“And then I saw this sort of ferocious leftist critique of America. And I’m like — I might have expected to come from a Venezuelan despot Iranian Mullah or some soviet apparatchik, but no, it’s coming from some of our most intelligent people in America on the American campus. And then over the years I see this critique metastasize out of the campus, into Hollywood, into the media and then I think into the corridors of the government. “
MEGYN KELLY, HOST: Abraham Lincoln plays a big role in this telling of the story of “America.” And this film serves as a follow-up to Dinesh D’Souza’s project “2016: Obama’s America.” That film became the second most popular political documentary in history. When D’Souza set out to make this movie, he set his goal was to challenge the quote “leftist progressive critique” of America.
Joining me now, Dinesh D’Souza. Dinesh, congratulations on the film.
DINESH D’SOUZA, “AMERICA” PRODUCER: Thank you.
KELLY: Why was it important for you to make this? You grew up in India.
D’SOUZA: I grew up in a different world, actually a world without America, and although I grew up in a middle-class family in India, I grew up without a phone, without television, without hot water, we had a car but if you looked down the floor of our car, you could see the ground.
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