Amna Nawaz
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What would the founders think about U.S. today?
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July 5, 2026
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1:55Now PlayingIf the Founding Fathers were to come back today, what would they make of the American experiment?
That's the question Judy Woodruff put to presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky and presidential biographer Ron Chernow during their recent conversation inside Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
Watch how they answered the question in our recent Crossroads: America at 250 report.
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