynns, ken burns, novick. i am pleased to have both of them back at this table. these are friends of mine. i am hugely admiring their work. this and other things. the war left so many questions. what is it that divides the country about vietnam? ken: the principal thing is that the experience that -- of it for americans was so wrenching. it'd not have the definitive look good and bad side like world war ii had. most people fighting in it were children of world war ii veterans. or you knew someone who was a world war ii veteran. it also didn't turn out very well for us. we did a couple of things. we left it unexamined and buried our heads in the sand like ostriches. or, we retreated to our hardened silos were we have a definite opinion or argument that is without any factual base. we have tried over the last decade to take advantage of 40 years of new scholarship and access to the country and also the startietnamese -- asking the question what , happened? we spent that decade and 18 hours not answering it but f

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plus, we'll preview ken burns and lynn novick ten-part documentary, the vietnam war, which premiers tonight on pbs. we'll ask what lessons were learned in turbulent times then that can help us now. and finally, news and political analysis a week after hurricane

then a very special conversation with ken burns and lynn novick, the director of the vietnam war, which starts tonight on pbs. extraordinary piece of work. >>> we will have reporters around the table to open up their notebooks, give us context of what happened this week, is what important, what is not so important and what we should pay attention to next week. >> sound good, john see you at 10:30. thanks very much. >>> still to come on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" last official weekend of summer, say it ain't so but i guess it is, warm weather does hang on for our weekend, matt back with the forecast coming up next. >>> swinging for more than just a low score these golfers are aiming for a cure, coming up our stephanie stahl explains why people hit the links all with the hopes of helping one local little girl and her fight against an incredibly rare illness, we >>> eagles are taking on the chiefs in kansas city. this is video of couch doug pederson and eagles arriving at team hotel yesterday afternoon. the steaks are high for this game too. the eagles are playing against their former head co

i sit down with filmmakers ken burns and lynn novick to discuss their new landmark documentary. i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again right here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> supported by the rockefeller foundation. promoting the wellbeing of humanity around the world, by building resilience and inclusive economies. more at www.rockefellerfoundation.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> you're watching pbs. - [host] about 10 years ago i started researching a documentary film about a 19 year old mexican kid name joaquin murrieta. he had been hunted down by a group of bounty hunters during the summer of 1853. they decapitated him. they put his

tonight we talk to filmmakers ken burns and lynn novick. their new series "the vietnam war" is currently airing on pbs. >> we have stride over the last decade to take advantage of 40 years of new scholarship, new access to the country, and also the willingness of these veterans now, sometimes for the very first time across-the-board, north vietnamese, soldiers and civilians and south vietnamese soldiers and civilians, guerillas and a whole pan plea of americans to start asking that question, what happened? >> there's been a lot done about this subject, books, documentaries, feature films, novels. it's not like no one has ever tried. but it remain this kind of unfinished business in american history. in order to move on with the country at all, we have to really understand what happened. anwe

coming up tuesday morning, documentary filmmakers, ken burns and lynn novick will join us to discuss their latest film called the vietnam war. pete aguilar will talk about the future of the daca immigration program. louisiana republican congressman on how vulnerable coastal areas need to prepare for storms like hurricane harvey and irma. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on tuesday morning. join the discussion ♪. voted un security council to impose additional sanctions on north korea today. tuesday, the house foreign affairs committee does a hearing on the use of sanctions and diplomacy for dealing with north korea. watch live starting it 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or sunlight provider.

i sit down with filmmakers ken burns and lynn novick to discuss their new landmark documentary. i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again right here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> supported by the rockefeller foundation. promoting the wellbeing of humanity around the world, by building resilience and inclusive economies. more at www.rockefellerfoundation.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> you're watching pbs. >> rose: welcome to the program. tonight we begin with north korea and a look inside that country with "new yorker" magazine reporter evan osnos. >> what they wanted me to understand over and over they said it was that they will not give u

coming up in an hour, documentary filmmakers ken burns and lynne novick on their pbs special about the vietnam war. california congressman pete daca.r a --guilar on garrett graves on how cultural regions of the u.s. prepare for storms like hurricane harvey and irma. ♪ host: the senate will work on a $692that would offer billion for defense programs. another republican house member has announced he will not run for reelection, he trod of michigan -- fors a "washington journal" september 12. many leaders have inserted themselves in the debates over climate change. add pope francis to the list. he condemned skeptics of climate change