‘It puts the ‘us’ in the US’: filmmaker Ken Burns on the value of public broadcasting

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for America’s two biggest public broadcasters, which have faced a series of attacks from the White House and Republican lawmakers accusing them of biased reporting. The order instructs the CPB’s board to terminate direct funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service to the maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding. It also orders the board to take steps to minimize or eliminate indirect funding to NPR and PBS. CNN’s Anderson Cooper spoke with PBS CEO Paula Kerger and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.