Ken Burns: We Have a ‘Con Man’ Running for President and ‘the Khan Family May Have Exposed It’

‘Americans are susceptible … to these people that play on fear’

BURNS: "A lot of it has to do with us, the chatter between us. I think they'll care now. You know, it's funny, this is -- I was thinking this weekend that the Kahn family came forward and it may be the Kahn family that finally changes the dynamic, or post-conventions, people are now taking their head up and looking around and seeing what’s going on. Most of us don’t do what all of us do every single morning, which is check in part all of these things. And we have a con man here and it may be the Kahn family that has exposed once and for all the fact."

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